InfiniteStarGazer

Kiwi. 30s. Colorado. Witch. Pansexual, Polyamorous, Artist, Bookworm, Chocoholic, Whedonite, Zombie fanatic, Insomniac, Introvert. Current obsessions: johnlopex, Teen wolf, Bob's Burgers, Community, Avengers/Marvel, Avengers and Black Panther cast, Misterwives, tattoos, body mods.

[purr-in-ink]

Purrints&Purrtreon&Book😽

[fairweathermyth]

Schitt’s Creek + text posts

↳ tropes

[conservethis]

💔 💔 💔 💔

No love for whoever used these pink heart-shaped sticky notes in one of our library books. They are now firmly attached to the page, even after only being placed there less than 8 months ago. Our circulation staff sent this book to Preservation after they tried to remove one of the notes, and it ended up taking away some of the page with it! 

Please, please don’t use sticky notes (such as post-it notes) in library books! 

[conservethis]

I SHALL REPEAT MYSELF

[twistedingenue]

I want to put this out there:

If you are trying to escape out of state (particularly Missouri) because you or a kid is trans and the lack of a job is an issue:

My work, a Fortune 50 insurance company, has its flaws, but it is hiring in Central illinois. Our entry-level claims roles are continuously hiring, pay in the mid 30k, with good benefits. The job is 50 to 75% work from home. No college degree is required. It's call center work, but honest work.

If you are in tech, there's options for that, too

I will send referrals for anyone who needs it.

We have a good PRIDE erg, with lots of trans/gnc folks out, as well as supportive parents.

In town, there's a planned parenthood with HRT, welcoming churches (if that matters to you), a local gay bar, and a drag scene. It's a college town as well with 2 major universities and a community college.

Again, not perfect (we've got our fair share of fascists, but they lost their elections. By a lot) but smaller and cheaper than chicago, which is easily accessible by train and bus.

Message me for more details if you need it, and please share.

[seranine]

“scratch a transphobe and a misogynist bleeds”

siobhan o'leary gives us a brilliant deconstruction of transphobia, and transmisogyny specifically

Source: https://twitter.com/siobhanftb/status/1020309083423821825?s=21

[transgirlpinup]

This is some scalding hot fucking tea and I’m here for it.

[kaity--did]

Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me.

I know there is a lot of discourse (tm) around this right now but listen to me

sometimes you do just have to lie to children.

[kaity--did]

If, when my toddler is, you know, toddling around saying “mama? Big ball?”

If I were lean down and say “unfortunately the big beach ball for some reason fills you with such an unadulterated rage that is beyond human comprehension that you scream until you pass out, so mama had to remove the beach ball from the premises until you can better regulate your emotions” she would simply stare at me like I had 3 heads full of equal betrayal.

So, for now, instead “big ball went night night!”

[kaity--did]

Please understand when I say “removed the ball from the premises” I mean I popped it in a fit of exhausted confusion. I murdered the beach ball.

See I’ve lied to you all too and it was better this way.

[inkloom]

you can’t just leave this in the tags etc.

[kaity--did]

You can’t be funnier then me on my own posts, I’m in tears from laughter

[nibeul]

you know what, fuck you *unkills your character*

[nibeul]

[nibeul]

this is the funniest fucking reply, everyone else go home

[cyberdelph]

Uncle Bucky by banannersandwich

[peniabeset]

Bucky, making chicken and dumpling soup, dropping a dumpling on the floor: This is sadder than the time I fell off the train

Steve, choking on his coffee: Excuse me?

[peniabeset]

I can’t fucking believe that this is my most popular post smh

[fionacreates]

Sabriel vs The Gore Crows

Some fanart for the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix.

