#Look at his absolute joy!

[insane-weasel]

I barely watch Schlatt anymore but when I see a clip of him absolutely gushing and losing his marbles because he spots a cat in the background of Ted's video and immediately cooing and talking about Jambo it reminds me why I love him

#Jschlatt #I wish his core audience sometimes wasn't so wretched #He is actually a soft and dumb and loving man and Im aroace but for people like him I'd die #Like just look at his eyes light up! #Look at his absolute joy! #Men who love cats make me think I could be gay #Honestly anyone who shows real true love and care about a cat melts me #People who own cats but don't seem to care about them make me so upset #Anyway I'm high

[egophiliac]

wait, hold on, I love them

#art #twisted wonderland #eyestrain #i don't know why i am SO into the twsties wearing these super basic t-shirts but for some reason i absolutely am #i take my little joys where i can get them okay #and i do love when they have to do a special ortho version of the Generic Outfit because he is canonically not allowed to wear clothing #looking forward to seeing his bloom gear! #(chanting) robot witch hat robot witch hat give me the robot witch hat

[frnkiebby]

he is gonna make me CRY~🎃

#he’s so fucking precious #LOOK AT HIS FUCKING SMILE #I CANT #the absolute unadulterated joy #he’s just so so so cute #help i love him #frnkiebby #frank iero #mcr #frnkiero #mcrmy #mcr5 #frnkie #my chemical romance #my chem #ilhsm

[the-kipsabian]

#today on stream kip genuinely absolutely completely loses it. because flynn doesnt know what dnd is #if you look close enough at the first gif you can pin point the moment he actually lost it. his face crunches up before he covers his eyes #its very stupid but its so cute his laugh brings me the joy i really needed tonight ;; 💜💜 #look at my cringe idiot man please hes so fucking precious #kip sabian #aew #all elite wrestling #aewedit #wrestlingedit #wrestling #night gifs #my beloved #kip in a box #(rp blogs dont reblog; saving and other personal use with tag credits is fine)

[crescentfool]

does anyone else want to stick these two in the same room together or is that just me... i simply think they are adjacent in vibes... (+a bonus thing???)

get u a fictional guy that makes you feel like this... seeing these guys just evoke a Similar Kind of Brain Chemical and Response. Help Me.

also have bonus yosuke doodle featuring the same brushes used here...! from january 23rd, lol.

#fe3h #sylvain jose gautier #persona 4 #yosuke hanamura #crossover #lizzy does art #umm... hi.... (looks away) this is cringe but i am free. what is life if not to draw your favorite characters together on the same canvas #for the record i do not intend to conflate these two as the same character because they are NOT #'lizz. what on EARTH do you see in these guys.' you know. i wish i could answer that. (actually. i can.) #experiencing both of these characters sent me into an absolute spiral of denial when i realized that i enjoyed them #Words Hard but Basically i think its fascinating how both sylvain and yosuke have like this happier front that they project outwards that- #masks the struggles that they don't want others to see... and while both of them do cringe shit thats incredibly stupid #both of these characters have shown themselves to have like?? actual braincells? (re: yosuke at the start of p4 + sylvain support convos) #granted the kinds of themes and messages each of them is meant to convey varies bc of the setting and stories they are in #the sylvain + yosuke pipeline.... oh also i think the fandoms tend to rationalize both of their behavior towards women as like. #a closeted bi case. it's kinda strange to me why they overlap in certain ways hm hm... #but its just so funny to me that like. idk. they're both unbearable. they irritating for a reason /s #i should really draw these two more often (in like separate illusts) they are so fun i love their color schemes and designs it sparks joy #ok ok god i had a lot more to say about that than i thought oops. um. yeah. i learned how to draw for stuff like this. worth itTM

[arrowsperpetualcringe]

More 0507 shenanigans, except it's Shidou's turn to be silly.

