I Belong To The Future

Livvy | 28 | US World traveler in training

[stivkun]

Neon tetra drawn with 10in1 ballpoint pen

[bannertanks]

[ghosthierophant]

[littlespoonevan]

I want a fic where the hr universe has its own gay hockey show called break the ice or something and it takes the internet by storm so suddenly games and practices are being infiltrated by social media managers trying to get the players to say if they’ve watched it or who on the team they’d cast in the show and fans of the show who are also hockey rpfers are talking about the main couple of the show being like ‘this is hollanov if u squint’ and Ilya is having the time of his life bc he thinks it’s the best show he’s ever seen in his entire life and Shane is having 1000 mini heart attacks every day bc he legitimately believes someone has figured out he and Ilya are dating and decided to make a tv show about it and of all the ways he thought he could end up getting outed this was never on the spreadsheet

[littlespoonevan]

the writers of break the ice reach out to rose about playing one of the character's beards for a few eps and when shane finds out he demands yuna hire a private investigator to see if he's being followed

[littlespoonevan]

the real plot twist is that the characters in the show lowkey look like hayden and cliff so this starts this big, long-running joke that hayden and marleau are in a secret relationship and hayden and cliff - who know the Truth(tm) - are like 'guys this is great we can take the heat off you two' and ilya doesn't care bc it means he can call hayden pike ugly to the press and be like 'um no my handsome, funny, smart friend is MUCH too good for hayden pike' meanwhile shane is lowkey and irrationally FURIOUS bc what the FUCK do you mean people are calling hayden and marley Cute when he and ilya are right fucking there?!?!?!?!?

[ilyasmole]

something i really really love about this scene is while yes, shane is laughing along with ilya, he's so much more subtle about it. he's trying his best to keep his composure because he knows how important this shoot is and he wants to be professional. and ofc ilya also knows that but he's just. so. flustered. by. shane. his crush on shane is SO big. and being so close to him, looking in his eyes like this...like ilya is just totally unable to keep his composure bc wowowowow this really hot hockey player who i've been crushing on since saskatchewan is looking directly into my eyes and smiling Like That and my heart is pounding so much and his freckles are so cute and my cock is twitching in my jockstrap and how the fuck am i supposed to keep my composure when all i wanna do is kiss him over and over...

and ilya turning his face away, that's not just because he's trying not to laugh. it's because he's embarrassed. he's flustered. he knows he's being Obvious, he knows he's being unprofessional, and i think that's part of why he just says fuck it when they're in the showers bc he's like....well surely this man knows how i feel now. surely he saw how flustered i was getting. surely he knows that i'm gonna make a move. but ofc shane is completely clueless and confused and that makes ilya feel even MORE flustered (and horny) lmao

basically ilya is just so head over heels for this man from the very beginning and it's so sweet to watch. he was smitten from the start.

[inacatastrophicmind]

Companion to this.

[theocseason4]

[longscorsese]

king

[puertohurraco]

King

[vortigone]

[occidentalist]

“Pack it up boys we’ve made a social blunder” is the funniest sentence I’ve ever read 😭😭😭😭😭

[heavensenthousepet]

you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old

[melonisopod]

[michaelnordeman]

Mjällådalen nature reserve and Västanåfallet in Medelpad, Sweden (15 May 2026).

[quattt-art]

Toph Beifong

[brandyllyn]

Art is how we decorate space and music is how we decorate time.

Pattern by Pride and Joy Quilting. I darkened the skin tones and added trim to make braids.

[henk-heijmans]

A natural wave is formed on Lake Michigan when the riptide meets the incoming tide and explodes upward, 2014 - by Michael Bernhardt, American

[ilyasmole]

I’m just noticing that Shane was hanging out at that poolside for no reason. He wasn’t swimming. He wasn’t talking to anyone. It was loud and crowded, with kids playing. He had his own hotel room and there was plenty of people he could’ve gone to talk to. He just wanted to be near Ilya.

Yes. very much this. i really don't think shane hollander would willingly go sit next to a pool of shouting children and be surrounded by women in bikinis if he didn't have an ulterior motive fjjdhfd. i do wonder what the events were leading up to him going out there, like if he was at the bar and saw ilya go out, saw him tug his shirt off and give him a sideways glance. made a little bit of eye contact and smirked a bit when he saw shane looking before jumping into the water. and then shane just sat there for a minute debating whether he should go out too or not before saying fuck it and "nonchalantly" going out to sit on one of the loungers.

