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Let's Talk Luggage
Get the luggage lowdown to become a packing pro. Part of our universal(ly chic) #traveltoolkit
Hey y’all! So you’ve booked your vacay – maybe a girls’ trip to Miami or a solo adventure to Amsterdam. You’re hyped, honey, but then reality hits: packing! Fear not, because this here guide will be your luggage guru, helping you choose the right size bag for every adventure. First things first, airlines have rules about luggage size, honey. They aren’t trying to see you lugging a whole…

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#carry-on essentials#checked luggage#Chic luggage#Days per bag#days per luggage#Days per suitcase#luggage guide#packing hacks#travel tips
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Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:
15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)
2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)
1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.
None of the hijackers were from Iraq.
None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.
None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.
#9/11#serious post#not a shitpost#this should be one of the first things kids learn when they learn about the 9/11 attacks#politics#this is just...it's such an essential and brazen fact and i rarely see basic outrage over it#i want outrage. i want fury. i want disgust over the way fundamental facts are disguised and discarded and downplayed#because there are things we should KNOW. basic fact we should ALL KNOW. and they are tucked away in the footnotes.#and no this is NOT to put the blame on other middle eastern countries#we know this was carried out by a specific terrorist organization not a national government#but King George the Second decided (and was encouraged by his cabinet!) to invade a nation!#a nation that was not at all related or responsible!!!#a dictatorship to be sure--but a dictatorship that King George the First had been happy to support#so what changed? why did we go in guns blazing to DEMOLISH a country *we had NO PLANS OF REPAIRING*???#well. because they wanted a villain didn't they. a nice clean war. clarity of purpose. us the heroes against them the villains#and when you're in that mindframe--truth is irrelevant. you can pick your villain (your victim) by rolling a roulette wheel#truth is irrelevant#worse: to the people in charge#truth is a HINDRANCE#'Alternative facts' existed long before it became a catchphrase#facts don't matter. truth doesn't matter. the impulses of a handful of volatile & rich & power-high people--that's History. congratulations
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to this day i can't get over how stupid it was to remove the headphone jack from phones. now if you want to use wired headphones you have to use the charging port. and then they made a stupid little external adapter you have to plug in that sticks out of your phone and advertise it as Hey now you can listen to music AND charge your phone at the same time! what an innovation! if only we could have done that before! the thing i want most from these increasingly sleek and efficient shapes and designs is to have a bunch of external bullshit sticking out of it to make it as clunky as possible! next they will remove the call function from your phone entirely and in order to make phone calls you will need to attach it by a twirly cable to an external keypad that plugs into the wall, and to enhance the speaker/microphone you'll be able to set your nice neat rectangle into a banana shaped device that sits nicely against your ear and mouth. and that's what we call innovation
#tbis is not an elegantly worded post im sorry i am too grumpy to make this like a well formed joke#it's just stupid. it's just so fucking stupid#removed from what i personally want as an individual consumer it is just bonkers bananas to be like#oh we're trying to streamline our design and make it simpler and cleaner#so we've removed essential pieces and now you need external add-ons#isnt literally the entire point of creating a multifunction device that i need to carry less shit around to make it work#no. of course not. im stupid. the point is to sell as much shit as possible#you know new phones dont even come with a fucking wall adapter anymore#rookposting#old man yells at reasonable grievance
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It's the fact that so far Armand is the most inhuman monstrous vampire still walking the earth that we as readers have met. And yet we see him fall hopelessly in love with the most ordinary human man.
