Demonstrating the rope dart (繩標; sheng2biao1)

[eng by me]

Too Sweet

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Pairing: Fox x fem!Reader / Fox x Doctor!Reader

Words: 6,140/26,525

Tags/Warnings: 18+ only! fluff, strangers to lovers, grumpy/sunshine, description of blood/wound care, Fox is a little anxious/paranoid, and he needs a hug, you can pry goofy Thorn out of my cold dead hands, smut in part 3? 4?

Summary: Fox has no time for romance. He doesn't even have time for sleep, let alone dates. But when a horrible day at work leads him to you, he suddenly finds himself in danger of reevaluating his priorities.

A/N: Trying something a little different with more, shorter parts for these longer fics. Also forgot to say thanks for 650 followers! hello!

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“For the last time, I don’t need a medic.”

Fox is trying to be polite about it, but the tone of his voice is bordering on a growl. Every push on his shoulder is a jab to his pride, making him hiss like an angry tooka-cat. He knows he's being ridiculous, but that's never stopped him before.

Mutually Beneficial Arrangement

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Pairing: Thorn x Senator!Reader / Thorn x fem!Reader

Words: 12,428 / 34,682

Tags/Warnings: 18+ only! enemies to lovers kinda, forced proximity, bodyguard!Thorn, protective!Thorn, a little more than canon-typical violence, so much arguing and flirting and banter, smut in part 2 part 3

Summary: You're the most infuriating charge Commander Thorn has ever had the misfortune to babysit, and yet, you're also the one he finds himself falling for.

A/N: This was a request from @capricornrabies that got so out of hand I decided to make it its own thing and split it into two three parts. The original prompt was 52. “Just because you're pretty, it doesn't mean you can just get away with anything." / "You think I'm pretty?" from my 500 follower celebration. Featuring my Corrie OCs Burst and Knock! Apologies if Thorn is not necessarily in character, but he had so little screen time this is just build a boyfriend tbh.

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"Commander?"

Thorn freezes, his finger hovering over his datapad before it clenches into a fist.

He glances over at his comm on his desk and heaves a sigh. Well, it’s not his desk, really. Your staff had been kind enough to provide him a private office, tucked away in the fourth level of the estate, far away from the rest of the government officials. They had tried to decorate it for him, but he had waved away most of their attempts, allowing them to only get rid of the garish gold accents and take down the large tapestries that were plastered all over the walls.

But it does still have a lot of useless stuff in it. A lot of useless, fragile stuff. And as much as he’d like to be grateful for the offer of a quiet place to work, he was sure your motives were far from altruistic. He knew exactly what you were trying to accomplish by keeping him so far from you.

Winter Thorns and Iron Crowns Pt. 1

Summary: Rickard and Lyarra Stark’s twin daughters accompany their father to their first ever tourney. I’ve been writing this ever since I finished a Dance with Dragons because I need some sort of outlet for my Emotions.

Pairings: Arthur Dayne x reader (eventual), Stannis Baratheon x reader (eventual)

Disclaimer: some of the characters were never in certain places in canon and I’m aware of this, but also I adore drama and suspense so we’ll call it creative license. Also I aged everyone up by two years for Robert’s Rebellion because I cannot stand the whole sixteen-year-old-dies-in-childbirth thing, sorry! I have a whole long fic planned out but I want to see how this does first.

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The Art of Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace                              // Padme Amidala Concept Art by Iain McCaig

yeah.

Holy shit I knew it was bad but this is DIRE

There’s more content on ao3 for my old Latin textbook curriculum than there is for raid shadow legends and I think that says a lot

wait hold on let’s set raid to the side why’s your latin curriculum on ao3

It’s a series of a couple books that follow the story of a Roman family and you have to learn grammar and translate each chapter

I read through the results and apparently a lot of people ship Cornelia (daughter/main girl) and Flavia (her friend who was there for like 4 chapters and never again)

So my Latin textbook’s fandom’s most popular ship is gay, basically

The Phantom Menace.

