#derailed my whole day

[ballpitwitch]

Keanu Reeves performing at The Roxy in Los Angeles - July 18, 2023

#keke do you need a hair tie babe I got you #Keanu Reeves #kreevesedit #keanuedit #* #flashing gif #derailed my whole day #LOOK HOW HAPPY HE IS #I LOVE AN OLD MAN #bassist bf #gettin real sick of this tall old man giving me cute aggression #lol jk #get you a man who will give you cute aggression and also cause you to want to invest in those kneeling pads people who garden a lot use #iykyk #me 5'4": i will pick him up #men tucking their hair behind their ear..... *air raid sirens* #he just vibin #i love him your honor #also i love arm #we're not gonna talk about the fingers we're not #*cash register noise* *glass breaking* *car horn* #*me in my yard apologizing to abc news* #i didn't need 14 gifs but tumblr said i could so suffer with me i guess #or take me out back idc #i don't think im gonna survive this tour #clearly #i was gonna talk about man sweat but it made me feel like that one orc from lotr so i won't #it's me hi im the problem it's me #does that bass wanna trade places? i am free 24/7 365 just call me thank you for your time

[viric-dreams]

I may have lost this painting when I quit my drawing programme, but I can offer a small writing snippet to accompany the WIP screenshot, so it's not all gone to waste:

“What are you painting?”

Tamara hadn’t heard Ockham come in, but the way the corners of her vision shift around her, harsh lines of light softening to a dreamy blur, she should’ve realised it much sooner.

“It’s the view from my bedroom balcony. In Varchas,” she says, choosing her words carefully in a tongue that still feels foreign and clunky.

Ockham squints, studying the painting with a furrowed brow, and the expression suddenly reminds her of her auntie. Tamara shakes her head, dismissing the illogical comparison. They clearly look nothing alike. They shouldn’t, at least.

Ockham’s hand traces along the line of a wall of mirrors, where it intersects with a planter containing long dead greenery, careful not to touch the still wet paint. She’s suddenly aware that the perspective on the planter is off, and makes a mental note to fix it as soon as she’s able.

“It is not a very nice view,” Ockham finally says.

Although it’s a somewhat rude thing to say, it’s not entirely wrong. There was nothing special or aesthetically pleasing about the view. She’d barely paid it any mind herself, in all of the years she’d lived and slept in that room. The part of her brain that had been slowly developing since she’d picked up this new hobby urged her to move some elements, give the piece stronger tones than the monotonous muddy yellow characteristic of Varchaasi evenings. But that would go against the aim of painting it in the first place.

“It is not a very nice view, no. But it’s the one I had, and if I don’t paint it how it was, I fear one day I won’t remember how it really looked like anymore.”

Ockham’s studying her now, and she wishes, not for the first time, that she had any insight into her flatmate and companion’s mind, whether it even worked the same way as a real person’s would. If Ockham would find her thought offensive.

“Ok.”

“Ok?” she repeats, confused.

“Ok,” Ockham nods, then moves away from the painting towards the door, “I go now to the market. Is there something not on the list that we need?”

She nods no, then catches herself and changes the motion.

“No, nothing.”

“Ok.”

Ockham is gone again. This time she hears the door click closed. With a sigh, she draws her brush across the canvas, determined to fix that planter before it cements itself as warped in her memories.

#tamara #ockham #my art #and they were roommates #oh my god they were roommates #this is set in early days after tamara's arrival in london #when she is still picking up english (though honestly speaks it much better than ockham by this point) #and has just picked up drawing/painting in her free time #and ockham is still recovering from an identity crisis after learning heshethey is a parabolan reflection #ockham isn't in the flat very often and they only recently overcame a language barrier #so they haven't really gotten to know each other all that well #but it will come #especially when tamara starts to learn flemish because she feels it would make ockham more comfortable than using english #but for now a bit of 'what is wrong with my bizarre flatmate' slice of life #how i approach ockham's pronouns in non-meta settings is a whole other writing piece #and i couldn't introduce it here without derailing from a short piece #so that's for the future

[alwaysbethewest]

My number one piece of advice is use an electric toothbrush. Number two is do NOT crush on straight girls.

#she dmed me ‘thinking about you this morning’ like it wouldn’t derail my whole day #🫠

[finnitesimal]

Why would they do this to me mere days before finals.

