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So I'm really disliking all the supposition I'm seeing that since Caliborn basically said that mean=nice in cherub culture, this means Calliope must be super sinister and evil. Like I'm pretty sure that being sweet and affectionate toward all her friends wasn't meant as some weird twisted cherub 'fuck you' to them or anything. Calliope immersed herself in the cultures of other species, so I'm pretty sure she has a firm understanding of the concept of being pleasant and polite towards people she cares about.

That said, wow those empty eye sockets were not something I was expecting. It's kinda interesting though, because her death as a cherub is sort of a weird special case to begin with, and like, there's still a living body somewhere out there that her soul used to inhabit. idk, I don't have any actual theories about this, but it makes me think about LE's billiard eyes and whether that affected Calliope in any way or something, I don't know where I'm going with this.

wow i didn't even use a translator for that last update is this is getting ridic. 'privacy' threw me off because the p got cut in half and i couldn't figure out wtf 'anrivacy' was til i saw the next line, but wow.

thank u homestuck for teaching me morse code

how i design trolls

yesterday there was a bit of talk about body type variation in how people draw the trolls on my dash! it made me think of how i approach drawing the trolls, and boy do i think about that a lot, haha. 

it’s taken me a while to come up with my solid “headcanon” for the trolls shapes/faces, but now that i kind of have it down, i have trouble drawing them any other way. 

my “shtick” for drawing trolls is that i base their entire design around their symbol/shape of the horns/zodiac/personality. in animation there are several visual stereotypes for different types of characters, and i basically just utilized these to create a cast of stylized characters that have variety but look like they could all belong to the same universe (and actually the 12 trolls are all related in some way so there are some shared traits between them.)

ANYWAYS, i am going to share with you my design rationale for each of the trolls. i wouldnt say so much this is “body type headcanon” and more like “character design pitches” haha. i haven’t tried to make every character like something wildly disparate from how fandom at large draws them— for a reason! certain stereotypes exist for a reason, because they are easily recognizable and relatable to the audience. 

AND NOW, onto my explanations! (with crappy sketches)

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Newest water marble, the one I'm currently wearing. I forgot to take pictures of some that I've done over the past few weeks, oops. I had to chop my nails pretty short recently, but let it never be said that water marble only works/looks good on long nails! And I've found I really prefer the look of marbles that use colours from the marble as the base instead of white. It minimizes the appearance of bubbles or bald spots, and if you accidentally wipe off an edge of your design while you're cleaning up around your nails, there isn't any glaring white showing through. It just looks neater and more polished.

colours used: China Glaze Purr-fect Plum, and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Lacey Lilac

Especially considering how integral this is to the world she's shoddily built.

So I just wanted to put it out there that aside from being incorrect pseudo-science, the whole concept of Black people’s melanin protecting them from skin cancer reeks of social darwinism. :/

Oh ha, I guess I should have clarified that the pseudo-science I'm talking about specifically is the in-book explanation that ~solar radiation~ powerful enough to wipe out most white people somehow left PoCs mostly intact. I mean, the narrative itself mentions off-handedly that 'coals' can get skin cancer on occasion, but aside from being just illogical and stupid, the idea that a PoCs melanin protects them from radiation powerful enough to kill most of the poor delicate white people just seems so damn skeevy and racist in a really antiquated way.

So I just wanted to put it out there that aside from being incorrect pseudo-science, the whole concept of Black people’s melanin protecting them from skin cancer reeks of social darwinism. :/

So I just wanted to put it out there that aside from being incorrect pseudo-science, the whole concept of Black people's melanin protecting them from skin cancer reeks of social darwinism. :/

ficlet: the attempted rescue of her royal highness, the princess brittany s. pierce (klaine au fridays, fairy tales)

(thanks to the fair lady jenny for the quick read-over and titling assistance!)

Once upon a time, in a land far away, there was a princess who was kidnapped; snatched right off her unicorn by an evil witch, who left her trapped in a tower out of spite. This tower — as towers often are — was guarded by a dragon, a cruel, yellow beast with snapping jaws, who the townsfolk called Murphy.

