Come and See

Call me Emma! 29-she/they/any pronouns-yell at me about your blorbos and what pollen can for you. Anon is off due to spam.

[cloudabserk]

it wants to be close to me. probably because it is so cold and soft & it knows i am strong and warm

[cloudabserk]

comforting head bonk to make up for my feeble human lifespan

[blueumbriel]

Choose your fighter looking ahhh

[dreamycastaway]

The original pride flag and the sewing machine it was sewn on

[iwriterobots]

[tuherrus]

you don't even have a dog

[rederiswrites]

I have, apparently, great taste. I deduce this because everything I think would look great in my house costs a million bucks. Which has really ruined a lot of these cottagecore influencer videos for me, because I'll watch a few seconds and be like, "Ah. Your decorating secret is that you're rich."

Your row of Le Creuset enamel pots. Your Portuguese tile backsplash. Your Polish painted ceramic plates on the wall. Your linen tablecloth. Your cute retro stove worth as much as every major appliance I own put together. Probably more, actually.

I once began watching a video about "how to turn your yard into a native flower garden" and next thing I knew, the entire front yard had been cleared, by gnomes one can only imagine, and dozens upon dozens of plants in gallon pots were being laid out according to a chart. Each pot worth anywhere between $12 and $80, depending on contents, but almost never less than that. Filled me with rage.

If I was rich, I wouldn't need your advice to make my house cute. And since I'm not rich, I also don't need your advice.

[necrowyrm]

Yesterday I encountered a bigass fuckin mushroom. Pretty cool!

[mousegirlheart]

how much they charging for rent under that bad boy?

[necrowyrm]

For you my friend? A mere three morsels of cheese and one singular crumb of bread

[mousegirlheart]

finally, affordable housing. ill move in right away

[argumate]

I keep thinking this! very frustrating

[argumate]

fuck!

[noelledeltarune]

before pride month ends does anyone wanna admit they have a crush on me

[noelledeltarune]

posting this on the first day of june so you all have plenty of time to gather your nerves and whatnot

[sailermoon]

this is how new yorkers @ mamdani

[sailermoon]

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Bringing this back...

Vincent Price guest stars on The Muppet Show (1977)

[sup-its-cat]

WHY HAVE I SEEN NO ONE TALK ABOUT HOW THE GRACE SCULPTURE LOOKS LIKE THE LITTLE DUDE FROM THIS MEME

THAT WAS LITERALLY MY FIRST THOUGHT UPON SEEING IT IN THE MOVIE

[notes-and-violets]

I had to xD

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[lemondoddle]

[Description: a looping bouncy animation of grace and Rocky from project hail mary. Grace throws himself onto rocky for a hug, smiling and nuzzling his face to the top of Rocky's xenonite covered carapace. Rocky brings a claw up to ruffle Grace's hair and grace throws himself even more on top of rocky, rocky wrapping his arms around grace. End description.]

[almondcroissantsandink]

someone to watch you sleep :)

(I also love the running gag that Adrian is much larger than Rocky--I raise you the concept that Adrian is a behemoth compared to Rocky)

[subwaybug]

More people should get into poly shipping. Both because polyamory is awesome and because it's really fun to make complicated ass diagrams

[retquits]

artistic rendition of how my cat fell asleep this morning

[toasthaste]

according to An Immense World, apparently giant squid eyes are, like, UNREASONABLY large, even for something their size living at those depths. the next largest eyes on earth, blue whale eyes, are less than half the size, and swordfish, who live at similar depths as giant squid and have the largest eyes of any fish, have eyes that could fit inside a giant squid's pupil.

eyes hit serious diminishing returns wrt resource costs vs vision quality as they get bigger, so the question became: what the FUCK do giant (and colossal) squid need to see so badly that they couldn't see with swordfish-sized eyes that's justifying that massive energy cost? that nothing else in the deep ocean needs to see so fucking badly??

turns out the one strength eyes that big really have over much smaller eyes is: seeing large glowing objects in water deeper than 500 meters from an appreciable distance.

sperm whales are the primary predator of giant squid. sperm whales don't glow. BUT! water that deep is full of bioluminescent creatures-- these creatures light up when bumped into. something a sperm whale's size is continuously bumping into those critters, it's just surrounded by a glowing field all the time when it's swimming at those depths, visible from a distance-- if you have the right eyes-- as a massive glowing shape. so basically the only reason to have eyes the size of soccer balls is if you live in the deep ocean and your life depends on having a heads up when a hungry sperm whale lurking around

and also I gotta say, the imagery... the huge lurking threat betrayed only by the ambiguous glowing shape of its movements through the water, is really evocative, if spooky deep-sea games aren't already using that to make things extremely ominous then they should really start