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| cactus ; non-fandom blog

[noburden]

“In my friend, I find a second self.”

c.s. lewis / my best friend by the coral / alivia horsley / @billypotts / hanya yanagihara / ‘after party ll’ salman toor / the kids aren’t alright by fall out boy / a summer’s tale / lorde / hanya yanagihara / abed and troy (community) with a winnie the pooh quote @weelezzer / isabel norton

[milfsmackdown]

i think jeff bezos should personally deliver every amazon package until he dies of exhaustion and then whoevers doorstep he dies on gets his fortune

[halobats]

this has reduced me to tears

[goodscreencaps]

[solardrake]

* trapdoor to hell opens under you *

[heavensickness]

obsessed. also makes sense when you remember than butterflies drink blood

[heavensickness]

concept: your vampire lover cannot be with you during the daytime, so they follow you in the shape of a butterfly through the day

[contacting-u]

[glowdetails]

CL wearing alexander wang at the met gala 2021

[glowdetails]

apparently, the dress is a reference to the knot on a hanbok, a traditional korean dress and the hair mimics the headpiece worn by queens in korea. but in all denim which is an american clasic. literally so smart.

[ricepisspee]

did you know some toxins can be absorbed through the skin? let that sink in

[the-bone-thief]

Ok

[the-bone-thief]

[pukicho]

Doctor: $140,000 a year

Furry artist on Patreon: $160,000 a year

[trilllizard666]

i think you’re lowballing the furry art amount tbh

[pukicho]

I’m sorry for the inaccuracies, Doctor Yiff

[trilllizard666]

no matter how I respond to this I don’t look good, well played. i walked right into that

[boobachu]

Well, furry artists are typically more competent and courteous than your average doctor, so I can see that.

[pukicho]

Did you just legitimately tell me that a person who draws wolf ass is more competent than a dude who spent 8+ years in a university to give you your lung transplant?

[hieronymus-botch]

doctors are bullshit and furry artists perform an infinitely more valuable service to society compared to them

[pukicho]

You will die in 7 days

[hokuto-ju-no-ken]

It took doctor’s like 10 years to diagnose what was wrong with me, some insisting I was faking for attention while a furry artist I knew just went “that sounds like crohn’s” after hearing me complain once and ended up being right

Also I can’t go to a doctor and ask them to draw Rouge the Bat wider than she is tall with tits to match, now can I

[kolbye]

You could if you weren’t a fucking coward

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[bob-belcher]

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

okay, i’ve gotta ask what the deal is with all these bob’s burgers character blogs that just steal *relateable humor* posts from other twitter/tumblr users, because now they appear to be stealing posts from each other? is it some sort of ad revenue scam like those CGI elsa finger family videos? are they some sort of AI gone rogue, having learned to feed off each other in an infinite loop of Quirky Humor? i need answers here

[sharkfests]

They seem to be a front for a gambling app called Qriket

[archivehead]

I wish we could have normal crimes again

[maykitz]

oh mein gott friedrich zis girl calls herself a "mom friend" but wont even breastfeed us

[maykitz]

you people will reblog anything

[mousetrapreplica]

guy whose pronouns are who/whom/whose

[mousetrapreplica]

“whose pronouns are who/whom/whose?”

“that’s right”

[empathviv]

[oe6]

[la-laborista-republiko]

Cropped boomer memes may be the greatest shit I’ve ever seen

[la-laborista-republiko]

[la-laborista-republiko]

[rottingfacade]

i had a nightmare a few weeks ago that earth was hit by a second extremely powerful carrington event and one of my first thoughts was “oh no how will i talk to my internet friends now”

[rottingfacade]

[airandangels]

[airandangels]

[weaselle]

weasel dog

[prokopetz]

To be fair, changing your mind about where a story’s going based on reader predictions isn’t always bad. Sure, it’s not great if you’re all “oh, no, they figured it out, now I have to change everything because my readers aren’t allowed to be cleverer than me” – but on the other hand, sometimes a reader will be like “okay, here’s the dumbest possible way I can imagine this playing out”, and then their dumbest possible prediction is exactly what you’re planning, and you realise that yeah, now that you’ve seen it laid out by someone who isn’t the voice in your head, that’s actually super dumb.

[prokopetz]

Other variations that don’t just boil down to deliberately frustrating reader expectations include:

Changing the outcome because a reader was like “I really hope this doesn’t happen”, and on consideration you realise that you also hope that doesn’t happen  

Changing the outcome because a reader was thinking further ahead than you are and spotted an implication of a forthcoming plot point that you don’t like the smell of  

Changing the outcome because a reader’s prediction drew your attention to the fact that your planned resolution would have stumbled dick-first into a massive plot hole  

Changing the outcome because a reader picked up on a bunch of blatant foreshadowing and symbolism you didn’t notice you’d put there because your subconscious forgot to send a memo  

Changing the outcome because a reader proposed such an elegant solution to a legitimately thorny narrative problem that it would feel petty not to let them be right  

Changing the outcome because a reader was like “hey, you know what would be really fucked up?” and the bastard gremlin that lives in your brain started smirking like the fucking Grinch

[shock]

someone remind me after work today to write up an obnoxious essay about the invisibility of “recovery” and the special kind of isolation you have once you’re considered “recovered” and how painful it is to be met with contempt and assumed to know nothing because you dare to look at life positively and have grown as a person past being a receptacle for trauma <3