OMG Who Gave Laurance Flowers.... ←～（o ｀▽´ )oΨ (it Was Me)

In a video essay about home improvement channels and TV shows (the concept of the video essay was about how people recently have trended to decorate and make style choices for their homes based on potential resale value rather than their own personal style preferences) I was introduced to a British tv show (big dreams small spaces) focused on garden improvement and unlike their American renovation show counterparts this show was mainly focused on what the personal style choices and desires of the person's the episode is about.

This show is hosted by Monty Don. I like his attitude towards style preferences that I myself want to emulate and embrace. In an episode, a lady asks about him if he likes her choice of flower for her garden or if he thinks another flower looks better there and he responded with (roughly quoting) " I might think that another flower would look better there but this is not my garden it's your garden" This sentiment I myself want to emulate in my future career in architecture for my clients, to (mostly) set aside my own design choices and help them embrace and bring to life their visions.

I would also like to embrace these ideals in my own life in in my own style choices, I want to make style choices without caring too much about 'resale value' or what other people think. In my personal life I wish to have the confidence, courage, and overall gumption to make bold choices that make me an individual.

A lot of ideas come from and were inspired by the YouTube video

'Why Home Improvement Shows Feel Icky' by Kendra Gaylord

While I was walking to class I was listening to this video and I was imagining a fake presentation I could give to my professor based on ideas I got from the video so I wrote them down.

Yo, people with acne

These are hydrocolloid bandages. They work wonders at pulling fluid through skin and absorbing all that gunk. 

You can cut them down to size, wear them on your face at night, and in the morning you’ll see a noticeable difference plus the bandage visibly absorbs the goo and it’s gross but weirdly satisfying.

They’re cheaper than most acne products, they work, and 1 pack lasts for ages. They’re sold in the band-aid section of most pharmacies; try them if you can.

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some doodle wips in the style of that one finland piece… tryna work on pushing my silhouettes and character designs… wow art is hard 

sweden is a closeted serial killer in the au because i watch too much nordic noir

FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT TRUMP DID NOT SAVE TIKTOK!! THIS WAS ALL A STUNT TO MAKE HIM LOOK GOOD!!

PAY ATTENTION TO WHATEVER HAPPENS NEXT!!

Sooo, tiktok is back from being banned in less than 24 hours. Good to know that still nothing ever happens

Republican wanted it banned so they can have a win once they got it back

Werewolf McWerewolf

So Remus’s name really is ridiculous. The ‘Remus’ bit, I’m really not sure what possessed his werewolf-hating father to name him after a child raised by wolves, and I suppose the only consolation is that he didn’t call his child Romulus. But Lupin. What if there’s a reason for that? What if it isn’t so much a blind co-incidence that that’s his last name? Because we know Fenrir bit Remus because his father said werewolves ‘deserved nothing but death’. And we know werewolves were incredibly badly looked upon by wizarding society, but why was his father so outspoken about it? What if somewhere way back down the line, there was a werewolf in the family? Names relating to professions are really common here in England and the UK as a whole, as are things like “x-son”. Even ‘Potter’ was derived from a nickname of “Potterer”. So what I’m saying is, it’s really common to have surnames relating to your social position.

And maybe, just maybe, that werewolf back down the line somewhere was given the name purposefully, as a warning to people about what they were- and not just them, but all of their descendants too, like an eternal tag: this person is descended from a monster.

And maybe by Remus’s Dad’s time, the association wasn’t widely known anymore, but maybe some people knew, maybe he was just paranoid about it, but perhaps he was so outspoken against werewolves as overcompensation- to make sure no-one thought that his ancestry meant he had any unseemly sympathies. 

And really, Greyback? What if that’s just another passed down name, one identifying a werewolf descendant? In that case, Fenrir would probably recognise the name and be fully aware of what Remus’s father was trying to do. And what more punishment for someone trying to shrug off those shackles than to turn his son? What’s more, it would almost be like keeping it in the family. Maybe he made a point of turning what descendants he could?

What if, then, it’s not really a coincidence, but BECAUSE his name is ‘McWerewolf’ that he becomes a werewolf in the first place?

a lineup of polands outfit/progression throughout the au 🥰