Ft: Happy Mahiru

#JUST to clear any confusion--- Mikoto's reaction is not him being homophobic (i hc him as gay) #he's just absolutely ASTOUNDED by the stupidity of his elders #one of which is a whole ass doctor #Also--- Kazui confiding in Mahiru about his crush #He's startled by her volume and afraid to be caught #but the look of sheer joy on her face is worth it in his eyes #Kazui? more like.... DADZUI... H A H #sorry that was horrible #ANYWAY- #milgram #kazui mukuhara #milgram kazui #shidou kirisaki #milgram shidou #mikoto kayano #milgram mikoto #mahiru shiina #milgram mahiru #milgram project #0507 #kazui x shidou #my art #sketch

[lunar-soren]

"places like this are perfect for trysts. er, not that I would ever do such a thing! heaven forfend…"

… sure, ferdinand.

ferdinand may have a tryst with hubert by the waterfront. as a treat.

#soren does an art #ferdinand von aegir #hubert von vestra #ferdibert #fire emblem three hopes #ferdinand is a LIAR dot png #look. I just think ferdinand deserves one spot of joy in the absolute Shit Show that is his life in sb #therefore: tryst with hubert

[crossbackpoke-check]

Substance, Shadow, and Spirit [remixed, abridged] by Tao Yuanming

#liv in the replies #patrice bergeron #boston bruins #brad marchand #do you ever think about how brad marchand said that when bergy retired he would retire or are you capable of normal thought i'm not at all #please say a gratitude for both my sanity& y'all that this poem (which has been saved in my camera roll with the vague idea of using it for #??? ​long) & not one of the poems i had saved for carey for a really long time & remixed & everything with another poem until i found a poem #that absolutely murdered me in cold blood but there is an alternate universe where i did& then had to explain my unhinged thoughts to you. #anyway how are we feeling about bergy retirement. pspspspsp sara & luna are y'all doing okay like. the doc title for this one was #patrice the hockey player means a lot to me but patrice the person means so much more #which is why the end line of the other poem was so *%"@^)! (you love / what you are) because patrice does. like he is a whole ass good huma #& now since no one asked i need to tell you all the details about everything also y'all please clap i made an edit with NO baby pictures #although i did find one & save it & minimal genres of photo i always use in edits because they're my taste & aesthetic but anyway. #when i saved the first photo and marked it as one i wanted i accidentally wrote “how will he know they love him” which is not the line but #makes me feel feral about patrice & the rest of them all had hurtful names too but also. the third picture is literally a CELLY like brad #just scored a goal & he is clinging to bergy for dear life with that shit i saved that as “oh the agony on his face for unendurable” #& yes it is one of my cliches to have a draft day picture but in my defense the lifelong bond that patrice has/d with boston deserved to be #there even if i put in the love story & YES that picture is from the 2011 playoff right below it shared joy & pain & i couldn't tell you #when the brad marchy photo for together forever is except for the fact that i saw it & just the gut punch of oh my god the way he looks at #things men will praise you for is the stanley cup. duh. but i love the contrast of “some deed” being the stanley cup but then #bergy's choice to do noble deeds (ends up still earning praise &that's my note to his efforts outside of hockey we love a supportive captai #should also mention the first two i came up with & had the photos i knew i wanted for were the first and last one alskaldk but i KNEW i #wanted chara somewhere in the paragraph about leaving & then while i was looking found the one of bergy playing tuukka on accident & yes #i do have to make goalie jokes every time. no reprieve . no dice/no deal/no goal goalies have no rest/reprieve etc etc the one that killed #me though was looking for a patrice award pic & i wanted basically the one that i got for “how will you know any will praise you” & instead #also got the picture of patrice winning the some community hero award for charity work that he does & i love him mama & of COURSE that puck #is from bergy's 1000 game who do you think I am (if you guessed sleepy and emotional about patrice you'd be right) and ALSO please be ready #for all the patrice posts/bruins posts that have been sitting in my drafts to be released on this occasion of patrice retirement #I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT TUUKKA ALSO RETIRED THAT’S WHY HE WAS ON WISE OR SIMPLE NO REPRIEVE AND THAT LATE OR SOON WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE #CHARA BECAUSE CHARA LEFT FIRST TO GO TO THE CAPS AND THEN LEFT IN RETIRMENT HE LEFT SOON BUT NOT FOR REAL THEN LATER LEFT FOR REAL (RETIRED)

