#a note below

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so in an attempt to actually use positive thinking, anytime i fuck up and my brain reacts as if ive cause a minor apocalyptic event, i compare my fuck up to the 4 minute fuck up committed by the crew of the uss william d porter.

and only today, as i was having to explain what happened to my mom when i was explaining the whole comparison thing, did i realise that most people dont know about it and ive decided that needs to change because its objectively hilarious.

...which is a weird thing to say about an event that occured on a warship in 1943, specifically november 14th.

see the uss william d porter was a fletcher-class destroyer but you dont need to know what that means, just that she had guns that went bang bang and that she was escorting another ship, the uss iowa, to cairo.

while they were on their way there, they performed some gun trials like testing the anti-aircraft guns or the torpedos. and while they were running a torpedo drill, the crew of the porter managed to fire a live torpedo straight at the iowa which you know, in terms of a list of things to do while escorting a ship, shooting a torpedo at them is not on that list.

especially if the president of the united states is on board.

yeah so fdr was on board and the gun trials were actually his idea, and part of the trials was that they were conducted under radio silence.

and that means the crew of the porter couldnt just call the iowa to be like "move out the way, we accidentally shot a torpedo at you."

but they did have signal lamps and you know, the signalman on board was trained to signal this exact kind of message.

...and uh never mind, the signalman did manage to successfully tell the iowa that a torpedo was coming toward them but wasnt as successful when it came to the direction the torpedo was coming from.

not all hope is lost though because the signalman could still use the signal lamp to correct his previous mistake and-, never mind, he announced that the porter was reversing, which she wasnt.

yeah so at catastrophic mistake number 3, they broke radio silence to warn the iowa and she managed to turn out of the way just in time which meant no one got hurt. and even though the inquiry into the incident led to chief torpedoman (fantastic job title btw) lawton dawson being sentences to hard labour, fdr intervened and waved away his sentence, saying it was all an accident.

but yeah, so thats my new measure for "how much did i really fuck up?" and when i compared accidentally picking up a pencil case without a tag on it in wilko, turns out it was a very minor fuck-up. yes, the cashier had to ask another worker to grab a duplicate so they could scan the barcode, but i didnt nearly kill the president during wartime via accidental friendly fire

#kai rambles #so like #i enjoy ships and learning about them and looking at them but like #i dont really care for warships #i dont hate them viscerally like i do cruise ships but i never really care for them #apart from the ones that were just like either ridiculously designed like the hms captain or the vasa or the novgorod #or the ones where just insane shit happened like with the william d porter #like this isnt even the extent of the porters unfortunate incidents like shr was sank by a kamikaze attack that MISSED #but somehow ended up below the ship and exploded and just like yeeted the porter out of the water #william d porter #uss william d porter #ww2 #world war 2 #world war ii #warships #again warships are really not my thing but god some of them are so fucking funny #uss iowa #fdr #franklin d. roosevelt #this suddenly got so many notes in like less than 24 hours what the fuck #shipposting

[lucabyte]

messier doodle pages feat. mostly loop because i'm thinking about the body horror of it all... amongst other things.

... at least one of those things being. hey. unrelated to this doodle page. how many months was siffrin travelling with the party? It wasn't that many, right? How many loops would it take before they'd've been in the house longer than they had even been with them? Much to think about!

