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[argentangelhelps]

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[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price - The Bat 🦇 (1959)

[elbiotipo]

If you're from Argentina, you've probably heard about the Iberá wetlands, and you know the tourist pitch: a vast expanse of natural wonders in the middle of Corrientes, full of beautiful lapachos, cute carpinchos and yacarés, and now home to the fastest-growing wild yaguareté population, all with the unique Guaraní influenced culture of rural Corrientes.

Now, things aren't as shiny as they look, since the creation and management of the new national park is still a point of contention in many ways, but you will be suprised that this kind of thinking about the Iberá is very, very recent. Most people considered it an obstacle to progress, a big bunch of swamp in the middle of what could be a very productive ranching province. In a geography book from the 1910s (unfortunately I lost the screencap) it says something like "the biggest obstacle for the development of the province is this swamp, and it should be drained"

This took me to the other side of the world, to the Netherlands. They're known for land reclamation, from literally building their country from the sea. Especially when we're facing rising sea levels because of climate change, the Dutch seem like miracle workers, a look into our future. You will find no shortage of praise about how with some windmills and dams, the Dutch took land "from the sea", and turned it into quaint little polders, making a tiny country in Europe a food exporter and don't they look so nice? But when you look about it, you can barely find anything about what came before those polders. You have to dig and dig to find any mentions of not "sea", but of complex tidal marshes and wetlands, things I've learned are ecologically diverse and protected in many places, but you won't find people talking about that at all when talking about the Netherlands. It's all just polders now. What came before was useless swamp, or a sea to be triumphantly conquered. It's like they were erased from history

The use of that language reminded me of the failed vision of draining Iberá... and the triumphing vision in the Netherlands, and many other places. Maybe those wonderful places, those unique wetlands, would have been a footnote, you wouldn't find anything unless you were a bored ecologist who looked, and not even then. Now, far it be from me to accuse the medieval Dutch, who wanted to have more space to farm, of ecocide. And don't think this is going to be a rant against European ecological imperialism either, as the most anthropized places you can find are actually in China and India. But it does get me thinking.

I work with the concept of landscape, and landscape managing. (Not landscaping, those guys get better paid than me) The concept of landscape is somewhat similar to the concept of ecosystem you know from basic biology, but besides biotic and abiotic factors, you also have to involve cultural factors, that is, humans. There is not a single area of "pristine" untouched nature in the world, that is a myth. Humans have managed these landscapes for as long as they have lived in them. The Amazon, what many people think about when they think about "unspoilt" nature, has a high proportion of domesticated plants growing on it, which were and are still used by the people who live on it, and there once were great civilizations thriving on it. Forests and gardens leave their mark, so much that we can use them to find abandoned settlements. From hunter-gatherers tending and preserving the species vital to their survival in the tundra to engineers in Hong-Kong creating new islands for airports, every human culture has managed their natural resources, creating a landscape.

And this means these landscapes we enjoy are not natural creations. They are affected by natural enviroments; biomes do exist, species have a natural distribution. But they are created and managed by humans. Humans who decide what is valuable to them and what is not. The Dutch, seemingly, found the tidal marshes useless, and they created a new landscape, which changed the history of their nation forever. We here in modern Argentina changed our perception of Iberá, decided to take another approach, and now we made it a cherished part of our heritage, which will also speak about us in the future.

Ultimately, what is a useless swamp to be drained or a beautiful expanse of nature to be cherished depends in our culture, in us humans. We are the ones who manage and change ecosystems based in our economics, our culture, our society. This will become increasingly important, as climate change and ecological degradation becomes harsher and undeniable. We will have to decide what nature is worth to us. Think about what is it worth to you.

[hauntinglesbian]

rewatching episode 3 of AAA (cause for some reason it's been unwatched on my account even though I did watch it!) and just an interesting study on Agatha:

(disney isn't letting me screencap so I'll just have to do quotes sadly....)

it's interesting retrospectively watching this and you can tell Agatha is plotting, like what does she say to the rest of the coven cause she's literally making it up as she goes. Does she know it's Billy yet?

Billy is manifesting this whilst they're thinking about what form of trials they are up against e.g. when Alice says trials, Billy's brain immediately thinks of trials. Oh Billy, little do you know...

I do not see Kathryn, only Agatha, but also impressive of Agatha to make it up on the way.

when Agatha says 'safe as kittens' and puts her hands up like that, i feel like that's soft agatha <3

why is agatha putting her hand on her chest when they go into the house? Kathryn tell me your acting choices !

huge tiny lies = big little lies

oh billy that's not true, he died cause he wasn't supposed to live long.....

I feel like this agatha and agatha revealed is very different?

Going to delete my disneyplus history so I can restart watching again lol.

Do I feel bad about Sharon in this episode, yeah I do, but also Agatha looks really beautiful as always and also the scheming noise sounds like something from a reality tv show lol - like real housewives of beverley hills or something

Aww agatha in the background sitting she lost looks like she's having fun

okay so you know how she refuses for teen to drink the wine, do you think at first she thinks it's nicky?

also Agatha's hands <3 - the nails okay she's got very witchy hands lol

poor lilia <3, she's not well, she also didn't deserve to go.....

the baby scene is odd cause it's like, not true? Why is she whimpering? she did not trade her bébé for the darkhold :/

okay the parallel between Jen pushing Lilia out of the way to actually helping her, character growth!

Agatha so selfish lol

It's so weird to rewatch when having already watched it if you know what I mean

just rewatched this exact episode right now with the bestie @ragnarockz cause they are a whore for the Agatha milf fit in the first trial (can’t blame them though 👀)

So funny when she’s coming up with shit she’s like “1 trial for each skill” and then gives a little look like hell yea I kinda cooked with that one ngl. Then they get in the house and she’s like “the road changes for the coven” and she’s like damn I’m good at this making shit up on the spot stuff. 😏

Love soft Agatha, that’s my baby girl right there! 💖 me when soft agatha:

I heard someone saying something about some sort of grounding technique when Agatha puts her hand on her chest. But I can’t remember the exacts words I’m sorry.

Idk if she think it’s Nicky, I feel like she explained she was unsure for a bit so could have been. But even if she didn’t think it was him I think she would have stopped him. Recently was talking about how in Wandavision she made pb & j sandwiches for the boys with chips on the side and that’s just the cutest thing ever. And you know why, because I think agatha is a milf first! Excuse me… slipped up there… I mean a mother first! Yea she’s bad, mean and even evil if you will but one thing she’s gonna do is be a good mom (while alive).

The nails kill me a bit. Like I don’t love them. But her fingers are going 100 miles a minute in this episode it’s insanely hot.

