#marginally decent at it

[trans-xianxian]

latest news in the ben learns to drive saga is that we practiced in a stick shift today and it was evil and I hated it. BUT THEN we went back to the other car and I drove myself all the way home even along a busy street for a few blocks and then I parked in a parking spot and everything 😌

[pondslime]

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981)  dir. John Landis

[speakofthedebbie]

the whore friend post has been usurped

[petit-papillion]

Thought I'd take a look at how Gen F1 (as I'm going to call them) is doing compared to one another. Ages 24-27 - many of them competed against each other in karting and/or the feeder series. One of these is not like the others...

Data sources: Stats F1, Wikipedia

[oooocleo]

angel choir singing... 31 beasts ready to accompany all the great page illustrations the Fathoms contributors have created 🤲

[zvaigzdelasas]

Do they have drive through protein shake stores? Feel like that would be a hit in areas w lots of gyms

[marley-manson]

12, 18, 21, & 23 for hawkeye?

Thank you!

12. What’s a headcanon you have for this character?

The majority of the sex he's had in his life has been gay because it was easier to find willingly casual partners and hookups in the gay scene in the 40s, and he canonically had a shitload of casual sex pre-war. He also enjoys the company of gay men more than the straight world, so that's where his closest social circle comes from, at least post-war. All the het sex during the war is yet another way of making do - not because he's not into women but a) he doesn't enjoy leading them on and b) he'd prefer to be having more gay sex than he gets. And c) he canonically doesn't like that the nurses are all military, as he alludes to in The Interview.

I recall seeing a post once that was like 'when would he have the time to have a bunch of gay sex when he dated carlye' but that relationship lasted 2 years at most (took place during a surgical residency which are 2 years) and he's at least 30 by the time he was drafted, he had time to have plenty of sex with other women based on everything about him and how he talks about his love life (eg people assuming he'd end up married to a stripper), and I'll also headcanon that he dove into the gay scene extra hard afterwards to try to get over her.

18. How about a relationship they have in canon with another character that you admire?

Like most of his relationships with the cast, I think he's p great with everyone. Love his professional respect with Charles and early Margaret and compassion with later Margaret, love his friendship with Henry and refusal to treat Henry like a boss, love his older sibling/parental vibe with Radar, love his two bffs, love his animosity towards Frank (very admirable) and his solidarity with Klinger and gentle respect with Mulcahy. Potter's the sole exception in not really liking that relationship, but even there I enjoy aspects, like Hawkeye's protectiveness towards him when he acts like an idiot (The Young and the Restless or Red White Blues).

I think I'll go with his dad though? I love that they have a very positive relationship, Hawkeye is very effusive in discussing his admiration for him and telling him he loves him etc, and it's sweet. Daniel sucks in some ways in how emotionally reticent he is lol, but I love how Hawkeye deals with that and gently scolds him for it.

21. If you’re a fic writer and have written for this character, what’s your favorite thing to do when you’re writing for this character? What’s something you don’t like?

I love writing his point of view because it unlocks Fun Writing where I can describe things in colourful ways with lots of funny metaphors and jokes. I'm a close 3rd person writer so I can't do this if I don't think it fits the character.

I also enjoy his shamelessness and the way he's so open about everything, it makes his reactions to things more unique (at least in the fanfic world where writers often like to default to emotional reticence and insecurity) and interesting imo. If he doesn't like something he will say something, if he wants something he will pursue it unless he has a good reason not to, etc. It's fun to imagine how he reacts to things because of that.

There's not much I don't like about writing him, but it does kind of suck that I have such a solidified sense of characterization for him because it makes it hard to make some premises I'd otherwise really enjoy work in my brain, because I can't imagine Hawkeye behaving how he'd need to for it to work. Eg Hawk/Frank endgame, or Peg/BJ/Hawkeye trainwreck, or post-canon miserable Hawk/BJ relationship. I just think Hawk would have the awareness, experience, and self-respect to hit da bricks, unfortunately.

23. Favorite picture of this character?

I absolutely can't narrow this down to one favourite screencap lol, but here have one of my favourite moments:

[b4kuch1n]

OOOUGGHAAAAAAA I DID IT I MANAGED TO DO INK WITH A DIP PEN

NEXT COMICS MEDIUM IS FUCKING SETTLED. YUUTO YOU WILL BE FED

[godsspecialestlittleguyskirmish]

Btw I wholeheartedly believe that Joker would have won if wolfy hadn't found the poll

[the-sea-anemone]

advantage of job interviews: possibility of gainful employment

disadvantage of job interviews: every other part of the experience

[funeralshawls]

i didn’t wanna talk abt it as not to jinx it but i got hired at a dispensary :3

im still running thru the labyrinth set up to just get the fucking work permit but i was actually Wanted for the position which is so wild to me

[possamble]

Question to a fanfic writer: do you think that, in Marcille’s research ways *And* her love for romance novels… would result in her writing some in-universe fanfics of her own? Like, maybe she hypes herself up on something and get disappointed, or maybe she finds some character decision isn’t as ideal as she thinks it could be? Or it’s as simple as she wants to play around with the characters and see what happens?

