#B&S Challenger

[synthesis-music]

Crunchy.

Had to unsolder the crooks from the inner slide tubes and twist these out one at a time due to how stuck the slides were. Once I got them out it was clear why they refused to budge when I was hitting them with a stick. All this dried-out goop was acting like glue.

#musical instrument repair #music #brass instrument #musical instrument #flugelhorn #B&S #B&S Challenger #ew #gross

[didderd]

should.. should i try drawing fell sans every day for a week leading up to his birthday? 👀

#'t would start tomorrow #bc his birfday is th 17th #i'm not good at. 'draw thing every day' challanges lmao #(it utterly amazes me that packet-of-staples drew papyrus every day for 200 days) #but fell is my /husbone/ #/maybe/ i'll b able to draw him for a week #(told myself i was gonna do th weekly challenge for inktobertale #but 's already th 10th n i haven't drawn a single ink #'n now i got this idea which will clash with 2 prompts #so idk abt that lmao) #didderd talks

[lockaluu]

anyways fuck Netflix for releasing Lockwood and co at one of the worst times

#Netflix start caring about the shows you put out challenge #like come right before obx??? as you start promoting s&b?? #also maybe let’s stop expensive ass shows 😭😭😭 #lockwood and co #I’m so nervous about it fr and I hate it

[softsnzstuff]

A Little Helping Hand

Fandom: Stranger Things, Streamer AU

Summary: Robin has Eddie and Steve do the Not My Hands Challenge, only Steve has a cold

Notes: Thanks @dontfeeltoohot for bouncing this idea around with me!

CW: Contagion, non-intentional

“Hi lovelies!! You asked and asked and asked and I finally convinced the boys to do the Not My Hands Makeup Challenge!”

Robin addressed the stream and gestured to Steve and Eddie who were next to her.

“I would be in bed right now, but Robs really wants to do this stream today…” Steve muttered, consonants slightly rounded.

“Oh come on, I know you’ve been looking forward to this all week.” Eddie playfully elbowed him and then addressed the stream. “Stevie’s got a cold. He’s just grumpy.”

Aww poor Steve

Such a trooper doing this anyways

You’re so cute Robin!

Robin laughed. “Well okay! Let’s set this up then?!”

Eddie sat down with his legs slightly spread, Steve sitting in between so he was in front of Eddie, blocking his view.

“So Steve is gonna put his arms behind his back…” Robin narrated.

Steve held up his hands and wiggled his fingers before putting both arms behind his back. Robin took some duct tape out and stuck it to Steve’s chest and started wrapping it around him.

“Well. I definitely can’t use my hands.” Steve grumbled.

“And Eddie here. He’s going to act as Steve’s hands!”

Eddie had his chest pressed up against Steve’s back and his arms were sticking out to the side.

Robin had them set up at her makeup table, the streaming camera in front of them. She had an array of makeup brushes, powders, foundations, and eyeliners splayed out on the table in front of Steve. He was eyeballing them all.

“This. SnFF Looks like a bad idea.” He sniffled.

Are they gonna even know what all those are for??

Eddie might actually do killer eyeliner…

Yeah but he can’t see???

Robin perched herself behind them on her bed. “Okay guys I’ll tell you what you’re going to do, and Eddie is gonna do it as best he can. Steve you can help tell him where things are I guess. Start with foundation.”

Eddie started slapping his hands along the counter trying to grab anything he could.

“No Eddie just snf wait a second. The foundation… maybe the bhehh back left cehh corner..?”

Oh fuck.

Eddie could feel Steve’s breath hitching. He loved his partner but god damn was he bad at covering. And his hands were literally tied. The last thing he wanted was for Steve to sneeze all over Robin’s things.

Eddie felt Steve’s chest expand as he inhaled. Without thinking, his reflexes kicked in and Eddie found himself using his own hands to cover Steve’s nose and mouth.

“HAESSSH!”

“EW!”

“ETSCHIEW! snfsnff ISSSSHuhEW!”

Eddie screamed as Steve continued to spray his hands with each cold ridden sneeze. “STEVE STOP!”

Robin’s jaw was on the floor and comments were pouring in while Steve sniffled helplessly.

EW EW EW OH MY GOD

Eddie NO!!!!!!!

I saw the spray ☠️☠️☠️

The pause was only momentary as Steve immediately started to hitch again. This time almost more desperately.

“Don’t you DARE!” Eddie grappled around for the collar of Steve’s own shirt, bringing it up towards his boyfriends face.

“H’itSCHhh!”

Eddie felt a damp spot form on part of his hand, so he shifted the shirt slightly, still trying to use it to shield himself.