[racewinner]

i now have a top 3 podium pictures of all time btw

#these all send me into the fucking stratosphere #lewis looking absolutely miserable pooring champagne on a fernando who looks like he's dissociating #the absolute EVIL emanating from pierre while poor little esteban's crying #the carefree joy of mathieu while wout looks like he's planning several murders in his mind #these are all just too good

[torturedpoetemotions]

The thing is, I get it. On the one hand, I really do get it. It sucks to see the character you identify with die. It sucks even more when the character is representation that we rarely get, or when the death feels like it robs their story of all its meaning, or is meant to send a message about how we're viewed by society. God knows I've experienced enough of those kinds of character deaths, and every one of them hurts.

But the way we talk about character death in fandom does bother me sometimes. Because it's like it's all or nothing: either happily ever after and it's a good story, or character death and it's bleak and meaningless.

Here's the thing: we are all going to die.

That isn't an indictment of who we are or how we live our lives or how much we matter. It just is. We're going to die someday, and it's so bleak to me to think what we do as we live loses all its meaning, just because it won't fade to black with an open ending on an image of a sunset. I don't think that's true. I think it's so obviously untrue.

As I get older, and more ill, and more disabled, and more viscerally aware that I am not going to live forever, that I don't have all the time in the world...I think there's comfort to be had, even in stories that end in death. There's meaning to be found in characters dying after having lived, dying with the people they love standing near, dying having said what they needed to say.

It's not the story I gravitate towards either. I don't like thinking about death, and stories about it will never be my first choice. But it's a story I will have to experience at some point, whether I like it or not.

So I find comfort in the idea that a character's ending can be a death that isn't a negation of their importance or erasure of their story, where they're at peace. Where they did what they wanted and they knew who they were, and they said their piece and have few regrets.

And I know when we're young we don't want to think about it or frame it that way, because so many of us grow up thinking about death like it's an escape hatch we constantly have to fight against using.

But when you get older, you realize that all any of us can hope for, sooner or hopefully much later, is to die having lived a life we loved.

And in that sense, not every character death is a bad ending. Not every character death takes the meaning and the love and flushes it down the drain like it didn't matter. Sometimes a character death is a reminder that it matters so much, in fact it's the only thing that does, because ultimately it's love that lives on after we're gone.

We all become stories in the end, and it's love that's the catalyst for that transformation.

#ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 spoilers #death cw #izzy hands #like i also don't believe izzy's actually dead #but if he is. i don't at all think his death renders his story pointless #it absolutely matters that he embraced joy and knew he was loved #it matters so much and i'm so sorry that anyone thinks it doesn't #because what a fucking bleak way to look at life

[queenlucythevaliant]

Some off-the-cuff thoughts on overspiritualizing patterns in science

I remember watching a talk in middle school youth group about laminin, the "molecule that holds your whole body together" which was supposedly shaped like a cross. The suggestion, basically, was that the cross's image was integral to our molecular makeup and that this was part of God's design in a very Significant way. I was a burgeoning STEM girl, so I taped a diagram of a laminin up next to my bed for a while.

(As I would later find out, the whole laminin thing had/has some reach among Christians. There are T-shirts and everything)

Fast forever to spring of my freshman year as a microbiology student. I take my first course in cell bio, and I learn that laminins are actually one of many families of ECM glycoproteins. They aren't really any more significant in "holding the body together" than collagens, elastins, or fibronectins. They're very important, yes, but ultimately just one type of adhesive protein among many. And! They also do a bunch of other stuff that's way cooler than just. Adhesive.

While some laminins do bear resemblance to a cross when diagramed, it's really only because they have three subchains. Some are t-shaped, but others are y-shaped, and those don't look anything like a cross. Also, when they're in situ rather than in a nice, neat diagram, they tend to be all floppy and then they look even less cross-like.

Source

And when I learned about this I was oddly relieved. It felt like I was right about something that I couldn't even put into words, and that somehow the field of what I could call glorious had grown wider.

