#she looks like a little grandpa

[happyheidi]

Sup?

[sinusoidaldysfunction]

Princess Burn. The collector.

[puppyeared]

i like him

[bmpmp3]

i love when vocal synth characters are like over the age of forty LIKE i get why teen and young adult is the marketing move but god i love a good grown ass adult. show me that mortgage-paying singing robot NOW

[turtlemagnum]

when i was younger and hung out around my uncle a lot more than i do now, i remember whenever he referred to things regarding his native heritage, he always just called it "indian". called himself an indian, called the words he taught us indian, so on. since i was a little kid who didn't know any better, i didn't know that "indian" in the context of indigenous americans was a very broad, frankly bastardized term to paint a vast variety of cultures spanning two whole damn continents with one brush. it only occurred to me as i got much older than i was at the time that there'd be more than one "indian" language, and up until now since i had no idea what tribe(s) he even is i couldn't even begin to know where to look unless i found a download of every goddamn interlingual dictionary available and painstakingly checked every godddamn one for what their word for "thunder" is

the word he taught us meant thunder was hiloha. i didn't even know how to spell it until now, because he only ever said it aloud. literally just a few minutes ago, i decided to ask my grandma (his sister) if we knew what tribe(s) he belonged to. and apparently he's a mix of choctaw and makah. which gave me a lead, which led to me finding a dictionary on libgen, which led to me word searching "thunder" in the choctaw to english dictionary. it's the only word i remember him teaching us, and i'm unsure if he ever tried teaching us others. but it was his dogs name, and he was a damn good boy, so i remembered it clear as day. though, they normally shortened it to "hilo".

so, i guess what came out of this is that i now know a bit more about my uncle's heritage, and where to look for more research. so, if you're gonna have a takeaway from this, i'd appreciate it if you remembered the word "hiloha". it means thunder. and aside from being the name of a very good boy who deserves to be remembered, i think it's even more important to remember the histories, cultures, and of course the languages of all the indigenous folks who came before us and did their damndest to preserve their cultures in spite of it all.

[moinsbienquekaworu]

How have I been in fandom for - going on 8 years (?) and not gotten into fanvids before?? All the association I could have been making.... All the memories.... All the composition and clever editing....

[aimeedaisies]

8th September 2018

Grandpa Tim enjoying a coffee with his granddaughter Mia Tindall at the Whatley Manor Horse Trials at their home, Gatcombe Park

📸 Max Mumby (Indigo/Getty Images)

[totopopopo]

Visiting my grandparents who are very tiny adorable withered old Mexicans with late stage dementia and they don’t remember me or know me at ALL but my grandma tried to speak to me in Spanish and I had to be like I’m sorry I don’t speak Spanish and she was fucking AGHAST

[llumimoon]

Hi there! Taking the bait as well for your Oak family headcanons hehe

*slides one of mine gently across the table*

I'd personally like to think that Henry has bird-themed nicknames for his grandkids, despite Sparrow not following the whole bird name convention. In my mind, Henry calls Normal "penguin" or "pingüino" bc I distantly recall Will mentioning that Normal had a little bit of a waddle as a little kid 🥺 (also it is a little bit ironic since Norm absolutely cannot swim lmao). Hero gets "kiwi" or "kiwi-bird" for no real discernible reason other than the fact that I think it's cute. Also, both kiwis and penguins are flightless birds, so there's that! I'd also like to think that he'd come up with one for Dot, but this is where my creativity runs out, I'm afraid 😅

Anywho, I'd love to hear any of your spare headcanons if you'd like to share 'em! Hope you have a beautiful day, lovebird 💜💜💜

AWWW OH MY GOD I LOVE THAT HC !! Henry giving his family nicknames will always be the sweetest thing to me 🥺 I think if Henry were to ever meet Dot, he’d call them ‘pigeon’!! <3

I’d love to share some of my spare head cannons with you!! :D <33

When the kids were younger Lark tried to teach them basic hand-to-hand self defense! He managed to convince Sparrow to let him do it, since knowing self defense is generally pretty useful to know even outside of apocalyptic situations.

