m★rphe

| she/her | adult | queer | ¤~~~~~~~~⸙𓍊𓋼⸙͎𖥔𓆏𓍊𓋼⸙͎~~~~~~~~¤ Good Omens, Hannibal, CoD, The Hobbit, Sherlock (ACD&TV), etc.

[valiants]

Courting

[hashtagloveloses]

this kid’s post and his replies to people’s questions are so pure I’m sobbing

[shiphitsthefan]

one. true. pairing.

[onlyrebex]

I have love and free will and chalk.

[sunshinetomorrow]

my grubhub being delivered by a wizard or some sort of apostle

[pileofknives]

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[meltylcnd-nightmare]

putting these links here for no reason in particular don't mind me :^)

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[stephexmachina]

when i was a kid i was so mad all the time bc i thought someday i'd have to be somebody's wife i didn't know it was optional. is everybody reminding the young girls in their lives that it's optional.

[stephexmachina]

AND SO IS BEING SOMEBODY'S MOTHER‼️

[stephexmachina]

it is about being a woman. hope that helps!

[vibrantstarfire]

reading comprehension questions for the notes:

is wanting to be a wife and mother a requirement for being a woman?

why might OP be annoyed with replies assuming that this post is about being aroace or transmasc if a woman doesn’t want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to sexuality and romantic interest that might make a woman not want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to gender identity and expression that might make a woman not want to be a wife and mother?

core concept: what is gender essentialism?

is it gender essentialism to imply that all women inherently want to be wives and mothers? could this be what OP is critiquing?

look at the notes OP responds to. is it gender essentialism to imply that being a wife and mother is so affixed to womanhood that to not want to be those things means you’re incapable of sexual/romantic feelings, or not a woman?

what trait are you perpetuating when you assume that women who do not want to be wives and mothers must be aroace or trans? is it gender essentialism?

[gentlyorbiting]

i'm the guy who writes the books that the protagonist in supernatural horror movies frantically reads somewhere in act ii. job's pretty easy. lot of "legends of vampires have recurred all throughout human history" and "demonologists agree that the quickest way to un-summon a demon is to trap it in a cursed object". no citations of course; they don't pay me citation money. i had to learn html back in the early aughts when everyone started seeking their supernatural info on websites they found via top search engines like FINDLER and WEBSIGHT but that's died down now which is great because i didn't have it in me to pick up css. currently working on a new book about horses that are evil. it's called HORSES THAT ARE EVIL in all caps so the protagonist can find it quickly to yank off the library shelf. it will be published 35 years ago.

[deep-space-atomic-clock]

my new mii: electron cloud

[whatagrump]

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

[thewritinggrindstone]

And!

“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

Reblog to save a writer’s life.

[jaydove-writes]

Thank you

[localcanadiancryptid22]

Oh my god thank you. No wonder grammarly keeps complaining about my punctuation when I boot my writing up into word counter

[abd-illustrates]

October is ADHD awareness month! 🎉

The memory issues ADHD causes are some of the scarier and more frustrating parts of living with it - so here’s a set of reaction doodles that all my fellow ADHD peeps are welcome to use whenever anybody decides to comment on your forgetfulness ^ 

[floralflowerpower-deactivated20]

ADHD nukes your working memory.

If it isn’t part of a hyperfixation its hard to store the details. 😅💕

[lunarflare64]

It gets especially bad for routine things, because you can’t tell if your memory of doing the thing was from today or yesterday or last week, and that can lead to some dangerous situations such as, say, skipping/overdosing on medication. I have to write down the date when I take my meds in the morning because the first time my memory messed up my medication I was terrified, I had to go with risking skipping because risking overdosing can get real bad real fast

[floralflowerpower-deactivated20]

OMG the medication thing I do that all the time.

I actually risk overdosing because I can’t drive behind the wheel without my medication.

My zone outs are more akin to black outs.

Like I’ll completely zone out and not only not remember what I did but there will be a complete time skip between when I first zoned out and when I came back to reality.

And sometimes I’ll do weird shit on auto pilot during these.

