#which is awesome

[muffinlance]

In light of the recent FanFiction.net scare, for anyone looking to do bulk downloads of their favorites/bookmarks/fics in general, two excellent resources:

ao3downloader: works with Python. Does what it says on the tin.

FanFicFare: works with Calibre. Can download from many sites, including AO3 and FF. My bad, FF is NOT supported. Lots of other sites are, though. Anyone got one that DOES work on FF?

Edit: I am again emphasizing the BULK in bulk downloads. AO3 obviously has an excellent single-fic download option. This is for if you want to automate that. For all your fics. ...Bulk download.

[markscherz]

Do you have a favourite rain toad? I love them. They're so round and look grumpy even though they aren't.

Did you know that there are arboreal rainfrogs‽

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Meet the genus Callulina, from the rainforests of Tanzania and Kenya

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Who said you had to be lithe to take to the trees?

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You may not like it, but this is what Peak Performance looks like.

[laney-rockin]

My favourite part of the term "T'hy'la is the fact that despite it being a Vulcan bond that seems sorta profound and meaning so many things, it is only used in the context of Kirk and Spock's relationship.

I'm about 80% sure that no two other individuals in the Star Trek universe refer to each other as T'hy'la once. It's purely a Kirk and Spock thing. Sure, maybe that's because a lot of crew's have other stories to be telling other than Vulcan bonds but still- it's interesting.

You'd think that even a Vulcan pair that shows up once would at least throw the term around. Like casually slipping that they're t'hy'la. It's a canon phrase, albeit in the TMP novel, but still- canon.

Anyways! That was just my silly thought of the day! I just found it a bit funny that Spirk gets this special silly phrase to themselves. And that Star Trek hasn't once tried to shove two males [or females] as purely platonic t'hy'la and then have a male and female pair be romantic t'hy'la to try and make it straight.

[crowsyart]

Here’s squirrelflight! She’s got a big fluffy squirrel tail and I gave her a heart marking on her chest to match firestar(her dad) and some freckles and the white paw is to match scourge’s (like canon)

She’s short like her dad (firestar) but bulky like her mom(sandstorm)

[confused-beany]

THEY DID THE THING! THE NEIL GAIMAN THING!! Crowley's us

[theswordwizard]

screenshotting for use instead of forcing them to see hella tags but as someone who has a constant background of narration around special interests going on in their head which eventually will start to run out of "canon compliant" possibilities and start experimenting with crossovers: this is why I struggled for a bit to do a coherent plotty crossover between daredevil and nbc's hannibal. this is another rambling "for me and literally two other people with my interests and way too interested in meta-compliancy" post:

basically: daredevil and nbc's hannibal have conflicting main themes in ways where they don't as easily synthesize into a new coherent theme. nbc hannibal basically amounts to: what does it take for a person to become a 'monster,' or otherwise transform into a version of themselves that would be a terrifying stranger to them previously. and it sort of frames it as... not necessarily a power fantasy, but it frames trauma as something powerfully transformative. you become a version of yourself that can survive/thrive/take control in the hell you've ended up in. you will surprise yourself what you are capable of doing when it's your only option. but at the same time, its a sort of "succumbing" to your situation.

daredevil is almost antithetical to this. matt's whole thing can kinda be summed up as "even after everything, it's still you." you can go through any amount of trauma and still be able to recognize yourself after. you can stick to your principles even when pushed to the limit and come out alive, and being able to do so is important. he IS his principles, and even though he constantly falls short of himself, his struggle is a definitive trait of his. whenever he starts to abandon his principles is always tied to him losing his sense of self.

he cannot win (in the long run) if he abandons who he is, even if it's only an internal struggle. it's especially prevalent in the comics where basically whenever he abandons his principles he has a bit of a flip-out and tries to abandon "matt murdock" entirely, and then struggles to maintain whatever new identity he takes and has a whole identity crisis/mental breakdown. his strength is his stubbornness and refusal to remain fallen from his standard of self.

so obviously, one of these themes need to bend so far it breaks when put together. put matt in range of the BAU/Hannibal's house and its the big book vs thin book meme. in part because matt's biggest struggles in his narratives are against structural violence and systems (not to mention... the smells...). "there's this one evil guy causing 90% of the problems" is again basically antithetical to matt's narratives, or are at the most just his weakest plots.

