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Only Murders in the Building (2021-present) Dirty Birds (S05E04)

catchymemes

p0ll

Will you reblog this and say in the tags the last movie that you watched?

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Don't remember the last movie I watched

Voting ended onAug 21, 2025

#weapons

thevagueambition

recently came across some plates and bowls that would be perfect for a children's hospital

kittydesade

ONE

SINGLE

JOKE

digitaldiscipline

notbecauseofvictories

"I am going to get a good grade in ___________, a thing that is both normal to want and possible to achieve" drifts through my brain with positively alarming regularity.

unbizzarre

Byerly Vorrutyer visiting Ivan’s apartment’s

I adore these two character’s interactions 🤭

Creation notes:

- finished the linework and got really worried I’d fuck it up when I painted it so I made a photocopy and painted that instead of the original copy which was drawn on watercolor paper… unfortunately printer paper is not the greatest paint absorber so apologies for the lumpiness.

- also idk I messed up drawing byerly’s outfit. The shirts details are pretty but a little off from what I was going for and somehow during painting the pants now look like harem pants. (Outfit was supposed to be an attempt at a barrayaran folk-style suit/vest with a cut blending early 1800s suit silhouettes with open sleeve folk shirts. It didn’t quite work out.)

Here’s linework and a bonus doodle of instant groats:

Examples of the Greek folk bolero’s I was going for :

Similar shaped jackets exist in Albanian / Bosnian / ottoman folk styles

#vorkosigan saga

chronivore

With Winnie-the-Pooh and The Battle of Hastings sharing an anniversary today, did you know that E. H. Shepard once drew this amazing scene for an exclusive book bag?

darkpaladin

I love that none of them have weapons. Except Kanga, who has a fucking morningstar.

peachfromcmbyn

that is roo

enki2

androdragynous

[ID: A tweet by TylerAlterman:

"In the middle of a "forcing party" where friends and I are forcing one another to do the things that we've been avoiding.

So far: [bullet list] A passport has been filed for; An inbox has been zero'd; A personal website has been created; & more.

I recommend this format!"]

anathemaegg

call that attending an Executive Function

maccadot

men need to be androgynous little rock sluts again. hair gel and cheap black nail polish are still sold in stores. chop chop

liminalflares

"You hear people talk about witches being burned, but I don't reckon many real witches ever did get burned unless they were tricked in some way; I think it was mostly poor old women. Witches are mostly too soggy, and it was probably a wicked waste of good timber. But it's very easy to push an old lady down to the ground and take one of the doors off the barn and put it on top of her like a sandwich and pile stones on it until she can't breathe any more. And that makes all the badness go away. Except that it doesn't. Because there are other things going on, and other old ladies. And when they run out, there are always old men. Always strangers. There's always outsiders. And then, perhaps, one day, there's always you. That's when the madness stops. When there's no one left to be mad."

-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

fuckyeahmarxismleninism

Happy birthday to Lyudmila Pavlichenko (born July 12, 1916), Soviet sniper in World War II, with 309 confirmed kills.

A true role model for today.

puppetmaker40

I tip my hat to the author

teaboot

I feel like pirating media that isn’t sold or offered anywhere legally anymore shouldn’t be called piracy. Girl thats archaeology

roundedloaf

fascinating (binge) reading the vorkosigan saga for the first time and finding out that while on the surface its about miles and associated friends/relations getting themselves into and out of military situations it actually often focuses on - or uses - the implications of different reproductive technology

i started writing an essay about this while I was halfway through (which I should rewrite as my initial odd points "where are all the smart barrayan women?" were dealt with in later books) but it is kinda funny to me - especially if you look at the older covers. like the cetaganda cover is: what if you fought a guy with facepaint and then there was a hot lady in a white dress. whereas the plot is: how does the balance of power shift in societies with highly controlled genetic engineering for its upper class? who holds the power in this case? is it the military? the upper caste lords? or the upper caste women who seem to be secluded and yet are able to make the key choices for generations to spread

anyway excellent books