Earthssong

[4gifs]

[raserus]

LIL BABBY

U CANT SCARE THE OCEAN

GO LAY DOWN

[amiseeingyourcolourormine]

IT LOOKS LIKE TOOTHLESS

[bladeoffenris]

I like to believe that all the dragons in the world were magically cursed and turned into cats. But cats have never forgotten where they come from, hence the attitude.

[tanoraqui]

I nearly didn’t reblog this but the above comment makes more sense than anything I’ve ever heard.

[mzminola]

…that’s…that’s actually a story my mom used to tell me when I was little? That a dragon showed up at someone’s cottage so they gave it milk. And the dragon enjoyed the milk, so it kept coming back and got smaller and softer and purry-er until eventually it wasn’t a dragon anymore, it was a cat, and that’s where cats came from and why we keep giving them milk.

She might have gotten the story from Ursula K. Le Guin, or I have confused it with a different dragon story.

[ladyswearalot]

That’s also why cats tend to hoard their toys behind the couch!

[personalprofundity]

Actually the story is even older. Written by a woman named Edith Nesbit, first published in 1899, it is called “The Dragon Tamers”. It predates Leguin and other fantasy biggies like Lewis and Tolkien.

Nesbit actually can be credited with being one of the first authors that began to shift myths and legends to more fantasy-like stories (fantasy as a genre how we know it, wasn’t around then because it was just part of literature, especially British literature). In fact, many scholars who study fantasy literature and children’s literature believe that, since her children’s stories were so popular with children in England, the stories and their content prompted Tolkien (the first to coin fantasy as its own genre in his essay “On Fairy Stories”) to take up the stories of dragons and elves and fairies as they’d have been children when she was writing.

Tolkien was born in 1892. He would have been 7 when “The Dragon Tamers” was first published. Edith Nesbit did a LOT for modernizing myths, legends, and lore as a children’s author, maybe more than we will ever know.

[planeoftheeclectic]

http://www.online-literature.com/edith-nesbit/book-of-dragons/6/

[sewickedthread]

Let’s hear it for Edith Nesbit.

[alienducky]

@nerdnag dragons are cats!!!

[nerdnag]

I’ve been saying for so long that cats originate from dragons!!!

[expensivelife]

[owlinadayswork]

That’s kind of a genius idea and im doing that if I ever get these kind of stairs

[hidingoutbackstage]

I’m right and I should say it

[fairyofsomething]

Wait. How are peoples with siblings greeting eachother then?

[astudyingreer]

“Hey”

“Hey”

[pixiis-blog]

“Hey Dork.”

“I am not a dork.”

“Yes you are. And mom wants to talk to you.”

[paradox-thekid]

“Whats up buttholes”

“Shut up Loser”

[viostormcaller]

“Hey maaaan”

“Hey maaaaan”

Or

“Hey stoop-stoops”

“No”

[anticoffeebeans]

“Who are you?”

[soopticboop]

“Hey shithead”

“Hey dickface”

“Whaddup slut”

[aamitmorthos]

*Hey ‘name of sibling’* *Get out of my room*

[dragonpyre]

“Hey nerd” “What do you want”

[avatarpotato]

“Sup bitch”

“Fuck off”

[the-pundertaker-deactivated2020]

*steps into the room and stares at them until they notice and stare back for a solid 15 seconds, neither of you move a muscle*

“what”

“what do you want for dinner”

[patient-positivity-deactivated2]

That last one!!!

[nelc]

[nonlinear-nonsubjective]

I hope you don’t mind, but I slowed the gif down because that is a FANTASTIC move.

[huggy-joe]

That’s slick.

[everythingfox]

My god he just demolished that cat

[nightblightowl]

IS THIS PIXIE AND BRUTUS.

[mr-foxsidee]

[catchymemes]

[tanou123]

Sweet 😚

[valtsv]

obsessed with those stone stairs and archways in the middle of the woods that remain standing after the rest of the building has fallen to ruin

[valtsv]

portals

[dongcroncher]

Don’t walk up the stairs

[valtsv]

if i want to get abducted by the fae that’s MY choice and you can’t stop me

[tiktokarchive]

[squishiboi]

[chvrlieherbs-deactivated2022021]

My brain on drugs

[ryguy5382]

[ijustreallylovedaredevil]

Looking for a random cause of death for a character? Click here.

Looking for a random city? Click here.

Looking for a random city that people have actually heard of? Click here.

Need a random surname for a character? Click here. (They also give prevalence by race, which is very helpful.)

Helpful writing tips for my friends.

[imtootiredtothinkofaname]

smallirishpotato

[nyokoko]

OH SHIT.

[justdrinktea]

A couple more resources I have open constantly:

Random motivations for your characters here!

Need some character quirks? Here and here! 

Having trouble with backstory? Here! (They have an option for fortunate and unfortunate backstories)

[just-shower-thoughts]

The person who first discovered that coconut could be eaten must have experienced depths of hunger many will never know.

