#in terms of like

[wesleysniperking]

Usopp fan club if anyone cares to join.

[manicali]

You've been doing the "T-T" a lot and it looks like a sad face to me so are you doing alright?

T-T is.a lil crying face I use emoticons like I use punctuation and the word fuck which is too much and in random places. I use it in place of wtf.

[pynkhues]

There is a section of Dogless Bone that is living rent free in my head.

The scene where they wake up, lazily to Lestat's cell buzzing all the way until Louis has him lying out on the table in the kimono...

I can read that 100 times and still get a shiver. Everything about it... like, that wake up scene is something I have been imagining in my head for whatever reason and the slow seduction in the kitchen over blood coffee ending with that table squeaking hotness...

you..elicit..emotions!!

“There it is,” he moans. “My - - my expression.”

Louis blinks, eyes a little wet.

“What?”

“That one’s mine, I know it is,” Lestat whispers,

You make me feel stuff, seriously.🥰

Thank you so much! I was thinking as I was writing Part 2 about what the things are that Lestat holds to in knowing/hoping Louis loves him, and Louis just has such an expressive face, that I felt there must be a look which Lestat just knows is for him. Plus it felt like a fun thing to explore in terms of how exposed Louis would feel if Lestat told him that, especially when he's trying (badly) to set a boundary, haha.

These were really lovely asks to get, so thank you again, and they did make me open up my Part 3 draft which is pretty fun. 💖💖

[sorchasolas]

It might be Pick Me behavior to make an enlightened Truthwater oc but also when they aren’t enlightened Truthwatchers have objectively the lamest ability set in the Knights Radiant

[st-just]

I do think vivziepop’s been involved in some labor issues wrt to her show, but that isn’t particularly rare in animation. Also generally with regards to hating on Hazbin, it’s like. not that good and kinda tasteless, but I’ve seen people on here thinking that Hazbin hotel is going to result in mass sexual violence and the way to solve this is to suibate 15 year olds with tumblr

Right yes in both those cases the preferred justification (either, I'm going to assume valid bc small-buisness-creative-project-amazon-money is like every red flag, labour issues, or satanic panic level cultural contagion fantasies) can't actually be the motivating reason here, right? Otherwise they'd be going after South Park (still running, somehow!) or Invincible or whichever video game developer has most recently had a crunch culture expose published. It's the excuse that makes palatable the venting of some preexisting animus.

Which, like, many such cases! Often rather more consequential ones.

[caramel-covered-apples]

hunter 🤝 jason grace

sad boy blonds with trauma and also unironically alpha wolf

[gwensy]

babys first crime scene investigation

[callibones]

[terresdebrume]

I want to save money but also go out more but also have a baby but also start learning French sign language but it costs money and I feel stupid about it for reasons I can't explain and urgh

[hgejfmw-hgejhsf]

My HONEST OPINION is that you are one of the most open-hearted, approachable, trustworthy people I've ever had the pleasure of interacting with in fandom. I always look forward to seeing what you have to say (both writing-wise and also just in general) and seeing your name lights up my computer screen.

Oh.

This is so incredibly kind of you, anon. Reaching through my screen with tears in my eyes to hug you so tight.

[hinamie]

newest issue of first years fashion just dropped

[druid-for-hire]

There's this sort of anthropomorphizing that inherently happens in language that really gets me sometimes. I'm still not over the terminology of "gravity assist," the technique where we launch satellites into the orbit of other planets so that we can build momentum via the astounding and literally astronomical strength of their gravitational forces, to "slingshot" them into the direction we need with a speed that we could never, ever, ever create ourselves. I mean, some of these slingshots easily get probes hurtling through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour. Wikipedia has a handy diagram of the Voyager 1 satellite doing such a thing.

"Gravity assist." "Slingshot." Of course, on a very basic and objective level, yes, we are taking advantage of forces generated by outside objects to specifically help in our goals. We're getting help from objects in the same way a river can power a mill. And of course we call it a "slingshot," because the motion is very similar (mentally at least; I can't be sure about the exact physics).

Plus, especially compared to the other sciences, the terminology for astrophysics is like, really straightforward. "Black hole?" Damn yeah it sure is. "Big bang?" It sure was. "Galactic cluster?" Buddy you're never gonna guess what this is. I think it's an effect of the fact that language is generally developed for life on earth and all the strange variances that happen on its surface, that applying it to something as alien and vast as space, general terms tend to suffice very well in a lot more places than, like... idk, botany.

But, like. "Gravity assist." I still can't get the notion out of my head that such language implies us receiving active help from our celestial neighbors. They come to our aid. We are working together. We are assisted. Jupiter and the other planets saw our little messengers coming from its pale blue molecular cousin, and we set up the physics just right, so that they could help us send them out to far stranger places than this, to tell us all about what they find out there.

We are assisted.

And there is no better way to illustrate my feelings on the matter than to just show you guys one of my favorite paintings, this 1973 NASA art by Rick Guidice to show the Pioneer probe doing this exact thing:

"... You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. ..."

Gravity assist.

[bookpdf]

lumon's department sizes are so funny. "how many people do we need to refine some super important data?" uhhhh four i guess. at most. "what about the company marching band?" fuck ur so right. we need a company marching band with like fifty people. this is of prime importance to the lumon mission.

[that-butch-archivist]

"Lesbian Weddings" by Wendy Jill York

source: The Femme Mystique, edited by Lesléa Newman

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

[wondersimp]

*Someone asks Dick to pass the salt*

Damian: …Grayson, how do you tell apart someone addressing you by the name ‘Dick,’ from one who is insulting you by the genitalia word ‘dick?’

Dick: …Well, um

Jason: He can’t.

Dick: What no, of course I-!

Jason: *maintains eye contact* Trust me, You. Can’t.

Dick: *stares* How often are calling me a Dick and not my name?

Tim: *without looking up from his phone* Oh, it’s usually used synonymously.

Dick:

Damian: I see. *goes back to eating*

Dick: *mentally questions every time someone’s said his name*