#70 out of 100

[littleliterarylesbian]

it is my belief that in modern times, Pandora would play The Sims religiously.

Barty is a nosey bitch and wants to hear all about what's going on in her save

Regulus pretends to be disinterested in it but does pay far too much attention

Evan just hums at the right time and place, he's dealt with her Sims obsession for far too long.

Dorcas is in the same boat as Barty, she wants to know everything that's happened so far. They also go CC shopping together, scrolling through Pinterest and Tumblr to find the good stuff.

#Lily would also play The Sims #ARGUE WITH THE WALL!!!! #Pandora is also 100% an irl shipper #she will make her friends in The Sims and WILL make them kiss who she wants them to be with #when said friends find out they are all appalled #Reg also joins Dorcas and Pan on their CC shopping trips but only to make fun of the stuff they come across. #marauders era #marauders #harry potter #dead gay wizards #dead wizards from the 70s #pandora rosier #barty crouch junior #regulus black #evan rosier #dorcas meadowes #the slytherin skittles #slytherin skittles #slytherin #pantheon #pandora lovegood

[danderlion13]

Love having new faves as test subjects for art experiments. I'm never drawing Per'kele again.

#fear and hunger #fear and hunger termina #what are the character tags #fear and hunger osaa #fear and hunger henryk #fear and hunger olivia #fear and hunger marina #fear and hunger perkele #am i 100% satisfied with these? absolutely not #but im at least 70-80% satisfied which is pretty good for fucking around and finding out #also i do have the rest of the major arcana assigned but i dont want to look at these anymore #i was like 'yeah i can totally do all of them' and then i had to draw. feathers. #my art

[thelikesoffinn]

Sooo...I did the mace thing.

I was expecting exactly this - the building collapse thing - meaning I fully know what's going to happen here.

What I didn't expect was this:

Me: *was fully prepared to let him die to get the funny freak out scene*

Also me: *sweats because how can she let him die after he volunteers to fucking save her!?*

#I mean I'm sorry what #orianna and astarion aren't even dating #heck they don't even have the highest approval out of the group #he's at 70! #Shadowheart #who they're dating #is at 100 #wyll is at 85 #so why #WHY is the vampire being so nice #it's breaking me heart #gods below #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate #baldurs gate #bg3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #the blood of lathander

[fourth-dimensional-thinker]

A collage for 1955 Lorraine. All images came from 50s-era Cosmopolitan magazine scans from this collection.

#back to the future #bttf #lorraine baines #I loooove skimming through old media #it is fascinating #it just gets me when I find out what we have in common with people years and years and years ago #students complained about math in year books from 100 years ago #parents struggled with teenage rebellion 70 years ago #and I love how bttf portrays that too #we all share the same experiences no matter the time or place #and ugh I love it #mine

[bmpmp3]

when people complain about getting like, a 98% grade on something because it was "so close to perfect" its like. i understand what you're saying on a technical level. but that is a line of thought so far away from my experiences and ways of thinking that i do feel like im from another planet. 100% isnt even a real number to me

#i kinda understand when its something like a multiple choice test or something where there is an objective answer #it might feel like u got so close but just missed one #again still a bit alien to me because my scholarly performance is mysterious and anything over 70 is great to me #but i mean ive had a 98 before once in a math test. i did get exactly 1 bit of 1 question wrong #but i didnt really care that it was one off from perfect i was too busy being happy because that was the highest mark id ever received #and the previous math test i had taken got a 53% . grade 11 was a wild time for me in math class GHJKSHFKds #anyway i kinda see where ur coming from with stuff with right or wrong answers like that #but i sometimes get friends in class complain that they got a 95 or something on an art assignment #because they think they got docked 5 points for one or two little things #but i dunno. thats not really how fine arts departments in university tend to grade things #you dont start at 100 and get docked marks for things you got wrong. i dont think ive ever seen a 100% on something like that #tbh the numbers are a little arbitrary i find. i do prefer to try to get em higher because that helps with grants and stuff #but the numbers dont mean all that much in fine arts or in art history (my two majors) a 75 and a 95 can function the same depending on lik #weighting and context and feedback and whatever. i dunno its a wild world out there #it might just be the perspective of someone who did really goodbad in school. (GoodBad (tm) its when ur good but also kinda bad at school!) #compared to someone who got a lot of perfects in mandatory schooling. i sympathise i really do that kind of pressure sounds insane #but while i sympathize i cant really empathize as much unfortunately with this specifically orz its a world very far outside my purview! #100%s arent real to me so they never cross my mind to be worried about LOL