Christians are called to see and marvel at the presence of God in creation. I love doing that! I see God left and right through my scientific studies. Yet I also know that the human brain is pattern-seeking and that we are prone to pareidolia. I honestly don't know that there's a substantive difference between seeing the cross in some laminins and seeing Jesus on a piece of toast. It's all just seeing patterns that arise from something else (in the case of laminins, being able to bind three different molecules at once) and attributing spiritual significance. God is sovereign and maybe in the grand scope of his vision for creation it means something, but in terms of seeing God's hand in science I just find it so... small?

You could spin so many four-chain or four-domain proteins or goodness knows how many other molecules into images of the cross if you pick the right diagram. You could take every pattern of three in nature (and there are many!) as an image of the Trinity. If you really, really wanted to, you could take every six in organic chemistry as a sign of the beast, which would be hilarious in its misguidedness. It just becomes so literalistic and dull so very fast.

Look! Wouldn't you rather talk about the fact that laminins begin to appear along the edge of a developing lung at just ten weeks of human embryonic development, suggesting that they play a role in alveolar morphogenesis? That they're present in the neural stem-cell niche, which makes them an attractive candidate for helping to treat degenerative neurological conditions? I want to go back to whoever gave that talk that I watched in youth group and shake him and say, "God did that, and you're still hung up on the fact that laminins have three subchains?"

#God is so so big and as a result the horizons of science are ENORMOUS #very often when Christians talk about science it's with a tone of ' #see! look we found it! the God molecule! incontrovertible proof of the divine!' #and like. my brothers and sisters in Christ. God didn't create the world for us to prove our way to him #he created a world that shouts and cries his name but we have to know HIM first! not the other way around #you're not gonna find God in Laminins if you're fixated on it being this big significant Thing that Proves that GOD SIGNS HIS HANDIWORK! #you can absolutely meet him there if you take the time to marvel at the glory of a molecule this versatile #about which we can ask questions! and draw closer to our creator by understanding his creation better! #just. i feel such a grave responsibility and a glorious joy towards promoting scientific literacy among Christians #it's hard to describe but in a lot of ways it's the thing i want most to do with my life #also to be clear: not trying to vague-post about anyone #Kaylie's post about quarks did inspire this but only insomuch as it skirted right up against this subject #about which i clearly have a lot to say #the original post was gleeful and charming and I'm so glad that you're enjoying your physics book! #just. i think it's important not to fixate on the symbols at the expense of the actual wonders of creation #wow I am such a woman in stem #good grief #pontifications and creations #all truth is god's truth #endless forms most beautiful

[aqqleshiqqing-archive]

sniff sniff sniff ueueueu the things we do to make them the happiest brothers alive

#again thank you bee (beeholyshit) for drawin the sillies hehehee mwamwmawa ILY #this brings me so much joy AAAAHH #also wait i just noticed the kiss mark i wonder who gave that HUH (criminal side eyes you) #rhys in bees style im so im so wiwiwiwiwi WAA HES SO HANDSOME ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ #RHYS WOULD ABSOLUTELY DO THIS TO HIS LIL BUD #hes very proud of him and carmines like MY HAIRRR RAGHH #its ok he enjoys it #i love the way his facial structure looks in comparison to carmine like its very angled and shaped and lil bro is just #CIRCULAR ROUND BABY #I LOVE THEM SOOOO MUCH HUHUHUHUUU #he's very proud 😭😭😭 #the luigi drawing up there HAHAHAHAH #rhys.insert #carmine.fam #bee tag #~ lovely gifts #giggling so hard at rhys' body RAAGSHSVAJJSBAA ITS. HELL YEAH 💥💥💥💥

[harri-etvane]

I'm beta testing an app for U24 and in the group chat everyone is talking about how much they admire Ze & it just fills my heart 🥹

#we've asked if they can pass a message on to him 🥰 #poor thing looks absolutely shattered lately #like I love that he went to Kharkiv and inspected the defences etc bc it seems like being with his people is a joy for him #but god if I dont just want him to not be in harms way & somewhere cosy and quiet with some tea and a book

