bustin makes me feel good

30 something queer with the soul of a fandom old. She/her pronouns. I miss LiveJournal, forums, and Tumblr circa 2011. Utterly enthralled with tarot cards and long, dangly earrings. Will claim a female TV character for my own without asking first. I tried to revisit my Bering and Wells era but tripped and fell into the 90s and now I'm obsessing over Niles/Daphne instead. WHOOPS!

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Oh my fucking god at least I can finally turn on gif autoplay again. It's been weeks of gifs not playing on desktop unless I clicked on them and it was making Tumblr unusable for me 😭

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IT'S BECAUSE I HAD 'SHOW ANIMATIONS IN WINDOWS' OFF??????? That's what 'use system preferences' means? o_O BUT I'VE HAD THAT SETTING OFF FOR YEARS WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?????

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Oh my fucking god at least I can finally turn on gif autoplay again. It's been weeks of gifs not playing on desktop unless I clicked on them and it was making Tumblr unusable for me 😭

[thecollectibles]

Mermay 1-10 by Christophe Young

[lizzybizzyart]

lighthouse study. started in sketchbook and finished in procreate

[greenfinchg-illustration]

Mermay day 21: aquarium

[salamandorange]

Ugh. I cant believe I have to keep saying this, but FOLKS just cause you see mermaids for sale at pet stores in those shitty little cups does NOT mean they can thrive in a habitat that size! And they need a heater and sponge filter at a bare minimum!

[the-open-greenhouse-door]

Maybe it's just temporary while they clean her tank! Like when people put a fish in a small tank to clean the big one!

[oldpaintings]

The Mermaid, 1939 by Henry Clive (Australian, 1882–1960)

[flightlessartist]

sat among the soft seagrass🌾🐚

✦ find me on instagram @the.flightless.artist ✦

[ymutate]

EtruscanCulture VII Century BC, an extraordinary Bronze Sculpture of a mythological Siren, from the ancient Necropolis of Strozzacapponi, Perugia, Umbria, Italy.

[thecollectibles]

Mermay 2025 by Paul Briggs

[gaynfl-moved]

oh my god

[gutter-adonis]

That was timed so well oh my god

[timberlakelove-blog-blog]

[maydaytrippe]

last day to reblog

[kim-kardassian-blog]

you now you want to.

Gonna have to wait a whole year if you miss this.

[paulwalkersdogwalker]

Fine

[baltharino]

Miss Congeniality (2000) Dir. Donald Petrie

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From @anorae on this post where we're swapping pre-series AU ideas:

well, this one always comes and goes in my head… Martin, after recovering and feeling better, decides not to live with Niles and his family. First, because he wants his independence and doesn’t want to get in his son’s way. Second, because the house is so full, especially after the news of a third child, even though he loves being around the grandkids. But mainly because he feels guilty for never having been the kind of father to Niles that Niles is being to his daughters, supportive, present, involved without judging, and proud of them for who they are. I mean, in the show, he doesn’t always show support or pride in Niles, especially compared to Frasier. And maybe it’s because he never really felt that connection himself, since by the time Niles was a kid, he was already frustrated with how Frasier had turned out, so he didn’t even try as much with Niles. I might be reaching, but in my head, seeing Niles build that bond with his daughters, even though they’re different from him, (something Martin couldn’t do) makes him feel kind of "unworthy" of being there, taking up space, time, and money from someone he never really believed in. So he moves out on his own (and then we can still have the canon of him falling and being forced to live with Frasier.) I tend to lean more toward the first plot, but the second one always comes back to me, because Martin seeing Niles become a different kind of father, a truly good, exemplary one, could really shake the way he sees his son. Ok, now I really went overboard lmao this topic always gets me going and I lose all control aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

No, I'm sorry I had to pull this out so everyone can see it because LOOK AT THAT!! Niles being such a good dad that it makes Martin feel insecure?? STOOOP I'm sobbing!! 😭 That's so perfect and true to character for both of them and will lead to some wonderful heart-to-hearts between them later just UGH!! I can't! That's so good! 😭 SO GOOD! 😭😭😭

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Waaaaaiit -- there were some Tumblr replies about someone else's pre-series AU that I was going to finally reply to and now I can't find them T_T

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Two things I'm considering for my ever-evolving Niles/Daphne pre-series AU:

Leaning into the hurt Niles would feel after learning Daphne is the woman he spent a night with a dozen years ago. Because she lied about what her name was so maybe everyone's right and that night never meant as much to her as it did to him. He's been a fool to think otherwise. Meanwhile that's not true at all. That night together meant the world to Daphne and she's realizing just how big of an idiot she was to let her fears get the better of her because she should have met up with him the following weekend, she should've told him her real name, she should've given their relationship a chance instead of deciding it wasn't worth ruining one perfect night over because maybe just maybe they wouldn't have ruined anything. And now this part of the story starts looking more like S7 where Niles is trying to put distance between them so he can get over her and Daphne is slowly losing her mind over how much she loves him. I'm still exploring how it plays out from there, but this immediate aftermath feels pretty right to me. And driving Niles back into his marriage seems like a useful first step to convincing him to leave Maris on his own terms. (Ugh that's still going to be such a painful journey for me though #ihateMaris >_<)

2. Rather than simply weave in flashbacks to the night they met, I'm genuinely considering weaving in all kinds of flashbacks and AU scenarios. Because honestly it's what Niles and Daphne would be doing. While they'll be thinking A LOT about that night together when they were younger, they'll also find themselves thinking about the lives they could've lived if they had stayed together and comparing it to the lives they have lived. And if you start playing 'what if' games, then you can come up with a lot of different scenarios: some where they stay together and it's happy, some where they crash and burn, and some that are more realistically in the middle. And what kind of alternate scenario I flash to can reflect the characters' current mental state. If they're leaning into fears and doubts, the 'what if' will be a downer. If they're over-romanticizing, that will be reflected too. Yes, this is largely because I have so many AU scenes for the timeline where they meet and stay together from when they are 20 years old, and I don't want to write separate fics for them. And yes, this will likely bloat the word count :S -- but it does seem like a useful narrative tool for the story I want to tell! And I love playing timey-whimey what if games in my writing so why not throw everything and the kitchen sink into this pre-series AU? :P

[daturanerium]

times i cried during nasa artemis ii flyby stream:

dedication of the crater to carroll

the messy floating group hug after the dedication to carroll

the nutella flying by (it was a cry laugh but did make me emotional because it was just so human and ridiculous)

reid (?) saying hello to his kids and making heart hands and showing off his bracelet and mission control saying "copy heart, copy bracelet"

christina was talking about seeing the moon during her status report (?) and she said that she had a moment where she realized that it was a real place that actually exists and not just a poster, and that she imagined herself walking on the surface

again when victor's report said the same thing

"copy, full moon joy"

the announcement of beating the apollo record and the statements/speeches to follow, specifically when they said they wanted to inspire the next generation to beat their record soon

"we will continue our journey even further into space before Mother Earth succeeds in pulling us back to everything that we hold dear" ohhhh man

every time the crew gave an exciting detail in their reports and the science team at mission control nerded out. reminded me of those deep sea diving videos where marine biologists laugh at creatures they've never seen before

victor saying "hey babe" when he was told his wife was visiting in the viewing bay, hearing christina laugh in the background, and then him adding "i love you from the moon"

all of the clear & respectful communication about the light shade on the window. idk why it got me but it did. kind professionalism is crazy

pre-blackout goodbyes....real tears

"as we prepare to go out of radio communication, we’re still going to feel your love from Earth. and to all of you down there on Earth and around Earth, we love you, from the Moon." "when we burned this burn from the Moon, i said that we do not leave Earth, but we choose it. and that is always true. we will always choose Earth. we will always choose each other." come ONNNNN #hopecore #girlwhoisgoingtobeokay

the return speeches as well

"integrity, from Earth, our single system, fragile and interconnected, we copy. those of us that can are looking back."

seeing the integrity, the moon, and the earth all together in one shot. i took like 30 screenshots

mission control literally jumping up and down over impact flares

everything about the eclipse shot including the radio-in saying it was too incredible to capture on camera and "we're going true sci-fi"

everything else

my coworker in her 70s looking over my shoulder every 20 minutes and gasping and saying "that's just so incredible......i hope my grandkids are seeing this"

copy love copy bracelet is my favorite i don't think i'll ever lose that one

[schinako]

Rabbits and umbrellas