Succulent Ambush

Fiction, Art, and General Fannish Geekery

[sorry-no-more-no-less]

Charlize Theron at the Cannes Film Festival for Mad Max: Fury Road

[eroscestlavie]

THIS IS ANISH KAPOOR’S INSTAGRAM I AM SCREAMING AT HOW PETTY THIS IS

[quinoaphoenicks]

God

[frankenfemme]

Who’s the narc that gave him the pink

[veryfemmeandantifascist]

I’m screaming

[ofmanynames]

But the statement is the best:

Kapoor or one of his agents has, it’s worth noting, violated the terms of service put forth on Semple’s website, and Semple isn’t happy. He expressed his deep concern over the situation in an email to artnet News:

We are all extremely disappointed to see that Anish Kapoor has illegally acquired the world’s pinkest pink. He’s walked into this paint war with a gesture that cannot be misconstrued. He’s given the art community a bright pink middle finger. He is still very much at large. Not only has he refused to share the black, he’s now stolen our pink. Rest assured, we will get to the bottom of who has purchased this on Anish Kapoor’s behalf and broken their contractual agreement with culturehustle.com, and we will instruct our lawyers to take appropriate action against such breaches. We are pleased to note that he has not managed to get his hands on the World’s Glitteriest Glitter—yet—and we urge purchasers not to share the product with Kapoor or his associates.

[hisunlikelyvalentine]

I don’t get it?

[cyberneticbanshee-deactivated20]

Basically this guy, Anish Kapoor, had made a deal with NanoSystem, the people producing Vantablack, or the blackest black paint pigment in the world, so that he would have exclusive rights to use it for art purposes.

This naturally upset a great number of people in the art world, to say the least, as many other people were excited to experiment with using the Vantablack pigment in their art. Therefore, as an act of retaliation, artist Stuart Semple released PINK, the world’s pink pigment under the stipulation that anyone in the world could buy it, except for Anish Kapoor. At the time of purchase, the purchaser has to agree to a legal statement saying that they are not Anish Kapoor and will not willing or knowingly give the pigment to Anish Kapoor. 

By this image, it indicates that someone violated that agreement and provided the pigment to Kapoor. Thus why Semple is pursing legal action. I hope this helps clear some things up.

[monopolizers]

[squidwardchat-deactivated202205]

stuart semple got his hands on the black

[mythiquebitch]

@africanaquarian update on the art hoe drama

[africanaquarian]

OH MY  G OD

[a-melior-ate]

UPDATE ON THE ART DRAMA!!! STEWART GOT THE VANTABLACK!

[bitchycode]

[little-vvitch]

this is the 2016 apology post. reblog in 45 seconds and 2016 will apologize to you in the form of money.

[theonion]

[khanos-deactivated20170219]

life hack: do ur readings and go to class

[hatimoon]

life hack: 90% of the time you don’t have to do your readings to still ace the class. hell, half the time i never bought the book. ;p 

[succulentambush]

Borrow from the school library! They almost always have a copy of textbooks they just don’t let you check it out. That forces you to go to the library and do your reading before the day before during normal person times! Super important. Also!!!! For college, being bros with a teacher or at least being on a few’s good sides can be SO IMPORTANT. Scholarships, residencies, fellowships, goddamn apartment and job references... Do your readings, go to class, and use it to suck up to your teacher.

[vinegalore]

[chongoblog]

This is a holy video. Reblog it to be free of any curses and/or to have a nice video on your blog

[spoonfulofsterek]

The Failwolf Rec List

Keep reading

[jessicahenwicks-deactivated2018]

+

[succulentambush]

That is some 90s hair straight out of boy meets world

[ravennowithtea]

✨✦ Ruby Biker Gang ✨✦   

[kierralondon-deactivated2019102]

it’s really weird how a lot of y'all value the lives of animals over the lives of people… wild

[kierralondon-deactivated2019102]

this is specifically about the boy falling into the gorilla pit and the demonization of said boy’s mother… like it’s really wild how far people will go to devalue a Black woman and mother like it’s so wild…

and people are blaming her because they’re like “well her son said he wanted to go into the gorilla pit idk why she didn’t listen” like???? kids say weird stuff like that all the time? and kids slip away all the time?

it’s really just wild to me that the life of a gorilla matters more to people than the life of a Black child! like there could be so many tweets that are like “wow! so glad that child is safe” but instead you just have tweets and youtube videos of people calling her a bitch and being like RIP Harambe like… that child could’ve very well died do y'all not care. y'all should be sending flowers not death threats

[saintsadie]

Um yeah the child’s life is important but they didn’t need to kill the damn gorilla, there is such thing as a tranquilliser

[kierralondon-deactivated2019102]

um if you actually did your research and paid attention to what the zoo said, what other zookeepers said, and other respected professionals, you would’ve read that tranquilizers could have potentially made the gorilla more violent, prompting him to kill the child.

and male silverback gorillas have a volatile nature and he could’ve snapped any moments. and this isn’t a cartoon! tranquilizers don’t take immediate affect. so don’t come on my post being passive aggressive if you haven’t actually looked into why they chose to do what they did

and don’t come on my shit derailing when i’m talking about the demonization of the Black mother in this situation like leave me alone

[jeannette-m-deactivated20180607]

Also the child and the gorilla were in the moat (aka a thing filled with water) and tranquilising the gorilla would most likely have lead to the gorilla drowning.

Also with the proximity of the child it is possible that the gorilla could have fallen on to him, causing him to drown as well.

If you look at this Facebook post by Amanda O'Donoughue (an experienced zoo keeper) she actually explains in depth why tranquilising the gorilla was not an option. https://www.facebook.com/amanda.odonoughue/posts/1203379586363094

As a student veterinary nurse I can categorically state that no veterinarian, veterinary nurse or zoo keeper would want to euthanise an otherwise healthy animal - especially one that is genetically important to an endangered or threatened species like gorillas. But in this instance - when all other safe methods of attempting to rescue the child had failed - euthanasia was the only option.

She also explains how the gorilla was not actually trying to protect the child and that his behaviours show that he was I fact very unhappy with having an intruder in his enclosure.

When you are searching for facts surrounding an emotive case such as this, please don’t rely solely on media coverage or the opinions of the average joe. Please find reputable sources who have expert knowledge and experience in the topic. I know that a Facebook post may not seem like a reliable source for information, but if the person has the knowledge and experience to back up their claims they are far more reliable than a newspaper article based mainly on hear say and often twisted or distorted facts and misquotations and are written by people who have little to no knowledge or experience beyond what sites like Wikipedia can tell them.

[succulentambush]

And then there’s the people talking about how she should have kept a better eye on her child. Man, have any of you ever had to watch kids for long periods of time? They run. They wander off. They hide behind trashcans and behind strollers and behind you and then giggle when you’re looking for them. She had more than the one child with her.

The kid said he wanted to go into the enclosure and she told him no and witnesses say her attention was taken from the boy for a minute tops after that. People are saying she should have been keeping a better eye on him bc he said he wanted to go in. That’s ridiculous. Kids say shit all the time, especially little ones. They want to climb on the roof, they want to leave over a three story drop, they want to jump from one bridge to another, they want to stop a car with their hands... You say no and usually they don’t. I sincerely doubt this was the first enclosure the kid said he wanted to go into or that there was any reason to take him super seriously this time. If you really want to blame someone, blame the zoo that didn’t make an enclosure small child proof or society for not making child leashes more acceptable.

[howlnatural]

Dialogue Prompts, anyone??

“I’m sick of you always taking the cat’s side in everything!”

“I pictured you hotter, to be honest.”

“What do you mean you’ve never tried hangover sex? It’s like, an instant cure!”

“Remember how I told you I already took care of that? Well I lied and I need help NOW.”

“Is this the same store you don’t go to anymore because you said ‘I love you’ to the cashier?”

“No, I was just in the neighbourhood…total coincidence that you’re here too…”

“When we’re 50, wanna be each other’s backup spouse?”

