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Last year JK Rowling personally funded a group called Sex Matters to amend UK law so that trans women *overnight* went from legally women to legally men. This has resulted in mass exclusion of the trans community from numerous organizations, along with ongoing violent assaults on both trans and cis women alike.
With the new Harry Potter series she will be making a reported $20 million per-season renewal + other performance dependent royalties. She has been open across multiple interviews regarding her intentions to use said funds to push forth even more trans targeted legislation in the years to come.
This isn’t a “she gets paid no matter what” situation. The more eyeballs on this show the more money she has to actively harm vulnerable communities. By engaging with it you are directly supporting this and otherwise making a conscious choice to consume HP over doing the literal very least possible to not destroy the lives of trans people across the world.
If my stating the objective facts above upsets you then feel free to unfriend and move along. Your nostalgia-goggles feelings for a tired, problematic franchise mean nothing to me compared to the welfare of my trans friends and loved ones."
If you care more about badly written children's books and imaginary wizards more than you do about real people in the real world do it far the fuck away from me.
Don't try to be in my life.
In fact, you are cordially invited to eat shit and die.
i feel like the rest of that tweet should be shown:
World Health Organization staff remain ‘vigiliant’ in the event of a nuclear incident
If this administration even looks funny at nuclear bombs, it's time to get a million people to descend on Washington and dispose of the lot of them. I'm sorry, but this is a line that CANNOT be crossed.
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oh my god I just realized this is the year people will stop being born and stop aging and stop dying
Discussions of trans women in sports often focus on elite/professional sports which honestly I find it hard to care about but the more common scenario of “we’re going to legally ban a high school girl from playing sports with her friends because she’s trans” is just profoundly evil
i remember when utah's (republican) governor ended up vetoing a law banning transgender students from playing high school sports when he looked at the numbers, and there were only four trans students in the state playing sports at all. he released a clumsily worded but surprisingly compassionate statement about the decision.
I must admit, I am not an expert on transgenderism. I struggle to understand so much of it, and the science is conflicting. When in doubt, however, I always try to err on the side of kindness, mercy, and compassion. I also try to get proximate, and I am learning so much from our transgender community. They are great kids who face enormous struggles. Here are the numbers that have most impacted my decision: 75,000, 4, 1, 86 and 56. 75,000 high school kids participating in high school sports in Utah. 4 transgender kids playing high school sports in Utah. 1 transgender student playing girls sports. 86% of trans youth reporting suicidality. 56% of trans youth having attempted suicide. Four kids and only one of them playing girls sports. That’s what all of this is about. Four kids who aren’t dominating or winning trophies or taking scholarships. Four kids who are just trying to find some friends and feel like they are a part of something. Four kids trying to get through each day. Rarely has so much fear and anger been directed at so few. I don’t understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live.
of course, it didn't amount to much. they overrode his veto. it's just so cartoonishly evil. an entire state's political body so desperate to terrorize this one little trans girl.
Even if you were a difficult child, you didn't deserve to be hurt.
I hope this message reaches all the neurodiverse and disabled people who were made to feel like their abuse was justified because they had "behaviors".
While this message is true for every child, you are who I had in mind when I wrote it.
As an afterschool caregiver who prides herself on respecting children and being the favorite teacher, I NEED people to know that this applies to in-school abuse and mistreatment, too.
I travel to 17 different elementary schools with an after-school program. I have consistently seen horrible mistreatment of autistic children, Black children, visibly queer children, ANY kind of children.
Black boys especially are labeled at troublemakers from the get go, and are treated vastly differently. I will never forget going to one particular school for the first time, and gaining rapport with a young Black boy. He was a joy! Playful and ornery, but well-behaved. I later learned that his teachers "had" to walk him down the hallway to "keep him in line". He is in third grade, showed me NONE of these "behaviors" outside of just being playful. Black boys are punished and treated like shit for things white kids get away with all the time. Hell, I WAS the white kid who got away with everything. I watched Black classmates get suspended for being half the nightmare I was.
I've seen first-hand a "low-functioning" 6 year old boy (autism, ADHD, and cerebral palsy) be treated like shit for stimming. Yelled at, written up, everything. This was the base I started at before my promotion--Our director told him to sit in the corner on his iPad for the whole 4 hours we had him. I had this same "troublemaker" over the summer program. Away from his usual director, I encouraged him to stim and sing and run around, no iPad allowed. I got him headphones and took him out in the hallway to give him the extra care he needed, and he was infinitely better "behaved". He shined so bright that summer, made friends, and was the happiest I'd ever seen him. I ache to think that he's back at my original base. The following school year, I was promoted to a traveling position, so I seldom get to see him. But he, too, is a prime example of children thriving regardless of the labels placed on them.