[dormiloncito]

one thing about me is i will watch a good chunk of a long anime, then suddenly give up and stop watching once i am nearing the final episodes

#i don't know why i do that #i literally run out of gas #i did that with (redacted) and also (redacted) 😋😋 #but i pretend i did finish them tee-hee #ugh. i should finish them. I SHOULD. but i don't want to 😈😈😈 #nah i'll say it. it was monster and the legend of the galactic heroes #I AM. RIDICULOUSLY CLOSE to finishing them. and i like both a lot! #but ughhhhhhhhh #i stopped logh bc i know a character i like dies around episode 80 (i have watched 70 out of 110 eps) #there is also naruto. i watched 100 episodes and randomly gave up too. BUT I WANT TO CONTINUE. AUGH. #why is that #lately i have preferred playing videogames i guess it's bc i am actually participating to learn the story instead of just sitting #and staring at the screen :p

[sugarsweetvirgo]

how does mokuba interact with eve?

does he know. When did he find out? What was his reaction. Do they get along. How did seto feel about mokuba interacting with Eve?

They are partners in crime, got along almost immediately after they were introduced.

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Blue: Kaiba

Purple: Mokuba

Eve: Green

#ssv #smallartist #ssv talks #mokuba kaiba #giant/tiny #yugiohoc #yugioh au #oc #gt #They get along like. really really well #If Eve isnt around kaiba there's a small chance she's with Mokuba #70% of the time mokuba is using Eve as a way to pull of small pranks around the servers #the other 30% is going out shopping or playing fnaf karaoke songs #Mokuba probably found out Eve existed maybe a week or so after Kaiba took her. Like you cant hide that big of a detail from him #They have a bickering sibling relationship #though they refuse to call each other sibling names. its weird #Kaiba's just thankful that Mokuba is actually being nice to Eve because a majority of him thought Mokuba was gonna start something #Mokuba was also the first person to know that both Kaiba and Eve had crushes on each other because they would not. shut. up. about it to him #Mokuba is also a bragger about it. he's at school and goes around telling people “Yeah. my Niisama is dating the eighth wonder of the world” #Mokuba 100% knows Eve hates miniatures he just thinks minibrands are funny

[wonder-worker]

Anne de Pisseleu had exercised a form of power that was intrinsically extra-institutional and dependent entirely of the king’s favor; her role was clearly understood by political insiders. Criticism took the form of conventional hostility to the role of women in power, yet in the king’s lifetime had to be circumspect and oblique. However, she lived more than half her life after the death of the king whose love had given her power and wealth. In this, she weathered the storm of disgrace remarkably effectively, carved for herself a new role and ended her life a moderately wealthy woman whose assets became a matter for ferocious competition among her relatives.

-David Potter, "The Life and After-Life of a Royal Mistress: Anne de Pisseleu, Duchess of Étampes"

#historicwomendaily #Context: She lived for over 70 years and was a royal mistress for only 20 of them (till Francis's death) #anne de pisseleu #french history #16th century #my post #Francis I #queue #I hate how Anne is dismissed and deemed irrelevant after Francis I's death #Most historians merely claim that she was exiled; fell into disgrace and humiliation; and died in obscurity #Kathleen Wellman even goes to say that Anne was shut up by her husband in a gloomy castle for the rest of her life #(And there's always a distasteful tone of wry satisfaction as they say this - as if she was finally 'getting what she 'deserved') #Suffice to say: this idea is objectively incorrect and I hate it #yes Anne DOES seem to have had an incredibly harrowing and horrible experience for a few years after; that should never be overlooked #But as this article says: Anne managed to weather her 'fall' and carve a new role for herself extraordinarily well #It's one of the most interesting things about her life to me #She still had wealth and property which she rigorously administered and expanded; she headed family affairs and arranged marriages; #She and her terrible husband appear to have informally separated (with a formal separation of property) and in his own last will he #flat-out wrote that Anne 'would never take her place as my wife'. She outlived him by around 15 years and 100% got the last laugh. #She also openly embraced Protestantism in the height of the Wars of Religion which was such a major bad bitch move #guaranteeing her both personal protection and material gratification #In fact one of the last known references of her was in 1576 where she hosted a meeting of Protestant leaders in her castle of Challuau #As you can see: Anne transitioned public royal influence to private personal power #But she clearly remained at the heart of politics and war throughout it all and was always relevant

