[shitpostingkats]

I love how in Leverage there's Nathan Ford, The Mastermind, who's very chess coded and own chessboards and makes lots of chess metaphors. And then, in one episode, we meet his father, and someone makes a chess related jab, to which Nate offhandedly remarks "No, dad's game is three card monte." And then the whole episode is themed around that.

This, to me, implies that in the leverage univere, super geniuses just pick one game and structure their whole schtick around that. There's a criminal mastermind out there who's schemes are based around bridge hands. Some super thief is out there robbing the london archives while making nonstop monopoly quips. Somewhere in the world there is the ringleader of a merry bands of crooks who's just really, really into uno.

[newrider]

[wamscoastsmoker]

IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY

[notsocialphobixanymorelmao-deac]

I T S T H E M I D D L E O F J U N E

[wamscoastsmoker]

I T I S H A L L O W E E N T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y

[pwhyxco]

ok who the fuck got this on my dash it’s still june

[wamscoastsmoker]

get spooky

[tshifty]

how does this appear every june

[honeybeeavenue]

@nooowestayandgetcaught

[bardstardish]

STOP BRINGING THIS BACK EVERY JUNE

[marta-bee]

… I’ve just queued this up for next June. Because reasons

[afewbirds]

EVERY JUNE

[marta-bee]

I nearly forgot this year, but all of you happening froods who reblogged last year’s post didn’t, so here we are.

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

QUEER SKELETON PARTY!!

[ellewantsrevenge]

my favorite fantasy world is tortall

[xiaq]

One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.

[silvermoon424]

This tweet read me to filth

[smokingrozanov]

Shane in any pet store staring longingly at the cat trees and sighing every few minutes. Ilya is very deliberately Not Looking and trying to get Anya to pick out a toy because if he watches the way Shane runs his hands over a scratching post with his face all mopey then he knows he’s going to cave and drive straight to the nearest shelter

[smokingrozanov]

One day they go in to buy dog food for Anya and they have cats available for adoption. Shane makes eye contact with the smallest black cat he’s ever seen in his life and moves towards her like he’s being drawn in by a magnet. Ilya is marching behind him like ‘nono Hollander. We are here for ANYA. Remember? Dog?’ But Shane isn’t listening because this little black fuzzball has started arching her back and hissing like she’s an auditioning to be a Halloween decoration and Shane is looking at her like she’s the only thing in the entire world and Ilya just groans and goes to find an employee to ask about the adoption process. Because he realizes Shane is having that same instant connection that he had seeing Anya for the first time

[smokingrozanov]

He names the cat Puck by the way. Like hockey puck. But if you ask him he’ll get embarrassed and say like the Shakespeare character

[punishedsaints]

[anachronic-cobra]

I cannot emphasize enough how exactly accurate this is to working in production

[kozh-lucium]

Growing up is when you realize your parents are not invincible and that they’re just people too. Sometimes it happens too suddenly.

[thishazeleyeddemon]

the thing about Grace actually being a middle school teacher is I have also. temporarily. been a middle school educator*. and it was just absolutely fantastically fucking difficult so when Grace says he's not a people person it does NOT fly for me on a visceral level. buddy i am not a people person and i left that job because it was not working

the other thing about Grace being a middle school teacher is the stuff about him being a coward seeking out an easy option does not fly for me because you do not go into middle school teaching if you're looking for something easy. that would have seemed more realistic if he'd been a high school teacher but middle school means you're signing up to deal with just the Most, At All Times. I actively had to jump in the middle of a fight multiple times. one time one girl tried to scale a fence to get at this other girl she wanted to attack. One of my students threatened to stab another one with scissors and she meant that shit.

listen. listen. i work in special ed now, and my students try to bite me sometimes, and they're still less stressful than the social vagaries of middle schoolers. Grace being a middle school teacher is a character beat that says to me, I'm willing to do a difficult and messy job with very little prestige or reward to it, not cowardice.

*i was an after-school program educator, which is doing it on hard mode, but still.

[the-murderbot-chatlogs]

very fun to picture from the outside how secunit often just freezes in place mid-rescue, staring into space, not responding to questions, and then twenty seconds later something distant blows up, the lights turn orange, and all the doors open. secunit looks proud of itself and moves on with zero explanation

[thats-ee]

Not pictured: the two hours they just spent drinking in what they didn’t realize was a swinger club on their way to the consulate

[bolithesenate]

unforeseen consequences

[thats-ee]

BOLI YOURE MY HERO I actually was going to have Jo be the one lingering in the last panel but, compositionally, she needed to be within slapping range of Dooku XD

[bolithesenate]

GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE!!!

[pussycat-scribbles]

GUNDAM WING. I would cry happy tears into my pillow to see you draw Heero and Duo again!!

