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I am both everything you'd expect and nothing you'd expect | Stream of fandom-ness and art blog | I run another blog for my music

[presentlydean]

online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't think anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

[realgrade]

Kamen Rider Ryuki (2002) - Behind the Scenes

[abracadaze]

i feel so bad for nikola tesla like imagine spending years beefing with a guy who has conned the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and you end up dying broke and starving and alone and then 100 years later another guy cons the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and he's doing it all IN YOUR NAME. he must be rolling in his grave like a fucking rotisserie chicken

[satusepiida]

His ghost is setting those cars on fire actually

[coyotegestalt]

I hadn’t really considered “the agnostic demigod of electromagnetism is the reason Musk’s companies fail” before, but I like the concept. 

[blackwoolncrown]

Let’s help him out. Likes charge, reblogs cast

[unbotheredmuse]

[c-dubel-u]

Shit builds character and patient, lemme tell ya. Especially when you make your own music.

[ultirex]

enough races. which bird emerges victorious in gladiatorial combat

🦆

🦅

🦉

🐓

🦃

🦤

🦚

🦜

🦢

🦩

Voting ended onJan 28, 2023

[c-dubel-u]

We all know the answer already.

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned that the Jeddah Tower, the soon-to-be tallest building in the world, has its construction halted with no end in sight (x)

[sophiemars]

They all started speaking different languages again huh

[c-dubel-u]

Bound to happen, who shot an arrow at the sky this time

[xenosaurus]

Today’s project of the day is a comedy about an arranged marriage between a vampire prince and the daughter of a warlord who turned his whole army into werewolves, with both sets of parents trying to use their child as a spy. One problem with that plan: the kids were secretly childhood friends and have genuine feelings for each other.

To avoid their parents realizing they’re more loyal to each other than the politics behind their impending marriage, they decide to pretend to hate each other.

[xenosaurus]

The daughter is also a werewolf, the whole point of that was to keep the soldiers from turning into vampires (curses cancel each other out) so she’s got it too!

[xenosaurus]

Vampire lineages are maintained through turning children— vampires age and they’re sterile, so they mostly kidnap orphans to keep their families going. Feeding on someone doesn’t ALWAYS make them a vampire, usually it just kills them, but if you keep someone alive and have a vampire feed off them repeatedly they’ll turn eventually.

Adults are turned as well, but that whole ‘thrall to the vampire that bit you’ thing is a rumor, it’s just because most vampires were RAISED by the vampire who bit them.

[xenosaurus]

This is how the main characters know each other— they’re in their 20s now, but when they were little the not-yet-werewolf lived with her grandparents, who owned a butcher shop, while her not-yet-warlord father was off being a soldier, and the not-yet-vampire was an orphan who lived in the same village. The kids used to play together and the not-yet-werewolf stole from the shop to feed her friend.

However, a homeless kid who smells like blood because he’s been lurking around the butcher’s is going to be prime pickings for vampires, and he went missing around age 10.

[xenosaurus]

They’re around 23 when they’re introduced for the “first time” as part of peace talks and the amount of effort they have to put into not just tackling each other is unreal. They missed each other! The werewolf thought he was dead! When they do finally get a moment alone they have a big dramatic hug and there is significant happy crying.

[xenosaurus]

Personalities, public and private!

The vampire does a great job of playing the aloof, intimidating prince, but he just has a really good poker face. He’s screaming internally at all times. When you take the mask off, he’s really something of a drama queen, extremely emotional and passionate. He’s wary of revealing his true personality to the court, because he’s honestly pretty afraid of his sire, and a lot of the comedy comes from the drastically different impressions his staff and retainers have of him.

The werewolf, on the other hand, is rowdy. She plays up the wolf thing to cover for the fact that she’s always been very take charge and opinionated, often to the point of outright rudeness. She’s a pushy sort of affectionate, the type who will happily fight your battles for you. However, because she’s a young woman being ‘sacrificed’ to vampires, a lot of her father’s soldiers are very protective of her, and she’s not above playing the innocent virgin or shy, weepy lady if it benefits her.