#yes im drunk postng leave me alone#armandaniel#devil's minion#armand#daniel molloy#ig ore how much of a weird freak daniel is and appreciate how armand is essentially reconnectinf with his humanity in this moment#iwtv#i love you queen of the damned#yeah sure its a short chapter but the impact has been felt for over 30 fucking years#i love you armand and daniel i fear i will carry you with me for all of my days#amc iwtv#interview with the vampire#the vampire armand
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nicky, strapped to a table like a lab rat: chilling, flourishing, in my lane, talking to my husband, giggling, snorting at his jokes, loving his nicely tousled hair, thinking about malta, thinking about going to malta, dropping truth bombs, having the time of my life oh this occasional hurt is but part of the process such is life it will end one day both mine and yours do what you will. amen and mwah
#nicolò di genova#ahhhhhh#trying to edit them and painful as it is to realise they were essentially being tortured joe at least carries the semblance of oh i#don't wanna be here at all but nicky is literally SO CALM it is almost eerie to watch#anyway back to mediocre editing that will take five days max#joe x nicky
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My essentials for a solo day out
#I always love seeing these kinds of things so decided to do my own slightly less aesthetic version#not included is all the random paracetamols ibuprofen pads tampons etc that I keep in the front pouch of my bag#this is pretty much what I’ll always bring#though sometimes I’ll forego my diary and bring my other camera too (the rollei)#the contents is:#empty film canister in case I finish the roll in my camera#spare film. water bottle (which I didn’t actually need today cos I went for a coffee)#everyday essential notebook that I carry everywhere with me#small creative writing notebook#leather pouch which is my wallet and also holds my keys#my diary. book I’m currently reading. Leica m3#and a tote from daunt books which I got for free for having banter with the man behind the counter :)#and then the bag itself is a satchel from the leather satchel company#I love it very much#I don’t really own any other handbags cos either I have no bag or it can all fit in the satchel or I take a rucksack
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ERROR! THIS OPERATING SYSTEM DOES NOT SUPPORT OLDER VERSIONS OF 'SELF'.
#colored explorations‚ studies‚ and experiments#colored doodles#sonic#metal sonic#ah! started this on 09/30/2023 and was finished with the metals BUT! the white negative space around him‚ man 😔.#just felt so unfinished to me. i tend to avoid it like i avoid stray flying roaches in the subways. so...!#i filled it up with words‚ knight metal sonic and‚ some airplane engines??? i think??? (a mech drawing practice sesh essentially. oh well.)#always feel bad bullshitting my way through machinery drawings cause im always worried someone who ACTUALLY knows about them looks at them#the way someone who knows biology would and goes: huh... why the hell is the stomach and brain bound together by an artery vein 😭#anyways... carry on.
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Yesss im so here for the inception fixation. Its world building is genuinely fucking wacko, i love it. If you wrote anything in the setting, I would devour it
i don't have much more than thoughts and ideas rn, but i do have one that's basically bluebeard's wife but inception that i keep returning to time and time again (also bluebeard's wife is in this is not his lawfully wedded wife, but in the process of being seduced by him - not for her beauty or charm or anything like that, though she has some wit, but for her creativity and intellect; he disappears and eventually murders people and imprisons them in his mind in order to use their intellectual property without retaliation in reality - through the provision of dreamtech and opportunities to use it, and isolation from anyone who could recognise the danger she's in, who doesn't recognise his fixation on her for the threat it is until she realises that the jealous ghost that keeps showing up to terrorise and brutally murder her is one of his previous victims)
#its a bit goofy tbh i need to give it more work#essentially the idea is what if what you thought was your life was actually a dream youre having while you waste away in some guys basement#because he just Had To Have You and couldnt stand anyone else getting a piece of you that isnt butchered and served up by him#also even if you escape. if you kill him or leave him all those past victims die with him.#(unless... you carry their memories with you when you leave...)#its like. bluebeards wife meets the nine circles of hell from dantes inferno meets the labyrinth.
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When I was 7, I made my mom a birthday gift- a "free love" mock-membership-card, with a bunch of hearts in childish hand drawing and a big "I love you".
It's been 13 years, and she still has it in her wallet. She ignored me and my siblings being abused, she perpetuated some of the neglect herself. She holds it on her as a reminder she was, or perhaps false hope that she is, a good parent.
Every single time I see discussions about Filbrick never wiping off the "#1 DAD", I think back to this card.
#gravity falls#stanley pines#stanford pines#filbrick pines#gravity falls filbrick#gravity falls stanford#gravity falls stanley#listen this may be tmi but this is such a specific instance#one of many#that I can just tap into and go “yeah this is essentially the emotional weight this gesture carries#doesn't make him loving and kinda makes him worst
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I er, may have taken one of my fav books to bookbind a few of my favorite fanfics into a lil collection (all by THE Transformers writer of all time @doomspoon888 ).
