#the unexpected everything

[bibliophilecats]

03 August 2023: National Watermelon Day

It's summer!

#book photo challenge #fundaybpc #fdbpc #dragonbadgerchallenge #morgan matson #the unexpected everything #yes i did buy a watermelon just for this photo

[footballshowrot]

having a normal one👍

#kinda cant believe we got a jamie crying scene and it was like That #i know it was kinda played for laughs (on the silly football comedy show?? noooooooo. shocker! shhh shhhhhh) but his reaction.....maaaaaaan #very unexpected. ig the only other time we've seen him cry was when he was in shock and also surrounded by a fuck ton of people #he was probably stifling that shit. versus it being with roy. he just kinda melts man. maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan #i know its like boiling point shit. having functioning relationships on the team at stake. the man city match. everything swirling #but just that versus him watchin the movie with the team like😐😐😐its just so telling innit #MR FACADE IN THE HOUSE. i don't know....hmmmmmmmmmm.....hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm #hes not got the words for it. is what im tryin to get at. (looks like i dont have the words for it either lmaooo) #his i dont knows and the comments about his dad stamping out his softness......😮‍💨when it bubbles up its like where do i put this #i havent slept maybe i will try and graft this into an actual tangible paragraph or maybe i will say fuck it and cave and write a fic #or maybe i will continue communicating thru impact font memes yeeeeaaaaaaa #jamie tartt #ted lasso #rot riffing

[kaeyx]

Ok this is completely out of left field but hear me out. A royal!au with Diluc where he's a little known lord in the capital, and you're a bachelor/ette being taken to every ball of the season and getting paraded around to secure a good match. Diluc is incredibly rich and known in his lands for his kindness, revered by his soldiers, but he never really cared for the theatrics of high society nearer the capital. He was too young before his dad died, and he ran off during what should have been his debutant year, so nobody really knows of him besides trading partners. He always supplies the nobles with fine wine and meat from his herds but declines every invitation to actually come and attend an event in the big cities.

Until one time his wait staff and close trading partners manage to convince him, and he agrees to go to just one ball because he's in the area for business and the networking is always useful. He's not up to date with the current trends but gets a suit tailored for him ahead of time. He hasn't read any of the famous writers of the moment but he's still a learned man who can talk philosophy with all the men twice his age, who are charmed and all too eager to throw their kids at him, hoping for a chance to bring their families together.

You're one of the debutants and have had to sit through a dozen introductions while your parents try to secure a good match. You're not rich or important enough to have your pick of husband, but you're not poor enough to be completely irrelevant. Of all the bachelors running around and trying to charm you with their knowledge of the latest plays and wars, only one catches your eye. It's hard to not notice him, honestly. Diluc is tall and broad but doesn't hold himself like a man of war, fiery hair tied back from a handsome, brooding face while he stands on the sidelines and talks to some older nobleman. You've never seen him before, and none of your friends seem to know him either. He's the lord of a smallish county near the border, and you recognise the name from their generous sponsorships and rich wines.

#diluc.genshin #diluc x reader #idk what would happen but it's something like diluc being awkward and having no idea how court life works #you're tiered of the peacocking and elaborate social rituals #diluc isn't considered a prime candidate bc he's not as learned as he could be plus he doesn't network at all #plus he mostly hangs around the bourgeoisie #and no one really knows about him beyond he's in charge of everything super young because of his dad's unexpected death #plus diluc never finished his military service in an age where lords were expected to be rlly good at war AND cultured #idk I'm coping with my baroque lit class rn

[fauvester]

I feel in my heart of hearts that jack and parse did each other dirty back in the day. both of then were stupid emotionally immature teenagers. and parse already got his ass whooped by the narrative. so maybe jack can be slow basal-level tortured by his worstie ex hooking up with his bestie teammate

#patater #parse sitting on taters lap obnoxiously making out with him. #jack sitting next to them doing everything in his power to pretend to ignore them. 100 yard stare. phone whiteknuckled #taters just a good ol fashioned russian boy who's delighted by the unexpected bounty harvest of blonde twunk #now he and zimmboni match :) #tater: we go out together one night. you and B and me and kenny. a double-date ))) #parse: yeah jack. let's go. 2v2 on the ice. so I can watch you two body each other for my amusement

[bunneis]

Chrono Trigger (1995) Dev. Square

#im so sad people it was so unexpected. rest in peace toriyama thank you for everything <3 #s.og #s.gif #chrono trigger #akira toriyama

[laundrybiscuits]

(continued from this and this)

“Yeah, I just told her to give them the cold shoulder. Don’t have to be mean or anything, just ignore ‘em a little. Play it cool. Drives girls crazy, ‘cause then they have to work to get your attention.”

Eddie stares at him. 

“Holy shit, Buckley’s gonna die alone and it’s gonna be a hundred percent your fault. That is the worst fucking advice I’ve ever heard in my life.”

