#sorry for not crediting anyone

[saltygilmores]

I've been stalling on my episode recaps lately. I'm really really stuck. I want to get my creative juices flowing again and I still have a mighty need to continue Looking at Things and Talking About Them. So I present to you: Pastries Admist Fire Hazards While Watching Gilmore Girls. Pictures I found on Instagram. Inspired by @vindieselsfacebook-blog's similar post from several days ago. I wil be rating the assorted hazards and dangers present in these photos. We will always assume the coffee is scalding hot.

Title: Tipping Starbucks Cup Over Foot and Open Laptop. Fire Hazard/ Coffee Spillage Rating: Undetermined. Although it appears to be tilting dangerously downwards towards our subject's foot, laptop, and books, my intuition tells me that the coffee cup, much like the cups on Gilmore Girls, or Dean Forrester's braincase, is completely empty and devoid of matter. Our Gilly Girls viewer was wise not to light the candle seen in the background. I will not alert the fire department.

Title: Completely Phoning It In. Hazard Rating For Human: 0. No open flame, no body parts visible within distance of hot beverage. Hazard Rating For Tablet And Sheets :10. Hot beverage teetering perilously close to a tablet and white sheets. A stiff breeze or a cat jumping onto the bed and that tablet is toast with a capital T. Points awarded for using donuts instead of cookies or pastries AND for the fact that Lorelai is on the screen instead of the same exact Gilmore Girls With Leaves thing everyone else is doing. We like a rebel.

Title: Gilmore GIrls and Cwassont Fire Hazard/Coffee Spillage Rating: 10. Open flame inches away from laptop, set on top of a flammable flannell blanket (say that one three times fast) and she's got some nice kindling ready with those two little journals. Coffee cup positioned directly above digital camera and perilously close to laptop, croissant in danger of recieving a soaking.

Title: Very White Fire Hazard Rating: 3. Open flame inches away from tablet but, I'm calling this one borderline. I think this person should be safe. Interesting use of fruit in addition to pastries. Is that a very large mug of coffee off to the left? I can't tell what it is. No spillage hazard, if so. No flammable bedding or paper. I will not be alerting the fire department.

Title: Oh The Pumpkins Hazard Rating: 0. Scalding hot beverage and lit candles present, but no techology or humans in danger. Candle is safely positioned away from blankets and pillows. I will not be calling the fire department.

Title: Pumpkin Flambé (aka More Fucking Pumpkins) Fire Hazard Rating: 11. Open flame positioned directly on top of sweater, inches away from towel, inches away from technology and wooden kindling (the tray), scalding hot beverage inches away from laptop. As soon as there's a jump scare (like Dean Forrester showing up in an episode and giving them a jolt) that candle is going to tilt and they're totally befucked.

Title: Orange Cookies Fire Hazard Rating: 6. Candle is perilously close to tablet, kindling (leaves and books) and a blanket but the candle looks sturdy enough not to tilt if this person is careful. No scalding hazard; no body parts present and the mug of cocoa looks half finished and is probably lukewarm. Athough the cookies are untouched at least we finally have our first piece of evidence that these foods and beverages are actually being consumed occasionally. Unlike the hot dog that Milo only pretended to eat during Lorelai's Graduation Day.

Title: Tub Time With Grapes Fire Hazard: Undetermined. Can't even snark on someone bringing their tablet or phone into the tub which is practically a daily ritual for me. I've only dropped my phone in water once in 15 years, when I dropped it in a hot tub (it survived). But, I somehow trust myself holding it above water with my hands more than I would some stand on a tray. Since your legs are presumably laying underneath the tray, what happens if you stand up from the tub and forget to move the tray first? Plop goes your tablet. Plop plop plop go your grapes. Points for using grapes instead of pastries. If some grapes plop in the tub your bath can be salvaged. Grapes are a safe Bath Food. I can't say the same about that tea, which is absolute teetering on the edge of that tray. You're gonna have some pretty gross water there. A lot of candles, sure. The one on the tray could tilt over and ignite that tray or your tablet, but hey, easy access to water.

We are left with one last burning (pun intended) question. How many of these people are actually in the act of watching the show further than the title screen? We may never know since they all likely perished in their own fire traps or are still nursing third degree burns from their spilled coffees and are in too much agony to tell us.

