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Intro Post

Hello universe! I am stargazingdustbunny. I also go by Valancourt/Star/Dustbunny/Dust/Val/V/Court

I post about a ton of different things on here, really just whatever I happen to be interested in at the moment. I enjoy writing, art, fanfiction, ttrpgs, and animals. I adore crossover fiction and have a couple crossover aus that I made up. I also have some original stories that I post about occasionally. My a03 is of_dragons_and_heros.

Referencing this post: you can send a photo of a coin to my ask box and you will (eventually) recieve a random drawing of one of my ocs

#intro post #introduction #epic the musical #batfamily #httyd books #lord of the rings #tw: politics #christianity

stargazingdustbunny

Sherlock and co spoilers and opinions

I'm not that suprised that we didn't get wheelchair John. His role in the episode was cool and they would have had to do something different if they had gone that direction.

But I think it would have been a neat direction to take the podcast. Even if the wheelchair was only temporary, I think it would have been interesting to see how the characters navigated their adventures while accounting for a mobility aid.

I know this podcast isn't always the most realistic, but I would have enjoyed seeing a longer recovery period with awake John. I wanted the injury to have consequences and to see them explored. Having John just wake up and be suddenly able to walk and do everything normally, it kind of cheapened the injury to me, especially after the whole "will help be able to walk again"

I'm probably unrealistic in my wishes and maybe these ideas are better suited for fanfiction, but on the other hand, we need more disability representation in canon media. I wanted to see him using mobility aids, needing physical therapy, dealing with the lingering pain.

As someone who deals with chronic health issues and has people close to me who have mobility issues, I would have loved to see those things dealt with in this story.

One of the things I like about the acd stories is that John has chronic pain from his old war injury, and that some days it flares up so much that he can't leave the house. I like it when stories show these experiences that I live or see others living.

Anyway, thanks for coming to my tedtalk on why we should have gotten John as a wheelchair user

stargazingdustbunny

@thatllamaoverthere here is is :)

What we could have had 😔

stargazingdustbunny

Also if they wanted an action movie scene, I feel like a high-powered wheelchair or mobility scooter chase scene could have been cool

stargazingdustbunny

guess who FINALLY finished the empty house

thanks for waiting for me <3

i have thoughtsss

Hi, tumblr decided to eat this ask and I did not see it until now.

Anyways, I'd love to hear your thoughts on that episode, and any you've listened to since, because I also definitely have thoughts about it

arcadewizard

YAYYY

i have started the greek interpreter!! lowk very excited for it even tho john is being a little annoying...

stargazingdustbunny

What did you think about John's sudden revival from coma to mostly functioning human?

arcadewizard

HELPPP that is a very good question

i think it's genre-typical dramatic plot beat stuff obviously it's not super accurate nor that believable but if it's what gets him back on his feet i'm happy honestly

he's being a little bit of a whiner tho (not about the injury, fair enough) like i understand he's injured and (greek interpreter pt 2) watched a guy shoot a lot of people but idk he just feels a lot more pissy

i feel bad about saying that bc its quite warranted really

stargazingdustbunny

He does feel more whiny, but also I would be way more whiny in his situation 😅

I guess I shouldn't have been that suprised by his sudden recovery, but I really wanted more of a recovery arc 😔

I wish he had woken up sooner but not been able to walk for longer, if that makes sense

I knew it was probably never going to happen, but I would have really loved if he ended up in a wheelchair. Or atleast using some kind of mobility aid, like the cane acd watson uses.

I am very glad he's back though, it wasn't the same without him

arcadewizard

oh yeah i would be a BITCH if this happened to me

poor guy has been so trauma'd he really is a podcast protagonist now

oh that is a very good point. they really shouldn't have played so fast and loose it would've been cool if he got acd cane or something

they did briefly mention that wheelchair💀💀going into the taxi but yeah i really don't think that counts

i think they were rushing to get him back it's just so weird by himself

stargazingdustbunny

Yeah, podcast protagonists really do always go through the wringer

The background mention of a wheelchair doesn't count. I think it would have been neat to see how they problem solved bringing him on adventures while using a mobility aid.

I like when injuries have a permanent effect on a story, especially for serious ones like this

But I am very glad he's back, he's the heart of the podcast to me

astriiformes

The polar opposite of corporate accounts trying to come across as hip and super friendly are the ones for libraries, aquariums, parks systems and the like, that are basically just trying to get people excited about learning and the wonder of history/science by posting things like this:

mangopatch

demonladytakkuri

You know how much I would lose my mind if I was at an aquarium and turned a corner to see a wild ass heron staring at a fish tank

calciumcryptid

I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.

gaudebo

tip: if you wake up on time and then lie in bed unmoving for 20 minutes you will no longer be on time

animentality

tiktokstowatch

typhlonectes

Cat plays theremin

seerauber-entartete

the sustained note with the big-eyed stare… like… yes that sound is a perfect auditory representation of what is going on in the cat’s brain

vilintux

Rangers Gathering Day 3

Quiver

wizardarchetypes

it’s sooo funny when rude customers encounter employees who can deny them service for the first time.

i was working at a little cafe where I could deny service over bad behavior, harassment etc. & mask mandates had just ended a week before & already people were being weird about me still wearing mine—an N95, the kind shaped kinda like a duckbill.

so this man walked in, looked at me sooo scathingly, laughed at me, and said “damn. never known a woman to choose…practicality over looks.”

