#like it's a legitimate challenge

[firstdragonlady]

"Loosen your corset. Have a drink."

"I'm here for the refreshments."

"Effie had them take her own wine away when she saw the effort he was making."

Prompt: Five Moments that show the evolution of Haymitch and Effie's relationship. Hayffie.

[manhattan-gamestop]

The fact that some people can equate an entire musical genre to just its stereotypes and never listen to it is baffling to me. Like no, metal isn't just screaming, country isn't just trucks beer and misogyny, rap isn't just sexualizing women and getting money. When will people learn to escape their comfort zone oh my god

[kentucky-fried-accent]

you guys think phillip ever organized some wildly intricate apartment mystery for benoit to solve because he recognized how understimulated and depressed the pandemic was making him ? because i think about that a lot and i think a fic writer should maybe think abt it too 👀

[thatswhatsushesaid]

it’s always so interesting to me when people state that they just “didn’t trust” jin guangyao from the very first moment he appears on screen as meng yao in cql because like

do you not recognize how your suspicion of a sex worker’s son on sight, before he’s done anything at all except endure humiliation during the cloud recesses welcoming ceremony, is the exact same attitude shared by the rest of the cultivation world?

[miz-chase]

Silly Bones thoughts for the evening:

Brennan, and especially Booth, do not seem to have independent work and personal phones. Since Booth was vetted in front of a congressional subcommittee who dug up dirt on him, no doubt his files were reviewed intensely by both feds and the reporting press.

Which is to say, almost certainly, Booth and Brennan's sexting is on public record 🙈💦

[inflammatoryfandomblog]

I do find it interesting that ATLA managed to use a very black and white narrative (stop Evil Empire) to tell several character stories with some nuance, while TDP claims it has a nuanced conflict and flattens everything to try and make up for that, ultimately leading to protagonist centred morality more than anything. And if they didn’t want me to compare the two then they should have let go of the ATLA references right away.

you're right and you should say it.

the constant and shoehorned references to ATLA do not really do this show any favors. honestly might be part of the problem (why are there 7 primals with color-coded elves? to follow ATLA's pattern of marketable separable elements. why is it an adventure story with a core crew? because ATLA was like this too. etc etc.)

but anyway. yeah. ATLA had a very simple main conflict to provide a constant source of tension throughout the show (even if they dropped the ball at the last season re: the plot), and this structure allowed for episodes that explore other aspects of the setting and characters while still making everything feel relevant and tied together by said conflict. it's not some arthouse show by any means, but it has good compelling story work into it. genuinely great show.

tdp immediately opens up with the nuance and it never really delves deeper. you'd think that opening with characters being aware of the cycle of violence stuff would be interesting and the show would explore that more, but it just... flatlines there. there's no progression or graduation or exploration of themes as the seasons go on like in ATLA. very rarely are there new questions being asked or arcs that feel sensical.

honestly the main characters having to be perfect in every situation is the biggest problem with tdp. the mains are not allowed to have shortcomings or mistaken judgements or anything to meaningfully interact in any way with the nuanced set-up. they emotionally exist entirely outside it, which ends up making them the Messiahs of Peace Who Can Do No Wrong. good for fandoms i guess, people bitched and whined about bato and the water tribe for years. but it's not very good for storytelling.

and also, they're just bad characters and the writers can't put two and two together while still asking you to take their world very seriously.

anyways i'm just rambling at this point. good observation.

[piggiebonez]

dib is like a little cousin to me. i wanna give him sweets and treats. i wanna buy him coffee behind his dad's back because he's 12 and not allowed to drink coffee yet. i want to encourage his conspiratorial delusions even further by feeding him purposeful disinformation

z*adrs DNI

[somecunttookmyurl]

Quick question as I am slowly working my way through the website debating an order lol. In your wearing expertise to Demonia platforms run to size or do you need to order a size below/above your actual size?

you're not going to like my answer to this because in truth i don't have one

see i'm a uk 4.5. most manufacturers do not produce half sizes and this includes demonia. i always order size 4s for platforms (you want them to be a little snug rather than a little loose for stability sake) and 5s for like. running shoes

i couldn't tell you if a demonia 4 is big or small for a 4 because i... am not a 4 myself i just have to buy shoes a half size wrong anyway but all the time

[hyacinths-in-a-storm]

Pondering the relationship between Sozin and Zeisan.

