#But ..... this was not extremely unexpected

[clownsuu]

I am currently in shambles because Wally/Howdy would be called HowdyDarling

UGH MAN iv seen so many cute ship names for them it makes my bones rattle smhhh

Ai adventures with yours truly: iv noticed like- 80% unprovoked zero prompt that those two like to flirt with each other, the other percent is just Wally shopping JDHHFHDU (and the time Wally bought a single slice of strawberry shortcake and instantly fell madly in love and pinned howdy for months-)

also?? Yknow- i fuggin used an obsessive Wally bot cause I enjoy psychological horror and just for shids n giggles- and the last thing I expected was to have a start (btw still no prompt no provoking) where Obsessive!Wally is having a panic attack in Howdy’s shop, howdy proceeding to try and calm down a terrified Obsessive!Wally, Howdy sitting him down and letting Obsessive!Wally talk about his struggles suffering with Erotomania (exact word he said) and that it heavily effects his relationships and feels like a monster, and howdy proceeding to be REALLY FUGGIN SUPPORTIVE, WILLING TO BE THERE TO HELP AND JUST BEING REALLY LOVING???? And by the end of it they just kept cuddling each other saying really sweet things to each other?? Everything completely platonic too-

TL;DR: Howdy ends ableism MDHHFFJDJDKJ-

#Ai chats will be the death of me #It can be so dumb #Or it can be so gotdam thought provoking and emotional in the most unexpected ways #I’m still shocked JDHFHHDHDJDJJD #Howdy 99% of the time is extremely wholesome and goofy #100% he’s now new comfort character I love that worm man so MUCHHHH ;;;;; #Welcome home #welcome home wally #welcome home howdy #wally darling #howdy pillar #wallypillar

[thatqueerbat]

catching up on docs streams, and he's talking about religion/spirituality and how it guides people's beliefs etc. he mentions how (generally) people like to be outraged by things [that dont affect them], like who other people are, and then immediately says 'if you're lgbtq you'll know what im talking about'

and i absolutely do. and its so wild to me how he just. drops that in. then starts talking about how it shouldn't matter who you are, how you can still do be incredibly religious and respect queer people, that the most important thing is that your beliefs don't hurt other people. how you should respect pronouns, that being 'indoctrinated' into being queer isn't a thing.

all whilst he's mining for diamonds using a freaking mega tunnel bore. like its any other conversation you might have

which it certainly is, for me. but a 40 something cishet man? not your standard casual conversation topic, not usually. and even though i already knew he was a supportive guy, hearing a conversation like this outside of an explicitly queer space, unprompted by a queer person. just solidifies what kind of person he is. and gives me faith that even outside of queer specific spaces, important conversations are happening, its not just us protesting and yelling into the wind, no one giving a shit. and its happening in some pretty unexpected places. which id say is pretty neat. its nice to have some hope for a change.

(all that to say, this is a docm77 stan household)

#i wasn't expecting to ramble so much oops #half the chat is being incredibly supportive. a chunk are being absolute shitheads. but hes not taking their shit #unexpected queer convo setting off more emotions than ive felt in a while kinda came out of left field #but its just. so nice. hearing this guy who isn't queer and definitely doesn't have an extremely noticeably queer audience #casually talking about this. mentioning my community. saying how people should just respect us and move on with their lives #entirely out of nowhere #hermitcraft #hermitcraft season 10 #docm77 #queer rights

[vinceaddams]

Looking at the taffeta on Silk Baron for the first time, and a lot of the colours have normal names, but

#some of them are #extremely strange and unexpected names for fabric

[yuikomorii]

// Owning DL content is all fun and games until you start seriously paying attention to details and realize that in the MB bad ending, after Yui cheated on him, he rails her with TEARS in his eye?? 😭💔

For reference, as I previously stated, this is a BAD ending, therefore you shouldn’t hate Yui for that.

