Forever Young

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August 4, 2023 • 8,459 notes

yumearashi:
featherquillpen:
pagerunner:
peroxidepirate:
See, this kills me because it’s a pretty fucking fundamental driving force in Eliot Spencer’s character - “you can’t make that promise to more than one person.” And yet he ends the series doing exactly that.
The evil writerly part of my brain wants to know what happens when he can’t be there for Parker and Hardison both at the same moment. Whether it’s a heist gone wrong and he has to choose who to protect, or they’re in conflict with each other and he can’t avoid taking sides - what happens?
Hardison. (At least for the job gone wrong, and assuming nothing in the job fundamentally supercedes it by putting other’s lives in danger.) Parker would tell him to get Hardison out and he’d do it, because that’s what makes them…them.

And when Hardison demands why, Eliot tells him, “she said to say, there’s never a plan M.”
i feel personally attacked by this headcanon
Friendly reminder that Eliot would also make this choice because he knows that of the two of them Parker is far more capable of getting herself out of a dangerous situation. She is fast and agile and surprisingly strong and god help you if you ever back her into a corner, she is *vicious* when she needs to be.
In other words, after Eliot’s made that call and gotten Hardison out and Hardison’s upset about there never being a plan M even at the cost of Parker’s life, Parker just drops silently down beside them. There’s blood on her clothes and soot in her hair and a grim look in her eyes. Hardison doesn’t even see it, just rushes to embrace her, telling her with tears in his eyes how glad he is that she’s okay. Eliot does, though, but he doesn’t say anything. He understands. The two of them, they do the things the others won’t.
we also literally see parker and eliot make this choice in the rundown job, in the train. the nod they shared. the splitting of ways. not knowing the outcome but both (not only eliot) deciding to protect hardison even if it costs both their lives.

July 24, 2023 • 239,553 notes

worldheritagepostorganization:

madlori:
nevver:
The alphabet fades away
Would you like to read a book in which this happens?
It’s one of my all-time favorite books. It’s called Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn. He describes it as an “progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable.”
It is written in the form of letters between the citizens of the fictional island of Nollop, an independent nation off the coast of South Carolina and home of Nevin Nollop, who invented the phrase “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.” That phrase is written in tiles over a statue of Nollop in their town square, and when one night a storm causes one of the tiles to fall, the council decides that it’s a sign from Nollop that they are no longer allowed to use that letter, in speech or writing, on pain of progressive punishments including public beating and up to banishment.
Then another tile falls. Then another.
The citizens, who are all very attached to their words and writing, mount a campaign to come up with a phrase that uses all 26 letters but is shorter than Nollop’s, thus proving that he was not divine and negating all the edicts.
Because the novel is told in the form of letters the citizens write, and this is the genius part…the author must also stop using the letters as they fall. So the book gradually stops using letters until at one point I think they’re down to just five.
The resolution literally made me get up and dance around the room.
It’s clever, creative, and a not-really-veiled-at-all parable about monotheistic oligarchy. It’s not a long book, you can read it in an afternoon.
GO READ IT RIGHT NOW.
World Heritage Post

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July 24, 2023 • 100,550 notes

coffeepeople:

coffeepeople:
coffeepeople:
One time a friend told me that if she wanted to have a chill night she would come to me and ask for tea and a book to read. I didn’t like tea at the time, but I always made sure my cupboards had them in case she needed a quiet night. One time I told my boss that I loved oranges, but couldn’t peel them because of my nails. For a year he made sure to peel me one at least once a week. Once my friends gave me a made up superlative of “most likely to have a pen they could borrow” and ever since I’ve made sure I always carry a pen with me. A long time ago, my high school librarian told me that no one would care what my grade in my sophomore chemistry class was if I’m bringing them doughnuts and asking them about their day.
Sometimes friendship is about carrying pens and peeling oranges. But the point is, surrounding yourself with people who you want to do the little things for. The point of it all is bringing in the doughnuts because you’ve found the people who deserve the doughnuts.
And I’m so fucking lucky, and I don’t always say it or even think it. Because I have friends who send me letters and who told me when the cafeteria at work had chopped tomatoes and who want to watch Scream with me and it just hits me sometimes that this world can do the ugliest things to people, but as long as I still have a friend who will point out dogs on the sidewalks to me then I have something amazing to live for. And as long as I have pals who I want to make peppermint bark for, then I have a reason to keep pushing this world to be better.

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July 24, 2023 • 20,990 notes

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July 24, 2023 • 2,008 notes

america-ferreras:

HALLE BAILEY as Ariel
THELITTLEMERMAID(2023)
dir. Rob Marshall

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July 23, 2023 • 32,191 notes

ryanthedemiboy:

thephilosophersapprentice:
fangirltothefullest:
blackfoxsposts:
The fact that Microsoft Word has to be a subscription is upsetting. I already paid for it why do I have to pay again
Yes please be mad about it, genuinely- You used to be able to purchase a single disk to install it and use it forever after that initial purchase of one key. It sickens me to see all this stuff which used to be a one time purchase be shunted under a subscription now.
THIS
“Why is pirating going back up?!”
This. This is why. People don’t mind paying a high price for software if it’s only the once, or every 4-5 years.
But having to pay a high price regularly? Especially in the cases where you lose access to your own work if you don’t?
That’s why people are pirating software.

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July 22, 2023 • 25,719 notes

the-haiku-bot:

let-me-dream-with-the-stars:
tawghasa:
yellenabelova:
Finally some good fucking food
It’s currently available for a limited number of titles, but will become available on more later this year.
Heartbreaking: the worst streaming service you know did a very cool thing
Heartbreaking: the worst
streaming service you know did
a very cool thing
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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July 22, 2023 • 18,246 notes

theshitpostcalligrapher:

marinkin:
randomgooberness:
randomgooberness:
randomgooberness:
randomgooberness:
randomgooberness:
randomgooberness:
I tried making brownies at midnight and it was a 3 hour affair that ended with shockingly not the first time ive baked sweet soup
Be NICE TO ME
😟
I tried to add frosting and, I have got say, its a thicker consistency than the brownie itself
…
…no…

But. It is fully possible that I misread it as a cup and a half and not. Half a cup.
:) here’s the post in video format to the song hall of the mountain king
YESSSSSSS THANK YOU @randomgooberness IT IS COMPLETE