#is it still may. yes

[odinsblog]

The crew of a massive container ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday warned of power issues before the collision, which caused the bridge to collapse into the frigid Patapsco River, officials said.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said the warning from the ship’s crew likely saved lives.

“We’re thankful that between the mayday and the collapse, that we had officials who were able to begin to stop the flow of traffic so more cars were not on the bridge,” Moore said. He called those officials heroes.

Moore noted that the bridge was up to code at the time of the collapse. He said the collapse was a “shocking and heartbreaking” event for the people of Maryland who have used the bridge for 47 years.

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#i was in dc this weekend for a funeral #we bounced over to baltimore to visit some family friends from childhood #i drove over that bridge twice!! #francis scott key bridge #baltimore #bridge collapse #baltimore bridge #glen burnie #i dont think it was an infrastructure problem #but if oversized cargo ships can gain that much momentum #then maybe they should be required to come to a complete stop #prior to going under a commuter bridge #that or maximum ship size requirements by bridge #or maybe use tugboats?? #it seems more like a regulation issue #and yes - even if it was an accident #someone still needs to be held accountable #or it may happen again #a very similar incident happened in my hometown #i think about 4 or 5yrs before i was born #sunshine skyway bridge

[ineffablelunatics]

You ever think that Crowley isn’t a bookseller and refuses to even act like one because Aziraphale doesn’t like to sell books? He won’t act like a “bookseller”, because Aziraphale doesn’t like selling books. That’s Aziraphale’s safe place and he doesn’t want to somehow mess it up.

“Are you a bookseller?” “Not even at gunpoint.”

Sitting right across from Aziraphale, he says that he wouldn’t sell books even when he was being threatened. Yes, it’s Crowley being over dramatic, but it’s also a reassurance. He doesn’t even let the books burn in 1941. He didn’t have a choice in 2019. Crowley might not run a bookshop, but he’ll keep it safe. Even if keeping it safe just means not letting anyone buy books from a bookshop

#good omens #good omens 2 #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #yes I know he throws them around #but this is more of a cute headcannon than anything else #also he was being a bit petty because Aziraphale took the Bentley and started messing with it #I also think he may have been fixing what Gabriel was doing but still was petty

[clowndensation]

thinking about connor in prague saying "dad's theory was you got two fighting dogs, you send the weak one away, you punish the weak one." in relation to this episode, and the way the siblings view abuse inside their own family.

shiv and kendall and their belief that connor and roman are the weak dogs that got the brunt of logan's worst behavior, because abuse is reserved for the kids who can't behave - the ones who aren't smart and mature enough to make it in the world. abuse evokes pity, because abuse is what happens when you expect too much from people who obviously aren't capable of more.

and then they go forward in life, believing that they're just naturally more intelligent and more capable than connor and roman, as if being raised seeing what happens to you if you aren't a perfect child wasn't the entire point of the "punish the weak dog" mentality that logan instilled in them. the looming threat implied behind any praise they do receive that tacitly tells them "you're not like roman and connor" because everyone knows what happens to roman and connor.

the absolute height of the rich capitalist mindset. "we're succeeding because of our own merit, and other people fail because they don't have what it takes" when in reality they're succeeding because of arbitrary rules made up by someone who knows that infighting makes meaner dogs.

#he's literally putting them in a position where admitting that he abused them #forces them to admit that they're 'weak dogs' just like roman and connor #and that's SO antithetical to their own image of themselves that it would destabilize their entire worldview to admit that #and so they're stuck in this state of being able to admit that their dad IS abusive and he IS an asshole #but are absolutely unable to view themselves as receiving of that abuse #because being abused means being a victim. and victims are weak people who get fucked over. #and if they're weak people than how are they ever going to beat their dad? #they're so wrapped up in the worldview logan raised them in that they're completely unable to see #that he's set them up in a game they can't win #you can't heal from abuse if you can't admit that the things that happened to you were abuse in the first place #succession #also you may be asking 'vinnie didn't you make a post just like this last night' #and the answer is yes. but i'm still thinking about it. so.

