#Various Occasions

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

They’re about to go commit tax fraud

#toph beifong #katara #atla #atla fanart #I just love how they canonically scammed people #Toph’s a little crime lord yes but what about her crime lord older sister #I just imagine that on the brief occasion that they stop arguing they are impossible to be around bc #they just #absolutely roast the living daylights out of any poor victim #(or band together to commit various crimes)

[meltedbionics]

day 13

lightbulb moment

reblogs are appreciated!

#tf2 #tf2 engineer #team fortress 2 #tf2 fanart #engineer tf2 #meltedbionics #my art #dailies #daily engineer #very much a fan of his doing that stupid fucking 🤔 on various occasions during expiration date and the comics #small little headcanon that on the occasion the gunslinger has like an electric static to it so for shits n giggles he does this to impress #the others

[flexxyfluxx]

shoutout to cyberpunk 2077 for discouraging me from wanting to become a fighter pilot

i remember going to some air show, and being just so completely enamoured with the fighters. just. wanting that. flying through the skies at entirely zoo high velocities. surrounded by amazing technology. so what if i'd have to kill ppl? might get killed myself?

"They didn't even have to recruit 'em - they just.. showed them the tech."

i'm having a hard time finding an exact source for that quote, and thus a hard time verifying its accuracy - but something along those lines was saved. and fuck, if that didnt resonate with me then...

not gonna bother doing some in-depth analysis for how that quote fits in today's world or whatever, i suck at that shit. but i feel like it is a sentiment worth spreading. to try n avoid being dazzled by the tech. or noticing when you are, and thinking critically about it.

went to the same airshow a year later, with a new, much more critical view of things. was as cool as ever, except i was a lil less enamoured with the idea of actually using the tech this time 'round. saw an f35, so that was cool.

#the fact that on both occasions that airshow displayed various military (ground) vehicles alongside the already impressive aircraft display #makes it seem a lot more military-propaganda-y to me #the fuck are the cars doing there #this is about planes #i mean. it is also just completely transparently a military recruitment event #they have fucking recruitment booths n shit #but still. what are the cars doing here qwqqq #it isnt even like the ground vehicles are in any way aircraft-related #no! it's fucking. reconnaisance vehicles n personnel trucks n armoured jeeps with mounted guns n shit

[raayllum]

i'm not gonna say i've never made a post or even a proper meta that's a light rebuttal to shit i've seen floating around (usually nothing more than someone bringing an opinion in my askbox or a response on a post i made that i disagree with, and even then those are minor) but it is always fascinating when people do spend all their time online / on their blogs making posts trying to argue against my meta. maybe you'd have more success and more fun if you focused or actually developed your own ideas, cause with 300+ metas to my name i've certainly never needed to borrow any of yours

#fandom nonsense #dragons gets salty #theredhairedmonkey #has been mean in a decidedly targeted sense and misogynistic on more than one occasion and i'm over it #you can disagree in a respectful way you don't have to label various people who have enjoyed my theories 'gimmicky hacks' #& i'm not the only one who holds the opinions/theories you hate and yet you repeatedly go after Only my posts? okay #and just to clarify: posts that were brought to my attention #i do my best to stay off blogs that i have blocked & that have blocked me

[ante--meridiem]

Extremely confidence boosting to me that every time I've read my poetry out loud in public at least one person has come up to me afterwards to say they like it. More confidence boosting than people telling me I'm good at anything else which usually just feels very awkward because poetry is something I don't feel I can self evaluate at all because I know how easy it is for something to accidentally come out cliched/overwrought.

#personal #this sounds like a brag and I guess I can't say it isn't but it does feel very reassuring #context here is roommate talked me into reading something for a poetry reading thing he organised #which was mostly a bad time because the room was extremely overstimulating & very little of it was in English #(which to be clear: I don't expect everyone to cater to English speakers or anything. it's just that roommate assuring me I'd understand #enough to make it worth it was integral to talking me into this) #(I now think he overestimated how much Swedish I speak) #(not enough to understand an even slightly complex poem that's for sure) #but people did like my poetry & that was a huge ego boost #enough different people have compliment various enough selections of poems I wrote on enougn occasions that I'm starting to think I might #actually be good at this #which is dangerous. stop boosting my ego before I do something dumb like think I might be good enough to try publishing #< only half serious

[aria-ashryver]

its one of those "use your writing app in split screen mode so you can work on two different scenes simultaneously while also listening to layered isochronic brown noise but also listen to spotify while also playing idle puzzle games on your phone while we also make ourselves a snack and check tumblr" kind of days

#aka its one of those days where im like “yeah pursuing that ADHD diagnosis would be a real good idea” i should do that #but it involves making several phone calls and spending money i don't have so #instead i will just continue to experience my brain in all its various modes #and complain about it on occasion for self-care #brains are weird #i'd like to summon a writing hyperfocus day please #pretty please?

