#so she shouldn't be surprised

[poisonousquinzel]

if y'all ever want a bit of modern harlivy angst that ends happy and doesn't feel laced with ooc toxicity in the like "oh the writer's apparent reference for ivy's characteristics in their relationship is plant ivy and that's it wow..." I'd recommend their little story from DC's Harley Quinn Romances cause <33333 it's very special to me

they make me unreasonably emotional

Ivy after reading Harley's au fic where she gets to punch Joker with her at prom:

#girlies really went and started making out in a rare flower very iconic #and the comment about ofc a plant would come before me 😭😭😭😭 because everything has always come before her in past relationships #so she shouldn't be surprised #but like it was only So important to get there on time so Harley could have the full experience of HER present #and like the way Ivy wasn't expecting her here #so she was fully ready to flat out take the whole ass plant back to her just so she could see it bloom #harley quinn #harleen quinzel #poison ivy #pamela isley #dc comics #harlivy #also there are full pages of the fic thats why it seems abrupt in the parts posted where Harley's asking if she's listening #there's time between them skdjsks #tw clown boy #even tho he is just being humiliated <3 skdjskks

[pixel-bloom]

Firefly: Look at me, look at me! Hah! I’m super strong. Stronger than any other kids I know. Auntie Bug, you aren’t looking!

Ladybug: For the hundredth time, yes, I can see you. Creator, this kid has way too much energy. I swear I’m never having kids, I can’t even handle this one.

Theo: Never--say--never. [Grunts] She is just excited to be outside, not a big deal.

Ladybug: Am I living in crazy town right now? Why is everyone so active this morning? [Laughs] Although, you do look good doing those push ups. 

Theo: HAH! It is the fresh, natural air. I feel rejuvenated.  We should have come here ages ago. 

#thats all theo does...push ups and stretches #so she shouldn't be surprised #theo #ladybug #firefly #gen 5 #insecta

[lunarin64art]

That feeling when he can't stand to see you that way, no matter what you do, no matter what you say😩😭💔

#scott pilgrims precious little life #scott pilgrim vs the world #spvtw #spto #scott pilgrim #wallace wells #lisa miller #scollace #kim pine #natalie adams #envy adams #don't rlly know if I like how this turned out but oh well;;; #hope its obvious that this is based on the song “Scott Pilgrim” which the creation the comics were inspired from #the lyrics always make me think of Wallace and Lisa's feelings for Scott every time I hear it #ofc you could also relate it to Kim especially since the singers voice kind of reminds me of her #but overall the lyrics fit these two much better since Scott never truly “saw them that way” despite how long they've liked him #and they always seem happier to see him compared to Kim #Im surprised tho that I havent yet seen anyone draw these two together now that their dialogue parallels have been acknowledged more lately #also tho I wish more people pointed out that they both got cucked by red heads LOL #and Kim and Envy actually do look really similar when scott first meets them #makes me wonder if Scott subconsciously went for Envy since she reminded him of Kim (which would be fitting given that you could argue that #Envy dated Scott because he reminded her of Todd. Since he and Scott are confirmed to be meant to be seen as similar to one another #so much so that even their first and last names rhyme #last thing I'll add tho is that while Wallace and Lisa are very similar even personality wise #the one big difference is that despite that whole conclusion on vol4 of Scott not cheating on Ramona with Lisa because he loves her #the writers apparently think it would be “organically correct” for him to have an affair with wallace LMAO #but I guess we shouldn't be surprised since Wallace and Ramona are both in the front of the official valentines art which is clearly #a deptiction of Scotts wet dream or smth (oh and you could also argue that Wallace and Lisa parallel on that art since they're both #shirtless with white socks.. which could be a reference to how lisa wears skimpy clothes for Scott and Wallace often only wears boxers #to like sexually frustrate Scott for fun or smth

[chwduplemon]

ONE PIECE LIVE-ACTION (2023–)

1.03 "Tell No Tales" // 1.04 "The Pirates Are Coming"

#i'm so glad they changed nami's “funny manga-ish” trait of beating the shit out of luffy when she isn't pleased with him #it's very logical ofc such things wouldn't be okay in a western live-action #so i shouldn't be surprised and i'm probably not but still quite happy about it #one piece #opla #oplaedit #tvedit #onepieceedit #netflixedit #fantasyedit #tvandfilm #dailyflicks #televisongifs #monkey d. luffy #nami #cinematv #cinemapix #tvarchive #my gifs #my edit #also these COLOURS guys! i luv them

[zellk]

Forgot to share here.... old doodles of when I finally came around to finding a design I like for Qalaari's mom !!

