#the blue one is incredible

[skyler-anderton]

Yassen (Novel version)

#Alex Rider #yassen gregorovich #fanart #you know #the blond one #“close cropped hair” #“clear blue eyes” #“pale” #“incredibly good-looking” #“Sleek”“dancer's body” #“almost feminine eyelashes” #I like all version of him but cant help myself to draw his appearance in the novel series #at least tried #not sure about chiseled lips would look like but my art style is not suitable to represent this feature i guess

[aplacetoputsomestuff]

It really is about the ‘golden retriever jock with a heart of gold’ boyfriend and the ‘creative dark-haired sometimes-smartass-but-actually-cares-lot’ boyfriend isn’t it

#heartstopper #young royals #red white and royal blue #our flag means death #Percy jackson #solangelo #Merlin #merthur #the only ones on this list who aren’t a canon couple incredible

[pippin-katz]

Allow me to share a thought I had today.

I always talk about what goes through the boys’ minds while they’re filming different types of scenes. What kind of random things pop into their minds while filming? Usually, I’m marveling and gushing over how well they’re able to portray the romance of Alex and Henry’s relationship. How do they act like a couple, in a way that is so similar to their real dynamic, and not get all the feelings confused? It’s incredibly impressive, and I think it’s such an interesting thing to ponder, but a new one occurred to me.

This:

I just fucking know that they have bloopers from this.

There is not a chance in hell that they didn't breakdown laughing at least once. I mean, geez, you have to stare at your friend for that long and then have a noticeable reaction to how sexy he is. 😳🫣

AND Taylor's back is completely to the camera, so he could make a face or mouth something and we'd never know, but Nicholas would. This is also the sequence after their couch scene that was the scene Matthew directly referred to when he talked about getting them to "shut up and do the scene"; I would be amazed if they didn't laugh.😂

#of course i can't confirm that #but i would be incredibly surprised if they didn't #we constantly see that they make each other laugh #and when nick was like “don't start” when taylor messed up and almost started laughing #because this is for sure a case where if one of them starts laughing #the other is going to start laughing #and then they will get the giggles™️ #red white & royal blue #rwrb #rwrb movie #rwrb behind the scenes #rwrb rambles #taylor zakhar perez #nicholas galitzine

[loptrcoptr]

The blue eye samurai fandom, for some reason

#I am once again asking if the kids are alright bc it doesn’t really seem like they are #friendly reminder that mizu kills people ny guys including unarmed randos and one unlucky teenager pissing his pants in a corner #but sure Taigen is irredeemable. lay off my emotional support blorbo. #blue eye samurai #taigen #and hey I love Akemi a buttload but she has at least nine lives or something no way would getting robbed in the woods #running off to a brothel and getting re kidnapped go half as well for anyone else #no one ever took advantage of her it’s incredible I’m glad and all but my god those were stupid risks to take #I’m so looking forward to her political intrigue character arc but let’s not act like she hasn’t done some dumbass shit #and Mizu’s a fucking mercenary. does she kill for money? no but she killed for information and she’ll kill anyone in her way to get what she #wants. taigen as far as we know has only killed peoples in duels and fights. he’s not out ganking randos. #the point of this show is that this is not your average cartoon and none of these characters are average black or white types #everyone’s grey and it’s all delicious #enjoy it.

[fischiee]

someone tell me why every yorkalina fic explains away the lighter thing as york being a smoker and carolina tries to convince him to stop by taking/being given his lighter...

you're really going to tell me the girl thats hardened by war at 24, has the world's most damaging relationship with her father, and has an addictive obsessive personality ISN'T a smoker like come on...

#his whole 'if i started with a pickup line i never would have seen her again' makes perfect sense in this narrative ok #also carolina was probably hardened by war before that but w/e #i choose to believe in the timeline where she's like 23/24 by the time she joins pfl so #anyway the church's all have addictive personalities and carolina has NEVER been one to try and hold somebody accountable like that #especially since their whole relationship was YORK trying to stop carolina from doing self-damaging thing #this is no hate to anyone who writes yorkalina fanfics like this i adore your please keep doing your incredible work im in awe of you #also no need to actually tell me i understand the message of it.. the trust... the love.. #yorkalina #rvb #red vs blue #agent carolina #agent york #agent new york