[ratherembarrassing]

actually one of the hardest lessons as you spend enough time moving through life is this: there are very, very few people who rise to the occasion most of the time, and never all of the time. that we culturally demand this of any person in leadership is actually ridiculous.

instead of searching for the rare person who can hit the target even just most of the time, we need to be looking to the people who recognise their weaknesses and bring in resources to support them beyond those limitations. failing this should be a huge red flag for any organization.

#is this about ao3? sure #is it about autostraddle? also sure #is it about various people i work for? lol #it's a rule for all occasions

[astra-infernalia]

A prayer channeled from King Asmodeus

For the past two days, I’ve suffered migraine attacks. In my illness, I’ve sought comfort from my patron demon King Asmodeus. Last night the pain peaked, and in delirium I could auditorily hear him, which brought me more joy and solace than I can say.

Today, as I recover, I’ve spent time in prayer with him and channeled automatic writings. Asmodeus shared with me a series of three Satanic rites as well as a mystic prayer for use in the third, which he called The Rite of the Blasphemer. He said he would give me permission to share the rites soon, and he asked me to share the prayer tonight. I agreed, and I’m very excited to publish it.

Here it is—a prayer from the as-yet unpublished Rite of the Blasphemer, as channeled to me by Asmodeus:

I say to You who are Me, O God, how majestic You are in Your incompletion! For You are Reality, the only Reality, in all its cruelty, capriciousness, and vast no-thingness, and You are all the Love in the Cosmos. In the valley of the shadow of Death, I fear no-thing; O You who are no-thing, I have trembled in fear, for We are within a frightened animal! Still, in Wisdom and Ignorance, I worship You, for how could these motes of dust do anything but whirl? In Solomon’s Names I repeat, “everything is meaningless!”; in Our Name I will make meaning from blasphemy.

#astra’s writings #demonolatry #king asmodeus #asmodeus #infernal mysticism #the quote from king solomon is from ecclesiastes 1:2 (kjv) #and various repetitions of the phrase everything is meaningless throughout the text #although i’m pretty sure asmodeus has heard solomon say that on more than one occasion

[birdricks]

normally i dont ever think abt nicknames or like “pet names” ig when it comes to pairings i like but i do truly in my heart believe rick is the type of person to end up calling bp by like 100 different cutesy names without even realising. like he’ll say smth as a joke once but like also serious. and bp always takes it in such a way that rick just keeps using it bc he feels like he can get away with it without being cringe or whatever

#GAY POST ‼️‼️‼️‼️ ok sorry i promise im done now for tonight #birdrick #i think its a funny juxtaposition to birdperson being like. ‘Rick Sanchez’ in the comics lolol #alsooo i think its rlly sweet like. bp not rlly having his own Real name #like birdperson is just a very basic descriptor #even basic nicknames like bp and pers give him some stronger form of identity #and then u can tie that into ricks whole deal w identity or whatever idk #but like veryyy personal nicknames based on his and ricks individual experiences together. thats the good shit #like they are names that bp can actually connect to. u knowwww #btw. pet names. oh i cant say im too embarrassed #mostly just like silly pokey bird pun relsted names. ducky sparrow songbird etc. lol #but also angel. is one rotating in my brain. FOR VARIOUS REASONS #that ones a bit too Hashtag Real tho. reserved for only the most gayass occasions #if this post is cringe no it isnt. and also i didnt post it you imagines it 💖

[mariocki]

Pathfinders in Space (ABC, 1960)

"Now, the remainder of us have fifteen hours of oxygen left. That leaves fifteen hours in which to complete our research here."

"Well, what's the good of all that if you can't come back with it?"

"The moon never destroys her treasures, Henderson. We shall leave a record and it'll be preserved in the vacuum of the caves. And the future expeditions you mentioned, they will find it."

#pathfinders in space #1960 #children's television #classic tv #abc #malcolm hulke #eric paice #guy verney #peter williams #gerald flood #harold goldblatt #richard dean #gillian ferguson #stewart guidotti #pamela barney #irene sutcliffe #hugh evans #astor sklair #michael guest #the first sequel to the seminal (and sadly entirely lost) serial Target Luna; for reasons best known to the production team‚ despite being #a direct sequel with the same characters‚ every major role was recast for Pathfinders (and so sadly we don't get to see a young Michael #Craze). often described as a precursor to DW‚ and honestly that's hard to deny: this might be the first uk kids sci fi serial to really #nail that family friendly vibe‚ with enough interest for both children and adult viewers alike. it's a rare gift that it exists complete #and finally getting to it i found it a genuinely compelling series. it can be a little cheesy and a little silly in places (adorably‚ our #astronauts take a full tea service to the moon and regularly stop for tea) but i actually ended up learning some stuff about the moon from #this 64 yr old series. Gerald Flood's everyman journalist is a nicely constructed audience avatar but it's missing cheese expert Peter #Williams who gives the orders (and regularly imperils his own children). a lot of fun! well worth seeking out for old tv fans #also needless to say the various miniatures and fx work is frankly adorable. #and shoutout to Prof Mary Meadows‚ it's nice to have a kickass lady scientist in a show this old (and who remains cooler and more capable #than her male counterparts on more than one occasion).

