Ani-casma

Hi! Welcome to my page. Sometimes I draw but most of the time I just reblog random stuff haha (no consistency whatsoever)

[st4rwrd-artz]

Had to draw my favorite rock diva THE vampire Lestat himself

Alternate color versions under the cut!! :)

[passionpeachy]

I think aliens would find astronauts charming with their stocky limbs and helmets that look like a big shiny eyeball. I think they would own marketable plushies of them or perhaps a labubu style keychain

[passionpeachy]

animal cruelty

[visorforavisor]

I think disability justice would be easier if abled people understood that being disabled is a mixture of all three of

I can’t do that without negative consequences

I can’t do that unless I have support for it

I can’t do that

and that trying to treat one of these as if it’s another one will get you nowhere.

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[funstyle]

*cools ur dashboard down*

[nyctosaurid]

did it work

[watchoutforthorns]

i did really like daniel in the books and other adaptations, but i think what they’ve done with him in the amc series is so incredibly cool and intriguing.

the concept of a cynical, acerbic old journalist who battled a lifetime of trauma and addiction being faced with mortality through a fatal degenerative disease that will slowly rob him of his autonomy. a closeted elder gay man who spent the 80s in the queer scene in san francisco living through the aids crisis. he’s persistently clever and cunning and is strongly implied to have some sort of resistance towards mind control. he’s ruined every single relationship in his life so now he’s an asshole old man living alone with a terminal illness and his daughters don’t even talk to him while he keeps their childhood belongings in his closet. he ruins lives and people but is an expert at self-preservation.

and now! he’s a vampire, cured of his degenerative disease, free of the threat of mortality that has been looming over his head since the 80s, and he’s a cool mean old gay guy vampire who walks around in a leather jacket and sunglasses ripping people’s heads off and smoking out of a hookah. he’s been saved from death but given a fate that many in-universe consider arguably worse.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 7,401 species of frog in the world, ok?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

IMPORTANT UPDATE: 7,532 species of frog in the world, ok?!

[werewolf-transgenderism]

great news! 7,556 species of frog in the world, ok?!

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry, now there are 7,576 species of frog in the world, ok?!

[werewolf-transgenderism]

excellent news! 7,591 species of frog in the world, peace and love on planet earth

[werewolf-transgenderism]

guess what! 7,624 species of frog on planet earth, ok?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry, 7,645 species of frog on planet earth, ok? peace and love on planet autism

[werewolf-transgenderism]

great news! 7,653 species of frog on planet earth, ok?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 7,670 species of frog on planet earth, ok?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

new year new frogs! 7,678 species of frog on planet earth, ok?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 7,683 species of frog in the world, ok? ❤️

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 7,698 species of frog in the world, peace and love on planet earth

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don’t cry. 7,701 species of frog in the world, ok?

[wandering-aloneo-o]

@markscherz how many of these do we get to thank you for again?

[markscherz]

95 at present, more on the way :)

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 95 species of frog discovered by tumblr's own frog scientist dr. mark scherz, ok?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 7,758 species of frog in the world, yippee!

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 7,806 species of frog in the world, ok?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don’t cry. 7,817 species of frog in the world, peace and love on planet autism 💖

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 7,836 species of frog in the world, ok?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 7,864 species of frog in the world, yay!

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 7,935 species of frog in the world, yippeeeeee

[werewolf-transgenderism]

HEY DON'T CRY. 8,008 SPECIES OF FROG IN THE WORLD PER AMPHIBIAWEB AND THE 8,000TH FROG WAS DESCRIBED BY TUMBLR'S OWN FROG SCIENTIST DR. Scherz, ET AL., PEACE AND LOVE ON PLANET EARTH ‼️‼️‼️

[trickstarbrave]

after 44 hours i am finally. done.

i spent so much time redrawing stuff. and then rendering took forever. i will post the emperor alone solo later as i do wanna show off his abs (and i think a lot of ppl would prefer to rb him alone not my cringe yumeship art)

anyways. [collapses in exhaustion]

[the-supernatural-atheist]

if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills

[the-supernatural-atheist]

where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*

[makaeru]

I hate learning about instances of "oh yeah we know how to do that, we just don't".

[marzipanandminutiae]

this is exactly why I love talking about historical passive heating and cooling techniques

oh wow the glass-tower office buildings we constructed when we thought air conditioning and central heating would never have downsides...have downsides?

and we're still building them?

while the Victorian house museum where I work, with thick walls and small windows and big wooden shutters stays ~10 degrees above (winter) or below (summer) the outside temperature for days on end with no help at all?

uh. okay then

(also public transit. the history of public transit in the US is infuriating, because we had it! and then we destroyed it!)

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[dear-ao3]

[fair-itself]

Normies talking about getting whiplash from recipe blogs. You know nothing

[babycharmander]

[ID: An AO3 author’s note reading, “Sorry for vanishing, I did a little too much research on cults an coercive control for Damian’s arc, and then realized I was raised in a cult, and THEN I ran away to a fishing town cabin on the other side of the country and had to start learning to be a person in the real world. I also forgot how to write. But I’m learning again, so I’m back now! Have some more.” The “I” in “I was raised in a cult” is emphasized by sparking emojis, and the note is ended with heart emojis. /end ID]

[babycharmander]

Aaaand THIS is one of the many reasons why it’s not only not a bad thing to portray dark subject matter, but EXTREMELY IMPORTANT to do so!! You can learn a lot when writing, and others can learn a lot when reading! This can save lives, dudes.

[the-real-seebs]

I am so proud of the author though. That took multiple kinds of courage at once. Good job, author.

