[huariqueje]

Nasturtium Spill - Lynne Millar , 2026.

American , b. 1978 -

Oil on panel , 24 x 24 in.

[elodieunderglass]

i don't WANT to drink water I WANT a bard to draft a eulogy for me to criticise!!!!!!!

[helenvaughans]

[depsidase]

[animatedglittergraphics-n-more]

[penandinkprincess]

It’s so crucial to my that the kitty LOVES Shane. Adores him. Gets nearly as excited to see him as Ilya does. She completely ignores Ilya for the first several hours of any Shane visit and Ilya can’t even bring himself to be insulted bc it’s how he feels about Shane too. Shane is dubious about this honor

i love shane who is just. PERPETUALLY a little suspicious of ryba and her motivations.

ryba, meanwhile??? ADORES him. cat-coded human!! hello!! where are we going? what are you looking at? what are you eating? can i sniff it? oh don't mind me i'll just sit right here-

"ilya, get your cat, she keeps following me to the bathroom"

"she doesn't want you to be lonely"

"okay, well, for the bathroom i would like to be lonely so please let her know that"

[penandinkprincess]

EXTREMELY funny to think that ryba is one of the rare cats who likes water, which means shane 100% one day gets to ilya's house before him, wants to shower off the airplane, and is just casually washing his hair out when he turns around and a sopping wet ryba is just There.

fully straight vibing and just hanging out with shane while he showers.

and shane just. TRULY does not know what the fuck to do here.

shane who has spent years sharing locker rooms and showers no problem who is suddenly VERY self-conscious in front of this cat who just invited herself into the shower with him.

and shane also is just??? aren't you supposed to hate water??? isn't that like. a THING for cats??? why are you PURRING?????

[grmh]

[artillustrationarchive-deactiva]

[deadbeatpos5]

babe r u ok? u rebloged the good puppy affirmation post w th lil pink dog

[imkeepinit]

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’

[penandinkprincess]

ik that ilya is not getting a pet frog in the spaghetti verse, but it would be absolutely hysterical if frogs were attracted to him in the wild anyway. he relaxes for too long outside and BAM there is something slimy on him somewhere (there is a frog on his foot) and he is jolted out of his half-awake-half-asleep state IMMEDIATELY. extra funny if this only starts happening after he moves out of russia - in russia apparently he was nothing special to frogs, so they ignored him. anywhere else? he is Frog Catnip. and he only discovers this with shane/at shane's because he's a city boy at heart and only really relaxes in nature with him (ilya finds this extremely annoying. its ruining his street cred. he's losing coolness points by the second. he's trying to be cool and suave and sexy and he is instead being besiged by God's Soggiest Creature)

everyone thinks his great enemy is shane

no

it's THIS motherfucker

man can't even nap on his boyfriend's patio because the fuCKING FROGS WILL FIND HIM

THEY WILL JUMP OVER SHANE

AND GET HIM

WHY

[dahliavandare]

Shane is intensely jealous because whenever he picks up frogs they defensively pee on him.

[allwaswell16]

I just want to talk about the power of commenting on fics for a minute.

I have my main fandom, but when I read in other fandoms, I don't know many of the writers. So I usually just find fics by looking through the tag I want. And if it's a tag I'm really interested in, I'll read every fic in the tag. And if there's a fic I really liked in there, I'll start reading everything by that writer.

So what this means is I'm sometimes reading fics or writers that don't have tons of hits/kudos/comments on their fics, but I found them through some obscure tag I wanted to read. And so I'll get back some really incredibly sweet replies to my comments.

But then, something even more incredible started happening. I'd be reading WIPs by some of these writers and they'd literally start writing the rest of the fic for me. They started asking me what I hoped to see happen or if I had any requests. And when the fic was finished, one of them said the only reason they kept writing the fic was for me.

Sometimes there can be such a lovely connection between the writer and the reader just because you decided to leave a comment. And sometimes you as the commenting reader can become the lone reason why a fic makes its way into the world for all the other readers who come after you.

[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.

[tiffbaxter]

Wild Strawberry (Fragaria vesca)

The fourth flower illustration from my upcoming Wildflower Washi.

[akindplace]

do you guys remember when we googled something and we would get results that were actually related to the things we searched

[kilosink]

They are asking (respectfully) to see your coin collection (no intentions of taking to add to their horde)

[tpwrtrmnky]

The idea of Mario and Peach having any kind of relationship beyond the occasional kiss on the nose and "mama mia" is like viscerally incomprehensible to me

Not like in a prude way I just can't conceive of Mario experiencing... urges. He's a character outside the scope of that. I'm not saying he's asexual either cause positioning him on the allo/ace spectrum implies that it's a dimension of his character that at least exists, that he has at some point noticed it. I think he just jumps.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Luigi probably fucks though.

[penandinkprincess]

I could low-key imagine Ilya as a hedgehog person (I had a hedgehog as a kid) and falling in love and being like "Hollander- look- its you! Spiky on outside, soft and cute on inside!"

ilya saying this with NO self-awareness that he's describing himself lmao

[dahliavandare]

Thought we were exploring the land-dwelling equivalent of selkies for a minute and I was all for it…

[stovetop00-deactivated20230907]

We’re winning.

[lilnasxvevo]

I found his bio on societyofpresidentialdescendants.org and it was so delightful I had to copy paste the whole thing:

“Ulysses Grant Dietz grew up in Syracuse, New York, where his Leave it to Beaver life was enlivened by his fascination with vampires, from Bela Lugosi to Barnabas Collins. He studied French at Yale (BA, 1977), and was trained to be a museum curator in the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (MA, 1980). A decorative arts curator at the Newark Museum for thirty-seven years before he retired, Ulysses has never stopped writing for the sheer pleasure of it. Aside from books on Victorian furniture, art pottery, studio ceramics, jewelry, and the White House, Ulysses created the character of Desmond Beckwith in 1988 as his personal response to Anne Rice’s landmark novels. Alyson Books released his first novel, Desmond, in 1998. Vampire in Suburbia, the sequel, appeared in 2012. His most recent novel, Cliffhanger, was released by JMS Books in December 2020.

“Ulysses lives in suburban New Jersey with his husband of 45 years. They have two grown children, adopted in 1996.

“Ulysses is a great-great grandson of Ulysses S. Grant. His late mother, Julia, was the President’s last living great-grandchild; youngest daughter of Ulysses S. Grant III, and granddaughter of the president’s eldest son, Frederick. Every year on April 27 he gives a speech at Grant’s Tomb in New York City. He is also on the board of the U.S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum at Mississippi State University.”

[wakingfromthewater]

And frankly, the novels sound like they slap:

Desmond was nominated for a Lambda Award.

[doctorscienceknowsfandom]

“With his husband of 45 years.” You kids don’t know ... they got together before AIDS, at the peak of the Gay Glam Life. They stayed together as their generation died around them, and made through it to the point where they could marry and have a legal family. He looks like a chipper preppie who never had a serious thought or care in the world, but it took *incredible* determination, commitment, and also luck to get here.

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

having now read the first of this man's vampire books, you can absolutely tell that he cares a lot about historical furniture because oh my god he really wanted to tell us about all the historical furniture in this vampire's house. material culture as foreplay. seduction via theses about chairs