hey jason isaacs what the fuck

Eddie “I know you hate the attention but every song is about you baby” Munson

Steve “normie bf who HATES the attention” Harrington

They make a lovely pair.

Starcourt happens and Steve’s parents do a complete-180 on him. All of a sudden, all they can talk about is their hero son.

They’re suddenly always home. Always next to him. Talking to him. Talking about him. Taking an interest in his life.

His dad even offered him a position at his firm again, and just-

No. No, god no. This sucks and he hates it. They’re having expectations again. His mom is talking about him marrying ‘that girl you worked with. The newspapers will live that.’

Steve needs to do something. Something drastic. Something-

“You want to date me?”

“No, Munson. Are you listening?”

“I’m listening,” Eddie says, perched on his drug table in the woods like a bird. “Sounds like you’re asking me out.”

“I’m asking you over,” Steve replies. “To piss off my parents.”

“You said make out on your couch.”

“Yeah, that’s the piss off part. You in or are you in?”

“Oh, I am.”

The night sky on Mars

I was wondering whether the constellations would look any different on Mars, so I looked it up, and apparently not; galactically speaking Mars is so close to us that the difference is imperceptible. However, I did find this neat additional bit:

Same sky, but no light pollution.

ouch, fucking called out goddamn

Kestrel-dad not sure how to dad but he’s trying his best.

Dad loves you and feeds you. But he is also dumb and feeds you a wonderfully done wagyu steak. You are 3 days old.

Okay, but check out this video from mid-May 2022 of a Kestrel Dad who just kept piling up voles and mice beside his babies when the mom was injured/killed/mia’d by owls…but then watched one of his babies just swallow a lizard and went “OH. I can feed them small food!” and learned to tear it apart!

EDIT: There’s a not-zero percent chance that this could be the same dad???????? The source is the same–Robert E Fuller–but they could be different birds. 

UPDATE: Not only has Mister Kes learned to feed his chicks all on his own…

….the three chicks who were taken out of the nest for intensive care after the mom disappeared were put back in, and he just started feeding them, too.

He’s a single father of six who does not possess the instincts to feed even one of his offspring, but he learned and adopted that behavior without difficulty and is now hunting and providing for six kids all on his own. 

Happy father’s day to the Krestel single dad of 6 Who is doing a wonderful job

don’t ascribe human expressions to nonhuman animals or whatever but mfw a giant reaches into the side of my house to dump a whole new person in there

i hate when top wildlife predators are just lil babies teeny tiny babies

. that is a serial killer

mutual pining simply never misses. the yearning. the stupidity. the desperation while also thinking themselves alone with it. the rattling relief at the revelation. the way it works in so many scenarios— friends to lovers? a banger every time. casual hook-ups/friends with benefits while they both want more? show-stopping, spectacular, incredible. enemies who are so deep in denial it just makes them madder at each other? utterly unmatched every single time. slow burn, fast burn, burning while already fucking. mutual pining really just is that girl like truly who does it like her

cat nap!

"ohh my god you can't just-"

Am I yours to command? Does the collar 'round my neck have your name on it? I kneel to no king nor god, and I see no crown on you.

you wear a collar

I may choose to kneel recreationally.

There was such a gap between what she wanted and where she was that she could hardly stand it.

spent all day yesterday training the new girl how to sample products, a very precise process that requires another team member to check every component of your pack before you even bring it into your lab, and another team member to audit everything after you're done and apparently i got stuck in training mode because just woke up in a cold sweat after dreaming a coworker found my blog and instead of the usual embarrassment that would bring, i spent the whole time worried i was gonna get fired from writing fan fic because while reading, they realized i'd never had the components (kinks and plot, such as it was) and source material approved by a team member and therefore i'd broken smut writing SOPs

Are you really not making progress, or are you just constantly raising the bar?

It’s likely you’ve made more progress than you realize. It’s easy to get stuck on seeing how far we have to go, and we often forget about how far we’ve come.

We also are a lot harder on ourselves than we would be others. Would you be proud of the progress if it was a friend and not you? That might be a sign you’re being too hard on yourself.

And sometimes, we do go backwards and that’s okay. It doesn’t erase your progress. And you can get back to where you were and behind.

You deserve to be proud of yourself for everything you’ve made it through, for making it to where you are and surviving.