[xenosaurus]

The vampire prince’s name is Ambroz the third, according to the court. His real name is Walter (Walt for short) but he’s supposed to take his sire’s name, it’s a royalty thing, and nobody was going to take “prince of the night, Walter” seriously anyways.

The werewolf’s name is Zelda, and it has always been Zelda!

[xenosaurus]

Some other Comedy Bits:

—The werewolf guards being useless the days around the full moon and various characters being able to get away with wild shit because the guards are play fighting or got restless and started running laps

—Ambroz has a young attendant who completely buys into his mysterious edgelord act and thinks he’s the coolest thing ever, this kid can’t decide if he’s crushing on Ambroz or wants to BE Ambroz.

—on the other end of things, Ambroz’s maid has had him figured out ever since he moved into the castle and serves as an extremely exasperated older sister. Ambroz, stop crying, sir, I will help you find your shoes. Yes I know your sire will be furious if you lost them. You are a grown man, sir.

—Zelda is DEFINITELY not a virgin but regularly plays at not understanding extremely basic sexual concepts to keep people from figuring out she’s thoroughly deflowered her fiancé

—Zelda’s best friend is constantly trying to find herself a goth gf lady vampire and is very much not a werewolf so she keeps nearly getting turned instead

[doona-baes]

[c-dubel-u]

[cc-2020]

sw would have been so much shorter if one clone decided to murder palpatine in his office because. who are they gonna arrest. sadly the suspect looks like 1000+ other men and all of them forgot what they did last friday night

[cc-2020]

alternatively

clone #1, looking at the security cam footage: oh yeah that’s totally me

clone #2: no way look at this handsome face. that’s me

clone #3: you weren’t even on coruscant during that time

clone #2: that’s my cover

clone #4: shut it everybody i stabbed him

clone #1, furiously pointing at the footage: he wasn’t stabbed you shithead, he got shot!

clone #4: yeah with my knife

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

One of the Clones eagerly suggests a DNA test to prove he’s guilty and the people investigating die inside. 

[c-dubel-u]

Anakin decides to head the investigation with Rex as they are both invested in the outcome of the case (Anakin wants justice for Palpatine’s murder as the Senator was taking interest in Anakin’s well being and growth / Rex believes one of his men could’ve done it but needed help from the Bad Batch to pull of the attack.)

[toastbutteregg]

[lokiedokiee]

It’s midnight and I’m trying to be quiet bc I can’t stop laughing at this post. It’s been about ten minutes now. Send help.

[c-dubel-u]

pov: you’re watching the wall shake but the eyes pull left making you realize it’s not a quake…the building is sinking

[mr-entj]

A student once asked anthropologist Margaret Mead, “What is the earliest sign of civilization?” The student expected her to say a clay pot, a grinding stone, or maybe a weapon. Margaret Mead thought for a moment, then she said, “A healed femur.” A femur is the longest bone in the body, linking hip to knee. In societies without the benefits of modern medicine, it takes about six weeks of rest for a fractured femur to heal. A healed femur shows that someone cared for the injured person, did their hunting and gathering, stayed with them, and offered physical protection and human companionship until the injury could mend. Mead explained that where the law of the jungle—the survival of the fittest—rules, no healed femurs are found. The first sign of civilization is compassion, seen in a healed femur.

— Ira Byock, The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life (x)

[capstellium]

[ancientstone]

Fun fact! This is a Dmanisi skull from Georgia, another type of hominin to us. 

Notice that jaw? When we lose our teeth, over time our jawbone heals the gaps, making it smooth, so when archaeologists discover skulls centuries later they can tell whether the tooth was lost after death (as the bone didn’t grow to cover the hole) or during the individual’s life.

The majority of this jaw has healed, so this person would have lived a number of years with basically no teeth. The age of this skull, according to wiki, is 1.8 million years.

This means that millions of years ago this person had a diet with soft, easy foods, and that others in the group would have known, understood, and helped by specialising their foraging for this one individual.