#it's so fucking funny to me that i inadvertently gave her a variant of the “mom about to die” haircut because... well... #surprise... she did die when Qalaa was young (12) :'^) #Qalaa (now between 20 and 22) still hasn't gotten over it #her mom had really weak health and really shouldn't have had a child but she made her choice #it turned out to be not the best one for her health LMAO #who wouldve thunk #but hey she wanted it and i'm pretty sure she doesn't regret it #but well... Qalaa does feel like she was a participant in her mom's death #(the other participant being her biological father who ran away before she was born and shattered aamira's heart) #ANYWAYS #i love qalaa's messed up familly #it's like a regular messed up story where actually no one (and everyone) is to blame (except Qalaa lmao she asked for NOTHING) #Aaamira gave so so much love to her child ;;;;;; this built the unbreakable core of Qalaa's kindness #aamira #aamira croquelune #aamira molandine #croquelune #still thinking about making that potentiel small DnD 'lore addon' of Qalaa's village that you can take and plug in your very own campaign #as long as you have 'far from civilization' woods or mountains you can put them in there #a village that welcomes the 'monsters' and the cast out #(like aamira) #look at me rambling in the tags lmao i just love qalaari (& her background) so much #last thing tho : you have to understand that Aamira is small and very slight and Qalaari was a HUGE baby and is a really big girl overall

[fromtheseventhhell]

“So you pray. Have you considered your sisters? What of their rights? I agree that the North must not be permitted to pass to the Imp, but what of Arya? By law, she comes after Sansa…your own sister, trueborn…” “…and dead. No one has seen or heard of Arya since they cut Father’s head off. Why do you lie to yourself? Arya’s gone, the same as Bran and Rickon, and they’ll kill Sansa too once the dwarf gets a child from her. Jon is the only brother that remains to me. Should I die without issue, I want him to succeed me as King in the North. I had hoped you would support my choice.” (Catelyn V, ASOS)

This is truly one of, if not the, most erased passages in the books. People either completely ignore its existence or act as though George wrote it in some secret, coded language that makes it all ambiguous.

#asoiaf #robb stark #catelyn stark #arya stark #jon snow #fandom nonsense #people really stick their heads in the sand for this one #Sansa's marriage to Tyrion causing a conflict to her succession status #Arya being discussed as heir over Sansa and not being chosen ONLY because she is presumed dead #Jon being unambiguously chosen as Robb's heir which somehow gets ignored a lot??? #/George left everything so vague around Robb's will/ and Cat and Robb literally spell everything out in the conversation they have #I mean I shouldn't be surprised by anything at this point but 🙄 #Anyways just cause fandom ignores it doesn't mean George will #Arya can be heir over Sansa and Jon IS named heir and legitimatized

[wonder-worker]

"[Elizabeth Woodville's] piety as queen seems to have been broadly conventional for a fifteenth-century royal, encompassing pilgrimages, membership of various fraternities, a particular devotion to her name saint, notable generosity to the Carthusians, and the foundation of a chantry at Westminster after her son was born there. ['On other occasions she supported planned religious foundations in London, […] made generous gifts to Eton College, and petitioned the pope to extend the circumstances in which indulgences could be acquired by observing the feast of the Visitation']. One possible indicator of a more personal, and more sophisticated, thread in her piety is a book of Hours of the Guardian Angel which Sutton and Visser-Fuchs have argued was commissioned for her, very possibly at her request."

-J.L. Laynesmith, "Elizabeth Woodville: The Knight's Widow", "Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty"

