#this is so OTT lol

[applejee]

bestie im going to melb and as a local do u have any recommendations for stuff we should do while were there?

FYCK YESSSSSS COME TO MELBOURNE!!!!!!! okay heres my exorbitant mostly food related list (note these places are almost all in the CBD):

coffee/matcha:

if you like coffee, best locations in the CBD are little rogue on drewery lane nearby melbourne central station, and tbh any coffee joint along flinders lane

if you don't like coffee but like matcha or houjicha, drop by little rogue or tori's on niagara lane!! puzzle coffee (there's one on swanston st and in melbourne central station) is also tasty

i've also heard good things about naau's matcha - they're off russell st but i haven't been there myself

breakfast/brunch/bakery:

if you want to try a classic melb brunch, try hardware lane! there's a few places in the laneway and it feels very melbourne

also on drewery lane is bakemono - an adorable little bakery that does amazing melonpan! but they sell out quick and get busy, so you want to get there by 10am at the latest

(can you tell laneways are our culture)

okay i know they opened elsewhere in australia now but LUNE is great... love the croissants....... JC patisserie boulangerie is further north but a quick train ride away - heard great things!

if you want a fun time........ hopetoun tearooms!! SOO CUTE even just the cake window is worth a look. if you want high tea you gotta book out ages in advance, but if you don't mind waiting a little they take walk ins! perfect for an afternoon pot of tea and tasty cake

more lunchy-places:

look, anywhere on degraves st will get you there, and it's also a classic tourist spot! walk down and see the most quintessential melbourne laneway there is!

if you want american-themed fare, bowery to williamsburg FUCKS i had a stunning reuben there.

tbh i rarely actually have lunch, i just get brunch... so all the recommendations above can double

dinner or lunch restaurants:

soooo i love ramen so if you do too, ikkoryu fukuoka ramen is top tier! i love their yuzu ramen. hakata gensuke is good if you like chicken ramen, and shujinko ramen (rip the flinders st store) is good if you're going up elizabeth st and want affordable

mensho tokyo ramen opened recently but uhhhhh the wait has been 3 to 5 hous somedays. ITS POPULAR. ippudo in QV is probably easier and more convenient

outside of ramen, if you want more fancy fancy farmer's daughters is STELLAR. delicious food, great cocktails, mm. nice modern aussie dining. longrain nearby is also very popular!

also vaguely upmarket is chinchin - good curry! the waiters market is a place that my mum hugely recommend before shows but ive never managed to get there myself lmao.

not ramen but still japanese is dohtonbori.. ever wanted to mix and flip your own okonomiyaki? now's the time

I WANT TO GO TO THE NATURAL HISTORY PUBLIC BAR. it's also a restaurant set to look like the american museum of natural history, if you go pls have fun

bubbletea, its own category:

this is just a list.

milksha, the alley lujiaoxiang, machi machi, coco. these are all good. chatime is fine but gongcha is better but theyre the chains so... i really want to go to choulee!! i heard theyre good

desserts:

hokkaido baked cheese tart, black star patisserie, pafu, kurimu, uncle tetsu's, brunetti's for cakes and later nights, sulhwa, and bingsu.

further out or more expensive but fun:

i need to go to milk the cow so BAAAD. there's one in st kilda, which is a short tram ride from flinders st station. if you go lmk

places to visit:

the botanical gardens!! pretty, always a nice time

the NGV likely has some free exhibits going on! always a nice wander

you gotta stop by hozier lane. you gotta. and wander around fed square while you're at it

drewery lane also has some artwork!

a walk down birrarung marr is also nice, sometimes there's night markets going on by the stadiums

the docklands has some alright places, but i know less about it... but they have a ferris wheel rn! check it out!

if you wanna spend thirty or more bucks, go up the eureka tower!! tallest building, and you can get a cool view of the city. the edge experience is a little lift that sticks out the building so you can stare down through glass to the ground below. fun if you aren't afraid of heights

if you like shopping, emporium is fancy and has a MEEQ store where you can buy jellycats

you can go to the queen victoria market if you wanna.... its a classic destination after all

THE LUME is a classic experience here too rn - more exxy but if you want a fun visual experience, do it!

if you want comics - check out all star comics! best LCS in the area.

