Astra

she/her, avid reader, shipper of everything

[animentality]

[fox-moblin]

Wouldn’t leave my mind sorry

[winged-thinged]

You have to let people love you. You have to let people get to know you. You have to let people help you. Being so completely selfless that you try to erase yourself off the face of the planet and never ask for anything and reject everybody's offers of support makes you very hard to love! Unfortunately. Emptying yourself out of everything that makes you, you is not actually what your loved ones want from you, generally. They want to make you happy! They will be so so sad if you don't give them the chance. It's not all selfish. I promise.

[sombersalt]

So I completely redid that concept art I did yesterday of Sakura if genma was her genin sensei, same kinda design just made it much less messy and stiff. Hope y’all like it 💙

OH and thank you everyone who reblogged/liked the last one and said nice things, it means a lot 🥹

PLEASE DONT REPOST MY ART WITHOUT PERMISSION, thank you :)

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[whitachi]

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

[blurryf4ce]

reblog this and in the tags, write the band that comes to mind first when you think back to being 13 years old

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m kinda surprised that nalbinding isn’t as popular as crochet and knitting tbh because it has an even lower barrier of entry tools wise and unlike crochet and knitting it makes fabric that you can cut.

I guess it’s because it’s slower or something.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Nalbinding aka needle binding is when you use yarn and a big sewing needle to make fabric btw

It also has a lot of different kinds of stitches you can do that make different densities of fabric.

Some people even make rugs.

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

I feel like part of it might be casual people are generally aware of the existence of crochet and knitting, even if they don’t know very much about either, but have never heard of nalbinding

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah I hadn’t heard of it until recently and I ordered a big bone needle for myself to try it out and that should be arriving soon.

I was surprised that I’d never heard of it though. It’s older than knitting and crocheting and even though it’s been done all over the world it’s super relevant to Nordic culture and my grandmother and I are both into keeping in touch with our roots a bit so I’m surprised I’ve never heard of it.

It seems like the sort of thing that would be popular even if not as popular as crocheting and knitting, considering the low barrier of entry.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You also don’t need a bunch of different sized needles for nalbinding or whatever. The size of the stitch is controlled either completely freehand or by pulling it against one of your fingers. Most people who have a lot of nalbinding needles seem to either have tried out wood, bone, and metal ones to see which kind they liked or they enjoy carving wood or bone and like making their own needles as an extra hobby.

It’s also a lot easier to freehand and adjust as you go than crochet or knitting and you mostly go by inches instead of rows and number of stitches so a large number of accessories like stitch markers or whatever isn’t really necessary.

Maybe the lack of accessories also makes it unpopular idk. People do like collecting things in their nests.

[the-color-of-sound-is-space]

I've been wanting to do so, I cannot find anyone who can teach me, and any books I can find on it are Ass in the Visual Learning department. Otherwise I'd be making the hell outta some nalbinded fabric

[what-even-is-thiss]

I found this channel by a nice man who makes up close tutorials

Happy Needlebinding

I create videos on YouTube to learn people how to needlebind using two fingers and your thumb. Needlebinding helps people to relax, relieve

[protomedeia]

Ahhhhhhhh, yesterday, I removed four wisdom teeth at once, and that shit hurts, i thought something was wrong after because i couldn't stop shaking like a little leaf, but the doc told me it was the adrenaline in the anesthetic, and I got home and started crying when the adrenaline faded so, and the pain was like expected because like he removed the roots and one tooth was touching a nerve on my jaw so yeah i knew it was gonna hurt, but not that much. And it is so hard to hold ice to both sides of. my face, cause if i do it and i can't see anything and there is nothing to distract me from the pain and discomfort. And today i woke up in pain, but it was less pain than yesterday, so that's a win, but I'm still kinda of feeling the anesthetic on one side and i don't think that's good, but also it may be the ice that is numbing everything

[veronicaleighauthor]

[gothic--vampyre]

The solo leveling anime

[pheita]

Memo to everybody :

Never be afraid to recycle an idea you had for a WIP you abandoned. Sometimes the idea needs a different set of characters or a different setting.

[indecisive-behaviors]

An addition:

Never be afraid to recycle an idea you had for a project you already completed. Sometimes ideas really are just that good and deserve to be used more than once.

