#It would be so awesome it would be so cool

[harker-asides]

MY IMMEDIATE THOUGHTS EXACTLY How does the Z-axis work here? Titled Orbits?? How do the planets move during a cycle??? Time dilatation????

I'm asking too much of a fictional map that's already huge 😂

babe wake up, full canon accurate and up-to-date map of the star wars galaxy just dropped

[teaboot]

Me: Okay, Outlook email on desktop. Time to change password

Outlook: Okie dokie! :D Sending you a confirmation number to your mobile app. :)

Me: Awesome, thanks

Me: Hmm, it’s not showing up in my app.

Outlook: That’s okay! You can click “I don’t have access to my app right now” :)

Me: Oh, okay, thanks!

Me: *click*

Outlook: Okay, so it looks like you don’t have access to the app right now! Would you like to confirm through the app instead? Or would you like me to send you a confirmation code?

Me: I just said I don’t- yeah, okay, sure. Send me a confirmation code.

Outlook: Okie-dokie! Sending you a confirmation code. It should show up soon in your app :)

Me: Okay so I just said I can’t access the app though

Outlook: Oh, that’s okay! :D Just click “confirm another way” :)

Me: ….okay

Me: *click*

Outlook: Awesome! So it looks like you don’t want to confirm using the app right now. Would you like to confirm by entering a number into your app, or would you like a confirmation code sent to your app?

Outlook: :)

Me:

Me: You know what. I’m just going to change my password on the app.

Outlook: Okay! :D

Me (on the mobile app): Okay so I’d like to change my password

Outlook (app version): Okay! :D Just sending a code to your app so you can confirm :)

Me: Okay but I’m already on the app.

Outlook: That’s okay! :D Just click “I DON’T have access to my app right now” :)

Me: I’m on the app. I’m literally- okay.

Me: *click*

Outlook: Cool! :D So you’ll need to enter this number into your app

Me: I’m not receiving these numbers on my app. None of these are showing up in my app. They aren’t showing up in my junk folder, they aren’t getting blocked, I’m just straight up not receiving them. How do I change my password WITHOUT USING THE APP TO CONFIRM

Outlook: Oh that’s easy-peasy! :D Just turn off two-factor authentication in your settings :)

Me: Okay

Outlook: :)

Me: *Turns off authentication*

Outlook: Awesome! :D Looks like you’ve turned off two-factor authentication :)

Me: ….yeah

Outlook: :)

Me:

Outlook: :)

Me:

Outlook: :)

Outlook: So if you just want to confirm that choice by entering this code into your app-

Me: OH MY GOD

Me: *deletes app, turns off phone*

Me (back on desktop): So I’d like to change my password

Outlook: Awesome! :D So if you just enter this number into your app-

Me: I cannot access the app

Outlook: Awesome! :D So if you’d prefer, we can send a code to your app-

Me: I cannot access the app

Outlook: Awesome! :D So if you can just enter this code from your app-

Me: I cannot access the app

Outlook: Oopsie-doopsie! :D Looks like there’s been a wee little whoopsie-daisy-doodle-doo verifying your account :) Now if you could just open your app-

Me: Ohhhhhhh my god

Outlook: Or download our authentication app

Me: Okay

Me: (downloads app)

Authentication app: Hi! :D

Me: Hi. I’d like to verify my desktop account.

Authentication app: Okie-dokie! :D Just log in with your email and password :)

Me: …Okay

Authentication app: Looks good to me! :D

Me: …….okay

Authentication app: :)

Me:

Authentication app: :) So what can I help you with?

Me:

Me: ….I would like. To verify my desktop account.

Authentication app: Okie-dokie! Just-

Me: I cannot access my app

Authentication app: That’s okay! :D

Me: ….okay

Authentication app: Yeah that’s what I’m here for :)

Me: okay

Authentication app: :)

Me:

Me: ….so how do I-

Authentication app: Just enter this number we sent to your authentication app-

Me: YOU ARE THE AUTHENTICATION APP

Me: YOU ARE SHOWING ME NOTHING

Authentication app: OH

Me: YEAH

Authentication app: Hmm yeah okay I see the problem

Me: DO YOU

Me: DO TOU REALLY

Authentication app: Yeah you need to confirm your account somewhere else to access me :)

Me: NO SHIT

Authentication app: Hey :( I’m only trying to help :(

Me: You’re right. Okay. I’m sorry.

Authentication app: It’s okay :)

Me: So where else can I confirm my account.

Authentication app: Oh that’s easy-peasy! :D Just open your mobile app and

Me: (slams my face directly into my desktop computer, crushing my skull and the motherboard at the exact same time and torpedoing us both directly to hell)

[brixbraxium]

A speculative idea

So, the Blackshard deals extra damage to Dark/Star enemies, right?

And the slash you get when you use it is red:

...Is it possible that this is an effect of 'Red Damage' ?? Red Buster in the menu is described as inflicting "Red Damage".

And the attack from Blackshard is red. is it possible that Red has a sort of, like, "type advantage" against Dark/Star?

If that's the case, then, uh...

The Roaring Fraud is straight up cooked if we fight them again and we're able to convince Kris to actually let us use SOUL Moves.

[ironspidxr]

So remember when Tony tests the mark 42 suit and how the parts fly onto him from all over the room

Well he recorded that test right

Now imagine: Peter Parker in the lab gushing to the Tony Stark about how cool Tony Stark is (like a dork)

And he’s yapping about how awesome the suits are and all the different ones being so cool and he’s asking Tony (who is more than happy to receive all this praise because it makes him happy when peter gets excited like that) all these questions about how he did this and how he did that and eventually Tony is like “hey wanna see the videos of me testing some of them out?”

