Love is a dagger

AO3: Poodleduke https://archiveofourown.org/users/Poodleduke

[stitchformers]

Masterlist

(Follow me on @space-trucker-bucky for fics.)

Knight & Lady in the Cup

Bucky Barnes x immortal female OC Infinity Saga rewrite. Bucky gets deprogrammed via fairy wine. Z is a cosmic diplomat who is orchestrating the defeat of Thanos via galactic economy. Space convoys. Cursed teddy bears. Defeating fascism through product distribution. Two people who understand what it means when your body isn't yours. [Also on AO3]

Project Bloodline

Bucky Barnes x Widow! Reader You are a Red Room Widow sent on a honeypot mission to collect super soldier sperm so your employer can grow a new one. Turns out the Winter Solider has a different plan. [Also on AO3]

My Own Orders (completed on AO3)

Bucky Barnes x Steve Rogers CATWS rewrite. When the Asset learns that Steve Rogers is still alive through a phone call Alexander Pierce was having in front of him, he decides to break himself out of HYDRA’s hold by using the trigger words and becoming his own handler. [Also on AO3]

📈🔺MARKET CORRECTION🔻📉

Crack Treated Seriously, Avengers ensemble cast Loki calls New York a pump and dump. Tony Stark mints Infinity NFTs. The Collector insists the SEC has no jurisdiction in Knowhere. Thanos describes erasing half of all life as "rebalancing the portfolio." Scott Lang saves the universe because he grabbed a shiny rock while stressed. (The Inifinity Saga as a Netflix style financial crime documentary.) [Also on AO3]

Divider art by @pixopix

[just-let-me-drink]

[childmagazine]

someone from 1997 wished me good luck. it’s like someone from so many years back knows your struggles and i just, i think i’m gonna cry

[that-space-boy]

reblogging for luck from friend in 1997

[comparativetarot]

The Tower. Art by Angel Fernandez.

[adirabennett]

[ashleyslorens]

I remember there was mist Swirling mist upon a vast, glassy lake There were candles all around And on the lake there was a boat And in the boat there was a man

📹: @mttztrading

[1five1two]

'Bedtime'. Nicole Parker. 2021.

[urgetocreate]

Oil on mounted linen

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[importantpics]

[kittybroker]

Delicious home grown mushroom now only $7.58!

[my-dailydreams]

[gremlininho]

then & now ♡

[hyydraworks]

Have been behind the social media grind as I work on stocking up many lil guys, including these brand new forbidden popsicles. 🤞 they have a safe glaze firing, because after that these chickens are hoping to happily inhabit any plant pot that will have them.

[gvalesdraws]

mother of pearl

[shirecorn]

Deep in the ocean, mermaids can take on extreme forms, divorcing themselves from human mimicry for the sake of survival.

The Gulper Eel Mermaid has jaws that take up the entire length of their torso, repurposing arms to support long, thin bones lined with tiny teeth. While the prevailing theory is that the large jaw allows them to consume prey many times their size, they have been known to open their mouth for a different purpose. By filling their baggy body with water, this mermaid swells up to an intimidating size. Other creatures think twice about tangling with what appears to be an immense predator of pure muscle.

Not much is known for certain, as these beings are reclusive; even from other mermaids. They're very sensitive, you see. Perhaps one day we will liaison with them and learn of their culture.

For now, they keep to the depths.

[creature-adjacent]

Carnivorous plants doin this is so funny to me

They don't wanna eat their pollinators :(

[questionablepastries]

[poochcrew]

Rottweiler with Vitiligo

[the-conquest-of-shred]

Insane Clown Posse

[mrhealyourgirl]

Insane clown pupy

[starcures]

new boot goofin

[seralicetarrant]

Tracking those paw prints all over the place...

[khrusch-on-art]

[lesbianshepard]

Current twitter drama is Europeans confidently declaring that they don't need to drive or use overpriced public transport to get to the MetLife stadium for the World Cup; they will simply walk down the highway to get there. Girl it's New Jersey. They're gonna splatter you for fun.

[lesbianshepard]

I think a lot of Europeans think that the stadium is in the middle of a city and surrounded by infrastructure, which is why they keep insisting that they can just walk from point A to point B. It's not! It's in the fucking Meadowlands!!!! You have multi lane highways and a literal toxic swamp and that's it!

[lesbianshepard]

"Well if there are a LOT of football fans they'll stop for us!"

There's a video online of a trucker who accidentally hits a flock of sheep in the middle of the highway at full speed and splatters them. Has to turn the windshield wipers on to wipe away the blood. This is what every Jersey driver yearns to do once they get on the turnpike.

[lesbianshepard]

girl help they're now demanding NJ build a bridge over the highway (???? from where???) or shut down the fucking I-95 (one of the busiest highways in the country that everyone commutes on) for their little soccer game.

