#so thats how it be 😌

[rollercoasterwords]

universities will be like “please write a 1000-word essay telling us why you value diversity equity & inclusion & how you will contribute to these core values of our institution” & then the next page is like “thanks! our application fee is $150 🥰🥰”

[muirneach]

'Sulphur' and 'Selenium' by Mary Soon Lee

Sulphur #16 sits atop Selenium #34 in the periodic table. Selenium is rarely found in nature without Sulphur nearby.

for the periodic haiku series by @simmyfrobby

[burquillos]

>Go to place full of chickens

>Reignite my love for Red Junglefowls

>Rethink how Izuku's hair would look irl??

[lover-of-mine]

Why do you think Eddie's sexuality is so contentious while Buck was pretty much universally headcanoned as bi before it was confirmed?

Honestly, I think people have trouble looking at Eddie's sexuality through the lens of someone who does not know they are queer yet. I think that's what breaks the chance of nuance here. The breakup with Ana puts a lot in place to pull a thread about Eddie being gay, and I am ready to admit that, but the fact that that's an interpretation made a lot of people decide that Eddie has always known he's gay and is trying to suppress that. I think it also comes with using repress and suppress interchangeably. Personally, I think Eddie never stopped to consider men as an option and he truly believes he was in love with Shannon and that makes him date women he finds interesting but he can't fall in love with. The fact that he believes he was in love with Shannon, to me, also means he will never reach a point where he labels himself as gay. Shannon is dead, he will never get a chance to objectively look at his feelings for her, it's why I'm an unlabeled Eddie defender since the show will probably not go with the demi route.

I think the idea that Eddie is looking for what he knows, what he had with Shannon since they were so young when they met, in other women because he never stopped to consider men is more interesting than the idea that he has known he's gay the whole time and is trying to feel "normal". I think a lot of the problem is that there's a portion of the fandom that cannot accept the possibility that Eddie doesn't know the same way Buck didn't know. And that makes it hard to have a nuanced conversation because anything that's not "Eddie knows he's gay and hates himself for it" is met with a shitton of very aggressive reactions. I don't think Eddie is aware and going around trying to hurt the women he dates, I feel like he just wants to be loved and doesn't know anything else.

[kennimu]

Small little varigo doodles because I was bored and I love them :D

[aberfaeth]

like yes i would have liked for this battle to have been at all narratively interesting instead of just a sick beatdown, but yknow thats what fic is for! i had a good time! i chuckled even!

[themesis]

this is what i look like talking about ogata to anyone anywhere at literally any time.

[bee-boppin]

Ovid's Metamorphoses

Daedalus and Icarus

8.183-8.235

Meanwhile, for Daedalus, (hating Crete and his long

Exile, and longing for his motherland,)

Closed was the sea. "Though Minos has closed off the land and the waves," He said,

"Certainly the sky is open! We will escape by that route!

Though Minos has all, he alone can not possess the sky."

He said this, and directed his mind into unknown arts

And nature he makes new. For he put in order feathers

Beginning from the smallest, long following the short

So they appeared to grow on a slope, as a rustic pan pipe whose reeds lengthened gradually.

Then with twine around the middle, he bound them at the bottom with wax

And bent his creation to a shallow curve,

That it would truly imitate a bird. The boy Icarus

Stood alongside, and ignorant he handled his own demise,

Now with smiling lips took feathers which had been loosed by wandering breeze,

Now softened the yellow wax with his thumb,

And with his play, hindered the miraculous work of his father.

After the final touch was put upon the wings,

The craftsman fitted himself with the wings, balancing in moving air

And he instructed his son, "Icarus," he says. "Take the middle path,

I warn you, if you fly too low,

The waves will weigh down the feathers, and if you fly too high, the fire will scorch them,

Between them you must fly. And you must not aim at Bootes,

Nor Helice and the drawn sword of Orion. I command you;

Follow my path, I will lead," and while he delivers his instructions of flight,

He fits the unfamiliar wings to his shoulders.

Between work and warning, his cheeks had grown wet with tears,

And his fatherly hands trembled; he kissed his progeny,

Never again to be repeated, and having been lifted by the wings,

Before he fears for his son, he flies, as if a bird

Which leads delicate offspring into the air from a lofty nest,

And, instructed in ruinous arts, urged young to follow.

He moves his own wings, and looks back at those of his son,

Here, someone, while catching fish with trembling rod,

Or shepherd leaning on his staff, or plowman his plow,

Saw this, and was amazed, and those who were able to seize the sky

He believed to be gods.

Now Junonian Samos was on the left, (Delos and Paros having been left behind,)

Lebinthos and Calymne, which is fertile in honey, were on the right,

When the boy began to rejoice in the daring flight,

And he abandoned his leader, and Desire for the sky

Drove him upon a higher path. The proximity of the scorching Sun

Softens the sweet-smelling wax, the binding of the feathers;

The wax had melted; the boy beat his bare arms,

And lacking plumage, not catching any air,

Lips calling out his father's name,

Is swallowed by blue water, which took its name from him.

The misfortunate father, a father no longer, cried out "Icarus!"

"Icarus!" He said, "where are you? Where am I to seek you?"

"Icarus!" He continued calling: when he noticed feathers in the waves,

And cursed his own arts, and buried the body in a grave,

Where the land would be named for the buried.

[phagodyke]

at its core dorohedoro is abt what if there was someone whose special interest was making gyoza and also someone else whose special interest was eating them. and they found each other in this crazy world to be besties <3

[mo-ok]

Toku Summer Day 3 - Fruit

Strawberries are stubborn like that. If you don't give them a hand they don't even turn red. Magiranger ep3: Ride the Magical Dragon

[xxplastic-cubexx]

your art got me back into x men…. (cherik specifically) i was in denial abt losing my previous hyperfixation but your art was the final nail in the coffin (NOT DEROGATORY BTW I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR ART)

WELECOME BACK MY FRIEND you can never escape !!!!!!!!!!!!!! not if i can help it ....

