#marge voice: I just think they're neat!

[tricorderreading]

In honor of this post, I thought it might be fun to share (some of) the many faces of captain kirk as he appears on the star trek book covers throughout the years. Novels shown here were published from the 70s through the 90s

[spicymotte]

okay just one more fanart of these guys. got work to do

[sculien]

#judging you

[pondhue]

This doesn't have much to do with anything but how did you come up with your username(pondhue) it's like perfect I love it

aww ty!! i came up with it when trying to figure out how to have all my handles somewhat connected to each other

my main is hikarimuji, my personal/sideblog is mujipond, and then i came up with pondhue for this one. i like when things match/go together

[myblogmyspacemylittlecorner]

Snily x Grindeldore: A web weave by me.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Ch 12: The Mirror of Erised

Fc: Anya Taylor-Joy as Lily Evans/Potter and Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Ch 13: The Very Secret Diary

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Ch 4: The Keeper of the Keys

Fc: Laura Carmichael as Petunia Evans/Dursley and Ciaràn Hinds as Aberforth Dumbledore

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Ch 28: The Missing Mirror

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Ch 33: The Prince's Tale

Ellie Darcey-Alden and Benedict Clarke as Lily Evans and Severus Snape in HPDH (2) and Toby Regbo and Jamie Campbell-Bower as Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald in HPDH(1)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Ch 35: King's Cross

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Ch 17: Bathilda's Secret

Fanart by @ahkaraii

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Ch 26: The Cave

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Ch 33: The Prince's Tale

Fanart by @hiancii and @swallow-the-bird

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Ch 23: Malfoy Manor

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Ch 35: King's Cross

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Ch 33: The Prince's Tale

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Nineteen Years Later

Theo Vincent as Albus Severus Potter in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

[robotsandramblings]

OK BUT I'M ACTUALLY RIDICULOUSLY HAPPY THAT WE GET TO SEE THE EARLIER DAYS OF THE INQUISITORIUS. THAT WE ACTUALLY GET TO SEE MORE OF THE INQUISITORS.

[tinylandchaos]

When your hyperfixation is so specific you can only squeal in excitement internally when all you want to do is talk about it to someone who's a fan too (⁠´⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠.̫⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠`⁠)

[zazikels]

❤️

[rubiatinctorum]

Bees are a really popular motif in jewelry these days, it seems. They have been for a few years. I'm also seeing butterflies make a return. A couple of years ago, it was a struggle to find more than a couple of options for a butterfly necklace across multiple stores, and in gold, there weren't really options for butterfly earrings or rings. When I wanted a butterfly necklace after finishing my first degree, I had to get a bracelet charm ordered specially into the store from a catalogue. Now, if someone wanted a new gold butterfly necklace, their options in stores would be vastly expanded.

Bees have increased their numbers, too. A couple of years ago, there were small bee and honeycomb designs I saw, but now, there are larger ones, also, and more of them. It's interesting how individual bugs as motifs can trend like that. It causes me to wonder what other bugs will trend. In a couple of years, wouldn't it be cool to see more beetles, or maybe ants, or spiders? Will the selection of dragonflies expand from the few options in stores now?

What about other animals? There are often cat and dog motifs in jewelry, because they are popular with pet-owners. Didn't the elephant trend in jewelry a few years back? When I worked at a jewelry store the first time I was there, they seemed to just be phasing out the remaining pieces from an elephant trend. For my sibling's sake, I hope there is more snake jewelry soon readily available. They are right: there isn't much, except for very large pendants for very large chains, or snakes that are not close to anatomically correct. Even then, those don't have much selection either.

In a broader sense of jewelry trends, I think it would be nice to see gemstones become popular again. Pearls in irregular shapes had a moment a few years ago, so maybe something will happen to cause gemstones to do that, too. They seem to have a backseat to all-metal jewelry or pieces with diamonds or other white gemstones in the past few years. Part of my hopes for this is so selection will expand (selfish reasons) and part of it is because I wonder which gemstones other people I know would choose to wear (nosy reasons).

Maybe I'd like to wait a while before that, though. A lot of jewelry with gemstones right now is taking a shift into smaller designs than in the past few years, maybe for affordability since people are not in an economically good position overall. More pieces are also being made in silver plated with gold, like the necklace I bought on Monday. I really like it, but I hope the plating is good enough to last many years. I suppose it will be; I haven't worn the rhodium plating off of most other silver pieces I have. I like the affordability boost silver plated with gold brings, and that it allows yellow metal for larger styles to be stocked, even as gold and gemstone pieces get smaller and smaller.

I don't love thinking too much about trends in real time. I'm a little bit obsessed with trends of the past for previous decades, though. But when it comes to jewelry (of the sort that won't cause problems for my nickel contact dermatitis), there are only a few stores with a few pieces for each type of gemstone or motif each, if a gemstone or motif can be found at all at them. So, trends really dictate what a person can buy at that time, or how many hoops they'll have to jump through and how many weeks from a catalogue order they'll have to wait to get it.

[little-smartass]

Im in the aquilin nose team and I love my nose, it's long and thin and bumpy with so much character! Gives me a interesting profile ❤️ I'm so glad my mom proclaimed her love for her long nose so fiercely, I never once had a complex over mine thanks to her. Thanks for encouraging the nose resistance! 💪👃

as someone who draws faces all the time, there's something so gorgeously characterful about having a distinctive nose! my nose probably wouldn't be considered particularly unusual, but it does have a funny little flat bit on the bridge from where I fell and smashed it on the metal bar of a bunkbed as a kid 💀 it's pretty useful for resting my glasses on lmao

[chaos0pikachu]

fandom probably won't but should embrace the power of multishipping in only friends cause Top/Boston are the it toxic pairing I can already tell, I can feel it in my bones I want them to fuck and fight and get pushed into pools endlessly

[starwarmth]

thinking about him (george washington)

[99centmusecd]

Akira Date's Patches

Just some ID after I fell into a rabbit hole from Twitter-

Sacto (Sacramento) County Sheriff Deputy Explorer

Metropolitan Detention Center, Bernalillo County, Albuquerque New Mexico

uh, this ID list fell apart after I quickly found the center jacket from an eBay listing for a Top Gun replica lol

It's really different from the actual ones, and even the knockoffs kinda vary.

All sources I've found for the center jacket point to Avirex, but the number and styles of patches vary. Currently, they still sell the jacket with the "M. Standle" patch (supposed to be H. Standley), but only that and the Dallas ones match.

I'm not gonna go into too much detail on how each patch differs since I'm not the most knowledgeable on military history or patch variations.

Anyways, the ones that are present, in as legit a form I can tell:

Not sure how this jacket managed to get like, three levels away from originally being a Top Gun replica, but sure

[katranga]

would absolutely love to know whether people who say the purge movies are unrealistic bc "people wouldn't kill each other just bc it's legal" have actually watched the purge movies, bc the purge movies ALSO say that. the plot of the prequel, the first purge, is literally that the trial purge was gonna flop because people were just throwing street parties, and the government sent special ops forces into the trial neighborhood to start killing people to make it a "success" so they could make it nation-wide

the purge is not about normal people killing each other for stress relief. it's literally a power move from the government/the rich to keep poor people and racial minorities in line. the movies are social commentary, and it's not subtle

[luaminesce]

Could you imagine Astarion and Sidon meeting? The universe probably couldn't take two bi sass machines.

[butchsquatch]