Dancing Crystals

Writing, glass work, fandom, and life

[kinavu]

Bro. Just found out that death valley is a real actual place in america. what the fuck. I thought they made that up for the fall out boy song

[kinavu]

Been listening to this song for 10 years man i thought they were just being edgy

[kinavu]

Enjoyment of song severely gone down since finding out that death valley is Not in fact a strange mythical land full of nihilistic emos having sex all the time or smth and is actually a real place that is 1 day and some hours away by flight and would cost around ₹89k to reach :(

[kinavu]

This is so fucked up.

[tanoraqui]

Ironically, America does ALSO include a “strange mythical [desert] land full of nihilistic emos having sex”; it’s just that instead of “all the time” it’s a week-long annual festival called Burning Man which takes place every late August/early September in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada (the state next to the state where Death Valley is). Yes, of COURSE the name comes from the giant humanoid effigy that they burn every year, amidst taking a lot of drugs and having a lot of sex.

[movalise]

[dancing-crystals]

It is so funny to me how most people in Dead Boy Detectives are just “let me tell you about my backstory.”

Edwin repeatedly brings up Hell, like he wants to add “so there, nyah” but he’s too proper. Charles says Edwin has told him loads of stories about his time there too.

Tragic “I was once a mighty walrus” Mick.

Esther tells teenage kids currently foiling her plans that she made a deal with a primordial goddess. Also, the snake thing. She doesn’t question how Crystal learned about Esther’s cheating husband—how well known is that story?

Nico tells someone she just met about her dad dying, dropping out of school, not being able to read her mother’s letters.

Crystal doesn’t even remember her past, but she’ll vent about her asshole ex-boyfriend and getting out of a bad relationship with her landlord she’s known for a day.

She’s using the “treat my trauma like a joke so I don’t have to actually deal” method, but Jenny does bring up her alcoholic father.

Aisha the gift shop owner only has a few minutes of screen time but still manages to mention she does acid and paints primordial goddesses.

The three most secretive people are Monty (and you know he’d be chattering about his actual past instead of his made up one if he could), the Cat King, and Charles.

Which is even funnier, because Cat King and Charles are so alike here! They are both saying “look at me, pay attention to me, no not like that.” And they would absolutely hate having that in common.

[herpsandbirds]

[sarkywoman]

The real conflict in Smallville isn’t Clark vs Lex, it’s Lex vs the Narrative.

I’m not even being pithy here. We have a character that is Going To Become Evil. That is the information we have going in. Then he shows up episode one, he’s kind and hurting and being emotionally abused by his father and the whole town hates him and he keeps trying.

But he can’t win, because the pitch that got the show made depends on him Becoming Evil. It externalises the evil as something that happens to him, rather than the Lexes in other media who often start out as arseholes who only get worse. This Lex could have been good, but he’s not allowed. The narrative says from the get-go, without subtlety because subtlety is not Smallville’s strong point, ‘there’s darkness in him’. And then it shows us a kind and intelligent man trying to escape from his father’s control and says ‘that guy, there. Don’t you see it? He’s going to destroy everything. Why? Oh, because he’s Lex Luthor. The narrative requires it.’ And that's the fucking tragedy.

[ficmylife4]

And part of the tragedy is so many almost-moments where you wonder if Clark could have helped him. On the brink of sharing his secret, of speaking openly with Lex, of showing someone believed in him and Lex wasn't defined or doomed to be like his father - on the brink, and then turns aside. Superman's Narrative keeps his secret, and though Clark sees the good in this young Lex he has just enough doubt or hesitation that he doesn't commit to trusting Lex, and Lex can see it. And Lex of Smallville, who does want to help, who wants to be worthy of trust, is pushed further to the end he cannot escape.

[deepspacepirate]

One of my favorite tropes is post apocalyptic towns being named after dilapidated signs with missing letters, like Novac (no vacancy) and Eaden (dead end). There’s something inexplicable about it

[togepipi]

catch me in the city of fre shavaca do

[dancing-crystals]

Post apocalyptic? It’s from Winnie the Pooh! Piglet has an old broken sign by his house, which he says was his grandfather's name: Trespassers W, short for Trespassers Will, short for Trespassers William.

[gabessquishytum]

Maybe I don't want to have to install a vpn in order to have a usable internet experience. Maybe I just want to log in and see online bullshit as god intended.

[theterribletenno]

A 15-year-old boy is about to base his entire personality on the last movie you watched for the next 10 years. HOW BAD IS IT?

He is going to get himself killed. Badly.

He is going to (try to) kill himself

The most obnoxious person in the world has just been born

FURRY (derogatory)

FURRY (normal)

Not much has changed? But now he's stuck like this for 10 years? Yikes.

It's cringe but it could have been a lot worse

At least he'll have fun at Comic Con

If anything this is a slight improvement.

He's not a boy anymore. He's a man now.

She's not a boy anymore. She's a girl now.

FINALLY, a son I can be proud of!

Voting ended onMay 11

[phantomrose96]

“Cook at home to save money” sounds all well and good until you get a little too into it and suddenly you’re bookmarking recipes that call for The Preserved Grace of God and that shit is $13 at the specialty store

[muffinlance]

Budget cooking tip! The Preserved Grace of God can frequently be substituted with whole milk. Not epistemologically but like. Practically. Because that recipe wasn't traditionally made with the Preserved Grace of God that's just what the bored trad wife blogger put in to make it different from the Allrecipes version she copied.

(Grandma's Spite is the traditional ingredient but again. Whole milk or sour cream usually works; check the desired end texture.)

