symphony

[sappy-cappy]

Erebus undercover watching everyone fighting for their lives at Penumbra

[fandom-witch]

"Nick's mother, Sel's mother, mine. How many mothers has the order taken?"

👩🏿‍🍼👩🏻‍🍼👩🏼‍🍼

"Mothers, gone. Mothers, taken. Mothers, lost."

Happy (early) Mother's Day to Faye, Natasia, and Anna with their little ones 💕

The amazing artist: @marf244 thank you so much for making these!!

[mochiimocha]

Put some colors on it

[rednines]

When do we start crucifying

[gupdoo3]

Important context:

[bluestockingbaby]

[ymutate]

Anastasia Trusova (Russian, born 1989)

“Cat in the Garden”

[luntfontanne]

Posters for National Theater of Korea's production of Macbeth, designed by Yuni Yoshida and photographed by Noh Juhan. [1][2]

[lionfloss]

José Eduardo Barajas, Solitario (Windows XP/RM), 2017

[notnights]

[danabii]

wow my account is 10 years old

[byjove]

My ideal date? You release me into the wild to hunt me for sport on your remote island BUT I’m not very good at hiding so you find me within 20 minutes. You hold the gun to my face but there is something so earnest in my eyes and hands that you cannot carry through. You pick me up and carry me back to your mansion. I am so polite and charming that you nurse me back to health. You grow to love and trust me despite the fact you’re holding me hostage after I fell of a charter vessel bound for Brazil. You buy me new clothes and have them shipped to the island. I kiss you good morning every day. You propose marriage. I accept. We skype in a priest and get married with the butler as our witness. That night I kill you and the butler. I redistribute your wealth. I live in the mansion on the abandoned island for the rest of my days. I study snail ecology. I never remarry. You were the love of my life but you were too dangerous and evil to live. I am buried next to you. The tides eventually wash our bodies away. Into the depths of the ocean, together.

[red-swimmerz-deactivated2021082]

id go to like, an olive garden

[batfam-belfry]

Dick. Why are you licking mystery substances off the ground. Stop.

[fuyunoakegata]

It's a habit for him... 🤣

[atlaculture]

Cultural Anatomy: Sokka’s Choker

From what I’ve researched, chokers were traditionally worn by some Native American tribes rather than by the Inuit, who traditionally preferred looser fitting necklaces. But Sokka’s particular choker is identical to traditional Alaskan Inuit bracelets, which are made from walrus or whale ivory.

Which means that Sokka might just be wearing a bracelet as a choker. And I can’t think of anything more perfectly Sokka than using an item for something beyond its intended purpose. I can totally imagine how the whole thing started:

Mother Kya: “One day, when Katara gets married, I’ll give her this necklace that Gran-Gran gave to me.”

Lil Sokka: “No fair! Why don’t I get anything?”

Hakoda: “Sokka, this necklace is for girls only.”

Lil Sokka: “Fine, I’ll just make my own necklace.” *ties his bracelet around his neck and immediately starts choking*

Gran-Gran: *sighs* I’ll get more string…

[lbibliophile-atla]

A variation: it’s actually Hakoda’s bracelet! 

He’s upset that it keeps sliding over his hand, so he has the bright idea to untie cords and retie it as a necklace (being as he is Lil Sokka, the sizing works out so that it - mostly - fits).

Periodically he rethreads it with an extra segment so it keeps fitting.

[atlaculture]

YES! This is my new headcanon. Wanting to pass on an heirloom to his son with as much weight and meaning to it as the betrothal necklace, Hakoda gives Sokka his bracelet made of the bones of his greatest hunts.

Sokka’s determination to be a great hunter is partially motivated by his desire to add more segments to the bracelet/necklace, because he wants to symbolically and literally continue his father’s legacy.

[the-hot-zone]

This is a fantastic headcanon. It holds so many layers of meaning: the connection to Katara’s necklace, Sokka’s identity, and Hakoda’s legacy. Especially since, during Hakoda’s absence, Sokka and Katara had no way of knowing if he was alive or not. And the idea of Sokka adding more bones to the necklace as he grows older is amazing.

“which are made from walrus or whale ivory.“

The thing about walrus hunting is that it’s a two-person job, so I can’t see Sokka adding more segments during Hakoda’s absence. Thus, I can see Sokka adding his first original segment post-war, perhaps during the first whale or walrus hunt. It gets better when you realize that would be his first time hunting alongside the men (and most likely women) of his tribe.

[the-hot-zone]

About walrus hunting:

In Uqalurait: An Oral History of Nunavut, an Inuit elder describes the hunt of a walrus in these words: “When a walrus was sighted, the two hunters would run to get close to it and at a short distance it is necessary to stop when the walrus’s head was submerged… the walrus would hear you approach. [They] then tried to get in front of the walrus and it was harpooned while its head was submerged. In the meantime, the other person would drive the harpoon into the ice through the harpoon loop to secure it.”

Walrus hunting was too dangerous (particularly during the summer) to be done alone, so it was a two-person job. 

[atlaculture]

The Avatar-world equivalent to that would probably be walrus-whale hunts. I was going to say, “Can you imagine?” or “Someone should draw that!”, but a quick Google search revealed that walrus-whales were apparently once a real thing:

[prokopetz]

The really hilariously ill-conceived part of the Twitter rate limiting thing is that comments and retweets are the same kind of entity as tweets in the back-end database, they're just "parented" to whatever tweet they're commenting on or retweeting, and the rate limit they've placed on the API simply counts how many of those entities you've requested without checking a. whether they're the children of another entity or not, nor b. whether you've already seen that particular entity today.

Thus, the limit isn't really "600 tweets". A tweet, each comment on that tweet, and each retweet of that tweet all count against the limit as you view them. For example, if a quote-retweet crosses your dashboard, the quote-retweet itself and the little preview of what it's responding to that appears above it each count separately against the limit. Click into that quote-retweet to read the comments? They both get counted against your limit a second time, as does each individual comment you read – and heaven help you if any of those comments were themselves commented upon!

The upshot is that if your account isn't verified, using Twitter in the manner that its own monetisation model assumes – and, indeed demands – it will be used can easily exhaust your entire daily allocation of tweet views in as little as a couple dozen engagements.

[bluedogxl]

so that’s why i ran out in like two hours

[prokopetz]

If anything, two hours reflects a very restrained usage pattern. Owing to the way that tweet views are counted, somebody who's using the site the way its user experience "wants" it to be used might readily burn through their daily 600 views in five to ten minutes!

[taavicleric]

Wait, wait, wait, so, Twitter now works like those mobile games that give you free "lives" and once you're out, sorry! Wait til tomorrow... or pay!

[prokopetz]

It's a bit worse than that, because the verified limit is only 6000 views, and there's presently no way to increase it beyond that. That might feel like a big number, but for the reasons outlined above, even a paying user with an ideal usage pattern will be able to use site for perhaps 60 minutes a day before they get put on hold, too.

[xiaolanhua]

XG | GRL GVNG MV

[calpicoboys]

[andrew-garfielld]

Lupita Nyong'o as Nakia in BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER 2022 | dir. Ryan Coogler

[m0ney]

Beyoncé in 2002･ﾟﾟ⋆｡♡˚☆｡