[sometiktoksarevalid]

[ensign-reassigned]

I love star trek because it says that humans are good, but not innocent. Because it frequently acknowledges how much blood we've shed to get to their version of the future. Because it doesn't use that fact against us. If anything, it makes the message more powerful.

Humans have killed and enslaved and colonized each other for centuries—and still we have grown past it.

What we are is not what we will always be. What is happening now is not an indication that their future is unobtainable. It's simply proof that we have more work to do to get there.

That's the hope star trek gives us.

[the-quasar-hero]

You can tell a lot about a person by entering their mind palace and encountering their greatest fears and darkest hopes in a labyrinth reflective of their subconscious thoughts.

[moshimoshibe]

falin

[rainformation]

formative years? aren’t they all?

[absolutejamer]

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

[aisatsaa]

if only Gyatso had run away with Aang

[deepspacepirate]

One of my favorite tropes is post apocalyptic towns being named after dilapidated signs with missing letters, like Novac (no vacancy) and Eaden (dead end). There’s something inexplicable about it

[togepipi]

catch me in the city of fre shavaca do

[transxfiles]

rabbits are lucky on account of all the clover like they eat so much clover that they're bound to be chowing down on some four-leafed ones and all of the luck from those few lucky clovers is heavy (good luck weighs more than bad luck or neutral luck does) so it slips down the body and gets stored in the rabbit's feet and that's how their feet are so strong and able to hop so far it's all the luck.

[yuumei-art]

It's Witch Hat Monday!

I titled this one the Root of Magic but I think a better title would be the Root of My Despair 😆 😂 😢 😭

[odi-arti]

Peignons ensemble, les couleurs de demain Lorien Testard & Alice Duport-Percier - Aux Lendemains non Écrits

[redundantz]

kids and their magic circles

[hawberries]

THE SIGHT OF YOUR BACK MUST BE AN INSPIRATION TO YOUR TEAMMATES

ALL WALLS ARE TO BE CRUSHED

EVERY BALL IS TO BE SPIKED WITH FULL STRENGTH AND COMPLETE CONFIDENCE

[hawberries]

ALL RIGHT – let's take it easy!

[mostlyvalid]

A proposal

Sometimes, in fandom, we just want to write id-tastic fic that rolls around in tropes that might be viewed as problematic. But we don’t want to address the problematic side of things in this particular fanwork; we just want to roll around and wallow.

It is considered courteous to give readers a heads-up via use of AO3 tags. I propose a tag that signals that a given fanwork is for rolling around, not giving a measured evaluation of anything. The MCU has carved out a space for this sort of fic with the “HYDRA Trash Party” tag, for which I commend them. Trash Party is a bit too specific to cover all of the ground I’m thinking of here, though; I propose “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.”

For those of you not familiar with Arrested Development, Michael Bluth finds a paper bag in the freezer labeled “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.” He opens the bag, finds a dead dove, and reacts as follows:

[gif of a white man saying “I don’t know what I expected” in a deadpan manner]

The “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” tag would essentially be a “what it says on the tin” metatag, indicating “you see the tropes and concepts tagged here? they are going to appear in this fic. exactly as said. there will not necessarily be any subversion, authorial commentary condemning problematic aspects, or meditation on potential harm. this fic contains dead dove. if you proceed, you should expect to encounter it.”

(more at KnowYourMeme: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-dont-know-what-i-expected)

[lazy-universes]

WHOA WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS THE POST THAT SPAWNED DEAD DOVE DO NOT EAT

[yourlocaltinsmith]

Happy dead dove do not eat birthday!

[chongoblog]

ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL

[chongoblog]

[chongoblog]

HAPPY BIG TWENTY NEIL

[samglyph]

Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama // Wisdom to Heal the Earth by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

[kingcael]

witch hat atelier