#though i don't remember which one

[the-metaphorical-jellicle-cat]

Mungojerrie: Why do I have to be the bad guy?

Rumpleteazer: I don’t know. Why am I the pretty one? We all have our thing.

[dandelion-roots]

[ID: a series of drawings featuring Riz Gukgak from D20 Fantasy High. In the first, Pok holds Riz's shoulders in heaven as says, smiling, when you work until the dead of night, your friends know you do it because you love them. In the second, Riz is having a group hug with his party and the text reads, but is it really love that drives you, Riz Gukgak... In the next, a desperate, pleading Riz clutches the shoulder of an indifferent, faceless person and the text continues, ...or is it fear? In the fourth, Riz is younger and digging through crystals with bleeding hands; the text reads, what use are you when you can no longer dig. In the fifth, Kalina, shrouded in darkness with only her eyes glowing, reaches towards the camera with a smile; the text reads, when you're too scared to think. Sixth, Riz is filling out Fig and Kristen's papers under the light of a lamp, serious and tired; the text reads, when you're too tired to work. Seventh, Riz is lying in bed, eyes hidden behind hair, hand on his father's picture; the text reads, too sad to keep the mood up. Eighth, Baron stares into the camera; the text reads, too lonely, too insecure, too weird. Ninth, Baron is holding a defeated Riz by the throat; the text reads, to keep moving? Tenth, Riz is standing in the distance, holding his briefcase, and behind him is a football/soccer ball; the text reads, what use is a ball that can no longer roll? The last drawing just says none in brackets on a dark background. End ID]

[kirby-the-gorb]

[icewindandboringhorror]

A very lacy sort of outfit, still always trying to find a way to use this shirt in things lol

[transmascutena]

the poor little meow meow-ifictation of saionji in this fandom has got to stop i can't take it any more

[rockethorse]

The basegame wedding dress has a pregnancy morph??

[front-facing-pokemon]

[royalarchivist]

Quackity: Oh, it's gonna be so cool to see how this develops. I'm excited, I'm gonna try my best. I'm not the greatest at Minecraft whatsoever, I did nerf Green Team a little bit by accident on the second day. My bad! But, you know, I'm so ready to just grind out and see what we can do, and I just–

I wish everyone saw it with the same amount of, like, kind of enthusiasm. I think all of this and all the development and all the potential arcs, that's going to fcking allow for something absolutely incredible.

And if anyone ends up clipping any of this, something I do want to say is I implore people to view everything with a lot of enthusiasm. No stress, no anxiety, just a lot of enthusiasm. Because, again, this is going to allow for a lot of cool things in the server. Not just now, but in the future, too.

[redbootsindoriath]

Apparently in my absence this post had its 1000-notes-iversary.

This time we get to see the culprit responsible for ruining our heroes' lives as well.

I've really missed you guys, by the way. I know I've said that already, but I'm serious. Once or twice this year I've been right on the brink of coming back but schedule stuff always keeps me from letting myself commit to that again, and that in turn has kept me from posting anything at all. But I've been in an unexpected drawing mood lately and so if I can get enough stuff to set up a queue we might pretend I'm back for a month or so sometime this year. Maybe. Hopefully. We'll see. No promises though. That's why I'm hiding this paragraph under the cut.

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[Beren:] "Uhhh...barkeep...I think he's had enough now..." [Tolkien:] "No, I don't think he has...!"

[kyouka-supremacy]

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[manglam-marfach]

dyke!Chilaios has me understanding breeding kink all of a sudden

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

So... so... so... I'm playing the Act 4 Natlan Archon Quest, and uh, (potential very very vague spoilers) but uh... Getting the urge to go reread Cyanide Narwhal for the nth time... If you've played the Archon Quest, did you have any thoughts about it? If not... well, it made me think of your fic, so... Congrats to you!!! <3

i mean i did have thoughts about it but i hardly remember them now LMAO it's been a while, but it was a great quest!!

[keeps-ache]

you'll forget all but what you chose

[night version below: eyestrain warning]

[thejadearia]

Speaking of Shimazaki, I learned a lot about myself this week making these terrible memes so I could drop them in the discord chat as I made my friends watch MP100. What I learned was, I have a terrible sense of humor (actually I already knew that, I just didn't realize it was this bad) and that the only thing I enjoy more than watching Shimazaki kick ass, is Shimazaki getting his ass kicked. (I'll have more of these for next week when we get to Serizawa's stuff! Sorry!)