other specific stores i recommend:

gewürzhaus! there's one in block arcade off collins st, i love it and the spices

not far from gewürzhaus is essensorie - they discon'd my fave handcream SOB but they have some nice things (this is all in the black arcade, same as hopetoun)

and with that, tbh check out all the arcades? they have fun things going on!! there's the block arcade, royal arcade with gog and magog, tivoli arcade... that is to say they're little indoor walkways with shops and stores, as in an arcade you walk through! they're cute

bourke st mall is worth a wander, and you can see the outside of the old post office that's now a H&M...

i know you said "things to do" but... all i do is eat mostly LMAO!!

really, the best thing to do is give yourself a day or two for the CBD. just wander, it's all a grid and easily navigable, and take advantage of the free tram zone!!!! it'll announce when it isn't so you know to touch on your myki or not, i'm not a cop.

you could also wander down to crown at night, southbank has many restaurants and also the flames outside crown fucketh severely

if you're going outside the CBD, its an hours or so drive but healesville sanctuary is soo fun.. and on the way there you can stop by kuranga nursery, it's a gorgeous little place and the paperbark cafe does a bunch of tasty meals with native flavours and bushtucker

if you'll be in the suburbs i have more recommendations too!! but for those just message ma and i'll share so this list isn't crazier than it is xx HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!

[swordmaid]

brienne but she's wearing 1949 cocteau's beauty and the beast inspired fit!!! this is the inspo pic i used if ur curious.

gonna be posting more of this redesign thing (and also jaime's ver) some time in the future but i just wanted to share this one <3

[sketchyelvenasss]

Someone needs to draw Astarion in the Goblin King outfit that David Bowie wears in the Labyrinth

[drop-the-curtain-123]

Yada and Muramatsu were in the same primary school, but there's more similarities between them!

Such as losing their heart to the class representative of the same gender... Peak gay/lesbian solidarity if I say so myself.

[lazzarella]

Going to try to start posting more of my thoughts on shows as I watch or re-watch them because it's my blog and no one can stop me. Anyway! Starting with Hidden Agenda because that's the most recent one I've finished

My expectations were tempered going in—not because most other people said it was terrible, because I've learnt not to put much stock in others' opinions on media as they often don't line up with mine, but because I didn't care much for JoongDunk's scenes in Sky in My Heart. (Tbf, there weren’t that many.) But I liked the premise (it very vaguely made me think of one of my favourite movies, Plan B, even though it's actually nothing like it—just a connection my brain made) and I saw that AouBoom were the side pairing, so I figured I'd give it a go! Not like I'm marrying it, you know?

Anyway, I ended up having a blast! 

Look, did I sometimes wonder if I'd blacked out for a minute or two and missed some important scene or piece of exposition because I was lost about how we got somewhere? A few times, for sure. And could some of the acting have been stronger? Probably, but I've seen way worse acting. Like way worse. Way. Worse. Plus it was never unwatchable for me? And my secondhand embarrassment threshold is pretty low. And did it just pile on a bunch of drama (especially toward the end) that sometimes got resolved super quickly even though it probably should have taken longer? Again, yes. But, somehow, it all worked for me?? It did a lot of things that usually bug me, but there was *something* about this show that kept me hooked.

Like I said, I had a blast! I enjoyed pretty much every minute of it, and I was never bored. I thought Joong and Dunk were super cute together and definitely not shy about the kissing, Aou and Boom may not have had many scenes but I just love them together, I was impressed by both the level and variety of drama they managed to pack in (there's a stalker and both mommy and daddy issues and homophobia, just for starters), and it has some incredibly pretty cinematography! And lots of really good hugs!

I know this is a not a very insightful ‘review’, but I'm a little rusty! But, yeah, genuinely had a great time with this show, it's a solid 8/10 for me! 

[brilliantfantasticgeronimo]

dude i swear no doctor who fandom "thing" annoys me more than the whole "five was like the exasperated dad to tegan/nyssa/adric" jokes. it's such a widespread meme and it goes diametrically opposed to my reading of how five actually is in his stories with his companions. how dare people have fun in ways that don't fit my narrative interpretations honestly.