#i wasnt going to actually put these thoughts to paper but everyone has been very nice in my notes so i was encouraged :) thank u. #LONGER TAG RAMBLE BELOW THE ORGANISATIONAL TAGS. CLICK SEE ALL THANKS #in stars and time #isat fanart #isat spoilers #isat siffrin #isat loop #sifloop #isiloop #siffrin #isat #isat isabeau #isat bonnie #isat mirabelle #isat odile #lucabyteart #samdontlook #<- spoiler tag for my bestie dont PEEK #post a6 loop just rocking up and being supremely volatile and uncomfortable is what im here for. what if a guy could look so disquieted #anwyay. about the body horror of it all. SIMPLY PUT: I do not think loop is fully tangible in places. #especially not like. their head. i think that thing is impassable but not graspable or solid. i dont think it has much feeling either #the chest star being the same white is why im joking about it being intangible too but. thats also a Kaiba reference so #no blood no organs no nothing impermeable skin guy should be allowed to get frustrated about that. its fertile ground for thoughts #being punished for not valuing your body as a vessel for your Self enough by being reduced to nothing but is MEAN..... BIG FAN OF IT..... #anyway !!! kiss your local mouthless entity on the NECK!!! get CREATIVE! ! ! ! MUST I SUPPLY ALL THE NONSEXUAL INTIMACY IN THIS ECOSYSTEM?? #UEAGH. #anyway odile would get on their collective asses so hard about the philosophical ramifications of this polycule. she'd tease them about it #also @ everyone who makes bonnie call loop 'lulu' i owe you my life.

[ghostreblogging]

The new teen who transferred in is weird. He is so awkward it hurts. And Tim couldn't help but cringe.

It was well, mostly normal for the first few weeks. Aside from a few remarks about reanimated food.

It was normal until Tim was talking to dick.

He couldn't remember his face.

No Tim was not being weird.

No it's just that he can't remember any physical description.

No eye color

Hair color was something dark he thinks?

Was there any prominent scars, freckles. Tim couldn't remember .

His siblings teased him.

And he literally sat behind him! And Tim can't even remember his hair color.

So came Tim's week of trying to get a physical description or a photo of the guy. But it was ridiculous. Even if he stared he just couldn't nail down anything!

Even as he stared as he wrote. Nothing. It was like his memories were wiped.

Any photo came out with something wrong with it.

Someone walked past

Miraculously hidden behind something being thrown

A conveniently placed lens flare?!!!

A mist that hovered around him?

Anyway Danny was really uncomfortable with this guy just staring a hole in the back of his head . And he swears he saw him trying to take pictures of him? And his setup gets more new and ridiculous setup every attempt. Danny will swear up and down that once he saw him setting up one of those huge nature photography cameras .

On other news

Trending Gotham: Tim Drake Wayne 's new CRUSH?!

#dp x dc #danny phantom #danny fenton #danny phantom au #is this done yet? #dc x dp #danny phantom crossover #dp x dc prompt #dpxdc #dc x dp prompt #like bcuz danny is so strong mortals can't see him correctly #there is always a mist following his head #or a Bright light #it tires you out to try and look at him #but tim didn't notes #notice #cant go below zero lol #it helps him hide from Giw but its also annoying

[emry-stars-art]

royal au new blacksmith Jean Moreau being used to hiding his stature until he’s out of Evermore and told not to 🥲

#this man goes from an impressive 6ft even #to an insane like 6’4 #still messing around with his hair #like the notes I have below this are #silky or fluffy? #curly/wavy? #and I haven’t decided #so place your votes now #also yes that’s Jeremy talking #I’m not done with blacksmith/metalworker Jean #I see those tags about Jean making fine jewelry. I’ve saved them #👀 #but I have other posts ready first unfortunately #or fortunately idk #fan art #my art #aftg #all for the game #jean moreau #royal au

[corrosive-equilibrium]

(AU worldbuilding notes under cut)

(This is for vitriol au worldbuilding ONLY. This is NOT for the main dp timeline.)

For Vitriol au, not only do blood blossoms look like actual blossoms and not roses, but their origin has been slightly changed to fit the worldbuilding narrative. I've had the idea of them having an opposite of a flower with the ability to heal, and with that idea came the conflict and resolutions they can create. Vita violets hold an importance to the entirety of AU as they're used as a main conflict for certain arcs (War vs Peace and Greed vs Liberty, which are Nocturne and Pandora's backstory arc). If you're wondering if there's any downsides to vita violets, there are! It was briefly mentioned in the section about the numbing effect– but just like any other medicine, too much of it isn't going to end well– and they'll be brought up again in the main storyline. All I can say is stay tuned for more worldbuilding explanations involving the ghost zone, its residents, and its relation to the living world. Also, this won't be the last time in seeing the vita violets nor that dark purple sash mentioned in the examples.