[boinin]

speechless

#one last thing to post about then I'll stop spamming leaks #but this is incredible bahahahah #blue lock #blue lock manga #blue lock manga spoilers #blue lock spoilers #blue lock leaks #itoshi rin #isagi yoichi #hiori yo #bllk chp 251 #bllk manga #mine #shitpost #gif

[weaponizedducks]

much as i love merlin and arthur they were NOT the blueprint. they were very nearly the blueprint, but the actual og's were from a book written in 1862 by Victor Hugo. that's right. it's enjolras and grantaire. the timeline goes exr-merthur-firstprince

#i'm right #viccy h was doing it before it was a thing #k so enj arthur and henry are all blonde and in a position of power #with a destiny and skill and crushing expectations and incredible loyalty #and socially awkward/clueless (do not tell me arthur is not socially awkward all his friends are just merlin's friends or gwen's brother) #all have a bit of a rivalry with annoying defiant brunette and don't realise how much they love them (exr truther till i die) #the brunettes themselves are annoyed by the blondes and love to antagonise them but end up loving them and dying looking at them (e and a) #R merlin and alex are all snarky bitches with (yet again) a complicated family relationship #a bitchy female best friend (using eponine and morgana for this bc i am an ep and R besties truther) #who know the destiny and how it will end (alex is the only one it turns out for) (r knows they will fail) (merlin knows arthur will die) #but who do everything they can to stay with blonde and prevent the ending (r goes as far as dying with e) #and end up devoting their life to blonde with unfathomable loyalty while also teasing them at every turn #their devotion gets to the point that blonde's life is worth more than their own #merlin #merthur #bbc merlin #red white and royal blue #firstprince #exr #enjoltaire #les miserables #but arthur and merlin are SO exr coded #none of this heartstopper-merlin-firstprince bullshit #heartstopper is the same time pretty much as firstprince and dont even act like the rest of them #they can't JUST be blonde and brunette they need the vibes to go along with it #victorian era- 2000's medieval- modern

[mokeonn]

Before I go to sleep I leave you all with this piece of advice: sometimes you don't actually have to answer big political questions, sometimes you can just say "I am not smart enough to know that, I just know the small things I do to help." Like you can often times completely avoid making a fool of yourself if you just say you don't know.

#simon says #to explain here and not in a reblog: #sometimes when you try to explain big picture solutions you're gonna sound dumb #you might not have done enough research #you might not have a rebuttal to a counter argument #you might not be articulate enough to explain why you think this #sometimes you gotta take a step back and give the simple solution. the one man solution #you do what you can to fight against the problem #you talk to people to help spread awareness and how to fight the bad problem #and you vote and invite others to vote for bigger steps towards solving the problem #like you can talk about theory and how you believe we need to do a huge drastic thing to solve and issue #but people will disagree and argue til you're blue in the face #they'll poke and prod until you mess up or lose your temper and use it against you #and you'll feel dumb and they'll learn nothing #sometimes the best thing to do is step away from the big picture and just say 'idk what the solution is I just know the things I can do“ #sometimes you gotta admit you're not a scientist/expert and you can't answer that #i used this while talking with my Dad tonight #he brought up our climate crisis and space travel as a possible solution #and I said I think that's just addressing the symptom and not the cause and we need to care for our Earth now #and he asked me what solutions I think would fix it #and knowing my incredibly smart Dad who is articulate and ready to throw rebuttles at a moments notice to play devils advocate #and my past experience in struggling in this topic with him before #i just told him I didn't know. all i knew is the little things I can and do do to help #and that hopefully by spreading the word and habits and encouraging others to vote for those bigger solutions I could help make a change #but all I really could do is the little things I have control over #and the topic became much less stressful about the little things we have control over #like planting native plants and recycling and adopting habits that are healthier to our planet #which was 100% more preferable to if I tried to give a big solution. because I would reveal i didn't have all the knowledge needed to argue #and my articulation would make me sound like a stupid kid who only thinks they know what's best #so yeah I basically suggest that if you dont wanna feel like shit after debating someone just step away from the big picture for a moment

