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i read a lot & write a little. do one thing today that would make carrie fisher proud.

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he'll see i'm not so tough

a @steddiebang story

author: alivingfire artist: sierra (@knitsforthetrail) betas: hibiscus and mae (@hamiltonsteele)

150k | 10 chapters | explicit | posting nov. 21-dec. 2

When Steve gets trapped in the Upside Down, Vecna offers him a deal: become lieutenant of the monster armies and gain some of Vecna’s power, in exchange for being the bait to lure his friends back to rescue him. Steve takes the deal, believing wholeheartedly in the Party’s ability to save him and finally kill Vecna, but discovers quickly that his power to infiltrate the memories and dreams of people in the real world is very limited; in fact, he can only visit one person in his new monster form.

Thus begins Steve’s haunting of Eddie Munson, who, coincidentally, has been in love with Steve since they started secretly hooking up after a Halloween party in 1984.

Or: Steve is Kas, and also Eddie's secret boyfriend.

Part One: Chapter One, Chapter Two Part Two: Chapter Three, Interlude One Part Three: Chapter Four, Chapter Five Part Four: Chapter Six, Interlude Two, Chapter Seven Part Five: Chapter Eight, Chapter Nine, Interlude Three Part Six: Chapter Ten, Epilogue

NOW COMPLETE.

#steddie #steve x eddie #stranger things #steddie fic #steddie big bang #steddiebang23 #he'll see i'm not so tough

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It’s All For U (If U Rlly Want It)

woven jacquard, glass seed beads and machine embroidery

59 x 85 1/2 in

2024

Waiting to Exhale

woven jacquard and glass seed beads

2022

Qualeasha Wood

#WOVEN??????#art

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lonelygodinthetardis

Doctor Who The Unquiet Dead | 1.03

#dw #no one did it like them tbh

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spaceoddling asked:

Sorry if I'm mixing you up with someone else, but you've worked security before, right?

If you're willing, I'd be really interested on your thoughts on the murderbot diaries or murderbot as a character with that in mind?

Like did you recognise aspects of your job in murderbots descriptions of security work? Or did they like throw you out of immersion in the story?

Anyway thanks and hope you're having a good day/evening wherever you are!

teaboot answered:

As a security guard who has read the first two Murderbot books, Murderbot has been the number one most realistic security specialist character I have ever seen in media so far 😭

The third most annoying thing in security in my experience is handling threats. The second most annoying thing is having no threats to handle and being bored. The number one most annoying thing is the client being an idiot

Ihave social anxiety which I am medicated for. When I am in uniform with clear instructions, that anxiety is zero. I have a script and a set of rules and that makes life easy. I’m super good at performing tasks with clear expectations and that’s kinda how I keep getting good offers, it’s super straightforward

Bad clients are clients who give stupid, inefficient, counterproductive, cruel, or flat-out illegal orders. There are ways of shutting that shit down without them losing heir shit, but it’s still a pain in the ass every time

I’m a security specialist. I specialize in security. This is what I am trained for- handling crisis situations and minimizing harm. If you, an off-shift cashier at pet smart, see me deescalating a situation and decide you’re gonna drop your untrained uninformed ass in there with zero context or skills and “help” because I look small and helpless, then all you’re doing is increasing my likelihood of getting hurt while increasing my paperwork load by like two hours, and I’m gonna hate you the entire time. What you have essentially done is promoted me to meat shield while giving the aggressor I’m calming down an obnoxious and aggravating hostage. Good god please do not

Yes, I am sometimes asked to stand perfectly still in a corner for several hours like a mannequin. What do I do to avoid going insane? Think about Star Trek and the very good fanfiction I’ll be reading on my break, mostly

Yes I can assist in evacuating tw location in the event of an environmental disaster. No I cannot tell my waiter that they put cilantro on the wrong order. Yes this makes perfect sense

I love Murderbot. I love how realistic it is. Like obviously I can’t speak for everyone in the industry but yeah I’ve worked for absolute dogshit security companies in the past and yeah a lot of the books so far are super accurate to that experience so A+ so far, honestly

#murderbot #fascinating!!!

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currentlycryingaboutlancelot

FINALLY watched “a knight’s tale.” pretty fun but literally what the hell was jocelyn wearing for the entirety of the movie

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

????????

english-history-trip

EXCEPT

GIF by cinematv

THE 16TH CENTURY WHITE HAAAAAT

She was just fashion-forward, you guys

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

@threadbareturnbacks WAIT this is so cool!!!

Knight's Tale didn't try to match the aesthetic, it tried to match the VIBES, and it hit in so many ways.

I really appreciated that it started with the crowd singing We Will Rock You because that's an incredible way to set audience expectations.