#my whole days been derailed

[jewishcissiekj]

Highschool is so fucking weird man. Today (well actually it's 12 am now so yesterday) this guy brought this weird ass gun that didn't have actual bullets but had something that actually hurt a person in it to school. Threatened a bunch of people with it and all that (shot someone with it too i think?). And this girl lit a cigarette in the class doorway to see if there was a teacher coming and the class smelled awful for the rest of the day. And we had the mandatory state medical course and I ate Instant Noodles and probably made the smell in the class worse. Maybe I should've gone to the religious all-girls school that's closer to my house (NO. FUCK NO).

#oh and my mom is besties with the principal #which is probably why i got in and my friends from my old school didn't #she also instructs the math teachers and shit #anyway!!!!! #hanukka tomorrow #2nd least religious jewish holiday let's go #(purim is the first one imo) #why did i ever call myself jewish cissiekj. #i ask myself that every other day #i lost faith in judaism a whole year before i made it my username #why girl #it sounds good but. well. #rebranding to ethnicallyjewishcissiekj #this post derailed sorry

[outerspace-iiinnerspace]

i need five thousand hours in the day to play music and listen to music and write music and read books and watch movies and and knit and draw and watch tv and go for long walks and edit videos and cook and clean and learn how to make fursuits and plush and paint and do sudoku puzzles and lift weights and play dnd and cards and make comics and have long phone conversations and go canoeing and hiking and swimming and get 10 hours of sleep every night and do cyanotypes and papercutting and

#AND I CANT EVEN DRAG MYSELF UPRIGHT LONG ENOUGH TO WASH DISHES #I HAVENT TOUCHED MY GUITAR IN TWO DAYS #i had a crying breakdown yesterday and it sucked and derailed my whole afternoon #I HAVE TO MAKE A BABY BLANKET BECAUSE I'M GONNA BE AN AUNT #okaaaay time for bed. its early but if im making posts like this at this point in the evening its time for bed

[hopezzy]

See you next year, Tullie❤️

#maxtul #max nattapol #tul pakorn #manner of death #tanbunn #together with me #kornknock #thai bl #thai actors #study hard and enjoy new york❤️ #clearly i will never learn my lesson abt checking social media when i should be working #this has derailed my whole day #my posts

[sheliesshattered]

The overdress is all in one piece! And we have sleeves! With bonus screen accurate Rhaenyra ring!

Work has been extra weird this week, but weird in a way that's given me more time to iron and pin and sew than I usually have. So I was able to get through that long list of pressing tasks from my last post, and then pin the two front panels to the side panels (which are already sewn to the back panels), pin the back seams of the sleeves, and sew those four seams earlier today.

With those seams done, the sleeves are sleeve-shaped and the dress is basically dress-shaped. All of those new seams need pressed, and the sleeve seams will need to be hand-finished since the black silk organza is a bit itchy on its cut edges. There's just one more body seam left to sew for the dress, the center front seam, and then the little shoulder seams.

There's quite a lot of finishing to be done, both on the dress and the sleeves. In the above pic, the sleeve is just clamped closed at the underside of the wrist, and once it has its hooks-and-eyes it'll fit a lot more smoothly. And then there's all the seam finishing for the dress, hemming the neck and armscyes and skirt edge, and handsewing on all the trim and beading. Lots to do!

I've been working little by little on the handsewing for the seams finishes for the underdress, and then it will need all its hemming too. But when possible I've been trying to focus on the overdress, because if it came down to it, I would rather have the overdress done and leave the underdress somewhat unfinished. But today is exactly 15 weeks until I have to pack for Dragon Con, so I've still got time, and I'm hoping I can get everything finished to my liking in the time remaining.

Besides the dress itself, I still have a few things to do on the wig, and I've been tracking down the jewelry pieces one by one, and I may actually end up making one piece that I've been unable to find. I also want to make a little handbag to carry all my stuff at con, but that's definitely on the nice-to-have list.

Some days I feel like I'll be able to get through this whole project with time to spare, and other days I feel like I'm going to be working on it up until the very last moment, and maybe have to cut corners to get it done. Getting through this last portion of machine sewing and into all the extensive handsewing will hopefully give me a better idea of how long the whole thing will take.

But, of course, I'm already having Ideas™ about what other cosplays I could make for Dragon Con this year, if I do end up having time at the end of the summer. One of them would be pretty straightforward, and I could use the same pattern as this project with just a few modifications, and I already have at least most of the materials I would need to complete it. The other one is completely ridiculous, with tedious machine sewing and handsewing, but damn it would be fun.