“TszzIEW! H’aTSsuHEW!”

Stop he’s still going 😩

RIP headphone users

Someone step in maybe??

Fuck is he okay?

Steve sniffled thickly, clearly embarrassed.

Robin had gotten up quickly, grabbing the box of tissues off her nightstand and bringing them over to the boys. After quickly untaping Steve, she knelt down and handed him several tissues that he pressed to his nose.

Eddie stood up frantically, a disgusted look plastered on his face as he looked at his hands. He made a dramatic show of flicking his hands towards the floor with a snapping motion, trying to rid himself of the mess Steve had left.

The older man walked out the open bedroom door and into the bathroom and started washing his hands. Robin took Eddie’s spot and sat next to Steve, rubbing a hand up and down his back as he continued to fight against the tickle.

Are you okay Steve?

Didn’t get very far into the makeup challenge did they?

Steve looked at the comments coming in.

“I’m okay. That just happens when I’m sick. Sorry guys that was gross.”

As if on cue, Eddie walked back into the bedroom. His sleeves were rolled up to his elbows and his hands were still damp from washing them. He pointed dramatically at Steve.

“I swear to GOD Steven, if you get me sick…”

Steve snuffled again and lowered the tissues from his face. “I’m sorry I can’t help it!”

Robin put an arm around Steve and spoke to the viewers.

“Well that was an absolute train wreck! We didn’t even get to the makeup and I’m pretty sure the boys are never going to do that again.” She laughed.

“We’re gonna end the stream here but be sure to tune in tomorrow when Nancy and I play Smash Bros. And go give Eddie and Steve a follow as well!! Byeeeeeeee!”

*****

[Four Days Later]

Eddie’s slouched forward at his gamer desk, a blanket draped over his shoulders. His complexion is paler than normal and the tip of his nose is tinged pink. He had a plastic water bottle and a small bowl off to the side, barely in frame.

“Hey guys.” He said sluggishly, punctuated with a watery sniffle.

You look so tired :(

Are you sick?

No jam session today??

Eddie’s eyes slowly moved back and forth as he read the stream comments.

“Someone got me sick, so instead of the regularly scheduled program, we’re playing Animal Crossing and eating soup.”

Steve shouted from the next room, “I said I was sorry!!”

Eddie sat up and turned over his shoulder, “Sorry doesn’t kill germs, Steven!!”

The long haired man twisted himself so that his legs were dangling over the armrest of his chair. Hugging the blanket tighter to him, he quickly brought an arm up to his face.

“N’xxT! H’ixxTCHU! iiKSHTiew!”

Bless you!!

Poor guy sounds awful

Take it easy okay?

“Ughhhh fuck,” Eddie groaned, leaving his face in the crook of his elbow while he reached for a tissue, “I’b sorry guys. This is so disgusti’g.”

He replaced his arm with the tissue, blowing his nose a few times before leaning back against the chair and going back to the game.

He played for an hour or so before Steve finally came in and placed a gentle hand on Eddie’s blanketed shoulder.

“Hey, it’s time for your night time cold meds.” He held his hand out, dropping two green pills into Eddie’s hand.

“Thanks Steve.” Eddie looked up at him from where he was sat in the chair.

Steve leaned over and pressed a kiss to Eddie’s forehead before disappearing back to the living room.

“Kay guys I think that’s it for tonight. Once I take these, I’ll sleep for like…1-3 business days.” Eddie joked to the stream, “I’ll see you guys later!”

#s/tranger t/hings #e/ddie m/unson #s/teve h/arrington #r/obin b/uckley #streamer AU #snzblr #snz kink #steddiesnz #kb writes #no hands challenge

[sheylads]

the guys

closeups under le cut

#(e) #(j) #(w) #(b) #(r) #(s) #(c) #(a) #(u) #the fellaaaaas the ladssssss the blokesssss the geezerrrrrssss etc etc #idk why this took weeks bc i procrastinated a lot but anyway it took longs and now i suddenly don't wanna post it? #but whatever here's the boysssssssss #100 ocs challenge #if they have a terrible name it's bc they're drozdli #no drozdli person has a pleasant sounding name #drozdli musicians #drozdli folklore

[pixiedeadbeat]

Publicity shot for The Monster that Challenged the World with Barbara Darrow, 1957.

#Barbara Darrow #the monster that challenged the world #b movie #sci fi #1950’s us film #1957

[troped-fanfic-challenge]

TROPED: Shadow And Bone

Are you a writer for the Shadow And Bone fandom? Are you excited for Season 2?! Are you interested in a challenging but totally unique fanfic writing competition? Then you've come to the right place! TROPED is hosting a special mini event for the S&B Fandom! Starting March 18th at 12:00am EST, TROPED will be hosting a two round mini event! Come join us and write some awesome fics!