And Peter is like YES???

so he shows him some videos (which of course start with that video of him testing out his thrusters and getting thrown into the concrete ceiling actually, which Peter finds HILARIOUS. He begs Friday to send him a copy)

And the whole time Peter is constantly either in complete awe, gasping and saying ‘oh my god that’s so sick’ as Tony explains the tech stuff to him or laughing his ass off at Tony absolutely eating shit like he does with mark 42 (because there has to have been SO many other times when he got hurt while doing stuff like that)

Like I know Peter would make fun of him so bad for when he says “I’m the best.” And then immediately gets wasted when the last part of the suit flies at him from behind and he eats shit

And honestly I feel like Tony would just shrug and accept the teasing because yeah it was embarrassing but also it is hilarious. However mostly just because Peter is just so happy which makes Tony happy for reasons he is not ready to understand

[cinnamanz]

CINNAMANZ'S 1K FOLLOWER EVENT

hey eyekons!! thank u all so so much for the love, being here w me and making this happen!! i never rly thought that this blog wld grow this big and reach this far, esp when i only made this acct to give birth to katseye fics that i saw were lacking in tumblr LMAO thought i'd take matter into my own hands nd by doing so, i was so incredibly touched by how welcoming and awesome this community is, and having the opportunity to watch our fandom grow bigger and bigger here in tumblr each day.

as a thank you, i'm planning on opening my inbox for any reqs from you for a whole week straight—possibly even longer, depending on how much reqs have been sent. pls also note that some reqs may take longer than expected, due to life outside tumblr and unfortunately, i do have the tendency to move from one fic to another, so there wont be any scheduling for the fics. also pls keep in mind to check the rules before reqing and that i'll only be writing for katseye. no nsfw!!

note that these r still wips nd can be subjected to changes!

happy reading :)

I'LL ENVY EVEN THE EARTH THAT WRAPS YOUR BODY — sophia laforteza.

⤷ on the night of her debut, sophia gave her heart to the one girl she was never meant to love in silence. they'd promised each other forever, a lifetime of warmth and love. but a kingdom is bound to have enemies. bound to lose men, treasures, have casualties. bound to break promises. sophia just didn’t think it would be hers. ❆ angst, slight fluff, character death, princess x knight, oneshot, ___ words

CRUSH — sophia laforteza.

⤷ in a sun-bleached southern town where everyone knows everyone, sophia is the preacher’s golden girl—sweet, proper, and untouched. she sings in the choir, smiles like she means it, and never steps out of line... except when it comes to you. you're the girl their mothers warned them about—leather jackets, cigarettes, and bruises on your knuckles. no one knows that sophia's been slipping out her bedroom window just to feel your hands on her hips and your cigarette smoke on her lips. in a world that worships purity, she’s been craving the ruin of you. ❆ fluff, mentions of homophobia, oneshot, ___ words

SNAP OUT OF IT — sophia laforteza. (req)

⤷ you and sophia are star volleyball players. rivals and sworn enemies. until a booking mishap on a tournament trip lands you both in the same room and the same bed. oh, things are sure about to get messier than your confusing feelings. ❆ fluff, rivals to lovers, oneshot, one bed trope ___ words

SHINE — sophia laforteza. (req)

⤷ you were the complete opposite of the girl who sat across from you. sophia laforteza, the popular girl, most sought-after by both genders, campus crush, cool without even meaning to, sat across from you with a sickeningly sweet smile on her lips and asking a question you knew she definitely didn't need help with. oh, you are so fucked. ❆ fluff, popular x loser, oneshot, ___ words

THE PROMISE — daniela avanzini.

⤷ jocks are as dumb as they look, and daniela will die on that hill. not only that, she was proven even more right when the campus jock, captain of the women's soccer team, came to her of all people about needing help with her declining grades. god, she hated jocks. but when money's involved and the jock's kind of cute, she might just be able to tolerate them. ❆ fluff, jock x nerd, oneshot, ___ words

MARGARET — lara raj.

⤷ lara believes in fate, in signs. you believe in keeping your head down and not getting hurt. but when your paths cross—quite literally—it feels like something meant to happen. ❆ fluff, stranger turn lover, oneshot, ___ words

HOW YOU GET THE GIRL — megan skiendiel.

⤷ smau wip.

GABRIELA — megan skiendiel. (req)

⤷ megan prided herself in keeping her jealousy in check, that, or the lack of material provided to her by her girlfriend to actually get jealous over. she's content. doesn't think she'd like the feeling of jealousy crawling up her torso and settling in the deepest pits of her brain and controlling how she acts. but when a particular incident at a party she'd dragged you to sparks up how possessive she acts, you ought to get her jealous more. ❆ fluff, established relationship, oneshot, ___ words

THE GIRL IS MINE — manon bannerman and megan skiendiel. (req)

⤷ manon and megan never expected to share an ex. even more so, never expected to share the plan of getting the said ex back. after countless of sabotages and petty schemes, the two end up teaming up. however, somewhere along the way, they start to realise that maybe, just maybe, their ex wasn't all that to be fighting over about. ❆ fluff, crack, love triangle, oneshot, ___ words

SOMEBODY ELSE — yoonchae jeung. (req)

⤷ hey siri, how do you deal with feelings for your bestfriend who you're fake dating because she wants to get her ex back? ❆ fluff, fake dating, oneshot, ___ words

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT — ot6. (req)

⤷ you wanted nothing more than a chill chat and gaming with the eyekons. foolish of you to think you'd ever get that living under the same roof with six other girls, who'd somehow ended up using you as a supplier. god, you should get paid for this. ❆ fluff, crack, oneshot, seventh!member, ___ words

masterlist.

[darkpolicepsycho]

Fan art for @vylantrophi because I want

Arts(fan arts):

Another version (night version? light?):

Speedpaint:

A little closer:

A little closer again:

🪴 . . .

So.. A few words from me.

