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“The average US president has been charged with 1.54 felonies” factoid isn’t true. The average US President has been charged with 0 felonies. Donald trump, who has been charged with 71, is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted
For all my beloved mutuals who might need it
It’s the beginning of fire season, so I’m going to share this memory and some advice I learned the hard way.
In fall 2020 the wild fires on the west coast were so bad that you could barely see 15 feet at times. Where I lived the aqi hit 590 at one point. We could not evacuate and we had no insulation in our house.
The gas masks saved us. Me and my roommates taped our windows shut and wore respirators in the house for a week. I did this sketch of them while we were watching the muppet movie one night.
Most of you will have experience a fire or smoke storm at some point, this is not going away. Smoke inhalation can have permanent and long term effects.
Get a respirator mask, and get replacement filters for organic and biological material. They can be as cheep as $12, and even if you don’t think you’re at risk, it is not something you want to find out you need afterwards. If you can afford to, get extras. Someone you know might need it.
Also useful at protests, just saying…
Been watching Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout. (Normally, I avoid isekai, but I needed some fluff to go with my current heavy servings of Banana Fish, Attack on Titan, and the Pluto manga by Urasawa.)
Three episodes in, and it's pretty fluffy... but it has me regularly laughing my head off.
Then this happened...
...and now this series is giving me Thoughts.
Control is addictive.
Saying NO is addictive. Having your brainpower over your hunger & body desires is addictive.
Let the world spiral & unravel. But MY body stays under MY control.
I have some older art tips that I keep forgetting to post here. I'll add a few in the next few days, at least those that aren't too outdated!
This one is about giving an extra feel of weight to your characters.
Jane: *Posts a super low-quality image to the group chat*
Mischa: If I had a dollar for every pixel in this image, I’d have 15 cents
Ocean: If I had a dollar for every ounce of rage I felt in my body after I read this text, I would have enough money to buy a cannon to fire at you
Noel: Actually I did the math, Mischa would have $225, not $0.15.
Mischa: Fam I’m right here....
Ricky: If I had a dollar I would buy a can of soda :)
Jane: while you’re there could you buy me an apply juice please?
Ricky: Sorry I only have a dollar
Jane: :(
Ocean: Hey I just realized my friend is right, Mischa would have $22,500 because it's a dollar for every pixel, not a cent
Ricky: If I had $22,500 I would buy a can of soda and an apply juice
Constance: You can buy anything you want with $22,500
Ocean: Yeah and they want soda and apply juice
Constance: Apply juice to what
Ricky: Directly to the forehead
Noel: Great chat everyone
sick and tired of templates being made by shitty people/being unfun so heres my cringe character template i ran out of ideas for halfway through
hey, pssst. ride the cyclone fans.
you totally shouldn’t click on this link because it totally won’t take you to a google drive folder which totally doesn’t have a full copy of the 2016 production of Ride The Cyclone which definitely isn’t in full 1080p
because that would just be terrible
It's not uncommon for worlds to collide. Lines get crossed, voids meld, portals malfunction. And when gods and magic are far from few, it's easy to see why.
Still, when the Syndicate comes across five astronauts, tied together and floating rather calmly in the void, they're not any less surprised.
"Uh," Phil calls out, "hello?"
The astronauts––at least, they look like astronauts, though their yellow suits look too battered to actually work––turn to look. They blink, baffled.
"How are you standing like that?" one of them asks, ink-black eyes squinting. He clutches a dark purple egg to his chest.
"Like what?" Niki asks.
"You're just... standing," another astronaut says, this one mustachioed. "How are you just standing in the middle of the void?"
"We're walking somewhere," Connor says.
"Why, can't you guys walk?" Phil asks.
"Not to our knowledge," says a female astronaut. She's floating completely upside down, almost lying down mid-air, her head tilted back to look at the Syndicate. Her eyes are a solid color, like the one with black eyes, but hers are a bright silver. Between the two of them, they're extremely creepy. "And we rather like floating, to be honest."
Suddenly a look of recognition comes over Kristin, and She gasps. "Oh, you guys are the Boatem Hermits! You made it out!" She says.