Or, in the words of my lecturer when we covered this, “Someone would have had to chew up this person’s food for them. Every day. Multiple times. For years.” 

[c-dubel-u]

Why is it that in our history classes in school, we were not taught of this as progress. Agriculture, Weaponry, Animal Domestication, Disease, and War are talked about endlessly. But Compassion? Fuggin glossed over like it didn’t take human compassion and cooperation to make sure life finds a way.

The number of rulers and innovators with crippling mental and physical disabilities is almost friggin endless. Every last one of them required the ingenuity and medical discoveries of their fellow human beings so that they could live to leave their mark on history. People needed to care about each others well being for a community and civilization to exist in more than a name.

Why the fuck were we instead taught that it was only our curiosity, selfishness, greed, and/or desperation that built us into who we are? Compassion got us this far and humanities collective existence is prove of it.

[natalieironside]

If u want to write a story about a character that's just you but hotter with a dark twisted backstory and magical powers and a pet falcon or something, I think u should just go ahead and do that. Who's gonna stop you? The government?? Fuck the police.

[charlon-lumi]

What if someone barges in, points at said character and scream, “Mary Sue!”

[natalieironside]

Tell them to come back with a warrant

[c-dubel-u]

What kind of judge signs that warrant, anyways? The 5th district circuit judge of narrative?

[memewhore]

[lovedeven]

“There’s got to be another way to feel happy.”

“So it’s Fourth of July 2011, I’ve been sober for a while, so I thought I’d celebrate. With a beer. I woke up three days later in an alley. […] That was the day I truly accepted that I can’t have alcohol or drugs, ever. Not a beer, not a glass of wine, […] so I kind of get where you’re coming from. There’s something I want that I can’t have for the rest of my life. And there’s something you don’t want that you have to have for the rest of yours.”

[germsauce]

Not to kill your fun or anything my dude but I noticed you reblogged a picture of some place in Russia for the aesthetic and I just.... Do you even know what goes on in Russia? I try to stay away from reblogging anything about it and you should too....

im russian

[mostlygibberish]

[shaaknaa]

We’ve been cancelling Russia since the 50’s

[pyrrhiccomedy]

this bear? cancelled

this mountain? fucking cancelled

FUCK this lake

some people born hundreds of years after this thing was built suck shit so this building is now cancelled

MOSCOW? do you know who LIVES in Moscow?? like a lot of people actually, but also some bad people so NO PICTURES OF MOSCOW

COOL BUT CANCELLED. What happens in that building?? CORRUPTION probably, I don’t know, I didn’t look up what it was, but I know it’s in RUSSIA and we all know what HAPPENS IN RUSSIA

this SERENE yet ALIEN LANDSCAPE has been declared PROBLEMATIC

oh, do you like this?? do you find it…. ….””aesthetic””??? apparently you don’t know that Faberge eggs were popularized by Tsar Alexander III, who REVERSED MANY OF THE LIBERAL REFORMS OF HIS FATHER and can eat shit in general. that’s right Russia, I’m pulling receipts from 1885.

CANCELLED

[grumpyfaceurn]

#people paid real world money for this website#so beautiful#single tear

[c-dubel-u]

This gives me so much life.

[lesbianshepard]

I would be the worst spy of all time because on one hand I overshare like hell, but on the other hand I also have THE shittiest memory so it’s really a lose/lose scenario for everyone involved.

[lesbianshepard]

guy interrogating me: What’s the passcode?

me: Ah fuck. I think it might be 792.....4?

me: Actually no I think it starts with a 2.

me:

me: Yeah I usually just rely on muscle memory for it. Do you think you could get a keypad in here? That might be faster.

[lesbianshepard]

guy interrogating me: who do you work for?!

me: Okay, so this is super embarrassing. I know he told me his name when we first met but I forgot and at this point it would be weird if I asked him for his name again, right? So I just kind of go with “sir” whenever I have to talk to him. It might be David though. He looks like a David.

