#day 5: gifts

[qiinamii]

old men's little guys

#again they're separate tweets in the linked words! the first pic is older #got a buncha whoopsies in the 2nd pic so this is the revised one LMAO i give u the tumblr priviledge #ive been playing HSR since release day would you believe me that the standard banner gave me every 5* charas except yanqing #and bronya like i s2g if it gives me bronya or Not yanqing b4 i can hit its 300 pull. i will sue yanqing personally idc if hes 14 /lh #old long-life grandpas with their boys whos either unsatisfied or doesnt know how to accept gifts pick a struggle #qiiarts #zhongli #jing yuan #yanqing #xiao #lumine #sword choices were hard SKDJFHSDF #genshin impact #honkai star rail #stelle

[chrisbangs]

Bang Chan Doing That Move

#chan #bang chan #stray kids #skz #cb97net #createskz #*gifs #*m #flashing tw #i really hate this <3 #it did not turn out how i wanted it to but whatever #i honestly like only like....... 5 of these gifs #the other 4 make me wanna cry <3 #middle one is a flop but this was the extent of fancams and i had to even steal seungmin's fancam to make the top right lol :sob: #anyway this was inspired by my entire twt tl being clips of this #and so <3 #for the stayblrinas... a gift #its ugly but #i wanna stare at him all day oh man #also lets not talk abt how he tugs at his jeans because mgnnnfnjjfjf #1st and 3rd make me want to . #i dont even have words anyway . #enjoy i guess.... even tho i #hate it

[bittwitchy]

some new sad girl guy spring dialogue for sebby!

also bonus bc its summer 13 now and i already gave him a bouquet

#I was at 5 hearts on spring day 23 year 1 #as it turns out if you're lucky you can get a ton of flounder really early now to give him a lot of liked gifts #i'm like 99% sure these are new #i dont recall seeing them before with OR without mods #I'm playing without mods rn tho #stardew valley #sebastian stardew valley #sdv spoilers #1.6 spoilers #1.6 update #stardew valley 1.6 #sdv 1.6 #like every time i've asked seb out before its been 'i cant believe you feel the same way' so like #i'm FAIRLY positive this is new #or i've just never been lucky enough to get alternative dialogue #MY GUYYYYY #depression cw #1k

[spaceinvadeeer]

are you gonna keep on peeling me?

#5 song refs hidden in her empty head #you are gifted- you found the 5th #im obsessed with this painting(?) style now #am i finally out of my b&w phase?!!!! #my art #scott pilgrim #scott pilgram takes off #illustration #art #roxie richter #roxy richter #roxie day #roxieday2024

[sophysourpatch]

Ryuji dump for Kiss Ryuji Day 🤭

#also it’s an early birthday gift to me #I love him #persona 5 #phantom thieves #p5 #ryuji sakamoto #ren amamiya #akira kusuru #yusuke kitagawa #pegoryu #ryukita #kiss ryuji day #kiss ryuji week 2024

[noahl-art]

🌿Happy Valentine's day🌿 (again)

Small gift for @hypnoneghoul ✨️

Thanks for writing so nice fics that make our hearts melt all the time 🫠

#sorry i just doodled that in 5 minutes #don't look at me I like gifting things to people #I'm like a penguin dropping pebbles at my mutals feets and then just going about my day #mountain ghoul #swissalps #swiss ghoul #swiss army ghoul #mountain/swiss #fanart #ghost band fanart #the band ghost #ghost bc #nameless ghouls #illustration #sketch #my art

[skitskatdacat63]

Fernando Alonso & His Relationship With Cards

I'm sure we're all familar with the cards on the back of Fernando's Vegas GP helmet by now, but did you know his relationship with cards goes a lot deeper?

I. Magic Tricks

You've probably seen or heard someone at least mention Fernando's propensity for card tricks. As far as I can tell he was doing them(publically) as far back as 2003 all the way to as recently as 2018. Even once performing a card trick, with a condom and a teddy bear(!??!?!??!!), in front of Valentino Rossi who said "How was that possible?"(x)

But how did this start? According to James Allen, "Fernando admits to having been heavily influenced by his grandfather, a mercurial figure, who taught him magic and card tricks, still one of his passions away from the race track."(x) And I'm not sure the validity of this one, because I couldn't find an actual source, but apparently he once said: "My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit."

In several interviews he described it as his hobby off track, and that he loved learning new tricks and surprising others in the garage with them! So clearly cards are pretty important to him both as a hobby but also to who he is as a person since they've been with him just as long as racing has.

II. Card Symbolism in His Helmets

This is the reason I originally made this post, but I thought I should also explain the origins of his card fascination first. As I said, we probably all remember the cards on the back of his helmet in Vegas, but did you know that wasn't the first time he had cards on the back of his helmet?