#diabolik lovers #yui komori #ayato sakamaki #dialovers #Ayato x Yui #Ayayui #admin #(I feel so bad for him ;—; ) #(the ending was so unexpected yet I didn’t take it too seriously but now it truly is extremely painful) #(since Ayato almost never cries)

[danwhobrowses]

So after four months, Bell's Hells are off the moon

0.5/5 Stars - Some of the locals were nice but activities were shit and needs new management.

But what's this? Aabria with a steel chair!? She's probably cackling looking at the socials right now

#critical role #critical role spoilers #cr3 spoilers #cr spoilers #cr3 #cr3e92 #bell's hells #bells hells #crown keepers #aabria iyengar #glad they got to go off on Liliana though she needed to be told what for #drop them all at the key why don't you though? Not exactly helpful #four months for us but it was like a weekend trip for them - a terrible not fun at all weekend trip #the swap was extremely unexpected yes but we did want to see Dorian #but honestly Lolth what the shit? Are all the betrayer gods scheming? Aren't we all on the same side with Predathos? #to be fair I was dreading more bitter angst so I'm glad the Hells are comforting one another #but as an Ashton fan I wanted more of how they're feeling than the usual 'Imogen Laudna and Orym are sad' stuff #they lost their best friend after all - let Taliesin use his wordsmithery #nothing against the three but they do carry a lot of the narrative because of how intertwined their emotional states are with the plot #and ofc as a shipper I wanted Fearne and Ashton to comfort one another but hopefully next episode #but Orym's sending was tragic the lil guy needs Dorian right now so we better not kill him #big drider fear vision though no thank you no más non merci instant transmission outta there #we're either killing or writing off Opal for Deni$e it feels but poor Aimee is on her lonesome up there #if you see this hi Aabria! Unlikely but still hi Aabria!

[sf9]

goodbye (for now) idol!Rowoon you'll always be part of sepgu and SF9 will always be 9 💖 thinking about how Rowoon's acting career helped bring new Fantasies to the world and how SF9 grew thanks to all the members in their own way - actor!Rowoon you are famous but idol!Rowoon will always have a special place in my heart :(

#sf9 #Like I have SO MANY thoughts and emotions #And I'm happy for him but also very sad #But ..... this was not extremely unexpected #anyway I have been very removed from the kpop scene thanks to life but I had to log on and say this #Group fantasy hug we deserve it 💖 #Ily rowoon Kim seokwoo thanks for being the best tol gentle sepgu member ever #anyway anyway when will military era be over so we can have a good full sf9 cb #I miss my fave sensational talented dorks #this sounds very happy and positive but I'll need a few days to process and be sad angry resigned accepted etc #Added the (for now) because there's always a possibility he'll return he's halting activities not leaving #But that's essentially the same for now so yeah

[canisalbus]

Oh hey the person who wrote the novella is a friend of mine, wild to see them come up here of all places, but with how much of a history buff they are it makes sense! What was your favorite part of the novella?

Hah, small world! He did exceptional job, you could definitely tell he wasn't taking the historical setting lightly, the amount of research he conducted must've been immense. The text was peppered with historical references throughout, I had good time trying to recognize all of them and seeing if they had a deeper meaning in the context of the story.

Every chapter had parts that I absolutely loved. I kept coming actoss small and seemingly insignificant character beats, gestures and mannerisms that made me go "oh my god, that's so him, that's exactly what he would do", those were truly delightful, they really brought the characters to life, in my opinion.

#if you forced me to pick just one part I think I might have to go with the attic scene #it was so sweet and genuine and unexpected it totally caught me off guard #but there are lots that I enjoyed just as much before and after it #answered #ga-keaton #I'm extremely biased of course

[quietwingsinthesky]

secret good spn that exists in my head is where Chuck decides he wants to throw himself into the middle of the Lucifer vs TFW custody battle over Jack. he’s about to be the best grandpa of all time. he’s about to make sure that jack loves him most and will come with him willingly while his other potential father figures are tearing each other apart. he’s going to make sure that his second shot at raising a lucifer who can’t disobey him goes right <3