No one deserved to die and I miss them ALL OKAY GIVE THEM BACK TO ME. I want them all to be alive and happy 😭🥺💖

She didn’t trade her baby you’re right. Not sure why it would have made her so upset. I feel like I’m the worst person to come to cause I just be watching things. But maybe it just reminded her that this is what people think of her but she believes the truth is worse, so maybe it reminds her of the truth? I’m just a simple girl. I was not made for this kind of thing. Maybe anything Nicky makes her upset. Maybe she wishes she could have used the darkhold to bring him back but it never worked out. I don’t know much about that though.

Agatha is selfish but I love women’s rights and women’s wrongs so what can I say? I love the bad boys… right?

Yea when teen/billy says “so what do we do?” outside of the house and Agatha just locks eyes with him and just does the biggest smile….

[littlebloomclan]

Hello! Been following BloomClan for a while as part of the silent majority and I’m loving it so far! The characters and designs are so interesting, and the art is beautiful ^^

I have some questions though on the process of running this blog though :0

1) How do you go about taking notes? Do you write everything down or only what you want/what you think is important

2) How do you avoid burn out from drawing or playing the game too long?

thank you thank you!! I'm having lots of fun with this so I'm glad others like it too

1 - I take a bunch of screenshots each moon and decide what I'll show or work with. I go in order from events, check each cat, and then patrols. I dont usually screencap relationship stuff unless I think its important for me to remember. usually things I note are high negative/high positive. or I just think its cute/funny/can make a character moment of it

2- Let yourself take breaks! I have other hobbies (video games mainly, and I foster tiny kittens) so I don't draw every day. I only draw when I feel like it, since it is 100% a hobby for me. I dont really do coms or anything cause I just want it to be fun. Also to avoid burn out dont be afraid to change things up. I change how I do little details on characters a lot (like the eyes change constantly lol) I'm gonna play with some different brushes. Dont commit to things too hard. the more rigid you are I think the more it starts feeling like a chore instead of a fun project, at least for me. plus the community aspect helps! Having people also excited for your project, and reading others comics and stories, is so inspiring

In the end tho I'm just here fora good time. I'm an adult woman who likes to draw cats and tell lil stories, if people like it, then that's even more cool

[ryuichirou]

Replies

Some replies today!

Anonymous asked:

the other Ortho anon, and i read the reply X3 it's the second time i use this space as chatroom tbh, it's fun to talk with the other Ortho anons. i hope you get to share! i will love to find it!

btw Ryui, did you see the idia relaxation card. the nape out, absolutely slutty/j but also when you focus on the shorter part of his hair he looks like a grown up human Ortho........... i was gonna die yesterday of nosebleeds, idia the pretty princess......

Yeah, I find it funny and cute in a way that we end up becoming a hub for Ortho lovers every now and then lol I don’t mind as long as it’s not for too long and people get to connect with each other. Share and enjoy each other’s work, Anons!

And YES, Idia relaxation card ended me. That pose, that face, everything – he is indeed slutty. I saw someone comparing him to that one Megara screencap, and fuck yes it fits. It’s the nape + hair combo… they’re so long… Idia the pretty princess indeed…

I didn’t even think about grown up human Ortho’s hair looking like the shorter part of Idia’s hair but I can see it!! God I love Shrouds too much..!

Anonymous asked:

like l alway say about your art

Some one should make this official meme

OH GOD I didn’t expect the punchline… this is brilliant lol

Thank you, Anon, you are too kind lol

Anonymous asked:

Hello !  Oh, I'm so glad you like Bachira and he's so cool in your style !  He's like..a cutiepie, and at the same time, completely unhinged (he LOVES walking around butt-naked, for example and thinks he has an inner monster who talks to him while he's playing soccer, telling him the best moves, etc.)  I really like him and his bromance with the MC ! Blue Lock is really fun btw, it's like a soccer Battle Royale, with LOTS of strong feelings between the characters (so many rivalries and bromances !) .  I should also add that the artist has worked as an assistant for Isayama during Attack on Titan and..let's say it shows XD The characters all look really, really intense  while playing soccer, it's honestly a little scary sometimes ahah.

Everything comes back to Isayama..! This man is too much of an influence in our lives lol

Thank you for the trivia, Anon! It’s very interesting. And also fun to learn more about Bachira, he seems to be as unhinged as he looks lol I’m glad we got a chance to draw him. Sports anime are always surprisingly gay, intense and intensely gay, but in my opinion they should also be unexpectedly creepy every now and then. So yeah, I think it’s a great thing!

Anonymous asked:

Sebek in the Egyptian wear is doing things to me… sir those tiddies look heavy, may I hold them for you- maybe give them a tiny little bite-

BEAUTIFUL WORK IM GOING INSANE AROUND AND AROUND SEBEK’S THRONE…

Thinking about sweat glistening on his chest as he barrels into whoever’s underneath him, hands on their hips, gripping so hard that the person bruises… lowkey I’m thinking about hate-sex with Leona but yknow scenario can change as it will-

Thank you two for the delicious food once again!!!

Oh no, Sebek’s godly tiddies are under attack lol

Thank you so much!! <3 I am very happy you liked how he looks. We wanted to do something with Sebek as the-crocodile-deity for a while now, more than a year to be honest lol So I’m glad we did!

You’re describing quite a lovely image, not gonna lie… I think Leona works nicely visually with this setting (?) and stuff, and the steaminess of hatesex obviously makes it even better. But yes, I can see other people with this Sebek as well. All of them to be honest. He’s the fertility god after all lol

[chipthekeeper]

hi chip!! i would love to hear some of the things you love most about the ‘come away from the window’ line. it’s such a vulnerable moment and i can’t believe it has so few votes on the poll currently 😭

okay i almost forgot about this but! some things i love about that line and maybe just that scene in general

first of all, i love THE MUSIC!! they finally get their own song and it's sad and hurts but also there's like....a beautiful note of hope in there that i cling to so hard (we will come back to that)

i love the continuity of the window motif with them, starting back on aldhani with The Eye "the window to the galaxy" - Cinta may or may not be crying as she looks up at it while Vel flies away in it like ???!?!?!?!? my god. and then continuing with the sad cross fade space bus ride/neighbor stalking shots. windows! gah!

i love Vel's step forward and the deep breath she takes while she builds up the courage oh my god she is so precious to me

i love how she delivers the line. soft, but definitely a command. not asking, not wanting to give a choice. for the first time since things went to shit on Aldhani she actually seems to find her leader voice again (she was faking that shit hard in the shop scene with kleya but this time it's real, even if she's still a bit scared)

i love how Cinta clearly hesitates but SHE DOES IT

I LOVE THE TINY SMILE OF RELIEF WHEN CINTA ACTUALLY DOES IT. I COULD CRY. I HAVE CRIED!!!!