I had this idea a month ago (or more). @vylantrophi created a test of who you are from this au, and at first I got April, and then Casey, after which I said I would draw them..

. . .

So I drew them..

. . .

I take this opportunity to say that I think your work is cool and the universe itself is interesting. I wish you to continue to promote your own ideas and gain more confidence. You’re amazing, know that. You inspire me (know this too).

(I'm talking without stickers, so you know that I’m serious🫵)

🪴 . . .

Have a good morning/afternoon/evening, and I'm going to die because I've been edited this for 2 days and my arm is falling off.

(I decided to draw in your style because I thought it would be an interesting and fun challenge... I was wrong... I have no idea how you draw Casey’s hair, so next time I’ll draw him bald✌.)

(I also added a hockey stick to him, but Idk if he uses it in this au. I’m sorry for that🫰)

(Also, the video was 12 minutes long even in accelerated mode, so I had to speed it up even more)

(Lol, I also have photos of separate backgrounds, I know it’s cool, but Idk if I should post them here)

🪴 . . .

(And I also lost the reference, I know, I'm awesome)

🪴 . . .

Songs for the video ( In the order of appearance in the video):

[pass-the-sunshine-please]

what i dont understand is why we dont have more hera centric fics in pjo. to me, she is such an interesting character that can be taken down so many different routes. all we see of her is a jealous and vicious side which, fair, but is also just one facet of her abilities and personality.

hera actually does quite a lot for the demigods and the olympian pantheon as a whole. and she is a lot more forgiving towards the demigods than one would assume based off her fanon depictions. i think many forget to keep in mind that she is the goddess of family, even if she herself might not be happy about how her family is/looks/acts, which definitely influences her actions in the series. she is quite instrumental in both wars, and to me, believing that the 2nd gigantomachy started bc of her is just zeus propaganda (though his pjo characterization is FAR from his title as god of justice, so i am not a fan of him in the series (traditional zeus is much more multifaceted to me)).

she fucks with annabeth a lot, but one: she’s a god, and two: the beef is mutual, so i truly believe that hera just fucks with her for the love of the game, and as she’s a goddess might not understand when she’s taking it too far for a mortal. and this doesn’t disregard the crazy shit she’s done in pjo and the myths! but if we’re making poseidon, apollo, and hermes benevolent baddies we should see her for the good she’s done, not just the bad.

it would be awesome to see fics where hera explores her domains, which are really important ones!! she is the patron of women, there’s SO much to be explored with that. and her marriage with zeus means that she has quite literally experienced/seen most of the struggles of women tbh LMFAO. we could get fics where she works consistently with artemis as their domains overlap, maybe seeing her and thalia form a relationship? could be after jason’s death, bc i honestly think that she thought of jason as her own demigod son, and grieved for him.

she’s the goddess of family!! HUGEEEEE. i mean, there’s so many options with that. maybe her power was weakened during the war with kronos bc that’s her father? maybe each solstice she gets stronger because her family is all together. maybe her and jason getting closer, and by extension her and the demigods in general get closer. she’s not their godly parent! she can intervene a lot more than their parents can. it would be cool to see fics where the demigods realize she’s the goddess of family and can be their patron goddess in a way. (though i do love percy ascension fics where he becomes their patron)

one of my favorite fics is i used to float, now i just fall down by pupscotch, where juno was the one cursed to be mortal and not apollo, but instead of doing whatever quest jupiter gives her, she just adopts jason and makes him her trial and just tries to become the best private school mom ever. she works for a women’s organization, genuinely cares about jason, and goes through some self reflection that is so wonderful to see. its jason centric, but i feel like a lot of my opinions of how we should treat my girl are shown here!!

i just honestly love her,,, and i totally understand why her fanon characterizations are the way that they are, but i do think we should give her some more credit in how she literally saved the world.

[writinginthesecrettrees]

Mad At Your Dad? Read On...

Jared's not entirely sure why he contacted the guy.

That's a lie; he knows exactly why.

He came out to his family earlier that summer and after the screaming was done, there were two months of complete silence from everyone. And then his mom had called and informed him that his presence was required at Thanksgiving. Seems Grandma had asked about him and then informed her daughter that "I thought I didn't raise a bigot," and then told the extended family about how his parents had abandoned him "for no good reason" and now Mom and Dad want him to show up and make nice so they stop getting shit from everyone.

Around the lump in his throat, Jared said "I already made other plans," and Mom told him to cancel because family comes first, and Jared said he would but "only if my boyfriend can come. It wouldn't be right to leave him alone just because you decided I'm not shunned anymore." A lie, of course, Jared has been tragically single ever since he figured out he couldn't like girls the way his friends do, but he wanted to see what Mom would say.

"Well, then. Bring him," is apparently what Mom would say, through gritted teeth, and now Jared's stuck. And Chad offered to play boyfriend, because Chad is awesome, but his family knows Chad and would never believe it. But then Chad found this weird post on Craigslist while he was scrolling through the personals and it seemed like a godsend, so Jared had emailed him a phone number and asked him to call if his post was serious.

It was serious, it turned out, and the 28 year old felon turned out to have a voice like smooth whiskey and his name was Jensen and when Jared stuttered out his problem, that smooth whiskey voice turned into a rumbling chuckle that tingled down Jared's spine. "Oh, I'm so in," Jensen said, "and please say we can 'accidentally' get caught sloppy kissin'."

"What if I'm hideous? You shouldn't offer to kiss people you haven't even met."

"Darlin', I'd make out with Dick Cheney to make a homophobe clutch their pearls. And I bet you're a better kisser than ol' Dick."

Jared didn't want to get into his (nonexistent) skills as a kisser so they moved on to logistics: things like last names and birthdays and a "how we met" story designed to twist the knife for Jared's parents. And sooner than Jared had expected, he's standing on the curb outside Chad's apartment, waiting for Jensen to pick him up for Thanksgiving.

