Okay, so how do I commemorate completing an extremely slowly written 14-year-long fanfic project? Do I solicit people's questions and write meta that gets out some of the millions of thoughts about it that are still in my head? Create more commentaries? More slightly irreverent polls? Issue official apologies to all Jonathan fans for how much suffering I've caused them over the years? Buy myself gothy clothing? All of the above? Something else?

On a boring day, I would just go to the airport and pick where I want to go without caring about the cost.

Seduction 101, according to Ayan: Step 92/?: Offer him solutions to problems he presents.

There's a lot of lines in Amongst Our Weapons that make me want to wave my arms around and yell incoherently about Peter and Nightingale and how far they've come and how much they mean to each other, but right now the one I want to yell about the most is this one from right at the end:

Image text: 'The wider the base, the greater the stability of the building,' said Nightingale. 'You taught me that.'

Because, like. Peter wanted to be an architect. The thing he always wanted to do was to build things. And look what he's built! He hasn't just rebuilt the Folly as it was, he's built something modern and completely new out of its constituent parts and he's done it by caring about people and being interested in how things work and by what Beverly jokingly calls 'compulsive networking'.

And everything he's done for the Folly, he's done for Nightingale on a personal level too.

Nightingale was So isolated when Peter first met him. His police colleagues didn't want much to do with him, his social circle seemed to consist of Molly and Dr Walid and not much more, he was completely out of touch with the modern world. And to his credit, he was the one who decided to take on an apprentice, but that was pretty much all he was planning to do. Train up a replacement for himself in case he got killed, pass on the Forms and Wisdoms properly, keep the status quo going.

But he chose Peter, and suddenly he's got an apprentice who wants to study the science behind magic and modernise the Folly's record keeping and work out better ways to liaise with other police and fundamentally Make Changes. Nightingale ends up with all these connections through Peter, to Beverley and the other Thames girls, to Lesley, to Abigail, eventually to the rest of Peter's family, to other police like Guleed and Stephanopoulos and unfortunately for him Seawoll... He has people he can rely on, and who choose to rely on him, and not just for magic -I especially love how Peter's mum eventually starts using him to babysit Peter's dad, and the fact that he helps Abigail's family with her brother. He's not alone anymore, and he goes from just living to genuinely thriving.

And it's all down to Peter, and what the two of them have built together. In fact, they've built something so significant that in a few years Nightingale isn't going to be necessary anymore. He's been Britain's Last Official Wizard for seventy years, all the weight of that tradition resting on his shoulders alone, and in a handful of years Peter has helped him to build something that'll be able to take the weight instead if he wants it to. There are people who can help do everything he's been doing alone and more, so finally he can think about what he actually wants for himself. (And don't even get me started on his arc re: teaching and discovering that it's what he wants to do for the rest of his life, I Will start yelling even more.)

And it's Peter who's taught him to let other people take the weight. That you can build something stable and lasting if you're willing to share the load. The wider the base, the greater the stability of the building.

Not bad for a wannabe architect who can't draw, huh?

👒 Ana joins the party! 👒

after further consideration, they remove Nobara from cat caring duties so yes, Megumi does end up looking after Gojou

[more ‘gojou-sensei is a cat now for some reason’ here]

also special thanks to this tumblr user for the idea:

Keep in mind that I am not watching every show that is currently airing. Also I couldn’t even fit all of the shows I’m currently watching.

via Pitbabetheseries Twitter

The man truly can’t take a genuine compliment 🙄

You look like you're about to pray.

Everyone has to make compromises. Thirteenth and final part of this series.

locker room talk but its just the homies gushing about their big boy feelings

Phayu: let him gush, its the first time he has thoughts beyond his dick.

Prapai: what can i say, love changed me for the better

Saifah: why is this bitch not at work??? its midday on a weekday, doesnt he have a 9-5???

I hoped that they would have utilized Phayu and Saifah's brohood with Prapai. 3 adult men talking it out like tweens in a sleepover.

💜

A Series of Small Offerings

PART ONE -6- Jericho

My hands are not worthy

HELLO TO MY FAVOURITESTEST LINE FROM THAT SONG EVER

Not pictured: me singing this line over and over again while filling the bg and jumper with markers

(Am I cheating and using markers now? I sure am, I've had enough of pencils on this paper.)

Notable mention: the thick golden and black markers I've used in these last two pieces are ~grave inscription fixing markers~ bc I'm this edgy (kidding, they're just really good markers).

Notable mention 2: for someone who loves drawing eyes and absolutely hates drawing hands the hand-eye ratio so far is 7-0 (6-0 if we're not counting the skeleton hand and the eyes here that are closed). I have left my comfort zone and never looked back (and for that, THANK YOU AGAIN, LEVYNN!!!)

I love when my faves play... (Pt. 1)

Pompous Actors

Jeremy Burtom (The Impostors, 1998)

Carson Clay (Mr. Bean's Holiday, 2007)

Lost Musicians

Johnny Harte (Roadhouse 66, 1984)

Marty (When Pigs Fly, 1992)

Corrupt Goverment Officials

George Deckert (State of the Union, 2005)

Frank Burton (Abduction, 2011)

Military Sergeants

Elias Grodin (Platoon, 1986)

Steven Dunlop (The Little Traitor, 2007)

Stay tuned for part 2!

listen i get where people are coming from when they say that nobody should have expected a radical overhaul of the shinobi system considering the series very squarely set up its main theme as not abandoning friends. that certainly was the setup. but i also think it would be inaccurate to say that the story as it evolved affirmed that refusing to abandon one's friends was the be-all and end-all fix for everything. i cannot emphasize this enough: it's not as though the prior generations we saw lacked devotion to their teammates. the problem was that the larger sociopolitical circumstances obstructed their ability to connect in one way or another. even naruto acknowledges at the land of iron that his and sasuke's positions made it impossible for them to reconcile. so for the series to do a 180 and assert that actually friendship was the solution all along (even though there have been no meaningful systemic changes, even though the source of these intergenerational conflicts has not been addressed) rings hollow. it's especially glaring that being violently beaten in a fight makes sasuke desert his quest for justice without any reservation -- therefore no ideological or political separation was bridged, sasuke was just made to forget what motivated him for the entire series' run. naruto and team 7 succeeding where their predecessors failed was not a function of anything they did differently, but mere narrative convenience.