The Notebook

ghostoffourforest aka hereweshallmeetagain (AO3). 32, accountant, student, loves writing.

[aedandraws]

Star Wars meets DC. I give you Grand Inquisitor; Tim Drake WIP

[bigskydreaming]

Petition to combine the ridiculous soap opera nature of comic books with the ridiculous nature of soap operas, and instead of always just having Jason being legally dead post his return, just fucking lean into the most ridiculous resurrection stories possible.

“This is my son, Jason Todd, formerly presumed dead, but in actuality he fell and hit his head and got amnesia and spent the next several years working at a ski lodge in the Swiss Alps where he eventually worked his way up to being an instructor and thus met his sister Cassandra when she and her unnamed-for-the-sake-of-privacy-paramour visited said lodge for a private vacation and Cassandra recognized him as her long-lost brother she’d never met, from the pictures she’d seen of him around the manor.”

or

“Soooo, this is my little brother, the rumors of his demise have been greatly exaggerated as actually we had to fake his death to hide him from the evil sorceress our dad dated for two weeks and then dumped without realizing she wasn’t just joking about being Magic and also Vindictive and who swore to get back at him by taking vengeance upon Jay, who as I’m sure some of you remember, was both adorable and wee at the time, and thus the perfect target for Vindictiveness. But don’t worry, all of that’s water under the bridge now, apparently the sorceress got into it with some Justice Leaguers and is now stranded between dimensional voids or some such nonsense that’s high above MY paygrade, that’s for damn sure, so anyway, now Jay’s back and we’re having a party, everybody go say how glad you are that he’s not really dead, woohoo!”

or

“Yes, this is my older brother Todd, no, he’s not dead, no, I don’t know why or how, all of that was before my time and nobody ever tells me anything anyway.”

Etc, etc.

[bigskydreaming]

I kinda want there to be a themed-week of fics that are just entirely about the Batfam coming up with the most absurd and ridiculous ways to bring Jason legally back from the dead or explain his miraculous survival or return.

[dick-nightwing-grayson]

@frostbittenbucky this sounds up your alley 😉😌

[frostbittenbucky]

“No, he was dead. Our adopted father was so depressed he buried Jay in the pet semetery a few years back. Oh, Jay got lost and had to live on the streets for awhile, he tried to tell people who he was but they all thought he was trying to panhandle someone extra cash”

[ghostofthefourforest]

"He's from another world. Alternate reality or something. His world is gone and Justice League saved him. Mr. Wayne found out, and now he won't let go."

"You don't really think anyone will believe this nonsense, do you Mr. Pennyworth?"

"The ones who knows this family certainly won't Mr. Fox."

[salparadiselost]

Jason comes back to life but instead of the Pit being rage, it travels with him as a very murderous but also slightly helpful voice in his head. (A lá Venom)

Pit: kill Tim.

Jason: No. We don’t do that anymore.

Pit: … kill for Tim?

Jason: Sure. I can get on board with that.

———

Pit: Drink water!

Jason: I’m busy.

Pit: You have not drank water in 6 hours and 42 minutes. Drink water!!

Jason: ugh. Fine.

———

Pit: Death. Death comes. Death comes to those who dare be insolent before us.

Jason: No.

Pit: Yessssss… let us eat our enemies.

Jason: omg NO. We are not eating Dick because he stole a cookie.

Pit: You are weak. You are a coward. Let us tear the cookie from his innards.

Jason: No. Remember how we stopped eviscerating two months ago. Dick is keeping his intestines just the way they are.

Dick: I’m sorry, but what?

[envysparkler]

KAY EXCUSE ME WHERE IS THE FIC I NEED IT.

[salparadiselost]

I’m sorry but it’s still living in my head as a series of loosely connecting dialogue snippets.

All I know is that Tim is fascinated by the voice (even though it threatens to kill him half the time) and conspires with it to get Jason to bed earlier. Tim is also slightly antagonistic with the Pit and wants to perform experiments.

Tim: Hey Jason, can I ask the Pit something?

Pit: No. The raccoon-eyed child only wishes to perform experiments on me and ask more of his inane questions. I am a being that requires the upmost respect. I am the jewel in the Demon King’s crown. I am the giver and taker of life. Kill him for his brash impertinence.

