#weighted scales

[slayer-charlotte]

Spirits, you're dense.

[She flicks her bloodied hand at him in a dismissive farewell.]

Goodbye, Hakaru.

[As he vanishes, she allows the scowl she'd hidden to show. "His half-demon"?! She was nobody's half-demon. Nobody's weapon. Nobody owned her. Not the demon, not the IO, not Kendo.

Stopping in front of the portal, she glares at the wisteria and incense. Spirits, that man was infuriating.]

[ Minato is sure one of these days he's going to truly collapse but he's determined to not make it today as he flits through the trees of the forest, purple leaves catching in his hair. He tries to skip Sakura Plunge when he does his rounds, learning that Kendo and Jade regularly stationed there meant he avoided it like the plague. He didn’t quite have the guts to confront the club yet, let alone Jade lest she tattles to Helsie. And then Helsie tattles to Joni and Lucien and then he’s in for a shitstorm he’s guilty of wanting to shelter from entirely. ]

[ But today he’s skimming his rounds specifically to drop there, watching from the cliff above as neither sibling is guarding the portal. Instead a woman he doesn’t recognize is and she seems to be kin in the slayer sort as she easily confronts the Oni that always return to that same spot. He uses the noise of the scuffle to take a few steps back and run, jumping from the cliff and narrowly succeeding in landing in one of the trees with a tremor. Leaves scatter from his impact but he hopes that she remained too distracted by hitting the final blow on the Oni to notice. ]

[ Once his calves stop burning from the landing he climbs silently further up the tree, balancing precariously while he bites the inside of his cheek. ]

[ He finally speaks up, hidden by shadows and thick foilage. ]

Where’s Kendo?  - @minato-fortnite

[As the Oni crumples to the ground, Charlotte allows a few extra slashes just to be absolutely certain it's dead.

And because she's bored. It can't feel pain anymore, who cares?

As the voice rings out from the trees behind her, she stands, listening for any sense of danger. Finding none, she sheathes her blade... into the palm of her hand, making it vanish like it never existed.

The band of glowing scales across her dress and down her arm flare and slither faster as she turns to face the newcomer in the tree.]

What's it to you what Kendo does with his time, stranger?

[drreadnought]

SandWing model turnaround

[writeyourdarlings]

an early christmas fanart🤭❄️

[gabrielisdead]

experimenting with shape language lately, I think I'm getting better at it -not final-

[odakota-rose]

so many gems in the Doctor Who script library the BBC just released but today I'm here in 4x02, The Fires of Pompeii

[pianokantzart]

Just replayed the pharaoh level of Luigi's Mansion 3 and am being aggressively reminded of how bad of a time Luigi has throughout this entire game.

[shiftythrifting]

Kids scale/shoe size measuring tool, pink camo Easter basket, Shake Weight(TM), a teapot I would have purchased if not for the weird stand at the bottom that did not detach, and multiple fairy godfather figures (we counted at least 25 throughout the store).

Valley Thrift Fairfield, Ohio USA 

Submitted by @mama-turtle13

[prolifeproliberty]

Big moment for me today: my goal dress (the dress I kept in the back of my closet hoping I could someday fit into it again) finally fit!

Craziest part is I tried it a month ago and it couldn’t zip up at all, and today it was just slightly snug, but definitely wearable! In that time, I didn’t lose any weight according to the scale, but I must have experienced some body recomposition. I have been lifting weights and trying to be generally more active, so I can probably attribute it to gaining muscle while losing fat.

Loving the non-scale victories I’ve gotten on Carnivore!

[acronym49]

Sunny Appreciation time

(rambling about my wof headcannons in tags below!)

[slayer-charlotte]

[Charlotte searched his face. Again, that honesty shone through. At least he believed his own words.]

Then bring him to Magic Mosses. If he's as good as you say, it would be good to meet so he knows where his information is coming from.

It's a beautiful spot. Very peaceful. You'll like it, probably.

* @ronin-kendo pulled his motorcycle to a halt. He had come to check in on you, and see how things were going. His worry at your position, glaring at the portal with your hands clenched at your side, was only intensified by the bleeding of your knuckles. Immediately, he rushed over.*

Charlotte! Are you hurt? Here, I have a small medpack I keep on me for emergencies--

[Her head whips around and she stares at Kendo with a mix of anger and confusion. After a moment she swipes her bloodied hand in his direction dismissively with a hiss, turning and storming over to the tree beside the portal and throwing herself into a sitting position beside it, eyes blazing at nothing in particular.]

I'm FINE. The hell do you want, pretty boy?!

