#required quality

[futuristichedge]

doodles

[blorger]

“It’s hot,” Malfoy said, as if Harry couldn’t tell that from looking at him. His face had flushed pink and his hair had gone limp with sweat. His robes remained buttoned all the way up to his throat, and the fine black wool had to be stifling. “Then take off your robes,” Harry said. Malfoy’s chin came up a fraction. “No.” “Then quit complaining,” Harry told him. Like that would ever happen. “Fuck off, Potter,” Malfoy snapped at him. He shoved a hand through his damp hair and it stood up oddly on one side. Harry fought down the urge to taunt him about it. “One or the other, Malfoy. Either take off your robes or shut your mouth.” “I can’t,” Malfoy said. Harry rolled his eyes again. “Well, I knew that much. If you were capable of keeping your fucking mouth shut—” “No,” Malfoy interrupted. “I mean, I can’t.” He fixed his gaze on the wall just beside Harry’s head. “I’m a wizard.” “I’ve noticed that,” Harry said dryly. “I’m a proper wizard,” Malfoy clarified, his eyes darting to Harry before sliding away again. “Unlike you.” Harry’s hands clenched into fists. “If you’re going to lecture me on blood purity you can just—” “I’m not wearing anything under them,” Malfoy said. He gave a haughty sniff. “It ruins the lines.” Harry blinked at him. “So you’re, er…” “Yes.” “Not even, um…” “No.” “Bloody hell.” Harry felt a bit faint, and he couldn’t quite blame it on the stuffy warmth of the small room.

from In the Interest of Interhouse Cooperation by firethesound

[overtake]

Following Lance eating his car's ass | China 2024

+ watching the video

[mobius-m-mobius]

LOKI APPRECIATION WEEK 2023 | for @dailyloki Day 5 : Favorite Loki's clothes : The God of Stories suit

[marlynnofmany]

Note for someone to turn into a story: one way to give the middle generation/s on a generation ship a purpose in life, aside from "raise the children whose children will eventually land on the colony world," could be as creators of art and story. Music too.

Just imagine: you have your whole life ahead of you with all the training and materials of this vast spaceship at your disposal, and all of society plans to revere the creative masterpieces you and your peers come up with.

No pressure.

But yes possibility.

[saint-ambrosef]

pouring one out for my protestant homies who have to endure church shopping. that shit sounds exhausting bro.

[fbfh]

Imagine topping Leo in a chair?

LITERALLY love you for this. riding Leo in a chair is in like your top 5 favorite ways to ride Leo. your faces are so close together and he can feel every intimate rockwing bouncing squeeze of your tight juicy little hole gripping his throbbing cock like a vise. his eyes are so wide and his grip on your soft hips is nearly enough to leave pretty little fingertip bruises polkadotting your thighs (which he's obsessed with) and your hips (which he's also obsessed with) and your ass (are you sensing a pattern here????) and god everything you do drives him crazy but CHRIST the way you hold his face so sweetly in your pretty hands, so innocent and tender while simultaneously milking his cock for all he's got. and he'll give it to you. Leo will let you ride him in that chair that he can't look at after that without going half mast. he'll let you ride him until he's shooting blanks, until both of your cum drips on the floor, mixing in messy creamy beautiful puddles. Leo will throw his head back in pleasure, panting, chest heaving and giving you the best view of his perfect neck that's just begging to be covered in hickeys and bites. Leo will let you ride him in a chair until he passes out. can't walk. pounding down gatorade and liquid iv to try and rehydrate. and he'll thank you for it.

[ghostatservice]

Time to become

🎉🎉 M E S M E R I Z E D 🎉🎉

[eri-pl]

The sad thing about Elrond

(no, not everyone sailing or going brr on him, the other one)

From all the people who like Elrond, who claim to be friends, even to love him maybe, very few see him as himself. His parents (sailed, effectively sailed + parents extended edition: dead, ???), his brother (brr), his wife (sailed), his kids (brr, ?, ?). Maybe a few others.