[mytrinketsandknickknacks]

Don't be afraid to use the same recipe to make a new cake

[pistachi0n-deactivated20170826]

Sometimes when I go hundreds pages deep into people’s Tumblr archives, I find really funny posts and I weigh the pros and cons of liking/reblogging them.

Pros: I’ll have access to them later because they’re fucking hilarious

Cons: They might think I’m creepy. Despite the fact that it’s public and on the Internet, it is not socially acceptable to let anyone know the extent that you creeped their archives.

[taymonbeal]

I hereby extend blanket permission for anyone to creep on my archive, and to like and reblog posts from it if they want to. It’s really quite flattering.

[brennacedria]

“it is not socially acceptable”

Wrong. It is not only acceptable but expected here. Adhere to whatever “etiquette” you will on other sites. Share and be shared here.

[alarajrogers]

Yeah, this isn’t a Tumblr thing. Everyone here loves it when they wake up to 97 notifications and they’re all likes and reblogs from the same person of shit you posted five years ago.

[awesomebutunpractical]

I love it when someone is obviously going through a specific tag of mine.

[nights-at-crystarium]

User that exhibits the actively curious, reblog-spamming, tag-digging behavior is an endangered species that must be preserved at all costs. No seriously I view this kinda stuff as a big, massive, yuuuuuge compliment. Please don’t let this culture die.

[injuries-in-dust]

I’ve had people reblog stuff so old even I’ve forgotten i made it. It’s always amusing to me. It’s like “how deep into the basement did you go to find this?!” Keep digging you funky little weirdos.

[papayafromtv]

i want damian to bond with tim because tim's the only grave brother he has. like, dick and jason are idiots. they came straight from the golden era and have been through so much bullshit in their lives that the only thing they have going for them is their level of whimsy; so they treat everything like it's a scooby-doo adventure. damian grew up having to be jason's impulse control at the league and by the time he gets to gotham he's so fucking tired. dick isn't any different, because dick takes one look at damian and goes 'yeah this kid hasn't smiled once in the past five years i need to give him a childhood' and he just will not take anything seriously. in damian's mind, dick is just jason if jason was real fuckin' bendy, and damian's so over that.

but tim? fucking- joined the squad to stop batman from killing/suiciding himself on the street? had the deaths of all his loved ones faked as a fucking 16th birthday present? fucking joker junior? yeah tim doesn't have time to fuck around. damian considers tim a rival right up until they're working together on a case and tim says 'ok no messing around if we do this right we can get the job done in three minutes no bullshit,' and damian decides right then and there this is his favourite brother and they will be best friends.

[that1randomnerd]

Damian doesn't tell Tim this so Tim's confused why Damian suddenly started appearing everywhere

[thaddeusthebee]

He gets really paranoid about it for a hot sec before going on a group mission with all the robins and realizing Damian is the one non-Bruce defense he has against Dick, Jason, and Steph’s collective whimsiness, at which point he realizes what’s been happening and Gets With The Program

[ri-afan]

Tim: *side eyes Damian as he sets up next to him* (internally, wtf)

Tim: *looks past Damian to find Hood twirling his gun, Steph not even facing the right way when joking around, and Dick in a handstand*

Tim: ah

[papayafromtv]

i want damian to bond with tim because tim's the only grave brother he has. like, dick and jason are idiots. they came straight from the golden era and have been through so much bullshit in their lives that the only thing they have going for them is their level of whimsy; so they treat everything like it's a scooby-doo adventure. damian grew up having to be jason's impulse control at the league and by the time he gets to gotham he's so fucking tired. dick isn't any different, because dick takes one look at damian and goes 'yeah this kid hasn't smiled once in the past five years i need to give him a childhood' and he just will not take anything seriously. in damian's mind, dick is just jason if jason was real fuckin' bendy, and damian's so over that.

but tim? fucking- joined the squad to stop batman from killing/suiciding himself on the street? had the deaths of all his loved ones faked as a fucking 16th birthday present? fucking joker junior? yeah tim doesn't have time to fuck around. damian considers tim a rival right up until they're working together on a case and tim says 'ok no messing around if we do this right we can get the job done in three minutes no bullshit,' and damian decides right then and there this is his favourite brother and they will be best friends.

[the-gay-goblin]

Only day you can reblog this

[vigilantsycamore]

Next time you can reblog will be on 26th January 2025

[daysleftofsecondterm]

1,000 days left

[dcxdpdabbles]

Dani sitting in a booth at a fast place: You see that girl over there? The one in the pony tail?