The van is as old and dirty and airbrushed as Jensen had said, and it lets out a belch of exhaust as he pulls up. Jared's parents will hate it. Jared's grinning as he slides into the passenger seat.

---

Jensen's first look at the kid who's given him a place to go for Thanksgiving is like a punch to the gut. Tall, Jared hadn't mentioned being tall. Slacks and a button-down shirt don't normally do it for Jensen, so it's gotta be the body in those clothes that has his heart beating a bit faster. And then Jared looks up, sees Van Halen (and so what if Jensen named his van, it was a perfect name and practically begging to be used), and grins and it's like sunshine after a thunderstorm.

"What if I'm hideous, he said," Jensen mutters just before Jared opens the door, then grins back at the kid. "Nice to meet you. I'm Jensen, I'll be your long-term boyfriend for the day." That startles a laugh out of Jared. "Any last-minute things I need to know?"

Jared bites his lip. It's adorable. Jensen wants to bite it for him. "Well... I kinda told my grandma about this." He looks up at Jensen through his bangs.

"She's the one who doesn't like bigots, right?"

"Mmhm."

"She cool with it?"

"... she said she's gonna take a ton of pictures."

Jared's fidgeting and Jensen feels for the kid. Coming out's a bitch, even with supportive family, and Jared's family is a little late to the program on that.

"You thought about what you'll call me?"

"I... why wouldn't I just call you Jensen?" Jared asks, clearly bewildered.

Bet the kid's never even been on a real date with a dude. Jensen tries to feel sympathy rather than satisfaction at the thought. "Trust me. Pet names are like... a thousand times more torturous for disapproving parents to sit through. Babe."

Jared wrinkles his nose. "I liked 'darlin' better."

"So do I, baby, but which will your parents hate more?"

"Point." Jared sighs, then gets a look of pure mischief in his eyes. "If we're going by what my parents will hate most, I should call you 'Daddy.'"

"Now you're gettin' it."

---

Jared's almost vibrating with anxiety when they pull up to his parents' house. And thank God for Jensen; if he weren't here, Jared wouldn't even be able to walk to the door. But Jensen is here, pulling him out of the van and lacing their fingers together as they head to the front porch. And they stand there, staring at the door, for a good ten seconds, until Jensen says "Fuck it," and tugs on Jared's hand.

They'd talked about putting on a bit of a show, so Jared's not completely taken by surprise when Jensen's lips land on his. He's just not entirely sure what to do. With anything -- his hands, his lips, his height, and oh! his tongue, because somehow Jensen's managed to part his lips and now Jared has to figure out what to do with an extra tongue crowding into his mouth.

Jensen has a stud in his tongue, and that's a fun discovery that makes Jared's brain short-circuit and solves the problem of what to do with my lips and tongue because the answer is to play with the piercing. It's a good answer, because Jensen is groaning and pulling Jared closer by his belt loops so their bodies are crushed together. And that solves the what do I do with my hands problem because there's nowhere to put them except around Jensen's very broad shoulders. Jensen's arm wraps more securely around Jared's waist, and he pulls back from the kiss to murmur "that's right, baby, just hold on and let me drive" with a playful nip at Jared's ear.

Jared is more than pleased to follow Jensen's direction, whispers "okay, daddy," and smiles at how Jensen groans as he reclaims Jared's lips and lets one hand slide down to squeeze Jared's ass.

And the front door opens.

And the look on Jared's dad's face almost makes up for the fact that they have to stop kissing.

---

It's the best Thanksgiving Jensen has had in a long time, and not just because he was in prison for the last one. Jared is flushed, happy, and relaxed when his dad interrupts their kiss on the front porch. Jensen hadn't known that a human face could get that red, and somehow his face goes purple when Jared introduces Jensen as "Dad, this is dadd... um, I mean, this is Jensen. My boyfriend."

They don't shake hands.

Jared's sister asks them how they met over the turkey, and that lets them pull out the story they made up.

"You tell it, daddy. I barely remember," Jared says, and Jensen's pretty sure he didn't even notice the pet name but everyone else did.

"Sure thing, babe. So, I'm a line cook at this dive bar..." Jensen launches into the tale of clocking out and going to get a drink and having 6'4" of sloppy drunk fall all over him. And how Jared was loudly telling the whole bar about how his parents hated him because he wanted a dick in his ass. Jared's grandma cackled at that, so Jensen winks at the old broad and continues on: "and my baby boy's just about the prettiest boy in all Texas, so of course I took him out to my van."

Jared's brother just might throw a punch. "You didn't even take him home?"

"Well, I was kinda between places right now, but I got a nice air mattress in the back of Van Halen. Real cozy."

"Don't worry, Jeff," Jared breaks in, eyes so innocent Jensen would believe anything he said. "We moved in with Chad the next day." He turns to Jensen. "Or was it the day after?"

The shovel talk Jensen gets from Jared's siblings between dinner and pie is scarier than anything he faced in prison.

---

The silence in the van as Jensen drives Jared back to Chad's is sleepy and comfortable until Jensen suddenly says, "So you gotta talk to your brother about me."

"Hmmm?"

"I'm serious, Jay. I think he's planning my murder. And your sister's gonna be his alibi."

"Please. Jeff's a teddy bear."

"To his little brother, yeah. To his little brother's supposedly homeless felon boyfriend? Not so much. You gotta talk to him!"

Jared laughs. Jensen wants to hear that laugh every day forever.

"Okay, daddy. I'll call Jeff in the morning. Tell him it was all fake."

"Good. I'd like him to not hate me when I take you out for real."

[socialemotion]

It would be so awesome…. It would be so cool…

[gingersnapwolves]

Hello friends I’m back from vacation with a lot to say! I’m going to do two posts, so I can put the pretty pictures which actually look good in a photo post and then contain my ramblings and selfies to this post LOL.