The King and the Queen were desperate to see the safe return of their daughter, and offered her hand in marriage to any knight who could slay the dragon and rescue the princess from her tower prison. Knights from all over the realm flocked to the base of the tower, in the hope that they would be the one to succeed. A line of knights stretched for half a mile, all along the bridge that led to the tower and beyond, into the edges of the haunted wood that surrounded it. (Because a tower must always be surrounded by a haunted wood, of course.)

Unfortunately for those brave knights, Murphy the dragon was a nasty creature, an enemy of joy and true love who rained fire and dragonpiss on those who sought to enter the tower. One by one, the knights fell or fled, and the princess could do no more than wave from her window, shouting encouragement or condolences as needed.

Close to the end of the line, still patiently awaiting his turn, was a curly-haired knight, small of stature with eyes of hazel, clad in golden armor bedecked with enameled songbirds perched upon his shoulders. Even late in the afternoon, the day was hot and sunny, and the knight turned to the knight behind him, wiping a drop of sweat from his brow. 

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Latest water marble. I can't believe I didn't take any pictures of any of the stripey or flowery water marbles I've done, and I really wish I had a better camera to take pictures of this design, because these pictures don't really do it justice. I was trying for a sort of peacock-inspired swirl here, and I am beyond pleased with the result!

Colours used: Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Golden-I, OPI Thanks a Windmillion, OPI Fly, and China Glaze Man Hunt

Second attempt at water marbling. Designs were still kind of meh, but I loved these colours together.

Colours used: OPI Pink-ing of You (as the base colour and in the marble), Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Fuchsia Power, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Grey Area, and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Golden-I

1st attempt at water-marbling. This wasn't the most interesting water marble because I was pretty hesitant about messing up the design and ruining everything, but it came out nice enough to give me the confidence to do it again, and I've had far too much fun practising and refining this technique. There are just so many colour combinations and patterns to try and experiment with, and I love that while you can control how it looks to an extent, the nature of the technique ensures that no two nails will look exactly the same. I'm gonna do a little bit of a photo spam of all the water marble designs I've done that I remembered to take (crappy cellphone) pictures of.

Colours used: Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Green With Envy, and Nabi Metallic L. Blue (the name is a lie, this colour is very green)

“So how are things back at McKinley?” Kurt asks, and Blaine smiles at how Kurt’s out of breath after recounting his story of how he and Rachel got lost trying to find food again. It seems to happen to them a lot ever since they moved to New York.

“Oh, you know, about the...

This is on the Glee Facebook page. The top winning couple will be put on merchandise that fans can purchase after the season. In other words, if Klaine wins, Glee/Fox will be forced to sell products with their images on it. 

Darren Criss on Johnjay and Rich; November 17, 2010 

aka “The Bagel Incident”

The following radio interview took place just days after Never Been Kissed aired on Fox. Darren was still very much a newbie to the industry. Some…choice actions on Darren’s part ruffled the feathers of the radio djs a bit…

Listen and enjoy and try not to get irrationally angry, but feel free to laugh at the irony of Darren blasting to stardom only a few months after this transpired.

Anonymous asked you: prompt: Blaine asking Kurt to marry him. Or Kurt asking Blaine. Either way!

They’re naked and kind of sweaty, lying in bed facing each other and too lazy to pull the blankets up over their rapidly cooling skin, when Kurt notices the box under the pillow.

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This... actually raises a point about Kurt's sense of fashion with regards to his gender expression that I think about a lot. Like, we've seen him wear women's sweaters and corsets before, but his presentation while wearing them has always been masculine. Even back when he participated in Gaga Week, he wore a costume that accentuated the broadness of his shoulders, and chose a tunic/tights combo rather than a straight-up dress. When Kurt says "fashion has no gender," I think it means he isn't going to stop himself from adding an article of clothing that catches his eye to his wardrobe just because the label says its for women, but he's going to re-purpose his clothes to suit a man's wardrobe. (Aaand this isn't me trying to excuse him from trying to dissuade someone else from their gender expression/presentation, I'm just sharing why it doesn't feel jarring or out of character to me that Kurt might not personally be into actually wearing a dress and presenting femininely himself)

um kurt wears women sweaters and corsets why was he against the idea of wade wearing a dress?? 

