Delusions of Grandeur

This isn't my main blogging platform; that's what LJ is for (Come say hi!). This is mostly for reblogging pretty pictures of stuff and for all the fandoms too tiny to have an LJ presence. That said, stuff you're likely to see here: - Anything Tolkien - Age of Sail/general Regency stuff (Aubreyad, Hornblower, Temeraire, Jane Austen, etc.) - Discworld - AtLA - Babylon 5 - ASOIAF/GoT - plenty of technological incompetence

[my-dailydreams]

[the-prince-of-the-ravens]

i think i finally put my finger on what lmb does so well with gregor that makes me insane about him. it’s the fact that she uses him SO sparingly that whenever he is actually on the page it has this Weight behind it. he so rarely makes sustained appearances and a lot of the time he literally has one couple page scene in a book before dipping. but each appearance is just so potent because there are so few of them and also just because gregor is so quiet and restrained most of the time that he just has this Presence. i’m trying so hard to describe his character and why it works so well but it feels a little bit like trying to paint the sistine chapel while colorblind. you all understand what i mean send post

[maykendehoutman]

Fun fact: the old USA TV show The West Wing was originally going to have the President's role be like that: just dropped in to lend his Presence and fix some Situation. Al la the pilot episode. I'm not made about them changing the premise, but I always think about that when I see Gregor "on screen."

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[glasshomewrecker]

Everyone should be aware of nitter.net

for any address to twitter you can replace the “x.com” with “nitter.net” and you will be able to browse as if you have an account. Lifesaver.

Similarly, imginn.com works for most Instagram addresses. I still haven’t found one for Facebook.

[ganymedian]

Mr. Kennedy!! This marks (perhaps) the end of the 3 Hornblower charm designs I have planned for my Etsy shop. Here is Mr. Hornblower and here is Mr. Bush!

[agreeableartist]

anyone here? pls take this PC Peter Grant and DCI Thomas Nightingale

Leyendecker paintover bc this just screamed The Folly to me and I have been obsessed with these characters since discovering the book series a few weeks ago! Hope there are some fellow fans still around!

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

[peniswakt-deactivated20210717]

if i had a dollar for every pixel in this image i’d have 15 cents

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

if i had a dollar for every ounce of rage i felt in my body after i read this comment i would have enough money to buy a cannon to fire at you

[256x224-deactivated20240130]

actually I did the math, they would have $225, not $0.15

[peniswakt-deactivated20210717]

sis i’m right here….

[yugirimistwalker]

if i had a dollar i would buy a can of soda :)

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

while you’re there could you buy me an apply juice please?

[yugirimistwalker]

sorry i only have a dollar

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

:(

[256x224-deactivated20240130]

hey I just realized my friend Vriska is right, they would have $22500 not $225

^my friend Vriska

[yugirimistwalker]

if i had $22,500 i would buy a can of soda and an apply juice

[256x224-deactivated20240130]

You can buy anything you want with $22500

[optimisticbananaharmony-deactiv]

yeah and they want soda and apply juice

[256x224-deactivated20240130]

apply juice to what

[zvaigzdelasas]

directly to the forehead

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[thebeautifulsoup]

So a while ago we found some old posters at work, including this one, which was by far the best:

Orlando Bloom staring out at you, consumed with worry that someone (you) is going to steal his book.

Today was fairly slow at work today, I was on by myself, and… this might have happened…

[thebeautifulsoup]

I can’t believe it’s been almost 3 years since my boss accidentally ripped Orlando.

Rest in Peace, sweet prince.

[muppetebbtide]

csevet gets away with being crazy bc he's so sweetie but his story arc within tge is pure bedlam, he just does it so elegantly and politely it glosses over. courier agreed to be imperial secretary after one vague and polite insinuation from the emperor in that direction, despite possibly not having learned to read until he was a teenager (and the circumstances within which he was sent into maia's service are HIGHLY questionable, it's possible csevet wilfully interpreted chavar's wording to get the outcome he wanted). he got offended when maia insinuated, not that he would covertly read a letter of imperial business entrusted to him, but that he wouldn't immaculately reseal it if he had done such a thing. about fifty pages later he is hustled into admitting he did that exact thing with the first letter he ever gave to maia. and he immaculately resealed it. he is the only person to land a punch on anyone on-page, and he did it in front of like half the government. he insinuated the emperor was insane, to his face, then promptly prostrated himself on the floor outside. in like, the gravel. he loudly guilt tripped priests in a holy building and wasn't sorry about it even a bit. he personally influenced and drove several state matters that rightly should not have really been up to him, including the emperor's marriage and the investigation of the assassination of the previous one. he then proceeded to pick an empress and present the proposal to the corazhas as if that was the emperor's opinion, even though maia had no opinion in the slightest. one can make a textual argument suggesting he might have sliiiightly lied to the emperor about a few things, including his age, or at least obfuscated. his only apparent objection to becoming lord chancellor was said nebulous age. he still somehow has time to read ethuverazhin jane austen. he compared his commitment to his role to celehar's Actual For Real Religious Calling. katherine addison please let me look in his brain just once it HAS to be absolute scenes in there

[loversdoom]

Hi Tumblr. I am halting my fundraising to get the needed check-up and tests for my PCOS diagnosis. I am begging and knocking on your generous hearts to help me with a more important matter, which is saving my dog. Unfortunately, my dog, the most important creature in my life, has been diagnosed with cancer.