That poor malnurished doomed kid.

I still can’t believe they went from this in Attack of the Clones (2002) to this in The Acolyte (2024) even though they’re both portraying Mirialan Jedi Masters.

Vernestra looks like they just slapped some green make-up and some eyeliner dots on the actress and called it a day. It’s awful, especially since she has so many close-ups. Twenty-two years ago they made Luminara look like an actual humanoid alien, with beautiful details in both costume and make-up. Even though she's basically a background character, she looks so much more natural as a Jedi.

yeah,

if i have to voice out one big criticism for recent star wars live action (and many others actually, but lets not get into that here), the downgrade in the make up department showing through take me out of the show more often than not ngl - and thats a shame (i also felt that something was..lacking in Venestra's green make up?? but i didnt know what, exactly, but you're really spot-on op!)

Sources: Republic Commando: Hard Contact, Republic Commando: Triple Zero, Republic Commando Soundrack, Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare, Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare- Author’s Cut, Star Wars.com, Wookiepedia, Star Wars: The Complete Encyclopedia

Look at these guys recreating the dance for Dha Werda Verda! <3

This meme is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy

Always reblog flash debate

on it boss

reminder that the presenter says "oh, shut up" not "can it"

Native French speaker here. "Ta gueule" is actually more like "shut the fuck up" in terms of level of disrespect

also worth noting is that the "are you happy" is the correct gender

i’m really enjoying the olympics this year, there is some quality nonsense going on

for the first time in the modern olympics (possibly ever?) there’s an equal number of women competing to men, and included in that group we have icons like simone biles, kim yeji, imane khelif

and then over with the dudes we’ve got yusuf dikec who took up shooting after he got divorced, turns up in a t-shirt with no ear protection only to shoot near perfect rounds and then ask where the smoking area is. we’ve got henrik christiansen who is taking tiktok by storm not for his swimming prowess but the fact he is obsessed with the olympic village chocolate muffins. we’ve got stephen nedoroscik, who is trained literally only in pommel horse so he kinda just sits around doing rubik’s cubes while everyone else does their thing (pommel goes last) and then they activate him like a fucking sleeper agent to crush the pommel routine, secure the usa a medal, and also he cannot fucking see the entire time bc he needs glasses

quality, quality nonsense

Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

So I might have been excited when this came across my dash because I’ve been in one of these multiple times and some others are on my “must visit” list.

For anyone interested:

1. Marble Caves (Cuevas de Mármol) in Chile - open to kayakers

2. Fairy Caves (Gua Pari) in Borneo - open to tourists who can handle going down and up a lot of stairs

3. Cave of the Crystals (Cuevas de los Cristales) in Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico - not open to the public

4.  Raufarhólshellir in Iceland - open to the public, has adventure tours (which is why it’s on my list)

5. Lechuguilla Cave in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, USA - You can only visit this if you are a very, very lucky researcher or park employee

6. Coconino Lava River Dave in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA - open to general public

7. Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, USA - this part of the park is open to the public, and is accessible to most people!  This park has a well paved trail through the cave with handrails and an elevator.  This park has a special place in my heart.

8. Nettlebed Cave in Kahurangi National Park in New Zealand - I don’t believe this one is open to the general public, but I think you can hire a tour guide?

9. Moaning Caverns in Vallecito, California, USA - tourist destination with a vertigo-inducing spiral staircase

10. I think this is Namakdan Salt Cave in Qeshm, Iran - open to tourists and tentatively on my list.  Another picture of Namakdan Salt Cave:

More caves:

Gyokusendo Cave in Okinawa, Japan:

Fern Cave in Lava Beds National Park, California, USA:

Ice Cave also in Lava Beds National Park, California, USA:

Waitomo Glow Worm Caves in New Zealand (you can float on a tube through this cave!!)

