Titled!

I didn't like the title being "untitled" so I titled. Is that actually a word, titled?

[vulcartist]

I translated the Ea-Nasir complaint into vulcan and engraved it in on a cooper plate

[tournevis-real]

The tumblrest sentence I have ever seen

[vickyvicarious]

Title: Endearments

Pairing: Hardison/Parker/Eliot

Summary:

Moments when the Leverage thiefsome call each other by some cute gender neutral petnames... You know. Bastard, hooligan, stuff like that.

Links: AO3 + FFN.

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Wrote a new Leverage fic! Actually, wrote half of this years ago, but I'm revisiting/continuing it and posting for the first time now.

Tagging folks below the cut.

Approximately... six years ago(?!) when I first posted about wanting to write this fic, I got several people encouraging me. Some gave me ideas, none of which I have directly used as yet, but which might still be used in the last few chapters. Others just wanted me to notify them when I posted. So, I'm tagging both sets of people here! At least as far as I recall. Pretty sure some people have since changed their account names but I am terrible at keeping track of that tbh so all I can do is apologize.

@griftercollins

@angelrtsy95

@mj-spooks

@thaddeusly

@dame-c

@onyxbird

@orangesandducks

@ll-again

[hanleialuke]

5 things your character can't do while speaking

Choke. Just think about it, seriously. Think about what choking is and imagine speaking while it’s happening. That would fuckin’ hurt, man.

Hiss. Look, it’s just not possible, okay? No matter how “evil” you want your character to seem.

Snarl. Animals snarls. The Beast from Beauty and the Beast snarls. The Hulk snarls. You know who doesn’t snarl? PEOPLE WHEN THEY’RE SPEAKING.

Shriek. Come on, 99% of the time, “shriek” is not the word you want.Let’s face it: if you put an exclamation point at the end of the sentence, your reader gets the picture. Don’t bring to mind banshees and screaming toddlers.

Sneer. I’m not even going to bother explaining this one. “SNEER” ISN’T EVEN A SOUND.

[phrux]

Choked is not meant to be taken literally, an obstruction in the throat. It means they’re having difficultly speaking, they’re forcing the words out with difficulty. Often used when the character is convulsed in tears or laughter.

Hiss is a low, threatening whisper. Raw, guttural, vicious. It is NOT a literal hiss like an animal, it is a tone of voice that serves the same function. Someone will hiss that they’re going to cut your throat- a message from one person to the other.

Snarl is the same kind of thing. Not literal, it’s a tone of voice that serves the same function. It’s raw and gutteral like a hiss, but more savage than vicious. It’s loud, it’s showy, it’s intimidating. It’s very alpha male, big man, look at how fucking dangerous I am. I’ll take ALL of you on. Even if they’re snarling at one person in particular, nobody better back them up or they’re gonna get fucked up too.

Shriek. Come on, seriously? We’ve all heard people shriek either in fear or outrage. High pitched, loud, out of control, feminine. Men can shriek, but it’s funny and emasculating. Think angry italian women throwing pots and pans or ladies on tables who just saw a mouse.

Sneering is contempt whether it’s a facial expression or a tone of voice or both. There are a hundred different ways to sneer with your voice, but it all adds up to the same thing.

[carnivoredeer]

How descriptive words work 101

[susspirria]

Op radiating cinema sins energy with that list lol

[neopet-euthanization]

OP tagging this as “reasons they stop reading a book in ch 1” yet not grasping like the most basic form of figurative language is… something

[flipocrite]

[disorientation]

Having a "stupider people have done this" attitude about the things you want to do can open so many doors

[vacuously-true]

Hey tumblr friends, in case I haven't told you lately, I have no idea what the FUCK half of you are on about and I WISH I didn't know what the rest of you are on about. Great work. Keep it up.

[nudityandnerdery]

[southfarthing]

[infiniteoreos]

undiagnosed autistic people will be like "I don't get upset when my routine changes though!!" and it's because they've built a set of if-then loops in their head to pick from one of 6 different strict routines and they do get incredibly upset when they're unable to keep to any of the 6 scripts. I'm john normal

[thundercrackfic]

This is called a fault tree. You will always know how to act if your fault tree captures all possible scenarios. In NASA Mission Control during mission critical events like landings there are huge binders with fault tree protocols, kind of like choose your own adventure books except you’re not the one making the choices, the universe is making them for you and you’re just trying to keep up.

