#but to be fair to me!

[russellius]

what's an appropriate way to say thank you to a coworker who brought you a sample of the cologne your blorbo is [most probably] using????????????

it's a super interesting scent btw!!! from the bottle it's very lemony, a lot of cypress, pine(?), and off the bat it almost smelled a bit like honey on my skin?? there is a lot going on in it, and at first it seemed sweet, but once it calms down, most of this early sweetness is gone (there is still a tiny bit that lingers though, which is really nice), and the bitter, fresh parts with the sea vibes take over. it's very elegant, clean, yet unique. there is a vibrant streak to it, but it smells old school, like a classic. after about an hour it got deeper on me, and more spice appeared, which was very lovely. it also has a very prominent layer of that usual masculine scent most male fragrances have, while still being airy, so it's not that in your face feeling, but the one that really draws you in instead. overall the mediterranean description is spot on. a massive W in my eyes

#deranged! #but to be fair to me! #he is a fragrance nerd and im into this stuff too #and we were discussing some very important matters at work - as you do #and i was like yeah for me there is this one tom ford i want to smell #and he was like oh actually i do have a sample of that... i could bring it to you :))))) #and i said sure thank you ☺️ #and then he asked me why so i had to act like a normal person??? like. uhhhh i was just uhhhh talking about it with someone uhhhhh #r #(obviously fragrances smell different on everyone but yeah! this is super nice) #(on my skin after i sprayed it it was incredibly sweet for a sec #but once it dries thats gone) #(what happens after that also depends on the person like most things on me tend to become spicy) #(have to say tho - its a true summer scent and it doesnt last particularly long) #(but i love that it handles the lemon cypress duo so nicely #and the sea vibe as well #because im always wary of these things smelling like air fresheners 💀) #(but there is enough stuff in this to balance that out and give it a richer deeper scent. its hot ill say it.) #(i also have to be careful because my own perfume is very strong and i keep smelling that on myself lmao)

[cadaverkeys]

You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).

Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.

#rambles #if you are a person who is into delicate skills #like lacemaking or printing or sewing #you will know fair well just how non expansive the knowledge online is in comparison to written guides from like the 50s #there was a time where at least one person in the household had to know a constructive skill #but in the modern day there is just less ans less demands for comprehensive guides #library propaganda #im stuck doing an essay rn but bc i have covid i cant go to the library and its totally fucked me #i want to source a lot of the stuff i read irl but i just cant go and get it and theres no online ver

[butchpoet]

I'm like if a chivalrous knight kissed a fair maiden's hand and said "my lady, I fight for you" and then walked off and immediately tripped over his own armor and fell on the ground

#and then the fair lady has to be like 'i love pathetic butches ' #butch #lesbian #butch4femme #written by me

[arataka-reigen]

#yes humans are a fantasy race what abt it #this is 100% inspired by dungeon meshi. as would be obvious to anyone who knows me. but i put some of the races we dont get on dunmeshi. #like fair folk #entertain me with this please. im bored and looking for attention. #gi talks #polls #fair folk #fantasy creature #goblincore #cottagecore #1 #1k #b

[elucubrare]

i firmly hold that it's my duty as a reader to believe it when an author tells me at the beginning of the series that the dragons are gone forever and never coming back. but god it's a struggle sometimes.

#that is: i don't think it's fair to hold that kind of genre knowledge against a specific instance of it #not even because while i've read hundreds of bad fantasy novels someone else might not have read any #but because hm. 'the dragons are gone' is the foundation of a kind of feeling - discovery; renewal; awakening - #there's not a way to get the feeling later on without laying the foundation #so even if the foundation feels like busywork for me the reader #it has to be there in some form or other

[dykealloy]

what do you mean jennifer saunder's shrek 2 cover of Holding Out for a Hero didn't play over the entirety of dressrosa arc

#happy new year. it's been about a decade since dressrosa arc first aired #i thought i was well and truly done with that last edit but this struck me like a bolt of lightning #one last go at it to wrap up the year #also. to be fair to doflamingo: how the fuck do you predict or prepare for this shit #(small aside: dressrosa arc is so badly paced you would not believe how many eps i had to download to pull four minutes together) #one piece #op #CJ's op watch-through #CJ's edits #dressrosa #trafalgar law #donquixote doflamingo #amv #monkey d. luffy #monkey d luffy #lawlu #roronoa zoro #zoro #donquixote rosinante #lulaw

[aquilaofarkham]

this line hits a lot harder especially when you view laios as having autism...