Others look at him and see someone else's face. Or at least they see Elrond as a symbol of this or that. Never as himself.

He just tends to remind everyone of someone or another.

Many of the old Noldor see him as The Last Feanorian (minus the kinslaying problem), many elves see him as Luthien 2.0, many humans see him as the blend of all the elves they ever heard of (at least the good ones) and/or as a stand-in for their legendary ancestor king Elros, even Bilbo sees him as Mister Related To All The Stories Which I'm Gonna Sing Anyway. And there are probably many other things worrying is seen as.

(yes, Arwen has this problem too, but she's not in the Silm, and I mostly think about the Silm)

I suppose even Elwing sometimes looked at her kids and saw Earendil's face in them. That's what parents do, especially when missing the other parent. But it was only moments.

And then she was chased and jumped.

I'm sure M&M initially saw the twins, at least subconsciously, as a replacement Ambarussar, and as their redemption for what happened to Dior's sons. But I think they (at least Maglor) got over it and learned to actually see them, and this was one of the things that made "and love grew" possible.

And then one died and the other disappeared.

What's most sad in this is that I don't treat Elrond better. All the reasons I like him (at least the vast majority) aren't really about him. Realizing that may be the reason why I count him on my fave list lower than Finrod. He's still 3rd on the list anyway. But I wish he was there more as himself and less than the symmetry axis of the Silmarillion and all the associations I have to him.

Tbh he probably wouldn't be this high. I imagine Elrond is actually thie same kind of well-mannered, polite and kind as was one of my friends in high school and while it was fully a good thing, it also somehow made her hard to approach or to relax around. Which... Is even more sad, I guess.

[lyrien-arts]

More OC art!

left to right: Taer, Lirien, Lirien again

details under cut

[crownconstellation]

more graffart collab style rf5 monsters to go with the wooly <3

[lostburgerprince]

you can't "just add a few codexes". you have to write those codexes. you have to write them in the proper voice and style and so it doesn't just fit ONE specific person's worldstate but anyone who also may have made the same decision as them. (you might even have to write multiple variations of the SAME CODEX to account for gender/race/class/romance) you have to edit them. you have to decide where those codexes are going to appear. you have to put them somewhere where people who want to read them will find them. you have to program them showing up. you have to flag it so it only shows up in sPECIFIC versions of the game. (because god forbid it doesn't and breaks someone else's immersion) you have to bug test that. you have to hope it still works when it ships.

and after all that the people complaining might still pick up said codex and close out the window immediately. or run past it entirely and complain that they made a selection in the worldstate that never paid off.

and then you've just spent all that time fleshing out something that's just a small nod to a very small percentage of players. time you could have spent on the current plot or companions. time you could have spent on making *active* decisions matter. these things can easily take up weeks or months like you wouldn't fucking believe.

[bogkeep]

just like according to keikaku

[cowboyinternist]

wtnv blinkies bc i went down a rabbit hole over the weekend and made a bunch :P

[evilhasnever]

Thinking about why “redemption” plots for JGY don’t work for me, I feel like it boils down to this: redemption implies that one needs to 1) understand what they did wrong 2) atone for it through suffering and/or selfless actions

But JGY has already done both of those things in canon. He both understands very well and dislikes most of the things he had to do, and as soon as he gained a measure of power he used it pointedly to help others (actually, even before he had power he was saving sect leaders and winning wars)!

You want him to redeem himself through suffering? He’s already suffered more than just about anyone else in the book! You want him to redeem himself through public service? He’s been doing that for well over a decade!

In short, redemption arcs don’t work for me because I read JGY as someone who, as long as his life is not threatened (and sometimes even then) already chooses to do good. So I don’t think he needs to learn or discover in himself the will to do good (through a redemption arc) - he only needs the chance and relative safety that allows him to act on it.

[blinkandyoumissit]

04 NOV 2021 | ABC Queen Family Singalong • Fall Out Boy - "Under Pressure"

[ note: the audio in the original video only comes through the left channel - i uploaded a copy with fixed audio that comes through both sides here! ]