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Tips for writing those gala scenes, from someone who goes to them occasionally:

Generally you unbutton and re-button a suit coat when you sit down and stand up.

You’re supposed to hold wine or champagne glasses by the stem to avoid warming up the liquid inside. A character out of their depth might hold the glass around the sides instead.

When rich/important people forget your name and they’re drunk, they usually just tell you that they don’t remember or completely skip over any opportunity to use your name so they don’t look silly.

A good way to indicate you don’t want to shake someone’s hand at an event is to hold a drink in your right hand (and if you’re a woman, a purse in the other so you definitely can’t shift the glass to another hand and then shake)

Americans who still kiss cheeks as a welcome generally don’t press lips to cheeks, it’s more of a touch of cheek to cheek or even a hover (these days, mostly to avoid smudging a woman’s makeup)

The distinctions between dress codes (black tie, cocktail, etc) are very intricate but obvious to those who know how to look. If you wear a short skirt to a black tie event for example, people would clock that instantly even if the dress itself was very formal. Same thing goes for certain articles of men’s clothing.

Open bars / cash bars at events usually carry limited options. They’re meant to serve lots of people very quickly, so nobody is getting a cosmo or a Manhattan etc.

Members of the press generally aren’t allowed to freely circulate at nicer galas/events without a very good reason. When they do, they need to identify themselves before talking with someone.

#oh this is so neat #good to know #about galas #writing tips #writing resources #just fun #silly

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

#wow #don’t kno programming #but this sounds cool! #voyager 1 #programming #people are amazing #space #science news

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finally reading jimmy olsen and i think this is my favourite page so far.

#what is this comic??? #so silly #humor #comics are CRAZY #dc comics #Batman

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Glen Orbik 

#wow this is gorgeous #glen orbik #batman #batman villains #comic related #dc comics

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It's so funny to me when people act like Tim's major problem is the time when no one believed his seemingly grief driven (but secretly correct) theory about Batman being lost in time. Something that he really doesn't seem to hold much of a grudge about and that was motivated mainly by concern for his well being.

Like. What about the time Batman orchestrated a fake message from the future designed to drive him into paranoia so he would question EVERYONE and everything, even time itself, ON HIS BIRTHDAY?! THAT was crazy. THAT almost made him quit being Robin.

He also truly believes that he would lose EVERY non-civilian he cares about if he stops being Robin.

Obviously, the comic is trying to show that Tim goes back to Batman because he gets over his fear of the "headspace" Batman wants him to enter, but there is no way this isn't motivated largely due to the connections he is scared of losing! (Don't even get me STARTED on how this contrasts to Cissie from Young Justice)

And then. When he returns. What happens?

HE DOESN'T ASK FOR AN APOLOGY BECAUSE HE KNOWS HE WON'T GET ONE. He knows he won't get one, and it doesn't seem to bother him that much! That is SO MUCH MORE INSANE than people being RIGHTFULLY concerned for his mental health after many, many serious deaths in a short period of time.

The worst part of all of this, by the way, is that when Tim isn't Robin (because his father finds out and tells him to stop) he really doesn't talk to anyone from his other life. Except Steph, briefly, before she thinks he's cheating on him and then goes to off to replace him as Robin. But everyone else? The only other Bat he talks to is Dick during a gang event at his school where he gives him the information he knows.

And sure, Dick calls him little brother when he sees him, but is that brotherhood conditional to being in the game? From what we've seen, a little bit.

That's what kills me about Tim Drake. It's never acknowledged in the comics (beyond his guilt for not helping people who need him), but out of EVERYONE he knows the consequences of leaving the game. Not just for the city, but for the hero.

#red robin #tim drake #batman #dc comics #comics are CRAZY

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Soul Eater post Chapter 48

Webtoons link AO3 link

#yaaaay! #new chapter! #soul eater post #fan comics #soul eater

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Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

#WOW #these look amazing! #nature is amazing #caves #photograph #caving #good to know #art inspiration #writing inspiration

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Tarantula: May I have a coke please

Waitress: All we have is Pepsis is that okay?

*Tarantula sweating nervously*: Y-you have what

#tarantula hawk #pepsis #tarantulas #silly #humor #esoteric biology jokes

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Reading the wikipedia entries for minor Batman villains is like, “Mr. Sparkplug was introduced in 1969. He wore a rectangular costume that resembled a sparkplug, and had power to make electrical outlets stop working. After the Infinite Crisis event, he was reimagined as a serial killer with a fetish for electrostimulation. He had a cameo on Batman the Brave and the Bold where the Joker shoved him into a locker. In the New 52, the Riddler killed him and hung his costume over the mantlepiece as a trophy. He is now on the Suicide Squad.”

