Highway to utopia

tumblr dinosaur. quite literally. why am I still awake? may I have some coffee? Unhealthy obsessions with: history. dark things. art. anime/manga. games. sci-fi. pterosaurs, don't forget the pterosaurs.

[blood-and-pepper]

If you find yourself struggling through the labyrinth that is my blog, try the following:

#the happy tag : the feel-good-tag

#thing of beauty: aesthetics of a wide variety

#details of being human: the tag that restores your faith in humanity

#welcome to dystopia : the tag that demolishes said faith

#blasphemy done right : the tag devoid of faith, aka the tag of the Antichrist

#aber hallo : the German tag

#mais oui: the French tag

#mother freaking nature: SCIENCE

#the ancient historian in me says fuck yeah : ancient Greece and Rome escapades

#awesome fanart is awesome: self explanatory. The fandom realm.

Wanna leave this God forsaken place? Try my AO3:

https://archiveofourown.org/users/bloodandpepper/works

[nataliehall]

Brother eww

[philosophybits]

“People try to get away from it all — to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too. Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like. By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful — more free of interruptions — than your own soul. Especially if you have other things to rely on. An instant’s recollection and there it is: complete tranquility.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (4.3)

[paleo-bug]

[elbiotipo]

"warm, shallow seas" is one of the most beautiful phrases in paleontology and it's everywhere... these mollusks lived in warm, shallow seas... scientists think that photosynthetic life evolved in warm, shallow seas... in that era the Earth was covered by warm, shallow seas...

I wish I was resting by an antediluvian warm, shallow sea

[futuremoji]

Your least most recent emoji predicts how your summer will end

[thewittyphantom]

[grenade-maid]

Whenever I see someone refer to "Victorian era-" for places outside the UK I'm tempted to start saying shit like "Han Dynasty era Rome", "Soviet era Australia" etc

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

“Welcome to Soviet America, home of the McDonalds and Cocaine Cola. Long live Comrade Reagan.”

[olivia-online]

The Civil War, or as I like to call it, Late Tokugawa Period America

[melonisopod]

I know this is a joke but this helps me put a lot of historical periods into perspective.

[computationalcalculator]

"cowboys were a sort of itinerant warrior class common in meiji-era texas"

[pusong-mangga]

[animals-with-fan-art]

This counts as fan art

[cherrydj-l]

those shapeshifters…

[chryza]

Debating silently showing this to one of the flight attendants while boarding

[chryza]

I SHOWED IT TO MY FLIGHT ATTENDANT WHEN HE GAVE ME MY COOKIES AND HE LAUGHED SO HARD HE TOOK MY PHONE TO SHOW IT TO THE OTHER FLIGHT ATTENDANT

[bippysaurus-rex]

I don’t know how you got a good grade in being a passenger on an airline but that’s a totally normal thing to achieve and I’m not seething with jealousy at all.

[theprofessional-amateur]

Quilt guild president: the summer quilt challenge. As you know it is the 250th anniversary-

Guild: -chilly silence-

President: so the challenge to you all is a quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current “democracy”

Guild: 👏👏👏

President: I know this bunch. I am sure you will come up with something spectacular, and it will probably get angrier as the summer progresses. Full quilt, mini quilt. Go wild, release some emotions.

[theprofessional-amateur]

How I spent my July 4th.

Appliqué almost done. Then onward to the background stitching

[theprofessional-amateur]

At the start I thought stitching “fuck you I won’t do what you tell me” for the last quarter would be therapeutic

I was correct.

Close to finishing the top. Now I gotta figure out how I want to quilt it.

[theprofessional-amateur]

I have one more line of embroidery and I think it needs to be bolder and messier than I started it.

Hard to tell in this light, and without ironing it, that the embroidery does get gradually bolder as it goes. Two strands at the top versus 5 at the bottom (6 for the started to be redone final line).

Not bad for first time doing appliqué.

Still need to decide how I want to quilt it.

[theprofessional-amateur]

@queerasaurolophus thank you for this. It is exactly what I was going for 💜

#!!!! hooooly shit!!!!!!#I love how the spacing also makes ‘hear the people’ into its own imperative#also. hoooly shit holy shit holy shit the combination of these songs is actually making me fucking feral#‘singing the songs of angry men//it is the music of a people who will not be slaves again’ YES YES IT FUCKING IS#ahhhhhh i’m feeling so many emotions right now

I finished the embroidery and gave it a quick press

[milf--adjacent]

Let the historical record show that Mr. Beast was entirely ignorable if you were just like doing literally anything else. I've been on youtube as long as it's been around and I've never been recommended a video by him. I see him in passing as a meme. I thought he was a made up joke, a caricature of bad youtuber content miners until someone I trust confirmed his existence to me in late 2025.

[punkrorschach]

rapid fire things i learned about my boyfriend this morning.

he has never seen disney's the little mermaid

he thought the song Poor Unfortunate Souls was from phantom of the opera

he has never seen phantom of the opera

he thought disney made phantom of the opera

he thought phantom of the opera was animated

"i couldve sworn i saw an animated hunchback"

...wait do you mean the hunchback of notre dame

he thought phantom of the opera was the hunchback of notre dame

[detectivehole]

unless its egregious, i'm not embarrassed to be fooled by ai. "oh i got lied to via something made by the Lying Machine the machine we made to Lie really well" like it's gonna happen it's no egg on your face. just be chill about it

[detectivehole]

don't get me wrong. it's always devastating always humbling. no one wants to fall for the lying machine it just sounds bad. but you can't dwell

[mr-leach]

I hope that the artists and animators who make bait-y phone game ads are bricked up while making them; I hope they're into the niche fetishes they're always depicting. Otherwise what a terrible fate to have to resign to. Like it's not like you can put that shit on your resume even if you wanted to. You're not signing on your next gig with that in your portfolio. At least I know for sure the NSFW artists on vgen are having a blast drawing vtubers' feet. It's depressing to think that these artists are animating cartoon ladies inhaling fart clouds into mobile ads and they're not even horny about it. Sad stuff.

[kazieka]

was outside earlier and a bird Came Up, squatted down, fluttered it’s wings at me and opened its mouth like a hatchling begging for food (it was a grown female) so I went and checked the seed cube in the feeder and the thing was completely covered in mold. this is one of the weirdest things that’s ever happened to me. how did she know im the one in charge of the birdseed. How Did She Know To Pantomime Hunger At Me. Hello.

[kazieka]

i have spent my afternoon confusedly getting dressed, driving to the store, purchasing a new seed block, driving home, washing the cage, and getting the feeder set back up. i don’t take this much care for my Own nutrition. ive been bullied into a grocery store run by a tufted titmouse. i feel so loved