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[hinamie]

newest issue of first years fashion just dropped

[finifugue]

'the F1 movie needed to have Brad Pitt fuck his female engineer because there needed to be sexual tension!' BORING. If they wanted sexual tension they should've made it historically accurate and true to real life and had Brad Pitt fuck his teammate

[hamletthedane]

You know what time it is….

* Regardless of whether you like your actual workplace or specific current practice (e.g. if you hold a nursing degree, you work as a nurse even if it’s in an area of medicine or a clinic that you don’t like)

Survey questions adapted from survey issued by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

[anastasiasultana]

MERYEM UZERLI AS HÜRREM SULTAN

Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?

[oldbutchdanielcraig]

lee thinks gene is sleeping with every person in the world but him and gene wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat because he's become the world's most loyal monogamist for an old man nobody else wants anyway. and other leegene miscommunications that warm my heart

[freakinflipflop]

I’m so enamored with Troy and Blink’s friendship bc like. These are two people who have not experienced actual friendship for a long time. And both of them have built up defense mechanisms to deal with that loneliness: Blink does everything asked of him to be helpful and wanted and needed, and Troy puts on a facade of a strong popular sportsguy to appear tough and admirable. But these traits are also what drive people away from them. No one ever truly gets close to Blink bc he’s deferential to everyone’s wants, and it leads to Blink building up resentment when he continues doing good things and gets nothing out of it. Troy’s performance of popularity really just makes him an asshole, and he’s unable to be genuine and more likely to do stupid things that hurt people

And so over the course of Wonderlust both of them have been drifting closer to friendship through plot and shenanigans, and then pushing each other away through the same flaws that they developed to deal with loneliness. Troy puffs himself up, Blink deprioritizes himself; Troy takes advantage of Blink, Blink hides resentment for Troy that bubbles up at unhelpful times. Episode 15 felt like a crazy turning point bc they’re 1. Directly recognizing their own flaws, 2. Making a commitment to working on them, and 3. Agreeing to help each other with them. And like!! Isn’t that insane!! We met not even a week ago, have been through and put each other through hell, and now I see what holds you back and I will stick with you as we both grow to become people that others might also want to be around!!

Anyways this is why I think Troy and Blink as besties is the best possible outcome and I hope they continue on this trajectory of not making each other worse and in fact reversing course on that process

[rancidboypeach]

I've been trying out new positions that feel good when I jerk off now that I have a significant amount of bottom growth. If I hold my rose toy against my dresser and prop myself up on it, I can thrust into it and fuck it with my tdick 🥴. It feels soooo fucking good, it feels like I'm skull fucking someone or shoving myself in their wet hole.

Im really excited for the house to be empty in a little while; Im gonna fuck into my hand and think about some teary eyed faggot with their lips around my cock while I obsessively rut into their face.

[sainteclectic]

and btw since I'm posting a lot of wholesoul content (intended as platonic but still), i do want to make it clear: my analysis of whole as a character is purely within the narrative of the story! while i am aware that behind the metaphors is whole is cj himself, that's never what i'm writing whole as in my work. basically I'm using the internal logic of the fiction (whole as viewed by the characters in the album) rather than the reason for the fiction existing (as a fictionalized version of chonny's mental state), just like i do with all the other characters. it's important to make that distinction when you're dealing with a piece of fiction so heavily based on the creator i think. I'll never use cj as a basis for how I write whole because I find that a little off putting tbh ^^;

basically I'm playing with touys. ok? play touys with me

[sandersontheside]

I can’t stop thinking about Remus representing jealousy and envy, in the same way Roman isn’t just creativity, he’s also ego, pride, and passion. It always felt a little lopsided to me that they were halves a whole, and yet Roman has all this extra stuff. But what if Remus has some extra stuff of his own, things that mirror Roman’s extra stuff. 

