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[benevolenterrancy]

A man needs a hobby while he's waiting for his beloved disciple to return from the dead and torture him!!!

(SQQ is a complete fucking freak and I love him so much)

[ghelullu]

Orlando, 02.11.2016 - Video by Phil Lutz

Papa is handed a painting of himself by someone in the audience and proudly displays it on stage for the rest of the ritual.

[literallyjustanerd]

so a few days ago I saw this post, and the accompanying tags from @brrmian :

the idea of Cody being simultaneously so cool on the surface and constantly overanalysing every interaction stuck with me so much that I ended up spitting all my thoughts into existence

so

enjoy a brief look into Commander Cody's mind:

[joyfulhottubfuntik]

One of my favorite things in GF fics is when Stan throws something Ford has said/ written about him in his face.

Like, for example, some time during their travels Stan somehow reveals that this whole time he's had this creeping thought that Ford only wants him around out of guilt or obligation. Ford is naturally taken aback by just how far from the truth it is and, more importantly, very hurt that his brother can even think that about him.

And so Stan says something along the lines of

"Am I supposed to believe that you suddenly give a shit about me now? Or is it just that I've done something worthwhile for the first time in my life? That I was useful to you?"

And Ford's immediate reaction is

"God, Stanley, why'd you even think-

-oh"

Like, the whole thing of Stan still thinking about those words that were said years ago, now when everything is fine and when Ford is actively doing everything he can to show his brother that he loves him. Meanwhile Ford never thought much about those words, never placed any importance on them and only perhaps meant them the moment when he said them, when he was angry and very tired. He didn't even really regret them because he didn't remember about them, that's how little they mattered. But they mattered to Stan, still do and haunt him every day

[solargeist]

i realized a mistake recently

[z-moves]

⚠️: MOHAMMED ALHABIL'S FUNDRAISER is VERY SLOW

Mohammed Alhabil had already lost his father and his brother. he just turned 18 when the attacks escalated. right now, he needs funds for:

an URGENT operation to save his leg, else he will lose its function

transportation to be able to escape danger [ link to his post about this ]

food, which he says he can't find

please help him! funds are coming in TOO SLOWLY!

if possible, please also adopt his fundraiser and/or promote his fundraiser on other sites.

€21,308 / €35K

this fundraiser is supported by @/90-ghost, therefore this fundraiser is highly trustworthy. [ link to post ]

as of 5/19/2025, his fundraiser is also #1410 on The ButterflyEffect Project's list of vetted fundraisers. [ link to Google Sheets ]

for more info, you can visit his blog: @mohammedalhabil2000

4/21/2025: the last funding was given around 3 days ago, and there were only 5 fundings within 21 days!

tags for reach (please let me know if you don't want to get tagged):

@heritageposts @timetravellingkitty @rhubarbspring @irhabiya @wellwaterhysteria @junglejim4322 @kibumkim @mangocheesecakes @kyra45-helping-others @tortiefrancis @toiletpotato @fromjannah @omegaversereloaded @vague-humanoid @aristotels @komsomolka @riding-with-the-wild-hunt @ot3 @amygdalae @ankle-beez @dykesbat @watermotif @mavigator @lacecap @socalgal @chilewithcarnage @ghelgheli @sayruq @boobieteriat @tamamita

[ataleofcrowns]

I don't think anyone actually asked for this, but considering how many people replay the game to try out different routes and Crowns, I have now added a cheat sheet functionality that shows you which choices get you points for which personality trait! Should make it easier to customize your Crown on repeat playthroughs, though of course, for first time players I recommend they play it with the cheat sheet off.

Restart the game from the starting screen, and you should get an option to turn it on or off from the beginning ✨

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

I have ~Thoughts~ on the Harry Potter Phenomenon that was

(Courtesy of memories prompted by this Tumblr Poll)

Back when I was a senior in college (back in the mid-to-late 1980s), I actually wrote a fantasy novel for kids aged ~8 - ~11 (in a self-designed course for a single credit, under the guidance of my Literature advisor), inspired by a series of dreams and recurring characters that showed up in them.

My advisor encouraged me to try and get it published. And so, I arranged with teachers from my old school to have a class of 30 or so 10 year-olds beta read it, and give me feedback for revisions. The kids also encouraged me to try and publish it.

So I did.

Now, back then, there was no "Self Publishing." The closest thing was "Vanity Publishing," where you would pay 100% of the publishing cost of your book, which would be printed in hard copy, for the benefit of having 500 -1,000 books shipped to your personal address, which you were then responsible for storing and selling out of the trunk of your car in a parking lot, somewhere. And if word got out that you were trying to claim credit for being a "published author" because of a Vanity Press book, actual publishers wouldn't touch you with a 40-foot pole.

