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this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen
#lol good luck finding all of the photoshopped versions in the rb history. ‘manatee restored’ is still my favorite of all time#misc#I encourage anyone dyslexic to try rotating him in your mind. I can’t do that; which is why I’m asking you to.#also: a bunch of tags are surprised this isn’t ‘shopped#it’s the lighting. backlit by the sun (which is diffused through the water) but also forelit artificially#the artificial light - a flash pack or something - casts a hard shadow under the creatures arm#which normally wouldn’t be possible if backlit by the SUN; you’d see a less-hard/more-fragmented shadow above water#as light sources ‘compete’ in a sense - and since there aren’t any light sources which can outshine the literal sun#it looks a bit weird when the darkest shadow is being cast from any other origin point - which is what’s essentially happening here#I don’t know the mechanics of how light travels through water; but I know the effect is substantial even with relatively short distances#also: it’s been balanced and color corrected by the author of the photo - who made deliberate choices to bring out the full potential#so it’s not like it’s a fresh and untouched export#but the kind of ‘tacked on’ appearance of the creature is a result of the lighting conditions within the image
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Bruce is at a gala, okay, and he’s talking to a woman.
Random woman: “And we found out that we’re having another child!”
Bruce: *absolutely cackling inside, because this is about to be the funniest thing he’s done in weeks*
Brucie: “That’s wonderful! Where are they? Can I meet them? How old are they?”
Now Brucie is standing there, scanning the room for children with a huge grin on his face, while all of the random rich people stand around like ‘who’s going to explain to the adorable, well-meaning idiot that most people know they’re going to have children a few months before the children are born.’
And worse, who’s going to have to break the news to him that he can’t meet the kid today?
Because this man… this man has acquired all of his children with zero premeditation. Yes, he does have a bio kid, but that one showed up on his doorstep as a preteen. He did even less acquiring with that one than with the others.
Bruce has a blast acting out his disappointment, and has to turn some so that he can no longer see Tim and Cass leaning against each other and laughing, because otherwise he’s going to start laughing.
#the things you can do with the persona of an adorable idiot with an adoption problem#batman#bruce wayne#bruce wayne’s adoption problem#brucie wayne#i stuck tim and cass in the background because I need more of them being attached at the hip#they’re the creepy competent twins who look way too much alike for being unrelated and several years apart in age#cass and tim
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can you imagine the fucking stories christopher will be able to tell in college though. he's doing those shitty freshman orientation bonding exercises and he goes "yeah i spent one summer with my grandparents because i caught my dad hugging a woman who looked exactly like my dead mom. in hindsight they were both very mentally ill. my dad got better, no idea what happened to the lady tho" he's going to KILL at weird parent story time
#finally. a man who can compete with my stories about my mom's ex polycule#911 abc#eddie diaz#christopher diaz
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"Rhaenyra tried to put bastards on the throne"
#no like fr who tf cares#except of misogynistic bitches who hate to see woman win#like i'm really sorry that jacaerys targaryen at age 14 was more competent to rule westeros than your favs ever#go cry about it#house of the dragon#hotd#rhaenyra targaryen#fire and blood#jacaerys targaryen#pro rhaenyra targaryen#anti team green#jacaerys velaryon
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i vote that next year instead of reading Dracula we do a Jeeves & Wooster Book Club. those two never got the rabid tumblr shipping fandom they deserved (disqualified for the sheer technicality of being published a century too soon). we must correct this injustice
#jeeves and wooster#i want to watch tumblr go rabid i want to watch ao3 overflow with jeeves/wooster fanfiction#yes obviously the fandom EXISTS but it's a cozy little neighborhood#a handful of talented artists and writers doing their best to keep their charming little village going#but i'm tired of cozy i want this fandom TRENDING#I WANT TO SEE THIS ON MY DASHBOARD PEOPLE#i swear to you if they made a shiny new tv series tumblr would absolutely obsess over these characters. good omens levels of obsession#it's just such a great dynamic! the good-natured overly-trusting bumbling idiot in constant need of rescuing!#the stoic all-knowing genius who quietly masterminds mayhem in order to protect this one moron he's devoted himself to for some reason#jeeves as a morosexual is just such a beautiful interpretation of the original text#wooster as a happy-go-lucky himbo who stumbles his way into a relationship with a protective caring and supremely competent mastermind#the angst and social complexities of a same-sex cross-class relationship in turn-of-the century london!#oh AND half the stories are about jeeves helping wooster get out of engagements/desperately avoid marriage#two men who live together constantly scheming to maintain their bachelorhood. this is quite literally the main plot point#the gay subtext is there! the gay subtext is there and very ripe for picking!!!#this thing is LOCKED AND LOADED we can pounce literally any time
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Man being the poor medium that Gaz comes to distraught after Soap dies. He's never really believed in this stuff but his grandma passed down stories of people who could talk to the spirit world and he's desperate.
