Tout va bien dans le meilleur des mondes

"Love me!Why?!" -SHAKESPEARE,Much ado about nothing. Profil pic done with : https://picrew.me/image_maker/296093/complete?cd=rMmkngQfyg

[ciricearts]

whoops he fell asleep

[googiekitsch-deactivated2024071]

THIS SONG IS FUCKING AWESOMEEEEE🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[googiekitsch-deactivated2024071]

HOW THE FUCK DID YOU DO THAT THERES NOTHING THERE

[malscare]

hi

[foolofworms-deactivated20251128]

Legitimately good example of how thorough you need to be to protect private information

[homeboygirl]

i just tried to use 2030 as an example of some distant far off year of the future.

>4 years

[crabbyquill]

Spoiler-Free HCs about my Modern VM AU in the works:

The group met by living in the same area, and eventually the same apartment building, Greyskull Lodge (fancy name for a cheap apartment complex).

They started having movie and game nights on Thursdays, where they rotated to each other's apartments for snacks, board games, sometimes TTRPGs, and movies.

Pike is an ER nurse who lives with her adoptive brother, Grog, a bouncer. She has a large first aid kit in the front room of their tiny apartment for any small injury the group inevitably suffers. The majority of its contents have gone to Percy and Grog.

Vax is a mortician, while Vex starts out working as a park ranger before she eventually heads up the Grey Hunt Foundation after she and Percy get married.

Kiki is the only vegan in the group and dresses like she's from the sixties and seventies. She and Vax bonded over oldies music, and their first date was to a drive-in movie, and they eventually get married. She later owns a tea and flower shop and is living her best life.

Vax is a cancer survivor and turned to religion just before he got his diagnosis.

Vax and Pike both go to different churches on the same street (different religions, different temples), but they carpool together.

Every year since Vax went into remission, they have a 'fuck cancer' party on the anniversary of the day he got the news. Vax lives in this AU. Sue me.

Scanlan is a single dad after Kaylie's mom died suddenly when she was only a few months old. The others were his major support system.

Scanlan is a lawyer, though he is a popular cover singer on weekends. The group will go to whatever bar/restaurant he's performing at to support him, or babysit Kaylie if he needs help that night. He eventually inherits the house that will eventually become his 'magnificent mansion' from an older coworker who took him under his wing.

Pike and Scanlan have been on and off in terms of a relationship over the years. They love each other very much, but every time they try to make it work, it's like a 90s sitcom that Grog is always tuned in to. That being said, they do eventually get married (and divorced-- and married again) and have the Pikelan babies.

They are all beefing with Syldor Vessar. Vex and Vax have a Syldor Hate Squad behind them. That being said, the group loves Velora.

Percy proposed to Vex on a hike. He had a plan to do a fancy restaurant and make it all romantic, but they were on a hike, and he just decided he couldn't wait any longer. He didn't even have the ring with him, but he just knew. It was just them and Trinket on the top of a small rocky hill when he popped the question. Vex later said that it was perfect.

The day before Mother's Day, the group gets together and talks about their respective Moms. They have a little feast of their favorite recipes from childhood, things that their moms loved, or foods they associated with their respective mothers, and they'll talk. After the Perc'ahlia and Pikelan kids are born, however, the event becomes much happier.

Scanlan is very allergic to dogs. Hence...his beef with Trinket.

Probably gonna be a while before I actually post anything from this AU, but I think about it quite a bit lol.

[saintfelina]

[hexenmond]

Image description: a tweet by divinelydaria.

saw an inspiring video that said you need to have 4 hobbies.

create, consume, cavort, commune

create: bring something to life consume: appreciate the art of another cavort: move your body daily commune: have a community to socialize with

end image description.

[lierdumoa]

I think you need hobbies that do all four things but the number of hobbies needed to cover all these needs may vary. Some hobbies pull double/triple duty. Some hobbies can cause repetitive stress injuries so it's good to have a few different ones that fulfill the same need so you can rotate to get the fulfillment without the carpal tunnel.

