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[pigmentofimagination]

I am. Never. drawing. stairs. Again.

[thesocietalmisfit]

A little Caspava ficlet I wrote at about 3am after Chapter 52. No spoilers for the episode but it does hint at Ava’s arc in the episode.

Ava: I have the tendency to get a tad bit obsessive.

Caspar: Just a bit?

Ava: And it has recently come to my attention that I might…

Caspar: Might what?

Ava: *spits out the next word like it’s poison itself*

Ava: Need someone ground me. And I think I could tolerate if that person could be you.

Caspar: Tolerate it?

Ava: Would you work with me here? Okay vulnerability isn’t my thing. My thing is theoretical physics. And quite frankly vulnerability isn’t your thing either. It’s bringing me pencils and serving me coffee and being a sarcastic asshole half of the time. I’m not used to this.

Caspar: Well maybe we should get used to it.

(Pause)

Ava: You first.

Caspar: *swallows a gulp*

Caspar: I love you.

Ava: Damn you couldn’t have eased into it?

Caspar: You don’t have to say it back.

Ava: I know.

Caspar: It’s just about time I finally said it.

Ava: It’s not that I don’t want to say it back. It’s that I’ve never said it before. Someone having that hold over me, it’s terrifying.

Caspar: I know

Ava: I want to. Just let me work up to it, okay?

Caspar: I’ll keep bringing you pencils.

[mendelssohn-kin]

Medusa was kinda problematic  :/

[mendelssohn-kin]

She objectified a lot of people 

[theamazincactus]

A couple rough paints of some scenes from the Farseer Trilogy! I've been going through those books like crazy and having a great time.

Color thumbnails:

[evilwizard]

Dude. DUDE. HUMPTY DUMPTY JUST FELL. YOU NEED TO SEE THIS ALL THE KINGS MEN ARE THERE TRYING TO GET HIM BACK TOGETHER. THIS IS SO FUCKED DUDE. IM SO SCARED. HE'S DEAD

🖐️ stand aside. only the court necromancer can save him now. we must pray his body isn’t too broken…

[evilwizard]

WTF are the horses doing

[horse-is-a-horse-of-course]

i don't fucking know i tried my best but i think we made it worse with our big hooves

[evilwizard]

WHY WERE YOU INVOLVED AT ALL ??

[horse-is-a-horse-of-course]

i don't knowwww *kicks in frustration and hits humpty dumpty again* fuckkkkkkk

[evilwizard]

STOP

[luulapants]

Got into a discussion about emergency response at a professional retreat recently and everyone was going on and on about agility, and I was like, "Okay but what about contingency?"

And they were like "What?"

And I was like, "Agility isn't the ultimate form of preparedness. Contingency is. Agility still requires you to flounder and figure out a solution in the moment, but if you have a contingency plan, all you have to do is implement it."

And they were like "But you can't make contingency plans for every situation!"

And I was like, "Yeah, you basically can if you just identify all of your basic dependencies and contingency plan around the loss of any dependency," and then I gave a few examples.

And they all stared at me like I'm an alien.

Anyway, that's how I figured out I'm Batman-coded and also learned how Batman must feel talking to supposedly professional superheroes who never bothered to run disaster scenarios until I pointed out that it's insane that they don't already have a plan for if Superman turns evil.

[nestofstraightlines]

There’s a phrase that really stuck in my head around this. It was from one of the British divers who enacted the Thai caving rescue, though I couldn’t tell you which one or which interview.

As he described to the interviewer a moment of panic and how he he overcame, the interviewer said, in one of those, summarise-last-answer-given-with-appropriate-levels-of-respect-in-order-to-proceed-to-next-question phrasing’s, “Wow, so you rose to the occasion -“

And the diver said, “No, actually people always get that exactly wrong. In an unexpected and urgent situation you don’t rise to the occasion. You sink to the level of your training.”

[throckmortons-thrussy]

[hauntingyourself]

night in the city

[runmienn]

My faves from rote! Patience, Chade and Kettricken

[maxknightley]

I think as your job satisfaction gets lower and lower you should gain access to an increasingly broad and powerful suite of forbidden magic

[loldodgers-deactivated20180416]

What if Mike was short for Micycle

[fdsfjdsfjkf93723679267-deactiva]

every now and then theres a text post that gets stuck in my damn head. here it is. im never going to be free of micycle

[sarahsnitch-deactivated20200608]

What if bike was short for bichael

[iphigenesis]

in a way john watson is a fantasy (what if you had this brilliant enigmatic friend and what if he liked you in particular and what if he offered you the excitement of youth and adventures and a way out of boring society life and all without having to actually give up your status as a gentleman so you could have the best of both worlds) and in a way sherlock holmes is a fantasy (what if someone never got tired of you despite your various strange habits and mood swings and instead of simply tolerating you they genuinely liked you and what if you didn’t have to live alone forever and what if you never had to give up doing the things you love) and of course there’s the most fantastical part of it all (what if you could afford london housing prices)

[creatureseeker]

One of my other favorite moments of the night, just because it was utterly genuine and human and brought the audience and the band together so perfectly.

Madeleines’s absolutely tiny, “sorry 😀” gets me every time 😭. And her smile is beyond blinding oh my Goddd. Joey is somehow both so charismatic and endearing here it’s insane. “The fuck am I sayin’?” I literally have no idea but I somehow adore you even more because of it

This humor, compassion, humbleness, joy, embracing of mistakes- this exemplifies what makes TAD so incomparable.

A MASSIVE thank you to everyone being so kind on my previous posts!! I’m reading every comment and tag and they are just filling my heart so much! I LOVE YOU ALL AHHH❤️ I’ve never really made my own posts before, I’ve just kind of been lurking on this hellsite since forever, so getting interaction like this has been a ton of fun 😁

And since a few people have shown interest in a shared Google Drive, I will definitely work on getting one set up! Stay tuned ☺️

[fractalradio]

the first time verity imposes his skill bond with fitz he does so by touching her wrist… it is described as ‘an invasion’ / ‘instinct to struggle against him’ / ‘his grip was like iron’… the fool’s fingerprints, signifier of yet another skill bond, being on fitz’s wrist as well… there’s something to be said here but i haven’t read enough tawny man to say it…

[succumbing-song]

[bonbonlanguage]

You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? It’s the way you can express “I don’t know” without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?

[rk8con]

[suspendnodisbelief]

These are called vocables, a form of non-lexical utterance - that is, wordlike sounds that aren’t strictly words, have flexible meaning depending on context, and reflect the speakers emotional reaction to the context rather than stating something specific. They also include uh-oh! (that’s not good!), uh-huh and mm-hmm (yes), uhn-uhn (no), huh? (what?), huh… (oh, I see…), hmmn… (I wonder… / maybe…), awww! (that’s cute!), aww… (darn it…), um? (excuse me; that doesn’t seem right?), ugh and guh (expressions of alarm, disgust, or sympathy toward somebody else’s displeasure or distress), etc.

Every natural human language has at least a few vocables in it, and filler words like “um” and “erm” are also part of this overall class of utterances. Technically “vocable” itself refers to a wider category of utterances, but these types of sounds are the ones most frequently being referred to, when the word is used.

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

My favourite description of this is in Guards! Guards!

The dragon raised its head in a puzzled way and made a noise that was vaguely interrogative without being in any way a word.

Terry Pratchett

[singetailsaremyfav]

rtte episode and the entire plot is the gang trying to keep Hiccup from finding out his surprise birthday party they’re planning

[academicssay]

[alexaloraetheris]

I am printing these words out and gluing them backwards onto my forehead