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[habken]

i was born to watch my hero academia but made to read the bible instead the world is so cruel. moses was good until the red sea leviticus was ok but now im on joshua and it’s really fallen off again. mha is still better tho imo

you should try the iliad next

[bedforddanes75]

im not american but some of you guys are just fucking stupid ong what do you MEAN youre not gna vote because you disagree with like one part of what youre voting for. like okay me when im fucking thick

[devilledminion]

#he wants that cookie so effin bad

[xxplastic-cubexx]

doodley

[matlab-exe]

tell me about your favorite jazz sessions

(happy record store day!)

[brainjvice]

Shidou's striking appearance is supposed to be off-putting. Its supposed to be unconventional, to look weird. Unsettling, even. To both attract and repell.

His looks match his personality so good. You either love it or hate it. It's extravagant, wild, and something few people can handle.

I love him so much. Feral creature. He bites into freedom's flesh and never lets it go. He doesn't want to just survive, he wants to live and be free.

[ganondoodle]

truly one of the most annoying things in modern landscape of media is watching your beloved movies get either ugly and always worse 'remakes' or get more and more sequels until it turns into a cruel joke of mediocrity

(i saw a single screenshot of shrek 5 and wish i had never seen it, 1 and 2 are very good movies and very important to me but anything after that is just tasteless desperate attempts to keep it going after gettign the perfect ending...)

[lydiahosek]

[Image ID: A traditional pencil drawing of Mai and Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender as young adults. They are shown from the front from the chest up, standing next to each other. They look at each other and smile. Mai says, "Once again, I'd like to thank Fire Lord Zuko for visiting our class today." From outside of the frame, her students say in unison, "Thank you, Fire Lord!" /.End ID]

Maiko Week 2025!

Day 1: Teacher Mai

The highlight of Career Day

[justablah56]

hey guys what if I said cane user vr la . what then .

[statementlou]

Tbh i am not surprised that a person who openly talked about having drinking problems since 1d days, because of how crazy 1d worked has been agressive. What surprises me is people being surprised (they never seriously saw drunk person?). But i am also confused about this whole book. Apparently Maya said that that book is not fully bout Liam but compilation about her exes and some of the worst parts are not about him. But recently she said that the book is “ofc about him” so what is true then? Or did she meant it that ofc some parts are about him or that whole book is about him?

Sorry, just confused

I also am not surprised- we've learned so much more about the real stories of things and about the guys' actual lives over the last years, and the story that has unfolded around Liam has been totally consistent throughout if you've been following it, and so the information Maya is telling us is shocking and upsetting but not difficult to believe. I got an anon yesterday saying they were worried about getting similar revelations about the other boys, like "if Liam could be doing this we just don't know, any of them could", and while in a way that's always true I guess, anyone could be doing anything in private like... that doesn't really concern me. Because none of these Liam revelations are coming out of nowhere, there have been many MANY steps along the way leading us here if you've been watching, and he has talked openly about both his mental health struggles and his addiction issues. So to answer that anon... to find out something similar about Louis would in contrast contradict everything we know about him and no I'm not worried about it. Is he an abuser or a loose cannon, well that news would truly shock me to my core, I will be honest. But anyway as for the book I don't find it strange that she was nervous when it came out and treading lightly and later decided, fuck it. In the absolutely on point tiktok she dropped today (YES👏GIRL👏FUCKING TELL THEM👏) she even mentions attempts to keep her from publishing the book, presumably by Liam's team, that I am riveted by and cannot WAIT to hear more details about actually- like I said I don't find it at all strange that she was nervous and downplayed it a bit then. But if she says now that it's just about Liam, well, I would say it's been clear from the beginning that the book is their story. Maya herself brought up the parallel of songs being written about stuff and I think it's the same thing; it's true (she was in an abusive relationship that involved certain kinds of events) but maybe not 100% literal (I'm sure details were changed to make the story work, it's not like a word for word timeline of their interactions or whatever).