[kirasworldofwords]

Marilou is a horrible person as well. There’s a thread of her on Twitter/X of her being a Zionist as well as being in contact with Zionists.

There’s also been reports of her being a mean girl (at the Canadian GP, during the BOSS event, she was spotted with her friend mocking and making fun of fans at the event acting very judgemental) along with her allegedly making fun of someone’s weight.

Lance himself, it’s tricky, although I do feel bad for him, he also has dated an IOF(?) solider in Dian Schwartz.

Honestly so so glad she's away from him now. Perhaps he'll see the light soon...? I'm being carefully hopeful here. Because knowing what I know, the drama about Kelly and Max, something with Carlos, many things with Lando... I'm starting to get trust issues for real, lmao.

Still kinda hopeful of course, it'd be a shame otherwise.

[ghostieblotts]

Blotts' Bracelets: Spy Another Day

Okay! Here we are - the very belated post about my bracelets for the West End Concert of Spies Are Forever!

Unfortunately, these photos aren't the greatest - they were taken in a hurry before setting off, and I hadn't had chance to remove the excess elastic yet - but they are better than nothing!

This is going to be a long post, so I'll put in a cut. Keep reading if you want to read my ridiculous and over-pretentious ramblings about some bracelets made with colourful plastic and clay beads!

First of all, the bracelets I made for the Meet & Greet! And yes, my hands were shaking as I tried to get these out on the day.

I made these the night before I left while listening to the SAF soundtrack. Fond memories.

'Flip diggity' was for Joey - I consistently used purple and pink for any Vanger Borschtit/We Love The Prince bracelets as I was aiming to match part of Vanger's original costume, although in hindsight I'm not sure why I didn't use burgundy instead of purple. Gold stars, since they seemed fitting for the glitz and glamour.

'Always end on a high note' was also for Joey - I actually made two of these, and kept the second one (which is the only bracelet I kept!) so I'll add a better photo to end the post. Fiery colours for the gunshot, befitting of the man who invented fire, and bronze stars because they felt most Owen.

'I'm stealing the show' and 'Let's dance' were both for Brian! The purple was meant to match the Informant's outfit during One More Shot, and then the rainbow colours were honestly just for fun (and I needed to make at least one rainbow bracelet for this show at some point, let's be real).

'Once a spy, always a spy' was for Corey, as it felt like a good line to represent the show. I used a lot of things in this bracelet that I used elsewhere to represent Curt - colours from the iconic jacket outfit, blue coloured stars, and smaller silver stars.

'The warmest hello' was also for Corey - I tried not to give two bracelets that were too similar - featuring warm colours and Owen's bronze stars, since I tend to associate this line more with Owen, personally.

Its counterpart, 'The coldest goodbye', was for Clark, with cold-coloured beads and lots of white to represent both ice and Curt's a1p1 outfit (with the blue for some of the lighting), along with Curt's silver stars. After all, I'd say that Curt delivers the coldest goodbyes in the show, both unintentional and intentional.

Finally, 'Lurking in the shadows' was also for Clark. I wanted the coloured beads to be a little bit like a spotlight on an otherwise dark stage.

On to the bracelets that I traded and gifted!

'It was the bees' knees' - self-explanatory yellow and black for bees here. One of the first bracelets I made, and one of my favourites!

'Good, you're learning' - I think I based the colours on Cynthia's a2p1 outfit for some reason, despite this line not being from that scene?

'You limey bastard' - I had so much fun trying to make the colours on this one look like a cut lime. I think it worked decently well!

'Somebody's gotta do it' - Sergio's outfit colours! I spent so long staring at screenshots trying to colour match this one. It worked out better than a lot of my colour matching attempts (I did not have the brown and neutral toned beads necessary to colour match the costumes in saf)

'Efficiency and skill' - I liked to always use the same type of purple beads for Tatiana. I ran out of them.

The 'Doing This' series! I typically used those blue beads as Curt's signature colour. I kept Tatiana's purple next to the bomb in 'That bomb/My heart', and Curt's blue close to the heart. Then with 'Better as friends' the hearts are closer together because they understand each other a little more now :) and then 'Don't have to pretend' has feature beads in purple for Tatiana and blue and orange for Curt (I didn't have the larger stars in red).