Oh bluh, I've never thought to even turn on my ask box, lol I'll fix that!, I'm glad you're having fun, and it's cool that you saw Nick Simmons and enjoyed you some radiohead. I'll let the fambles know you're alive, you keep on keepin' on!

HAI BRIDGET

mom’s not at home so you get my daily “hi i’m alive” via your tumblr dash yaaaaaay(your ask box isnt working???)  

so yeah. i’m alive

festivals are amazing and also exaughsting.

famous people sighted: Nick Simmons. that’s it besides people on stage.

he was totally cute and even taller in person and has an australian girlfreind.

radiohead was amazing.

gnight

Recently the actors who play Rue and Cinna have come under attack from Racist fans of the Hunger Games. Reblog if you support the casting of Amandla Stenberg, the adorable and talented actress who plays Rue, and Lenny Kravitz, the unquestionable genius who plays Cinna. More @ eonline.

Sob I remember when I found out VPL was an actual thing that gets fetishized and whatnot.

every time i search VPL i get results about visible panty line

al;sdfjk Easy A AU! This is everything I didn't know I needed!

  Title: Lying & Falling In Love: An Experiment

Word Count: 21,500

Rating: R for discussion of sexual situations

Pairing: Klaine (also alleged Blaine/various)

Summary: The rumor-filled, totally false account of how I ruined my flawless reputation. When a false rumor spreads around Dalton and Crawford about Blaine losing his virginity to a guy from Westerville Community College, Blaine Anderson tries to let it roll off his back, but when his friends start coming to him for popularity makeovers and Kurt Hummel transfers to Dalton, he gets a bit in over his head. (S2 AU, Easy A inspired, Blaine-centric)

Disclaimer: Nothing, nothing, I own nothing. Everyone will be returned unharmed. (Except maybe Thad. So sorry in advance, Thad.)

Warnings: Non-con kissing/propositioning along the lines of the movie and previous Glee eps

Author Notes: Full notes at the masterpost. Written as part of the Glee at the Movies Big Bang. Go check out the rest of the fics as they’re posted!! :)

» Masterpost «

If you can correctly pronounce every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.

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Higher quality video of Darren and Kermit’s duet

...Leroy Berry IS black. Brian Stokes Mitchell has a lighter skin tone than the crew member who posed for the picture from the pilot episode, but he's definitely not white.

I am tumblring and seeing all these videos about Rachel's dads. I thought one of them was meant to be black? Remember? We saw their picture in the pilot episode.

Um, I don't really see the problem? Like, any "ZOMG KURTSIE YOU DIDN’T TELL BLAINERS FIRST" freakout would have been pretty stupid, because a) it's not as though Blaine was actually at school to run and tell, and b) Burt basically called dibs on giving Blaine the news like the second after Kurt opened his letter. XD

I also don't see why it's a problem that Kurt's question caused her to have that moment. The drama isn't even in the fact that Finn wasn't the first person she told. It's just that now that Rachel has realized that her dreams haven't gone completely down the drain, she has to figure out if accepting Finn's proposal is something she did in a moment of defeat, or an inevitable decision that she'd have eventually made regardless of the circumstance. That's... a pretty legitimate source of romantic drama and suspense, at least for Glee.

The whole Finn v/s New York thing has been presented as a conflict of interest for Rachel since the end of last season, so it looks like they're just following through on that. Kurt and Blaine on the other hand have never been shown to have any such conflict, (even despite the year of long-distance relationship they're in for) and seem pretty secure in their plans to end up in New York together, so of course it isn't presented as quite as big of a deal. (For now.)

Hang on a second

The MJ episode ended with Kurt asking Rachel if she told Finn, or what Finn said or whatever and then Rachel had that look on her face and there was that moment of thought where she was likewait, how did i not even think of Finn do i actually love him is getting married a mistakeand blahblahblah cliffhanger ending.

PROBLEM.

