Sceaterian babbles

Jenn This blog is full of everything that amuses me - mostly music, turtles, cats, books, purple and hockey. You may not find it quite as amusing. My ask box is always open.

[sceaterian]

I got a few shots at the Dallas Stars game last night (10/13)

And Tyler trying to be cute but failing

[newtonpermetersquare]

Big facts

[sceaterian]

And some data architects

[everythingfox]

tiny hug

(via)

[ortut]

🍰

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

c u r s e d

[buy-me-mcdonalds]

This makes me want to commit one act of violence

[fuckyeahdrugpolicy]

[justice4mikebrown]

Download and learn more about the app here.

[imoverallofit]

BOOST THE FUCK OUT OF THIS

[lividlovers]

This is so fucking amazing!

Some solutions may seem so small but this is a greater impact.

[hate-police]

BOOST THE FUCK OUT OF THIS GUYS

[2lf]

REBLOG AND DOWNLOAD APP

[dinah-myles]

@yenneferofvengerbergg Look, Darling, maybe this will help you understand the importance of the matter.

[enbundad]

IMPORTANT NOTE: the app link in the article is for the California one.

There’s one for every state.

(From the looks of it, I haven’t looked to see if there’s 50 apps.)

[Edit: nope. There’s not one for every state.]

States with apps: California, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, New Jersey, Colorado, Missouri, Minnesota, Arizona, Maryland, Oklahoma, Mississippi, New Mexico, DC, Nebraska

[purplelittlemermaid]

Reblogging because it’s still a greaaaat idea.

[smolanxiouscatvoid]

I’m not in a state with one but boosting this anyways

[letsgostealaleverageblog]

Oh, Eliot.

[other-romantic-verbs]

Oh, Eliot indeed.

[insertusernameici]

like legit  this dude did not sign up for this  he’s all fucking damn it  the longer i stay with these people  the longer i have to be around hot weird chick and hot nerdy dude  and my will power ain’t that strong  (tags via purgatorialrecklessness)

[wordy-anansi]

Just don’t even get me started on Eliot Spencer, okay, because you do not want to hear it. 

Okay, so I’m gonna say it anyway so you might want to keep scrolling.

I just… he’s smart, really smart. Black Widow smart, and almost as lethal to boot (it’s a very specific haircut/footprint/handgun/way of breathing – Eliot Spencer has you figured out in seconds). He’s got a code, and morals, and he was scared of who he was becoming. And then he let the people he met change him (the chef who he was meant to kill and instead befriended, the alcoholic mastermind who gave him a family). And he’s honest (Don’t ask me that, because if you ask me, I’ll tell you. It’s for both of them. But he’s not that man anymore). He rarely laughs, but he remembers how to smile in a way that reaches his eyes. He’s not proud, but he’s confident. He doesn’t really want to kill anymore, if he doesn’t have to, but he will. He doesn’t use guns, and I think in part it’s to give everyone a fighting chance, but it’s also because he doesn’t like the way guns make people (I think he saw enough of that on his first tour when farm boys were given rifles and told to kill. But I also think it’s because he wants to remember what he does, wants to consider what he’s doing. It’s always intentional, you know?). 

He’s not just a weapon. He’s an amazing cook, and he can sing, and grift, and…

When you are writing characters, it can be really easy to make them into caricatures, or to just mash two seemingly contradictory characteristics together. Like Buffy (no shade thrown on Buffy), the girl who would be a cheerleader was also the slayer. But Eliot’s not that. In fact, none of them are. He says it best himself, when he left he was this kid with God in his heart and the flag on his shoulder, and he looks in the mirror for him everyday, but he’s gone. And that’s Eliot Spencer. Gifted hitter, talented chef, isolated by the ghosts of what he’s done (for country, for money) and who he has become because of those things. Leverage is a redemption arc, all five series, right up until the end, when he says ‘until my dying day’.  Because it’s at that point that he lets himself be defined by something other than his ability to hurt, destroy, kill.

And that’s why Eliot Spencer is amazing.

[greyjedimichi]

“This is a one time deal.”

Little did Eliot know that this one time deal would give him the thing that he was searching for but could never bring himself to admit.

[sceaterian]

Tyler wearing a mouth guard is the worst thing to ever happen to me

[maycanady]

His band has been the live music on Ranchero Night since we were kids. Well, that seems a little off-brand for him.

[sceaterian]

I do not know what this is but I need a fic

[seggyt91]

[booklover]

“Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.”

— Alain de Botton (via wordsnquotes)

[anxietyproblem]

[olderthannetfic]

Best fandom history commentary ever, courtesy of @tardistara

[i-call-me-clarence]

For your viewing pleasure:

[olderthannetfic]

P.S. For people who are not 40 have not watched The X-Files, that other guy in the red speedo scene is Mulder’s new partner, the apparent woobie whom Mulder is a jerk to because he’s not Scully… but who later turns out to be a Secret Villain.

1 guess what the big slash ship was back then.

[thebkwyrm]

And the Secret Villain (with tragic backstory) kissed Mulder in one scene! In an angry non-romantic way but whooooo, the fic it generated.

[olderthannetfic]

Um, excuse me, you can’t just SAY that. The Youth need PICS!

(aka I am way too lazy to go find X-Files screencaps myself.)

[thebkwyrm]

It’s a SUPER DARK scene so the caps are awful - plus caps can’t get across just how startling it was to see Krycek pointing a handgun at Mulder, threatening his life, and then just….. lunge forward, and kiss Mulder on the cheek. Because this was 1998 and one of the most popular shows on TV and you just didn’t SEE THAT. So here’s a GIF instead.

Edited for @olderthannetfic

[olderthannetfic]

Dear fandom: please enjoy this EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL.

[xenaskywalker]

@thebkwyrm-blog-blog was it like….a normal thing for a 90s tv show to have a homoerotic relationship with the main and a new character that turned out evil and then have a scene with the kinda evil character jerking forward to kiss the main because

[olderthannetfic]

Because it was SUPER RELEVANT TO THE PLOT, OKAY?!

Ah, 90s tv.

[endangered-justice-seeker]

One of the most important things you can teach your kids is when and how to say no to authority figures.

[authorgod-deactivated20180411]

Let me just level with you all at 10:15 in the morning on a Monday.. there’s a nsfw trope I want to stand up for right now: Surprise, We’re Making Love!

In which two characters keep hooking up repeatedly, and they both assume it’s just a casual thing born out of convenience and mutual surface attraction. Except one very much knows they’re falling for the other person? And it’s getting harder to stifle the feeling? And in the middle of a hook up, it becomes waaayyyy less of the down and durrty bang town it usually is, and the moment sort of contracts around them.. gets slow and gentle and intensely intimate. And the other person who up until this point has been guarded and determined to not fall in love, realizes what is happening, that the hands on them have turned tender, that this isnt Fucking, it’s INTIMACY. And they share a moment of sustained eye-contact in which the look in the I Been Knew person’s eyes is bare and obvious before they shut them again because they KNOOWWWW what they just let slip, and think they aren’t allowed to feel this way for this person and don’t want to press them into giving more than what was initially offered because they respect them. And the Guarded One is shook to the core and baffled because they’ve been so afraid of emotional entanglement and getting hurt, that they don’t really realise until that moment that it’s waayyyy too late and they’ve already fallen in love too?

That’s the Good Shit. Cheesy and all. But Very Very Good.

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[seabois]

“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”

— Sylvia Plath (via quotemadness)

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