#but then i do it anyway

[marinettedesignsofficial]

wait why would I buy something I baked? I just realised after reading this thousands of times

I'm sorry.. It's just a really bad pun. And I was hoping Adrien wouldn't notice because he said he'd either give me sad kitten eyes for a week or a constant look of disappointment. And it's too hard to watch him do either!

#marinette 🥐 #marinette dupain cheng #adrien has banned me from making puns a few times #but then I do it anyway #and he gets embarrassed

[veliseraptor]

If ILCBT Xue Yang outlived his daozhangs do you think he'd revert, or attempt to stick with his vague estimations of what they probably would have wanted, or start with the second and slide into the first, or...

oh boy, this is a good question and one that Xue Yang has never considered because in his head it's just a straight up given that he's going to die first. like, that's not even a question for him, particularly since Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan both have at least decent odds of cultivating to immortality if they try and certainly are strong enough to live longer lives, and that's...not out of reach for Xue Yang but his lifespan is almost certainly going to be truncated relative to theirs (on account of both rough living for years, the fact that he's very hard on his body generally, and the demonic cultivation/general historical lack of investment in making an effort in that direction). like, he's going to live longer in this verse than he would otherwise (already has!) and probably longer than your average non-cultivator, but even if he doesn't die violently (and that's still kind of low-key his assumption, warranted or not) his ability to survive to an old age is...dubious.

but say hypothetically that he's wrong about that...the next question is how the other two go down. if they die peacefully then that's one thing; if they die because they get killed that's something else.

(if they were killed by a person there is no power on earth that would keep him from absolutely shredding them. and making it really, really, really hurt, for a while. and then bringing them back from the dead so he can keep going. there are limits! and if his daoshi are going to be disappointed then they can damn well show up and do something about it. and if he ended up getting arrested/executed for it I think he'd consider it worth it and not the worst outcome.)

but generally speaking and in a broader sense, I don't think he'd...go completely off the rails in either case. at that point he'd have longer living with the moral guidelines/guardrails than without them, so if it's not natural or intuitive it's at least more familiar than not. and depending on how far this is in the future, a-Qing is still very much a present tether in this universe, too. so while I think some things would probably slip a little, I don't think he'd actually drop right back into all his old habits.

like...if somebody did something that really pushed his buttons and pissed him off, I think it'd be a lot dicier for him to not react more violently than he would've had there been actually present daoshi figuratively over his shoulder, but I think the habit would still be there going "that's not what we do, remember" that would hold him off from acting purely on impulse.

I have a lot of feelings basically about the fact that I think...okay, morality and ethics don't come to Xue Yang automatically or easily, it's not how he thinks and for a long time he didn't really make an effort to change that. but the thing is that that's something you can learn, and with learning come to make habits that stick. you're establishing a new way of thinking and with familiarity and custom that can become...not automatic, maybe never automatic, but something that does surface in a way it wouldn't have otherwise. and that's kind of what I see Xue Yang doing, or starting to do, in Yi City - not consciously, but at least partly through necessity of needing to behave as though he is A Not Suspicious Non-Murdery Human Being for a long time, but also because it turns out that he likes some of the results of putting in that effort.

but then everything comes crashing down and the changes haven't taken strong enough of hold to keep him from turning to what's still more comfortable and familiar. when he's distressed and confused and I think surprised by how much Xiao Xingchen's anger is hitting him in a bad way, Xue Yang knows how to hurt people. that's safe, and easy, and comforting, and what's always worked for him before.

but in this universe there's much more time put into that work, and significant rewards for doing it, and so I think he becomes less and less likely to make that reversion, because it's no longer so much what he knows best; it doesn't so much define what's served him well.

honestly I think the hardest part for Xue Yang might well be not just fuckin. bringing them back from the dead anyway. yeah they'll be mad about it probably but whatever, they'll get over it right???? it'd take some serious work on both Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen's part to get him to promise to not do that and even then it'd be hard to resist the temptation if he thought there was a remote possibility of it working.

#conversating #anonymous #wow this got long #i always feel kinda weird putting my ilcbt headcanons in the main character tags #but then i do it anyway #xue yang #aggressively headcanons #songxuexiao #if living can be this

[isawiitch]

ok NOW we can all freak out marvel vfx workers voted to unionize thank god

article here

#union #! #anyway. #do i dare tag #marvel #still have to wait for marvel/disney to legally recognize and accept/negotiate with them but... good.

[liquidstar]

If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.

#i think about this story sometimes like yeah I'm proud of them for that too actually. good job baby brothers #they're not babies anymore of course they're turning 20 next year which is crazy #but they're still the type of people who'd do something if they saw something of this sort happen for sure #respectful of women and everyone else too. they're good guys #I'm glad I ended up with them living in my house against my will for like 14 years #anyway i have no idea where i was for all this but my best guess is probably a friends house given the time period #i was always at my besties house lol #i hope she's doing well too actually. haven't spoken in forever... #bestie from greek elementary school... if you're out there... let's get muffins and fanta at the bakery across the street again someday 💜☮️

[moregraceful]

Bought my uncle a burger and milkshake in exchange for letting me disrupt the holiest day of the week, NFL Sunday Football, so I could install a Pi-hole and free the household of ads...the thing abt the specific boomers I live with is they told me not to trust people on the Internet but they do not understand the algorithm or online advertising and think that Facebook has their best interests at heart. And every time I have tried to explain to them that no, blorbo from my dashboard is not selling my kidneys on the dark web but Google from your capitalism is definitely selling your web searches to every advertising company on the planet, they think I am paranoid. How could their personal friend Mark Zuckerberg want anything bad to happen to them etc. I am fighting battles I did not know existed!!!

#i simply. do not wish to see ads #anyway that took me and beryl 2 hours to set up DO NOT ask me anything #i was definitely better at linux systems when i was in high school lol #fresno oilers.txt

[phantom-of-the-501st]

Remember that this is not the proof that they love each other

That was a last-ditch attempt from Crowley to get Aziraphale to stay

This is the proof that they love each other

Their love wasn't just made real because they kissed

It always existed

#i will argue this point til my dying breath #they always loved each other #if you think the kiss was the only proof #then i adviae you to reexamine the relationship #the kiss wasn't romantic anyway #it was desperate and painful #it was a last ditch effort from crowley because he loves aziraphale so much #but it was not the confession #he'd already confessed his feelings #the kiss was never necessary to do that #good omens #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #crowley #aziraphale #good omens spoilers #go2 spoilers

[drumlincountry]

I was at a Palestinian solidarity gig last night & the one Palestinian artist who was going to perform had COVID so the organisers asked around to see if there were any Palestinians who'd like to say a few words instead.

A local guy who was born & raised in Gaza offered to speak. He started with "I'm an engineer. i'm not a poet or a politician. I don't... do public speaking… I had no idea what to say when I came up here. So i'm just going to tell you about the street I grew up on."

And then he did! He went down the street building by building. He told us about the ice cream shop on the corner, the grocery shop, the charity that supports people with intellectual disabilities. He told us about the people who he knew growing up, the families who still live in the different houses. He told us about the university buildings and about his friends who quit being accountants to start a band together. All on that street.

All of which is gone now, by the way. Bombed to dust.

#Gaza #Palestine #I talked to him a bit afterwards but god what do you say!! #he said he found the gig helpful anyway. Supportive. So that's good. #I'm gonna see if I can find his friends band and share some of their songs #Me Fein

[chase-prairie]

Loving reminder from your land history auntie:

North American golf courses have had 50-100 years of arsenic and mercury based fungicide and herbicides applied to their soils.

Do not eat anything that has been grown on a golf course or downstream from a golf course. I know it sounds cool and radical, but you are too valuable to poison yourself with heavy metals.

Protect each other, turn your local golf course into a pollinator garden, not a sex forest or community garden.

#i am over here worrying about all you kiddos #also please dont forage on railway corridors either #love yourselves protect yourselves #lmao at the replies saying 'but why not sex forest anyway' #you do you kids #im personally a no thank you on the lead arsenic mercury sex forest personally #if you havent seen it there's a popular book about making golf course a sex forest #that isn't a random pull

[beebfreeb]

#funny talking tag #My favorite thing to do is HC characters as trans but also that they've never heard that term before and act accordingly. #My other favorite thing to do is make characters repressed. #My other other favorite thing to do is make a character go ''I feel like a(n) object/animal/thing pretending to be a man/woman'' #''but I don't really care about that right now I have a job'' #Anyway while this post can be about whichever characters you feel fit I made this with a certain character in mind. #(Dimentio of SPM fame) (He has something really specific going on that makes me cackle) (You can ask me about it)

[qiinamii]

we'll do fine.

