Dizzy's Evil Lair

Hello! This is my main blog. I like fantasy, tea, cryptids, and storytelling. Thanks for stopping by!

[dizzy-canary]

I'm super excited to say that Part 1 of my Hunger Games fic is up! It's a telling of Annie Cresta's games from her perspective, with a healthy dose of Odesta for fun and whimsy.

Happy reading! <3

[the-punforgiven]

I'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use it

[the-punforgiven]

I know the normal answer is "they just aren't smart enough for it" but idk I've seen enough media where a character uses a spell in a moment of brain-off panic ilI feel like animals could probably stumble into a spell or two like, accidentally

[the-punforgiven]

Also how funny would it be to see a completely normal regular bear cast magic missile outta nowhere

[the-punforgiven]

Also there is no way ravens wouldn't figure out spells, tbh

They're smart fuckin birds, I believe in them

Either through observing or just figuring shit out ravens could 100% learn how to cast spells I'm sure of it

[the-punforgiven]

Dogs can also cast Magic Missile but every time they do the projectile is shaped like a bone or a stick and they chase after it

[rathayibacter]

group of wizards who ask this in-universe, and after extensive study learn to their surprise that animals are casting spells all the time, just that their magic is so fundamental as to be unrecognizable to humans. turns out the only reason acorns grow on trees is because squirrels keep wishing for them.

[thatquietkid108]

When a species becomes extinct humans have to figure out what kind of magic they were doing to keep the ecosystem from becoming out of balance

[dizzy-canary]

Wait hang on. Hang on. This is brilliant actually.

[calciumcryptid]

I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.

[narrative-driven-off-a-cliff]

How would you describe the difference?

[dizzy-canary]

Ok this is not my original post, but if I were to try to take a crack at it, here's what I would say:

Politics are largely informed by worldview. In turn, our worldview is shaped by politics: who's in power, what is going on in the world, and where our place in this world is. Because of this, any art that a person makes is likely going to reflect their worldview and mindset in some way. The majority of art reflects someone's values in some way; the act of making art of something implies that someone found something valuable enough to turn into art, if that makes sense. Values and politics often go hand in hand, so what people choose to depict and how to depict those things tend to connect back to the state of the world and, often, politics. However, not all art is made with intentionally political intent. Art pieces that are distinct political statements are made to try to shape people's minds and values and aren't so much a reflection of someone's ideals as they are an outright statement. For example, one of my values is caring for the vulnerable parts of the human population. This could be reflected in an outright political piece, i. e., writing a poem about affordable healthcare or doing art meant to express preventable human suffering, but it could also come out in unintentional ways, like writing pieces of fiction where characters actively care for those in need and are rewarded by the narrative, or art depicting moments of beauty and kindness between human beings. I have no idea if this helps and I fear it sounds pretentious AF but that is my two cents

[narrative-driven-off-a-cliff]

“My employee is completely fine” your employee’s “small vent game” throws creatures grown into a lab into the merciless pits of despair to grab lost cargo and die of sepsis

[dizzy-canary]

...do tell

[morallygrayautisticscientist]

Stanford Pines finally realized that his brother was a good, kind person all along who, despite all they’ve been through, was willing to die to save him, the kids, the world, that he’s been hating an innocent man who only ever cared about him, only ever had good intentions, and was a brave, loving, good soul.

And he realized this as he held his finger on the trigger, with the knowledge that to save the universe, he had to destroy the brother he only just understood he had.

You’re welcome.

[dizzy-canary]

See what I love about your posts is that you think so very deeply about pieces of media and somehow find the most devastating conclusions and it always wakes my brain up a bit

[morallygrayautisticscientist]

Grace: I gotta turn around and save Rocky!

Grace: *remembers how that went for Orpheus and Eurydice*

Grace:

[dizzy-canary]

Ok now there's Orpheus and Eurydice involved, I gotta read this book now

[dizzy-canary]

(In an alternate universe where craft stores function the same way that clownfish do)

Michael's: yeah so after Joanne's died, someone had to fill the ecological niche. So it's actually Michelle's now.

[morallygrayautisticscientist]

Gen Alpha is doomed I just rickrolled 12 of them and they stared at me in silence before one kid asked “what’s this song?” I fell to my knees; that hurt me physically.

[dizzy-canary]

Wait tell them Rick Astley does 6-7 in it, surely that would work!!!

[morallygrayautisticscientist]

I need you to know three things:

1.) I am extremely susceptible to peer-pressure

2.) I did actually do this.

3.) Very disappointed to report that in worked, they asked to play the song again. Didn’t even do 6-7, they just only respected it after believing Rick Astley invented 6-7. Sad, sad.

[dizzy-canary]

How very tragic, what is the world coming to? What has become of the youths?

[dizzy-canary]

I need to stop shaking my characters in a pringles can but I am simply having a delightful time

[foeofcolor]

Only day you can rb this

[morallygrayautisticscientist]

Gen Alpha is doomed I just rickrolled 12 of them and they stared at me in silence before one kid asked “what’s this song?” I fell to my knees; that hurt me physically.

[dizzy-canary]

Wait tell them Rick Astley does 6-7 in it, surely that would work!!!

[dizzy-canary]

We need an American Girl Doll who threw the first brick at Stonewall

[dizzy-canary]

As a Christian, my favorite Random Hill That Some Sects of Christianity Will Die On has got to be the idea that if the rapture happens, the media will try to write it off as aliens

[dizzy-canary]

Working in retail is crazy because I'm talking in my Bright Customer Service Voice and smiling like my life depends on it all while internally the hate monologue from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is blaring on a loop the entire time

[morallygrayautisticscientist]

I work with kids sometimes and the other day while in the middle of a 9-5 I was filling out a paper and my coworker came up to ask me where something was and because my brain was fried from explaining things to 5 year olds for five hours straight I went into the voice you use for kids and said “can you hooooold on for me juuuust a second pretty please! I’m just gonna finish ooone little itty bitty paper and then I’ll be riiiight with ya! Just one paper, can you give me two big minutes? Then I’ll be riiight over to help! :)” and there was a long silence before I said “…I’m so sorry” and he went “no I get it me too.”

[dizzy-canary]

Wait that is amazing and as someone who has worked with kids in the past, so so relateable

[prettyboykatsuki-moved]

i always mean it when i say i love you btw

[prettyboykatsuki-moved]

‘but thats a stranger you dont know’ and i love them. i love that they exist and i love that they passed through my life. and i love u too btw

[teathattast]

reblog to tell your mutuals you love them for existing

[tanrak]

[homunculus-argument]

Actually the monkeys have unionised. That's their circus now.

[homunculus-argument]

Attempt 1 of trying to make homemade sherbert:

Evidently it does need some sort of an additional third ingredient that would prevent it from freezing solid but maintain a creamy consistency instead. Simply mashing frozen slices of pear with a mortar, pestle, and the chinless rage of a neanderthal, sprinkling a little honey on top of the half-thawed pear mush befote popping it back into the freezer for a few minutes will not make fruit sherbert. I was not expecting it to, but I had to make sure before I try anything more complicated.

[homunculus-argument]

Correction: sorbet, not sherbert. I don't know why there's two different things that are almost the same with names that are almost the same, but what I failed to create was sorbet. It didn't turn out sherbert either, to be fair.

[dizzy-canary]

What did it turn out as?