And I just said, “oh. you can go, you’re not getting a drink.” And he said, “what???”

I said, “sir, you just walked in at 6 am & called women impractical and me ugly in one sentence.”

And he was so astonished he didn’t even argue he just turned around and left 💀🙏🏻 it was like he suddenly became self aware

carolinalaurel

One summer I was running ferry rides across a lake so people could see the waterfalls without walking 6 miles when a guy snapped my bra strap as he was boarding the boat. So i immediately threw him off, he started yelling for my manager, my boss cheerfully informed him that, yeah, she’s the captain of the boat and she can kick off anyone she wants. He goes to storm off, looks expectantly at his girlfriend, and she just goes, “Well, I’M not walking six miles, Michael! I’ll meet you back at the car!” and sits right back down!!!!

The expression on his face when he was told that he couldn’t get on the boat, then immediately told that his girlfriend was ditching him? PRICELESS. he just blinked at her and then stormed off like a child. I gave her a free hat and was like maybe rethink this relationship…….

hickeywiththegoodhair

i once had this fucker come up to order a beer. while i pour it he shows me the wanky fucking chemical structure tattoo on his arm and he’s like “hey. you know what this is” i was like “nah sorry” (never cared abt chemistry in school, plus having to look at a some rando’s pretentious tattoo gives me the douche chills). he decides to respond with “heh. you must not read many books”

i immediately stop pouring his beer. i reply: “heh. you must not want this beer.” thirsty boy immediately starts groveling like a worm “please please no i do want the beer im sorry im sorry” believe me when i say it was one of the most pathetic things ive ever witnessed

lezbadeez

gotta love people immediately backpedaling when they realise that there are Consequences To Being Mean

lastvalyrian

I genuinely believe that part of why it has become so normalized to be openly callous and evil in politics is that customer service culture has trained affluent people that they can treat everyone they consider beneath them however they want and still be treated kindly.

whitefangthefightingwolf

It's also crazy how much more polite people are when they know they are talking to a government employee. Once a week I staff a state "wildlife support" phone line, and very rarely do I ever have a negative interaction, even though MOST of my job is telling people "no we don't perform that service, and there is no agency that does." "no, we can't help that animal, and neither can you, as that is illegal." I tell people "no" up to 30 times per day and I've only had a prickly customer about 3-4 times, and properly yelled at only once. (And if I get yelled at I am allowed to end the conversation.)

Meanwhile, when I worked at PetSmart grooming, I got yelled at MULTIPLE times EVERY day. Over a dog's haircut that I didn't even do.

#the one thing i appreciated at my old retail job was that my managers were willing to talk back to and ban customers who were being to rude #i wish it didn't feel like a special thing

parkchanwoohoo

Got off a video call with my grandma. Asked her what sort of American foods she was enjoying (my dad flew her in from Korea and she's staying with him in Phoenix rn). She said most of the food isn't too impressive but she's addicted to a specific candy, and when she held up a bag of Werther's Originals I started howling

#between my sense of fashion and my affinity for whethers caramels and strawberry bonbons #i have been called the “grandmother friend” before #i wasn't the oldest in the group #the group also had a “mom friend” and “wine aunt friend”

and-then-the-dragons-arrived

It occurred to me today that if Terry Pratchett was still around, we'd have a brilliant book about AI by now.

They would build a new machine standing next to HEX and HEX would be... not jealous, of course, why would you think a machine would be jealous? But still HEX would randomly start responding to someone who would spend more time with that new machine.

I'm 100% positive that Dibbler would be mass-printing generated bad romance novels and selling them for profit. All of them would have titles like "A Necklace of Pearls and Flowers" or "A Menace of Dragons and Swords", depending on the audience.

People would buy dis-organisers with new features and the imps would give VASTLY inaccurate answers ("No, dragons don't breathe fire, this is a myth, you are safe!") that would put them in danger - and yet would still refuse to get rid of them. (Maybe Dibbler would sell those advanced dis-organisers, too, sounds like something for him.)

The Watch would have their hands full saving people from said danger. Vimes would never trust this new invention and would get extremely angry at anyone suggesting he bought one, too.

Dwarves would be very anxious because, as our dear Blackboard Monitor already knows, Words Are Important. And if those words come from gods know where, that's really bad. I can actually see the plot where they can actually team up with Blackboard Monitor to destroy those "machine" words at the end.

All that generated rubbish would put L-Space in the danger of collapsing. Because there are books that no one should have written.