#they delivered like a queen

[montereybayaquarium]

Feeling super amped up that we got Executive Director, Julie Packard, and Chief Conservation and Science Officer, Margaret Spring joining the trend to tell you all about the based things at our Aquarium. They truly were the moment💅✨🌊

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Endangered Species Highlight: The Water Cone Wizard

(inspired by this post)

[nellasbookplanet]

While I have Many Thoughts on the plan to convince the gods to go mortal, most of which others have already addressed at length (mainly how the fuck is this going to work in practice in both the long and short run, and also really cool idea but could’ve been set up better), I haven’t seen anyone bring up how this particular solution may actually bring a chance at change and growth for the gods that has so far been withheld from them.

Because, until now, the pantheon as a whole has been sort of - stuck. They went from beings of endless possibility in Tengar to being distillied and calcified through trauma into a single trait, the domains of which they became gods. The primes and betrayers aren't different sides of a war but a family locked in a struggle that will never be resolved because neither side will ever relent, nor are they either truly willing or capable of (being immortal) killing each other. They seem incapable of truly changing, and several of them (notably the Arch Heart and the Raven Queen) have expressed simply being tired. They don’t necessarily want to die, but they recognize a need for change, just that they themselves can't be the instigators of it.

The god debate hasn’t really taken this into account, though the overhanging shadow of it has been growing heavier since downfall. The kill-all-gods side obviously has no reason to care whether the gods are locked in endless misery (other than using it as an additional excuse for murder), but the save-all-gods side isn't any more helpful when it comes to this particular issue. Saving the gods won’t heal them.

Maybe becoming mortal (however many, many issues that brings with it) could actually allow them to become whole as people the way mortals are, no longer as strictly tied to their domains. Now that the entirety of Exandria no longer rests on them playing nice, maybe they can find a way to resolve their family feud (through blood or reconciliation). Perhaps, as mortals, they can even eventually even find a way to live a full, final life and find rest at the end of it.

[cake-emu]

Coronation Street | Carla Connor

Carla Connor: consistently gobby

Bonus:

[laurents-secret-diary]

Can we see any of your drawings you may have had for the side characters please??? 👉👈

I only got a couple so far! I think I'm gonna do Nicaise next

[vulpinesaint]

kind of unfortunate that so many fantasy epics are also war novels because i will be honest i just do not like war novels that much... the grand clashing of forces is compelling obviously but it requires characters to talk about so much practical battle strategy and while i can get my brain to comprehend all these fantasy maps and kingdoms and borders and battalions and front lines and army movements it takes up. so much space in the book. feels like i'm fighting a war of my own trying to get through it sometimes

[thetrolltolls]

my multiverse of madness

[kaerinio]

i did it. i managed to survive 4 hours of back-to-back interviews. i am exhausted and i feel like i can barely speak jfdksjfdkl, but i am proud of myself! i'll be lurking today, but will probably be focusing on reading and relaxing in the background. 🥹

[wavywhiskers]

It coincided we are also +900 people here on Tumblr so !!!

[marklikely]

the joker movies both could have really been something but they either need to get 60% smarter or 10% sillier to work.

[ghostlypawn]

uk fates are polyamorous lesbians who go to the bar just to sit in the corner and judge people for fun

[homicidalbrunette]

When you've waited for 6 months for Trixie and Katya to do pit stop together

[fideidefenswhore]

Whilst Mary's and Elizabeth's supporters nailed their colours to the mast, Richmond's activities give little clue as to his inclination. At the Chapter of the Order of the Garter held in April 1536, Richmond voted both for Anne's brother, Lord Rochford, and for Sir Nicholas Carew, who was no supporter of the Boleyns. His action probably reflected the mood of much of the court as they waited to see which way the die would fall.

The Life and Political Significance of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, 1525-1536. (Murphy, A. Beverley)

[rise-deepseamonster]

CRUEL PRINCE IS BECOMING A MOVIE

[galo1s]

Attention math and chess nerds: i have discovered a chess variant called cylinder chess! As the name implies, its chess but the board is a cylinder - the a file and the h file are next to each other. There is an website called cylinderchess.com if you want to mess around with it!

[aq2003]

tbh i'm surprised that the most popular interpretation of mercutio is that he's the gay cousin because just looking at the text he gives me heavy aromantic vibes