If you wanted to get published, you had to buy that year's copy of Writer's Market: a listing of magazine and book publishers, and agents, with a brief description of what material they published, and what they wouldn't touch.

Guess what genre no agent or publisher was interested in handling?

That's right, Gentle Readers: Fantasy for children aged 8 - 11. I would have happily sent out a dozen queries for each story I wrote, if there were publishers and agents willing to look at them. But for three to four years of trying, in directories of two-columns of tiny print, and several [hundred]* pages long, I'd be lucky to find two or three outlets even willing to look at fantasy for kids.

The general consensus, across the publishing business, was that fantasy was a dead and obsolete genre. If it was for kids old enough to read chapter books and novels, it must also be firmly grounded in realism and actual history, because everyone knows the only people buying books for kids that age were teachers, who wanted stories with practical applications in the classroom.

***

After 3 - 4 years of trying, while I was in grad school, I finally got a rejection from the one agent who agreed to read my novel. A few days later, I received news that my mother had died from the breast cancer she'd been fighting, and my heart just went out of the project altogether.

A few years later, the first Harry Potter book was published. And it became a worldwide phenomenon. And it was the kids, themselves, who were driving the sales.

See, I think the real reason the books were such a success, even though they were never really very well written, was because they were in a genre the audience was hungry for -- a genre they'd been denied access to for all of their young lives.

Someone who is starving will think even moldy bread is delicious.

*Gosh, what a word to leave out via typo; the Writers Market rivaled the Manhattan Yellow Pages in length.

[aiktad]

we need more stupid f/o imagines i think.

imagine going to thrift/charity shops with your f/o and they keep picking out the ugliest pieces of fabric the world has ever seen and sarcastically going "omg you'd look so good in this".

imagine talking shit about someone (see: the character your f/o keeps getting shipped with that you don't like) in public with your f/o and you turn a corner and the person is standing there.

imagine your f/o falling down a slide backwards. yeah.

imagine ice skating with your f/o and you're holding hands and it's so cute but then one of you falls so you both eat shit.

imagine going to a photo booth with your f/o but it's one of the small ones with one chair so one of you has to sit on the other's lap, and just as it's about to take the picture, you both fall out of the booth.

very specific one based on a video i saw earlier this year for british selfshippers: imagine being at asda/tesco/etc with your f/o during the remembrance sunday two minutes of silence and your f/o doesn't realise why everyone's being so quiet and the store is dead silent and you just hear "Please scan your items! 😃" from your self service till iM CRACKING THE FUCK UP .

imagine your f/o breaking spaghetti in half so it fits in the pot properly (bonus points if either you or your s/i are italian)

[deltabyss]

tfw I accidentaly assembled the (almost) same fit as greyowl22's (on twitter and bluesky) deer fit and they imagined the spiderman meme with our deers, so I had to draw this KJGHSDGH

[revenantghost]

Greetings for new creative year! Orange officially began 2025 production. As well as Trigun Stampede’s 2nd year anniversary, we’d like to celebrate with a greeting. This year we have Trigun Stampede Exhibition in Japan and continue tour efforts in production of Stargaze.

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[lynaferns]

Thinking about redrawing this with my current style (not a promise).

I never stopped thinking about this piano.

This is kind of an art dump, this happens whenever I get nostalgic and look at old folders. I have more stuff buuuut I'll save that for another day.

(I originally posted these on instagram in two artdumps I made with more unfinished old art)

[civetside]

howdy tombies here's an astronaut AU i thought would be funny, we taking the space part of lesbian necromancers in space and we making that the main thing

[theshortjew2]

today’s shower thoughts: andrew minyard does not strike me as an avid user of emojis the way jeremy knox does, but i do think andrew would get a kick out of the 🫡 emoji

[victusinveritas]

[mousemannation]

The Australian Open takes place on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people.

Today is Evonne Goolagong Cawley Day at the Australian Open, a day they have to acknowledge and celebrate the indigenous peoples of Australia, and their impact on both tennis and culture as a whole.

I am not Indigenous Australian but i do ask that any of you reading this take this as an opportunity to inform yourself about the indigenous peoples of Australia, as they are a population that gets frequently overlooked both in Australia but especially overseas.

If you are here you almost certainly follow tennis and I’d like to remind you that Indigenous Australians are intrinsically part of tennis history as two former world number ones are proud indigenous women; Evonne Goolagong Cawley (for which the day is named) is Wiradjuri and Ash Barty is Ngaragu.