[fionacreates]

#when its International Women’s Day and the best way you can celebrate is posting your favorite female protagonists #Sabriel is definitely number one #such a badass #Sabriel #Abhorsen Chronicles

<3

[grison-in-space]

idle Jaskier-related notion:

Joey Batey is really approximately the same size and shape as Henry Cavill, and there are a number of clever techniques in pretty much all Jaskier’s costumes to hide this fact and make him look about three or four inches narrower than he actually is. The costumers work really really hard to make him look that twinky, often with cleverly cut shoulder decorations that pretend he’s trying to look bigger than he is and have the actual effect of making him look a lot lighter.

On a Doylistic level this makes sense, because it’s hard to make Geralt look Huge and Imposing next to your non-combatant harmless sidekick if said sidekick is a jacked six foot burly man.

On a Watsonian level, however, the notion of Jaskier as this big meaty dude aggressively arguing with all his tailors to ensure that he looks as non threatening and foppish and entertaining as possible while also looking as sexy as he can (for a Jaskier definition of sexy, at least) is generating considerable entertainment for me this fine morning.

[grison-in-space]

“No! My shoulders must look slender!”

“But, sir, you could look ripped!”

“Absolutely not! I must look slim and gentle and unassuming!”

“As you wish, sir… So do you wish it to be cut with much excess fabric, so that you look small and also very wealthy to afford so much?”

[howling] “No! I must look slender and gentle and also above else very attractive!”

[grison-in-space]

Geralt doesn’t notice any of this until they try to share a tiny hostel bed on the road and Jaskier cuddles up to him and abruptly there is no more room in that bed

[gossip-girl-of-middleearth]

I need a full picture costume run down of this by someone in the fashion field stat

[redhorsedawn]

Ask and ye shall receive! I may not work in the fashion field but I do work in the costume production industry for theatre/film so this is totally my area. Using clothes to change someone’s appearance is super common, and Tim Aslam’s costume design for The Witcher is actually a really good example of this, so buckle up because this is a long ride!

Creating an illusion like this has two main components: shape (the style lines created by the clothes), and fit (the way the clothes hang on the person’s body), and is the result of close collaboration between the designer and the production team. 

We’re going to talk about season one, because that’s where the difference is the most obvious. Take a look at Geralt:

First, let’s talk about shape. The goal here is to make Geralt look strong and imposing, and the best way to do that is to exaggerate the triangle of his upper torso. See how much broader his shoulders look than his waist in both images? A loose shirt over tight pants is a classic way to establish this, because the shirt blousing at the waist (note that the pants sit high up at the natural waist) makes the hips looks narrower in comparison. Note also that his shirt has an asymmetrical closure - a centered vertical line down the shirt would make him looks slimmer, while the off-center one adds width.

His armor does this by giving him those massive shoulder pieces, which both lengthen and raise his shoulder line. I would estimate that they raise Henry Cavill’s shoulder line by a good two inches just from the bulk of the leather alone. His torso armor also does a really clever thing by having a very subtle V shape to the vertical lines, making his waist look smaller. If you count the number of stripes above and below his belt (again, sitting high at the natural waist), you’ll notice that the narrow stripe at the front edge of the armscye disappears, which allows the side stripes to make that V shape.

Now let’s talk about fit. The fit of Geralt’s shirt looks simple but is actually super specific. It’s very easy for an actor to get lost in a shirt that is too loose - if there’s too much extra fabric then it will just make the actor look smaller by drawing attention to how baggy it is. This shirt fits just right: the sleeves are full enough to allow for movement but still relatively fitted (and rolling up the sleeves actually also helps add breadth to Geralt’s torso by continuing the horizontal line at his waist). The body of the shirt fits smoothly across the shoulders and chest, and has just enough fullness to drape at the waist without feeling baggy.

Now let’s look at Jaskier.

We’ll start with this look. Shape and fit are very interconnected here so it’s just gonna be a jumble. First thing I notice: the jacket. Unlike your traditional fantasy/historical doublet, all of Jaskier’s jackets end at the waist, rather than continuing into a peplum/skirt like Geralt’s armor does. This cropped jacket is evocative of childhood/immaturity, an association that is generally considered to have its roots in schoolboy uniforms of the 19th and early 20th century (see the image of schoolboys wearing “Eton Jackets” below)

Jaskier also tends to wear his jackets open. This creates a vertical line down his torso, which is generally slimming, but it also totally obscures the shape of his torso. The brain is going to take the line of his hip, which we can see, and the armscye of his jacket, (which actually looks to be cut ever so slightly artificially narrow but it’s hard to tell) and fill in a line between them, which is likely going to end up being slightly narrower than his actual ribcage. He does have poofs at the top of his sleeves, which can be a technique used to add width, but if they’re cut and fit carefully you can actually hide some of the breadth of the shoulders inside the poof and make it look like the fullness comes from the poof and not the body.

Note: the “armscye” is the technical name for the armhole, but specifically the torso part. The corresponding sleeve part is the “sleevehead.”

Again, we have another open jacket, this one with strong vertical lines. See how the line of Jaskier’s hip flows up through the edge of the doublet all the way up through the armscye? This makes his torso look narrower despite the jacket’s shoulder tabs. In contrast, this line is always broken on Geralt’s outfits, whether at the waist with his shirt or with the giant shoulder pieces with his armor. Jaskier’s pants also tend to fit more loosely, which de-emphasizes the triangle of his shoulders to waist.

Okay this is my favorite image to illustrate everything we have going on here. Look at Jaskier’s jacket. What’s the first thing you notice? The bright yellow inset slashes in his chest. The high contrast in color draws the eye inwards and distracts from the breadth of his shoulders, where we have another cleverly cut poof. His jacket is again cropped, with strong vertical lines, over the baggiest pants he wears in the season.

Now look at Jaskier and Geralt together. Jaskier is all about long vertical lines, while Geralt’s predominate lines are either horizontal or diagonal. Additionally, Jaskier’s hips look even to his shoulders, even if they’re not, and Geralt’s shoulders are exaggerated. The two characters have a very different presence, even if the actors underneath are similar.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this introduction to costume design! Creating the illusory effects like this is one of my favorite things and I am excited to share!!

[gossip-girl-of-middleearth]

I… I did not expect anyone to respond, let alone respond with a fucking screenshot-worthy answer. I love you. I literally love you. Can I marry you? Wait, can you be my tailor? Do you have an Etsy shop? I’m gonna be an archaeologist one day, I’ll need OUTFITS PLEASE I WANNA INDEFINITELY HIRE YOU

[porphyriosao3]

This is not my ship.  This is not my subject.  This is really not anything I ever anythinged about.  I just have to reblog this because of the utter BALLER response this person gave, which revolutionized my perception of costume design without me even knowing I wanted said perception revolutionized.  This comment is everything good about tumblr in one place, and @redhorsedawn, I salute you.  Magnificent.

[poisonousbuttercup]

#and jaskier being consistently so much smaller in fic#is proof that all these tricks WORKED#and worked so well that people didn’t even notice or question them#just accepted them and quickly incorporated it into their fanon

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

I even knew something clever was going on to make Joey Batey’s six feet look small and dainty and yet still the costuming was so impressive that I was genuinely astonished when this happened:

[sarah-maclean-completist]

🧵

[kaistrex]

What are your all time fave sterek fic reccs? (regardless of theme/au/tags)

And what do you like about them? (if you want to share)

So, a lot of my all time faves are ones that I read like 6 years ago, and it's been so long since I've read them that I think I've forgotten what most of them are 😂

Most of them are also fandom classics by writers that everyone knows, so the few answers I can remember are going to be very boring haha

But a big favourite of mine which is lesser known is:

This Was How Legends Were Made by Delta_Immortal

Caught between the Hales and the Argents in their war, Stiles finds himself a slave of the great Hale pack. Stiles spends each day working hard, hoping to earn his freedom and see his sick father. It also seems each day he’s capturing more and more attention from Derek, the young Hale lord. Stiles tells himself it’s mostly because Derek is merely trying to figure out how to send the annoying, useless slave away- not because of affection, despite the tales coming from the rumor mill.

It doesn’t matter what Derek's intentions are. Stiles can’t bother with love right now. He's got to keep his head down and survive long enough to keep his promise to Kate Argent. After all, she's promised to keep his father safe.

I think this fic features one of the most jaw-dropping scenes I've read in any Sterek fic ever, and it's even just given me chills to think about a specific line from it. It's the sort of scene where it really made me wonder if Stiles and Derek could even come back from it, but the writer handled it delicately and realistically instead of going for a cheap resolution which I really love. I've gone back to this fic quite a few times.

Another fic I love which is lesser known that I’ve been banging on a lot about over the past year is:

Set in Stone by orphan_account

When Talia is born on January 11, 1959, no one knows about time travel. Eight years later, Talia hears whispers of wolves who get unstuck from time from the alphas who visit her family. This is why, when it happens to Derek, Peter, and Cora, she is ready.

A Time Traveler's Wife AU.

I think about this fic a hell of a lot. I think my favourite thing about it is the kind of genius way that it makes Cora’s absolutely bonkers miraculous survival of the Hale fire in canon actually make sense.

We all love Derek and hurt over the shitshow that is his life, but this fic turns it all into a knife to stab you right in the heart in a way I’ve never had another fic do, before or since. I had to put my phone down at one point to actually sob into a tissue, and I’ve never had any other piece of written media make me cry like that.

What hurts my heart too is that, from what I’ve gleaned from the author’s note, they had it posted to ao3 for a couple of years, chose to delete it, then reuploaded it 4 years later, only to orphan it after just a few months. I just hate to wonder about the author’s reasoning for it, like if they lacked confidence in what they’d written or something? Because this fic is incredible and I’m absolutely gutted that I’ll never know who the author is so I can’t check out any more of their works.

As for some others, I adore Sugar and Spice and I get filthy when that liquor get into me by standinginanicedress (both deleted now, but many copies are floating around the internet easily found) and I don’t think they need an explanation as to why I love them considering the author haha

I know that I loved What I Did On My Summer Vacation by grimm

There's something weird about Beacon Hills that Stiles can't quite put his finger on. The way everyone in town knows his name the day he arrives. The way they insist the melancholic howling that echoes through the forest every night is just a dog. The way his dad denies getting a dog, even though Stiles comes home to find one sprawled across his bed, some big black thing whose eyes gleam red in the right light. The way that massive oak tree out in the woods vibrates under his touch, pulsing with sickly life.

There's something weird going on in this town, and Stiles is determined to get to the bottom of it.

but I think I’ve only read it once a good while ago so I don’t really remember the details of why I loved it lol

And I think that’s a problem that I have with a lot of fics which probably came under the ‘favourites’ umbrella. There are so many fics I loved that are fandom classics and on every rec list and I recognise all the titles, but it’s been so long since I’ve read them that I don’t remember the details of them. (Honestly though, that’s a pretty great problem to have. The Sterek fandom is blessed ✨)

I will leave you though with one of my favourite fics from last year which was:

The Misguided Believer by Kaye_Fraser

It isn’t easy for a human to make it in a wolf's world, especially not for a human trying to earn an unconventional living as a private investigator like Stiles. Sure, the Human Rights Act had been passed twenty years ago, but that didn't lessen the discrimination that still existed against humans. Stiles is determined though. In an effort to pay rent, he takes on a human murder case that has been buried by the werewolf authorities, only to find himself on the trail of a potential serial killer. Unfortunately, to get anything done around town, he needs the help of one stupidly grumpy wolf by the name of Derek Hale. Granted, meeting the wolf over a dead body hadn’t made the best of first impressions, but Stiles is going to solve his first case and make a name for himself, and if that means winning over Derek to his cause by being his most charming self, then so be it!

I love the setting of this fic and all of the incredible worldbuilding, and I still have my fingers crossed for a part 2. I remember I put off reading the final chapter for like a week because I just didn’t want it to end. It’s criminally under-read, so people should go and give it some more love!

And that’s all I have! I really feel like there’s a glaringly obvious fic that I’m forgetting about which I’ll probably remember as soon as I hit post, but you can have these for now haha

[skaldish]

To my international friends: If you ever wonder why Americans are the way they are, just remember that 1/3rd of all US citizens are in a cult that teaches them to suppress the activity of their prefrontal cortex, particularly when it comes to doubt, critical thinking, and differentiating emotional responses from personal values.

[skaldish]

1/3rd of Americans are Evangelical, and Evangelical Protestantism is a cult. We just don’t think of it as one because it’s so normalized. However, it follows the B.I.T.E. model of cult dynamics.

Evangelism teaches its followers to always maintain states of bliss and ecstasy for Jesus. What this does is condition the brain to always operate out of less-evolved parts; areas that are responsible for more primal emotions like euphoria, anger, and fear. Because of how we’ve evolved to survive, the brain will actually shut down our higher functioning—including critical thinking skills—in favor of these primal emotions, when they’re active.

Always feeling bliss = never questioning or feeling doubt. Evangelicals may actually fear the thoughts that do originate from their higher brain-parts because they think it’s the devil tempting them away from their religion. They’ll engage in self-indoctrination techniques to make this stop.

This creates a cognitive dissonance so great that many Americans have no separation between how they feel and what they believe. This is really bad because their minds have literally no defense against undue influence. They’ll vote for the dude who hyped them up enough. They’ll buy into the conspiracy theory that excites them the most. They’ll side with whatever gets the best reaction out of them, and getting a rise out of people is super easy to do.

Things like financial insecurity and low employment make this worse, too.

[skaldish]

And just to be clear, this kind of conditioning can happen to anyone, regardless of their intellectual capacity.

Cult conditioning has nothing to do with how smart or dumb people are. You can condition literally any brain with the right time and environment.

Counteracting undue influence is a skill, and like any skill, it needs to be taught.

[sevdoesnotexist]

Forever against JWs, Evangelists and Mormons. THEYRE DEADASS CULTS

[gaylord-zuko]

[id: a tweet that reads “one time at a party i kissed someone’s girlfriend and to make sure he wasn’t mad about it i just kissed him too...i blacked out and woke up to a text in a groupchat with both of them that said “did u make it home safe baby? ❤️”. The user has been blacked out. /end id]

[prokopetz]

You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

[calloutnevvegas]

For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:

Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

Don’t fuck with flamingos

[revretch]

….. Didn’t know most of that

[iamthekaijuking]

Huh… so that’s why zoos don’t put them somewhere warm during winter.

[revretch]

Oh yeah, this leaves out what I *did* know about them–they can also survive hypersalinity. That is, water so salty it kills practically everything else–water so salty it burns your skin.

American flamingos just drink that shit

[bogleech]

(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.

When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.

It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:

[assuming-dinosaur]

Some species of flamingo actually subsist almost entirely on a diet of bacteria! In other words, there is a species of dinosaur that eats only bacteria and lives in lakes so toxic they would kill almost anything else—and it is best known to the average person as a kitschy lawn decoration.

[mannyhyuga]

aiiiight so im not rlly sure how ppl interact on this site yet, but this is my blog so let me vent about the project im working on

i made an album called "Shine, Rodriguez" (listen here !!) by myself in secret all alone and gonna be releasing it in it's various forms anonymously so that my family doesn't find out about the gay stufd in my life they wouldn't like and disown me for it.

it's all very emotional yes, but two years into working on this im mainly frustrated about how to actualy get anyone to listen to it and start a career from this so that i can be a cool Artist like frank and kevin and omar and not be broke anymore

so if anyone sees this def go listen to this depression project (i can verify it's good), but you should also follow me because imma start talking more on here about my thoughts/plans/ideas to go from completely unknown Artist to one of the best to evr do it.

(or if u don't care about any of this at least leave a note about some cool music ur listening to lately <3 )