Grasping at shadows

Name's Amaya. Just a blog about my fandom ramblings.  Now shut down.

[darknessfactor]

On a rainy day...

Amaya, she/her, bi

Here it is, folks! My new home. My queue will continue to reblog some stuff to darknessfactor for a while, but once that runs out? That’s it.

Hope to see you there!

[memyselfandmynonbinaryass]

I don’t think Winry gets enough credit as a genius. Like, automail would need her to understand engineering, robotics, anatomy, and particularly how nervous systems work, and she’s technically a surgeon. She was already a regular helper at Pinako’s shop when she was 11. At 15, she walked into a town full of top automail experts and impressed all but one of them with a rush-order arm she’d made. Then, she took over one person’s shop so thoroughly, her customers won’t even let someone else make the outer casings. On top of that, she read medical books as a child and not only understood them, but retained enough of it to successfully deliver a baby years later even though that had nothing to do with her preferred field. And she didn’t have any help from the Truth.

Winry might not be an alchemist, but she’s a medical and engineering genius and somebody needs to tell her that right now.

[kvotheunkvothe]

[bubblepunk99s]

@jabariqueen

[moodybluemegamind]

“Or are just you trying to scare me away, so you won’t have to die trying to protect her?”

[wortlby2]

A multi-Doctor special with...

…10-13.  10, 11, and 13 run around like spastic children while 12 has to babysit them all and pretend he doesn’t find their antics amusing.  Tell me this wouldn’t be funny. 10 and 13 will scronch faces at each other and build 5 devices that go “ding!” for no reason by the end of the episode. 

[doctorthasmin-deactivated202410]

I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE RIGHT NOW

[vmsbucketofrice]

Send it to Chibbs right now!!!

[icpe]

great doodle god, as part of the Dishonored fandom i have to say i am sad :( my boy Slackjaw doesn’t get enough love, nor do the Bottle Street Boys. can you please draw him?

[gillgooelectrophoresis]

Here’s a fun fact and reminder that I am not gonna stop posting about as long as I keep seeing this bullshit:

Dear Americans, identifying as a communist is just as offensive as being a literal nazi in a very big part of the world. The hammer and sickle is an offensive symbol that is banned in many countries, just like the swastika. Likely more people died under communist oppression than nazism, and there are people still alive who can tell you about it.

And no, don’t come at me with all this “but the core ideology was good!!” or especially “here we do not have this connotation so it’s not offensive!”. Your media, culture and standards are forced on the entirety of the rest of the world, and whatever you post in english is understandable for everyone else, if I am decent enough to care about issues like blackface (that literally have zero history in eg. my entire country which was never a colonizing nation), you should be decent enough and not make a hip cool internet trend about an oppressive ideology whose victims still remember the horrors and still suffer the consequences :)

Thanks and don’t be surprised if you see this reposted by me again, chances are I saw another fucking idiot who thinks communism is cool uwu it was just never done right, Lenin was a bae uwu glitter rainbow hammer and sickle :3

[spaceasianmillennial]

I feel the same way. My family was traumatized by the communists’ destruction of Vietnam and fled to the USA. The word “Communist” brings horrible memories for them.

My school has a Communist group. The group itself has done positive actions like worker strikes so cafeteria workers could get paid (a movement I wholeheartedly supported), but to wear the name so proudly would open old wounds for my Vietnamese family.

I see their recruitment table with the word “Communist Party” and I go, “Uhhhhhhhhh, why?” 

[astrariem]

actual disney princess josephine montilyet

[thatdisasterauthor]

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME ABOUT PRO WRITING AID BEFORE?! THIS THING IS FUCKING GLORIOUS. HOLY SHIT. LOOK AT THIS.

IT GIVES YOU A WHOLE DAMN REPORT ON YOUR WRITING AND WALKS YOU THROUGH HOW TO MAKE IT BETTER AND WHY IT IS SUGGESTING CHANGES. THIS IS JUST A TINY CHUNK OF THE HUGE REPORT IT GAVE ME ON THE FIRST CHAPTER OF ONE OF MY PROJECTS. I AM IN LOVE.

