#i am so endlessly fascinated by it

[milkweedman]

Resisting the urge to carve myself a distaff from one of the evergreen boughs ive dragged home and learn medieval in-hand distaff spinning. Do i need to do any of this ? No. Am i happy with supported spinning ? Yes ! Am i probably gonna do it anyway ? ... also yes

#we talk a lot about the rabbit hole of fiber arts #but i dont think we talk enough about the rabbit hole of different spinning tools and techniques... #so far id say ive gotten proficient in drop spindling wheel spinning and supported spinning with russian style spindles #really want to get into either tahklis or charkah wheels #bc im gonna be visiting my wonderful fiancé in india and hes still gonna have work for most if not all of the time im there #so my plan is to spin a LOT. hoping to get really proficient in cotton spinning bc ive always really sucked at that #and then i really wanna learn medieval style spinning as well #if i was an academic i could easily see myself devoting my life to writing a book about spinning tools through the ages #i am so endlessly fascinated by it #but also really bad at research and have a pretty crippling case of dyslexia #i wanna try. all the tools #it always feels like the way to get closer to the past is to spin like them #since that has been THE constant human activity since quite possibly pre-homo sapiens times #i dont know how much cloth the neanderthals wove or if they were more inclined to use animal skins #but we do know they made yarn and they were good at it #sadly my hands cant do cordage. fucks em up in about a minute flat #but iirc we've found stone spindle whorls which may have been used for spinning #stone whorls can also be used for hand drills and fire starters and things like that so idk #anyway. i just want to know SO badly #spinning

[yfere]

Not Alastor making sure to first point at Husk with a warning expression before turning back to Charlie for his welcome home. This guy REALLY doesn't want Husk to say shit huh.

And Husk is obviously annoyed as hell (or judgmental? resigned? what is this expression exactly) but he joins the group hug anyway. Never change, Husk.

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel spoilers #alastor #husk #I am endlessly fascinated with their dynamic because I do not in fact understand it at all #alastor is an evil little nutcase and I truly cannot help but like him even so #also love how lucifer is just... so unhappy that he lived xD

[uncanny-tranny]

I know this is a very unoriginal observation (much like any other), but I'm finally reading The Great Gatsby, and even I wouldn't describe men the way Nick does.

#queer #lgbt #lgbtq #i did watch the 2013 film for my ap english class though (i think they didn't have enough time left for us to actually read it) #like the way he described tom was very. superfluous in my opinion. something you want to tell the class NICK (joking) #i find myself really partial to the general writing styles of that time though #i haven't even gotten that far in the book either i'm just barely past the part where daisy is introduced #so nick is just waffling about his family history and how he rents for $80/month #which is relatable when you consider inflation. nick i hope you eat you landlord #i can see why people don't like this writing but i am endlessly fascinated by the prose #maybe i should just free myself from the impulse to hide behind layers of self-censorship and live like nick does #tbh tho i still prefer non-fiction and textbooks BUT fiction is valuable and is useful #fiction is like play - it lets you explore different possibilities and thought in a safe environment

[sparky-is-spiders]

S1 Jonsasha AU where Sasha is the Archivist and they start slowly spiraling as they uncover more and more mysteries. Their fascination with The Horrors drives them into each other’s arms. They stay later and later. The storage closet becomes a shared living space for them. Martin hasn’t noticed. Tim doesn’t know what to say to get his friends back. They’re losing themselves in the Archives. They egg each other on. They start becoming more paranoid. Jon is so endlessly, doggedly loyal. This is the only person who can understand him. This is the only person who he has ever understood. They love each other so so much.

#HNGGGGGHGNNGHH I’M LOSING MY MIIIIIIIIIIND #they make me so insane istg #obligatory no j//mart in my jonsasha please and thank you #ok also important to note: jonsasha is t4t and their autism aligns #anyway i think about them so often. so much potential there they make me crazy #if you ever want to share thoughts about jonsasha they are always welcome here #they were made for each other. they’re perfect for each other. do you see? do you SEE?? #i’m also endlessly fascinated by the potential of archivist!sasha/archival assisstant!jon #jon is her weird little loser freak and they would do anything for each other <3 #jonsasha #somewhere out there is a universe where sasha survives s1 and a certain other character (who i will not name as i am Main Tagging) #takes her place and dies instead and she and jon can become the fucked up eyeball monsters they were always meant to be <3<3<3<3<3 #tma #the magnus archives #sasha james #jon sims #jonathan sims #edited to change the wording in one of the last few sentences because i had written it wrong. very tired. goodnight.

[l3irdl3rain]

I have to know. why is Chester evil and full of hate crimes? his tag on your blog makes me laugh so much but I'm so curious!

The easiest answer is because he’s a parrot and even the nicest of parrots are kind of assholes. Parrots are not a domesticated animal like dogs or cats, even if they’re born in captivity. They make awful pets because they are destructive and often times aggressive. Even Joey, who is my darling angel boy, will bite me if he feels I’ve wronged him. He doesn’t bite to maim and kill like Chester does, but it still hurts. (It hurts my feelings too, but that’s another story.)