[leebrontide]

Tumblr really is aging.

This is true tho.

[inthefallofasparrow]

Misread this as 'you need to have 4 hobbits'

[tanoraqui]

also true! there’s a really famous three-volume self-help guide about that!

unless all you’re doing is liberating a single mountain from a dragon, in which case you can probably get by with just one, so long as you also have a lot of dwarves.

[brothermouse-skeleton]

The exchange rate is three dwarves to one hobbit, if anyone was wondering

[hyde-the-toad-bard]

And I get 4 dwarves and a wizard left over let's fucking go!

[madgastronomer]

The Seven Hobbits of Highly Effective People

[liminalbeauty]

This went in directions unforetold.

[airlocksandaviariesarchive]

2 genres of fanfiction:

1) put that guy into situations

2) take that guy OUT of situations for the love of GOD let them REST 

[ckret2]

#you put the sad guy in #you take the sad guy out #you put the sad guy in and you shake him all about

[fullmetalfisting]

Tbh germ theory DOES sound crazy. Like if you told a regency-era nobleman that tiny creatures lived on the surface of everything and THAT’S what causes consumption, they’d be like “ah, I see you are a lunatic. Would you reside in my hermitage? Rantings and ravings do so amuse my guests”

[mysteryteacup]

But if you told a Medieval person this they would probably go "Ah, so when the miasma settles on surfaces it gains evil life. I understand."

[alarajrogers]

Yeah, actually, it would probably be pretty easy to explain germ theory to a Medieval person as tiny evil spirits that live on everything, but they can be purified by soap and water, or by alcohol, because that is why God has granted us those things. And because they can float in the air, if you cough or sneeze after they have infested you, that can cause them to infest others. And when you are sick, the angels God has deputized to defend the bodies of His beloved children are at war with the evil spirits, and, sadly, sometimes they lose, but the best way to help your angels win their battle is to rest, drink plenty (this would probably be small beer in this time period, not water, because the water was also infested), stay clean, and for the sake of God do not allow anyone to let your blood, for the angels need that blood in their war against the evil spirits. Bloodletting is good for some types of illnesses but not the kinds caused by the tiny evil spirits.

[chekhovs-raygun]

boiling as a sterilization measure is also easy to explain. water returns to the air when heated and it rises as steam back up to the floodgates of heaven; we know God created the world in seven days, He's not up there making more water every time it rains. it circulates. the returning of water to heaven also purifies the water of unclean and malign influences. you know wormy water from a muddy puddle will kill your kid. you know you wouldn't wade into a bog and have a slurp. water that remains in the low places of earth absorbs all that is unclean from our waste and it may also sponge up new diseases from hell, we're not totally sure about that one, but it seems likely. God set up the heavenly water cycle so that the earth's waters wouldn't totally fill up with gunk.

what does this have to do with boiling your surgical tools? well look, the boiling water releases bubbles of steam which carries the malign influences up to heaven. you boil a knife, you send all the miasmic particles off with the steam to heaven. if you rinse the knife off in a bucket the water isn't hot enough, the particles go into the water and then right back on to the knife. you gotta boil it to get the particles all the way away. how can a tool or rag or a bed have miasmic particles on it when you can't smell them? humans have a lousy sense of smell. look at your dog on the hunt. are there no rabbits in the woods just because you can't smell them? we know that miasma is carried on the air, and is what makes stench so dangerous, and we know that humans can't smell worth a damn compared to dogs cats horses etc. a dog can smell if a rat died in a corner of the room last week. you can't. do you think licking the spot where the rat died is going to go well for you? luckily, what humans lack in snout we make up for in brains. we have extra brains where our sniffers should have been. God set that up for a reason.

and why does a rinse with wine spirits work? man, look how fast alcohol evaporates. my guess is that because wine contains a lot more vice than water, it evaporates a whole lot faster, in sort of an equal and opposite way that a rock falls faster than a feather. if you want the miasmic particles to get off there FAST, you dunk it in something that's going back to heaven at a gallop.

