#but i can't do that all year round

[sinsistersin]

ran 4 km :)) in 25 minutes :))

#this is also an experiment to figure out if my knees would hurt if i regularly exercise #because since mainly last year they hurt when i do stuff #and while my knees have always sucked #i want to know if building muscle and exercising somewhat regularly would make it better or worse #in case it makes it worse i would look into swimming again (which i like but it shows my body) and look into buying knee braces for when i #go skiing #i know that if i walk a lot (and i mean a lot like the biggest part of the day and for like a while like me working as a cleaning lady for #month) that my knees actually make less cracking noices #so it might help actually #but of course walking doesn't put a lot of strain on the knees but does make them move constantly #but i can't do that all year round

[artkaninchenbau]

You know what day it— V-Tamer?! Happy Odaiba Memorial Day! 🎉 And Happy 25th Anniversary V-Tamer! ❤️ [Odaiba Memorial Redraw 2022] [Redraw 2021] [Redraw 2020]

#Digimon #Odaiba Day #Odaiba Memorial Day #V-Tamer #Screenshot redraw #My art #If it wasn't V-Tamer's 25th anniversary this year I might've done Zero Two (since the movie's happening) or something else #But I like those nice round anniversary numbers so I figured I'd take advantage of it while I can #Which is also why I didn't do Savers this year #To be fair some seasons have overlapping anniversary years so I can't do nice round numbers for them all #At least not without skipping years lmao #So this will just have to do-- but it's fine besides we love and appreciate V-Tamer in this house #This bizarre story just continues #I'm gonna have to start making that calendar bigger so I can fit everyone in there 'cause it's getting cramped #It's funny how all these redraws despite my attempts look nothing like each other

[apple-grass-and-smiles]

Very cool and not heartbreaking at all for the PJO show to emphasize that Percy is an outsider not only because he's new to the whole demigod thing, but also because he doesn't know the rules of being a traumatized kid with all the daddy/mommy issues possible

#Percy all the time: wait I treated them with kindness and didn't do anything bad #why am I not being treated kindly in return #absolutely everyone else: why on earth would you be entitled to basic human decency? #(and for the kids it's 1000% down to trauma and how they've been raised #so many of the foster kiddos I work with do the same thing #they either have to be so good and perfect (Clarisse and annabeth) that they can't be ignored which works until the parent moves #the goalpost and they're left in the dust with a perfect report card that doesn't get them a second glance #or they have to be so bad that their parents have to intervene (Luke) because #and say it with me folks #bad attention is the same as good attention if it's the only kind you ever get!! #watching this and revisiting TLT specifically has been crazy because they're kids who have been removed from home at their core #that's what our main cast of demigods are #all the year-round kids are removed from home and Percy's ability to go back home and love it just as much as he loves camp is something #that separates him throughout the series #he has a safe place to land during the TLO summer and he's using it and no one else seems to have that #Percy has a stupidly hard life but he has a home base to go to and most of those kids can't even comprehend that as an option #Percy's home is his greatest strength and it'll also forever be something that sets him apart from his peers #I just have thoughts on pjo and foster kids guys #silence emily #percy jackson #pjo tv #I'm arguing this isn't even a spoiler because it's been a running theme. fight me

[sysig]

Now that they can, would they want to spend a lot of time together? (Patreon)

#Doodles #Adventure Time #Fionna and Cake #Simon Petrikov #Marceline #Hhhh I feel so bad for both of them 💔 #Obviously Simon misses her since she's like the one tether he still has to ''his'' time - they were both born before all the Everything #And I'm sure Marceline misses Simon too but like - even this Simon isn't ''her'' Simon. They met when he was already affected by the Crown #They clearly love each other when they see each other when Simon is as much himself as he can be! #But I can't help but wonder if it would be painful to spend time with this sad lonely magicless man - and how guilty that would make Simon #He wants to still be a part of her life! But how much of himself does he even have to offer now? #And the guilt would go round and round - she sees it in him and he sees that in her and they just both feel bad! #I really can't blame him for being a little emotionally closed and her being distant - they're not who they were #With all that said I still really love their dynamic <3 They're /not/ who they used to be but they've still got such an interesting relation #I think in the moments that they do have together where they're both trying to be good for each other Marcy would really push her humour ♪ #She's got 1000 years of silliness to get out of her system to her bestie! I'm sure she's got the material hehe #Even if he still sees her as a little girl - I mean that just adds to the joke if she says something a bit blue lol #I don't think he'd actually keep the sharp teeth - it's more of a visual metaphor of how Marceline sees him in these kinds of moments #It's hard to leave it behind!