#aquila talks #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #laios touden #laios dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #never have i come across another character with this much ''omg hes literally me'' energies oof #and chilchuck was making a fair point!! but an autistic person hearing that is automatically gonna go ''... oh''

[deathflare]

i found a fancy new outfit for astarion ^^

#i am always picking locks/stealing stuff myself bc i forget i can swap to astarion for it #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #tav #dragonborn #ig fair exchange for me stealing his casual outfit as soon as i met him

[egophiliac]

IT WAS ERIC AFTER ALL!!!! I'm so glad we got to meet him (before Vil snaps him away with those Infinity Gauntlets) (can't wait to see what happens when we get the matching Infinity Tiara to go with them, there will be no survivors)

(sorry to be so slow/rough lately, just got a lot of stuff on the ol' brain at the moment! alas, if only I could spend all my time drawing incredibly stupid characters I mean I do but)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #tapis rouge #i know these are not my best but by god i needed to draw ~daddo venue~ #he is a treat! can't wait for him to yell at us for screwing up a shoot or whatever the last-minute disaster will be #i am SO HAPPY it turned out to be about movies after all! ...i mean sort of anyway #i'll take what i can get (and i do enjoy twst trying to be all cute about snow whAHEM i mean beautiful queen) (i see you there twst) #(also to be fair it actually wasn't poisoned in historial-revisionism-twstland so i think we can trust this apple. a+ acting eric) #anyway we are still. very solidly in the 'stand around and talk about the wallpaper for three hours' part of the event. #but HEY we got to meet eric! i was not really expecting it to be him so i am VERY pleased #also god help me i did think the shopping montage as portrayed by a rhythmic where they literally SKIP down the street was hilarious #there's a lot of Choices that were made in this event and that was a good one

[valentimmy]

💀

#puss in boots #puss in boots the last wish #death puss in boots #death wolf #fanart #digital art #my art #dreamworks #timmy draws stuff #doodle #this movie was so… I want to eat all of it #me and my dad watched it twice just to stare at the animation HDHSHHDHS #snyways why is every dreamworks villain so gender this isn’t fair ???

[thedeliaishere]

ENCYCLOPEDIA [Medium: Success] - Ah, a fumo. Derived from the otomatopeia of touching something soft, mofumofu. They are particularly famous among fans of Touhou, a Japanese multimedia franchise, for being particularly rare and hard to find. Lucky you! This fumo depicts the character, "Patchouli."

INLAND EMPIRE - Keep her close. Her softness and disaffected stare will ward against the coming darkness.

SAVOIRE FAIRE - Wait, did you say rare? I bet we can pawn it for a quick réal. Think of all the cool stuff we could get.

SHIVERS - Numbness creeps up from your fingertips, crawling into your spine. Across the bay, young man mourns the loss of the crown jewel of his collection.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Yes. This will do. You know what must be done.

RHETORIC [Legendary: Failure] - Uh, do we? Maybe its one of these political things. They haven't failed us yet.

1. Feed the bloodsucking landlords to the meat grinder?

2. Feed the ungrateful workers to the meat grinder?

3. Feed the ungrateful workers *and* foreigners to the meat grinder?

4. Let the meat grinder starve?

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - No, you communard. Do you really not remember? Dig deep and recall what it is that must be done.

VOLITION - Don't. It will only cause you more pain.

