#we push forward

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Turtle Takedown Teamwork.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #tulu xuanwu #Something about changing the action sequence to something gentle is hilarious to me. #The lesson here is “Be nice to turtles. They are gentle creatures. And many are very endangered.” #don't get me wrong here; I love this scene a lot. LWJ's string technique is one of my favoyrite things. #We do get a fair amount of LWJ fighting but I always loved how the theme of strings comes into play. #There is actually a lot to unpack with LWJ being associate with 'strings'. #The musicianship: Of dedication and rigor in one's practice. #The tension between following along a path or composing your own way forwards (playing what has been written vs composing) #A string is a tightly coiled/taunt entity; The same tension that makes it sing so beautifully can be it's downfall if pushed too hard. #And as a non-musical string - something that binds. Be it to his sect and family or how he binds his fate to WWX - #LWJ cannot exist without his binds. It is not something which ties him down though. It keeps him together. #And he himself *is* a bind. He 'ties wwx down' in ways that are initially negatively viewed ('come to gusu' - feels like: come be trapped) #But later it is shown how (despite being introduced as a free spirit) WWX truly wants to be bound to something and someone. #Marriage is a bind he wants. He wants to be tied and grounded by LWJ. #It's starting to sound like innuendo. Let's call his fondness for being literally tied up smart thematic writing. #Finally. Sex scenes that are important to the plot and characters

[ikiprian]

Barbara Gordon's Coding & Computer Cram School is a popular YouTube series. Tucker Foley is a star student.

Barbara Gordon's Cram School posts free online courses for both coding and computer engineering. Think Crash Course in terms of entertainment, but college lecture in terms of depth. Hundreds of thousands of viewers flock to it— students who missed a class, people looking to add new skills to a resume, even simple hobbyists. It’s a project Barbara’s proud of.

Sometimes, when she wants to relax, she’ll even hop in the comments and spend an afternoon troubleshooting a viewer’s project with them.

User “Fryer-Tuck” has especially interesting ones. Barbara finds herself seeking out his comments, checking in on whatever this crazy kid is making next. An app for collecting GPS pings and assembling them on a map in real-time, an algorithm that connects geographic points to predict something’s movement taking a hundred other variables into account, simplified versions of incredibly complex homemade programs so they can run on incredibly limited CPU’s.

(Barbara wants to buy the kid a PC. It seems he’s got natural talent, but he keeps making reference to a PDA. Talk about 90’s! This guy’s hardware probably predates his birth.)

She chats with him more and more, switching to less public PM threads, and eventually, he opens up. His latest project, though, is not something Barbara has personal experience with.

FT: so if you found, hypothetically, a mysterious glowing substance that affects tech in weird and wacky ways that could totally have potential but might be vaguely sentient/otherworldly…. what would you do and how would you experiment with it. safely, of course. and hypothetically

BG: I’d make sure all my tests were in disposable devices and quarantined programs to keep it from infecting my important stuff. Dare I ask… how weird and wacky is it?

FT: uhhh. theoretically, a person composed of this substance once used it to enter a video game. like physical body, into the computer, onto the screen? moving around and talking and fighting enemies within the game?

FT: its been experimented with before, but not on any tech with a brain. just basic shields and blasters and stuff, its an energy source. also was put in a car once

FT: i wanna see how it affects software, yk? bc i already know it can. mess around and see how far i can push it

BG: […]

FT: … barbara?

BG: Sorry, thinking. Would you mind sharing more details? You said “blasters?”

Honestly. Kid genius with access to some truly wacky materials and even wackier weapons, she needs to start a file on him before he full sends to either hero or villain.

[OR: Tucker is a self-taught hacker, but if he were to credit a teacher, he'd name Barbara Gordon's Coding & Computer Cram School! He's even caught the attention of Dr. Gordon herself. She's full of sage advice, and with how she preaches the value of a good VPN, he's sure she's not pro-government. Maybe she'll help him as he studies the many applications of ecto-tech!]