i love the shots of them just looking at each other. jesus christ i have stared at those screencaps and gifs so much. there's so much pain, so much uncertainty, so much longing!!! but the last look on Vel's face i've always seen as hope, and that means so much to me

in fact that's what the whole scene is about for me (not at all shocking if you know what i love about star wars. it's the hope). Vel knows she's not the priority, she knows she's not Cinta's focus and she doesn't need to be all the time, but she has to hope that she can at least be now, so Cinta can have some rest. she has to hope that she can be it often enough for Cinta not to lose herself to the cause

i could be far more annoying about this but i'm so sleepy so i'll leave it at that for now (i may reblog a bunch of other posts about it now if i don't nod off)

[dballzposting]

ok. ok. i have only seen DB/DBZ/DBS and have not reached GT yet (working on it ......) so mmy understanding of adult goten is from the perspective of somebody who has watched broly second coming on loop and replays the first episode of super like a healthy individual & has seen like 3 screencaps of gt goten. also that one goten side mission from Kakarot for the Play Station Five(5). anywayz. about the threeway you propose in your post. now assuming we live in a beautiful world where akira toriyama is introduced to the concept of polyamory and 1) thinks its banging and 2) accepts homosexuality into his heart of hearts (aka we are no longer operating by feasible canon standards) i do think it is PLAUSIBLE. ebcause. here is da thing. in PREMISE 7 you state Trunks is competition BUT (and again.......maybe GT would contradict this....all i know is my beautiful world where trunks pisses on broly) i think he only views trunks in competition for like...normie things. in Kakarot there's this exchange between the two of them, where Trunks (speaking for the both of them) says smth like, "we're not RIVALS that's LAME. We like competing but we're FRIENDS." (<- he then goes on to dunk on his father because "you're friends with goten's dad, right?? you're not RIVALS are you? that's TOTALLY uncool... you lamer.") and while i acknowledge this is New Canon (DBS-era where trunks's "13yr old on xbox live saying slurs" personality got nerfed a tiny bit) i think it says a lot about how they view competition/rivalry between them. It's like, all fun and games and a drive to be better but it's nothing they're losing sleep over unlike whatever da faq vegeta has going on with goku. this is all to say i don't think goten sees trunks as romantic competition. if anything he probably trusts trunks wouldnt like cheat on his girlfriend or whatever. now idk if goten would have hangups abt a 3-way being bizarre to him or smth but knowing how cra-zay and adventurous that little man is i assume it's something he would TRY at least, like, posing it as a joke like "haha could u imagine..." but its obvious he's like, trying to present it as a valid concept to trunks. the unspoken conclusion of "it could be kinda epic doe" is loud and clear 2 trunks. i think the better question is would palace be cool with this. would she do this. it's trunks briefs of capsule corp so like, if you were a worser person you could be like, hell yeah im fuckin that man if my bf gives me the green light i want tobe able to say that i know mr. trunks briefs biblically. but at the same time thats like, mean. i dont know much abt her but she seems like a sweet gal i think she wouldnt do something just for #bragging rights u kno....but u would know more on that methinks.

by the way you should watch the solar entertainment dub of broly 2 & 3 if you haven't they are life changing.

FASCINATING AND POWERFUL ARGUMENT.

I Didnt Fucking Know That TRunks Said That Shit & I Went and Found it on DA YOUTUBE!!! Timestamped video below but below that I will also attach screenshots of the whole scene but TBH I WATCHED THE WHOLE VIDEO AND IT'S PROFOUNDLY ADORABLE & PERFECT

Trunks said that he wanted to be friendas eith Goten for FOREVER .. He didnt stop at merely commenting on the present, but he had the confidence to project his feelings into the future: He's friends with Goten, he wants to continue being friends with Goten, and he wants it to be for forever.

I mean piece and signerture done right there. Signed sealed & delivered. Closed case. I'm willing to accept this as a total refutation for Premise 7 and what i was getting at in that post in general. Trunks looks at Goten with genuine appreciation when he said that they were friends

Ohhhgm my god and this video is so adorable .. I've said this before but as much as i love madness I also LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE So Much how on dragon ball everyone is depicted as truly happy healthy open free and LOVING EACH OTHER. Trunks and Goten just wanted to spend time with their fathers whom they love so much. They both assumed that their fathers loved each other as much as goten and trunks themselves love each other. They thought that the world was just that beautiful and lively. Also Gotenks in this video is 101% perfect and he is exactly swag and epic as i hoped he would be and it's really remarkable stuff. Great video. Great footage. Great writing

It is true that this is, as you put it: "New Canon (DBS-era where trunks's '13yr old on xbox live saying slurs' personality got nerfed a tiny bit)." But I dont honestly trhink that that's THAT relevant becasue what we mostly saw of Goten & Trunks in DBZ was friendly fun anyway, just with a bit of teeth, and then in DBGT Trunks is totallllyyyy chilled tf OUT and we don't see any acidity from him ever I think. So the fact that he's not saying slurs in DBS is I think okay. (I am actually greatly intrigued by his personality in DBS becasue I believe that it offers a great transition into the eventual DBGT and becasue it offers A LOT of insight on his Nature and his Nurture. Now is not the time.)

OK back to the aspect of the post that is about the throuple with Palace. This here ask offers the perspective that if Trunks sort of entered the relationship, then Goten wouldn't take it as striaght up competeition, but instead it would be sort of like "Ok well you know what You're a good man. I trust you'll treat her well." And in fact perhaps Goten & Trunks AREN'T Sick to Bastard Death ofn each other by now and ARE in fcat FRIENDS FOREVER like Trunks wishes for in this Kakarot for the ps5 footage.

This ask also offers the third propositon that Goten & Trunks may consider the prospect of a threeway involving them and one nice woman to be "kinda epic." No comments on that one

Palace definitely is not a bragging-rights kind of person so her motivations would literally be becasue she loves love and she loves Goten and she loves that he has a best friend and that they love each other and maybe she thinks that trunks is cute becasue hes so polite around her. Or maybe she thinks he looks sad and she wants to do something about it. But she has also been shown to enjoy badboys against her better judgement. Just remembered that. Wonder if we could work that in somehow

I don't member what movies I've seen or haven't seen but I'll keep that in mind chief. It's a beauotufl world ...

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[abeautifulblog]

What was the verdict? What did you think? Is blood origin worth watching?

Yesssssss, question mark?

[My thoughts/opinions on Blood Origin, accompanied by screencaps from the groupchat liveblog -- spoiler-free, actually!]