#danny phantom #vitriol au #worldbuilding #blood blossoms #vita violets #concept art #has alt text #pls read the notes below the cut

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

Jesper: Guys shorter than 5’10 be cool as hell like you know what Tinkerbell I kinda like you

Wylan: *Seething*

#wy: call me tinkerbell and youl be sleeping in the garden #jes: noted #above or below ground wylan hasnt decided yet #soc incorrect quotes #soc #wylan van eck #six of crows #jesper fahey #wesper #tua

[turnipoddity]

once me and my dorm keeper bro down and drank a couple glass of wine and then he downright blabbed on how he used to stash drugs in my dorm and flushed it down the toilet when the cops are onto him

#literally it was only a glass of wine and i was like HUH #WHAT HAPPENED TO HELLO #WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAD BREAKING BAD ERA RIGHT BELOW MY ROOM HELLO #delete later #my dorm keeper used to be a drug dealer isnt in my bingo card #i literallt just know him it was like my second week in my dorm AKSHSKSK #he’s a drunk talker. good to know. mentally noted

[goobygnarp]

Would you guys be interested if I opened sketch commissions once I'm finished with this batch of comms?

I'm in the process of trying to handle life situations and I can commit my time to full pieces right now nor am I fully confident in my rendering as of now to charge people till I get a better idea of what I feel folks will like.

So I want to open sketch commissions waste up that could be upwards to 50$ .

See example of a sketch commission I did below.

#i dont have much examples. #note thst the drawing with my sona doesn't count #its a phone sketch so the actual sketch below #looks different

[eurodynamic]

very weird thing i'm noticing is people wait until a gifset gets a few notes before they actually reblog it out of some weird need to not be one of the first notes on a post?? like i've seen content creators like their own posts to kind of get the ball rolling, and it's so weird that we feel the need to do this... just like/reblog the post i promise nothing bad is gonna happen if you interact with it when it's sitting at zero notes. all of us content creators are basically begging for crumbs at this point

#*txt #slightly related to that last reblog #this is Not about people queueing posts btw that's fine i do it too #but it's about the weird reluctance to interact with anything below a certain threshold of notes

[kasumikoujou]

#this will have very insane tags. also full decks below cut!!! yway!!!! i stood 9h on this!!! #the sumi art #me :) #tieria erde #ribbons almark #revive revival #bring stabity #divine nova #hiling care #anew returner #regene regetta #laetitia erde #michael trinity #johann trinity #nena trinity #bakugan #bakugan battle brawlers #gundam 00 #side note i may have accidentally made bring very op for no reason. but good for him he needs it i think

[piracytheorist]

WAIT

I just noticed something really cool

In the third chapter of the SxF manga, when the Forgers visit the opera, we get that short panel:

Though we don't get a music staff, the notes I circled in red include what we call "ledger lines" (aka lines above or below the staff). As you can see, the notes with ledger lines in the panel are the same with the ones in the actual sheet music I added, and their duration is the same.

It's a presentation of the actual sheet music. Endo (if he was the one who drew that particular panel) drew an opera singer in a costume and makeup fitting the Queen of the Night from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, and then drew notes from the actual sheet music of that role's most famous aria, Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen (yes, that's the one aria that goes incredibly high, and those notes are from that specific passage you probably know of).

