#paradise provides

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

How to easily distinguish the Stone triplets from one another:

Eliot:

Jacob:

Alex:

( Inspired by this post.)

#leverage #the librarians #almost paradise #christian kane #eliot spencer #jacob stone #alex walker #don't get me wrong they're all smart yet dumb badasses #but they all have subtle differences! #why yes i am of the opinion that the boys are separated triplets #eliot and alex are confirmed to be adopted so it's possible #i love them all #I'd been wanting to gif this for a while but couldn't find the perfect scene for alex #then season 2 provided it! #and so here we are! #ghostly'sgifs

[tinartss]

on moving out

#for context i drew this during the paradise of providence event👍 #repost of old art #kavetham #haikaveh #i still think abt kaveh moving out often #always a bit torn between it signifying him getting back on his feet + regaining confidence in himself #but like sometimes he's a bit of an unreliable narrator....remember when he was like #hm. the first thing i will do w the prize money is move out and then build another palace but ten times bigger! like oh...kaveh..... #plus he can sometimes be blind (purposefully or not) to what's actually good for him..bc we (and alhaitham LOL) know the significance of #him having a home that's not just a house and how full circle of a moment that is for him #its always interesting to consider that their living situation in itself is this in-between flux moment #though i think kaveh trying his best to escape this “chapter of his life” isn't necessarily the solution..... #i still don't know how tumblr works so if u have to go thru all my yapping in these tags to repost i am so sorry </3 #ok thats all thank u for coming to my ted talk

[thekittyburger]

Just watched dip xmas special, I am once again saying that I could fix him

#all he needs is a good loving relationship (and therapy) which i would be happy to provide #kitty screams #death in paradise #dip #di neville parker #aoibhe babes if you see this know i love you AND HEAR ME OUT OKAY

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

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#still not over the insane george orwell post that got reblogged onto my dash yesterday #i unfollowed the person who reblogged it #because either A) theyre a tankie or B) their criticial thinking skills are sub-fucking-zero #like 1) the OP of that post was just copying Hakims awful video on Orwell #2) to read animal farm and come out of it with the interpretation that Orwell was saying that the animals and hence the proletariat in the #USSR were just innately unintelligent shows a reading comprehension so bad its not even like piss poor. its piss impoverished #3) if a post is like ''also look X said Y Bad Thing'' without providing any of the context as to where that quote comes from theyre likely #being deliberately mishonest. it is easy to take someone out if context to make it look like they were saying something they werent which is #exactly what the OP of that post was doing. they took one sentence of Orwells writing on the nazis and Hitler to make it look like Orwell #thought Hitler was a swell guy when actually Orwells writing was about the dangers of charismatic tyrants like Hitler and their rhetoric #the entire thing was about how Hitler was able to amass such power and popularity and use that to his advantage #not every despot is so easy to pick out as dangerous or so easy to detest. hitler was hardly the first charismatic tyrant in history #OP also conveniently left out the fact that like the next sentence is orwell being like yeah no i would fucking kill this man which wow #thats a glaring omission. imagine if people decided to look up what OP was refetencing to verify irs veracity #4) OP does not mention that Orwell fought in La Guerra Civil alongside communists and socialists and anarchists etc. #he fought against the nationalists. he took a bullet to the neck during the fight. he was very much against francisco franco and his fascist #regime who were allied with Hitler and the Nazis #mentioning orwells participation in the spanish civil war really undercuts any of those arguments #5) you know who was actually allied with Hitler and Nazi Germany? STALIN #at the beginning of WWII the soviet union and nazi germany were in alliance. stalin and hitler did not have fundamental ideological #differences. if hitler had not betrayed stalin the soviet union would not have joined the allied powers #your uwu anti-fascist communist idol joseph fucking stalin was joseph fucking stalin. he was a fascist dictator whose actions deliberately #caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. he like vladimir lenin before him did not care for the ideals of marx #marxism leninism is a meaningless political ideology #the soviet union was not a communist paradise. neither stalin not lenin cared about the proletariat #i said this in my tag ramble yesterday but if you want to see a leader who actually followed marxist ideals go look up thomas sankara #im just rambling in the tags today to get out the lingering frustration i have

[pia-writes-things]

France does not deserve to be romanticized. At all.