Hero took to the lessons very easily, she’s always been the more hot tempered one of the siblings. I like to think Hero inherited the full wrath of the Oak Family Anger, so learning how to safely take out that anger through physical activity was good for her. Eventually though she switches her coping mechanism to games and anime, and her lessons with Lark trickle to a stop.

Normal was… the complete opposite LMAO he hated the idea of fighting and hitting his family, even if it was just for practice. He outright REFUSED to do it but would sometimes sit in the backyard and watch Hero’s lessons. That also meant he would regularly burst into tears if one of them hit the other too hard.

Eventually instead of learning hand-to-hand, Normal actually takes a shining to first aid! It started out with him insisting on giving Hero and Lark kids character bandaids after every lesson they had.

Later, Lark comes home late at night from a secret daddies mission he didn’t tell anyone about, and Normal just so happened to be awake at the time. It turns into a little impromptu first aid lesson from Lark to Normal, since he insisted on staying and making his uncle feel all better again.

Lark keeps occasionally giving Normal those first aid lessons throughout the years after that! He would never say it out loud, but it gives him a little peace of mind to know that his niece and nephew are able to take protect and take care of each other if they ever needed to.

[karmirage]

personally my favorite fact about izzy kane is that she massacred refugees to get the super guardian title

[seancamerons]

So here is a genuine question so, if denim vests, dresses, pleated denim skirts, and even shoes, pretty much all denim everything, flares too, crops, shrunken blazers, and even gauchos are making a comeback...

How long will it be before sequined shrugs or regular shrugs and layering make a return from a roughly 18 year hibernation?

Like you ask yourself in a store off racks or see on teens and the early twenties and generally younger humans walking down the street, is it like 2006 again?

Even Timberlake is supposedly collabbing with Timbaland and Nelly Furtado. NSYNC, in full as a five piece, who mind you, has been split up for well over almost 20ish years, may even might reunite. It feels crazy. 2006 was what? A whole adult has been born lived their entire toddler and adloscnet eras and is now currently in 2023, an adult since then. That is crazy.

I can’t believe im saying this, but I am lowkey here for it, and dare I say interested and entertained. In the same breath boom, I feel dreadfully old. Even the members of my generation peers and the 40ish members of NSYNC. I joke about it often to myself, but ugh, it's not really a good feeling despite physically being fine as to be expected. The thirties suck.

The gods of fashion say fashion comes in cycles. I suppose this is what it means. Thanks for reading if you made it this far.

I refuse to be old or become old. I make an effort though I lowkey wish I had a cocktail like Meryl Streep had in Death Becomes Her where I remain ageless and can wear all the beautiful clothes with a yoga toned body and looks to match. Life ain't like the movies, and you see all or most of the clothes you donned in middle school or high school on teen children or on the youth of today. I didn't sign up for this.

Yikes, this is how my mom probably when flares came back in the late 1990's or when I was obsessed with watching Nick at Nite or TV Land with the shows of her time like it was brand new. Let's also not forget the VH1 and 80s obsessions. It's a boomerang, it's a cycle and it's driving me crazy.

[jpriest85-blog]

After repeditly replaying the new @vendetta-if demo I made my MC Katerina in the Sims with her two childhood sweethearts/poly relationship, Ash and Rin.

I even decided to play around with the genetic features to see what a potential kid might look like. Considering Rin has the highest sex drive out of this trio, despite having such a seemingly cold and stoic personality, lbr it's only a matter of time Kitty will wind up pregnant when they're all living together.

Looks like randomizer gave them a son. Aww, what a little cutie pie! Think I'll call the kiddo Viktor since Kitty seems like the type of person who'd name her first son after her dad.

Oh wow, look at that hair! It's not surprising considering both Rin and Kitty got such gorgeous thick dark hair. Although I imagine Kitty probably suffered a lot of heartburn during her pregnancy for her son to be born with a full head of hair like that. Thankfully, between Rin's cooking and Ash making late night trips to 24 hr pharmacy, they'd make a good team to help Katerina both during the pregnancy and raising their little boy together.

