#and a lot of early hours

[moonlightpirate]

I'm sorry I'm such a slacker for updates on my fics. This month has been a tough one and I swear my creative energy has like died. But I'm hoping since the next few days I don't have to be up early and don't have much going on in serious due dates that I'll be able to get something out

#had an essay due #have had lots of negative energy around me #which has been draining #ive been working a lot #and a lot of early hours #and it seems no amount of sleep is helping with those #along with the essay ive had so much schoolwork due #i feel ive been running to catch up #im finally feeling caught up #just need the creative energy to catch up #and its trying #typed some for my far from the madding crowd fic last night #got some inspo for the witcher #so getting there #slowly

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

#selfie bee #hello friends!! how are you doing!! ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ #I'm very very tired today #I woke up very early today because I took a driving lesson! #I have had my licence for many many years now but I haven't driven in so long #and when I tried I just turned on the windshield wipers again and again #so I'm taking some refreshment lessons! I was really afraid of driving again but my new driving teacher is very nice (❁´‿`❁) #my last one scared me a little because he talked a lot about bathroom renovation #I just drove for an hour or so but I was so concentrated that I'm very tired now #I have another lesson tomorrow because I deleted every information in my brain about how to park a car #all those synapses are currently used to remember Godzilla facts #another big news!! #I saw a PHEASANT last week #we almost hit it with the car but luckly it remembered in time that it was a bird and flew away #I've NEVER seen a pheasant before!! ( ´ ▽ ` ) #I knew that pheasants were real because my favourite cartoon as a child was animals of farthing wood #and there's pheasants in it and then they get murdered and all the other animals are like 'oh well' #but I had never seen one! #I feel like a stronger person now #one that can drive a car #maybe even park one ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ #have a wonderful evening friends #<3

[akiirart]

lies of p beloved 🦋

#my art #sketch/doodle #lies of p #lies of p fanart #I HAVE EARLY ACCESS HEHEHE #im only caught up with the demo so far tho shsbsv but i am SO good at the game now #20 hours of fuckin around in the demo made me READY #felt like drawing all the legion arms it was so fun i had the official youtube up and just skimming through the showcases #god!! im just!!!! so excited to keep playing #this is gonna be a like 3 parter cuz i drew him a lot 🥰 also i might come back to some of these namely the coffin one #also like dhdhdj how do u tag for this game i was gonna use pinocchio (lies) or (lop) or something but?? idk!! #ok bye!!!

[thedrarrylibrarian]

I'm so excited to welcome @phoebe-delia to the library! I've loved reading her work for a long time, and am always especially impressed by the fact that she answers so many prompts! My favorite of her series is Eight Drarry Nights at Hanukkah time every year, which are always warm and so full of love and light. I knew she'd pick a great fic, and I think it'll be a sweet and romantic start to your Valentines season. Thanks again to @phoebe-delia!

I want to start out by thanking the incredible @thedrarrylibrarian for the chance to participate in Happy Hour. You do phenomenal work, and I just really hope you know how valued you are. I fangirl every time we interact and I am incredibly honored to get to do this.

Now, on to the rec!

When our lovely Librarian asked me to do a guest rec for Happy Hour, this fic was the first to come to mind. I still gave it a lot of time and consideration, of course, but at the end of the day I kept coming back to this story.

plant me in your garden (and watch me grow) by @thehoneybeet. 5,505 words, Rated T, and make sure to check the tags to see if it’s right for you!

Malfoy walks across the grounds to the forbidden forest nearly every night, but falls asleep in class during the day. Harry can't get enough of him.

An eighth year fic.

Every fic of Honey’s that I’ve read makes me want to be a better writer, because their storytelling is so effortlessly rich. I always have at least one moment where I have to pause and look off into the distance so I can really appreciate a line and let it sink into my brain.

And this fic has quite a few of those moments for me. The descriptions here are so vivid; I felt like I was watching Drarry through a pensieve. I’m resisting the urge to quote dump here, because I think you should experience this writing for yourself in the way Honey intended it. It’s the kind of story that, in my humble opinion, can’t really be captured in a quote or two. It flows exactly as it needs to.

I adore how Honey characterizes both Draco and Harry. Draco has clearly changed after the war but has kept the same wit and fire that attracts Harry so much. And Harry is just trying to figure out how to exist in this post-war world without Voldemort after him, and it turns out Draco is a big part of his healing. It’s a joy to watch the two of them fall for and into each other.