This was brought to you by a French girl living abroad and constantly puzzled by how much people think France is better than it is. It's not. Believe me.

It's not worse nor better than any other country. It's just a country.

#yes the Enlightenment's ideas were mostly theorized by French men. #no it doesn't mean France embodies them at all. Not now nor ever. Our colonial past is o ly one of the njmerous examples of it. #yes it's better to live in France than in a lot of other country. #no it doesn't mean that it's a paradise to live in or that we can't complain about what's not going well. #it stupefies me how people think France is this absolute heaven of human rights and providence to live #and how other european then think we should stop protesting about anything because we better off than most #(also on the pension reform: no us peotesting is not unfair to other europeans because no you do not pay for us) #(it has nothing to do whatsoever) #french politics #pia's oversharing

[applesandcecilia]

Moments from the last few Genshin events that will never cease to bring me unholy delight

Windblume’s Breath:

Cyno’s dad jokes (except the ground nuts one which I’m pretty sure got lost in translation)

Albedo actually enjoying said jokes and proceeding to join Cyno in gremlinhood for the rest of the event

Nari babysitting his idiot friends

Collei and Amber reunion <3

Venti’s thirty seconds of screen time

Klee

Collei and Sucrose bonding

Finally getting to at least hear Alice speak in game—can’t wait to actually see her!

Venti writing a love poem that is so blatantly about specifically the female Traveler it made me squeal several times

A Parade of Providence:

Hat Guy

Faruzan being supportive of Kaveh and Layla in her own strange way

For some reason, the two scorekeepers being Nilou and Alhaitham

Shiruetto literally doing nothing the first round, instead opting to go have coffee

Tighnari surrounded by butterflies

Also Tighnari getting dehydrated and Shiruetto quietly giving him his water pouch

“This Inter-Darshan Championship, I lost my best friend Tighnari.” “QUIT TELLING EVERYONE I’M DEAD!!” “Sometimes I can still hear his voice.”

Kaveh and his desert foxes

Eremites first getting beat up by Shiru and then interrogated by Haitham

The entirety of the last round

Nahida appearing and revealing she’s forcing her nephew to go to college

Duel! The Summoner’s Summit

Kirara’s existence

Kaeya losing the Mondstadt championship to none other than Timmie

Charlotte’s existence

Kaeya finding out Charlotte is from Fontaine and immediately saying “Enchantée” which is technically incorrect since he is a man so he should be saying “Enchanté”

Hu Tao teaching Kazuha how to play TCG

Charlotte having a mini existential crisis over having a private dinner and interview with Ningguang

Charlotte having an even bigger existential crisis over arriving in Inazuma and immediately getting introduced to the Electro Archon

Itto only beating us at TCG because we were using his awful deck and he was using Shinobu’s

Sara giving Kokomi tips on playing against Yae Miko

Kokomi subsequently beating Miko’s butt

Cyno being a complete TCG nerd

Honestly the last cutscene was kinda bittersweet

Beating both Xiao and Venti at TCG on the first try

Secret Summer Paradise

Will update as I finish

Klee

The oasis is really really pretty

The Choo Choo Cart is really fun as well!

KAEYA SKIN KAEYA SKIN KAEYA SKIN

Kaeya of all people being the one to lecture two brothers for not getting along

Kokomi getting dizzy after riding the Choo Choo Cart

Playing pretend with Klee

#genshin impact #genshin #windblume’s breath #a parade of providence #duel! the summoners' summit! #secret summer paradise #i love this game #it’s both serious and goofy and I love that #can’t wait for 4.0

[greyeyedmonster-18]

(.

#one time on the bachelor in paradise #there was a dude who had spent ALL of paradise with this girl #they were making plans #and they were chatting #and it had been seemingly set in stone that they were end game #until the dude got cold feet #and the girl left in the middle of his big song dance conversation #to go pack her stuff and just go home #and he said something like: can we just talk about this? #and she said: no you dont deserve a conversation #and like yah #and its like SAME #when folks are like well tell me what i did wrong #lets have a conversation about this #tell me xyz. why cant we just talk #because honey baby sweetie you dont deserve a conversation #this conversation would provide closure to YOU and only YOU #and i am fine ending it here! #if you've done me wrong #i do not owe you closure #i do not owe you a conversation #please let the record show this is not due to any specific event and i am just fine #but thots #wild thoughts

[grimxark]

It’s so upsetting how much they’re destroying my city’s beautiful untouched forests to make way for gigantic living spaces that won’t ever be filled because nobody wants to live that far away… they destroyed a giant patch of forest near my home that is an empty space where so many birds and sloths lived. I can barely explain how much hatred I feel towards these people.