Like I once stuck a bag of lettuce in my bed, had no memory of it.

Went to sleep and my foot touched something wet and I flipped the fuck out till I realized it was lettuce.

I dont experience that when I take my ADHD meds.

The memory thing really messes with you.

[random-shit-writing]

HOLY SHIT THAT’S WHAT IT’S CALLED MY WORKING MEMORY IS SHIT I JUST THOUGHT I WAS STUPID IM CRYING 😭😭

[floralflowerpower-deactivated20]

Okay this is my second attempt writeing this because I accidentally reblogged it to the ectoberhaunt blog and had to delete it.

But no you are not stupid.

Your brain is wired diffrent.

ADHD is a disorder of the frontal lobe.

It affects all of these listed areas.

It’s not just “not being able to focus or being too hyper”.

It’s also a dopamine deficiency.

You can’t make tonic dopmine.

In laymen’s terms.

You can only get dopmine in short spurts by doing certain things.

This is why so many people ADHD struggle with Addictive personalities and turn to drugs or alcohol to self-medicate.

Which is bad.

This is what dopmine does.

Source.

And being fucking understimated is horrid.

You ever feel so board and so empty and helpless that you’d rather die?

That’s a classic symptom.

That’s why people with ADHD are 5 times more likely to kill themselves.

Source.

THIS is why ADHD awareness month is important.

It broke my heart that so many people with ADHD reblogged my posts not even realizing we have a month.

You deserve to understand you have a disorder that drastically impacts your life.

You deserve access to medication, and good doctors, and good resources, and managment skills.

You deserve to understand that you have probably been horribly abused or gas lit by the people in your life that dont understand your struggle because they never stopped to try too.

You deserve to understand that you are not stupid.

You were never stupid.

[amorphe-ium]

anti-abortion pisses me off because like. as a "gotcha", these people ask us how can we decide that zygotes arent living humans, but i would like to ask them when cells become human? it's so meaningless to push 'humanity' onto something, because this is making an ethical judgement about the person carrying the bunch of cells.

do we consider the egg and sperm cells human life, too? are we evil for biological processes outside our control, like monthly discharge cycles?

fuck it, why draw the line at gametes, because our other cells are living human cells with DNA, too--let's declare over-exfoliation as murder, as well; you killed that living layer of cells when scrubbed too much at your face last thursday.

cells are alive, by definition. the difference between me and a prokaryote* is that humans are made of layers upon layers upon layers of cells, cells to tissue to organs to systems to body. adding someone else's chromosome doesn't change the fact that the thing living off of me, inside of me, is created using my cells. if i don't consent to my cells creating new life, then who are you to tell me that my cells, still connected to my organs and body system are not mine?

i'll leave this on the fact that a limb is not a living organism. my arm can control functions without a brain through reflex responses--it has no thoughts, feelings, etc. it still lives, yes, and uses oxygen and energy, yes, but the arm itself is not an independent organism.

arms get removed all the time, if they're cancerous--their connection to the body is detrimental to the body and itself--keeping it alive will keep the cancer growing, slowly killing the normal arm cells. the cancer is not malicious, no, but it is damaging all the same.

[pusheen]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

“there are no original ideas” so you’re telling me someone’s already come up with my idea for a seven season tv show wherein a group of supernatural entities (led by an anemically lethargic vampire) band together to perform a series of increasingly elaborate heists, including but not limited to:

stealing an armored car but actually it’s one of those red cross bloodmobiles

similarly, breaking into a blood bank

and into an actual bank (to procure funds to buy rescue a local haunted house from being demolished) 

a chemical plant, for the purpose of eco sabatoge (bastards have been dumping pollutants in the Swamp Monster’s swamp, it’s messing with the paranormal ecosystem)

an fancy auction house, to steal back the Witch’s grandmother’s Cursed Necklace (it has sentimental value)

a huge fucking castle (the Ghost left some really embarrassing teenage diaries hidden under the flagstones. also there’s Hidden Treasure, but they are mainly worried about the diaries, in which they may or may not have confessed to a murder. super cringe)