[tj-crochets]

so in the past I have made themed gifts for people who have helped me* and it's been a little weird but like. Understandable to the person I am gifting the thing to weird? My current problem is that I want to make something for my endocrinologist because he has improved my quality of life hugely** but endocrinology doesn't have an easily themed gift and my endocrinologist reminds me very very strongly of like a sad greyhound or a whippet but I cannot explain to this very nice, very normal man that "hey I made you a plushie of a dog because I wanted to thank you for the steroids and you remind me of a dog. In a good way!" *like teeth plushies for the dentist who helped me figure out I have to have dental anesthetic without epinephrine in it, or a chicken plushie for the people at the chicken restaurant that went the extra mile to get their ingredients list that were the reason I figured out I'm allergic to coconut **I had what would have been a severe allergic reaction and it wasn't pleasant but I didn't end up in the hospital and I didn't take like a week minimum to recover and

#the person behind the yarn #I realize this is a problem of my own making #and that I very much do not need to make my endocrinologist anything #but it's such a HUGE difference in my life #he really does have like sad dog energy idk how to describe it #he wears very nice flannel shirts that I am slightly envious of because I'd never seen a blue and orange flannel before #and is like somehow even more obviously unthreatening than I am #like. I have PTSD. Had PTSD? Have? Not sure how to word that #I have worked through most of my major PTSD triggers but one thing that still gets me is people touching my neck #to the point where I have like flinched off the medical bed darted across the room kinda avoidance in previous medical appointments #I can mostly manage to sit still and let doctors touch my neck if I see it coming but I always flinch and I always hate it #and this guy is so incredibly unthreatening I didn't flinch at all and didn't even notice it was weird I didn't react negatively #until after I'd left his office #I am also (usually) seen as very unthreatening but mine is something I worked on deliberately for a while #(when I was working with toddlers) and also is made easier by the fact that I am very short and look younger than I am #idk how to describe how much this dude reminds me of a greyhound. WAIT NO he reminds me of a borzoi! #the wizard version of a greyhound

[dimension-20-every-introduction]

Everyone Introduced in Dimension 20′s Burrow's End episode 6

#dimension 20 spoilers #dimension 20 #d20 introductions #burrow's end #burrow's end spoilers #d20 burrow's end #go go go go go come on one more episode i'm almost caught up #THAT FUCKING SEQUENCE OF JAYSON AND THE BLUE I'M- #incredibly normal abt this

[nemo-of-house-hamartia]

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

#Carl Sagan #Pale Blue Dot #if only people were able to have a different perspective #if only for one moment they were able to leave the ego behind #and raise above themselves and truly see that in all this infinite universe #we are just tiny creatures of no consequences in the greate scheme of things #but that at the same time it's what we do with everyday that gives meaning to our own existence and makes us all all so incredibly precious #If you have never ready any book by Carl Sagan) #please do #I know that when I did it created a new humbling perspective for yours truly #I truly had an epiphany

[cloverstellar]

ok it’s all fun and games but the 2012 ninja turtles theme had no right to go as crazy as it does

#LEONARDOS THE LEADER IN BLUE DOES ANYTHING IT TAKES TO GET HIS NINJAS THRU #DONATELLO IS THE FELLOW HAS A WAY WITH MACHINES RAPHEALS GOT THE MOST ATTITUDE ON THE TEAM #MICHELANGELOOOO HES ONE OF A KIND AND YOU KNOW JUST WHERE TO FIND HIM WHEN ITS PARTAY TIME #MASTER SPLINTER TAUGHT EM EVERY SKILL THEY NEED TO BE ONE LEAN MEAN GREEN INCREDIBLE TEAM #TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 🕺🏻🕺🏻🕺🏻 #TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!!! #TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLESSS TURTLES IN A HALF SHELL- TURTLE POWAH #rose talks

[m00ngbin]

@teruthecreator !!!!

Hi hi hi go read The Forgotten Son by teruthecreator on ao3 it's really good I promise

You have to actually click on the pictures for them to look clearer, idk why tumblr keeps killing the image quality

#HEY! HEY! I FINISHED IT!! THE BIG THING!! #HAPPY SUPER INCREDIBLY BELATED BIRTHDAY MICH!!!!!!!!!!! IM SORRY THAT ITS THIS LATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #there is a mini comic im making of this scene and one of the others but those are taking FOREVER and i didnt want to make you wait longer #so. obviously the biggest thing does not have the right haircut #so i decided to sketch out what i would have tried to make it look like if i had had the right idea #but then i decided that i wanted to fuck around with the colors i was going to use #so hes purple and blue #oh teebus #TUMBLR KILLS THE IMAGE QUALITY EVERY TIME I SWEAR #it makes me SO MAD #my reference for the suit was a picture of zac efron in the ugliest brown suit ever #and he was just there staring at me the whole time #very unsettling #also everything else are little things i made while i was drawing the biggest thing #so theyre for you too #just for catagorizing -> #mp100 #artbin #i hope you like these!!! #tfs my beloved :33