[whentherewerebicycles]

trying to resist the thing where you feel bad about X and then your brain is like hey why don’t you try feeling bad about Y and Z too while you’re down there in the pit

#I feel kind of bad about work lately and it keeps nagging at me so I know I need to carve out some time to longform journal about it #but I should not do it now because I’m already in a funk and I’ll just make myself feel worse #I also have a bad feeling that the bad feelings are actually @ myself and not about the environment #like I think I’m doing the thing again where I find the level you can coast at and get by #and then I just coast #because (mean brain enters the scene) I am fundamentally lazy and have no work ethic etc #I just think my whole life is like me operating at 60-70% and not really pushing myself to give closer to 90-100% #but agh ok not the day to open that up #it’s also rainy and I think I’m just like #experiencing the perfect storm of sick on vacation + pregnancy hormones + upheaval period at work + dreary winter weather + bad brain

[nibeul]

been playing bed wars addictively oh lord

#nearly at 100 games I think #I have 350 kills and I think like 70% of those are just from fireballing the shit out of people

[sacredglitch]

i have eeped, woken up and cried

I have some thoughts. MW3 spoilers below.

Major thing out of the way; everyone is gonna experience the campaign at different lengths depending on skill and difficulty they choose. I started around 9/10pm and finished at 5am, so it took me quite some time, predominantly with issues in the Weapons Free missions and the Ally AI just never backing me up? Felt a lil like Rudy in the Ghost Team mission yknow?

But it was a fun experience in gameplay standpoint. There was elements of both MW and MWII alongside some new things that I still gotta get used to once MP drops. But story wise?

Something felt weird. Like it wasn't as consise as MWII with its storytelling. All that took, what? A few days? Maybe even weeks to come to completion. With this game, bar the flashback mission, I never knew how closely related each mission was unless it was explicitly clear, like Passenger and the mission with Farah inspecting the debris. You know that was only hours apart from one another.

Characters also felt a little odd. Like there was moments where it felt like yeah, these are the crew I know and others where it's like....who am I listening to right now? There was just an air of tension with it all, and yes with who they were dealing with ofc there's tension...but idk again the flow wasn't there like the other two games.

Okay elephant in the room; Soap and Makarov. The amount of times Soap was on the verge of whipping out his pistol or knife and just ending it and no one letting him? If Makarov was such a major threat; sometimes the information he may or may not have had just isn't worth it. Thousands would be alive if Johnny was just let loose and take out the trash. But because he wasn't he's now dead.

And Makarov lives. What the fuck, Activision? Infinity Ward? Fucking Sledgehammer?! What was the point of killing off someone who they know damn well is beloved in the fandom (yes, he died in the OG but hear me out) as is his actor, let the baddie get away, and then just....end it with the 141 spreading his ashes. No revenge for Soap, no honouring what he wanted from the beGINNING, no nothing. Just somewhat dull words from the team, his ashes spread and roll credits.

It's giving rushed story for no fucking reason. I wouldn't be so mad if they just did something after that. Sure, one could say this is them building up to MWIV but it also could have been dealt with one more mission. It truly feels like a slap to the face for the fans, cause we know OG Soap's death was agonising but it had its resolution with Price honouring his men.

If this was the second game then it would also make more sense, build up to the conclusion. But no, this was what most of us expected to be the big finale of Makarov and this current story of Modern Warfare, and it wasn't. Just more prolonged waiting that they're probably going to rush to get out next year. It's truly a shame on the big trio working on this game, but also towards the new fans and in my eyes, Neil too. This was his big break in sorts and it's clear by fan interaction he loves being Soap. I'm glad he seems to be the main protagonist of Zombies which makes me hope he'll be in more things or some pre campaign things but damn. Imagine getting the role of a beloved character, giving them an incredible performance just to be shot point blank and given a dull ending. That would make me feel betrayed but ofc I won't speak for Neil, I have 0 clue how he feels on all this. Hell he could be all for it. Just...truly sucks from a fans perspective.