"Yeah, we are. We did." An astronaut with a smooth American voice says slowly. "Wait, do we know you?"
"Not really. But I've seen you guys around. It's nice to see you're okay. I had complete faith in you guys."
"Thank you, lady we've never met!" another American astronaut pipes up cheerfully.
Phil leans towards Kristin. "Sorry, who are they?"
"Their world was crushed recently by the moon," Kristin explains. "I haven't had time to check up on them, but I wasn't too worried." She looks back at the astronauts––Boatem, apparently. "Are the others okay?"
At that the astronauts lapse into a somber silence. "We're not sure," the mustachioed one mutters. "We were all in a bit of a rush."
The rest hum in agreement, and then are silent again.
"Our world was destroyed too," Niki says. "I mean, not by the moon, but by a nuke."
"Ah, classic," the first American murmurs.
"I... guess? But we get it, not knowing if... if there's anything, or anyone left. It's kind of scary."
"Yeah. But I'm sure the rest of your friends got out fine," Phil pipes up. "I mean if we all did, then surely they did as well."
"This sheep also survived." Connor gestures to Rosie. "If a sheep can survive, so can the rest of your friends."
"That's... strangely very comforting," the black-eyed one says.
"Thanks."
"Well, I hope you all get to the next world soon. I'm afraid we have to keep moving, but I will see you guys around." Kristin turns to the Syndicate. "We should keep going."
"Will they be okay staying here?" Niki asks.
"Oh yeah, they'll be fine. They've been around for longer than you guys have."
"Oh yeah, we've been doing just swell here, all things considered!" the second American assures. Upon closer inspection there appears to be a sleeping cat in his helmet. That's... normal. "You can just toddle on your way, don't mind us. But thank you for your words of wisdom, random void passersby!"
"Sure thing dude," Connor says, giving a thumbs up. Rosie baas.
"Alright, well. Nice to meet you guys," Phil waves and chuckles as Kristin leads them away.
"Bye!" Niki does the same. The astronauts all wave and say their farewells, and soon they're merely another speck of dust in the endless black.
Distantly, the shrill shriek of the black-eyed astronaut rings out, "Wait, we don't even need suits!"
okay fine you can have a few more, as a treat.
part one
(friend birthday special set)
i know this is just one post on tumblr but i am BEGGING people who can to be loud about strange world.
it is so fucking unfair for disney to not properly promote this movie at all and for it to bomb so badly in theaters like it’s doing just because it actually had genuinely good poc and queer rep! i am SEETHING about how they intentionally set it up to fail and i can’t imagine how the people who worked on the movie feel!
please be loud about it! please go see it if you can, tell your friends to see it, post about it on social media, get it trending, get as many people to see it as possible!
let the idiots at the top know we WANT better representation in movies!
constance calls penny "penne" and while i wanted to make this part of a bigger post but i couldn't come up with anything else so. here ya go.
day 12! I am still surprised I am able to keep up - domesticity
Prompt list by @killvampz
Ocean isn’t professionally diagnosed because her parents think that smoking weed will somehow cure her autism
Noel was diagnosed when he was five and I feel like his mom started out as one of those mommy bloggers who was like “autism has stolen my son 😭”
She got better don’t worry
Penny is very attached to her doll and loves it to death but if she accidentally touches the fabric on the dolls dress when she’s having a bad sensory day she will yeet that bitch across the room as fast as humanly possible
We stan Mischa our favorite undiagnosed adhd bisexual Ukrainian king
Constance is the one who diagnosed Ocean because like A. She’s been friends with this girl for her entire life and B. She is also autistic
Ricky has a stim that is literally just him signing the word for cat
Ocean and Mischa are the perfect pair during group projects because Ocean has the unlimited energy that she gets out by writing as fast as humanly possible and Mischa just has these bursts of productivity that he uses for the more creative parts of the project
Ocean has a verbal stim that she got from Penny where she just kinda makes a small little “hmm” sound
Noel has a stim where he just kinda…blows on his fingers. Like Ocean will be in the middle of talking and he’ll just kinda…bring his hand in front of his mouth and blow on it
Constance’s mortal enemy is this specific blanket that is brown and has those little fuzzy cotton balls that are like sensory hell
Mischa messes with his phone case as a stim
Penny and Ricky are the least experienced people at masking
“People already think we’re weird, why try to hide it now?”