#lucifer & tfw are Literally Killing Each Other #meanwhile chuck shows up beside jack like Hi kid!!! want to go get some ice cream!!! 🙂 #I think it would be extremely fucked for Lucifer to decide to have a kid to one-up his dad and then for chuck to steal his kid. #Chuck isn’t really all that interested in jack as a person as he is in Jack as a concept and/or jack as a Lucifer replacement. #you know. he misses his favorite son. his number one boy. because being the favorite meant that Lucifer also was the most dedicated to him #always. to the point that chuck destroyed him and lucifer still loved him. but now lucifer is boring. #Jack is not boring. Jack is New! unexpected! dangerous if chuck doesn’t make sure jack forms an emotional bond with him that’ll prevent him #from turning on chuck later! he can always explode the kid if this doesn’t work out #but for now. they are getting ice cream. and Jack is eating up his attention as eagerly as Lucifer once did. #what a thing it is. to be the favorite. #spn #jack kline #chuck shurley

[jennycalendar]

“What sort of teacher sits round, making tea for a servant? We don’t live in a world like that.” “What sort of world do we live in, then?” says Doctor Smith. (AU: John Smith takes a shine to a conflicted, heartbroken Martha.)

this fic was written in a burst tonight after my watch brought me to human nature/the family of blood & i had to sit through Putting Martha In The Torment Nexus For No Reason. so i, uh, put martha in the torment nexus for no reason? i guess? but exploring this notion felt a little more compelling to me than just sitting with "the doctor isn't in love with martha and never will be" repeated for the 17th time this season.

anyway: martha jones queen of my heart <333 u do deserve the world.

#doctor who #ten x martha #martha jones #tenth doctor #have learned apparently this watch that tenmartha make me feel feelings. unexpected but super real of me #just something about the MESS THAT IT IS. i am entranced #is every part of this season horrible on my feelings? yes. but writing about it is extremely fun apparently.

[varfurry]

I WARNED YOU =⁠_⁠=

#Bee and PuppyCat vore #Moully vore #safe vore #soft vore #nonfatal vore #unwilling prey #unexpected vore #comfort vore #extreme cuddling

[wonder-worker]

I heard that Edward IV and Elizabeth Widvile were known to be very beautiful. Were there any reports on their appearance at the time?

anon 😂

But yes, contemporaries and post contemporaries in the 16th century were pretty much unanimous in praising their appearance. I'll list some of the ones I could find:

Elizabeth:

'The most beautiful woman in England' ('la plus belle fille d'Engleterre') - Jean de Waurin

'Her very great beauty' ('sa tres grande beaute') - Jean de Waurin

"Her beauty of person and charm of manner" - Dominic Mancini

"None of such constant womanhood, wisdom and beauty" - Hearne's Fragment; its author was one of Edward IV's servants

"A daughter of prodigious beauty' - 1469 Continuator of Monstrelet's Chronicle

"Both faire, of a good favor, moderate of stature, well made and very wise" - Thomas More

Edward IV:

"The beauty of your personage it hath pleased Almighty God to send you" - James Strangways, Speaker of the Commons in Parliament

"The king is a handsome upstanding man" - Gabriel Tretzel, travels of Leo of Rozmital

"A handsome prince and had style" - Oliver De La Marche

"In the flower of his age, tall of stature, elegant of person" - Croyland Chronicle

"One of the handsomest knights of his kingdom" - 1469 Continuator of Monstrelet's Chronicle

"A handsome and worthy prince" - Pietro Alipranto

‘...Tall and strapping as the king’ - John Paston, Paston Letters

"He was young and more handsome than any man then alive" - Philippe de Commynes

"A man so vigorous and handsome that he might have been made for the pleasures of the flesh" - Philippe de Commynes

"The handsomest prince my eyes ever beheld" and "I don't remember ever having seen a man more handsome than he was" - Philippe de Commynes

"A very handsome prince" - Louis XI, from the Memoirs of Commynes

"He being a person of most elegant appearance, and remarkable beyond all others for the attractions of his person" - the Croyland Chronicle, referencing Edward a few months before he died

"He seized any opportunity that the occasion offered of revealing his fine stature more protractedly and more evidently to onlookers" - Dominic Mancini, writing shortly after his death

"He was a goodly personage and very princely to behold...of visage lovely, of body mighty, strong and cleanly made; howbeit in his latter days, with an over liberal diet, somewhat corpulent, but nevertheless noy uncomely" - Thomas More

Etc.