ALSO, a lot of the murders in hannibal get treated as combinations of three categories (by Hannibal, who I would say has the most Thematic Influence over the show): 1) they basically deserved it and they were better off being dead in whatever form than alive (mason, mischa's killer), 2) what the killer gained from their death was more important than their life (sorta the case of melissa, her death being the photo negative so will could understand the ripper), 3) their death was important to the killed person, they were only able to ascend or transcend something in their death (many of the ripper victims and general murder victims.)

Basically "agreeing" with Hannibal, or adopting his viewpoint, (or basically being 'seduced' by the story) requires viewing deaths in those three ways. It requires a sort of dissociation with the reality of a person dying in any practical matter. any death becomes metaphor and symbolic, and the symbol is more important than the ending of life, it transcends it. this also doesn't rock with matt's themes.

even if you go serial killer AU matt's relationship with violence, and the temptation of committing murder, is based around practicality. it's that killing would technically be the most efficient way of stopping someone from hurting other people ever again. it's how he could cut through the red tape and financial security that protects fisk or fisk's stand-in, the way they've manipulated systems of supposed justice to hurt people (and specifically innocents), and just end it for good. obv in cases where that does happen (by his hand or others) it again leans into the fact that there is no single bogeyman that can be killed to stop evil or whatever. if fisk dies, there is a replacement to that power vacuum, if matt steps into that role to try and control it, he fails miserably.

hannibal approaches the seduction of murder with: and it's actually awesome? while daredevil approaches it with: it won't actually help you, and it won't fix anything. you will only destroy yourself. both of the (shows at least) fixations on catholicism also have parallel approaches with hannibal encouraging you to become your own god and daredevil reminding you that you aren't. will is basically betrayed by his friends and community while matt is consistently supported by his.

ultimately, nbc hannibal is very metaphorical and artsy and pretentious (i say lovingly) while daredevil is like. How Would Superpowers Effect The Local Law Economy.

[hooked-on-elvis]

April 20, 1960: Elvis being interviewed on train to California to begin filming "G.I. Blues".

[shippyo]

I got a new phone but sadly i lost a few of my brushes in ibis Paint (why there isnt a special save for your brushes DUDEEE HHHH)

So anyways,,i dowloands and recovered a new ones and got others,ill try to get tomorrow all i had left but atm,beep-o doodle ╰⁠(⁠⸝⁠⸝⁠⸝⁠´⁠꒳⁠`⁠⸝⁠⸝⁠⸝⁠)⁠╯

[lucksea]

Everyone should try being deeply vain its good for you

[plumbus-central]

trans teen rick working through some stuff

on one hand he gets make up smeared on his face (which he hates at this age), but on the OTHER hand minnie is gonna get real close to his face and tell him how pretty he is.......much to think about

[scatmaan]

i will say storming moonrise towers with just 4 lunatics is hilarious

[aropride]

financial aid bullshit solved ‼️ (sort of)

[scruncheduppaper]

guys my little sister just drew sniper and pyro im literally so happy LMAO (our respective favs) im so impressed with her art i love the way she captured them. like yeah that is sniper tf2 fr fr. trying to prevent myself from jumping from joy rn. i love sniper so much

[pattern-recognition]

i need to get more serious about breaking my cringe american monolingualism. the other day i was at the library after classes let out so it was mostly deserted save for a couple of groups. One was speaking Pashto, the other spanish, while i was working on french homework, watching a movie in mandarin, syrian, and czech, and listening to a shuffle of music in japanese, german, and russian. it wasn’t until around 8pm when i got home and started talking to my roommate when i realized i hadn’t heard english in 24 hours

[connorinabeanie]

[xerosdaze]

!!Spoilers incoming!!

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