Steve actually looks offended, like his honor’s been impugned. “What the hell, man? I’ve picked up like a million girls that way. I’m telling you, it works.”

“Yeah, okay, now I’m seeing why my sage advice is required for this whole endeavor. That kind of thing might fly if you’re some alpha dog prom king, but lesbians are like…giant pandas or some shit, okay? The conditions have to be precisely calibrated or they’ll just hibernate in a cave by themselves eating bamboo forever.”

“That doesn’t sound right,” says Steve. 

Eddie shrugs. “Whatever, I’m not a panda scientist. The point is…okay, let’s do a thought experiment.” Oh, this is a bad, bad idea. The Munson specialty. “Say you wanted to get a guy interested in you. How would you do it?”

“I’d just—” Steve stops, frowning. “I mean, girls usually just…laugh at guys’ jokes and stuff. Or wear, like, makeup?”

“How are you so awful at this,” says Eddie. “Jesus. I swear to god I remember you doing better with girls at school. Anyway, I didn’t ask what girls do, I asked what you’d do.”

“Shit, I don’t know. Isn’t that why I’m here?” Steve’s getting a little huffy, fidgeting. “I’d just…find a way to hang out with the guy, I guess. Laugh at his dumb jokes.”

“Yeah, sure,” Eddie says patiently. “But that’s what you do with friends too, right? And when you’re walking a perilous path far from the bright streets of heterosexuality, you probably don’t want to risk being too obvious, in case you’re wrong. So you gotta just…give them an opening to let them, like, signal if they’re interested. If they’re looking for a sign, they’ll take it.”

Steve wrinkles his nose. “Ok, but what if they’re not interested yet? Like…sometimes girls take a while to warm up to you.”

“Cut your losses and move on.” Admittedly, Eddie’s still working on that part. 

“What? Man, I’m starting to think you don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Eddie scowls at the skeptical look on Steve’s face. “Jesus, the disrespect. Why am I not telling this directly to Buckley, anyway? She’s the one in need of these hard-earned pearls of gay wisdom.”

Steve lets out a big, gusty sigh and tips his head back against the couch. “Because she said if I tried to give her any more help with dating, she’d smother me in my sleep and pin it on Dustin.”

“Attagirl,” says Eddie approvingly. 

“But obviously she still needs help, so this is like—a stealth mission. For love.”

“For love,” says Eddie. “Yeah, okay.” 

———

“Hey, can you—”

Robin whirls around at the unexpected voice and promptly trips over nothing at all, arms flailing out to avoid crashing into the library returns cart.

“Oh, shit,” says the stranger, reaching out a hand like she’s going to catch Robin’s elbow, but pulling back at the last second. “Um. Sorry.”

Robin blinks down at a girl in head-to-toe black, including dusty black combat boots. “Aren’t you hot,” she says, then wants to die. “I mean—like, just, with the heat and all, it’s a billion degrees out, I think if I tried to wear that much black I’d instantly dissolve like the Wicked Witch of the West.”

The girl stares back at her for a second, then bursts out laughing. It’s a nice laugh. 

“As if. I’m from Utah, this is nothing.”

“Oh! Utah! You’re not—are you, uh, Argyle’s girlfriend?” The way Argyle’d described her, Robin had been picturing some kind of Elvira-themed ingenue in lace, maybe smoking like a 1920s flapper. This makes more sense for a real-life teenager, though: oversized t-shirt tucked into ratty black jeans, with some cheap-looking silver jewelry tied around her neck. Her eyeliner’s heavier than anything Robin’s ever seen in Hawkins, smudging messily a little in the heat that’s apparently nothing to her. It makes her look a little bit like a panda bear, but not in a bad way.

“Not anymore.” She grimaces. “Ugh, that sounds mean. We’re, y’know, still friends and everything. I’m Eden.”

“Robin,” says Robin, gesturing at herself like a loser. “Hi.”

“Hi,” says Eden, and smiles at her.

#soooo I actually wrote most of this before it became acutely ironic for me specifically #ik I'm vagueing a little but uhh yeah there have been some positive but VERY unexpected developments in my personal life #and originally I was going to apologize for the panda+lesbian slander but yknow what? I stand by it #really need to figure out a tag for this series tho #as always: I do try to keep everything updated/organized on my directory page! #fic: somewhere sometime somehow

[maxsix]

What he sounds like in my head: Desert Rose

#Im Changkyun #Changkyun #monsta x #I.M #monsta x I.M #maxsixgif #so many x's i just typed #every boy has a specific sound to me #and CK's is dark smokey and haunting #mysterious and unexpected #his eyebrows are so aggressive #he's my favourite one in mx to edit bc he's just so aesthetic always #everything is so sharp #anyways hand kink

[cerunilea]

