#when I got the photos back I was like

[vfdinthewild]

I found a half-used disposable camera from 2006 in my closet and got it developed. Big appreciation to past me, living her best teenage life, for taking this picture.

[Image description: a grainy, green-cast photo of a fire engine cab, a firefighter��s arm half slung out the window. The truck door says “Maple Ridge V.F.D.” end image description.]

[fatehbaz]

been a long three straight weeks of freezing rain, wind, and like a new major storm warning and fresh half-meter of snow every several days consecutively for hypothetical people who are wearing a knee brace and basically have to fast for disability reasons and have nerve damage in their legs and have to bike seven kilometers on a bustedass bike from 1985 to reach full-time work before sunrise at 6:30am and then bike back across the valley to uni classes without being late while they scramble to do two theses projects (and haven't had a day off school/work in a year) and get home after dark to do more shoveling

but

shoveling after work, finding the sign survives

TRANS PEOPLE (still emerging from two meters of snow)

[intramoon]

She could be tying her hair back for any number of reasons ...

[timothyslucy]

i know we never got to see it for either angela or nyla when they had their babies, but i've always had this headcanon that whenever someone at mid-wilshire welcomes a new member into their family grey starts roll call with a picture of their little one, along with the standard criteria next to it, ya know, height/weight/length/etc. and then everyone does a drumroll at their tables as he does a dramatic name reveal, and i just hope that one day in the future we'll actually get to see him do so for tim and lucy. it would be so cute. 🥹🫶

[royalarchivist]

Amouranth: ...What happened to the dumpy? Oh, I guess that was Carrera (Carre).

Amouranth: Ruben, why do you– why do you look like Shaggy mixed with Peter Pettigrew? What happened? [She keeps going back to the picture and staring at it with growing concern] This is a pass– this picture is a pass! Wtf...

Rubius only has 3 looks: magazine model, cosplayer, or gamer shrimp.

[batsplat]

do you know why vale seems to have a soft spot for pedrosa?

there's not any single one reason, I don't think, but here's are a few contributing factors that come to mind:

history! in large part because of the honda link, dani's the alien he's known the longest... valentino was the number one honda rider at a time at which dani was honda's rising star. photo on the right is from the 2001 honda celebrations at the last race of the season (when dani was sixteen); from oxley's valentino rossi: all his races: "that night vale celebrated in style at a raucous honda victory party, where he taught honda youngsters daijiro kato and dani pedrosa how to drink". they've known each other forever! valentino was getting teenage dani drunk! quite natural to be fond of someone you've seen grow up like that, even if they are being moulded to be your next big rival

circumstance! the way it basically works with valentino is that if you want to have a feud with him, you generally need to have a title fight with him when you’re already ‘established’ rivals (ignore marc, that’s its own thing, 2015 is a freaky season). biaggi and valentino were enemies headed into 2001 and then were worse enemies, he was cool with sete in year one but not year two, mostly *wiggles hand* the same with casey and jorge… feuds aren't build overnight. valentino and dani weren’t ever really direct title rivals - closest they got was 2006 and 2008, but in both cases valentino probably didn’t see dani as his main problem that year. there wasn't really any competitive necessity for valentino to get nasty... also with one or two notable exceptions, valentino did kinda have dani handled in their actual wheel-to-wheel fights, which let’s face it probably didn’t hurt

yapping! so this is just a theory but it’s one I believe strongly in. you know how valentino loves to talk, right? the thing about pressers and podiums is that you're always going to have a few regular attendees, if you will, corresponding to the front runners in any given year. now, unfortunately for valentino, there were periods of time where almost every other regular attendee was someone he had pretty active beef with. that doesn’t mean he always avoided yapping at them, but relatively speaking you want a guy you can build up some good repartee with to pass the time. dani was his guy… less complicated than casey and jorge, plus dani is polite enough to go along with it and maybe even enjoy chatting to valentino (it’s been known to happen). pressers can be boring and at podiums you're still full of adrenaline, valentino wants to share a joke with someone! my completely unscientific sense is that valentino does this a lot with dani around 2008-ish to 2012, then for two years marc is the number one yap victim, then for a while it’s a bit…? oddly valentino does seem to chat quite a lot with jorge in 2015... he likes to throw in a quirky behavioural pattern sometimes to keep you guessing. anyway then in 2016 he is Actively Ignoring two of these men so vale goes!! hi there dani!! and takes it from there (though the field is more mixed up post-2015 so he becomes more of an opportunistic yapper). in general, valentino will chat to pretty much anyone with A Few Exceptions, but he does usually have a bit of an order of preference