Um, did we see Kurt run to tell Blaine? No. The first one he ran to was Rachel. Was there any mini freakout of “ZOMG KURTSIE YOU DIDN’T TELL BLAINERS FIRST” ? Lol, no.

So how come with Finchel it was a bigger deal? 

Saw this on the Klaine tag and didn't want to just rattle off a few fanfics without actually describing them, so a rebloob it is:

Together, We are the Oceans: Soon after Kurt's transfer to Dalton, the Warblers land a gig singing on a cruise ship over Christmas break. This fic is very sweet, has some mild angst, and is definitely very well written. It was written before Kurt and Blaine actually got together on the show, so it's basically an alternative get-together fic.

Confidence: This fic is a must read! It was inspired by the knowledge that Chris Colfer originally tried out to play Artie, and that Darren Criss once tried out for the role of Finn. In this story, Blaine occupies Finn's role as the football captain dating the head cheerleader, Kurt occupies Artie's role as the kid in the wheel-chair, and the whole thing re-writes season 1. Kurt and Blaine and the development of their relationship in this is amazing, and it's interesting to see how differently things go for the entire Glee club under this premise. (Link is to the first chapter, but navigation is a little confusing, so here's the first page of her tag for this fic.)

Where There's Smoke: Kurt Hummel has successfully escaped Lima, Ohio, and is living in New York, working primarily as a costume designer while waiting for his big break. Blaine is a Fire-fighter who was born and raised in Brooklyn. When they meet by chance, sparks fly, and the fic follows the story of how they get to know each other and fall in love. It's such a sweet, fluffy comfort fic.

So, I hope those were what you were looking for and that you enjoy them. :)

Klaine fanfiction!!

Okay, so basically the only fic I read is Little Numbers.

I’ve read most of GYOW but it’s just not my cup of tea.

So I was wondering if any of my lovely followers (or anyone that sees the tags) could recommend some to me?

I want something sweet that is really well written. A little angst is ok too. I don’t mind if there is sex, but I don’t want that to just be the focus.

Thanks so much guys!!!

What I picture when people say "I don't swing that way":

i-found-you-justine-time:

particularlygood-finder:

acentric:

So, the heterosexuals are on the swingset, swinging back and forth like most people do.

And then there are the homosexuals swinging, like, side to side or something.

The bisexuals are sort of alternating between the two, and the pansexuals are just twisting their swing up in a knot and crashing into everyone like “fuck the police i do what i want”

And then the asexuals are just chilling out in the sandbox all alone, like: HEY GUISE, LOOK AT THE CASTLE I MADE GUISE, LOOK GUISE IT HAS A MOTE. GUISE. LOOK.

This should not have made me laugh as hard as I did.

OMG the pansexual part made me crack up!

Apparently when I was younger I was pansexual. 

“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important. So write with a combination of short, medium, and long sentences. Create a sound that pleases the reader’s ear. Don’t just write words. Write music.””

—

Gary Provost (via writingadvice)

... According to Ausiello, he's only missing ONE episode. And the only episode he's missing is the one that focuses on guest star Ricky Martin, soooooo there would have been little to no Klaine there anyway. IDK man, I'll miss the cute background moments, but it's more than made up for to see Darren living a dream he couldn't imagine being given the chance to a year ago.

Darren is going to miss so much episodes of Glee, because of How to Succeed. You know what that means? NO KLAINE!

:T My Man is pretty appalling lyrically, but seriously, as much as people joke(?) about it, Baby it's Cold Outside isn't actually about date-rape. I mean, there is one line that is suspect in a modern context, but 'say, what's in this drink' was a far more innocuous phrase before roofies were invented and became an actual thing to be concerned about. Like, the song is basically "boy I sure would love to stay and snuggle, but it would be pretty scandalous if I didn't get going, now. Talk me out of leaving? :D" "Okay! :D"

That awkward moment when you love a song but the lyrics are painful so you can't sing along without cringing

Baby it’s Cold outside, which is basically about a lead up to date rape. Fail.

My Man which is basically about dropping everything and dignity for a man. Feminism fail.

But the songs are so good, dammit!