[readmorepoets]

safe now, unsafe later vs unsafe now, safe later

#yes im still reading papers about je. for some reason #coming around to the idea that the scholarship may be interesting but will not make the experience i had reading je any better. but i’m #learning some things!

[snarkspawn]

after hours

#kenbig #kinnporsche #kinnporsche the series #kinnporsche fanart #big kinnporsche #ken kinnporsche #nodt nutthasid #perth nakhun #bl tag #thai bl #userpharawee #yes hello I may still be neck deep in bg3 but I am also still very Normal(TM) about these two and I miss them always #😩

[diioonysus]

flowers + art

#its a very long name but the first one is by arnoldus boemers #cherries and hollyhocks by alexis kreyder #flower seller making a bouquet by victor gabriel gilbert #the flower seller by leon-francois comerre #gather ye rosebuds while ye may by john william waterhouse #love messenger by marie spartali stillman #a vision of fimmetta by dante gabriel rossetti #pot-pourri by herbert james draper #still life with bouquet and skull by adriaen van utrecht #flower still life by rachel ruysch #roses and a tulip in a glass vase by jans philips van thielen #floral still life by hans bollongier #panel with floral still life by dirck van rijswijck #still life with flowers and fruit by jan van huysum #vases of flowers by jans davidsz. de heem #the roses of heliogabalus by lawrence alma-tadema #flowers in a crystal vase by edouard manet #sunflowers by vincent van gogh #lady lilth by dante gabriel rossetti #vase of flowers by jan brueghel the elder #bauerngarten by gustav klimt #woman among the flowers by alphonese mucha #i dont know the painting by its by henri de toulouse-lautrec #field of flowers by egon schiele #flowers blooming by raphael sanzio #botticelli's preimavera by frank vincentz #primula by albrecht durer #flowers by henri matisse #amaryllis by georges braque #fleurs a la jarre verte by charles camoin

[qhazomb]

oh shit dog!!!! four!!!!!

#yeah i just slapped a second party hat on the benry i did for the 3rd anniversary #i have no juice to make anything better oops #hlvrai #benry #benrey #hlvrai anniversary #eventually he'll just be buried under an entire pile of party hats #also yes In Sound Mind may have grabbed me by the fuckin' throat right now but i still love the half life funnie guys

[mccoyquialisms]

oh. oh no. are the rat grinders acting so cagey about lucy because they have lied to themselves about what actually happened to her with the devil’s honey? is that why ivy and the others have been so goddamn weird about it? why they didn’t look for her?

oh god…does it ever wear off? what happens when it does?

#I don’t know if I totally believe this but even if it’s just a couple of them it’s happening to #good god that would be so sad #did they even get to mourn their friend properly? #yes they kind of suck and may be evil maybe but. they’re also kids. kids who lost a friend #at the ripe old age of 16 #I think they still deserve to mourn her #fantasy high #dimension 20 #fhjy spoilers #fhjy #dropout #my musings

[ultrabreaksounddownwavemagnus]

Ratchet my love

#transformers #transformers fanart #tf ratchet #ratchet #tf rba #rescue bots academy #tf aligned #maccadam #maccadams #accidentally posted this on main and not here at first whoops #anyway hello yes hi i promise i still live #take the funny medic with a wrench throwing issue as compensation for my lack of content #i may or may not be planning on turning this design into my first ever 3d character model #so thats fun

[canisalbus]

I am a vet student, and I had a patient today who looked like Machete! Made me think of your boys. Also, I get a kick out of the small animal veterinary surgery textbook, because there's a Vasco-like dog on the cover.