Ocean almost never stops masking
Like it is so hard to get her relaxed
One time she was having a meltdown in class and the only person who noticed was Noel because she was gripping her dress so tightly that he knuckles looked like pieces of paper
As much as they argue, Noel and Ocean are really good at calming each other down when they’re having a meltdown
They’ll notice the other is in the middle of one during class and then figure out a way to somehow get them both out of class and into a secluded location
Mischa has a very specific set of headphones and a very specific hoodie for whenever his executive dysfunction is at its worst or he’s just having a really bad sensory day
Whenever Ricky’s having a bad day whenever he gets home he makes it his personal goal to pet every single cat in the house because A. It is an impossible task and B. The cats’ fur always sends him to sensory heaven
This either comes out one of three ways:
He gets so caught up in trying to pet all the cats and the difficulty that this task brings that he forgets about his bad day
He gets so distracted in the fluffiness of the kitties that he forgets about his day
He accomplishes the task and is so proud and happy with himself that he forgets why he felt bad in the first place
Ocean came over one day and he could tell she was really wound up so he gave the challenge to her instead
She was later seen running after a very chunky orange kitty throughout the hallways while Ricky rolled behind with the biggest grin on his face
His parents took a picture of that moment that he now has on the wall of his room
Noel has a basket full of stim toys in his room
Sometimes when they have a sleepover at his house there’s like a solid few minutes of just fidget toy noises
They all steal hoodies from Mischa and then proceed to steal Mischa’s hoodies from each other
Constance has a lot of information on a lot of things because she has a new special interest about every month or so
She makes comfort cupcakes when she knows the others are in that place where everything is just too much
One year for her birthday present Constance bought Ocean noise cancelling headphones
Ocean almost sobbed
Just a couple dapper gentlemen taking a carriage ride
Honestly, I just really love these official outfits and ive been meaning to draw them in it :D
absolutely bonkers that “teen sex, kills!” and “time eats all his children in the end.” and “sexy cat women from zolar” and “it took a horrible accident for me to realize how goddamn wonderful everything is” and “i want to be that fucked up girl” and “you’re just sailing through space, there’s no up or down, so beautiful and strange, but it’s more than spinning ‘round” and “my song will only have profanity in chorus” and “from ashes i was made, and ashes i return, and so i walk alone, and wonder why?” and “porno is magical” and “you knew all along i could never do it… choose myself.” and “for being a spielverderber” and “i would gladly take my seventeen years over nothing” are all lines from the same show
I beg of you all to talk about how genuinely smart Mischa is.
Who tf references KING MIDAS in a silly rap? Who is able to dissect the core message of a SAW MOVIE while still enjoying it for what it should be enjoyed? I’m not even talking about him learning English when his adoptive parents obviously didn’t try to teach him. Like post-USSR schools teach you some English usually, but Mischa, despite the accent, is almost fluent, which takes YEARS.
so yeah blah blah remember how i mentioned a protege au
as is customary with me they do got lore
Ratio/j
Can’t wait for an ex Twitter user try and ratio someone on tumblr and then realize that we can’t and don’t do that
This is what my soul looks like
“It doesn’t make sense to keep Magneto a Holocaust survivor because he’d have to be like 100 years old” is a wild take to have about a fictional guy whose best friend ages at half-speed, whose secondary enemy is literally immortal, and who in the comics has a 12-pack at the age of 89. The time that has elapsed since the end of the Second World War is not actually an insurmountable obstacle
Thankyou! Happy Halloween 🍭🍬
Leaving out candy for my followers. Take two only!
i BETTER get bitten by a werewolf AND/OR a vampire tonight!!! its halloween and im fucking gay!!!
i want to be a vampire so bad. it would open up a whole new world of procrastination. puts off finishing a novel for 100 years. i don’t do the dishes for 20. oh wait i don’t have dishes because i suck blood. another fucking win