#taken lessons

[thatgaywizardoverthere]

Arthur keeping tabs on Merlin day 1 so they can “accidentally” run into each other at the market

#listen #tell me im wrong #you just KNOW arthur put leon in charge of training that day like #‘I’ve just taken on a crucial task of the UTMOST IMPORTANCE’ #and it’s just orchestrating a follow up meet cute with a farm twink #arthurs two friends full on followed him the whole day thinking #‘I can’t wait for him to teach this peasant a lesson’ #and then it immediately turned out the lesson was just Homosexuality 101 #the reason arthurs friends are never seen with him again is cause they were like #… #‘so what the fuck was that 👀’ #and arthur was like #‘I will NOT accept this judgement of my princely actions’ #while ye olde bedazzling a MERLIN STAN tunic #in a land of myth #and a time of gays #merlin #arthur pendragon #merthur #bbc merlin

[hello-eeveev]

can we. can we talk about how in the final lucien fight, Essek failed to resist the slow effect from one of the eyes (he rolled two natural 1s in a row). canonically, he was weighed down with with so much shame and guilt that he could barely move—the same guilt that he is seriously considering going back in time to undo—and he didn’t use his fortune’s favor reroll to try to alleviate it.

but he did expend his mote of possibility when he struggled to pull Caleb out from under a building. no hesitation.

so. so. was he saving his fortune’s favor for the mighty nein? had he already decided not to use it for himself?

homeboy really said “I would break the world to undo my sins, but I will bear them if it means you survive.”

#‘I don’t fool myself into thinking I will absolve myself of those things #but I think that if I do enough I can at least carry it more easily.’ #‘I have taken your lessons to heart.’ #now flip it and reverse it #more late night wizard posting with eve #critical role #essek thelyss #caleb widogast #shadowgast #I was intending this to be about Essek caring for his friends #and not specifically about sg #but what can I say #the wizards have had an indelible effect on each other #late night wizard posting #eve talks

[whirligig-girl]

SHE JUST GOES STRAIGHT FOR A TWO-HANDED HAND SMOOCH!

This is like if she’d ran up to her new human study buddy and kissed her on the lips with tongue.

AND T’LYN JUST KINDA PUTS UP WITH IT!

YEAH I’LL GAY SHIP THIS!

#T'lyn #Tendi #Star Trek Lower Decks #Lower Decks #due to touch telepathy vulcans consider hand-to-hand contact to be intimate #this is a lesson we have learned from the spirk shippers #it's in canon but the spirk people have really taken it and run with it #t'lyndi

[doodle-list]

Guys its his revenge body 

#can you tell I've never taken a life drawing lesson in my life #my art #empires smp #empires smp fanart #empires s2 #empires season 2 #empires jimmy #jimmy solidarity #solidaritygaming #sheriff jimmy #villain jimmy

[thegingerwrites]

Fanbinding: am i a stranger to you? by @chasingfictions

Summary:

Just then, the last of the blood slipping from that boy into Spike, him and Dru grabbing for each other with their fangs in each other’s mouths, then walking hand in hand up Fifth Avenue, all the way back home, a little prayer croaks out of him, before he realizes enough to grab it back— Please. Please, let it be like this always. - (In which New York City is one of the various loves of Spike's unlife, he can’t stop thinking about the Slayer, and in which, mostly, he just really wants to belong somewhere, if anyone will have him.)

link here

I was inspired by the folks at the Renegade Bookbinding Guild and their Binderary 2024 events to try my hand at binding some of my favorite works of fanfiction. This one is the fifth part of chasingfictions my blood tastes like laughter series and has had a special place in my heart since 2021. I'm from NY and I read this between classes my first semester back at school during the pandemic and Spike's love for the city seemed to perfectly resonated with my own so I wanted to commemorate that in print!

This is the first text block I've ever sewn by hand. At four signatures, this seemed like a perfect starter project. I'm learning that part of designing books is doing it by ✨vibe✨ The gray/white/silver/gold marbled cover said New York to me, sort of a glass and concrete with a bit of shine aesthetic. I went with red end papers because vampires. The typesetting isn't too fancy but I really wanted to find an art deco ornament to separate sections of the fic. It took me a while to figure out how I wanted to decorate the spine. I originally used a gold foil quill to trace the text of the title and author but then went over it with a paint pen recommended in one of the Binderary sessions last month and fell in love with the effect. I can't believe my hand was steady enough to get it that clean 😅

#fanbinding #binderary2024 #spuffy #spikedru #btvs #chasingfictions #me at the end of february: these projects are such a great lesson in not letting perfection get in the way of good/done #me weeks later still not having taken the pictures: maybe i haven't learned that lesson just yet

[veidelon]

There was one picture I took of John at Paul's house when he was half-dressing, putting on his shirt. And he hated it. He said, "Look, Dezo, you say you want clean-cut pictures of us, so why do you use this? I look like a tramp!" I replied, "Yes, but your face... I never saw you look so human as on this picture." And it's possible that this word "human" made him think, because eventually he loved that picture most, much better than the rest of the portraits. After that he always said, "Why didn't you get the rest of the shirt in the picture?"

