#new friends are fantastic

[fictionadventurer]

I love libraries.

I'm browsing the WWI shelves (as you do) and notice a very old book about the war. I glance at the first pages that talk about how one day the war will be over and we'll look at this place and not see any signs of the battlefield.

Then it hits me. And I check the publishing date.

This book was printed before the war's end. Not written. Printed. The physical object was created in 1918, while the war in question was raging and the end was as yet uncertain.

Now I'm standing on the other side of the apocalypse, with this physical link to that era in my hands. I'm living proof that the war did end and life did go on and we can all look at the end of the world as a long-ago memory.

Reading old books is cool enough, connecting our minds and hearts through the ideas of people who lived long ago, but there's something extra profound about holding a copy of the book that comes from the time that it was written. It's a physical link between the past and the present connecting me to those long-ago people. A piece of the past come into the future that gives me the chance to almost take the hand of some long-ago reader, to hold something they could have held, connecting not just mentally but physically to their era, a moment of connection across more than a century.

Excuse me while I go weep.

[my-darling-boy]

Best part of the Sabaton Great War film that played in museums by FAR was the night trench scene opening up on a lone French soldier checking to see if anyones around and then whipping out and DEVOURING a 3 foot long baguette

[poempoetryandmore]

i haven’t talked to you in a month

i thought, the longer we‘re out of touch, the less it‘ll hurt

but every day it gets worse and worse

i keep listening to your favorite song on repeat,

while tightly hugging your hoodie

your scent is slowly wearing off

whenever i fall asleep, i dream of you

even my subconsciousness holds onto you

no matter how hard i try, i can‘t stop thinking about you

everything reminds me of you

i miss you so much it hurts

[kerizaret]

I am really tired but imagine Tsukasa having matching painted nails with wxs, but one day Saki says she wants to have matching nails with him too and he's extremely conflicted because he doesn't want to disappoint either side. So, he ends up having matching nails with wxs on one hand and with saki on the other

They are completely mismatched, and they look funny, but he couldn't be happier or prouder of them

[cienie-isengardu]

Mortal Kombat 1 Behind the Scenes AU: Since when you two are friends?!

[Cage’s Mansion] [Waiting for Liu Kang] [Special Bonus] [Grandmaster’s commentary] [Climbing scene] [Madam Bo’s Inn] [Cage’s Mansion 2 (fire extinguisher)] [Medic] [Shang Tsung’s sad face] [Smoke’s Fall] [Scenography (1)] [Scenography (2)] [Show off!] [Favorite brother] [Climbing on the wall (nonsense)] [Tomas’ commentary] [Perfectly fine] [Sexy, sexy man~♪] [Brothers between filming - Scenography(3)] [Wrong team!]

[crazysnor1ax]

Thinking about queerplatonic Calf1sh….

[loverscrossmp3]

LIKE A RABID DOG. coming soon to an ao3 near you.

[phoenixtakaramono]

THE SEVEN WEDDING SPECIAL

“The Vought family grows by one as our distinguished captain, The Homelander, ties the knot with reformed supervillain William Butcher! Tune into VNN+ and Vought Entertainment for the most anticipated A-list superhero wedding of the century! Join us as we set the stage for the extravaganza and wish them a hopeful happily ever after.”

TY for 800+ followers on Twitter! I'd think it'd be neat if Homelander and Butcher kiss and have a Superhero Wedding Ceremony Special atop Vought Tower's helipad 🕊

[icewindandboringhorror]

I have a big google doc thing where I keep track of media and stuff (putting everything in loosely ranked categories), which is mostly just for my own reference so I know what tv shows I've already seen before, etc. and I never really look back through it, typically just a quick "okay, watched two movie in the past 8 months, need to quickly slap them somewhere in the lists. okay. done. save document. exit". But today I was actually reading through some of the old notes and there are like... MULTIPLE places where my comment is basically "It would have been good if it were about elves" or "I wish there was a fantasy show made in this same style" or "It's well made, but I just keep thinking about how I would like it more if everyone was an elf or was in old 1700s costumes" or etc like...... lol.... Most biased media ranking system on earth blatantly made by someone with an extremely hyperspecific range of narrow interests. It'd be like if a food reviewer only had 5 foods they actually liked, so they'd just go to a pizza place and be like "eh, the pizza was okay, but I just think it would be better if it was cereal instead. :/ ...2 out of 10"

[stick-by-me]

Straightforwardness is key

New follower sticker for: @bispearls!

