#Strange and Interesting Pictures

[memedisco]

This guy’s socks at the gym.

#Strange and Interesting Pictures

[the-meme-monarch]

happy birthday to my friends and i’s knight chara and strange someone frisk aus/theories :]

hi for undertale reasons i don’t like any combination of shipping chara frisk and asriel. if you ship them go away 👍

#strange someone frisk #knight chara #the art gallery #deltarune #i remember seeing someoen say that gaster might be talking to the knight and the strange someone so i wanted to think abt that ! i don’t kn #THE entry 17 ‘dark darker yet darker this next experiment will be very very interesting what do you two think’ ONE. I ERASED THE TRA #I ERASED THE TRANSLATION SOMEHWERE ALONG THE WAY BUT YEAH HES SAYING ‘what do you two think’ IN THAT ONE #I don’t know if I’ll keep up w that but I’m picturing it like. chara is doing this for extra credit JSNSNJSNSJS yeah sure I’ll help you wi #with your experiment. can you write me a letter of recommendation. #frisk may be doing this for Let’s See If I Can Get Back To Undertale reasons #is this undertale or deltarune gaster. idk. idk if there’s even a separate version Of him considering the split across time and space thing

[simmyfrobby]

i was already so insane about Kris Letang everything that's happened these past couple of months kinda feels like a little bit of overkill

#what do you mEAN he got a new Creature!love interest #who is fun and strange and hot and seems determined to win him over one way or another #what do you mEAN he met his pretty little captains parents and took a picture w them whilst #wearing a shirt w sids face on it #what do you MEAN his absolute fool of a superstar girlfriend got into a fight for him #NONE OF THAT NEEDED TO HAPPEN

[strangesickness]

i think richie tozier is really into glam metal. i think as a preteen he was really into rock n' roll because bill was really into rock n' roll, and i think bill would mostly listen to very core rock n' roll, not branch off into sub genres too much, he really appreciates the early stuff i think. but richie, at like 11 years old hears livin' on a prayer on the radio and he's immediately hooked. his parents buy him slippery when wet for his birthday and a bon jovi poster. his parents are pretty clueless about this stuff so wentworth takes him to the store so they get the right one. maggie's pretty sure bon jovi's for girls, but is just excited she isn't going to have to deal with her son playing the same three records over and over again anymore.

when richie's twelve the bon jovi poster gets moved to his door, so that it's hidden when he has it open. he feels guilty when he looks at it. it's his favorite poster though and it gets rotated around his room a lot.

when he's fourteen there's a bon jovi concert in maine and he convinces his parents to let him go so long as his sister goes with him to chaperone. it's a pretty life changing experience for him. his sister ends up really liking the music too, so thats cool. he gets a t-shirt that quickly becomes faded and soft from constant wear.

all the lights and effects and just the energy really flips a switch for him. it's not just bon jovi anymore, he's spending hours in the record store, he gets a job so he can buy a CD player, it takes a ridiculously long time to get to that point.

he also gets big into KISS because of course he does. he probably spends more time looking at the cover of his paul stanley album than he does listening to it. he may spend an unhealthy amount of time gazing longingly into paul stanley's eyes but his favorite is probably ace frehley. he has a ridiculous amount of magazines that he just got for interviews with them. this is the era of glam haircuts for richie. it takes him at least two years to figure out he actually has to style it though, so that's fun.

he tries to make his own music but he's hot garbage at it, he moves on to trying to play his favorite songs on guitar, which he also sucks at, he eventually gets desperate and tries to play on bill's mom's piano. he is swiftly removed from the household. he gets really good at singing his favorite songs though.

i'm not really going anywhere with this. richie tozier likes glam metal. it awakens something gay in him.

you can find some relevant images and some more of my commentary under the cut.

slippery when wet, the first album richie sought out on his own, and the beginning of the end of his heterosexuality.

i'm not going to say this is the poster, because i don't know enough about this stuff to confirm if this poster would've been sold around the right time. but you get the picture. ideally it would be this exact poster, but i'm not picky. i think richie comes home from school one day and looks at this poster and has a fucking. biblical experience. like it's just a normal school day, and then he just goes home, closes his bedroom door, turns around to take off his shoes, and stares this man straight in the eye and just thinks "holy shit he's beautiful" i think the poster sleeps in the closet that night.

this is the paul stanley album i'm talking about. i think this is also richie's main haircut inspiration, but it takes him years to figure out what hairspray is. lucky for him his hair is naturally curly so he didn't look too stupid, but things weren't ideal.

i think he takes a lot of style influence from various musicians, but he's never willing to part with his dear patterned button ups, so his workaround is: obnoxious button up + leather jacket as we saw in the movie.

he really likes cinderella, and feels a little betrayed when they change genre direction in the 90s. i think he sees tom keifer

wearing a lot of jewellery and decides he also wants to wear a lot of jewellery but ends up either hating it, or forgetting it, he also never convinces his parents to get his ears pierced. if he ever manages it, it's because bev did it herself, she probably screwed it up pretty bad too, and he just ends up with some pretty gnarly scaring on his right ear.

originally posted january 27th. reposted january 29th.

