One of the niche hobbies I have is insulator collecting. Insulators are the glass/ceramic parts that keep electrical lines from shorting out:
They come in all sorts of colors and shapes, some rare, some common:
They can be the size of a fist, or long chains:
The hobby is dominated by retired lineworkers. But it deserves so much more attention! They are often referred to as "crown jewels of the wire". Anyway, this is my niche infodump. Thanks for reading!
just to hide outside your door 🐍🍎
[ID: A realistic digital painting of Crowley from Good Omens entwined in snakes. Crowley is seen from the shoulders up, lying on his side, with his arms thrown partially in front of his face so that only one eye is visible, gazing skyward. Bronze-scaled snakes fill the frame around him and twine around his arms. His fingernails are long, talon-sharp, and painted red, and there is a metallic gold halo behind his head. End ID]
Let's just look at Alice. Okay? The world needs more Alice.
So let's look at her.
I think people should look at Alice some more.
Let us continue looking at Alice.
Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.
Leverage meme ≡ quotes [5/5] → from Nathan Ford
My name is Nathan Ford. And I… am a thief.
#hmm thanks for reminding me that I actually rather love this character#leverage#nathan ford#he’s not a good man really#(though by some terrifying metrics he is indeed a Good Man)#but he has aligned himself with good and he will get there come hell or high water#the thing is#he is the hell and he is the high water#he is the monster that hunts monsters#the abyss consumed him long ago and that’s just. how it is. he just lives here now#because that’s the thing#the abyss consumes you and everything…doesn’t end#you keep living#you keep living even though you are nothing but howling rage in the shell of a man#but then you turn that rage and that abyss upon the monsters that made you#and you bring the abyss to them (via @aethersea)
There are moments when Nate goes completely cold and he is way scarier than any of them, or all the rest of them combined, like a reminder of what is sitting there under the surface - an incomparably brilliant mind with no heart to anchor it and nothing to believe in.
you can tell that Nate is an ex-Jesuit, or perhaps more accurately an almost-Jesuit
He has this Catholic self-hatred coupled with this deeply rooted sense he’s better than others and it’s all tied together with a large amount of ‘here, hold my beer’
“My father would buy me an ice-cream” is just the the most terrifying thing anyone in the show says.
He says, in one line, that he was raised to be bad, knows how to be bad, chose to be good, fell, chose to be good by doing bad, but his gut reflex, the one he’s been supressing for his entire life, is just to be a walking nightmare, exactly what you’d expect if you rewarded a child for lying, cheating, swindling, and hurting for fun and profit.
Nate Ford is not a nice man. But he’s all that’s standing between us and Jimmy Ford’s Son, so let’s be thankful for that.
