Dramatic Dragon Girl

Dianna|22|asexual lesbian|cis|she/her

[anxietyproblem]

[duckbunny]

kindness is a discipline, not a trait

[animatedamerican]

Yes.

As with many disciplines, kindness may come more easily to some than to others. But it is nonetheless something you can learn, something you can teach, something you can work at.

Something you do, rather than something you are.

[talesfromtreatment]

Foiled!

Today I got to go on one of our runs to more rural shelters to help relieve overcrowding there. We ended up bringing back 21 kittens and 10 dogs. So fun day. But this morning, while I was getting stuff together in preparation for the 90 minute drive…. This happened.

Excuse you Tiniest Opossum, but you are NOT allowed to escape through the front bars of the cat carrier we were housing you in. I’m going to put you back.

“NO!”

I am going to catch you and put you back and you have no say in this matter.

“NO!”

Catching you and putting you back now.

“NOOOOOO!”

Aaaand back you go. Let go of the purple towel and go in the cardboard box.

“Noooooooooooo!”

[pir8grl]

Some days, I just need Tiniest Opossom.

[pir8grl]

It’s Tiniest Opossum time again.  

[podencos]

[thestateonmtv]

people with severe executive dysfunction think like this and by people I mean me

[thesesummersonspoet]

THINGS WHICH MAKE WRITERS ANXIOUS:

not writing

writing

people reading their stories

people not reading their stories

[kedreeva]

Editing

Not editing

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

This blew my damn mind

[glowin-theshark]

[l-a-l-o-u]

This is Colors, a short comic written by @monsieurtoast and illustrated by myself, about the influence we have on others around us. I had sooooo much fun working on this and I owe it all to Toast for coming up with such a creative concept! Take care of your colors my guys ♥

[royal-soda-deactivated20210213]

wow… thank you

[nerdybrokecollegestudent-deacti]

This is absolutely beautiful

[sawasawako-archived]

i think it’s such a cool idea to make camp half-blood a summer camp. usually the magical world is situated in an academy or some other formal institution that’s separate from the real world but in PJO it’s a summer camp, and it symbolises both a break from real life but also somehow co-existence with it.

also another interesting thing is how there’s no separation between the mythical and mortal worlds. like, they straight up just drive through the states on quests and visit monuments and landmarks where there are mortals walking around at any given moment. the battle of manhattan happens on the very streets of manhattan, and percy is just namedropping streets and avenues and landmarks every few pages and you really get the sense that it’s all concrete and real like it might actually be happening. imagine being a new yorker and reading PJO and getting the distinct feeling like it could all be real... how cool is that

[sawasawako-archived]

seriously tho i think this is what distinguishes the series from its counterparts in the same genre. usually with fantasy & dystopia, authors make it a point to establish that division between the ordinary, “mundane” world and the extraordinary magical one. see harry potter, lotr, narnia, every fantasy story ever. sometimes it’s a physical boundary, other times it’s a metaphysical one, but there’s always a boundary line. it gives fantasy novels that aura of mystique and... well, fantasy, but it can also be alienating bc of that constant knowledge that this is a world separate from your own, one you cannot touch by default. it’s escapist in nature.

but PJO is like, the exact opposite. it’s an incredibly persuasive and compelling story despite the fact that it’s literally about mythological beings because the mythology is enmeshed with the real world, and that makes it inherently more believable. it literally changes the way you see the geographical and topographical landscape. now the empire state building isn’t just the empire state building, it’s the gateway to mount olympus. the bermuda triangle is no longer an elusive mystery, it’s synonymous with the sea of monsters and we all read about what happened there. heck, we even know the approximate location of where camp half-blood is irl. somewhere across the country these demigods are fighting a monster. percy jackson lives down the goddamn street. it’s like if you don’t go out and see it for yourself it could very well be real for all you know.

the books go out of their way to demonstrate how mythology and human civilisation are intertwined, and CHB is kind of this liminal space where kids who belong in both worlds get to find and make a home. like. hello??

[aspergersissues]

[thispageisold]

Acting, motherf***er.

[everything-will-be-all-rat]

i’ve had this saved ever since new leaf came out and now, 7 years later, the prophecy has finally come true

[catnippackets]

animal crossing new horizons is coming out soon so here’s a list of suffixes for island name brainstorming purposes

-town

-ville

-land

-y/ey

-dale

-grove

-more/moor

-burg

-field

-wich

[plusultrason]

-wood

-bury

-ford

-view

-port

-chester

-borough

-by

-ton

-worth

-stead

[catnippackets]

animal crossing new horizons is coming out soon so here’s a list of suffixes for island name brainstorming purposes

-town

-ville

-land

-y/ey

-dale

-grove

-more/moor

-burg

-field

-wich

[sosuperawesome]

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[oliveyous]

😳😍❤️

[yorksilk]

there’s a squishmallow axolotl??

[yorksilk]

@mothmansgaylover

[yorksilk]

[janmenart]

remember to always chew your food properly, kids.

[bluebeardsbride-archive]

— Angela Carter, from The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography, c. 1978.

[dearorpheus]

In many ways, women are death’s natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but a death. Samuel Beckett wrote that women “give birth astride of a grave.” 

— Caitlin Doughty, from Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

[bluebeardsbride-archive]

— Samantha Hunt, interviewed by The New Yorker

— Claudia Dey, ‘Mothers as Makers of Death’