From 2008-2013, he used to have a pair of cards on the back of his helmets. The symbolisms of the cards themselves as well as the evolution of their design is really fascinating to me! Even more so with the recent development of the card choice in 2023.

Fernando said he wanted to reference his two titles in some way on the back of his helmet and after his friend sent him several ideas, he decided on having two cards(an ace of clubs and an ace of hearts, sometimes pictured with 05 and 06 on them as well), saying: "I picked the cloverleaf [the ace of clubs - Ed] to give me luck, but the only pity is that it doesn't have four leaves!"(X)

2008.

Here's the very first appearance of the cards! They're displayed flat, with the 05 and 06 clearly visible

2009.

Very similar to 2008, but with a slightly different design, and they're maybe a bit more straight with less shadow?

2010.

This is the first major change! I was sad they didn't have the years on them anymore, but then I realized they're sparkly to match with his signature lightning bolts on the top of the helmet!!

2011.

Honestly I'm still somewhat unsure if this is the actual 2011 helmet? It's pretty difficult to find clear photos of the back of helmets from older seasons. It's easiest to find them on replica sites or auction sites so I'm not 100%? But anyways, I like that this has the championship years on the underside of the cards

2012.

This is when I started getting weirdly emotional about the helmets. Do you see how they've progressed from being a centerpoint to being curled up and sad at the bottom of the helmet? Not listing the year anymore??

2013.

Same thoughts as 2012. And after this season, they cease to exist (just like his ferrari chair in the garage, WOAH CALLBACK), until cards make a reeappearance in his Vegas helmet, albeit in a different form

2013 Monaco(Honorable Mention):

For some reason 2013 helmets were easier to find proper pictures of, so I happened to witness this absolute beauty. The creativity of this helmet genuinely blows me away??? Wanting to keep the card motif, but making sure to incorporate it into the rest of the puzzle piece design?? Mwah! There was another special 2013 helmet but they didn't change the cards at all so I really applaud this one

2023 Las Vegas(The Return of The King):

The magnificent return! But look! The cards are different cards! Instead of being two aces, it's now an ace of hearts, a four of hearts(his driver number of course!) and, the, now iconic, representation of himself as a Joker. I literally could not believe my eyes when this helmet was released and I saw the Joker card, what a fucking silly old man....I really wonder if he felt nostalgic having cards on his helmet again or if he didn't think about it all and was just like, "ah cards because Vegas!!!"

III. Why Does This Matter?

*The rest of the post was factual, this is moreso my personal thoughts on the symbolism of the cards/designs

This post spawned from me recently watching the 2010 Bahrain gp and noticing "hey wait a minute...are those CARDS ON THE BACK OF HIS HELMET!?" It's a really tiny detail that's unfortunately covered up by the HANS device pretty much whenever he's wearing the helmet, so it's really difficult to spot! But I became fascinated with the fact that he had cards on his helmet before that recent helmet, and now here we are!

There's something to me about how the design of the cards evolves over the course of six seasons from the cards being front and center to being smaller, more folded up and closer to the bottom of the helmet. As I said, the 2012-2013 ones genuinely made me depressed because it feels, symbolically, like his hopes for getting another Ace are becoming more and more unlikely and falling away until they eventually fall falt and fade away entirely after 2013 and disappear for basically a decade.

But when they return? They're not the same cards! Instead of representing Fernando's championships, they now represent him as a person, displaying his driver number and his persona of being a Joker!! Though I do think it's interesting he happened to keep the Ace of Hearts, even though he talked more about the Ace of Clubs before. I'm not sure it's actually this deep in reality, but I like to think that it's him not letting his championships(and the lack thereof) define him, but rather letting who he is as a person shine and be the centerpoint instead! But on a sadder note, as @suzuki-ecstar said to me, maybe the Aces aren't there anymore because he's lost all hope for a chance at a third Ace entirely :(

#yes its finals week and im up to my eyes in coursework but instead decided to spend like 5 hours researching and writing this post #nah bcs i actually genuinely put more work into this then I think I have all semester dsfjdskjg #that thing about him using a condom and teddy bear in a magic trick genuinely had me crying with laugher. actual tears rolling down my face #<- HOW!?!? WHAT WAS THE TRICK?? its literally inconceivable to me what he did. oh if only there were pics UGH #anyways!! this post was a lot of fun to make!! i really really love the symbolism and design of helmets so this was a rly fun project #and i also went down a lot of rabbitholes while make this and saw many very weird articles from yore #i feel like i make an equal amnt of deranged posts abt seb and nando but i dont know why nando is gifted w all my well researched projects #<- i.e. chair post. that was the same level of research as this one but at least this one i could find actual sources about.... #idk theres smth about the extremely long history of nando's history that evokes research posts like this KLAJSLSKDJ #theres just so much that i dont think I ever really see people discussing! so i must create. #haha what was that joke tag i wanted to make abt my researched posts? I think: #normal posts that catie normally makes in a normal fashion #<- one day ill go back and actually tag posts w that. bcs the amtn of research compared to my actual schoolwork is so unwell #fernando alonso #fa14 #f1 #formula 1 #catie.rambling.txt #we do a little bit of f1