One final thing is the questions and confusion that ig are open ended because whoop de doo another game, more cash for Activision. For starters; who was the 'Shadow' giving Makarov intel? Was it supposed to be Shepard? Considering he was kidnapped and all that would make sense, but Makarov specifically said Shadow. In my eyes if he had meant Shepard, he would have said US Official or something.

Speaking of Shadows; why did Graves sell him out? What's he gonna gain from that? A redemption arc? Fuck that shit I didn't spend almost two hours fighting the tank for him to come back and be all "am sowwy"

Was Urzikstan truly cleared of any wrong doing or is it one of those things where it's like "Welp it's one General's word against our opinions". Also not to get into irl things but seeing some of the stuff during the Passenger mission had me thinking of how the world is currently with certain ongoing fights. Sometimes COD gets the realism down.

Maybe it was because of the situation they were in and how big the threat was, but there wasn't much of a dynamic going on with the teams. At most, there was some Soap and Ghost banter, and then Graves with his Shadows but that was kinda it. No idle chatter just head in the game type of deal. Does make sense ofc but maybe that's why the characters really felt off at times.

One that's just a personal thing; since it's confirmed that at least in 2019, Price, Soap and Ghost knew one another, makes sense cause the trio were SAS, but it's got me thinking why is Ghost the only one allowed to call him Johnny? It was teased in MWII with the interaction in Prison Break but...it's not been elaborated on. Even Price, when Soap was losing his shit over Makarov in the Heli, called him John.

What did Ghost do or say that Soap decided he could allow him to call him Johnny? This isn't anyway me asking "OooOO, are they fruity???" no I'm curious. If it was a thing he allowed his superiors that he was friendly with to say, then Price would be included that. Alejandro and Rudy would be included. What makes Ghost so special?

The last thing that my grief riddled mind can think of is where is Soap's family? I don't think I can truly believe he doesn't have one. It's canon he joined because of his cousin so...why was the 141 the ones to spread his ashes? Again it could have been his wish and all...shit just also adds to the rushed story feeling. I ain't asking for the MacTavishs to make an appearance or be canon or whatever but as someone who has a loved ones ashes, the small urn you get would have made more sense. That they decided with the ashes his family gave them to throw them off the cliffside in what I assume is Scotland.

If he didn't have family then holy shit it makes his death even more hurtful but no way impactful.

I'm just rambling angrly now so I'll stop my thoughts. Overall the game was fun, interesting concept with the Weapons Free missions but the story was lackluster compared to the previous games, as well as a slap to the face for Soap's character. It was just there for the sake of sadness.

I wasn't expecting a happy ending, I was just hoping for a honourable conclusion.

#rambles to the void #cod mwiii #cod mw3 #cod mwiii spoilers #cod mw3 spoilers #this is all just a vent instead of a reflection over things #im also just not really up for debating how the game was paced or if some found it fine or whatever #im too tired for it #im just putting out my feelings #also was it worth the 100 quid? #no #70 maybe for vault #but not 100 #if there's a 4th I'm not doing vault edition until well later in its release if at all

[milksnake-tea]

hot take but honestly i really like topaz

#thinking out loud 🏵️ #closing my eyes and preparing for the pitchforks to arrive #ngl the ipc itself is interesting as fuck #are they corrupt and evil ? yeah 100% #but damn if that ad wasnt sexy and damn if i dont want to know how their system works #actually not they're not 100% #maybe like #a good 70%

[inlandempir]

personally i think kim had more times he thought about how believable it would be if the detective on the case with him suddenly dropped dead or went missing and the lack of questioning people would have about it rather than homosexual thoughts concerning the bois

#posts #i say this with love. harry 100% has had thoughts but kim just wants to go home #most of the time. just because 70% of thoughts were about pushing him off a pier doesn’t mean 10% can’t be homosexuality #(the other 20% is split between the kineema_ where he’s gonna take a shower_ and the rock he got in his boot that he can’t take out since it #would be uncool to do it in front of the bois)

[sneez]

fairfax in 70s clothes because i think seventeenth-century men would love flares and incredibly loud shirts and questionable woollen tank tops. i don't have a better explanation than that i am afraid