#historicwomendaily #elizabeth woodville #my post #friendly reminder that there's nothing indicating that Elizabeth was exceptionally pious or that her piety was 'beyond purely conventional' #(something first claimed by Anne Crawford who simultaneously claimed that Elizabeth was 'grasping and totally lacking in scruple' so...) #EW's piety as queen may have stood out compared to former 15th century predecessors and definitely stood out compared to her husband #but her actions in themselves were not especially novel or 'beyond normal' and by themselves don't indicate unusual piety on her part #As Laynesmith's more recent research observes they seem to have been 'broadly conventional' #A conclusion arrived at Derek Neal as well who also points out that in general queens and elite noblewomen simply had wider means #of 'visible material expression of [their] personal devotion' - and also emphasizes how we should look at their wider circumstances #to understand their actions (eg: the death of Elizabeth's son George in 1479 as a motivating factor) #It's nice that we know a bit about Elizabeth's more personal piety - for eg she seems to have developed an attachment to Westminster Abbey #It's possible her (outward) piety increased across her queenship - she undertook most of her religious projects in later years #But again - none of them indicate the *level* of her piety (ie: they don't indicate that she was beyond conventionally pious) #By 1475 it seems that contemporaries identified Cecily Neville as the most personally devout from the Yorkist family #(though Elizabeth and even Cecily's sons were far greater patrons) #I think people also assume this because of her retirement to Westminster post 1485 #which doesn't work because 1) we don't actually know when she retired? as Laynesmith says there is no actual evidence for the traditional #date of 12 February 1487 #2) she had very secular reasons for retiring (grief over the death of her children? her lack of dower lands or estates which most other #widows had? her options were very limited; choosing to reside in the abbey is not particularly surprising. it's a massive and unneeded jump #to claim that it was motivated solely by piety (especially because it wasn't a complete 'retirement' in the way people assume it was) #I think historians have a habit of using her piety as a GOTCHA!' point against her vilification - which is a flawed and stupid argument #Elizabeth could be the most pious individual in the world and still be the pantomime villain Ricardians/Yorkists claim she was #They're not mutually exclusive; this line of thinking is useless #I think this also stems from the fact that we simply know very little about Elizabeth as an individual (ie: her hobbies/interests) #certainly far less than we do for other prominent women Margaret of Anjou; Elizabeth of York;; Cecily Neville or Margaret Beaufort #and I think rather than emphasizing that gap of knowledge her historians merely try to fill it up with 'she was pious!' #which is ... an incredibly lackluster take. I think it's better to just acknowledge that we don't know much about this historical figure #ie: I do wish that her piety and patronage was emphasized more yes. but it shouldn't flip too far to the other side either.

[emiliosandozsequence]

honest to g-d what do you people have against chani?? especially those of you that have only seen the films??? what makes you stan alia or irulan who are barely BARELY in the film over chani??? we can talk all we want how fandom preferences don't reflect your politics, but really, if you haven't read the books and you prefer irulan, i am going to be side-eyeing you because there's no reason for that beyond the fact she's white.

#frankly i wonder about those of you that HAVE read the books that have an issue with chani when she's so significant to the story #and she does literally nothing wrong the whole story lmao #or those of you that ONLY talk about the white girls #(or even g-d forbid push chani aside and talk about the white girls like they've got her plot/personality #especially those of you that were not only doing that before this film but after you'd read the books; yes i've literally seen this) #you could not be more transparent #but this website is infested with white people who love to claim they're not racist while acting like diet racists #so i guess i really shouldn't be surprised lmao #emilio.txt #dune

[get-back-homeward]

The thread from the weekend of the Beatles’ 1967 Bangor trip and Brian’s death to the vultures descending and India...

'He was like your father. I will be your father now.’

I think John got particularly frightened.

There was no one steering the ship.

...they were all there for the rich pickings called the Beatles. I thought it was a very sinister meeting.

Well, no, I’m afraid not, Robert.

They were able to fall back on what the Maharishi would advise...

John wasn’t in good shape at that time...Paul took the lead in Brian’s absence.

Brian’s death kind of opened the floodgates.

The trouble with him dying at that moment was that it actually pushed them into the arms of the Maharishi, whereas if he hadn’t died, it would have blown over...The Beatles would not have gone to India and all these things would not have happened.

From Debbie Geller’s In My Life: The Brian Epstein Story (2000) [x]

#debbie geller #the brian epstein story #brian epstein #the beatles #mine #marianne faithfull #every time i read marianne’s takes about brian and the band they feel like a fresh breath of air from all the terrible takes out there #so i shouldn't be surprised that she saw the link between brian's death and the beatles clinging to the maharishi as tied together #she was with them that weekend in bangor so she has one of the closest views of it all #she has quite a scathing view of the maharishi but her what if is sound #albeit devastating #(i actually don't think mediation was a terrible idea for them overall given all the anxiety and burnout they had by 67 #but i imagine the cultishness of 60s gurus pushing hindu philosophy in the vein of pyramid scheme marketing would be a turn off) #1967 #bug reading list #apple corps #im gonna have to add more joanne peterson's quotes in another post but her quotes read as forthright and accurate too #joanne petersen #her account of the 27th is harrowing #the men quoted are all weird about brian and sketch #peter brown and geoffrey ellis and robert stigwood #all vultures descending...