#she does end up sending tucker a PC lol #and after she learns he has experience supporting a superhero team maybe pushes his name forward to WEs outreach program for r&d potentials #picks him up by the scruff and says MY coding buddy #also fun fact she had a phd in library science at one point. i like that about her i think we should talk about it a little more #also tucker was making a ghost reporting & tracking app for amity parkers #dpxdc #dcxdp #barbara gordon #tucker foley #prompt #kipwrite

[autumnhobbit]

please pray for my grandad-in-law in the coming months, it’s suspected he has cancer in his lymph nodes and there’s a plan for surgery but he also has pretty severe heart failure so general anesthetic is risky.

#both zach and grandma-in-law have an anxiety thing going where ever since he got sick #it’s just ‘oh the Inevitable is finally here’ #Zach i’ve managed to convince to at least try to push back panic with ‘I don’t know the outcome I will go forward acknowledging that #the worst could happen but also knowing that it also might not’ #but his grandma is a wreck and I know it’s gonna get worse as we get closer to all the big stuff #please especially pray for peace in their family because let’s just say there’s some stuff that needs to be in order #and some silly conflicts they need to settle #prayer request

[andoutofharm]

honestly ironic that it was a folie 8 ball on the night they didnt play any mania

i have said this before but mania is currently undergoing the same process folie has been undergoing the last few years, it’s just earlier in its timeline. maybe it’s not been entirely the reaction and treatment from the fans and more the personal frustration and emotions associated with the album for the band, but the fan reactions could possibly play a part in why they’re reluctant to play these songs compared to the other albums.

folie underwent this same process - after the break patrick didn’t even want to play the songs from it, and it’s only in the last few months that they’ve added them back with any confidence. I’m hopeful that the reaction from the fans to these songs being integrated into the setlist encourages the band that they can do this with mania too. they have said multiple times that they are proud of mania and they stand by what they did on that album, and i hope in tours to come they can play songs from mania and not worry about how fans will react (and also have grown from this tour cycle enough to be confident and comfortable as well).

#pete mentioned in the RATS podcast that the 8 ball as an entity has really pushed them out of their comfort zones #and i think that means we will see a lot more from them going forward #it is also possible that they cut lotro tonight because it definitely is one of the ones where patrick is most active on stage #and could be more of a strain than wcs or ginasfs #anyway. idk i love mania so much and i hope they give us justice soon i miss her so much

[unknowablecore]

god give me the strength to finish this eventually

#i took another like 2 months off working on it lol but we push forward #my art #wip #ronan lynch

[iguessitsjustme]

No YOU'RE crying over a sibling relationship ruined by a mistake and an accident. YOU'RE crying over Night trying everything in his power to be better. To be the brother Day always wanted and failing, failing, failing because nothing he does can change what has happened. YOU'RE crying over Day knowing it's an accident but still unable to forgive. YOU'RE crying over Night reaching out to their dad for the first time in years because he was so racked with guilt but he couldn't let Day or his mother see his tears because Day needed the attention and love at that moment. YOU'RE crying over Night letting himself be Day's punching bag because he blames himself and will never forgive himself for what happened. YOU'RE crying over how Night is going to react when he learns that Day's sight is completely gone. It's definitely not me crying nope.

#last twilight #last twilight the series #last twilight series #last twilight bl #i lowkey hope we get night pushing back against his mother when she tries to separate day and mhok #i hope he starts fighting for what has been actually healing day instead of constantly babying him #i also hope he is able to start living his own life and is able to leave the shadow of his guilt over day #because those two cannot move forward and repair their relationship until night stops trying to live a life for day #and starts living a life for himself

[theriverbeyond]

🗡💀WE DO BONES, MOTHERFUCKER💀🗡

Harrow @trickstercheshi // Gideon: @theriverbeyond

bonus: CavCab™, the best on demand-ish necromancer transport system in the Nine Houses (CavCab™ assumes no liability for head bangs, kicks, drops, or any other injuries sustained during transportation)

#the locked tomb #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #tlt cosplay #the locked tomb cosplay #gideon cosplay progress tag #gideon nav talking time #<- those two r my cosplay tags..... #anyway this was so much fun!!! <3 love u #hate that my robe is falling off my rt shoulder in almost every single pic but we move forward. it is fine. #posting this in the middle of my productivity sprint bc i live based on vibes only. and also i had it drafted. #all images have alt text #i wanted to add more emojis but that would have pushed it to multiple lines on mobile :/

[jeida-chi]

"What does my mentor do besides bring me roses?"

