#the branches though

[frommylimitedtravels]

I don’t think I’ve ever walked past this tree and not been tempted to take at least one picture of it...

Watershed Park

[a-lost-crow]

How to save yourself from a lengthy angst fic

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt in Memes 5

Once more, have a prompt entirely in memes because I'm too lazy to properly write one right now lol.

[pocketgnome]

Gnomes in Art🎨 #Halloween edition 🎃

[iwasbored777]

The amount of times they teased Broppy wedding isn't funny anymore, I just want it to happen now

[mylittleredgirl]

oh ho ho i have looked up the massachusetts ballot questions and i am so personally excited to vote against the MCAS, the high school standardized test students must pass to graduate. it never impacted my own education because i was in the very last class not to have to take it (late 90s), but i was selected for the pool of beta testers the year before it was universally implemented.

i had a great time actually—get out of class for two days for a test that doesn’t even matter? i enjoyed the process of taking standardized tests (when they didn’t matter) because i had spent most of my pre-high-school days in a homeschool environment without grades, so they reminded of the trivia workbook pages that were rationed out and treated as rewards (in a one room schoolhouse with 5 kids, you take the thrills you could get—public school education was pretty amazing after that).

the most memorable part of it for me was that we got little boxes of raisins as a snack and mine had an inchworm in it. but even then as a dumbass teenager i remember giving feedback that this would be demoralizing and unfair if imposed on everyone. schools chose who would put in the test group, and every one was an A student! what kind of sample was that?

the MCAS wouldn’t become a compulsory requirement for graduation until no child left behind, but it still immediately changed things. my sister was one year behind me, and her experience in the same classes i had taken the year before was so much less inspiring. history and civics teachers who had been painstakingly gathering copies of real articles for decades about historical events had to teach from state approved textbooks. the cross-disciplinary fun projects for multiple subjects were cancelled. older teachers started phoning it in and planned their retirement.

anyway, one of the things i have always felt most grateful for in my life is that i squeaked through my public education before state testing choked it. it was a small rural public school (pretty well funded though, there are a lot of fancy summer homes in property taxing distance), and had very passionate teachers who were having extra creative fun squeezing out the last of their independence, knowing that testing was coming. i was one of the canaries in the coal mine and i will take great pleasure if my vote helps shut it down.

[amethyst-halo]

"what happened to mom?" "..." "she left." "left?" "she didn't even look at us."

[boundariesoverthrown]

JAMES AND LARS, DAMAGED JUSTICE TOUR – SEPTEMBER 23RD, 1989

[but-sometimes-im-not]

picnic, angel?

ft. a small tribute to my favorite gomens fics <3 ( @omgmussimm, @twilightcitysky, @mirjam-writes, @brightwanderer, @voluptatiscausa, @moonyinpisces, @blairamok)

[edenprime]

One of the strongest points of Mass Effect, if not the strongest, is just how well written the characters are. From Shepard, to the squad, to the side characters like Anderson and Bakara, to barely-there NPCs like Ereba and Charr the lovers, Etarn Tiro the enthusiastic turian merchant, Kargesh the krogan who wanted a fish, Lia'Vael, the quarian who gets falsely accused of theft, and the Salarian who wants to buy a memento to his asari lover to remember him by once he's dead.

I feel like so many of them are memorable, and they all serve a purpose to the overall world building. The krogan show that they are not the violent thugs the galaxy has made them out to be. The salarian shows the struggle born out of building relationships with people of a species with a life expectancy so beyond your own. Lia'Vael illustrates what Tali says about the quarians being treated like second class citizens. Those small little side quests have a meaning and a purpose, it doesnt feel like they are Just There, and they add more to the lore of them game to those who care about that stuff.

[that-cool-guy]

PAST BROZONE LETS GOOOOOOOOOO

I just wanted to add little differences to them as in the movie well… they look like carbon copy’s of each other, just recoloured

SO I GAVE THEM PAZZAZ GLAM GLITZ- well kinda, they still look like the originals hehe

[sunberies]

How about SL wedding pics! Or snack pack reaction to baby rosie or older rosie and tiny hanging out with sunny!

WEDDINGGGG!!!!

i’ll draw some like, family wedding photos later but THESE ARE THEIR OUTFITS :3 they are having a spring wedding uhm uhm idk what would they have at their wedding? i can only think of the outfits…. OK OK BACK TO DOING OTHER THINGS….

[torchickentacos]

wip :) getting back into digital art a little bit. The way that the sun was shining on the snow in my yard was pretty and I am *attempting* to draw it!

[lmorgart]

a sketch comm of neotrin swapping sweaters! ✨️

[lleclerc]

iceman + his concern for maverick post-hop 31

[pigeonkitsch]

happy belated birthday to my autistic king. honored to be one of his 20 fans