it's things

I spend too much time on the internet, so I guess it was just about time to start keeping track of a lot of it. Sometimes I'll post some original stuff. Sometimes. Currently fandoms: Overwatch, Detroit: Become Human, Venom+Symbrock, The Arcana, Good Omens

[susiephone]

“I’d love to stop watching TV, but you cancelled school!”

aka, YouTube series to binge when you’re stuck indoors and you’d like to learn a little something.

ART!

Lindsay Ellis’ entire YouTube channel. It’s like film school for people who can’t afford film school.

Here she is teaching you about film theory… via the Transformers movies.

Here she is talking about the ways the potrayals of various characters have changed and developed over the years.

It’s Lit! A series hosted by Lindsay Ellis in collaboration with PBS, about reading, writing, and the publishing industry.

Brows Held High. Half comedy reviews, half artistic and political analysis of “highbrow” films – often both at once.

Also he has talked about Shakespeare a LOT. Like, so much, you guys.

ThugNotes. Advertised as “classic literature, original gangster.” Sparky Sweets, PhD, summarizes and analyzes some books you may have heard of.

Terrible Writing Advice. Teaching you how to write by telling you how not to write.

Maven of the Eventide. A very nerdy goth lady reviews vampire-focused content, and has thus talked quite a lot about the history of the vampire genre and how it’s developed over the centuries. It’s so awesome. She also has really cute kids who show up sometimes!

SCIENCE!

Sexplanations. One very smart lady answers all your sex ed questions. Yes, even that one.

Tibees. A PhD student explains physics and math… in the style of Bob Ross, baking videos, and shitposts.

Cool Worlds. Videos about astronomy and space and other planets, for when you want to think about how small you are.

Minute Physics. Complicated scientific ideas, in short, easy to digest videos.

SciShow: Hank Green and friends tackle serious scientific queries, like, “Why don’t we just throw trash into volcanoes?”

HISTORY!

Ruining History. Shane Madej infodumps about salacious periods in history that were left out of the books. People have always been weird, y’all.

On that note: Puppet History! It’s a new one, but it’s a lot like Ruining History, but with puppets and songs, too.

BuzzFeed Unsolved: True Crime. If I get mysteriously murdered with no leads, Ryan and Shane are the only people allowed to talk about it. 

Also Supernatural often has some interesting historical tidbits.

MISCELLANEOUS CRAP!

Adam Ruins Everything. One very earnest, very nerdy man annoys his friends and family by debunking common misconceptions about everything from chemistry to the TSA to the funeral industry.

Last Week Tonight. Comedy news program hosted by a sad British man in America. Depending on the episode, you might see him get in a jockstrap-related feud with Russel Crowe, troll the FCC with robocalls, or interview Edward Snowden. Constantly wastes HBO’s money on stupid shit. Always funny, always informative, and he hates Trump SO. GODDAMN. MUCH.

Defunctland. Our host Kevin gives us the rundown on theme park attractions, and sometimes whole parks, that don’t exist anymore – how they were developed, and why they ultimately shut down.

He also has a side-series about kids’ TV shows that don’t exist anymore.

And a miniseries about the works of Jim Henson.

Daily Moth. American news given in ASL, with full English transcripts.

Ali Abdaal. A Cambridge grad talks about life has a junior doctor, and how to study and work more effectively.

Feel free to add!

[real-overwatch-facts]

Real-Overwatch-Facts 1000th Fact Giveaway!

Hey, you Overwatch goofs! As you can see, the number of facts is getting awfully close to #1000… So I decided to do a giveaway! Here’s the prizes:

First Prize: 60 lootboxes! 

Runners Up: 

One of these bad boys! (Handmade by me)

How to Enter: 

1. Be following @real-overwatch-facts​!

2. Reblog this post!

I will end the drawing on the eve of the 1000th fact! More rules and restrictions under the cut.