[aerticent]

Cal makes me feel actually insane like i can’t put into words how he makes me feel i love him so bad he’s jsut so djdjfjsjdjdjdj

#breaks my heart that i will never be able to put into words the pure joy this man brings me #i want to pry his head open and look inside of his brain #i’m tryin to live inside of him like he’s freddy fazbear #i want to put him in a box and violently shake him #like maven is cool and all but Cal evokes an entirely different emotion from me #my feelings for maven usually r just sad and little else he doesn’t bring me the same joy Cal does #Cal makes me feel like exploding #my only pookie that isn’t a grown man/woman age 30+ going through something worse than hell itself #i love him so bad he’s going through the absolute most and blame himself for all of it i love him sb

[steves-strapcollection]

People: [read a Steddie fic]

Steddie Fic: [is about Steddie and the characters in it are largely focused on the Steddie aspect as it is... A fic about Steve and Eddie. Maybe hones in on Robin being the first gay person Steve has probably KNOWN he's fucking met in his entire life and plays on that for his Sexuality Crisis]

People: why do all the characters seem to only care about Steddie? Why do these Steddie fics that are about Steve and Eddie not show the women do anything that aren't about Steve and Eddie? This fandom has a woman problem.

#Like fandom absolutely has a woman problem #But ur rly fucking setting urself up for disappointment if ur looking for fully-formed women in m/m ship fics #Like honestly if ur expecting fully-formed characters other than the main two characters in a ship fic like..... Maybe relax? #Not all fics are gonna be like novels and even then it's like #Sometimes??? Characters are just???? A device for the plot????? And that's OKAY #Like please relax #Like this isn't a REAL ISSUE #I will repeat: FANDOM HAS A WOMAN PROBLEM BUT THE M/M SHIPS (generally) AREN'T THE ISSUE #Like u can say 'I wanna see more fics with Robin doing more than taking care of Steve or being his gay advisor' #W/o being fuckn rude about a majority of Steddie fics ppl wrote in their limited free time in the hell scape that is planet earth #Just to feel a MODICUM of joy #Like that is legit for real a thing #Sorry I know the overly bitchy post I read doesn't rly apply to me and my fic I'm just defensive on behalf of everyone else #Making this non-reblogable bc it's just a vent

[krikidilly]

Delicious art style. Delicious attitude. Delicious sense of freedom and expression. Delicious humor. Delicious rarepairs.

Delicious comments in my tags about childhood wonderment and emotion that I think about every day without fail and revisit frequently because they make my week better.

Delicious blog. One of my favorites. /pos /gen

GUGH,, trying so hard to formulate a coherent sentence here because my mind is complete giddy brain soup. The joys.. butAGCK!!!! Vague hand motions, I am very very happy thank you soso much! ! I've been trying be more raw with my emotions in like day to day and with my art, and being as indulgent and unfiltered as I can manage and hearing its enjoyed is! Eek! Runs away! (Positively!) Especially with my tags,, elated to know you look at them often! It means a lot to me because YOUR art means a lot to me!! Both in style and meaning and overall just. The filling and the crust does that make any sense at all! It makes me feel a lot!!! I think im rambling a little um um EEK thankYEW! I appreciate you and this sos much! All the same back to YOU❗ FOR REALLY!!!!🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇

#who the hell put a mouse in this post! whos eeking!!! #sorry this isnt eloquent at all.. being told nice things makes me so giddy my mind melts out my ears #but FOR REAL. ALL THE SAME BACK TO YOU!!! especially your own attitude and especially your tags!!! #i go a little out of my gourd! i get so happy i pace around my room! the joys!!! THE JOYS!!💥💥🎉 #sorry i sound like an incoherent dork but yesyesyes anyways i am so very grateful that anything. me. is liked at all its .. encouraging #to the absolute max #uhm but i think the words are running iut of my head i shluld wrap this post up um hi if youre looking i hope you have a great day!! #🙇💗💗💗 #asks #i know i couldve just been like oh thank you i appreciate it! but the rambling joy and whismy got me