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[m00ngbin]

HEY HI GUESS WHAT

TFS CHAPTER 20!!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? HALFWAY THROUGH IT THATS CRAZY. Tfs my beloved :3

See that cat? That cat is me RIGHT NOW

[mollywog]

Something about this bit reminded me of a passage from Jane Eyre

The Blue Castle

…Of late years she had fallen into the habit of doing her hair with the shade of the window by the looking-glass pulled down. The lines on her face did not show so plainly then. But this morning she jerked the shade to the very top and looked at herself in the leprous mirror with a passionate determination to see herself as the world saw her.

The result was rather dreadful. Even a beauty would have found that harsh, unsoftened side-light trying. Valancy saw straight black hair, short and thin, always lustreless despite the fact that she gave it one hundred strokes of the brush, neither more nor less, every night of her life and faithfully rubbed Redfern’s Hair Vigor into the roots, more lustreless than ever in its morning roughness; fine, straight, black brows; a nose she had always felt was much too small even for her small, three-cornered, white face; a small, pale mouth that always fell open a trifle over little, pointed white teeth; a figure thin and flat-breasted, rather below the average height. She had somehow escaped the family high cheek-bones, and her dark-brown eyes, too soft and shadowy to be black, […]. Apart from her eyes she was neither pretty nor ugly—just insignificant-looking, she concluded bitterly. How plain the lines around her eyes and mouth were in that merciless light! And never had her narrow, white face looked so narrow and so white.

…

Fear—fear—fear—she could never escape from it. It bound her and enmeshed her like a spider’s web of steel. Only in her Blue Castle could she find temporary release. And this morning Valancy could not believe she had a Blue Castle. She would never be able to find it again. Twenty-nine, unmarried, undesired—what had she to do with the fairy-like chatelaine of the Blue Castle? She would cut such childish nonsense out of her life forever and face reality unflinchingly.

Jane Eyre

“You,” I said, “a favourite with Mr. Rochester?  You gifted with the power of pleasing him?  You of importance to him in any way?  Go! your folly sickens me.  And you have derived pleasure from occasional tokens of preference—equivocal tokens shown by a gentleman of family and a man of the world to a dependent and a novice.  How dared you?  Poor stupid dupe!—Could not even self-interest make you wiser? You repeated to yourself this morning the brief scene of last night?—Cover your face and be ashamed!  He said something in praise of your eyes, did he?  Blind puppy!  Open their bleared lids and look on your own accursed senselessness!  It does good to no woman to be flattered by her superior, who cannot possibly intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

“Listen, then, Jane Eyre, to your sentence: to-morrow, place the glass before you, and draw in chalk your own picture, faithfully, without softening one defect; omit no harsh line, smooth away no displeasing irregularity; write under it, ‘Portrait of a Governess, disconnected, poor, and plain.’

“Afterwards, take a piece of smooth ivory—you have one prepared in your drawing-box: take your palette, mix your freshest, finest, clearest tints; choose your most delicate camel-hair pencils; delineate carefully the loveliest face you can imagine; paint it in your softest shades and sweetest lines, according to the description given by Mrs. Fairfax of Blanche Ingram; remember the raven ringlets, the oriental eye;—What! you revert to Mr. Rochester as a model!  Order!  No snivel!—no sentiment!—no regret!  I will endure only sense and resolution.  Recall the august yet harmonious lineaments, the Grecian neck and bust; let the round and dazzling arm be visible, and the delicate hand; omit neither diamond ring nor gold bracelet; portray faithfully the attire, aërial lace and glistening satin, graceful scarf and golden rose; call it ‘Blanche, an accomplished lady of rank.’

“Whenever, in future, you should chance to fancy Mr. Rochester thinks well of you, take out these two pictures and compare them: say, ‘Mr. Rochester might probably win that noble lady’s love, if he chose to strive for it; is it likely he would waste a serious thought on this indigent and insignificant plebeian?’”

“I’ll do it,” I resolved: and having framed this determination, I grew calm, and fell asleep.

I kept my word.  An hour or two sufficed to sketch my own portrait in crayons; and in less than a fortnight I had completed an ivory miniature of an imaginary Blanche Ingram.  It looked a lovely face enough, and when compared with the real head in chalk, the contrast was as great as self-control could desire.  I derived benefit from the task: it had kept my head and hands employed, and had given force and fixedness to the new impressions I wished to stamp indelibly on my heart.

Ere long, I had reason to congratulate myself on the course of wholesome discipline to which I had thus forced my feelings to submit.  Thanks to it, I was able to meet subsequent occurrences with a decent calm, which, had they found me unprepared, I should probably have been unequal to maintain, even externally.

Also see made for labor not love by @sheet-metal-memories

[nomohmoss]

meet the archons

better quality

[coddda]

I wish we could have met in some other way.

Lawlight Week Day 2: Soulmates

If you saw me repost and re-edit this several times uh No you didn't </3

Still frames/Individual gifs:

If you know what every frame is from you get a free cookie. by the way

[framblebee]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1x2 After the Phantoms of Your Former Self

—You should just throw me in the incinerator, make another one. —Hm. And what a waste that would be.