“No, officer, I will NOT step out of the vehicle..”

“For the last time, this is not Joe’s Pizza. How do you keep dialling this number? Who even free-dials anymore?”

“Yes, I know that’s my face on the billboard, can we not make a big deal about it?”

“Are these your underwear or mine?”

“Hey remember that time we practised kissing? That was so dumb, right? Right..?”

“What do you mean there’s no signal? We’re trapped here?!”

“Yeah, we broke up months ago…I didn’t tell you about it because didn’t think you’d care.”

“….happy birthday to ME…”

“Yeah we made a sex bet and now it’s terrible because I thought I would be the one who’s better at it..”

“Oh my god, you have a concussion, stop trying to flirt with me.”

“It’s super annoying that you’re so fit because you make me exercise more. How else was I supposed to ogle you?”

“I haven’t written anything in weeks because you’re so damn distracting. Stop that!”

“Okay wait. Can we stop joking around like we’d ever actually date? It’s really starting to hurt…”

[sashayed]

my favorite thing about these british MURDER SHOWS that i love so much – other than all the murder, obviously – is all the tiny Brits getting their starts as corpses or suspects! In the one I just started, I was first delighted to see Rosamund Pike, coldly beautiful as ever but this time wearing Victory Rolls, which was new and cute, and THEN who should pop up but JAMES MCAVOY looking like the rosiest imaginable blossom of wartime youth!!! 

he’s four feet tall and i wanna gently bite him on his lumpy little nose

[leplusgrandsacdespetitspois]

YES YES this is one of the many great things about the MURDER SHOWS because everyone has been on them. Everyone. And some people have been in ALL OF THEM. Mostly as LITTLE ACTOR BABIES. A 1930s murder! A 1960s murder! A modern murder! All three! Sometimes the victim or baddy is suddenly the detective in another place and time! It is GREAT.

[sashayed]

British murder shows are the true saṃsāra, the unending cycle of death and rebirth

[succulentambush]

All murder shows are like this. The number of people in Law n order has always been a joke. I’m watching Criminal Minds and got to see Aaron Paul wearing too much the proper amount of eye liner and being a Satanist and a baby Chekhov just popped up as a teen with psychotic urges.

[pasiphile]

Thirteen writer Marnie Dickens is developing a 'female Peaky Blinders' for the BBC

Forty Elephants is a girl gang show set in the 1920s and centres on a crime family

[Marnie Dickens’] new series Forty Elephants is being developed by the BBC and is described as “a girl gang show set in the 1920s and centred on a crime family”.

“Forty Elephants is a modern and visceral period drama centred around the formidable leader of the infamous girl-gang and the ambitious young woman who sets out to undo her.”

Ahem. @havingbeenbreathedout, @reckonedrightly?

[havingbeenbreathedout]

1920S GIRL GANG SHOW YOU SAY??

[copperbadge]

Leader Of The Free World

Title: Leader Of The Free World Rating: PG Summary: Clint Barton’s presidential campaign started as a joke. It didn’t end that way, except for Steve. Notes: Written for @MemPrime, who requested it as a birthday fic. (Sorry I didn’t actually write the debate you suggested, @fatfemme-inist, I chickened out. :D) Happy birthday, Mem! Other Notes: I don’t know how presidential campaigns work, guys. I didn’t do any research because politics is very boring and I only research it when I am myself voting to make sure I don’t vote for Darth Vader in disguise. Please forgive for any inaccuracies, I wasn’t willing to put that amount of energy into what is essentially four thousand words of LOL CLINT BARTON. Warnings: None.

****

It was kind of a dare, and it was sort of at a party, which were both excuses Tony and Clint used a lot, because “we were drunk” was not an excuse Steve would put up with. Technically “it was at a party” wasn’t either, but he and Tony had shouted their way through several arguments over “it was a dare”, and the result was that Steve no longer got into fights over dares. Because Tony knew his history, and he knew that if Steve Rogers was telling someone not to take a dare, Steve Rogers was being a giant hypocrite.

