deep in oc hell

[inkjie]

soliloquy by an immortal cave painter.

pencil, ink, and ochre on paper

[captainlordauditor]

spiderman helping out the owner of a local art store and them giving him a spiderman discount so now miles only goes in there if hes in his suit

[fgrobichiko]

Art store owner realises his secret identity because miles was one of his favourite customers and now he’s suddenly stopped coming in

[captainlordauditor]

miles mentions he has to go to the art supply store and jefferson INSISTS on taking him on the way home from school on friday so he can Learn More about his son’s hobby and the owner gives him the fucking discount and miles just dies inside

[fgrobichiko]

Jefferson is like “hey why’d you leave so quick” and he’s just like “haha, I just remembered I had to swing by some other places after” and Jefferson adds another post it note to his secret conspiracy board of Is Miles Spiderman

[captainlordauditor]

swing by you say

[fgrobichiko]

Spiders-men are incapable of avoiding puns it’s their biggest weakness

[thecorpsethatwalks]

re-watching the original trilogy is great because you really get a sense for how weird luke skywalker is, just how quickly he becomes that weird AND how quickly he commits to it. Like he's honestly pretty chill in a new hope, but the absolute INSTANT he figures out he can move shit with his mind he goes full send on the cryptic off-putting bullshit. Walking around in full black robes, speaking in riddles, aura farming and backflipping whenever physically possible. He's clearly annoyed when he first meets yoda in empire, but he dismisses that pretty quickly in favour of ALSO becoming an over-dramatic space wizard. The combination of his two teachers being yoda and obi-wan kenobi and him being the son of anakin and padme creates the single most intense and fundamentally kind force sensitive perfectly embodying the heart of the jedi order whilst also serving egregious amounts of cunt and being bizarre to be around. He would have THRIVED as a jedi master during the high republic. he would have been every padawan's favourite and every other master's worst nightmare

[naamahdarling]

I lost a needle I liked in my pincushion so I decided to get a strong magnet and see if I could pull it back out.

I pulled out 68.

I very rarely sew.

This was my grandmother's pincushion. How many were hers?

[autisticnightfury]

Finding a 68 needles in a haystack pincushion

[naamahdarling]

Where you would expect to find needles!

AND YET.

(I jibbled out some more so we are at 71 and I can feel at least two more in there by sweeping the magnet across. Now hunting for my strongest one.)

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

tomato is perfec t size for put needle inside very soft and comfort needle

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

today I learned that in 2008, the city council of florence overturned dante’s sentence of execution if he returned from exile. yes, dante’s inferno dante, who died in 1321.

but the funniest part of this is not that they were debating the exile of a man who has been dead for over 500 years.

the funniest part is that the vote was 19-5. five people voted to uphold dante’s exile.

[stabethadeathwhisper]

The objectively funniest part of this is actually that the city that holds his remains, Ravenna, refused to give his remains back. This was a ploy from florence to have his remains moved back for the tourist money and its been ongoing for a long time. Florence had a fake tomb built in the city to trick people into visiting, and have tried to force the return of the remains.

His actual caretakers have been very steadfast in keeping them hidden, moved, or generally out of reach to respect his choice in life to never, ever, ever return to florence, even when he was first offered the chance to return. This is at this point an almost millenium long feud that florence is really, really mad about losing

[mysteryteacup]

so basically the five people who wanted to uphold his exile were in the right

[irate-iguana]

I love it when a classicist has clearly gotten so lost in the BCE sauce that their perception of time has become deeply warped. Case in point: the article I’m currently reading just described the Byzantine era as “a period relatively modern.”

[mockiatoh]

Stop that’s too funny

[unpeeled-human]

special defense

does this count as anything ???is this art

[unpeeled-human]

im capping it at 59k notes. thats it. shows over everybody

[mclennonyaoi]

working with kids and one of them says “you know you eat 8 spiders a night on average right?” and another goes “no no no those statistics are actually skewed by people who like eat spiders recreationally for fun and stuff” and my head snapped up like a fucking sleeper agent

[bugmuscle]

beautiful, sexy, powerful and smart women named SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING are attempting to contact me

[heavyweightheart]

we really can’t overstate how damaging it has been to indoctrinate the public with the idea that if they let themselves eat as much as they want, they’ll eat too much. human bodies, when permitted over the long term to eat as much as they want, actually get really, really good at calibrating their hunger and satiety, and will over time eat exactly the right amount for themselves. the common conception of a balanced eater as a minimal or restrained eater is absolutely wrong. balanced eaters eat quite a lot (compared to diet cultural ideas about right intake amounts), and they do so consistently and permanently. healthy, balanced eating isn’t some tightrope walk, it’s a gigantic net of total permission to eat.