[nonasuch]

The first question this reddit post made me ask was “why the fuck would you have an ex be part of your bridal party under any circumstances,” but when I got to this paragraph:

the part of my brain that generates romcom plots was like, okay. Romcom about a long weekend joint bachelor/bachelorette trip in which the future bride & groom are just the absolute nicest, chillest, coolest people you can imagine — the kind of people who genuinely want to stay friends with their exes, and do so successfully.

So successfully, in fact, that both bridal parties gradually realize, over the course of the weekend, that they are all exes of either the bride or the groom. For values of “ex” that range from “pretend married in the sandbox in kindergarten” to “seriously dated for multiple years and might have proposed if not for a job offer that took them out of the country.”

Now the various members of the bridal party are torn. What does this mean? Should they try to stop the wedding? Who has the strongest prior claim on either the bride’s or groom’s affections? Is this a cry for help? Is this a weird coincidence? Is this a long con on the part of the happy couple to set up all their exes with each other? Will the lone enby in the group ever come up with a better term than “groomsperson”?

Anyway I would watch this movie. Is Jenny Slate looking for a project right now?

[libraryofgage]

Been having Secretly Smart Steve thoughts except it's less that his intellect is a secret and more that nobody ever noticed lmao

The initial thought for this is based on my mom's stories about acting like a ditzy airhead in high school but then graduating with honors

Within five minutes of walking into high school Steve definitely clocked that being cool was more important than being smart right? So he didn't really let on that he was good at class stuff and just let people think he was a simple jock

And Steve graduating isn't a huge thing cuz it happens during UD stuff which means they all miss graduation ceremony and just get their degrees later, so it's not like anyone saw the honors tassels that steve was given to wear with his grad gown

And the first real hint is Lucas trying to make a basket and getting frustrated. And Steve is like "here I'll show you" and proceeds to make every throw he makes from anywhere on the court and when Lucas asks how the fuck he does that Steve shrugs and is like "well, i mean, its all angles man"

Later Mike and Will are working on an egg drop project (you know the ones) and getting worked up cuz the eggs keep cracking. Steve has been watching TV or something the whole time and outta nowhere is like "yall are missing shock absorption and proper wind resistance, duh"

Nancy is trying to decode some number based cipher for fun but it's becoming rapidly Not Fun and Steve looks over her shoulder for like two seconds and goes "group the numbers into twos, subtract 18 from each, and then it's the alphabet letter based on the number" and then just walks off

Dustin is taking an engineering class and is having trouble building a bridge cuz it keeps collapsing when he sends a hot wheels car over it. Steve tells him he needs more load-bearing beams and to distribute the weight evenly and Dustin is surprised when it works

And, of course, Eddie sees all of this so one day when Max or Erica ask for help with some geometry homework he takes the worksheet they give him and immediately passes it along to Steve, waves off their disbelief, and sits all smug while Steve explains concepts they'd been missing entirely

[thesquireinvictus]

“That I havent wound up chained to a cellar wall or burned at the stake is not a testament to our ascending civility but to our ascending skepticism. If we still believed in witches we'd still be burning them.”

[pannotian]

Comic artist should spend more time analysing what a character would wear im so serious I hate these ugly h&m fits. What happened to charas having unique styles and outfits.

[rikublivion]

Dysphania Militaris—more commonly known as the 'False Tiger Moth'—is often mistaken for a butterfly due to its bright colours.

[why-the-heck-not]

almost slipped into the procrastination rabbit hole of Notion-ing the fuck out of my life

[sukibenders]

Whether you feel what Shauna did to Mari holds racial implications or not, it's not your place to harass or belittle poc fans of the show for feeling this way, dismissing how that scene made them feel. While the writers were very tone deaf and probably didn't understand the implications behind that scene, it still doesn't matter when it's coupled with how many times the show has done all their poc characters dirty. Telling poc fans that, after watching a brown girl be butchered without dignity, different from her counterparts, and have her hair taken as a trophy by a yte girl who has been antagonizing her so aggressively, they shouldn't feel uncomfortable by that or that they should just accept it because "violence is the show" is very disingenuous and misses the point. Especially when factoring how these same Shauna defenders will get up in arms for other fans wishing for her end, coming up with all the reasons why she should make it out, even though, in some of their words, "violence is the show."

[loudemic]

coffee dates with friends have such a healing power. 🤎

[sersh]

SOPHIE THATCHER Videography by Rion Ezra for Notion Magazine, January 2025 for @roxxintoxxin!

[niechys]

It's way late. I don't know how to draw Deadlock or any mech for that matter. But I have to. Here me out.

I need to see First Aid be a badass.

So so so here's what happen.

Ratchet and Jazz goes to rescue Prowl, which was also coincide with the Shockwave controlling all the mech and pilot event.

Shockwave use the Vortex that he's controlling to fight Deadlock and prevent them taking Prowl.

Somewhere along the line. Vortex manage to yeet First Aid out but he still couldn't get control back. (Or Deadlock hit Vortex in the head and that cause First Aid to disconnect??? IDK I just have to get him out.)

So First Aid go and put an Axe in the control center. When Vortex regain control he stab the frigging blade into the room and retrieve First Aid.

And then they escape.