Fannish things, writing, other stuff. Often NSFW. My pronouns are they/them.
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Latest Posts by applesforthis - Page 6
OMG. Lighting strike videos have always reminded me of something and I could never figure out what. Today I realized: it's slime molds!!
Whale Sharks (Rhincodon typus), family Rhincodontidae, order Orectolobiformes, Cebu, Philippines
ENDANGERED.
The largest "fish" in the world, this species grows up to 72 ft. long.
Photograph by karanikolov
[Image description: screenshots of tags reading #MOTHER I WANT TO HUNT HIM FOR SPORT and #eck eck eck eck eck /End image description.]
my blorbo appears on screen and I start making clicking-chattering noises like a cat when a bird flies past the window
[Image description: a social media post from user Tyver Foucault, @TheDoorTHEDOOR, reading: Your pet thunderstorm bobs around excitedly when you lift the lid of the terrarium. You turn on your hair dryer and blow in a tiny warm front. It booms with joy as its little clouds flash and roll /End image description.]
Jessica Fletcher phone moments.
R.I.P. Angela Lansbury
old people falling in love and solving mysteries > whatever angst the young ones in edgy, unnecessarily explicit shows are going through
Thinking about the way that Eddie makes her move aside instead of just going around her
Eddie my beloved, you fucking twerp, I would die for you
I'm fully nude.
Mmm. Yeah, I am very aware.
Thinking about the way Eddie stops in their tracks and looks down at their bare toes just for a second there. I love this gorgeous little oddball so much I'm tall and sometimes when someone I love is shorter than me it feels like a present. Like, how lucky, that what I most want to do is scoop you up and squeeze you, and you're the perfect size to be scooped up and squeezed!
Eddie and Dulcie's dynamic in the first half
Eddie and Dulcie in the second half
Mogens Trolle, photographer
Proboscis monkey, Borneo (July 2018)
[Image description: gifs from The Old Guard. Charlize Theron's character is wounded and a drugstore employee is bandaging her up. Theron's character says, "You haven't asked." The other character replies, "Your business is yours. You need help, what does it matter why? Today, I put this on your wound. Tomorrow, you help someone up when they fall. We're not meant to be alone." End image description.]
THE OLD GUARD (2020) dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood
If your blorbos look different in your mind to how they looked in canon, I'd love to hear in tags/reblogs/comments how they differ.
Deadloch fic rec: maybe, by groove_bunker
(Rated teen and up)
I love how much Dulcie cares for Eddie, and I love seeing the reasons why she feels that way, what it is about Eddie that she responds to. I really got such a physical sense of Dulcie, from reading this, of how she feels in this situation -- her intense need to find Eddie, to make sure Eddie is okay. This whole fic really made me go "Oh, my heart."
These two. I love them so, and @groovebunker has captured them so well, here.
Also: many of us have written fics in which Cath gets her shit together, and I like those; but I also like seeing Dulcie notice the ways Cath is really not behaving well, in this moment. Cath in canon is very unskilled, and it's refreshing to see that acknowledged.
Ugh. This really is just so lovely, and it really stayed with me after reading. Go read, enjoy, comment. <3 (Previously: Deadloch fic rec list)
WE HAVE A PEACOCK MANTIS SHRIMP AT WORK NOW AND I AM OBSESSED WITH HER. EVERYONE SAY HI TO SCYLLA!! PLEASE ADMIRE HER BEAUTIFUL COLORS AND SASSY LITTLE GRAVEL KICK. SHES INCREDIBLE
Everyone should experience a Krampus festival at least once in their lifetime
[Description of images: screenshots of text. First image reads: Scientists Find A Whole New Ecosystem Hiding Beneath Earth's Seafloor. Second image reads: Most recently, aquanauts on board a vessel from the Schmidt Ocean Institute used an underwater robot to turn over slabs of volcanic crust in the deep, dark Pacific. Third image reads: It's a whole new world we didn't know existed. "On land we have long known of animals living in cavities underground, and in the[..."] Fourth image reads: Scientists found tubeworms particularly fascinating. These deep-sea creatures seem to travel underneath the seafloor through volcanic fluids to colonize new habitats. This could explain why so few of their young are ever seen congregating around deep volcanic fissures. Most may be maturing below the surface. End descriptions of images.]
Wait, beneath the sea floor?
OUGHGH??