AND IT WORKS WITH SCRIVENER. AND IT IS AFFORDABLE.

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME?!

[thatdisasterauthor]

Seriously, a couple hours with this and my first chapter is so much better. It helped me see problems I KNEW I had (passive voice, showing vs. telling, adverbs) but was having a hard time sussing out. It has made editing so much more fun and easy because now I know what the hell I’m doing and what to look for instead of stumbling around blind shouting “adverbs? adverbs?” like a town crier. I can already tell I’m getting better at seeing things without the program having to show me too.

I officially worship this thing.

[caainhurst]

it’s ProWritingAid in case anyone missed it

[coramo]

Does it do essays?

[thatdisasterauthor]

It does have an academic mode, yes!

[unlikelyxvalentine]

*sees anything that’s a whale*

Me: D I S H O N O R E D

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

firstborn children are the dumbest currency ever lmao what if i never planned on having a child huh? ye hi Old Witch From Forest i want abs and four billion dollars you can have all my children in return tbh

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

shut up you Dumb Currency

[8bitmickey]

This is what happens when you accidentally get off your horse right before a cutscene in Red Dead Redemption 2

Source

[everythingfox]

Cat has important message for everyone

[stillgirlfrommars]

Nat working out.

[bibliophile-06]

THE ONLY WALL THAT DESERVES ATTENTION GOING INTO 2019

[sorotrax]

Emily Kaldwin, rightful heir to the throne of the isles. Causin her father panics because she’s still usin that damn mark.

[juan-the-gecko]

When women want to fuck monsters:

When men want to fuck monsters:

Conclusion: men are fucking cowards.

[tolkienteacher]

I laughed out loud in the middle of a staff meeting.

[aggro-kawaii-deactivated2022111]

I have yet to see a “not all men” and I’m surprised. 

[kaasknot]

via @trillgutterbug

[nassadii]

[skygemspeaks]

imagine miles’ dad is on his way home one night when he spots spiderman sitting by himself on the roof of a building

he looks small, and lonely, and fragile

and jefferson, who has a son around spiderman’s age, can’t ignore the impulse to make sure he’s okay

so he finds his way to spiderman’s perch and settles down next to him

they sit in silence for a long time, spiderman staring up at the moon in thoughtful silence

it’s almost five minutes before he finally speaks

“i was there, you know”

jefferson doesn’t understand

spiderman hugs his leg to his chest, resting his cheek on his knee as he turns his face to the officer sitting at his side

“when peter died,” he says by way of explanation, and his voice is wavering with the threat of tears. “i’d only had my powers for a day, and i was so scared. i had no idea what was happening to me. but then he showed up.”

jefferson is baffled, his whole world turned on its axis. somehow, he’d never thought about who spiderman had been before he was spiderman. there was a part of him that had just kind of assumed he’d been different from birth. a part of him had bought into the lie that spiderman was indestructible, that he had always known what he was doing and who he was.

“he said he’d teach me,” says spiderman, voice bitter with longing. “he promised he’d show me the ropes and be there for me when i needed him. and then he died.”

“i’m sorry you had to experience that,” says jefferson, because he doesn’t know what else to say. and it’s the most natural feeling in the world to reach out to the young hero and wrap him in a hug.

he fits in jefferson’s arms like he’s always belonged there, and in a moment of clarity, jefferson feels everything click into place

“i watched fisk kill him, and i didn’t do anything,” sobs the child in his arms, the child that jefferson would recognize anywhere, in any life. “it’s my fault he died. i killed spiderman”

“Oh miles,” he says, voice gentle as he reaches down to remove the mask from his son’s face so he can wipe his tears away with gentle fingers. “you didn’t kill spiderman. you brought him back to us.”