bzzz

willow. it/its. guess what my favorite kind of tree is. writer, artist, baker. im plural and i've lost count of how many distinct girls there are inside me. i think the last time i counted i got up to like 12. we're all very interesting and pretty and cool and stuff. I love you! the world is better with you in it! im nearly 30 which is insane because i'm actually also 19. maybe 17 depending on the day.

[slowavesloth]

[clair-audients]

More stitches from Turn ∀ Gundam (1999).

[kestalsblog]

Not every story is about seeing yourself in it. Sometimes it’s about learning to see other people too.

[faeriekit]

FMA is fascinating because there aren't many works about what it means to be an atheist and a heretic to a god that you can not only see, but who has personally snatched body parts off of your living body and made fun of you for it.

[faeriekit]

They are having theological discussion in my notes but I think that people are too...divinity centric about Truth to make good interpretation of the situation.

Truth is a god in the way that gravity or magnetism is a god. He's just a manifested force of nature. He's sapient on some level, sure, which is a neat trick, but we managed to make meat think and we're not extraordinarily special about it either. He didn't invent humans and he didn't spawn the universe the way that Rose would have expected the god of her religion to have done; he has minimal to no interest in the day to day lives of any creature and only intervenes when someone actively wanders into his grip of influence. He's not a Capital-G God. Truth is to matter what fire is to flammable objects. He's a metaphorical (and perhaps even allegorical) chemical reaction.

Ed isn't an atheist because he saw god and cussed him out irl; Ed's an atheist because he doesn't believe that the brute force of Truth qualifies as a god. Quite frankly, I think that's a hell of a lot ballsier and a much more complete understanding of the situation. This perspective insulates him against idolizing the Truth as an ultimate divine force and makes Truth something that can be reasoned around or through, rather than with, which would never have worked.

Ed is a scientist. He's always worked with the Truth in some way, shape, or form, because the whole point of science is an attempt to pursue lower-case-t truth. Being able to see Truth's reflection in the mirror as he does doesn't really affect Ed's whole..everything.

[faeriekit]

it's about a girl and her dog :)

[juno-infernal]

Glen Martin Taylor, “but i am safe in here.”

[oatsmilk]

more of his work because im obsessed

and his website and instagram

[ravenfleesfire]

Runaway to the Stars and The Murderbot Diaries both understand the same thing that no other story I have ever read, or am even sure exists, has ever given such a level of depth as they do. And it's not exploitation of labor. Or late stage capitalism. Or dehumanization. It's how being considered more physically capable than other people or perceived as intimidating does not always give you an advantage over them in fact quite the opposite and not just because your labor is taken for granted but also unless the situation is a literal fight then you're going to be seen as a threat which means they're starting from a baseline of discomfort in your presence and from there anything you do can be an excuse to retaliate against you and anything they do to you is going to be immediately dismissed

Shoutout to fiction again

[dogpuppy]

[lesbinewren]

george lucas, remarkably unsubtley, over and over again: the fall of the republic was because of corporate interests interfering with politics and increased complacency with fascist ideas in the face of a manufactured war

everyone, for some reason: so the jedi were the REAL villains because they didn’t get married

[elusivehoney]

"This is the 90's! The 1990's, in point of fact."

Buffy The Vampire Slayer | Season One | 1997

[crabussy]

"I'm so lazy for lying down so often" "I'm so greedy for eating such a big meal" MY BEAUTIFUL FRIEND!!!! YOUUUU ARE A GIANT OMNIVORE. YOU'RE MEGAFAUNA. DO YOU KNOWWW HOW ENERGY EXPENSIVE IT IS TO KEEP A GIANT OMNIVORE WITH A HUGE BRAIN RUNNING. very!!! very energy expensive!!! eat that burger take that nap. holy moly. you wonderful animal. your species is made for frequent meals and daytime rests and long sleeps. let yourself be a human.

[julia-miraclerat]

"I feel an aching desire to speak to you and take up your time and attention" most normal thing to think about someone

[marlinspirkhall]

Nothing funnier than having a 20 minute crashout about how much you hate your job and then continuing with your day. I hope hunter-gatherers did this midway through tracking their lunch.

[algebraic-dumbass]

favorite math words: "it turns out". hell yeah babe surprising shit just happens i love it

[complex-variable]

See also:

“remarkably” [this has no good reason for being true, but it is]

“helpfully” [thank fuck this method exists]

[stuffedanimalpurse-deactivated2]

[tinybed]

[konoko]

[cannibalcaprine]

normal girl. girl who's really normal. girl who can read facial expressions and tell what people are thinking like other normal girls. girl who feels normal about other people and doesn't have a strange little cyst of hatred for the world where her heart should be. deeply normal girl. they're calling her the normallest maybe ever

[veryberryskye]

girl