Blood Origin has a more interesting story than TWN S2 (it's the story of how the Conjunction of the Spheres happened, and how the first witcher came to be, eyyy! :D), and the actors do a better job convincing the audience that their characters actually care about the other people onscreen.

In fact, coffee-mage said, "Honestly, Blood Origin is rekindling my enjoyment for Witcher more than S2 did, just because this is such an interesting universe"

The scenery is quite beautiful, and so are a lot of the costumes. The empress's costumes in particular have that gorgeous, hedonistic opulence reminiscent of Queen Amidala's outfits, stunning and original, legitimate works of art in their own right -- although they are offset by a lot of pleather armor with no coherent aesthetic, and wigs that are worse than what you'd find at Party City.

I didn't even hate the het romance, because it was a friendship first and a romance second, and it was built on a foundation of earned mutual trust and respect. (And it's enemies-[to-friends]-to-lovers, if that sweetens the pot for anyone.) It was a bit zero-to-sixty when they make the shift from being friends to making cow eyes at each other, but a lot of things in the show were, which brings us to Blood Origin's two main failings:

1) That the story was too rushed. This show had kind of the opposite problem from TWN S2 -- that instead of fucking around and wasting time in order to make a thin amount of plot stretch to cover eight episodes, Blood Origin was frantically trying to cram a complex, multi-layered story with a large cast (like, 8+ primary characters?) and all their backstories and motivations and character arcs into four episodes.

2) That the writing is just. not. good.

I'll be blunt with you guys -- whoever's writing for TWN is simply not smart enough to tell a grown-up story, not on an individual level, and not a world-building level. Blood Origin is supposed to involve a lot of complicated political maneuvering, but these writers' idea of what makes up the mechanisms of power is childishly, cartoonishly simplistic, and it could not be more clear that they have no idea how empires are administrated, how diplomacy and soft power work, what kind of time scale these things run on.

Which isn't even touching on the nonstop abuse of As You Know, Bob dialogue, and how, thanks to the time constraints, almost everyone's backstory is told-not-shown. "AS YOU KNOW, I WAS A FOUNDLING AND YOUR PARENTS TOOK ME IN, AND THUS I GREW UP TO REGARD YOU AS MY OWN SISTER--"

Like, guys. GUYS. This is the kind of shit I wrote in middle school.

It's better than TWN insofar as they remembered that they needed to actually introduce us to these characters, tell/show us what they're like as people, what their relationships and conflicts are, but MAN the dialogue is clumsy as fuck. Character interactions are as basic as can be, and any nuance or complexity there is coming from the actors, not the writing.

The premise of the show -- the story, the characters -- is not fundamantelly flawed. It had the potential to be very good, but it's not, because the execution was hot dogshit.

Joey is a delight as always, but his role in this show is so tiny and SOOOO pasted-on, just a sliver of framing narrative at the beginning of the first episode and the end of the last, so if that's what you're coming here for, you're going to be disappointed. I truck with the theory that they shoehorned him in at the last minute to try to draw in Jaskier fans and keep Blood Origin from being a total flop, because he's not integral to the story at all -- you could remove the framing narrative without a single hiccup.

(Although from a meta perspective, a lot of the plot holes make so much more sense if you interpret it as Jaskier making shit up. Something unbelievable happens and you're just like, LOL, OH LOOK, THERE'S JASKIER BACK ON HIS BULLSHIT. XD)

Michelle Yeoh is also a treat, though god only knows how they roped her into this trashfire. To be sure, her role is so thin that she's basically doing nothing but serving stage presence, but by god she's serving it in spades.

Anyway, tl;dr --

C+

High production value, and a concept with a lot of interesting potential, but foiled yet again by the holistic incompetence of TWN's writing team.

(Seriously, just -- HIRE. BETTER. WRITERS. It blows my mind that they pour all this money into these shows, but then don't think it's worth their time to find people who know how to tell a story?? Like they don't seem to think that part MATTERS? When to my mind, it's the only part that matters??)

So, is Blood Origin worth watching? I can't say, that is a question you will have to answer for yourself. *I* had a great time, but that was more about the day-drinking and getting to share the experience with friends.

So yeah, I guess that's my recommendation -- watch it with friends.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[darsynia]

Trust Fall | Ch 17a

ARC image by Eury Escodero | screencap from 'neverfeltbetter' wordpress

Story Masterlist | Previous Chapter | Next Chapter

Summary: Tony/OC, ‘terrorists made us fall in love;’ IM1 timeline. In this chapter, Tony does some thinking about how he used to treat Pepper as his PA, and Natasha and Emory talk shop.

Length: 3,443

Taglist: @starryeyes2000 @raith-way @arrthurpendragon @themaradaniels @starksbf @chickensarentcheap @tiny-anne

Excerpt:

Pepper Potts had shown up for her job interview in an inexpensive pantsuit that barely fit her, but her makeup had been immaculate, and she was (still is, really) one of the most beautiful non-models he’d ever met. Tony has never told her that he still doesn’t know which part was the tipping point, her looks or her qualifications, but he’s never regretted hiring her. In retrospect, he’s enjoyed watching her expand her wardrobe almost as much as her horizons, over the years.

That thought just reminds him of the image search he’d done of Emory, how she’d always been near Rory, supportive and functionally invisible. Pepper has been that for him for ten years. Has he hurt her in similar ways? He watches her facial expressions alter from concern to gratitude, then tighten into nervousness as if a switch has been thrown. 

“Mr. Stark, I’ve forgotten myself lately, I should apologize. I spent a lot of time with Mr. Hogan during your absence, and he refers to you by your first name--” she stops herself and stands there rigidly, waiting.

She’s shut down into business mode. He won’t have it.

“Apology not accepted,” Tony says, lifting his chin and regarding her sternly. “Tony is my name, and you’ve more than earned the right. Use it, don’t use it, I trust your judgment. I always have.”

Pepper looks at him, her ‘Stark Industries’ demeanor still active but her mouth hanging slightly open. She shuts it and raises her eyebrows. “That was almost nice, Mr. Stark. You must be under-caffeinated. I’ll be back.”

Chapter Seventeen: AU

Tony settles in at his desk, delegating the acquisition of materials and the overview of wire design for Mark II to his AI. That leaves him to solve the problem of stable flight and power conservation himself, but that’s the kind of challenge he’s always relished.

He spends a couple hours altering the design of SI’s Jericho repulsors to mount onto armored boots. As the design takes shape, though, it’s easy to picture the kinds of things that Obie might want to do with it. Tony grabs a flash drive from a drawer and plugs it in, meaning to swap his work over and purge it from the hard drive-- and that’s when he sees that his workspaces are all connected to his home computer. He’d been gone so long he completely forgot about that protocol, implemented after Stane had snooped into Tony’s files and found something he’d been tinkering with but hadn’t wanted to implement. One of those projects ended up becoming the Jericho missile, ironically enough. Remote access with nothing stored at SI was the compromise.

