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It should have been distressing. In truth, though, Robin found it was actually quite easy to put up with any degree of social unrest, as long as one got used to looking away.

Babel by R. F. Kuang

#quotes #Babel #RF Kuang #I am Actually Obsessed with this book and I will be thinking about it for Years

gatheringbones

tbh a lot of my advice boils down to “hey you know that terrible horrible looming thing you’re doing your best to avoid and distract and escape as much as possible but no matter what you do it just keeps looming and looming and ruining your life”

“just, fuckign, run straight at it screaming.”

quasarkisses

i needed this as a background

spectrexviiii

emilybeemartin

Boromir Lives AU: Braiding Customs Part II

Part I

Meanwhile, various siblings around the ballroom:

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Boromir Lives: Helm's Deep

Boromir Lives: Whump-Time After Pelennor

Boromir Lives: GO TO SLEEP

Boromir Lives: Aragorn's Coronation

Boromir Lives: Faramir and Eowyn's Wedding

Boromir Lives: Panic! At the Ballroom

Boromir Lives: It's a BABY

Boromir Lives: High Uncle of the White Tower

Boromir Lives: We Didn't Have a Choice

Boromir Lives: The Haircuts

buttpoems

embarrassing myself

fatmasc

Hey i’m a fashion design student so i have tons and tons of pdfs and docs with basic sewing techniques, pattern how-tos, and resources for fabric and trims. I’ve compiled it all into a shareable folder for anyone who wants to look into sewing and making their own clothing. I’ll be adding to this folder whenever i come across new resources

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16uhmMb8kE4P_vOSycr6XSa9zpmDijZSd?usp=sharing

fatmasc

Updated just now with new hand sewing resources (mainly buttonholes) and textbook pdfs on fashion history, fashion illustration, and thinking through designs!

bosstoaster

OP I owe you my life

whatchamacallitz

OP you are the greatest person currently in my life. You beautiful, thoughtful creature.

fuckyeahcomicsbaby

Different Stories Resonate with Different People

lovingmyselfishard

I will always reblog this.

brightwanderer

I once spent three hours scouring the internet to find this comic again, I will not let that be repeated.

aster-draws

Hi guys, it's ya boi, Aster. You may know me as that guy who wrote two insanely long danny phantom/tim drake fanfics. You may have no idea what I'm talking about. That's fine.

I'm opening up commissions so that I can (hopefully) save up enough to cut off my tits before this administration bans all gender affirming care. you know.

Standard pricing: sketch • lineart • full color

Bust: 20 • 25 • 30

Half Body: 25 • 33 • 40

Full Body: 40 • 50 • 60

Just the sketch price is added for every additional character.

For more complicated, painting style pieces with full backgrounds, base price is 80, and I'll provide an estimate based on the content and my average time on similar pieces. These may cost as much as 300 USD.

I will draw: OCs, NSFW, furries, gore, fanart, mythical creatures and any combination of those things

I will not draw: NSFW scenes involving underage characters, mechs

Please message me with any questions! I have 5 slots available :)

t00thpasteface

cell bio professor closed out today's lecture on free-radical oxidation in mitochondria and programmed cell death by saying "you've probably all seen those commercials for fruit juice that says it's got antioxidants, which are said to prevent this sort of thing from happening, or at least slow it down. well, they don't work. this is an inevitable fact of life— this process that lets us live is also the thing that kills us, and it's why all of us will die someday. there's no escaping that. it's been with us since the dawn of eukaryotic cells; our pact with mitochondria is to the death. anyway, enjoy the rest of your friday, and remember, exam four is next week!"

You know, the ideal human partner for a vampire would def be someone with hereditary hemochromatosis. Therapeutic phlebotomy? When you have a willing bloodsucker right there??