You have few but loyal customers, you don't generally take on anyone that isn't vouched for by someone you trust. The only reason you see this guy is because one of your ancestors takes a shine to him, something about being friends with one of his ancestors hundreds of years ago back home.
What you did not expect was the fucking spirit you have just made contact with, rather than being pretty morose and contemplative as most newly dead are, being a raging horndog who spends more time flirting with you than trying to talk to his friend. Incidentally, this is how Gaz knows you're the real deal. Him and Johnny always did share a taste in women.
#mhairidrabbles#human Gaz and spirit Soap competing over the same medium who thinks both of them are exhausting actually#meanwhile Ghost doesn’t go to a medium he is hunting down a fucking necromancer
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when you're hypercompetent and too busy to show up to the war council so you get voluntold into a stealth mission on the moon 😔
#cr spoilers#critical role#honestly looking back on it its mostly allura#'go rescue yussa from the happy fun ball!' 'go make sure the peace talks go well!' 'go kill the dangerous psychic manipulators on the moon!#smh allura don't you know what it's like (<- allura and co was def once that party)#this is WHY she keeps volunteering them unfortunately lmfao#the one manager who's actually competent who knows you're also competent 😔#I should in fact be doing the task I was voluntold into for this reason but here we are
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Tbh? I don't like Paul. I don't want Paul. I understand that Paul serves an important narrative function and that Paul is the best possible ending for Camilla and Palamedes given their situation, personalities, and relationship. However what I really want is for Camilla and Palamedes to attend the ATN wedding as two individual humans and for Pal to be a lightweight who loses his tie in the garden fountain after three drinks and for Camilla to do exactly one shot with the group, keep Gideon from ripping the sleeves off her dress shirt, and absolutely kill it at lawn games during cocktail hour. Since this scenario is a wild tonal mismatch for the series and also Palamedes was already dead, this was unlikely to ever happen. However Paul is the final nail in the coffin for the theoretical existence of this scene and I can't help but resent them for that
#I don't think we as readers are supposed to welcome Paul. at least not without grieving Pal and Cam#Paul's existence is both a horror and a triumph#however my concerns are much more petty and involve Camilla winning at cornhole#I can't yet properly characterize Paul. would Paul lose their tie in the fountain??? would Paul win at cornhole??#or does everything that made Pal and Cam individually delightful cancel out into a person who is mostly competent and boring.#they balanced each other out you see!!! so what happens now that they're combined into one person!!!!#the locked tomb#nonasbirthday#nona the ninth spoilers#the locked tomb spoilers
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day one of training camp and he's already killed a reporter and spent an entire interview talking about how he knows his captain Intimately....
#kris bitchily: you haven't known him carnally like i have.#meanwhile sid creaming his pants beaming about competing for who amongst them will be THE old man hockey yaoi to outlive them all#(it's jagr)#sidney crosby#kris letang#sidkris#pittsburgh penguins
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imagine attacking Mondstadt though. 'oh you wanna attack mond? don't do that. they have one fanatic nun and another who hides knives in her nun dress. they have a workaholic acting grandmaster, and a witch for librarian who graduated from the akademiya early. they're friends with a wolfpack and a wolf god and there's this kid who literally howls at the moon. they have a princess...? from another world? they have a knight whose friendly interaction is calls for vengeance. there's this kid with the worst luck ever who's actually alive. the most powerful witches throw tea parties there. one of them has a student who can look at you and tell you when and how you'll die. another one of them has an arsonist daughter who makes bombs. for fun. she's shorter than your knee and she'll kill you. one of her big brothers is a witch-made alchemist and the other is khaenri'ahn royalty. whose brother is literally banned from snezhnaya by the decree of the cryo archon herself. oh did I mention the resident dragon.'
#Attacking Mondstadt? Worst idea ever#These people were so competent that Venti adiós-ed his way out early#Abyss Twin attacked Mondstadt ONCE and regretted it for like four updates why would you risk it#Also not to mention their Archon who LIED TO OUR FACE about his power.#Please#genshin impact#genshin traveler#genshin kaeya#genshin diluc#mondstadt#kaeya alberich#genshin impact kaeya#diluc#diluc ragnvindr#albedo#klee
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Grown Apart AU - Musical Style ✨
What is This Feeling from Wicked pretty perfectly encapsulates GA Donnie and Leo's first impressions of each other, so the musical nerd within me couldn't resist doing this (lol).
Context within the plot: After saving Mikey's life (by total coincidence), Donnie manages to infiltrate the Hamato residence as a spy, planning to capture the oozesquitos and hand them over to Big Mama, thus gaining her favor. Leo, however, sees through his act easily and has been keeping an eye on him since he arrived. Due to circumstances outside of their control - i.e. Splinter's decision - the two of them are forced to share a room with each other, which neither party is particularly thrilled about.
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I just found out that, apparently, Grown Apart has made into the @tmntaucompetition preliminaries!!!! ASDFGHJKJH;!! Thank you to anyone who sent in a nomination! I guess we can officially call this "propaganda" now, so look forward to seeing much more in the very near future!
