you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

now i can cry AND pop it & lock it at the same time, thanks djcrinkles

Mass Effect heritage post

ID: a set of four gifs from the music video for the NSYNC's "It's Gonna Be Me." Each has one word, reading "it's gonna be May," in front of Justin Timberlake dancing.

Hey guys remind me how many properties there are on ao3 where m/m outnumbers f/f for no good reason

Looked those up rq to get precise numbers and. wow

Dungeon Meshi:

Undertale:

Project Sekai:

also the are just over 6 million m/m fics on ao3 compared to the 1.1 million f/f fics

Combine your chinese zodiac and astrology sign to make your true fursona

i still hate this post so much. i’m an ox and a taurus. i’m a bull bull. i’m so fucking annoyed oh m y go d

SCORPION TIGER I WIN MUTHAFUCKAS PINCH PINCH STAB STAB

I am the Virgin Monkey apparently.

Oof.

Scorpion Snake. Apparently if you don’t listen to my warnings and heed my boundaries, you’re royally fucked and it will be agonizing the whole time.

Crabbit.

I love dinosaurs as much as robots. It is very funny to me when ppl freak out about their childhood icons having feathers maybe.

But it is actually more boring if they are all just like Hollywood imagined.

hollywood's "learn about more than one dinosaur" challenge

Out of curiosity and also guilt over my own coffee intake. I wanna ask:

Now I'm not talking about when you're studying and so you drink 3x the usual amount or something like that. This isn't me asking what your record is. I'm talking about the most basic, average day, how many coffees you drink?

you're going about your normal day when, suddenly, surprise! you've been pokémon mystery dungeon'd!

unfortunately, due to budget cuts, the pokémon assigning quiz has been canceled. instead, you must spin THE WHEEL, assigning you a random, unevolved, non-legendary and non-mythical pokémon. you must now go on some sort of world-saving adventure as this pokémon. good luck!

tell me in the tags what you rolled, and how you feel about it - for bonus points, you can spin the wheel again for (or just take your pick of) a pokémon to be your partner.

bonus rules:

They really should teach people how to cook in school.

song: in the hall of the mountain king

that is honestly one of the best-timed and best-edited videos as if the music were made for the text or the text were made to the music and perfectly

which dungeon meshi character are you?

Spotify playlist where every song title is a reference to a pokemon move. Is this anything?

Here is a link to the playlist in progress. If y’all have any ideas please lemme know.

Thought of a good handful just by skimming through the list of moves, here's some additions:

Dive - Nirvana

Guillotine - Death Grips

Roar - Katy Perry

Sing - My Chemical Romance

Supersonic - Oasis

Surf - Mac Miller

Thunderbolt - Björk

Recover - CHVRCHES

Double Team - Tenacious D

Waterfall - The Stone Roses

Spikes - Death Grips

Morning Sun - Robbie Williams

Covet - Basement

Suckerpunch - The Wildhearts

Avalanche - Leonard Cohen

Happy Hour - The Housemartins

Incinerate - Sonic Youth

Oh God, I have small politics to laugh about.

People are so so SO afraid of cities.

The biggest city near us is around 900k people. Which in the grand scheme of things is not very big (Chicago is around 2 million, for reference.)

The guys I worked with at parks would look at the border of the town we work in, shake their head, and make remarks about 'the city.' They consider themselves a rural town.

This town has 40K people in it. It's not small. It's not rural. We've got yogurt shops and like five grocery stores.

'We want to preserve our rural way of life.'

This is a suburb.

Recently, a merger has happened with a nearby township of about 4K. If we didn't do this merger, then it was going to be annexed by the bigger city- which wanted to use it for housing development. So my town and this township reached an agreement to prevent that from happening. Only drawback is that the township will have slightly higher taxes.

The people of the township are

PISSED.

Because they don't want the 'big city' affecting their 'rural way of life.'

Understand. They mean the 40k town... to be the 'big city.'

Which certainly puts it into perspective, that the little township of 4k considers us an urban entity instead of what it is- a suburb. Massive blow to the identity of the guys I work with, who think they're the country.

Let's put that into perspective.

I used to live in a small mountain town where the nearest grocery store was an hour and 15 minutes down the mountain. It was 2 miles square. There were 600 people.

Which would be considered 'the city' compared to the 'census certified place' that I visit often for work, which has two gas stations, a fruit stand, a pharmacy, and a population of 342 people.

To get there, I drive through a town of 162, where there is a building with the words 'convenience store needed' painted on it.

Sometimes I have to take a detour through a village of 28.

I have thoughts and opinions about the 'rural identity' of suburban dwellers.

Always for the First Time - Ch. 3 (Explicit)

Fandom: The Wayhaven Chronicles Pairing: Nate/Mason/F. Detective (Kat Langford) Rating: E (18+ only) Warnings: None Summary: It's a snowed-in cabin 3-some fic with SO.MANY.FEELINGS! Chapter 3/3, word count: ~6000

Excerpt:

His soft gaze drops to her mouth, watching his thumb as he drags it, oh-so-gently, across her parted lips. 

She thinks of the quilt he gave her, one of his antique ones, after the heirloom one from her grandmother was lost to the ocean when her boat sank. Not a replacement, Nate said, just something to keep you warm at night. He’d hand mended the worn areas.

Kat cups Nate’s cheek, and he leans into her touch, eyes slipping closed. 

She thinks of quiet nights working with Mason to restore some of Nate’s antique things—a Victorian knife sharpener, an ornate coffee mill—and Nate’s surprised delight at having them working again. 

He covers her hand with his own, and turns to press a kiss to her palm, his stubble rasping gently over her skin, his mouth soft and tender.

She thinks of hikes into high, remote places she never dreamed of visiting when she was growing up in Wayhaven. 

Kat traces the beautiful line of Nate’s jaw with her other hand and his throat bobs as he swallows.

She thinks of quiet moments when the three of them just existed, without need of speaking. She thinks, and she thinks, and she thinks—god—nothing will be the same after. How could it be, when it’s him?

“Nate.” A quiet plea, a little lost, a little overwhelmed. 

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A Guide to Historically Accurate Regency-Era Names

I recently received a message from a historical romance writer asking if I knew any good resources for finding historically accurate Regency-era names for their characters.

Not knowing any off the top of my head, I dug around online a bit and found there really isn’t much out there. The vast majority of search results were Buzzfeed-style listicles which range from accurate-adjacent to really, really, really bad.

I did find a few blog posts with fairly decent name lists, but noticed that even these have very little indication as to each name’s relative popularity as those statistical breakdowns really don't exist.

I began writing up a response with this information, but then I (being a research addict who was currently snowed in after a blizzard) thought hey - if there aren’t any good resources out there why not make one myself?

As I lacked any compiled data to work from, I had to do my own data wrangling on this project. Due to this fact, I limited the scope to what I thought would be the most useful for writers who focus on this era, namely - people of a marriageable age living in the wealthiest areas of London.

So with this in mind - I went through period records and compiled the names of 25,000 couples who were married in the City of Westminster (which includes Mayfair, St. James and Hyde Park) between 1804 to 1821.

So let’s see what all that data tells us…