Danny: Yeah?

Dani: We hate her.

Danny: We do? Why?

Dani: Ugh, she's so annoying. Always talking back to the teachers and making a ten-minute assignment into an hour-long one. Like, we could have 20 minutes of free time afterward, but noooooooo. Also, she has this stupid condescending laugh, like she genuinely believes the staff is beneath her. Honey, please, you can't even drive. Then she makes mean jokes about everyone, like, " Why are you so fucking miserable all the time? Why can't you focus on yourself instead of judging everyone around you literally?

Damian walking by: Are you speaking about Tiffany Anderson?

Dani: Ugh yeah?

Damian brightening up: She is absolutely horrid!

Dani equally as bright: The worst, right?!

Damian: She gives legacy students a bad name. We are from the same social class, but obviously, her parents failed to teach her any class at all.

Dani: Yes! That! I'm Dani, by the way. We have a class together, don't we?

Damian sitting down: We have French, Calculus, World Politics, and Advanced English together. I'm Damian Wayne.

Dani: Nice to meet you. I was just telling my older brother that we hate Tiffany.

Damian: I was telling my own brother we hate Anderson and Lee.

Dani: Ji-Whoo Lee? The Football player?

Damian: Yes

Dani: No way- I hate him too! :D

Damian: Its because you have good taste! *turning* Drake! Come here. We're sitting with these people now.

Tim standing up from a booth and walking over with a tray: Alright. Say, aren't you the new guy in my Chemistry class?

Danny: I am. Good to see you.

Tim: So our siblings are best friends now?

Danny: Seems so, but only due to spite. They seem to he going down the entire class roster. They genuinely seem to hate everyone in their grade.

Tim: These two are going to be best friends for life.

Damian: -There are parts of the world that have KILL for an education and these half-wits can't even speak to a instructor with respect? The bare minimum?

Dani: Exactly! I traveled around the world before we got the Gotham Academy scholarship and let me tell you, none of them would last a second in the real world.

Damian: A second? Ha! Thats far too generous. They would last even less then that!

Danny watching them: I think its cute.

Tim: Hmm-hm. Very cute.

Dani:- where did you get that sticker?

Damian: Hmm? Oh this one?

Dani: Yeah! I can never find Warrior Chronicles merch anywhere!

Damian: Neither can I. That's why I made my own. I draw.

Dani: Wait- you drew that?! No way! Can I buy some stickers off you!?

Damian: You can have them. I'll bring a sticker sheet for you Monday.

Dani: Really!?

Tim, turning to Danny: Looks like we're going to be seeing a lot of each other.

Danny: Seems like it! I hope we can be friends too

Tim looking Danny up and down: Oh I think we are going to be very good friends~

Danny: Ha ha- why did you say it like that?

Tim: Hmm? Like how?

Danny in a whisper: Like you want to eat me. Are you a cannibal? You legally have to tell me.

Tim also in a whisper: Dude I was flirting with you.

Danny: Oh! Sorry, I just- I'm new to Gotham and its Weird here so I-

Tim holding up a hand: I completely understand. But I do have to ask is me flirting welcomed?

Danny blushing: It might be.

Tim: Great cause-

Dani: Hey can you two keep it down? We're trying to have a conversation here. Sorry, Damian, you were saying?

Damian: If we place the bombs at the four pillars we can empty out the cages in the choas. We just need get pass security without them noticing the packages.

Dani: Oh I can get us past security.

Tim/Danny: What the hell did we miss?

Dani/Damian: We're planning to free the petting zoo animals. They've been held captive for too long.

[dcxdpdabbles]

Jack: Kids, I have news. Your mother has left- Danny: NOOOOOOOOO AGHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOO MAAAAMMAAAAA Jack: -For her conference. Danny: Oh. Jazz: That was an extreme reaction. Can I write about it for my psychology class? Danny: Perhaps. Jack: ... Anyway, since your mom is going to be gone for the next two week, I thought it would be a good opportunity to take a trip ourselves. It's been a while since we had a father-child vacation. I want to go to the Wayne Space Experience and the Wayne Psychology conference, which are five days apart, so we can hit both- Jazz: YESSSSSS AGHHHHHH YESSSSSS PAAAAAPAAAAA Danny: Huh. We are siblings. Anyway, Dad, I love to go. Jack: Ha ha, I knew you loved it. It's perfect! Two things you two adore, and I get to spend time with old Brucie. Jazz: Brucie? Who's that? Jack: We grew up together! Before your grandfather started pretending I didn't exist, we ran in the same circles. Brucie was one of my best pals. He invited us to his manor- Danny: Manor? How...does this Brucie have a manor? Jack: His ancestors built it when Gotham was founded. Jazz: When Gotham was founded? Only four families can gloat about having manors during the found- Wait. Are you talking about Bruce Wayne? Jack: Yeah! That's Brucie. Danny: You grew up with Bruce Wayne!? Because you ran in the same circles?! How!? Jack: Oh, the Fentons are rich. Like really rich. How else can we avoid worrying about funding or bills for all our experiments? Your grandfather let me access my trust fund, but he doesn't talk or see me. We have not had contact since Mom died. Jazz: We were rich the entire time!? Jack: Eh, not really. The trust has some conditions on when I can and can't touch the money. Anyway, Mom died when I was seventeen, and your grandfather was quick to send me away to a different state a day after her funeral. I kept in contact with Brucie through mail, but then he vanished to travel the world. He recently reached out, and you know I miss him, so I thought, why not? Danny: Why did Grandfather stop talking to you? Jack: It was something about being an embarrassment with my interest in paranormal. Oh, and the rumor that I liked men and that I was in love with Bruce. Jazz: But you're straight. Jack: Yes, but Bruce wasn't. I figured I could shoulder the hate for him, and it wasn't like I was going to keep talking to my father. I'm proud to be a Fenton, but that doesn't mean I'm proud of all the Fentons. Danny: You're so cool, Dad. Jack: Thanks, Danny! Now got pack! We have a plane to catch tomorrow! Jazz to Danny as they walked to their room: Did you notice the rumor was that Dad liked men and was in love with Mr.Wayne? If the first half was true, do you think the second half was also true about Mr.Wayne? Danny: Nah, I mean it's Bruce Wayne, He can have anyone. Also, what are the chances this is a Fruitloop situation? Miles away in Wayne Manor Bruce: Tomorrow, Jack will be here, and I will finally win him over. I will make him mine. Dick: Doesn't he have kids? Bruce: I don't mind being a father to more children. Besides, I have a bunch. Jason: Isn't he married? Bruce: Not for long! I took her out- Damian: Why are you allowed to kill when inconvenienced, but I'm not? Bruce: I didn't kill her. I just sent her away for two weeks. In that time, I will make Jack fall in love with me and divorce her! Tim: This is a terrible idea, Bruce. Jason: It is a terrible idea, but you know the upside? I can put this scarlet letter on Bruce now! Damian: You just carry that around? Jason: Of course! In this family, I knew I would use it someday. Isn't that right, Mr. I can have a girlfriend as Robin and a girlfriend as Tim? Tim: Big words from Mr. Can't get a date. Alfred, watching them all: I need to take up drinking again.

[protomedeia]

[dcxdpdabbles]

Clark: Where are you going, Flash? Barry: Sorry, I have to run. I left my kid with the sitter, but she needs to leave for an emergency. Arthur: I was unaware you were a father. Congratulations, my friend. Barry: Thank you! It's a new thing honestly. I've only had him for three weeks but we're finding our footing. Diana: How old is your child? Barry: Depends. Bruce: What does that mean? Barry: It depends on how you measure time. He's mentioned in ancient texts and could be considered over two thousand years old in our history, or, if we are going by his physical and mental state, he is five. Bruce pulling out a notebook: I'm going to have to ask for more information. Barry: It's simple. The last time I open the Speed Force, my son fell out of it, and when we realized we couldn't get him home since the Speed Force called up his previous gardian Clockwork to ask- Clark: Wait, is the Speed Force sentient? Barry: Yes. Anyway, she called Clockwork, who was like, "Danny fell out of my timeline and regressed into a child. Can you watch him until he is an adult and can return without destroying his soul?" and I was like, "Yeah, sure, I always wanted kids!" and now I'm a dad. Oliver: Who is CLockwork? Barry: The god of time. Bruce writing frantically: Gods can sometimes hand out children to raise..... Clark: That was your takeaway from that story?

[depsidase]