[docholligay]

Yes! YESSSSSS!!! FALSE FLAG FALSE FLAG FALSE FLAG!!!

Even better that Sisko gets to feel bad about it for the rest of his damn life, because while he did not DO the planting of the bomb, he is the only reason Garak was able to make any of this happen, and what's more, he's the one who brought any level of opportunity to Garak's attention. Without him, none of this would have happened, and Sisko is going to think about Vreenak being fucking killed because he was a sacrifical lamb to save the Federation. He will go to his GRAVE knowing that.

And only he can decide if it was ever worth it. I don't know Sisko very well because I just only have a little familiarity with DS9 on the whole, but based on this I don't think he'll ever excuse himself. And as sexy as I find Garak, I ALSO find flogging yourself for the rest of your life for betraying every ounce of your morality insanely sexy. ANd he will NEVER roll over on Garak, because as I said earlier, Sisko BELIEVES in word and bond.

[yourdrugisafartbreaker]

They just added What’s New Scooby Doo onto Tubi and I for some reason refuse to just say “Scooby Doo” in reference to the dog. Here is a selection of replacement names I have instead opted to call that great Great Dane instead:

- Scoobert Doobert

- Cooby Sdoo

- Dooby Scoo

- Scooby Donut

- Scrubby Goo

- Spoopy Doo

- Screwy Screw

- Dogface Dogman

- Spotify Doo

- Poopy Loo

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

Poor Yuuta 😆

What's he gonna do when someone tells him Todo punched His Boy™️ through a wall

And really, what's with every person ripping of their shirt or being shirtless while fighting Megumi. Sukuna is the worst offender of course, and their's also Todo, even Mahoraga didn't have a shirt. We're obviously excluding Toji.

Also, being offended at a low bounty is so Sukuna 🤣 That entire post was hilarious, especially the tags.

The other second years decide that they need to shield Yuuta from the knowledge that this ever happened because if he did he’d kill todo and then feel bad about killing him and it’s just be enormously inconvenient to maki specifically who would have to hear about it.

They also decide that this is immediately a mission doomed for failure because Inumaki’s a spineless simp who will absolutely spill the beans to his boy (his boy being Yuuta).

So they tell Todo that if he values his life (doubtful—maki has sincere doubts as to its value and feels even todo must know that) he’ll find a border and get over it because Yuuta will break his fucking spine if he finds out someone beat the shit out of Megumi specifically as a way to goad Yuuta himself. Fuck around, find out. Yuuta’s not letting anyone use megumi against him and he’s willing to make an example to ensure future safety.

Sukuna feels the Zenin were on point with the brat’s valuation (if not too generous) but he’s in here too and he’s a fucking gold standard of targets. What the fuck why is the bounty so low. He’s the king of curses and he’s getting the valuation of an idiot high schooler with a crush. There’s no respect nowadays.

Yuuji has to hear a lot about how the price on his head is not good enough for Sukuna.

[your-god-empress-lavender]

Henrow blorbo

first off, ohmyfuckinggodyouaresocoolllllllllllllllll

secondly, what ya workin' on currently? <- is deathly interested, yes please please please info dump if you have the spoons

- Ryan

Bonjour my furry friend. At the moment i'm mostly working on getting a job so that i can afford rent, but when i'm not doing that, i'm working on designing some new N-substituted 5MeO-tryptamines (in order to avoid being banned for breaking tumblr TOS, i can't say exactly what for, but if you look up 5MeO-tryptamines, you should see). So far i've only managed to make things that make me super sleepy (and maybe a tiny bit inebriated), so presumably my body is mainly metabolizing them into melatonin. I also have been working on working through the details of making a rocket engine which relies on both muon catalyzed fusion and z-pinch fusion (mostly because even though i know it's way above what i'm probably capable of, i just love space so much i desperately need to see it for myself and i figure that since rockets are so absurdly expensive, the only way i'll end up in space is if we can get a whole new generation of ultra-efficient rockets (for example, given p-N14 fusion, if we manage to get 1% or more (i don't really expect more than 0.1% max, but still) of the hydrogen fusing with nitrogen, we'd be able to put 150 tons on the moon from earth with only using about enough fuel to fill a small car (instead of needing a skyscraper sized rocket to send maybe 30 tons)). Now, if it were as easy as my calculations show it to be, i can't imagine how there are any rockets flown that aren't fusion, but seeing as i haven't even made a working proof of concept yet, i'm not in a position to criticize the thousands of aerospace engineers who are working on conventional chemical rockets. I love fusion because it's simultaneously so easy (i live pretty close to an old uranium mine where i can actually pan some uranium out of the creek near me, then use that uranium to make a neutron source (B10(α,n)) which is really just fusion between helium and boron, happening at room temperature because of how high energy the α particles released by uranium are) and so absurdly difficult (without catalysts like muons, it requires absurdly high temperatures and pressures that almost always take more energy put in than they can give out). Anyway, i've also been sorta working on studying a material that a while back i got way too excited over and may have called a room temperature superconductor (almost certainly not the case), but in an attempt to make it more pure and study it for real i've been trying to work on the exact calculations of its composition and finding a better way to heat it up to high temperatures (i might just put it in a flat-bottomed flask, especially since it finally warmed up enough for me to go back outside where the fumes released by its production won't make folks mad).

