#it’s called different tastes

[hinamie]

doodles

[ellenchain]

Breakfast with Scots 🥪

Ghost: no fear

Soap: eats Marmite as if it was jam

Ghost: one fear

[doberbutts]

Mods that make Astarion's crows feet and laugh lines and grinch smile disappear: boooooooooooo

Mods that make Astarion's hair even fluffier: yaaaaaaaaaaaay

[emptyapartments]

hhrrrnnngggbn soap saying in his journal “Beyond the mission similarities, he [Roach] reminds me of myself after selection. Feel even more comfortable with him than Price must have with me. […] Afterwards, saw the Sgt [Roach] writing in a journal. Wonder if he’s thinking about PT like I was. If he’s wondering what Villa Clara’s taste like.” implying that he wondered often about what villa clara’s (the cigar price smoked) tasted like. he wondered about that. btw do u think he wondered what price tasted like

[alluralater]

i need to be railed within an inch of my life tonight in this new skirt i bought. like hike it up over my hips and just start pounding into me while you’ve got me pressed between your body and the wall and we’re kissing while you do. ugh god or on a countertop??? i’m sick over this

[spywhitney]

How I sleep knowing I'll never trust anyone that hates Sydney but worships Richie:

[starrysharks]

the urge to make public character playlists for my little guys...

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

a lot of people carry around an assumption that a work of art which is “good” in certain ways is going to be received pleasurably (i’m using an extremely broad definition of pleasure here that encompasses things like art-induced moral discomfort or sadness don’t @ me) by, like, people at large. this comes up in two different areas of interest for me: on the one hand, People Having Takes On The Internet; on the other hand, discussions about pedagogy, particularly around writing. i have, i mean, a lot of different thoughts about this - still marveling over the interview with a book critic and harvard philosophy doctoral student i read where she casually espoused the belief that if people were simply taught better what makes art good they would like bad art less, which continues to strike me as one of the stupidest things i’ve ever seen a person i temporarily had a positive opinion of say - but like in pedagogical considerations for example something i had started to wonder about when i left the classroom was like… our writing instruction relied a lot on modeling. like, “notice how this published author does this thing; see how i try to do it also; now you try.” and i think that an unarticulated/unrecognized problem in that sort of modeling is that it kind of assumes the student finds pleasure in say a thorough visual description - that the student agrees “yes this part of what makes the book good.” (an adult can probably choose to learn craft lessons from a book they dislike - but i think that’s a tall order for a seven year old.) but not all of them do, and i picked description specifically because it’s something plenty of adult readers dislike as well - “too much description” is a common goodreads complaint! to me this is viscerally sort of insane because what are you even reading for then? but the answer is that they’re reading for different reasons than i am and i’ve never heard an argument i found compelling in favor of the idea that there are objectively better or worse things to seek from art (an area of life that quite literally doesn’t matter, which is precisely what gives it meaning, IMO). and also a surprising number of people very deep into art generally or of a particular kind seem ignorant of or opposed to the idea that, for example, someone who cares about a medium as an art form is probably going to have different criteria than a person who doesn’t care and just sometimes wants to go to the movies or see a book, and this is actually normal and not a problem to be solved. which i find strange. no real conclusion here except maybe an argument for spending more writing time in elementary school on things like learning what a complete sentence is and how to write one, which is a skill that will prove valuable regardless of personal tastes.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Every now and then when I see someone trying to argue that Brandon Sanderson is this like, brazenly sexist Fridgewives Georg because of the times female characters die in his books, I get an itch to turn it around on them and argue that he actually really hates people's brothers, because I can think of a whole list of those that he's killed off. Just off the top of my head:

Vin lost Reen

Kelsier and Marsh is just a big two-way loss-fest

Honestly I don't think Zane really counts but he is in there technically

Llarimar lost Stenimar. Twice.

Kaladin lost Tien, natch

Shallan lost Heleran

Dalinar lost Gavilar

Jasnah lost Elhokar

[lovecanbesostrange]

"This is a bad movie, bad show, bad book etc etc." Then you check and the thing is actually fine. Not great or earthshattering, but fine. The word you're looking for is mediocre. And we need mediocre art, lots of it. That is where you'll find the true human experience.