[wedding-shemp]

It's been almost a decade since the first issue of Ms Marvel came out. I've gotten so much older and Kamala is still 16. That's so strange

#I know superheroes don't age #But that's a character who was the same age as me when she debuted #So I'm always surprised to remember that she hasn't grown up along with me #I love Kamala Khan sm she was MY superhero #She still is but she's still in high school and I'm not. It shouldn't be strange but it is

[pochapal]

feeling feverishly sick again. lmao.

#:) #it's not even been six weeks since i last had covid this shit can't keep happening to me!!! #this is supposed to be my hot girl success year (as foretold by The Prophecies) i can't keep getting whacked with illnesses like this! #i mean why am i surprised the Diseases keep getting me i have a parent who works in a pathogen ground zero career lmao #my mother brought it in from some kid at the school she works at. it is usually always those kids from that school #someone should really invent a sickness i am not affected by this routine is so Boring to me at this point #anyway! no more bitching i'm gonna go generate vibes that this doesn't progress into anything and get on with my life lol #shouldn't affect my liveblog tomorrow since i think based on symptom appearance monday/tuesday will be the Death Day (if it happens)

[daz4i]

when people from your past remember you fondly and are excited to meet you again

#my mom goes to the same acting school i went to and she mentioned me around the owner + another worker i knew well #and they were apparently very excited and immediately remembered what show i was in and such #and that they hope i come to her course end show so they can meet me again #omg????? #honestly very cool. i always thought i was very down low akskgllj #the owner of this school did love me tho. like when giving us our certificates(?) she said she wants to talk abt me first #and that i have a natural talent even when I'm so young ajdkflh (youngest student at that school ever 🫡 started at 17) #so maybe i shouldn't be surprised. but i still am :P

[keyofjetwolf]

I'm knitting Midgey a stuffed bunny for Hanukkah. Finished the first ear and got it attached tonight.

#it's coming out a little smaller than I expected #i have absolutely shit ability to visualize size and dimensions #so this shouldn't surprise me #does disappoint me a little #but I don't have time to start again now #I'll just have to hope she likes it anyway #life with jet wolf #jet wolf masters knitting #the aunt teddy chronicles

[tricoufamily]

SHE'S BEAUTIFULLLL

#exactly what i was picturing in my head #so the story with this house is back in the 50s when benicio and dominique were moving to america dominique was not happy about it at all #(they were just married and jacques's not born yet) #so to shut her up benicio had this HUGE 'french' mansion built for them before they got there and he was keeping it a surprise #(it's like not french at all) #they arrive dominique sees this incredible house the most beautiful building for miles. and she turns to benicio and says 'what is this.' #so she hated this house she always found problems to tell benicio about. but jacques was born (literally) and raised here and owns it now #(kinda seems like you should feel bad for benicio here. you shouldn't) #dominique gave it to jacques after benicio died saying she despises it he should just take it #then when jacques got engaged and dominique hated her it was 'you're going to let that WOMAN live in our beautiful home????????????' #she's the fucking worst i love her #this is the fall: extras

[your-god-empress-lavender]

Henrow blorbo

first off, ohmyfuckinggodyouaresocoolllllllllllllllll

secondly, what ya workin' on currently? <- is deathly interested, yes please please please info dump if you have the spoons

- Ryan

Bonjour my furry friend. At the moment i'm mostly working on getting a job so that i can afford rent, but when i'm not doing that, i'm working on designing some new N-substituted 5MeO-tryptamines (in order to avoid being banned for breaking tumblr TOS, i can't say exactly what for, but if you look up 5MeO-tryptamines, you should see). So far i've only managed to make things that make me super sleepy (and maybe a tiny bit inebriated), so presumably my body is mainly metabolizing them into melatonin. I also have been working on working through the details of making a rocket engine which relies on both muon catalyzed fusion and z-pinch fusion (mostly because even though i know it's way above what i'm probably capable of, i just love space so much i desperately need to see it for myself and i figure that since rockets are so absurdly expensive, the only way i'll end up in space is if we can get a whole new generation of ultra-efficient rockets (for example, given p-N14 fusion, if we manage to get 1% or more (i don't really expect more than 0.1% max, but still) of the hydrogen fusing with nitrogen, we'd be able to put 150 tons on the moon from earth with only using about enough fuel to fill a small car (instead of needing a skyscraper sized rocket to send maybe 30 tons)). Now, if it were as easy as my calculations show it to be, i can't imagine how there are any rockets flown that aren't fusion, but seeing as i haven't even made a working proof of concept yet, i'm not in a position to criticize the thousands of aerospace engineers who are working on conventional chemical rockets. I love fusion because it's simultaneously so easy (i live pretty close to an old uranium mine where i can actually pan some uranium out of the creek near me, then use that uranium to make a neutron source (B10(α,n)) which is really just fusion between helium and boron, happening at room temperature because of how high energy the α particles released by uranium are) and so absurdly difficult (without catalysts like muons, it requires absurdly high temperatures and pressures that almost always take more energy put in than they can give out). Anyway, i've also been sorta working on studying a material that a while back i got way too excited over and may have called a room temperature superconductor (almost certainly not the case), but in an attempt to make it more pure and study it for real i've been trying to work on the exact calculations of its composition and finding a better way to heat it up to high temperatures (i might just but it in a flat-bottomed flask, especially since it finally warmed up enough for me to go back outside where the fumes released by its production won't make folks mad).