Jason: dude what did you do to make the Lazarus Pit scared of you?

Pit: I am not scared!

Tim, smiling but it’s disturbing: I just asked it some questions.

[ghostofthefourforest]

(Breathes) Aweesooomee

But but what about Ra's al Ghul

Did the pit kinda left him for Jason?

What if, one time Jason and the pit caught Ra's perving of Timmy?

[salparadiselost]

@ghostofthefourforest Thank you for this god-tier idea. It almost instantly made me bust 2k words out in a quick fic.

So yeah, here's the link to the fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/34350331

[ghostofthefourforest]

Ooooh sweeet... I just woke up and here a protective big brother Jason fic for breakfast 😁 with a side of maiming Ra's. Totally love the I-care-not-turned-to-I-care-much vibe.

I like Pit&Jason waaay better than canon.

You're welcome for the idea, and thank you for the fic!

[salparadiselost]

Jason comes back to life but instead of the Pit being rage, it travels with him as a very murderous but also slightly helpful voice in his head. (A lá Venom)

Pit: kill Tim.

Jason: No. We don’t do that anymore.

Pit: … kill for Tim?

Jason: Sure. I can get on board with that.

———

Pit: Drink water!

Jason: I’m busy.

Pit: You have not drank water in 6 hours and 42 minutes. Drink water!!

Jason: ugh. Fine.

———

Pit: Death. Death comes. Death comes to those who dare be insolent before us.

Jason: No.

Pit: Yessssss… let us eat our enemies.

Jason: omg NO. We are not eating Dick because he stole a cookie.

Pit: You are weak. You are a coward. Let us tear the cookie from his innards.

Jason: No. Remember how we stopped eviscerating two months ago. Dick is keeping his intestines just the way they are.

Dick: I’m sorry, but what?

[envysparkler]

KAY EXCUSE ME WHERE IS THE FIC I NEED IT.

[salparadiselost]

I’m sorry but it’s still living in my head as a series of loosely connecting dialogue snippets.

All I know is that Tim is fascinated by the voice (even though it threatens to kill him half the time) and conspires with it to get Jason to bed earlier. Tim is also slightly antagonistic with the Pit and wants to perform experiments.

Tim: Hey Jason, can I ask the Pit something?

Pit: No. The raccoon-eyed child only wishes to perform experiments on me and ask more of his inane questions. I am a being that requires the upmost respect. I am the jewel in the Demon King’s crown. I am the giver and taker of life. Kill him for his brash impertinence.

Jason: dude what did you do to make the Lazarus Pit scared of you?

Pit: I am not scared!

Tim, smiling but it’s disturbing: I just asked it some questions.

[ghostofthefourforest]

(Breathes) Aweesooomee

But but what about Ra's al Ghul

Did the pit kinda left him for Jason?

What if, one time Jason and the pit caught Ra's perving of Timmy?

[thelionandtheeagle]

bold of you to assume i will stop

[autistic-damian-wayne]

[ID: Popular Webtoon Batman Comic, Wayne Family Adventures, Gets Official Live-Action Miniseries. End ID.]

Holy shit???

This short series will premiere exclusively on Ismahawk’s YouTube channel and will serve as an official live-action version of Webtoon and DC’s record-breaking Batman comic. The three-part miniseries will premiere mid-October and you can check out the full cast below.

Jonathan Bentley as Bruce Wayne

Yoshi Sudarso as Dick Grayson/Nightwing

Lisa Foiles as Barbara Gordon/Oracle

Tim Neff as Jason Todd/Red Hood

Peter Sudarso as Tim Drake/Red Robin

Meghan Camarena as Stephanie Brown/Spoiler

Gemma Nguyen as Cassandra Cain/Orphan

Carter Rockwood as Damien Wayne/Robin

Du-Shaunt ‘Fik-Shun’ Stegall as Duke Thomas/Signal

Marcus Weiss as Alfred Pennyworth

[autistic-damian-wayne]

There's a teaser trailer out!!!