[galedekarios]

ngl i'm so very tired of ppl trying to justify biphobia in fandom spaces at this point

[ssbbwmarigold]

my feeder reminded me this morning that i can’t do a weigh-in video yet, because we already maxed out the last scale 😳😮‍💨😭🥵

we got rid of it during a move over the summer, before i started making video content, so i can’t even make a very sexy video of the thing error-ing out 😩😵‍💫

I’m running a little fundraiser on my OF for a new one, but you could also give to me directly at $60percentpudding on CashApp, if you wanna help buy me another scale i will inevitably break (😳) but can’t commit to a monthly sub (understandable)

Outgrowing clothes is expensive enough, I forgot I can outgrow appliances 😵‍💫😑

[lemonwrap]

I dunno if you take asks, but your Merman!Ghost + Soap AU is just mmm and I got hit with inspiration-

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Imagine:

Dog!Soap, loving paddleboarding and surfing, loving feeling the sea breeze in his hair and ears, the ocean being his place to relax after long days. Suddenly, a huge wave hits him out of nowhere, dragging him under, fast and hard. He thinks it's the end. Until this sleek, beautiful creature, with eyes as dark and thick as the night sky, grasps him by the hand and drags him upwards to the surface.

Months go by, Soap can't look at the ocean anymore, but he always, somewhere in the back of his mind, yearns to go out to a pier and jump in, go diving for the beautiful creature that saved him. He wants to thank him, do something for him, like any dog would for someone who saved them from the brink of death.

Suddenly, the nearby aquarium offers a new exhibit, only described in vague words and blurry pictures.

Price and Gaz drag Soap along, knowing he needed to go somewhere, do something, get out of the house, to cheer him up a bit.

As they make their way through the crowd around the large glass aquarium, and get right to the glass, Soap sees the same eyes he saw that day in the ocean, just as deep and enrapturing as ever, staring right back at him.

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And ofc anything can be changed if you want to write it-

I have no focus really to write it full out, but I also really wanted to share it somewhere lol

Omg, omg.

Ghost doesn’t even seem to see the other visitors once he spots Soap. He just stares past all the people with those pitch black eyes, intense and unwavering with zero doubt that he saw Soap.

Even Gaz and Price notice the merman’s unusual reaction.

“He noticed you,” Gaz says, then playfully flicks one of Soap’s perked ears. “Think it’s the ears?”

“Shut up,” Soap says absentmindedly in response to Gaz, not paying much attention to anything but the merman. He doesn’t look sick, but he looks unhappy. The aquarium’s water is clean enough, but it’s small and overly bright with no place to hide from prying eyes and the occasional flashing of cameras. The merman seems agitated, too, swimming in tight circles and scowling whenever the glass is tapped but repeatedly looking back to Soap.

They’d arrived in the afternoon, so there’s less people than at opening and Soap has a chance to get up close to the glass. He can’t keep his tail from wagging, but it slows when the merman doesn’t look any happier at his proximity, just more desperate.

“He likes him!” a young girl exclaims when she sees the merman pressing his palms to the glass, clearly the first time he’s bothered to interact with anyone. More camera flashes go off, and the merman’s black eyes squint, irritated by the lights, but he keeps looking at Soap, miserable and longing.

Soap hasn’t been back to the ocean since he almost drowned, but can almost feel the salt of the water in his lungs and burning his throat.

The merman saved Soap’s life that day, and he vows that he’ll get the merman out somehow.

[drkcatt]

but i've been anywhere and it's not what i want and i wanna be still with you

in the minvaya sauce tonight!!!!!!!!!

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

The thing I love about "are you really gonna talk about timing in times like these?" is not just how it flows sonically, which is its own very Swiftian cadence that scratches a big itch in my brain, but how it really boils down this big existential argument into such a tight lyric.

Even without being explicit, you know that the narrator is talking about when they're going to... y'know... and how the subject keeps finding new ways to stall the conversation and the progression. You have one person who feels like, "What are we waiting for? There's never going to be a better time" and another who perhaps feels like maybe there will *never* be a better time. And therein lies the crux of the impasse at which they find themselves.

(How I Met Your Mother had its faults *ahem*, but this reminds me so much of the Ted-Robin Argentina argument from one of the early season finales iykwim.)

I just love when we get these little glimpses not only into Taylor's writing, but also like... the human experience in general. These big, complicated, heady arguments that are both pedestrian and life-changing in equal measure. How both parties see their side so clearly, but neither one fully seeing the other's in the same way.

Obviously there's a lot more to the song, but that one line is one I love so much for it, like how it just launches you into the middle of a scene but catches you up on everything in just a few words. (Very much like the opening line of You're Losing Me, for instance.) I love me some good storytelling!

[kj-beastboy]

I don't know why I even have to call the Flug on my last post "chubby" that's kinda just normal weight the more I look at it. like 5lbs above maybe. since Flug is canonically underweight.

this is what he should look like in my dreams😔