I just looked back at the comments, because I remembered that I’d left one a while back when I first read it (which was, apparently, in September 2022? What even is time, omg). I’m going to quote from my past self, here, who called the writing “decadent,” and the story “fucking gorgeous,” “creative” and “special.” I told Honey that this fic would always have a special place in my heart. Clearly, my heart kept that promise.

I also told Honey at the time that the fic deserved a much longer, more intensive comment than I could articulate at the time. Turns out I needed over a year. This is as close as I think I’ll get to accurately expressing the way it makes me feel.

Plus, as a personal bonus, this fic happens to include some of my favorite tropes: eighth year, pining, and Harry’s never-ending obsession with Draco.

I hope you all enjoy this fic as much as I do (and that you remember to leave them kudos and a comment!) And Honey, thank you for writing something so wonderful that it stuck with me for over a year.

Love,

Phoebe

#drarry #friends of the library #phoebe-delia #thehoneybeet #happy hour friday #Happy hour with friends #Happy hour rec #Friday fic rec #Happy hour friday #Friday Happy hour #lots of love and Happy friday #Happy early valentines #harry potter #draco malfoy #harry x draco #the drarry librarian

[fabledfirmament]

this might be a minority opinion but i actually love that mellori betrayed the wizard. go on girl be your own fully realized person and advance the plot in interesting ways

#wizard101 #w101 #this is not meant to be shade i just like it when characters are volatile and do stupid shit #a lot of the early characters in wizard101 are super static and slotted into either #“wizard i love you and i am your ally 5ever” or “wizard i hope you get the electric chair” #so i really love mellori for like. she betrays the wizard but not really out of malice #she did it because she thought she had to #also i like it because it's funny #i feel this way about bat's betrayal too just. really like characters who's morality isn't revolved around #“is this character nice to the wizard” #(that is also why i love ione but i could talk about why i love ione for hours) #wizard101 spoilers #i don't know if fucking mirage still counts as spoilers #but to my brain mirage came out three years ago and not #checks notes #eight. it can't be eight what the hell.... #my god...........

[sesamestreep]

in honor of me finally remembering to delete my twitter that I haven’t used in like four years, here’s a selection of my best tweets from over the years that I screenshotted for posterity…

#twitter #funny tweets #tweets #i don’t know how to tag this #there was a lot of detective pikachu content and itsv content there #also rip to all my twitter convos with people from/about second best dnd #truly a lost era :( #it was nice to look back on tho #also rip to all of me and zainab’s livetweets of period dramas and Nora Ephron movies during the early days of our friendship #I included the persuasion tweet that made everyone I know mad at me for like 24 hours to sort of represent that era #the artist formerly known as birdhapley AKA moonsuits sometimes credited as sesamestreep

[maeamian]

When I was a young excited physics student I went down to my advisor and asked for a job in a lab. Those of you who are in the sciences may recognize this as exceedingly common, most schools with science departments will hire undergrads for their labs both to give the undergrads experience and to have someone comparatively cheap to do the least skilled labor in those labs.

For me, the lab I was sent to was one doing cool photonics projects and I was assigned to a guy who was doing the theoretical modeling for them and I got put on a side project for them to develop a method to double check their results using Monte Carlo simulations.

Put bluntly, I toiled away in the little cubicle they had me in for about half a year before I transferred to a different school without ever having produced anything of any particular value other than a Monte Carlo simulation whose temperature readings were not taking into account the existence of a heat sink and therefore got overwhelmed by thermal photons in a completely inaccurate and unhelpful way.

Ultimately, many tasks, farmed out like this in a speculative way to undergrads, fail, certainly it's not exceptional that mine did and I learned a lot about the process in the process, so it wasn't wasted time for me, but it produced absolutely nothing the lab could use to further its results.

This is where it turns from a little anecdote about my work history into a morality tale, because what I have thus far deliberately failed to tell you is that the lab I was assigned to is a provider of radar services to the US Military. Had I produced anything of any value whatsoever the work I did would have been used by the US military to help with its capacity to deliver bombs. This is, unfortunately, as those of you who are in the sciences may recognize, also exceedingly common. Luckily, and through no foresight or moral thinking of my own, simply the inexperience of youth, I produced nothing of value but view the path they tried to set me down as a grim warning of what might have been.

I'm not asking for forgiveness, the harm I might have done was not done by me, although I'm also sure was done without my help. They didn't need it to be me they just needed someone with basic calculus knowledge who wouldn't think too hard about the connection between the work and the world, and they were happy enough that particular warm body was me.