#i’m just saying #don’t steal from blood banks we need that #there is perfectly good iron-high blood getting drawn and thrown away :(#just get it from the source

real-live-human

everyone talks about that one xkcd about experts overestimating the average person's familiarity with their field, and that's all fun and good. but in my experience what's far funnier is when you start to think of yourself as the "average" person being described in that comic. knowing enough people who are so incredibly into one specific thing that you start saying shit that sounds like "oh no i'm no geochemist haha i really only know the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars. and quartz, of course."

yoneda-emma

average person only knows eigenvalues and one or two algebraic structures. and partial derivatives, of course

The performance of certainty seemed to be at the root of so much grief. Everyone in America seemed to be afraid and hurting and angry, starving for a fight they could win.

And more than that even, they seemed certain that their natural state was to be happy, contented, and rich. The genesis of everyone’s pain had to be external, such was their certainty.

And so legislators legislated, building border walls, barring citizens of there from entering here. “The pain we feel comes from them, not from ourselves,” said the banners, and people cheered, certain of all the certainty.

But the next day they’d wake up and find that what had hurt in them still hurt.

-Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

#quotes #Martyr!#Kaveh Akbar

cookiedoves

lord of the wings ✨

mrstyphon-deactivated20250409

@cilil !!!!!

nateconnolly

Huge shout to my friend from an undergraduate philosophy program who started working out every single day, not for health benefits or to become conventionally attractive or whatever, but because -- and this is a direct quote -- he was concerned that otherwise he might "become lost in the world of signs and forget the things they signify". I have thought about this every single time that I've worked out since.

“There’s no difference to the outside world between a good guy and a bad guy behaving like a good guy. In fact, I think God loves the second guy a little more.”

“Good person drag,” Cyrus thought out loud. That’s what they called it after that.

-Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

#quotes #Martyr!#obsessed with this concept actually #book quotes

theodysseyofhomer

penelope didn't have to turn the tree bed into a riddle. she could have asked odysseus to prove his identity, to tell her something only he would know — which she actually did a few books earlier, when she asked the beggar to describe odysseus, and odysseus told her about a purple cloak with a particular golden brooch that she fastened herself twenty years ago. when penelope tells telemachus they have signs by which they'll know each other, you sort of expect more of the same. and instead, she decides to trap him. like a bug in a cup.

and it's delightful to me, idk, how odysseus has been trapped and cornered in various way throughout the odyssey, but arguably never so that he has to tell the truth to get out. (with the phaeacians, maybe? the omniscient narrator corroborates some of what he tells them, but do we really know everything?) and in fact he is not trying to get free of penelope. he wants something from her, wants to convince her, wants to be welcomed home, but until this point he's lied to her, revealed himself to other people before her, and been distant with her (though also patient! he doesn't try to strongarm or rush her into accepting him; it's his idea to sleep elsewhere).

except penelope isn't looking for him to be distant and patient. penelope lies in a way that requires odysseus to stop playing along — not only to prove that he knows what odysseus knows, but that he's willing to tell the truth about himself.

viveperdiemnoctemque

(tags from @finelythreadedsky )

theodysseyofhomer

#and the thing is he has a scar. a physical identifier. but that one he only shows servants to prove his identity#repeatedly flashing a scar on his thigh is MORE impersonal and less revealing. to him#he must do something far more exposing and vulnerable and revealing with penelope. he must drop the act via @ilions-end

edgebug

contrary to popular belief i think calvin's adhd is, funnily enough, medicated. he takes extended release ritalin every morning alongside his chocolate frosted sugar bombs. this is because he appreciates being more easily able to focus on his various Schemes, Projects, and Machinations while more effectively ignoring schoolwork

edgebug

calvin's dad pulling up to the house and seeing the whole driveway covered in a (completed) snowman recreation of the entire terracotta army and he takes a deep breath and greets calvin's mom with "i see calvin remembered his methylphenidate today"

naamahdarling

If they're trusting an ADHD 6-year-old to remember his own meds, they deserve whatever hell they have created. If he remembers to take his own meds, he deserves an award.

charlataninred

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.