#missed the boat didn't i

[death-nettle]

Does anyone have a link/download for Leopard, the film by Eoin Macken with Tom Hopper? I started watching it but never finished it. Please tag, reblog, any help is appreciated 🙏

Thanks in advance!

[autumnrory]

lorelai and luke + pieces of each other (insp.)

- rachel's sweatshirt - william's hardware - max's daisy - the huppah - lorelai's heel - luke's truck - liz's earrings - the dragonfly inn - liz's matching necklace - the horoscope - william's boat - luke's flannel shirt - lorelai's dollhouse - luke's spatula - the character reference - liz's necklace 2.0

[quirkle2]

no matter how hard i tried i couldn't get this piece to work w full color and lighting so ur just gettin this instead </3 reigen's somewhere off-camera with his head in his hands wondering who FUCKING hurt his kids

[jasofthehollow]

as the token "friend who is into folk music" there is nothing worse than having a well-meaning friend recommend you a "folk" song from whatever fantasy show/movie/video game they've been watching/playing because first of all- holy shit that is so kind of you to think about me. and now i have to break your heart by not liking whatever music you're about to play to me.

[some-pers0n]

I have like a curse or something wherein I only get into shows and media when it's ended like 2 or 3 years ago and isn't mainstream anymore. I go "Oh yeah this super popular show all of my buds are into? Eh, yeah, maybe I'll watch it" and only when literally zero of them are still major fans and talking about it will I reach out and see it. Anything wrong with that? No, but I find it funny regardless

[peninkwrites]

In practice, I understand why who escaped from purgatory was determined by who wanted to go live on the server again ASAP, (Pac in Fit's backpack, Foolish swimming back, etc) but from a writing perspective, man I wish there had been actual consequences for not making it to the boat in time. Like, the stakes were There watching it live, but I also knew it wouldn't matter long-term so my main thought was "huh I wonder if the admins didn't realize how hard it would be to make it to the boat" instead of feeling that desperation? Y'know?? But like, if their struggle and their failure MEANT something, if the ones who chose to stop trying to run and instead tried to find each other knew they weren't getting back to Quesadilla island (at least not any time soon) that could've hit so hard! I don't think in practice it would've been fair to the creators, but I love thinking about what could have been. And I know some creators HAVE stayed absent, but it feels like it hasn't been taken seriously as a loss within the lore? Like, people said stuff like "where is x person anyway?" or "huh, is x person still on the other island?" but bc temporary absences are a common part of server life, I didn't really feel like there was weight to that absence. (Baghera and Cellbit being the exception, as we have seen the fallout of them being left behind!)

Same with for the eggs! Dapper being the one who made it out, the other eggs left behind, that problem felt relatively temporary? And after the eggs being gone so long, them failing then didn't feel like much changed when they got back to the server, especially when the eggs returned relatively soon after. Again, I understand why they did this, the eggs had been gone for so long, but those aspects of purgatory had such consequential weight, and it feels like a little something has been lost bc they couldn't fully commit to that and respect the creators that wanted to get back to playing.

This is not a critique of the QSMP's writing because I don't think these things could have been reasonably implemented, but what a concept.

[alfhildr-the-word-weaver]

I must say, it's pretty poetic that I've gotten to season 6 of Vampire Diaries right before another solar eclipse happens in America. I certainly didn't plan it, but it does feel like my timing is very appropriate with this one. I do have questions about the accuracy of the eclipse portrayal in the show, though. I mean, a solar eclipse did in fact happen on May 10, 1994, and it was visible across much of the country, so that much is accurate. But I don't think Mystic Falls would've had quite as good of a view as they show it having. For reference, here's a map of the May 1994 eclipse path (credit: timeanddate.com):

And, if you'll remember, Mystic Falls is like two hours from my old hometown just a stone's throw north of Lynchburg, Virginia, as seen on the locator spell map (this one's all over tumblr, forgive me for not remembering what blog I grabbed it from):

So if you zoom in on the timeanddate map and pick somewhere closeish to there:

It looks like Mystic Falls would be getting a little over 77% coverage or so. It's also worth noting that the '94 eclipse was an annular eclipse, not a total eclipse like tomorrow's eclipse. That still means that the moon went directly in front of the sun, but it does mean that it was small enough/far enough from earth that you didn't quite get full coverage of the sun (thanks to weather.gov for the nifty graphic):

So, I'm not positive whether it would've looked quite as dark as was shown in the show:

Although, I must admit, in this video I found on youtube of the '94 eclipse, (part of me is shocked to find footage from then but I know I shouldn't be like yes they had cameras in the 90s) it actually looks more similar than I expected it to look, but I imagine it was most likely filmed within the path of totality:

But also, when Kai takes Bonnie to Portland, don't they see the eclipse again there? I couldn't find that clip on youtube just now, but Portland barely had any eclipse--only 42-43% coverage, so it would've been way milder of a visual effect, barely any dimming in the sky noticeable without eclipse glasses.