And then there's the biological experiments, currently with electroceutical tissue modifications since most of the other projects i have planned require me to have a gene printer capable of reliably printing genes thousands of base pairs long and i'm not sure when i'll be able to build that. The most recent thing i've been working on is really exciting because if it works it means that i've successfully done something that has never been done before to a human body (and given the long lasting pain in that part of my thigh, it seems very possible it is working), but i'm hesitant about sharing what the project is because i don't really want folks putting gap junction blockers, calcium channel blockers, and sodium channel blockers into open wounds without knowing how to do it safely and correctly to get the desired results and not just a really messed up wound. If/when this experiment turns out well, i might give directions in private, but i'm still somewhat hesitant due to the risks inherent in this (the biggest and most likely is literally giving yourself a form of cancer, something i'm not eager for others to risk). Soon i might try chemical dedifferentiation of skin cells (thinking on my back or upper arms) followed by some mildly dangerous experiments to test how reliably i can make it turn into other cell types. And while i haven't made good work on it in a while, i've also been trying to make something similar to shimmer from arcane (ideally not addictive or harmful to the user, but most importantly the quick energy burst, decreased pain, and increased regenerative abilities (obviously it won't be anywhere near as dramatic as in the show, so calling it shimmer may not really make sense, but it is where i got the inspiration)).

Then i suppose there's the battery project i was talking about in my last post, and i'm also trying to learn how to make alcohol under my desk (i mean, it's super easy, it just doesn't taste great). There might be a few more things i'm working on but rn i'm super eepy and have talked about a lot already. If this seems like i'm doing a lot or impressive, also note that i'm actively failing out of college (for my own pride: the material is super easy and mostly i already know it, i just can't stand wasting so much of my time doing homework that doesn't help anyone or anything) and not yet working a job, so i have a lot of time and so much free brainspace to think about and do all this. I also work very slowly on each thing because i keep bouncing back and forth between all of them and almost always end up adding new projects before i've finished the old ones and so i almost never see a project all the way through to completion (at least some of the bio projects are just sitting in my body and i am just waiting to see how they turn out in the next 2-3 months, so those necessarily will see completion, even if it's failure). I really hope i see the fusion rocket to completion because if i don't think i'll ever be able to see the earth from afar or the moon from up close.

#idk #answer to your ask #i hope this is mostly complete #also wow this is long #that's what she said #i'm kinda surprised how many projects i have #i don't often count them #but yeah here they are #i promise i'm not trying to use this for evil #also college kinda sucks because everyone assumes you know nothing and are incapable of learning #not saying you shouldn't go but just that in my experience it ain't worth it #you can learn so much more from the internet and free courses offered online (oer and mit opencourseware are good starting places) #also now that i've shared these projects i hope that makes me feel more accountable and have more need to actually finish all of them #i have so much schoolwork i gotta do and probably won't #1.37 gpa first semester was impressively bad #legitimately went into college thinking i would be challenged and enjoy it but now it's like #“wow i know all of this and yet i am required to spend 8+ hours on homework each day in order to pass even with perfect test scores” #anyway sorry that probably sounds like i'm being super annoying #these tags are getting super long #byeeeeee

[polyamorousmood]

So in an effort to fulfill certain promises made on this blog, I have begun reading Open by Rachel Krantz, and I will give a less biased review when I finish it or decide I hate it too much to continue.

But for now suffice to say:

"You're not as hard to figure out as you think, you know. I got who you are by our second date, and nothing you've done since has surprised me." This statement struck me as both arrogant and exciting -- like many things he said.

Girl, what.

#she says in the forward this is a ''how-not-to'' so I guess I shouldn't be surprised but rn I do not like the author lol #live-booking (live-blogging with books) #<- gonna be the tag for this shit moving forward