Consider the feeling you get when you work very hard on something creative, something you’re proud of, only for your work to be passed over for someone else. Consider the envy you might feel when someone else succeeds in the same area you wish you could. Even when it’s a friend, someone you care about, that feeling creeps up sometimes. Don’t you deserve the recognition just as much as they do, if not more? Or maybe, they made something better than you, and you wish it was yours. Either way, that’s envy. Wanting something someone else has. 

Alternatively, consider jealousy, in a romantic sense. The moments when your partner seems to click with someone else, or someone flirts with them, or they’re just plain spending more time with other people than you. It happens, it’s normal. But you can’t help that niggling sense of jealousy in the back of your mind, fueled by insecurity and fear of losing the one you love, that some might take what’s yours away from you. Maybe you imagine in great detail what they’re doing right now, or any number of scenarios in which they leave you or cheat on you. You know you’re being irrational, but even so it’s hard to put those thoughts to rest. 

In both cases, these aren’t wanted feelings, but they’re there anyway, a lot like intrusive thoughts (and in fact in some situations they can be a form of intrusive thought!), and they’re also both extensions of things that Roman represents. Envy and jealousy are both forms of desire tempered with ego and insecurity.

So, where Roman is pride in your work, and desire and passion for your partner, and Remus is wondering why someone else got rewarded for their work and you didn't, and the fear someone will take away the one you love.

In other words, Remus makes you green with envy.

[something-about-sunflowers]

EDIT: HOLY SHIT

I wasn't expecting to hit my goal, let alone exceed it! But exceed it did! I'm at 131% of my 1,200$ goal! Thank you all so much for sharing and an extra thank you to those who gave what they could! 💚 💚 💚 💚 💚 💚 💚

Hi, I hate doing this, but I have a bit more reach here than I do in other places:

My family is behind on rent (behind on a lot of things, tbf, which is WHY we're behind on rent) and we got this lovely letter on our door today:

I am fully aware that I have been on record several times saying that I don't share donation posts (because I have no way of verifying if the post I am sharing is a real person or not), so I fully do not expect anything from anyone, but I would be remiss if I didn't try at all.

I have a Ko-fi donation goal set up if anyone can spare anything at all to help: https://ko-fi.com/arty_sunflowers/goal?g=12

I have just about 300$ in my account right now and I am short in the range of 1,200$; Anything helps.

[stupidlittlespirit]

I tried drawing reeda because I love her. I have no idea what you had in mind for her design so I just re-read the chapter and went off of what your description was the best that I could. She gives me Painter vibes from pressure

I LOVE THISSSSSSSSSSSSS THANK YOU!!!!!! Ford absolutely has a mini monitor like this in each room so he can see its messages!

Honestly REEDA's main design in my head fits Ford's lab, so it's a very retro cassette-futuristic style like you've illustrated. Think: how did people imagine the future was going to look in 197-something. All Commodores and IBM and thick plastic etc.

Ford's lab in mtb is designed with that exact aesthetic in mind, so terminals and things like this were at the forefront of my mind:

These types of terminals are primarily in the mainframe room that Reader goes through to access the lab. It's all set up with things like the above. Whereas REEDA's central screens in the main body of the lab look more like the ones in The Forbin Project:

Except they're a mix of both of those aesthetics, so they're weirdly long CRT monitors suspended in a similar layout to the above!

Here's another ss from Forbin bc it works along similar lines! And also it's a great movie and you should watch it!

[black-salt-cage]

actually I'm done being the better person and not directly interacting with posts that shit talk me or screenshotting them like this because you do not get the courtesy of me leaving you alone after you block me if you don't leave me alone

"they practically say it in some of their posts" fleeglefazbeagle I mean this in the meanest and most forward way I possibly can, if you take even TWO SECONDS to look at any information on this blog and you do not realize that I'm a proshipper then you have the brain the size of this walnut except way smaller. Though that's not surprising if you deadass think you can police the accounts other people in stimblr can interact with.

