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[oldbutchdaniel]

FREAKING AWESOME BEST GUY EVER I LOVE YOU.

[wiki-but-made-them-up]

[courtney-deserved-better]

i don't see it as often now that the reboot's been out for a while, but it does bug me whenever i see td fans poke fun at nichelle's name because it's "not a real name" or "they just misspelled michelle lol".

guys. it's an actual name. specifically a black american name. i have met multiple women named nichelle. and my guess is that nichelle the td character was named after actress nichelle nichols, who was one of the first black women featured in a major television series.

it's fine if you aren't familiar with a name. statistically speaking, we're probably unfamiliar with the majority of names that exist in the world. but the small amount of effort it takes to make a post mocking the name can probably be put to better use doing a quick google search.

[whyfalloutwhenyoucanpanic]

I just want to give a shoutout to the 35 or so Daft Punk blogs that still exist (from what I’ve seen in the tags) and are active even after most of the DP blogs deactivated in 2017-2018 or are inactive and we’re all reblogging the same old posts from each others’ blogs or from blogs we’ve followed since 2008 - 2010.

I also want to give a shoutout to the new daft punk blogs that are posting about them and finding all of the old posts and pictures that would’ve been long forgotten in time if it weren’t for you guys finding them and reblogging them.

Also a shoutout to all the fans who are still making cool fan art and fan projects of Thomas and Guy-Man and of the robots.

All of you guys are cool as fuck!

[crazykuroneko]

I still need to rewatch to process all that, but I think we all can agree that this is Hannah "the dark princess of Canadian theatre" Moscovitch writing IWTV S1E5 and S2E5 (with Jonathan Cenizeroz for the later):

[devinwolfi]

did u guys know that lizards can be pollinators

[frenchpuppycormier]

THE DIPLOMAT HIRED ALLISON JANNEY FOR SEASON TWO! Can I get an AMEN?

[anyajkramer]

I'm spreading the centipede gospel. Hmu. please god ask me about centipedes. fuck fuck fuck oh my god. fuck they are so cool. some of them are k-selected!!!! they love their babies.! im like. im fucking crying theyre so awesome. their legs get longer along their bodies. theyre so much better than millipedes. what who said that. fuck oh my god.

[akkivee]

there was some display gallery showing off the various logos in hypmic and the ichikuu peeps on the tl were in shambles over both of them using halos in their mc name signatures lol

[mastersoftheair]

an interview with kai alexander for airmail news

[allieinarden]

Man, I still can’t believe how many people read that article about how six religious Tongan boarding school boys belonging to a culture of boating and fishing, who were close friends before they got lost, behaved when they found themselves stranded on an island, and went “This completely invalidates every idea William Golding had about how 50+ random British boarding school boys emerging from a plane wreck might handle it.”

[cupcakesmoothie]

Sometimes I wanna draw and then I realise I can't draw

Anyway. WIP! I feel like this'll be fun if I keep going but I have a tendency to lose all motivation if I leave it so I usually do things in one shot. However, I need to go to bed.

I feel like this is a lot of research that people will never see unless they themselves are Mexican but one of the reasons I make/draw things like this is so people feel seen. I looked over a couple things for this, quite fun! This is supposed to be a chiapaneca dress, but I am not used to this more "realistic" style so the dress actually needs to spread out more. It's so pretty though! Will either be very fun or very torturous to colour

This is Paloma! I haven't started on her wings and at this point I'm not sure how to add them in. She's Mexican and was a fashion designer. I'm using that as an excuse to continue putting eyeliner on Alexis, who she is friends (?) with. She's older than him.

I have seen somewhere that Spanish Spanish and Mexican Spanish are slightly different, the two should still be able to communicate. I don't know what you call a "big sister/miss" in Spanish, or if that's even something you do. I guess Senorita would be it? I'm trying to convey that Alexis is showing respect to her though, so that feels like it's not it.

I'm debating between wing styles also. I think colourful wings (Like a parrot) would be pretty, and not as common as dove wings (Which are her namesake). Also it was while I was looking those up that I found out the Mexican flag has an eagle on it! The golden eagle wings sound pretty interesting, if a little bit drab, but having her be tied to the national bird would be fun I think. And lastly, wood pigeon wings, which are also her namesake, only in Latin.