So this is my plea, if you're young and getting involved in the sciences because you're passionate about knowledge and understanding our place in the universe. When you go to get that job in that lab that's such a good stepping stone to the next thing you want to do, take a second and look into where that lab's funding is coming from. If it turns out it's the military, maybe then take another second and really deeply consider what kind of thing your work can be used to do and if you would like some of the most bloodthirsty people on the planet to be able to do that thing because of your help.

I got lucky that I didn't help, but I'm hoping that with this warning you might be able to not help on purpose which is a greater moral good than what I managed.

#IDK been thinking about this a lot recently for obvious reasons #I should've known better at the time too to be clear I was just blinded by excitement #If I'd stayed at that school and that lab and got to the level where I could contribute #They would have happily sent me to the Raytheon office down the street #Where I would've been well paid as my soul chipped away at itself #And I will never not resent the structure of the system that had that future in mind for me #I feel extra foolish for having nearly fallen for it considering my grandfather's history as a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists #Which is in part because he didn't talk much about that with us grandkids in large part because we weren't old enough early enough #There's a lot I wish he could've talked to me about now that I'm old enough to really understand it #But back to the point tell your advisor 'I'm not comfortable working in a military lab do you have any other options' #That's what I wish I'd said #Meanwhile my dad (the legend) claims to have cost the military millions of hours of productivity and credibly so

[megah3rz]

y was gen so unfazed when he woke up from the stone. naked and staring down a cliff, nonetheless. what kinda prank shows were u a part of that this isn't out of the realm of possibility

#i know it's kind of running gag that no one (except joel) reacted normally to waking up from petrification lol but #but gen? #TBF he got a bit... idk flanderized? as the manga wrnt on #reduced to over the top reactions for quite a while #so maybe explains it lol #since im already ranting; the more chibified art style is cute and all but i miss the early style... #maybe it was just a bit too detailed for a weekly manga so i get it. but i liked it better... #am i mostly saying this because gen looked way cooler in the beginning? yeah morw or less lol #i love the softer cuter gen too but the more edgy look was so good... #me when i get obsessed with something: criticizes everything about it for hours and then says i love it tho. lots of potential #i really could go on for hours about all the things that bother me #but like. i can only do that because i care enough yknow?? #asagiri gen #gen asagiri #dr stone

[celestialulu]

art summary of 2023 <3

This year has been up and down art wise but overall at least I did art for each month and for those who don’t know mashima saw my nalu day art in July and showed it on stream so I would say this year was pretty good for me!!

More nalu art for 2024 and I hope to improve and get a consistent art style lmao

(Making this is kinda embarrassing I hate seeing old art and also sorry for the low quality I had to rush this as I won’t be home for New Years)

made some friends this year which I appreciate and yeah you know who u are im too shy to @ anyone ..

May nalu have many moments in 2024 🫶

#i also wanna thank anyone that has added any lovely tags to my art or asks complimenting my art it does mean the word to me #i will try and produce higher quality art that I can be even more proud of next year #and hopefully to improve a lot more #a lot of nalu to come I prommy!!! #a bit early for me as it’s like 4 hours till New Years but I’m gonna be drinking so idk if I’ll be coherent enough to post later

[stuckinapril]

oddly enough i feel like i know more under 25's who are engaged/married then over 25's lol. but i think your whole 20's should be dedicated to finding out who you are rather than just your early 20's. and maybe 30's should be dedicated to marriage/children but even then it shouldn't be an expectation.

no I was gonna SAY… I think a lot of people on here don’t realize how popular it is to be engaged in my age range these days. My best friend’s sister actually just got engaged and she’s my age (21). Like are you guys living in my reality girls are doing shit like that all the time these days

#It freaks me the fuck out #I think a major reason a lot of my friends are still not engaged is bc we all know we’re going to med school #And those residency hours kill #We all prefer to be married in our late 20s or early 30s #But that’s far from being the standard especially w the whole tradwife stuff getting popularized #ask