(From @jordydrawsmerch and her shop/Etsy!)

[kay9leo]

It's hard being the new kid...

Sort of "modern" HL AU

Meet Iñaki "MC" Martinez Cariaga! She's the new transfer student from the United States. She was late for the sorting ceremony so she's currently houseless right now, hence the gray tie. Unfortunately for MC, her ancient magic is a magnet for attracting trouble and getting her into situations she rather not be in, sort of like Percy Jackson.

Fun Facts:

Normally her eyes are brown, but ever since she ended up in the UK, if she's around the presence of high Ancient Magic activity, her own ancient magic activates, turning her eyes a magical blue. They also turn that color when she's using it. At the advice of Prof. Fig, she tries to keep a small flow of it running consciously if she's not at a nearby ancient magical source.

She's also big runes fan! Since her family comes from both Central and South America, she has a big love of studying Mayan glyphs and Incans quipus (they use that instead of runes to conducting their magic). She also knows some indigenous words in Kaqchikel and Quechua; some for fun and some for spell casting. Seeing Norse runes in person was the one thing she was definitely looking forward when going to Hogwarts.

While she doesn't originally goes by MC back in the States, it became her deferred nickname/shorten version of her double surname Martinez Cariaga to use at Hogwarts. She's gotten tired of both professors and peers taking too much time to say it or have them accidently butcher her surnames (or first name even). Her nickname of MC is used so often that it gets to the point that barely anyone remembers that her name is Iñaki 🤣

Ancient Magic & Hogwarts Castle

I headcanon that the Hogwarts Founders were ancient magic users who build Hogwarts and never told anyone about their abilities. Since the place is humming with Ancient Magic, MC's eyes are always a constant magical blue. It's when she leaves Hogwarts grounds that she has to focus on maintaining that magical flow.

The Big Move, Fourth Year & the Reserved New Girl

Unfortunately, Iñaki's dad lost his job during the first layoffs of the Great Recession in early 2008. Thankfully, he had a buddy who hooked him with a new temp job in London, causing the Martinez Cariaga family to move across the pond from New York to London during the end of summer. While she loved the idea of traveling and going to Europe (and maybe even learn more about the different ancient runes used there), she wasn't too pleased at the idea of moving abroad and leaving everything she knows and loves.

Instead of starting her freshman year with her close friend group at Excelsior (NYS magical school system, Ilvermorny is the New England private magical prep school - the most famous, oldest and only school most people know outside the US), Iñaki is starting 4th year at Hogwarts.

Note: The words between "< >" is spoken in Spanish. MC comes from a Spanish-speaking Latino household. If the words are not in between "< >" assume she's speaking English.

6: At the end of MC's first week:

MC:

<¡Hola Mami!>

< I'm fine. ¿And you? >

< Nothing interesting happened this week. >

< ¡NO! ¡It wasn't like I fought a dragon or a troll this week. >

< ¡Just because I faced the Jersey Devil in 6th grade or the Headless Horseman in 7th OR befriended Champ at Lake Champion in 8th doesn't mean weird things always happens to me! >

<¡I'm fine Mami! Nothing happened...>

<¡I had to Mami! ¡He told me he wanted to give me a "proper Hogwarts welcome" before we started! I told him "That's how we say 'Hello' in New York." Made it too easy for me by saying his spells out loud. The prof said I was a great example of how magical duels are different in the New World with our non-verbals...>

<He was cool with losing. ¡Sebastián even gave me a tour of the magical village nearby and introduced me to the "dueling club" the school has! >

< We dueled together…¡It was fun! I almost forgot how much I miss home… >

8:

MC:

< I still want to go home. >

< No Mami. I don't mean visiting you guys back in London. Home as in New York. >

< ¿Why should I make friends if we're only going to be here for a year?>

< ¿It's only a year...right? >

< ¿Right? >

< I gotta go...I promised my classmates I'll study with them for our exam next week. >

< I love you too. >

"Bye."