[me-thal]

I dont usually like to post snippets of what I write elsewhere than in dms, but I need some motivation and showing this ratiorine exchange will motivate me to finish that damn fic

[studiousandrogynousfox-blog]

admin and applications

being unemployed is a lot of work! so much admin! i've tackled the most urgent bits and will tackle more tomorrow. after last week i realised that it's important i go do that work in some public place when possible because otherwise it'll encroach on my evenings

applying for jobs is also so weird. i oscillate between i'd like to do this job and it would be too challenging and i actually only want to work part time and not nearly full time

[vaguely-concerned]

there's a self-help/mental health adjacent post that's going around and it seems to be really helpful for a lot of people which is very good. I also personally hate it with all my fucking heart

[sir-kettle-of-countertop]

@winterbunz thank YOU for the invitation!! :D

I've made a full art featuring Trice only once (not nearly enough ;-; ), with this piece:

Which despite being just an out of context fake screenshot actually carries plenty of her vibes pretty well - she is confident, laid-back and collected woman unbending under any pressure. (also the "little bird" she addresses here is Hellebarde.)

Also, quite simply, she is badass, a natural leader with incredible fighting ability and sharp tactical mind - she knows both how to command companies of soldiers and how to fight 1 on 1.

Trice developed her nerves of steel from her extensive military experience in the struggle against the Empire, including the Vineta war, where she climbed the ranks from the bottom all the way to becoming a military captain before willingly retiring. Something she confused a lot of people, including Lyuda, with - she had her path laid out for her! Heimat-born rising star, she could've become a major, a GENERAL even! And live as comfortable of a life as possible in the Nation, in the upper echelons of society.

(WIP piece - here Lyuda addresses her as Lieutenant as this is the rank he saw her under last, before he got honorably discharged from front for loosing his leg. Lyudmila and Beatrice have a long history together)

But Beatrice couldn't bear to wage wars anymore after years spent on Vineta and all the destruction and death she saw there. Trice wanted to do something, anything, that wouldn't bring so much suffering anymore.

Besides, she just got too attached to that little blue planet.

So after the fight for it was won - and Vineta was utterly devasted and flooded - she laid down her arms, left Heimat, and trained to become... a sea captain.

Yeah the joke isn't lost on her. She likes to jest that she got her own boat by claiming to be a captain. But no one checked if she was a sea captain specifically. She just was a captain on paper. It's hard to tell for a lot of people when she is joking, so plenty genuinely believe it (especially with how UTTERLY FUCKED the Nation's bureaucracy is - Kurt can confirm).

She isn't a part of T-02 herself - she simply delivers cargo there and commands her team of Gestalt and Seetaucher sailors/divers that work for the facility. (Seetaucher Replikas - Loons, which Trice universally calls "Tau" - are still work in progress. But here's what I have plus Beatrice Seong's mugshot).

(yes they both wear the same eyeliner. Also YES Seetauchers love her a lot and try to fight for her attention despite her not being interested. She doesn't quite see Replikas as people at first...)

In spite of the rather intimidating impression she leaves, she's compassionate and pretty decent at understanding people's emotions - she cut a lot of slack for Hel's more abrasive behaviour cause she was able to tell that it was born out of grief, for example. She also cries a lot from melodramatic movies ("BUT THEY'RE SO CHEESY" - Lyuda). Besides being sort of a moviebuff (which Geiers adore), she enjoys swimming and diving. It being part of her job pleases her a lot :D

Another peculiarity about Trice is her being deeply superstitious. She reads divinations from Tarot, engages in magical thinking and, how Lyuda would put it, "believes in all kinds of unscientific nonsense". Jokes on him, it genuinely helps Trice perceive bioresonant influence better than most, in spite of her not being bioresonant herself.

Trice being superstitious, as well as gentle compassion hidden behind the laid-back indifferent attitude, reminded Hel of Mei a lot...

Besides her great leadership skills, she also genuinely cares a tonne for her crew - she fully lives by the "captain goes down with the ship" motto. She would do anything to save as many people as she can.

Anything.