#because honestly this is a delight

[polarsirens]

HELLOOOOOOOOO ONE AND ALL

[valtsv]

the terror a novel by dan simmons is. Bad. but i do think it was worth reading personally to experience the goodsir medical malpractice extended director's cut, peglar being gay and homophobic while gossiping with bridgens about mr hickey, and every time crozier described fitzjames like he was in a call someone a faggot without actually calling them a faggot competition

[gingermintpepper]

One of my biggest pet peeves is the assumption that something has to be sad for it to be tragic.

I've always been a big believer of the 'Apollo has an awful love life'/'Apollo is plain unlucky with love' line of thinking but it does bother me that the general reasoning for that statement is given to the concept of 'Apollo is somehow undesireable and thus rejected' (Cassandra/Daphne/Marpessa) or 'his lovers die young and thus their love is unfulfilled' (Cyparissus/Hyacinthus/Coronis). I personally think that's a very unfortunate way of looking at things - not only because it neglects the many perfectly cordial entanglements and affairs Apollo has had, both mortal and divine - but because it presents a very shallow interpretation of the concepts of love and loss and how loss affects people.

Apollo can still grieve lovers that have a long, healthy life. The inherent tragedy of an immortal who knows his lovers and children will die and cannot stop it does not stop being tragic simply because those lovers and children live long, fulfilled lives. The inherent tragedy of loss does not stop being tragic simply because someone knows better than to mourn something that was always going to end.

What is tragic is not that Apollo loves and loses but that loss itself follows him. Apollo does not love with the distance of an immortal, he does not have affairs and then leaves never to listen to their prayers again. He does not have offspring and then abandon them to their trials only to appear when it is time to lead them to their destinies. He raises his young, he protects the mothers of his children, he blesses the households that have his favour and multiplies their flocks that they may never go hungry. He educates his sons, he adorns his daughters and even in wrath he is quick to come to his senses and regret the punishments he doles out.

Apollo loves. And like mortals, there will always be some part of him that wishes to protect the objects of his affections. Apollo, however, is also an emissary of Fate. He knows that the fate of all mortal things is death. He knows that to love a mortal is to accept that eventually he will have to bury them. There is no illusion of forever, there is no fantasy where he fights against the nature of living things and shields his beloveds from death. Apollo loves and because of that love, he also accepts.

And that, while beautiful, is also tragic.

[superloves4]

Will never forget this one person that said Tolkien made a mistake by putting Galadriel with Celeborn and that she should have ended with Celebrimbor instead, no hate to people who like this ship without being dicks about it, but because of that all I can think of this relationship now is

[frostwork]

Girlboss Saintess wants Di Feisheng so bad it genuinely makes her look stupid cause like why?? You have the power girl hes a hot guy yes but why do you want him he has the emotional clarity of being hit with a brick and is not nice to anybody including you even when you are playing all uwu girlie like the guy cares about two things and its martial arts and his martial arts rival yes hes strong but your 5d chess coulda takin his hyper fixated ass out a hundred times already like girl you can do worse better

Behind every fucked up gay villain intensely focused on his “rival” there is a somehow more fucked up girlboss villain even more obsessed with him

[khaotunq]

I already have plans. ⇢ Boom Tharatorn as Pok (Hidden Agenda, 2023)

[improbable-implosions]

A little mend here that I was pleasantly surprised worked, I fixed the fraying bits on my book-shaped wallet! Figured that red thread works quite well with the themes of War of the Worlds.

First up, we've got some simple stitches perpendicular to the edge of the wallet, think a blanket stitch but the thread doesn't run through the loop created. Honestly, there are probably more complex ways I could have stitched that vinyl "leather" back onto the fabric and cardboard of the book structure, but I figured these simple stitches would be faster, and work just fine.

