#short-run publication

[theriverbeyond]

yeah

[chevs-and-spiders]

more Rainsford and Zaroff 🥺

i plan to make a small comic of this, so hopefully yea, more rainsford and zaroff :)

[blocksruinedme]

Jimmy may have a bad memory but he is a CLEVER and hardworking boy

who pays very close attention to how other youtubers do things, and takes notes, and works so hard, and now he has 810k subscribers because he knows how to do it.

(well, sometimes clever and always hardworking)

context:

If anyone wants my spreadsheet just lmk. my data mostly came from the youtube wiki and MaxData's visualization of new life smp members' subs numbers. oh, i'll include that!

Jimmy was at 609k when new life started in may 27. he made a (lovely!) pink house.

Twenty one days later he's gained 201,000 subs.

Between cpk and pix now probably, having jumped ahead of oli & pearl.

Y'all when people talk about jimmy being dumb, watch and think how much is an atrocious memory, and how long is not being quick to understand things. If he settles in and works at it! If he's in a group event in mcc and not individual! If he has a strong team captain in mcc who he can listen to! (he's said the last one is how he succeeds).

Jimmy can fucking do it, just in his own way - and he doesn't care to put a lot of effort into learning some things that some viewers want. As I barely care about minecraft, I do have an interesting perspective here! <3

Jimmy can't just get by on his minecraft skills plus his winning smile, comedic timing, charisma, and skill at social rapport and interpersonal... okay I've made it sound like a lot but he has some brains. Those brains just don't know the recipe for... things I also don't care about.

Jimmy Solidarity. You appreciate him. Good.

[bright-and-burning]

oh my god i just saw a post that reminded me of what happened on my way home. ok so let me preface this with i don’t even think i want kids. certainly not for another decade AT LEAST ok. (i had to do some math there to make sure that made sense akdjskdh) and this was like a really and truly insane moment for me. like i acknowledge this. BUT

at the stop i was waiting at to get on the train there was a woman who had exactly the same hair as me (quite common tbh) w a man who looked Weirdly like this guy i was . chatting . with last weekend (who i like. don’t Actually “”have a crush on”” i just enjoy entertaining my own attraction to people. if that makes sense). and they had this ADORABLE like 18 month old and the bottom of their stroller was packed with cool art pieces they were taking home and i had this awful moment of yearning and then i was like ??? bitch ??? you don’t even want kids. AND you don’t even like. actually know that guy very well since you’ve only talked like four times in the last 3 years.

[ragedagainst]

despite the way i associate jyn with fire, she actually runs cold. it's one of the reasons why she wears so many layers (as seen in r1, she's got a shirt, vest, jacket, etc.), though it doesn't help that her clothes are often worn, thin, and a bit ratty. she refuses to wear proper gloves unless absolutely necessary (ie. hoth) because she has better dexterity with her iconic fingerless ones. perhaps because of this, she also has poor circulation in her hands and feet, and anyone who she shares a bed with that runs warm might get an unpleasant surprise in the middle of the night:)

[orcelito]

God, this is fucking crazy

So i only have 3 more classes to take, but it'll cost the same to take 3 classes as 4 classes. So I've been thinking about taking a 4th class just for the hell of it. Something fun and/or easy.

Out of curiosity, I looked up orchestras. I was in it in my first year, but I haven't consistently played since 2016. But I still dream about being in an orchestra again. I *miss it*. So I was like. Well, what if *that* was my 4th class next semester? What If?

I looked it up. This week is the last week they're doing auditions for it. There was only one more spot free after today. And that's *tomorrow evening*.

I haven't really played my violin much in YEARS. I'm so out of practice. But apparently they don't reject anyone outright. Auditions are just for placement. So worst case scenario, I get placed in an orchestra at a lower skill level than I was at my prime. It'd still be an orchestra.

It's crazy short notice, but I don't think I'd forgive myself if I passed it up. Bc I have just one more semester before I graduate. One last opportunity to be in a school orchestra. And if I didn't do this, I'd be left with that What If forever.

So. Crazy short notice, but I have a violin audition tomorrow!!! Hahahaha

[sherdnerd]

In quite possibly the most ingenious move in the history of public transportation, the train company has addressed the frequent lateness of early morning trains by... making them late on the timetable. They just moved them 10 minutes back and that's it.

[orbiyoo]

s;omeone needs to actually kick my ass into working on my cosplay for fanexpo i have most of what i need to and can get to work im just not doing it because im scared for no reason. of everything

[essektheylyss]

Oh hey! Do you like stories about wlw and weird, convoluted forms of time travel? Do you like supporting queer folks making cool art? Did River Song rewire your brain as a teenager?

I wrote a short story called "A Practical Study of Time" for Baffling Magazine, a queer speculative fiction mag! It's published on Patreon, if you're interested in becoming a patron of a super neat lit mag—or it'll be on their site when their eleventh issue is published in April!