Aww, it looks like little Viktor got a leather jacket to match with his Mama Ash. Tbh I could see little Viktor becoming a Mommy's Boy🤔. He does love his dad, and lbr Rin would probably try to live up to the example of his own father. It's just personality wise. Katerina is probably more similar to Takashi than Rin is. They're both tall, gregarious people, and much like her father in law I could see Kitty being very cuddly and affectionate with her children. Also, Ash rides a motorcycle, so that automatically makes her the cool mom. Although in retrospect it's funny, to imagine Rin's reaction when he realizes he fell in love, married, and had children with a woman whose personality is similar to his fathers 😂.

Oh my! Teenage Viktor becomes such a handsome young man! Again, it is not surprising, considering both sides of his family are filled with gorgeous people. Although I wonder if he'll grow up tall 🤔. I mean, Kitty is very tall, as are the rest of the Morozov family, and his paternal grandfather, Takashi, is also a pretty big guy as well. On the other hand, both Viktor Jr's grandmothers, Azami and Yevette, are very petite women, and Rin has a more compact build as well. Tbh, it could go either way with genetics, but it is a good chance he'll grow up taller than Rin by the time he's in his teens. Haven't even considered what kind of powers he might inherent, but it's a good chance he'll have dual abilities.

[julie-su]

Quick doodle of Hecate the ant. I am drawing so much, but showing so little, it's mo-o-ostly shorthand quick'uns as I pour my life and soul into that dang comic XD

Hec, child of Archimedes, mentor of Julie-Su and Lara-Su. Except, oops - they're not supposed to be training Lara-Su just yet... Bad ant! -squirt bottle-

[vamptastic]

ive begun to condition myself into attraction to balding men as a defense mechanism against the inevitable future of my beautiful beautiful hair. hopefully one day i will progress to bald men in full.

[mx-flint]

I thought I lost my 300€ glasses today but then I went home and I found them peace and love on planet earth

[sufficientlylargen]

It always gets me that the name "Gandalf" literally just means "Wand-Elf" or "Stick-Elf". I'm imagining old Gondorians just being like:

Librarian: I saw that weird guy at the library again today.

Guard 1: What weird guy?

Librarian: The old guy with the beard? Kinda elfy-looking, apart from the beard?

Guard 1: Oh, with the big-ass stick?

Librarian: Yeah, looked like he was carrying an entire tree branch.

Guard 2: Yeah, that's the Stick Elf.

Guard 1: Hell yeah, I fuckin' love the Stick Elf.

Librarian: The "Stick Elf"?

Guard 2: He comes by every few years, usually after some weird book or other.

Librarian: Oh. Yeah, he wanted a treatise on goblin breeding habits.

Guard 2: Like, how they have sex? We have books on that?

Librarian: Yeah, turns out we do. I was as surprised as you are.

Guard 1: What'd the Stick Elf need a fuckin' goblin-fuckin' book for?

Librarian: I didn't ask. So you just call him "Stick Elf"?

Guard 2: I mean, he looks kinda elfy and he always has that stick, so, like, yeah.

Guard 1: Dude also has some fuckin' dope pipeweed.

Guard 2: Oh yeah, his pipeweed is awesome.

Librarian: How long has he been coming here?

Guard 2: Oh, for decades. He's, like, super old.

Guard 1: More like fuckin' centuries. Dude's old as balls.

Guard 2: Wait, really?

Guard 1: Yeah, my gran-gran used to talk about him. She loved his pipeweed too.

Librarian: So he's… an immortal pipeweed dealer?

Guard 2: I think he's just, like, a connoisseur. He doesn't sell it or anything. He just always has some really top-notch pipeweed on him.

Archivist: Oh, are we talking about Stick Elf?

Guard 1: Hell yeah we are!

Librarian: You know about the Stick Elf, too?

Archivist: Oh, totally. Stick-Elf's a super chill dude. Gave me some awesome pipeweed when I was maybe 12, and tee-bee-aitch I think I'm still a little buzzed from it.

Guard 1: What'd I tell ya, fuckin' dope pipeweed!

Archivist: Also he's really old.

Guard 1: Old as balls.

Librarian: Yeah, so Éodan and Jenniforomir were telling me.

Archivist: My grandpa used to tell me stories - he said one time he saw Stick Elf enter a smoke-ring contest.

Guard 1: Ooh, I'll bet he kicked fuckin' ass.