Remote access.

The armored suit he envisions is sleek, streamlined-- and impossible to get into and out of by himself. There are… sacrifices to his dignity he’d be prepared to make for the journey from Malibu to D.C. to see-- and reassure --Emory, but it’s more than three hours one way. Ideally, there’d be a middle ground option, like the flash drive.

Then, Tony remembers that there is.

The house he grew up in.

“JARVIS?” Tony leans back in his chair. “How quickly can we get the Stark Mansion habitable?” For the past five or so years, he’s stayed at hotels in NYC instead. Womanizing in one’s father’s footsteps is a little too on the nose. He briefly considers buying something just outside of D.C. as a fuck you to SHIELD and their list of expectations, but Tony doesn’t want them to retaliate against Emory. Besides, his mansion should be free of agency influence, and he can’t be sure of that in a rental near Washington.

“There are service companies that can be hired to prepare a dormant residence for occupation. Shall I employ one, sir?”

“Set it up,” Tony says, pleased. For the past few nights, Tony’s had trouble excising the images in his head of a particularly incisive, tech-savvy scientist crouched over hurriedly fastening the suit. Replacing Yinsen with a robotic apparatus is too painful to imagine right now. That would require acknowledging his absence from the world, and Tony’s not ready. There’s no sense in designing a robot to get him into and out of the suit without knowing the shape of the place he’d be building it into, and now he can put that off for a while yet.

He roughly shoves back from the desk and starts to get up. A sharp pain arcs through his toe and across his foot, forcing him to sit back down, hard. “What--”

Tony picks up his foot and finds that the sole of his shoe has actually detached halfway, hanging loose at the back. Suddenly the entire thing is too tight. He rips it off and removes the sock, finding the kind of angry, purplish bruising he would have expected to have noticed by now . He shakes his head.

“No way did I have this when I landed -?”

“You kicked your tool cabinet with a lot of force at the end of your call with Miss Autumn, Sir. It is now dented. The adrenaline may have obscured--”

“I get it,” Tony interrupts. He’d wanted to stop hating how it felt to hurt Emory on purpose. As he stares at his favorite pair of shoes in painful consternation, the door to his office opens. It’s Pepper Potts. 

“It’s barely six AM! Are you still on Afghanistan time?” she splutters, clearly concerned.

“We’re twelve hours off, and I hardly need beauty sleep. Wait, are you saying I-- never mind.” Frowning and definitely sleep deprived despite what he’s just said, Tony turns the chair and shoves his feet under the desk. His ruined shoe ends up dragged sideways, its wrecked sole opening wide for her to see.

“If that’s the shoe, what did you do to your foot?” Pepper gasps.

Tony swivels back around, lips twisting sideways as he shuffles his feet back into the light. “Might have broken a toe.”

“Did you fall? Did they miss a head injury?” Pepper eyes him up and down as if searching for other issues he’d kept from her. It’s the kind of presumptuous, caring action she almost never crosses the line for, and it has Tony reassessing how bad his foot looks. This moment feels like home, and fuck, he’d missed his people. Obviously, Pepper has missed him too-- she’s called him ‘Tony’ more in the past few days than in the past three years. That thought animates his impish grin.

“I’m fine. No one casts broken toes. Call in Frank and he’ll tape it up, stick on one of those fancy ice packs we designed for the troops, the ones that don’t burn you and actually stay put.”

“Tony, what--”

“I kicked something, okay? Take it up with the, the whatever. Thing I kicked,” he interrupts, waving his hand dismissively. It works; Pepper whips out her phone, giving him the stink eye as she presses two buttons. Seconds later, she’s speaking to Frank’s receptionist, meaning she’s got the doctor on speed dial, and that’s just insulting.

A quiet beep alerts him to a message JARVIS has wisely flashed onto his screen instead of speaking aloud. A company has been hired to get the mansion cleaned up after twenty-some years of sporadic habitation. In a few days, Stark Industries will send a skilled team out to shift his father’s equipment out of the way and fit out the lab space for him. Tony smiles and leans down to take his other shoe and sock off.

“All right. He’ll send someone within the hour.” She pins him with a look. “You need rest to heal, sir. I can’t even imagine what time you got up this morning.” Pepper looks unhappy, but softens her frustration with practiced deference. It reminds him of Emory, and that stings enough to make him want her out of there. “Promise me you’ll go home for lunch, at least?”

Tony’s off-balance, and his sloppy spin around the axis of normalcy makes him defensive. “Sure. Consider my injured arm twisted. You got something for me? I’m in the middle of designing something,” he says, turning back toward his computer.

“A new weapon? Something you used to escape?” she asks in a small voice. Pepper sounds confused, and who could blame her? Tony knows he’s hard to deal with at the best of times, and this is not that. There are countless design hours, maybe even weeks before he’ll be able to even visit Emory, much less rescue her. He’s new to this hero business, but it seems pretty clear that he could save his assistant right now by explaining himself.

...maybe building Mark II would be easier, in retrospect. He lobs a distraction grenade and hopes it hits.

“Pepper, I’m sorry I ruined your birthday.” 

Tony doesn’t use her first name at work. It’s one of the things she’d asked him to avoid when she’d started, and he’d understood immediately. He’d hired her all those years back because her resume was incredible, so much so that he’d accused her of faking it at the in-person interview. Pepper Potts had shown up in an inexpensive pantsuit that barely fit her, but her makeup had been immaculate, and she was (still is, really) one of the most beautiful non-models he’d ever met. Tony has never told her that he still doesn’t know which part was the tipping point, her looks or her qualifications, but he’s never regretted hiring her. In retrospect, he’s enjoyed watching her expand her wardrobe almost as much as her horizons, over the years.

That thought just reminds him of the image search he’d done of Emory, how she’d always been near Rory, supportive and functionally invisible. Pepper has been that for him for ten years. Has he hurt her in similar ways? He watches her facial expressions alter from concern to gratitude, then tighten into nervousness as if a switch has been thrown. 

“Mr. Stark, I’ve forgotten myself lately, I should apologize. I spent a lot of time with Mr. Hogan during your absence, and he refers to you by your first name--” she stops herself and stands there rigidly, waiting.

She’s shut down into business mode. He won’t have it.

“Apology not accepted,” Tony says, lifting his chin and regarding her sternly. “Tony is my name, and you’ve more than earned the right. Use it, don’t use it, I trust your judgment. I always have.”