On top of that, many parrots are severely neglected at some point in their life. In the wild they’d live in huge flocks and travel all over and spend all day foraging and flying. Even in the best possible homes in captivity they don’t get as much stimulation as they should. I’m not trying to necessarily say anything bad about Chester’s previous owner because all things considered she did okay. I have seen far worse homes. She was an elderly woman who bought him in the 90’s. Parrot care was not good then and you couldn’t necessarily just jump on the internet and find a ton of resources.

Chester was never properly socialized, his cage was much too small, and he definitely didn’t get enough stimulation. This all leads to a depressed and aggressive parrot. Things only got worse when his owner became sick and was spending a lot of time in the hospital. For all the things she was doing wrong she did try to make him a part of the family. So when she started going in and out of the hospital he went from getting out at least a couple times a week to being stuck in his cage all the time.

This is just my long way of saying he was neglected and never properly socialized. But also he is not domesticated and we can’t expect him to act like a domesticated animal.

#long post #sorry guys I could ramble abt parrots all day #it’s funny bc I don’t talk abt my parrots on here as much but they are one of my favorite animals ever. endlessly fascinating to me #and I am so so passionate abt them #ask #Chester

[capn-twitchery]

oc question for flumblr bc i've been thinking about it:

how do your characters open & sign off their letters?? does it change depending on their feelings/closeness to who they're writing to? tell me your thoughts i wanna know👀

twitch always opens theirs with some variation of "ahoy and good morrow to you, my [some kind of bizarre adverb+title they've assigned you]" and Always signs off with "Ciao! ~Capt. Twitchery" no variation, no matter how they feel

grace addresses letters with "dearest [title/surname]" and always signs off with "Your obedient servant, Lt.Grace." he doesn't change it often, but if you somehow push him to using "kind regards" then he fucking hates you. if you somehow get him to use "regards" it's because he thinks you should be dead

#filed under flondon oc quirks that are endlessly fascinating to me for no reason #it's like the battleground of corporate email speak. but in everyday life. i love putting character into it #i spent so long looking at historic letters & how they signed them it's so cool to me #so i wanna hear about it while i am stuck doing not much bc of body pain >:3 #londonmusings

[archduke-enver-gortash]

one of these templates for the gort throws it at you.

but first of all there are different situations to be considered for all of these and THEN gorty boy also has 8 billion different manipulation masks so. some of these are difficult!!!!! and also if he’s empathetic or obedient is very much dependent on your definition of that word and what he is obedient to. anyways sorry for being cringe

#being a brave romeo posting this here too #enver gortash #bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #gortash #like with the obedient thing does it count if you’re obedient to a set of values you yourself gave you??? man idk #<- this is really complicated for him #everything is so complicated with this man i am endlessly fascinated

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

just some of my all time favourite alex photos 🤍

#i just love him a stupid amount okay #i am endlessly fascinated and inspired by the way he experiences the world and expresses that creatively #listening to the music and lyrics he has created has inspired me in my own writing in ways i’d never expected #and spoken to aspects of myself i thought would always be left in silence #so endlessly grateful for the wonderful music he creates and shares with the world #🤍 #alex turner #arctic monkeys #lulu posts

[fnnck-odr]

It’s so fascinating to me that Festus Creed had liked (or at least tolerated) Sejanus (to an extent). Obviously, I don’t think they were friends per se but it intrigues me that they were at least friendly to some degree.

I would absolutely love to see what their interactions would have been like pre-hunger games.

Give me Festus Creed and Sejanus Plinth being partnered for a project, talking about their father’s businesses, discussing a homework assignment, or their future plans.

Give me some sort of positive interactions between Festus Creed and the other academy students that aren’t Coriolanus.

Give me anything.

#if I could write I would write it but alas I have no talent #Festus creed #tbosas #sejanus plinth #I am just so endlessly fascinated by Capitol dynamics #I highly doubt Festus LIKED Sejanus but the idea that he was at least more friendly than the other students is so interesting to me #I absolutely need to know what that dynamic was like #I now have a small hc that when they were younger Festus would ask Sejanus about life in the district 2 and be really interested in it #but stopping after he repeated something to his father and got scolded

[alexanderpearce]

well i think we're going to be weird about our relationships with america forever

shoot the dog, george michael | the end of the party, andrew rawnsley | anti john howard/iraq war demonstrations as shown in the howard years (2008) | america, the indelicates | john howard is a filthy slut, toekeo | i'm with stupid, the pet shop boys

#endlessly fascinated by the way people go to sexualising policitians when they dislike them. theres a lot more i could add here but im #feeling magnanimous and so am not putting in any political cartoons or the shoot the dog music video #this one is actually karri's fault for showing me shoot the dog today thank you to george michael fans !! #america by the indelicates isnt actually about this but it could be. so #shut up ulrike #my webweaves #political yaoi tag

[moe-broey]

@ the Askr siblings like how are you two gonna be enmeshed and ALSO have severe abandonment issues on both sides. GOD