[lesbianshepard]

me, after being extracted: bad news guys, I totally blew Dave’s cover.

my boss: Wait, what?

me: Yeah, like they had knives and shit and it was kind of stressful so I just told them that my contact’s name was David Johnson. Really sorry about that.

boss: We don’t have a David Johnson working for us. Are you thinking of James?

me: 

me: Good news, guys, I did not blow James’ cover!

[lesbianshepard]

Enemy 1: So, how did the interrogation go?

Enemy 2: We got nothing. All they did was ramble on about their childhood trauma for two hours.

Enemy 1: Hmm. maybe lower the dose of the truth serum next time.

Enemy 2: We didn’t use truth serum.

[itsclydebitches]

#ourgeneration horror stories

They find a book written in Latin… one guy doesn’t take Latin and doesn’t want to mess up the pronunciation. The girl is studying Mandarin. Another guy recommends sticking it into Google Translate but that’s likely to land them with gibberish. They leave it alone.

The car won’t start. They call an Uber.

The vampire captures the girl and insists that she wears the gown to dinner. The gown is actually hella cute. Only problem is it’s not in her size. Oh, it only comes in 2’s and 4’s? Sorry, vamp, you want me in that dress you contact the goddamn company and tell them to get their shit together.

“How did you possibly know that? It saved our lives!” “I’ve got two degrees and I spend way too much time on Wikipedia.”

They encounter a spirit that gains power the more people believe in it. One girl makes a vine and uploads with, “fakest ghost ever!!! Right??” Twenty minutes later the spirit is destroyed.

The circus is in town tonight. Except she’s lived her whole life here and the circus has never come before… it’s also in a pretty sketchy part of town, not somewhere you’d want to walk alone at night. She goes to a movie instead.

“You’d need an ARMY to fight this evil!” “Okay. I’ve got 20,000 followers, lets see how many can make it.”

The Evil Whispery Voice of Doom tells the jock that it’s going to kill his pretty blonde girlfriend. The jock gets offended because, excuse me, Cindy and I are just friends. However, Marty over there is my boyfriend and I’m not saying you should kill him, just stop making assumptions yeah?

“This spirit tried to convince me it was Jerry when it texted but its texting style is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT so yeah that didn’t work.”

We could have easily gotten lost and ended up at some creepy cabin in the woods, but luckily we all had functioning GPSs. Beach party, we’ve arrived!

“We have to find a way to destroy it! We—what are you doing?” “Looking up ‘exorcising demons’ on Google. Oh look, first hit.”

The child she bares will be the devil’s spawn. Good thing she doesn’t want kids. Or if she changes her mind she can always adopt.

“How can we possibly outwit this serial killer…” “… There’s gotta be an app for that. Lemme look.”

Only the virgin will survive… Turns out they’re all virgins. One is asexual. One wants to wait until marriage. Two just haven’t found the right person yet. One is meh about sex. So we all survive, yeah?

The girl does not fall. She was on varsity track.

“Quick! We need someplace to hide the artifact. And then decoys to confuse the beast! What have we got?” “… I’ve got a hundred plastic bags stuffed into another plastic bag.” “PERFECT.” 

[campercas-deactivated20150517]

i would pay to read a book of a collection of modern horror stories

[deactivated-this-account-deacti]

They’re trapped in a haunted cabin one of them inherited from a Weird UncleTM. Mysterious figures, things going flying, screams and drumbeats and chanting, blood pouring down the walls, the whole bit. They pull out the Ouija Board. “BRO, WHAT IS YOUR DEAL?” S…A…C…R…E…D…L…A…N…D “Oh.” “Oh geez. Oh no. This is Native American land. Oh goodness I am SO sorry.” “Um so, like I inherited this property and a couple acres, can I like…donate it?” W…H…A…T “Yeah man like, what tribe are you? I don’t want to live here, this cabin is grody and Uncle Tim was a fuckin’ weirdo. It’s your guys’ land, just like, what tribe?” C..H…U…M…A…S…H “Cool. Uh, I guess we’ll…call them…in the morning?” T…H…A…N…K…Y…O…U GOODBYE “Oh. Well fuck, like, that was easy.”