#this is also his side hustle

[sad-emo-dip-dye]

Suddenly remembering that it took an executive to stop tanizaki from killing mori

[secriden]

Re-watching the scene where Kant and Style talk outside the diner makes me wonder if Style only suggested Kant's dad's car because he thought Kant wouldn't agree to that deal.

The way he says it, all gleeful and teasing, it's clear he's not expecting Kant to say yes to this.

When Kant agrees, the expression on Style's face is almost fond amusement, like "Oh damn, bro, you're really agreeing to this?? You're THIS gone on him already? After one night??"

He even checks again, to see if Kant's serious, like he's half trying to talk Kant out of the deal.

(Love how the whole time Kant is So Serious. Every frame in this scene is Kant serving Soft, Sad, and Wistful eyes as he gazes longingly at Bison through the window.)

But I love what this shows of their friendship. Style will do this crazy thing for his friend just because Kant is in love (as far as Style's knows) for the first time and asking him to help. And yes, some of it is the car and his own ego/desire to put the hot jerk who refused his attempts at seduction in his place -- but its also kind of sweet. Style is presented in ep 1 as quite selfish and self-centered (not maliciously, but in a careless kind of way), but here we see him agreeing to something quite inconvenient for the sake of a friend.

There's some hints at how sweet their friendship is earlier in this episode actually. In the bowling alley, when Style is acting like a brat:

Maybe its just cuz First is too damn pretty for his own good, but his expression reads as slightly exasperated but very fond. It feels like Kant indulges Style's quirks and brashness a lot, so I can sort of see Style agreeing to get involved with a relative stranger just because his friend asked.

This also fits more naturally into my headcannon for Style being the most naive and therefore vulnerable character in the main cast. He's doing everything for (mostly) genuine reasons and I really hope we get to see an explosive reaction when he finds out that Kant didn't tell him about the whole police pressure situation, not to mention the assassin issue.

But I could also see Style finding out that Fadel is a dangerous assassin and being like, "Wait, and the worse you did to me was prick me lightly with a pin and drag me outside your diner?? Yeah you're definitely attracted to me." Which would be. So Hilarious. Imagine Fadel's face. xD

[pikkelyke]

look what i found lmao

[fg083nrt]

♻️ let's learn about recycling ♻️

[mooseyspooky]

I bought an original 1985 Meat is Murder tour program for Quinn, and I can't stop laughing at how Johnny wrote that Smiths gigs and sex are his favorite things to do. I am 100% justified writing him as the world's horniest vampire

[birb--birb]

The Pale Elf

3D print sculpted by Bulkamancer, printed in Siraya Tech grey UV Resin on my Elegoo Mars 2, and hand-painted by me! I cannot be more pleased with how he turned out 🥰

Detailed shots under the cut

Had to share all these gorgeous details, like the TEXTURES on this models are just gorgeous! All that filigree and bead detailing is raised which made painting it much easier, but still very tedious (so worth the results though). This was my first time painting a face bigger than tabletop mini scale, and boy was I intimidated. Had some friends point me to ball-jointed doll makers and learned about detailing faces with chalk pastels, so I used pastels to give his cheeks some colour, blush the tips of his ears, and make the shadows under his eyes. I could go back and add more colour/texture to his hair but I think its best if I leave it, lest I play with it too much and end up ruining things. I have to keep reminding myself that just cause I can see things in macro lens photos, doesn't mean I'm actually able to go correct those things 😅

Regardless, I'm so so happy with how he turned out, and its crazy that I can look at this and go "me!!! I PAINTED THAT!! ME!!!", and now I have a stunning model of everyones favourite lil rat bastard (affectionate) vampire mans💕

[deus-ex-mona]

i miss her…

[butchlifeguard]

ai isn't as environmentally bad as some think. i also don't care if it violates copyright because copyright don't real. i still hate ai tho because it fucking sucks </3

[tennessoui]

Because I’m still feeling very Eurovision: “I have a ghost in my body (and he is a lyricist)”

Someone suggested it elsewhere as a fic title and I couldn’t get it out of my mind since

Thank you! <3 Love you! <3

this feels so basic and like low hanging fruit, but I’m thinking of an au where obi-wan is paid to write love letters to strangers for clients who want to seduce the object of their affections but are horrible at romance or very self-conscious.

and then anakin contracts him for a series of letters he can send to Padmé who is 100% definitely the love of his life, and it starts out easily enough—obi-wan has a policy of one phone call pre letter, to talk through with the client about what they want to say, and then a phone call post letter writing, to read the finished product to the client to get the green light before he sends it off.

but somewhere in between hearing anakin talk about his feelings and the future he imagines with himself and Padme + actually meeting him in person (purely by accident, through some hijinks where they recognize each other’s voices in a crowded elevator or something), obi-wan falls in love.

and anakin finds it harder and harder to remember that the voice on the other side of the phone is reading love letters destined for someone else—not actually murmuring sweet and beautifully crafted love confessions to him.

(They were always going to fall in love)

send me a made-up fic title, and I’ll tell you what I would write for it

[strebcr-a]

did streber make his costume himself

Yup! As a film nerd, local theater actor, and cosplayer he makes most of his costumes all by himself. He even has an etsy where he takes commissions for props, accessories, costumes, and wigs as a side hustle!

