Me Reading Darwin's On The Origins Of Species In A Desperate Attempt To Study For My Midterm That's Tomorrow:

So for one of my college finals we get to do a creative project. One of the options is to write a screenplay for a scene that could fit into one of the shows we watched this semester (basically fanfiction in my opinion) and I'm choosing to do Dawson's Creek.

So I'm looking up technologies and stuff from the late 90's that teens would have adopted as the were introduced and that got me thinking about videogames which got me thinking about Half Life.

Looking it up, evidently Half Life was Valve's first game? How can they have been founded in 1996 and then 2 years later dropped one of the most influential video games of all time and then continue to put out mostly wonderful stuff until their seeming partial retirement?

When the space parasite that's stopped you from receiving any physical contact for over 50 years knocks you up before leaving.

Original meme:

Okay, but what does Vetinari do during Hogwatch? Does he go on business as usual? Do the clerks?

Because I feel like some otherworldly entity with villinous things in mind for Ankh-Morpork try to do an evil version of A Christmas Carol on him. Like, every year they try and every year he scares them away by just not putting up with it at all.

And Drumknott is the complete opposite of Bob Cratchett in every way.

I'm cooking up something absolutely devious*.

*shitty fanart that's going to get me kicked out of the fandom forever.

Very cool stranger. Idk where that is, but I'm glad you had a good time!

QUICK COMPUTER TELL ME HOW TO BE NORMAL I FEEL LIKE THIS

Oh jeez, thanks for including me! I would like to thank @mvshortcut of course, but also my mom, my dear friend Pokeg...NO! PLEASE WAIT! *gets yanked off stage by a giant cane*

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"Redrum," Constance said in a raspy voice.

"Knock it off," was the only reply Kate gave her as they walked back home in the dark.

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I don't know a lot of people so hopefully this doesn't die here. :(

@mysteriouseggsbenedict @myfairkatiecat @sophieswundergarten and just for the heck of it @pokegirl0238.

Tagged by @informedimagining to share my last written sentence and tag the same number of people as there are words to share there is.

I barely write but I did recently work on my soft zoyalia fanfic:

“My Love,” Nikolai gently placed a kiss on her gleaming hair.

Tgging some writing folks if they’re interested:

@dangerously-human @womaninwinter @demigoddess-of-ghosts @worldofkaeos @wraith--2 @nobodysdaydreams

Patrick Troughton (Jason and the Argonauts)—He's really good as a man beknighted by harpies whose immediate first reaction to being beknighted by harpies is to stuff as much bread down his shirt as possible. I won't mention his other roles (though im thinking about them. hard) and i just want to say everything about him is just a little guy, a tiny little little man, a man here for hopes and dreams and frivolity (but dont fuckin cross him you will get yoinked!!!!)

Giulietta Masina (La Strada, Fortunella, Nights of Cabiria)—To me, she is the DEFINITION of scrungly little guy, always, but especially in La Strada. She is hilarious, adorable and heartbreaking all in one. She was born in a wet cardboard box all alone. She is the slapstick clown woman of my dreams. She gets called an "ugly artichoke" TWICE in that film (not true, very brutal, but quite funny - she's the wife of the director too, might I add). Her face is so brilliant, no one ever emoted like she did. She is Pierrot Hot, simple as. Gif of the exact moment I fell in love with her upon first seeing this film, if you wanna include it: [link]

This is round 2 of the contest. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. If you're confused on what a scrungle is, or any of the rules of the contest, click here. Reminder that this is a movie bracket, not a TV bracket, so no TV-related propaganda will be accepted.

[additional submitted propaganda + scrungly videos under the cut]

Giulietta:

She's Italian, isn't that enough? No? Fine. She also won two Cannes film awards and is best known for her character in La Strada, in which she played a young woman who fell in love with her captor and witnessed the cruelty of humanity, but still never really lost her child-like spirit.

Masina has a wonderful impish, scrungly quality to her that made her perfect for her iconic Sad Clown type roles. She got tons of comparisons to Chaplin (who despite being handsome, certainly *played* scrungles) and goddamn if they aren’t true. Like yes, she’s obviously beautiful when glammed up, but even in promotional photos, Masina always has this weirdo quality to her. I could see her playing a strange little goblin sidekick to Columbo as he solves a murder in Italy. Even in Nights of Cabiria, where she’s ostensibly playing an object of desire, Masina carries herself with a gait usually reserved for old crones and character actors, (which only makes her yearning for happiness more tragic!).

Patrick:

I am convinced that the universe, knowing that I only have two weeks left before I go back to college, has decided to make those last two weeks an absolute living hell.

Then again, I see really pretty nights like this and I feel a lot better.

Hello 2025, Year of the Luminous Lemur!

*“Auld Lang Syne” plays*

Happy New Year!

I wish you all the best in the new year! And good luck. God knows we’ll all need it.

Unfinished drawing of one of my favorite Discworld antagonists: Cosmo Lavish. He's a little under the weather.

(Yeah, I've been mentioning him more and more recently. So what?)