[icewindandboringhorror]

... why he sit like this

#in this position his face is extremely 'cartoon cat' shaped.. like the perfectly round cheeks and little #rounded bump of a snout.. big round eyes. etc. stretched over the arm of a chair like a weirdo #cats #It's still Hot Evil Summer time and I have so much to do so am just aimlessly hopping between various projects but not actually #getting anything done. as usual. Also so so so so tired. I almost fell asleep in the middle of the floor like 3 times today lol #Trying to finish some costume photos and also another poll adventure thing. plus I do really want to do a sculpture sometime #I haven't finished one in a while. Hopefully my tiredness is nothing bad. #Maybe I'm anemic again so that's making me tired. Or maybe it's just a Listless phase. not that I'm ever really THAT productive considering #all of the health problems and etc. always holding me back. but still. I'm not usually 'sleep or just stare at a wall literally all day' ty #e unproductive.. at least not for multiple days in a row so. hmm... Sometimes especially in the summer though I will have periods of time #that are listless like that. I am under low level phyiscal stress for months at a time due to summer heat so I guess it makes sense #that would eventually take a toll. I just have SO MANY THINGS I WANT TO DO!!!!! AAUUGhhh #I also came up with a new idea for a game that is so so cool and I wish I could make it but I have to finish the other one first lol #which I will NEVER do. if I spend all day just sleepy unfocused barely able to do anything #I also really need to sell some clothes and sculptures because I'll probably have to buy a new computer soon so I need money. (plus still #recovering the costs of having to euthanize my other cat.. wehh) There's nothing clearly wrong with it right now but it's getting gradually #slower and there's more weird glitches happening randomly and idk.. just weird things that make me think 'hmm... bad.. possibly.' #ANYWAY... I just have so much to do that I both REALLY want or need to do - so it's perpetually frustrating that I just can't for whatever #reason like. Time is always mving forward. every day I waste is a wasted day. The year is already almost half over. I havent finished #any of the projects I wanted to .. and there's only more and more things to do each day. It's overwhelming and stinky #and thats not even considering having to do all of my tasks also with the background noise of economic inequality. everything increasingly #going into an even scarier political direction. active climate change crisis. pandemic that still exists and is insane to act otherwise. et #etc. HOW am I supposed to solo make two whole games . write 3 book series. finish sculptures. do costumes. make outfits. game videos. make #stable network of social connections. do my little side crafts. take care of myself and cats. pay rent. manage health issues. keep a routin #.try to make some sort of money. go to doctors appointments. handle regular maintenance like cleaning and cooking and self care #and buying new plates when old ones break or etc. make sure to do other things like backup my computer data regularly. do shopping lists. #take care of plants. pursue like 6 different academic interests. do the other side side projects I have for fun (like music or carving avoc #ado pits). eat in a healthy way thats okay for my Special Health Issue diet. exercise so i don't die early. etc. etc. etc. AND all while it #82F in my apartment all the time and I have tiny income and also need to move to another country/climate somehow??? lol...... #ANYWAY.. ..very frustrated today over my chronic Tired Sleepy.. time for Cat Photos - which cure all of life's ailments lol

[pushing500]

I love the idea of Irwin "animatedly" doing anything. Somehow I never picture the abrasive, ascetic, brawler colonists as very "animated" characters, but maybe he's just trying to make the lesson engaging for the little guy. I bet Irwin is a great teacher.

Also, yeah, we got a dinosaur. His randomly generated name is Swampy. I have not had the courage to attempt drawing him yet. Dinosaurs are awesome but also very tricky to draw.