So last year while we were talking about vacations, my wife said we should go to Iceberg Alley so we could see icebergs. You know, sorry to the optimists in the audience but who knows how long we’ll still be able to do that? So I planned a trip to the Canadian Maritimes.

First thing you need to know about me and my wife is that neither of us like to fly. We do road trips. We’ve done tons and tons of road trips. When we lived in Arizona, we road-tripped to pretty much everywhere in the western United States. Fun fact about us - one of the things that first made us such good friends twenty-five (twenty-five?!?!?!) years ago is that we both like to drive around a lot and look at pretty scenery and just vibe. So I planned us a road trip. It pretty quickly became apparent that we couldn’t do both Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in one road trip because there’s just so MUCH to see. So we focused on Newfoundland for this trip for iceberg reasons. We did stop to see some things along the way, obviously, because the key to a good road trip is to try to break it up with cool shit.

The first day was basically driving (though we did stop at a No Kings protest in Maine for a while because we couldn’t miss that). Then across the border we went. Lupine everywhere! Tim Horton’s! Metric system! (My wife: is the speed limit really 110 mph? lmao no it is not.) 

First stop! Joggins Fossil Cliffs! It was very cool, we will have to do this again and take the guided tour because I’ve learned I couldn’t find a fossil if you put a gun to my head. Let the selfies begin!

We stopped a few more places on the way but forgot to take selfies (whoops) and then got on the ferry to Newfoundland. We had a little cabin because it’s a 16 hour ride to the east side of Newfoundland.

Once in Newfoundland, we went to Salmonier Nature Center, which was very cool. A lovely, beautiful walk through the woods and fen. My biggest disappointment was on this outing because I really wanted to see the lynx, and we waited a while outside the enclosure, hoping if we were quiet it would eventually come out, but it never did. On the other hand, caribou are magical.

On to the east side and St. John’s! We went to the Petty Harbor Mini Aquarium, which is a seasonal catch and release aquarium with an awesome touch tank.

Cape Spear, the eastern most point in North America.

Basilica of St. John the Baptist (we are the opposite of religious but my wife loves the architecture of churches and stained glass windows).

Memorial University Botanical Gardens

Johnson Geo Centre

Then we took a boat tour to go to Gull Island and see puffins! I didn’t get any good pictures here unfortunately. The puffins on the island were too far away to photograph clearly, and although I could see them fly and sometimes land in the water by the boat it was impossible to get a good shot of them. They were soooooooo incredibly cute though. My wife also saw a minke whale (I did not lol).

Driving inland, we went to Terra Nova National Park but I forgot to take a selfie until we were back at the car.

Interior Newfoundland is profoundly empty. Anywhere in America, if I pass a gas station with a quarter tank of gas, I can think ‘no big deal, I will definitely hit another gas station before I’m close to being out of gas’. Not so much in Newfoundland. I didn’t run out of gas but boy was I sweating a few times.

Can’t go to Canada without having Tim Horton’s! Sorry for the thumb. Uh, it was very early. I prefer Dunkie’s but TH had VERY good chocolate chip muffins and my wife loved their donuts.

Icebergs! Icebergs! Icebergs! (Pics to follow in my photo post.)

Chilling on Twilingate Island

On our drive around Twillingate, a bald eagle flew out over our car and flew alongside/above us for about five seconds and it was SO cool. Sadly we didn’t get any pictures of that because we were too busy being in awe.

Stayed at a nice little bed and breakfast

West we go! The Insectarium!

And then on to Gros Morne!

Now this was a trip. On one day it was eighty-five and sunny, then the next it was fifty, occasionally rainy, and very, very windy. I have rarely experienced wind that is actually difficult to walk against, but I really feared for my safety occasionally. We had booked a boat tour on Western Brook Pond, which is a glacier carved valley. To get to the pond is a 3 km walk and my wife is disabled (and in this weather, I wouldn’t have wanted to walk 6 km either). There were shuttles but very limited seating so we got there about 90 minutes early. When we got there, they said they were waiting on the captain’s decision on whether or not we could go out in this weather. Eventually we did, but . . . possibly shouldn’t have LOL. The water was rough. There was a ton of spray. We both got soaked about three minutes into the trip so we were freezing the whole time. I asked my wife to please not divorce me since I took her to see icebergs. 

Don’t get me wrong, it was beautiful and awesome in the original sense of the word, but holy shit. On the way back, the weather got even worse. Dense fog and even higher wind. We had to zig zag to get back to dock because of how strong the wind was, so it took quite some time. My teeth were actually chattering (we had dressed appropriately for the cold and wind but had not anticipated getting wet).

For obvious reasons, the tour after ours was canceled, which meant there was an entire boat full of people besides ours who wanted to use the shuttle, so it took a while to get one and I was basically frozen solid by the time I made it back to the car. Good times!

We got on the ferry on the western side of the island back to Nova Scotia, which is an eight hour ferry. We took the overnight, but there were no cabins when I booked, so we had reserved, reclining seats. No big deal, right? But the sea was still very rough. 

Now, I don’t get seasick. Carsick, yes, but I’ve never had a problem getting seasick (unless I try to read, so I don’t). Even on the cruise, when we were out on the open ocean, I was fine. Y’all. I got sick sick. Our seats were on the top deck, at the front of the ship. Worst place to be during rough weather. The staff kindly took me to a better seat but holy crap was I sick. The sea finally calmed down and I felt better but I probably didn’t sleep more than an hour. It sucked.

So the next day we just drove a little while on some back roads, looked at nice scenery, until I couldn’t stay awake anymore and we crashed at a motel and I passed out.