Keep reading

[professorsparklepants]

Role swap au where Zuko was the Avatar who got frozen for a hundred years, so when he’s rescued from the ice instead of a goofy twelve year old Katara catches this mysterious teenager with long hair and a cool scar and a fucking DRAGON

Katara: BOY???? HOT BOY?????? HOT TEENAGE BOY?????????

Zuko: *speaks*

Katara: nevermind I hate him

[brawltogethernow]

How does Aang factor into this? I ask because the more I think about it the more I want him to somehow be trying to capture the Avatar.

[professorsparklepants]

Aang is 112 years old, decided he was going to be Zuko’s airbending teacher, and refuses to take no for an answer

[brawltogethernow]

Aang: Aw, the new Avatar doesn’t want me. Aang: *gets out a weighted net* Time for Plan B then.

[professorsparklepants]

JDJSHJABDBFJSH

[brawltogethernow]

Look, you know how you keep a net from falling on you? YOU AIRBEND IT, SUCKA. Air comes right after fire in the cycle so it’s not like the guy has any other options. Do you want a flaming net falling on you? No? Then learn to airbend. Or this tiny old man will cart you away like a trussed turkey and lecture you about the power of laughter, going with the flow, opening your chakras, and other hippie shit.

[brawltogethernow]

Sokka, slouching against a fence, not moving: Oh nooooooo, that creepy old man stole the Avataaaaaaaaaar. Sokka, sitting down on the ground: We should dooooo something. Sokka, pulling out his lunch: Otherwise he might actually learn something. That would be teeeerrible. Katara, indignant rage coursing through her body: Sokka!!!!!!!! We have to go look for him!!!! Sokka: Might! Actually! Learn! Something! Katara! Katara: *wavers* Katara, also sitting down: We have to go look for him…. *gets out her own sandwich* But, maybe after lunch.

[professorsparklepants]

I love that this transforms Aang’s role in the full Team Avatar familial situation from the baby of the family to the Grandpa with weird hobbies

[wetwareproblem]

My brain, immediately after the “Aang won’t take no for an answer” post:

Aang: I’m gonna ride him! *jumps on Zuko’s shoulders*

[wetwareproblem]

Actually, I thought a bit more about this: If Aang is “grandpa figure who won’t fucking stop teaching Zuko to be a better and more spiritually fulfilled person,” then what is Iroh doing?

And then it hit me.

Iroh: *sitting in a teahouse at a paisho table* Iroh, deadpan: I must capture the last airbender.  Iroh: It is the only way to make sure the powe rof the Avatar won’t be turned on the Fire Nation. Iroh: Only then will I be redeemed in the eyes of the Fire Lord for my failure at Ba Sing Se. Iroh: … Iroh: Anyway, it’s your turn.

About half of the B plots are just Iroh finding new ways to feign incompetence and bad luck so that his political watchdog can’t prove that he’s letting Aang - and by extension Zuko - get away.

[wetwareproblem]

@ray10k

[dysperdis]

Sometimes Iroh plays paisho with Aang, whose entire disguise during these games consists of a painfully fake mustache.

[wetwareproblem]

AANG WAS THE OTHER PLAYER IN THAT SCENE OF COURSE IT’S PERFECT (the moustache is just a bit of Appa’s fur tied in a string)

[eternalgirlscout]

i think about this post all the time and if i may, i would like to suggest keeping the banished royalty angle for zuko.

he was the eldest son of fire lord sozin, who knew the avatar was the greatest threat to the fire nation, but also knew the new one would be a firebender and he couldn’t exactly merc his own people, now could he? but he always planned to order a convenient little assassination on whoever the new avatar turned out to be and in the meantime took out the air temples so that avatar couldn’t learn the next element in the cycle. of course, when it turns out to be his son, sozin, stellar dad that he is, thinks “if you want something done right” and shoots a fire blast at his firstborn.

zuko enters the avatar state, blows up half the palace, etc etc as one does, gets a nasty scar for his trouble, and escapes, hence why he was hanging out far enough south to necessitate katara and sokka cracking open a cold boy a century later.

all this is to say 1. i think it’s a good way to maintain zuko’s background and characterization in an au like this and 2. it leads to a secret second roleswap

because this makes zuko iroh’s uncle.