what's up with honey? it just preserves things against corruption. doesn't clean them off. honey doesn't evaporate at all. probably because bees don't sin. it's not good for ridding a tool of particles-- it's sticky-- but fine for preserving anything you don't want to go to heaven OR hell. this is why you wash the wound with wine spirits or purified water FIRST, to sluice the miasma out, then slap the honey on AFTER. and boil the damn bandage, too. you wouldn't put a rotten door in a sound doorframe and expect it to keep out bandits, would you? cmon.

[toddycats]

another comic about friendship

the first one is here

[robs-your-robins]

As much as I love supportive, nurturing elder brother Dick, the idea of Dick being a little jealous of Jason when he first arrived is sort of funny. Dick is out there, trying to build something outside of Bruce, wanting to prove he doesn't need him.

Then Bruce adopts Jason. Dick doesn't like the idea at first. I mean, he literally just left and Bruce is already measuring up the next Robin's cape? It's a shitty thing to do and for a while he resents Jason a little but after awhile learns that he actually likes the kid and he's like, "This big brother stuff isn't so bad".

Then cue an incident where Dick and Jason are roughousing for fun and Jason gets hurt. Dick is sorry and Jason understands but Bruce and Alfred positively fuss over Jason and reprimand Dick for not being careful and Dick just breaks.

Jason is a great kid and Bruce has been disappointing for a while but elder sibling syndrome just hits him and suddenly he's crouched up in some really high point on the Manor's roof, refusing to come down though Bruce is trying to coax him because "No, I'm never coming down because you love your new son more than me."

[papayafromtv]

there’s gotta be a dinner or something at Wayne Manor one time where everybody’s discussing how stupid the stuff they all get involved in and how emotionally damaged everything’s made them over the years—like laughing it all off, making light of their traumas, the way family should. anyway there has to be a moment where one of the kids like Tim brings up like “Man, surely we have to hand it to Alfie for being such a legend and putting up with everything. like- like he was literally just hired as a butler.”

and Jason pipes up from the end of the table around a mouthful of green beans, “True. Plus he had to deal with little-Bruce as his new employer. His employee-loyalty rate is off the fucking charts.”

and Bruce just kinda hums before casually admitting, “Yeah… I was not a good boss, either. like- especially in my teen years? You all thought the dark era was rough, you should have been Batman’s teenage angst phase.”

“The fact that he didn’t quit is, quite frankly, insane to me.” Dick nods in agreement. And then Bruce just kinda… shrugs.

“I mean technically he doesn’t work for me anymore? I remember when I was fourteen I got angry and fired him over dinner for not agreeing to drive me to a drag race. I told him to get out of my house and he looked me right in the eyes and said ‘shut the fuck up and eat your peas.’” Bruce takes a sip of wine, casual. “Anyway, I never actually took back what I said, and I never re-hired him. So legally he’s now just a random guy who squats in the manor and regularly steals money from my bank account.”

And the kids are all staring at him in bafflement as Alfred walks past the dining room and blandly calls out, “I started stealing larger amounts of money after that, too.”

[mjalti]

[david-goldrock]

Smart woman next to an unbelievable achievement is a picture niche that will never get old

[awnerd]

Then you’re gonna love this photo of Annie Jump Canon.

Working at Harvard in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s as a “Computer”, Annie Jump Cannon cataloged stars using their spectra from photographic plates, in an effort to understand the mysteries and peculiarities of stellar spectra.

This was hard, detailed, nuanced work. By 1889, three years into her work, she had classified over 1,000 stars. By 1913, she could classify 200 stars an hour. She could classify three stars a minute, just by sight. Using a magnifying glass, she could classify stars down to 9th magnitude, 16 times fainter than the human eye can see. And she did this all with exceptional accuracy.

