#handful of grains

[rye-in-a-coat]

HAPPY SECOND ANNIVERSARY TO SPIRIT PHONE WOOOOO !!!!!!

2016-2024

#handful of grains #pics and flicks #lemon demon #neil cicierega #spirit phone

[raepliica]

h/c vashwood on the brain again

#trigun #trigun stampede #my art #vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #SIGH yet another sequence of drawings #didn't feel comfortable posting it elsewhere for some unknown reason (knows the exact reason but it's secret lore) #image quality might suffer bc of grain #anyway ww's big guns are meant for hugs #the tightest yet softest hugs to help vash stay grounded when he's not feeling it #something something despite the blood of his hands ww wants to embrace him #something something these hands can still bring comfort #also vash can never have too many wings>:) #i just mishmashed trimax and tristamp vash's designs together it doesnt make much sense beyond that #raepliica_art

[donttellunclesam]

Eddie says he doesn't play favorites in Hellfire (he's a liar)

(close up under the cut)

#stranger things #eddie munson #dustin henderson #stranger things fanart #stranger things season 4 #i made myself emotional thinking of dustin and eddie pre s4 #when dustin asked about lessons it reminded eddie of when wayne would teach him on the weekend between shifts #smoking a cigarette and gently encouraging 13 y/o eddie to strum past the bad notes with confidence #🥲 #also i dont know how to play guitar so take the hand positions with a grain of salt #dtus art

[wikirobot]

Spent the day cleaning my workshop and working on a wedding gift. Building out a piano coatrack where the white keys can be levered out to hold coats, then pushed back to get the piano motif. The white keys are made of a curly hard maple, and the black keys out of some walnut. Still have a lot of sanding left and need to build the outer frame.

Rough key layout

Relief cut to let the key rotate.

Initially assembled and working. Really happy how the grain flows across the keys

#woodworking #hobby #crafts #hand tools #art #arts and crafts #wip #work in progress #workshop #carpentry #wood #unique #maple #walnut #piano #nice woodgrain #wood grain

[nethnad]

ok as someone with adopted family members can i just say how much i loved how the new doctor who christmas special showed the different relationships adoptees feel about their adoptions?

like. there's something about how both ncuti gatwa and millie gibson have managed to capture the kind of listlessness that adoption can cause. because at its heart adoption is a very alienating process.

and people have very different, and valid, reactions to this alienation. fifteen's very hesitant about looking into his own origins (and ruby's as well) because he's nervous about what he might find. which is an attitude i've seen from my own uncle about his bio family! and other adoptees, like ruby, actively seek out their bio families through methods like ancestry kits and genealogical organizations. and i feel like there's always this pressure to choose one of these paths - to either lean fully into your adopted origins or to search for your biological relatives - and it's rare to see them both shown as equally valid paths to take. like i felt like this special managed to convey that neither fifteen nor ruby's outlook is "wrong," and each were valid perspectives on their similar circumstances/origins.

and even as ruby's doing this search for her bio parents, there's this reinforcement of carla as her mum that i really loved to see idk. like my uncle is still My Uncle! but if he ever wanted to search for his bio family thats not a rejection. and i'm glad RTD showed this search as something that can coexist with having an adopted family.

and adoptees/fostered kids please feel free to tack onto this post!! i'm only speaking from a second-hand perspective here and i'd love to hear everyone else's thoughts on this episode.

#watching this episode made me go HOLY SHIT HES JUST LIKE MY UNCLE!!!!!! SHES JUST LIKE MY UNCLE!!!! #again second-hand perspective here so like. words are with grain of salt this is just my thoughts #dw spoilers #doctor who spoilers #doctor who

[indiangp]

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alternate versions:

#look at my shitty edit rn 🙏🙏 #IHATE IT AND THE GRAIN/NOISE EFFECT MADE THE HAND LOOK WEIRD BUT I MESSED WITH IT FOR 3 HOURS AND I CANNOT DO THIS ANYMOREEEEE #sorry idk what to put in the caption #marc marquez #motogp #motogp: cota 2024 #myedit #MotoGPedit #mygraphics

[mintacle]

Me: a character doesn't have to be right to be likeable.

