#variety is the spice of life

[strawlessandbraless]

Reblog for science 🧫🧬🔬🧪🥼🔭⚗️🧑‍🔬

#tumblr polls #polls #poll #tumblr update #tumblr app #tumblr icons #new tumblr logo #new tumblr icon #tumblr logo #new icon #app icon #app logo #app update #icon update #mobile app #tumblr poll #variety is the spice of life #tumblr icon

[dduane]

This is real C. M. O. T. Dibbler stuff here

It’s a gag gift, obviously. But still. 🤣

#gulasch #ratten #C. M. O. T. Dibbler #because who wants ALL their rats on a stick #variety is the spice of life #GNU Terry Pratchett

[lorcandidlucienwill]

More art of Feyre Archeron in pants. More art of Nesta Archeron in modest clothing. More art of Elain Archeron with her hair up like a lady.

#i want a little variety here guys #variety is the spice of life #feyre archeron #nesta archeron #elain archeron

[fishfingersandscarves]

Your nsfw art has given me SEVERAL new kinks that I'm not sure how to feel about send help

congratulations nonnie 🫡

#my asks #fishfingersandscarves #anonymous #variety is the spice of life

[from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras]

Will you read fics about your favorite characters even if they're wildly inconsistent with your own HCs?

Absolutely! I mean, if I only read things that were consistent with my own personal version of a popular character, then I'd probably have nothing to read but my own stuff!

I've heard people say that they've invested so much time, energy and emotion into their own conceptions of treasured characters that to see a drastically different version feels "wrong" to them. But in truth, I've never once had that thought about one of my own little blorbos. If we're talking about a canon character here, then obviously I don't own them. There can be as many different versions of that character as there are people in the world, and the existence of all those variations does nothing to invalidate my own personal version! So why wouldn't I want to enjoy those variations and see what other people have cooked up?

My Éomer is not in a canon consistent relationship, but I'd be sad to miss out on all the fun Éothiriel authors - like @konartiste - as a result. My Théodred has a special lady friend, but that doesn't mean that I don't enjoy the hell out of a Borodred story - hello @brigwife - or one where he's just flying solo. It's not as though someone else having a different interpretation of Haldir means that I can’t make my Haldir do/say/act however I want in my own work. They just aren’t the same people, even if they share a name and some base characteristics.

So, yeah, I always have and always will be totally excited to see other works starring my favorites in whatever form they might appear. There's more than enough blorbo for everyone!

#answered asks #lord of the rings #lotr #lotr fanfiction #éomer #théodred #haldir #characters that don't match my own HC #there's enough blorbo for all of us #variety is the spice of life

[dolly-macabre]

Real metal fans have some other really weird and obscure favorites in genres that aren't metal related.

There I said it.

#variety is the spice of life #keep them guessing #talking.dolly

[halfagone]

The Ghosts of Phantasm's Past

The story goes: Andrea "Andi" Beaumont fell in love with Bruce Wayne, but before they could be wed, she returned the engagement to Bruce, and fled to another land. She would not return until many years later, when she would come to Gotham City under the guise of 'reorganizing family finances' by day, and donning the costume of 'Phantasm' by night. All this to avenge her father's murder at the hands of the Gotham mafia and mob bosses.

But. But in the margins, there's a note of little detail, that often goes unnoticed. Nearly two months after fleeing to Europe with her father, Andi (not Andrea, not Phantasm, Andi) finds out that she's pregnant with Bruce's child.

She is currently on the run from the mafia, with the chance she has to pick up everything at any given time to run for her life. And she is pregnant with her ex-fiancé's baby.

There are three things Andi can choose to do here. (Well, there is a fourth, but it had been no more a passing thought before it'd been dismissed with certainty.)

She can screw all sense and raise the child herself, no matter how dangerous it might be, no matter how solitary a life it would undoubtedly be for her baby to stay constantly alert and vigilant.

She can bring the child to their father, to be raised by the man she'd once given her whole heart to. But that runs the risk of someone finding out about her involvement, finding out that she's not as 'in the wind' as her hiding might imply. She can't afford to put Bruce and their baby in danger. That just negates the whole point. Or...