[smsomah]

She is holding an orange. Warszawa, Poland, 1956. Wolfgang Schröter

[natalieironside]

Shout out to trans women who aren’t computer scientists or musicians or avant-garde artists or whatever.

Shout-out to tgirls who work at Taco Bell. Thank u queen, society would collapse without you

[snkrfnd]

Over twenty years ago my big brother got me a job at a Taco Bell in the St. Louis suburbs-West County. He warned me that it was the “gay Taco Bell”, but since I was coming from the “gay Howard Johnson’s” I wasn’t shocked. It turns out it was the black trans women Taco Bell complete with black trans women in management. And they’d worked out an arrangement with the local teen Narcotics Anonymous group so that twice a week we would shut down the drive thru and the dining room and exclusively serve 60+ teens in various stages of recovery. And many of the women I worked with were in various stages of being out or transitioning and they were from all generations from teens to over 50. One woman I worked with had a regular corporate job presenting as a man 9-5 Mon-Fri and then came to Taco Bell and worked 6pm -2am Friday and Saturday night so she could be herself surrounded by other black transwomen in those stolen weekends. And we had customers come from all over the metro area because they knew they could be themselves in the dining room. I only worked there from 1999-2001 but for young me, this was a vital, formative experience. Some of the girls came from north city all the way out to the “gay Taco Bell” on Manchester in west county because they heard it was safe to work there. Like- I know times have changed but they haven’t changed much in 20 years. I’m still convinced that for lgbt youth, finding a job at your city’s version of the “gay Taco Bell” is key to survival.

[natalieironside]

Thank u for sharing this with us

[thebotanicalarcade]

Beatrix Potter

Writer, illustrator, conservationist, natural scientist

For the inaugural Arcade Feature, I'm excited to tell you about Beatrix Potter. Most people (including me) know her best for her picture books-

-which have sold over 250 million copies since they were published in the early 1900s.

Fun fact: In 1903, Peter Rabbit was the first fictional character to be made into a patented stuffed toy, making him the oldest licensed character.

But what really caught my attention is the work she was doing before Peter Rabbit came along.

Beatrix Potter had a scientific eye for detail, and was able to faithfully depict the world around her. In particular, she was interested in mycology.

In 1897, she put forward a paper to the Linnean Society in London... but as a woman was not allowed to be a member of the society nor attend the meeting when her paper was read. When the society's members did not pay much attention to her work, and fearing her samples to be contaminated, Potter withdrew her paper, which became lost. Only after Potter left hundreds of mycological artworks to a museum in the Lake District, UK, on her death in 1943, were her scientific talents recognized... Potter's precise and beautiful paintings and drawings of fungi are now helping modern mycologists in their efforts to identify species.*

Potter eventually moved away from books in favor of land management and farming. She was a prize-winning sheep breeder and a prosperous farmer, and bought several farms surrounding her own to preserve the unique hill country landscape. Much of that land now constitutes the Lake District National Park.

Keep an eye out for more Beatrix Potter throughout the month of February.

* Fry, C., & Wayland, E. (2024). Introduction. In The Botanists’ Library, The Most Important Botanical Books in History (1st ed., pp. 9–10). introduction, Ivy Press.

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[veronica-b]

I found a big ole horseshoe crab yesterday with @missnexidaydream 🥰

These guys are one of my favorite marine animals ever and this guy was MASSIVE! 💜

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: This is the first time I've seen the Yellow River's sediment discharge with my own eyes.

[jingyuanyuan]

There's a Chinese meme that the Yellow River doesn't need rituals to present sacrifices because if it's hungry it'll come onto the shore and eat the sacrifices itself.

[asmuchasidliketo]

#some netizens also say chinese people like unification because only a powerful unified dynasty can survive the yellow river and sometimes #also the chang jiang when they decide to flood and change directions and kill and displace millions #also only large dynasties have the resources to do hydroengineering to try and control the yellow river #yellow river be like: if you don't hydroengineer you die #but if you do you might also die heehee #“we call these our mother rivers not because they are gentle but because we are too scared” tags on above post

(source: Wikipedia)

[setnet]

@mikkeneko

[alterac]

what in the

oh my god??

[cryoverkiltmilk]

People talk about how the Great Lakes are deadly because they are uncaring, but the Yellow River is literally out to get everyone.

[brinconvenient]

The Great Lakes are uncaring, don't care whether you live or die, ambivalent, pay no attention to you.

The Yellow River cares. Deeply. About you, specifically. And your death. And being the cause of it. It notices you and your intentions. You've been warned. Exercise your hubris accordingly.