This is Shadow, our family dog. He’s been with us since he was 6 months old and has been with us for more than 6 years now. Saying that this dog is my lifeline is an understatement. His existence alone makes me try harder to stay alive. He got me through the loneliness of moving away from home for college, through the hard times during the lockdown, and here now, where I am still far away from him and struggling to survive.

My family, who is taking care of him while I am away, has hidden the fact that he has been sick for a few months now. He has been bleeding through his genitals for months now, and it was only recently that I managed to force them to take him to the vet, where he was diagnosed with TVT, a contagious type of cancer. He needs to be tested to see if his organs can take the chemo treatment. If his organs can take it, he will undergo 4 weeks of chemo, and if not, he will undergo surgery to remove the tumors in his genitals. Either way, the cost would total around $2000.

I have been trying for the past few weeks to find a way to earn the money needed for his chemo treatment. I’ve begged people to loan me the money I need, and I am still trying to look for a second job on top of my current job. But to no avail.

I am so tired. I have been facing hurdle after hurdle for years now, and I don’t know when the universe will give me a break. But this might be my biggest obstacle yet because it involves someone I love so much and someone I’m not ready to lose yet. I won’t give up trying so long as he’s still alive and can receive treatment. Please help me save my baby.

My paypal and kofi is here if anyone wants to help. Please help me save my Shadow.

Any amount is a big help. Small amounts add up and reblogs are appreciated.

[loversdoom]

I have enough to have him tested if his organs can take the chemo. But if he’s going to be tested for that, he needs to start chemo right after the test. So I can’t do anything to forward his treatment unless I have the full amount I need. Please help me save Shadow. Tumors have been steadily growing in his genital. Please please help me save him. Please reblog, please donate. Small amounts add up and help me get closer to my goal.

[loversdoom]

I already asked permission to the person who donated…I unfortunately have to deduct a good chunk of what I have received for this fundraising to pay my rent. I won’t be getting paid for the second half of December which means no pay until I get my salary for January on February. It really breaks my heart that now I’m even more far away from my goal to save my dog, but I can’t get kicked out from my place.

[loversdoom]

UPDATE:

I am also fundraising for something urgent. My laptop recently stopped working and turning on. I use it all the time for work and I can’t due a huge part of my responsibilities at work without it. I work in a small lab that unfortunately can’t provide me a work laptop. I’ve been using my workmate’s laptop the past weeks while they were on leave but they are back now and I have nothing to use anymore. I hope I could get help soon for this as I really don’t want to have a complicated discussion with my boss on the tasks that I wont be able to do without a laptop.

[loversdoom]

UPDATE:

Shadow was tested 3 weeks ago if his organs could take the chemo. He had to adjust his diet for 2 weeks because something was off with his pancreas. Just this week he was cleared to start chemo treatment.

With the two blood panels, I only have money left for one chemo treatment and he needs at least 4.

I have been borrowing my friend’s laptop since its summer break and they don’t have school until late August so all the money I have raised and will be raising is solely for Shadow’s treatment.

Please, please, please help me save him.

[lackadaisycats]

I absolutely adore Ivy! I bought the lackadaisy art book and its so gorgeous!

Also just wanted to show you my cat Daisy because your art makes me want to try imagining her in lackadaisy style lol 💕😆 Do you have fashion amd hair tips or can you reccomend some hairstyles that included bangs from that time period? ❤️

Well, Daisy is quite the beauty. And I'm glad you like the art book - thank you! As for bangs, um...well, here are some hairstyles with bangs from the era. Bobs and shingles were very much the going trend.

Pictures include Anna May Wong, Anita Loos, Louise Brooks, Anastasia Reilly, Myrna Loy, Aileen Pringle, Clara Bow with a couple of different styles, Josephine Baker, and some other faces that I don't recognize. Credit to Vintage Dancer, which is where I probably saved at least a few of these from to my hard drive some time ago.

[postarcadian]

the thing I love most about how tumblr users use tags is that it’s like what if a social media website had a footnotes system

[cherrydj-l]

there's no way anyone believed them

[cherrydj-l]

ik she probably actually turned into a dragon, but have you considered Flemeth just dragging them all the way to her hut for fun

[dragon-in-a-fez]

today's reason I fucking love the open source community: Ageless Linux, a brand new Debian-based operating system specifically designed to break the law by giving children access to computers that explicitly refuse to track their age.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

reblog this post to help a child break the law

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[thisiswhereikeepdcthings]

This song has single-handedly taken over my life and it’s only been like a week

[lesser-flamingo]

me the first time i saw this: oh sure that's fun ig

me seeing it again now: fuuuuuuuuck yes the axolotl is back

[ktk8-ktdid-ktwilldo]

You like the axolotl one, check out the one with the ducks @lesser-flamingo @thisiswhereikeepdcthings

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[lunasariel]

Another absolute banger: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DN_20leirNt/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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[historical-fashion-polls]

which outfit would you rather wear? (1942)

left 💙🤍

center left 💚💛

center right 🤎🩵

right 🩶🤍❤️

Remaining time: 2 days 10 hours

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

maybe YOU couldn't. give it here