Welp. I guess if I want to have any hope of finishing this cosplay and maybe one or two more after that, I should probably get back to it. My iron awaits!

#RRD cosplay #my cosplay #my sewing #Dragon Con 2023 #I should say for the record that I do already have two cosplays finished and ready to pack that I've never taken to Dragon Con #my MOTOE Clara Oswald that I took to Gally1 2020 right before the world ended #and my AotD Oswin Oswald that I made in late 2020 and have never worn outside of the house #I'm definitely excited to wear both of those at DC and will probably spend one whole day in the two of them. either Friday or Saturday #and I have several others from previous Dragon Cons that I could dig out and re-wear if I REALLY wanted something else to wear #and yet I am having Ideas(tm) #the straightforward cosplay idea is one that I've wanted to do for years and years and years. a complete classic #and the other one is very timely to 2023 and won't make nearly as much sense in any other year. both would be tons of fun #so we'll see #more days like this when I get plenty of time to sew might actually make it possible #...tho I did have to pause in the middle of making this post bc I had a visual aura migraine that faded to a pretty bad headache #it's finally starting to really go away now thank the gods #but it just goes to show that the spoonie issue can rear its ugly head at any moment and derail all my plans damnit #also can I just say that I am THRILLED with the color match between these photos and my Rhaenyra icon #look at that red. I am so pleased.

[tearlessrain]

also text rping a character who's a dom when you yourself aren't one is ridiculous because at that point you've come full circle to "this is just DMing for people who can't do math"

#I probably would be pretty decent at dming if I could do math #but given how often I fuck up my own character sheet why would I do that to a group #(I have been a dm before but have semi retired from it) #both campaigns I ran involved someone breaking up with their girlfriend like a day before and drunkenly derailing the whole session over it #one of them was an angry drunk and the second one wanted to change his class to druid and renamed his character Mooncalf #second one was much nicer to deal with

[nebulainatree]

Girl who has severe social anxiety when it comes to talking to people online and has to close her eyes to press the send button whenever she writes a message to anyone 😔

#That girl is me btw. I am that girl #Irl I'm pretty normal when I talk to people (unless it's like super serious school stuff and then I'm a stuttering mess) #But I think my mom instilled the ''Never talk to anyone online or you'll compromise your internet safety'' into me too far #And now it's like. Debilitating. I can't send messages on private Discord servers or dm people on social media anymore #I was active on miiverse back when that uh. Like existed? Well a little active. Well actually that's an overstatement #I also was active on the Nookazon discord but like. At first I was really nervous but then I found a Business Persona that made me normal #But anyway I made this post because I've done this like twice in the past two days #Once when I was trying to finally introduce myself in a rp server I joined a month ago #And once today right now like. Sending a message to a mutual. Hi thousand yeah it's about the comment on your post lol #It took me like a whole day after seeing my mutual respond to my ask to get the courage to say like. Yayy I love emperor on their post #I feel like an anime girl saying kyun or something every time I do it so it's funny but like. It also worries me #Since we live in a very virtual world and. How am I going to make connections in the future when I'm like this #Uhh anyway. 🐙 Oo octopus emoji weehoo #Nebbie text posting #Nebbie posts #I think I kind of derailed this I meant this to be a funny meme so. RIP anyway send post *closes my eyes as I hit post now* #Send fucking post #<- I'm making this my terrible late night decision tag vents tag now. Hopefully I will not have many posts for it.

[nero-neptune]

the paper kingdom leak situation is so weird, just thinking about the timing (and yeah, i’m still thinking about it! it just happened). bc why Now? on a random monday night/tuesday morning (depending on your time zone). mcr’s basically been back since late 2019. that’s almost 3 years ago! why not do it then when the hype was new and people were in ticket-buying mode? why not in the space btwn 2020 to 2022, when people watched the tour get postponed and dates get switched around, just a period of a lot of waiting? why not do the leak any of the past few months that they Have been touring, the Summer of MCR, or like the break btwn europe and america? or, hell, any of the years after the band broke up? and like on the original leaked website, that excalibur guy says they’ve been sitting on tpk for a while (define “a while”). i'm not arguing the right or wrong of this whole thing. i just don’t get it. why Now? it’s so random to me! it’s cool that it’s out there, but i can’t get past how weird it is!

