AND SO THE LOST METAL COMES OUT ON NOVEMBER 15TH. THATS LIKE EIGHTY DAYS AWAY. AND THEN BY THE BEGINNING OF JANUARY WE START WITH THE SECRET PROJECTS. OF WHICH THERE ARE FOUR AND THERES ALL THESE COOL STUFF BOXES INVOLVED TOO. BUT THATS NOT ALL BECAUSE HES CURRENTLY WRITING THE FIFTH STORMLIGHT BOOK AND THE FOURTH SKYWARD BOOK SHOULD BE COMING OUT IN 2023 AS WELL. NOW I THINK MY FAVORITE PART ABOUT HIS BOOKS IS THE WAY HE INCORPORATES PHYSICS INTO THE SCIENCE OF THE FANTASY REALMS. AS A WHOLE I THINK BRANDON SANDERSON IS THE SCI-FI FANTASY AUTHOR. HIS SCI-FI HAS FANTASY AND HIS FANTASY HAS SCI-FI. MOVING ON TO ADOLIN KHOLIN WHO IS PROBABLY THE BEST CHARACTER IN THE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVES. HE IS JUST SO INTERESTING AND ARE YOU OK WITH SPOILERS? COOL. SO THE BEST PART OF ADOLIN IS-

So called free thinkers when an newsworthy event happens

If someone wants to give you art, what's the best way? Just @ you in the post or sending a message/ ask with a link?

Either way is fine! Mentioning/tagging me directly makes it more likely that I see the post, but that doesn't always work and sometimes I don't receive a notification even if I should. Sending an ask or a DM with a link is alright as well.

I'm extremely grateful for the gift art I receive and I absolutely love seeing my characters depicted in other people's styles. But I should mention that I can be very slow to comment/reblog. Not always but it's a thing I consistently fail at. I have some kind of mental roadblock that makes it difficult, it has nothing to do with the piece itself, I think it's a social anxiety/autism issue of some sort. I get emotionally overwhelmed or something. So if you draw or make something for me and it seems to take me forever to react, please don't take it personally. It's rude of me to keep people waiting but I'm trying my best with the limited energy, social batteries and time I have. You're always free to poke me a little bit and remind me and make sure I saw the post, I genuinely don't mind at all.

academic fighting is sooo funny i dont plan on having a career in academia but if i somehow do end up there i hope to one day be one of those scientists who has scientific beef with other scientists which is only expressed though papers that eventually end up being called something like "A Reply to 'A Reply to 'A Reply to This Controversial Paper'': New Findings Suggest You et al. Should Get Fucked"

Eda gets a Yatter account (based on a conversation I had with @soundcrusher​, ft. @thewiglesswonder​‘s oc Mac - or, well, her Yatter account)

full image:

(and without the green optic filter)

Today.............. has genuinely. Been. A Day.

Have some OC doodles I started yesterday before tragedy struck and are like the bare minimum effort for today to finish. Since the two princes were originally not /in canon/ for another plot but rather made for a mafia AU as cousins to one of the main characters for the base plot. I was like. Huh let's give them a happier life. So here they're just princes and instead of the police department/detectives that most of the main cast is in base plot, those are the royal guards around the twins' castle.

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rosetail + bonus kits / request

name one thing better than a good story . ill wait . there isnt

Having a dillema. I've never really enjoyed anime-movies, not for any particular reason, it's just that I physically cannot bring myself to watch them. I know it's not an attention span issue because I can binge movies and shows, and I've spent movie equivalent watch time on episodes, I just can't watch anime-movies. I've been trying to want to watch Dead Apple but I haven't for like 3 months *because* it's an anime-movie. I just wanna know if I should just force myself to watch it so I can continue the story or if I should just pick up the Manga and read the rest of it. So do I read the Manga or continue just watching the show??

wipes single tear from eye. it's beautiful (the extensive list of references on pac's miraheze wiki page)

Welcome to Unhinged Hours, a series of posts that will be tagged as such in which I will overshare my cringiest and most awkward thoughts because I've no self-control over my need to vent. And who knows. Might help someone else.

Don't mind the dubious syntax and weird grammar.

[cw brief mention of abuse]