dani’s personality! now, obviously dani is very much capable of feuds, but he’s not that naturally combative a character. valentino generally needs a competitive justification for beef, though some personal animosity can help too… but he never really hated any of that trio of young riders to come through. valentino's known dani forever, he’s been around dani a fair bit because of their respective statuses in the sport, dani isn’t going out of his way to pick fights with valentino, so no reason not to get on! he does clearly quite like chatting to dani and seems pretty fond of him even towards the start of the alien era, at a time in which it was broadly expected that dani not casey would emerge as vale's primary challenger... god knows if the relationship would have soured if dani had assumed that mantle (probably at least a little lol) but failing that, valentino does just seem to quite like him. y’know, sometimes it’s like that

They Have Also Had Their Disagreements, But There Hasn’t Been Much Cause For It To Escalate Further. these disagreements have tended to be over racing standards, where dani is generally in the ‘you people are all insane’ camp and valentino is generally in the ‘ah it’s fine’ camp (though, obviously, there is nuance here… cf vale also criticising sic over the le mans 2011 incident that left dani with the broken collarbone). generally, they don't get into direct conflict over it, more of an underlying difference in positions (hey, aragon 2013 is an example)... but there’s been dani’s suggestion that valentino’s sepang 2015 stance is inconsistent with his generally laissez faire approach, and also some other isolated little scuffles over the years like say 2017 aragon (see below). pretty small scale stuff in the grand scheme of things and if you've been on-track rivals for that long it's kinda inevitable you'll eventually disagree about some stuff, but perhaps worth bringing up

went through all of the alien combos in my head and these two slot in just behind dani/casey as probably the two most consistently beef-free inter-alien relationships? dani/casey gets extra credit for surviving The Teammate Test. but, y'know, the thing about valentino is that he's a sociable, outgoing guy... he likes talking to people... he's actually interested in them... he's a decent conversationalist, easy to get on with, all that stuff. so if you expose valentino to this nice fella who at most was like... perhaps a bit more reserved towards the start of his time in the premier class (partly due to his mentor's approach), but really was generally pretty chill... well, if valentino isn't given any reason to hate dani, then default state is that he won't. good on them etc

[firstroseofspring]

b’elanna vs her mother at similar ages, plus some sketches!

[sysig]

Party (group) party (celebratory)! (Patreon)

[diana-bluewolf]

[fauvester]

~vintage~ prewar fashion

[patriamrealm]

Pt 3/3)

“White, nothing but white. Endless blinding white and an empty agony burrowed so deep to be able to steal it’s breath. Breath, BREATH! This was wrong so wrong. They had to breath! Why couldn’t they breath?! Shaking but familiar hands scrapped desperately at an unfamiliar, chest? Was that their chest? Wrong everything was wrong but how could it? It was their body right?”

Ingo should have died that night. Torn through time and space all while fusing temporarily with Chandelure. It saved him, but only just barely. Some things got lost with no hope of returning.

[restinpeacesensei]

traditional style 💖

[gojoest]

not to be tmi about it, but once upon a time life presented me the opportunity to have a fiery romance with my favorite journalist with whom i have a 25 yr age gap and who is a dilf

[icewindandboringhorror]

Recent-ish things ~

[ilkkawhat]

photos i took while high pt. 55

[basalting]

instead of having that dumb plack around Jason's suit, he lights a candle next to a family photo. Maybe his kids leave little things next to it too and it becomes like a little alter for Jason. Bruce isn't religious, but he always feels better when he lights a candle for Jason and sort of prays to his dead son. It's really the only time he allows himself to talk to Jason without fully drowning in grief. Dick does it sometimes too, but not as much as he wants since he lives in Bludhaven. Tim more so. Tim's always lighting a candle and talking Jason about anything and everything. Jason reaction to it when he comes back is certainly something. Jason thinks back what he thought where dreams of hearing other people's voices(really was his family)

i have so many feelings about the plaque.... because jason didnt want to be treated like a child, and bruce was raised by a man who knew how to train a soldier but not how to care for a son, and jason was more than just a boy, and jason was a solider - fighting to protect the people of gotham

did bruce put the uniform and plaque up? did he need a reminder of what he'd lost? did it hurt too much to think of jason as his son? did he need the distance, to only think of a lost robin and not a lost jason?

or did alfred put it up, the uniform and plaque a worthy memorial. as fitting as any war shrine he'd seen friends names carved on. the only way he could mourn coated in the ridged protocol of a fallen soldier...