#and not just skim through

[crazylittlejester]

jes did I send you a long ass ask about my Royal Depths au a while back or did I hallucinate doing that. You don’t have to answer it right now I just need to know if I actually sended it lol. It had ST Link there and I was talking bout fake game mechanics. Maybe you did answer it but I forgot. I don’t have the best memory haha

Anyways, I hope you have a good rest of your day!

no you did send it, i just wanted to make sure i had the time and mental energy to read every single word and give you my thoughts because i adore your au but my mental health has been awful and ive been busy, im very Very behind on asks i have like 60+ in my inbox rn, it’s gotten Bad and i feel bad about it :(

you have a good rest of ur day too, i will answer that as soon as i can, because i love ur au /srs and i AM excited to read it, there is just something wrong with me im sorry

[heritageposts]

[...] During the early stages of the war, the army gave sweeping approval for officers to adopt Lavender’s kill lists, with no requirement to thoroughly check why the machine made those choices or to examine the raw intelligence data on which they were based. One source stated that human personnel often served only as a “rubber stamp” for the machine’s decisions, adding that, normally, they would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing — just to make sure the Lavender-marked target is male. This was despite knowing that the system makes what are regarded as “errors” in approximately 10 percent of cases, and is known to occasionally mark individuals who have merely a loose connection to militant groups, or no connection at all. Moreover, the Israeli army systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes — usually at night while their whole families were present — rather than during the course of military activity. According to the sources, this was because, from what they regarded as an intelligence standpoint, it was easier to locate the individuals in their private houses. Additional automated systems, including one called “Where’s Daddy?” also revealed here for the first time, were used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences.

In case you didn't catch that: the IOF made an automated system that intentionally marks entire families as targets for bombings, and then they called it "Where's Daddy."

Like what is there even to say anymore? It's so depraved you almost think you have to be misreading it...

“We were not interested in killing [Hamas] operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity,” A., an intelligence officer, told +972 and Local Call. “On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.” The Lavender machine joins another AI system, “The Gospel,” about which information was revealed in a previous investigation by +972 and Local Call in November 2023, as well as in the Israeli military’s own publications. A fundamental difference between the two systems is in the definition of the target: whereas The Gospel marks buildings and structures that the army claims militants operate from, Lavender marks people — and puts them on a kill list.  In addition, according to the sources, when it came to targeting alleged junior militants marked by Lavender, the army preferred to only use unguided missiles, commonly known as “dumb” bombs (in contrast to “smart” precision bombs), which can destroy entire buildings on top of their occupants and cause significant casualties. “You don’t want to waste expensive bombs on unimportant people — it’s very expensive for the country and there’s a shortage [of those bombs],” said C., one of the intelligence officers. Another source said that they had personally authorized the bombing of “hundreds” of private homes of alleged junior operatives marked by Lavender, with many of these attacks killing civilians and entire families as “collateral damage.” In an unprecedented move, according to two of the sources, the army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians; in the past, the military did not authorize any “collateral damage” during assassinations of low-ranking militants. The sources added that, in the event that the target was a senior Hamas official with the rank of battalion or brigade commander, the army on several occasions authorized the killing of more than 100 civilians in the assassination of a single commander.

. . . continues on +972 Magazine (3 Apr 2024)

[charcoaldustonmyfingers]

Raphael skeletal anatomy! Click for better quality

Turtle shells are really funky, and in real life turtles, their shoulders and hips are actually fused to the shell and form immobile shoulder and pelvic girdles. Their scapula (shoulder blades) therefore are pushed almost fully downwards to give turtle arms that elbow up look. Most of their muscles are attached via ligaments to their plastron and limbs, with their large neck muscles reaching back along their spine with very minimal muscles on their sides or back.

Because of how funky their bones are, I tried to find a good middle ground between the brothers’ humanoid shape and mobility vs. their original species limitations. Their shoulders are very human, with their collarbone instead connecting to the top of their plastron rather than a sternum (flat bone in the middle of the ribs) with the addition of their shoulder blades resting much lower than a humans and protecting the open space in the armpit of their shell (rather than being set on their back under their carapace). Their necks can stretch slightly longer than a humans and have some extra mobility, on account of how they usually sit curved and tucked into their shoulders. Their pelvises and lumbar vertebrae (hips and lower back) are not fused to their shell to enable them to twist their torsos some.