An anon after my own heart!

[bundibird]

I HIGHLY recommend giving compliments to random strangers.

Not, like, fake compliments or randomly giving scrounged up compliments to everyone you pass in the street, but -- say you see someone with an article of clothing you really really like. Cool accessories or a great haircut or something. Tell them.

I told an old woman yesterday that I liked her blouse. It was this super pretty white-at-the-top-floral-at-the-bottom shirt which was really lovely. So i backtracked where I'd walked past her and I said "excuse me - i love your shirt." And this harried, stressed-looking 80-something year old brightened up immediately, and beamed, and then when she and I headed off in separate directions, she had a pep in her step.

This other time I told a woman that I liked her boots. She gave me a company name thats since become my favourite brand of shoes. I told someone else that her scarf was cute and she was like "do you like it? Here, you can have it," and she dropped her scarf in my hands and then got on her train and left. I once saw a woman who had clearly put effort into her outfit that day but was now looking harried and frazzled as she wrangled four children across the road, and I told her that her outfit was gorgeous and she lit up like a christmas tree. I told a gay man that I loved his whole look once and he turned into a smiling, blushing mess as his super delighted and proud boyfriend was like "yea, he DOES look gorgeous doesnt he?"

If you see someone with something compliment-worthy going on, don't hold back. What's the point? Ive never once had a bad response to giving a compliment to a stranger. Everyone to a tee has been absolutely thrilled to receive a surprise compliment about their outfit or their make up or their shoes or their vibe or etc. Give out compliments to random strangers. Its free, and it'll make their whole day.

[chalroe]

From Lost In Translation by @quekerahkerah (which is so fun, go read it rn!!!)

[annabelle--cane]

every day I see six new fully finished highly symbolic art pieces of eva stratt with a set of scales and lambs and foxes and petrova lines visually paralleling nooses / restraints / trails of blood and rosaries and halos and big dioramas of earth and the sun and the hail mary and different methods of execution and explosions and rocket launches and heavenly / hell fire and allusions to major works in the art canon and I weep for my stomach not being strong enough for me to print out and eat all of them

[manyblinkinglights]

#they're doing crazy christ and mary and god and eve and pilate and magdalene stuff in my girl's fanart#which is good because she is actually all of them#project hail mary#marina marvels at life#SHE'S ALSO DEATH-AND-THE-MAIDEN CONTRASTING HER BLACK COWL WITH GRACE'S WHITE AND YELLOW MOTIFS.#how could I forget her grim reaper swag#JUDAS ALSO I FORGOT ABOUT JUDAS!!!!!!!

[therosielord]

I’ve been thinking about the differences between Eridian Radar and human sight and the things that Rocky and Grace would find amazing about the other’s abilities.

Rocky’s radar is amazing because he can “see” through walls, he can “see” the insides of bodies, and his sense is full 360 degrees all the time, unlike eyes which have to be pointed a specific direction. He has a much better sense of space and can easily find hidden objects. When eridians “watch” each other sleep, it’s different from humans watching something because they don’t even have to be in the same room as someone in order to watch them. Rocky could be in the next room, working on stuff, and still have sleeping Grace fully within his scope of radar.

But human sight! Sure, we can only see the surface of things, and if the light goes out we’re useless. But!!! We can see things that are 2D. That’s crazy to Rocky, that we can see things that can’t be touched or heard. We can see color, which gives us a wealth of information about things that eridians are entirely unaware of. Grace explains that humans can walk through a forest full of thousands of textures and easily spot out edible fruit because it’s a bright color. And the distance on sight! It’s incredible. Grace explains the concept of lighthouses, and how one small light can guide ships from miles away through a deafening storm. No eridian could hear that far, and even if they could, the noise of the storm would drown it out. And then there are the stars. Humans can see stars!!! Erid only learned about stars recently but humans have known about them since the very beginning because they can just look up and see across the vastness of space with no technological help. They can see the other planets in their solar system. They can see their own star so powerfully that they can’t even look directly at it. No eridian can hear their own star. And when they’re in space, Rocky is totally blind because sound doesn’t travel through a vacuum - but light does! Grace can see just as well in space as on Earth!

Also, and this is a big one: humans can turn off sight. Grace doesn’t think it’s that cool, but Rocky explains that there’s no way to stop using radar. There’s no way to block out sound completely. Humans can cover their eyes and see nothing if they want to. No distractions, no stimulation. That’s amazing.

I also love the idea of Grace explaining the concept of “see-through” to Rocky and telling him about all the types of transparent materials earth has developed over the years. And there are naturally transparent materials, too! Rocky is very excited to learn that water is transparent.

God I just love the fact that Rocky is just as amazed at human biology as Grace is with Eridian biology.

[blignick]