Irwin and Andy continued to hang out for a little while, playing with axes as every reasonable adult looking after a three-year-old would do.

But, alas, while teaching the child about mathematics and biology and tree-felling, it appears Irwin's abrasive trait has also been noticed. Kids do learn from example, but I guess nobody told Irwin that.

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#rimworld #gracie plays #The Animist Alliance #art #my art #traditional art #rimworld art #unpolished art #I can't decide if Andy would consider everyone in the colony as an aunt/uncle or not #Maybe they're all just “Mr” or “Ms” to him #but I do like the idea of Honourary Uncle Irwin #insults from small children just hit harder #They're so brutally honest all the time #Oh handy-dandy tip: don't give axes to three-year-olds #I doubt it will ever end well #Even if said three-year-old is being raised in a colony with a pet dinosaur #I'd still avoid the axe thing #It's tricky to find the right balance between “big round childlike eyes” and “lizardlike slitted pupil eyes” #But I think Andy is a cutie pie either way #Have a good day everyone! Love you! <3

[blackbackedjackal]

I was already favourable towards coyotes when I started following you, but between you and a nonfic audio book I read recently, I'm now Obsessed. Thank you

#ask #I'm glad! #I just want (and need) more people interested in them #my endgoal is coyote education and teaching the general public about coexistence with coyotes #plus dispelling lots of misinformation about the species #like I really hope more people get interested in studying them in the field and working in public relations #I'm focused more on historical data and anatomical/genetics studies to have more solid info for subspecies documentation #as well as lobbying or certain populations to be protected #or ideally all coyotes being put under hunting seasons so they can't be killed year round #as that alone is causing heaps of problems #but yea like #please learn more about these cool little guys #I'm working on a program so I can both educate more people and get funding for more research but that's still several years off sadly #a bitch has the mental illnesses and is busy (I'm a bitch) :( #but doing the best I can in the moment so messages like this are super encouraging <333

[arcann]

To me da2 is deeply centrist the way victims are punished in a vitriolic and morbid way while characters like Aveline and Cullen are unopposedly good. If you see it as leftist media that's because it does present clearly leftist characters but it won't waste time in putting them in the most cruel and humiliating situations or throw them against characters who should have a more benevolent opinion of each other for the sake of "banter". There's still people in the fandom who think Anders is the absolute worst when the very same game has the templars growing a slave ring of lobotomized kidnappees with teenagers or that Cullen and Aveline are lawful good when they are never challenged for the decisions they made which had tremendous collateral damage.

You can enslave Fenris but you can't do anything similar to Cullen. Orsino WILL die as a monster trying to kill Hawke but Elthina died a martyr. You can antagonize Anders the whole game and murder him but you can't do that to Aveline. Hell, Aveline's mourning of Wesley is treated as a tragedy to be respectful towards while Anders' mourning of Karl is hidden from a female Hawke due to biphobia and homophobia and rarely discussed even if it's incredibly relevant as another lever to humanize Anders and villify the circle. You see every outrageous opinion coming from da2 fans and it's because they choose the options that don't deny any of their values. They can do that too. Gaider and kristjanson and hepler let you support those leftist characters but you can also visciously humiliate and murder them. Meanwhile the more "tame" characters who support the system achieve a happy ending no matter your choices. They only defied the corrupt system they thrived in once it came at them with a gigantic brainwashing sword and a legion of colossal statues trying to crush them. That, and only that, was too much for them. And they're awarded for having such lousy limits.

In inquisition Hawke can't say anything outright good about Anders even while romanced, Fenris is confirmed to be alone by Blue Wraith, Merrill is in no side content post-da2. Meanwhile, Aveline is still working on the same position with tremendous power when we saw her fail and blunder several times over the years and you really have to be a manipulative and ableist piece of shit to Cullen for him to get a bad ending and guess what? The game WILL guilt trip you for it. Adding to that, Varric, the appointed voice of Dragon Age as a series and new viscount of Kirkwall has absolutely nothing good to say about Anders and is ok with the inquisition supporting the templars freely after everything he knew they did IN HIS OWN CITY. A leftist game wouldn't have this bias. A centrist game would, in the end, let characters who don't side for or against the suffering of others in an established system until it personally affects them, who aren't "risky" and have nothing to say that could, even accidentally, reflect badly in our very real system, be rewarded with the better endings.