Important to note that cave of the crystals is "not open to the public" because it's normally filled with boiling water that the giant crystals grew in. It was temporarily drained a little to study it but the air was still hot enough to kill you if you stayed in there for too long :)

NO WAY

I’ve been doxxed 😨

I once worked on a phone campaign to disallow the trees around your crater from being cut down...

I am deeply deeply in love with you 💙 Thanks so much for your conservation effort!

It’s the small things we all do together that can make a big difference! 💙💙💙💙 And you’ve done it!!!

People just gotta know what Crater Lake and Wizard Island looks like

What in the Skyrim

been there several times. And yeah, Skyrim feels super duper Oregon in a lot of ways.

We gonna talk about Crater Lake, and Wizard Island and not mention the Old Man of the Lake?

The Old Man of the Lake is a log that floats around the lake. It is somewhat strange in that it floats vertically. It's roughly 30 feet tall, with only about 5 or so feet sticking out above the surface of the water. It was first 'offically' recorded in the early 20th century, though there are oral reports of it as far back as 1896 (and likely earlier still given the cultural importance of Crater Lake to the Klamath tribe of that area.

The Old Man should have rotted away long ago or at the very least become waterlogged and sank into the water fully, but nope. Over a hundred years, and there is this log still in the water just floating.

So y'know how I said the fact that it floats vertically was 'somewhat strange'? Let's get into some actual strange territory regarding the Old Man. It moves. Against the wind. It has been recorded moving in paths that do not make sense, never getting stuck on the shore of Wizard Island, nor the area of shore around the lake. Now that's strange.

So now let's get freaky: The free-floating Old Man posed a hazard to boats since it moves, and only a small portion of it was above water. (though personal boats are no longer allowed on the lake) Anyway, in 1988 a team was using a small submersible to explore the lake. The scientist figured it'd be a good idea to moor the Old Man near the coast of Wizard Island out of their way, for safety. So they tied some rope to it, to move the Old Man. As soon as they did so, the clear blue skies of a warm August day turned dark. The wind kicked up, bad, and it started to rain, then hail, then snow in the span of a few minutes...again in August. Now snow in that area is common, but not in the summer months. It gets super warm in that area in summer (like 70 to 90 degrees on average) So the scientists decided to nope the fuck out of the water, because of this freak storm. They unmoored the Old Man, preparing to get the fuck out of dodge of this summer snowstorm. As soon as the rope loosened and was in the water, as quickly as the storm had come on them, the darkened skies cleared and it was once more a fine sunny summer day.

As a kid, I spent my summers with my family who lives like... 40 some odd miles from Crater Lake National Park so I had this knowledge just kinda buried in my head somewhere.

I excitedly added a thing about the old man before I checked the notes so now I'm gonna reblog this great story instead but here is the old man!!!

"The Old Man floats vertically through the lake on a calm day"

"THE OLD MAN FLOATS. VERTICALLY. THROUGH THE LAKE ON A CALM DAY"

!!!!!!!!!!

Finally

Cryptobotany

Season 2, Episode 9 – Grievous Intrigue

I imagine Cody & Wolffe passively mentioning how Fox is way too overworked and this is the result: resigned mandatory tea time

And Fox doesn’t know this and thinks it’s presumptuous that the Jedi keep delaying his work for some tea but it seems to be working

Bonus:

"Clone Witnessed Sitting Among the Trash on Coruscant"

The boys are in on it.

The shinies think the sun shines outta Fox's empty coffee mug and adore him and will follow him anywhere (even into an empty box on the streets of Coruscant) because Fox CLEARLY has the best ideas.

Fox thinks his kids like to be included in things.

Thorn is just here for the ride.

In the hallways of the Senate Building...

"Haha whatcha got there, General?"

"PLO-BUIR NO"

The night before, Plo saw the pic of Fox and his Corries sitting in the box up for adoption, and, well

...bold of you guys to think you could've gotten to the CG before Plo did.