Landscape of Thorns

This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. This place is a message and part of a system of messages.

[tacofriendss]

Normalize toys during sex. Roll that hot wheels over them titties. Skurt.🏎

[catgirlforeskin]

Car dependency is so deeply engrained in the United States that we don’t dare to imagine rolling a z-scale Amtrak ALC-42 over them titties. Choo. 🚊

[dogmouthhorse]

[thathousekilledmasterchauncy-de]

[baddywronglegs]

I've asked this question before and been surprised by the results, now I have access to more weirdos it's your problem:

It is the middle of a Sunday afternoon. You have nothing on, and aren't expecting visitors, deliveries or post.

Unexpectedly, there is a knock at the door.

Which of these would surprise you more to find on the doorstep?

Fairy

Walrus

Voting ended onFeb 26, 2024

[baddywronglegs]

Not naming options to skew votes but...

I think there's something fundamentally baffling with the way most of you think.

[formlesschromatic]

[mothnem]

Upon reading again what OP the most glorious baddywronglegs said in their reblog, I assume they live in an area where it would not be unusual to see a walrus. But you see, this is an example of Bias, as OP has forgotten most of the world does not live in an area where there is ready access to walruses.

[lizluvscupcakes]

whereas, most places probably have people who, when faced with revelations that would otherwise be earth-shattering (in this case, that fairies are real), would simply shrug their shoulders and say out loud to themselves, “yeah, okay, this may as well happen, I’ll go ahead and incorporate this into the way I view the world now.”

[dandelionbitch]

Fairy at my door: I don’t understand a single thing about this situation

Walrus at my door: I understand SEVERAL things about this situation and that’s why I am concerned

[baddywronglegs]

To clarify a point: I live about as far inland and uphill as anyone has tried building a city in the UK and when one wild walrus made land at the opposite end of the country it was national news

I'm not sure I've ever seen a walrus in the flesh, even in a zoo

But I'm absolutely certain I haven't seen a fairy in the flesh

[baddywronglegs]

Happy birthday to this absolute shitshow of a question.

[sweetoothgirl]

Black Sesame Milk

[prrb]

[cryptotheism]

Me: [closes my eyes for 20 seconds and opens them] "I just fought in the Atlantean Lemurian hyperwar for ten billion years

friend in the passenger seat: pull over right now

[wearemercs]

Varganna, Sentinel of the Forgotten Ruins by Frederick Francis (FF69)

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

tumblr staff finding out their site has crowdsourced a viral song, only to discover it is 100% unusable in any corporate marketing scenario

[chaser]

Australian music industry: "God we wish local music was more popular"

Monkey paw: *curls*

[decimera]

For those unsure what's being referenced:

[echojulietfoxtrot]

This went down a fucking storm in a bar on Saturday btw

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

> be tumblr

> accidentally meme your way into creating a hit song made entirely out of slurs

> song gets banned from the dance charts right as its about to chart

> every gay bar in the country immediately adds it to their playlist in protest

Sometimes using this site is like accidentally rolling your car off a cliff only for it to somehow do a flip and land directly on top of Hitler

[freakinggeekazoid]

[atopfourthwall]

[prussianmemes]

got dam, respect... glory to the dprk...

[catgirlfingies]

This is so accurate

[thydungeongal]

In the Middled-earth straight Tolkien it.

[transcyberism]

and by "it", haha well, let's justr say. my precious

[crippled-peeper]

having sex with your friends is so very normal please stop poisoning the youths minds with shame surrounding hooking up with your friends. especially if you’re gay

[crippled-peeper]

people are so fucking mad in the notes that adults have sex with each other and aren’t married sometimes. yall are carbon copies of your conservative parents and you’re so proud of it. ewwww

[crippled-peeper]

calling the sex I have with my friends “hookup culture” is insulting and incorrect. these are guys who take care of me and take me on dates and watch fun movies with me. being a disabled faggot too, they help me clean my place and take my trash out for me. they care for me and are on my emergency contact lists. trying to slap the label of “todays hookup culture!!!” on it is diminishing and devaluing those relationships

secondly, gay and bi men have been fucking all their friends and cruising and hooking up with total strangers since LLOOONGGGG before you were born and will continue doing so LLOOONGGG after you die. it’s never been a trend or a fad for us. It’s just a way of life for some of us and you aren’t going to change that by being disgusted by it

[crippled-peeper]

this tag has me in stitches

[labelleizzy]

[bameme]

I am so happy I live in a western democracy, if I speak out about my boss I have to find a new job if I speak out about my landlord I have to find a new home if I speak out online I will be muted or banned I can buy 40 brands of breakfast cereal all owned by three different companies if I protest in the street I will be arrested this is the best

[spacehunter-m]

[official-venom-snake]

*ascending slide whistle*

*descending slide whistle*

*several xylophone notes*

*wet “splat” noise*

“There!”

[mrchristmass1]

звуки секса с моей неудачной женой

[iamoutofideas]

[plant-based-person]

had a fascinating english class that resulted in the notes header “the forcefeminization of victor frankenstein”

[plant-based-person]

what the people want, the people get

you see

my professor’s take is that mary shelley is feminizing victor throughout the novel, as a way of flipping gender roles and putting a male character through female experiences.

evidence as explained:

victor is creating life. he is putting his health at risk (spends two years with little sleep or socialization) to bring life forth into this world

his illness after he is shocked by the creature coming to life is akin to both ‘hysteria’ and postpartum depression

he pretty much swoons, let’s be honest

henry clerval, a man who has been characterized as manly and heroic, has to chase after damsel-in-distress victor and care for him as he convalesces 

afterward, he hides what he did and went through, for fear that others will label him crazy and emotional and not believe him. sound familiar?

Victor in general is more emotional than the other characters and is constantly tempering his reactions to not be seen as irrational 

the book does not otherwise have central female characters 

Also, Shelley’s mother died in childbirth. It’s interesting, then, that Shelley presents the creation of life as something horrific and damaging. She parallels Victor with her mother.

in conclusion, Frankenstein (1818) by Mary  Wollstonecraft Shelley is one of the first examples of mpreg in English literature 

[tamilhobbit]

I was not expecting that last line.

[quasi-normalcy]

I don't trust anyone who hasn't acknowledged their capacity for evil.

[quasi-normalcy]

"I'm just a smol bean uwu" No sir, what you are is someone who is so habituated to thinking of yourself as innocent that you will continue to do so even when you're guilty.

[thepictureofmadamec]

To quote Chris Fleming

"You know that thing where the most toxic person you've ever met over-relates to woodland creatures on social media? I call it Vibe Dysphoria. She'll put up a picture of a mouse in a jean jacket with 'It's me.' That is not you. I don't know how you got under the impression that you are a mouse in a jean jacket. You are an eel with a gun.She posts a toad with a basket of mushrooms like 'Me doing my little things.' Oh madam, there is nothing little about your things. You gave me psychosexual issues I'll carry to my watery grave. You are not a toad in the forest...You are a cruel woman who just happens to be small."--Chris Fleming

[paulgadzikowski]

It’s like the Dumbo story, you’ve all probably seen it