#are you excited

[ato-dato]

*genders your bent*

[dewarism]

i'm sick! so you know what that means...

[sweetestofchaos]

Ch 5 of Blackthorn drops today at 1:40pm EST!!!!!

[sapphic-squid]

ARIIIII HI HELLO how’s your summer going? Also I would like to know what you’ve cooked that you’re the proudest of

HI ANAAAAAA my summers going pretty good. I just went swimming but now my head hurts from the sun, but I’m probably gonna go have dinner soon so it’s all good

On Mother’s Day I made my mom chicken pitas and lemon rice and that turned out really good. I felt pretty good about myself looking at the counter of food and homemade pitas knowing I did all that in just a few hours

[silvercrane14]

got my friend into milgram just in time for yunos 2nd trial wooo

me getting Nyx and hopefully Dino into Milgram fhsukrhucdhjl

[shoomlah]

I have a feeling that beneath the little halo on your noble head There lies a thought or two the devil might be interested to know You're like the finish of a novel that I'll finally have to take to bed You fascinate me so

You Fascinate Me So, Blossom Dearie

[goldensunset]

advice i think we should tell children is that when adults say stuff like ‘now that i’m an adult i get really excited about stuff like coffee tables and bathrooms and rugs etc’ they don’t mean ‘and now i don’t care about blorbo and squimbus from my childhood tv shows anymore’ bc your average adult still loves all the same pop culture stuff they always did; they just have a greater appreciation for the mundane as well. growing up just means you can enjoy life twice as much now. you can get really excited about a new stuffed animal AND about a new kitchen sponge. peace and love

[julnites]

Red riding hood comic collab with the wonderful @yeehawpim (go check out their blog for loads of great comics!) 🌷 See the layouts he did here!

[soranker]

laios985

[frosting-surfeit]

*INTENSE SCREECHINGGGGGG* I JUMPED OUT OF MY SEAT AT THE END OF TOP FIVE VIDEOS 10 WHEN I SAW THISSS ---

I completely forgot i saw vylet announcing that there was gonna be a teaser at the end, it got me good.

Vylet's music has been changing my life for the better for almost 3 years but the last two albums specifically came at just the impossibly right time in my life somehow, and easily became part of my identity which never happened to me before. Im going to be terrifyingly excited for any album she drops, even if its just going to be the much overdue and long awaited chance for her to show off her edm skills. I dont care. Im excited. Whatever this turns out to be.

(I haven't forgotten the way she announced carousel and made me think that one was going to be a crazy, yet simple edm album. I will be cautious about believing her this time...we'll see)

[dekariosclan]

Larian Studios in 2029: As always we continue to improve the romance experience in Baldur’s Gate 3! See below for some of the changes coming with Patch #43:

— You now have the ability to argue about your tax returns with your spouse

— Fixed an issue where the game would freeze while you & your partner were shopping at the IKEA in Baldur’s Gate

— If you opted to have children, you must now pass a DC 30 check in order to have the energy to stay awake past 9:45 pm

— If partnered with Gale and living in Waterdeep, you can now discuss whose family you will be spending next Waukeentide with (*note, not an option with a Dark Urge character)

[khruschevshoe]

There is a conversation to be had about the fact that Taylor Swift's album is being played in its entirety across all of iHeartRadio's 868 stations, pushing out the opportunities other artists might have had to get radioplay. That's the literal definition of a monopoly. No wonder she'll hit the top of the radio play charts with this maneuver, because at least 65 minutes (if not the back side of the album, which would take it to nearly twice that length) across EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY EIGHT STATIONS will be dedicated to her, artificially boosting her radio play and decreasing everyone else's. In this essay I will—

[hansoeii]

GOOD OMENS SEASON 3 IS HAPPENING SO I SHALL REPOST ALL OF MY GOOD OMENS ART IN CELEBRATION!! 🥳❤️

WAHOO!!!

[cj-writes-things]

Love over Law chapter 9

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Chapter 1 • Chapter 8

There were two nights left before the full moon gathering, and even Nightpaw was starting to get caught up in the excitement.

I wonder what the Claw Stones look like up close. And what about the other clans? Do they have different customs and stuff than we do? I know each clan smells different; will the other cats look different as well? I'd assume that, for the most part, our clan and Mountainclan would have thicker fur than the others, since we live higher up and it's colder. And Gladeclan probably smells like fish. Maybe-

"Nightpaw!"