#none of this was influenced by me or my music taste or how i felt watching concert videos of bon jovi at eleven #just in case you were wondering #bon jovi is like earth shatteringly pretty though. i'll say that #“richie why are your walls covered in pictures of pretty and vaguely effeminate men?” #“richie why is your failed piercing scar on the right ear?” #“richie why do you have a collage of magazine cutouts of ace frehley on your wall?” #all maggie tozier at some point probably (she is confused and trying to engage with her sons interests) #it stephen king #it novel #it 2017 #it 2019 #richie tozier #maggie tozier #wentworth tozier #strange ramblings

[thebirdandhersong]

Sometimes I'm like naw symbolic foreshadowing in MY life? Not a thing. Doesn't happen. And then I remember the locket incident and I have to stop myself and go no go back actually that was near cinematic the way you scrabbled around for it and then gave up and then everything hit the fan

#as in that heart pendant locket was the first piece of jewelry i bought for myself #and it was for the sole purpose of putting the ex boyfriend's picture in it! #wore it constantly. housemates all knew whose face was inside that locket #and then the week before things went crazy it went missing #that was about a month before i broke up with him i think. anyway i was quite worried #and was a bit annoyed that i couldnt find it #and was like oh yeah you know i have a strange feeling about this but it couldnt be any kind of premonition #because this isnt a movie! but anyway that was.....interesting #reminded of this because i actually LIKED that locket. would like it back. #i want to take the picture out but i do want to wear it :'( it was a very nice necklace

[yasmeensh]

I’m bringing a tiny sketchbook with me to uni so I can draw on breaks. Aaaaaannd I’m drawing more Neanderthals :) And more of angsty Neanderteen. (+ random woman)

#personal project #I have 37 google docs with different stories and I don't like any of them heelllpppp #I know people spend years writing stories but I'm impatient #so let me tell you a story #my biological anthropology course has an interesting assignment #we are given a picture of a skull and we have to figure out with hominin species it is. #there is a bunch of different ones in class and I HAPPEN TO GET THE NEANDERTHAL #first part is only identification and Im like #i asked the prof if there will be species rotations and he said no #that means i'm doing neanderthal based assignments all semester #first assignment was skull identification. I wonder what the next ones will be #i guess this will be easy #I knew Nenaderthals will be my destiny #jk but like... it's just so strange that I am assigned to do Neanderthal homework after I started my personal research

[bardicious]

Okay, but why Paramount??? Let me see Spock and Kirk get married on film! Come on!

#Where No Man Has Gone Before and Then Some #star trek #snw spirk #strange new worlds #spock #jim kirk #PLZZZZZZZZZ #Actually - I dont give much of a fuck about canon I think #if its a good retcon its a good retcon #spock marrying jim is a good retcon #jim not dying is a good retcon #l get the feeling jim dying was somehow shatner's fault... #if I were to hazard a guess I think he just didn't to play kirk anymore #but also... I just wish they didn't make any tos movies after #uuuuh motion picture? #as much as I love khan #okay - maybe after the whale one? Cause I love it #but then they gave kirk ANOTHER unnecessary love interest #like - she was sweet - no lie - but like???? AGAIN WHYYYYY???? #its so annoying #I also don't like the idea of kirk leaving his kid - but as much as I hate that #I can see how it works with his character #and especially since they made it work even better in snw #like - he was bound to do that to his kid #jim is like - one character I dont see having kids because he's not into it #he's a good mentor - friend - brother - but father? not so much

[voidgremln]

The image quality is bad but meh

I have no idea how to sew properly or professionally but I'm picking a couple things up as I go. Granted I'm doing all this by hand since I don't know how to work a sewing machine yet but it's fun to do

Part 1 of...I dont know how many for the moondrop cosplay ^ ^)

@xmajordumps I saw ya wanted it posted bit didn't know if ya wanted to see the whole process ^ ^)'

#honestly its kinda strange tagging ya specifically but you seemed so excited to see it be made #either way im glad that ya were tho #cosplay in progress #moonvoid #thatll be the tag for this progress for those interested #man its weird posting pictures of not sketches #hand sewing #voidgremlnmakes

[sysig]

