Fangirl By Night

Girl engineer by day. Fangirl by night. Never grew out of playing pretend. Cosplay Fanfiction Meta Also find me at: Lyra Ngalia at Archive Of Our Own Death Takes A Holiday at AO3 womanwhobeatyou on Dreamwidth womanwhobeatyou on Tumblr

[boeing-787]

Please enjoy this incomprehensibly mechanical photo I took 13 years ago of a 737-400's main gear bay (I stood on the ground up into one of the wheel cutouts to take this, it felt very intimate)

utterly delicious tbh i love incomprehensible photos of mechanical bays THANK YOU so much for this

[b777-36n]

Here’s a similar shot of a 737-8 that I got :)

[b777-36n]

I’ve got more neat aviation mechanics photos guys calm down

[b777-36n]

Another round :P

[b777-36n]

And finally all of the photos I have of that 737 landing gear bay because I concede nothing even comes close to as cool as that

[aviatrix-ash]

Might I add.. some more airplane guts? 😏

[aviatrix-ash]

Okay just few more to add to the chaos <3

[optimysticals]

These are amazing.

Paging @lyrangalia

[lyrangalia]

I will say that it is so charming sometimes to see appreciative photos of airplanes from people who aren't immediately like "fuck that specific button/panel in particular."

[prokopetz]

Level 1: Porn with plot

Level 2: Porn with social commentary

Level 3: Porn with troubling philosophical implications

Level 4: Porn with maddening revelations of humanity’s place in the cosmos

Level 5: Porn with math

[optimysticals]

Tagging @shymikka , @lyrangalia , and @lyssawrotethat

[lyrangalia]

THE PORN CAME AFTER THE MATH.

[cinematik-deactivated20180629]

new cryptid: tumblr users who have never changed their url

[lyrangalia]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV), Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski, Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg Characters: Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg Additional Tags: Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Semi-Public Sex, Rough Sex, that gazebo probably didn't deserve that, Destructive Sex, One Shot Summary:

Geralt hated banquets and the posturing noblemen who threw them. But a witcher has to eat and there were fewer places where he could get both a free meal and a potential lead on any monsters terrorizing the countryside. Which was why he was at the banquet.

Until he smelled a familiar perfume, of lilacs and gooseberries.

[lyrangalia]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo Rating: Explicit Warnings: Rape/Non-Con Relationships: The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov Characters: Alina Starkov, The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova Additional Tags: Rape/Non-con Elements, Mind Manipulation, Mindfuck, Season 2 Speculation, Book 2: Siege and Storm, Fingerfucking, Vaginal Fingering, Mind Sex Summary:

There is a war being fought. In Ravka, for the heart and soul of the Grisha. In Alina Starkov's mind, for the sanity of the Sun Summoner herself.

[phantomrose96]

Names-optional social media is so funny because I have made deep and meaningful friendships with so many people while having no fucking idea what their names are.

Like yes this is my dear beloved friend, my mutual, partner in many DMs, discord chats, calls, I'm planning a wistful summer roadtrip where I visit them across the country. Their name :)? That's easy. It's <inanimate object which is the first word of their URL>

[phantomrose96]

This is my friend, my comrade, my dear treasured mutual, who actually does not have a name at all :). Because we chat via direct DM where names aren't needed and I never asked them so to me they are simply <person encapsulated by combination profile picture and URL>

[optimysticals]

Just because I now know @lyrangalia 's actual name doesn't mean I use it. And when looking for her on the *real name*™ website I am often confused because I can't find Lyra...

[lyrangalia]

I am pretty sure I can count on one hand the number of people who I meet in online fandom spaces that call me Real Name.

Hell, even @ifihadallthewords’ mother doesn’t call me by my real name.

🤣🤣🤣

[queermaddscientist]

Get yourself a fabric store that will light your fabric on fire for you

No but legit I asked what the fiber content of something was and the guy didn’t know so he cut a chunk off and lit it on fire and felt the ashes and was like. Yeah this is mostly cotton with a lil bit of silk. And that was the moment I knew. This is it. This is the fabric store for me. Also that guy is marriage material. Not for me but damn some person is gonna be so happy with him.

[rawringthroughthetwenties]

Ok but this is actually one of the easiest ways to tell what something is made of! I did a textiles degree and one day as part of a class we all went outside with a pile of scrap fabric and set fire to the little pieces and recorded how they burned. We were given a chart that looked something like this to tell what each fabric was (it gets a little tricky is it’s a mix of fabrics though). Why did we do this? There is very little regulation in the textiles industry so a lot of materials are mislabelled as something they aren’t and sold for more than they should be, also sometimes people buy fabric second hand or discounted which doesn’t have any label at all. If you have a fabric you are having doubts about, cut a tiny piece off and do the burn test and you should know pretty fast what you are dealing with. Anyways your fabric store should be lighting things on fire because this means that they are actually checking what the fabrics are and aren’t trying to pass cheap stuff off as more expensive than it is.

[queermaddscientist]

Ooh! I knew it was a standard test but I hadn’t seen a chart as detailed as this thank you!

[dapurinthos]

the ritual of ‘i don’t remember what this fabric is and i can’t tell exactly by feel, so it’s burn time!’ is a time-honoured tradition of the stash pile.