She can give the baby up for adoption, give them the better life they deserve because she knows, she knows, that she can't give it to them.

Andi chooses Option 3.

And for the longest time, it seems like she made the right decision. She choose not to be a part of her baby's (her son's) life, because if she thought she could get away with that, she wouldn't have given him up in the first place.

So she lives without regret, only vengeance and spite and grief. That is, until she returns to her first home, her old stomping grounds. She murders mob boss after mob boss in cold blood (the same way they'd killed her father), and for the first time in years, she feels alive. Her heart is pumping, there is a thrill to her hunt.

But then. But then, when she bursts into the Joker's base, she finds that the man had been planning on securing one more victim that night.

That night she comes face to face with her son for the first time since she'd given him up. He's bloody and broken and a step away from death, but she takes one look at him and knows: This is my son.

She does not take Joker prisoner that night. Instead, she puts a bullet between his eyes and takes her son away. Far, far away, and hopes, prays, that this time- this time he'll be safe.

Bruce doesn't agree with her idea of 'safe'.

#dpxdc #dpxdc prompt #this came to me like a fever dream #if anyone wants to write this #PLEASE DO!! #probably would do her character better justice than i could #the names matched i couldn't NOT do it #i want more bio kid!Danny AUs #that don't have Danny and Damian as full-blood siblings :/ #variety is the spice of life #sometimes y'know? #could probably include all the batfam #if you played your cards right #i know that's what i'm planning #tw: implied torture #tw: implied/referenced murder #i should probably stop now lol

[moss-is-a-frog]

SO unbelievably excited for series 5 of BBC ghosts so I can stop sobbing about good omens and start sobbing about whatever happens in series 5

#looking forward to it honestly #bbc ghosts #good omens #variety is the spice of life #my beloved sad comedies

[doublel27]

I don't really understand why you think that Carlos didn't outwardly blame TK in 4x03. He spent most of the episode being angry and glaring at him (even after Iris was rescued) - not to mention the "bad relationship" comment. He also basically confirmed it when TK asked if he thought it was his fault. It was all pretty pointedly directed at TK, no one else (except, you know, a suspect).

Okay, nonny, gonna be totally honest, I have not gone and rewatched the episode more than the times I watched it a week and a half ago now, so I'm going to go off of my memory and my theory of Carlos as a character as he's been expressed to us thus far. I'm also gonna need you to remind me of the "bad relationship" comment because I don't remember it. Was it in the car? It might have been in the car. I'm going to rewatch.

Carlos DID spend most of the episode angry, but he was really glaring at everyone that wasn't Iris IMO, from what I saw. He was skeptical of Detective Grier except when she played on his worst fears.

And let's talk about Carlos and what was happening in 4x03 and how it relates to his past and his present and his future.

So, several things:

One: This is not the first time Iris has gone missing, this is the second time. The first time Carlos thought she was dead for three years. She wasn't dead, she'd had a mental break due to schitzophrenia and was missing in Austin for three years, during which Carlos told Michelle to give up. There's a big wound that exists here with how Carlos accepted that she was in her right mind when she went missing and it (IMO part of the reason he didn't see her afterwards) because they'd already drifted apart by this point. Carlos didn't know her friends, he didn't know her life, he didn't know how odd things had gotten.

NOW, he's finally gotten back in touch with her, after guilt and other things likely kept him away and she's disappeared again. In fact, she's disappeared again IMMEDIATELY AFTER Carlos asked for something he needed. Carlos tends not to ask for his needs, like ever. And he asked Iris for this thing, and she's now missing. The level of guilt I am sure he felt after the detective told him that his wife went missing after he handed her divorce papers would have been massive.

We could see it on his face, weighing on him. It weighed on him in the interview with Grier in the apartment, and when TK admits that actually, he had gone to talk to Iris, but it was fine-- we would have hit another level of Carlos spiral.