Pepper looks at him, her ‘Stark Industries’ demeanor still active but her mouth hanging slightly open. She shuts it and raises her eyebrows. “That was almost nice, Mr. Stark. You must be under-caffeinated. I’ll be back.”

Tony supposes he deserves that. The message is loud if not entirely clear: not here, not now. To show her he understands, he turns back to his work but thrusts his hand out behind him, snapping his fingers.

“Folder?”

“Are you sure?”

He just waves his hand. Pepper slips it into his grasp, the steady but gentle sounds of her heels against the floor as she walks away hinting that she isn’t angry, at least. Tony waits for the door to close before he pulls his arm in and flicks it open.

It’s a file on Emory Autumn, generated at Stark Industries.

Tony can picture the secret smile on Ms. Potts’ face as she steps into the elevator. Pepper 1, Tony 0.

Natasha Romanoff drives like a maniac without shoes.

It isn’t that she’s unsafe-- she makes sure they’re both buckled. But D.C. streets have a different feel than LA ones, and something about this headlong rush is equal parts intimidating and impressive. At one point she slows to a crawl in the middle of the street. Emory looks over, confused, and Natasha nods toward a building ahead of them.

Suddenly, a bike flies out of a side door, skating across the sidewalk and down onto the road as if it has the right of way. Because they’ve slowed down already, the biker zooms across without issue, racing around a corner and out of sight.

“Courier agency. Crazy courier agency,” Natasha explains. “Haven’t needed to use it as a cover yet, but the whole city knows about those guys. They’ll come in handy someday.”

“I’m--” Emory’s throat closes up. She pushes ahead with what needs to be said anyway. “All of this is beyond me. If you need me to smooth over a hurt celebrity’s feelings, I’m your gal. Everything else…”

“I hear you,” Natasha says when she trails off. “According to the file, that’s exactly what they want you to be doing. My job will be to teach you how to stay alive afterwards. If something else grows from that, well.” Her brassy smile as she looks away from the road at Emory is not at all reassuring. The way that everyone at SHIELD dances around her powers while keeping her confined because of them is starting to drive her crazy.

No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service means that they go through a drive thru and sit in a run-down parking lot to talk while they eat. Natasha talks, Emory listens. Nothing about Emory’s abilities are mentioned, and Emory doesn’t volunteer anything. It feels a little bit like a game of chicken, but being Rory’s PA has taught her all about how to play those well. By the time they’re finished eating, Emory has a better idea of what’s expected of her in the short term (some physical training, some psychological training, a lot of policies and procedures training), and she’s gained a strong sense of respect for Natasha’s competence.

What’s baffling is how the SHIELD Emory has seen so far can possibly align with the one Natasha Romanoff seems to think she’s working for. Emboldened by a sliver of Tony’s audacious courage, Emory asks what Natasha thinks of SHIELD imprisoning a kidnapping victim without the means to contact friends, family, or former employer.

The agent’s response is to start up the car and head back toward SHIELD headquarters. The rest of the ride is silent, and Emory’s resentment rises with every tenth of a mile. Once back at the complex, Natasha parks and looks ahead for so many awkward seconds that Emory leans over to follow her gaze.

They’re parked in front of a placard that designates the spot for SHIELD parking only. Underneath the words are a sticker that warns that agency vehicles are surveillance monitored.

“I really am new at this,” Emory says sheepishly. She takes off the borrowed boots and offers them to Natasha, realizing belatedly that she should have done it earlier so the other woman didn’t have to drive barefoot. “Take these back, I’m sure you have a long day?” she offers.

“I’ll spend some of it raising hell about isolating you. You’re not a spy, you’re not quite an agent, but you shouldn’t be a prisoner.” Natasha takes the boots and puts them on, waving off the socks Emory offers. 

“I’m not ready to be any of the above! I look like a child in a trenchcoat, I’d make a terrible fake nurse, and… I mean…” Emory shakes her head, gesturing at Natasha Romanoff’s everything. “I don’t even belong in the building,” she mutters.

“A hawk-eyed assassin’s arrow can strike with precision, but his training can be nullified with an unpredictable wind. A spider’s size doesn’t diminish her sting, but she can be blown off course.” Natasha pushes the door open, turning her body away but tipping her head towards Emory to make eye contact for the first time since they parked. “Don’t underestimate what you can do.”

Natasha delivers the words in a tone so matter-of-fact that Emory almost feels chastised rather than encouraged. She sits in the car, shaken, until she realizes that the agent isn’t waiting for her. Scrambling out of the car, she sock power walks across the warm asphalt to catch up.

“How can you say that if I don’t even know what I can do?” she asks, still behind by a few paces. Natasha stops right where the parking lot meets the sidewalk, so Emory does too. The sun-warmed material heats up her feet like an impromptu ‘hot seat’ as they look at each other in the parking lot.

“Did you use your powers to help you and Stark escape the terrorists?” Natasha finally asks.

Emory refuses to adjust her stance, even if her burning feet are begging her to. “Yes.”

“Are you willing to use them to help us prevent anyone else from being blackmailed with that serum?” Natasha asks, the sharp tone at odds with her ‘two office girls at the water cooler’ body language.

“Excuse me,” a middle aged man in a suit says as he sidles past them onto the sidewalk.

“Of course,” Natasha says coyly, a full ten seconds later. The man’s gait hitches, and he clears his throat. Emory can’t help staring at her smug expression, and after another ten seconds, Natasha jerks her head back toward the man as he disappears into the Triskelion’s entrance. “Look at it this way: maybe someone decides to investigate our outing, sees him walk past us on the security footage.”

Emory gives up trying to seem tough and lifts one foot and then the other to ease the relentless sear of the blacktop’s heat transfer. As a result, Natasha steps up onto the sidewalk, moving close to the grass strip that leads toward the building, a small smile haunting her face. Emory gratefully follows, wondering what exactly the agent learned by her capitulation.

“If they ask that man what kind of shoes we had on,” Natasha continues, “There’s a high chance he’ll say black boots for both of us, even under oath. People see what they expect to see.”

“Doesn’t that only last as long as it takes for my proverbial arrow to miss?” Emory asks, enjoying the soothing cold floor of the atrium as they walk inside.

“That’s what the training is for. So you learn how to miss.”

Either something about being inside SHIELD headquarters makes Natasha Romanoff more confident, or her increased gait is another subtle test. Emory’s really close to mentally nicknaming her ‘Yinsen’ for the agent’s ability to make her feel similarly off-balance.

“Don’t you mean how not to miss?” she asks, jogging a bit to close the gap between them.

