5254jewels

mostly poetry - in omnia paratus

[5254jewels]

any time i find out the person i'm crushing on is an avid reader i fall head-over-heels-over-head in love. but then, sometimes, i find out they read nonfiction and a little bit of me dies. i've found that people who read nonfiction ONLY read nonfiction. now, i enjoy nonfiction. i love self-help and essays and commentaries and articles and memoirs and bios, and historical accounts and science i do, but-. but FICTION

FICTION

FICTION

FICTION

FICTION

FICTION

fiction.

that shit is MADE UP AND IT'S STILL RELATABLE. HOW CAN YOU NOT RELATE?!

whaddya mean you've never felt like a Hobbit?! whaddya mean you've never wanted to talk to animals?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN KLINGON ISN'T A REAL LANGUAGE?

WHAT

DO

YOU

MEAN-uh

fiction.

listen, i know real life is usually crazier than fantasy but HOW WILL NONFICTION READERS BELIEVE HOW MUCH CRAZIER REALITY IS WITHOUT READING THE FICTION THAT CANNOT COMPARE.

"tine, that can't really happen."

"but...it did happen. this sci-fi/fantasy is based on a historical event. did you read the footnotes? the author's note? the appendix?"

"but it takes place on mars."

"and you're reading about elon musk who wants to get there and BITCH I'M ALREADY THERE!"

*imagination*

guys, if the only thing you read is nonfiction, i'm begging you, read. more. fiction.

[longseasons]

all these excellent books come from some random penguins house?

[sakuu]

(Xユーザーのタケウチ　リョースケさん: 「道頓堀飯 https://t.co/CxkxPCXY1Y」 / Xから)

[only-cat-memes]

[coolishfoolishness]

He's lying on the red paint because it has more positive associations than negative ones. C'mon, this is basic color theory

[heyhoneyfox]

This will never not be funny

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

[important-animal-images]

[5254jewels]

that's a 3 year old?

[thefiresontheheight]

Hey a reminder to all salaried employees in the US that as of today, July 1st, you need to be making at least 43,888 per year or else your employer needs to pay you overtime at a rate of 1.5 per hour over 40 worked, as you are now non-FLSA exempt. On January 1st 2025 this number will increase to 58,655 per year. Don’t let your employer cheat you.

[sunshine-tattoo]

what sweet tooth could have been:

An exploration of the effects of humans irresponsibly playing with genetic power, which not only releases a several million year old virus on the world that kills billions, but ultimately leads to changing humanity forever by irreversibly mutating human DNA to give our children animal features, forcing humanity to really examine what makes someone human a la x-men/ kipo.

what we got instead:

magic tree in a cave make people sick. tree on fire cure sick everywhere instantly because reasons.

[5254jewels]

i guess that's what happens when shows are only allowed to be three seasons T^T

[sophieinwonderland]

We finished watching Sweet Tooth and I need to say that I really hate the "humans bad, animals good" narrative.

Humans are animals. We're doing what many species try do on a grand scale, survive and thrive in our environment. It just so happens that we're too good at it and our environment became the entire planet with us at the top of the food chain.

The idea that humans are uniquely bad, morally, for our damage to the environment feels like it misses a lot of important nuance. We didn't even know extinction was possible until a couple hundred years ago.

We've since been doing a lot of damage and playing catch up to fix things. While also contending with the fact that we are an invasive species to most of the planet and are driven by a natural greed like most creatures.

Ironically, we're probably the only invasive species aware enough to realize what we are and to want to try to mitigate it and be better.

I'll admit, we're failing. The environment is getting worse. More species are constantly lost. It's pretty bad.

But I don't see our failures as some unique evil of humanity. It just so happens that we became too good at doing what we do because of evolution. Too well-adapted for spreading across the planet.

But remember that many of the extinctions we cause aren't just caused by us. But by other invasive species we bring with us. The Dodo birds weren't killed directly by human hunting or environmental damage in the traditional sense. They were killed by us introducing new species into their native environment during a period where we didn't realize extinction was a risk.

Now that we know, there are many humans trying to find ways to prevent extinction of animals in the natural world.

I guess what I have a problem with is this idea that these new deer-humans and pig-humans and crocodile-humans are going to be better than normal people simply because they're combined with other animals, as if humans are a uniquely bad species and these other species are morally better rather than just lacking the ability to do harm on the grand scale we've managed.

[angelamcss]

Sweet Tooth | 2.06

[5254jewels]

he is bobby.

[goodobservationshirley]

Tell me a story. What kind of story? Any kind. Help us keep going.

[5254jewels]

I WAS SOBBING

[invisible-pink-toast]

love jepp's character in sweet tooth. like his backstory is how he went from being a star football player, to the "hybrid catcher", to a bitter lonely wanderer but then from the start of the series his character arc is basically:

[glade-constellation]

I think I will forever be fucked up over the treatment of the wolf brothers in Sweet Tooth s3. They were kids.

[demigoddessqueens]

*me, at the Trope™️ store

The reluctant father figure who adopts a scruffy child?

Yes I would like some more please 🙏

[freakaz0-id]

i just finished watching the last season of sweet tooth and holy shit that fucked me up. that was so good jesus christ. I'm like literally speechless 😭 the way they talked about death and grief... hit a little too close to home, but I'm so fucking glad it did. god. this show is a masterpiece idk why it doesn't have more attention

[5254jewels]

DARWIN T^T

[an-oddity-indeed]

Just a dad and his (slightly feral) children 🥰🥰

[sprouty-gal]

Just finished season 3 of sweet tooth feeling very

right now