No way I'm gonna dance.

[misdreavus]

FLASH

[uschiolga]

Best esc song ever

[cuddlylightwood-deactivated2016]

@allofthefanfic

[elvendorkinfinity]

Now THAT was Eurovision.

[unionjackpillow]

The hamster wheel is back!!!

[phantastic-dan]

[culturefrancaise]

Happy European Hunger games, and may the odds ever be in your favor.

[keehaag]

my tumblr activity during the eurovision liveblogging bouta be like

[dont-stop-believin-in-klaine]

IT’S EUROVISION TIME

(sorry in advance to my non-European followers)

[our-own-little-fairytale]

IT’S

THE

MOST

WONDERFUL

TIME

OF

THE

YEAR

[fuckyeahillustrativeart]

http://coreybrickleyillustration.tumblr.com/

[pr1nceshawn]

Worst Case vs. Best Case Scenarios by Karina Farek.

[castorochiaro]

This is a great joke, but it’s also a wonderful strategy for reducing anxiety that I learned about in therapy. If you’re ever nervous about something, just ask yourself: what’s the best thing that can happen? What’s the worst thing? What will most likely happen?

It does wonders for your nerves, really does.

[cephalophor]

The Fair Folk

The Wild Hunt

When the winter winds blow and the Yule fires are lit, it is best to stay indoors, safely shut away from the dark paths and the wild heaths.

[wowitsfood]

RASPBERRY OAT BARS This is it, people. It might literally be the easiest recipe ever, or well at least it’s up there. These take little to no effort, in fact I think that mixing everything takes 5 minutes tops. You can use whatever filling you want, but raspberry is my favourite. This is a re-make of an old recipe that I thought deserved prettier pictures.

Ingredients:

90 g. oats

128 g. flour

½ tsp. baking soda

110 g. brown sugar

¼ tsp. salt

100 g. melted butter (or coconut oil)

Jam 

Preheat your oven to 176 degrees celcius. Mix all the ingredients, save for the jam. Line a tray with baking paper and take a little more than half of the mix, and press it down well to form the base. Once it’s pressed down and smoothed out, spread the jam on top of it in an even layer  Finally, sprinkle the remaining oat mix on top of the jam to cover it, and press it down gently. Bake for 35-38 minutes and ta-dah! To serve, dust with icing sugar for a finishing touch and cut into bars. Like this recipe? Then maybe you’ll also enjoy this one for hindbærsnitter/raspberry slices!

[neilaglet]

[kewpiequeen-deactivated20191103]

I REALLY LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS

[uncleundead]

Credited as the “Jedi Killers” in the Star Wars Concept art book. I’m wondering if some of these are possibly designs for the Knights of Ren.

[thissisatitle]

i just love these design ok

[34andscary-blog]

I like that one appears to be in a trash can

[mountainmoonvolcano]

[faptop]

WHY AM I LAUGHING SO HARD WHY IS MY SENSE OF HUMOR THIS TERRIBLE

[morethanonepage]

Fun (?) Rey Facts from Before the Awakening

Rey’s section of Before the Awakening starts least a year before the events of The Force Awakens. I’m omitting most of the plot details the story, in case you are inspired to read it, but here’s some stuff that struck me. 

The long wrap she wears seems to serve both to protect her mouth (and eyes, at this point, because as of the start of the book she doesn’t have the goggles yet) from the sand, as well as hands when she grabs metal that’s been in the sun for a while, like gloves. 

She mentions trading her previous set of googles for “two portions, barely enough food to silence her stomach for a day”; in the movie, we see her get ¼ portion and ½ portions for various days hauls, so, like, yeesh, Rey. That poor girl is regularly starving. 

Most of the scavengers on Jakku work in teams, but Rey never, ever has; she starts interacting a little more with two people over the course of her story & is very very prickly about it at first.  

Over the course of her section of the book, she finds a complete ship that no one’s found yet, and her biggest fear is finding a dead body on it; she doesn’t, but she does find a bunch of rations, and a bed, which “was far too soft. She ended up on the floor.”

Literally everything she owns is due to her scavenging and trading for it (like the generator she uses to power her little home), or building it herself (the speeder: “She’d had the speeder for years, built it herself as she had so many other things, and as much as she could allow herself a sense of pride in anything, she was proud of that.”)

She has workbench where she takes fixes up a lot of the stuff she finds, because “Unkar always paid more for things that still worked.”

SHE ALSO PUTS TOGETHER A COMPUTER: “using pieces scavenged from several crashed fighters over the years, including a cracked but still-usable display from an old BTL-A4 Y-wing”, AND finds a bunch of data chips, one of which is a flight simulator. 

So whenever one of the (DAYS-LONG) sand storms traps her inside her little AT-AT home, she uses the simulator: “She could select any number of ships to fly, from small repulsor-driven atmospheric craft to a wide variety of fighters, all the way up to an array of stock freighters. She could set destinations, worlds she’d never visited and never imagined she would, and scenarios, from speed runs to obstacle courses to system failures.” She’s been doing this for long enough that she purposefully programs the simulator to throw EXTREME SITUATIONS at her, to keep it challenging, but she’s had so much practice she pretty much aces them.

Like, “with a perverse sense of determination that she would not allow herself to be beaten by a machine that she herself had put together with her own hands, she learned.” OH REY.