Second, on a slightly larger tear on the "spine" corner, I did some randa stitching! This actually draws from a style of embroidery I'm almost completely unfamiliar with, most popular in Brazil, so I may be labeling it wrong. If you know better, let me know! It's a sort of baseball-stitching like process, I was roughly following this video as a tutorial: https://vm.vxtiktok.com/t/ZT8TNMKw9/

and also this one to understand how to get started: https://vm.vxtiktok.com/t/ZT8TNrMML/ (Excuse the tiktok links, but I am not immune to the allure of short video on occasion! I even have posts of my own, every now and again)

I actually need to do similar rim-lining on the other three corners, as the adhesive is starting to come off, and that'll hold it still enough to solve the problem.

Also, some miscellaneous adventures in hemming patches properly! A process that proved MUCH simpler once I found my rolled hem foot. These two patches came out quite good, actually! straight stitching, for the most part, and relatively even folds.

It was much simpler to get the hems just so on a larger patch like this one, thankfully! I'm actually really pleased with the way this one in particular came out, and hopefully, I can make something pretty with it on the thigh of the jeans it goes with. (yes, that's why the patches are numbered, so I can keep track of where they go in the stack!)

Even despite how well things went overall with the patches, I still fumbled, got a bit hasty in trying to get the corner of one of the later patches through the machine. Said haste had me trying to shove shove, cram cram the fabric through the foot to get it hemmed, turns out, don't do that! Results in bending the needle on my machine! Oof!

Luckily, the machine came with some spare needles, so it only slowed me down a little bit!

[livelivefastfree]

I was trimming an old ancient email I used to use, and it turns out it used to be an alt for the old motorcity kink memes. Found a nearly decade old discussion about the potential of Deluxe drugging its citizens as a means of general controlling the population. We were all giggling about the idea of a majority of Motorcity's citizens dealing with their first boners, but now I'm OBSESSED with Motoricty finally having the brain chemicals to like things being a factor of why they are Like That

The concept of libido suppressants in Deluxe has definitely been explored (excellently), but the concept of essentially artificially-induced anhedonia is new and deeply interesting to me haha. A population with interests and outside pleasures does seem harder to turn into an obedient workforce than a population that can't really find joy in anything!

It would explain a lot about Mike's whole deal if he got down to Motorcity, unknowingly let some shit slowly work its way out of his system, and then got in a car and experienced the full force of joy directly to the limbic system for the first time in his life lmao.

[ruuinxs]

uhhh something something saiki kissing akechi to shut him up without thinking and when he pulls back he tries to brush it off but akechi is just a little lad and is blushing and dumbfounded and it’s the one time he’s ever been quiet and saiki kinda feels smug about it and who’s to stop him from kissing him again? something something

[maidstew]

Guy. Guy. Mizzen, Mags, Festus and Coral going to aquarium. Yes. Aquarium. Them.

my friend i apologize i briefly got possessed by a nepo baby

mizzen would be an absolute terror at the aquarium omg could you imagine? no hold on wait because mags 100% has to put him in one of these bad boys-

except mizzen’s is a shark

festus and coral absolutely end up banned from the aquarium because coral dares festus to climb in one of the tanks

[sysig]

By the skin of your teeth (Patreon)

[maleficarlife]

Ok so I am a fan of villains, Tevinter and blood magic so like. I love Rezaren and mainly posted/reposted about him but let's make something clear since some people called Miriam bad and him good. looks at Reddit

This guy? Is an asshole. He wasn't understandable and he was as bad as Danarius, just more self-deluded.

This girl?

Amazing. Brilliant. Brave. Also rude as hell sometimes and with all the rights to be. Can't wait for Fenris to adopt her.

[tacagen]

dont know whether zixx is a bishop clone or not? a 100% accurate test: put a wedding in front of him and see what he does.

[obessivedork]

Found the first writing decision in Farscape that I'm not fond of that can't be handwaved with "Oh, it's because it's the late 90s". D'argo and Chiana romance, huh? 🤔 Not sure I buy in to it

[lesspopped]

oh now is the part where I brag about the delighted reactions I got from the dsc cast at sdcc to this

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

that wonderful piano part from chiquitita does not fail to fill me with a combination of joy and paranoia