[averagemarvelbitch]

You know what’s sad? Having to tell my adult patients that they don’t have to be boring fucks who hate everything to be considered adults.

Seriously, people have a very weird idea of what it means to be an adult. I have patients who come to me and tell me they are unhappy with their lives and they don’t understand why, because they have a job, they have a good salary, they can pay their bills, they have a significant other, they’re doing everything right and still they’re unhappy.

And then we start talking and talking and, finally, we reach the real problem: they stopped being themselves.

I have so many patients who stopped doing things they liked - harmless things, fun things - because they felt it was innapropriate for an adult to do them.

Videogames? I’m too old for that.

Comic books? I’m too old for that.

Disney movies? That’s for kids.

Super hero movies/series? I’m an adult, I should act like one.

Going to parks/carnivals? I don’t have kids to do that with.

It’s scary how these people simply gave up on these fun hobbies just because they reached a certain age. And it’s even more scary that they don’t see the problem with this.

Adult life is more than just work, paying bills and marriage. It’s about going out with your friends, it’s about buying silly things that have no purpose but to bring you a little joy, it’s about having fun and living your life to the fullest.

You don’t have to be a boring fuck to be an “acceptable adult”. Fuck society and fuck whoever says you can’t like something because you’re “too old”.

You’re never too old to do the things you like, play the games you want to play and watch the movies/series you want to watch.

Dress up and go to Comic Con. Go to the midnight premiere of your favorite super hero movie. Read the “silly teen books” you want to read. Play that “childish” game you’ve been wanting to play.

Being an adult doesn’t mean you need to forget who you are. Being older doesn’t mean you need to let go of the things you love and enjoy.

Be unapologetically yourself and go live your best life!

[ruby-white-rabbit]

I have a full time job, pay bills, and also have plushies on my bed and comic books and cosplays

They can coexist. You should enjoy your life when you can

[lyrangalia]

What even is the point of being a well paid but marginally respected corporate drone if you can’t use the money you’ve earned on shit you actually like instead of some ugly shelves an Instagram influencer told you makes your house look “put together”.

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[psychosomaticdeicide]

There’s like. A ton of personifications. Including but not limited to the above:

Quarantine Man

The Taiwan CDC with a Disinfectant Gun

Hepatitis but a Boy Band

Syphilis with Gender (女) and other Bio Information

Varicella (chicken pox) and Herpes Zoster (shingles) as Children

The Plague, but Hot Lady (also with bio information)

Fuckboy Influenza

Measles, but Hot Guy

Lyme Disease with a Mech????

And, of course, COVID-19 in all their gender neutral glory.

There’s more but I hit the image limit. I’ve got a couple articles about them, too:

Taiwan CDC's personified disease illustrations go viral in US | Taiwan News | 2020-10-24 09:10:00

Taiwan CDC's personified disease illustrations go viral in US | 2020-10-24 09:10:00

Taiwan's CDC illustrates Covid-19 and other diseases as gorgeous anime characters

Please don't try to roll for them in gacha. Or get them in anyway.

[psychosomaticdeicide]

Let’s make this post even longer because I have even more images saved. Next up, we got:

Tsutsumagushi Disease

Chikungunya Fever!

MERS

Pertussis (whooping cough) with a horrifying (almost body horror) headpiece and flute

Dengue Fever, the image of which literally made me stop breathing for a moment when I first saw it

Japanese Encephalitis (as... idols, maybe?)

And Zika Virus (so pretty! and for what???)

And some higher res images of the ones from the video (Legionnaires’ Disease, Viral Gastroenteritis, and Rubella). Unfortunately, I could not fit Rabies because of the image limit.

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

i wanna point out that lyme's mech is actually a tick, which is a really neat detail

[gwydionmisha]

I have so many Questions.

[lyrangalia]

@theggning​ I don’t know why but I thought of you???

[shadow27]

[crankynewt]

Just a PSA that Hector, the horse Ben Barnes rode in Shadow and Bone, is the same one that Henry Cavill trained on for The Witcher.

[knowanoah]

Stop telling yourself that the grass is greener on the other side, because it’s not. It is greener where you water it. So take control of your life and start watering your own pastures and grow your own greener grasses.

[moniquill]

Fuck grass, clover is a nitrogen fixing legume and dandelions are super useful. Be the weeds. Grow on concrete in defiance of those who would thwart you.

[luminous-lily12]

It’s also greener where you bury a body

[hanmegumi]

SHADOW AND BONE SHIP/FRIENDSHIP DYNAMICS | (insp. in notes)

[annebethchase]

“I didn’t know if you would come.” Kaz couldn’t blame Van Eck for that. Kaz had built that doubt in her with every cold word and small cruelty. “We’re your crew, Inej. We don’t leave our own at the mercy of merch scum.” It wasn’t the answer he wanted to give. It wasn’t the answer she wanted.                        - Crooked Kingdom, CHAPTER 12

[patronus-cosplay]

“You could have made me your equal. Instead you made me this.”

Had a little fun mixing it up with show!Alina’s kefta and book!Alina’s collar. Can’t wait until I’m Fully Done with this kefta and can get started on the Winter Fete kefta!

[mckkachins]

shadow and bone week day 1: favorite character baghra morozova

[alliecathayes]

OUTFITS PER EPISODE (3/?)

Shadow and Bone 1.04-5 Alina Starkov