Also me: But Jason Todd also is right and someone should kill the Joker for him and Bruce should give him little forehead kisses and he should have a lovingly prepared meal every day and people in the streets should always smile at him and give him free samples of stuff and Dick should love him and Damian and Steph should admire him and bond with him and he should have team-ups with everyone all the time and he deserves to be loved and to know he is loved and-

#what I mean is: I am very biased and hypocritical #everything I say is to be taken with a huge grain of salt bc whatever I feel about Jason Todd should probably #be included in the DSM-6 #new and exciting mental illness #read: blorbo-brainrot #jason todd #holds Jason tenderly in my hands #perfect boy. perfect

[coffeenuts]

#IFTTT #Flickr #bw #selfportrait #black #me #coffee #hands #grain #dust #bianconero #fingertips #highiso #nuagedenuit

[katonion]

I haven’t yet given my two cents about the season finale of ofmd, especially Izzy’s death. I’ve seen a lot of different opinions and i respect if yours differs from mine. I’m open to respectful discussion. But here’s my take that’s probably biased because I love Izzy.

Izzy’s death was unnecessary.

It was clear to me he was killed off to protect the show’s one true monogamous pairing that Izzy posed a threat to. He first tried to separate them in season one and secondly he clearly loved Edward, even saying so in season two.

But what makes me angry is that David Jenkins said he wanted a happy ending for the queer characters because in media they are often punished.

Is that not exactly what they did to Izzy? Or does that happy ending only apply to queer characters in relationships? Is one’s queerness only valid if you are in a relationship?

Here’s a screenshot of the article I’m referencing:

“It was important that if we don’t get to make more of these, the show doesn’t end in a dour way like the first season. Because a lot of times, if there’s a queer romance in a genre thing, the characters often end up being punished for it and it ends up tragic or unrequited. I think it’s important to give these characters a happy ending.”

The writers seemed to only value the queer characters in relationships and not those that weren’t.

This makes it clear to me was killed off to give Ed and Stede their happy ending. Because Izzy posed a threat to it and his impact to the plot was over, they killed him off.

But in doing that they did exactly that. Punished a queer character for being queer. They killed him because he loved Ed and had no other love interest.

Here’s a link to the article:

This is just my opinion and I respect if yours is different from mine. I’d love to hear your opinions feel free to share as long as your respectful.

#ofmd #izzy hands #ofmd meta #our flag means death #steddyhands #con o'neill #david jenkins #taika waititi #i am really mad #that probably shows #take this with a grain of salt #i am angy no talk me #ofmd critical

[revenantghost]

The fact that I've heard second-hand from convention attendees that Orange has said that Knives and Vash share the same basic body model. And yet. And yet. For some reason they stole his ass. Why

#I guess it's canon this way but STILL #Trigun #Tristamp #Trigun Stampede #Obviously I didn't hear this first-hand so take it with a grain of salt #I have no evidence to present #So I'm making a funny post about it

[rye-in-a-coat]

MY SPARKLECARE THEORY

The Number.

Y'all remember when the ZCP told us to not call the phone number Rem gives to Bright? You should not, I'm not sure if it's an actual number in real life; but if it happens to be, no one who's on the other side of the line will be happy.

To avoid curious viewers to obliterate someone's phone, what usually is done in media ever since in the 1960's in the U.S. and Canada is to have the phone number's central office code to be 555 as it's almost* guaranteed no civilian person will have such number for personal use or will link to any business. This only applies in the North American Numbering Plan of course.

Why didn't the ZCP use a 555 number then? They actually used one in the same volume, the phone number Lo dials to call the Citycountrytown Casting Agency is 555-2737.

What I get from this is that, if they didn't use a 555 number for the number at the end, it is because the numbers in it themselves carry some kind of information.

Cross on blue and yellow background.

Such symbol has appeared before in Volume 1, where we see a escaped patient having it on a sign, and in Volume 2, where it is held by a protestor. As Eve mentioned once in this ask, such symbol which also appears in the blog, website and other stuff is NOT the hospital's logo. Then of what or who?

An anti-Sparklecare group?

It is clear that this symbol as shown in these examples, represents a statement against Sparklecare. What I supose is that, because Kittycorn doesn't want to reveal any further information of the protestors seen in volume 2, they will be relevant in a future volume or series. If we link these clues together, perhaps this symbol doesn't just represent the movement in general, but a specific organized group against Sparklecare, making it their logo. Then this would make Rem part of it too, and so Rem then becomes a very important piece in the story, because she's the infiltrated secret agent in the hospital. Knowing how heavily implied Doctor Party is to be an ESPer, he surely knows about Rem's undercover identity and about this organized group. Perhaps he's part of it too, if so, then they have another great important character against Cuddles.