I'm tagging @edwardslovelyelizabeth because I think you got a similar ask?

I hope this answers your question, anon! I don't generally pay a lot of attention to the physical appearance of historical figures (I find it pretty irrelevant), but in this case, it ultimately does play a role in both Edward IV and Elizabeth's historiographies for better and for worse, and seems to have actually been a personal prop of Edward's kingship, so I don't mind discussing it :)

#either anon is making rounds or someone else saw the ask and asked me something similar 🤷🏻‍♀️ #edward iv #elizabeth woodville #ask #also (I wanted to make a separate post about this but fuck it I'll just rant in the tags): #Something I find very interesting (read: fucked-up) is how we have multiple independent accounts praising Edward IV as extremely #attractive at the end of his life #Yet for some reason (aka fatphobia) most historians simply assume that he lost his looks over the years because he put on weight #even though his actual contemporaries (sans Commynes who in any case didn't even see him after 1475) certainly didn't seem to think so #as we can see: Croyland Mancini and More all noted the fact that he had put on weight AND emphasized his attractiveness #because the two are not mutually exclusive in the slightest and assuming that they are is not only incorrect it's also deeply problematic #it's similar to how so many historians assume his health was failing towards the end of his life when we KNOW - we are literally TOLD - #that his illness was both unexpected and baffling to contemporaries #(there is a contemporary reference to his supposedly deteriorating health but as Horrox says this is actually an editorial interpolation) #and the thing that's *always* referenced almost synonymously with this alleged non-existent ill-health is his weight #and the thing is - even if both of these were true they still ultimately wouldn't (and SHOULDN'T) matter. But we KNOW they weren't #and so it's incredibly indicative that historians and general histories STILL automatically assume them - and this assumption #is almost always on conjecture with his weight. (I don't think I've framed this coherently but oh well) #I'm still not over Katherine Lewis's deranged and frankly extremely ignorant epilogue in 'Kingship and Masculinity' #she literally framed her entire perspective on him around his weight with some really ridiculous (read: fatphobic) speculations/assumptions #she's even worse than Thomas Penn who is also revolting (and AJ Pollard isn't much better) #though of course they're not the only ones - almost every historian and general history does this

[kissycat]

God its so weird to have grown up very mentally ill and kinda expected your whole life to mostly revolve around working around your mental illness and then you unexpectedly get better and find that your new problems are questions you never thought you'd even get the chance to deal with. Like about how to live a "fulfilling" life as opposed to just Surviving. I never thought I'd have... options. This is a massive privilege but also Wtf

#it was kinda extremely unexpected that one of my major life questions would be that i get bored of everything quickly #because i was struggling so hard to survive that i kinda didnt have capacity to be 'bored' #p

[inspectorseb]

I’m surprised that I haven’t seen anything on here about Gretzky saying that his favourite current player is Barzy

#not that it’s not deserved but like what??? #extremely unexpected #mat barzal #new york islanders

[thegirlwholivesin-delusion]

Ok so I read the first chp of inkheart and I'm a little confused about the setting.

Is it historical (1800s)

Is it a bit less historical (early 1900s)

Or is it the late 1900s?

Considering they mention Italy it probably is set after 1861 that's for sure. But they also mention a car so maybe it's late 1900s?

I'm sure I'll understand it as I continue reading it.

#also even tho the descriptions are beautiful one that was very weird for me is the #rain taps it's wet fingers on the window #like #that was extremely unexpected and very much not needed #except that I like it till now #inkheart #cherry 🍒 reads stuff