So I actually HATED how this portrait turned out (the oil pastels finally betrayed me 😔🥲) but aside from the eyes WHICH LOOK WRONG the color work was banging and I didn’t want it to go to waste (but still didn’t feel like spending more hours trying to save it;;;;) sooo yeah we’re going for artistic rendition idk lmaooo

thematically I think it works though hehe 🤭

Added the unaltered drawing if anyone is curious what it looked like 🙈

#I could probably have gotten away with pretending the whole thing was planned and no one would have known except #my friends and ppl in the Snowbaird discord lol #But I don’t believe in dishonesty and tbh I think it’s important as artists to be forward about the fact that sometimes we fuck up #Plus sometimes the fuck up will push you to go in an artistic direction you wouldn’t have tried otherwise like here! #coriolanus snow #coriolanus snow fanart #tbosas fanart #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the ballad of songbirds and snakes fanart #my art #Fanart #art #oil pastels #oil pastel art #oil pastel drawing #oil pastel portrait #oil pastel on black paper #oil pastel #jeida-chi #burntblueberrywaffles #tom blyth #tom blyth fanart

[smoosnoom]

one of my biggest pet peeves is people in this fandom telling others how to characterize a character . like the inherent beauty of fiction and media is that the interpretations are limitless, and u want to crop that all out to the same character depiction ? don't u get bored ? don't u want to see something different ? and the especially amazing part of the internet is that if u don't like it u can just click away ! isnt that beautiful !!!

#i say this like the pretentiousness is going to stop #and some of u are just so confidently incorrect #pushing out facts from the show to pull forward ur own agenda of some stereotype or another of a character #have we considered . characters can be multifaceted #the cool thing is that chracters can be multiple things at once ! wow ! #anyeay #is this mean probably #but i am fed up #i dont think most fandoms police characterization like this ever #some of u have a weird entitlement and i abhor it #/moon #byler #this is especially towards #will byers #and #mike wheeler

[awkwardbunnyarts]

On January 17, Bisan called for another global strike! Please participate if you can! There are ways to help look through the whole post! This is no time to just be look online! Send huge amounts of postcards to you representatives, flood their phones with calls for a ceasefire, join protests, don't shop with corporations! Continue to BOYCOTT!

#free palestine #palestine #protest #fight the power #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #how to help #push forward #we can do this

[starscour]

closer. 

#bnha #dabihawks #hotwings #bnha hawks #dabi #keigo takami #touya todoroki #bnha fanart #my art #hello dabihawks nation how are we feeling today. i drew them holding eachother again (but better this time) #also pushing forward with my Buff Hawks agenda because i have a slight bit more anatomy knowledge

[encrucijada]

3k on haze dogs 🫶

#we officially have an acacia introduction!!! #and officially we might be abandoning acacia as a cousin. she's a sister now. debating whether she'll still be blonde #i am Not reading back any of this because oh god oh fuck we are just Pushing Forward and praying to god #if i finish chap1 i will make this my camp nano project #pia.txt #( wip ) haze dogs

[cutter-kirby]

happy pride month to arthur lester’s aromantic ass

#malevolent #i wasn’t planning on this being my first pride post but there wasn’t anything on my dash to my knowledge #but anyway there’s too many newbies in the tag. we need to push aro arthur forward #(mandated disclaimer of you can interpret him however you want.) #(but he’s the most aromantic motherfucker I’ve seen in a while) #happy pride to john too :) #aromantic arthur lester

[fromtheseventhhell]

Sometimes I wonder if it even makes sense for Arya's first stop back in Westeros to be in the Riverlands. I feel the same way as Arya's response to the Kindly Man when he offers to get her on a ship leaving for Duskendale and Gulltown. She just got there from the Riverlands, what point is there to go straight back? Especially with the way it seems to become a meandering hell for every POV there lol. What developments in TWOW would motivate her to go there? I can really only think of wanting to reunite with Nymeria, or if the faceless men are touchy about cheating death and put a mark on either Lady Stoneheart or Jon that she either has to fulfill or prevent.