“Oh, that works itself out.” Natasha hits the elevator button and the doors immediately open. She settles herself against the back corner of the car in a casual position that looks like a photoshoot. “You’re a phone number memorizer, aren’t you?”

“Yes. The phone they put in my room doesn’t call out, though. I already tried,” Emory admits. She doesn’t add how lonely it had made her feel to realize she doesn’t even know how to contact Tony, and avoids eye contact in the resulting silence, until they reach the correct floor.

“Dialing 9 before calling out isn’t hardcoded. That’s your trivia for today,” Natasha says briskly as they walk out. After unlocking Emory’s door, Natasha steps inside and scans the room with a professionalism that has Emory once again wallowing in inadequacy. “New laptop, new phone, new chair, and they brought up your suitcase, good. I’ll write down what you’ll need for training, hold off on getting adventurous until I get you a schedule?”

“I can handle that. It was my job to be the wet blanket, after all.”

“So you’re saying you kept Stark alive, rather than the other way around?” 

Emory walks in, facing away from Natasha long enough to allow a rueful smile whose evidence leaks into her tone despite her best efforts. “No way. The man is a force of nature.”

“So are you, from what I’ve seen. Just need some control. It’ll be easier to teach that to you than to him.” Before Emory can really take in the full meaning of those words, Natasha leans against the doorframe, crossing her arms with an odd kind of satisfaction. “He’s connected to your power generation, isn’t he? Can I be the one to tell Fury?”

“Is this spy blackmail? Make it fun or I’ll sic the director on you? I’d be impressed if I weren’t so intimidated,” Emory tells her. She feels bad when Natasha straightens back up, her face tightening back into that of a SHIELD agent. “Oops. I didn’t mean to reactivate you, ‘Agent Romanoff,’” Emory says, backing into the room while doing the air quotes.

Natasha’s response to that is playful irritation, rather than formality. “That’s Stark talking.”

The implications of that sweeps through Emory like a tiny burst of joy. “The scare quotes were all me, but yeah, I guess you can. Tony’s--” she gasps, realizing the perfect way to put it, given the music Tony would riff to himself when deep in thought. “He’s my current. My AC/DC. The truth is, since the kidnapping I barely know myself compared to who I was before. I don’t want to let you down, but--”

“Okay, that first part is disgusting, I’m out of here,” Natasha interrupts with a teasing frown, reaching for the doorknob. She pauses and makes eye contact, her expression hardening for a frightening three seconds before her features shift back into the recognizable. “I might be Agent Romanoff here, but in the field, I’m called Black Widow. You don’t have to be all things at all times, Ms. Autumn, no matter what Hawkeye will tell you.”

The door clicks shut before Emory can ask who Hawkeye is, but it has to be Barton. It seems like maybe Agent Romanoff brought him up specifically because she wants Emory to think about how to support an archer and a close-combat fighter during their mission, if things go wrong.

Since there’s not much else to do besides go through the suitcase that represents a part of herself she doesn’t want to deal with right now, Emory grabs her notebook and starts jotting down ideas.

Next chapter: Tony gets Pepper's help to remove his old ARC, and Emory learns she can uproot trees with her MIND.

[nobleriver]

The thing with gifs is that they're closer up, high quality, and (maybe it's just me?) slower than the actual episode. I'm looking at some gifsets and I can see every tiny emotion hitting a character. More specifically, I was looking at that one scene in THORS where she says the Doctor is "not someone special". But like, you can see she's having mixed feelings, you can actually see her hiding the damage. It's something I don't really notice, well I do "notice" it, but I can't actually see what's happening. It makes the scene all the more fun (and emotional) to watch.

I don't know what was the point in saying this, but oh well, random thoughts.

It's not just you. The gifset actually IS slower than the episode. At least, my gifsets are. In PS, the frame rate should be between .04-.06 depending on your PS, with .05 usually being the actual frame rate to match the episodes. But I always put mine at .06 because .05 is just too fast for me. Even if .05 is the actual frame rate, the point of my gifsets is to let people SEE the scene afresh, to spot a detail they never saw before. I slow the scenes down, just by a tenth of a second. And sometimes, I push it even further and make the frame rate .07 or if it's a really short moment, like less than 30 frames (and no one is talking), I might do .08 to make the moment stretch longer.

Often my gifsets are born from a single gif, a lingering look, or a line of dialogue. I just want to capture that, blow it up, and shout hey come look at this! Have you noticed this before? What do you think of this? And then, when I sit down and grab the screencaps, I think what's the best way to capture that feeling, that thought, in a gifset? How can I get someone to pause and take a look closer?

Sometimes, I push the color of the set until it breaks. Then, I start over, and push it again. Other times, I use the crop tool. The crop tool not only blows up the image, but it allows me to cut out any distractions in the periphery. Cropped gifs literally narrow the viewer's focus. And sometimes, if a gif is not strong enough on its own, I buttress it with other gifs. Like with my Doctorriver "That's nice. But I'm married" gifset. 11's quote was the point of the gifset, but imo, it wasn't strong enough to stand on its own.

The reason that line is so powerful is because of the context. It's an unflinching, unapologetic testament; it's a declaration that this marriage, that River, is real to him. So how might I get someone to see that scene afresh? In this case, I used other scenes to amplify the impact of what he stated, scenes from their marriage in which he couldn't get enough of her; moments when he was eager to please her. And by adding those scenes, that's what I drew more attention to. I tightened the focus through parallels and visual cues. And based on the comments in the tags, it worked. People had only expected to see his dialogue, but by adding the other scenes, the set turned into something unique, something they hadn't seen before. And that's the beauty of gif making. Funnily enough, that gifset is unintentionally structured like an essay; you have the intro, the evidence, and the concluding statement. But it's the evidence in the middle that makes the conclusion hit so hard.

P.S. I actually messed up that THORS gifset. That scene has always caught my attention, because we as the viewer know she's lying, but the Doctor thinks she's telling the truth. So the scene finishes with these two heartbroken time travelers who are desperately in love with each other but fear their entire marriage is a lie. I meant to pair it with Moffat's quote to that effect, but I forgot to add it. Oops. Oh well, mistakes happen, and now I get to do a THORS gifset again, this time with even more scenes. :D

[fourseasonsfigs]

Xiao Yue is Coming - New Year's JZEU Series (7)

With fig number 7 in this series, we're leaving behind the splendors of costumed drama for the real world.

This is another one of those figs I fell in love with at first sight. I mean, how do you not love a fig on a scooter? Especially with such a cutely woebegone look on his adorable face?

The woebegone cuteness is because this is our dear Wang Yue, who's had a rough go of it in his life. I know this because my Best Fig Friend finally convinced me that despite the adult subject matter (in the decidedly non-fun bills and tough life circumstances way), Brother was a brilliant performance by Zhang Zhehan and worth watching, and also a super short film. She was right, as usual.

The inspiration for this particular scene isn't even one I need to screencap, since the fig maker has extremely helpfully provided it for me in her sample fig pics.

So we have his outfit in the top pic, and the scooter itself in the bottom. WHERE is your helmet in the bottom pic? Safety first, Xiao Yue!

Ok, with that inspiration in front of us, let's turn from the prototype to the real thing.

This little man arrived complete in one piece on his scooter, and with a separate road platform. You can see the little pegs on his scooter wheels that should fit into the little holes on the road.

SHOULD. I mean, technically, they did fit just fine in the slots. What they did not do was stay. I tried putty, I tried wax - finally I gave up and glued him in.

And that worked well! Maybe tilting ever so slightly to the right, but on my shelf he looks great.

He's so delightful! I love his expression, it makes me laugh whenever I look at it. A+ to this figmaker (she's indeed one of my favorites!) for the fringe of hair and the enormous cute helmet. Of course, I also love the Junzhe iconography of the moon and stars.

Despite the fact that the pegs don't quite snap into the base, I think the fig modeling is fantastic. It feels balanced and even, with the tiny scooter visuals making it cute and adorable vs. undersized.

There he goes! The back box on his scooter is quite large in the short film, so this is pretty proportional.

Ah, you can really see the bit of lean here in my amateur gluing job. On the shelf, though, it'd have to have a massive lean over to the side for it to be noticeable, so this is nothing (she says to make herself feel better).

Notice instead the cute moon and stars pattern replicated on his bag! Super cute.

I also like how the scooter has a little mud flap (which is true to the original). The stripe on his back of his shirt vest looks sharp and clean.

The visor on his helmet looks like it should move up and down, but it does not. Which is fine, since that face is too cute to hide behind a visor. I know in the inspiration pic above that he's not wearing his helmet, but this is exactly the one he's wearing in the short film.

And now we're back around!

The top view - this is a nice angle for his pose and hands and the moped itself. His face looks even more concerned from this angle!

And the back view as he putt-putts over to the hospital to see a certain Dr. Ling.

Once again this fig maker does not disappoint with her gorgeous box art. I love the four seasons here of him going about his work - beautiful and poignant at the same time.

Material: PVC (fig) and plastic (road platform)

Fig Count: 259

Scene Count: 19

Rating: Tiny and adorable!

[link back to Master Fig Index for more posts]

[argentangelhelps]

HIII! I hope you are having a great day would you be willing to make screencaps for Tiny Beautiful Things?

we are psychically linked nonnie because i had the same thought earlier today! i am working on those!!

[thequeenofcarvenstone]

Alright cracks knuckles

Let's go. I'm gonna talk about moles/beauty marks first, then at the end, I wanna briefly touch on Eddie's canonical scars and tattoos.

So, first:

The most obvious of moles is the one under his left eye. Love this lil mark its so SWEET.

Below is basically the main Map of all the moles we know of. I could only remember one scene where we clearly saw his back, and the caps I found of it are anything but clear but I've included it too.

The most notable one here is that big mole on his rib. Also in the second image, there is what looks like a mole right over his belt, but I could find another clear shot of it so that's up to your discretion. Also his funny nipple hair 🫶

This is the only back view I could find and like I said, it's balls as far as quality goes. I've circled but I think are probably moles, but that dark-ish spot between his shoulder blades could be a birthmark/discoloration which is common with moles and freckles. I have a spot like that on my face.

Close up view of the smattering of moles on the underside of his jaw on the right, which I also circled on the front view map. Also special shout out to his double chin and gorgeous nose.

The thing that started this all: the mole on the back of his neck. Perfect for kissing.

The second thing that started this all: the GORGEOUS giant mole on the back of his knee/thigh. This mole is my personal favorite.

Circling this man's beauty marks makes me feel like his dermatologist.

Tattoos:

I'm not going to pull pictures for all his tattoos, but Eddie canonically has the arm band script tattoo (which apparently reads "Fortalecer la mente y Superar el cuerpo") and a script tattoo on the side of his wrist of that same arm that reads "Find A Way".

However, I, with my eagle eyes, noticed that there was a glimpse of a finger tattoo in s6. I went back and found a screencap of his hand close up, specifically in s2 after rescuing the guy in the shipping box. I'm dubbing this a canon tattoo even though I know the reason they didn't cover it is because it's tiny and on the side of Ryan's finger. It's my personal headcanon that this at one point read Shannon's name was Eddie's first tattoo.

Scars:

So, the show is really bad at being consistent with scar makeup. I think it's a combo of scar makeup sometimes taking a while to apply and wanting the actors to look Sexy and Pristine when shirtless. Also the tiny baby scar we see on his shoulder during his EKG is so very far from what a large caliber bullet would live behind in my understanding (which means I googled it once). But within the canon of the show, Eddie should have the following scars:

One GSW scar with entry from the front on his left shoulder. Unsure if this injury is a through and through but I think it is, so there would be an exit wound scar on his back shoulder.

One GSW scar in his right thigh. This is probably not a through and through, and Eddie is probably still carrying the bullet around in his thigh meat which is overwhelming common with limb GSWs.

One GSW scar to his left wrist. Now this one. . . This one is insane. I think that this injury MUST have just been a graze because there's no way that man could use his hand if he had a hole in his wrist. Personal hc that he had to have tendon surgery post healing.

One/two GSW scars with entry in the back and exit in the front to his right shoulder. This is a through and through, because we see the exit clearly in the episode.

One thoracotomy scar on the right side. After the shooting, the ER doctor can be heard saying "prep for a thoracotomy" when they're wheeling him in.

This man also probably has plenty of burn, scape, and cut scars from being a fireman. It also looks like RG actually has a scar under his chin, so incorporate that if you wish.

I THINK that's a comprehensive list of his scars but tbh I could have forgotten something.

The last thing I want to point out is that it looks like he might have chicken skin or keratosis pilaris on his upper arms. I also have this and maybe it's just me projecting but I love the idea of Eddie having KP and Buck having acne scars.

If there's anything I missed, please feel free to add!! Mostly, I just wanted to catalog Eddie's moles because I think they're an underutilized element in fics and because I like to catalog things. Also if you know my irl and you see this post, just keep scolling, I know this looks insane.

About the catalog all of Eddie Diaz's moles for optimum kissing.

[blueberry-ash]

The King’s Avatar | s01e08

“Finding the right direction is a lot more important than working hard blindly.”

[mattyofthelongfields]

The first thing I saw when I opened Twitter this moening was this ans wow I've never felt more attacked!