#developements

[cat-found-in-an-allie]

Wamen are pretty >(^●////●^)<

Feeling: bisexual

[wetheworldmagz]

Coronavirus: Latest global developments

Paris, France: Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis

Coronavirus: Latest global developments

[kingaddinelloforilion]

Someday You Will Be Loved

     “ I once knew a girl        In the years of my youth       With eyes like the summer       All beauty and truth       In the morning I fled       Left a note and it read                                                                             Someday you will be loved.”

There comes a point in the life of a self-aware being where one must consciously or unconsciously decide to face their faults or ignore them. I was fourteen years old when I became aware of the aspects of myself that were lacking, though it only took a day after this ahha moment before I decided these facts to resemble strengths far more than anything. Life all seemed very much the same to me afterward -easier perhaps- it seems very much the same to me now, years later. Perhaps it’s all terribly wrong, but in a world like this who can stop me?

This realization was brought on by the arrival of a particularly pretty girl, her father the king of some small and unknown kingdom. Her hair the colour of the mixed spices in the kitchen that were put in pies, her voice low and flowing with an enchanting accent. It was upon her arrival that I first felt such a strong desire to posses something, upon her first smile in my direction it had been decided that she would be mine.  At first it had been nothing more than the friendship of two children, I didn't mind, I was patient enough. Within her first year at court things began to take a turn I was rather fond of, late night meetings in distant gardens and fields. She spoke under the stars of her dreams, and soon enough I had found my way into them. Stolen kisses in abandoned corridors followed, cheerful dances in bright and singing ballrooms, I was quite certain I possessed her in almost every way.

   I convinced myself for a long time my intentions were pure, I think there may have been a moment where she’d asked me about the moon where I looked to her and found myself in love.

It was in my sixteenth year that the princess told me under the same stars how she loved me, I happily obliged in repeating the words, though they seem empty now I spoke them convincingly then believed them. By the time the stars had been blurred by the rising sun I was certain to own her in every way possible. For awhile I kept her like that, with meaningless words and nights under stars, but quickly a boredom found it's way into my veins -propelled further by each beat of my heart deeper into my being- and in response a most destructive urge. In a long and dark corridor on a rainy evening she spoke in her melodious voice an, “I love you Tristan”, I know there was more to the profession but I cannot remember it, not nearly as well as I remember the look in her eyes as I denied her. The tears that welled in her hazel eyes, the flecks of gold suddenly dulling. The way her hands dropped mine. I felt- even in this moment- the tight grip of boredom, it urged me on to find a new game to play.

And perhaps I lie to myself just as I do everyone else, but dwelling on the memories of sweet voices and evenings beneath the stars brings me no twinge of guilt.

[emptyoblivion]

One Piece 30 Day Challenge:

Day 27: Favorite Thing About One Piece

Well of course I love everything about One Piece because it's AMAZINGGGG! But my favorite thing would have to be the characters. How they develope over the course of the series is incredible. What each character takes from every adventure they go on and the people they meet along the way shows how they become better. Also, seeing everyone's backstories and how they've grown and what lessons  they've learned really shows how and why their personalities are how they are in the current story line.

[thatfoxguy30]

Buffalo Sabres, Going forward, Draft, offseason, Developement.

Defence First Defense Last! Or use every possible asset to get patrick kane. wait... damn his contract is up next year not this year. But think about it, patrick kane was offered a 10 year deal with the blackhawks. Didn't take it. A few sentences after he won the cup talked about Buffalo. Talked about Buffalo again and took the cup home makes sense but still. Then when he was drunk he admitted he would love to be traded to buffalo the proof is there. We just need to sign him. I say we could make a deal for him next year or ! if blackhawks win the cup again this year he will be much much more attainable. Think about the damn power we would have on all our right wing lines. Crazy. Put Ennis Hodgson Kane line. Freaking brilliant. The try to master a line with Van and some others two amazing two lines that just make a killing. Even with the cap going down 6 million we still have plenty of room for him. I just wish Stafford if we don't trade him can get back his damn mojo like a couple years ago when he scored 30 something goals. He needs to work a lot on his game. He even admitted to have done absolutely nothing in the huge off season that totally trashed his game. I don't understand why any team needs to wait or take a break at the end of the off season. Teams are playing extensive huge playoff games and we are all sitting around. Those teams are becoming more developed and defined. I think there should be a mandatory 1 week exhausting grueling develope period. Then you can have your off season. Just like Weber and Ott who repeated him there needs to be a culture change, that would definitely be some where to start. I don't know how the players could say no. If they were in the playoffs they'd be doing the same even more honestly. I just want to see them do better. And maybe them having that horrible developing period at the end would jump start for some off season training on their own a little harder than they normally would. And it would just erase their memories of the regular season woes and let them all feel exhausted and maybe enjoy their off season more. Just a thought in my head. Plus the training period would be over before the first round was even over. I'm talking like again, like again, like the miracle on ice when they had to just keep going. Back and forth. Something as physically and mentally exhausting as that. Something they will just hate. I mean teams that win the stanley cup get bonuses I don't understand why we don't get like the complete opposite of bonus like that. 

It doesn't sound fun for the players, but it would help way more than hurt. 

[tayl0rswift]

a boy!!!!! expressed!!!!! interested!!!!!! in getting to know me!!!!!! sober!!!!!!!!!!! like romantically!!!!!!

[j-foottit-creativetech]

Mechanical Woes and Painting Problems

This week I discovered that brushable polyurethane is not a good material to work with if you want to paint it. My initial tests looked good, and the paint seemed to adhere. Unfortunately I quickly discovered that the paint would still rub off rather easily. My first undercoat was almost entirely removed during when we were working on the mechanism in the studio.

After putting the first coat on I brought the snake skin into the studio so we could test it on the mechanism. This revealed serious problems for our group. The skin proved to be too inflexible, making it impossible for the mechanism to function with the skin over it. This was partially due to the expanding foam in the core, but seemed to be mostly due to the less flexible urethane skin. We spent the best part of 2 days working on the mechanism trying everything we could think of to get the system to work. We ended up trying so many 'contigency' plans that I lost count (somewhere around plan 'H'). Along the way we decided we needed to cut the snake into sections rather than have it as one piece. That was a difficult day for me. Having spent hours experiementing, planning and forming the snake, I now had to cut it into pieces.

Looking back, I am fairly certain now that latex would have been a better material for the skin. It seems to be more flexible than polyurethane and strong enough to only require a thin skin. However, the time constraints of this project meant that latex was too risky an option for me. At best I would be able to get one skin completed in time - and considering that my first polyurethane skin didn't work very well, it seems likely to me it would have taken me more than one attempt to successfully make a latex skin. I have learnt a great deal about the different materials through this project, and that in itself has made this project worthwhile for me.