[xieliansbignaturals]

dating Hua Cheng headcanons (Hua Cheng x female reader)

he leaves you for Xie Lian

[libbys-braincell-loss]

WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT AMBROSIUS'S LINE

"What are we doing?"

Its near the part where Nimona's on her way to go to the statue and the Director issued the weaponry to fire at Nimona

That moment when Ambrosius said the line, standing while everyone screamed and ran around him and the city was being destroyed, you could see his realization that Ballister was right.

That the Director was doing things wrong.

That the Institute was a big sham in royal clothes.

That he was a part of the problem.

You could hear his realization.

Why are we attacking and harming everyone with the purpose of harming one scared lonely kid?

[sergle]

(re: sssniperwolf and jacksfilms) It's laughable that she escalated it that hard. Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure stalking him like that is illegal and it's terrifying regardless, but Jack said in a stream (can't remember which one) that he wasn't about bringing up past controversies of hers or cancelling. And now she shows up outside his house (wtf!!!). Like he was willing to only call her out for stealing and freebooting but she's gone and stalked him and Jack doesn't seem like the type of guy to take that shit. Actual WTF moment from her part. wild

omg long post below bc apparently I have opinions: YES!! THAT'S WHAT'S SO INCREDIBLE ABOUT THIS... Jack has been genuinely diligent about keeping things on-topic in his streams, and hasn't brought up any of her other Stuff, or anything Personal. Despite the fact that she kickstarted the whole thing by making it INCREDIBLY personal and attacking his physical appearance... His goal has been to call out and bring attention to content theft, and he's stuck with it. Dude's also cared about this for years, and she's not the first content thief he's criticized. He just hates the way that freebooting has become so accepted-- to the point where youtube praised her for "coming up with such creative video ideas"? Hey! Ew! Dude wasn't trying to get her cancelled though, there was no smear campaign of her character. He's been rallying to get her to CREDIT the creators that she relies on for all of her content. It would set a precedent for all other "react" channels on the platform for one of the biggest channels on youtube to actually give credit where credit is due. Or, god forbid, get permission first? It's not hard. It's already done the job of making some other people who do "react content" self-analyze whether or not their content is transformative, and to maybe care about crediting the creators they rely on for their genre to work. There is a way to make this kind of video that isn't so slimy. And making fun of her lackluster-at-best reactions is so far from even being a big deal. Bc she literally does just sit there and say nothing. Plus, his goal has a clear End built into it: if she started shouting out the creators she takes content from, and put links directly to their pages in her video descriptions, the job would be done! That's what he's asking her to do. Real bare minimum stuff. It legit would have been easy to steer away from the content theft and to also talk about her history of lying to her audience! her ghosting a dying kid with cancer who was a big fan of hers! the fact that she's been arrested for armed robbery! her history of transphobia! He would also get more clicks that way, which is what she claims is his sole goal- to get more clicks. I'll bring it up though! She's been a terrible person the whole time, and has kept a steady course of manipulating her audience of young children and/or, let's be completely honest, simps- into thinking that she's a Wholesome creator. (And now, into thinking she's an innocent victim.) All of the actual effort put in by her has gone toward optics, not the content she puts out. A carefully constructed online persona, for one, but also literal appearances. Jack totally can't say this, bc she already went off the handle and said the only reason he doesn't like her is bc he Hates To See A Woman Be Successful. But I can! That was a cheap shot for her to use that argument when, for once, it's not applicable! Much the opposite, even! Dudes online wouldn't go to bat for her if she didn't look the way she does. And it weakens any case she'd have against him by making baseless claims like that. She banks hugely on being an attractive woman to get her clicks/following. A massive amount of effort is put into her appearance. The makeup, the lip fillers, putting her hair in little pigtails, the chokers and tube tops, the big non-prescription Nerd Glasses, the thumbnails where she has her mouth open in That Expression?

I don't even have to say anything. But making a weird facial expression and putting your hair in pigtails aren't moral failings. Showing up at someone's real life home (whose address you shouldn't even have access to), filming the front of their house at night, doxxing them to your audience of millions of people? Because you were mad at them online? That is fully scary! Yeah girl I'm pretty sure that Jack can press charges! There is absolutely no way to take the moral highground now that she's literally stalked him, and doxxed his home. She tried to goad him and Erin (Jack's wife) out of the house, also, which creeps me out even more-- because what was she planning to do? The fact that she's been arrested for violent crime before does pop into my mind! lmao! Jack was streaming a game at the time that she was outside his home, and these clips of him, his friends, and Erin reacting in real time to what is genuinely a scary situation have been taken down in case he needs to use them in legal action. Shit is legitimately serious!

