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Zabani I am an on your side, the misogyny and favoritism towards the first son is absolutely disgraceful. Wish you weren’t on the side of evil and authoritarian theocracy but I feel you girl.

#cr spoilers #critical role #'wait you mean the religion we invented about how we are the only arbiters of truth is....unfair?#it's not exactly 'leopards eating my face' cause she had no reason to believe this would backfire on her #but like....baby....you can't surround yourself with terrible people and be surprised when they're terrible to you #'but they're only going to be unfair to OTHER people.' sure jan.

Honestly it says a lot about Delilah's chronic protagonist syndrome that she thought a flower that undoes DIVINE CURSES would stop her husband from being a vampire.

Honey, he is not cursed. He is dead. He is a corpse. You shot him full of immortal lich magic and his love for you was among the decayed synapses that still kinda work, but he is still dead. The vampirism is the best compromise and it's fading because, again, he is dead and he's only getting deader. There was never gonna be a world where you get your husband back! He's dead! He's been dead this whole time! This is an ex-person!

This is a world where everything dies. Gods die. The thing that eats gods could have died. The current god of the dead is in that position because the previous one died. Dying is the natural fate of all things.

But not to Delilah Briarwood. Clearly, the only reason her love could have died is if someone did that to her. Someone had to have cursed him. The Raven Queen must have cursed humanity. She cannot imagine the idea that bad things happen mundanely, that her husband died because he got sick like any other person and now she's got to deal with that like everyone else who's lost a loved one. No, the existence of death is a personal attack on Delilah Briarwood herself and she must defeat it!

#tlovm #delilah briarwood

If Emily joins a polycue with Charlie and Vaggi, would that make them.... Charlie's Angels?

I think that's their official ship name.

byjove

I love helping everyone rediscover the fact that the opening passage of My Immortal is a parody of the opening passage of The Vampire Lestat and not just a generic exaggeration of the typical fanfic Mary Sue introduction. One of the many delightful goth kid Easter eggs the author planted for the audience.

byjove

let the audience decide…

it was a deliberate nod to the opening passage of The Vampire Lestat (1985)

it was accidental

Remaining time: 5 days 9 hours

headspace-hotel

Seems legit

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we all hear about kudzu being introduced as "erosion control" in the South but I don't think contemporary people understand on a gut level what that means

these are images from a 1930s pamphlet that endorsed kudzu, entitled "stop gullies: save your farm"

It was Bad.

headspace-hotel

Invasive plants need to be understood as part of a much larger cycle of incredible violence against the land.

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For context: erosion on that scale occurred as a result of our clear-cutting entire states. The land east of the Mississippi used to be covered in old-growth forest to an extent that we literally can’t imagine anymore, because most of us have never seen a forest over 100 years old. It turns out if you remove all vegetation from a landscape, you end up with a bunch of loose soil ready to move downstream. A fast-growing plant that covers everything in dense vegetation sounds like salvation when you’re surrounded by 40-foot deep gullies that get wider with every rainstorm.

epicyurian

A lot of the south too was covered in Canebreaks, basically bamboo forests like a lot of South Asia, I don't know the specifics of the ecology, but bamboo being a grass I assume is rhizomatic like other grasses and forms a big net of roots that prevent erosion. *I assume* (pleez ecologists weigh in)

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Yes, the destruction of Canebrakes was a direct cause of this erosion we see here. Canebrakes were destroyed, using slave labor, to make room for cotton plantations. You can read about it here.

Canebrakes built up incredibly rich, fertile soil and are amazing at preventing erosion. They form incredibly strong mats of rhizomes. And their roots are known to go 10 feet deep into the soil.

The erosion we see in these pictures was a result, very much directly, of the Canebrakes being destroyed.

headspace-hotel

This is a case study in how violence against ecosystems goes so closely hand in hand with violence against people. The violence against the indigenous caretakers of the land, and the violence against the enslaved captives that were forced to clear the Rivercane and work the cotton fields that would degrade the soil into nothing.

mwagneto

what the world looks like after a big cup of lemonade

mwagneto

a car swerved to try and hit me while i was typing this ??

mwagneto

imagine i die and the cops pick up my phone and im halfway through making a post about lemonade

wormwoodandhoney

summerween aesthetics: spooky seaside

the vibe: there's something in the water, and the town won't close the beach.

wormwoodandhoney

jaws is the blueprint! if you want nautical horror, this is the place to start. small town and ocean vibes, which are the key combo for this aesthetic.

the meg is a bit more creature feature than i wanted to go- no small town here- but it is one of the more ridiculous movies you can watch. if you want to see just some truly nuts shark action, this is the one.

creature from the black lagoon is another one of the blueprints. i love a water monster, and this one's the original! go ahead and read mallory o'meara's nonfiction book about the female make up artist who created the creature as well.

the lure is polish horror musical retelling of the little mermaid. what more do you need to know?

widow's bay honestly is the perfect example of this aesthetic. small town, creepy seaside, horrors beyond comprehension. truly great.

nancy drew (2019) is a show i admittedly only watched the first season of, but! it has the spooky seaside vibes.

into the drowning deep is THE scary mermaid book. similar to the meg, it's more of a creature feature than a seaside town, but what can you do.

chlorine is one of my favorite Weird Girl horror books, about a teenage swimmer who is determined to become a mermaid. body horror galore.

blood in the water is a middle grade mystery thriller about mysterious watery deaths in martha's vineyard.

dark waters is the third in an all-time great middle grade horror series, and this one features a lake monster.

you will need: a bathing suit and a lightweight jacket to throw over it, a flickering lantern, and an ability to hold your breath.

homunculus-argument

"I learned a lot from making this" is artist talk for "making this sucked ass and I'm not entirely happy with the result."

animelionessmika

^what artistic growth feels like

lithominium

Put your harpy girl in a harness, then attach a big rope to the harness, then take her to the park and fly her like a kite

☝️Probrlem

Whats the problem

how;get down

really fond of humans just from an appearance standpoint. the long legs. the manes of hair that can come in practically any colour and texture. those crazy high-contrast eyes with the white scleras and colourful irises. the fingers being so much longer than the toes. there's a lot to love. solid 10/10 animal species

devotedgossamerreader

hey there just out of curiosity are you not human, too?

crabussy

hilariously enough, I am probably the most human out of anyone on this entire site. earlier today I was posting about getting "species euphoria" from doing human activities like ecosystem management. I'm the worlds first therian to have a kintype that aligns with his biological species. shirt that says "I ❤️ being a sapient omnivorous primate & bipedal persistence predator" on the front and booty shorts that say "largest gluteal muscles to body size ratio on the planet"

egelantier

ohhhh i got what WHA reminds me of! Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic books! craft-based magic, kids live together, learn magic and solve high-but-kid-level-stakes problems with the power of friendship and ingenuity. meanwhile they're minded by gay adults with more complicated problems going on in the background. checks out!

sometiktoksarevalid

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‼️

victusinveritas

God, can you imagine someone from Finland (or wherever) heading to a Midwestern state fair and eating every variety of fried thing imaginable?

lumiklovstad

I can, and arguably I must.

babystarbeam

I always think that sport events, especially international ones, are primarily about fun and cultural exchange and hanging out together; it gets lost sometimes when people pay too much attention to keeping scores, but joy and building bridges should be more important. So glad this seems to be happening right now!

raychleadele

I don’t follow soccer at all so I have no feelings on the World Cup, but I’m loving seeing people discover the US for the first time and finding joy here.

#world cup 2026 #soccer just does that #i remember when korea helped mexico win a game #and the people of mexico city invited the korean ambassador to drink a shot of tequila in thanks #world cup