The engineers who develop fault trees, I am told, often imagine new ways for their precious spacecraft to die (new branches on the fault trees) either while in the shower or lying awake at 3am, because human

[toothpaste-footlocker]

[eightyonekilograms]

afaik the only augmentative suffix in English is -zilla.

[king-of-men]

You are forgetting "2: Electric Boogaloo".

[argumate]

-apalooza, perhaps?

[king-of-men]

-ocalypse, -ocalyptic, -tastic.

[argumate]

fuckzilla, fuck 2: electric boogaloo, and fuckapalooza work, fucktastic definitely works, but fuckocalyptic doesn't sounds right 🤔

[jesin00]

-athon, for duration

[argumate]

training for a half fuckathon

[passionate-yelling]

Its actually -pocalypse, as in fuckpocalypse, but as an irregular augmentative you can shorten it in whatever way works best. I'm not sure fuckalypse hits as hard as fuckpocalypse, though

[argumate]

-itude, like "not with that fuckitude it won't"

[di--es---can-ic-ul-ar--es]

Fuckalyptic works great

[sargassostories]

Lest we forget -gate, e.g. “this post is a linguistic fuckergate.”

[cipheramnesia]

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags if you can remember where you got the shirt you're currently wearing.

[this-old-stomping-ground]

[scleroticstatue]

Yes, that is my circus, and, yes, those are my monkeys, but I am not on shift yet.

[the-beard-of-edward-teach]

[newrider]

[wamscoastsmoker]

IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY

[notsocialphobixanymorelmao-deac]

I T S T H E M I D D L E O F J U N E

[wamscoastsmoker]

I T I S H A L L O W E E N T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y

[pwhyxco]

ok who the fuck got this on my dash it’s still june

[wamscoastsmoker]

get spooky

[tshifty]

how does this appear every june

[honeybeeavenue]

@nooowestayandgetcaught

[bardstardish]

STOP BRINGING THIS BACK EVERY JUNE

[marta-bee]

… I’ve just queued this up for next June. Because reasons

[afewbirds]

EVERY JUNE

[marta-bee]

I nearly forgot this year, but all of you happening froods who reblogged last year’s post didn’t, so here we are.

[error-404-oops-page-not-found]

Reblog every time you see this post

[porcupine-girl]

I love how tumblr culture has shifted from people yelling angrily about out-of-season posts to everyone just going “yeah sure it’s Halloween”.

[smallerontheoutside]

btw if you're on this site it is your duty to reblog any post that has been prophecied to reach 10k notes. let's all annoy op

[smallerontheoutside]

#this post deserves #10k notes #perchance.

ehh no actuallly it does not

[jestrogames]

Unfortunately for you, Tumblr is a site where the opinion least regarded on deserves notes is the original poster, sooo

@walmart-the-official

[smallerontheoutside]

well. it's been over a month and we're not even at 1k yet, so I think I'm safe. perhaps 😌

[smallerontheoutside]

....nate I'm really sorry I laughed at you for having posts with thousands of notes. don't do this to me

[depsidase]

[existennialmemes]

[ask-anything-polls]

Your phone magically opens to a random fic on ao3!

Spin the wheel 3 times to find out what your fic is about! Put in the tags which fic tags you get!

Picker Wheel - Spin the Wheel to Decide a Random Choice

Picker Wheel is a wheel spinner for a random picker. Various functions & customization. Enter choices or names, spin the wheel to decide a r

Do you read it?

I’ve read this already!

Hell yes this is literally meant for me!

Yes but out of morbid curiosity

Maybe

No

Absolutely not!

Why does this fucking exist?!?!

Voting ended onMay 4

[asexualmaul]

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

well maybe you should blearily wake up at 5:08 in the pre-dawn light and find the sleeping soft tiny mammal body of your cat just inches from your head like a miracle too beautiful for speech, and you should rustle one hand out from your blankets to rub fingertip circles across the warm eggshell dome of her little velvet-wrapped skull and on the bristly patches just where the cups of her ears begin, and as she inclines her head into your fingers and purrs without ever opening her little eyes you should feel a love so tender that you understand how that love could have reached out from the fireside into the inky spangled nights long gone to reach her, and then you'll feel better

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

i am at a complete loss as to how to adequately express to you how much this cat throws up yeah