[bookgeekgrrl]

If you're a goodreads user, check this fun little program

I embarked on a KJC oeuvre reread this year. I'm still not done yet.

i only use gr as a means of tracking the published stuff i read and i no longer give star ratings to books. i stopped like 3 years ago when i realized it wasn't a requirement. my ratings were always on the 'vibes/experience' side of things not necessarily 'is this book objectively good'. that said i 100% stand by those 5 star ratings for 'delightful reading experience'

[thetidemice]

WHY am i getting pro-car-centric-infrastructure posts on my dash... you are not welcome here.... give me working bus routes or give me death

[mariocki]

Barbara Murray and Clifford Evans share the cover of Radio Times (albeit in separate shows), several years before reuniting for The Power Game

[singsweetmelodies]

Hii, would you do 1, 2 , 4, 8 and 11?🙏🏼

hello, darling! why, yes; yes i would 😘💕

1. Who would end a heated argument by defending their actions with ‘because I love you!’ ?

AHHH, anon, i love you for that one, because this is actually one of my favourite tropes ever. the heated "because i love you" mid-argument... and of course it's a thousand times more delicious if they're not dating yet. the stunned silence... the "wait, what did you just..." and trying to figure out if they meant it... GOOD FOOD. mwah.

and for piarles -- ahhh, i'm actually going to take this as an excuse to write a little mini fic/plot bunny idea that's been running around my brain for forever. so here we go: imagine pierre, in his alpine era feeling happier and freer than ever, making the most of his freedom and, uh, celebrating. in bed. with anyone and everyone. except, most notably, charles. he never invites charles into his bed. and of course charles notices. how could he not?

charles doesn't know what he's supposed to think. should he be hurt that pierre apparently wants to celebrate with everyone except his best friend? should he be worried that he did something wrong? is pierre just not attracted to him? (charles doesn't think that one for too long, btw. he knows he's too pretty.) so i think he'd be a confused mess, bless him, but also probably getting a little more annoyed each time he hears about pierre fucking yet another person who isn't him. because come on. what is pierre's problem? what would be so bad about getting charles in his bed, too?

and one day - i'm thinking after a shitty race, when he's already pissed off - he sees pierre making out with some other driver (george? 😏) behind the alpine motorhomes, and charles just decides that enough is enough. this is getting ridiculous.

so charles pulls them apart, and drags pierre into his motorhome. sits him down, confused and more than a little offended. but charles isn't having any of it. "explain yourself," he says, all hot and challenging and angry. pierre is more confused than ever, and he wants to know what charles is on about. charles, in turn, wants to know why pierre will fuck anyone in the paddock except, apparently, charles himself.

and pierre of course gets defensive. "i can fuck whoever i want, charlito." and charles is like "i'm not saying you can't! i just want to know, why not me?" and they go back and forth like that for a while, arguing and getting more and more annoyed, until eventually pierre snaps and shouts "because i love you!"

charles is just like :o - and pierre winces, but carries on. "because i love you, and i don't love any of them. so it doesn't matter if it's just a one-night-stand. but charles, if it's you... if i ever get you in my bed, i would never want you to leave again."

and charles is just. speechless. because what. he expected a lot, but he never even imagined that. pierre loves him?!! pierre loves him. what. (pierre also almost walks away in the time it takes charles to process this momentous realisation, but charles comes to his senses just in time to grab his arm, and kiss him within an inch of his life, and, yeah. needless to say, they figure it out xD)

anyways, yes, uh. that's how i think piarles for the ending a heated argument with "because i love you!" trope would go <3

2. What would they do if the other woke in a manic state after a nightmare?

answered here 💙

4. Which one is more protective? Who needs to be ‘protected’?

answered here ❤️

8. What happens if one of them gets sick?

answered here 💞

11. Do either try to hide their emotions if upset? Can the other still tell?

answered here 🫶

(obligatory otp asks)

[kickmag]

The Grammys Celebrate 50 Years Of Hip-Hop

Sunday night The Grammys celebrated 50 years of hip-hop with a lineup of some of the most prominent rappers of the genre. Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel, Run DMC, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Queen Latifah, Salt-N-Pepa, Rakim, Mr. Scarface, Busta Rhymes, Too Short, Ice-T, Method Man, Lil Baby, GloRilla, LL Cool J and Public Enemy performed the compact tribute on the stage outfitted like 1520 Sedgwick Ave in the Bronx where DJ Kool Herc hosted the earliest hip-hop parties. Black Thought narrated the segment while The Roots provided the music. Questlove curated the evening and he, unfortunately, had to remove many artists because of time constraints. 

[scham-wcan]

Ruby: Hey Cindy, i got another question of the Schnee variety

Cinder: Don’t call me that, and I thought you were the seasoned veteran already?

Ruby: Well, Even Professionals have some short comings every now and again, ahaha. No, but this is a bit more, uh, Schnees adjacent? Y’know sometimes when we get swamped by reporters or paparazzi? I usually just run away but I saw a magazine which ran some story about us two being coddled and restrained from the world by the Schnees? As if they’re the ones who make us avoid 100 flashing cameras and shouting people.

Cinder, thinking about the paparazzi who’s cameras and equipment she’s consistently torched for reasons minor to justified: Yeah I got nothing kid, just don’t pay them any mind