Carlos is very used to handling everything himself. There is a level of perfectionism and control issues that cause Carlos to do everything himself. Like, this is a man who bought a whole ass house without telling TK as a surprise. He's also a man who has tried to finagle things. It was entirely growth to tell TK about Iris before the divorce was complete. I am certain there's a part of Carlos that immediately worried that by involving TK he had set off a chain of events that had inadvertently caused her to have another break.

Doesn't matter that Iris thought she was fine. Doesn't matter that TK thought she was fine. Last time Carlos and Michelle thought she was fine and she was found under a bridge.

We are also looking at a man who any time HE messes up for real, gets petty and starts projecting. Do I think he actually blamed TK? No. I think he blamed himself for involving a free radical like TK to offset the balance. I think he was so caught up in his own fears and his own decisions that he couldn't think past it.

And it's not the first time we've seen this from Carlos.

In 3.13, which is perhapse one of the most egregious levels of Carlos petty bitch moods, Carlos isn't mad at TK having a relationship with Cooper. Carlos is mad that someone else is able to provide acts of service to TK that are making him better and Carlos can't. Carlos's main act of things is acts of service. And he keeps trying to provide the services Cooper is providing and TK doesn't want them from him and Carlos feels not enough. So he's a petty fucking bitch to TK to the point that he doesn't make him food and is like "I thought Coop would feed you."

He does a similar move in 2x04 after the incident with his parents where he tries to gaslight TK into thinking the interaction WASN"T WEIRD. It was weird, you were talking about not being able to hold out for sex that long and how you and your boyfriend had sex in a honky tonk bathroom and then had a "This is my friend from work, TJ, who actually isn't a cop but a firefighter, Dad, don't be mad."

And TK wasn't wrong. But Carlos is both terrified that he's upset his parents with the existence of TK and that he's upset TK to the point of leaving. When TK does come back, Carlos has a very petty bitch moment of "Or did we break up already, because it felt like we did?" Because he's scared.

This is a common occurance all the way back to 1x02 when he calls TK crazy, but we know he knows he's being weird in 1x02 when he's like "I KNOW IT LOOKS LIKE A LOT BUT IT"S NOT BUT IT"S SUPER EASY IT"S JUST A FISH FROM THE FARMERS MARKET NO WORRIES< CHAMPAGNE?" and then when TK is like "This is a booty call. I am only up for booty calls right now" and Carlos then knows he's gone too far but he freaks out and tells TK he's acting crazy but he later tells Michelle he didn't ask TK out because he was worried about him running.

Whenever Carlos fucks up, or is worried he fucked up, he gets defensive and he gets petty and it's SO COMMON. It's just never been so glaringly projection until 3x13 and 4x03.

Also, narratively, the writers set TK up to feel guilty and worried so he didn't worry too much when Carlos didn't come home at first but wasn't immediately terrified when Carlos never respond. TK thinking Carlos is furious with him and isn't responding is the whole reason TK is wondering if he's over reacting with his worry or if he's thinking of doing the right thing in the ways he wants to make it up to Carlos or demand Carlos comes home.

Here's the thing. Carlos didn't leave the apartment in 4x03 or didn't come home later in 4x03 because he was mad at TK. He left the apartment and then didn't come home because he was searching for Iris. We saw it on the call where he showed up to the woman over the cliff fearing it was Iris and was immediately in a panic. When he tells TK he's staing with Iris, he's actually investigating the house again, and lets be real, he knows TK will tell him not to. He's so focused on uncovering what's going on with Iris, he's not paying attention to TK.

He's so lazer focused in the phone call with TK. He's just staring at the house the whole time and is distracted. I've got to rewatch it for the bad relationship comment. That's the one part I don't remember and I'll go back.

And I think, there is a justifiable thing to worry about your childhood best friend who is missing and maybe having another mental break and try and solve what's going on.

I do not feel that how TK was made to feel was fully intentional but it doesn't make it okay any more than his behavior in 3x13 was okay, or in 2x04 was okay or that 1x02 was okay. However, Carlos DOES fix it and change when he is wrong. He asks TK out on a real date. In 2x04 he apologizes and then gets to the point where he sets up a dinner with their families so that he can be boldly out after his dad confirms they know in 2x08. He calls Cooper and makes TK dinner and refuses to let TK say no in 3x13. In this case, Carlos was held captive by murderers, but his focus was still on keeping TK safe every time TK got close.