A Knight's Tale belongs to what my wife and I call the Ren Faire Genre - not historically accurate, but historically VIBING with some strangely historically accurate notes thrown in (Chaucer!?).

A Knight's tale is culturally translated so that the audience gets what's going on better. the tournaments are a major sporting event, the knights are admired like rock stars, the ladies are beautiful and fashionable. if you actually dressed a lady in a way that was beautiful and fashionable in the past a modern viewer would be like "what the fuck is with her". most historical-setting movies pretend that they are not culturally translating, even though all of them are all the time inherently because they're being made by a person of our current culture...

My favorite thing about "A Knight's Tale" is that the director's explanation for why it's all Like That was basically "no matter what century you're in, the '70s are always the '70s" lol

#a knight's tale #and that’s why this movie fucks!

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bookwyrminspiration

Anonymous asked:

oh captive prince?? what are your thoughts on it, because i’m hesitant to read it because the reviews are pretty polar from what i’ve seen

bookwyrminspiration answered:

I think you'll have to check back in once I've finished the series. I've finished book 1, and it's very much set-up for the rest of the trilogy. Establishing important people, important relationships and conflicts, etc.

So at this point it could go either way. I'll have to see how it plays out. Book 1 itself was fine, but you can just tell it's primary purpose is to lead into something more; evaluating it now feels disingenuous, like i'm missing a huge part of the picture

i shall keep you all updated and give thorough thoughts :)

bookwyrminspiration

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#yeah that’s it! that’s it.#a kingdom or this

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Once the dead man is revived, we can ask him five questions, at which point he will die again, never to be re-revived.

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Rian Phin

#irony has poisoned the well but it’s not too late. it’s not too late.#misc

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Started using phone time to read library ebooks instead of scrolling and it’s made me back into the crazy voracious reader I was at age 12. i’ve been averaging a book a day this week. everyone delete your social media and get your ass on libby

swooping in to let ppl know if they ask their public library alot of them have ebook apps associated with their library and all you need is to register for a library card you can also use it as a way to check for books you want or reserve/request books for pickup at your local public library

i fucking love libraries

#no it’s true!!! libby and hoopla are the real homies #books

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products are so bad now that i have to do approximately 8 hours of research before i buy anything

Seriously, if you're planning to spend a coupla hundred bucks on an appliance, or thousands for a car, spend $4 for a month of Consumer Reports (consumerreports.org).

They're a not-for-profit consumers union, dedicated to fair and honest reviews of everything people buy. Totally worth the membership.

And yeah, if money is tight you can join for a month then cancel the membership easily when you're done with your research.

Also check to see if your local public library has a subscription, either in print or digital format (might be listed as a database rather than a magazine - that's the case at my library in Canada).

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— nicole scherzinger.

#💔#band of thieves

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genuinely do NOT want the world to see me because i don’t think that they’d understand

#Britney-yeah-dot-gif

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The Road to El Dorado x Challengers

cryoverkiltmilk

I know this movie

#the road to el dorado #before I knew… i knew

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solarpunkwitchcraft

The Resurgence of Waffle Gardens Is Helping Indigenous Farmers Grow Food with Less Water

In the face of climate change and persistent droughts, a growing number of people from Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico and elsewhere are adopting the traditional farming practice.

For the past 64 years, Jim Enote has planted a waffle garden, sunken garden beds enclosed by clay-heavy walls that he learned to build from his grandmother. This year, he planted onions and chiles, which he waters from a nearby stream. It’s an Indigenous farming tradition suited for the semi-arid, high-altitude desert of the Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico, where waffle gardens have long flourished and Enote has farmed since childhood.

“They are the inverse of raised beds, and for an area where it is more arid, they’re actually very efficient at conserving water,” said Enote, who leads the Colorado Plateau Foundation to protect Indigenous land, traditions, and water. Each interior cell of the waffle covers about a square foot of land, just below ground-level, and the raised, mounded earthen walls are designed to help keep moisture in the soil.

Similar sunken beds for growing food with less water have been used globally in arid regions, arising independently by Indigenous farmers, including across distinct Pueblo tribes in the Southwest. “When you have ecological equivalents you often have cultural equivalents,” said Enote. As climate change deepens, he sees this tradition as one of many ways to adapt while building food security and sovereignty.

#native things #westward

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jellyfish-confetti

Happy Valentines day everyone! I hope you all have a lovely day! Kisses and smooches

#ah! lovely!#steddie

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YOU can write whatever you want whenever however forevrr. i have to write something perfect and earth shattering and i have to do it perfectly the first time or else

#yeah and when it’s still not perfect i spiral! haha!#writing things

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THE HUNGER GAMES (2012-2015)

#the hunger games #still haunting. suzanne you made me sad!!

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