HOW IT WORKS:

TROPED is pretty simple! This is usually a fully anonymous fanfic event where anyone can join at any time! We provide a prompt (four tropes + a theme), and give you a writing period, and you write the fics! All fics are submitted to our AO3 collections, which are specific to each event!

For this event, there will be two rounds each, which are separate from one another. You do not need to write in the first round to write for the second, and you are not obligated to write for the second round if you write for the first!

This event will be Optionally Anonymous! Because we want everyone to feel comfortable, and give more fandoms a chance to experience TROPED, we will not require this event to be anonymous! Prompts will be released at the start of each round!

TIMELINE:

ROUND ONE

R1 Writing Period: March 18th (12:00am EST) - March 29th (03:00am PST / 06:00am EST)

ROUND TWO

R2 Writing Period: March 30th (12:00am EST) - April 11th (03:00am PST / 06:00am EST)

*All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST) unless otherwise specified! Times are subject to change due to potential writing extensions.

There are no sign-ups necessary! Follow along here on Tumblr, the TROPED Twitter, or our Discord Server for more information on the mini events! (Links for our socials are on the pinned post of our Tumblr page!) We will release our prompts in these places and have all the information you need for each event!!! We are super excited to see more fandoms participate in TROPED!!

Please reblog this post to show a Grishaverse fan!!! Leave your trope hopes in the tags!!

#troped minis: s&b #troped: shadow and bone #troped minis #shadow and bone #s&b #shadow and bone fanfiction #fanfic challenge

[littleragondin]

Dragon!Mangkorn and Tiger!Yai, inspired by a still of one of their photo shoots and @scarefox comment that Mos looked very dragon-y in it (he did).

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#Big Dragon the series #Mangkorn x Yai #MangkornYai #the comment 100% triggered the whole thing which is why I tagged but if you want your @ removed please just tell me and I will! #thanks to the people in here who wrote about the series colors and yin/yang symbolism for guiding the aesthetic choices I made #a few comments on my choices bc I don't want to clog the description so #Mangkorn's 'crest' is inspired by Thai Naga dragons depictions I found #(I had started with more 'classically' chinese dragons as inspo but they just looked incredibly cool) #I didn't want to give Yai animal ears (despite finding it lovely) bc of the double ear situation it would induce #so he has a tail AND also skin stripped markings #(I *know* tiger's stripes are purely on their fur this is like artistic licence) #also it's fake fur on his coat #but he strikes me as the kind of guy who would wear faux-fur of his own species and play it as #'wearing the hide of my enemies so fckn b e w a r e' #and while Mangkorn's claws are false Yai's nails are particularly sharp #no other reason that I wanted him to claw Mangkorn's neck but had the visual of those claw-ring-things before anything else in there #anyway they both have really nice faces (especially Yai goodness) but very challenging to draw - a nice exercise #my art #qmdslkjf my autocorrect keep switching Yai to Yaoi I'm just („ಡωಡ„) p l e a s e

[flythesail]

I think a lot of what people were saying happened "too early" in s2 of shadow & bone was really the writers saying s3 is unlikely, so this is our chance to give everyone some of what would be to come :(

#you cant win either way #you write as if it's your last and you sell yourself short of your full potential #or you write anticipating more and end up with an incomplete story in the end #in a way i'd prefer the latter #because just as a writer.. the former can be a frustrating way to tell a story #you're restricting yourself #yet this just brings me back to how lucky nancy drew was to find out about the cancelation just in time to craft an ending for the series #if nd was canceled without a proper ending i'd have been inconsolable lol #re: shadow & bone though #i feel like to an extent it was a challenge from the start #s&b and soc shouldn’t have needed to be combined #netflix got two for the price of one #flythepost

[biherbalwitch]

"Know that I loved you, Aleksander. Know that it wasn't enough." Is actually an insane thing to hear from a parent. A MOTHER!! I will never mentally recover from this

#mommy issues go hard in this show #leigh bardugo stop personally offending me challenge #and it's almost the last thing she says to him #before her end is brought by HIS creation #the look in his eyes #the realisation of it all #the moment he truly becomes #the last of his kind #i could talk about his characterization for days #aleksander morovoza #baghra morozova #the darkling #shadow and bone #s&b netflix #s&b spoilers #s&b trilogy #s&b #shadow and bone spoilers #sab

[ablizmal]

light yagami would eventually manipulate and convince everyone that juliette is emotionally unstable and should be put into a mental institution, and everyone on the taskforce would start to believe it because not only are they being manipulated, but also they would choke on light’s boots if they could.

