why is it even surprising that so many of us on this site have adhd and related things. this whole platform is based on interacting with an endless stream of stimulation and an easy means of exploring hyperfixations lol
Miraculous Ladybug Rewatch: Gamer 2.0
No one is free to play Max’s new video game, so Hawkmoth helps him out.
I thought we were keeping that a secret!
100% can confirm. Except he left out all the arson and trespassing.
Miraculous Ladybug Rewatch: Backwarder
Marinette attempts to confess her love via a letter, only mix things up in the most disastrous way possible.
The Lord's Estate - Redrikki - Star Wars - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sheev Palpatine & Darth Vader, Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker
Characters: Darth Vader, Sheev Palpatine | Darth Sidious
Additional Tags: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Disturbing Architecture, Missing Scene
Summary:
Every lord must have an estate. Lord Vader’s is Mustafar.
Weird Questions
If I’m somewhere where there are Educational Personell (Museum Docents, Q&A zookeepers, Park Rangers, Public School Teachers, Professors etc.) I have a question I like to ask them:
“What’s the weirdest question someone’s ever asked you?”
I say weird and not Dumb becuase even buckwild questions can have important answers, but whoever I ask it too usually has to think about it for a bit, then comes out with something different every time. And I love every single answer becuase it just warms my heart out there to know people are trying to understand the world a bit better, no matter how limited thier starting point. A collection of favorites so far:
- Art Museum Host: “A man once asked me “Can you help me find someone and if you can’t can you find someone who can?” Which I always thought would be a great title for an Artwork.”
- Park Ranger: “I’m so glad the Japanese couple asked me “Is bear spray like mosquito spray and it goes on the jacket, or on the bear?” instead of just trying it.”
- Zookeeper: “A man once pointed at the live red-tailed hawk I had out for a demo and asked me “Aren’t those extinct?” We eventually figured out he meant “Endangered” but I hear that question every time I see a redtail now.”
- Primary School Teacher: “About every other year a student asks me what part of the school I sleep in at night, because clearly I live here. I tell them I sleep under the bleachers in the gym but it’s actually the Nurse’s office.”
- Professor: “A student asked me “So how do I use this in a conversation when my aunt is wine-drunk at thanksgiving and being a jerk again?” Which honestly is a fair question about philosophy and really changed how I teach rhetoric.”
- Natural History Docent: “A woman once asked me what the difference between a Million and a Billion was. Kinda pieced together that she’d just left her church for her safety, and was learning about Earth’s Natural History for the first time. Nobody else was there because it had been snowing, so I walked her through the Hall Of Time and answered as many questions as I could. She was bewildered, but really trying. It always struck me as a really brave thing, to try to understand all of that while fresh out of a dangerous situation. I hope it helped.”
- Forensic Scientist: “People ask me how to commit murder all the time, but if you really hate someone, stealing thier identity causes much more suffering and is a lot harder to get caught at. A guy did ask me if working at a body farm was creepy and did not like that it was ok until you learned that decayed human fingers are a deer’s favorite midwinter snack.”
- Zookeeper: “People call us becuase they think they’ve found an escaped animal all the time, or they think they’re neighbor’s husky is a wolf. One guy asked me if his dog was part hyena because it had spots. But that one guy really did have a Tiger in his toolshed that one time so we try to take them seriously.”
- Meteorologist: “A guy once emailed me about how hard you’d have to fan a tornado to make it start spinning in the other direction and included a picture of him holding up a box fan at an approaching tornado. We printed it out for the work fridge.”
- Park Ranger: “I was giving a talk on the Yellowstone Supervolcano and a guy asked if, after it errupted, the earth would be ‘hollowed out’. I suppose I was just relieved that he understand that the earth isn’t flat.”
- Primarcy Shcool teacher: “A student once asked me where she could sell her bones online so she could by a dog. Which? Same.”
- Natural History Docent: “A guy asked us ‘If I had a time machine, and managed to kill and cook a T-Rex, what would it have tasted like?’ and every paleontologist on staff deciced to take him seriously. They did research to learn about fat distribution, and read up on culinary science to learn what flavors meat, even did chemical analysis on the bones. They concluded that it’d be Tough (no evidence of juicy fat pockets), bitter (carnivores tend to taste foul) and would probably kill him, because heavy metals travel up the food chain and T-Rex accumulated a lot of the cadmium that was in the dirt in the late cretaceous. Wrote him a letter with our findings and he sent us back a drawing of him and his buddies cooking a T-Rex over a fire and all of them throwing up and dying, and it’s my favorite drawing in the whole world.”
I work at a small history museum in upstate New York. A woman came in with her granddaughter asking if she could get tickets for the Underground Railroad. The kid looked about ready to die of embarrassment as we explained why that was impossible.
Miraculous Ladybug Rewatch: Bakerix
When Marinette tries to fix the rift between her dad and grandfather, the later ends up akumatized.
February 2020 Writing Round-Up
Once upon a time, I had the creative juices for a half-dozen stories a month. Not so any more. In February, I managed to squeeze out two in two different fandoms. Here, a few days late and several dollars short, are my offerings for the past month.
Star Wars
A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy -
Depa stumbled free of the maze, back into the atrium for the Lothal
Temple. There was just one problem. The man kneeling between the
desiccated bodies of the ancient Jedi was not her master. (Depa Billaba & Kanan Jarrus) Written for the Past Imperfect Future Unknown time travel exchange.
Agent Carter
Odds on Favorite -
And to think Peggy might never have known about the office betting pool if Daniel hadn’t asked her to dinner. A workplace comedy set between seasons 1 and 2.
(Peggy Cater/Daniel Sousa, Jack Thompson). Written for Chocolate Box exchange.
Miraculous Ladybug Rewatch: Animaestro
Marinette and Chloe’s obsessive stalking leads to the show’s director getting akumatized in the series’ most meta episode.
❝ like a small boat on the ocean;; sending big waves into motion –– ❞
a tribute to a simple farmboy who sets out to take the world, without ever really knowing what his dreams had in store for him