As for how flexible the show depicts their shells to be… suspension of disbelief! I like to keep the idea of their shells being turtle like, so even though they’re all bone, I’ll allow cartoon physics to bend them some.

Additional info on Raph: The spikes on his shell are mostly bone. Also (something I didn’t draw because it was only after I finished this that I was able to find a picture of an alligator snapper shell bone without its scutes) there are small gaps between his pleural bone plates (middle of shell) and his peripheral bone plates (edges of shell). The scar on his shell is probably from a bone deep injury, as broken scutes shed away, but because scars don’t grow with a person, the injury is small enough that it probably happened so long ago that Raph can’t even remember it.

This is all just my speculation, so feel free to disagree or expand upon these ideas!

[General][Donnie][Leo][Mikey][Splinter]

[egophiliac]

What do you think riddle's dad is like? He was so randomly dropped lol are they divorced? Unhappy couple? Off getting milk with Ruggie's dad????

I swear he talks about his dad at some point? (I thought it was one of the birthday cards, but I just skimmed through them all and didn't see it, I am at a loss as to where else it might be). assuming I didn't just make it up, his parents are still together, but they don't actually get along very well and his dad mostly just...avoids interacting with them both. just in case you were worried for a second that Riddle might have one non-sucky parent! 👍

honestly is it any wonder that Trey spent thirty seconds with him and immediately was like

[justskyla-art]

rhinestone eyes

[loop-lover-central]

"Thirst trap Odile, She/Her Loop, commedia dell’arteFrin!"

Silence. Baby girl Isa.

[mancandykings]

TOM BURKE as Athos The Musketeers (2014 - 2016)

[vechter]

do you have any dickroy recs? i just read shaking it off and it was really good im kind of new to them but you seem to know them really well

do i ever...

the happy ones by karples

‘cause i’ll keep coming over by karples

truth is the first casualty by karples

more than you know by karples

just gimme one bad night by karples

king of night vision, king of insight by karples

Another Thing We'll Never Talk About by Rubynye

to the left by newsical

there's a hole where your heart lies by FromStarstuff

live wire by unveils

heavenly way to die by one_step_closer_to_death

ground beneath my feet by one_step_closer_to_death

love watching you go by butch_chastity

gates of horn and ivory by mishencockles

everything casts a shadow by mishencockles

Green, still green by mishencockles

little pearl, little pearl, i see the dirt in your lines. {where perfectionism goes to die.} by SHINeeNAilee

deaf, dumb, thirty, starting to deserve this by 2mad4plaid

all we are is an aching that can barely be filled by 2mad4plaid

we were reaching in the dark by 2mad4plaid

almost all of these are slash (and quite a few are smut so check the tags) im too exhausted to give summaries but i love all these fics immensely! also tysm glad you liked shaking it off to find a higher low <3 i'm assuming you've read my other dickroy stuff— it builds and builds and builds & angie, they can't say we never tried 

[haysaca]

Baby: Behold... Your corpse! Fear me!!!

Tuesday: That's adorable sweetie, you're still grounded though.

Baby:

[pennamepersona]

I get that part of the appeal of FL is learning lore slowly and organically and also that it's a living story so some things just didn't exist or weren't talked about for a while and that means not everything matches up neatly and that's fine and whatever but also I would commit deranged and heinous acts for a book or google doc that just explained things plainly

[dandeliont3aandsageleaves]

Dandelion would buy one of those cheap "best friends forever" necklaces from Claire's and Geralt would wear it with pride

[bisupergirl]

kara wearing kon's glasses (given to her by tim) in supergirl v5 🫶 and her wearing his shirt (that she stole) after his death in infinite crisis:

[okaydiscount]

alyx but i drew her with a crowbar and the bg is really boring and cropped badly because i didnt care teehee :3

[swordsonnet]

i did not have "james somerton stealing the title for his second apology video from hbomberguy" on my 2024 bingo card

[mivinaluv]

cc!watermunch and tr!watermunch pronouns

[diarunas]

Achilles committed some heinous things but his most unforgivable crime was being a ginger