reading this as someone who does cross stitch but is scared of the other kinds of embroidery is like overhearing an incredibly tall and buff person say they have beef with Mr. Tom, the kitten that chills at the bookstore
i could not eat a dozen fried eggs and would never want to do so. but i almost certainly could accidentally eat a dozen deviled eggs if i was at a party or perhaps a picnic and they were there. they are a highly dangerous food item in this way
Just to note that Hexadecimal's introductory episode: The Medusa Bug, has been cleaned up, and is now available in HD format remastered from it's original master tapes by the fine folk at the ReBoot ReWind project, and it looks AWESOME!
[The artist, putting a simple cake next to a much fancier one: âAw man, that guyâs cake is way better than mine.â The Audience, gleefully holding up a knife and fork âHOLY SHIT! TWO CAKES!â]
I know itâs not July yet, but guys, happy 10 years of âtwo cakesâ. This post on god has been a godsend not only as a writer myself but as a friend of artists and writers who I love to encourage. This was legitimately a game-changer.
Writers cannot watch a movie normally. we are sitting there going "oh that's the inciting incident" and "they introduced that object too early it's obviously coming back" and "this dialogue is doing three things at once good for them" while everyone else is just. watching the movie. having a normal experience. feeling feelings without labelling them. i envy that so much and i would never give it up.
you need to understand that i have two sets of headcanons. there's the set of realistic headcanons based on my genuine reading of the show, and then there's me playing pretend with my dolls.
what's your favorite of these sword-related actions/plot devices... đ¤
gifting someone a sword (especially as significant gesture e.g. betrothal gift)
drawing someone else's sword from the scabbard suddenly and without permission
using someone else's sword as a way to remember them after they've passed
you're not worthy of me drawing my sword/it's almost always left in the scabbard
sword with some measure of sentience e.g. ability to jostle/laugh/purr
emotionally significant "may I please borrow your sword" moment
plot-significant sword name change
Remaining time: 2 days 9 hours
there are of course one william possibilities and im sure ive left some good ones off... feel free to tell me abt some other good ones and their associated stories đ
Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
when brandon sanderson talks about villains in his famous free youtube writing class video lectures he'll say 'what's the difference between gollum and sauron' and of course he means the villain that's present in the narrative and characterized in a way the audience can potentially relate to or sympathize with vs. the looming threatening anonymous far-off force (among other things). but every time he asks that i think 'well one of those guys tracked down frodo and got his ring back'
Welcome back one and all to our eleventh annual Obiyuki Week! Our theme this year is:
The Poisoner's Garden
Inspired by the poison-mediated murder mysteries Shirayuki has been sent to solve at Shinsu's estate, each prompt for this week will be inspired by a plant-based poison. We encourage participants to think as laterally about these prompts as they will like, but we will also include additional themes for each day that can he used to inspire new works or continue existing ones. This ship week is open to all Obiyuki works, so even if a submission does not quite fit the day, please feel free to post and join in!
Day 1: Wolfsbane
Aconitum lycoctonum (folknames: wolfsbane, monkshood, devil's helmet, blue rocket) is one of a genus of over 250 herbaceous and mostly toxic plants that grow in the moist soil of mountain meadows. Historically used both as a medicine and a poison, it is purported to have earned its name for its use in wolf hunting, often used by the Greeks to coat their arrows and javelins. Its reputation as a treatment for lycanthropy is a modern invention, rather than one from Antiquity.
Atropa bella-donna (folknames: deadly nightshade, belladonna) is a toxic member of the nightshade family, which also includes tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplant as well as other well-known poisons, mandrake and henbane. Native to Europe and Western Asia, its foliage and berries are both extremely toxic when ingested, causing delirium and hallucinations as well as death. Its name, "belladonna" is thought to have come from its use to dilate women's pupils, an effect historically considered attractive and seductive, though prolonged usage typically resulted blindness.
Themes: Delirium, Seduction, Silence, Black
Day 3: Foxglove
Digitalis purpurea (folknames: foxglove, witch's glove, dead man's bells) is the best known species of the genus Digitalis, which takes its name from the Latin word for finger, as the German folkname for this plant meant 'finger hut' or 'thimble.' Its folkname's origin has been obscured by myth, though it is said that they were once thought to be worn by foxes to silence their movements while hunting prey. Historically used as a purgative as well as a treatment for epilepsy, herbalists eventually abandoned such treatments as the threshold for proper dosage remained too narrow for reward to outweigh the risk.
Themes: Insincerity, Feeling Your Heartbeat, Fae, Pink
Day 4: Hemlock
Conium maculatum (folkname: hemlock, kill-cow, fool's-parsley, snakeweed, winter fern) is a hollow-stemmed, herbaceous plant often mistaken for other edible wild plants, such as wild carrot, parsnip, or members of the parsley family. Hardy and with deep, penetrating roots, it is a tenacious grower that has wildly extended beyond its natural range. There is no part of the plant that is not poisonous, but in high mountainous regions where winters were long, it was often used as a spring food-- after careful cooking. The Greeks were known to use it to poison condemned prisoners, most famously the philosopher Socrates.