I want Cellbit to still actually be in his depression arc after he wakes up from his weeklong hibernation JUST so I can see the looks on Bagi and everyone else she tells' faces at the subversion of expectations, it would be glorious to witness (especially after she spent all week preparing and bracing herself for him on the warpath, she would be so caught off guard and I think that's something you don't get to see very often)

#qsmp #murderous rampage cellbit is good and all #but think of the HORROR bagi and roier would feel at something as unexpected and insidious as cellbit of all people just... giving up #along with the sudden confusion of who then wrote the message and framed him for it #either way has the bearing to be true and very interesting #I just would REALLY like to see Bagi be proven wrong after being SO certain of everything when she hasn't spoken to him about it yet #and the depression path offers me more interesting questions than the murder path so that's what I prioritize rn #cellbit #bagi #qsmp cellbit #qsmp bagi

[aalt-ctrl-del]

mad take, but I can't with how the "Vivzie hate club" has two brain cells:

how dare this character be absolutely vulgar, vile, sexist, toxic, and a meanie. This show is terrible, and is teaching children terrible things. I don't care if this is hell, this is wrong and I hate.

but also

how dare this character of gluttony not look like a swol fly. This is not biblically accurate character design. How dare the deadly sins not behave in a cliche way that I have come to expect after watching 50 marvel movies. This free show is terrible and I hate.

#helluva boss #hazbin hotel #waiting patiently for the [I was a part of Vivzies team and everything was terrible here is my pdf of carefully catered content] bomb #maybe this was so unexpected the disgruntled worker didn't have the mad tea edited up in a neat little framed package #seriously ken draws was an FULL ADULT and a manipulator dude was toxic as all hell #i hope no one else got tangled up with them especially minors cause that person was toxic #a 5 HOUR PHONE CHAT OVER A BASIC LEGAL DOCUMENT #FOR IPS #30 AND COULDNT INTERPRET A LEGAL DOCUMENT #A SHORT TERM RUNDAMENTARY LEGAL DOCUMENT FOR IPS #I did read the pdf ken provided and.... they come across as an absolute nightmare to work with

[xrabell]

So… It took a lot longer to draw than I thought.

This is a test comic to understand my mistakes and remember… some points. I have a lot of ideas, but I guess I need to change my skills better first.

#over the garden wall #otgw #otgw beast #over the garden wall fanart #otgw comics #otgw fanart #over the garden wall comic #otgw comic #my art #I see so many flaws #But I've been drawing for so long #so let it be #I tried not to make everything blurry #but in the end everything became “soapy” anyway #There should have been two more pages with the unexpected... a guest. But I didn't know what tags to put #so I ended the comic on that

[vitruvianmanbara]

not the kind of thing I usually share, but I came across the CDC's national intimate partner and sexual violence survey and their 2010 findings on victimization by sexual orientation, and some of the statistics for women are really shocking (tw for rape and assault)

anyway I wanted to share these because I hear vague stats about queer women and sexual violence being thrown around constantly, but we rarely take a step back and look at the actual numbers these days. direct pdf download of the report here: 2010 Findings on Victimization by Sexual Orientation

#the stats for men are worth looking at too but this is long enough. #not shocking as in unexpected but seeing it all laid out this way is so grim. it makes the ways in which my own experiences have been #dismissed feel even worse than they already have honestly lol. I've been thinking lately about how after he kept text stalking me sending #homophobic slurs & stuff and I was just so numb to everything I had to convince myself it was no big deal. #and I was a clued in person like smart enough to know that that type of violence is worse for queer women but I still felt very alone #in my experiences for all these years and I struggle a lot to talk about it still.

[alicenpai]

a funny confession: you know what. after watching baki . i understand why beastars is the way it is

#the lore is that paru itagaki (beastars mangaka) is the daughter of keisuke itagaki (baki mangaka) in case you didnt know #i mean this in the best way possible #like in the way that everything is so batshit but in a way that is always unexpected and genuinely so entertaining and full of passion #i gotta go read beastars again from the beginning #baki is one of the funniest fucking shows ive ever seen ngl #diary

[howlonomy]

In the Clover collapsing comic, god i fucking love Ceroba immediately seeing the parralels to what happened after Kanako got injected, and it's auuughhhhh love it, a mother's trauma.

