Passionate, Concerned and Obsessed

Bigger on the Inside:  Abbie, 24, Florida.  Christian, Artist, DCP Alumni, INTJ, Ravenclaw, Velociraptor

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2023??

Cooking with flavor bootcamp (used what I learned in this a LOT this year)

Beekeeping 101

Learn Interior Design from the British Academy of Interior Design (free to audit course - just choose the free option when you register)

Video on learning to read music that actually helped me??

How to use and sew with a sewing machine

How to ride a bike (listen. some of us never learned, and that's okay.)

How to cornrow-braid hair (I have it on good authority that this video is a godsend for doing your baby niece's black hair)

Making mead at home (I actually did this last summer and it was SO good)

How to garden

Basics of snowboarding (proceed with caution)

How to draw for people who (think they) suck at art (I know this website looks like a 2003 monstrosity, but the tutorials are excellent)

Pixel art for beginners so you can make the next great indie game

Go (back) to school

Introduction to Astronomy (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Principals of Economics (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Introduction to philosophy (free college course)

Computer science basics (full-semester Harvard course free online)

Learn a language

Japanese for Dummies (link fix from 2022)

Ukrainian

Portuguese (Brazil)

American Sign Language (as somebody who works with Deaf people professionally, I also strongly advise you to read up on Deaf/HoH culture and history!)

Chinese (Simplified)

Quenya (LOTR fantasy elf language)

[hermscat]

Reblogging to remind myself that retirement is the perfect time for some of these!

[shittinggold]

Clara and Twelve breaking up at the end of one episode and then choosing to go on a date in order to officially mark their breakup is exactly the kind of codependent insanity I expect from them.

[personinthepalace]

[kalofi]

i tried the “ask your mom what she would do if you were a bug” trend

[kalofi]

asked my dad too

[blueboxblueocean]

Y’all I had one of those really fleshed out dreams last night and I was so sad to wake up and the tv show I was dreaming about wasn’t real. So I wrote down the entire show concept in my notes and I’m sharing it here for posterity:

Sherlock Holmes-esque Dream Show

Watson is female, and is Moriarty (maybe a code name) at the same time - comes from a high ranking organized crime family, where she was tasked with infiltrating the police. She has excelled and is a homicide detective, but uses her access to police files to keep her family/organization informed. No choice, doesn’t enjoy it, but it’s her whole life/no way out: leaving is dangerous. Think heart of gold, forced into a bad situation

Meets Sherlock Holmes on a case where he is consulting. Is annoyed with him at first but finds him useful for that case and is encouraged by her superior (found father vibes) to continue to consult with him. She learns he is working on bringing down her family’s criminal organization as a side hobby, and after reporting this to her father she is told to keep an eye on him, and/or mislead him sometimes so is forced to work with him regardless

S1 Finale - he discovers, through a suspect, the name “Moriarty” and that it’s the informant for the syndicate from the police (syndicate arranges for suspect to be killed to protect their mole but Sherlock continues to look into it in S2 despite Watsons discouraging)

S2 Finale - discovers Moriarty IS Watson but they’re good friends by now and after confronting her with it learns the blackmail situation and doesn’t report her to the police

S3 - Them working to try and bring down her family but also protect her from the fallout. Basically she becomes a double agent for the police at this point, feeding strategic information to organized crime to give them key suspects without raising suspicion towards her. Finale - Her supervisor is brought in to officially put her on paper as an informant/key witness to help protect her from fallout. And in a cliffhanger: her father discovers her interference

S4 - Final season, culminates in the arrest of her father and the fallout. She can’t be a detective anymore, as after the trial there’s too much pressure from the city that she is corrupt, so she and Sherlock form a PI business as the epilogue.