“It’s honestly not that hard to get your ass on a ballot,” Tony said, tipping his beer at the presidential debate going on silently on one of the televisions. The Avengers had developed several patterns around their missions against Hydra, and Tony liked the post-assault protein-load that they usually did right after, but the post-assault party the weekend following a mission, that was his favorite.

“There’s a ton of paperwork, isn’t there?” Clint asked.

“Not really that much. I mean,” Tony corrected, “Not that much if you have, you know, your own legal department.”

“Oh, rich-dude-not-much,” Clint teased. “So you could run for president pretty easily, huh?”

Keep reading

[succulentambush]

Describe Your OC

1: their voice

2: their smile

3: their greatest achievement

4: their insecurities

5: their shortcomings

6: how they deal with grief

7: how they like to dress

8: what they like to eat

9: their theme

10: their fashion sense

11: their family life

12: their romantic life

13: their embarrassing memory from years ago

14: how they react to burning their tongue on food

15: how they react to a brainfreeze

16: their dreams

17: their ambitions

18: how they sleep

19: their reaction to betrayal

20: their reaction to a mystery love letter

21: how they react to pain

22: what they're like on two hours of sleep

23: how they act when they're sick

24: what motivates them

25: why you enjoy them

[succulentambush]

"supermom": loses baby weight immediately, works outside the home, cooks all 3 meals for whole family, prepares packed lunches, cleans whole house, microcleans daily and constantly (dishes, laundry, folding laundry, wiping counters, sweeping, organizing, picking up after children), stays pretty, nurtures and feeds infants, emotionally supports children, brings children to extracurricular activities, puts children to sleep, grooms children, micro-grooms all day (wipes mouths, cleans hands, changes diapers), bathes children, clothes children, shops for children, grocery shops,

"superdad": braids his daughter's hair

[relenafanel]

gossymer replied to your post “Steve and Bucky who shared a bed so often platonically that now that…”

I love the thought of just the other’s touch is enough grounding to get them then feeling secure enough to sleep. Like they’re doing recon and Bucky is too wired so Steve keeps a hand across his shoulder while he keeps watch and Bucky is able to nod off. Or with nightmares where Steve ends up on the couch and watching TV and Bucky joins him and they wake up at 5am realizing they need to invest in a much bigger couch. *hearts*

I think that one of the most harmful and pervasive things fandom can do sometimes is focus on some sort of “relationship goal” type trope and make it seem like a relationship norm - wherein there’s something wrong with a relationship, either in fandom or in real life, if it doesn’t have a certain element. One of those things is the idea that couples who sleep together, all cuddly, stay together.  It comes from the idea that bed sharing while “in love” is all touching and needing to feel the other person next to you while sleeping, and that once the relationship gets more mature or the people fall out of love, they no longer touch each other while sleeping. 

Sure, I think it can be adorable, but it’s also really not true to real people.  There are TONS of reasons it doesn’t work in real life, and I feel like whether or not Steve and Bucky share a bed every night, or even a bedroom, doesn’t have anything to do with the strength of their relationship.

On a personal note: absolutely no one wants to force me into a bed-sharing situation. I’m an insomniac at the best of times, but I’m a miserable insomniac when I’m sharing a room. I will WAKE THE OTHER PERSON UP because if I’m not asleep then no one can be. I get so super resentful if someone is sleeping and I can’t, like every soft (or loud snore) fills me with rage until I’m a quivering mess of hostility and after the 3 hours of sleep I manage, I’m willing to allow everyone to know it.

I’ve been told “you know, you’ll adapt” and I think that’s TOTAL BULLSHIT. If I haven’t adapted to being able to sleep on my own in 30 years what makes you think I’m going to be able to adapt to another person in the next 30?????

HOW DOES THAT WORK, HUH?

[succulentambush]

besides, there’ve been studies showing couples are happier when they’re NOT sleeping together. Probably because then neither are sleeping enough and they’re grumpy. That said, being more comfortably sleeping when there’s someone you trust in the house...that i get