#if anything i see d/a/2 as a very experimental game due to the rushed production and lack of time #something like 'put it all in. all your fucked up and half baked ideas. we have to finish this in less than two years' #and they clearly came to regret having something so open ended #you can't work with a character who can be dead or enslaved or in love with the pc and thriving *looks pointedly at s/w/t/o/r* #which is funny enough another property of bioware that came around the same time! ahahaha #also this is a vague at a certain post making rounds but i hope i don't antagonize anyone. #if you think 'it could be that deep' so do i!

[pa-pa-plasma]

i feel like a lot of people ignore the fact that in a lot of places, bicycling just. cannot be done for half the year, & that's why public transport being good is important. i cannot bike in 5 feet of snow & ice or in 40c heat. i can't even walk in that, unless i have the energy to snowshoe or a bucket of ice water to chug.

"but I can do it!" good for you. unfortunately i live in Berk (snowing for 9 months of the year & hailing the other 3) & cannot unless i want to die. also disabled people exist. & children. & people who live in a place where everything is no closer than 30 minutes away, & 30 minutes in -30c can kill you if you can't afford a good pair of boots & a good coat. i may have bike paths but the river floods past them every year. what do i do then? bike on the highway?? just let me take the train

#people who live in places where the weather is always nice (aka not trying to kill you 75% of the time): you are an outlier #where i live the temperatures range from -30c to +35c give or take. snow hail thunderstorms tornadoes all that shit too #''biking is so fun! even when it's raining!'' dude ima be real with you. it is ice raining. i do not want to be coated in wet ice #do you know what snowmelt is? it's where all the snow melts in the spring & then fucking floods everything #it's freezing dirty water & it kills people because people always underestimate The River #i am not riding my bike through that. it's always colder & deeper than you think & there is always a current even if you can't see it #''but it's not like it's the ocean'' dude. water aint fucking around salt or no #you may look at The River & think ''that's just a lake. seems calm & nice'' but you'd be wrong & you would die from your foolishness #this shit is connected to the Great Lakes. those fuckers are fresh water seas. i do not fuck with that #it's great you live in a place where biking all year round is feasible. but i cannot do that even if i wanted to #''but what if the weather's been nice lately'' then you'd be falling for fool's spring #where it looks like it's getting warmer & then the temperature drops & it snows a whole bunch again #& then it warms up & then it snows again. repeat until like May #we just want good public transport okay i get that exercise is good but i'd rather not risk my extremities for it thank you

[alfhildr-the-word-weaver]

I must say, it's pretty poetic that I've gotten to season 6 of Vampire Diaries right before another solar eclipse happens in America. I certainly didn't plan it, but it does feel like my timing is very appropriate with this one. I do have questions about the accuracy of the eclipse portrayal in the show, though. I mean, a solar eclipse did in fact happen on May 10, 1994, and it was visible across much of the country, so that much is accurate. But I don't think Mystic Falls would've had quite as good of a view as they show it having. For reference, here's a map of the May 1994 eclipse path (credit: timeanddate.com):

And, if you'll remember, Mystic Falls is like two hours from my old hometown just a stone's throw north of Lynchburg, Virginia, as seen on the locator spell map (this one's all over tumblr, forgive me for not remembering what blog I grabbed it from):

So if you zoom in on the timeanddate map and pick somewhere closeish to there:

It looks like Mystic Falls would be getting a little over 77% coverage or so. It's also worth noting that the '94 eclipse was an annular eclipse, not a total eclipse like tomorrow's eclipse. That still means that the moon went directly in front of the sun, but it does mean that it was small enough/far enough from earth that you didn't quite get full coverage of the sun (thanks to weather.gov for the nifty graphic):

So, I'm not positive whether it would've looked quite as dark as was shown in the show:

Although, I must admit, in this video I found on youtube of the '94 eclipse, (part of me is shocked to find footage from then but I know I shouldn't be like yes they had cameras in the 90s) it actually looks more similar than I expected it to look, but I imagine it was most likely filmed within the path of totality:

But also, when Kai takes Bonnie to Portland, don't they see the eclipse again there? I couldn't find that clip on youtube just now, but Portland barely had any eclipse--only 42-43% coverage, so it would've been way milder of a visual effect, barely any dimming in the sky noticeable without eclipse glasses.

The funny thing is, the area where I live is going to be sitting right around 80% coverage tomorrow. I was lucky enough to get to travel to Missouri for the 2017 eclipse to get into the path of totality, but I'm afraid that it hasn't worked out for me to do so this year, which is immensely disappointing to me as an astronomy enjoyer, but I do still plan to go to an eclipse party and I'm going to start saving to try and get to Spain for the next total eclipse in 2026, which is going to be right around my 30th birthday (screaming). Anyways, it isn't great, but here's my best picture from the '17 eclipse:

I didn't even have a smartphone yet then, because despite it being 2017, I was somewhat of a luddite, so I had the purple flip phone I so stubbornly clung to and a point-and-click Nikon, but I still think this picture is pretty cool for what it is. Here's the zoom in so you can really see that ring of fire (and my shaking hands doubling the image):

Obviously you can find thousands of better eclipse pictures online, but that one's still special to me because it's mine. Anyways, I'll report back with smart phone pictures from whatever I see of the 80% total eclipse tomorrow to compare and contrast with Mystic Falls's 70% annular eclipse of the 90s, because from what I've heard it's going to be much less impressive than full totality was, but I've yet to watch a partial solar eclipse, so I'll just have to find out. Also, if you happen to have any vampiric loved ones trapped in a magical prison dimension who you need help freeing during the eclipse tomorrow, let me know and I'll see what I can do! ;) Hahaha. Anyways, happy eclipse everyone, and may we all possess sufficient self restraint to avoid eye damage (says the woman who has looked at the sun unprotected so many times and is probably going to go blind because of it some day. I know what I've done lol. Don't be me.)

#posts where I actually feel like I'm using my blog as a blog #Solar Eclipse #Solar Eclipse 2024 #Solar Eclipse 1994 #The Vampire Diaries #TVD 6x02 #is where the screenshot's from specifically #Damon Salvatore #Bonnie Bennett #Eclipse History #nerding out over the eclipse in the vampire show #it's also funny to me how two eclipses in my lifetime are so close to my birthday. I think it probably means I have magical powers ;) #May 10 1994 #that's two years and change before I was born #April 8 2024 #I'm so tempted to ditch all my responsibilities and drive south to totality but it's an 8 hour drive and I'd have to leave at like 4am #if it was a 4-5 hour drive to totality I'd do it. but I think a 16 hour round trip would kill me and I didn't have the good sense to plan #or book a hotel in advance or anything and everything in totality will be booked up for sure. and tonight is the night I would need to be #in a hotel anyways so. missed that boat. I mean I could go now and just drive through the night. but ugh. I just. ugh. I can but I can't yk #anyways everybody says that the Vampire Diaries writing quality drops off around here but I'm still loving it so far #it's incredibly frustrating sometimes but like. it knows how to give me The Feels(tm) and so I'll let it jerk me around all it wants #I would personally prolly want to stay in the prison world for at least a little bit to get to enjoy that eclipse from a bunch of angles th #like that's a rad as heck day to get trapped on imho. Love me a good eclipse #i ramble #even in the tags I ramble #Youtube

[theold-ultraviolence]

While I'm suffering through my 7hr class of hell, besties help me decide my costume theme for this Halloween. Because it is unlike me for it to be MAY and me not having decided yet. This is outrageous. I need to get PLANNING and preparing props and buying stuff for the photoshoots!!