#fire emblem #feh #i mean. idk maybe the two go hand in hand? #you wouldn't think so maybe at first glance but who knows. i fully thought i personally didn't have any abandonment issues. #just bc they manifested in a truly counterintuitive way LMFAOO like....... come on #still i am ENDLESSLY fascinated by their dynamic it fucks me up SO MUCH #studying them. forever. #fe alfonse #sharena

[rawliverandgoronspice]

one thing that is very funny is that I got several asks back in the hot days of totk discourse telling me they were glad I had no hand in shaping tloz, and in truth I actually really really agree? I am happy with my own takes on things and I don't think my pursuits are a waste or worthless, but I just... I do severely lack whismy. It's a thing that I just can't really make up for --you can't invent a way to be whimsical if you aren't (just like you can't make yourself spontaneous --and I am very much not that either). There's other artistic qualities that I possess I think, some that are not... unbeneficial to my fanwork on Zelda even. But whimsy is simply not one of them, and when you tackle Zelda, you do feel this lack of levity creeping up on you pretty dang fast

#thoughts #but also it's the point of fanwork!! #individual takes on the same topic are endlessly fascinating to me #I am an Edgy u_u #it is undisputable and I can't really do much about that beyond: embracing it #I had a period where I felt very self-conscious about the way my brain is shaped creatively speaking #but when I do indulge I think I do pretty good things in that limited framework #so!! ye #I don't know I was just thinking about this #how maybe I'm sometimes overthinking logistics to the point where we're actually losing something more delicate about this world #vOv

[age-of-moonknight]

“An Unquiet Grave,” Moon Knight: City of the Dead (Vol. 1/2023), #4.

Writer: David Pepose; Penciler: Marcelo Ferreira; Inker: Jay Leisten; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Moon Knight: City of the Dead #Moon Knight comics #latest release #Moon Knight #Marc Spector #when I tell you that I am so endlessly fascinated by the largely uncharted narrative territory that is Marc’s #(potentially quite short if we’re going with Lemire’s more recent timeline) combat service #and what that could mean for the character as a whole #because according to earlier works #and even in the opening issues of McKay’s run there’s textual evidence indicating that Marc - #before any environmental factors such as combat service #and definitely not in conjunction with him developing a better understanding that he is part of a system - #viewed himself as a near inherently violent person #[Mainly I’m thinking of bits of Moon Knight (Vol. 1/1980) no. 37 + Shadowland: Moon Knight (Vol. 1/2010) no. 1 #and perhaps most definitively Moon Knight (vol. 9/2021) no. 5’s ‘there was /never/ anything kind or gentle in me’] #but no individual leaves close combat experience such as this unchanged #obviously taking a man’s life had an impact but what I wouldn’t give to know more about what Marc thought this revealed about him #was the fact he could actually take a man’s life a revelation for him or #(closer to what I’m leaning towards) was it a confirmation of his worst fears about himself #that there’s no other factor to blame -neither environmental nor psychological - that he himself was always capable #of great crimes against life #plus (sorry I know I know I’m going on) but I would give a good amount of my personal resources to see Marc’s DD-214 #because otherwise I will hold onto with both hands Lemire’s perhaps unintentional indication in Moon Knight (vol. 8/2016) no. 11 #that Marc saw combat in Operation Phantom Fury/al-Fajr (‘the second battle of Fallujah’) #because it could just…mean so much for the character #As perhaps first indicated in Lemire’s run the implications surrounding ‘marine combat service’ are drastically different #between the present day and the 1980’s when Moon Knight’s origin was being solidified so yeah…

[winter-tospring]

Give him every award

#INCREDIBLE deep dive into taylor's career and analysis that is actually and complex as it should be. All the nuance and the context and the #commentary this deserves. I am thrilled by this. He's put words to so many observations and feelings I've had about her. #It's so refreshing to hear analysis that doesn't just bash her endlessly but also doesn't idolizes her as a pure innocent little girl. #I absolutely recommend and i also recommend to you @taylorswift #The whole section about the beatles was enlightening to me. Didn't know about this history and it's fascinating. #He did a truly outstanding job explaining and connecting all the dots. #alexander avila #Ts #Youtube

[ferociousconscience]

For years I've been showing people Historia Civilis' nonfiction Congress of Vienna video series ( Prologue - Peace? / Congress, Part 1 / Congress, Part 2 ) to try and set the scene and lay down the political landscape of europe during les mis... ONLY FOR THE LATEST VIDEO IN THE SERIES ( Year Without a Summer ) TO HEAVILY IMPLY HE'S COVERING THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONS OF THE 1830s NEXT

#im SO EXCIted...// #fc consternation tag #genuinely historia civilis is my favorite youtuber his videos are soooo well researched and endlessly fascinating #not dry or sensational which many historical v-essays are #especially roman and royal history... he just nails it #his 'Work.' video is also fantastic if you feel like being really mad at capitalism today which I always am

[sashannarcy]

Marcy Wu has so many fucking issues

#I literally did not want to rewatch new wartwood and then I did and my fucking god. #honestly I don't understand how people flat out refuse to dig into marcy's flaws because they're so endlessly fascinating #if anyone wants me to rb w what I noticed I gladly will I just am constantly scared of getting attacked by marcy fans <3