[passerinethehallway]

peer reviewing these tags in particular because REALLY what have we become??? what are we scared of??? a cracked top on our cheesecakes?? literally just blend some fruit and sugar and boom you have something to hide the crack with. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH FOOD THAT DOES NOT LOOK INSTAGRAM PERFECT. THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT IT TASTES GOOD.

[muffinlance]

And! If you just set it next to the vent on your stove so it cools slowly! IT WON'T EVEN CRACK!

AND IF IT DOES CRACK AND THE PERSON YOU SERVE IT TO COMPLAINS YOU TAKE THEIR CHEESECAKE AND YOU EAT IT AND YOU MAINTAIN EYE CONTACT THE ENTIRE TIME! THEY DON'T DESERVE YOUR CHEESECAKE!

[dancing-crystals]

My period is over!

(Reader, my period was not over.)

[395nm]

Fuck Meyer-Briggs whatever typology. This INTFP shit is only for redditors up their own asses to substitute for a personality. Use my new typology instead!

Your ideal environment is:

Hot/Cold

Wet/Dry

Bright/Dark

Loud/Quiet

[bedupolker]

HWBL - beach boy

HWBQ - tropical fish

HWDL - dingy club bathroom hookup

HWDQ - the swamp woman

HDBL - CoachellaBurningmanSouthbysouthwestACL attendee

HDBQ - Lizard

HDDL - Vegas babeyyyy

HDDQ - Trapped in a slot canyon

CWBL - Rowdy Lobsterman Crew

CWBQ - penguin living

CWDL - port angeles basement show

CWDQ - you have hypothermia

CDBL - ski resort

CDBQ - Christmas in Nebraska

CDDL - mcmurdo station rave

CDDQ - corpse

[thai-gl-polls]

Which is your ideal environment?

HWBL - beach boy

HWBQ - tropical fish

HWDL - dingy club bathroom hookup

HWDQ - the swamp woman

HDBL - CoachellaBurningmanSouthbysouthwestAcl attendee

HDBQ - lizard

HDDL - Vegas babeyyyyy

HDDQ - trapped in a slot canyon

My ideal environment is in the second half

Voting ended onApr 21

[thai-gl-polls]

What is your ideal environment pt2?

CWBL - rowdy lobsterman crew

CWBQ - penguin living

CWDL - port Angeles basement show

CWDQ - you have hypothermia

CDBL - ski resort

CDBQ - Christmas is Nebraska

CDDL - mcmurdo station rave

CDDQ - corpse

My ideal environment is in the first half

Voting ended onApr 21

[dancing-crystals]

The average tumblr user's ideal environment is an autumn afternoon in a temperate zone. Denied this option, the majority default to spoopy corpse.

[dancing-crystals]

The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer--I LOVED this. It feels like the stories I used to tell myself (still tell myself). And the magic doorway is in a fictional forest that's right next door to the place I have spent most of my summer vacations. When one of the characters said that you can't be lost, not for long, in this area, that it's been mapped and is crisscrossed with trails and you can't walk far without finding the way out, but they did get lost and they did find a hidden doorway to a magic world--it felt like everything I half-believed while going for walks in the woods as a child.

I would have loved this book even if it were set somewhere I'd never been. The fairy tale, the rules of magic, the characters and their relationships--lovely. Really liked that we get so many relationships--friendship and romance and sibling and parent-child and person-pet, and they all matter, it's not just two characters and their relationship centerstage and everything else fades into the background.

I've already added Shaffer's other books to my to-read list.

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, hand mobility! 🙌

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[sexy-people-contests-2026]

Tumblr Sexy Women Contest 2026 Semi-finals

Miss Piggy (The Muppets)

Morticia Addams (The Addams Family)

Voting ended onApr 5

[thelongestway]

#OH NO OH GOD#I FEEL LIKE THE TROJAN WAR IS ABOUT TO START

[magicratfingers]

[dancing-crystals]

Miss Piggy knows she's the most beautiful. She also knows that Morticia is weird and creepy in a way that will disturb Kermit and fascinate Gonzo, two points in her favor. She doesn't like Morticia, but she knows Morticia is not a threat.

Morticia knows that there's beauty in the unconventional, and that all beauty fades and decays, even foam and felt. There's beauty in that too. She admires Miss Piggy's beauty and her confidence, and her violence.

Miss Piggy knows, not as Kermit does but with a wordless confidence and unshakeable belief, that she and her beauty are immortal. She recognizes that immortality in Morticia too. The closest they ever come to talking about it will be a wistful "some day we will be buried and rotting" from Morticia and a sweetly false polite "ha ha, of course dear" from Miss Piggy.

Both of them know that it does not matter who "wins", but that there are people ready to fight, to risk themselves and harm others, to sow destruction in the name of their lady love.

(Gomez knows this is great fun! Kermit knows he wants to be anywhere else.)

[sailor-v]

kinuko y. craft early 2000s fantasy book covers my beloveds

[clytemnestraaa]

i feel. like on a fundamental level. i do not understand x reader fic. i am not exactly opposed to it because let a thousand blossoms bloom etc. but like. i genuinely don’t get it. it seems like the exact opposite of how i engage with fiction. like the whole point is that i’m not in there. i don’t wanna be in there. if i’m in there it’s going to be very stressful.

[glorious-collections]

Every year this same photographer releases previously unreleased Loki photoshoots from 2011-2012, and every year I thank him for his service. These are the pictures he released for this year!

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I still haven't recovered from last year's! 😭😭😭😭