[autistic-damian-wayne]

Us rn

[not-leigh]

here are some stills/bts

[ghostofthefourforest]

[frostbittenbucky]

The shit Bruce has to do to maintain Brucie Wayne literally keeps me up at night. I think about the comic panel where the security guy was like, “check the bathroom, he accidentally locks himself in there sometimes” at least 3 times a day

And on my Bruce Wayne isn’t Batman post I was like, yea he definitely does that shit. Like does he just go about his day, looks at something and goes, “yea, it’s time to be stupid”

[mollyhats]

Bruce wakes up with a grin on his face. Alfred asks why he’s in such a good mood.

“Well, Alfred,” he says, “it’s been awhile since I’ve done anything entertainingly ditzy.” He closes his eyes, breathes deeply through his nose, and exhales, looking like some parody of a coffee commercial.

“It’s a himbo day.”

[doctorscienceknowsfandom]

And this is why Brendan Fraser should have been Batman. Enough of the Dark Knight schtick, we need someone who can be a ditz as well as a vigilante.

[boldlyanxious]

I was just saying this!!

And he would make the perfect Batdad

[arielsojourner]

I want an entire Batman movie that is basically “Batman: Bruce Thomas Wayne” staring Brendan Fraser as Bruce and David Hyde Pierce as an acid tongued Alfred. Just an entire movie where he spends 90% of screen time NOT in the Cave and NOT in his furry costume. Him, out being a himbo. 

Going to PTA meetings and parent teacher conferences.

Being a total disaster at galas that he’s supposed to be hosting.

Going on talk shows and doing public appearances and just being all sorts of a goof. Like Thor levels of goofy. Early Avengers fan fic levels of crack.

Buying things he doesn’t need. Just throwing money around, literally at people. Lobbing rolls of cash at people.

Getting “kidnapped” and being “rescued” by Robin and Nightwing or even Red Hood (Oracle and the others bitching about it over the comms the whole time).

Ruining carefully crafted board meetings and presentations. Not for any convoluted Bat-plan or to get one over on someone, just plain RUINING things. Like Lucius Fox (played by Michael B. Jordan) looks at the camera like he’s in an episode of the Office at one point and you can see that he is contemplating some sort of crime ending in “-cide” but we aren’t sure which one.

Tim, the observer (the stalker) leaks all the video. All the pics. It all goes public from dozens of accounts he has set up for the sole purpose of showing the world Bruce Thomas Wayne.

And the social media just explodes. The movie has to show how all of Gotham is reacting to this and leading the social media troll has to be both Duke and Steph, just ragging on him. (Jason wishes he was legally alive so he too could get on in this but alas, still legally dead. The ability to make dead jokes almost makes up for it. Almost).

And Alfred just passively aggressively enables this, especially when Bruce starts flirting and bringing guests home. Men, women, it doesn’t matter. Bruce is equal opportunity grade A slut.

(Tim runs a separate blog just documenting all of Bruce’s conquests, cross referencing who and what and when Bruce does who he does, like some sort of conspiracy theorist. All of Gotham elite follows the blog but NO ONE admits it.)

Damian is about ready to die of shame. He covers Titus’ eyes every morning during the walk of shame (”Look away, Titus! You’re too young and pure to understand!”)

Like that is the whole movie. The only “Batman scenes” are just Alfred wrapping his injuries and making snide comments about what excuse he can come up with to explain this particular injury.

[ghostofthefourforest]

Brendan Fraser. Yes. Perfect. Having watched him played dad!O'Connel, I agree wholeheartedly.

In fact, some scenes from Wayne Family Adventures should be in the movie. Like episode 4. Or episode 6 favoritism when Bruce got irritated when his children wears justice league merchandise. But of course there has to be extra scene... like for example when B got back from the JL meeting and find Titus in black dog shoes and black cape with yellow batman symbol. And Bruce went, like 'Titus you're my favorite child!' and melodramatically crying and carry the (huge) dog out of the room to feed him some snacks. And Damian goes 'I put those on him, Father! I DID IT' angrily. And then Tim, wearing black Superboy t-shirt relaxing on the sofa sipping grape zesti while working on a laptop with a Cyborg sticker in front center, told him, "It sucks to be you, isn't it?"

[ommanyte]

Does anyone genuinely call their siblings sis, sister, little/big sis, bro, brother, little/big brother etc. as constantly as this appears to be portrayed in media? I’m extremely sceptical. Now, affectionally addressing them by something like “slug”, “toad”, “fool”, and “bitch”, or even dare I say it, their gotdamn name, is, from my experience, so much more natural. 