It seems engineers in my town don’t know where we live. They destroy and tear down centuries old trees that provide shade and homes and then they plant… palm trees. Because they’re convenient, I guess. Then there’s no shade. It’s now hotter outside because of it. Making parks without trees, killing rivers and endangered plants. It’s like they don’t know we live in a hot place. They think we’re europe or some cold place that doesn’t require much shade. It’s shameful, to be at the heart of the Amazon and be the city with the least urban trees in Brazil. It genuinely makes me hate enough that I think about murder

#they speak #it’s a whole thing. it just makes me angrier they destroy everything and want to make a paradise out of what #palm trees? coconut trees? because they grow fast? #go fuck yourself. you had a perfectly fine castanheira that could provide shade for generations and home for so many animals #but you chose to be fucking stupid. you’re not even using all that space. #idiot #fucking piece of shit

[daemonoferror]

Omfg you make yourself big to scare the ditchlings- PLEASE

That's easily THE nerdest thing this game could've ever made me do 😭 aND HOW DARE IT ACTUALLY WORK

#scarlet hollow #not sure if this was the combo i was supposed to find bc they felt kinda important- aND IT PROVIDES LOOREEEE #yall know the superb bird of paradise with its funky lil mating dance? i know it's not the same thing BUT THAT'S WHAT I'M PICTURING #could this be considered a spoiler?

[gagesfall]

Paradise Island, Bahamas

#paradise island #bahamas #new providence #nassau #palm trees #beaches #beach #mono #B&W

[genshin-hater]

WHY DID THEY MAKE KAVEH SUCH A POOR PATHETIC LITTLE MEOW MEOW I FEEL SO BAD FOR HIM 😭 i wanna be his sugar daddy, my Babygirl needs to be taken care of. im taking Kaveh away from mihoyo CUZ THEY ARE NOT BEING NICE TO HIM

#kaveh #genshin impact #watching my wife play through providence of paradise #begging mihoyo to just give my boy ONE W. JUST ONE

[touchmycoat]

LOL - TLJ can monologue during the titty torture to get in his tragic backstory. LQG doesn't have to do anything except moan and try not to come to quickly (he'd roll his eyes at TLJ but he's enjoying himself too much, angrily). TLJ's script had included LQG falling for the alien king and a marriage alliance, but LQG is like, I'm a porn star not an actor, Jim. So they had to scrap that and just get more fucking scenes in. Like one where he's forced to fight YYX and fucks him tenderly.

"—and my father before him, and his father before him, and therein lies the problem, you understand. Legacy at all costs, is that any way to live? What purpose is an empire if—excuse me. Can I help you?"

Tianlang-jun clasped his aggrieved, interrupted hands politely before him as Liu Qingge shouted something incoherent through a spider gag. The man was naked and squirming on a tentacle dildo, a third of which was still outside of Liu Qingge despite both their best efforts because it was just that goddamn big. Matching robotic tentacle were snaked all over Liu Qingge to keep his his arms pinned behind his back, and the centerpiece of it all was of course Liu Qingge's nipples, clamped tight and pulled taut away from his body by a pair of burnished golden U-rings.

It would be such a pretty sight, if only Liu Qingge would stop grunting in boredom in the middle of Tianlang-jun's villain monologue. An eye roll or two in the background? Fine. Perfectly acceptable characterization. But cutting off hours of Tianlang-jun's character work and world-building??

Frowning in a terrifying and definitely manly way (Su Xiyan calls it his pout just to mess with him, honest), Tianlang-jun crouched down beside Liu Qingge and placed a single finger on the remote sitting behind him. Oh, which remote? The remote Liu Qingge was trying so hard to reach—the one that controlled all the little waves of electricity zapping into Liu Qingge's nipples via the clamps right now. And he'd made it quite far too, sitting further down on the monster dildo and torturing his own tits by leaning back on them without Tianlang-jun having to do a single thing.