[moramew]

A small list of random ass sites I’ve found useful when writing:

Fragrantica: perfume enthusiast site that has a long list of scents. v helpful when you’re writing your guilty pleasure abo fics

Just One Cookbook: recipe site that centers on Japanese cuisine. Lots of different recipes to browse, plenty of inspiration so you’re not just “ramen and sushi” 

This comparing heights page: gives you a visual on height differences between characters

A page on the colors of bruises+healing stages: well just that. there you go. describe your bruises properly

McCormick Science Institute: yes this is a real thing. the site shows off research on spices and gives the history on them. be historically accurate or just indulge in mindless fascination. boost your restaurant au with it

A Glossary of Astronomy Terms: to pepper in that sweet terminology for your astrophysics major college au needs

[moramew]

Adding to this since I’m working on a shifter au one-shot:

Canine Body Language

Feline Body Language

[moramew]

More:

Cocktail Flow: a site with a variety of cocktails that’s pretty easy to navigate and offers photos of the drinks. You can sort by themes, strengths, type and base. My only real annoyance with this site is that the drinks are sometimes sorted into ~masculine~ and ~feminine~ but ehhhh. It’s great otherwise.

Tie-A-Tie: a site centered around ties, obviously. I stumbled upon it while researching tie fabrics but there’s a lot more to look at. It offers insight into dress code for events, tells you how to tie your ties, and has a section on the often forgotten about tie accessories

[moramew]

Even more:

Types of High Heels: A page describing twenty five different types of high heels. It gives a description and pictures. Shake it up from just “stilettos and kitten heels”

Random Job Generator: Exactly as it says. The site offer more generators like characters, plots, or town names.

Glossary of Hosiery Terms: Figure out what is what on a pair of stockings.

Men’s Dress Shoe Guide: A quick guide describing the eight most common types of men’s dress shoes. Pics included.

Types of Women’s Coats: Descriptions and pics of various different types of coats.

[8writingblock8-blog]

WRITING REFERENCES

[bone-cement-huffer]

memeception

[hashtagloveloses]

WE’VE HIT TERMINAL MEME

[bl00dlikeice]

@caesarianconfection

[fidefortitude-deactivated202011]

I’ve said “I hate this” so many times on this website, and never actually meant it, because “I hate this” is just shorthand for ‘this is an example of a meme given a twist I wasn’t expecting with intent to surprise’. Which is, in of itself, a meme on this site. God damn it.

But this… This is something else.

The rapidity of a meme’s introduction to its zenith to its decline is so rapid that in ten years, you’ll need a damn twenty-page manual to explain this. It’ll be as unfunny and hard to explain as jokes in Shakespeare plays, except even more inexplicable because fuck, at least Shakespeare’s jokes are usually about anal or fucking your mother, good wholesome sex jokes we can all get behind.

For the love of fuck, how do you explain loss.jpg? How do you explain gun?

[mommacomms]

….I THOUGHT THIS WAS A YMCA REFERENCE

[pagesofkenna]

it is a YMCA reference - that’s one of the 6 memes being represented here

ok let me see if i can break this down easily. YMCA is the easiest place to start - the song itself has become a meme over time with people changing the lyrics to reference other pop cultural events. so YMCA is meme one (1)

this first lyric replacement (”take the breadsticks and run”) is a reference to the tumblr meme ‘stuffing breadsticks into my purse’. i think everyone remembers that one so i wont bother to explain it. that’s meme two (2)

“man door hand hook car door” is a meme of its own, a creepypasta from i dont remember when. it was a terrible stupid retelling of the generic ‘stuck in a car while hook handed man tries to kill us’ story so the stupid title caught on for memorability. that in and of itself is meme three (3)