I think we'll see some progress from here, but that's my take. I understood if people took it other ways. I think we were supposed to be unsure, but I'd love to ask Rafa. He'd know.

#911 lone star #911 lone star 4.04 #911 lone star meta #carlos reyes #tarlos meta #tarlos #tk strand #anon ask #anon reply #doublel27 talks #I don't mind people disagreeing with me #variety is the spice of life #but i'm gonna keep the same line i've had since i joined the fandom #which hasn't been disproven by the show yet #so #imma do me

[kimio7]

Love strollonso, will always be supportive of crazy4crazy relationships

#theyre crazy in like opposite ways #its amazing #variety is the spice of life #ls18 #fa14 #strollonso

[anto-pops]

Hey smut mother. I may be a seb and ominis girlie but I’ve been thinking about Garreth recently wishing we had more quests with him. I swore I hated redheads but…?

This is the farthest thing from a problem my dear, I know of a few people who would celebrate this admission with confetti and champagne 👀

#asks #COUGH COUGH CUFF AND RENI COUGH #variety is the spice of life #embrace the Garreth love with open arms #red on the head and fire in the bed as they say #he absolutely deserved more screen time though you’re so right

[bakubunny]

my headcanons for a single character can range anywhere from “🥺 they’d be such a cute soft subby baby” to “pls can you dom the ever living fuck out of me 🥵”

#mdni #i’d tag specific but i’d be tagging all of them #variety is the spice of life #i guess #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #boku no hero #smut hcs #bunny talks

[fanfiction-pet-peeves]

fanfiction pet peeve: too many sentences in a row starting with "he ___"

#variety is the spice of life #reading a moshang fic and immediately hit with a wall of all the same sentence AND not referring to the character by anything other than “h #which means my brain is STRUGGLING to actually care about the words on screen #im a beta reader and i catch one of my author friends doing that sometimes like “use his name” “remove the use of ”the lawyer“ here” #fanfiction #fanfiction tropes #fanfiction pet peeves #ao3 #archive of our own

[rattrapdadfigure]

For Good Omens Headcanons, when related to Crowley’s origins,

I like all of them and I explore them all cause it’s fun!!

He was Raphiel? Lovely!

Just a lil guy (not of high status) Splendid!!

Kokabiel?? I love! ;0;

And honestly any others I think are swag as well 👉👈 /genpos

This shit is so much fun!

I really like the idea of him having faded constellations on his wings :’))

#humanoid #alien #shitpost #tv show #rant #crowley #good omens tv #good omens #headcannons #good omens headcanons #demon #angels and demons #angel #religion #mythical #mythology #fantasy #for fun #variety is the spice of life #grrrr bark woof #snake #cryptid #demons #angels #heaven #hell #kokabiel #just a lil guy #constellations #astrology

[whats-in-a-sentence]

So a Mediterranean diet that targets a mix of food, not a single 'superfood' or a single villainous component of food, works better on a range of health measures than simply a low-fat diet. Eating as many different, complex-tasting delicious plant foods we can, with a small amount of pasture-raised meat if you're that way inclined, is what we are constructed to eat and enjoy.

"Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy" - Matthew Evans

#book quotes #soil #matthew evans #nonfiction #variety #mediterranean diet #superfoods #villainous #health #low fat #diet #variety is the spice of life #complex #pasture #meat #enjoyment

[big-barn-bed]

Who is your favorite man to rail Paul? Best Paul getting plowed dynamic? Preferred Paul on a prick position?

I am a firm believer that ALL MEN should fuck Paul McCartney. It’s not only their right, but their DUTY to smash his back door in. 😤

That being said, umm, Robert Fraser is my personal fav paul fucker. The combination of cocaine/art/queerness/male validation that Robert offered really suited Paul! Plus, I do think he’s the most realistic candidate.

#ask #variety is the spice of life #ily anon