Me while rereading: You should kill him

Also:

They marriages hehe ♥

#Come closer Morinaga I hold no ill will towards you lol #It's playful ribbing :) Mostly :) Lol ♪ #So I may or may not have come into the ownership of the entire currently-released collection of KoiBo manga in Japanese lol #It's so nice to own ahhhh <3 <3 It's so strange to finally hold it! #Also can we talk about manga prices in Japanese vs English? I get the whole translation and publishers thing but like #581円 for one volume? That's like four dollars USD! We average $10 here! How'd that happen #I mean I still didn't pay even that much for them since they were secondhand hehe ♥ #But reading them physically is such a weird experience now haha - I've spent years reading them only digitally! #Previously there was like this continuous flow from one volume into the next - no physical delineation! No hard stops! #So now re-learning where the story beats are and how that affects the timbre of storytelling - it's interesting :0 #Seeing that it took three volumes - or two depending on how you count it lol - it took til the third volume anyhow #For them to start to get on the same page and actually communicate and then all the middle-amble (preamble in the middle lol) #It's interesting! It's not quite like reading it blind again - especially since I can't actually read the kanji yet lol #But it does change a bit of the feel :) I'm excited to start to be able to put events to volumes rather than chapters! :D #The little bits of English that dot around are always very charming of course haha ♪ #Since they got married in the US they put English on their wedding card! That's so cute! #That is an actual picture I took while reading haha ♪ #That's another thing - reading in person really lets me see the toning as intended and ahhhh it's so pretty <3 #The details really pop! That aspect is like reading blind again hehe #Happy :D #Koisuru Boukun

[rotisseries]

this year, I kept a reading log spreadsheet of all of the fanfiction I read. so, assuming I don't read anything else in these last few hours of 2022, these are my final stats. here is my ao3 wrapped!

i read 496 fics this year. these are surely rookie numbers 😃 (this picture isn't even the entire spreadsheet)

my total words read in fanfiction this year is 6,227,818. 6. million. and 22 thousand. words. 24 of these fics, or about 5% of the fics read, were of a length equivalent to that of a standard fiction novel, which is a length of 40,000 words at the lowest average count. I feel like it's necessary to state here that, whenever I read incomplete fics, I put their current word count, but when the fics updated, I did NOT update the listings, so this number is an estimate

my no.1 fandom this year was stranger things! at 74% and 441 fics read, a surprise to no one. the runners up are the legend of zelda, in no.2, with 24 fics and 11% of my reading, and avatar the last airbender, in no.3, with 18 fics and 8% of the stuff I read!

my no.1 pairing this year was byler, with 57% at a count of 289 fics read! again, a surprise to no one! runners up are, no.2, ronance, with 67 fics and about 14% of the fics I read, and no.3, steddie, with 58 fics and 12% of the stuff I read

my highest month for fanfiction reading was july! of the 496 fics I read this year, 162 of them were read in july, which is about 33%.

468 of the fics I read this year were completed when I read them, which is about 94%.

the author I read the most from was @andiwriteordie, with 34 fics, which is about 7% of the fics read. tbf though, this is because she's insane and wrote a LOT of stuff this year.

409 of the fics I read this year, or 82%, were oneshots.

and those are my ao3 reading habits for this year! I'm thinking that maybe I'll track some tags and other stuff for 2023

#it's strange how fun it is to track this stuff considering it involves having to remember to open a spreadsheet every time I read a fic #anyway hi andi if you see this bc I tagged you sorry for tagging you but thanks for writing so much this year alsjdjfkd <333333 #anyway I hope I don't regret putting the pictures of the charts up here #if any of you see something you wanna make fun of me for you better keep it to yourself actually. shut up. #I put the pictures bc I wanted this to look at least a bit interesting but I won't do it again if that turns out to be a mistake lmao #so it WILL be a wall of text next year if it has to be #stranger things #byler #tagging those bc they were my top fandom even though this technically isn't really an st or byler post‚ hi guys! #ao3 wrapped #yeah I'll tag it with that #hi again andi if you're seeing this! fun fact! I drafted this post bc I knew I was gonna post it later and not immediately #and then after saving the draft I went and scrolled through my dash again only to see that you'd posted the new year's fic! #so I had to go through this and edit it all again by one singular number akdjfjskskls

[memedisco]

Minato City, Tokyo, Japan (Photo credit to Alex Knight)

#Strange and Interesting Pictures

[marklikely]

you know the thing where u have to be cautious if you love villain characters cause you never know when an "i love this villain" post is about kylo ren? the evil woman enjoyer equivalent of that is mcu wanda