Me somewhere in Nova Scotia: I'm not sure I'm still safe to drive

Some fuckass deer: //runs out in front of my car//

Me: //screeches to a halt and avoids a collision//

Me: Okay guess I'm still good for a little while.

The next day, we went to Reversing Falls Rapids in St. John

And to Irving Nature Park

And then we were on our way back home!

On the whole it was a very enjoyable vacation, though a really tiring one haha. I think we need to take an easier one next. I'm also definitely forgetting at least one or two things but that's life, maybe I will update later if I think of them.

Quote of the trip: "Oh, yeah, X/99 ... got us obsessed with toxic gay relationships and the rest is history."

Honorable mention: "How is it?" "It's not ... bad ..." "Oh?" "Well, it's bad in a new and interesting way."

[thecorefrisk]

I love those fics where Toothless is actually older than Hiccup and it’s portrayed as this like ‘Oh, look at this gigantic thing and the small child that keeps following him around because the gigantic thing thinks it’s his baby’.

It’s so awesome because it further expands on dragon family dynamics and kinda shows the perspective the dragons had on the time of the Red Death through how the treat the young ones of Berk— specifically Hiccup, someone who literally looked like the human version of a wet cat.

(And not entirely in a pathetic way either because even when wet, cats will hiss at you.)

There’s only one thing I wish there was more of in them. Toothless being like a bat </3. That’s really what they were leaning towards in the first movie and I was so sad when there was none of that in the rest. He lost his batty qualities. Toothless isn’t cat-like. He’s batty. And he would be so much cooler if they had leaned into that instead of making him a giant puppy.

(I wouldn’t have minded the giant puppy qualities if we were sometimes reminded that he’s still a beast throughout it all. Y’know, a show of how he’s not domesticated, he’s just with Hiccup. He’s still a dragon.)

(Idk, it makes people seem dumb for being scared of dragons when they don’t acknowledge that the large, lizard pet currently drooling all over that kid’s pale, pale face is still a dragon and they’re not going to adhere to dog rules or even human rules because they aren’t dogs and they’re aren’t human. They are large, scaly beasts.

The point of How to Train Your Dragon 1 was an acknowledgment that ‘yes, these are large and terrifying creatures’. ‘But they’re also ______’. They acknowledge that Toothless was still a dragon but there was more to him than that.

In the way that a lot of society hates wasps, but they’re still essential to the environment. Or how people are terrified of lions, tigers, and cheetahs but they’re still pretty fucking cool.

Like, yes, they are dangerous but they’re also just beings trying to survive just like you and I. They showed how dragons wouldn’t have a reason to attack the people of Berk if they genuinely hadn’t been given a reason to. That reason being… the Red Death.)

[allthecastlesonclouds]

d20 fic-off 2025 fic recs! (part one)

so, this is the first post of two i'll be making! was struck with the want to toss some of the many fics i enjoyed from this year out into the world, because people truly threw themselves into this event and i had such a fun time reading the fics i read (because i'd wager a guess i read the most fics of the non-mods)

welcome to part one! more lighthearted fics! and also ell. ell's here too.

Diversity Win! Aguefort Gym Is Gay! by @luvo27 (fantasy high, 5k words, archive locked)

luvo’s in world voice is amazing and when i say this fic is the exact amount of wildness that exists in like. a fantasy high liveshow. i mean it. i’m invested in these buildings’ love story, god dammit!

stillness in woe by @serenescribe (fantasy high fabian&riz, 106.5k words)

my dear, dear friend ell, i was hanging on to every single word of that fic. Being able to live react was delightful and AUGH every beat of that story hits so well. fabian’s and riz’s bond is. so so well portrayed. and the world that you’ve created, too, is beautiful.

untangled all the strings 'round my wings that were tied by @vivitalks! (a starstruck odyssey, sid/barry, 4.6k words)

sundrysyx (/sidbarry) is one of my pc/pc ships EVER. and this is delightful! the chaos of AnarchEra is amazingly captured and everyone is so them

premature quangle by @arcanearies (fh/tuc, pete&kristen, 2k words, archive locked)

the one time you will write kristen happy, my friend, and you did it beautifully! The first two beardsley pcs facing each other and pete being. truly so so lost while kristen thinks the interaction was a 10/10. amazing amazing amazing 

come over and wreck my heart by @starstruckodysseys (never stop blowing up, dripsdrops, 3k words, archive locked)

leave it to reese to expand the universe of the characters that our amazing/awesome action heroes took over, by, of course, putting them in college. feat beautiful lesbianism that i’m so sad didn’t happen in canon. dripsdrops theeee ship name ever.

They Did The Monster Mash (It Was A Graveyard Smash) by @mossterious and @starstruckodysseys (never stop blowing up, 61k words, 20/30 chapters)

this one isn’t yet complete but i am patiently waiting because. NSBU Universal Monsters AU. featuring familiars i will forever be suspicious of (i shouldn’t be) (but they’re suspicious goddammit) the formatting is so cool and the voices are amazing– which is important because the fic’s in script format!

the stars are out tonight by @scalematey (the unsleeping city/stardew valley, kingston brown&oc, 7.8k words)

a “kingston brown forced out of nyc (to go to pelican town) (to help the farmer who’s a populi)” fic that truly delights me. Make that man stand in the rain!!!! hell yeah!!!

Christmas in July by @rrat-king (fantasy high, kristen/tracker, 4.5k)

this fic is the wonderful, wonderful result of “making fig’s two birthdays canon compliant” AND has beautiful trackerbees AND has amazing bad kids and manorlings dynamics!! Bird you’ve done it again <3

A Correspondence of Natalia Cicero Connie Lee Carter Bajar Shortly Prior to Lunch On The 30th Day Of The 219th Cycle of Anarch Era by @remidyal (a starstruck odyssey, 205 words)

a letter that’s a poem that’s an ultimatum. it’s torturous. it’s beautiful.