1. Do I have to?

2. I don't like the sound of this...

3. Does this have to do with the ex-something?

4. [ELECTROCHEMISTRY - GODLY 16]

Low

25%

+1 Something about rainbows...

+1 Saw preserved jams.

-1 It's better to forget this.

This is a Red Check.

It cannot be retried.

⚅⚅

Check Success!

YOU - Your neurons fire in tandem, dredging through every scrap of information left in your hungover, burnt out mind, until you unearth something truly terrible.

VOLITION - I warned you.

TASK GAINED: ACQUIRE A MASON JAR

#disco elysium #touhou #yes i know savoire faire is orange instead of yellow my text editor wont let me use yellow for some reason

[jojo-the-dogg0]

#i think cloud is done dealing with him since 97 #“zack hugged me better” ouch #cloud strife #ff7 #ffvii #sephiroth #sefikura #ff7 rebirth #comic strip #cloud x sephiroth #rebirth #ff7 meme #zack fair #zakkura #clack

[tinyfantasminha]

guys unfortunately ace trappola has to die I have to kill him

#twisted wonderland #twst meme #twst shitpost #jack howl #ace trappola #THEY SHARED 3 EVENTS TOGETHER..... AND IN ALL OF THEM JACK IS R CARD WHILE ACE IS SR OR HIGHER 💀HOW IS THIS FAIR #JACK IS ON HIS FOURTH R CARD. FOURTHHHHHHH #ACE HAS ZERO EVENT R CARDS #I hope after this ace gets thrown in R jail and jack starts getting the SRs im so SICK AND TIRED FOR THIS #this is no longer an anti-idia zone its an anti-trappola zone #i want that twink obliterated #also me: *wants to roll for ace playful dress SSR*

[peachdeluxe]

little brother

#loz #legend of zelda #breath of the wild #botw #mipha #prince sidon #thinking zora size dimorphism is a little stupid vs boo hoo younger sibling being taller FIGHT #art #drawn after age of calamity came out & held off until spoilers were fair game. and then. i just forgot about these entirely #but totk reminded me to see if i have any zelda stuff on hand

[ookikufurikabutte]

sorry, feel like i failed you

#zack’s silly gay art tag #my art #zakkura #clack #ff7r #final fantasy vii remake #final fantasy vii rebirth #ff7 rebirth #not really a spoiler since this was in the trailer so please dont execute me #cloud strife #zack fair #ff7 #ffvii rebirth #ff7 fanart

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

finally at that age where i'm thinking i should get a tattoo. not bc i feel strongly about it, just seems like a waste not to. i've got so much skin i'm not using

#feels so selfish like. all this skin what am i saving it for? #open to design suggestions! (please make me regret this offer) #maybe some deep sea horrors. a pretty watercolor of a gulper eel #once saw a person on the subway with various Skeleton Tattoos on all their limbs #i respected their commitment to the theme #but more than that i respected how all the skeletons were engaged in Activities #dancing in a ballgown. juggling its own (and two other???) skulls. swordfighting. being a mermaid skeleton #ANYWAY. the only reason i haven't already gotten tattoos is i just couldn't be bothered #i'm old enough to know i don't have any strong-but-potentially-temporary feelings driving me towards it #aesthetically i prefer decorated to non-decorated surfaces. but i'm not artistic or thrilled with commitment #honestly it feels like sheer laziness. indecisiveness--nay. immaturity!--that i HAVEN'T gotten a tattoo yet #letting all this blank canvas go to waste. tut tut i need to grow up and be an adult and get a tattoo sleeve already. #really i've put off my responsibilities long enough #(in fairness i DID at one time have 18 different piercings) #(but i took most of them out bc they interfere with wearing headphones and/or shoving my face in my pillow during Sleep Time) #(i only kept the nape piercing bc oddly enough it ended up being the most convenient. and the least painful to get now i think about it.) #(neck piercing? no problem. normal pair of earrings? Tribulations And Suffering. i don't make the rules i just poke them with a stick.)