[bisouschuu]

ok guys, reblog and put in the tag how you name your siblings 

[prokopetz]

A brief summary of how user engagement is tracked on Tumblr, for the newcomer:

When you like or reblog a post, that counts as user engagement for the person you liked or reblogged from, and shows up in their notifications.  

If the person you liked or reblogged a post from wasn’t the original poster (i.e., you’re liking or reblogging a reblog), it also counts as user engagement for the original poster, and shows up in their notifications as well.  

This means that user engagement from your likes and reblogs can potential accrue to two different people, the original poster and the person you liked or reblogged from.  

Consequently, you cannot “steal” user engagement from someone by reblogging their post.  

This is one of the very few areas where Tumblr is actually functions more reasonably than other social media platforms.  

Note that this is only true if you use Tumblr’s built-in reblogging function. If you save someone else’s content to your local device and append it to a new post, you effectively become the original poster from that point on.  

This means that on Tumblr, “reblogging” and “reposting” are two different things; if you see someone complaining about “reposting”, this is not the same as reblogging.  

Commenting when reblogging does not affect any of this – unlike, say, Twitter, where quote-retweeting causes user engagement to accrue to the quote-retweet and not to the original tweet – and you can and should do so freely.  

However, every Tumblr user can see who exactly you reblogged a post from, which functions as a soft disincentive against making inane comments; if you make a dumb comment on a reblog, people who see your reblog may “back up” one step in the reblog chain to reblog a version of the post without your comment.  

Nobody understands tags, and there’s a fair amount of evidence that how tags work changes periodically and without warning.  

Tags are a divine mystery.

[prokopetz]

(For those going “how is this not obvious”, it’s about prior expectations, bro. On many major social media platforms, using the built-in sharing tools does divert user engagement from the original post. For example, as noted above, quote-retweeting on Twitter causes likes to accrue to the quote-retweet instead of the original tweet. This is because Twitter is hostile to human life.)

[eregyrn-falls]

It’s really good for stuff like this to go around every once in a while!  Strange as it may seem, people may in fact migrate here from Twitter or Instagram, where this stuff works differently and where there are different expectations of engagement.

DON’T FORGET - *most* Tumblr users DO NOT MIND if you engage with their OLD posts!  (Apparently on Instagram they do? this baffles me.) 

Many also don’t mind if you “spam” their notifications with a bunch of likes or reblogs in a row.  

Tumblr has a rich culture of Very Old Posts continuing to make the reblog rounds, and people become fond of them.

Also, unlike Twitter, you can reblog the same post multiple times.  Heck, you can reblog the same post every hour on the hour for days. (Please don’t.)  But you do see a lot of “oh this came across my dash again, must reblog” with posts users are fond of.  This is fine.

Tags ARE a divine mystery.  People use the tags both for organization (inasmuch as this works, sometimes), and for added commentary.  Commentary added to the tags will generally be seen by those who follow that person and see their reblog on their dash; but the OP and whoever they reblogged it from can also see the tags in the notifications. 

So again – you can use the tags for commentary, and many people do. But people WILL see it.  It just won’t “stick” with the post… necessarily.  Tumblr also has a culture of people seeing some tags they think are relevant or clever, and reblogging a post with someone else’s tags included.  So bear that in mind as well – something you put in the tags could get “pulled up” into a reblog chain by someone else, and this is generally seen as fine.

[sketchdeath]

who the fuck cares about the thinness of a laptop i want that thing to have at leat 10 usb ports and a cd drive what the fuck

[memecucker]

I really dig the official Paralympics logo for the shooting competitions

[systlin]

You remember how a while ago rich people started paying huge amounts of money to drink dirty water? They're at it again. They're eating dirt now. Black Oxygen Organics, among others. It's fucking bog mud and compost in fancy supplement guise

What

(googles)

https://blackoxygenorganics.com/

oh my sweet lord fucking…….