#fionna and cake spoilers #what hits me a little is how similar fionna and simon's stories are in the case of finding nuance in their lives #when both have gone through their separate but still valid pain no matter the extent it had been #and its that they met each other they get to see how it compares and they're no less worth of the peace and fun they dreamed of #even in the form of simplicity and just being normal #“i wouldn't have met THE fionna and cake” “we wouldn't have met THE simon petrikov” #it hits me harder that after the dandelion scene would've been their last time seeing each other physically #and how assuring simon sounded when fionna didn't know what to do with the literal world in her hands #tho im sure prismo isnt that much of a rule jerk lol i still drew out the revelation anyway with this tiniest addition #also the fact fionna's world is influenced by simon's thought processes and conditions so now things are a little better for both of them #fionna the human #fionna campbell #simon petrikov #qiiarts #the lil flashback of #betty grof #fionna and cake #adventure time

[suiheisen]

fascinated/horrified by this set of tweets…

#the thing about these tweets is the absolutely rancid entitlement in them and then the attempt to justify it #'keep up a charade that the floor is clean' do you... not clean your house? do you not mop the floors?????????? #anyway. are you americans okay??? #specifically…. are white americans ok???? #is the right to keep your shoes on also written into your constitution? #also the getting sick is 99 per cent random tweet is giving me brain damage #anyway. nobody is coming into my home with their outside shoes on #and if the feel of your bare feet on the floors i clean almost every day is so revolting to you #we have inside shoes????? #polls #*r

[blorbosinmyheadcentral]

Supervised Machine Learning

#tadc #the amazing digital circus #tadc pomni #tadc caine #tadc ragatha #tadc kinger #tadc zooble #tadc gangle #tadc jax #tadc bubble #gooseworx #tadc fanart #showtime #pomni x caine #caine x pomni #if you squint #I mean. This can be read as strictly platonic and it could be further developed platonically #but the Potential is there. Do you see my vision #Schrodinger's Showtime #ANYWAY #“Caine is not evil he's just oblivious to the suffering his antics cause” well I think someone should give him a heads up. #I am assigning Pomni because I am so normal about them #long post #my art #Please look at it. Scrutinize it. This took a while lol

[lokh]

communication is key 💪

#this posted weird the first time so im doing it again LMAO #i think its cos i had the text editor open for too long? ._. #laishuro #dungeon meshi #nakamoto toshiro #laios touden #delicious in dungeon #art #anyway this is based on that one ask in my laishuro tag

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[pinkravat-art]

"breakfast" a tma s5 animation thing

audio on:333

dawg can't even fry me an egg in this eyeconomy

[VD: A Magnus Archives animation done in orange and teal titled "Pusryčiai" (meaning: "breakfast"). Mellow music plays as Martin cracks two eggs into a frying pan. He turns away to throw the shells while the pan sizzles, and when he returns with a spatula, a "boom" sound effect plays as Martin recoils with comic disgust.

The egg yolks have been replaced by human eyeballs. Martin stares at them for a moment. He then pokes at the egg with the spatula, producing a squelching sound, and one of the eyes blinks with another gross wet sound. Martin goes from disgusted to comically sad and disappointed, and he fades away before the setting does. The video ends on the words "darė Skaistė" (meaning: made by Skaistė) and a quick shot of an eyeball. End VD]

ty @princess-of-purple-prose for the description, i edited it a bit too.

#tma #the magnus archives #tma season 5 #pusryčiai means breakfast and the words at the end just say that it's made by me #did this for a video class assignment last minute #video class my ass we talk on zoom and do everything on our own #anyway figured i wasnt gonna do anything if i didnt somehow put tma in it #martin blackwood #tma fanart #animation #animatic #sketch #my posts #art #digital art #tma spoilers

[daisywords]

One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

#idk what to tag this #worldbuilding #writing fiction #historical fiction #fantasy #a real-life example: my dad (a pediatrician) was once entrusted with the care of a baby who was born with a rare condition #this was in a place without great hospital/medical access and anyway they were going to fly the baby over #and he specifically asked them to bring the mother and baby #they show up with baby and...the baby's uncle #and he was like. y'all. do you think I asked for the mom to come just for fun??? We don't have formula here. what is the baby going to eat?