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whelp.

Geordi/Hugh vs the Borg Queen go

#star trek #fanfic #writing #this is a thing I continue to work on if you are looking for a break from ~gestures~

$10,950,000/4 br/7 ba

E 31st St, NYC

#can anyone lend me $11 million dollars real quick #I'll let you sleep in the greenhouse loft thing #this is a pro tchotchke blog

cavedwell

This has been going on for thousands of years! It doesn't change.

—Robert Bly, Keeping Quiet / Half Man (2026)

#half man

bbybluemochi

“It's the best and the worst thing, all at once. It's like the only thing. It's the only thing I've ever felt. It's like I'm fucking... high off of you, or something” Half Man, 2026

#Fanart #half man

I've decided not to share links due to not wanting to be perceived in full on tumblr but I have officially had two short stories published in 10 months' time and that feels pretty neat! The flaw in this situation though is if I want this neatness to continue I have to write more short fiction.

#exact opposite of how one is meant to use social media to promote oneself in this day and age really #but counter-argument to marketing one's self on social media: don't wanna #writing #need a patron to support me in every way so I can focus on the arts. have literally three days this month to write a story #that will win a contest. I mean it won't win it's a very competitive contest but what if it does. three days!!!!!

dearparentheses

Paul Evans

sighinastorm

fuk u paul

#deeply discomforting #art

Now that I've finished Half Man I've decided my favorite thing is how they truly got Ruben to embody a rabid wolf, not like the cliche that could have been - so some growling, yeah, but more huffing and snorting and snuffling and drooling and pacing and, eventually, biting. Moments of raw perplexity within the inchoate rage! And some other things. It felt animalistic, not actorly, and also made it easier to watch the entirety of that last jail scene from behind my clenched fingers because oh my god Niall you fucking idiot oh my god the tension but if I just listen to Ruben frothing at the mouth with my eyes closed horror-movie-style I can follow the plot without having an aneurysm

One big spoiler under cut:

#murder as sex is so often a cliched or trite theme but half man. half man Gets It #the thrusting when he was redacteding redacted. i mean.#and he did sound like my cat when you annoy her but if my cat was a grown very large and very angry man #half man #spoilers

hanfugallery

Chinese hanfu by 清欢纪

#fashion

chasetheauthor

i do enjoy that we got to see how genuinely awful niall is in this episode. he is told that mona is more emotionally vulnerable and revealing when she drinks so he takes her out for drinks and takes advantage of that. he takes money from his girlfriend's dad and lies to her about it and then becomes a deadbeat because he sent HIMSELF to conversion therapy and it didn't work. he has sex with mona on ruben's kitchen floor and does not pull out. he pisses ruben off constantly and reels him back in after (or does his best to) and he lies to mona about how ruben found out he knew about ruben's infertility because he doesn't want to be held accountable for it even though he was the one that prompted that discussion in the first place. he is evil. just an evil evil guy. i love it

#the narrative is like either pay ruben back or through a series of escalating insanities an innocent man is going to get his brains smashed #and niall is SO OFFENDED he's like excuse me I can't RUSH my writerly MUSE #also the snippet of his book we heard was not like. spectacular.#which makes it funnier #I'm willing to accept there are some books out there for which allowing your unstable violent misogynist stepbrother/love interest/????#to rampage through Glasgow is worth it. you know for the sake of art #but Niall's book sounds aggressively average #also nothing was stopping him from getting a side job at McDonald's but instead he becomes ruben's maid? sure #half man #spoilers #it's so fascinating to me how he instigates and seems shocked at the consequences when he simply cannot be shocked #he knows he's setting a rabid dog loose! every time he knows it! just like ruben knows full well who he was smelling on that bathrobe #something about denial and something about niall getting to feel powerful while keeping his hands clean - getting to affect the world #both abuse victims and both aggressors...the cyclical nature of it #what a show. deeply unpleasant viewing experience will rewatch 900 times

preacherboyd

Half Man | 1x04

#been thinking about 'how dare you appear. like a rat. on my driveway.' been thinking about it.#half man

sunshinevettel

Do you, Niall Brandon Kennedy, take Albert Franklin Safadi as your lawfully wedded partner?

#waiting for ruben's PERMISSION first #alby i think you should probably leave. go on a nice extended vacation or something #but then again alby is marrying the ? brother?? of the guy who nearly beat him to death while said guy watches and like #orchestrates. so maybe the lesson here is none of these people are normal #half man

lousolversons

"You look gorgeous, so you do, huh? I tell you, if I wasn't family, I'd get up and underneath that kilt right away." | HALF MAN - S01E01

#having a great time #half man

random-brushstrokes

Walter Gay (American, 1856-1937) - Château Le Bréau

#art

Simply have to get used to sucking at my job. Been so good at my job for so long and now I have to accept sucking at it for the next however long until I learn it. Tell me world your hilarious stories of fucking up dramatically at a job you later mastered

#actually currently worried I've never been good at my job actually because my editing the last week has been atrocious #i hope that's due to nerves and divided attention and not due to my inadvertently running a long con such that exboss thought I was great #when I was not great. surely not.#random babble #learning how to create a live product when that produce is due in 4 hours is 😩

themoonandmyman

what’s one thing you’re doing today that’s good for you mentally and/or physically :)

#celebrated the beginning of my Normal Weekend Era by going to this small obscure sculptor' studio turned museum #really gorgeous pieces & astounding light #and because he was a jewish sculptor of a certain age and time it really did feel like being in my grandparents' apt #if my grandparents had any money or knew what art was #such judaica #A Gill Grows in Brooklyn

fashion-runways

Hoyeon attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images) pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com

#fashion

fyeahhollanov

bvlgari #HudsonWilliams is ready to serve some looks on the red carpet in Bvlgari High Jewelry and Sunglasses

#fashion

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