OIUOHGHHVOIH!!!!!
imagine being a Korean person awake at like one in the morning trying to accept that the president of South Korea actually just tried to go full dictatorship by way of an emergency martial law because he was basically having a political temper tantrum and every agency and corporation in the country is all hands on deck, code red mode on everything and the military is being deployed and then the assembly revokes the martial law and then the president is like lol nevermind and now you have to get ready to work at your shitty job on a Wednesday
Quarters only, please [x <- prints here]
(done in procreate)
Something that I love about Deadloch is how certain physical things in the environment of the show do not suit Dulcie. And how, in most cases, these are things that Dulcie has the power to adjust, but she doesn't.
For instance, at the station, in the little filing room where she sits to look at the station camera photos (and where Sven naps under the desk):
The computer mouse is on the right-hand side of the keyboard, even though Dulcie is left-handed. And she just sits there using her right hand, she doesn't move the mouse to the other side. The ergonomics of that whole desk setup are awful, actually -- and especially for someone of her height; when she's sitting there you can see how she has to hunch to look at the computer screen.
Also, her mirror in the station break room:
The lockers are shorter than her by a few inches, and as a result the mirror that she's hung on the inside of her locker door is about 5 or 6 inches below the level of her face. Around the beginning of S1E4 we see her having to bend her knees, stoop and make herself shorter just so she can check her reflection at her own locker. If she wanted to she could hang a mirror on the wall at the level of her face, but she hasn't done so.
And her clothes:
The pants she has on in S1E4 are 2 or 3 inches too short.
And on some of her shirts the body of the shirt is way too wide for her. I suspect that like many tall people who are slenderer than average, she's opted for an extra large size in order to get a shirt with sleeves that are long enough for her arms. She could take the time to find shirts and pants that fit her, or she could at least take in the side seams on her shirts, but she hasn't.
Also, this is a subtle thing but:
She seems weirdly uncomfortable in her shirts. I don't know how Kate Box managed to convey this but it really stands out to me. Something about her body language often seems like she's shrinking away from the fabric, particularly in the dark button-downs that she wears in S1E4 and S1E5.
All of this fits perfectly with Dulcie's personality, because she tends to be a people-pleaser, she hesitates to advocate for herself, she tends to tolerate the discomfort of a situation until she really can't anymore. And not just with Cath -- with other people too (Phil, Ken, Aleyna) she's compulsively polite, she's reluctant to interrupt them or even to walk away from a conversation she really doesn't want to be in. In my mind Dulcie is often a bit checked-out from her body and from how she's feeling. Contrast this with Eddie, who makes themself comfy in any environment: flopping over couches and armchairs, sprawling and slouching and leaning and lying splayed-out on the floor. All of which fits perfectly with Eddie's whole deal -- they're comfortable with conflict, they don't mind pissing people off, they're so in touch with how they're feeling and they don't tend to worry unnecessarily or borrow trouble about things.
Ugh this show is just SO GOOD and I'm still not over it
Sidenote, if anyone hears anything about a timeline for S2's release please for the love of god tell me, I need it like I need air. I'm haunting reddit and instagram but have had no news since shooting moved to Brisbane.
One of my favourite parts of working with kids is like… Very Gently subverting their idea of gendered topics… Like if a girl goes ‘no, sharks are a boy thing’ and you go “UM ACTUALLY THATS STUPID AND INCORRECT” they get freaked out, but if instead u go “Are you sure? Cause I think sharks are awesome, here’s a scale picture of a Megalodon” it’ll blow their tiny mind and they’ll be shitting themselves over it for days. 100% effective, 10/10 recommend
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[Image descriptions: four screenshots of TikTok videos. The first image is of a young person in a bedroom wearing hijab and looking distracted and annoyed. The text reads, when i cant post my egg laying oviposition bunny hybrid omegaverse fic for tdov easter because im fasting for ramadan. im so mad wallahi #easter #fanfiction #ao3 #fanfic #fandom. The second image is of the same young person with wide eyes and another user's comment: Is this a rude question please delete it. But if an omega went in to heat during Ramadan would they be permitted to you know?? Like in a lot of fics the omega get sick if they don't. The third image is of the same young person on a front lawn facing away, looking thoughtful and resigned, with a screenshotted comment from another user: Is slick halal? The fourth image shows another user comment, I want to ask what Ramadan is but if it's important I don't want to know form an omegaverse TikTok... and the same young person in a deck chair looking satisfied, with the caption you ever regret things / because I don't. End image description.]
Things like this make me feel weirdly hopeful bc this is a fixable problem. A hard-to-fix problem but still a fixable one.
this chart is what haunts me. there is a massive amount of misinformation driving people to think that the problems Trump talks about solving even exist. without a functioning press, how do you campaign effectively against someone whose voters aren't even living in reality in three months