#or you mark my words

[captainkirkk]

I love reading kid fics but I can't turn off my speechie brain when I'm reading them and it's obvious the writer isn't familar with developmental norms. What do you MEAN this 4 year old is only babbling or pointing to request but everyone says he's "doing wonderfully"???? I'M STRESSED OUT

[daisy-mooon]

dear the long-suffering Pearlescentmoon fandom trying to find fics that are actually about Pearl:

go onto advanced search

go to character tag and enter Pearl's character tag

go to "any field"

then type "summary: Pearl"

hit enter

you now only have fics with Pearl in the summary of the fic

profit

[musicalchaos07]

brb going feral from the implications

[lara60]

God's favourite punching bag

[nonranghaes]

"hey, yo... if i make this shot... you gotta go out with me, alright?"

mark smiles at you brighter than any star in the sky as he continues to bounce the basketball. it's just the two of you now--the rest of your friends have gone their separate ways. it feels like nights always end with just you and mark nowadays. not that you're complaining: you adore the guy. you just smile at first, knowing that you'd say yes regardless of this silly deal (and the twinkle in mark's eyes tells you that he knows this, too: he just needs to show off).

"alright," you say, hands tucked into your hoodie pocket. "go for it."

he swells a little with pride before he takes the shot... and immediately misses. his smile falls into genuine, unabashed shock as he turns to you. you're already cackling, turning to run after the ball before it can get too far away.

"yo, i practiced! i literally practiced and got it--the guys can tell you! i'm good at this, i swear--"

you calm down, smiling at him as you hold the ball in your hands. "okay. so if i make this... you gotta go on a date with me."

mark smiles wide, so cutely flustered but he nods. "alright. bet."

you line up the shot, taking a deep breath. after a moment, you throw the ball through the air, watching as it just barely bounces off the rim. it sends mark into endless cackles, and you immediately rush toward him, burying your face in his jacket as you laugh.

"oh my god," he gasps out between cackles, arms wrapping around you. "i wish i got that on camera." he squeezes you tighter. "alrightalrightalright," he says too many times, blending together as he draws back from you just enough to see your face. "c'mon. i'll buy food."

(donghyuck later reports to the group chat that both of you are indeed idiots, having heard the story from mark... but at least you're idiots together now.)

[your-local-lucifer]

So I read "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson and I

[hedgehog-moss]

In other news, this week a French publisher on his way to the London Book Fair was arrested by British counter-terrorist police to be questioned about his participation in protests in France.

A French publisher has been arrested on terror charges in London after being questioned by UK police about participating in anti-government protests in France.

Moret arrived at St Pancras [...] with his colleague Stella Magliani-Belkacem, the editorial director at the Paris-based publishing house, to be confronted by the two officers. [...] He was questioned for six hours and then arrested for alleged obstruction in refusing to disclose the passcodes to his phone and computer. [...] He was transferred to a police station in Islington, north London, where he remained in custody on Tuesday. He was later released on bail.

Éditions la Fabrique is known for publishing radical left authors. Moret also represents the French science fiction novelist Alain Damasio and had arranged more than 40 appointments at the London book fair. [...]

[Quoting publishing house’s press release] “The police officers claimed that Ernest had participated in demonstrations in France as a justification for this act – a quite remarkably inappropriate statement for a British police officer to make, and which seems to clearly indicate complicity between French and British authorities on this matter.” [...] “There’s been an increasingly repressive approach by the French government to the demonstrations, both in terms of police violence, but also in terms of a security clampdown.”

(Guardian link - BBC link) (article in French)

The publishing house (here’s their latest statement in French) and the publisher’s lawyer mention that the British police asked him “Do you support Emmanuel Macron? Did you attend protests against the pension reform?” and he was also asked to name the authors with anti-government views that his employer has published. They add, “Asking the representative of a publishing house, in the framework of counter-terrorism, about the opinions of his authors, is pushing even further the logic of political censorship and repression of dissenting thought. In a context of social protests and authoritarian escalation on the part of the French government, this aspect [of the questioning] is chilling.”

Being an accomplice to thoughtcrime by publishing dissident authors gets you treated like an international terrorist now... The publisher’s lawyer suggests that French authorities asked the UK to help them get their hands on the publisher’s contacts in the radical left sphere. But on the face of it, we’ve got: Exercise your right to protest your government in France -> get arrested by counter-terrorist UK police in London. That’s literally the reason he was given for being greeted by police at the train station...

[shiplessoceans]

I fucking love Edward Teach, just scheming his little scheme to get Stede to take him in his arms and embrace him.

Giggling like a schoolgirl as he gets impaled with a sword because 'Omg Steeeede! Your arms are around me how did that happen teehee!'

He was one step away from twirling his hair and asking Stede to prom.

That giddy little bitch how I adore him.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

the most Dog ever. or. dog shaped Thing ever

[spyofthestorm]

meet the melancholy twins. one feels like a monster and one feels like a mistake.

[rainystressed247]

I rejoice in the Egg for it gives us all!

(The Egg knew what it was doing by having someone so charming on its side)

"Rejoice in the Egg. I see that enlightment has descended upon you. I welcome you with open arms and may you grasp upon the possibilities that you could achieve. One day you may ascend as the chosen one too. Charm has nothing to do with it. The Egg provides all."

[ranbitteeth]

“…Done correctly, it can be a form of worship…”

Reunion scene when??

[lgbtiwtv]

I genuinely think it’s so funny that armand wants lestat sooo bad

like after 200+ years if armand actually got to hit he’d be like damn that was kinda mid and then lestat would go INSANEEEE like what the fuck do you mean MID and armand would be like yeah I wasn’t that into it thanks lestat I’m cured

then lestat would be like armand babe let me make it up to you let me try again this is so embarrassing oh my god I’ll die I’m going to die this is too much PLEASE give me a second chance and armand would be like “no thanks ❤️”

[selcouth-vast-poet]

okay i tthink i did it YIPPEEEE

[literalaceattorney]

[kate-bot]

pizza tower more like.. autism tower.. amiright... these wonderful stimming hcs are from @out-pizza-the-tower , thank you for sharing them with the world... i hope i have done your vision justice ^_^

bonus: bouncy ball gustavo..