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HAPPY HALLOWEEN from the Mystery Skulls Animated crew! We thought we’d share the very first shot of the next video as an extra special treat! Thanks again so much for all the support over the years. We sincerely appreciate ya’ll sticking with us for so long on this journey and for anyone new to our video project. Have a safe and happy holiday season!

feelingwonderfultoday

This amazingly beautiful art was made by @kookiarts! The scene is from chapter 5, the berry fight. I absolutely loved writing that bit and seeing such incredible art of it makes me so happy! ;u; Thank you so much!!! The comic made me laugh out loud and your look on Healer is so pretty! I absolutely love it, aaaa ♡ (●´ω｀●) I love it so muchhhhh hnggg

googlyowo

Troll Jim

fairy-lilith

Unbecoming writers:

Jim: “I’m the Trollhunter, amulet or not"

Unkar/Merlin: “Run away, save your skin” Jim: “That’s not who I am”

Merlin: “My amulet does not make mistakes. Of all living creatures in our worlds I chose you. Now show them why"

Jim: “I’m keeping my amulet"

Rise of the Titans writers:

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wake up america

enrichmentpumpkin

this is to educate my non-American followers. This really is how the US sees itself. (and yes, 95% of the time, Florida = WHAT?!)

In Florida the more North you go, the more “South” you get

In Florida the central part pretends to be the south, the western part pretends to be the northeast and the south pretends to be the west I’m not even kidding you

ninjaboots

… Please tell me you guys are kidding.

savannahgambino-deactivated2023

Florida is like it’s own country I swear

interruptingpanda

I’m from Florida and I can confirm this. Also, South Florida is basically Miami and alligators.

pumpkinskull

oh, i always assumed florida was part of The South?

jimmyfury

north florida is yes. The rest is not.

kittydoom

I’m from Florida, and grew up in SC/NC. Can confirm all true. 👍

wilwheaton

Um. This is so wrong.

oswinstark

You’re forgetting the part where California sees itself as its own entity.

We do not want to be grouped in with everyone else, thanks.

kichizone

manwiththesquidhat

clearly none of you have ever met someone from texas

el-kabongjr

I’m from Texas and I “Yee-Haw” this message

randan-a

^ LMFAO

vikkidc-deactivated20220318

America truly is a bunch of countries in a trench coat

imagitory

Confirming that last part. I had an online friend from outside the country once ask me what was up with our COVID response, and I answered by explaining we’re basically a patchwork quilt of different rules and regulations: like 50 separate countries all doing their own thing. For example, in California, we’ve been rather vigilant on mask-wearing from the start. My dad, who was living in Las Vegas, Nevada, once came to visit me in May 2020, two months after the lockdowns started and cases were on the rise, and he just flat-out didn’t even bring a mask with him – even though in California at that time, it was required to have some sort of face-covering in all indoor locations or even to approach a drive-through, and it was also expected to wear one outdoors as well. Even traveling at all was really frowned upon. And all of that was because in Nevada, their local government’s response was way more lax and masks were just not insisted upon. There are likewise discrepancies for things like driver’s licenses, where different states might have different levels of license and different requirements (for example, in Maryland, we have three levels: learner’s permit, provisional license, and full license, while in California, we only have the last two); health care (some plans cover certain states, others don’t); abortion legislation (we’ve seen the chaos unfolding in Texas because of their most recent stance on this); gun control (sometimes people cross state lines just because it’s easier to buy a gun in one state over another); marriage laws (age of consent is different in so many states!); border enforcement (in some states you can’t take fresh fruit across state lines); and so on.

So yes. The United States is 50 separate countries all shambling around under a trenchcoat acting like a single, much bigger one.

musicalhell

This is pretty much baked into the way the country was designed–the Founding Fathers wanted the states to have a certain amount of autonomy while still being part of a unified nation. This was partially because, having recently cut ties with a monarchy, they were leery of anything that resulted in too much centralized power, but mainly it existed to keep the slave-owning states going along with the whole thing for as long as they did.