John Lennon, Dezo Hoffmann

#if you say so #john lennon #the beatles #this is from the intro but the caption says it was taken at the paris cinema #and i remember reading elsewhere that it was in jim/paul's kitchen #in which case i'm not sure why he's getting dressed there #anyway this is mostly noteworthy for the tramp comment obviously #but the 'human' part is interesting too #to be a tramp is to be human #lesson i learned today #lennon #myops

[brightsunnydaysofcastamere]

Why do I need a job why can't I just take art lessons and baking lessons and scuba diving lessons and piano lessons and figure skating lessons and woodworking lessons and bushcrafting lessons and pottery lessons and horse riding lessons and sailing lessons and archery lessons and foreign language lessons and climbing lessons and welding lessons and fencing lessons and cooking lessons until I die?

#these are all classes I have taken or wanted to take at some point lol #I just want to max out as many stats as possible is that too much to ask? #I contacted an ice skating club about lessons but they're full #which is probably for the best bc figure skating is expensive #also their adult lessons are on 7 am on saturdays W H Y #but a friend and I agreed to take scuba diving lessons together so I'm going to see about starting those in january or February #the club I want to join lets you borrow equipment for free in the first year #so I can hopefully get a bunch of qualifications without too much investment #personal #my posts

[christyturlingtn]

Theo telling Mabel that’s he’s going to miss her apartment must mean that they used to hang out a lot there🥺

#her ASL lessons must’ve taken place at the apartment AND I’m head cannoning that he helped decorate/design the apartment with her #theobel #theo mabel #OMITB

[immortalbutterflycos]

Hear me out:

Marine Biologist Regulus who can't swim and is terrified of the ocean so he started studying it so it wouldn't scare him as much and he ended up loving it. He's still terrified though.

It's like the whole Astronaut vs. Astrologist situation. Just because you love something and it fascinates you, doesn't mean you'd be willing to risk your life for it.

Bonus:

James is a scuba instructor and Sirius asks if he'll help Regulus learn to swim and get over his fear of the ocean so that he can go on this once-in-a-lifetime trip. He wants to go so badly but... So obviously James agrees to help, and things start off rough, but eventually James figures out what works for him, hijinks ensue, and they fall in love and Regulus asks him to go on the trip with him because James is the only reason he feels safe.

#the marauders #jegulus #marauders era #regulus black #james potter #starchaser #sirius black #I've actually taken scuba diving lessons before so this AU will actually be one I know something about!

[yuckydraws]

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Healing & Growth

(gif made by my friend @robanilla-arts is below - slight warning for flashing! Thanks again, Rob!)

#if you feel like reading it - I'm gonna ramble in the tags. #Don't really feel like having it attached to the post for forever... cause what if i just wanna reblog some fairysona art?? #anyways #this year sucked a lot. in a lot of ways. but im grateful for it. #healing is stupidly hard and annoyingly enough? not linear in the slightest. Yet infuriatingly - it is worth it. #I am far from done with healing. I've barely scratched the surface. #but im learning and connecting with myself along the way. #The biggest step I've taken this year is working on my people pleasing ways. it's a bad habit birthed from a lot of different traumas. #but it no longer rules my life. #I am not passive anymore - and surprise! that doesn't make me a horrible or evil person. #my kindness is no longer a weakness. its still a part of me and always will be. i won't let go of it. #but it is no longer to a fault #there are people undeserving of my kindness... i realize that now. I know what i will and will not put up with in every kind of relationshi #im still learning and exploring - and i've said a lot of goodbyes this year. I'm sure i will say more. #but that's okay. #some relationships are forever - some serve you for a while and teach you a lesson when they end. #and some relationships stick around and don't *have* to have a deeper connection #and that's also okay. #I didn't think I'd make it through this year in all honesty. I was very close to ending it all on multiple occasions. #But. for what it's worth - as of now im glad im here. #i will continue to struggle and have my hard times. im not naive enough to think depression just goes away. #but im okay for now and im moving forward. #there will be pauses and abrupt stops and likely some good ol' rotting involved. but when i can - ill be moving forward. #i will not speak a word of 2024 because no matter what it will have it's ups and downs. #but i will continue to keep working on myself. and that's all anyone can do in this weird life. #if you made it through all of that... uhhhh wow you got a crush on me or smth? /j/j/j/j #but fr - if you read this far... thank you. i hope you're faring well and that you have a happy celebration tonight. #sleep well and dream well when it comes to you #yucky draws #my art

[riverofrainbows]

It sends me a little spinning right now to realise just how much us trans men and trans mascs are erased and ignored.

Not only the amount of historical figures where every clue points to them being men where people insist they are women who wanted more rights. Like yes that existed but someone living his entire life as a man, referring to himself as a man in diaries and such and wanting to be buried stealth (which was ignored which is the only reason we know he was trans to begin with) does not scream "woman".