#so many times someone i like and respect on tiktok will be like i love evil women and complex women and women who do crimes #and im like omg so true bestie me too and then they flash a fucking picture of mcu wanda #and im like . yeah not her though you're wrong. #avpost #bitches will be like i want flawed female characters and then hate on mcu wanda <- i am bitches #idk about wandavision but what i saw of evil wanda in doctor strange was so fucking bad omg. #she was like so 1.5 dimensional and uninteresting. i think a lot of wanda fans dont like her in dsmom tho. #even so like idk. maybe wandavision is good or w/e i havent seen it but everything abt her from pre-wv #(mostly the whitewashing and erasing her jewish background to replace it with her volunteering for hydra #and the really bland writing and not good acting but thats secondary) #means i really dont think i could like her even if wandavision WAS really good and made her interesting

[smile-files]

okay i have no screenshots of the new ii3 episode cuz i was watching it with my brother! but i think it was pretty good!!

i think the allusions to ii2 were pretty confusing (i still have no idea where everything stands in terms of the canon and the timeline) but i think they're doing something interesting with the nickel and balloon stuff!!!! bot's new design is great, i loved cabby in this episode, and it's really fascinating seeing nickel's luck (as clover herself, tee hee)!! sorry to see my beloved candle go though lol

#melonposting #inanimate insanity #ii #ii spoilers #ii3 spoilers #it's strange i feel like lately they've been trying to ground ii3 more in the canon of previous seasons #but they're having a bit of a hard time? #this is just a theory but i suspect adamation refrained from really referencing ii1/ii2 stuff early on in ii3 #because they were kind of hesitant about messing with the canon and the timeline and everything. y'know #now they're getting more into it #and the stuff they have is good and interesting!! it just makes stuff messy when looking at the big picture #which is too bad but y'know. what can you do

[strangesickness]

it has been so weird getting into live action film in the past little while because prior to late 2023 i was basically only into video games, comics, and cartoons (i have pretty bad face blindness so i can find it difficult to follow live action movies, especially if characters have similar hair or clothes. top gun maverick was a NIGHTMARE for me), and now i'm like? recognizing actors? it's kind of weird to think that when i'm my parents age kids aren't going to know who. chris evans or like. finn wolfhard are. and i'm going to do the exact same thing my parents always do like "what? you don't know who chris evans is? he's only captain america!" and the kid is going to be like... "why would i know who captain america is...? that movie came out before i was even born... no one cares about captain america these days gramps" and then i'll go to bingo or something and cry about it.

#but like. realizing i can just. recall some actors names??? #like. i had a few moments where i was like “who played that guy” and i didn't even have to look up “[character name] actor" #i just knew??? #which has been like. really weird #i am chronically uncaring about celebrities #i've just never taken an interest #it gets me similar looks to the ones i get when i say “i don't have tiktok” #people will show me a picture of a popular musician and even if its one i listen to i'm like... dude idk who that is #like if you're thinking of like “big celebrities” that EVERYONE knows? i probably do not. except like taylor swift and notable politicians #and jerry seinfeld #but that has more to do with my dad having like every episode of seinfeld memorized than it does anything else #posts afflicted with a strange sickness #this is about knives out btw #i just watched knives out for the first time since it came out and i recognized chris evans AND jaden martell #i also recognized daniel craig and katherine langford but i couldn't remember their names lol #one of the reasons i didn't enjoy watching live action films for a long time is that i have really bad face blindness #if a movie has more than one 20-40yr old attractive white guy in it who dress similarly i will be completely unable to tell them apart /srs #and this makes understanding the plot of a lot of movies incredibly difficult #all of this is to say i spent all of knives out convinced that michael shannon was woody harrelson but they don't even look alike tbh

[ofhouseadama]

i have truly been baby sister zoned by my old boss because he just... calls me 2-3 times a week to "check in" and update me on the wife and kids and ask me about my wife and like... truly is this how familial relationships are supposed to go??? just neutral phone calls for twenty minutes every few days??? i can ask him for advice and he gives it instead of trying to manipulate me? who can say. not i

#he's just texting me pictures from his vacation #sometimes he stops mid call to ask his wife about something if she knows more about it than him #she says hi to me in the background #his kids say hi #this is so strange #to be clear this man is 40 and has zero interest in me #he is the himbo to my mean lesbian

[picklepie888]

Finished reading the first chapter of The Picture of Dorian Gray and I already like it more than Jekyll and Hyde.

#dorian gray weekly #the picture of dorian gray #the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #jekyll and hyde weekly #it's all about the characters for me #i'm already very interested in basil and henry and their relationship #i love their dynamic too #the characters in jekyll and hyde felt more or less like a means to move the story forward than anything else