Themes: Tenacity, Desperation, You Will Be the Death of Me, Green
Day 5: Strychnine
Strychnos nux-vomica (folknames: strychnine tree, poison fruit, semen strychnos, quaker buttons) is a tree native to India and southeast Asia; its fruit well-known as the natural source of the extremely poisonous strychnine compound. Though used in Traditional Chinese Medicine as a treatment for many ailments, it was commonly used as arrow poison, with many accidental deaths occurring from simply breathing in the powder or absorbing it through the skin. Most famously, it was used to assassinate the last ruler of the Southern Tang dynasty while kept captive by the Song, the powder of its seeds mixed in a goblet of wine sent to him as a birthday gift. Despite its introduction to the West as a rat poison, it became a popular stimulant around the turn of the 20th century, used by scholars and Olympians alike.
Themes: Competition, Betrayal, Bitterness, Orange
Day 6: Oleander
Nerium oleander (folknames: oleander, rose laurel, be-still tree, rosebay) is the only species in its genus, so widely cultivated that the origin of it remains unknown, though it thought to be somewhere in the Mediterranean Basin. Despite its known toxicity, there are very few cases of accidental poisonings due to its unpalatable bitterness, though there are often anecdotal stories of people being poisoned by inhaling the smoke of its burning branches, or ingesting food that has been cooked on skewers made with its wood. It is rumored that oleander is the plant responsible for the trances of the Oracle at Delphi, either by inhaling its smoke or chewing its leaves.
Themes: Providence, Prophecy, Intoxication, Red
Day 7: Death Cap/Free Day
[A free day for any obiyuki work you would like! If you are looking for a prompt for this day, you can use the prompt below!]
Amanita phalloides (folkname: death cap, destroying angel, stinking amanita) is a poisonous fungus known for resembling several edible species of mushroom. Not only is it the most poisonous of all known mushrooms-- containing enough toxin to kill an adult human in only half of a single toadstool-- it is the deadliest worldwide, responsible for 90% of mushroom-related fatalities every year. There is no way for the poison to be neutralized enough to eat, either by cooking, freezing or drying; one of its most notable casualties was of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, who ate a dish of sauteed mushrooms and died 10 days later, leading to the War of the Austrian Succession.
Themes: Accident, Mistaken Identity, Succession, Blue
Dates: September 20th-26th
Tag: #obiyukiweek26
[Guidelines beneath cut]
Guidelines:
All work must be your own (eg. no plagiarizing other sources, tracing, pose stealing etc)
Absolutely NO AI works are accepted for this challenge
The main pairing is Obi x Shirayuki
Must follow the dayâs prompt, however loosely
Must be tagged #obiyukiweek26 within the first five tags
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Please label with the dayâs number!
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Here is our second community bingo board! The June board will be posting all through the end of June, but posting for this board will begin July 1st through 31st!
[PLEASE READ ALL GUIDELINES BEFORE POSTING YOUR WORKS]
Guidelines:
All work must be your own (eg. no plagiarizing other sources, tracing, pose stealing, AI art/writing etc)
The main pairing is Obi x Shirayuki
Fics, art, edits, and playlists are all valid works for this challenge
(If you create other forms of works please contact the comm and we will be happy to work out eligibility)
Must follow the AU prompt
Must be tagged #obiyukibingo26 within the first five tags
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No works entered through the submission box will be accepted for this challenge
Works must be posted to Tumblr to be eligible as fills! The post may redirect elsewhere (AO3, ffnet, deviant art, youtube, etc) but we need a Tumblr post to reblog our progress on the board!
Please label with your AU!
All NSFW content must be tagged and under a Read More!
You may post more than one entry per prompt, but it will only count for that square
If someone else fills a square, you are still welcome to submit a fill for that promptâ it wonât count towards a further bingo, but it will count toward your personal stats!
One entry, no matter how many AUs it is applicable for, may only count as one square
Fics must be over 500 words to count as a fill
Art does not have to be a full colored finished piece, but at least a finished sketch
Playlists must be over 8 songs.
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Can I base my work off of other fanworks? (aka, make fanart of a fanfic, write fanfic based on fanart, make an edit of a fanfic or write a fanfic for a playlist, etc)
This is absolutely welcome! If your medium is the same (making a fanfic of a fanfic, or fanart inspired by fanart), please check with the creator of the original fanwork, but otherwise just credit the work that inspired you.
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Fic, art, podfics, AMVs, animations, edits & playlists. Please note, we are looking for transformative works; please do not simply palette swap characters from the AU source, or find & replace names in their plot. Reimagine what an AU would look like with AnS characters in it!
the podcast iâm listening to just said âif no one else says it to you this month, let me be the one to say it: happy prideâ and that really hit me so uh
if you have no one to say it to you, or if youâre in a situation where itâs not safe for you to say it to anyone else: happy pride đłď¸âđâ¤ď¸
the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
Do you think it's like a rite of passage for every new generation of xmen to momentarily feel like it's kind of fucked up to be trying to kick the shit out of a senior citizen until magneto crumples someone into a cube like a trash compactor in front of them and they're just like Oh Ok
On the one hand I'm sure everyone else is very heavily emphasizing that magneto is Theee big bad of all time and so on and so forth the whole time the new ones are training but also. Like. Imagine you're the new new new mutants or whatever and somebody manages to actually knock magneto over and he stays on the ground for a second and you're kind of looking at each other like. Guys isn't he *really* old what if we just killed magneto & then the entire city starts shaking while he's getting back on his feet & you're like ohhh he's just REALLY ANGRY now. Ok :) oh that's bad :/ oh shit. Uh oh
[ID: tags from @transguyhawkeye that read, "#having a panic attack over whether you just broke magnetos hip meanwhile he just separated wolverine into recycling and organics for the #third time this week" /end ID]
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