At this original base, we had one young Black boy who was ALSO labeled a trouble maker, had some ODD tendencies and did show some of the bad behavior. He was so, SO smart. Too smart for his own good to be in fifth grade, which is why I acted up, too. When he got in trouble, he refused to go to time out when anyone but me would try. My coworkers would yell and command him, pushing him further into the "trouble maker" label. Instead of yelling at him, I would sit down with him, explain why what he did was wrong and that he needed to sit down for a minute. I talked to him like a person and not a problem, and he was infinitely better behaved. This boy would make me bracelets, joke with me, be my little buddy. He hated all the other teachers because they treated him like a problem that couldn't be solved. I treated him like a little brother. I became friends with his older sister (who volunteered with us) and saw him and his sister get baptized. I'm happy to say I still see them from time to time, and that this boy is doing well in middle school.
All this to say--adults should know better. Parents and teachers alike need to really examine how to treat and label kids. If a kid has behaviors, there's a reason for it, and not always a reason they can fix. Adults want to bring the hammer down on trouble makers, and only pushes them further away from growing and reaching their full potential. All children are people; All people need to be treated with respect AND according to their needs.
If you were a young Black person who was treated like shit at school over your race, you didn't deserve that.
If you were a young neurodiverse person who was treated like shit over being neurodiverse, you didn't deserve that.
If you were ANY kind of child who was treated like shit for ANY reason--you didn't deserve that.
Adults, do better. No child deserves to be othered for not conforming to your idea of a perfect child.
Found out I can use HOLO FOIL for the cover of my next art book. The magnitude of this new information can not be overstated
I will birth the shiniest, iridescent, rainbowiest art book known to man
Examples of two holo foil prints I’ve made… I fear I’ve been made too powerful. The global economy will shift once this book drops
nothing like a well organised and hosted group stream to make you go "yeah! that's my favourite hermit (who hates putting things as favourites)! That's the hermit who took power in a bloodless coup because their super power is being able to make decisions and act on them (for good or ill)! That's my hermit who dropped all the guests in a river. That's my hermit with the banhammer and sickle."
100 bad days (makes 100 good stories)
That first loop ends abruptly, which means someone killed him.
The Mountain, Singularity figures- probably came around from behind and broke his neck before anyone else could react. He’d known the big man was fast, but he hadn’t known he was that fast.
Another loop is wasted on panic and violence-an attempt to infiltrate the casino after hours which results in a fight with the single most ridiculous security team he’s ever seen-before loop three, where Singularity proceeds with the meeting as best he remembers it.
When Tango tells them during the debrief that Mr. House is a real person, is in fact Gordon House, something clicks.
Impulse catches Skizz the first time in loop four after running out of the room to follow Stratos. He lingers, tailing his younger compatriot until the back hallway.
Until he watches, wide eyed and horrified, as Skizriel Lehman- who once spent an entire day running from the truant officer while trying to find a shelter that would accept half-drowned kittens he’d found on his way to school- cheerfully picks up a struggling, bound man by his lapels, says, “Better luck next time, buddy!” and drops him down an elevator shaft.
There is an audible, distant crunch. Skizz winces. “I’m sure that’ll buff out,” he says, peering down the shaft.
It’s so morbid, so ridiculous, so perfectly Skizz, that Impulse laughs. The laugh comes out a hysterical sob, and that first time Skizz doesn’t drop the knife.
Impulse bleeds out on the casino floor, Skizz’s panicked voice getting farther and farther away, don’t you die on me, we need you for this, I need you, I need you Impulse-!
Loop five is the first loop Skizz runs.
He runs for loop six, seven, eight.
Loop nine is.. different.
Impulse is thinking about loop nine as he watches Skizz stare at him.
Skizz licks his lips. “…..hey, Dippledop.”
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"So what do you want to hear, Impulse, that you were right? Well you were right! I'm a thief! The best in the goddamn business, sure, but still a thief, because thats all anyone would ever let me be! I TRIED, you know? But the instant an employer saw my ability, saw my record, it was 'no thanks, that position has been filled, hit the road, jack.' I was doing NIGHT CONSTRUCTION, Impulse. All I wanted was to, to see people. Help old ladies move heavy stuff, maybe. Serve some soup. Shit no one needed to see my record for. Next thing I know I'm in an unmarked van headed to god only knows where and when I get out would you look at that, it's like prison only cleaner and hey would you all mind terribly obeying the teeny tiny print and murdering one another for our enjoyment?!”
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“Hey, Skizz.” Impulse says. “Long time no see. Uh. Nice. Nice place?”
He hadn’t thought he’d get this far.
- "You know why I'm not dead? Because the other guy had never used a bow before. This was a lucky shot and I ducked. And then, after feeding me SOMETHING they probably got from someone tied up in a BASEMENT, they took me out back like a dog with rabies and I was scared and you weren't there and suddenly I was where the dude with the gun was and he was where I was and well shit, Skizriel, not bad enough you've got burglary and robbery and grand theft fucking auto on your record now a man is DEAD."
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Skizz takes a step forward.
