#a small mention of that here

[splenderai]

a gentle rain pitter patters against the windows of darius' spare room as he and alador attempt to clean out the space. they'd recently decided, along with the children, that there was more than enough room at the blight manor for darius and hunter to move in and have their own private spaces, so they have spent the better half of the day sorting through darius' (many) possessions with some good natured bickering mixed in.

they stumble upon a shallow box filled with darius' old hexside yearbooks. alador flashes a grin at darius, and, before the latter has a chance to protest, pulls out the top book and yanks it open to a random page. darius, ever dramatic, heaves a sigh and concedes that he supposes they can take a break and have a little stroll down memory lane.

they spend what must be an hour or two leafing through the pages, pointing out pictures that evoked memories both good and bad and laughing at all the inside jokes and cheesy signatures scribbled by their classmates on the last few pages. the years seem to melt away with each minute, and it almost feels like they're teenagers again, laughing easy without a care in the world.

as they make their way through the book from their junior year, there's an ear-marked page that alador stops on, his finger tracing along the surface as he passes from one photo to the next. at the center of the page, he notices one picture within the collage that he's never seen before: it's a candid shot of him and darius slow dancing at that year's grom. he still vividly remembers the day darius had asked him out to the dance and then laughing like a jackass when alador's entire face lit up a fierce shade of red. alador looks up from the page at the man sitting next to him, who rolls his eyes, but there's an unmistakable fond smile tugging at his lips.

"bet you it was raine who snapped that one," darius says simply, reaching over to turn the page. a calloused hand catches his before he can do so. darius glances at alador as the latter sets aside the yearbook and moves to stand up, pulling gently on darius' hand to get him to rise as well.

alador leans in close to darius and casually drapes his arms over darius' shoulders, a crooked smile on his lips. "do you remember the song they were playing then?"

darius snorts, shaking his head in disbelief before gently knocking their foreheads together. "of course i do, idiot," he murmurs, placing his hands on alador's hips before he begins to hum the tune they'd danced to decades ago.

they sway in the middle of the room just like that, chuckling as they try not to bump into any of the boxes sprawled out on the floor around them. they're not youngsters anymore, darius thinks idly as he traces the soft wrinkles and lines around alador's eyes with his own. they've lived enough years to fill a whole lot more of those books with memories, a few shared but most separate. hopefully that dynamic will shift the opposite way now as they build a future together.

[inkskinned]

it is all chaos and entropy. the thing is that the chaos and entropy make it beautiful and lovely.

yes, it's true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is terrifying. i have lived through some of the unfairness - i got born like this, with my body caving into itself, with this ironic love of dance when i sometimes can't stand up for longer than 15 minutes. i am a poet with hands that are slowly shutting down - i can't hold a pen some days. recently i found a dead bird on our front porch. she had no visible injuries. she had just died, the way things die sometimes.

it is also true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is wonderful. the sheer happenstance that makes rain turn into a rainbow. the impossible coincidence of finding your best friend. i have made so many mistakes and i have let myself down and i have harmed other people by accident. nature moves anyway. on the worst day of my life she delivers me an orange juice sunset, as if she is saying try again tomorrow.

how vast and unknowing the universe! how small we are! isn't that lovely. the universe has given us flowers and harp strings and the shape of clouds. how massive our lives are in comparison to a grasshopper. the world so bright, still undiscovered. even after 30 years of being on this earth, i learned about a new type of animal today: the dhole.

chance echoing in my life like a harmony between two people talking. do you think you and i, living in different worlds but connected through the internet - do you think we've ever seen the same butterfly? they migrate thousands of miles. it's possible, right?

how beautiful the ways we fill the vastness of space. i love that when large amounts of people are applauding in a room, they all start clapping at the same time. i love that the ocean reminds us of our mother's heartbeat. i love that out of all the colors, chlorophyll chose green. i love the coincidences. i love the places where science says i don't know, but it just happens.