[somecunttookmyurl]

best prank my nan ever pulled was getting my granddad a pack of 100 cigarettes (if you've never smoked, you can buy 100 packs which is 5 packets of 20 encased in a plastic wrap, or a box)

she very carefully unstuck the outer covering and slid out all the packets

then she equally carefully undid the individual plastic wraps on the packets from the bottom (again, if you've never smoked, there is one of those little pull tabs at the top to take the top part off, but the bottom is folded over and stuck)

doing this without ripping the plastic is very difficult

she slid out all of the packets from their plastic gowns

she very carefully opened each box so as to not rip or damage it

she carefully folded back the inner paper

she removed every single cigarette

in one box, she replaced the contents with candy cigarettes

and then, painstakingly, she slid each box back into its plastic wrap

re-folded and stuck the plastic at the bottom

put them back in the outer plastic, with the candy cigarette one at the bottom (so as to be last) and restuck that

and gave the cigrarettes to my granddad

#the patience and dexterity to pull that one off #not a prank: but for xmas one year her best friend remarked she wished money grew on trees #so my nan got a little sapling tree from the garden centre #and spent all day wrapping 2P COINS in foil so they looked like the chocolate coins you get at xmas #and tied them all on to the tree #and gifted her a 'money tree' #which had about 50p on it lmao #with a note that said it was budding but if you wait it'll flower into £5 notes

[goldenamaranthe-blog]

First Gift: Chaggie

Chaggie Week of First: Day 5

Charlie: Oh, Vaaaaggiiiiiieee!~

Vaggie: Charlie, if you bought me another anything, I'm returning it. I appreciate the help, but I'm starting to feel like a leach.

Charlie: (rocks on her feet back and forth awkwardly while holding something behind her back) Well.... it isn't bought.

Vaggie: (eye widens slightly as she blinks in confusion) ...Okay?

Charlie: (holds up a piece of macaroni art) Ta-da! I made this for you!

Vaggie: (takes the piece carefully) You made this?

Charlie: (bashfully as she taps her hooves) I... uh... know it's a bit childish, but I wanted to give you something to show you how much you mean to me... (blushes harder) As A Friend!!! Best Friend!!!

Vaggie: (looks at the crude macaroni artwork of what looks like Charlie and herself drawn in front of a giant, castle like building that has "Happy Hotel" written on the sign) Charlie... this isn't... well, okay, it's a little childish, but it's you. It's adorable. Thank you.

Charlie: (clasps her hands together with sparkles in her eyes) You really like it?! You're not just saying that?

Vaggie: Mmhmm. And I actually have something for you too. Just a sec. (places the art piece on her wall with a thumbtack and pulls a glittery rainbow binder out from underneath her bed along with a bag filled with craft supplies) I'm glad I was able to scrounge up some money to get you these. I figured you could use it to start organizing your thoughts for that rehabilitation hotel.

Charlie: (gasps and takes the gift with tears in her eyes as snot starts to drip from her nose) Vaaaaagggggggiiiiiiiie.... This is *sniff* the sweetest *sniiiiiiiffffff* gift *snort* anyone's ever given meeeeeeeee.

Vaggie: I take it you like it?

Charlie: (cradling the supplies to her chest like they're a stray kitten she found on the sidewalk) Thank you!

#chaggie #chaggie week of firsts #day 5 #gifts #charlie morningstar #vaggie #i felt like everyone was going to do charlie giving vaggie her ribbon or eyepatch and wanted to do something different #chaggiefirsts

[esmesketch]

HONK if you're still deep inside the Far Cry 5 hole trap in 2024 and can't escape.

#ooc. esme rumbles #far cry 5 #far cry #fc5 #[ we cannot escape - we cannot come out ] #[ I need more mutuals that I can stalk and adore their ocs ] #[ Jacob Seed is still living rent free in back of my mind ] #[ don’t send help ] #[ I entered this pit when far cry 3 was gifted to me by my father lol ] #[ he didn't know what it will start that day ]

[floofle-universe]

Read @eeriebarbie ‘s paper rings right now!

#chapter 5 was goated #I love the exploration of Brett’s siblings #I’ll make some like higher quality fanart one of these days I’m obsessed with this fic #insidejob #inside job fanfic #paper rings #breagan #brett x reagan #reagan ridley #taff hand #Brett hand #Matt hand #my art #fanart #gift art #Floofle art #comic #doodle #love them your honor

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Fifth Day of Gift-Giving

Five Fights (and Reconciliations)

... five times they fought and reconciled

The fight had been about nothing. They had been on edge for the last couple weeks and it finally came out of them. Thank god a conversation and a big hug was all that was needed to make up.