[emometalhead]

Since today is Women's Day, I want to take a second to talk about a personal accomplishment. I've been writing as an intern for an entertainment news source for the last few months, and it's been incredibly rewarding. I have been given the opportunity to write about things I love, and they're published with credit. I didn't intend to pursue a career in entertainment writing, but I've fallen in love with it and want to continue on this path once my internship ends.

I've been able to write about a lot of women I admire, and some of them have even acknowledged my work. I love being able to support women, and it feels great when they support me back. I'm so happy about this internship, and I'm so grateful to the women that have taken the time to acknowledge and appreciate my writing. It's really cool seeing artists repost my articles, and also I'm extremely grateful for the women in my life who have shared my enthusiasm for this endeavor.

[jmrothwell]

Okay but the generator gave me Alien Invasion AU and Imprinting AU and now I need it, for any pairing

Ok but like. . .

So in trying to be all which type of imprinting my brain went all “why not more than one?” 

Reggie, Alex, Luke, are part of the Alien Invasion, but like, really early first wave. See, the Alien species has been studying earth for a while and have noticed the human trend to adopt other species and have decided to use that to their advantage. 

What the Aliens don’t expect is for some of their first wave to be too young and form pack bond/familialy imprint on some of the species they first encounter. 

Which in the case of Reggie, Alex, and Luke is Julie. (Though over the course of the story Reggie and Luke would both question their bond with Julie. Reggie especially after he develops a second familial imprint on Ray and none of them have heard that happening before-though to be fair to them most of their education regarding their Alien culture was limited, they were in a sort of hypersleep for most of their lives/the journey to Earth. Plus, no one knew how that particular part of their physiology would interact with Humans and their pack bond tendency)

This leaders of this first wave decide on their own to sort of forgo the original plans and to just integrate with life on Earth. 

So all of Earth is dealing with how to do that exactly, many still advocating to eliminate the Aliens, others are very interested in learning about the advanced technology, others don’t want to risk incurring an alien species wrath. There’s a lot of background political drama.

Meanwhile, Ray decides to go ahead an open up his home to Reggie, Luke, and Alex. Carlos is ecstatic, Flynn is suspicious but can definitely see how the three are helping the Molina’s. 

Julie is just frustrated. She did not ever in her life expect to be treated like a mother duck, with three Aliens following around her like ducklings…or maybe they’re closer to a pack of puppies or energetic kittens. She feels a bit of guilty relief when Reggie eventually switches to following her dad around, eager to learn all about life on earth from him. 

The relief is heavily outweighed by Luke(and to some extent Reggie) acting weird around her in ways that Alex doesn’t. She’d almost think they were sometimes jealous if she didn’t know better. (She’s also wrong but that revelation doesn’t happen til later)

Things get more complicated when a second wave of Aliens shows up a few months after the first. This one follows a similar pattern to the first wave, however with a touch more hesitancy. They haven’t formed the same bonds and still recall the overall end goal was complete takeover of the planet.

This is around the time Alex runs into Willie, who as it turns out was actually apart of some of the last of the investigative research/preparation teams. He arrived a few weeks before the first wave did. 

Two important revelations occur with the introduction of Willie. First, Alex and Willie imprint on more of a mate level and Alex, after getting over that joyous shock, realizes that’s how Luke and Reggie imprinted with Julie. They’re all just too young/dumb to have noticed/realized sooner. 

Secondly, Caleb is part of the second wave. Willie used to work with/for him and knows Caleb is a major advocate for the world domination thing and was old enough to not have formed any of the bonds/imprints as others. There are also more older aliens who are very likely to rally around Caleb in this second wave. 

That’s as far as I have gotten plot wise…but I also love the idea that Trevor was among an earlier alien research party and just refused to leave, which then makes Carrie half Alien and adds a whole other level of drama when that comes to light.

[snurtle]

okay, snurtle is an S tier username, i probably won't change it for anything.

..

but every once in a while I think about The Iron Bull and consider changing it to The Snurtle, because an article completely changes the feel of a name.

like, no. I am not snurtle. i'm THE snurtle. It's a title motherfuckers!

[n-learns-ukrainian]

I have respect for Ukrainians learning English, all the things I find difficult in English grammar just don't exist in Ukrainian so this is incredibly easy and fun, but the opposite must be hell 😭