[hotasfahrenheit]

flowers? in my vampire show? it's more likely than you think

(i mean there is a florist character so it's not THAT unlikely but i needed a title)

first off-

that's limonium, which is notoriously stinky, so my takeaway is that vampires are stinky and i'm not going to let anyone change my mind on that~

for the actual arrangement-

we've got three roses, surrounded by a bunch of what we call filler flowers- limonium, statice, and baby's breath.

roses are classic, everyone knows and loves roses. they usually represent things like love and romance, but they can also represent secrecy and mysticism. pink roses specifically tend to represent gratitude and admiration. i'm not gonna include a picture of roses, y'all know what they are.

what i'm referring to as limonium in this arrangement is actually specifically caspia, a delicate, cloudy variety of limonium that is associated with grace, perservereance, and transformation. it uh. well at my shop it's also known as "cat's-pee-ah" because it smells like cat pee to a lot of people. i don't think it smells quite like cat pee, but it does smell -terrible-. i made one of our newer girls smell it a few weeks ago and her response was an offended, betrayed look and a "WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME??!?!?" yelled across the room. (i just laughed in response, obviously)

it comes in white and light purple- we use it most often in the purple colour- and it's very pretty and fills space in nicely. but yeah it stinks, it's best to mix it into bouquets or arrangements that have a stronger scent, like putting it with stock flowers, lilies, etc. (picture borrowed from here!)

statice (pronounced just like status and i didn't realise that it was not the same word at first because english is just Like That so often) is actually a variety of limonium and made searching for info for this post just... so great and easy! hah. statice is very common in its very vibrant bright purple variety, but also comes in a variety of colours that i like much better honestly sorry not sorry

statice stands for fond memories, sympathy and success according to the info i could find that distinguished it from caspia limonium. it can look almost fake or papery in the more vibrant colours, and has a kind of dry seeming texture even when it's fresh. the stems are MUCH thicker than caspia and the flowers are bigger and more clumped together, so they're easy to tell apart. (purple statice picture from here, the colourful picture i had on my computer already and when i tried to backtrack search it, it's in use ALL OVER THE PLACE so i can't credit that one accurately)

then we come to the baby's breath. sigh. what can i say about baby's breath without going on a rant about how much most florists actually passionately hate baby's breath? it's terrible. it breaks constantly. it's difficult to pull apart bunches without making a mess. the flowers get nasty when they start to go bad. it also smells, tho not as badly as limonium. adding it into arrangements makes me feel like i'm ruining them. it's terrible! but people love it? people who don't have to deal with it the way that florists do! anyway my fun facts about baby's breath are that it looks like teeny tiny carnations because it's in the carnation family, and the scientific name is gypsophila because when it was named, it was growing in a region with a lot of gypsum rocks in Türkiye so they were like "wow this flower sure loves gypsum!" and there you go. it's supposed to represent undying love and romance so the undying thing works well for vampires I GUESS.

the nice thing with all of these filler flowers is that they dry pretty well and pretty easily. roses can also be dried, obviously, but dried roses alter pretty noticably from their fresh state, while dried statice especially will look pretty similar to fresh depending on the colour. the best way to dry any flowers is to hang them upside down in a warm, dry location- you can get better tips by searching for them on the internet, but that's the main thing. hanging something like roses upside down is especially important, as the heavy heads will bend the stems if they're left to dry while upright in a vase. once the stem is dry and the moisture has left the petals in the flower head, they can be arranged upright again without worrying about the stems bending anymore. if you want to dry limonium, statice, or baby's breath for use in a mixed dried flower arrangement, i would recommend separating and hanging stems individually instead of drying them bunched together, as pulling the dry flowers apart will increase the likelihood of knocking dried blossoms off of the stems.

anyway there you go, your periodic edition of flowers maybe having meaning in BL shows, from your friendly neighbourhood florist. you can check the mia talks about flower things tag below for the other posts i've made about flowers in dramas so far.

until next time! 🌸🌼🌹

[hazarts]

Owen and Courtney and Izzy in clown costumes for a request

i mean i guess

[polymatthews]

I AM STILL IN NEED OF A FIC WHERE A YOUNG CORY REALIZES FEELINGS FOR SHAWN, like that episode where cory bonds with topanga and starts giggling and getting all weird, but replace it with shawn

and it would obviously be a little more complicated (but whats not complicated when cory matthews is involved) but i need to see that written

like just capturing the innocence and the realization that he's feeling funny ab his very best friend

[themyscirah]

Complaining abt Suicide Squad yet again but the fact that they have Waller exposing the alien community to space racist attacks and talking abt how she got to her position through deceit and being a terrible person and stuff is just. Ahsfiwueh JUST SAY YOU DONT KNOW WALLER.

Anyways literally the 3rd mission of the Squad ever (and the first framed as smth Waller picked and not orders from above) was the Squad discrediting and stopping a rogue vigilante who was only arresting POC and funneling white people into white supremacy groups (of which he was the most prominent member) in SUICIDE SQUAD #4. and it's explicitly framed as this mission being personal for Waller that she's hiding from the government bc its illegal like. Guys. Please why are we having her incite (space bc comics) racist attacks now

Also the whole "Amanda got her position through deceit and being a terrible person" NO. she KEPT her position through being shitty and playing complicated political games!!! She wasn't always that way like there is a difference and it is IMPORTANT ppl PLEASEEEE. In Secret Origins #14 we learn Amanda's backstory and she used to be a normal, caring person! Like even after she entered into working in government and politics she wasn't automatically morally bankrupt like please people. She was originally given control of the Squad by Reagan (*sigh* 80s comics...) to distract and get rid of her because she was so successful at pushing progressive social policy in Congress. Acting like she's this static pillar of evil is such a waste of her character and so fucking uninteresting and disrespectful to her arc it drives me MAD.

Like I am NOT saying Waller is all sunshine and rainbows, she fucking SUCKS (said w love <3) but like there's a human being there. It's a progression, she has a character arc like please, DC, please!!! They've fucked up Waller so bad and made her so opaque and uninteresting she can't even be the protagonist of her own story for fucks sake!

Like I don't know how many times I have to scream it until DC hears me or remembers but WALLER IS THE MAIN CHARACTER OF SUICIDE SQUAD. ITS HER BOOK. yet right now she's a cutout to be used as the villain wherever the writers please. Even in her book we get none of her perspective really displayed, no exploration of her thoughts with any kind of understanding of the role she traditionally has played and was made to play in the story.

[aimfor-theheart]

men love to try and tee me up for their next relationship while they’re still dating their current gf and i am never interested. NEVER.

[absolutelynotsanebaby]

STSRT TALKING ABOUT YOUR NINJAGO OC THAT YOU PAIRED WITH NYA I WANNA HEAR EVERYTHING ABOUT HER

Yes sir one Wen Xia ramble coming your way

Well first thing to know is she is AWFUL!!!! HORRIBLE PERSON!!! WORLDS WORST WOMAN!!!!! Also apart of my ninjago villain AU

She’s kind of like….a crime boss, basically. Big in literal human (and other species) trafficking if thats any perspective on her awfulness. She’s reaaal selfish, lives by her desires and what gets her further and more. You could not pay her to be loyal to a single person, like ever. She runs gambling spots and bars and fighting rings (her favorite), and works with Kai. I have no idea where she came from to be honest, but it doesn’t matter, because it certainly doesn’t matter to her.

She’s strategic in who she maintains ‘positive’ relationships with, like with Kai he has a lot of power and resources so she keeps a kind of winners-bond with him.

^ drawing of them

I don’t actually know where her scar is from LMAO, I imagine she got it because she fucked the WRONGG person over. She also gets her arm ripped off later for the very same reason. I haven’t drawn her with it yet but she gets a gold-prosthetic.

With her relationship to Nya, I think it’s initially just her trying to squeeze in tight with someone as powerful as Nya. Get on the serpents good side, but she VERY quickly is shown that she is not going to fool Nya, and she won’t get what she wants from her. Not really. I think it interests her though, someone who is able to resist her and powerful enough to not be threatened by it. She wants to crack her, i doubt she sees Nya as a full person. There’s a thrill in batting and playing with something that can so easily bite you in half. Wen Xia is an adrenaline junkie.

Shes 2000s problematic cunty music, basically LMAO