A cipher?

Going back to the phone number, if the numbers in it are important and relevant, perhaps a piece of code is ciphered in it. My first thought was A1Z26 cipher, a simple sustitution code in which each letter gets a number assigned, so A is 1, B is 2; and so on.

The first six digits of the phone number, if you read them as 1-14-20-9 and decipher them using A1Z26, you get the word ANTI; which I really doubt this is just a coincidence knowing how it is implied this phone number belongs to an ANTI Sparklecare group.

The other four tho: 2425, are not that obvious. The possible combinations readable in A1Z26 are 2-4-2-5 (BDBE), 2-4-25 (BDY), 24-2-5 (XBE), and 24-25 (XY).

The only idea that comes to my mind is A-N-T-I-B-D-Y which is one letter off from "antibody". An antibody is protein belonging to the inmune system which will find, target and neutralize foreign and so-possibly harming bodies such as harmful bacteria and viruses.

An antibody's job is to protect the human body from what will harm it, and these anthries's hope seems to be to protect the patients from receiving any more harm from such heartless medical industry.

But Imma be honest, the four last digits are quite an stretch to analyze and I'm starting to doubt if the ANTI is a coincidence.

*A footnote.

If you want to use a 555 number in your media, DO NOT put as area codes 800, 888, 877, 866, 855, 844 or 833 before them. These area codes are reserved for toll-free dial numbers, to which the 555 office code is valid; so you may actually write a real phone number that who knows where that will link to.

#handful of grains #sparklecare #tell-o-phone

[bylertruther]

hot take: you know that "lovingly tending to your love interest's wounds and bandaging them up while telling them to be more careful next time with lovey dovey eyes" trope? well. stop saying that will is the one doing the tending. he isn't.

this is will in the face of danger, blood, and stress:

meanwhile, mike ...

housed, clothed, fed, and tried to lift the spirits a girl he'd just met in the middle of the woods + immediately wanted to see lucas's head to check if he was okay after eleven threw him against the rock

spent all of season two holding will, tending to him, fetching and finding him whenever he wandered off, asking him if he was okay whenever he so much as breathed differently, watching him like a hawk, motioning him to move back when dart was moving, standing in front of will to protect him from dart, dropping to his side asap when he fell during the burn, (possibly) reaching for his ankle when will was in the hospital bed, and he immediately helped max up and asked her if she was okay when she fell

held onto el the entire time that she was injured, stayed strong even when that shit was way too McFucking NASTY as everyone else was cringing, applied pressure to her wound and did what he was told easily once someone that knew first aid told him

held will back from going after jonathan during the shootout, put his arm over will, and let will cling to him all the while despite the fact that he was defenseless and in just as much danger, too, and calmly (compared to jonathan and a certain scared hamster) continued to apply constant pressure to the agent's bullet wounds as he bled to death all over them, purposely went to stand by will's side in the hospital room after will looked back at him, and put his hand on will's shoulder to offer comfort when will told him about vecna being alive

one of mike's best, most popular and lovable traits is how attentive and caring he is. obviously they'd both tend to each other and no one is saying they would just let each other die lmao, but if anyone is more likely to throw googoo gaga major heart eyes at someone while tending to them and doing everything they can to protect, save, and help them and make sure that they're okay because they don't want to lose them... if anyone is more likely to say something like "please be more careful next time", which curiously sounds within the realm of "i feel like i lost you"...

canonically, it's mike.

put some respect on his name, please.

#byler #throw ur tomatoes my fellow brothers in byler but i Kno I'm Right 😔🫡 #just because he's a bitch and willing to fight anyone anytime doesn't mean he isn't a healer too! it all comes from the same source: #love and devotion. hope that helps<3 #mine #byler hc #mike #will didn't help flip the car at first in s3 n shoveled two grains of sand n had the least amount of blood on his hands too.. #smh can't ask his gay ass to do ANYTHING apparently 🙄 LMAOBHDJBDJHBFJDHBFJ

[elliewiltarwyn]

Send 💎 for a screenshot associated with glamour or wealth.

"You really think all your riches, your wealth, your piles of gil, will save you from my blade?"

