Portrait of a Girl

The unrelated haphazard ramblings of a 30-something with no fixed address

[transmascmarypoppins]

why is this post completely broken in every way imaginable

[cecilsrandomeverything]

Broken notes… deactivated account… removed image….

Finally, we have them all.

[spacefinch]

In addition: OP’s name is just… gone. No “[insert username]-deactivated[insert a bunch of numbers]” as is the standard for deactivated blogs.

Just the world “deactivated.” Look upon their post, ye mighty, and despair.

[chatblancofficial]

It’ll be almost impossible to find this post unless it wanders across your dash.

[huewrite]

It wandered across mine. I shall help it travel forward.

[gossamermouse]

this is not a place of honor

[jackviator]

[dinosaurana]

Oh hey post of Ozymandius, good to see you again standing on your feet in a desert where no one remembers you

[fellshish]

a lot of writing is sort of watching the film in your head like oh sorry can’t write the chapter yet i have to repeat hallucinate the dialogue first

[dailycatsblog]

[livinglights]

Raving for Jesus (and Mario)

[livinglights]

One of the craziest facts I learned this year is that cancer has been around this planet long enough that Paleontologists have found evidence of dinosaurs with malignant bone cancer.

"What this study shows, because we found bone cancer at quite an advanced stage, is that dinosaurs were not only afflicted by bone cancer but probably all sorts of other cancers that we see in vertebrates today" - David Evans, paleontologist at the Royal Ontario Museum (and one of the study's lead researchers).

[livinglights]

Frank Castle taking his own advice, Exhibit 1:

[rowanclair]

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.

[it-may-be-dull-but-im-determined]

Frank & Karen | Touch

It's fine I'm fine 😭😭

[polkadotmotmot]

Elena Wuest - An Afternoon Tea II, 2026 - Oil on canvas

[json-derulo]

having the Aviation Accident Investigations Autism™️ has actually done wonders for the way I process and respond to my own fuck-ups

[json-derulo]

And I don't just mean "oh, my little work mistake is actually nothing compared to a fiery crash that kills people," either. The reason commercial flight is so many orders of magnitude safer than any other form of transportation is because after every accident and incident, an independent regulatory body investigated it with the express goal of figuring out exactly what happened, why, and how to prevent the same thing from ever happening again—not to root out which person deserved the blame or the liability.

It's a simple, shockingly effective idea. It's also worlds away from how most people approach their own mistakes and the mistakes of others.

[json-derulo]

Because it’s never just one person’s fault. And even when it is, it still isn’t. 

The sharpest, best-trained pilots make worse decisions when they're tired or sick or stressed out, so there's two of them. The most dedicated and experienced air traffic controllers garble an instruction over the radio sometimes, so pilots are trained to always repeat clearances back to catch misunderstandings quickly. The best and brightest maintenance mechanic still overlooks a screw or misconnects a wire once or twice in her career, so aircraft systems are built with two or three or four layers of redundancy, and pilots are exhaustively trained to deal with failures safely. 

Everyone eventually has a bad day. Every component breaks down. Every computer gets a bad a Windows update and spirals into a reboot doom loop. If it’s possible for one person’s mistake to domino into a mushroom cloud of a fuckup, then that task is too critical to be one person's sole responsibility. The accident sequence starts with the design of the system—so how do you improve the system to keep it from happening again?

[json-derulo]

oh yeah. The “modern commercial aviation is the safest form of transport” thing only applies to planes, btw. A helicopter is a beautiful metal horse that wants to break its legs and die so so so badly

[gifmarvel]

The Punisher | The Abyss (2.11) The Punisher: One Last Kill | 2026

[haunted-by-the-spectre]

something something about the fact that Frank's hallucinations are insulting him, Karen is insulting him, telling him he failed (mirroring their first conversation in the hospital) etc. and he still asks her whether she is really here. Can't really put it into words but even when he's not sure if she's real or not real, there or not there and even if she's tapping right into his worst fears, he still would rather have her there than not there. And it reminds me of their conversation back in the diner where he talks about how Maria could and would hurt him and how it's better to feel that than not to feel it because knowing someone can hurt you means that you love them and it's a lifeline I have thoughts about that

[livinglights]

Also when hallucination Karen accuses him of choosing a war over his family he tells her it's bullshit, but he knows it's not. He's ruminating over their last conversation in The Punisher Season 2, where Karen begged him to choose to love someone (her) instead of another war. He chose the war. Just like he did when it was Maria and the kids. He didn't feel worthy of their love when he had it, so he kept them at a distance with repeated deployments. Now, he's having to cope with the fact that he's made the same mistake with Karen.

[quakeismyhero]

guys if we actually think about it, the hallucination of karen is the first time he’s held her in a very very long time.

baby boy was still questioning if she was real, because look at his face. it’s like he doesn’t want to believe it’s real :(

[quakeismyhero]

deb’s acting is insane. she goes from acting so not-karen, to switching to that soft, karen voice that frank knows so well when he asks if she’s there.

it becomes so much more convincing that she’s real, no wonder frank believes it.

[darlingshane]

use two hands and never let go.

[twicetolivetwicetodie]

Very pleased to see that Frank includes Karen in his hallucinations

[livinglights]

Frank's hallucinations guest star all the people who are important to him. The people he loves, who loved him:

Maria

Lisa

Frank Jr

Curtis

Karen fucking Page

[thekimonogallery]

 an ukiyo-e of Ishikawa Toyonobu 石川 豊信 (1711-1785). It’s title is “Hanging Poems on a Cherry Tree”.