Over the course of her career, she personally classified more than 350,000 stars, accounting for a mind-boggling 98% of all contemporary stellar spectra classifications, a feat that wouldn’t be bested until the 1990’s with automated digital sky surveys.

Cannon used these classifications to develop the Harvard spectral classification system (O–B–A–F–G–K–M), organizing stars by surface temperature and physical properties.

It is hard to overstate just how foundational her work was to modern astronomy and astrophysics. Her classifications have enabled more than a century of breakthroughs in stellar structure and evolution, including the understanding of how stars change over time and how temperature, luminosity, and composition are related. The system underpins the Hertzsprung–Russell (HR) diagram, one of the most important tools in astrophysics, and remains embedded in modern research, from stellar population studies to galaxy evolution.

The immense scale of her work was itself a massive contribution to astronomy. For comparison, before Cannon, star catalogs contained between 600 and 4,000 stars. Her work single-handedly proved that large-scale stellar classification was both feasible and scientifically valuable. She helped establish systematic star catalogs as a core method of modern astronomy and laid the groundwork for astrophysical research on stellar structure, evolution, and populations that continues today.

[kelila]

Annie Jump Cannon was also deaf, having lost most of her hearing from scarlet fever.

She wasn’t the only woman human computer at Harvard at the time (there were about 80), though she stands out for her contribution and for having already had an education in physics and astronomy.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was one of her coworkers. She also had progressive hearing loss due to illness and was also deaf when she started working at Harvard.

Here’s some more pictures.

Cannon and Leavitt

the human computers and their boss Pickering. May 1913

and the short little article i got the pictures at

[wishingformemoria]

just because someone can articulate their point better doesn’t make them right, it makes them articulated. 

[wishingformemoria]

and you aren’t stupid for having trouble articulating yourself.

[andre-30008]

[notoriousmasc]

[namira]

Like two years ago I ran into a salamander biologist in the woods who complimented my ability to 'walk quietly in the forest while causing minimal disturbance to the leaf litter.' Still goes to my head.

[the-prairies-calling-out]

"Why do you buy books when the library is right there?"

Because publishing houses will not continue printing paper books if libraries are their only customers.

Also, I like being able to read at my leisure and generally have books at hand.

[its-the-blob]

#public libraries are good because they let people access books they might never otherwise read#private book ownership is good because it's Yours#physical books are good because they last a long time and again it's Yours#ebooks are good because you can fit a whole library into the physical space of a single book and they're cheaper to produce#audiobooks are good because they're accessible to people with eyesight or visual reading issues and leave your hands free#in conclusion: all books are good and people should enjoy them however and whenever they can#(lest it be misunderstood I agree with you completely OP I just also really like books in general and it got away from me)

YES. all books. every kind

[wingsoutforshin]

tim has realized the best approach is to not make a big deal out of it like dick does

[robs-your-robins]

No thoughts just Damian complaining about the chatter of guests at some event and wanting to go into a corner to play his game on his switch or something and Bruce is usually OK with that but he didn't bring any headphones so he calls the nearest Bat to bring some. Cue Tim who decides to be a shit, dropping off those cat ear headphones in blush pink and innocently stating that he had to borrow them from Cass. Damian doesn't take offense, "The pink will alert the surrounding people that I am not to be disturbed and cats have excellent hearing, do they not? These are adequate." So Damian wears them and then starts wearing they everywhere he doesn't want to be disturbed. And everyone assumes it's a sensory thing but he's in fact listening to a podcast about his favourite manga and it's all going well until Talia calls up Bruce and demands to know why he's attempting to replace her as Damian's mother? Bruce is confused because it's 9am in the morning and he's just woken up but Selina, who is next to him, takes the phone and tells Talia that since she took Jason that time, this is fucking payback. Cue the most peaceful war that either woman has ever been involved in, supplying the Bat Kids with LOA and cat related clothing.

[noodles-and-tea]

:(

[betterthanbatman1]

Oh my