Then the matching pair of 'The warmest hello' and 'The coldest goodbye'. I added the hearts so that these two would be exactly the same size. Once again, the colours are dual purpose, chosen for the temperature and to represent Curt and Owen. The white and blue was to represent Curt's a1p1 outfit under blue lighting, and the brownish-orange beads were the ones I used as Owen's signature colour (since I didn't have the right beads for a true colour match).

Introducing the DMA's signature colour - these weird, kinda fleshy-coloured beads! They just felt right, and again I lacked a good colour match for his costume. 'The horror of staying alive' was the first bracelet where I used these beads as I felt they matched the line quite nicely, and they returned for 'I'm a different breed', with yellow and orange feature beads to kind of allude to the DMA's shirt. (Though as I'm looking at these again, I think if I wore this one I would also read those beads as being the punch after this line in Torture Tango).

A series of bracelets from 'We love the prince' - I tried to give them a little bit of visual variety while keeping to that pink-and-purple theme I established for Vanger. I had the unexpected pleasure of meeting AJ Holmes outside the theatre, and he ended up getting the 'Jibber jabber' bracelet without picking deliberately - couldn't have planned that better if I had tried!

'It's actually a gun' has white and black beads for the scientists' outfits and some fiery feature beads for a gunshot.

'Pay attention' features my attempt at colour matching one of Barb's outfits - the peach and blue beads were to try and incorporate some texture, since she wears a lot of patterned fabric.

Another matching pair! 'Old buddy' and 'Old pal', with colours to match who the line is addressed to.

'Me and my partner Owen' - I had so much fun with this one. Curt's blue beads around 'me', white beads for Curt's a1p1 and casino outfits, red beads for the accents on the jacket, and Owen's beads around his name. Then the feature beads with the different colours representing Curt and individual Owen beads surrounding/in between them.

'Remember/surrender/never' - a straightforward design I really liked! Featuring Tatiana, the DMA, and Curt's signature bead colours.

'Eyes on the prize' - white and black beads for Curt's casino outfit, and purple and red for the incredible lighting in this scene.

'I don't believe in chance' with purple for Tatiana, and 'Back to the bakery' with Sergio's colours!

Lots of orange and Owen's signature beads for 'Oh, sod off'. I'm not sure why I used white and blue for 'They call that ⭐treason⭐' - I think I was going for vaguely Union Flag vibes? Could have done with some red though. Stars for emphasis

Oh I spent so long on this one. I wanted it to be able to loop endlessly as well as matching the number of repeats in the original line, without making the bracelet too loose. If you start with the coloured letter beads and read them again at the end, it's the right number of repeats for 'A spy is a spy is a spy is a spy is a spy'. Red and blue beads for Curt, and the coloured letter beads were meant to just generally match the spy characters.

'Personal history'. Lavender.

Another matching pair - 'Once a spy' with colours from Curt's a1p1 outfit, and 'Always a spy' with colours from Curt's iconic jacket outfit.

Nearly done!

'My old friend' - another one in lavender!

'Pretend to be a hero again' - this was another fun one! A very small set of feature beads to recreate the iconic jacket outfit, and then using those beads again throughout the bracelet - but 'hero' has the colours of Curt's a1p1 outfit around it. I was thinking about Curt's attempts to 'be the old him' again, and how tying that to his a1p1 colours could be a bit sarcastic with calling him a 'hero', going with the bitterness of 'pretend'.

'To honor' - this was the first bracelet I made for SAF! I made it at the same time as I made 'sample lady at Costco' for Solve-It Squad since it used the same colours. I was trying to kind of make miniature American flags, with more of that patriotic red, white, and blue in the stars, and then hearts in red and blue as an extra touch. I hope Mr. Big would approve. (I did spend a while thinking about which spelling to use. 'Honor' felt more appropriate. My spellcheck doesn't seem to agree.)

'One step ahead' - featuring both the signature beads for Owen and the DMA, more bronze and orange stars for Owen, and a small blue star for Curt.

'How the story ends' - another fun one to end with, featuring Curt and the DMA's signature beads, three stars in blue and orange for Curt, and individual orange stars for Owen.

And that's it! All 43 bracelet designs I made for SAF London. If you read all of this, thank you so much! Here's a better picture of my copy of 'Always end on a high note' to end the post :)