Archivist: Apparently the guy made an entire warship out of smoke and it flew around shooting down the other rings.

Librarian: And how much of this "fuckin' dope" pipeweed had your grandfather had by this point?

Guard 1: No no, that's totally plausible. Dude's got weird elf powers and shit for sure.

Archivist: He brought fireworks for the king's birthday one year, too.

Guard 1: Oh fuck, I forgot about those! Fuckin' incredible fireworks! Dragons and knights and glowy trees and shit! I was fuckin' 6 years old or something, they totally blew my mind. Hey Éodan, did you see that shit?

Guard 2: No, I think that's before I lived in Gondor.

Guard 1: Wait, you're not from here?

Guard 2: Oh, no, I grew up in Rohan. We moved here when I was, like, thirteen because my uncle Éojeff said he could get my dad a sweet job. And also that there were houses that didn't smell like horseshit.

Guard 1: Oh shit, are you related to Éojeff and Éosteve who run that æbleskiver stand on Norndîl St?

Guard 2: Yeah, they're my uncles!

Guard 1: Shit, they cook a fuckin' great æbleskiver!

Librarian: Ok, hold up a sec, "Stick Elf" can't possibly be his real name.

Guard 1: Why not?

Librarian: What? You think his parents named him in the hopes that he would carry around a fucking tree when he got older?

Guard 2: Maybe they gave him the tree when he was born!

Archivist: I don't think a baby could carry that stick.

Guard 1: You ever seen a baby hanging onto something? They're hella strong.

Archivist: It's not a strength thing, their hands are tiny. That staff is enormous!

Guard 1: My halberd's bigger 'n I am, I can hold it just fine.

Archivist: You're not a baby.

Librarian: Also why would elf parents name their kid "stick ELF"?! Presumably they know that their kid's going to be an elf!

Archivist: Is he actually an elf? I didn't think they grew beards.

Guard 1: How'd he get old as balls if he's not an elf?

Guard 2: His ears aren't that pointy. Maybe he's just a really old guy? Like, a Numémoriam or something?

Guard 1: Did you just say "Numémoriam"?

Guard 2: Nûnenorman? Munimõrbitan? Y'know, those guys like the king that can get super old.

Guard 1: You mean the fuckin' Númenóreans?

Guard 2: Yeah, the Númenóreums.

Archivist: Even the Númenóreans don't live THAT long.

Guard 1: Plus he carries that fuckin' stick around.

Guard 2: Wait, what does the stick have to do with it?

Guard 1: That's an elf thing. Y'know, trees and shit? Very elfy.

Librarian: Ok, look, but his parents naming him "Stick Elf" would be weird whether or not he's an elf. In fact, it's even weirder if he's not - what human names their kid "elf"?

Archivist: Huh. Yeah, you're right, he probably does have another name.

Guard 2: Yeah, I guess so.

Librarian: He's been coming here for decades and nobody's ever asked his real name?

Archivist: I dunno what to tell you, he's Stick Elf. Even his library card just says 'Stick Elf'.

Guard 1: Fuck yeah, the Stick Elf!

Guard 2: Maybe we could, like, ask him his name sometime?

Guard 1: Hey, look, Elrond's over there. He's old as balls too, maybe he knows?

Guard 2: Oh, we shouldn't interru-

Guard 1: HEY ELROND, YOU'RE OLD AS BALLS, RIGHT? WHAT'S THAT OLD ELF WITH THE STICK'S NAME?

Elrond (coming over): Do you mean an old man cloaked all in grey and blue, leaning on a rough-cut staff, who came to the great library this day?

Guard 1: Yeah, the Stick-Elf!

Guard 2: (Sorry to bother you, sir...)

Librarian: He's got to have a real name besides 'the Stick Elf', right?

Elrond: Indeed, for no elf is he. You speak of the wizard Olórin, wisest of the Maiar, older even than Eä itself. Many are his names in many countries: Tharkûn among the Dwarves; Incánus to the south; Mithrandir he is called among my people, the Grey Pilgrim.

Librarian: Oh.

Elrond: And here in the North he is called Stick-Elf.

Librarian: Oh.

Guard 1: Fuck yeah!