[systlin]

I’M STILL STARING AT THIS FUCKIN WEBSITE AND FOLKS

FOLKS

IT’S AN MLM

IT’S AN MLM THAT WANTS YOU TO SELL DIRT TO PEOPLE TO EAT

There’s claims that it ‘oxygenates your cells’ and FOLKS YOU DO THAT BY BREATHING

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

Look, if I want the taste of peat, I’ll go out and drink some Scotch. It’ll probably be better for me in the long run. And less expensive.

[systlin]

If I wanna get some Dirt Minerals in my diet, I can just. Go outside and eat it right outta the garden while weeding the beets. I’m not paying some asshole actual money for it.

[systlin]

Hey! This is actual nonsense! This doesn’t mean anything!!!! What the fuck!!!

[systlin]

SHOW ME YOUR PEER REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC PAPERS THAT PROVE THIS OR STFU WITH THIS NONSENSE

[systlin]

Ah okay some studi….

….THOSE. AREN’T. THINGS.

[systlin]

They’re not even uncommon. In this case a dude claims that all disease comes from imbalances in our mitochondria.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-pseudoscience/droning-preacher-mitochondrial-ecstasy

A lot of alternative modern medicine traces back to Antoine Béchamp, who was a dude best known for thinking that Louis Pasteur was totally wrong about the whole ‘germ theory’ thing and that the reason we see germs in sick people was because when a part of a body was sick it attracted the germs.

I wish I was making that up.

[waterhobbit]

They are also claiming to sustainably harvest peat. The peat would be doing us all substantially more good STAYING WHERE IT BELONGS and sequestering carbon than being drunk by weirdos who are claiming … let’s see …

For example. I’m not even gonna touch the diminished sweating things but for the rest maybe you’re just drinking MORE WATER now that you have these weird tablets to do stuff with, person whose name I have chosen not to expose to Tumblr at large.

[ciceqi]

Wait…isn’t Kirlian photography aura photography? So does that mean Kirlian diagnosis is diagnosing you by your aura? o.O

[systlin]

I really wish you weren’t right but you are, in fact, right. That’s exactly what he claims as his credentials.

[questbedhead]

to me the funniest part is this:

like…. that was the secondary use…..

[kitsungari]

Im still stuck in this one. According pub chem fulvic acid is C14H12O8. So it has 160 electrons total. And what the fuck is a Tera-trillion?? Tera is a prefix that means x a trillion. Do they mean a trillion x a trillion? But that’s 24 zeros (10^12 x 10^12)=10^24.

Holy shit I just saw the “Negatively and positively charged electrons”. This must be a farse. It can’t be real. Electrons are definitionally negatively charged. It can’t be real.

[eclecticmasterpiece]

Omg, when I went through it I swear I read negatively and positively charged particles.

My brain literally just did not want to read them trying to talk about positive electrons

[ghostofthefourforest]

I ate my fruits and greens like a good girl... Now give me liquid caffeine and the heck with this mud sh*t.

[frostbittenbucky]

I like imaging Jason breaking into the manor in full Red Hood gear just so he can go into the kitchen and stress bake

Bruce: [walks in]

Jason: “no! Out! OUT!”

Bruce: “I live here!”

Jason: “I don’t care- look you made my soufflé collapse!”

Bruce: “I didn’t do anything, I just wanted to see who was making all this damn noise in my kitchen and get some water”

Jason: “your ugly face scared my fucking soufflé”

Bruce: “Jason you can le-… never mind, I just want my drink”

Jason: “oh my god! Get out already!”

Bruce: [mumbling to himself] “remember you love him, it’s a miracle he’s here today, you love him, you missed him, he is a blessing”

Jason: [throws water bottle at Bruce] “here’s your fucking water, switch over to a filter you fucking asshole. You’re killing the environment, it’s not like you can’t afford a damn filter”

[fanaticalthings]

Alright, but the concept of Jason fucking stress baking randomly at the ass crack middle of the night has SO much comedic potential.

Im imagining stressed Jason absolutely HAS to drop everything he's doing just to stress bake asap.

Unfortunately, that means he'll break into the nearest kitchen if he has to

And yknow, since Jason is often out on cases/missions where he's taking down criminals or staking out one of the rogues, there's not many options for him when it comes to satiating his stressbaking needs sooooo ya gotta do what ya gotta do

[Goon running in hysterical]

Goon: Uh, sir, it's-it's the Red Hood.

