Grabby Little Raccoon Hands

fixed a problem at work that i vaguely saw a manager fix once and i did it faster which means that i get to take his skin i get to take his skin i get to take his skin i get to take his skin i get to take his skin i get to take his skin

i comen to get you :D

I don’t know why I’ve never zeroed in on this line before, but right after Gideon’s gotten Jeannemary out of the facility and is trying to figure out where to go?

“She had to get her to safety. She wanted her longsword and she wanted Harrow.”

I cannot get over how even in the middle of complete panic, when she needs safety her mind goes to her sword and to Harrow in the same breath.

She does it again right on the next page, I am LOSING MY MIND

“What she badly needed was Harrow Nonagesimus, for whom a gigantic construction of bones would be more fun opportunity than hellish monstrosity, and she needed her longsword.”

#sometimes you need your gf and your mom (@gideonthe69th)

OK BUT WAIT

This is not the first Harrow/Jeannemary overlap in Gideon's brain

And I want to rave about how Jeannemary and Isaac are a small part of developing Griddlehark:

Basically, juuust at the moment where Harrow is (badly) extending an (awkward) olive branch, Gideon has Jeannemary on her mind, and she's just got a new perspective on what it was like to be a sad, desperate child dealing with the violent loss of a parental figure and having to grow up too fast because of it all.

For a split second, Gideon doesn't see Harrow the evil bully who ruined her life, she sees Jeannemary.

And that small recontextualizing of Harrow’s horrible behavior growing up is very quickly followed in the text by "...if this keeps up, we could be friends."

maybe it's nothing but I love it

Oh, you’re absolutely right! It’s not nothing and I wanna talk about it! You know where else Harrow gets compared to Jeannemary? Pool scene. Directly after she calls herself a war crime, and right before she says she’d do it again:

“All the paint had rubbed off, and Harrowhark looked thin and haggard and no older than Jeannemary Chatur.”

I’m just thinking about how they’ve never been around any other kids or teens, they have no context for what is or isn’t normal in childhood. Absolutely the circumstances and consequences were extreme, but at the most basic level, the biggest things they carry such enormous guilt over… are completely normal for children. It’s normal to want to go somewhere that’s “off limits,” to go through a locked door. It’s normal to tattle on other kids.

Jeannemary and Isaac are their first direct experience with other teens, and their first opportunity to see what childhood has the potential to actually look like (not that Isaac and Jeannemary had ideal lives either, but I’m not opening that can of worms right now). What’s more, seeing the interactions between the teens and Magnus and Abigail shows them what relationships between caring adults and children have the potential to look like. And for the first time, they have a framework to think not only about their own childhoods, but themselves as children. Empathy for Jeannemary and Isaac provides an inroad for Gideon to reckon with the concept of having empathy for her younger self, and for younger Harrow.

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The window to my bedroom is connected to the patio, but the door to access the patio is in the living room. Lovey likes to look out the window, and he also likes to sit on the patio. But he must not have realized that the two patios are the same patio until one day I was sitting outside and he went into my room to see me still on the patio. Ever since, he would run back and fourth and meow at me from different angles, no matter where I am. Must still be novel for him.

what is art about? blood. what is love about? blood. what is hate about? blood. what is sex about? blood. what is history about? blood. what am i about? blood. what is blood about? idk ask a biologist i guess

hi, biologist here! blood is about gay sex

this is so fun

Goku is on Namek fightin that Frieza guy…Goku uhh…flyin or doin somethin over there…

for context’s sake: this is from JBVO, a show hosted by Johnny Bravo where you could call in and request your favorite episode of a CN show and Johnny would play it for you. for the most part it worked out pretty smoothly since at the time cn’s shows mostly had an average episode length of 7 to 11 minutes.

but one day a viewer requested that they play their favorite episode of dragon ball z, a show with 23-minute long episodes. due to time constraints with both dbz AND jbvo they had to work a compromise: a sped up version of the requested dbz episode played with johnny narrating over it so people understood what’s going on

promotional poster of bisexuality

you’re all missing out on how bonkers the original promo pic is

malpractice orgy, shoes on the bed, cuddy inexplicably the only one barefoot, every fandom has fanart of the infinite bed cuddle pile but house md made it a real promo art, my medical team and yes they smoke weed

The workplace attire stays ON during sex, the princeton plainsboro polycule threatens to expand to other teaching hospitals, the whole group chat, bedtimes md, everybody lies (down to sleep)

ok this is for fanfiction writing purposes I have a question for glasses wearers and sex-havers

whats that story about this dude that really wanted to have sex with a clown and get a pie to the face while climaxing

I heard every time he bounced on it, it squeaked.

wait i found the story actually [link 1] [link 2]

I'm so happy for these people it's unreal. This is a big part of why sex-positivity and kink are so important. There are many different flavours of healthy mutual intimacy, and it's not helpful to shut them down just because they're not mainstream or not for everybody.

hes trying to explode you with his mind

"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit

To wit:

I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.

In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:

“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.

“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”

Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.

Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Don’t limit yourself based on other ppl’s tastes. They’re not you, and you are incredible 💕

a good conversation tip is that when you initiate a conversation or a topic within a conversation, you are implicitly Casting the other person in a role–they’ll have had or observed similar interactions in the past and understand this even if not consciously. like the simplest example of this is that if you say ‘knock knock’, the other person knows they’re meant to say ‘who’s there?’. this is why intense self-deprecation is a shitty social move, because you are casting your conversational partner in one of two roles: Guy Who Argues With You, which is inherently a tiring role to be put in, especially on the regular, or worse, Guy Who Agrees That You Suck Because They’ve Always Secretly Hated You, which nobody wants to be. verbally self-flagellating isn’t bad social form because it’s wrong to express symptoms of mental illness, it’s bad because unless you are careful you end up implicitly offering the people youre talking to a whip they dont want

oh my god this New Yorker article about the Titan holy fucking shit fuck???

Some notes: 1. the electrical system was designed by engineering undergrads who were working as interns. 2. because it is illegal to take passengers on an unclassed experimental submersible, they called the passengers "mission specialists" & instead of buying tickets they made donations. 3. the satellite beacon was held onto the outside of the sub with zip ties. 4. when Lochridge (the whistleblower) quit, Stockton Rush asked HIS FINANCE DIRECTOR if she wanted to be the pilot and she was like "sir I am an accountant" and the experience of having her boss ask his accountant to be the pilot made her so freaked out that she ALSO quit the company 5. the carbon fiber used to make the hull was bought from a deep discount from Boeing because it was past its expiry date for use in airplanes

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE

my toxic xennial trait is that i believe something should either be software (in which case after i download it i shouldn't need to be connected to use it) or a web page (which shouldn't require me to download anything to use it, however badly, in a browser). fuck your mandatory single function constant connection apps

You’re so right. Say more

i drinka the coffee i get big

teens in 1848 be like “dni if you read degenerate literature like w/uthering h/eights”