HEHEHE YEAAHH IM GLADD my absolute favorite part was starting it and being like oh. oh this is just like kanako. ohhhh >:)

i loved drawing the parallels between them and how i think ceroba would react to it!! ofc her first instinct was “oh god they fell down. their soul is cracked in two”

#asked and answered #i was almost worried it was ooc bc when kanako fell ceroba immediately jumped into action #but at this point clovers falling was 1) completely unexpected. it was quite literally out of no where #and 2) during a time where literally everything is goong good in cerobas life. so it makes this tragedy all the more surprising #so yeah i think she would have intense flashbacks because of clover collapsing #it would take her a long time to stop hovering and waking up in the middle of the night just to check both her kids are still breathing #a lot of being on edge and drinkibg a little more than usual #ogh. ceroba. i love you so much and your fucked up relationship with grief and trauma #shes everything tk me #mcau lore

[hecksupremechips]

God every day I think about Akane’s breakdown in door 3 because there really is no correct way to interpret that and every possibility makes me crazy. Like she sees this fucked up corpse whom Junpei (and the player, depending on how they play) believes is their friend Snake, but she knows that it’s Guy X. It’s a man she very intentionally put in the game for this very purpose, so that he could die horrifically and be displayed for everyone to see. And she has a full mental breakdown over being trapped in this room with the corpse, being trapped by Junpei, to the point where she rips out her hair and starts bleeding from how much she bangs on the door screaming to get out. And fuck, there’s so many possibilities like

Akane could be feeling genuine terror over the sight of the body, and with that remorse. She made this happen, she wanted this to happen, and now she’s forced to quite literally watch the damage she’s caused unfold. She can detach herself from his murder easily in other timelines where she doesn’t have to look at it, and she can sleep easy knowing that her hands are technically clean because she didn’t do the literal killing. But she can’t do that here, and she has to face the fact that not only did she happily cause this death, she failed her mission. She isn’t going to survive, and now this man is dead for nothing and everything is her fault

On the other hand, her entire breakdown could be completely fabricated in order to keep playing the role of the damsel in distress who is so innocent that the very sight of blood drives her to insanity. The interesting part about this is that if she could fake such a horrific breakdown, just how much of her personality a facade? We know she wants revenge, for everyone from Cradle to feel even an ounce of the pain she and so many others went through, but we don’t get to see the extent of how much she feels this way. We never hear directly from Akane about her feelings on any of the original organizers, just her note about her desire to punish them. She hates them, but does she see their deaths as a necessary evil, or does she feel joy and satisfaction at watching them go? It’s absolutely horrifying not knowing, not being able to see her true feelings, not knowing just how real or fake she is, the extent of her madness. Perhaps she doesn’t even know that herself

IN OTHER WORDS, it’s fucked

#zero escape #akane kurashiki #the truth lies somewhere in the middle im sure #but god both possibilities are so tasty #personally i think her reaction is fake to an extent like i think she does feel at least some joy over the murders #shes doing a good deed and ridding the world of evil #but i think that this is a rare moment where she actually thinks for a minute about what shes done and how its fucked #like shes never truly present in the moment she can never fully grasp the severity of the trauma #and i kinda want to believe that this route is a bit unexpected for her #like she had to have known it was a possibility but its entire existence relies on junpei betraying the others #and i think that she was ready to write it off as a rare possibility so she didnt worry about it too much #because the only thing holding junpei back from choosing door 3 is aoi saying that picking it would require leaving people to die #and akane has nothing but her trust that junpei is good and wouldnt do something so horrible to rely on #but then it happens and she cant handle the uncertainty she wasnt ready for ANY of this to happen #not only did junpei betray the others he betrayed HER in so many ways he doesnt realize #he did what he thought was good for june but its exactly the opposite hes not only damned her #but he trapped her in a room with the disgusting corpse that she put there and everything throws her off #and she has to confront that even junpei is unpredictable and is capable of evil and that she herself has fucked up so much #she cant escape this without literally STEPPING INTO the entrails of someone she killed #and its all just too much and she completely loses it #so yeah for me its less a mental breakdown cuz she feels bad for murder #but more a breakdown because shes been betrayed and caught off guard and has a brief realization of how terrifying her actions are #those may sound the same but they arent please guys please :( #as you can see im very normal about this and good god 999 is so fucking good

[masonjarsmoments]

Andreas Wellinger during the German national anthem after winning in Willingen on 04.02.2024

#i am still not over this and wont recover for a while like this was everything and so unexpected #sag mal weinst oder ist das der Regen der von deiner Nasenspitze tropft #sorry but i had to that song just directly came to my mind #gosh he looked so pretty and happy and i just can't #ski jumping #Andreas Wellinger

[greeneyed-thestral]

#this is the moment thorin fell in love with bilbo #he has a lump in his throat when bilbo mentions belonging 'cause earlier he told him he has no place amongst them #and yet this hobbit is telling him you know what I heard everything you said and you are right I miss home #but it isn't fair that I have a home I can miss and you don't #the dwarf-king is almost tearing up 'cause how is it possible for a total stranger to care so much and risk so much #he can only lower his head meaning I'm Sorry and Thank You all at the same time #the hobbit #hobbit #bilbo #bilbo baggins #thorin #thorin oakenshield #bilbo/thorin #thorin/bilbo #bilbo x thorin #thorin x bilbo #bagginshield #an unexpected journey #auj #martin freeman #richard armitage