[celedyn]

Headshot

[vraska-theunseen]

there's a name of an actor that i always misremember as another name which is of my friends stepmom because the first and last are both so similar but like one letter off and i was just reading an article that i guess somehow made a printing error where they meant to put the actors name and instead put my friends stepmoms name and im just so tickled. im not the only one to ever make this mistake. thedirect.com also did that

[cicadaland]

I really want my friend to get into art school but she doesn't push herself as much as she could in her art and it isn't even her fault because she has absolutely no support from her family but I'm just really afraid that if she doesn't get accepted to any school she'll give up on her dreams of being a mangaka and artist and fall into a depression

[heartslayer]

❛ oh, look at you, attempting greatness! ❜ (doesn't have to be a genuine or intense fight or insult if you don't want it to! sam is just Like That)

He reeks of death. It's a scent familiar to the witch – unmistakable, potent. Standing before her in a well-tailored suit, the man has decided to poke, to prod. Perhaps he can smell the death on her too. They are dealers in death in their own right, drawn together by... mere chance? Likely not.

"Look at you," Eden starts, shoving her hands into the pockets of the long black coat that envelops her. Sharp, polished nails brush against the payment she'd just received from a client. Attempting greatness? What does he know about greatness?

"– masquerading greatness." She finishes her thought, deadpan expression unfaltering as she looks upon him. The witch knows not what he is, nor why he is – but she feels a familiarity in his presence, one she has sensed many times over. He is out of place here. Has he been observing her long enough to know she is, too?

[kxllerblond]

On Clark && Organized Crime.

I really emphasize the fact Clark dabbles heavily in the criminal world (and corporate business overworld) and that he has a reputation, but also is a relatively mysterious individual-—you may have asked yourself how the fuck he manages to be some business-equivalent of John goddamn W*ck and does so while being a supernatural creature.

We've been over the HOW in terms of how he has the influence he has, the connections, etc. Clark works OBSESSIVELY, he's toxic about it to the point where the only reason he hasn't fucked his own health is because he's got the perks of being inhuman. I really hammer in the fact that Clark NEEDS to keep busy and so he dumps just about all of his waking energy into what he does and with the combination of supernatural perks && his own unmatched drive, he accomplished an insane amount in a mere 20 years that could rival just about any multi-generational crime family at this point. I touch on it a little more in detail HERE.

WHAT'S HE DO?

What does he bring to the table? What has gotten him so well connected and powerful? As one might expect from the son of a demon-— he's a deal maker, a deal settler, and a deal enforcer. He's your middleman they can't say no to and, more importantly, he's one that don't WANT to say no to. He brings other things to the table that's earned him some respect like being insanely reliable and always delivering on his promises and, of course, the fact he's got enough money and favors pocketed it makes him valuable just to be in business with.

On the less savory side of things, there are certainly stories ring leaders tell their underlings to keep them in line and many of them may or may not involve Clark and what he has may or may not have done to groups that have gone back on their word with him or went so far as to double-cross him. Rooms of gore, entire crime families wiped over night if they were lucky, killed in every way but physically if they weren't. Gnarly stuff and gnarly punishments for what Clark considers the biggest affront to him. Needless to say, with statements like that, betrayal doesn't happen much nowadays.

Got a pretty decent example of something he might get up to if you reeeeally peeved him off HERE.

BEING IMMORTAL IN A MORTAL WORLD

Arachno, you may ask, how the fuck does he exist like this for twenty something plus years and do the things he does and not be found out? Does no one ask questions??? The short answer is: he really only half avoids it and also people would rather believe a nonsensical lie than they would to accept some batshit truth.

The long answer is he has a plethora of aliases. Frankly, you could be working with or for him and not even know it. Aside from that, he sends liaisons in his stead at times, he impersonates as his own grandson, was his own son before that. Sometimes, he just goes as Mr. Thompson in person, sometimes he only communicates via voice or text. Between all these mediums of doing business, it just further lends to his wild ass reputation. Which leads us to...

THE DEMON OF WALL STREET

An annoying moniker he's earned (much to his chagrin) and is due to the culmination of his own dark reputation, the manner in which he conducts business and settles deals, and also because of the fact there are totally grandpappy crime lords out there on their last leg who SWEAR they remember dealing with the same eerily beautiful blond man in a suit that their predecessor is working with now despite how humanly impossible that would be. Some real Age of Adaline shit. Mr. Thompson does get tossed around a lot, but this title is what you'll hear most often-—especially when you're in a pinch and looking for a last ditch solution to a problem. This is where I get a lot of the OMG!! HE'S JUST LIKE JW from because, really, that's how he gets talked about-—like this scene for example.

Really, he's just some highly professional, efficient, and will-driven businessman that can be like a force of nature if you personally agitate him. Truly an angel to some, a demon to others.

GETTING IN CONTACT WITH THE DEMON

Sort of just an altered version of how you'd get ahold of him in a supernatural sense. He's got a business card with nothing but a number that usually gets passed around by people he's already worked with, sometimes it's by word of mouth. You call or text this number, you get meeting instructions, the line becomes unreachable.

[wrathchvld]

Mean Gene talking business with Sting