[effervescible]

I live close enough to the Meadowlands to regularly curse the hubris of the American Dream mall and this is the funniest shit I have read in YEARS. A lot of the European twitter people seem to think we are DEFENDING the Meadowlands and the general layout of the area like we think it was good urban planning. Girl no! It is a shithole, we know it is a shithole! (Although the actual swamp is kinda pretty from the window of a train heading to Secaucus Junction.) We are not trying to express pride, we are trying to save your life!!!!

I MEAN. I know people talk a lot of shit about American arrogance and they're not wrong to do so, but look at this, my fucking god.

[obama-stolemy-vcr]

._. Let them perish

Whats funny is they think ppl are defending the infrastructure. Like...no bitch we know it's ass. We are telling you it LITERALLY can't be done

[brehaaorgana]

Right like, no no. We KNOW it is horrible. We KNOW it should not exist like that. MetLife stadium shouldn't have been built in a swamp like that. Everything about its existence is bullshit. This is probably the WORST stadium to try and get to, considering that it is illegal to try and walk there.

FIFA has also intentionally MADE it worse. Because they're closing the parking lot. They're also preventing ride shares from what I can tell??

Meanwhile the governor of New Jersey is saying this is going to cost NJ $48 million to deal with the ridership, and wanted money to offset that, which FIFA doesn't ever do. So they decided to massively inflate train fares to offset the cost.

Again, while trying to prevent rideshare services from occurring.

Oh, ALSO people in New Jersey and New York City are all being told to "work from home" on days of the world cup matches because the public transit congestion is expected to be that bad, coincides with rush hour, and because for some of it, they're full closing off public transit to anyone who doesn't have FIFA tickets.

And then there are people complaining about our "shitty national stadium" and I don't even know how to begin to explain that MetLife isn't even the biggest capacity stadium in the US. It's not even in the top ten. (It is #15).

I genuinely do hope everyone is just being a bit of a troll when they say they're going to walk on the 95 or some shit because people will 1000% die. I don't even know what a comparable metaphor for this is.

But you cannot just shut this road down:

[queenofthequillandink]

Walking and biking on the freeway are also both illegal and if you break laws in the US right now as a non-citizen (or even a non-white citizen), you have two years of news reports telling you exactly how badly that's gonna go.

Do not try to walk to MetLife. If you don't get hit and splattered by a semi, with our fucking government, you may wish you had.

[hopeful-daydreaming]

As someone who has been to MetLife Stadium for both concerts and sporting events frequently in the last 5 years, can confirm it is in the shittiest location ever. Not only that, but even driving there from NY is a fucking nightmare cuz there’s genuinely only like 1 or 2 exits off I-95 to get there and they are 1. Single lane only, 2. Extremely narrow, and 3. Have a really sharp curve that makes you have to slow down to a crawl coming off the interstate where you and everyone else are doing, at most in the right lane, 75 mph. And shutting down the parking lots and banning rideshares for FIFA sounds extremely counterproductive????? Like they’re obviously trying to prevent drunk driving, drunk and disorderly conduct, etc. buuuuuut this ain’t the way to do that…..

Also I-95 between NY and NJ spits into like 7 or 8 lanes at some point before and after the bridge where NO ONE ever knows exactly what lane they need to be in to get where they’re going, so if you’re trying to WALK there, you’re absolutely going to be hit by someone not paying even the slightest bit of attention because they’re too busy trying to figure out what fucking lane they need to be in. Walking to MetLife from NYC or Jersey City is a death wish. Holding the World Cup at MetLife is the STUPIDEST decision ever. And this isn’t even touching on the fact that the MetLife turf is cursed which, as a Giants fan, I can go on and on about………good luck to everyone going tho I guess!

[variousnavies]

Yes the idea of walking to the stadium is hilarious and the whole World Cup thing will be miserable for all involved BUT I have to speak up for my beloved Meadowlands by which I mean the ACTUAL MARSHLANDS which are an amazing ecosystem of a tidal salt marsh plus two rivers meeting and it’s a UNIQUE ecology with birds and fish and it CLEANS ITSELF ALL THE TIME so despite the decades of shit and chemicals and concrete and old marble from the old Penn Station (this is true) it lives and thrives around the edges of what this state allows it to do.

Another bee in my bonnet is how then-Gov Christie back in 2015 signed a law folding the standalone state agency protecting the Meadowlands into the state EXPOSITION AND SPORTING AUTHORITY which means, that’s right, NJ’s unique marshlands is in fact governed by the assholes who built a bunch of stadia in A MARSH. I hate Christie so much forever amen

Anyway I love the Meadowlands and one day on my commute (where I pass through the teeniest corner) I saw a heron, an egret, AND a turtle!!!!

Photo credit and more info:

Hackensack Meadowlands from Mill Creek Marsh

A view of the Hackensack Meadowlands from Mill Creek Marsh, a nature preserve in Secaucus, New Jersey. Image courtesy of Evelyn Dsouza.

And more:

New Jersey Meadowlands - Wikipedia

New Jersey Meadowlands - Wikipedia