[stylo-90]

tags via @theendofmybody

[verlierer-is-lost]

Shane waiting for practice to start in like 2006

[dragon-in-a-fez]

top notch interaction I had with the ambulance crew after my accident a couple years back:

paramedic: hi, I'm Allan

me: you told me. and your colleague is Jim, and the man who found me is Peter. guess my short-term memory is okay

Allan: ..are you doing a cognitive function test on yourself

[dragon-in-a-fez]

Allan, two minutes later, putting a third blanket around me: okay, how's that feeling now

me: well my feet are still freezing but it's okay, I know you need to focus on getting my core temperature up first

Allan: how many times has this happened to you

[dragon-in-a-fez]

noteworthy that they literally had a mask on me hooked up to a tank pumping narcotics into my lungs through all this, and my body temperature was like 34°. I would have been doing well to just have both eyes pointed in the same direction

[supreme-leader-stoat]

"This is great. I'm going to get a good grade in post-accident cognition."

[h-isforhome]

also this is so good.

[mykingdomforasong]

If you're a fanfiction writer who can write Din Djarin in character, please just know that I am in absolute awe of you

[ellearem]

Writing Din in an authentic show-voice is one of the toughest challenges I’ve ever had as a fic writer.   Some notes I took from my many show watches, to keep him in character: 

- Write him utterly focused on the next challenge ahead.  Many people write him dumb and clueless when he’s actually smart and highly practical and focused. 

- When you edit your story, cut out two-thirds of his dialogue. Really.  Two thirds. He never says more than he needs to say. The number of words he speaks in the show is ridiculously small.

- Keep his sentences declarative. The man states facts, gives ultimatums, and asks questions.  He got more chatty with close friends and the kid. But with strangers he’s all business. His speech on Mos Pelgo is a great example of how to do convincing longer speeches with shorter sentences.

- Don’t forget his manners. He says please and thank you. He’s the Western Hero who tips his hat.

- He doesn’t swear much. I counted 2 dank farriks and 2 dammits in 2 seasons

- He lets his armor speak for him, though he will convey frustration (intentionally) with body language or a vocal sigh.

- Don’t forget the fantastic Din Djarin Sass.  - Factual descriptions instead of slang names.  Strangely, this reminds me of how people communicate in a 2nd language… describing things instead of using their names.  “the crawling fortress” and not “sandcrawler” or ““laser sword” instead of “lightsaber”. 

Anyone else have any tips? I’d love to hear them!

[heybluechild]

the dialogue tip is so true. every time I write Din I make peace with the fact that the second draft will always involve paring down his dialogue significantly because the man is just very concise.

some of the things I've picked up on while writing Din:

Din is both gruff and sensitive, and both of those things are equally important. he can seem standoffish and impersonal at times, but at other times wears his emotions on his sleeve. it often depends on who he's interacting with and if he's close enough to them to open up. it's really important to keep that balance in mind: too much sensitivity and he seems too soft, and too much gruffness and you've missed the emotional core of who Din Djarin is.

describing Din's reactions when writing from an outside POV is also a challenge. when I'm writing from a reader's perspective/subjectivity, it can be difficult to capture the nuance of Din's body language with words. you can only write "he tilted his helmet" so many times 😅 sometimes I just have to flip to Din's POV when his reaction is too important to leave ambiguous.

seconding the "Din is smart" tip! one of my favorite ways to write Din is as a strategic thinker: he's able to make sense of a situation with a lot of moving parts and communicate his ideas quickly and concisely. capturing his way of thinking—quick, strategic, practical—and communicating that is essential to nailing Din's voice. he's excellent in a crisis, and his voice really shines when he's the one keeping calm as the world blows up around him.

Din tends to speak with his actions more than with his words. sometimes I have a tendency to want him to say outright why he's doing something, but it's usually more effective and more in character to have him just do it. like in "Sanctuary," he says he won't help the villagers, and then he does. he never says aloud that he loves Grogu, but everything he does tells us that. his actions speak louder than his words there and I always have to remember that our understanding of him being chivalric comes more from the things he does rather than the things he says.

I probably have more tips, but I can't think of them right now!! I love all of yours @ellearem ❤️

[legionofpotatoes]

This country called Jackdaw. [x]

[gumuhit]

unaligned (2016)

[faceless-crowd]

Mafia boss smoking a cigar: Why’d you gotta squeal, Squealin’ Stephen? I trusted you. Now I gotta send my best goons to show you what happens when you cross the Big Boss…

Guy tied up in chair: uh…theres just one guy over there.

Mafia boss: Yeah. That’s Lil’ Tony. He’s got one of dem conditions where he’s got multiple mooks n’ his head. But when Big Tony fronts you’re gonna be in big trouble.

Lil’ Tony: We actually all agree we’re gonna kick your ass.

[flowerbleedme]

it's not frequent enough to be considered a meme or a trend, but I like how every so often this site gets a new "woke mafia boss" variation.