[roobylavender]

this is a general point but one thing i find to be really frustrating from non-talia fans is the automatic condescension and assumption of unintelligence as if talia fans are idiots who believe morrison is the only writer who has ever been racist to her and like we don't dwell on the issues in her writing across history wholesale because we tend to know it like the back of our hand. obv morrison is the most prevalent writer in talia discourse bc their work has been the most damning for her. there's no erasing what they did to her character bc dc will never erase damian's existence nor will they ever be willing to change his origins to account for her original characterization bc he's the more popular character by miles

but that's not to say that these discussions about other racist stereotypes and misogyny attributed to her portrayals from other writers aren't prevalent within talia fan circles. the above post is only one example of the assumptions made about her fans (although it's a common accusation) but i honestly find it quite laughable bc any talia fan who is dedicated to understanding her history and maintaining her character integrity is well aware that dixon's work on her in the 90s and early 00s is nothing short of terrible. it is her most prominent dragon lady portrayal prior to morrison's and you would be hard pressed to find a talia fan who actually enjoys any of those portrayals or believes they did her character any service. the thing op and so many others seem to ignore is that writers from tower of babel and onward more or less forgot about these arcs or talia's part in them bc her impact was so inconsequential. there's not even a hint of the talia who was power hungry to be her father's heir or sexually assaulted by bane in the portrayals written by waid and early 00s superman comics (although you can obv argue about whether ignorance of her trauma from the bane arc was a good thing). so ofc we don't complain about it as much bc it didn't have any long lasting effects on her character (unless you want to count her portrayal in the dark knight rises, but i think even that was egregious enough for the most wormbrained fans to recognize it was a disservice to her)

and i am always incredibly fascinated by the number of people who like to dress up the o'neil era the way op did bc it's an immediate tell for who's actually read her comics and who hasn't. there's certainly things to be said about the al ghuls and the fu manchu stereotypes o'neil and adams drew from to create the daddy-daughter duo, but no one who criticizes their holistic portrayals here ever seems to actually understand the nature of their crimes in this era or that this is perhaps the most tame ra's has ever been before writers in the 80s and 90s took his ecofascism to new heights. the ra's of the 70s is highly suspicious and wealthy and entitled, but most of his crimes are so vague and far flung they can't even be categorized as anything concrete. half the time he's fighting for control over the league more than he is actually making strides in ecofascism, which is what writers like mike w. barr more specifically dedicated themselves to portraying. it's also notable that one of the last stories o'neil wrote for the al ghuls in this era featured ra's and bruce cooperating to save the entire planet from a deadly chemical. ra's was an ecofascist at origins but very few people seem to understand or care that he was built with standards for himself and didn't believe in mass murdering humanity despite all of its crimes against the earth. that's a nuance that writers seem to have lost over the years and obv the every day batman fan isn't going to care about them lol

even beyond the ra's portrayal though it's interesting how talia gets tied so closely into his alleged "crimes" from this era bc unless her father is under threat or imprisoned talia doesn't play much of an active role in his criminal plotting at all. if anything that's a criticism talia fans have of o'neil's work bc while she's portrayed to be incredibly intelligent and possessive of a unique concept of loyalty, her role during this era doesn't really go beyond the bounds of henchwoman or on some occasions bystander. but the highlight of these portrayals is that in the rare moments that she is an active player, it's always to do the right thing and protect an innocent. talia is very staunchly anti murder and only inclined towards the act when people she cares about are threatened (like in her very first portrayal where she shot darrk to protect bruce, and even then, you can tell that murder wasn't her intent, and the man may have survived had he not fallen onto the train tracks; there is also her almost-murder of a man in daughter of the demon when she believes he's killed ra's, but once bruce tells her ra's is actually alive she relents. you can criticize her for that still if you're inclined to but the notable thing about it is that talia is not driven to murder as a prerogative unless extremes present themselves). o'neil explicitly designates her as a pacifist who is only chained to ra's out of a slavish devotion which other writers obv build on in later decades to help her ultimately evolve out of the role. but all too often non-talia fans take the bond girl ambience and surface matter of these stories to designate her as an entitled, heartless war criminal bc that's already the way they have of her from modern work, projected back onto work from the past. there's no room to see the nuances in her writing in earlier comics bc her future has already damned her

this is personally why i think paying attention to writers when building a concept of character history is so impt. swaths of issues get jumbled together to act as one conglomerate on a character but there's a plethora of nuances and shifts in tone and portrayal to notice when the work of different writers is distinguished from each other and analyzed. and that holds esp true for non-white characters whose trajectory can shift so suddenly bc of the biases of a writer

#talia al ghul #ra's al ghul #personal essays #well. i sacrificed going to school early to study for this. property reading i'll be leaving a measly ten minutes for you #but yeah lol this post in particular severely peeved me but it's also a general floating sentiment i have seen from a LOT of non talia fans #in general with non white dc characters but esp the dragon lady victims people really do not seem to care about #distinguishing their history at all. like it's all one broad brushstroke none of these people actually read each issue and differentiate #and it's like. BITCH. i have spent hours overanalyzing these issues more than you ever could have please sit down (derogatory)