he would for sure mix misogyny into his reasoning (EVEN THO I’M NOT A WOMAN??? OKAY TWINK BOY LOL) and would start it off “i didn’t want to say this, but…” even tho he LOVES the fact that he’s saying it :/

#lizzie screams #cherry cola chaos #juliette rae ambers #I AM SORRY. i am probably mischaracterizing light #but also. do you guys think that we’ve been in the fandom sphere for so long that the ‘‘correct’’ way to depict light is kind of warped and #‘​‘ooc’’ despite the fact that y’all are writing him better??? #not gonna lie— i don’t understand light’s character completely yet #BUT at the very least at this point in time my light is more of a criticism of the light we see in canon #(i say knowing full well my s/i literally criticizes light every chance they get jfksjfksjdjs) #idk i think it’s funny that my light touches upon the keystones of how he’s A) fake af and doesn’t know how to be happy therefore he pushes #his self importance through the clouds to cope with the disconnect he feels from everyone else #B) he’s gay. it’s very clear that’s he’s in the closet (even if it’s invisible to him and everyone else around him) #and C) light is an awful person. i’m dead serious he has some TERRIBLE beliefs under the surface but no one’s ever challenged him about them #or if they DID light backed down immediately to fit in (if it wouldn’t interfere with his strong sense of justice)

[hauntedpearl]

this asshole cannot open his mouth and tell inej that she is his friend (forget about him being in love w her) but he will go out and put his entire life on the line for her (like. basically. use his share of the crow club as collateral.) truly an idiot <3

#kaz brekker be real for five fucking minutes challenge #doe watches s&b

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

#showaddywaddy #i wonder why #totp #top of the pops #1978 #okay everybody's gonna have to start putting up with things like this for a while #if you plan to still follow me #cute happy dancey 60's/70's/early 80's is my current mood mostly #there will probably be other things but that's what i'm leaning towards the most #because everything is just fun and happy and #that's what i crave #the first guy in the green suit was instantly my favorite of this band by the way #because he makes me laugh the most #say hello to buddy gask if you don't know him already #i am still learning everybody else's names #the lead singer in the orange suit is #is dave b. something with a b. bertram. bartram. bartrem. bernard. bertmar. #the drummer is romeo challenger #i literally cannot forget that one #that is an amazing name #he is also the last original member of the band right now #but wait they have two drummers but i mean the one drumming in this video in the purple suit #somebody's name is malcolm and i have no idea who #i think??? #THERE ARE SO MANY but i will learn them all eventually. i mean i have over 100 of their videos so like #expect more. not all at once but i mean scattered throughout the future #(edit: i learned who malcolm is while making the next set) #showaddywaddy gifs

[mrcspectr]

all right. recent discourse and also mine own brain sparked a terrible thought . sorry in advance (except… no .. im not ..) … if steven was born of Marc’s need to Get Away from his mother… what do you think caused Jake to appear as a second alter in Marc’s life ? is there a canon answer im unaware of atm ?? it’s hurting my whole soul to think about.. . although i have one (awful) teensy theory… maybe it was when Marc was going to …off himself.. at the base of Khonshu’s statue That Night and even just the thought of ending his own life could maybe be grounds for Jake’s existence? because.. i mean, Jake protects them, right ? even from themselves..

i was just hurting my own feelings enough that i absolutely had to come hurt yours abt it . cough. anyways here’s a spare hankie love if you need one . i’d lend you mine but it’s soaked bc im fucking sobbing over this . also im quitting my job to become your full time pre-published fic reader btw jsyk.

I truly believe that Jake would be born from Marc witnessing or experiencing something incredibly violent.

And violent could be a lot of things. The common theory is obviously Wendy's violence, and I've written about that before and still consider it a strong possibility. It would show how essential all three of them were for survival, and really reiterate the individual part they each played in it. Big fan of the whole idea of "we're all here because we were all needed."

What would really be interesting though, and this one has been absolutely doing an entire whirlwind in my brain lately, is that period of Marc being a soldier, a mercenary, and leading up to, as you said, his suicide attempt and pact with Khonshu. There's an entire world of possibilities there to explore. We could talk about his dishonorable discharge, and how that could've clouded his image of the military being an escape for him and his toxic relationship with authority. Or his PTSD, and how it's still not entirely sure at what point in his life it started to develop because all of it was violent. Marc has an entire relationship with violence in exchange for something else, whether that be money, or purpose, or the greater good, or even just as an ending. Jake could've come from any part of that.