And then there's the biological experiments, currently with electroceutical tissue modifications since most of the other projects i have planned require me to have a gene printer capable of reliably printing genes thousands of base pairs long and i'm not sure when i'll be able to build that. The most recent thing i've been working on is really exciting because if it works it means that i've successfully done something that has never been done before to a human body (and given the long lasting pain in that part of my thigh, it seems very possible it is working), but i'm hesitant about sharing what the project is because i don't really want folks putting gap junction blockers, calcium channel blockers, and sodium channel blockers into open wounds without knowing how to do it safely and correctly to get the desired results and not just a really messed up wound. If/when this experiment turns out well, i might give directions in private, but i'm still somewhat hesitant due to the risks inherent in this (the biggest and most likely is literally giving yourself a form of cancer, something i'm not eager for others to risk). Soon i might try chemical dedifferentiation of skin cells (thinking on my back or upper arms) followed by some mildly dangerous experiments to test how reliably i can make it turn into other cell types. And while i haven't made good work on it in a while, i've also been trying to make something similar to shimmer from arcane (ideally not addictive or harmful to the user, but most importantly the quick energy burst, decreased pain, and increased regenerative abilities (obviously it won't be anywhere near as dramatic as in the show, so calling it shimmer may not really make sense, but it is where i got the inspiration)).

Then i suppose there's the battery project i was talking about in my last post, and i'm also trying to learn how to make alcohol under my desk (i mean, it's super easy, it just doesn't taste great). There might be a few more things i'm working on but rn i'm super eepy and have talked about a lot already. If this seems like i'm doing a lot or impressive, also note that i'm actively failing out of college (for my own pride: the material is super easy and mostly i already know it, i just can't stand wasting so much of my time doing homework that doesn't help anyone or anything) and not yet working a job, so i have a lot of time and so much free brainspace to think about and do all this. I also work very slowly on each thing because i keep bouncing back and forth between all of them and almost always end up adding new projects before i've finished the old ones and so i almost never see a project all the way through to completion (at least some of the bio projects are just sitting in my body and i am just waiting to see how they turn out in the next 2-3 months, so those necessarily will see completion, even if it's failure). I really hope i see the fusion rocket to completion because if i don't think i'll ever be able to see the earth from afar or the moon from up close.

[heartshapedcaskett]

In the wake of the Blonde film please remember that Marilyn was not only an exploited woman. But a woman who held space for black voices in the entertainment industry, a feminist, and a Jewish woman. Please remember she was a person first not just a pop cultural icon for consumption.

[kamamo1]

I was rooting for the new Lord Debling from the promotional material to be an actual love interest to make the added love triangle more of a difficult choice for Penelope than the ones that were in the previous seasons because i love the drama and I want it to push Colin to change more romantically.

but I just got to the introduction of Lord Debling and my heart sinked because I think I know the twist that's going to come.

He's a gold digger who's only interested in the Fetherington inheritance because Portia told everyone out in the open at the start of the episode and he's going to end up playing Pen to get it right? Damn it, Pen never gets a break.

[tlgtw]

Elden Ring is not denying the "is unironically cliched" allegations and perhaps is directly taunting them by having its DLC take place in, literally, "the Shadow Realm."

"Magic is powered by Life Essence, found in all living creatures. The universe is fundamentally divided between an Objective, Material, World of the Living, and a Subjective, Ethereal, World of the Dead. And, oh yeah, you're also going into a dream to enter a fucking Shadow Realm. And what're you gonna do about it?"