enigmatic_bacchanalia

always approx. 2 seconds away from sending myself to a vivesectionist

[segamascott]

shawty's like a malady in my head

[enigmatic-bacchanalia]

That I can't keep out, got me screaming like

AAAAAAAAAAAAGAHAGAHAHAGAHAGHAGAHHHHH

[enigmatic-bacchanalia]

TADC has officially destroyed me. No one can convince me Jax doesn't live on.

[enigmatic-bacchanalia]

The most important thing you can do is make an imprint

[vendettavalentine]

my lukewarm Lockwood and Co take is that I think Lucy underestimates her appearance but simultaneously overestimates Lockwood’s, so they actually average out as a perfectly normal, mediocre looking pair of teenagers whose descriptions are greatly filtered through LucyVision.

[enigmatic-bacchanalia]

I get this, but at the same time i fully believe that lucy and lockwood are the hottest ghostfighting couple to rome the earth.

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[paper-mario-wiki]

HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?

Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.

[meltedgarment]

I've been looking for such archives, thanks

[fealty-to-thee]

you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress).

i was not going to publish this essay because i don’t like to yell but here the fuck i am.

the first link broke, here you go

[creatingblackcharacters]

BEGGING us to read nonfiction every now and then. Like. Words on page. It doesn't have to be the only thing you do, but you gotta keep in practice with it. No easier people to subjugate than those who question nothing they're told.

[enigmatic-bacchanalia]

The most annoying thing in a service job is bring a group of people their order and telling them what it is only for them to blank completely and just stare at you for 5 minutes.

Like BITCH U ORDERED IT, WHY R U CONFUSED ?!?¿

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

as a younger person I'd sometimes get overwhelmed with the violence of the world, not just human violence but the violence done to animals and by animals, the innate violence of being an animal. because an animal is, by definition, an organism that must consume other organisms to live. and this would lodge in my spiraling young adult mind, the tragedy that to live, to be a creature, is to cause harm. that life is sustained by consuming life.

eventually I got older (and medicated), but in the meantime spending time in woodland really helped. it comforted me to be around plantlife, which feeds not on life but on sunlight, and therefore causes no harm.

anyway now I'm reading The Hidden Life Of Trees by Peter Wohlleben (incredible book) and it turns out that was a big fat LIE. forests are violent as FUCK

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

life as a tree is fucking BRUTAL. ok no they don't actually eat each other (well, not until they've been broken down and digested by microorganisms first) but competition is FIERCE. sunlight and water are finite resources. survival rates are dismal. a tree can release a million seeds in a lifetime and have only one offspring live to maturity. some species evolved ways of stealing sunlight from trees who got there first, bidding their time as a sapling then shooting out from under older canopies to hog as as much light as possible. next-door neighbors? fuck em, let em starve.

then you get shit like epiphytes that decided to just grow on top of other plants. strangler fig vines, for instance, which decided well fuck, im just gonna cling to this tree trunk and let it do the support work. maybe entangle our roots and envelope my host completely over time. oopsie my host died? that's ok I'll just cling to its corpse for eternity

equally horrifying is the honeysuckle, which preys on young trees boa-constrictor style, squeezing the life out of saplings, which grow with permanent deformities before dying prematurely (makes for a neat walking stick though)

then you get out and proud parasites like mistletoe who are happy to attach themselves to tree canopies and suck their blood extract water and nutrients. so yeah some plants do eat each other actually. gives ya some perspective on the old christmas tradition of hunting mistletoe with guns (yes that's a thing, shooting them down out of trees like squirrels. yes, unlike squirrels they deserve it). as for the romance angle, who doesn't want to kiss a lover beneath the dying corpse of a parasitic trophy kill? sexy as heck.

in conclusion, PLANTS ARE VIOLENT AS FUCK, and that's not even getting into the eternal chemical warfare they are forced to wage against insects, fungi, microbes and other enemies.

one day soon the forests will turn on us, and when that day comes I'm cheerfully betraying humanity and skipping away to cross enemy lines 🫡

kofi

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

to those who thought this post was heading in a heartwarming direction, i do NOT apologize and i DO hope the forest and its creeping mycelium tendrils crawl their way into your nightmares

[enigmatic-bacchanalia]

It always annoys me that (in the books anyway) Feng Xin an Mu Qing never find out about the stabbing thing or all the things White No Face did to Xie Lian. Like they just thought he was spoiled and couldnt handle being poor or wtv. UGH 🙄

[ai-slop-weather-report]

Weather report for March 28th, 2026.

[enigmatic-bacchanalia]

HUA CHENG? HUA CHENGS COMING TO MY TOWN??!?¿

[byjove]

I like to look at real estate photos because 1.) it helps me with visual and describe interiors in my writing 2.) I get to learn about regional vernacular architectural styles like the dogtrot cabins of the southeast and the Territorial style houses of New Mexico 3.) I am nosy as fuck.

[enigmatic-bacchanalia]

4) I have learned through trial and error it is generally frowned upon to try to look into people houses without a real estate angle

[jugglingmylab]

if i see one more god damn "sHaPeS.iNc" ad im going to fucking explode it with hammers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! shut up i dont want to recreate my mutuals if i want to talk to them i will fucking talk to them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE FUCK YOU MEAN RECREATE OC'S AS AI IF SOMEONE WANTS TO TALK TO MY OC I WILL ROLEPLAY AS THEM

[enigmatic-bacchanalia]

This is how gangle was born

[redstonedust]

they mummified joe hills. so sad but it had to happen.

[enigmatic-bacchanalia]

No, no i think that was joe mama. So sorry about the confusion.

[enigmatic-bacchanalia]

People just read the 1984 party slogan and took it seriously, huh?

[enigmatic-bacchanalia]

I 👏WANT👏LOCKWOOD👏AND👏CO.👏FROM👏LOCKWOOD'S👏PERSPECTIVE👏

[vampiregirlestrogen]

the glasses pervert would like to suggest an addition to your current attire

[enigmatic-bacchanalia]

Could it, perchance be something that rests on the bridge of my nose?

[depsidase]

[enigmatic-bacchanalia]

I wonder why they made this tool free to use for the working class???

[depsidase]