#artwork #fairfax #puritan swag. the parliamentarian drip #i'm still mid-exams (which is why i havent answered my asks yet i am so sorry dear friends) so this has been my stress relief activity #it has been very effective! would highly recommend drawing historical figures in flares :-D #and belted jumpers for some ungodly reason. i looked at many 'top ten worst 70s outfits' articles in the process of drawing these #i must confess though i would wear 100% of these outfits. especially the first two he is making it work so much #to be honest i dont know if fairfax would actually wear any of these in reality but the whole cavalier/roundhead fashion divide is mostly #fake anyway (they pretty much wore the same clothes for the most part) so i like to think he would. he was a swanky guy #ALSO theres that one extant buff coat he owned which i have posted many times before which had pink silk sleeves so i am choosing to #believe that he would wear all of these. thats my opinion as a historian #anyway! i hope you are all doing well my dear friends :-D i miss you all very much #i am so close to being Fwee now..........i only have two more exams and my final one is on the last day of term so i am Almost There #i am absolutely exhausted though. i have five five-hour exams writing three essays for each and they are about as agonising as they sound #but this time next week i will be done!!! and then i will have time to draw more 70s fairfaxes (my purpose in life) #until then though i will continue crawling across the ground making horrible moaning noises until my final two exams are out of the way #eeueuuu. eueuuuuuuhh. eeeeuuuu. like that

[finexbright]

gonna take a minute to rant about just how much i love louis and his care for fans and how he's always trying to do things in the most affordable, convenient way possible. getting his tickets was one of the most smooth, seamless experiences i ever had. love how his first tour was a bit smaller and now that he's doing larger arenas, the pricing hasn't changed a bit. he's taken so much care and consideration into curating his brand and making it accessible and you can see the genuine thought process that goes into it because louis isn't just putting music and tours out and calling it a day. he's examining every little aspect of it and making sure that at the end of the day everything is as fair as possible. i know we can say it's the bare minimum, but to me at least it isn't. because it takes a lot of planning and organising to be able to pull this off, but it also takes a lot of investment time and money wise. and i honestly commend him for being one of the only artists in the industry who's not only to bring change but also who's putting a damn good fight and being a very good example of what an artist could be and how relaxing and beneficial an artist - fan relationship can be

#i will further rant in the tags #regarding pricing i don't think there was any ticket that went beyond £60 and that's a huge feat tbh #and even the ones that went that high were for bigger venues which makes sense #i am NOT comparing anything but just for example sake because this is the only one i have #harry's doing a 20k capacity venue and his ticket prices are £70-120 #and that's not including platinum or pods. with that it goes as high as £500 #and louis' doing a 20k venue for £35-60 #the fact that he's literally treating ticketmaster like a secondary option says a lot #gigs and tours seems very indie and on brand for louis' tickets and honestly it worked because it was literally so easy #and it didn't make you go through a thousand hoops for it #and because he didn't change his pricing much even when he went from venues with 3500 capacity to 20k+ capacity #you know that he's barely making any profit off of it #he might make a bit more than break even point #and his merch pricing given the quality seems very reasonable to me #there are artists out there selling tees for £100 #you can see he really LISTENS to the fans and sees what we're talking about it and tries to make it easy for us to access things #like i'm pretty sure he knew about ticketmasters bastard ways and that's why he said a big fuck you to them #man i just really really really love him #he has such an affectionate relationship with his fans #and he's willing to fight for us #like not in a mushy way #but we KNOW how many times he's been sabotaged and YET he comes in blazing #and do you know what though. in a way all the opening acts he's had or artists he's endorsed WILL follow the same path as him #we already saw otp fighting for fair ticket pricing #and that's what matters #a whole new wave of artists are gonna look at him and be like ''man i wanna be as fair as him'' and fight for change #in the horrid music industry and i'm here for it #fitf is gonna be an album that'll put louis further on the map and there's literally gonna be no stopping him after that #he'll literally be a revolutionary and i'm so glad i get to be in his corner to see it happen #i know parasocial relationship and whatever and i'm putting too many expectations/hopes/projections on him or whatever

[kirby-the-gorb]

#kirby #gun #firearms #ask to tag #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #didn't even see a maintenance person today. #like again the ac is still a *little* functional - it stays in the high 70s in the living room and the low 80s in the bedroom #(even though it's 100+ outside) #but that's still definitely broken! that's not acceptable to just live with! and it has to run nonstop to even manage that much! #(which is expensive!) #my wife got the portable ac out of the shed to set up in the bedroom though #I honestly didn't notice just how bad it was until we had it running #so at least I should be able to sleep a little better.