"the universe doesn't care about you!" oh, i know. that's okay. i care about the universe. i will put my big stupid heart out into it and watch the universe feast on it. it is not painful. it is strange - the more love you pour into the unfeeling world, the more it feels the world loves you in return. i know it's confirmation bias. i think i'm okay if my proof of kindness is just my own body and my own spirit.

i buried the bird from our porch deep in the woods. that same day, an old friend reaches out to me and says i miss you. wherever you go, no matter how bad it gets - you try to do good.

[zvaigzdelasas]

[hedgehog-moss]

Record numbers of protesters all over France today. Images from Paris, Toulouse, Grenoble, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Rennes, Lyon, Lille, Marseille.

Major highways and bridges along with train stations, ports, warehouses and refineries blocked by demonstrators and unions, many universities and high schools blocked by students, Tour Eiffel, Arc de Triomphe & Palace of Versailles closed to tourists, 25% of workers on strike in the national electricity and railway companies, 15% of all civil servants on strike. Protests were organised in every major city and many smaller ones. Could have added a lot more pics of huge crowds in Strasbourg, Nantes, Limoges, Orléans, Nancy, Annecy, Brest, Mulhouse, Pau, Montpellier, Rouen, Le Mans, Bayonne, Toulon, Tours...

And kudos to Brittany for consistently out-Brittanying itself this month, between the nurses who brought out the catapult again while playing the biniou, and the fishermen who sent a tractor to face down the police’s water cannon Transformers-style, your protests have a special place in my heart.

[coconutshygame]

It's just fuckin insane man!!

We have more than robserg/Hamilton. Aka previous childhood friends, teammates fighting for wdc, broken up intense drama brocedes.

We have more than vettel/Raikkonen. Aka close friends, Ferrari teammates, Vettel not celebrating their 2015 Singapore win without the kimi's name on the board.

We have more than Gasly/Leclerc. Aka the two who call themselves best friends today, "we used to go on vacations together when we were kids", french speaking Piarles.

We have more than the famous Carlando. Their ship name is most famous in F1 and drivers' social media themselves. They had live video calls in 2020 and celebrated each other's 1st podium together ffs.

We have more than freaking Ricciardo/Verstappen... You know, those teammates whose cars fucked in Baku 2018? The two that "almost kissed, but there's nothing wrong with it", that ship that F1 used to celebrate on valentine's day.. we have more than maxiel.

Us, our silly little ship built on a 12 year old video of an inchident. Built on sexual tensions in front of Valtteri Bottas' salad(austria podium). Built on a tree one planted and the other watered, that's growing somewhere in Baku! It's built on "trouble came to me" and "is he pretty?" and "I will remember all my life...". It's built on a champagne shower in Austria and a usual "I know him very well" weekly quote. It's built on "Ferrari is a religion and Redbull is a Vendetta". Just the inevitable and the pre-destined stuff I guess.

[renthony]

Trypophobia Warning for Tears of the Kingdom

The questline that takes you through the Gerudo Desert has an enemy that spawns from clusters of holes that open up in a mushroom-shaped construct. They drop out of the holes and move in a jerky sort of manner toward the player. It's pretty squicky if you're sensitive to that sort of imagery.

[anewp0tat0]

I was inspired by something again

[cyncerity]

Karlnapity doodles??? 🥺 The bbs <3

YES YES YES MY BOYS MY BOYSSSS

TY SQUISHY I WILL TAKE ANY AND EVERY EXCUSE TO BE ABLE TO DRAW THESE THREE THEY MEAN THE WORLD TO ME

ok so i kinda went crazy here cause it’s almost 2 am and i said “hey there’s an idea i’ve had for going on 3 years that i keep saying i’ll animate and never do.” so i finally did.

this is for a very very old au, it’s actually the first au on this blog and has 1 story; which is karlnapity. I won’t go into all the lore and stuff but i’ll link that story here for those of you who weren’t here in 2021, it’s how they ended up together in this au <3. Basis is Sapnap is a human, Quackity is an avian, and Karl is an Ermine hybrid borrower.

[dirtychainsawconfessions]

is it okay to confess about the actors... because i need to say something very virgin-esque about thomas' actor (andrew bryniarski)

[wewerebornsextuplets]

BAH!!! no wonder people are homophobic gay people are scary!!!!!

[posallys]

i will NEVER not be pissed that most colleges cost about 40k A YEAR on average and that if YOUR PARENTS make over 120k AS A GROSS INCOME you're practically immediately disqualified for need-based aid???? like do you really believe anybody can afford to throw an entire third of their annual income to their kid's schooling, when they probably have several thousands of dollars in loan debt themselves??? in THIS economy??? eggs are fucking $7 a dozen where i am right now but GOD FUCKING FORBID i get any financial aid because "well your upper class" NEWS FLASH 120K IS THE NEW MIDDLE CLASS AND JUST BECAUSE MY PARENTS MAKE OKAY MONEY NOW DOESN'T MEAN FUCK ALL WHEN I CAN REMEMBER ALL THE NIGHTS THEY DIDN'T EAT WHEN I WAS GROWING UP BECAUSE THEY ONLY HAD ENOUGH FOOD TO FEED ME AND MY SISTERS I need to hold everyone involved at gunpoint because i really don't think a single fucking one of them understands "oh but you have money :/" there's literally a reason i work FULL FUCKING TIME while double majoring and it's because my parents can't even send me money for fucking groceries, let alone fork out FORTY FUCKING THOUSAND DOLLARS GOD DAMN YEAR for a degree that'll be FUCKING WORTHLESS in three years anyway i worked my ASS off and graduated with a 4.7 to get scholarships because i knew that's the only way i'd realistically be able to afford school. and then the fucking fafsa goes "oh but you have money in your savings! you can pay for your own school" bitch i have 4k and it's for my fucking rent!!!! my parents have like $600 in savings do YOU SEE THE ISSUE that's what being forced into credit card debt for 20 years fucking does it puts you in an unescapable hole so even when you're making good money YOU DON'T GET SHIT!!!!!! NOT TO MENTION THE ABYSMAL CREDIT SCORES MY PARENTS HAVE SO GOOD FUCKING LUCK TRYING TO GET LOANS FOR ME!!! COSIGNER? I'VE NEVER HEARD OF HER IM GOING TO KILL PEOPLE!!!!!!

[midnightwolf96]

A BIG F-CK YOU TO AI

because of the recent news with AI and posted art on this app I'd like to pin this on my different blogs (this one, @okami-okamiden & @emerald-cloud23 )

I have the third-party sharing setting enabled- or rather.. disabled? I've made it so it doesn't have my consent to use my stuff, basically. The fact that you have to turn it on in order to disable it messes a little with my brain but,, whatever. Fuck AI. My okami/okamiden & ninjago art is free to use with credit by aNYTHING AND ANYONE BUT AI.

- Sincerely, someone (an artist) that is trying to get back into art and gets severely demotivated by things like this.

[peachdues]

Sometimes I wonder if y’all would ever enjoy like a Reader-crossover in my fics.

Because I was thinking about what I wanted to do for Kyojuro since I miss him and his tiddies, and it got me thinking about whether I want to write another modern AU fic.

And then I wondered if/how you all would react to perhaps an occasional mention here and there of Sanemi and a certain Reader from a certain fic that you all know still has me in its chokehold.

Just thinking.

[theotherhappyplace]

i hate fatphobia

i've been losing a lot of weight cause im a SICK PERSSOOON but it's not making me any less radical in defense of fat people and i know one of these days im gonna be thin enough someone thinks i'll side with them against fat people and i'll

SCREAM THEIR HEAD CLEAN OFF

fool! I AM A SLEEPER AGENT! *flings myself upon them*

NEWLY POINTY ELBOWS, NOW IS THE TIME TO JAB.

[jestroer]

Lil sketch inspired by this Rats smp fic with adorable continuation where Joel is a cat! Love that idea

[delurkr]

Bad screenshot but I really love this page of the LH comics