The young tom was suddenly pulled from his thoughts, his head snapping around at the sound; a gray-and-black tabby was beckoning him.

Nightpaw sighed and joined the small group forming at the edge of camp, made up of Redstar, Hickorytail, and the tabby tom who had called him: Birchwind, the Sunclan deputy... and Nightpaw's father.

"You're coming with us on border patrol, Nightpaw. We'll be checking the northeastern peak of our territory. I know you haven't gone that far out before, but I trust you'll keep up and mind your mentor if anything should happen."

Nightpaw dipped his head. "Of course, sir."

"Good. Now come along."

The four toms set out, Redstar in the lead with Birchwind at his shoulder, ever so slightly behind.

Hickorytail and Nightpaw hung back, the latter almost imperceptibly putting extra distance between himself and the deputy. "Almost" was the key word there, for his elderly mentor noticed his hesitation.

"Nightpaw? Something bothering you?" he asked in a hushed voice.

Nightpaw winced.

So much for being inconspicuous.

Sighing, he replied, "I'm fine, Hickorytail. Nothing to worry about."

The gray-brown tom gazed at him skeptically, lightly brushing the tip of his tail over his apprentice's shoulder in concern. Nightpaw flinched from the touch, though it obviously hadn't hurt him in any way.

"Okay, so I'm not super thrilled to be in this patrol. It's just… we're out here with both the leader AND the deputy of our clan, and it's a little nerve-wracking, ya know? Plus I'm pretty sure I know why Birchwind wanted me to come…"

Hickorytail arched a gray brow questioningly. "And why is that?"

Nightpaw looked up at his mentor and answered, "He wants to make me look good in front of Redstar, I assume. My father has always wanted me to be in good favor with our leader for some reason. He's probably taking me on the longest patrol of the day- even though I've only been an apprentice for a moon- because he knows that no matter how tired I get, I wouldn't dare lag behind. He wants Redstar to see my 'good behavior' and 'endurance.' Why exactly he cares, I don't know. But it's been like that since I was a kit."

Hickorytail frowned, an odd look in his faded green eyes.

"So your father- excuse me, our deputy- puts pressure on you to put on a good show for our leader."

It wasn't a question, though Nightpaw had expected it to be.

No, he said it musingly, as though thinking out loud, rather than confirming what I said... I wonder what's going on in his head.

"It seems that way, yeah."

Their conversation was cut short as the cat in question yelled over his narrow gray shoulder for them to catch up.

Nightpaw caught himself rolling his eyes and glanced nervously up at Hickorytail, who merely chuckled and picked up speed. The mentor and apprentice caught up with their leaders and carried on in a faintly tense silence.

As their patrol neared the far border, Birchwind's fur bristled along his shoulders and he let out a quiet hiss.

Redstar sniffed at the air around them, and he too changed posture, becoming suddenly very solemn.

Nightpaw stared at them both in confusion until he, too, picked up the scent. Something- no, someone unfamiliar had been in their territory.

It wasn't a clan scent, either; it told of many travels, faint traces of human places mixed in that said whoever this was had recently been through a town.

Rogues.

It wouldn't be of any great concern, if it were one scent, and if it seemed they had just unknowingly passed through on their way, but…

There were many scents tangled through the bushes, at least eight or more, it seemed, and the scents were lingering heavily about as if whoever left them had been there for a while, and recently.

It could still be nothing, but he knew his leader would proceed with utmost caution regarding this potential threat.

Not so long ago, a group of outsiders had been through. Nasty attitudes, they had, and they stole prey from Sunclan hunting grounds.

This could be bad…

Something rustled in the bushes, setting each tom's fur on end, and Birchwind leapt forward toward the sound.

The rogue scent was suddenly very strong, and Nightpaw saw a gray figure racing back to the border through the undergrowth just out of his father's reach.

What was left in the stranger's absence, though, was a clear sign of looming malevolence: a dead, bloody rat, stolen from Sunclan territory by the outsider and left as not only a confession, but a threat.

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[reasonsforhope]

Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."

Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.

These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!

Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!

Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.

So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.

[maxgicalgirl]

Being a “Fun Fact !” kind of autistic is all fun and games until you get halfway through sharing an interesting tidbit and realize that it probably wasn’t appropriate to share in polite company and now you have to deal with the consequences :(