#besties that weren't here last halloween are probably so confused lmao #we keep it spooky here all year round #for the new besties #and I can't just have one halloween costume #we gotta do a THEME #and I do photoshoots with each costume from that theme #last year was brides in horror films #2021 was witches in films #2020 was goth ladies of the decades aka Vampira Elvira Lily Munster etc etc etc #SO #WE NEED THIS YEAR'S THEME #and it's 4 costumes for each weekend of october

[hussyknee]

Having a masterpost of information go viral is a little like being in customer service in terms contending with illiteracy and the level of sheer infuriation.

Please for the love of all that is holy, go in the notes of a post before reblogging it. It is the most rudimentary form of accountability check there is. All the answers to your questions and updates and counter-arguments/info is right there in the reply section, usually within a few replies of both the oldest and newest. And especially reblog masterlists and information posts from the source because they're constantly being fact-checked, edited and updated. This is the peer-review website. Look at the reviews of your goddamn peers.

#i'm sorry but it's been five fucking months of this and that thing took a LOT of work #every time i see the oldest most unvetted version that I took down within like a day still doing the rounds i lose years of my life #it's not really my fault. the first list was just a cut and paste of my decolonial prof's google doc. ofc i trusted her #now i fucking do not. it took until now to realize she's a neoliberal-ass respectability politicking NRI idiot just like the rest of them #i trust like. three israelis to actually be anti zionists. and barely any westerners or whites #so yeah that list is basically me removing and replacing sources and losing all my faith in humanity on a daily basis. it is v e t t e d #and people can't so much as take a look at the replies. aaaaaaaaarrgghhhh #anyway just listen to palestinians #knee of huss #anti zionist #free palestine

[valentineish]

For whatever reason, my default subject for art practice has been "Pokemon adapted into real animals". I've decided Jigglypuff is a dwarf hamster. It puffs into an orb when storing food in its cheeks or frightening off predators.

#pokemon #jigglypuff #how obvious is it that i fucking loved hamtaro for all of my formative years #i also can't decide if i like the more rounded ears and elongated body or just. angry bean. #i'll have to play with this more while doing my watercolor practice #myart #valentimes

[macadam]

I'm always happy to see you on my dash so I hope you have a safe time and take care till September when we hear from you again!!

Aw shucks thank you anon :]

#perhaps I shall do a little off brand story time if anything insane happens to me this year #something insane alway seems to happen to me #Mac asks #maybe the fire ban will force me to use the old broken ass camp stoves that sit on top of a tall narrow propane bottle #you have to hold the pot constantly cause it'll tip over #better still #every bottle is so banged up that the bottoms are all round and extra tippy #to turn the stove on #you open the valve and the gas just fuckin..... comes out yknow #but we all use the little hand lighters so not only do you only have about a second to light the gas because the longer you wait the more #it builds up. which means you get a massive fucking flame and risk searing your eyebrows off I swear #but having a small lighter instead of the bbq ones means you have to stick your hand into the gas.... to light the gas.... and then pull #your hand OUT before the gas catches fire #I love camp #this fire ban is going to kick my ass though. those stoves are scary as hell #and I so rarely use them too because even when it rains I will light a fire dammit #one final fact is that these stoves are cheap so they don't have variable fuel output. so you can't have just a little gas to start #which would help to prevent the whole.... gas buildup ticking time bomb thing #instead it just comes out at max speed. #did I mention the camp stoves terrify me? #anyways wish me luck! ;) #(and they were never heard from again)

[cappurrccino]

i want to make mittens. i know what pattern i will use too make the mittens. i cannot decide what yarn to use to make the mittens. i do not make mittens.

#//juri speaks #i mean i'm also Overthinking™ bc i might swap whatever stitch the pattern uses with the thermal stitch #which might change the number of rounds i need and make my life more difficult #and i'm mostly thinking of mittens bc a) it's fucking cold and b) i'm dragging my heels on a shawl i wanna make #bc i can't decide which version of the skull pattern to buy #all this while i have a bag in progress (dragging my heels a lil bc i want to do a cotton fabric liner and don't know how) #and a knit scarf i started like. a billion years ago (dragging my heels a lot bc i simply can't figure out the right grip for the needles #and that makes me sad bc i won't be immediately able to make a cool sweater or smth) #anyway...!