#Seriously I ASDFGHJKJHG I'm stunned and I'm really excited to compete with other amazing AUs in the comp!#I really appreciate everyone who had a part in giving me that chance thank you so much <3 Please continue to vote for GA!#grown apart au (rottmnt)#rottmnt au#rottmnt#rise of the tmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#disaster twins#rottmnt donnie#rise donnie#donatello hamato#rottmnt leo#rise leo#leonardo hamato#chiscribbs#fanart#comic#Apologies if you have any trouble reading my handwriting btw lol
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"essek stays away post-canon because he doesn't want to endanger the nein while he's on the run" absolutely valid, but also i raise you: essek knows about the one (1) time the nein were in charge of protecting an important mage and she survived approximately one week before getting violently murdered while they were — direct quote — "havin' bacon"
#to be fair they did not like vess and that was not their best effort but still#essek thelyss#mighty nein#cr2#critical role#this is mostly a joke because i love every fic where essek gives them (and particularly caleb) space to keep them safe#but it occurred to me that essek is one of the few people who knows the full story about vess#and can probably acknowledge that despite being extremely competent in many ways the nein should not be trusted with bodyguard duties#august chats
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Since I was screaming at the TV at the cast forgetting all the cool stuff they've done, I've decided to live up to my blog name and list all of my favorite Bells Hells achievements:
Those towers in Jrusar are now forever haunted by a little girl with a flower basket
Won the deathwish race
Took down the Paragon's headquarters in Bassuras
Saved Imahara Joe and Dancer + united them to help save Exandria
Zephran tourists are forever banned from flying the glider thingies
Saved the city of Uthodurn from a massive celestial bull
Helped the Hearthdell village
Gathered and united the two shards of Primordial Titans bringing their powers back to life
Saved Keyleth's life after the Solstice
Were the first ones to infiltrate the malleus key and step on Ruidus that weren't Ruby Vanguard
Stablished communication between Exandria and the Volition
Exploded Ludinus' headquarters
Saved Evoroa and brought the first ever Ruidian to Exandria
Killed OTOHAN THULL
Reunited Imogen with her mother and are now fully bringing her to their side
Have met pretty much every single pc and important npc in CR history save for a few
Trapped Delilah forever and got the closest to killing her anyone in history could since she REFUSES TO DIE
Helped kill a Grand Demon trapped for a 1000 yrs under Aeor (tho I'll admit they mostly fumbled about for that one)
#like bells hells are actually really damn prolific at this point#the bunch of fuck ups who have no value stuff doesnt make sense to me anymore#they're proven to be pretty damn competent despite their hickups#and I can confidently say exandria would be FUCKED if it wasnt for them#theyre the bus plane another club no sleep crew for a reason#critical role#cr spoilers#cr3#critical role spoilers#bells hells#campaign 3#and their campaign isn't even over yet!!
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have i ever mentioned how genuinely happy i am that zuko ended up with a daughter. he'd be a great dad even if he had a son but theres no character in atla with stronger girl dad vibes. he just needed a daughter
#atla#avatar the last airbender#atla zuko#princess izumi#dadko#the only one who can compete with zukos girl dad vibes is korras dad#hakoda is great but you can tell hes a boy dad.... still very dad though i love him#zuko: dad edition
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Something I miss from earlier eras of the creative side of the internet was things just being unabashedly low-budget. Just all unashamedly amateur, unprofessional, ‘I don’t own a good camera but I have a story to tell you’, ‘I can’t afford a good mic but I have a song to sing for you,’ ‘I don’t have any kind of background in editing or lighting and I only just picked up this guitar last Tuesday but here’s an entire musical me and my friends wrote about our favourite book, we filmed it on a potato and put it up on YouTube in ten minute segments because we thought it was pretty funny.’
#everything felt so much less like Content then#and as someone who wants to share creative stuff online#it’s now incredibly daunting thinking about doing that bc#especially as a disabled person who can’t work full time#it feels almost impossible to extricate art from being Content#like there’s this immense pressure to produce things that could pass as professionally produced by a team of educated people#and to make smart decisions so that somehow eventually you can profit off your art#and instead of it being a ‘hey look at my silly little song’ it becomes#competing in an over saturated market already dominated by the nepotism afforded by wealth and connections#and it feels like it would very difficult not to measure my personal satisfaction with how a certain piece of art turned out#by how much attention it got online#even though I genuinely have zero desire to be famous and it sounds like a complete nightmare#anyway I’m gonna have ice cream for dinner how about you guys#hmp42
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by getting botox and fillers and cosmetic surgeries you are actively participating in making the world a more hostile place for the women who choose not to do those things. you are actively applying pressure on those women. you are creating a world where women who don’t do those things are told they are “aging like milk” because no one knows what a normal, unaltered female face looks like anymore.
#yes those women who alter themselves in that way are victims of patriarchy#but they have also become its perpetrators and enforcers#never never let the desire to compete with other women for male approval overpower your social responsibility to other women
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