Hey there :) I'm Jonaira, 20's, multifandom. You're currently most likely to find - Ted Lasso, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Pittsburgh Penguins/Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin, Batfam, Percy Jackson, Black Sails, Lost in Space (2018), White Collar. Mostly SFW - includes my fic works, occasional artwork and random musings. I try to tag appropriately but some stuff may slip through the cracks. Jonaira on Ao3
About time I made one of these which doesn't feature Zuko being hot (no, literally. He's setting things on fire) in my first and only attempt at fanvidding 😂
Hello. If you've followed me for something specific, I can't guarantee you'll find it, but what you will have is fun on your way to getting lost :)
Most relevant stuff is already in the bio. Like/reblog sprees are beloved and appreciated (even if you aren't following). Sharing the brainworms is caring (and raising brainbutterflies in the long run :) If you're a minor and following, cool. I don't want further details. I'm an adult (with varied interests) and post accordingly, so feel free to block/filter whatever tags you need in order to curate your space better.
Main tags: My Art | My writing | AO3 | general nattering in tags/reblogs
Tags Masterlist under the cut
Jonaira Writes - My own writing
Jonaira Draws - My art (mostly fanart) + my photomanips/photoedits
Jonaira Edits - photomanips or gifs I've made (As you can see, I'm not the most organised here, plus it's a newer tag for my more recent edits)
Jonaira Jabbers - My talk tag for when I get chatty in the notes. Observations, quips, and assorted rambling.
Jonaira Answers - askbox replies, tag games
Jonaira watches - Media (films/shows) reviews, observations on stuff I'm currently watching
Photography - Other's photos
Astrophotography - Get Galaxy-brained 😎
Big Sky Dreaming - Pictures/Art of the sky
The sea the sea !! - Writing/Art/Photography featuring the sea (my beloved)
Fic recs / Fic rec - sharing the writerly good stuff around
Notes to Self - solid life advice, motivational stuff
Useful - what it says on the tin
Sidney Crosby/ Evgeni Malkin/ Sidgeno/ Marc Andre Fleury/ Pittsburgh Penguins - the hockey hyperfixation is real ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Everyfuckingwhen mood board | Everyfuckingwhen by Jonaira | Everyfuckingwhen music | Jump theory for beginners | chronospaciology vibes- the behind-the-scenes and world building stuff for my magnum opus of a story, Everyfuckingwhen. Personal happy place.
A boy named Sue by Jonaira | a Boy named Sue mood board - another fic of mine, much less extensive than that of EFW but no less beloved, currently a WIP
Art tags - Art (other's art), art resources, art references, art advice, drawing resources, drawing references, fanart
Music - Music, Music recs, Jonaira listens
Dinosaurs - 🦖🦕 we party like it's the mesozoic era here
Humour tags - Howling, howling 😂😂😂, lololol, much hilarity
General Awesomeness - awesomeness, Gold, tumblr gold
Cool stuff - Interesting
Stories from around Tumblr, people being people, we're more similar than we are different - Stories
We can't rewind we've gone too far - my tech woes tag (the reference is to the Buggle's song "Video Killed the Radio Star". This isn't me being nihilistic 😂)
Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"
at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you
at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.
at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly
at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.
at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.
At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.
I’m trying to document all the signs in Slough House (inspired by this from @your-mighty-words-astound-me)
If anyone with better eyes than me can read some of the ones below that I can’t decipher, that would be wonderful! Here we go:
The classic ‘NO WET SPOONS IN THE SUGAR!’. This was definitely scribbled onto this post-it angrily by Catherine after she had once again found a wet spoon in the sugar.
‘NEVER REMOVE THIS PLUG ⬇️’ with plug underlined twice. That plug is probably keeping the whole building from exploding or something.
‘OUT OF ORDER’ on the lift, which has probably been there for about ten years.
‘If the water bottle is empty PLEASE REPLACE IT’. And a no smoking sign above it.
‘NOTICE TO ALL. WHEN USING SPONGES OR CLOTHS PLEASE SQUEEZE OUT WATER FIRST BEFORE LEAVING IT ON WORKTOP.’ Poor Catherine having to deal with these messy children.
‘LADIES AND GENTLEMAN, PLEASE HAVE SOME RESPECT WHEN USING THE KITCHEN AREA. DO NOT LEAVE UNWASHED DISHES IN THE SINK AND PUT YOUR DISHES AWAY.’ Thank you @abubblingcandle! The last bit is too obscured to read it clearly.
Think this one may be ‘Keep This Door Clear. Nothing to be leant ^up on this area.‘ It’s in Catherine’s office.
I just enjoy that there’s one of these on Catherine’s and Jackson’s office doors. She definitely put them there.
There’s also a written No Smoking sign on the landing - you can see it here behind Aimee in one of Gisele’s photos, and I’m pretty sure it’s visible in one of the episodes too, I just forget which one!
Thank you for reminding me of this one @too-many-rooks. ‘Your designated smoking area is NOT HERE’. Once again, this was definitely written by Catherine.
Thank you @daincrediblegg for reminding me of this one, and @timrousbeastie and @thebeigelunatics for their explanations. I wasn’t aware that this meme existed, but it’s highly enjoyable that the Slow Horses have stuck this up in the kitchen. According to @your-mighty-words-astound-me, the number scribbled on to indicate how many days it’s been since the last incident is 25,915,655,XXX (twenty five billion, nine hundred and fifteen million, six hundred and fifty five thousand, and an indecipherable three digit number that's been crossed out and another number written above).
This one made me laugh. ‘HELPFUL REFRIGERATOR CHART’ is so Catherine after her lunch has been eaten (by Lamb, probably) or one of the Slow Horses complain to her about their lunch being eaten. I can’t read it exactly, but the first line is ‘Did I bring this in?’ followed by arrows to Yes and No, which presumably point to ‘Eat or drink your lunch’ and ‘don’t’ Lol.
‘FIRST AIDERS C. Standish (3rd floor)’ ⛑️🩹
I’m guessing Moira scribbled her name out? I could also see Lamb doing it angrily and drunk when he realised she might not be coming back, or when he received the third letter from HR that required his signature to finally dismiss her, but at the same time, if he was holding out for her return, I can’t see him scribbling her name out. Also, I wonder if Catherine has ever given first aid to anyone in Slough House.
Another one from the kitchen, nicely spotted by @your-mighty-words-astound-me. ‘KEEP THIS AREA CLEAN. (YOUR) MOTHER ISN’T HERE (SO) CLEAN UP (AFTER) YOURSELVES.’ Another one definitely put up by Catherine.
‘Our aim is to keep this bathroom clean… Gentlemen… Your aim will help. Stand closer - it’s shorter than you think. You can do it!’ Of course, this is hung above Jackson’s toilet in his bathroom. I do wonder how many years ago Catherine put this one up, because I can’t see her having entered that bathroom for a while.
[...] We took a lot of different types of pictures, and in the end, the picture of my ass looked better, than the picture of my face, so that’s what went on the cover.
the thing is that for all its supposed faults, i would take this brand of 90s utopian globalism over whatever the fuck we’ve been doing for the last 10 years in a heartbeat
This is your captain speaking and yeah we’re not landing. I just feel like we’ve got a really good thing up here and I don’t want to ruin it. This is my home and you are my people
y’all ever have those lines in songs where, when they finally sing it, ur heart just goes !!!!! and you become very happy because that one line in particular is just so wonderfully and artfully crafted?? like sometimes it’s the tune, sometimes it’s the lyrics, sometimes it’s a key change, sometimes it’s a long note, sometimes it’s something hard to explain!! i live for these lines tbh, sometimes i’ll listen to particular songs just to hear a specific line lmao