[divorcedwife]

wasn’t going to post about the met gala much anyway but ignoring it was made very easy by the way the fashion was pretty bad and boring as a whole in my opinion. even the designers i usually like let me down

[once-in-a-blood-moon]

Recently, I've been treating myself to a "Solomon inspired" drink based on this tiktok. I wasn't sure if I could recreate it at home, but I've finally gotten around to it and found it's...very simple! I've simplified the recipe a little, because I'm not a barista lol, and I thought I'd share it here for anyone who'd like to try it!

Similarly to the post, I do half iced coffee (pre-made vanilla favored) and half homemade sweet black tea, though that can vary if you're not as much of a sweet tooth like I am. And then I just add a little hazelnut creamer...I don't have a measurement for that, I just eyeball it. And that's it!

I've had the original recipe made professionally a few years ago, and my simplified version tastes exactly like it, even without all the other added things. So, I thought I'd share and maybe make someone else's day with a yummy, totally doable, drink. 😊

Cheers to our silly sorcerer and all of you lovely people! 💜

[mqfx]

ongoing list of tea so far mentioned in my fic. if u guys wanna drink along and experience this urself i can't stop u but be forewarned it's gonna get pricey bc i mention a lot. not picked based on personality matches btw it's just what each situation called for

ye sheng zi cha - ch2

bai mu dan - mq, ch4

meng zhu da shan - fx, ch4

plum blossom pu'erh - SSR, ch4

dan cong oolong - everyone, ch11

more tea recs to follow!

[twpsyn-who]

Soulmates AU in which your soul is bounded to your soulmate's soul.

What does that mean exactly? That when you die, if your soulmate is still alive you can't move on. Instead your soul is stuck by your soulmate's side until they die too, so the two souls can become one in death. Depending on how strong the bond between the two is, one could see (and even interact!) with their deceased soulmate.

Now this but, you know by now, JeanMarco. With Marco waking up and the first thing he saw was Jean's terrified face while looking at the dead body- Marco's half eaten dead body. He learns it pretty quickly that he can't leave Jean's side, bound to follow his best friend around. He also learns that is possible for Jean to see and hear him during the ceremony of burning the fallen soldiers during Trost ; it lasted so little, too little for all the things Marco wanted to say. If he knew Jean was listening from the beginning, he would've started with exposing Reiner and Berthold right away. By the time he took notice that not only Jean was looking at him, but listening too, it was too late. Every other word from him was meet with silence, unheard by the living.

Isn't until the 57th expedition outside the walls that Marco learns that he can interact with Jean too, touch him. In his panic after Jean's failed attack on the Female Titan Marco didn't think and went straight to his best friend's side, touching his shoulder while looking for any injuries. Jean's eyes went straight to the place Marco's was touching, looking confused- until he followed the arm and saw Marco in front of his very own eyes. And just like everything, it lasted too little for Marco's liking. The Female Titan took hold of Reiner, crushing him in her hand, and Jean could no longer see him.

It was later, much much later than either of them would've liked, for Marco to understand how everything works. To know that he could only interact with Jean when his mind was filled with thoughts of Marco. By then Jean already began to move on, the secret of Reiner and Berthold's true selves already out. So Marco could only watch, unable to be there for his other half- for Jean.

And it was when they saw the ocean for the first time that Marco understood why he was truly stuck by Jean's side. When he saw his best friend having fun with the others and realized just how much he loves him. When he realizes that all he truly wants is to be by Jean's side, the way they promised each other to do during their training days.

Edit : Think of Ben and Klaus Hargreeves for easier visual.

[wonder-worker]

people really do not know what they're talking about when it comes to Elizabeth Woodville's social status, huh?

[permanentreverie]

linds im crying witnessing this thread on your fead is so funny 😭😭♥️

glad to know in the age where gladiators are no longer common my own death in humility can be entertainment for you all 😘