queen of boops

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[ariminiria]

[ariminiria]

[kosmogrl]

[twiggyart6]

I like your idea about Eridian Grace doing involuntary hatchling/pebble things. Any more headcanons for it 👀 plz?

YES !!!! here is grace getting scared and hiding under a workbench!

baby Eridians are tiny and vulnerable, so some of their first instincts are "get under something, your very small and you're gonna get squished or eaten!" when pebbles first hatch they want to get under an adult- usually a parent- but the pebbles don't know how to walk immediately so the parents will walk and stand over them. this is basically how babies and parents' bond. ducklings know the one they follow is mom, and pebbles know the one standing over them keeping them save is mom <(gender-neutral)

So! I think Grace probably has some moments of feeling a bit overwhelmed, maybe in new places or big crowds. it's an intrinsic primal survival instinct, Eridians literally grow out of it when they get big and won't get trampled. the artificial growth of Graces body kinda skipped all that so I think some of the "I am so small and fragile" feelings remain. he might also forget how big he is while really panicked and wedge himself somewhere and get stuck.

and while panicked like this he wouldn't really be able to focus on speech :3 poor guy

[stephanisoejono]

happy new year -------------_--------------------

[calamity-aims]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[bunkey]

notice how everyone is horny today

[bunkey]

[sepublic]

I do think it’s interesting how the novel Dracula is meant to be a modern setting from its perspective. It’s very much that genre of story about an ancient fantasy archetype finding itself in a modern setting, complete with the rules-lawyering that often comes with modern parodies (that isn’t to say the stories of Olde didn’t have fun with loopholes either though).

Except Dracula is a story that plays itself straight. The vampire himself is not stupid. He’s possibly the oldest vampire of all which means he upgraded from animal instinct and mindless echoes of past memories to someone who’s regained his critical thinking skills. The story begins because he’s already adapted to how the modern world works now by hiring a solicitor who understands modern laws.

He knows now that he doesn’t have to march into London with an army like he used to; He can just buy property and the laws of London are forced to respect that. Similarly he’s already experimented in and discovered loopholes to vampire rules and limitations; Vampires are bound by the permission of owners so he simply uses his solicitor to buy and own a bunch of properties. If he needs to be invited in, Dracula hypnotizes someone to let him in.

Vampires need to return to their grave every dusk/dawn (whichever comes sooner), which causes their coffin to act as an anchor that limits how far from it they can travel? Dracula simply rations the earth of his grave into fifty coffins and spreads them across London so his range becomes exponentially larger.

All of these things make the story almost come across as a deconstruction and it might just be! It’s just that Dracula the novel became such a trendsetter that people nowadays see it as playing things fully straight. It almost feels as if the novel is written with the idea that readers have a basic understanding of vampires and their rules, so part of the thrill comes in the revelation of how the titular vampire is working around these rules. Likewise I’ve heard it used to be a trope in English literature for a traveler to visit some foreign land with a monster and escape by going home. But here the foreign aspect of the story is just the first (and final) arc; The monster’s plan hinges on coming to the UK itself!

So yeah. Dracula isn’t stupid and he reflects the idea that people of the past had just as common sense as the rest of us, they just had access to less/inaccurate knowledge and things worked differently back then. Dracula would be like… That bit of someone showing a medieval peasant a meme as they comprehend it perfectly and aren’t even wowed by the Doritos. If Dracula was set in the 21st century he’d probably understand social media well enough to become an influencer if he wanted to, though the issue of being invisible in cameras wouldn’t help.

[lakevida]

sometimes there really is a single load bearing piece of information about a blogger that elucidates everything about their whole deal and recently for me it was learning that someone was from jersey. another time it was a prolonged history of concussions

[thunderglade]

hi tumblr im so sorry i keep forgetting im on here

[brehaaorgana]

wait wait okay I have discovered people visiting the US for the first time and treating Yellow School Bus like a celebrity sighting and this is so pure and great. Yellow School Bus like in the movies is real.

[brehaaorgana]

Love this for them

[brehaaorgana]

This just made me remember I am personally such a huge fan of big yellow school bus that I wore a school bus tote bag I used as a backpack in jr high/high school.

I found photos of the same bag as the one I had:

we should start making a ton of yellow schoolbus merch like how if you go to England half the tourist souvenirs are a double decker red bus or a red phone booth.

[okthatsgreat]

why are scissors packaged the way they are it’s like they’re taunting us. Oh wow this is such a difficult awful packaging to get through that seems to cause physical damage to your hands as some sort of sick self defense mechanic, if only i had something to help get through it, something sharp perhaps

[okthatsgreat]

what sort of sick twisted game is it trying to play here

[okthatsgreat]

LEAVE ME ALONE

[shitpostenj0yer]

I’ve been going on Instagram and seeing the most magical thing. Europeans experiencing America for the first time.

Scotland took over Boston.

Japan is experiencing rodeos.

Brazil is flooding the New York subway system.

Ranch is being devoured.

Religious experiences are being had in Chili’s.

Costco is blowing peoples minds.

The absolute magnitude of our country is being realized.

Air conditioners are godsends.

The real magic though? People are experiencing people and sharing their love for their community. Yes, our country has many problems, but I’ve always believed in the overall goodness in people, and I’m seeing it! In real time! People are sharing good food, directing them to beautiful places, and just over all being welcoming and kind!

I want to go to the closest hosting city and experience this in person because it’s amazing and wonderful and just so so beautiful!

[burgerdotcom]

reblogs were off

[graveyarrdshift]

"I'm just a girl", "girl math", "girl dinner", "divine feminine energy", "bimbocore", "clean girl", "girl's girl", "girlfriend brain" SHUT UPPP!!! SHUTT THE FUCKKKK UPPPPPP !!!!

[wandering-jana]

Karlskirche, a Baroque and Rococo masterpiece finished in 1737.

Vienna, Austria

Feb. 2023

[sibyllance]

Apparently someone got their car stuck on the light rail tracks at Mt. Baker. For those unfamiliar this is 35 feet up in the air

[officialboredom]

First test flight of a flying car by Mazda partially a success

[tuulikki]

I feel like the Arizona license plate should take some place in our analysis of whatever in the goddam fuck we’re looking at here

[weirdstrangeandawful]

Much like Springfield before it, Seattle is one of the few major cities in the world with a monorail. That, combined with a more conventional light rail system, makes Seattle the rare U.S. city with two different types of train for public transportation. On Tuesday night, the rail system briefly had a third: a Mazda CX-5.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a71483251/mazda-driver-seattle-pulls-into-elevated-train-station-on-tracks/

[nicky999doors]

[arizonaconservativegal]

Excuse you, that is a Utah plate. Arizona drivers are shit but when we drive on light rail tracks, they're at ground level.

[emmaubler]

No matter how bad a driver you think you are, feel comforted that you are probably not "Get on light rail tracks and drive 35 feet up to the elevated station" bad.