[appsa]

Will always be obssessed w this shot btw. The branches of the tree reaching out for his siblings while he's fidgeting nervously with his real hands. Shiv and Kendall sitting comfortably on thrones (even if kendall is a little bit higher), while roman has a choice if he sits on the empty seat or not. And we know roman always sits on the floor by the seat, never on it. Especially not after the funeral when he didnt even believe he had the right to step into logans mausoleum. Who was responsible for composing this shot i just wanna talk.

[astragatwo]

[biblicallyaccuratestiles]

STILES, scolding a whining SCOTT: “Tough fuckin’ scuff, dude—shouldn’t have almost died on us.”

SHERIFF STILINSKI: “Language, Stiles.”

STILES: “What, scuff?”

SHERIFF: “The other one.”

STILES: (gasps dramatically) “Died?!”

[izzystizzys]

There is a scratch mark on the floor of the Council chambers that Mace has never noticed before. Not a deep one, mind, quite shallow. This matters because it’s making the white-hot pulse of agony stabbing through his eyeballs ebb momentarily. Then, he chances a glance upwards at the fidgeting Knight in front of them, and it returns in full force.

Huh, he’s never seen Oppo Rancisis’ face turn that colour before.

“Hmm”, Master Yoda hums, deep and scratchy. His expression is unreadable even to Mace beyond a baseline gremlinness, and the force with which he grips the edges of his seat is making his bones creak. Master of the Order you should become, they said. Follow the calling of the Force, you should. A fulfilling purpose, it will be. Mace is going to hunt the little goblin for sport when this is all over, and he’s going to laugh the whole time.

“Show us the livestream again, could you, Knight Parvo?” Yoda asks. Mace bursts a capillary, he’s pretty sure, and so does poor Knight Parvo, whose orange Mon Cala skin tips all the way into blood red with stress. “Most unusual, this is.”

“Absolutely not!”, Ki Adi intervenes before Mace has to, thank the Force for little mercies. Plo Koon’s tusks tremble slightly with either suppressed laughter or abject horror, maybe both, and Stass Allie has her head in her hands. “The holo stills should be enough”, Ki Adi proceeds to add, and Mace has to reconsider all feelings of grace he just felt towards his fellow Councillor.

He never wants to watch Yoda zoom in on someone’s abs again. Or Depa raise her eyebrows at the curve of thighs bent over the dripping front of a speeder.

“Speeder Wash For Our Troops”, his former padawan reads out loud from a still of what has to be hundreds of the things gathered in the public senate parking lot. “Fund Our Boys And Get A Wet Seeing-To!” The series of images features dozens of Coruscant Guard troopers in various stages of unkitted, gleaming and shining with soap suds and water. The fact that the whole thing is also massive shatterpoint after massive shatterpoint is, quite frankly, insulting.

“Well hello- oh dear”, Obi-Wan’s blue form crackles to life in his chair, followed by several sounds of choking that are definitely not him. Good, Mace thinks acidly. If he has to deal with this, then so does kriffing Skywalker. “I’m sorry, why am I looking at Commander Thorn using a washrag like a lasso on top of a speeder?”

“Oh, the Guard’s little fundraising project”, Bail Organa says, as he steps into the Council chambers. Normally, Mace likes the man well enough. Now, he just smiles and adds on, “I’ve already donated, in mine and Breha’s name. Remotely, of course.”

“The Guard’s fundraising speeder wash?”, Obi-Wan repeats, edges of his holo form flickering with what Mace suspects is Skywalker very unsubtly trying to edge in. Force, but the man really is horrible at any and all stealth, like kissing his secret wife in an open arena in front of his Master. “And they are fundraising for…?”

“GAR budget allocations have to come from somewhere”, Organa shrugs. “And with the tide of public opinion turning, they’ve been tending towards cuts. The Guard feels them more keenly than any other sector - they’ve been reduced from half to quarter rations, and medical supplies have not made more than a token appearance in the last draft. The Chancellor has cancelled three consecutive meetings on the matter, and thus it was agreed that a more hands-on approach was needed. Any surplus will go into the Army fund.”