With his single finger, Tianlang-jun scooted the remote back another inch. Gagged expletives came flying from Liu Qingge's mouth and Tianlang-jun, laughing in satisfaction, wiped away the trails of saliva dripping down Liu Qingge's chin.

"I told you I have a lot to get off my chest—so to speak, hahah. I'm only asking for you, my lovely human captive, to be a good listener. For just a little bite. Won't you please?"

The growling noise Liu Qingge made was almost definitely a no, but Tianlang-jun was an optimist, and so he patted Liu Qingge on the ruddy cheeks.

"Good boy. Now where was I? Ah, childhood accident, of course. Trauma almost always informs villainy like mine but the solution isn't as simple as awareness, you know? I try, but—alright first, let's go back a hundred thirty-two year—for heaven's sake."

His exasperated exclamation could be heard over the din of miscellaneous electronics crashing to the ground, thanks to Liu Qingge's impatient (and definitely uncontracted) tug on all the tentacles. Stepping over to right the equipment (luckily they were all still working, sending those resin-wrapped tentacles undulating over Liu Qingge's skin in steady rhythm), Tianlang-jun set everything back upright, complaining all the while about improper applications of strength, that was at least 90 kilos, damn. It wasn't like he didn't expect some equipment damage on this shoot—with this porn star in particular—but come on, he expected a fender bender, not a total demolition.

While Tianlang-jun was busy with that, Liu Qingge was busy as well. And Tianlang-jun stepped back onto set just in time to pluck the remote control out of Liu Qingge's hands.

"You want stimulation so badly?"

He pressed a button and Liu Qingge's torso jerked. He pressed the same button again and watched the sculpted muscles of Liu Qingge's thighs tighten.

"Fine, here. Have at it."

With that Tianlang-jun tossed the remote back, but before Liu Qingge could cram that dildo completely up his ass and grab it in a fit of desperation, Tianlang-jun had strode over to the gear his nipple clamps were chained to. A few neat mechanical clicks shortened that chain and pulled Liu Qingge back upright with a broken-off, tortured shout.

Panting hard, Liu Qingge glared through the fall of his sweat-slicked bangs, and Tianlang-jun stared back in fascination as Liu Qingge once again, this time with his pectoral muscles jumping and nipples viciously distended and ass stretched as wide as Tianlang-jun's fist, reached back for the remote.

"Fine," Tianlang-jun had to laugh. He was charmed! Truly charmed. "You win, no more monologuing over tit-zapping."

He set his hand on the chain to Liu Qingge's nipple clamps and closed his fist around it, smiling. For the first time since they started this scene, Liu Qingge went wholly still.

"Let's just get these off you then, shall we?"

Liu Qingge's pupils shrunk down to pin-size, and with a mental teary-eyed goodbye to Lord Wolf Star of Planet X's Sky Demons Tribe (he was so misunderstood), Tianlang-jun held the chain and yanked.

#TLJ throws his hands up and is like 'fucking and fighting and it's a paradise it's a warzone alright alright i get it!' #'no background story no fully developed motivations okay!' #'that's just not how cang qiong works i guess! to each his own!' #'sorry for trying to bring some stanislavski to the party!' #when it comes to the fake lactation moment he still couldn't help but go 'i miss the taste of human milk...' pointedly but #LQG gives him NOTHING #TLJ dials the tit torture up to eleven out of huffiness #only providing positive reinforcement for LQG HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA #tianliu #writing warmup #but you're right poor TLJ's script gets completely cut #YQY sympathetically asks if TLJ's thought about community theater productions

[beautifulfaaces]

Malin Akerman

Facts

May 12, 1978

Swedish American actress

Filmography

Gill [Cold Providence: 2022]

Maggie [A Week in Paradise: 2022]

Celeste [Dollface: 2019-2022]

Lara [Billions: 2016-2019]

Dusty [Sin City Saints: 2015]

Juna [The Comeback: 2005-2014]

Robin [The Bang Bang Club: 2010]

Diane [The Others: 2000]

Appearance

blonde

blue eyes

1.73m

Roleplay

playable: young adult, adult

Icons: The Bang Bang Club | Dollface

#Malin Akerman #fem 70s #fem swedish #fem american #70s fem swedish #70s fem american #cold providence #a week in paradise #dollface #billions #sin city saints #the comeback #the bang bang club #the others #blonde fem young #blonde fem adult #70s fem blonde #blue eyes fem young #blue eyes fem adult #70s fem blue eyes #young adult female #adult female

[providentprojects]

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[deep-space-netwerk]

What do you mean by Venus floating cities?