[heckshowerthoughts]

They prolly just saw some other animal doin it my man

[transhumanist-viking-deactivate]

you mean like the coconut crab, which naturally feeds on coconuts by breaking htem open with large claws? 

[the-spoopy-ghost-of-raejin99]

Coconut crab: I sneep. I break ze coconut. I eat ze coconut.

Some dude:

[dontbeanassbutt]

K but have y’all seen what coconut crabs look like cause

Jesus Christ

[kentucky-fried-bucky]

[the-spoopy-ghost-of-raejin99]

Coconut Crab: I eat ze coconut

Some dude: cool, cool, got that

Coconut crab: zen I eat ze human

Some dude:

[unpretty]

god i’m not even through one episode of paranormal home inspectors and it rules, this lady thought she was being haunted by the wails of the restless dead but she was just listening to raccoons fuck in her attic

[unpretty]

psychic: these are hieroglyphics… the spirits are trying to communicate…

home inspector: you put new paint over old paint and now the old paint is bleeding through, that’s why you’re not supposed to do that

[unpretty]

homeowner: my daughter’s room is always cold… cold like the dead…

home inspector: you put furniture on top of her heating vent

[unpretty]

business owner: i got locked in the bathroom even though the door has no lock

home inspector: it has a lock. the lock is right there. on the knob.

[nevercure]

Fun fact a scientist who is very not spiritual or superstitious began seeing corner eye hallucinations and feeling intense fear and a presence in his lab around the same time that everyone else in the building was suddenly reporting it haunted.

Determined, he found that the “hauntings” stopped when the industrial air conditioning unit, that had just recently been installed, was turned off. We’ve found that measurable micro vibrations in a structure cause immense fear, and a feeling of a presence and corner eye hallucinations – just like when you watch a scary movie alone at night and you see things move in the corner of your eye or are afraid to go in the cellar because you’re convinced someone’s in there.

Why?

Because many members of our species built homes in and around cliffs and caves for tens of thousands of years. And it’s likely that these certain shaky vibrations give us intense fear and a need to move far away because that would have saved our lives if the cave were collapsing or unstable.

You’ll notice it’s always falling apart, dilapidated homes that are “haunted” - or very very old restored homes. These places might just be slightly structurally unsound. That’s all.

[rosetintmyworld84]

That’s infrasound, sounds that are below 20hz, or the limit of normal human hearing. Things that produce infrasound in nature include severe weather, earthquakes, volcanoes, tigers, alligators, rhinoceros; also known as things that can kill people. We developed an evolutionary sense of dread when our brains perceive sounds we cannot hear. The vibrations from infrasound can also vibrate the eye causing visual hallucinations. 

You know what also causes infrasound? A LOT of machines, especially large industrial ones. There’s a reason haunted house stories started popping up in post industrialization. That scientist was Vic Tandy and he wrote about it in a the paper Ghosts in the Machines

“Vic Tandy, experimental officer and part-time lecturer in the school of international studies and law at Coventry University, along with Dr. Tony Lawrence of the University’s psychology department, wrote in 1998 a paper called “Ghosts in the Machine” for the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. Their research suggested that an infrasonic signal of 19 Hz might be responsible for some ghost sightings. Tandy was working late one night alone in a supposedly haunted laboratory at Warwick, when he felt very anxious and could detect a grey blob out of the corner of his eye. When Tandy turned to face the grey blob, there was nothing.The following day, Tandy was working on his fencing foil, with the handle held in a vice. Although there was nothing touching it, the blade started to vibrate wildly. Further investigation led Tandy to discover that the extractor fan in the lab was emitting a frequency of 18.98 Hz, very close to the resonant frequency of the eye given as 18 Hz by NASA. This, Tandy conjectured, was why he had seen a ghostly figure—it was, he believed, an optical illusion caused by his eyeballs resonating. The room was exactly half a wavelength in length, and the desk was in the centre, thus causing a standing wave which caused the vibration of the foil.“

[goatanarchy69-deactivated202012]

I spent 3 hours on this

[stycks-figure]

This put the biggest smile on my face. 

[fluffnfuzzxoxo]

Time well spent

[birdstoconsider]

Let’s talk about Nightjars

they are these wonderful tiny predatory birds

With great camouflage for multiple environments

And lovely plumage dependent on their species

BUT BEST OF ALL IS THEIR MOUTHS, which look small then their beaks are closed (they’ve even got cute lil’ whiskers!)

BUT ARE ACTUALLY HUUUUGE

BEST BIRD

[did-you-know]

Because most of us spend the majority of our time indoors, NASA conducted a Clean Air Study to determine which common houseplants are the best for filtering harmful toxins like ammonia and formaldehyde from the air.  

**Please note: Several of these plants are known to be toxic to cats, dogs and other pets. If you are a pet owner, please do check the toxicity of plants before introducing them to your home.**

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[zenzgtandg]

If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine

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[somecutething]

Pretty much every cat at night 😂😂