‘gun’ is… yeah i dont know how to explain gun. long story short you add gun to the end of a phrase instead of what you expect the last word to be. its shock funny. its everywhere but its popular to add to “man door hand hook car door” for.. some reason? gun is meme four (4)

and the thing is, this four meme combo is something thats gone around before. meme combos are, itself, a meme. which means taking this meme combo and mixing in another meme actually becomes meme five (5)

which leaves us at loss.jpg. loss.jpg was a terrible bad comic supposed to be about some tragic event, but it was presented so poorly literally no one takes it seriously, and for some reason recreating the four-panel setup has become popular. so thats meme six (6)

(but i need to add that this is the greatest version of loss.jpg i think i’ve ever seen. the initial ‘young man’ lines up with the guy bursting through the door, and the shock meme ‘gun’ matches the shock scene of the woman in the hospital and idk if OP even thought about that but it makes this just so much better)

[animatedamerican]

I wasn’t going to reblog this, but @pagesofkenna‘s comprehensive meme-by-meme annotation is a thing of beauty and should be shared.

[captainlordauditor]

average tumblr post contains one meme, this post, which contains six, is an outlier and should not be counted

[japhers]

it might also just be a coincidence due to loss.jpg’s format but the whole white minimalist four-panel setup is also suspiciously reminiscent of those early 2000’s rage comics

[maps-and-elvis-and-zelda-n-shit]

I was getting a political compass vibe too

[your-uncle-dave]

tag urself im man door hand hook car gun

[politicalcompassmemes]

This works better than I thought it would.

[chiribomb-deactivated20220820]

This was in my senior project

[kait-the-kitty]

I’m not sorry.

[panickedmartian]

EIGHT MEME COMBO

[smooththegoofyshark]

FATALITY

[soda-soda-pop-deactivated202005]

We have officially created a new language 

[soda-soda-pop-deactivated202005]

I just had to do it to em

[phoneykin]

THIS FUCKING THREAD I’M GONNA CRY

I LOST IT AND MAN DOOR HAND HOOK CAR GUN AND DIDN’T EXPECT MORE I’M SOBBING

[soda-soda-pop-deactivated202005]

M E M E T E N

[soda-soda-pop-deactivated202005]

OwO?

[louchie]

[your-one-true-prince]

W o w

[screamingveryslowly]

You know I had to

[bone-cement-huffer]

I hope you know this is the most cursed addition to my post, and I love it

[joyriding-in-the-fandoms]

THIRTEEN!?

[junepop45]

SOMEONE EDIT THIS FROM THE ORIGINAL PHOTO SAYING “this one does not spark joy” TO THIS VERSION SAYING “this one sparks joy”

[astral-ghoul-deactivated2025100]

[moved-to-ancient-gaylienz]

well i added my contribution : )

why—

[fandersunite]

IM SCREAMING

[robynspreciousnest]

This is the most elaborate meme I have ever seen and damn am I concerned by how it makes sense.

[operahousebookworm]

“You’re in your 30s, but you still understand all this meme stuff?” “Oh yeah, sure.” “Can you explain it to me?” “I absolutely fucking cannot.”

[sword-and-nightingale]

One does not simply explain this

[sword-and-nightingale]

Edit:

Another freaking layer!!!

[shitposting-hobbits-to-gallifrey]

16 motherfucking layers

[catbxy]

In the future someone’s going to ask me to explain this and I’m going to be at a loss.jpg for words

[official-lucifers-child]

you just… understand this. you do not get to explain it, nor would you be able to explain it. you simply understand the meme in and of itself.

[norcross]

imagine the valuable information my brain could be holding on to instead of all of this historical meme knowledge.

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

a collection of tweets, part 19

(the series)

[ao3commentoftheday]

I write my fics out in Google Docs and then paste the text into Ao3 when I'm ready to post it. Does anyone else have the problem of pasting with italics? If there's a word in italics next to punctuation, Ao3 will add in a space for some reason and it's kind of infuriating.