I'm hoping to write a science fiction story about visiting Venus as part of the space race and I would love your input

Alright so the thing with Venus is that we're all very familiar with her horrible hell-death clouds and 900°F surface temperatures. We all understand the surface of Venus is not a fun place for humans to be.

But, nobody ever talks about the fact that ABOVE the hell-death clouds, Venus is a paradise. The most Earth-like environment we know of in the solar system, beyond Earth itself, is actually in the skies of Venus.

About 30 miles above the surface, the pressure is ~1 atmosphere, and the temperature ranges from 30 - 100°F, which is Happy Human™ standard pressure and temperature.

What's more, a breathable mix of oxygen and nitrogen provides over 60% the lifting power on Venus that helium does on Earth. In other words, a balloon full of human-breathable air would float to the habitable range of Venus's atmosphere. We could float a ship with the very air we breathe.

The other great thing about this is that it avoids one of the big problems with Mars colonization. On Mars, any habitat on the surface full of breathable air is vulnerable to leaks and explosive decompression, a la the Martian.

Floating on Venus, a balloon full of breathable air doesn't have a significant pressure difference between the inside and the outside. Which means, any leaks or tears would be very slow and manageable. You could fix that shit with duct tape!

Similarly, because the environment outside the balloon is so Earth-like, humans living there wouldn't need any big fancy pressurized suits for extravehicular work. We'd need air to breathe, maybe some heat protection, and protection against the acid rain. That's it. 

Venus also provides the tools to keep us fed! It's atmosphere is made primarily of carbon dioxide, even above the dense horrible clouds. What likes carbon dioxide? Plants from Earth!! Lets grow FOOD on FLOATING PLATFORMS in the SKIES of VENUS.

This whole idea actually came out of a NASA effort exploring potential Venus colonization. The program was called HAVOC - the High Altitude Venus Operational Concept.

It hasn't really gone anywhere, and as far as I know there are no real plans to revisit it. Unfortunately, from a practicality standpoint, Mars is a much more viable target for human colonization. Not only is it better poised for outer solar system exploration, being farther away from the sun, but living on Venus would come with too many complicated contingencies. In the event of a major failure on Venus, you'd need to fly to another base, or fuck off all the way to orbit. I understand why people aren't really in a hurry to live somewhere where landing on the surface means certain death.

But that doesn't mean I won't be forever and always enamored by the skies of Venus. Here's one of the artist concepts to come out of HAVOC.

I want to be there.

#venus #nasa #space #space exploration #HAVOC #blimp #spost #venus my beloved #single most underrated planet #asked and answered

[bethestaryouareradio]

Joys of July Gardening:

#Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint #and the soil and sky as canvas. #Elizabeth Murray #The verdant hills have turned golden as the peak of summertime splendor arrives in July. The sunsets are sensational while the wonders of n #Color In and Out of the Garden by Lorene Edwards Forkner #and I find myself swinging in my hammock under my magnificent magnolia perusing the brushstrokes and hues of the garden as I turn the pages #Finally #my months of intense weeding are complete. My hands and fingers are still numb from the repeated motions #yet I am reaping the glorious joy of natures painted floral magic. My garden is indeed the lens through which I see the world. #The tapestry of color helps me learn to see with eyes wide open what the landscape produces this month. The compact Cezanne clematis boasts #they are flourishing providing continual bouquets of beauty and fragrance. Pink and purple appear to be my summer theme as purple trumpet v #festive summer surprise! #Birds of Paradise #both the orange and blue varieties #are showstoppers in gardens. Their flowers do indeed resemble birds. They are easy to grow #easy to maintain #and a wonderful addition to a garden when you are seeking a more tropical feeling. Speaking of birds #hopefully #you have included birdhouses #bird baths #and bird feeders in your garden design. Birds are one of our best pest control options. As a bonus #they serenade us with song and provide entertainment as they flit from limb to limb. Install a porch swing #bench #or hammock (my go-to) and enjoy the performance. #As an experiment #I planted tomatoes #thyme #peppers #and shallots in a large container outside my kitchen window so that I could grab and go. The plants are happy and thriving. I’ve already ha #and thyme