(This is the reason why the cry of “state’s rights” tends to raise eyebrows in certain quarters; historically it has always been shorthand for “we want to keep certain people marginalized and you can’t stop us, so nyeah.”)

rosemaidenvixen

Update coming for A Secret’s Worth today or tomorrow!

secondlina

I saw this tumblr post and HAD to draw it, please accept my humble A:TLA offering.

spongiform-encephalopathies

I keep forgetting that this isn’t actually a scene from the show…

Loki variant Jotun Serpent AU!

Asgardians are dragon shifters. Everyone goes back and forth between humanoid and dragon like it's no big deal.

Thor and Loki were always curious as to why Odin had made Loki wear suppression bangles. As they grew older the brothers grew more and more curious, but at the same time dismissed it, even if it always lingered in their minds.

One afternoon, Thor has the grand idea to sneak into Odin's vault and drags Loki along. Loki finds the casket and things progress similarly to in the movie except Thor is there to witness it.

Idk maybe I'll write the whole thing out at some point but maybe not.

#mcu loki #loki #loki variant #loki fanart #jotun loki

imagine-loki

Just go for it!!

Imagine after Sylvie and Loki agree they view each other as siblings, she gets tired of Loki and Mobius dancing around each other and their feelings. So she locks them in a room and refuses to let them out until they confess to one another.

nymika-arts

getting the long-awaited finale of one of my favourite series and having to watch the ending strip all the characters of their development and basically erase the events of the entire franchise like

goodgatsu

memeuplift

mycroftrh

Ooh ooh ooh! This looks like an excellent excuse valid reason to talk about one of my favorite topics, matriarch trees!

So, when you see trees in a forest, they stick up outta the ground, some distance from each other, and you're like 'these are unconnected critters,' right? But! The thing is! Just like the trees in the picture are connected above-ground, trees in a forest are normally connected below-ground. There's this whole complicated thing involving a symbiotic relationship with fungi, but we're gonna simplify it to this: trees connect to each other through their root systems.

And they use it to share resources, across the whole forest.

If there's a tree over here growing in soil with a lot of, like, potassium, they'll pull up more potassium than they need, and send it out through the root system to other trees that are living where there isn't much potassium.

And one of the coolest things? Trees communicate their needs. If a tree is sick or damaged or starving, they send chemical messages out through the root system that tell the other trees to send them more food and tree-equivalent-of-immune-system.

Trees will share so much of their resources, they'll even keep trees alive that are almost entirely dependent. Like this tree! The tree above is getting some energy from its leaves, but no other nutrition of its own. And it wasn't able to link up to the shared root system. So the other tree reached out and hooked up to it directly, feeding it all of the nutrients it needed!

You see it more commonly the other way around: in an old-growth forest, where the roots are well-established, you can find stumps where a tree was cut down a century ago... but if you scrape the stump it's still green wood. The tree's still alive, without a single leaf. Because all the other trees in the forest are feeding it.

I promised to talk about matriarch trees, so here's where we get to them.

In a very old forest, you have very old trees. You have some trees that are so very, very old, their own roots cover entire regions of the forest. Their leaves reach up to the sky over everyone else. And after so long, they've developed to where they can take in way more resources than they need.

So what do they do?

They feed baby trees.

Baby saplings in an old forest can't reach up to the sun. There's no light down there. And their roots are too small and shallow to dig down to the nutrients they need. So the matriarch tree will draw energy from its towering canopy, and nutrients from its massive, ancient roots, and feed them to the little trees that are too small to feed themselves. For anything she can't get on her own, she'll act as a central hub, taking in spare resources from the rest of the forest and giving them to the little ones.

And one of the best parts - she won't just do it for her own species. She'll connect to all kinds of trees, because they're all necessary for the ecosystem to work. She'll adopt the whole forest's children.

Sometimes in forests you'll find a spot where there are a lot of small trees in an open space around an old, fallen tree. People generally assume they could find more light there, or maybe the soil's more fertile from the decomposition.

But no.

They're her children, and she's spent centuries keeping the whole forest alive.

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[Image Description: A photograph of two trees, connected by a pair of branches. The tree on the left is much thinner than the tree on the right, and it has been chopped in half, leaving it with no stump or roots. The caption reads, “One tree keeping the rootless tree alive”. End ID.]