One of the AO3 translation volunteers (Min) created a Google Docs script to handle issues when copying from a doc into AO3. It’s really easy to use

create a copy of this google doc. It contains the script that will do all of the HTML formatting for you.

Delete all of the text from the document.

Write or paste your fic/chapter into the document.

Go up to the top menu and click the new menu option Post to AO3, then choose Prepare for posting into the HTML editor

Note: because this is an apps script, you’ll need to give it permission to run the first time. 

The script will automatically mark up your document with the required HTML that you can then paste into the AO3 composition window. \o/

To revert your text back to normal, just go back up to that menu and choose Remove HTML. It will look like regular text again. 

Once you have the doc, you can make a new copy of it for each new fic you write and that way you’ll always have that script available when you need it :)

For other cool stuff, read this post from @ao3org - which is where I found this script in the first place ❤

[lesbianstarker]

This is also very helpful for posting fic on Tumblr, fyi! I’ve found formatting almost always gets fucked up if you don’t post directly from mobile and this helps.

[sandersstudies]

That feeling when your body is requesting something but you're not sure what so you just start eating and drinking random stuff to try and figure it out

[sandersstudies]

Me, eating a chocolate waffle at 7pm: Is this what you desire, oh prison of flesh?

[succubusboyfriend]

me at any given time: can we just buckle down and focus on the task at hand please???

my brain:

my brain: ……….ranibow sprimkle……………

[succubusboyfriend]

ranibow sprimkle……..

[cr0wswithknives]

kepchup.

[cosmicyeehaw]

SPINCH

[oli-nerd]

B A N C H

[scoobertdoobertlove]

chichen nuggest

[yondus-wife]

b R o G L e

[starrose17]

Good Omens - A Summary

Aziraphale: *flutters eyelids and pouts*

Crowley: “Oh alright I’ll do it.”

[thegoodomensdumpster]

Armaggedon setting in place in the background. Clearly not the focus of the story.

[the-coshie]

friend: a story about armageddon? awesome so it's about like war and destruction and stuff?

me, thinking about "you go too fast for me, crowley" and "let's run away to alpha centuri together" and "to the world": ...not exactly

[ineffablequeers]

okay okay but picture this: they’re in the park again, sitting at the bench we saw in the first episode, when they’re watching Warlock. Aziraphale says something along the lines of “hey, did I tell you about that new trick I learned?” and Crowley just groans, while considering turning back into a snake and getting tf outta there because no more magic, please, I’m begging you angel.

Still, Aziraphale does his trick, pretending to have a small coin in his hand. Then, as he goes to make the coin “appear” from behind Crowley’s ear, it turns out that it’s not a coin at all.

It’s a ring.

Next thing Crowley knows, there’s an angel down on one knee in front of him and his eyes just started sweating (demons don’t cry, right?)

And yeah, I’m soft for Ineffable Husbands and proposals, so have this.

[the-coshie]

Kcjskddflahjj;; my H E A R T

[the-coshie]

Imagine Crowley singing karaoke

Imagine Crowley finally dragging Aziraphale along to a bar that does karaoke on Friday nights because, “Yes, of course they’re all rubbish, but that’s what makes it fun, angel, trust me,” and Aziraphale just completely confused as to why Crowley would find that at all amusing.

Imagine Crowley claiming credit for karaoke as they’re driving to the bar, and Aziraphale giving him a doubting glance because what on Earth could possibly be evil about singing?

Imagine Aziraphale taking two steps into the bar, hearing a thoroughly mangled verse of a song that even he recognizes, no longer doubting that Crowley very clearly had something to do with this, and turning to walk right back out, but Crowley, laughing, takes his arm and drags him into the bar anyway.

Imagine Crowley suddenly nervous as his goes through the song list, even though he knows exactly what he wants to sing, exactly how he wants to serenade the angel, even if - he glances to the table where Aziraphale looks completely out of place and not a little uncomfortable - the angel seems to still be confused as to what, exactly, is going on here.

