StarkyTower

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

traditional chinese firework huohu火壶 by 江寻千

[gnars-house]

[hollowedskin]

This is beautiful. Is this the same lady that learned the iron fireworks technique too?

[ilovehumanssosomuch]

I'm posting this here because yes it's visually beautiful, but more importantly it shows the process of learning. It's not easy. It's scary. There's not a lot of people doing it.

It's beautiful because of the effort, not in spite of it. I feel like we don't value the effort of learning in social media posts, and this was incredibly done.

[redstonedust]

its actually easy to de-enshittify your digital experience all you need to do is install this browser extension and this browser extension and this browser extension and input this custom script into the advanced box and go into your system settings and reconfigure all these options you didnt know existed and change your entire workflow and switch to this alternative operating system and this alternative web browser and this alternative chat client and this alternative word processor and this alternative- sorry that one turned out to be malware delete that one okay now double check your task manager for unwanted background processes and element block these ads and invest in a good VPN and append all your searches with AI blocking keywords and wait a few years until everything you just did becomes shitty too so you can do it all over again okay kitten. its literally that easy.

[noah-wyles]

all i want for 2026 is that gigantic rancid AI bubble to finally burst in such a catastrophic way that the consequences will be so good and i'll never have to see another AI generated image ever again

[fluoritegalaxy]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[dogpuppy]

I wish I could have heard you sing this… I bet you have a beautiful voice

[pbeeanjay]

just being

[dare-to-dm]

There was this one time I scratched up my cornea real bad and had to go to the hospital. Dealing with medical bureaucracy is always very frustrating to me, and that combined with the pain had me in a very bad mood. I was even crying.

I had to wait quite a while for the doctor to see me, but fortunately the nurse who was helping me had an excellent bedside manner and went out of her way to distract me. She expertly did this by getting me talking about books I'd read recently.

I went all in on criticizing the last book I'd read. I don't remember what it was, but I really hadn't liked it, and I denigrated it as "Misery Porn". And she was like "Hmm, that sounds interesting, tell me more". So I gave a general plot synopsis. As I was telling her that most of the characters were immigrant miners, she interrupted me to say "That's interesting, I didn't realize that there were mines in Missouri".

And at that moment time stopped for me and I realized that the entire time I'd been talking about the book, she'd been assuming I was talking about porn set in Missouri. I had just assumed that she had understood from context that when I said "Misery Porn", I meant "A story that is gratuitously depressing so that readers will think it's deeper than it really is".

Rather than being disappointed in our miscommunication, I was instead impressed with the level on non judgement she was showing me. Having a whole ass cheerful conversation about Missouri themed porn just to help a patient. I think about her all the time.

[dare-to-dm]

There have now been many responses to this post, but they almost all boil down to just 3 categories.

Nerds (affectionate): Actually, Missouri has many lead mines.

Health care professionals: This is just what working with patients is like.

Missourians: Missouri mentioned!

[adibkhorram]

Also Missourians: And limestone caverns!!!

[prokopetz]

I think one of the problems with the way we talk about media in fandom is that we often say "canon" when we really mean "the text". What is and is not canon is at least partly a question of authority and merit, and will inevitably be litigated as such, but you're going to arrive at some very strange conclusions if you try to use the same tools to litigate what is and is not present in the text.

[prokopetz]

Sometimes you've gotta take a step back from questions of canonicity as such and ask more fundamental questions like "okay, that's a fascinating interpretation, but what actual words that physically appear on the page* do we have to support it?"

* or whatever the equivalent for the media at hand is

[unspeakablearchives]

(Source: Sen the donkey)

[starkytower]

sweet as berry custard pie

Pairing: Buck Buckley/Eddie Diaz + Castiel/Dean Winchester

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

The Buddie meets Destiel at a Pie Festival fic

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83615541

“Doesn’t Buck have you and Chris?” Cas inquires.

Eddie shrugs, “Sure, but that’s different.”

Cas nods, seemingly understanding, “Well, he made you pie, so he’s definitely in love with you. Pie is an expression of love.”

“I don’t...I don’t think that’s how that works,” Eddie stammers, blushing because he’s just been bowled over by the realization that he maybe kinda already knows that Cas is right. Well, partly right, not about the pie thing.

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An invitation from Buck sends Eddie into a sexuality crisis and then to the Los Angeles County Annual Pie Festival where he meets a fellow veteran father (turned tax accountant?), they commiserate over their respective multi-year situationships, and maybe find a little clarity along the way.

or

Buck discovers the secrets of pie baking. Dean faces off against some Southern Baptist church ladies. Jack and Chris lock-in to win a record player.

[mattsire]

Oh? 👀👀

[sokkalore]

zuko calling a man handsome and sokka saying zuko has a beautiful face canonically in 2026

[sunflowerbuckleys]

I can't stop thinking about buddie trying to cover up a secret relationship by pretending to be fighting

[chronicowboy]

season 4, episode 14 | season 9, episode 13

[freakoutgirl]

the internet seems like a distant dream

[freakoutgirl]

whatever we are on rn is not the internet. It's ads

[florencemachines]

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

🎬 Peter Jackson

+ IMDb trivia (FotR trivia) (RotK trivia)

[academicblorbo]

Yuna and David asking about the timeline of their relationship would have been even funnier if, after discussing how long they've been "lovers":

Yuna: ok, so you've been "seeing" each other for 9 years... And when did you confess your real feelings and decided to be together?

Shane:

Ilya:

Yuna:

David:

Shane:

Ilya: like, today at 4am

[heated-pixels]

Yuna, after processing that: And you became official when???

Shane:

Ilya:

Shane: Just now. At this table. When he called himself my boyfriend…

Yuna: Right…

[boybeetles]

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

[boybeetles]

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

[yetanothergreyjedi]

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you

[headspace-hotel]

Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned