#wall of water

[sadclowncentral]

my family is fucking addicted to macgyvering and it's becoming a problem. every time something in this house breaks, instead of doing the sensible thing of replacing it or calling someone qualified to fix it, we all group around the offending object with a manic look in our eyes and everyone gets a try at fixing it while being cheered on or ridiculed by the rest.

it's a beautiful bonding activity, but the "creative" fixes have turned our house into a quasihaunted escape room like contraption where everything works, but only in the wonkiest of ways. you need a huge block of iron to turn on the stove. the oven only works if a specific clock is plugged in. the bread machine has a huge wood block just stapled to it that has become foundational to its function. sometimes when you use the toaster the doorbell rings. and that's just the kitchen.

it's all fun and games until you have guests over and you have to lay out the rules of the house like it's a fucking board game. welcome to the beautiful guest room. don't pull out the couch yourself you need a screwdriver for that, and that metal rod makes the lamp work so don't move it. it also made me a terrifying roommate in college, because it makes me think i can fix anything with enough hubris and a drill. you want to call the landlord about a leaky faucet? as if. one time my dad made me install a new power socket because we ran our of extension cords

[candycatstuffs]

So i might need a new drawing tablet

[rocknpebbles]

wtaer 7 haunts me evryday…

excuse me while I listen to young girl a and tek it and think about water 7

[thebibliosphere]

I feel like I've complained about Tim's email situation in Gotham Knights before (edit: I have), but the truth of it is just so funny.

He's signed up for so many podcasts, video game streamers, and random news alerts; it's just a constant barrage of data going straight into his constantly whirring brain. Hell, he even floats the idea of the Batfamily having their own podcast as a way to correct misinformation about them (which Jason shoots down instantly), and it's made me realize something.

Timothy Drake would be a YouTuber.

In this universe specifically, Timothy Jackson Drake, the heir to Drake Industries and the foster son of the late Bruce Wayne would be a YouTuber.

Think about it. It'd be the perfect cover. Who would ever suspect that some 16-year-old nepo baby with a YouTube channel could ever be Red Robin? You'd have to be mad. I mean, look at him.

Red Robin just dropped out of literal thin air and garotted someone four times his size, and you expect anyone to believe that's the same kid who does 24-hour Minecraft charity streams and occasionally drops 6-hour video essays (his last one was on Lex Luthor's illegal bit mining operation on the moon)?

That kid?

You think that kid is Red Robin?

Ch'yah, okay, sure. And the Joker is funny 🤡.

[taxed-up-trotter]

i love making fanart and quoting my own fic that i will never post to the public (because its all an incoprehesivable mess) anyways shout out to my GOAT inabakumori after listening to i am rain my cotl fixation was restored to 100% bless

[turtleblogatlast]

Every day I’m haunted by the fact the boys happily swim in sewer water

Even if it’s filtered somehow there’s no way it’s not still nasty 😭 Bet they can defeat any of their villains just by accidentally giving them diseases I swear

[anneapocalypse]

One thing that really gets me about Urianger comforting Minfilia in Amh Araeng is that when she says Thancred hates her, Urianger never actually says, no, he doesn't. He says instead, none of this is your fault, and the original Minfilia wouldn't hold anything against you, and in typical Urianger form he says some things about fate and faith, and his words are kind and beautiful--but he also completely sidesteps the question of how Thancred feels about her.

And I think this moment is very reflective of Urianger's relationship to Thancred and child!Minfilia as a whole. It reflects what we see when we first see all of them together in Il Mheg.

Urianger knows that the way Thancred behaves toward the girl is hurting her. He's spent enough time around the two of them to see that plainly. Theoretically, he could say something to Thancred about it; they're obviously close friends, and if Thancred was going to value anyone's opinion, it would be his. But he doesn't say anything, because he still feels guilty and responsible for all of it: about their Minfilia going to the First and what happened to her there, and thus for what both Thancred and child!Minfilia are going through now. Even though Thancred has never outright blamed him for it (however he may feel privately, which I think is hard to say), it seems like Urianger still feels like he has no right to say anything.

So he tries to compensate instead. He's kind to Minfilia, connects with her in his own way and gives her books, and by the time we see them together he's obviously become something of a familial figure to her. I would say that he and Thancred aren't so much raising her together as they're doing it... around one another. Thancred is gruff and cold and holds Minfilia at arm's length emotionally so that his protectiveness comes off harshly even when it's well-meant, and Urianger dotes on her and tries to make up for it all while avoiding the actual problem.

So that conversation in Amh Araeng is both touching and maddening to me, and it really drives home what's maddening about it when, upon overhearing it, the Warrior of Light turns to Thancred to ask him if he has anything to say to Minfilia--who has just said, out loud, that she thinks Thancred wishes she was dead--and Thancred just says, "Not today."

And so they both go on avoiding the actual problem, for just a little longer.

[filosofablogger]

Good People Doing Good Things -- On An Ordinary Day ...

Good People Doing Good Things — On An Ordinary Day …

Today’s good people are just ordinary people … they didn’t plan or set out to be good people necessarily, but circumstances rather threw them into a situation where they had an opportunity to either jump in and help … or walk away.  Needless to say, they didn’t walk away or I wouldn’t likely be writing about them.  And these are people from all over the world, proving yet again that there are…

[churomo]

aquaphobia

[onethousxndvoices]

i became such a strange shape / such a strange shape from trying to fit in

[nothingbizzare]

Teru and Tsubomi water color portraits

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Creative Hubris takes another unsuspecting victim.

[andi-o-geyser]

go crazy! live your best life! take up magic as a pandemic hobby! build an escape room! lock yourself in an out of order bathroom and force your friends through a series of complex tedious tasks to find a paperclip to unlock the door to find you tied up and gagged on the toilet! wait it's not you? it was your evil magic wielding great-grandfather! he travelled through space and reality from decades past and has been here the whole time! also your friends threaten to push you down the stairs and ice you! but aha! it was you all along! they win the game and pour water bottles on your head as confetti floats through the air! all in a good day's work, am i right?

[kopawz]

in hi-fi rush, you can wail on vending machines until they explode, which gives you currency and health.

turns out, there are also themed soda cans, of ALL the major bosses! (i noticed this, because i had accidentally kicked a can into a wall where it got stuck, and wanted to take a picture...)

you want BEVERAGE CAN world-building? click the keep reading. the details put into this game are nuts.

Rekka's drink is just apple juice! she asks that you CHUG and CRUSH the can on your head when you finish a can. will do, ma'mm.

Zanzo's drink is... pure creativity? maybe it's something like gamer fuel or gatorade, if we're lucky. probably tastes like Green.

Korsica's drink is a simple, reasonable, 100% caffeine free soda. very befitting of her attitude, really. "make the right choice"... call that soda foreshadowing!

Mimosa's drink isn't a mimosa, but sparkling water. she put "elegance" into the drink?-- i shouldn't SHAKE it? dangerous.

Roquefort's drink is an espresso! it has "silver extract" in it? i get the werewolf reference, but no human can drink this thing.

and big boss Kale's is... ginger ale? i didn't take him to be a ginger ale kind of guy at first, but it makes sense. recycling is mandatory.

[haunted-xander]

Don't let Alisaie fool you, she is amongst those MOST in need of therapy