Very Lucifer meets Elementary energy

Sort of Enemies to friends to lovers

High stakes organized crime threat, not so campy. Think more drug money/human trafficking meets mob family business

Tell me you wouldn’t want to watch this show! I want to watch this show darn it. I’m so mad it doesn’t exist. UGH MY BRAIN

[homunculus-argument]

character in a movie: Oh no, angry dog, please don't bite me!

the dog: I'm at work! I'm doing so good at being at work! I'm barking because my handler gave the sign 'bark'! I am going to get such a good grade in being a dog actor, which is completely possible to achieve, and normal to want! I am doing a great job! I am proud of myself for doing such a great job! I love this, because I'd make it physically impossible to get anything done if I wasn't enjoying it! I'm barking!

[deathstars]

me remembering that luke and rey didn’t even have a good relationship and we didn’t get to see them as a parental relationship or even as friends

[artoodeetoa]

cant believe they expected us to believe luke saw rey; a lonely kid from a desert planet dreaming about finding her parents, struggling with her identity, and dealing with the weight and pressure of bringing back the jedi…. and he didnt want to help her. not only that, they also made them argue the whole time. SICK

[deathstars]

the real luke skywalker would meet rey and be like oh i know you. i’m your dad now. i can teach you three things: how to Force, how to make the perfect cup of hot chocolate, and how to destroy fascists. let’s go do barrel-rolls in x-wings

[softieskywalker]

the way the real luke skywalker would have taken a single glance at that feral desert girl and been like. "my child now." come here girl I'll teach you how to build moisture vaporators so you never have to exploit yourself for water. yes this is more important than jedi training. yes we can cover that later. oh you want to fight kyle? oh you're struggling with the idea that he might still have a soul? ok learn from my mistakes and don't lose a hand in a fight you can't win, but also did i tell you about the time i beat my dad's ass so hard he bounced back to the light side? funny story actually,

all of this in the 10 minutes after she gives him anakin's lightsaber

[deathstars]

Rey: i was abandoned by my family on a backwater desert planet and waited for them for most of my life before a droid and the man who would become my best friend showed up and i chose to leave everything i knew behind in order to help save them and help the rebellion. i am very strong with the force and want to learn in order to protect the ones i love but my own capacity for darkness scares me. i need help understanding who i am and what my power means

Luke:

[softieskywalker]

the force: here, have an apprentice who's a metaphorical narrative mirror for you. she needs guidance and a mentor figure.

luke: oh you mean my new daughter

the force: what

[deathstars]

Rey: here dad meet my friends

Luke, meeting orphan mechanic rebel rose tico, pilot with a flair for drama poe dameron, and man who chose goodness in the face of overwhelming evil and is powerful in the force finn: oh you mean all my new kids

[softieskywalker]

luke, talking to the force ghosts of the jedi council: so my first apprentice grogu has a mandalorian dad right? and he told me about how he rescued him and adopted him and how that's custom for mandalorians, right? to adopt the children they rescue. so THEN i got hit with a tax bill for religious organizations and i thought you know what doesn't get taxed? children. like when you have a child. you're not paying the government for having a child. SO i thought you know what i ain't payin the government shit-

force ghost obi-wan: but isn't leia the chancellor?

luke: EXACTLY imagine paying taxes to your sister!!! i'd rather die. anyway that's how i ended up with 15 children. they're all skywalkers.

yoda: force-sensitive, some of them are not.

luke: yes. your point?

[inky-starlight]

@softieskywalker you can’t just leave absolute gold in the tags

[tobs-heath17]

CHAOS CUP SEASON 2– 4 REDS AND A YELLOW IN LIKE 5 MINUTES AND ONE OF THE REDS WAS TO A COACH HILY SHIT 😂😂😂 “it’s now 10 v 9 and only one coach” !!!!

[kaity--did]

Y’all being pregnant while moving into a new house is BUCKWILD

My husband is an intelligent man, but he has gotten in his head that if I lift one box I will PERISH

[kaity--did]

Here is the problem in a nutshell

Would I love to let my husband do everything? Of course?

