This Is The Way

Well hey! I'm a fan of lots of things, including The Mandalorian, Supernatural, LoTR verse, MCU, DCU, Good Omens, and theater. I'm Ismene_Jane on AO3. Thanks for coming! Pull up a log and let's get this bonfire going.

[pansyfemme]

yes im addicted to attention and orgasms and food and shiny jewlery and 7$ Iced Lattes. does that really not sound like an awesome lifestyle to you

[gunslingergivens]

TIMOTHY OLYPHANT as Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens in Justified: City Primeval (2023)

Episode five - You Good?

[assiraphales]

it’s kinda funny bc the videos of grace hanging out w rocky is the happiest eva stratt had ever seen him. like imagine guilts been haunting you and the laws been hunting you and for decades you have no idea if it’s been all for nothing and then….. first clip you see is the scientist and a sentient rock going “this is me and my BOI ✌️”

[robin-buckely]

READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME (2026) dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett

[asingularcanadian]

If the salary you are offering is not enough to cover the median asking price to rent a bachelor's apartment within an hour commute of where the job site is, not only should you not be allowed to post it but you should also be shot dead so that everyone is saved from your greed and stupidity

[asingularcanadian]

I just wanted to say I love that this post had been picked up by yall and that you resonate with it.

To the people commenting about the commute time still being too long, thank you for making me deconstruct how far the average commute should actually be. At first I scoffed and was like "15 min commute is the biggest pie in the sky" and then I remembered that in many places in the world they actually have mixed use neighborhoods where there's essentially businesses and houses sometimes even side by side but certainly in closer proximity than what we have here so commutes are actually short things you can either walk and transit to or bike where there's infrastructure. Gave me an extra kick of righteous fury.

[maguneedsalife]

in honor of purim i finally remembered to retrieve my hamentaschen alignment chart from my work computer

[legacysam]

@ismenejane

[ruinedchildhood]

[phantomrose17]

[silly-jellyghoty]

[lenacraft]

March

[abstractandedgyname]

[legacysam]

@ismenejane

[bundibird]

I HIGHLY recommend giving compliments to random strangers.

Not, like, fake compliments or randomly giving a scrounged up compliments to everyone you pass in the street, but -- say you see someone with an article of clothing you really really like. Cool accessories or a freat haircut or something. Tell them.

I told an old woman yesterday that I liked her blouse. It was this super pretty white-at-the-top-floral-at-the-bottom shirt which was really lovely. So i backtracked where I'd walked past her and I said "excuse me - i love your shirt." And this harried, stressed-looking 80-something year old brightened up immediately, and beamed, and then when she and I headed off in separate directions, she had a pep in her step.

This other time I told a woman that I liked her boots. She gave me a company name thats since become my favourite brand of shoes. I told someone else that her scarf was cute and she was like "do you like it? Here, you can have it," and she dropped her scarf in my hands and then got on her train and left. I once saw a woman who had clearly put effort into her outfit that day but was now looking harried and frazzled as she wrangled four children across the road, and I told her that her outfit was gorgeous and she lit up like a christmas tree. I told a gay man that I loved his whole look once and he turned into a smiling, blushing mess as his super delighted and proud boyfriend was like "yea, he DOES look gorgeous doesnt he?"

If you see someone with something compliment-worthy going on, don't hold back. What's the point? Ive never once had a bad response to giving a compliment to a stranger. Everyone to a tee has been absolutely thrilled to receive a surprise compliment about their outfit or their make up or their shoes or their vibe or etc. Give out compliments to random strangers. Its free, and it'll make their whole day.

[manogirl]

I do this all the time -- compliment strangers on something they chose about themselves. So not "your eyes are so pretty" but "wow, that eyeshadow is incredible on you". Shoes, purses and clothes are super easy to compliment too.

One time I was out with my sister and my niblings, and one of the kids asked me, "Aunt ____, why do you tell people you don't know you like their clothes?" And I said, "Doesn't it brighten your day when someone compliments something you chose to put on?" The kiddoes immediately got it, because they love it too! It's universal, in my opinion. We all like it!

[bundibird]

Oh yeah, 100% -- the bit about "something they chose themselves" is key. Dont compliment someone's eye colour or body shape or etc. DO compliment clothes, or hairstyle, or accessories, or nail paint or make up, etc

[sadgi]

can I get a job as an editor but the only thing I do is correct when someone uses the word "prone" when they mean "supine"

[sadgi]

thank you wikipedia for this really good image

[sadgi]

a helpful mnemonic for everyone

[clytemnestraaa]

grabbing the ao3 authors by their plump rosy little cheeks… being sexually submissive… does not make a person literally anything. not more or less powerful, or more or less competent, or more or less gendered, or more or less capable of abuse, or more or less innocent, or more or less mature, or more or less adult, or more or less violent, or more or less intelligent, or more or less responsible, or more or less any single thing on the planet. there is no correlation. please. please. for the love of god.

[mage-ical-character-person]

I can’t explain why this image is so funny to me but it is.

[forthegothicheroine]

Is this Interview with the Vampire?

[mursejesse]

...technically, yes.

[legacysam]

@ismenejane

[boamerry]

charge yalls vibrators this storm looks BAD

[iamoutofideas]

- ben frankling in slutty 1752

[ismenejane]

HI HI HI HIH IH IH IH IHI HI IM SO HAPPY I FOUND YOUR TUMBLR

so!!! i just read all of yuor fever break dinluke fics and and i . they rewired my brain in more ways than one

BUT I THINK IN PARTICULAR your mando'a had me throwing up because i love fantasy linguistics and i was having so much fun deciphering what you meant in real time

like?? throwing 'ika on things isn't new but on NAAST??? grogu the tiny destructor??

shu'shuk'ika?? the equivalent of girlfriend who calls you a loser with heart eyes??

AND AUGH HTE THE THE

Gedet’ye, ke’jarile ni, gedet’ye ←←←←←

WHAH

WOAH

(tom and jerry scream)

so so obviously gedet'ye is please but i need toexplode about ke'jarile if all of it is the way i think it is

so ke' as in the prefix that makes it an order right?? and jarile pulling from the root jariler (to wreck) but oyu changed the tense or whatever the fuckits called

LEIFJWFADS

sosososo

Os So

its most accurate translation would be like

"please, wreck me now, please"

MMXMSMDKSKD???*+_($]]MM???¿???¿????????

at least half of this us probably sleep deprivation but i tbink im oging to read everything you psot foreber and also ily

OH MY GOD THANK YOU

I’ve been wanting to get back into writing and this might have been the thing to shove me over the edge. Maybe I’ll finally finish my WIPs…. 💁‍♀️

I can’t stop smiling. Also I’m gonna use the FUCK outta that Mando’a thank YOU!

Aaaaahhhhhh!!!!

[crying-over-really-dumb-things]

[acrylic-kitten]

Not including the next part feels criminal

[legacysam]

@ismenejane

[ninjasmudge]

worlds slowest fanfic author tries really really hard

[ninjasmudge]

everyone in the notes we are all holding hands. everyone who hasnt worked on a wip in weeks or months or years, its okay. we are going slow but we are going

[only-cat-memes]

[wondertrio]

drew them

[silvergryphonart]

That’s it, that’s distilled to their essence

[aropride]

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

[bladespark]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[conservethis]

Casting with all my might