Then the next point, how people always say that there weren't any historical trans men, and how we know about such few of them. It's because people assigned female at birth back then didn't have rights. It's hard to run away and start a life as a man when you legally can't open a bank account ir get a job alone and are maybe stuck with unsupportive people or in an abusive marriage. And i didn't even realise how much this would have hindered historical fellow trans men's expression until recently because i hadn't seen anyone talk about this before that.

The fact that i thought it was common knowledge that hrt and surgery bans are more targeted at trans men, especially by TERFs, and sports bans and bathroom laws are more targeted at trans women, but somehow the first part always falls under the table in discussions about it. As if the one of the most influential books amongts transphobes in general isn't "Irreversible damage", a book that targets specifically trans men and our reproductive ability and "female pretty body". As if Ms Bossterf herself doesn't focus on trans men, and AUTISTIC TRANS MEN, for the bigger part of her manifesto. Them claiming to "protect" us against our own decisions doesn't actually mean forced detransition is protection just because they call it that. How can someone say that TERFs only focus on and intend to harm trans fems, and ignore the purposeful damage towards trans mascs?

And i want to make a short announcement that this post is not to ignore the transphobia against trans fems, because i know someone will claim it is, i am just focusing on trans men right now. People can talk about more than one topic at different times.

#own post #trans #trans men #transandrophobia #the fact that people afab couldn't get a driver's license without consent from their husband until THE SEVENTIES is why my autonomy is so #painfully important to me. especially on the background of how often disabled people's rights are taken away too #it was a post by spacelazarwolf with an addition by edgoeofdestruction #another point is that people try to deny us a term for our specific discrimination based on the very same arguments the big aphobia #campaigns were based #lessons from the past are apparently futile

[stormikitty]

My Parents: We didn't know you were interested in archery!

Me: *broke a ridiculous amount of clothing hangers as a little kid pretending they were bow and arrows* Literally how???

#archery #childhood #my parents are oblivious #1 summer they said they were gonna take us to learn archery but didn't say when #i got really excited and waited for a really long time but it never happened #then as a teenager i mentioned that i've always wanted to learn archery #and they were like #“you didn't seem interested when we took you and your siblings to archery lessons as a kid” #that's how i found out they went without me #but they refused to believe they didn't take me with them #i mentioned it to my brother and he said he remembered the lessons but that i hadn't been there #and i've still never taken archery lessons to this day #the thing with the hangers happened for years before they originally mentioned the archery lessons too #parents suck

[itsscottiesstark]

Okay but if season 3 doesn't include Crowley drunk in love singing "I was born to love you" by Queen to Aziraphale WHAT EVEN IS THE POINT

#no but imagine them making up #and the next morning aziraphale walks in to crowley mumbling the song to himself #and looks at him just like the gif #as if he's hung the stars to the sky because you know he has #and just as the first verse comes in crowley sees him standing there and just grins #ear to ear y'know what i mean #and sings loudly #“you are the one for me i am the man for you” #“you were made for me you're my ecstasy” #you know he'd give it his all #freddie would shake in his grave #cause you know crowley has taken performance lessons by the queen himself freddie mercury #azi's blush would cover every inch of his body #please someone write this #crowley #aziraphale #crowley x aziraphale #good omens #good omens season 3 #neil gaiman i beg of you #Crowley queen #michael sheen #david tennant #Spotify

[tzthrowbacks]

selfie game 101, given by the selfie queen herself :

#best selfie ever taken #can she post another one i feel like we need another lesson #zendaya

[unfortunatelyevent]

i’ve been trying to watch the shadowgast tower conversation in my ongoing c2 rewatch for like DAYS and i just can’t watch this normaly they are SO INTENSE AND FOR WHAT I’M JUST HERE AND THEN I HAVE TO PAUSE AND START GIGGLING BC IT FEELS SO PERSONAL AND I CAN’T WATCH THIS?? I’M GOING INSANE THEY-

#will i ever be normal about these wizards #it's about the 'in the best of all choices there would be less walls between us in general' #and the 'you don't have to say up you just have to think' 'it's fun to say tho' #and the 'already a quick student of dunamancy are you' ' i have taken your lessons to heart' #IT'LL BE THE MOST MUNDANE OF THINGS AND THEY'LL TALK LIKE THEY'RE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER'S SOULS #WHO FUICKJIN DOES THAT #i'm losing it over them again gays #shadowgast #cr2 #caleb widogast #essek thelyss #c2e133 #edit: I COULDN'T LEAVE IT OUT 'you know what a bunch of wizards in one place is? fuckin trouble' 'well if history has taught us anything is #that eventually it's just one left' KSJDHJKNFHS ISTG

[altargarden]

gonna take a shot at growing rosemary, i think

#bun talks #i have never taken care of a plant and i am very afraid #but also i'm excited to learn #and i think this will be a good lesson in learning to accept that i can fail and it's okay to fail