It's just when I see actual Arya fans speculate on her TWOW arc it's about running into Jeyne and finding out what's been going on in the North through her name, finding out about Jon's death or resurrection, something to do with the Hardhome wildlings, Bran watching Nymeria through the trees and maybe contacting her the same way he did with Jon, discovering what's going on with the Sealord and maybe getting in his favor, anything involving the keyholders and the Iron Bank, potentially discovering secrets about the red door or even the Sailor's Wife being Tysha, a climax involving the Uncloaking of Uthero... almost everything I can think of would point her back north, to claim herself as the true Arya Stark or getting revenge for Jon's death. Or wanting to reunite if she hears of his resurrection before leaving Braavos.

The only benefit I can think of for landing in the Riverlands first thing is going up through the Neck and meeting Howland Reed. He could give her Robb's will and laugh if she tells him she found out Jon's mother is Wylla through Ned Dayne lol. I want her to meet Lady Stoneheart as much as anyone, but I would prefer Lady Stoneheart stick around long enough to reunite with both Arya and Jon. I don't want the gift of mercy to be given to her before that happens.

See, the tricky part about speculating on Arya's TWOW arc is that she has so many plot connections that it's difficult to imagine that she'll be able to fulfill them all. Arya going to the Riverlands first and ending her story in Winterfell/The North is a way of hitting as many of those connections as possible. I don't think that Arya going to the Riverlands is confined to her antis because a lot of Arya stans make the same speculation, but I do think too many people discount the possibility of her going North. She has several plot connections there in her proxy marriage, Jon dying for her, her connection to Bran (seemingly highlighted in ADWD and hinted at in TWOW), her personal connection to Roose, the likelihood of her encountering Jeyne, her connection to the magical plot, etc. It's also, like you mentioned, unlikely that she intentionally sets out to travel to the Riverlands. George could continue her "never seemed to find the places she set out to reach" and she could get knocked off course, but even then there are other places she could end up. There's a good case for her traveling to both places, or even somewhere new, but there's just too much in the air to say definitively.

#ask #anon #arya stark #personally I think there's a good chance she goes North but a better one that she goes to the riverlands #because I doubt she'll set out to make it to the riverlands again unless she somehow? hears about Lady Stoneheart #In TWOW she'll learn Bran + Rickon are alive that Jon has died and of /her/ marriage to Ramsey which are all connected to the Northern plot #and I think that would do more to push her plot forward just as well as going to the riverlands #I do think th elong night will filter into the riverlands though and that makes me think that she'll be going there first #or she could find herself somewhere inbetween #my best guess is that she sets out for the North gets knocked off course and finds herself closer to the riverlands #there's just a lot to speculate and we won't KNOW until we get TWOW so it's hard to say #either way she's gonna have a whole arc in Braavos and I'm so excited to see it after the slop D&D gave us #speculating for Arya is so hard and fun cause there are so many ways that it could go #either way I need a reunion between Arya and Nymeria at some point

[nirvanai]

was talking with a friend last night abt how Ryuki is handled in the game, and I’m once more thinking about just. how much it means to me that he’s a character with serious symptoms of mental illness, but the horror with his character is never just “oh he’s mentally ill haha, he’s crazy!”

like, I enjoy saito as a character, but he’s extremely a caricature and a harmful one at that. with ryuki, the horror is coming from a place of empathy and compassion- we have been in his shoes, we know what he’s going through from his POV, so when we see him having episodes from Mizuki’s side you’re scared for his sake because you know he seriously needs help. The problem isn’t that he’s mentally ill, it’s that he isn’t getting help, and both you and Mizuki know that there really isn’t anything you can do for him right now.

idk it’s disability pride month and I just really like Ryuki. 

#like when he has that laughing breakdown after mizuki's psync. we were talking abt that part #and my friend was like 'if it Opened with this itd be eye-rolling like 'oh this is his joker moment' #but because you're Played as ryuki and you Know how he perceives these breakdowns #its instead just like. watching and realizing this must be how he's looked to others #it works because you understand his symptoms by having played as him #it makes this sense of deep discomfort and concern #and there's nothing you as a player can do but push forward; just like mizuki #and he lives despite everything. he doesn't die and God that is important to me #he is forgiven by everyone and that is So important!! he fucked up but he can still heal and work to move forward #he deserves compassion. i care abt him so much. #kuruto ryuki