He had told her not to make a fuss about his birthday. He definitely hadn’t told her to plan a surprise party.

It had all just been a big misunderstanding and after finding that out all they could do was laugh.

They had very different approaches to problem solving and it took some time to figure out how to accept that without getting into fights every time they disagreed on something.

Humour is different for everyone, but when they realize that they’ve hurt their friend with their careless jokes, they know that they desperately need to apologize and do better next time.

24 Days of Gift-Giving

#24 gifts #24 days of gift giving #day 5 #fight prompts #prompt list #writeblr #writing prompts #writing ideas #advent calendar

[fudgecake-charlie]

Cosmic Chaos: A skyduo space apocalypse harbinger AU!

A human-turned-entitity and an entity-turned-human are given the gargantuan task of leaving the sentient Universe in ruins to prepare for Its approaching death. My beloved and incredibly not thought through AU with Grian and Pearl from September! I missed drawing them. If you have ideas or questions for this AU please feel free to leave something in my inbox! I am not great at answering questions (worse now I'm in uni) but I’ll try my best to reply. [P.S: extra thoughts in the og tags; uncropped and extra drawings on my twitter somewhere.]

#skyduo #hermitcraft #hermitcraft AU #grian #pearl is Here I am not tagging this with her! /lh #I think they'd be called angels of the rapture. goes pretty hard #omega shoutout to moonstruck by sixteenthdays for giving me the vibes of incomprehensible galaxy horror #and omega omega shoutout to the very obscure 5 y/o album by KNGFSHR for being in my head rent free with its concepts #I am bad at drawing big non human horror but please imagine the image of grian as a colossal cosmic being of terror and destruction! #as well as Pearl becoming so warped by her constant use of abilities gifted to her that she can barely been seen as human! #art out the oven #every day I realise I draw grian and myself way too similarly. every day I do not mind #tw space #cosmic harbingers AU

[shrimpy-draws]

Day 5: Party Favors --- Did you ever just forget about a party favor as a kid, the candy left uneaten and the silly trinkets left untouched. Well, through some unforeseen force the party favor has melted and recombined itself together so it can come see you again

#my art #caught on tober 2023 #caught-on-tober 2023 #Day 5 #creature design #cryptid #They don't do very well when flipped over #kinda like a turtle on it's back #They just kinda wanna give you the joy of getting a lil gift #This one's body is specifically is made of mostly melted chocolate

[amarriageoftrueminds]

fucked-up fic idea:

Y'know that one hannigram time travel au where they both travelled so far back in time that Will woke up as a 10 year old and Hannibal was able to rescue Mischa??

Well what if: A) Hannibal was much younger when Mischa died (more like 12), and B) they had the same age-difference as Mads and Hugh?

That would mean Will waking up, potentially, trapped in his infant body rather than his child body?? and being stuck that way for years until he can grow up again? 😬 And what if Hannibal knew that would probably happen, but did it anyway??

#hannibal nbc #hannigram #murder husbands #ficbunny #au idea #hannibunny #amotm this is my design #dat's me #meta: hannibal #you can't kill the meta #will graham #hannibal lecter #hannibal & will's terrible adventure #how do I tag this?? body horror? is it body horror? age dysmorphia?? #I'm not stoned I swear #like I just thought what a mind-bending fic that would make #the logistics of will having to handle that #being SO UTTERLY FURIOUS with hannibal for doing it to him/them when he catches him #[ cue scene of 8 year old will trying to strangle 18 year old hannibal who is beaming at how adorable he is ] #day care providers and teachers being like 'this child is either gifted or possessed' #will being like 'this is a living nightmare' #but also 'pls don't trap me in a room full of toddlers for multiple hours 5 days a week I can't stand noise' #knowing him he'd probably turn it into some kind of Hard Candy AU #I can see de-ageing not being a problem for hannibal #because being with mischa again would make the time fly #and also he would see it as getting to spend his WHOLE life with will this time #and also probably he would be killing SO MANY child predators y'all #SO MANY

[xbaebsae]

"Do you want me to fix this wreck or not?!"

Another amazing commission I got from @minilev ! Thank you so much, Anna for continuing to share your talent and bringing my ideas to life ❤️ Every piece is a masterpiece!!

In my canon Jake has a truck that's seen better days but he refuses to get a new one. Rheese used to be a car mechanic and ever since she's offered to take one look at it, she's been doomed to fix it over and over. She will pretend to hate it, but she doesn't :)

#thank you again anna #i love it so sooo much #it made my days brighter #deputy rheese anne bennett #jacob seed #far cry 5 #gifts and commissions