The funny thing is, the area where I live is going to be sitting right around 80% coverage tomorrow. I was lucky enough to get to travel to Missouri for the 2017 eclipse to get into the path of totality, but I'm afraid that it hasn't worked out for me to do so this year, which is immensely disappointing to me as an astronomy enjoyer, but I do still plan to go to an eclipse party and I'm going to start saving to try and get to Spain for the next total eclipse in 2026, which is going to be right around my 30th birthday (screaming). Anyways, it isn't great, but here's my best picture from the '17 eclipse:

I didn't even have a smartphone yet then, because despite it being 2017, I was somewhat of a luddite, so I had the purple flip phone I so stubbornly clung to and a point-and-click Nikon, but I still think this picture is pretty cool for what it is. Here's the zoom in so you can really see that ring of fire (and my shaking hands doubling the image):

Obviously you can find thousands of better eclipse pictures online, but that one's still special to me because it's mine. Anyways, I'll report back with smart phone pictures from whatever I see of the 80% total eclipse tomorrow to compare and contrast with Mystic Falls's 70% annular eclipse of the 90s, because from what I've heard it's going to be much less impressive than full totality was, but I've yet to watch a partial solar eclipse, so I'll just have to find out. Also, if you happen to have any vampiric loved ones trapped in a magical prison dimension who you need help freeing during the eclipse tomorrow, let me know and I'll see what I can do! ;) Hahaha. Anyways, happy eclipse everyone, and may we all possess sufficient self restraint to avoid eye damage (says the woman who has looked at the sun unprotected so many times and is probably going to go blind because of it some day. I know what I've done lol. Don't be me.)

[ti2guhr]

No episode this season was going to top "The Amazing Rudy" for me but this last episode came very close

[girlscience]

MEETING IS DONE. He said I am definitely moving forward. I have to have a meeting with the other grad students in the center, and they have right of refusal, so if they don't like me I will not be admitted to the program. That will probably be next week.

[ostwitchsheart]

Why did my brain randomly dump story lore on me. Do you really want me to make a sad one piece ripoff

[georjeez]

I just woke up from a dream where I was on holiday with my friends and met this guy who I formed a bond with. eventually i mentioned to him how I never tell people how I feel before they disappear (this is true) so I told him that I "won't let it happen this time" and even though he didn't say anything I knew he felt the same, and we laid together in eachothers arms for a while.

later on when we were going to get dinner with my friends I woke up and now I'm genuinely sad, it sounds silly but I feel like I've lost someone I care about

(also, even tho the guy in the dream was made up, this is definitely my brain telling me to tell this particular person I know how I feel about them before they move away)

[solradguy]

🂡🎤

Ooh, yeah!

We'll do a song that you might know, song about the Testament!

A song called "they've got the jack"!

Ready, ooh!

They gave Johnny their mind, then they gave him their body, ooh!

But he made them cry, and he made them scream!

Then he took a high oozin’,  and he curdled their cream!

I started collecting cassettes because the car I learned how to drive in was a '96 Chevy Lumina that only had a cassette player and a radio entirely dependent on how clear the weather was, and one of the first tapes I ever got was this super shitty $0.50 AC/DC tape (Who Made Who) that'd been sunbaked or something lol It plays waaayyy slower than it should even with the tension fixed. I still have it... I think. Brian Johnson and the gang blastin out Hells Bells like they're feelin kinda down about it lmao

[rawk-chikk]

Bro's off on a lil pre-cruise cruise this week, lucky bastard. Doing the xmas markets. They'll be stopping off in Hamburg at one point. I expect him to taunt me with a photo of him chowing down on bratwurst and mulled wine by the river, cheeky sod. If he stops in at Miniatur Wunderland too I will murder him 😋.

Was a bit too spur of the moment for me so obvs I'm not with him. We doing the Norwegian fjords on Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas with Sis and Nephew One in July tho, so I've got that to look forward to.

And pay for, lol.

ETA: Just been sent some pics. The boat is huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge!!!!!

[piixel]

been working on my boat situation lately... i still need to figure out where new buildings will go hi, buck and elena! but we're getting there! also got to say my final goodbye to mickey and bruce (who i call buck most of the time) and i'm certainly going to miss them </3

[mint-ty]

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[fadingstrawberrynightmare]

i miss You already