#it's been like 10 years. why now? #at the end of the day tho 10k is for sure chump change to Some fan out there and someone Will be crazy enough to pay it #but i'm already in post-foundations mode and i wanna hear what the band has Now. i wanna hear what they grew into together #and i wouldn't want a whole tpk leak to derail what's been such a fun tour so far #like btwn tpk and their Many scrapped conventional weapons songs? i'd prefer hearing the scrapped conventional weapons songs tbh! #where is studio version of 'the drugs'? i want it so bad it makes me look stupid #mcr #rambles #my two cents if it's worth anything #paper kingdom

[namchyoon]

so unfair of yoongi to do this while i'm at work btw

#derailed my whole day how do i turn off my phone for the rest of the day knowing he exists

[ging-is-a-boar]

I'm going to go write and pretend I didn't see that thing about hxh maybe coming back

#i can feel it derailing my whole day yall

[yuliangs]

yo aquí bien jijijijajaja like i don’t have an assignment due midnight lol

#today was a flop in terms of productivity #rolo teaser dropped and it derailed my entire day #i've been shaky and anxious nearly the whole day and i was already feeling bad these past few days #but whatever im moving on #the point is i have a lot of things to look forward to and everything is going to be alright

[joycrispy]

Awhile ago @ouidamforeman made this post:

This shot through my brain like a chain of firecrackers, so, without derailing the original post, I have some THOUGHTS to add about why this concept is not only hilarious (because it is), but also...

It. It kind of fucks. Severely.

And in a delightfully Pratchett-y way, I'd dare to suggest.

I'll explain:

As inferred above, both Crowley AND Aziraphale have canonical Biblical counterparts. Not by name, no, but by function.

Crowley, of course, is the serpent of Eden.

(note on the serpent of Eden: In Genesis 3:1-15, at least, the serpent is not identified as anything other than a serpent, albeit one that can talk. Later, it will be variously interpreted as a traitorous agent of Hell, as a demon, as a guise of Satan himself, etc. In Good Omens --as a slinky ginger who walks funny)

Lesser known, at least so far as I can tell, is the flaming sword. It, too, appears in Genesis 3, in the very last line:

"So he drove out the man; and placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." --Genesis 3:24, KJV

Thanks to translation ambiguity, there is some debate concerning the nature of the flaming sword --is it a divine weapon given unto one of the Cherubim (if so, why only one)? Or is it an independent entity, which takes the form of a sword (as other angelic beings take the form of wheels and such)? For our purposes, I don't think the distinction matters. The guard at the gate of Eden, whether an angel wielding the sword or an angel who IS the sword, is Aziraphale.

(note on the flaming sword: in some traditions --Eastern Orthodox, for example-- it is held that upon Christ's death and resurrection, the flaming sword gave up it's post and vanished from Eden for good. By these sensibilities, the removal of the sword signifies the redemption and salvation of man.

...Put a pin in that. We're coming back to it.)

So, we have our pair. The Serpent and the Sword, introduced at the beginning and the end (ha) of the very same chapter of Genesis.

But here's the important bit, the bit that's not immediately obvious, the bit that nonetheless encapsulates one of the central themes, if not THE central theme, of Good Omens:

The Sword was never intended to guard Eden while Adam and Eve were still in it.

Do you understand?

The Sword's function was never to protect them. It doesn't even appear until after they've already fallen. No... it was to usher Adam and Eve from the garden, and then keep them out. It was a threat. It was a punishment.

The flaming sword was given to be used against them.

So. Again. We have our pair. The Serpent and the Sword: the inception and the consequence of original sin, personified. They are the one-two punch that launches mankind from paradise, after Hell lures it to destruction and Heaven condemns it for being destroyed. Which is to say that despite being, supposedly, hereditary enemies on two different sides of a celestial cold war, they are actually unified by one purpose, one pivotal role to play in the Divine Plan: completely fucking humanity over.

That's how it's supposed to go. It is written.

...But, in Good Omens, they're not just the Serpent and the Sword.

They're Crowley and Aziraphale.

(author begins to go insane from emotion under the cut)

In Good Omens, humanity is handed it's salvation (pin!) scarcely half an hour after losing it. Instead of looming over God's empty garden, the sword protects a very sad, very scared and very pregnant girl. And no, not because a blameless martyr suffered and died for the privilege, either.

It was just that she'd had such a bad day. And there were vicious animals out there. And Aziraphale worried she would be cold.

...I need to impress upon you how much this is NOT just a matter of being careless with company property. With this one act of kindness, Aziraphale is undermining the whole entire POINT of the expulsion from Eden. God Herself confronts him about it, and he lies. To God.