[amuhav]

     Mist was quiet for a long moment, then chuckled softly. “Y’know, I’ve always envied your self-confidence. All of you. One of the many Karaish traits I guess I don’t have.”      “You used to,” River said quietly. “Before...”      “...Yeah, guess I kinda did.”       “...Anyway, have you even given this guy a chance? Pretty rude of you to just assume he’ll be a dickhead about it, y’know? He might just be a regular old dickhead.”      “Har har, very funny. And... no, not yet. He asked if I wanted to go on a date sometime, and I... I said I’d think about it.”      “Well, don’t think about it. Just do it.”      “...Maybe. Uh, anyway, I better go. I promised Kay I’d meet her after her class, and I’m still in my jammies. Uh, thanks, River.”      “No, thank you, for forgiving me for being an arsehole. I’m sorry again.”      “Don’t worry about it. Uh, don’t tell the others about this part of the conversation, though, right? My threat remains; I will kill you.”      River laughed. “I promise, Missy. The last thing either of us needs is Bay dropping everything to interrogate some boy.”      “Exactly!”      “Bye—Oh! Don’t forget to hide that ‘no boys’ sign, eh?”      “I already threw it away, dickhead,” Mist grumbled as River laughed. “Laters, Riv.”      “Yeah, bye, Mist...”

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[bklynmusicnerd]

"No cause why did Kevin make the cut for Trina's "not a jerk" list but not Ava? I mean Kevin is solid but I'm not sure she's ever even had a conversation with him?" Probably given Spencer's history with Ava she can't bring herself up Ava. She knows that Ava's record isn't spotless (She's also on her bff Joss sh!tlist) no matter how much she looks up to her.

You're probably right, anon, I was probably still being pissy over Ava being left off of Trina's "thankful for" list (egregious). Trina's open about her love for Ava, even in front of Spencer and he knows the deal with those two so 🤷🏿‍♀️.

But you're right, the "not a jerk" banter was her lowkey trying to make a point to Spencer and Ava probably wouldn't be the best example of that lol. I still think Portia should not have made the "not a jerk" cut because that paternity reveal went down this year (🥴).

And I still think the Kevin mention was odd because he and Trina have never had a conversation. Even a Cam mention would have made more sense than Kevin.

This is the consequence of the writers keeping Trina pretty far removed from Spencer's family. Apart from her history with Laura, she really only knows about a lot of them in passing/on an acquaintance level. While Spencer has all these dynamics with Trina's family. It's an unfortunate and mindboggling oversight.

[ishizu-ka]

OTTS sketches! The main characters of this story are Ittetsu Ka, Author, Lord of Cotton, King of Winter & Nephelai Keyarah, Kindergarten Teacher, Botanist, Lady of Cotton, Queen of Winter

I've been having a lot of fun with character designing so much and feel like I'm really clearing away a lot of clutter in the story to maintain the main idea. love that focus, love that for me lol

Off To The Side is my way of focusing on cool palettes and introduces ways to deal with themes like abandonment issues, the struggles of optimism, symbiotic relationships and the fear of loss while playing with prevalent "lord + lady" tropes

+ baby Ittetsu idea! I've been wanting a "little prince with an asymmetrical bob" character and I was right and I love him his eye color changed to purple in the final draft.

[alphabetboyluvr]

A part two is needed for sure but I want oc to express her feelings towards jungkook and jungkook needs to stop being a man whore because oc is THAT girl he needs in his life

boys like otte!jk never know what they've got till it's gone 😮‍💨😮‍💨

[ohe-ohe]

omg what a roller coaster of a period

[pagesixlovers]

i’m curious so reblog and put in the tags how many of your mutuals you’ve met irl! for me it’s 9 but will be 13 in may :] (yes i will end up getting murdered one of these days probably)

[the-feral-fa1ry]

All readi to get headi with yheti!!! 🖤🖤🖤

[littleststarfighter]

Fun Ghoul and Party Poison, the Danger Days versions of Frank and Gerard from the band My Chemical Romance. I absolutely love that album and the whole world Gerard created for it. So I had to draw my two fave lads. Will be more art coming of them. I was just messing about getting the hang of their faces and went a bit OTT with it 😅 It’s that bloody hot pink again, take it away from me lol 😭

And please listen to 'The kids from yesterday' as it's a banging tune 🎸

[ellomello3]

I'm patiently waiting for people to realize that they're probably just signed up with Vimeo OTT.

Ok sorry but the thing that's so funny is the watcher network isn't even an app. It's just a website. A WEBSITE. can you even functionally use it on your phone? You probably can't do downloads the way you can with Netflix. This is so funny