Black Mask: And you're telling me this why? Just shoot him, I hired you guys for a reason!

Goon: Well yeah, but uh- He's um...baking?

Black Mask: He's what?

Goon: Yeah, he uh, he broke into the kitchen and started baking..but like..REAL aggressively

Black Mask:

Goon: Sir, he's scaring us.

[Cut to Jason in the kitchen, ordering a bunch of Black Mask's henchmen to run errands and help with the baking]

Jason: Are you KIDDING me?? What kind of henchmen does Black Mask hire?? You're telling me you can't even break an egg?? Ridiculous, move over.

The henchman (Who Jason threatened into helping him): Uh-

Jason: And LOOK at these cookies! Do these look fully baked to you?? DO THEY??

The Henchman, now sweating: I'm sor-

Jason gesturing wildly: AND you didn't even try to separate the yolks from the whites! How did you even get hired?

The baking session ends with a good handful of the henchmen in tears.

Bonus scene of the batfam infiltrating Black Mask's lair, expecting a shit ton of goons to attack them but little do they know they're all too busy baking with the Red Hood.

Bonus BONUS scene of the batfam later walking into the kitchen only to see a fuck ton of henchmen frantically scurrying around the kitchen trying to fulfill Jason's orders, while Jason's in the corner baking and mumbling about how goon hiring standards have lowered since his old days as robin.

Jason just infiltrates anyone's kitchen- doesn't matter if you're the most feared rogue in Gotham- he'll waltz in like he fucking owns the place. And oh yeah say goodbye to your goons because they're Jason's now :)

[ghostofthefourforest]

That's a very awesome idea. I should be working right now but I'm too in love with this idea to not have a try.

So, whose kitchen is the closest to Crime Alley again?

Tim was head's deep in his latest case when the first notes to Queen's I Want to Break Free started playing. He was tempted not to answer but decided that if Jason decided to call insted of texting, it has to be something at least a bit important. He answers the phone and Jason, without even a hello, immediately get to the point.

"Replacement, you're out of almond milk."

Jason is in his kitchen. In his apartment. Three storeys above. And the security system didn't even sound a beep.

"I have gallons of milk. In fact, if you would care to look in that *new frigde* I bought for *your* stuff, you'll see that there's all kind of milk there. Two gallons each, as you requested."

"There's no almond milk. I checked."

"You wrote 'milk, all kinds, a gallon each' in the shopping list. It's hardly my fault that the supermarket was out of almond milk when I was there."

"Don't f*ck with me, birdie, I know you. You gave the list and your credit card to a speedster and forget the whole thing."

Tim keep his face straight but inside he winces. Lying to Jason takes more and more effort lately.

"I know for sure you can replace almond milk with other kind. There were literally dozens bottles of milk in there, Jason."

A 'hmph' is the only reply he gets before the the connection ended. He ponders for a moment, the open the Teen Titans' channel.

RR: Hey

KF: Fearless. Leader. To what. Do we owe. Our pleasure.

Of course Bart will be the first to answer.

RR: Come over iyc. Hood's cooking

WG: pmu asap

SB: batman ⋋_⋌ ok?

Tim pause for a moment before typing a reply. Remembering exactly how cranky Damian had been last night before patrol. Bruce was too busy with his analysis that he only chastised the brat half-heartedly. Batman, and Robin, who has Alfred to cook for them and whatever guest decided to grace Wayne Manor with their presence.

RR: F*ck Batman

RR: Also, KF? Get me some almond milk pls

[amazoogle]

[thatssomanda]

My brother saved this document and everytime he gets angry at our neighbours for being loud he prints it to their wireless printer and you can hear the wife shout “Why the fuck would you print this AGAIN?!” to her son.

[auntytimblr-deactivated20150403]

every time we serve chicken at work i think of this post

[gallusrostromegalus]

1.  If you were wondering, you can type the numbers in the works cited into google and they appear to be medical journal articles about using medical imaging to detect and diagnose a rare form of Gastritis.

2. Please enjoy the offical powerpoint presentation of this paper at an academic conference by the original author, complete with Q&A:

[zillyirk32]

THIS IS GOLD

[aprillikesthings]

oh m god please watch the video it’s some of the most contagious laughter on the planet

[artikgato]

When I saw this cross my dash tonight, I smiled and thought “yess, the chicken chicken chicken post, I get to reblog it again and inflict it on all of the people that have followed me since last time”, and then I scrolled down more and to my utter delight there was A VIDEO, needless to say my night has been made

[eliciaforever-deactivated201906]

I HAVE NOT SEEN THE CHICKEN VIDEO IN TEN DAMN YEARS HOLY SHIT

STILL FUNNY

[ruelukas22]

The bell

The last question

The woman howling in laughter 90% of the time

It’s all beautiful

It’s all

So beautiful

[explorerrowan]

I love that he was absolutely 100% prepared for a question in chickenese.

[caterinas80]

“I do not feel capable summarizing this article”

Same

[gothighunicorntolerance]

Chicken chickens chickens

[bastlynn]

Chickens.

Chick chicken chicken chickens chiiiiicken. Chicken chicken.

[monkeysaysficus]

The first graph pops up and That One Person loses their entire mind

[ghostofthefourforest]

Capture this image from a video in youtube by channel Cringe pets. I'm not quite sure whether it's their original content or they merely edited it.

And the first thing I think of was

[sushigrade]

“A fox’s teeth are very sharp.” (2013-2019) Silk filament on silk-hemp blend with hand-dyed silk chiffon scarf.  Text is Sandman: The Dream Hunters by @neil-gaiman, design inspired by illustrations of Yoshitaka Amano.  Dress by L.L.K.  Photo credit to Kenneth Williams.

Six years ago, my unbelievably talented wife decided to undertake a ridiculously long and complicated project: to embroider a story onto a dress.

We live in a very casual college town where no one ever dresses up for anything, so we began a tradition of throwing formal New Year’s Eve parties, and L being L, she made a dress every year. In 2013, she decided to take it a step further: she would create a dress inspired by Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano’s Sandman: The Dream Hunters and then embroider the entire story onto the dress. The dress itself was the work of a few weeks and looked beautiful on her at the party, and then the real work began: planning, mapping, embroidering and embroidering and embroidering. She estimated it would take approximately ten years of doing needlework an hour or two each evening, leaving plenty of time to take nights or even months off. She finished in under six.

I can’t summon words to describe how proud of her I am right now. I mean, I am always proud of her, as she is an exceptionally kind and caring human being as well as a polymath (seamstress, carpenter, baker, programmer, naturalist, and tenured professor of biology), but she has created a true work of art and I hope it ends up in a museum somewhere to immortalize her talent, skill, and patience.

She’s currently trying to figure out her next project.

[neil-gaiman]

I wish I could find the words to say how remarkable and touching and glorious this is for me. I’m still proud of the story and so honoured to see it made into a dress…

[sushigrade]

Safe to say that the creator of the dress has gotten a better Christmas present than I could have ever purchased for her.

I’m still going to try to find her a good bandsaw, though. Now that she’s done constructing an exactingly measured scale replica of our house and yard, complete with slope, out of craft foam board and card stock, she’s been talking about getting back into woodworking… as soon as she’s finished with her *other* fabric project, v. 4 of her replica of the Fortuny Delphos gown, a form-fitting dress where the elasticity of the fabric comes entirely from micro-pleating the silk (painstakingly, by hand, which is apparently the only way she does things). The technique was lost when Fortuny died in 1949, but L has managed to recreate it. (To be fair, she adds, Fortuny’s company has also managed to replicate the technique.) And both the Delphos gown and the Dream Hunters dress should be on display at the Tompkins County Public Library in Ithaca, NY sometime in 2020 as part of an exhibit on folktales and mythology.

[sushigrade]

Unsurprisingly, the exhibit was delayed by the pandemic, but it’s up now!

The exhibit is called Fit For a Goddess, and is all mythology/fairytale-inspired textile art.

The Fortuny dress is dyed with pomegranate that’s been saddened (mordanted with iron), and so she called it Persephone’s Tears.

I’m so proud of her!

[ampervadasz]

[they-call-me-nita]

Turn the sound on, the only thing better than this dog’s joy is that people stopped what they were doing to share his joy, and you can hear them all groan when the water dies down….

[inthefallofasparrow]

Nine of Cups

[ghostofthefourforest]

Doggie: I can do this all day