To further my efforts to teach Ollie that Human Bed is a "No Wrassle Zone" I have begun sleeping with a spray bottle that I spritz him with whenever he starts "hunting" me
The good news: He Will Not attack me when I'm looking at him
The bad news: I have created a new, higher-stakes Hunting Game that he is beginning to strongly associate with bedtime
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And now it must be said, as many numerous things often must be, in great volume and variance breaching topics that are near enough to innumerable and certainly beyond the measure of counting, that just as anyone lucky enough to find themselves in posession of thoughts miraculously appearing in their waking mind fully-formed upon conception, both clear and concise, blessed as they are with a mastery of their language sufficient to express oneself with brevity, it is so that with equal frequency I find that I am cursed with a wholly opposing nature: to take that which is brief and succinct, simple and straightforward, and somehow find it within myself instinctive to stretch those very same thoughts and words so remarkably thin across the page that the length of any given sentence may very well rival that of a modest novel, taking any poor and pitiable reader several deep breaths to recite out loud- or, perhaps in the case of one equally blessed to be of great, strong lungs and a determined air- merely the rather long and arduous effort of enduring it.
The lexical divergences didn't make the mutual intelligibility any service.
Polish: I'm looking for kids at the shop.
Czech: I'm fucking kids in the basement
I ugly-laugh/cackled in a short burst when I saw this.
A) because language is INSANE;
B) because OH MY GOD how unfortunate;
and C) that you knew my language nerd self would appreciate this (truly awful) situation.
To be honest? The more I learn about Slavic Languages the more I am convinced that at least HALF the strife in the region is because someone misinterpreted what someone else was saying. Or if something was a QUESTION VERSUS A STATEMENT, YOU BEAUTIFUL CHAOS MANIACS.
I know that a lot of people like them but I personally find survival mechanics in video games to just be annoying. I have to keep track of how hungry I am and it doesn’t even taste good? How dare you.
I have to keep track of my thirst and I don’t even get the irl pleasure of sipping down on an ice cold glass of water. This is just added annoyance with no satisfaction.
Yes chowing down on this alien steak makes my game avatar less hungry but I don’t get to taste that alien steak so I’m just annoyed trying to keep a bunch of extra bars full.
The sims are different because I’m playing god. In a lot of games you’re roleplaying. If I’m taking care of someone else I don’t mind it. But when it’s supposed to be me it’s annoying. Because I didn’t get to eat that potato.
The reason that putting up with survival needs irl doesn’t annoy me is because eating and resting and drinking water feels good.
An HP bar and maybe a stamina bar in a video game adds a bit of challenge. That’s fine. All those thirst and hunger bars though just feel like extra bullshit that’s not even satisfying. Yes my Skyrim character gets to eat hot apple cabbage soup but I don’t. And now I’m mad that I don’t get any hot apple cabbage soup.
Okay, real talk now. People love to tag male characters in posts about women, but this post is gonna take this seriously. Is there actually a canonically male character you believe is a trans woman? Or at least has made into a trans woman for a fanart or a fanfic? Excluding the ones canonically implied.
Sound off in the tags! Link to the fanart or fic if available. Do it. Give me the girls. Make more women.
I have a chart for this ("estrogen would fix him" is the stuff that qualifies here. I could write a short blurb about all of these but I'm too tired to do that right now so y'all get the chart).
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A venn diagram with three circles, labeled "estrogen would fix him," "estrogen would make him worse," and "estrogen could not save him (but it'd be really funny)."
In the "estrogen would fix him" section are:
Kirito from Sword Art Online.
Mister Priest from Make the Exorcist Fall in Love.
Cloud from Final Fantasy 7.
Don Quixote.
In the overlap between "estrogen would fix him" and "estrogen would make him worse" are:
Enciodes Silverash from Arknights.
Denji from Chainsaw Man
In the "estrogen would make him worse" section are:
Light Yagami from Death Note.
Izuku Midoriya from My Hero Academia.
In the overlap between "estrogen would fix him" and "estrogen could not save him" are:
Seto Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh.
Sanji from One Piece.
In the "estrogen could not save him" section are:
Shinji from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Char Aznable from Gundam.
Quatro Bajeena from Gundam.
In the overlap between "estrogen would make him worse" and "estrogen could not save him" are:
Zenos from Final Fantasy 14.
Laios Touden from Dungeon Meshi.
Lazurite Roy from Arknights.
And finally, in the dead center of the venn diagram, are Shirou Emiya from Fate/Stay Night and Kim Dokja from Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint.
In a far corner of the image, away from the venn diagram, is Saber from Fate/Stay Night, labeled with her name and overlaid on a circular trans flag.
the natural lifespan of a fandom is unlimited. when well tended a fandom can be functionally immortal. and yet everywhere you look you see newly bred fandoms withering and dying when they’re barely a year old. barely even six months old. fans are looking at their six month old fandoms and saying i think it’s on its last legs, should i euthanise it? when with the proper care that fandom could outlive them for decades. it’s sad. sad state of affairs we’re in.
Over 10 years ago I drew this mother naga with her kid and a bowl of gulab jamun, and I was blown away to see people still reblogging it and saying kind things here. I decided to draw a sequel, the PTA (People That are Anacondas) meeting is over, and she finally gets to have some gulab jamun. c: I really hope this cheers you up some.
Danny Phantom really is a great concept for a comedy horror series. It’s too bad that concept had to enter the world through the mind of Butch Hartman.
Danny Phantom was the first fandom I was ever really active in as in I created theory and fanfic for it and I’ve been mildly disappointed ever since at the lack of vivisection on live subjects in every other internet community.
Teenage boy superhero is half dead and is hunted down by his own parents and possibly also his girlfriend and if his secret is revealed it’s not his enemies that will be a danger to him, but his own loved ones. All of his enemies know his secret identity, in fact. That is such a fascinating concept that was semi-wasted on Nickelodeon.
I often forget that people outside of my little corner of the internet don’t see problems related to reproductive organs as gender neutral and making jokes about my very manly uterus won’t go over well with the normies