goop time

Heyo~ Interests: Critical Role, Stardew Valley, Minecraft, & some other random junk. I speak French, English and Morse Code. Ace, Nonbinary, confused & tired.

[aequinoctiale]

pov you watch me write an intro post but as you keep reading it becomes more and more apparent that i have no idea how to write an intro post

about the blog

i dont have the energy anymore to go through tags looking for content so i just end up reblogging stuff that comes up on my dash. most of it is pretty pictures, random videos, cat photos and text posts with the occasional art reference and even rarer fandom posts.

about me

i go by magpie, he/they/she/elle(fr) with no preference. i dunno what else to put here so have some info that you may or may not find interesting

i like hiking, camping, cycling, and generally being outdoors, but i can't stand heat or sun for very long at all so i tend to stick to forests and get more active during fall/spring. (summer my abhorred)

i like collecting odds and ends, mostly stones, sticks, feathers, dead plants, and stuff like that. i've got a few scavenged bones which is pretty cool

i deal with chronic pain in my lower body, severe depression, and generalized anxiety disorder, so f to my mental health lmao

i love cats a lot and i'd really like to have one someday but i'll have to find one that works with my minor allergies. if you have a cat and want to gush about them please feel free to send me photos i would appreciate that greatly.

i write occasionally and i like painting, but i can't do digital art for crap.

i speak french and english and i can read morse code.

my favourite movie is Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

my favourite youtube video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQNeYbBiCKw (The Decade-Long Quest For Shadow of the Colossus’ Last Secret by Jacob Geller)

i hate beets. fuck beets. nasty ass root vegetable.

[bimmyjimmy]

I couldnt get a banana to show jimmy scale, but here’s garlic instead

[yazzdonut]

everyone is sharing their favorite ship types on twitter so i drew mine ,,i’m very predictable

[yazzdonut]

bonus: i totally forgot about this classic

[yazzdonut]

you’ve all been fooled

[tf2heritageposts]

tf2 heritage post

[hopeymchope]

PlayStation Bad

In just the past two months, Sony has:

Said the PS6 will be more than $1000 at launch

Announced the end of all physical PS game releases

While simultaneously announcing the end of two of their console game stores — ensuring multiple games will die forever

Declared that they are wholly dedicated to (A) leveraging A.I. when making games and (B) creating live-service games above all other game types

Announced that if you bought any movies through their PlayStation Store, over 550 of them will soon be deleted from all users' libraries — with no restitution offered of any kind

Gamers, it is time — to paraphrase Robert Vann — to turn Sony's picture to the wall. Any one of these insults would be bad, and taken alone? Maybe it could be swallowed. But this is an ongoing campaign of disdain towards customers, with each declaration worse than the last.

PlayStation does not deserve your patronage any longer. The PS6 must fail. Leave them behind.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[deadpowol]

[leonardcohenofficial]

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of h

yearly required reading

[pangur-and-grim]

I’m in london england, seeing things no one has ever seen before

[pangur-and-grim]

ACTUALLY though, I have been observing the england pigeons and I’m ready to make a statement

their ceres (the white part of their beak) are larger than Canadian pigeons. not sure why. also, their bodies are sleeker and longer. this is probably because pigeons back home have to survive -35C winters, so only the hefty round ones survive.

I wonder if the smaller ceres in Canadian pigeons are also a cold adaptation? because it’s an exposed fleshy bit with lots of nerve ending for sensory purposes, so I can see frostbite being a problem. or maybe it’s just that different escaped breeds contributed to the population.

I’m also noticing a colour I haven’t seen back home! VERY dark black (like the left hand pigeon in the photo above). looks like they rolled around in soot. definitely worth the 7 hour plane ride to see these special guys

[pangur-and-grim]

my humble Canadian pigeons for comparison. they look so orb-like. you could go bowling with a Canadian pigeon, and you could play darts with an English pigeon

[pangur-and-grim]

hey now.

[sluggoonthestreet]

The emergence of Grognug, who needs a larger wading pool for his duck.

[l3irdl3rain]

Putting the bed skirt on requires the help of 0 cats btw

[extraordinary-machine200]

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[counttwinkula]

hey did you know that uhh

i. the monster's body is a cultural body

ii. the monster always escapes

iii. the monster is the harbinger of category crisis

iv. the monster dwells at the gates of difference

v. the monster polices the borders of the possible

vi. fear of the monster is really a kind of desire

vii. the monster stands at the threshold… of becoming

[counttwinkula]

oh shit i didn't expect this to actually get notes lmao

these are all direct quotes from jeffrey jerome cohen's "monster culture (seven theses)" (full pdf linked) i highly encourage you to read it yourself!

that said, while i think cohen's writing is evocative, it can be a little dense, so while i'm here, here's my capsule summary (you can also hear me talk about this in the first episode of my podcast) (listen to @ghostswerepeopletoo)

i. the monster's body is a cultural body - The monster is a work of fiction to be analyzed through tools of literary and sociological theory.

ii. the monster always escapes - As long as the cultural fear from which the monster stems persists, the monster will reappear in retellings, reimaginings, and sequels.

iii. the monster is the harbinger of category crisis - Monsters defy binaries and challenge easy comprehension or categorization.

iv. the monster dwells at the gates of difference - The monster represents the Other.

v. the monster polices the borders of the possible - Tales of the monster exist to discourage unacceptable or taboo behaviors.

vi. fear of the monster is really a kind of desire - Subjects can vicariously participate in the disruption of the social order through the monster.

vii. the monster stands at the threshold… of becoming - Within the monster we find information about the self.

[unpaid-inchworm]

hello MC: My World fandom. I've been collecting posts and images that remind me of Polly and now I'm sharing them with you in the form of some kind of shitty webweave. You can find the funnies UP HERE⬆ and a few angsty and angst-adjacent ones DOWN THERE ⬇ if you so wish

Ok that's all thank you for looking at my images <3 I might do one of these for Nil too but that ones gonna take a while longer probably, Polly has the advantage of having a canine motif and baby I've got whole pintrest boards ready to go for that

[perkwunos]

The Johnny Appleseed they don’t want you to know about

[bigfuckingcrab]

[nociceptrix]

tweet sequence of a not-quite-friend and artist i admire that i find myself thinking of constantly

[star-angel-selkie]

my entire childhood i was threatened with juvenile detention just for being a weird kid. the kids in my class would lie about me doing bad things, or be doing bad things and then i would get in trouble and my school principal said if i didnt 'show remorse' id end up in juvy. neighbors called the cops on me and my own mother wouldnt take my side. so no, i dont think prison is a valid tool for rehabilitation or justice. jail is a threat the people in power use to control us and get rid of people they dont like. get more prison abolitionist now. get more youthlib now. get more transfeminist NOW