When I was 17-19, I was mortified to discover I was attracted to (much) older people. During my early twenties, the majority of my crushes were in their thirties. I knew the age gap was too big and I was too young, so I did nothing about them and naively thought this was something that would fix itself with time. I thought "at least I know I find people in their thirties attractive so I just have to wait to reach mine and date people my age then" (lmao good one past me). Well. As I'm inching ever closer to said thirties, it's more and more evident that the issue clearly did NOT fix itself, those old crushes are nearing their forties and I haven't stopped carrying them in my heart. They're attractive in new ways. When I look at pics from back when I first developed a crush, I find that my current 27yo self isn't physically attracted to their 32yo self I was originally attracted to anymore. And I know for a fact that 21yo me wouldn't have found 38yo [redacted] hot. But current me is still attracted to current them (38yo [redacted] is indeed very hot). And you might wonder what's the issue here, so lemme tell you. I've been frequenting online feminist spaces for a decade. I've read countless accounts of teenage girls and young women who were manipulated and abused by older partners. I've read an inordinate amount of warnings, the gist of all of them being “don't date older folks during your formative years, don't believe them when they call you 'mature for your age'”. And let me be crystal clear — I still think it's relevant and infinitely important to relay those accounts and protect girls and young women, and help them spot red flags and predatory patterns. It absolutely is, I am not blaming feminism for my existential struggles. I am simply giving you context. The thing is, I've internalised this as “don't ever pursue older folks, period” (which is a completely different thing, I knew that then and still know it now but couldn't help it) and as a result I've been lugging around self-inflicted guilt and shame for years (and don't I love the internalised biphobia that adds to it when the person happens to be a man /s). And these crushes I've been telling you about? They're one-sided! They've never expressed any interest, so that's always been a safe situation for me, but did that prevent any self-loathing from taking root in my brain? Course it didn't! I can't seem to shake the feeling that there's something wrong with me and I've grown tired of this. Scolding myself over human emotions is getting fucking old.

That brings me to today's crisis — at which point in one's life does it get easier to accept? How old is old enough to stop caring about the age gap? When will I stop blaming myself? How do I drop the guilt?

Because if it was "just" the fact that I'm still swooning over the same people (who are now soon-to-be 40), that would be too easy, wouldn't it? But nooo I just had to go and get a new crush on someone who's already in their forties. Where does this end, please?

(You might've noticed that the overuse of the word 'crush' and choosing to focus on the physical aspect of attraction here is a poor attempt at a euphemism. I mean some of them are simple crushes, as for the others... past a certain point, still calling them crushes is just denial on my part. I'm basically fooling myself.)

“This is a crisis. A large crisis. In fact, if you've got a moment, it's a twelve-storey crisis with a magnificent entrance hall, carpeting throughout, 24-hour porterage and an enormous sign on the roof saying 'this is a Large Crisis'.” (Blackadder Goes Forth, ep. 6)

well i return in defeat from going back up to 5 yrs in the illustrator's instagram archive looking for the single specific will roland portrait i remember. but i did find other fun artifacts

some more bmc moments

^ illustration for a cd re: the tonys? something i didn't know existed but maybe it's a mix of a song or two from nominated musicals

"I’ve been a bit more involved with this show than most others thanks to producer Stacey Mindich who enlisted me to draw original cast members as they ended their runs. (Park once jokingly asked me to let him know when Stacey commissioned his, just in case he hadn’t yet found out he was getting fired. Ha!)"

a lights of broadway card ft. abf & jordan fisher specifically lol v cute

a cropped non full res piece of evidence of an illustration for the broadway macbeth production that ft. akd as malcolm, and just like how i couldn't turn up the will roland portrait via searches, i can't find this one either. even knowing that if it was posted in full anywhere it was probably broadway.com, and yet,

fun surprise like Pointing hey i'd know the joe iconis christmas extravaganza from a mile away

Dancing from last All Saint's Wake Stormblood edition!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Io: devo smetterla di rompere le scatole con ogni cosa della wwe che mi colpisce, non è questo che avevo promesso di fare a mio fratello o ai miei amici

Sempre io: you guys won't believe what Randy Orton did with Logan Paul's brass knuckles

a collection of rust and things ive tagged as him

Okay, now I'm curious about how IK's dad would fare in the past Devildom. Specifically, IK's dad and baby IK.

oh god that poor man. he was already so incredibly stressed out by his first appearance in the devildom, now he finds out he's in the fucking past and no one here knows him and he just has to cope with that, all while trying to protect his tiny daughter from all the evil things around here??? he's in tears already

he spends his first two weeks in the past just looking like a kicked puppy at all times. he still does his job of managing the brothers with surprising efficiency, but he looks like a physical embodiment of the 🥺 emoji the entire time

little ik is having a Time of it. zhao doesn't exactly know how to communicate to a toddler who still can't count past fifty that they went back in time, much less that the familiar demons around her aren't, in fact, the uncles she likes so much even if they look identical

i imagine he just tries to keep ik with him at all times, but every now and then she manages to wander off and thoroughly confuses the demons with how friendly she is. how is this tiny child more confident than her father

ok so i dont want this to impact poll results but full disclosure i almost didnt include breezy at all because its so deeply uncomfortable to me. and its fucked up in a way that isnt really funny to laugh at from a meta perspective like a lot of the others (like how fucked up ferns whole arc was is practically a meme, or whatever the hell was up with that deer) but you cant DO that with breezy because at certain points its. not even a metaphor its just. yeah. but the fact that i was so stirred by it also proved that it very much did deserve to be on a Most Fucked Up episodes poll so its there. there are still very legit arguments for other stuff being more fucked up from like an objective standpoint but breezy maybe just feels too real, not just hyperbolic fantasy fucked up