#anyway lesson learned

[cerusee]

I scored a major win on my single-target grocery shopping today, insofar as I managed to buy lots and lots of fresh basil (hadn’t found that in like, the last three stores I looked in, which is reasonable, because it’s December and I live in the northern hemisphere), which I badly needed to make pesto, because my meal plan of the week entailed way more pesto than I had in the freezer, and commercial pesto is inedible. But also it was a major fail because during the shopping phase I blithely thought to myself that all I really needed was the basil—“I have shmancey olive oil, Parmesan cheese, and walnuts at home” I assured myself—and accordingly did not shop for Really Nice Olive Oil And Parmesan Cheese. Which, dear readers, I did not have enough of, on either front. As I discovered! Of course! once I was home and midway into cooking.

[lacewise]

Wow, okay, the crowd has definitely spoken.

I’m not actually prepared to write anything now since I’m technically banned from doing any work that involves writing, stitching, etc until my new setup comes in. It should be here by the end of next week and then I will excitedly regale quite possibly nobody with tales of Grace Kelly’s wedding dress and the finer points of lace style names (again)

I may have misjudged the popularity of trivia on tumblr

And I might have possibly posted this now because I thought it would get, like, three notes max

Was I the only person who didn’t know that Grace Kelly’s wedding dress had needle lace on it and it’s so famous it has its own book or should I write a review?

[tippenfunkaport]

You know, it would be amazing if Hollywood learned the right lesson from the success of Nimona. Something like "Hey, maybe don't throw out a nearly done movie as a tax write off" or "people want queer stories" or even "don't be afraid to take some storytelling risks and be original" but you just know they're going to come away with some absolutely batshit takeaway like, "next time delete all the evidence and burn it to the ground so the gays can't make us look bad!"

[devonhale]

actually one of the most beautiful things about hacks is that we can be changed by anyone and at any period in our lives. deborah was in her forties when ava was born. she’d lived a life longer than ava’s before ava even existed yet they both have had a profound effect upon each other. it’s never too late. you haven’t met all of the people who are going to change you yet.

[hinamie]

playing around w slightly different hair renders

[pumpkinpenguin]

now that god's abandoned me return me to the stars

little hornets - gjallarhornit

[caguaydreams]

espilver nation I made a little something for y’all 🎁✨

tumblr won’t let me upload the gif version so mp4 it is

[fuck-em-up-your-grace]

The fact that Shadow Milk is a foil to Pure Vanilla but a parallel to White Lily will never not be funny to me. Like, Devsisters really looked at Pure Vanilla and cursed him with A Type and that type is Narrative Atom Bomb

[starryarchitect]

(I put a version with no gold frame under the cut because unfortunately I think it looks better without the frame)

[sfthvnfanpage]

I just got a mini improv lesson from Tom :D

So, you know, I made a video to celebrate Tom’s birthday. If you haven’t seen it, you might want to, for context.

During the Murders in Space bit, when Tom said “I don’t wanna hear it”, I thought he was messing with Sam, you know, a normal daily thing in the SFTH kingdom. That’s why I added the comment “[wow, top-tier yes-and-ing]”.

Tom noticed that, and here’s his response:

Me saying 'I don't want to hear it' in 'Murders In Space' was actually 'Yes anding'. If Sam implied he had bad news about my husband and I'd said 'Yes, and I want to hear all about it!', that would've been a block to the intent of his offer. The way for the actor to accept what he wanted was for the character to refuse it. Fun, right?! That was always one of my fave topics to teach in classes.

Tom taught me even more about improv today, it’s so interesting that I can’t keep it to myself. Hope you enjoy my stupidity and Tom’s mini improv lesson :D

[proselles]

Getting older is realizing bill cipher was sexier as a triangle anyway.

[vulturelanding]

There’s like a 10% chance I ever finish this so here’s the sketch

They’re in lesbians with eachother

[far-away-from-tulsa]

confession time: when i was reading dally’s death scene i was so screwed up from johnny’s death that i read dally as darry the whole time. i full heartedly thought that darry got himself shot up and was SO CONFUSED

[chariix-creates]

No clue what to caption,, yaaayy snowgrave art

[firelise]

[peace-hunter]

ok so i'm still a bit shaky on it but i would loooooove for orion's character arc in the baby prime orion au to be actually about learning that he's not. inherently special. which i know it sounds backwards because this au makes him primus' specialest little guy but hear me out.

in this au when optimus is born he is his siblings' miracle child, their little blessing, the most precious gift they could've gotten.

they love him so much that even when they die and orion grows up and forgets them, he still knows what being treasured and loved beyond measure feels like.

and part of the reason he believes that the system is wrong to treat cogless bots as lesser is that he cannot accept that he is as worthless as the world wants him to believe when someone once loved him like that.

it's a very... self-centered point of view even if it does come from a place of genuine love. he was loved, he was worth something to someone once, so if the world tells him he's worthless then the world must simply be wrong.

and don't get me wrong he still genuinely does believe others also deserve the choice to decide for themselves what they want to be, that they also deserve to be treated with the same respect and dignity that cogged bots do, he still wants to make things better for everyone.

but a good part of it is because he thinks he deserves better. because he knows he was once loved enough for someone to want to give him the moon and stars if he'd asked for them. and he's still chasing that feeling, even though he has long forgotten where he got it from in the first place.

so when he finds out he's the lost little prime, as much of a shock as it is, it is also sort of vindicating. it's a little bit like "oh. so that's why i always felt especial different".

he thinks that him being a prime is the reason for why he always aspired to be more, for why he always believed he deserved better. he thinks being a prime is what makes him worth loving more than he'd been told.

except that... well, he's obviously wrong. him believing he deserved better, that he was worth more than the system wanted him to believe, had very little to do with him being a prime and everything to do with his siblings loving him so very much he could never forget it even as he forgot them.

the reason he always felt there was something utterly wrong with the way they were treated and had the courage to constantly speak up against it when everyone else around him didn't was not because he had some divinely given wisdom or that he was inherently better than them and could feel it.

it was simply that he, unlike the rest of the miners, had someone to instill in him how loved and valuable he truly was. he had someone to let him know he deserved to be treated with kindness and dignity. he had that privilege even if it was taken away from him.

so. the second half of his arc would be him realizing all of this and taking upon himself to be that someone to everyone else. to be to others what his siblings were to him. that gentle voice that says "you deserve to be cared for, you deserve kindness, you deserve better".

i don't know i'm still working on it akjshdjka