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“So what the fuck was I gonna do, Impulse? Go home? Go to the POLICE? Serve myself up on a fucking platter to serve twenty to life for the AUDACITY of not dying, or worse get forked over so the Watcher Council could finish what they started and turn me into what Doc made Beef? Or, or those two poor sons of bitches they left in the bay? No. No all they did was speed up what I knew was coming all along so I made like you and I got the hell out of dodge and yeah, here I am, doing the same shit I was when you an' Top left. Here to clean up your mess, just like always, you big damn hero.”
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Impulse braces.
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"Is THAT why you think I'm doing this? To, to win? To be right?"
"Well why the hell else-”
"THEY KILLED YOU, SKIZZ!”
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“How many times?” Skizz asks, taking another step forward.
“I. Uh, I lost count.”
Skizz is faster now, so much faster.
He has his arms around Impulse before the other man can blink.
“Liar.” Skizz says, muffled against his shoulder. Still that much taller than him, the absolute jerk.
“…this is number ten.” Impulse says. “It shouldn’t be possible, you know that? We ran tests. They ran tests. Any more than, than five and I can cause aneurisms. It’s not safe.”
“I don’t give a shit how safe it is.”
“You should. I- last time you were yelling.”
There’s a wet spot growing on Impulse’s shoulder. “Good for me. Must have said what needed saying.”
“Yeah. You did. But I didn’t.” Impulse’s hands finally lift, wrapping around the bigger man, then his fingers tighten and no force on earth will make him let go.
“Skizz I’m sorry.” He sobs. “I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m so sorry. Tango found what Moth stole and it said they’d killed you and then Grian and Scar and- and I left you out there and you were missing for so long and I didn’t know, and I couldn’t let them kill anyone else’s Skizz.”
“They won’t.” Skizz promises, pulling back. The eye patch has a wet spot that matches the tear tracks on his other cheek. “They won’t.”
“Skizz we’ve tried!” Impulse says. “We’ve tried and tried and every time the plan goes off and she figures it out. At the very last second she realizes what’s happening and she tries to kill me.”
“Only I won’t let her.” Skizz says simply. “I’m stupid like that. So I die instead. Right?”
Impulse forces himself to meet Skizz’s gaze. “Leave. We can figure out another way.”
“There is no other way.”
“Yes there is. The interview and the file drop is damning enough. All you want is the stadium messed up. Xibraltar can do it, or Stratos. Hell the Mountain if he’s pressed.”
“We need to get those people out first or it’s a deathtrap.”
“FUCK those people!” Impulse bursts and Skizz smiles down at him, Skizz who isn’t dead and is here and is touching him.
“You don’t mean that.” Skizz says.
“I want to mean it.” Impulse says. “Skizz..”
Skizz cups Impulse’s face in his hands, like he did when they were younger and Impulse was having a panic attack. He grins, lopsided. There are scars and lines now. Impulse can almost smell the campfire smoke, the pine sap.
“I have an idea. And all my ideas are good ideas, remember?”
Impulse sniffs. "Yeah."
"See? Okay. Cool. Step one." Skizz pulls back a little, takes his hand like when they were eight. "Let's go find Tango."
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A/N: fun fact Skizz's loop 9 rant was written in its entirety back in august of 2025! : D
Oli feeling uncomfortable announcing the Peardle segment in the upcoming charity event is even funnier with the knowledge that he is the one who submitted and planned the idea and not Pearl. Like no wonder Joe defaulted to asking him about it.
Oli loves Peardle so much and was so excited that he just went ahead and submitted the idea to the planning channel without Pearl and just assumed she'd take pity and host it with him. He would never do it without her because it's her thing and her name is in the title but also he is even more excited to do it than she is. He straight up told Pearl that he will handle everything and she just has to host because it's her game and he refuses to take credit for it. Pearl's a little nervous about hosting but he just told her she just has to get through the intro and he'll handle everything else but he just really loves that game 😭
People drawing hermits with features they have irl > everything else
Not that having head cannons on their skins looking different to how they look irl is bad, it’s just like. The hermits irl are so shapely and as an artist with a degree of face blindness being able to tell the hermits apart by face is so awesome. It feels like I get to actually see how they look and how freakin beautiful they all are instead of just seeing John Default and it makes the Artist in me ecstatic because that means that it’s a type of beauty that I can recognize and hopefully capture in my art someday. And I just love it so much because not only is it rad but it means I can recognize them easier and be like “!!! THAT ONE!! WITH THE LONG FACE!!! THATS PEARL!!! AND THAT ONE WITH THE ROUND FACE!!! THATS GEM!!! AND THAT ONE WITH THE SHARP FACE!!! THATS FALSE!!!! I RECOGNIZE THESE PEOPLE!!!!! AND THAT OTHER ROUND FACE IS IMPULSE!!! AND THAT OTHER LONG FACE IS SKIZZ!!! AND THAT OTHER SHARP FACE IS TANGO!!!” And it keeps going for a lot of the hermits. Not all of them, but a lot.
It’s weird I know but it just means a lot to me. To be able to tell people apart by face. Artists who do this please keep doing so if you like it!!! It would make a random internet person very happy to see more beautiful faces on her dash.
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