Don’t Touch My Trowel

My name is Dima (ace, Mi’kmaq, Christian, adult by a bit). Fan of too many fandoms, never ending student

[doodleimprovement]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Hey look, Coltland Gentry AU!

I briefly talked about this on my main but here is the prologue!

Enjoy!

[doodlesaur-central]

Henri proceeded to roll a nat 20 in deception and Sarah executed it flawlessly. James was not amused. >w<

This was one of my favorite scenes from Liberty's Kids when I was growing up (does anyone else remember that show?) 🤣 I had planned to do this comic for the 4th but it didn't pan out, so here it is today!

(💚Please comment and like directly from the og post in case Tumblr does weird things again! Tumblr reblogs are ok but never repost, thanks! <3)

[sabrebash]

My brother‘s dog likes to get under the covers and sometimes he sends me pictures where she looks like a flashback scene in movies when the protagonist is remembering his dead wife

[anxietyproblem]

[divorce-enjoyer]

why go to the grocery store or to a restaurant when you can just get food delivered why go to the mall when you can get same day shipping on amazon why go to the library when you have kindle why make art when there’s ai why go to the cinema when you can stay at home and watch netflix. we are in a loneliness epidemic btw

[divorce-enjoyer]

the loneliness epidemic was invented by BIG SHIT to sell you more SHIT

[decompositie]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[zer0brainc3lls]

Rocky dumbing down his speech for Grace only reinforces the idea that Grace is a kid in the other Eridians eyes and multiple conversations are happening at once..

Eridian scientist: why did they send a baby to space?!

Rocky: Grace is not a baby. He’s a fully grown human and you all need to respect that-

At the same time another Eridian: the human is thirty!! Are you COMPLETELY sure he’s not a child? He’s barely coordinated!

Rocky: Grace is very sick!! Of course he’s not coordinated you fucking idiot-

ALSO at the same time: did you not think to teach him how to understand us properly?? Let alone communicate with us.

Rocky: he doesn’t have the vocal cords for most of our sounds!! And we were WORKING on him being able to understand proper speech but he’s delirious?! The fact he’s conscious is a miracle-

Grace who is visible stressed and half covering his ears but also trying to listen: what’s going on?? I can’t hear you guys it’s too loud- Rocky what’s going on?!

Rocky: apology apology other Eridians ask dumb dumb dumb questions, Rocky tell Grace later. Grace sleep now Rocky handle.

Grace just nods with bleary eyes and knocks out almost immediately, and the other Eridians are giving Rocky the equivalent of a raised eyebrow in unison.

[the-future-is-chrome]

repeat after me. humans are not inherently evil humans are not like a virus on this earth humans do not “deserve” to go extinct or anything like that. we are living breathing animals that deserve space just like every other creature on this planet. there’s just a tiny amount of us that have a fuck ton of money and power and they really suck

[faggotette]

ecofascist rhetoric getting popular again and i don’t like it one bit

[enba-and-luka]

[brainscrems]

This what I mean when I say science writing is terrible and you need to actually go back to the academic publications themselves to get what’s going on

[athenasdragon]

Frequent enough issue that there's a greeting card about it...

[jinchaeji]

You know what? No

I need for Ryland to somehow come back to Earth (with Rocky and Adrian ofc, they're a package deal now) after they saved Erid and meet with Colt and Court (i do love some coltlandgentry even though i only watched phm as of now)

BUUTTT it's can't be this nice, we need some angst

Ryland still has problems with his memories, he doesn't remember a lot of his childhood (be it cuz his brain wants to protect him from the trauma or due to memory wipe or both, cuz both is good) and the brothers just look at Ryland's eyes sometimes looking for recognition and see nothing. Kinda as if they're seeing just somebody or something wearing their brother's skin

the "new" Ryland also has new habits - can't sleep without being watched by someone, clicks and taps, uses "statement" or "question" at the end of the sentences and overall copies a lot from Eridian's style of communicating. He also sometimes slips and says something in a very broken Eridian language instead of English

Throw in some chronic pain because he spent years in space and suddenly is in a place with gravity (counting Erid in that too)

I want Colt and Court to look at Ryland and mourn the loss of their youngest brother from before-the-Hail-Mary. Re-mourn if you will

I want Ryland to spend more time with Rocky and Adrian than with his brothers because the thought of looking at his siblings and not recognizing them to a level that he knows he should makes him feel so guilty that he'd rather isolate than to face them.

I want them to be reunited but in an angstiest (it's not a word, is it?) way possible without Ryland being dead

Edit: thought of something else - Colt and Court don't know Ryland was forced to go and so they think he'd "abandoned" them. Ryland wants them to believe he volunteered because he's "brave" (he doesn't even think about the possible "abandonment") but slips at some point and mentions the kidnapping.

[lesbian-archives]

Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian Traditions in Gardening, 1994

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

OH it's a lesbian and her enormous sunflower

I thought she had her arm around the shoulders of her wife, who was dressed as a plant monster for some reason

[scientia-rex]

I am so glad you clarified. I was like “I’m glad that woman supports her wife in making increasingly weird ghilli suits”

[nudityandnerdery]

Many of us saw the picture, thought it was two women, one in a weird costume, and thought, "Hey, good for them."

[purplepancaek55]

Another one for the collection

[segamascott]

[captain-price-returns]

[venerable-thief]

I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

In this economy you'll be lucky to retire to your nickels

[quinnception]

[africanaquarian]

I thought I needed a new laptop but nope, youtube is slowing down your PC if you have adblock on on any open tab...

[astraltrickster]

To be very clear about this: CPUs aren't magical devices that can operate forever. They generate heat. They wear out over time. This happens faster when they're operating near capacity. This is not just an attempt to inconvenience you; this is an attempt to damage your property.

For the "crime" of not wanting to be tracked/have ads pissed into your eyeballs 24/7.

Even if you've paid for the "privilege" of the latter.

Fuck Google, and I hope they get sued into oblivion over this.

[fernwah-funzone]

i see everyone in the notes talking about newpipe but nobody's talking about youtube alternatives for desktop

IF YOU USE A DESKTOP PC OR LAPTOP, TRY INVIDIOUS

https://invidious.io/

it is a free, open-source alternative YouTube front-end. in addition to not having ads, it has other great QoL features like a download button. try one of the several instances on that link up there ^^^^

[saintjosie]

so i was super pissed and concerned about this but i have just discovered that while this is true, it is apparently only true for google chrome users. i just tested this by having ten tabs open in firefox playing ten different youtube videos at the same time and my cpu usage spiked to 25% as the videos were loading and then dropped back down to 10% as they played.

if you ever needed another reason to switch to a different browser, this is it.

[frankendykes-monster]