Forks In A Drawer

So, umm... Welcome to my blog?

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It's my 10 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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GOOD OMENS SEASON TWO COMPLETELY SHATTERED MY HEART

That is all

[technofinch]

we're all so lucky that a cat can be orange. that's such an incredible color for a cat to be

[omnybus]

The bar was so low it was practically a tripping hazard in Hell, yet here you are, limbo dancing with the devil

[travesty-majesty]

OP this is such a raw line what the fuck

[nowicantlose]

The Phantom of the Opera is here

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Indie Sleaze Subgenres??

Ok, when I think of indie sleaze, I think of Alexa Chung, Arctic Monkeys, and the Olsen twins, but apparently some people think of neon colours, shutter shades, edm music, and gold lamé? Are there different subgenres of indie sleaze or is it more just about the *feeling* than the aesthetic?

[scorpiofactsdaily]

october scorpios commit the murder. november scorpios hide the body

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Why does the new tumblr mobile update make the dashboard look like Twitter?? Staff needs to stop changing the aesthetics and address actual issues

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Searching for two reylo fanfics on AO3

I can't remember the title or authors, so I'm proving as many details as I can.

The first fic centred around Kylo loving to bathe Rey every night. Rey was rescued off of Jakku and was very innocent in this fic. She was of age, but there was a certain ddlg vibe to it. Rey was also a virgin, but kylo was not. I beleive there was a betrayal element to it, but I can't remember. Kylo kept Rey's force abilities a secret.

The second one was much longer and had Kylo and Rey getting married and spending their honeymoon on Bespin, where they also worked with the Resistance and Leia to build a new government (I think there was a tag that said something like "when your mom crashes your honeymoon"). There was no pregnancy, except a mention in the very last chapter. Kylo and Rey were able to float in the air via the force whilst having sex.

Any help in finding these fics would be really appreciated! I first read these before I created my AO3 account and haven't been able to find them since despite searching for so long.

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“I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.” - Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

[marlynnofmany]

This is (A) hilarious, and (B) perfect for adapting to a science fiction setting. 

Sneaking onboard an alien ship?  Send in Stabby the Roomba first.

[babyanimalgifs]

This cute platypus 

(via)

[big-ass-magnet]

I fully understand why westerners thought the platypus was a hoax at first. I’m looking at a real live one moving around and it STILL looks fake.

[bogleech]

The one thing that could have made them sound any more made up would have been if you said the boys have secret viper fangs that can absolutely fuck you up with venom, and they do, on their goddamn feet.

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

cursed platypus facts: * five (5) X chromosomes * only the left ovary works * produces milk but has no nipples. the mother just kind of sweats milk out their chest. nature is beautiful * was nearly called the “duckmole” * swims with its weird fish eyes and ears closed, hunting entirely by electroreception * born with teeth, but then they fall out

[sylviaplathquotes]

“And it seems I must always write you letters that I can never send.” - Sylvia Plath

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“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free.” - Sylvia Plath

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“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It’s like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction–every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it’s really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.” - Sylvia Plath

[theotheristhedoctor]

Ok minor detail but ...

So I noticed in A:TLA, and it’s carried over in LoK, that Airbenders always seem to have an advantage in a fight. And at first, it felt like plot armour, particularly in A:TLA.

But when Aang fought Bumi, he lost most of that advantage. And I realised that this wasn’t just plot armour. Someone had sat and worked it out: nobody has had to fight Airbenders for generations. 

None of the other nations have had to train to face them, or practised sparring with them, or anything. Apart from Bumi, no bender in the show has ever even met an airbender before Aang comes along. And in LoK, for the most part people still haven’t. We never see fights between those who have (for e.g. we never see Tenzin and Lin fight); when Korra and Tenzin use airbending, its a unique fighting style that people aren’t trained to manage.

It’s a really small detail, and it fundamentally works to give the heroes an advantage (and make up for Aang’s young age and lack of combat experience), but I love how it’s an advantage in combat for completely logical reasons.

The detail in these shows is amazing. 

[sindri42]

You can see the same principle in play whenever somebody fights somebody who uses a completely unfamiliar style. Combustion benders and lavabenders aren’t straight up more powerful, but they’re pretty much always something you haven’t dealt with which presents unique challenges. That red lotus lady with no arms is just a perfectly ordinary waterbender, but using forms and styles nobody else has seen before. Jet routinely smacks around benders and soldiers, but loses hard to the first person he met who had actually studied diverse styles of swordplay. When Toph invents metalbending, nobody can deal with that, but seventy years later the counters are pretty well known among people who might have to fight the cops.

And it’s why Azula, a genius prodigy who has thought long and hard about how to counter every kind of magic and martial arts out there, keeps getting messed up by a kid with a boomerang.

[ninjaotta]

it’s also a detail from the second ever episode

aang straight up says to the fire nation guards on zuko’s ship “you’ve probably never fought an airbender before”, because he in-universe figures out that, if what everyone around him is saying is true, and airbenders have been extinct for a century (or at least have gone to ground enough to make people think that) then he is a totally unknown figure in anyone’s calculations

this has been brought up before but it’s also one of the reasons why hama is so thrown in her fight with katara - waterbending is about energy exchange, keeping things flowing, throwing your opponent’s power back at them and we see katara and hama do this in their fight. however, when katara is faced with a powerful blast from hama, she stands her ground and blows it apart:

[image ID: a gif of katara in the puppetmaster. she is a teenage girl with dark skin and hair and blue eyes, wearing a red outfit. she turns and throws her hand out, stopping a blast of water and turning it into a huge shield. the background is a dark forest. end image ID]

why do i bring this up?

because it’s a move - and a mindset - influenced by earthbending, which hama has never faced (she went from the south pole, to prison, to the fire nation). it’s an indication not only of katara’s skill and power, but also how she’s learned from her travels, and from toph

[moon-cricket-chirps]

I love how Aang isn’t the only one in the group to learn from the others. They all kinda pick up a little bit from each other and it styles their bending. That’s part of why they are, because they learn and adapt their bending styles and people don’t know how to handle that

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My teeth have been violently ripped from my skull aka I had all four wisdom teeth pulled today.