Every Angel is Terrifying, Alas! I Sing to You

Page title from Rainer Maria Rilke . Assorted fandoms: ASOIAF, GOT, Les Miserables, Marvel, Star Trek: The Original Series

[luxlightly]

The idea of two people having sex and it creating another, smaller person who has a combination of their traits sounds like it was made up for fan fiction but alas I've heard tale that it's really happened

[meyerlansky]

just. please know. that giffing scenes like that is a fucking nightmare labor of love.

to wit:

bottom's the raw capture, middle's just flat curve correction to make the footage visible, top is the final coloring with /counts seven adjustment layers to add back in Literally Anything But Yellow

every giffer i know does it out of love for the game, but for the record it's not... easy. it's not just slapping the footage in a cap grabber and posting whatever it spits out. "professional" lighting and color grading has only gotten waaay murkier and flatter in the fifteen years i've been giffing on here, so uh. don't repost gifs, please!

[infiniteeight8]

I thought the bottom was a black bar. I didn't even realize that was footage.

Everyone say thank you to your neighbourhood GIF maker! Giffers are so important to the fannish ecosystem, but to so many people the amount of work involved invisible.

[amnesiaguy]

all my haters become tomaters in my lovely summer garden

[eebie]

[xoxoemynn]

some people could stand all alone in the middle of a house of mirrors and STILL be utterly incapable of self-reflection.

[aslutsdiiiary]

Me this weekend

[what-is-what-minor]

Strong earthquake in Colombia as officials report deaths, injuries and collapsed buildings

The 7.4-magnitude earthquake that hit about 250 miles west of Bogotá resulted in serious damage with people trapped inside some of the build

Hi everyone. Some of you might not know, but today August 10 at 7:34 am , a 7.4 Earthquake hit Colombia.

To my knowledge, the more affected areas have been Chocó and Pereira, but I guess we'll know more as more time passes

These are some of the donstion links that I've managed to find.

SOS Chocó - Fundación Plan

La situación que atraviesan miles de familias en el departamento del Chocó es grave, urgente y exige nuestra respuesta humanitaria. Desde fi

ABACO- Bancos de Alimentos de Colombia Unidos por nuestro país. 2026

ABACO- Bancos de Alimentos de Colombia Unidos por nuestro país. 2026

And ciricearts on twitter has a thread with emergency numbers, missing persons, missing pets and anything that other colombians can add as it goes.

As a venezuelan, my heart goes to my colombian neighbors. I unfortunately know from experience how devastating a disaster like this can be.

[danceundersparklinglights]

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

[iphigeniacomplex]

if everything is going to gradually become outrage marketing can we at least have some fun with it and do the movie remakes with all-women casts again

[canarylemon]

“I promise you nothing. How can I? I’ve told you what lies ahead.”

“I don’t care. I’ll go towards it with you.”

- Queen of the Damned, ch. 4

Things to look for:

Gladioli and wisteria from the illusion of the Villa

The heart framing

Armand’s ring (obligatory. i’m looking at you, amc)

Daniel’s amulet

Prints & more

Original pencil sketch

[serratedpens]

But it just happens, every so often, that something very ordinary seems beautiful to me and I’d like it to be eternal. I’d like this bistro, and that dusty light bulb, and that dog dreaming on the marble, and even this night—to be eternal. And their essential quality is precisely that they aren’t.

Raymond Queneau, Witch Grass

[killxbunnyyy]

sorry i never replied. everyday is blending together and im losing sense of time

[disregardcanon]

Many years ago I had the idea to make an iron throne out of pencils. I finally got that shit done

Ned Stark voice: school is coming

[sparvverius]

can't stop thinking about how "dark and gritty treasure island prequel" sounds like the premise to the worst show ever aired but it's literally good. goes to show that nothing is for certain in this life

[alphacrone]

i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.

[trangoldin]

[mrskayathefrog]

Here is the podcast (audio only), here is the text (the top text is Chinese, scroll down for English)

[partywithponies]

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

[partywithponies]

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

the hot chocolate enjoyer when you ask where all the milk is going so fast:

[faraway-ant]

i’ve seen this user post this photo as a sort of reaction image a couple times now and it makes me laugh every time. because this is the incredibly elusive marbled cat and they really do just have a tendency to look so pitiful, guilty, and empty in the head. so here’s some more photos of them looking like there’s just one marble bouncing around their skull: