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I’ve been dropping in and out of working on a kind of magical realism AU for The Man From UNCLE for a month or so, so here’s a little excerpt from that.

Napoleon had his suspicions confirmed when he died in an Italian basement.

Perhaps, if he had not been dazed by the drugs, he could have convinced the shadows to encompass him and traversed them to safety. He had done it before, once out of desperation, once curiosity. Even without the restrains the odds were against him but he would have tried - at least until Rudi sent the bulb swinging, chasing away the tendrils of darkness he had instinctively reached for.

He wondered briefly if Victoria had twigged his gift somehow. Whether her truthtelling skills had unveiled more secrets than he had intended or his captors simply had a love for the dramatic. Neither option was appealing.

After Rudi's little speech was over, there was not much time left for musing. For anything, really. And when blackness of a different kind invaded his vision he welcomed it gratefully.

Napoleon had never been afraid of the dark.

Twenty seconds later he woke - a pleasant surprise - to electricity sparking through his veins, the taste of ozone in the air, and one seriously pissed off KGB agent. Any residual doubt was squashed by the way the room shuddered as though a bomb had just gone off. And, of course, there was Illya, stood over Rudi’s now limp form, still radiating static.

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argumate

“my bonnie lies over the ocean, my bonnie lies over the sea,”

are we talking about the same body of water here, which is weird, or different bodies of water, which is even weirder

theinflammablemammal

this makes more sense if you assume both are the same body of water but the time between the statements is about 50 million years

argumate

you’re right, that’s significantly less weird

argumate

toasthaste said: maybe there’s more than one bonnie

blocked

lalaithion

A hypothesized geography.

truth-shitposting

i bless the bonnie over africa

dark-magician-girl-meets-world

The bonnie is in geosychronous orbit, thus over all the Earth’s bodies of water

special-lucky-chosen-one

the bonnie is merely moving very fast, perhaps at hypersonic velocity, relative to the singer

special-lucky-chosen-one

my bonnie lies over the ocean

my bonnie’s exceeding mach 3

zombilenium

Once a day, shadows briefly bring back to life the beautiful ‘Ghost of Ungru Manor’ Estonia...

Courtesy: Abandoned Places

yarrow-heather-and-hollyhock

I wanted to post about this because I know many of my mutuals are avid crafters and I don't know how much attention this endeavour is getting outside of end-of-life spaces-

The Loose Ends Project matches crafters with a project that is unfinished because of death or disability. They offer help with a spectrum of textile mediums in over 80 countries. One project I find particularly lovely: “My mom was making this octopus for me. She was 67 years old when she passed away from COPD. She was hospitalized for pulmonary rehab several times and would always take it to work on while she was there and loved to talk about it with people."

(the red heart marks the last stitch made by this person's mom) Anyway, if something like this is something you'd like to be involved in, they are always looking for more crafters <3

the-fibre-stuff

My favourite recent finishing project that they posted about wasn't precisely something that the crafter left unfinished. The knitter in question had had dementia, and thought she was knitting scarves. So a finisher was found to piece all the little bits of knitting together into a blanket.

pinehutch

lesblackwidow

reminder to visit museums, even if you feel out of place. you feel out of place because there is an established concept of inaccessibility of "high culture" to the masses, purposefully developed to distinguish between social classes.

take up space, read the plaques, get the audioguides. you are just as entitled and right in being there. visit museums, boycott museums, be expressive about your opinions about museums.

a lot of museums are free, or discounted for youth and students. take advantage of that. check your local art museum. check your local history museum. museums are there for you, they are there to educate the public, not to distinguish between class. it isn't a private collection, it's a public exhibit.

GO TO MUSEUMS!!!!!!!

tackminyard

affirmations for my printer:

you are not out of paper

you have so much paper

it’s okay to function as intended

you are not out of ink

i just refilled that cartridge last month

you can connect to that computer you’re supposed to connect to

you’re allowed to print things

draconym

Me: Fuck, the paper towels I want are on the top shelf.

The Sir David Attenborough That Lives In My Brain: Being smaller-than-average presents an added challenge to foraging ... but necessity is the mother of invention. A little creativity turns a baguette into a tool, and voilà--

(paper towel roll falls on my face)

Sir David Attenborough, pleasantly: Success.