[airenyah]

@nongnaos i feel this from the depths of my soul

#i've been coping by watching 848372728 million videos of some of their stage performances #and also promotional appearances in malls and stuff #i'm sure i've spent an entire hour watching purely various videos of them singing อีกนิด (come closer) on various occasions #sometimes watching the same performance over and over again but from different angles fnfjjfiguf #YES I AM COPING WELL CLEARLY #hidden agenda #joongdunk #airenyah plappert #adrm #anyway i'm gonna go watch one of my fave dance performances from them before i finally get dressed

[answrs]

there is apparently enough business for not just one, but TWO entire dedicated axe-throwing alleys in a twenty minute (not mile. minute.) radius now.

#the one has been open for years and also does traveling axe throwing cages at the various oddmall events and county fair #and on one memorable occasion #the local farmers market #no idea how long this other one's been going though #never been to this place. didn't even know there was anything out there let alone a while complex and shit

[unopenablebox]

it's possible i'm going to get, like, really into tmbg, just to give me a thing to do

#and a new tm*g band to post just on the edge of too irritatingly about. since i guess i. need one #theres various lore. there's tv spots. i can choose something moderately obscure but still obviously not actually obscure #and get a little self-righteous about someone else doing it wrong even though that's not really how this works #alternately i'm deliriously tired and just really enjoying youtube hit ''sapphire bullets of pure cleaning'' #box opener #hey do you guys remember how like 6 or 10 years ago #there was someone in our general extended tumblr orbit who was like. really genuinely doing horny/blorbified posting about the tmbg men #who i would just run across on occasion and experience deep incomprehension about #i don't think i'll come to understand them further through this process if i'm honest #but it would be really funny to find their blog again someday now knowing what band they're talking about.

[bionicbore]

Y’know I kinda wanna elaborate on the HC I mentioned, where I said that if Donald hadn’t found out what Douglas was doing and intervened, Douglas would’ve eventually cracked and fessed up

Mostly I wanna elaborate that he wouldn’t have fessed up because of ethical guilt (though I do think he may have something somewhere inside him that would give a damn about ethics. He did seem pretty excited to do good things after all) but more because he’s got the emotional strength of a wet tissue and would feel personal guilt after getting so attached

I’m gonna put most of it under a cut ‘cause it turned into a full on Douglas study I guess

Like... obviously I’m prefacing this with it being my own interpretation of the guy, but Douglas was a pretty emotional dude in the show. His entire redemption was rooted in his emotional attachment to his family. His morals never 100% improved, and the growth we did see was almost entirely motivated by “My family won’t like me if I’m a bad guy :(”

And while he’s not a particularly GOOD dad, he is a dad. Literally every kid Douglas gets more than 2 minutes of screen time with, he goes into some kind of Dad Mode

So, the way I see it, I don’t think Douglas would’ve lasted if he got to keep the Rats for longer than he did. It’s never actually said how old the kids were when Donald found out, but they couldn’t have been older than like... 3? Tops? Possibly even younger, technically. If Douglas actually got to watch those kids grow up in whatever messed up environment he had them in to keep them hidden (Which, I’ll be honest- based on comparing the brothers’ lab quality, was probably a worse environment than Donald’s lab) I don’t think he would’ve been able to commit. Not with the original trio, anyway

ALSO. I wanna bring up Donald, ‘cause he’s also a factor in of himself

Yeah, the brothers fight a lot, and did fight a lot. But I think it’s worth remembering that despite that, these two founded a company together. They invented things together. They work together seamlessly when they get in the zone. Douglas, despite all the animosity, was ecstatic at the prospect of getting to work alongside his brother again, and was genuinely sad when Donald didn’t feel the same, but chose not to fight Donald’s decision

Douglas cares what Donald thinks of him, and I bet he cared a lot more before Donald discovered what was happening and made his own judgement call. The two of them had to have been incredibly close, and that probably would’ve weighed on Douglas, too

But Donald found out on his own, and he didn’t waste time. He saw the children, he saw the conditions, the plans, the schematics. There was absolutely no way to rationalize what was happening here, Donald had to get these kids out and away. His little brother was using their assets to make deals with terrorists regarding the creation of bioweapons in the form of children