[bunny-banana]

man life really is about small things. and sometimes big things. but really mostly small things

#i really think you need to be excited about all the small parts of daily life tbh #theres a building near campus that has had the Ukrainian flag hanigng from one of its windows for a good year now #and yknow obviously due to pollution nd stuff the flag looks super dirty by now. like grey-white instead of blue-yellow #BUT TODAY!!!11 i passed by and they got a BRAND NEW FLAG!!!!!! incredibly exciting to me personally

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE BEST OF GRISSOM ACADEMY

Featuring: Cmdr. Sophie Shepard, EDI, and Jack With: Flight Lt. Jeff "Joker" Moreau, Lt. James Vega, Ens. Jason Prangley, Ens. Rodriguez, David Archer, and Kahlee Sanders I never had a family- and these guys... Anyone screws with my students and I will tear them apart. Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)

#mira makes gifs ✨ #james vega #sophie shepard #jeff joker moreau #EDI #jack #subject zero #david archer #kahlee sanders #mass effect #mass effect 3 #me3 #mass effect legendary edition #dailygaming #grissom is literally my favorite side mission in ME3 so i was so excited to make this omg #it just has it all- good plot + solid witty one liners + an awesome bunch of characters + a nice emotional moment like #and it stars jack who’s like one of my favorite ME2 squaddies so ??? it’s just an all around iconic mission #EDI has so much good grissom dialogue too and she looks mighty cute in her lil hunter hood! 🥹 #james has a few really good lines too but none of the ones i liked were in the cutscenes so it was sooo hard to get more of him in the set #i will say i forgot how much good jack dialogue there is in grissom like i just love and stan my girl so much #and now when i see her i think of saoirse and seamus every time like that’s THEIR GIRL KICKING ASS!! ✨✨ #her lines with prangley and rodriguez are top notch too honestly #but honestly my favorite moment is still shep and EDI’s conversations with david #like EDI’s soft little ‘no apology is necessary’? #when david says ‘the number of days you lengthened my life’? #i tear up a little bit playing grissom every time bc overlord is the best ME2 dlc and you cannot change my mind #also soph once again eating in cleric’s fabulous guardian armors for shepard (which will always be famous✨) #like the shoulders?? the omni mark?? the set is just talented. brilliant. incredible. show-stopping. spectacular. beautiful. iconic. #and soph's usually rep'ing the purples/deep reddish pinks but did i make the omni mark blue so we could rep spectre alenko colors? #i’ll let you be the judge ✨

[daddy-long-legssss]

The Story Behind The Song: Arctic Monkeys’ early ambitions on ‘A Certain Romance’

Lucy Harbron – Far Out Magazine | January 17, 2024

It was 2006. Mortgages were crashing, and businesses were going bust. Tony Blair was on his last legs in office as the longest-serving prime minister since Margaret Thatcher, and the hangover of ‘Cool Brittania’ was beginning to set in with an unexpected ferocity. Things were bleak when a young Alex Turner sang, “There ain’t no romance around there” through the public’s speakers. Arctic Monkeys were about to write themselves into musical history as the voice of a new generation.

The final song on their debut album, there has always been something special about ‘A Certain Romance’. In 2022, after the release of their seventh album, The Car, Turner seemed to find himself reflecting back on that 2006 track. To the musician, that early cut holds a clue to everything that was to come as he said the piece “showed that we did actually have these ambitions beyond what we once thought we were capable of”.

Coming in at over the five-minute mark, ‘A Certain Romance’ almost feels like the Arctic Monkeys’ version of a rock opera, summarising all the themes, feelings and energy that came before it on their seminal album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. It has the cheekiness of ‘Fake Tales Of San Francisco’ and the catchy instrumentals of hits like ‘Dancing Shoes’ or ‘I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor’. Utilising the northern charm of ‘Mardy Bum’, it stands as a final, neatly summarising point on the social commentary found in their early tracks like ‘From The Ritz To The Rubble’ or ‘Riot Van’. Really, it could be argued that ‘A Certain Romance’ is the ultimate example of Arctic Monkeys’ original sound, perfectly encapsulating all the things that made the world listen up and pay attention.

