This world is too much with us

The Return of the King title page // Heading to Zechariah 9

The Song of the Eagles // The Holy Bible

thinking about the potential for mech pilot body horror/dysmorphia. seeing something high above you or farther away than you can easily traverse with your own body and feeling a rush of vertigo, as though you should be able to reach out and touch it, or clear the distance in a single stride. after so long spent inside the mech that it's become like an extension of yourself, it can be difficult to adjust to being human again.

the mech adjusts to you, as well. pilots being uncomfortable with new or reassigned mechs isn't just a matter of personal preference. an old mech whose previous pilot is no longer fit for active duty (or no longer alive to undertake it) carries the muscle memory of that pilot in its own synthetic tendons, which protest against learning your own body's movements and shape. a new mech has to be broken in. it's like teaching yourself to walk again for the first time.

physical definition isn't all that remains, either. a mech can come to carry echoes of a pilot's consciousness, well-worn grooves of thought and memory imprinted onto its circuits. a mech that has been piloted by the same person for long enough can be said to develop a personality of its own, reflecting that of its pilot. and mechs that lost their pilots in particularly brutal combat can become haunted by ghosts in the machine, and react violently to the presence of a new body and mind in their cockpit, unable to accept anything different that tries to fill the emptiness left behind.

JJK 0 Suguru Geto sketches. I love love love his cult leader fit so much

Let us mourn and let us dance

Hannah Streefkerk

crocheted & embroidered lichen installation

i could not survive in ancient greece i would be spending all my money on red figure kraters or whatever. my husband would come home like where did all of the funds for influencing votes go and i’d be like honey look this amphora’s got achilles and ajax playing dice on it

This is Charles. He wants to go on a journey around tumblr. could you show him around?

it’s small joys saturday y’all let’s get it

the results are in! pinako was messing with them and this is canon now.

Somebody found this last week and reminded me it existed, so I'mma bring it back to this blog because it's about ten days until some of you will need that last one. :D

I'm never using any other noise generator ever again.

Here is one more LOTR fanart. I’m a big fan of all of Tolkien’s work as well as all movies. Once per a while I’m going back to the Middle Earth - to the place that took my imagination and made a big impact on my art. As for Arwen, I’m still so much in love how does she look in the movies. So here is much more film related fanart than the previous one with Eowyn.

does anyone want to guess how long this video is

great guesses everyone! here is the length of the video:

AU where Damian feels really bad for hurting Tim but won't admit it out loud, so he goes into over protective mode.

I don't know, Tim could pay Damian back and start his stalking again so Damian knows how it feels

There’s about a 70% chance that Damian would read this as Tim caring for him in return and thinking it’s a bonding activity

Between the two of them they can make this family so much more codependent

Inktober Day 28: Sparkle

in his shadow.

Love me a good snerdle!

please reblog and put in the tags your birth month, your favorite season and if it snows where you live. trying to see something

In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!

this is actually really helpful and affirming thanks