I can’t help but imagine a scenario where she’s struggling with some romantic trouble irl and she’s struggling with deciding on what to do, but then the answer slaps itself upside her head when she rediscovers her fanfics and how she LITERALLY made a character or two do the exact romantic decision she needs to do? It would so silly but yet I can’t help but find it so charming. Hell, just the imagery of her writing romance fanfics of her own At All is just… delightful to me hehehe.

you know I've been rotating this in my head since I saw it this morning and. I went through a wild journey of opinions before I realized... Marcille wouldn't think about fanfiction like we think about it. In the modern age, yeah, she'd be a complete tumblrina -- but we're talking about a 17th century-ish fantasy setting.

Writing before the digital age was a physical commitment to investing ink and paper into your thoughts -- and this is even before mass production can make pens and notebooks kind of whatever to buy and use on a regular basis. I'm sure the situation wasn't dire, but I really can't see Marcille, perfect honor student, using her allotted supply of stationery at the academy on super frivolous things.

Fanfiction has been normalized incredibly fast in the past few decades. Think about now normal and popular D&D is nowadays compared to how much people looked down on it 20-30 years ago. Fanfiction was a freakass nerd thing to do until relatively recent history, something that was even considered offensive to the original creators.

Remember, we've already seen Marcille react to adaptations with disgust. She's kind of a hater and an elitist fan. She also considers herself a Reputable Academic. In a setting where a digitized culture hasn't reframed fanfiction as an act of appreciation and creativity, she would absoluuuuuuuutely think that fanfiction was complete loser shit.

If she did write anything about her favourite books... She'd. She'd be one of those assholes who writes huge scathing reviews of Dal Clan translations into Common. She'd be the fantasy equivalent of those Weebs/Japanese elitists on twitter tearing through every single localization choice in anime and JRPGs and being so so annoying about it.

If we're being charitable, we could say she'd be able to appreciate non-faithful translation choices that still do a good job of carrying over the original spirit of what was said. But I think we also have to acknowledge the possibility that, at her worst, she'd really really be like those guys who were malding about the Unicorn Overlord localizations so hard the (correction: Final Fantasy Tactics Creator, not the Unicorn Overlord devs) had to step forward and ratio them. (The silver lining is that she'd never get published in the arts review newspapers/journals that she submits her essays to. those poor editors just have to deal with her being persistent.)

[melon-official]

related to that last post if you’ve ever made jokes about 9/11 or talked abt how much it sucks for the usa to exploit it but still refuse to examine your ingrained bias against brown+muslim people enough to feel that the idf has literally any moral ground over desecrating gaza for a month and murdering ten thousand innocent people what is even the point. whats wrong with you.

[ghostlightfic]

btw if you look closely at ghostlight you'll see my casual setups for all of the various factors that are going to turn the get-together fic into a clusterfuck one day

[ghwosty]

how are my special guys doing in their respective polls (i am afraid to look for myself)

[bitchfitch]

so i bought about 3~ square feet of this green glass yesterday. Anyone who has tried to cut glass before looked at that picture and winced. but trust me, it's worse than it looks. The pane is not flat. theres this very subtle but still Tall wavy texture on the other side that makes the pane rock while you try to cut along the length of it.

For those who did not see the other issues right away: the bubbles. there are so many fucking bubbles and a lot of them are Right at the surface. There's lines of bubbles too, as well as those sharp creases.

The bubbles catch the cutter when you break through the thin layer of glass overtop them and stop you from keeping consistent pressure while doing the scoring which can cause the score line to be wonky or have gaps along it. The lines of bubbles and the creases want to act as fault lines, meaning the glass would really rather break along them than the score line since those are areas that are already in tension from the manufacturing process. the rocking does not help at all with trying to get even and consistent score lines.

The clerk who cut the 2 sqft off a larger panel for me double wrapped it and the scrap i pulled from the scrap bin because she wasn't 100% certain it would have an easy time on the hour plus drive home. It's the first panel I've gotten from there where i was given a 'are you sure?' when i grabbed it.

Which is all to say i bought a lot more than I thought I was going to need for the two projects i had in mind for this. I just finished cutting the first.

Only 2 breaks went wrong, 1 in 25. Was it fussy? Yes. but it wasn't Nearly as bad as it looked like it would be and by god am i greatful for That.