It’s like they seemed to know that, too, always allowing the song a special place. In fact, it was really the band’s opening remark. Years before the offer of a debut album came around, the group were a well-oiled machine with their own local hits. They had the northern live music scene in their hands as their homemade demo CD was passed around like everyone’s worst-kept secret. Beneath the Boardwalk features eight out of the 13 songs that would be on Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, albeit in a slightly different, lower-quality version. But the opening number, ‘A Certain Romance’, sounds just the same.

It’s all there, from the rolling opening drums to that final guitar solo. Recorded and produced in a rented studio at only age 17, the existence of ‘A Certain Romance’, one of the band’s most explorative and energetic numbers, in this form this early in their career feels like a diamond sitting in a mine. It proves that they were always onto something special.

They never needed any help. In fact, their producer, Jim Abbiss, noted that they even seemed nervous about the help. “I think they were probably a bit weary, like ‘who’s this guy? And is he gonna make our sound this or that.’”

They didn’t want anything to change too much, as the group already had the songs figured out. Turner certainly did, as the track’s meandering narrative about hometown lads, fights, and local boredom is already there. Talking on a podcast, original member Andy Nicholson revealed the story behind the song. “We had a practice room with a pool table in, and we had a party in there, and we invited another band who were friends of ours, and we all had some drinks,” he said. “Then something happened, someone throws a pool cue, someone throws a pool ball, and everyone ends up fighting,” he added, explaining the lyrics, “there’s boys in bands / And kids who like to scrap with pool cues in their hands.”

But the magic of Arctic Monkeys lies in their nuance. What begins as a snooty analysis of his local landscape is a genuinely affectionate take. “Well, over there, there’s friends of mine / What can I say? I’ve known ’em for a long long time / And, yeah, they might overstep the line / But you just cannot get angry in the same way,” Turner sings, looking around at his bandmates and lifelong friends. ‘A Certain Romance’ is not only a time capsule for the group’s beginnings but is an ode to all the people who were there with them. It’s an ode to the hometown that made them and all its various characters.

But as the last guitar solo roars to life, there is an unspoken statement that they’re going to be bigger than what they came from. “I remember when we were recording ‘A Certain Romance’ and having a conversation with the producer about the final guitar solo,” Turner told NME, recalling the moment these songs were reworked for their debut. But they wouldn’t let anyone mess with ‘A Certain Romance’, knowing exactly what they were doing and trying to say with that one. In the 2003 demo version, all the feeling is already there, and Turner wouldn’t risk it.

“There’s something that happens at the end of that track where we break some rules in a single moment,” he continued. What happens at the end of the piece feels even more special, considering how the album was recorded. “These are the songs we wanna do, and I think this is the order we wanna do them in,” Alex Turner told their producer, recounting the conversation in 2007 to RadioX, “And he goes, ‘alright, we’ll try to record them in that order as well.’” As the final song, that last guitar solo is the last thing recorded for the album, standing as a cathartic outlet and a chance for the band to prove themselves.

“We focused on the [emotional] effect of the instrumentals over the words,” Turner reflected on the track, concluding, “and I feel like we’ve been trying to do that again and again since then.”

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#I could talk about 'A Certain Romance' until I'm blue in the face or a sobbing mess #lucy did a good job on this one #she perfectly encapsulated how this song makes me feel #the moment I heard it I knew that this band was something incredibly special #it is so near and dear to my heart I will never stop singing it's praise #the fact they made this song that is so compelling and takes you an emotional journey from the beginning to end over 20 years ago???? #and how protective they were of it when making the first album cause they knew it was something special #and Alex drawing similarities between 'ACR' and 'The Car' & letting the instrumental moments of the song convey more emotion than the lyri #like he always said they continue to follow the same instincts from the very beginning nearly 20 years later #i just want to write an ode to ACR so i can ramble on about it #but im gonna shut up for now #anyways please enjoy this article LOL #arctic monkeys #wpsiatwin #whatever people say i am that's what im not #a certain romance #alex turner #jamie cook #matt helders #nick o'malley #andy nicholson #far out magazine