Where he's at now, he wants to escape his own violence so completely that he was willing to die for it. He's willing to let Harrow live over it. But Jake doesn't, he won't, he can't. It would be so satisfying to see Marc come to terms with that through him, to discovering Jake and realizing what exactly he came from, and to finally understand what he needed to do to survive and to forgive himself for it.

#there's also a very specific event in the comics that i think would trigger jake forming but #i'm.. not sure marvel would ever attempt to take on that challenge in live action #marc's comic canon event that developed his DID is darkdark and m a y b e if diab tried it i could see them p o s s i b l y managing it #but only if it were him because as i've said #only love and light for him #anyway i could write paragraphs about marc's twisted relationship with violence and how it's molded his whole life but here we are #also people confuse jake's tie to violence as the same thing as 'jake's evil' and that's not the case at all #also thanks for the hankie i'm hysterical rn #iscarusholmes #asks #mk meta

[softsnzstuff]

KB Valentines Challenge Day 1 - Familial Love

Went the route of J/onathan and J/oyce Byers since they seem to get a lot of love separate but not together. 🤍KB

*****

“Hey mom, do you know where my jacket is? I can’t find it.” Will asked as he finished sipping up his backpack.

Joyce paused washing the dishes to think, “Try El’s room, she might’ve borrowed it.”

“Thanks Mom!” Will started to pivot towards her room when she stopped him.

“Have you seen Jonathan this morning?”

Will shook his head and shrugged, trotting to El’s room while she tied on her shoes by the front door.

Well that was super unlike him. Her eldest was usually up earlier than the rest to get his own chores and work done before driving the kids to school, but neither of them had seen him since last night.

She turned off the kitchen sink and toweled off her hands as she made her way down the hall to Jonathan’s bedroom. She knocked gently before opening the door cautiously in case he was changing. When no sounds came, she opened the door to further investigate.

The lights were off and curtains still drawn. It vaguely smelled like marijuana but at this point, she was just thankful it wasn’t anything worse. She noted the mound under two quilts and furrowed her brow. Really unlike him to sleep in…

She sat down on the edge of the bed and rested a cool hand on his forehead and then on his cheek. The sudden change in temperature startled the 19 year old as he sat up in bed panicked.

“Easy, easy! It’s just mom.” Joyce smiled, cupping his cheek. “Are you feeling okay honey? It’s almost 8.”

His eyes widened, “Shit the kids. Sorry I must have hit snooze too many times.” He scrambled out of bed digging for a fresh shirt as he coughed into his shoulder.

“I can take them.” Joyce offered, but Jonathan was too frantic to listen.

“S’fine, my fault. I should hhh should’ve… H’xT! snff ii’kTCH!”

“Jonathan. Let me take them.” She said firmly, resting a hand on his shoulder, “You get back in bed and rest today. I’ll make you some tea when I come back, okay?”

Jonathan was speechless. It was always him and his mom who were worried about Will. The tables almost never turned on him. He couldn’t deny that it felt good to be taken care of by his mom though.

He nodded and climbed back into bed, muttering a “thanks mom” before laying down once again.

Joyce smiled as she closed the door and headed towards the front of the house. “Okay you two! Get in the car. Time for school.”

Will laughed, “You’re taking us today?”

“Yep! Jonathan’s sick so I’ll be dropping you off and picking you up.”

El and Will smiled, thankful for some extra time with Joyce, “Okay!”

#kb valentines challenge #s/tranger t/hings #j/onathan b/yers #j/oyce b/yers #DAY 1

[biromanticbookbabe]

I picked up both The Common Reader and Stone Butch Blues again. I don't like leaving books unfinished.

#I listened to the first few chapters of Stone Butch Blues on Youtube but they only had the beginning chapters #I finally downloaded the pdf from Feinberg's (the author's) website and I've been reading it on my phone #I wanted to buy a print copy from a used book store but most for sale are 50+ dollars a copy! #stone butch blues takes place in the mid century so they're in the 1960's where I'm reading b/c some of the men are being sent to Vietnam #I never finished The Common Reader either #I just read parts of it for class or because they were Woolf's takes on authors I liked or read before #you KNOW I've already read all the victorian crit she did #she did chapters on Austen The Brontes and Eliot #these books both fit prompts for my reading challenge too #the birthyear book and the unfinished book #1993 was an interesting year for literature- Stone Butch Blues Girl Interrupted and Touched by Fire (a bipolar study) all came out #also happy 30th anniversary to all those books #both authors are lgbt! Woolf was bisexual #she's also my background with Radclyffe Hall and their pride flags (lesbian for Hall and bisexual for Woolf) #I finished Nita Tyndall's Who I was with Her and Norah Vincent's Self Made Man earlier this week #books #bookblr #currently reading