It was a gift to my friend @not-a-mang0 ^w^




I kept the sleeve to easily disguise the book on a shelf (Well, it’s book #7 of a series by itself but shhh)
#transformers#maccadam#I er may or may not have a whole list of fanfics to bind and 90% of them mayyyy be by Spoon#I literally spotted Spoon online yesterday and today they came back from their break like WOAH#I may or may have not also thought they might’ve been dead for good-#Like I was talking about it with my friends ab how long it’d been and checked their tumblr to confirm that yeah#it had been 4-ish months but I wanted to be sure and spot the green symbol of life#… THE SIGH OF RELIEF I HAD WHEN WE REALIZED WE HADNT KILLED SPOON ON ACCIDENT (a whole story for another day)#dial a medic#concealed carry#Rumor Con#Motor Mouth#starscream#megatron#megastar#bookbinding#Anyways I’m rambling again in the tags but still!#I had a blast working on this and essentially rereading every fic 4 times to properly format it for binding#I would’ve bound Accidental War Crimminal Aquisition BUT ITS 2 CHAPTERS AWAY FROM BEING COMPLETE NOOOOOO#I think I read that one 4 times over as well coz I just love Ratchet and Star’s dynamic
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i havent been into tog in like 4-5ish years but one thing that really bothered me when i was into it was the whole simp bam thing idk. i think people need to stop seeing rachel and bam as exes and start seeing them as mother figure and son. yes even though they look/act somewhat close in age. like i mean quite literally she raised him and taught him everything he knew up until the point he entered the tower. even his kindness was taught to him by rachel even after every horrible thing she's done. yes this is even though she looks more like his older sister. i feel like her youth/youthful appearance is intentional (at least to me) since irl girls and women are also forced into motherly roles much younger than theyre ready for
#also the way that shes essentially supposed to put aside all her ambitions aside so bam can be the hero of the story is so heavily -#reminiscient of how mothers/pregnant people are supposed to put aside their goals and their glory for the sake of their child#and sometimes that child wasnt really a choice that the mother had in the first place#but they were nevertheless expected to put aside their health their life their goals their glory#aside for the sake of the baby/fetus. i remember a few years back a work of art that really stuck with me was of a knight asked to -#carry her fetus to term because that child will one day become great and she says “what about me? what of my glory?” and i fucking cried -#like a little baby. anyway i think its stated/heavily implied that rachel didnt have a choice at all in raising bam in that cave and shes#constantly told by those around her - by the first thing she sees in the tower#you are not important. your ambition does not matter -#only the boy you were forced to raise matters in this story - he's everything you wanted to be and everything you were forced to give up#and thats just so devastating to me. obviously im not trying to say she isnt a terrible person#or try to absolve her of the things she did (i mean also. its the fucking tower its the betrayal building what did you expect)#but also the complete lack of understanding of her and bam's relationship and complete insensitivity to her situation#at least from the fandom that was active in 2020-2021 really fucking bothers me.#idk man its been a while#tower of god#rachel tower of god#tower of god rachel#rachel tog#the 25th bam#also if the fandom now is like. really different from what i remember im sorry for like. yapping about this shit to you guys#anyway rachel my specialest girl i stand with my cancelled wife (she deserves some of the backlash but i stand with her anyway)#tog#25th bam
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"Tell your baby that I'm your baby" but it's Severus watching as Sirius laughs and jokes with Minerva and Albus and he's calling her "Minnie" and she swats at him with a laugh and says it seems Azkaban didn't kill that cheeky streak of his now did it "ye wee sugar-tongued menace" but when Severus says anything even slightly disrespectful like that she scolds him and tells him to remember who his elders are, and Sirius is there and he's making her laugh, Sirius is there calling her "Aunt Minerva" after that and she's calling him her "lad" but that's what Severus gets to call her, Severus is supposed to be Minerva's "lad", but it only took a few moments for him to have what Severus has taken 13 years to catch even a tiny little piece of, Minerva's taken it away to give to Sirius at once, and there's Albus just smiling and his eyes are twinkling like stars like they've never twinkled at Severus, he can't remember if Albus ever looked at him like that, and it only took a short while for Sirius to once again have the favour, the love, that Severus has spent over a decade trying to earn even a fraction of, he's their golden boy again, he gets to sit with them and laugh with them and call them his mates, he's their boy, even though Severus has done everything he can, yet no, it's Sirius who they love effortless, it's Sirius who didn't need to do a thing to earn it, it's Sirius who has now taken his place, Sirius is their "snarky lad" now, he's come in and taken it all.