[narwhalandchill]

its been like. nearly a year (How.) already but i cannot lie theres Still a part in the back of my brain occupied with and being thoroughly entertained by the way that childes confirmed 4.0 complete self-awareness over waking up the narwhal at 14 recontextualizes some key liyue things leading to some very funny self indulgent scenarios in my head

like yes chili is old news its basic please excuse me for predictable popular ship crimes (do NOT however associate me w the crimes of fanon against their actual range. theyre peak to Me) but i just keep replaying the imagery of zhongli and childe back on their homoerotic Professional Working Relationship bullshit where their flirting passed the jkjk unless treshold of even remotely plausible deniability like 8 exorbitantly priced business dinners ago and theyre just like. doing that whole song and dance now neither committing to a move except zhonglis presently feeling moderately conflicted (but nonetheless fairly unfazed at) by the prospects of actually developing some sort of a thing for the harbinger hes supposed to puppet master into executing the major story climax of his 67-step retirement plan bc he turned out to be quite the strangely charming ginger specimen (to His weird fucking 6000 year old tastes at least. they deserve each other) with some fascinating life ambitions he cant help but be enraptured by.

but because hes still 100% Locked In on his entire plan zhonglis also just . simultaneously dual wielding his coy-ass "i like you and am taking it slow to Savor this developing relationship (Also bc of the Geo Archon Shaped Elephant In The Room) except am old as shit so my languid sense of time inadvertedly Automatically turns my behavior into an equivalent of the dark souls boss of playing hard2get" act (cue "waddup im ajax 24 and im in fucking agony with this hot funeral consultant". Yes they live like this) AND also meticulously theorycrafting like 12 moves in advance for his 6d chess play of leaving the most subtly crafted trail of breadcrumbs behind for the tsaritsas 11th to follow into the intended & completely "Coincidental" idea of unleashing the one particular sealed sea deity that zhongli Specifically wants momentarily released for his sweet 6k retirement party and graduation test for the nation hes helicopter parented for 3.7k years .

like. this is zhongli we r talking about the guy Absolutely has it planned out down to a fucking art like he has an entire branching path dialogue tree planned and memorized like its a visual novel for every possible way he can conveniently namedrop osial in a non-suspect way and also that he just happens to be sealed right over there across the harbor (what a coincidence!) and also to slip in the intel about the latent power of the sigil of permission etc etc. like zhonglis just out there doing all this massive galaxy brain computational work simultaneously while infodumping on an academic level about whichever subject childes latest random comment of amicable small talk happened to remind him of because in his helicopter parent in remission mind its Absolutely Critical that the idea about releasing osial occurs Completely organically in childes mind it Has to he Cannot risk revealing anything . (hes in remission not in recovery guys.) so like here we are. he requested notes from the tsaritsa Personally on the character of her 11th just to ensure every move was painstakingly crafted to draw him Specifically to the intended conclusion without risking revealing his true identity .

except. the thing . neither he. nor the tsaritsa . would have been informed of . is that this simply isnt childes first fucking rodeo waking up an eldritch city sized sea creature . and he is very well aware of this fact . he woke that beautiful wonderful beloved huge fucking narwhal up by himself had his brain chemistry Immediately and Irrevocably rewired as a direct consequence do you fucking think hes somehow stopped thinking about that singular moment for even a second since then???

yeah . thought so.

so what actually ends up happening in reality is theyll be on another definitely-serious-business-not-just-a-date and zhonglis going to get down to like dialogue selection part 10 of the 86 step conversation tree at Most where hes only beginning to like Vaguely allude to the key pieces of information involved but it turns out Because Hes That Guy (TM) And Has Been There Done That Before childes basic pattern recognition and sense of irony simply proceed to kick in Way ahead of time and hes Immediately perking up like Hey wouldnt it be really fucking funny if i wake up an eldritch sea beast Again . like just in case. as a last ditch effort .

and zhonglis just sitting there seeing the gears turn in his head as they enjoy their cringe fucking picnic (bc they just stare at each other intently like that nowadays its a thing. being in a room with them by this point is essentially a human rights violation) and is just completely fucking flabbergasted and lost on how in the hell childes speedran his way to that conclusion at what amounts to barely a 13% completion rate in his whole overkill fucking plan (just 1 of 3 contingencies btw) and its like yes he has his intended outcome but also precisely 0 idea on how the fuck said outcome was reached the way it was this fast . like hes still winning its His plan thats well underway and ahead of schedule but How

(pov: ur selling the concept of waking up destructive sea creatures to the guy who woke up a celestial body eating cosmic whale at 14)

anyway its truly beautiful i absolutely detest these two and have prime liyue AQ hijinks nostalgia now thank you for the lore drop that allowed this to become canon in my head hoyo

[hiddenbeks]

oh also in other news. i finally finished leviathan the other day

[fruitybashir]

I'm actually really wondering how Bojan feels about... everything, cause Kris is just in denial but he's clearly very deeply in love. But what about Bojan? Does he know that he is in love with Kris? Is he also in denial? I don't think he really knows but maybe he does feel it but can't place the feeling?

You probably can't really answer this without spoiling, but I just had to ask.

😌

sorry i started typing out two tags and then just kept going i shouldve just put this all here but now its too late argh. sorry </3

[dizzybizz]

concept for a tbna oc??

[phagodyke]

okay so my new minor severance theory is that they got ricken to write the new chapter of kier abt dieter eagan like thats the "innie translation" of his other book into weird fables...