Skating by @thepoweroffriendshipgivesumoney (fantasy high, sklonda&riz&tbk&tbp, 964 words, archive locked)

talking about what the bad kids would do on the ice was so fun, and juse’s descriptions of them are even better. sklonda’s voice is delightful, too!

Gay Gym? by Artistkitty (fantasy high, fig/ayda/gorgug, 303 words, archive locked)

fig/ayda/gorgug theee ship ever i love them smmmm! It’s so short and sweet and cute and! aa!

forget the world now, we won't let them see by @highfiveheroes (fantasy high, fabian/gorgug, 3k words, archive locked)

some soft pre-canon thistlecaster in the aftermath of a figayda wedding, and when i say soft i mean soft and cute and sweet and the fluffiest ever <3333

Good-Night, Sweet Prince by @unsleepingtales (fantasy high, 1k words, archive locked)

!!!!!!! fic written for me i thinkkk. body euphoria for zayn after death with some mentioned yolanda&zayn friendship and. alksadhflkjasd<333

AITA for giving a second chance to the guy that attacked me and my friends? by @fish-food-s (fantasy high, adaine/oisin, 2k words, archive locked)

this was a delightfully fun fic to comment on as i followed along, and i highly recommend everyone read the comments to see a bunch of people pretend to be characters in universe as Adaine Goes Through It In The Relationship World <33

[mianderingvagrant]

some krusie thing idk

I got inspired to make this because of @mini-minish would’ve included noelle but idk how to do more than two characters at once….. so uh yeah

It’s Saturday, 8:30 am, not a cloud in sight ,the perfect day for a game of catch . Normally on a day like this Kris would be still in bed, sleeping soundly, enjoying the warmth the passes through the gaps of the curtains as they remain in blissful slumber. However, this morning is not like any other, for you see a few weeks after [REDACTED] and their business as heroes was completed. Susie and kris stayed friends,getting to know each other, and feeling more comfortable with one another. Eventually Susie, feeling more nervous than she did battling titans and dark knights, confessed her feelings to kris, to which they joyfully accepted. With today marking the day of their very first date.

 Kris was never unhygienic (toriel wouldn’t let them even if it killed her.), but they were EXTRA thorough today, as they spent significantly more time in the shower, lathering their apple scented shampoo in their hair, double, triple checking to make sure their breath did not smell bad . Once kris felt they were clean enough, they hurriedly, albeit clumsily ran out of the bathroom their hair still damp from their shower and the freshly lathered hair products all Kris had to do was figure out what they were going wear to their date.  

 Kris entered their room, opened their wardrobe, and realized that they…. Don’t have that many outfits, Kris never felt the need to dress up and much preferred to wear clothes based on comfort rather than style, not to the point that they completely unaware of the goings on within the fashion world, but it was just never a big deal before but now it is. Kris knows that they don’t have to dress up, Susie probably doesn’t care , But they want to dress up and feel pretty for their cool dino girlfriend!  

As kris scoured through their closet, they found a few things, that reminded them of a comment they overheard susie make, so they snatched them and prepared to head out on their date…….

It was 12:00, Susie was 15 minutes early for her date, she was dressed in her usual attire, but she was just as nervous for the date as Kris was (as evident by her tail.), when she heard someone approaching. “Oh, Hey kris looks like you decided to co-“ and it was mid sentence that susie had noticed what kris was wearing. Kris had put on very gothic attire, a t-shirt with a skull print on it, black lipstick and eye shadow, hell they even had a choker on and to susie, they looked like the most gorgeous person she had ever met. She was speechless, and it took her a few seconds before she could mutter out “What’s with the new vibe, you good?”

Kris felt a bit down by this comment before susie said“N-not that I hate it, not at all! I think you look awesome dude, even more than usual you’re beautiful.” Causing the human to blush, and for the purple dino to as well (not that you can really notice it.) The two of them awkwardly stood there before susie broke the silence “Ahem anyways let’s head to the diner, I’m starving right now!” As she offered her hand to kris, which they took as the two of them head to diner, laughing and talking along the way. Enjoying the other’s presence to the fullest.

[idkhow-ks]

Raw 6/23/25 — post show thoughts

Warning for anyone who needs it: this gets political and touches on what is currently happening in the Middle East. I've kept it to the end so if you still want to read my funny wrestling thoughts and avoid the serious stuff just stop at the Cody vs Jey section.

Seth Rollins opens the show, Breakker vs Penta

I don’t know how much it came across on tv but in the arena Rollins was getting a lot of boos and there wasn’t a lot of singing his song happening which I’m happy to see as he is trying to be a big bad heel.

Has Bronson Reed said anything since returning and joining Seth? I see no logic in him taking on this role.

Penta and Breakker put together a really good match with some unexpected spots. Both guys are super over too.

In fact, along with the CM Punk chants there was a lot of…. Woofing I guess? People love Bron.

The midair spear looked super awesome in person.

Goldberg video

Not much to say here. I don't think the title should be on the line for this match but WWE's current reliance on titles for matches is a topic for another day.

Queen of the Ring Semifinal – Cargill vs Perez

I'm not a fan of Jade. I think she relies solely on being 'stronger' than everyone else and that doesn't make for great matches.

Perez is gold. She sells so well, her in-ring psychology is always top notch, and she can pull off some impressive moves for her small stature.

I should probably add another warning here because I'm going to talk about shitty men for a second.

If you are a man and you are going to a live pro wrestling event please know that there are women there that can hear you when you talk about how nice the asses are of all the female wrestlers. I'm not saying that you can't appreciate their bodies. You can, they're stunning, I agree with you on that. But when that's the only commentary you have during women's matches when you're super invested in the wrestling of the men's matches it feels gross.