Imagine Crowley eventually going up to sing (it goes without saying there are Theatrics™ involved), and Aziraphale just completely enraptured because he knew that Crowley must have had some talents beyond berating plants into viridescence, but he never really expected singing to be one of them.

Imagine Aziraphale tuning in to the lyrics that Crowley is singing so expertly where did this come from and realizing that Crowley is staring right at him with that smirk he likes so very much as he sings, “I’m high on believing that you’re in love with me,” and gets the feeling that this wasn’t a randomly chosen song.

Imagine Crowley getting resounding applause from the entire bar, whoops and cheers included, and when he sits back down with the angel, whiskey in hand, and Aziraphale just sips his own drink without saying anything, and Crowley wonders if he should say something, but he is suddenly at a loss for words.

Imagine Aziraphale quietly putting his hand over Crowley’s, and the slightly-out-of-tune strains of the next song are suddenly far away, and Crowley looks up at Aziraphale’s smile, and Aziraphale just says, very quietly, “It’s easy to believe something when it’s true, my dear,” and Crowley feels his heart leap into his throat (hopefully metaphorically) and suddenly feels like the bar is much too small to contain everything he is suddenly feeling.

Imagine the next time Crowley feels like he wants to go sing karaoke, he instead invites Aziraphale to his flat, and there is a piano in the living room that Aziraphale doesn’t remember being there, and Crowley tells him that he wants to do it properly this time, to the only audience that really mattered to him.

[snogfairy]

God really just created the world so she could stage her very own enemies to lovers 6000year forbidden slow burn romance

[forineffablereasons]

aziraphale: wow can’t believe i’m going to get discorporated by the french revolution because i can’t miracle myself out of here…sure wish SOMEBODY would come and SAVE ME because i can’t do it BY MYSELF…sure wish SOMEBODY with MAGIC POWERS could come GET ME OUT OF THIS MESS crowley: angel, what the fuck aziraphale, miracling himself into a new outfit immediately: good you’re here let’s get crepes 

[fireheartwraith]

If anyone dares to tell me that Crowley leaving the burning bookshop desolated and angry that someone killed his best friend while Somebody To Love by Queen plays in the background isn’t gay…… I’m not going to do anything because no one can be this oblivious

[littlebirdofprey]

me playing dragon age 2:

[the-coshie]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 5/? Fandom: The Arcana (Visual Novel) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Asra/Julian Devorak Characters: Asra (The Arcana), Julian Devorak, Nadia (The Arcana), Lucio (The Arcana) Additional Tags: Porn with Feelings, Female Apprentice (The Arcana), ash is only ever mentioned tho, Pre-Canon, Established Relationship, I mean, if you can call this unbalanced mess a relationship, Topping from the Bottom, Praise Kink, Fluff, Fluff and Smut, Fluff and Angst, fluff and everything tbh, Dominant Asra, he's more dominant than julian anyway, Domestic Fluff, Tarot, tarot reading, Pining, First Meetings, First Time, Flashbacks

Summary:

Julian wonders if Asra is perfect. Asra wonders if Julian could be any more frustratingly, mind-bendingly, annoyingly, disarmingly endearing. Love comes in many forms. This… might maybe possibly be one of them.

Wherein Asra and Julian have some fun, question their relationship, have a deep talk, internalize, doubt, worry, internalize again, and eventually ignore it all to go back to having fun.

Just updated my fic, and I keep forgetting to post here when I update it?  Anyway, chapter 5 features a flashback of our boys meeting for the first time.

“Dr Devorak, this is Asra Alnazar.  Since you’re both consulting on this illness plaguing the city, it seemed prudent to introduce the two of you.”

Julian blinked.  His first - and utterly intrusive - thought was that Asra was stunningly attractive, and he’d be lying if he said he wasn’t a little intimidated.  His hair was soft white, his eyes were sharp violet, and his skin seemed like velvet.   Shit.  He really hoped his mouth hadn't fallen open.