But this absolute GIANT of a man after TEN YEARS together still has no spatial awareness and NO AWARENESS that his a A FOOT AND A HALF taller than me. If he is left to put thing away, he will do so diligently but he PUTS EVERYTHING ON THE TOP SHELF and my TINY TREX ARMS CAN NOT MAKE THAT TRIP

[kaity--did]

I threw out my back and he’s now convinced that it’s his fault for letting me carry paper plates in the house my self and that he’s going to be a terrible father

This man has a LAW DEGREE and is a PRACTICING ATTORNEY

[kaity--did]

“You have two skeletons inside you right now that is double the amount I have. You are my sweet special Eldritch Horror” - My Husband

Thanks I think?

[kaity--did]

“It’s insane that we just made a person! I’ve never even met a baby before what do I say?!”

Not worried about diapers here folks, just first impressions

[kaity--did]

“I’m going be be a dad which is just buckwild. I have your pregnancy checklist but here is my fatherhood check list

1. I need a riding lawn mower

2. I need a white tank top

3. I need a beer, particularly an amber colored one

4. I need a book of puns

5. I need a baby back pack to carry said baby

6. I want my own diaper bag, and I want it to be STYLISH

Kait are you writing this down this is important?”

[kaity--did]

Me: a lot of people on the internet are calling you a himbo, would you like to respond?

Husband: I am often very dumb, and I do drink the respect women juice like fine wine, however I am not very strong, and I just don’t know if I can accept this title if I do not meet all the qualifications

Me: I don’t know, you lifted all those boxes on your own

Husband: this was simply DAD ENERGY

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[kaity--did]

I can not with this fool

[catgirlnailpolish]

literally marry him

[kaity--did]

I have great news my friend

[404computerhamstersnotfound]

marry him again

[kaity--did]

I’ve read him some of these replies and he got very upset and yelled (which if you know my husband is barely over a whisper) “I CANT MARRY YOU ANY HARDER I KNOW IVE GOOGLED IT MANY TIMES”

Y’all I’m obsessed with this idiot

[kaity--did]

Everybody wants a himbo husband until you get this text at 6am

Why was he locked outside again? Cause he won’t let the dog “pee alone in the dark Kait, that’s inhumane” 🤦‍♀️

[lenoreofraven]

If kwamis were actual size Tikki would be the least obvious as ladybugs are easy to hide, while each day would be an adventure of Adrien trying to sneak a cat into the class, or Plagg (who still has all the normal kwami powers) sitting on the steps of the school, curled up in the sun, waiting for Adrien to come back, maybe sometimes staring at the doors Damocles slammed in his face mewing, other days finding his way onto the roof.

That or Mendeliev or Bustier has a soft spot for cats, brings it inside from the harsh weather conditions (it’s 20 degrees, a few clouds but mostly gentle sun) and Plagg now spends the whole day at the front of the class being pet by teachers and whichever student is doing a presentation.

[ineedspellcheck]

Alya used the excuse “the zoo needed someone to take care of this fox” for taking Trixx into class

Depending on what kind of turtle, Nino can hide one of those tiny pet turtles under his hat or his pockets

[lenoreofraven]

Kagami appearing in class with her dragon: Um, so, for show and tell this week

Teacher: You are high schoolers. There is no more show and tell

Kagami: Hmm….Would you believe my mother’s company has manufactured a dragon?

Meanwhile Luka is just wearing Sass as a scarf. His mother is Anarka, they learned long ago to not question things out of the ordinary with him. They just compliment the look and offer him heat pads if the snake gets cold.

[ineedspellcheck]

Wait, does Chloe get a single bee or a bee hive then?

[lenoreofraven]

There is a bee colony/hive in the school which Pollen has befriended, but Chloe only has a singular bee. A fabulous stylish bee that can talk, but a bee nonetheless that Chloe (due to lack of effort) has frequently mistaken for other bees

[ultrakart]

Kagami ditching her robot chauffeur to ride atop a majestic DRAGON wherever she goes.