And neither of the two seem to care that Severus is the one who's supposed to be theirs.
#severus snape#pro snape#albus dumbledore#minerva mcgonagall#sirius black#i just have a lot of thoughts of the whole order dynamic#how severus and sirius are essentially like two sons- one loved and one not#and how there would be that element of favouritism carrying on from childhood#sirius was one of Minerva's favourites after all. and one of albus's#and severus was just unimportant to either at the time#and over the last 13 years he's become one of them#but he's never gonna be like sirius is he? they're never gonna love him the way love him#and he acts like it doesnt matter#even though it really really does#“don't kill me!” he'd said to albus that night he came for help. now he wished albus had done just that
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btw never let them make you forget that in the end, it's because of kota ibushi. kenny went to japan and truly kicked off his wrestling career there because of ibushi. they were called the golden lovers because ibushi's nickname is the golden star. the golden elite is also based on ibushi's nickname. if you erase the side of kenny's character that is so intrinsically built upon ibushi's presence in his life, you're erasing an essential part of what makes kenny so great in the first place.
#its 10pm which means im emotional over ibushi again#it really is shitty that ibushi is a ridiculous man who doesnt believe in surgery but he is an essential part of kennys being!!!#you can never erase that!!! and kenny doesnt WANT to erase that!!!!! that man is literally singlehandedly carrying the gl storyline rn#he is dragging that tractor of a story like its his baby no matter how much aew wants to censor gl and call them just friends#to ignore kota ibushi is to ignore kennys other half. to deny kota ibushis significance in kenny omegas life is to deny kennys true self#anyways idk just some thoughts. in the end it was a silly match tyson smith watched in 2006
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can we talk about the fact that billy has been PREGNANT literally EVERY season thus far???
the latest (s4)--
billy c'mon, what trimester is it this time??
s3--
s2~
s1.
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i don't understand, where is this man putting his children--
he looks so fuckin' good pregnant--
love me a perfect chubby baby boi<3<3<3
#lmfao#billy butcher#william butcher#mpreg#the boys#the boys tv#butchlander#homelander#butchie#hughie campbell#billyjoe#joe kessler#butchsausage#love sausage#the boys season 4#the boys spoilers#billy butcher's all natural baby bump#billy butcher's tropical maternity shirts#bratty bossy bottom billy butcher#the 5 essential b's#screenshots uneditted#i love him so much#he's precious#WHO IS KNOCKING YOU UP BOI!?#I WANNA SEE THE BABIES!!!#he's carrying quite high this time<3
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how it feels to appreciate and love bucktommy in the forgiving and warm embrace of fanon
#I had to reality check myself yesterday and remember that 80% of my enjoyment for this relationship was the fan works that were born from it#and 20% was the sweet and loving crumbs we got from the show (mostly masks obv) (and buck being happy)#(and the potential) (and the invisible string) (and the general themes they carried) (and the potential x2) (I digress)#and then became jubilant in realizing nothing in canon could ever feasibly take that away#essentially I just reminded myself of the purpose of fandom. anyway#bt tumblr built something beautiful and meaningful for these characters and I will cherish it forever#bucktommy
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Really wanted to draw these three
#artists on tumblr#art#fanart#brawl stars#brawl stars fanart#brawl stars gray#brawl stars lola#brawl stars byron#(Wearing a Medal that says: Cannot make characters look young unless they're kids or young adults)#I Loove old looking characters#I just know They're all old in some way#If not middle aged#I don't trust Lola. She looks like a 40-50 year old woman who uses so much makeup to look young and lie about her age#Gray is like an Old cartoon and Indulges in art films...He's old. Just by default to me. Around Lola's Age but has a younger man look and-#Is short compared to others. Except for the REALLY Short ones#Byron is fucking 70 to me. Old fart Numero Dos#Hunched over from carrying his essential oils LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO#Drawpile#Art style practice
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