And the Serpent--

(Crowley, that is, who wonders what's so bad about knowing the difference between good and evil anyway; who thinks that maybe he did a GOOD thing when he tempted Eve with the apple; who objects that God is over-reacting to a first offense; who knows what it is to fall but not what it is to be comforted after the fact...)

--just goes ahead and falls in love with him about it.

As for Crowley --I barely need to explain him, right? People have been making the 'didn't the serpent actually do us a solid?' argument for centuries. But if I'm going to quote one of them, it may as well be the one Neil Gaiman wrote ficlet about:

"If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization." --Robert G. Ingersoll

The first to ask questions.

Even beyond flattering literary interpretation, we know that Crowley is, so often, discreetly running damage control on the machinations of Heaven and Hell. When he can get away with it. Occasionally, when he can't (1827).

And Aziraphale loves him for it, too. Loves him back.

And so this romance plays out over millennia, where they fall in love with each other but also the world, because of each other and because of the world. But it begins in Eden. Where, instead of acting as the first Earthly example of Divine/Diabolical collusion and callousness--

(other examples --the flood; the bet with Satan; the back channels; the exchange of Holy Water and Hellfire; and on and on...)

--they refuse. Without even necessarily knowing they're doing it, they just refuse. Refuse to trivialize human life, and refuse to hate each other.

To write a story about the Serpent and the Sword falling in love is to write a story about transgression.

Not just in the sense that they are a demon and an angel, and it's ~forbidden. That's part of it, yeah, but the greater part of it is that they are THIS demon and angel, in particular. From The Real Bible's Book of Genesis, in the chapter where man falls.

It's the sort of thing you write and laugh. And then you look at it. And you think. And then you frown, and you sit up a little straighter. And you think.

And then you keep writing.

And what emerges hits you like a goddamn truck.

(...A lot of Pratchett reads that way. I believe Gaiman when he says Pratchett would have been happy with the romance, by the way. I really really do).

It's a story about transgression, about love as transgression. They break the rules by loving each other, by loving creation, and by rejecting the hatred and hypocrisy that would have triangulated them as a unified blow against humanity, before humanity had even really got started. And yeah, hell, it's a queer romance too, just to really drive the point home (oh, that!!! THAT!!!)

...I could spend a long time wildly gesturing at this and never be satisfied. Instead of watching me do that (I'll spare you), please look at this gif:

I love this shot so much.

Look at Eve and Crowley moving, at the same time in the same direction, towards their respective wielders of the flaming sword. Adam reaches out and takes her hand; Aziraphale reaches out and covers him with a wing.

You know what a shot like that establishes? Likeness. Commonality. Kinship.

"Our side" was never just Crowley and Aziraphale. Crowley says as much at the end of season 1 ("--all of us against all of them."). From the beginning, "our side" was Crowley, Aziraphale, and every single human being. Lately that's around 8 billion, but once upon a time it was just two other people. Another couple. The primeval mother and father.

But Adam and Eve die, eventually. Humanity grows without them. It's Crowley and Aziraphale who remain, and who protect it. Who...oversee it's upbringing.

Godfathers. Sort of.

#good omens #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #good omens 2 #crowley #aziraphale #good omens meta #I have no idea if I've made a coherent point here but I'm tired of this being in my drafts; RAW FEELINGS IT IS #it's about being sent to destroy and instead staying to love and protect and nurture I'M CRAZY I'M CRAZY RAAAAAAAGGHHHH #gnu terry pratchett

[j4degoyl]

ofc i'm thinking about will & christmas today & how much it changes over the years. they have a lot of happy memories of their childhood, the whole family celebrating together, their grandparents visiting & playing with will & jacob etc. & as so many things christmas too changes dramatically after their father is gone. I feel like Jacob won't even always come back from the M.irrorworld & if he does it usually ends in an argument between him & their mother, with will desperstely trying to mediate. until will's brother disappears to his room (or back through the mirror). from then on that holiday always leaves will with a bitter taste, it only mainfests that something is inevitably broken, that nothing will be the same again. eventually Clara and he celebrate together & he tries to enjoy it for her sake & at least to an extend he can.

#♦ ( headcanon. ) tell me where to put the anger. #christmas tw #just thinking about how this day is only another reminder for will of what's lost forever #BUT also thinking about future christmas holidays in the m.irrorworld with the whole gang together #will & jacob trying to establish a new christmas with the family they founded #making new happy memories for both themselves & especially little joie #ALSO hi my own christmas got ... derailed a bit but i wish you all the best & calm holidays <3