[tastymarbar]

pov i am about to boop you

#mar draws things #butterbot (persona) #hi i meant to finish this a lot early but alas i have adhd and finished this 1 hour before april fools ends go me

[lesbiansloveseokjin]

day 238/548 of hobi's military service

this selca was posted on 150503 with the caption:

My heart is full of gratitude as well, today. Finishing the day with a smile First broadcast week, our ARMYs who have supported us more vigorously than anyone else! Really love you guys! In the future as well, we’ll run (forward) like crazy! #INEEDU

(trans cr: Mary @ bts-trans)

#BangtanBoys##jhope# As if Mum and dad knew about my life in advance [Haha][Haha] Thank you for giving birth to me, raising me and supporting my dreams actively. I love you. #Let’sLoveHerTogether# @微公益

(trans cr: Mary @ bts-trans)

hoseok tweeted this about the i need u practice video:

Finally. It’s been a while since a practice video has been released so I’m focused on watching it as well. We did performances for the title songs one after another and it feels strange every time the work is done.. hehe We really practiced hard so please watch it well~~ #Hobi #TeacherSeongDeuk_ILoveYou

(trans cr: Mary @ bts-trans)

watch it here:

and lastly - Boyz with Fun + I Need U performance from that day:

#there are additional pictures from that day i could've included but i feel like this was already a Lot #so we're stopping here #hoseok #jhope military countdown #on stage #i need u #dance practice #150503 #technically the selca was posted after midnight #so in the early hours of 150504 #but the picture was most likely taken on the 3rd and what he's referencing happened on the 3rd so whatever #Youtube

[tittyinfinity]

so from my experiences of being around transfem people taking estrogen, it seems that your periods actually start to sync up with the people around you who menstruate

#girl got period cramps earlier than usual last night and I felt like it was my fault for sitting next to her w the worst period cramps ever😭 #happened after i had been sitting next to her for hours #this is one of those things where i'm like yeah this sounds more like placebo/conspiracy but nah it's been true every time #my period is somehow the strongest and i can make peoples periods start up to a week early just by being around them for a couple days #i've caused periods to be late too 😬 #it does NOT make sense but i promise you it DOES happen #i've had a lot of conversations w people about how freaked out they were by it #.bdo

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

💌 just wanted to say a quick thank you to everyone who’s left such lovely feedback on my latest chapter of four walls. it’s been a weird and emotionally draining week for me, and getting to come back after a long day and read all your kind words has been such a solace. it’s truly hard to put into words how much it means when people connect with something you’ve created (and i’m far too exhausted to even attempt it tonight), but trust me when i say nothing grounds me and keeps me writing through all the difficult stuff more than knowing that what i’m creating means something to people other than just me. thank you so much for your generosity in sharing that with me via your lovely comments and feedback 💌

#friendly reminder to leave comments on the fics you enjoy #it means the world to all of us writing them 💜 #also sorry if this is totally incoherent #i’m so exhausted and overwhelmed tonight i feel like i could fall into bed and sleep for the next 48 hours #but i just wanted to share this because it’s been something i’ve been so thankful for all week 💗 #i can’t wait to get stuck into finishing the next chapter for posting this weekend #i know there’s been a lot of slow build but… well #what it’s building to is very close now #and i’m so excited to share it with you!! #anyway i’ll stop rambling now #i’m going to drink tea and watch hannibal and try and have an early night #thank you and sorry to anyone who’s read through all of this nonsense 😅 #i need to stop posting on tumblr when i should probably just go to sleep lol #four walls #lulu posts

[flamestar126]

SHOOTING + CUPID + RED STRING

#dexter's laboratory #dexter's lab #dexdark #dexter #mandark #they're cupid rivals! >:D #their next assignment was somehow the same people and they continuously fought over the same target to shoot #so much they forgot about the target entirely and focused on each other. eventually the cupids fell in love after a lot of threatening lol #this is them being soft in their early rivalry #can you tell i dont know how to do wings #they also fated by red string because i like that trope a lot #two cupid destined by fate and hated at first glance is romantic :3 #i love making mandark's weapon! instead of a bows i did his gun. upgrade cupid! give him a gun! #dexdarkvalentines #dexdarkvalentines2024 #will be sharing the next ones maybe in a hour or two? #flame draws