*Flips phone closed*

*Ends call*

......

MC's trying...but she is rather homesick.

She's now stuck in Hogwarts and isn't too keen on making friends since she has no clue whether she'll be there for a year or not - it all depends whether if they extend her father's work contract and she's isn't keen on making friends if she's only there for a few months in her mind. It gets to the point where Sebastian trying to friend her is like an unstoppable force meeting an unmovable object. (He ends up winning though when she accidently slips up and calls him her friend later on in the year).

For now though, MC is a very angsty teen right now and had her world flipped upside down.

At least she can take out her angst in dueling club 😅

I want to thank @myokk for listening to my ideas about my MC and to my sibling who needed to borrow my laptop for work (leading me to doodle and actually make a digital drawing on my tablet -that I use as a second monitor for work- since I couldn't edit some papers on those days). Without them this drawing wouldn't have happened.

I'm never doing this ever again because I a bit too perfectionist for art and I hated the number of layers I needed. It was supposed to just be a SIMPLE digital doodle!!!! Instead I made this 😭. Never again. I'm sticking to my pen doodles. I was bored out of my mind and I was either reading or doodling while my sis was testing out her new laptop and I was on stand by in case she needed me.

[boopsloop363]

This is how last weekend feels to me

Helped my friend and my cousin renovate his house but honestly it's really just been a pretext to hang out and get away from the house lol

[poempoetryandmore]

let me be sad

let me take out my anger on myself

let me get absolutely wasted and do stupid things

let me cry

let me stand in the pouring rain

let me drown

please let me die

let me kill whatevers left inside of me after you

PLEASE LET ME

[lilyveselka]

coughs weakly

[dimalink]

One eyed and faceted are meeting a new friend! It is you!

Three dimensional scene for today. Based on one eyed from videogame Commander Keen for IBM PC MS DOS machines. I remember how I like them a lot, these funny creatures. So, one little eyes they have, it is big one. I and my bro always were sorry about a fact, that he is enemy. In this game. Game is platformer. And something about surreal theme. And such thinks like backrooms.

And this is my scene about a fantastic planet. Based on one eyed. And something strange as backrooms. One eyed alienated is inviting you to be his guest. He wants to show to you, his planet. In a fractal fragment – you will not understand. So, it has a very complex formula. Don’t take it into the head. They  will transport you there. Show you everything. And send back to home. With a  some error accuracy. So even for one eyed, little they are, it is sometimes hard to navigate into this space and amazing fars. It is another dimension. So do not fear about it. Something is similar. And something is very different.

One eyed come to your place to meet you with his friend. Faceted clever. It is a caterpillar. About ideas of planet Earth. But this is some idea to start. It is also something another.  Do not take it into account now. Look what purple plants are growing here and red mushrooms. I think, you can see something like that at your planet. But not like this, in details. It has some difference. Mushrooms here can be so big. And you can climb at them. It can be a small little mountain. Can you imagine this?

One eyed is learning you with a details. By looking at you. And speaks – “I am green. I have one eye. And you have two eyes! And caterpillar has two eyes too.”

“So, soon, it will be sun raising here, and it will begins our day. So here it is warm! We can play in hide and seek, do you want?” - Ask you one eyed.

“There are lots of another one eyed types. So, simply, I just invite you as a guest. I am good and kind! And I am doing programming with Basic in a free time.”  – speaks one eyed.

“Some mushrooms in this forest are very delicious” - says caterpillar.

“I have nothing against if you will name me as a caterpillar, but as for a real thing, I am eyeo faceted clever. But you are guest today. So let it be caterpillar.” – said caterpillar.

“Really, it is excellent when you have two eyes?” – said caterpillar.

“I am speaking about that to one eyed all the time.” – said caterpillar.

Everyone is smiling. So, lets go faster to our little house. There are already a table with a tea. Everything is ready. Let’s drink a tea! With a new friends!

Dima Link is making retro videogames, apps, a little of music, write stories, and some retro more.

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[cheeseknives]

If you can't come up with names for your fantasy characters, just look up the controlled drugs list on UK government's site: