Lunanara87

A southern belle with flare, I'm an author (Tumblr: kariholloway), a blogger, and the greatest joy in my life is being a mother.

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Japanese designer Haruki Nakamura creates interactive paper toys.

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!!!!!!! i love!!!!!

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YES

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COOL!!

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This is awesome.

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🌟

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My doctor,

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(via Fajita In A Pan – Maw-Payne's Corner)

Faijita in a Pan is the most popular food request in our house. This is easy to adapt and can feed an army.

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Strings Attached

It’s official! Strings Attached is ready to go. This novel was an interesting challenge for me. Generally, my longer works are 1st person, and Strings Attached was done in 3rd POV with alternating characters. This was also an interesting personal challenge because the story is a continuation of the Celestial Maiden myth from Japan. I tried not to make it overwhelm the sweet/clean modern romance that it happens within. *******************************************************************************************

Carissa is a high school teacher and an accomplished violinist with lifelong aspirations of joining the orchestra she fell in love with as a child. Single-minded and meticulous in her pursuit, a chance encounter with Kyle makes her question what she really wants out of life. ​Kyle's life is going exactly the way he wants. Well ... almost. With the hottest comic book shop in Charleston and a steady group of close friends and family, he's just waiting for love—and maybe he’s finally found it in Carissa. But Gramps’ shocking deathbed confession may have just thrown a kink in the chain of his dreams with a request that borders on insane.​ What begins as legend soon becomes choice as an impossible task and an eternal destiny merge. Can Kyle and Carissa successfully balance their blossoming love amidst the stark contrast of their individual life paths, or will they lose everything—including each other—when dreams meet reality?

The cover was done by German Creative on Fiverr.

If you’re interested in it, you can preorder it at books2read.com/StringsAttached, and that includes all major retailers. It becomes available on October 2, 2018

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Rakotzbrücke, Germany | chrispoops

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This is cool. I like photos like this. 

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the two things i love the most: plants + books

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One of the best coffee places I’ve ever been to.

[lunanara87]

I want the typewriter. I actually miss the typewriter I got when I was 13. My mom redid my bedroom for my birthday and under the t.v. was a little desk holding a typewriter. I don’t remember what I wrote on it. None of the stories linger in any coherent memory. Maybe that’s why I like my AlphaNeo 2.

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I just wanna let y’all know that you do fanfic tropes all of the time, we just don’t describe them like beginning writers do. You:

Push your shoes off with your toes or with the tip of your shoe, most likely. Props for drama if you yank your converse or your vans or your boots off like a soldier in a scyfi drama, but otherwise, you’re “toeing your shoes off”

Humans are much better at dissecting scents than we give ourselves credit for. If you sit there long enough, you could dissect how your friend smells. I smell like “old, beat up cars, the sour citrus he isn’t supposed to have, and something musty and natural and unique to him that clings to all of his clothes.” In order that’s old flannel, three day old hair mousse, and fish tank water. Smells like cigarettes and oils cling to your clothes, stuff like fishtanks and the food in your kitchen seeps into your belongings. Don’t feel bad about describing scents, people carry our houses with us everywhere. 

Have you ever pet someone else’s hair? That’s “carding your fingers through.” That’s it. It’s the same thing.

Ever walked around barefoot? Its three am and you’re trying to make Dark Lunch? You’ve padded around. You signal to other people nonverbally whether its coughing or sighing that you’re there so that you don’t scare them. 

Smirking is a thing most of us do with our face. Grinning, looking cheeky, and raising our eyebrows are also all things your face does. Sorry :/

You might not get this if you’re a straight girl whose never had sex, but sometimes that little strip of skin between ya shirt and ya hips? The mouth can go there. That’s an intimate place to touch and its a vulnerable place to be exposed. Overused maybe, but a valid way to show a shift in the situation. 

We all sigh!! Are some of y’all really saying that sighing isn’t a thing you do ten thousand times a week?? You don’t sigh when someone says something stupid as shit?? You don’t sigh when you gotta get up?? 

SAID IS A VALID WORD

Everything on your face casts shadows, I’m sorry you have weak eyelashes, or that somehow your brows are flat with your eyeballs

People laugh silently! I’m sorry you’ve never laughed that hard!! People giggle! People snort! People double over and move and flail! Have you ever fucking laughed?

For that matter how do y’all not blush and can you teach me

I’d also like to say sorry if: your heart has never skipped a beat reading something terrible, or when you saw someone you liked even platonically, or if you’ve never been so surprised all you could do was blink, that you never looked at someone like you loved them, and that you somehow never fucking show any emotion in your voice or your posture at all

Tl;Dr: Some of y’all are dragging people for shit you don’t know how to describe and damn if you ain’t still reading things and then telling beginning writers that they’re describing impossible things and writing weirdly when y’all don’t even write shit, its obnoxious as hell. To y’all that do write and are aggressively against this post, I bet you sure as hell use EPITHETS INAPPROPRIATELY ANYWAY, DON’T YA?

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Worth the read.

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Somewhere

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It’s a pretty morning to go and see the world besides through a computer screen. Put on a pair of comfortable shoes and grab a drink. Whether you’re walking your neighborhood or just sitting on the porch, take a moment to live in the moment.

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Dramatic

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Have you stopped and smelled the tulips? 

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Herbivores 🍃

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Awe!

[gesu-ko]

Raising a kid in a mixed species household can be hard sometimes. 

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This was cute. Had to share.

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Fandometrics In Depth: The Avengers

This post is entirely spoiler free for anyone who has yet to see Avengers: Infinity War.

It’s finally here. A cinematic event ten years in the making, the entire Marvel cinematic universe collides in today’s release of Avengers: Infinity War. After a solid decade of theory after theory, we will finally know who lives, who dies, and if Stucky will ever be canon.

With more than 16 million engagements, #Marvel is the fifth most popular brand on Tumblr in 2018 thus far—right behind #BTS, #Voltron: Legendary Defender, and #Overwatch. To celebrate, let’s take a look back at which Avengers have dominated the Marvel conversation.

The people behind the superheroes

When it comes to the MCU, there’s a trope of naming the films after the main superhero’s alter ego. To separate the films from the characters as much as we could, we’re using a strict real name policy for this list. It’s no surprise that Tumblr’s first boyfriend, Loki, takes top honors. Following him by less than 1% is our favorite memelord and STEM superstar, Shuri. Here’s the full breakdown:

Loki | 14.54%

Shuri | 13.74%

Bucky Barnes | 13.53%

Tony Stark | 12.53%

Steve Rogers | 12.01%

T’Challa | 10.46%

Peter Parker | 10.31%

Okoye | 5.94%

Thor Odinson | 4.19%

Bruce Banner | 2.75%

Also the people behind the superheroes

Two years ago, Sebastian Stan was declared Tumblr’s newest boyfriend. What a trend! Right behind him is Tom Holland, who was the No. 1 celebrity on Tumblr back in 2017. The rest of the list reads like a beautiful poem full of people we cherish:

Sebastian Stan | 19.96%

Tom Holland | 16.97%

Tom Hiddleston | 13.48%

Chris Evans | 12.4%

Chadwick Boseman | 11.21%

Danai Gurira | 5.78%

Chris Hemsworth | 5.44%

Letitia Wright | 5.2%

Robert Downey Jr. | 4.97%

Benedict Cumberbatch | 4.6%

Tony Stark is very shippable

If you follow our weekly ships list, you’re probably familiar with Stucky, but the rest of the list might surprise you. In a Fandometrics first, we have a three-way ship—a.k.a. a thruple (!)—on the list. Congratulations, thruple shippers! And congratulations to Tony Stark, who appears in 60% of the top ten ships.

Stucky (Steve Rogers x Bucky Barnes) | 34.56%

Stony (Steve Rogers x Tony Stark) | 23.27%

Thorki (Thor x Loki) | 22.93%

Winteriron (Bucky Barnes x Tony Stark) | 4.78%

Romanogers (Natasha Romanoff x Steve Rogers) | 3.87%

Frostiron (Loki x Tony Stark) | 3.44%

Pepperony (Pepper Potts x Tony Stark) | 2.16%

Starkquill (Tony Stark x Peter Quill) | 1.82%

Stuckony (Steve Rogers x Bucky Barnes x Tony Stark) | 1.69%

Clintasha (Clint Barton x Natasha Romanoff) | 1.48%

The war is not over

For more Infinity War content, start with the official Marvel blog (@marvelentertainment) and then after you see the film, may we suggest:

Avengers Memes (@avengersmemes) to laugh off all your feels.

Texts From the Avengers (@textsfromthe-avengers) for last night’s texts, unclassified by S.H.I.E.L.D.

Alex Cho (@arexcho)’s Avengers series for a soft look at tough heroes.

The Infinity War art tag, which is already bursting with odes to Steve Rogers’ beautiful beard.

With a movie this long in the making, we kindly remind you to tag your spoilers (and filter those tags from your dash!).

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The list is too funny not to share. Do you ship different members in fandoms?

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Vintage Everyday

From Shirley Temple, to Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, this insanely clever creation uses 66 vintage moves and a modern pop hit "Uptown Funk" to weld something of perfection...

This was super cute. 

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by  Bong Grit

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I love this photo. It inspires me to write a story about it... shhh... I'll keep it a secret until later.

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❤ ❤ ❤

discount code “ Joanna15 “

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These are cute. Got any cat lovers in your house? I wonder if these are notorious for knocking things off like cats do?

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Shadows are not always black!

Shadows are absolutely fascinating to play around with.

In this Exploratorium demonstration you can see that a black shadow is only a subset of shadows that can be formed on the screen.

If you have multiple sources of light with different colors, then you can additively combine colors to get shadows of various shades.

In this case where you have multiple sources of light, only when the object blocks off light from all three colored light sources do you get a black shadow.

Since we do not deal with multiple colored sources of light on a daily basis, go ahead, give this simple experiment a try. It’s totally worth it!

Have a good one!

** Other FYP explorations on Shadows :

Can a single point of light always illuminate an entire room ?

On disappearing shadows of Birds and airplanes

[lunanara87]

That’s wicked cool. This would have been an awesome science experiment growing up.