[goldkirk]

Hi! I’m the original author from ao3!

I want to thank everyone for such hilarious and kind additions/replies/tags on this post, they’ve been so amazing to read. They’ve meant more to me than you guys know. ❤️

I also want to add some information for anyone who wants to know more about recognizing the signs that you might be in a high control group.

High control groups can be small or large, religious or not, clubs, schools, online servers, friend groups, etc.

No human is invulnerable because we all have brains and emotions that can be played like a fiddle. Knowing the red flags can help us all keep ourselves safer!

igotout.org

BITE model of understanding thought and behavior control

International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA)

Crisis Text Line (highly recommend, especially if you’re not in a safe place to discuss things on the phone)

Please always protect yourself as best you can and never be afraid to reach out for help—even if you’re just wondering, even if you’re not sure about something.

No safe group or person will EVER be mad at you for being cautious and taking things slow, or for changing your mind at ANY point. You’re the one who gets to decide whether you join or stay with a group, no matter what they threaten or love-bomb you with.

If you’re not safe, there’s help.

If you feel trapped, there’s help.

If people are being actively hurt, good people want to listen, understand, and help.

We all deserve freedom. I’m grateful every morning I wake up that I get to live it now, even though it’s hard and I have a long way to go. Thank you for walking this journey with me, for one brief moment or for years, and helping me—and others like me—not be alone.

Take care, stay safe, and happy fanfiction reading!

[sprinkledsalt]

I was reading a really long essay recently about the sheer incomprehensible scale of violence that happened during World War II, and among other things, it reminded me that this isn’t the worst time to be alive for the general human population. I can very much picture people during WWII thinking it was the end of days, and for millions of people, it was. Up to 60-75 million people died during WWII, and that doesn’t count those who survived injuries, starvation, occupation, bombings, etc. Millions upon millions of people killed or mentally fucked up for the rest of their lives, and this was after the first World War! Imagine the psychological toll of going through two world wars. None of us really can, nor can we comprehend that body count. WWII was so bad that, just in terms of numbers regarding the death count, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a drop in the bucket. Even the Holocaust didn't make up the majority of the death count, despite killing an insanely high amount of people at an insanely fast pace. It's hard to quantify the worst events in human history, but WWII has to be up there.

Obviously, a shit ton of scholarship has been written on the long-term effects of WWII both on individual societies and the world as a whole, so it's not like the war ended and then everything was fine and dandy, but the fact that human society continued to exist after that at all, and even thrive in some cases, is insane. It's just something to keep in mind as you're inundated with a constant stream of "nothing will ever get better" posts from people clinical depression posting on main. Things were so, so, so much worse not even 100 years ago.

[pagecommando]

The thing that I keep coming back to as regards WWI and WWII is that not only are they mostly (Flawed) democracies going head to head with (Worse) and aggressive authoritarian forces and winning, you can see authoritarians cynically boosting more authoritarianism to prolong the war with drastic down-the road effects. And EVEN THEN the less bad guys won because it turns out liberal democracies are pretty damn good at training, supply chains, and industrial production vs having "the Warrior spirit" and getting really into autarky and warlord style looting in the 19fucking 40s. (Germany allowing Lenin back into Russia in the hopes he'd take it out of the war. THAT SURE WORKED WELL) It's that in a lot of ways they're a single conflict separated by a generation to enable another tranche of draftees and soldiers to be born. This isn't to say there weren't other causes or that WWII was ABSOLUTELY inevitable... but World War I didn't 'end' in 1919. A bunch of shit wasn't solved.

If the US Civil War and Franco Prussian war are 'previews' of industrial war... the end of WWI looks a LOT like what the early part of WWII looked like. Tactical and strategic air power, tanks, mechanized forces, aerial resupply, coordinated mixed-arms offensives... And the kind of populism and bigotry that drove WWII fascism and imperialism was birthed before WWI and during WWI as well. (the political technology is worth paying attention to as well)

The Great War channel is reasonable pop history that goes in depth, and the creators did another entire channel discussing the wars between the wars. (all kinds of shit around the world that just kept on going) It's worth a watch and has some great cultural and political content. It's not just "MUH DAD WAR STUFF"

The Great War

The Great War covers the era of the First World War from its causes and origins to its violent aftermath. Jesse Alexander covers the importa

[trickstarbrave]

i drew such beautifullllllll abs. and theyre being covered up by my self insert. so sad

[tractorfrog]

Daniel Molloy really is the character ever, huh. Like. Youre a twenty something reporter, coked out of your mind without a dollar to your name who stumbles across flesh and blood vampires in the middle of a gay bar. Instead of shitting yourself immediately and running away, you decide to keep going with the interview you didn’t actually think would be happening (you thought you were going to hook up bdsm coffin style with the complete stranger in his apartment, that you told no one you were going to, by the way, in peak serial killer 1970’s San Francisco.) You have a SCREAMING match with said vampire about his shitty french ex boyfriend, (clearly a very sensitive topic, he’s just spent the last three hours ranting about him in what you assume is a coke addled breakdown), and get SURPRISED when you’re turned into a living chew toy???!! His very hot boyfriend wrestles him off you, and oh, great, you’re safe now, right? WRONG. SIX DAYS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TORTURE, because apparently your natural charisma is so frustrating to this guy it warrants him rooting around your brain like a pick and mix.

Youre a septuagenarian with Parkinson’s, and you get an email asking you to go BACK to see these dudes again, and you GO. Alright man. Sure. Whatever.

[m00nbig]

It's a heart don't think about the context of this scene just look they make a heart guys don't even think about what Armand's doing it's a–

[rowanclair]

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.