And Douglas was left ghosted by the most consistent presence in his life for the past 20+ years, locked out of the company he helped build from nothing, and separated from these kids who have also been a consistent presence in his life for entirely different reasons

And Douglas is notorious for deflecting and pushing back when someone else decides that he’s in the wrong. All that potential turmoil means the time between Donald finding out and Douglas “dying” was probably like. Intense. To put it mildly

All this to say: Douglas is still a DICK lmao and the point of this post is NOT to be like “Douglas deserved better” or even “Donald is to blame.” It’s more about how Douglas is a notably emotion-driven character and how it affects his dynamics and actions, both positive and negative

It’s also my favorite kind of angst- where technically, things could have turned out okay, or at least better than they did, if everyone involved hadn’t been such a mess

#Lab Rats #Douglas Davenport #I'm only tagging Douglas 'cause he's the focal point but Donald does get a fair bit here #Anyway Douglas fascinates me 'cause like. I definitely don't want him or his actions to be underplayed #Like it really doesn't matter if he wouldn't have gone through with it. Especially not at the time everything happened #The fact that he got as far as he did is damning enough #But also he is SO pitiful and his emotional reliance on others is interesting #Especially in contrast to how nonchalant he tends to act #He's perfect for exploring how consequences effect someone #Which is why I draw him with such tired eyes and like to write him being Fucking Miserable #And I'll say it. Dude was a SOFTIE in the actual show #Seriously- in no particular order: #He made Chase some good soup. He went above and beyond to save Leo's arm. He gave every Rat a new ability for various reasons #He stood up for various kids on numerous occasions. He cried when Leo became an instructor #He saved a stray dog. He put a kid up for adoption to keep him safe. #He encouraged his robot son's passion for drama club. He actively helped Donald with the indestructible car #Look me in the eye. Make direct eye contact with me and tell me #That this man could raise 3 flesh and blood children from infancy #And simply pawn them off as disposable weaponry #You cannot convince me. Douglas Davenport is too pathetic to commit to that bit #He's willing to kill a kid but that goes out the fucking window if he spends more than 1 non-hostile hour with said kid #He acts like he hates his brother's guts but will literally drop it the minute Donald's nice to him in any capacity #... See now I went and wrote TWO essays #Kill me

[musical-chick-13]

All the time, I hear about how there are people filtering Cersei through the lens of "poor misunderstood woobified victim who was trying her best and never actually did anything bad" and. WHERE ARE THEY?? WHERE ARE THESE PEOPLE?????

BECAUSE THIS HAS VERY MUCH NOT BEEN MY EXPERIENCE

#like I have no doubt that they exist somewhere #but I have never seen them! #90% of what I see is 'I hate her because she's a one-dimensional bitch and here are all of the horrible things I think she deserves' #I always wonder if these people are talking about me even though it would make no sense for them to even know I exist #(<-girl who notably does not often tag her cersei posts) #but. me saying 'here's where I think she was coming from' or 'sometimes she'll say something and I'll go 'yeah I get it' ' or 'there is #something very visceral and real and compelling and relatable about her' is not. me saying that she is a good person lol. #I have on several if not many occasions specifically mentioned how she is not A Good Person™ and that #I understand if her flaws make people uncomfortable. #(but I also talk about how I don't understand what makes her uniquely awful compared to other popular characters across various #franchises so I. again. DO wonder if the 'people excuse everything she did ever and think she's Good™' comments refer to me sometimes) #ANYWAY. the point is that people have sympathy for horrible actions when they come from anyone else but not from her hmmm gee I wonder why #people will try to be 'objective' and 'narratively-focused' in character evaluation unless it's her

[another-clive-blog]

I was wondering

Is there any clive video/ fanart / fanfic / or piece of media in general that is ur favorite?

Aaah that's a good question and I'm so mad I don't have a good answer ;^;

I want to say, everything we've shared ever since I started this blog ? Like people sending me their fanarts, others recommanding me fanfics, and you making cool videos... It's been so nice. I remember when I was a kid and I could only find, like, 3 drawings of Clive lol, and I loved them a lot when I was a kid !! I still do, but it's been so much better sharing stuff here <3

#Of course there IS Clive content that is extra precious to me #Like that one funny video a friend made for me when I was a child despite her not really liking Clive #The fanarts my friends made for various occasions too. Birthday or Christmas or just because #And your edit of Gustavo Cerati. Your edits are always good but this one is special because our conversation meant a lot to me !! #So yeah. There are some stuff that I hold dearly of course =) But everything here means a lot #Sam's AUs for example. I never thought I'd see cool AUs ??? AND get to see so many people participate !! Really that's the dream #Neil's drawings too. Like even just his shitposts are great so his drawings !! I love the vibes and ideas it's so good #Tags too long and I'm probably forgetting stuff. I'm pretty sure I am :( Sorry everyone don't take this personally #My stuff