[hamsternamedmarinette]

Max showing up to school on horseback: sup 

[mugges]

Who would you be in a fantasy society

im just here for a good time but i feel so attacked rn

[blueboxblueocean]

[earlgreymon]

空の生け花 「友」:  花言葉  the language of flowers, inspired from sora’s ikebana in last evolution: kizuna sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

[tapireye-deactivated20220708]

Jacket with 175 Pockets by General Research

[synthlet]

[redwaltz]

Oh good. Literally the comment I was going to make about who let Rob Liefeld design clothing is in the notes already. I'm glad I'm far from the only one who thought something similar. :P

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[kimmywithay]

as someone who lives far away from any mountains this just doesn’t even seem real

[silver-tongues-blog]

I feel like this is very passive aggressive considering i skipped the puzzle he set up 10000 years ago an waited very patiently for link to enter

[shockingjokes-artbook]

Monk: Ah the Young Hero has come. Now he can do the shrine to help him master the skills to defeat Gannon-

*Link falls from the sky*

Monk: …..Well okay than..

[silver-tongues-blog]

monk: “that certainly was…. resourceful”

[verified-villain-fxcker]

Me leaving the theatre December 17 2015: Wow! I can’t wait for Finn to become a Jedi and lead a storm trooper revolution, and Rey to be a skywalker/Kenobi, and Poe to be a main character with development and lead with Leia, and Luke helping his sister lead the new rebellion and train Finn and Rey. And Hux and Kylo and Phasma are gonna be an evil trio! So much cool stuff is gonna happen!

[c-rowlesblogs]

Man, I’m kind of bummed out that the best resources for deer anatomy and body language are all on hunting sites. I mean, it makes sense, but it’s still kind of disorienting to be reading along and then have a description end with like, “…so if you see the buck’s ears do that, stay still and keep your gear from making noise”. I’m not crouching in the grass with a compound bow, I’m just an artist! I just want to draw a bunch of fake fictional deer and deer-adjacent creatures, not put on some forest camo and hunt me a Big Antler Boy or w/e in real life!! 

Yeesh, I bet I’m going to get targeted ads about hunting equipment now. Just another way that the Research Struggle can be really real sometimes.

[hallowedtalon-deactivated202104]

Here are amazing deer skeletal references by Rico LeBrun! They were created during production of Disney’s Bambi, to help aid the artists.

The link to download the images in their full glory:

http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=1548

[c-rowlesblogs]

Oh whoa, thank you so much!! This is awesome. I’ve seen some of these drawings before, but never the full set!

Edit: oh wow I just looked at the URL and it’s.. hmm. Hmmmmmmmm

Unsure.jpeg but thanks for the images in the post

[alberolingarn-deactivated202102]

@c-rowlesblogs it’s OK, we’re gonna be OK

[c-rowlesblogs]

Oh my god

[callmebliss]

This post was A Journey

[al1025]

now that i think about it louisville prob won’t risk taking someone who they know has settled down route on a team that had been left unprotected

ie: ashyln and ali, married have a whole house, v close to family, other reasons. or carli, injury and has definitely settled in jersey. becky just got to portland so there was not a real point in protecting her cause if she were to be traded it would cause outrage. i have no clue on why utah didn’t protect christen, unless they were saving up for something big then idk. also there is noooo way that megan would leave seattle so it is a valid reason on why she would be left unprotected.

all of these are just observations i have made when going over the lists so please don’t judge.

[blueboxblueocean]

I think Utah (they’re my home team) might be risking leaving her unprotected because she’s in Manchester. It’s a big risk, but choosing to protect Kelly instead (who has expressed interest in moving East again) indicates to me that they’re more worried about losing Kelly. Christen likely has no desire to move East, considering she’s from LA, and she’s definitely shown she’s willing to peace out if she’s not interested in playing for a certain team (Houston Dash anyone). If Louisville tries to take her and she’s not interested, she could just stay in the UK. I think it’s much more likely they’d lose her to Angel City. It’s a risk, and it’s not one I like as a Utah fan, but that’s my thoughts on the decision.