“Surely it can’t be that dire”, Oppo protests, a slightly less concerning shade of purple now. Senator Organa shrugs again, jostling the smattering of cracks slowly building around his person in a way that makes Mace wince quietly. “It’s all publicly available data, Masters.”

It really can be that dire, as it turns out. And quarter rations is only scratching the surface of how dire, considering the Guard has apparently never had access to bacta in all their posting, and also includes requisitioning forms available to the Senate for reconditionings and decommissionings, two words Mace has only heard Ponds whispers amidst shuddering in the early days of the war before Shaak Ti went off and just about tore some throats out over it.

“Alright”, he concedes, rubbing at his temples. “Fair enough, we have failed to tackle a massive blind spot in the Guard’s well being. There is no Jedi assigned to Coruscant, and that’s an oversight on our behalf. But how in the everloving kriff did this get past the Chancellor and Commander Fox?!”

Who have both signed, black on white. Bail Organa smiles cryptically. “Well, if you scroll a bit past that one image, up to the industrial speeder in the back - Commander Fox is currently having credits stuffed into his codpiece in the back, I believe.”

“HE’S WHAT IN THE WHAT NOW”, Commander Cody screeches through the speaker of Obi-Wan’s holo image, and Mace has to summon every bit of Jedi-serenity he possesses in his body to keep from dropkicking a cackling Yoda through the chamber windows.

[mango-peach-strawberry]

Taking a break from her performance during the Splatfest

Background squids belong to: @faerieorbitars @surachibee @velisenti @sugarsh3 and @dal-matia

[dalloneveryday]

day 220

[starflungwaddledee]

thought i'd share some photos of this little book i started picking around with for fun in my 'offline' time!

admittedly i'm not very good at this sorta thing, but i'm trying to get back into it (it is impossible not to be inspired by my gf's journalling work, oh my god). i found this unused planner with nice creamy pages, and i thought it might make a nice 'gallery' for starstruck dee giftart!

i'm so touched by all the artwork folks have drawn of her for events or gifts or trades, and i thought this would be a nice way to honour them while also giving me something fun to flick through!! it's also a really soothing way to spend a good chunk of time looking at and thinking about each piece while i design a layout around them! i write the occasional little notes, or i copy in tags or other little relevant bits so that i can remember them for longer than my weak memory would actually allow!

it's roughly chronological (though the 'cover' page is from the hnkss event in december), so here's the first few pages!

🎨 art credits 🎨 cover spread: @chaotixcowboy (santa for the hnkss 2023 event) page 1: @kamalemons (first ever gift art! + tags for context) page 2: @veveisveryuncool & @jojo-schmo (halloween interaction pieces!) pages 3-4: @moon-mage-ex (an entire spread just for you because you've actually done so many!!! wow!)

[violivs]

Beatrice/Benedick + Text Posts (Part 1/?)

[whosbian]

made this a little while ago… thought i’d share here

[ducksbeloved]

i think it says something very interesting about kipperlilly's character that she chose to go to therapy with jawbone. and even continued for three whole years -- based on the riz stuff and the info from the files, it seems like she was there making some genuine effort or at least being truthful. which, if she was some pure evil scheming villian, would be deeply unstrategic -- revealing these sentiments to someone who lives with her rivals? penelope everpetal (our blueprint for a fh teen character who is mostly presented as "simply evil") certainly wasn't going to jawbone or that other guy, she wasn't even confiding in sam! if this is a long game effort to take over the world or something, going to counseling like this would just be an unnecessary risk (especially because jawbone literally lives with half of tbk) or a waste of time.

so imo this suggests that something must have changed, or some influencing factor must have come into play (maybe over the night yorb summer?) that led klck and the ratgrinders to be in this position -- like the level of relevance and the intra-group issues (ex: buddy homicide lmao) given to the ratgrinders make it soooo clear to me that they're not just pure evil fodder for the bad kids to beat in a fight. after all, in a season about the harms of a school system that pushes overworking and grades over students' wellbeing, aren't the ratgrinders, these kids who've fully bought into it at great personal expense, victims too?

[aqqleshiqqing-archive]

heheheheh the lovelies 💚💜

[sharkdays]

yall aint gonna believe this. LOOK WHAT I JUST BOUGHT