#oh haha :'))))

[violet-jessop]

okay i've spent the year so far (40hrs) laying in bed, staring at the ceiling, listing out the logical reasons this crush needs to die:

1) to begin with, there is a high probability that he doesn't even want to be my friend and that bestie was way too optimistic about this to begin with. i was 100% just the awkward tag along on nye that none of them will ever speak to again, and holding on to any of that joy will only increase the impending disappointment.

2) if he was interested in being so much as my friend he would have at least seen the message i sent him last sunday lol. the rung below being left on read is a pretty clear cut place to be i think. and i can't double text because that would make things weird for sure.

3) he's besties bestie and i CANNOT make anything weird for her by even admitting to a crush on him.

4) i need more queer friends in this city, especially transmascs because i'm community-less and slowly going back to full time fem out of fear, and if i make things weird i could lose my only chance at community here.

5) he very clearly fucks, and i can offer him nothing of value in that department. even with confirmed zero bodily sensation i don't really have much to offer unless he's looking for someone to smack aroun - and he doesn't seem like that kind of guy.

6) he's literally the hottest man alive and i'm somehow simultaneously the least beautiful woman AND the least handsome man? achievement unlocked.

7) not only am i physically unattractive, i'm also a pretty huge downer personality wise. whatever skerricks of joy i could offer would be dramatically outweighed by bad.

8) IF i somehow tricked him into paying attention to me it would be taking away his chance at finding a partner to match his level which would be cruel.

[wrenhyperfixates]

[allthatispeculiar]

[humming-fly]

I love how Gerald was trying to keep Shadow from spoiling anything about the future meanwhile literally everything Shadow says and does around Maria is the biggest death flag ever

[leafie-draws]

I think the biggest downside to having animal ears and a tail would be trying to mask your discomfort in public like imagine trying to play it cool in customer service but your tail keeps bristling

[frownyalfred]

“when Dick Grayson becomes a detective in Blüdhaven, it takes time to adjust to not being able to break the laws to get evidence or confessions” versus the far superior “when Dick Grayson becomes a detective in Blüdhaven, it takes time to adjust to the fact that all of his coworkers are horribly incompetent when it comes to obtaining and preserving evidence and it turns out all of Bruce’s anal retentiveness about crime scenes, chain of custody for evidence, and contamination was actually for a very good reason and puts Batman 10-20 years ahead of any modern police department”

[olyia-stories]

Just another curse for the unlucky guy

To know you will mourn your child

No wonder he never denies going on trips with her. He might be hesitant but he goes, what if maybe if he dies he doesn't have to mourn for this little girl that he raised with the assumption that she would safely outlive him. That they would have centuries together. Do you think he looks back at Figs baby pictures and wonders why he didn't spend more time at home?

What I'm saying is that Gilear didn't just find out his wife cheated on him, he also discovered he was going to outlive his daughter by centuries. Tiefling typically only live a few years longer than humans, which is a far cry from the life span he expected for Fig. Do you think he's ever processed that grief? Do you think Fig has? Do you think any of her parents sat her down and talked to her about what that meant for her? idk I have some feelings about it.

[ochiody]

i think they're funny

[wishfulsketching]

Happy (Shimmer) Holidays!

Even the chem baron can enjoy a sudden snow day with his family! Too bad his right hand lady decides to use this chance to have some revenge for all the bullshit she has to deal with

(I wanted to draw this three years ago but didn't get around to do it)

[notsolonedesert]

Odypen oh odypen

This picture from pinterest inspired me :D

[tsuyonpuu]

Jayce is, as a matter of fact, not listening anymore

[keferon]

Snow bots au anyone? :D

They're back together a year later because it's snowing again❄️

All right! For context: I imagine them hanging out every winter in some kind of resort (a resort that Blurr owns. Because his bar business has expanded that much over time.)

[ineffable-doll]

Breaking news! Fic author starts writing a fic thinking it will be short and it turns out to be long! It is not the first time nor will it be the last!

[sylvrndoodles]

finally finished the whole set :D!!

[squidthusiast]

Post-Grand-Fest feels…

[mightaswelljxmp]

hm ok so interestingly, bdubs’s courthouse is built on an odd number of blocks. note the roof of the facade coming to a point, but more importantly, the nine pillars….

you don’t use an odd number of pillars. like ever.

let me get this out of the way first: i get why you’d build with odd numbers in minecraft. i usually do it myself, to not run into problems like double doors or two-wide pointed roofs or frustrating spacing/symmetry between decorative elements. however. to not even out the design of something so unequivocally done in every other example of columns and pillars…. fascinating implications…

every other example guys. every other building with columns like this has an even number of them.

doing so sets the line of symmetry at an invisible point between two pillars, an even number on each side. but an odd total number of pillars makes the central pillar itself the line of symmetry. this does a couple things.

one, it upends the sense of community and equality. which i know sounds crazy, but really, a group of columns are all put there to hold up a structure. there’s no focus on one because they are all are working as supports.

symbolically, at least when first used in ancient greece, pillars represented people. and it makes sense for courthouses, especially, to want to show an even, fair, equal number of people on each side. no focus on any one, no inherent bias right off the bat just looking at it.

with an odd number of pillars, though, one will always be placed front and center.

and THEN. and then you walk in the courtroom itself (also odd-numbered blocks) and you are immediately opposite the judge, bdubs, located exactly centrally. and true, courtrooms are often set up like this anyway. but bdubs ups the ante and reaffirms that no, focus is on him by staging it all as a daytime court show, boom mic just over his head, cameras pointed in, spotlights on him.

literally by design, it was not built for justice. it’s built for show, for entertainment. and just look at the credits to know exactly what sort of message you’re supposed to be getting from this show.

the biblical story he used, with king solomon. it’s about king solomon. isn’t really about the trial itself, or the babies, or the women. it’s about showing (off) how wise and just he is. that’s the point. hm. interesting.

now, getting to the second point that etho also picked up on: it feels like a prison.

it’s not just the color palette. when your eyes naturally draw to the center point, you aren’t seeing an open space. instead of feeling like an arch or gateway or otherwise some kind of opening, the pillar there makes it feel closed off. the overall effect is that of prison bars. not pillars lining the entrance to a place of order or a temple. bars of a cage, a cell.

imagine the lincoln memorial were set up with 11 or 13 pillars. he’d look so much more trapped in there.

having a central pillar blocks the entrance. it’s not welcoming. you have to go around it; it’s immediately inconveniencing you. and when you go to leave, it’s there blocking you again.

this courthouse was not designed and built to be fair, nor accomodating, nor equitable, on any terms. even if unintentional, i wouldn’t call it so much coincidental as i would… subconscious.

after all, y’know. form follows function.