#pfft #yes this is too true #dc comics #about comics #humor #silly

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Bathing by Hashiguchi Goyo (1915)

#wow this is gorgeous #oh this is beautiful #old art #fine art #1910s art #taisho period

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My oil painting of a Happy Meal

#oh this good but also funny #painting #still life #happy meal painting #other people's art #humor #silly

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#ooh neat #good to know #comics #art reference #making comics #tutorials #art inspiration #writing inspiration

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tiktok is such an awful app, it's almost designed to feed you misinformation and expose you to insane discourse. unlike beloved tumblr, the app that feeds me misinformation and exposes me to insane discourse

#too true #silly #humor #about tumblr #about TikTok

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Crane: 12, 27, 30

Thanks so much for sending this! <3

Send a character and a number/several numbers, and i’ll answer:

12. Sexuality hc!

I have my biases in this, I'll admit, but I genuinely read the not-so-good Doctor as bi/pan in that I don't think he particularly cares about gender when it comes to his attractions and there's textual support over the years with various iterations of him showing interest in or having chemistry with both women and men. Yes, yes, Have a Gay Old Time and all that, but his intro comic suggests, "he certainly is a queer fellow" - given that his Year One backstory is a gender-flipped Carrie, itself popularly read as a gay allegory (hell, I think his bullies even were specifically homophobic towards him), given the long affinity between LGBT+ folk and horror/identifying with the horror monsters, and even given how blissed out Nolan!Crow looked getting his hair pulled by Batman, I'd say there's a lot to work with there.

27. If they could meet a character from another show/movie/etc, who would be the most fun for them to meet?

Absolutely love this one! I've already had a ton of fun speculating with you about him meeting Dani Ardor of Midsommar, fitting because she's even a psych major if I remember correctly, and going back and forth with what could be done with such an AU. Honestly, any horror villain and/or hero(ine) would suit him because what's so great about Crane is that as Scarecrow he works within any text to reveal a character's deepest fears and relationship with fear, while also having an academic/professional interest in them as a psychiatrist. I do think I've seen posts on here speculating on the fun he'd have with Jack Seward as a potential ally and/or rival/disappointing colleague, so that's a definite one also! And because I'm predictable, it would likely not be healthy (in that he would enable/encourage her most violent instincts, but hey, at least theyr'e supporting each other?) but at least a little touching and sweet that he'd be a needed avuncular figure to Carrie White.

30. The funniest scene they had? Oh, gosh, hard to pick just one! When old school Crane declared his plan was to commit heists for more money to buy books? When he beefs it so completely and utterly with Becky and has the chutzpah to think her issue with him is that she wants him to alter that godawful Mistress of Fear straw corset and muppet mask costume? "This is a perfectly rational response to my traumatic experiences, and if you don't believe me, I'll kill you!"? His little dance of joy out the window in the first volume of Year One? The entirety of his appearance in Happy Halloween, Scooby Doo, an extension of his habit of just Showing Up Places He Has No Business Being (including other canons)? On that note, literally everything he does in the Dark Knight Trilogy as he Barbies his way through every villainous profession in Gotham's gig economy? (Though going down that easy in Batman Begins and his sassy little strut out of the truck in The Dark Knight are highlights.) For such a frightening and tragic character, the guy is funny as hell!

#jonathan crane #dc comics #humor #silly #the scarecrow

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#oh my gosh #this is so sweet??? #muppets reminding me of good things #good to remember #kermit the frog #the muppets #touching #art inspiration #writing inspiration

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Why do you think Crane has such affection for Harley? Especially considering she is very outwardly emotional which is generally not his type of person.

I quite love their connection, I'm just surprised by it from Crane's end.

The origin of Crane's mild affection for Harley is something I've explored in a fic based on my own headcanons and it's an affection based on a odd mixture of nostalgia for a previous life and a slight hint of guilt. He's only a little more hesitant to fuck her over compared to others xx

#haven’t read this yet #but I love these characters in general so #fanfic #looks really promising! #Jonathan crane #harley quinn #other people's writing #fun

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The Absolute Best Crane Content from Knight Terrors: Nightwing #2 [2/2]

ITS THE FUCKING BACKROOMS. I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!!

Comics fueling my ego again, I knew I was right when I said Crane was afraid of everything!!

-GULP- ME?!

I can not express in words how much I love the phrase "Scarecrow's got ya" <333

"We could have been friends" Omg. Shit. need more of this

Crane living his best life <3

#where has this comic been all my life? #need to check this out #dc comics #the scarecrow #nightwing #oracle #jonathan crane #dick grayson