"Of course not, silly girl. What they would do is ripple out and trigger a sea of upheaval and chaos in this fair city that would tear it to pieces. But if you truly think removing my head would solve Ul'dah's problems, and not plunge it into torments capable of destroying the very poor you think you're saving and our dear sultana both... you are welcome to try."

"...Who said I'm here for some sort of noble purpose regarding the poor? Or what you did to Nanamo? What if I'm just really pissed about what you did to me at the banquet?"

"If Elilgeim Wiltarwyn, Warrior of Light, is truly so blinkered, then the realm is already lost. I do not believe she is. Do you...Ellie?"

tbh i had a lot of difficulty coming up with an idea for this until I remembered the one person Ellie's met in her career that so emphasizes a glamourous lifestyle made possible by his wealth, and how she would grind him into a fine paste if she could get away with it. it's extremely upsetting for her to learn that she, in fact, cannot just cut the head off of capitalism. :')

thanks for the prompt, @viiioca!!

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #ffxiv screenshots #ffxiv gpose #femroe #take with a grain of salt but i heard that the writers were actually told “i'm sorry we can't make a change to the game world this large” #“and we do still have to have some sort of status quo. this was very bold but we can't have it stick” #or maybe i'm just inventing justifications for why it feels like that whole plot point just peters out :') #this would take place just after HW probably. if it's canon at all. by present day ellie's probably begrudgingly accepted things. #especially with how nanamo proves capable of wrangling the syndicate. #but me personally i feel like that meme of the dude waiting at the door with a pie in hand for a target that never comes lmao #also eee i figured out/got crimes for posing gear pieces and such my power is growing lmao

[wikirobot]

Spent another day on my piano coatrack, all of it sanding and finishing. So much sanding...

Got the main piano coatrack finished, up next will be the frame

All but four of the keys rotate, but not sure it'll usually be more than a few open at a time.

Process below:

Sanded from 80, all the way up to 400 grit for the white and black keys. Then started applying some homemade shellac. Ended up doing an amber shellac for the black keys and a blonde shellac for the white keys.

After about 6 coats of shellac, sanding with 400 grit between the last three layers, I did a few layers of my homemade beeswax finish buffing till smooth.

#woodworking #crafts #hand tools #finishing #maple #piano #furniture #coat rack #woodshop #wood #walnut #art #arts and crafts #carpentry #fancy #pretty #nice woodgrain #wood grain #shellac #beeswax #sanding #so much sanding #so smooth

[rosaacicularis]

au where scar is the royal guard assigned to keep prince grian safe as he travels to a neighbouring kingdom for a peace treaty but they get ambushed and have to survive in nature until they can get to civilization <3

#and scar teaches grian how to sword fight to protect himself and maybe he lets grian win a couple times because grian is so beautiful when #he’s happy and scar teaches him how to shoot an arrow so they can hunt for food and grian literally cannot focus because scars arms are #wrapped around him and he’s whispering in grian’s ear and grian reboots when after he lets go of the arrow.. scar drops his hands to grian’ #waist…. and grian teaches scar which plants are poisonous vs safe to eat and he loses his train of thought a million times because scar #keeps just looking at his lips and grian just can’t stand it anymore when scar licks his lips… so he interrupts himself and places a kiss #on the corner of scars mouth and scar just kinda pauses and grian thinks maybe he read the situation wrong until scar cups grains face and #brings him back in and it’s so perfect and everything they’ve ever wanted and and and #sorry i’m thinking about them #okay i’ll shut up now <3 #actually no i won’t because this is my post. they have to dress each others wounds and they do it far more gently than they need to <3 #scarian #desert duo #hermitshipping #grian #gtws #hermitcraft #trafficshipping #au concept #royalty au

[willosword]

ok i lied here's another post bc i'm mad that the season started with fang and frenchie holding izzy close to comfort him as he cries but they couldn't have that same crew crowd around and comfort him when he's on his literal death bed??? they all just stand back looking vaguely sad? cmon now

#i'm definitely entering totally biased Feelings Mode now so take the post with a grain of salt but like. that hurts dude #none of the crew said or did anything even though they were the people who drew izzy out of his shell and got him to actually start living #whyyy did his death revolve around ed's feelings and ed's life. why. it makes me so mad #izzy hands #our flag means death spoilers #our flag means death #willow whispers