THIS IS BRILLIANT AND THIS CLASSICALLY TRAINED MUSICIAN ADMIRES THE DEDICATION 👏👏

#Spy x Family #now idk what the three notes below are supposed to be #they could be from the beginning of the aria but that isn't repeated after the part I circled #it was probably added to show a bit of variety in notes #and I fully respect that #my man went and found the ACTUAL SHEET MUSIC #I ain't complaining the least bit #also now I'm thinking it could be like... #if you know... #right before that passage shown the Queen says #''if you don't do this then YOU ARE MY DAUGHTER NO MORE'' #ENDO WERE YOU TRYING TO SAY SOMETHING?? #nah it was probably because it's one of the most popular arias of all time #BUT STILL THE COINCIDENCE?? LMAO #500

[denkies]

Binge read all of vanitas no carte in like a day and a half. Gay ppl are literally insane. I always thought the ever-famous "I'll never set you free!" line was like... something to do with a binding contract or something. I didn't understand the hype about it, I was always like "Okay it's kind of cute that he's never gonna let this contract go, but it's not inherently romantic. What are you guys even talking abt right now."

But then you read it and there is SO MUCH romantic subtext, and even moments that are explicitly romantic between Vanitas and Noe.

And when Noe says "I'll never set you free!" it wasn't about a contract, it was him promising to never leave Vanitas. Vanitas saw total isolation and abandonment as "freedom," and Noe said, "As long as I'm here, you won't ever have that brand of freedom. I will never let you feel alone again. I promise to always be by your side, I promise to never abandon you. I promise to stay."

#if vanoe not canon‚ why was there *checks notes* foreshadowing/implications of them having sex. literally what was that entire scene #yeah here's Vanitas being tsundere about his feelings for Noe #and right below his panel‚ here's Noe‚ absolutely debauched and looking like he's about to get fucked #like yeah hi. what the fuck was that. huh. #vnc #a.txt #vanoe #and thats JUST vanoe gay shit. Domi is a lesbian with insane rizz‚ Vanitas's info brokers are gay dating‚ and Domijeanne is thriving

[wolfythewitch]

wolfy i am kissing u on the mouth /p thank u for animating archery properly my archer heart is so happy

altho if hes shooting at a target id maybe move his hand closer to his mouth (like index finger in line with corner of mouth)bc thats where you hold it for target shooting with a recurve or longbow but literally thats such a minor tweak and u obv dont have to listen to me im just a freak for archery :3

anyways sorry for this imma go now hehehhe im just very happy :P ok bye

He is indeed aiming at a target and that target is Achilles <3

#theoneandonlyyeti #haha ty ill note that for next time #technically since he's high up on a wall i wasnt sure how to angle it #so i was basing jt on this video where the archer was aiming at a target below hip level #wolfy tedtalks

[valfeathers]

blue

#nate river #death note #time lapse below the cut!! #living my childhood dream of making speedpaints of my blorbos #near death note #death note fanart #im so insanely proud of this one #i finally figured out how to format posts with videos are u proud #v’s gallery

[myebix]

I'm gonna regret this when I come back to do the proper sketch......... but hey batfam wip

#batfamily #wip #bat family #jason todd #stephanie brown #tim drake #dick grayson #cassandra cain #damian wayne #batman #his cape is in there #it counts #duke thomas #i had a vision for this while eating dinner and i had to get down the figures and start planning placements at the very least #my brainworms were holding me at gunppoint #i will come back to this or so help me #note to self: adjust steph's perspective a little so that shes not straight on and is being viewed from below like cass and jason are #hopefully i rememebr the exact visual

[whyissupernaturaltrending]

Hi! Sorry, could you tell me why is supernatural trending? And in fist place at that??

it's the fifteenth anniversary of the episode 4x01 lazarus rising so it's only fitting for spn to rise from the dead. essentially 15 years since castiel first appeared on the show. why it's trending in first place - i have no idea unfortunately, i would love to know the exact mechanics though

#spn trending asks #most likely it's a relatively large influx of posts in a short time compared to the other trending tags #but that's just a guess cause i'm not sure how the algorithm calculates that #and the top posts have more or less a similar number of notes to some posts under the other trends #there's a separate post right below this one with some more info as well #and i've linked an older posts going into a bit more detail about how insane the origin of castiel is down to how the nov 5 2007 #had started it all