The British Museum, to resurrect the Mummy’s long-lost sibling from their sarcophagus. the gang also takes this opportunity to steal back a bunch of shit the british stole

the Vatican, to purloin a bunch of stolen sacred objects and return them to their homelands (this is complicated by the fact half of the team members are highly allergic to holy objects and certain precious metals)

a submarine, to settle a bet on whether or not the Loch Ness Monster is real (the Swamp Monster heard it from a River Nymph heard it from a Kelpie heard it from a Mermaid, but everyone knows mermaids like to mess with people and since when do they know anything about freshwater monstrology? it’s a point of contention)

a zoo. i haven’t decided why except it involves a kidnapped unicorn and a runaway selkie

you’re telling me that’s already been done? because i want to fucking watch it

[what-even-is-thiss]

These are all storylines that versions of them already exist in other media. It also seems as though your protagonist group could potentially fit into several different group tropes including the three best friends or five man band structure.

[lady-vermin]

Also this is pretty similar to that one concept post about a group of vampires doing various heists bc they can’t be caught on camera and such.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

that’s true but in fairness i wrote that post too

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

tried to hatch an easter egg once

[dr4g0nwh1sk3rs]

I- I don’t think I wanna know

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

didn't have a heat lamp so i kept it under my armpit for a week

[antifa-furry-soldier]

If this were anyone else I'd be confident this is a bit

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

it was elementary school. the year before our class hatched a batch of chickens in an incubator, i knew they needed heat. plus i didn't want an adult to confiscate it. during class i alternated between my hoodie pocket and my armpit (warmer). solid logic

[webber-da-spider]

Was it a plastic one or a painted one?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

well see that was the big issue

[webber-da-spider]

Answer the question gaud

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

this happened in June. Easter had been over for 2 months. Easter was not on my mind. so when i found a single perfect intact egg (not hollow) just sitting on the ground under a tree, it did not occur to me that

the tree was next door to a church, places infamously known for organizing easter egg hunts

a single perfect white chicken egg rarely appears in nature nestled against a suburban tree trunk

to read deeper meaning into the small splashes of color on the base (thought it was pollution or smthng)

no, i did not see a forgotten easter egg that had been left for 2 months to weather the elements. i saw a random egg, in need of hatching.

[rhynereads]

You see Gaud, I don't believe you. You absolutely saw a forgotten Easter egg and tried to hatch it

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*sighs* let my motives be washed away by the tides of time. whatever my intentions, I tried to hatch a rotten easter egg under my armpit.

tragedy, naturally, struck.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"how did you not smell that it was a rotten egg" i have lifelong hyposmia (reduced sense of smell), an affliction for which my autistic ass is deeply grateful, given the issues i already deal with regarding sense of sound, touch, and sight (all of which could stand to turn that shit down a couple notches)

i DID, in fact, smell how rotten it was. eventually. in the end.

as i was saying, tragedy struck it straight outta the park. (it was entirely my own fault, for forgetting i'm not left-handed)

[dino-nugs-n-eels]

Did it break while under your armpit??! Gaud!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

see we were doing timed multiplication tables practice sheets (top 3 students get candy) and i was so focused on the adrenaline of beating jonah (who was threatening my winning streak) and out of habit i stowed the egg in my armpit (as one does) but i chose the wrong armpit and when i realized it was already too late i had my pencil in hand and the countdown was on and candy and pride was on the line my elbow was already moving

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"nobody likes a complainer" you say, like an idiot, as if thriving ecosystems of friendships aren't blossoming every day based solely on people vocally disliking the same things in similar ways

[milo-melon]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*reaches out my hand in love & friendship* come be a Hater with me

[perequiste]

things will work out + it’s still early + not everything is lost + trees

[theskydoesgreatthingsnow]

LOTR abridged

[great-and-small]

Yeah okay there are like 11 species of heron native to the USA and yes fine I’ve only managed to spot 10 of those species. You might think I’m bitter about that one species evading me but I’m not. I’m actually the Least Bittern person about it in the entire world