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#it's still immeasurably funny to me that #people are out there looking at various things irl and thinking ah yes it's the dog from tumblr #it's just very sweet #irl vaschete sightings #answered #districtfourmermaid #also this may be a weird thing to say but my irl circles aren't particularly varied #all my friends and family work on educational and creative fields #so whenever an online friend/mutual/follower mentions their job and it's something other than art and education #I find that genuinely very cool for some reason #I think 'oh neat somewhere out there is a (insert literally any line of work) who likes my silly dogs' and feel oddly warm and fuzzy #maybe it's just a sign I should try to socialize out of the box more

[mortalstrife]

a holy war

minvember prompt 1: prayer

#babylon 5 #minvember 2023 #neroon #branmer #dukhat #valen #minbari #i may have gone overboard on this one lol #anyway yes fINALLY posting my fill for the first prompt #i still want to finish the rest too but WE'LL SEE

[dirt-and-scrivles]

Q!tubbos as I work out his design

#mmm yes coyote tubbo #this design is a personal challenge bc I have eliminated his eyebrows #hidden by his bangs and the shadow I’ve put around his eyes #hoping for unsettling at times but still gotta be able to convey a range of emotions #QSMP #Tubbo #QSMP Tubbo #q!tubbo #coyote tubbo #my art #character design #playing with hue jitter brushes as well #first time using it but it’s fun #may have made him too tall but that’s my own ongoing battle with proportions

[fox-guardian]

I feel like in order to understand Tim Stoker as a character you need to know two things about him:

- he is so full of love

- he is an older brother

I just think that if you forget these things you're forgetting some important pillars of his character

he has so much love in his heart and that's what fuels a lot of his anger in the series. he's angry because he's losing the people he loves, either by death or emotional distance, and he's so angry that he can't do anything to fix it. angry that they're all stuck. he's so sad, grieving people and friendships, and that manifests in his anger.

Danny is, of course, also essential to Tim's character. that's his baby brother. his "cool little brother". this is a man tim admires and is proud of, despite having several reasons to be envious of him. he loves him so much and what happened to Danny destroyed him irreparably. he called himself a coward because he was too afraid to move when he saw "Danny" on that stage in covent garden theatre. I don't recall him ever freezing up like that after that instance. he did everything in his power to protect the people he loved. he broke down a wall during the prentiss incident, he followed jon back into the archives when he knew something was up, he followed Martin into the tunnels when he was going to go down there alone.

his love and him being an older brother are So essential to his character, and I wish people would recognize that more and not reduce him to the flirty funnyman slacker

#ramblings with major #the magnus archives #tma #tim stoker #YES im still thinking about him NO it may not be entirely coherent #there is a comic brewing in my mind #if i try really hard i might be able to get some thumbnails done for it tonight

[cinnamonsly]

i don’t think there is anything worse in this entire world than desperately clinging onto a hyperfixation you’ve had forever that you know is slowly fading away from you

#and you know there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it either #literally one of the worst feelings in the world #yes this may or may not be about CCCC #like i still love the characters and album to death but my brain doesn’t have a frickin chokehold on them anymore like it did #which is honestly one of the main reasons for this massive art block rn #this isn’t to say CCCC/CJ art and content is going away. no worries about that #but i find it rly hard to draw stuff for things i am not currently hyperfixated on #ugh it’s a struggle. but i’m working on it #thanks for ur patience

[thehappinessmachine]

picture of your favorite moe anime sidegirl kouhais from your favorite gacha games

#limbus company #i mean what i said I SAID WHAT I MEANT #i can imagine them sitting all around a table having tea and verg is barely fitting in his dainty chair yet #he's still holding his cup with his pinky out #yes you may have seen this on twitter but i need everyone to see it here too #its a powerful image #vergilius my beloved #ALSO YES I LOVE ALL THESE GIRLS NO HATE AGAINST THEM

[sapphorror]

I still can't believe this is how Zim reacts to Dib refusing to give him a real compliment

#i mean yes i can actually but come on #invader zim #iz posting #zadp #natterings #also i appreciate the fact zim doesnt even bother putting his disguise on when opening the door for dib anymore #and dibs past the point of trying to drag him out on the front lawn in a futile attempt to show his neighbors!! #the progress may be infinitesimal but its still progress #saph reads