And if your response to reading that is to say it's not all men and I probably just sat behind some dickheads. I have been to a lot of wrestling shows. I've heard stuff like this at every single one. I just want those guys to know that people can hear them and I at least am judging them accordingly and do not feel safe with them in attendance.

Gunther promo

On a lighter note: I love Gunther!

That promo slapped. No notes.

My personal Main Event – Bayley vs Lynch

Glad that Becky was getting appropriately boo'd.

This definitely took a bit to get going but they were really putting something awesome together.

The buried-under-chairs spot was cool.

Lyra coming in to dig Bayley out was the right spot for her to interfere.

I liked that Lyra didn't bite on Becky's taunting on the ring apron and that Bayley got there before Becky could force a DQ.

But then of course they had Lyra take that baseball slide and even though Bayley and Becky were putting on a clinic after that point they had Lyra kill it all because she just couldn't possibly take a baseball slide from Lynch and let it go. Oh no no no. She had to get back at Lynch right there in the middle of a stellar match.

I don't know if this lived up to all my self-imposed hype but it was definitely building in that direction! Until the ending!

But at least the forthcoming triple threat at Evolution will be a banger ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Rodriguez calls out Ripley

This definitely felt like filler.

Gross men warning again.

Rhea continues to be the most over person in the company.

It doesn't feel like such a good thing when you see all the men standing up during this whole segment and filming closeups of her.

Rhea has agency and she obviously feels great about her image and is doing this all of her own free will and I would never say that she should change that. She can do whatever she wants. I agree that she's hot as hell and I like looking at her. But men don't know how to behave in respectful ways a lot of the time and it's not fun being a femme presenting person at shows and watching this all happen. You can enjoy her without making it so fucking obvious that you just want to fuck her and don't care about anything else.

King of the Ring Semifinal – Rhodes vs Uso

Here is where this recap/review is going to take a turn.

The build to Night of Champions I think is my breaking point for WWE at this moment.

I don't know how to best put this into words so this might come off as just word vomit but I'm happy to clarify or discuss specific statements if anyone wants or needs that.

WWE getting into partnership with Saudi Arabia was bad enough, WWE making up whole new 'Titles' to wrestle for and then display in Saudi Arabia was bad enough. WWE taking a ring canvas sponsorship from Saudi Arabia was bad enough.

All of those things made me incredible uncomfortable and sad. The House of Saud is a criminal organization that has buckets of blood on their hands. And WWE is playing into their continued Sports Washing.

But going to Raw tonight and seeing them advertise the Cena vs Punk match and then the Rhodes vs Orton match and then seeing the already edited graphic for Asuka vs Cargill where Jade is fully covered. It just broke me y'all.

Knowing that Iran has already bombed US bases in Qatar and that the biggest US presence in the Middle East is in Saudi Arabia was just the icing on top of the already shit-filled situation.

This next bit is probably going to come across as 'missing the point man' but it is how I'm feeling in this moment.

Sports (and live events in general) are incredibly powerful. They can be a massive force for good but under capitalism they are most often a massive force for bad.

And the specific reason this broke me over all the other Saudi shows is because Orton vs Rhodes and Cena vs Punk are generational matches. They are culminations of decades long stories and they should be played out as such.

These are Mania matches. These are SummerSlam matches. These are Chicago and Boston matches. These are fan dream matches.

But instead of taking these once in a lifetime stories and putting them on a show where the most diverse and wide audience has a chance to witness them, WWE took– what I can only assume is a metric shit ton of– money from criminals and tyrants to stage these matches in a dangerous location where the average WWE fan can not attend.

It feels so disrespectful and dismissive of the fans. It feels so grubby and dirty. It feels like such a waste.

I have a whole other part of this rant about Punk specifically but that's probably best left for another day.

To round this all out I'll say this, I won't be watching Smackdown on Friday or Night of Champions on Saturday or Raw on Monday. I can't in good conscience support in even the most tacit of ways the partnership between WWE and Saudi Arabia. I regret going to Raw tonight which is something I never thought I would say.

I'm still a wrestling fan and I will still be here talking about wrestling and making my silly Chris Sabin cosplay and my satanic G.O.A.T sacrifice fan art but not for this week, not for these shows.

If anyone reads this far, thank you. I take sports and the intersection of sports, culture, and politics very seriously. I did my thesis on this topic. So if you have any questions or want to have a good faith conversation about this I'm here and willing.

[witty-username-here]

This is exactly why I wanted to stay in the aro community, y'all are so lovely :'D

Also, more context for the post...

I've thought for a while now that I'm on the aromantic spectrum, though I do still feel romantic attraction every blue moon if it's a Tuesday AND the other person likes me back. I was looking up when romantic attraction starts to develop in teens (I am a teen, by the way) and APPARENTLY, I can indeed just be a late bloomer. I even had a relationship once, where I did indeed feel romantic love.

Romance is still confusing and strange though. I also feel pretty alienated from the mainstream culture around it. So I'm staying here, because this is where I fit the best right now :D

I would like a romantic partner, because the last time I had one it was super cool and awesome, but like... I don't feel any romantic attraction to anyone atm... And I have no clue if anyone is attracted to me... So why would I do that... I can just read/write fics on AO3 and be happy with my friends instead...

TL;DR: I am now a spy for the aromantic nation. I gather intel on romantic attraction and report back with what I have found.

So like, I dunno if I'm actually on the aro spectrum or just still developing romantic attraction, but I really like it here, soo...

[onlyinstarfleet]

In the TNG episode “Force of Nature”, Data asks Geordi for cat-training advice. Geordi mentions that his sister trained her cat by putting tuna in her blouse to get it to jump into her arms. Now I’m picturing Data in his quarters wearing a pretty women’s blouse with tuna in it being like “Spot. I have put the tuna in my blouse. Please comply.” I need it bro