Balancing on a banana peel

[bowelfly]

harvest season

[bowelfly]

Brother Herbert CAN handle a scythe surprisingly well but sometimes the inertia gets away from him and then it becomes a problem for everyone

[bowelfly]

i GIVE and i GIVE

[creekfiend]

I'm so glad that that truncated fucking ran-into-a-wall-at-speed tadpole-ass looking squirrel only lives in high altitude forests in Borneo bc this means I am extremely unlikely to encounter one in my day to day life. thank god

[tuftedpygmysquirrel]

Hello.

[creekfiend]

DID YOU MAKE THIS BLOG SIMPLY TO TORMENT ME

[tuftedpygmysquirrel]

I can go upside down.

[creekfiend]

WHERE IS THE REST OF YOU

[ultrafacts]

A pristine, untouched pool has been discovered 700 feet (213 meters) below ground in Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico, one of the world’s largest and most famous caves. This “virgin” pool, entirely untouched by humans, lies deep within a cave system renowned for its immense depth and towering chambers.

Scientists have described the pool as “completely pristine,” highlighting the unique bacteria in its waters that are believed to have evolved without any human interference. Surrounded by white frosted rock, the pool has an almost otherworldly appearance. Although its water seems to have a creamy, murky tint, this is merely an optical illusion.

[liquidstar]

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[liquidstar]

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[crowshira]

[diangelo-supporter10]

[despazito]

[iridesia]

[whetstonefires]

one of the things that bugs me about like, reactions to Labyrinth is you’ll see a lot of people eager to call out the element of sexual threat that Jareth implies, with the sensuality and the tights and the romantic subtext of the ballroom scene, and so on

but *far fewer* people seem to grasp/acknowledge that the final incantation, the line that Sarah could never remember until she understood it, ’you have no power over me’ ties into that element of Jareth-as-antagonist, on the level of both learning and fantasy.

the relevant element of the lesson being that men can’t actually make you play along in their romance games, no matter how much it feels like they have that power, or like you got yourself into this and now they define the terms of engagement. this is a growing-up Lesson about setting coherent boundaries that Sarah takes away for relationships generally, but because of how romantically coded that last exchange got it becomes very specifically freighted, as a lesson for a teenage girl moving into adulthood and adult romance and its dangers.

And the reason it’s a key part of of the fantasy is that as soon as Sarah grasps the fundamental nature of her power to say ‘no,’ Jareth has to stop.

[aqwult]

[argumate]

I don't see what the-- oh gosh

[certified-door-posts]

certified door post

[securityunit-ese]

Martha Wells is pretty cool.

I like how she encourages people to just keep on creating. Doesn’t matter if you’re good or bad, what your goal is, what you’re writing. Just write.

Don’t let them take the joy away.

Don’t stop.

[stealingpotatoes]

i don't know what older adults were on about when they said being a teenager was good <3

[sphyrne]

hiii i just got into your blog (adore your art so much!!!!) and you are so real for short vimes speak the fucking truth

THANK U I HOPE U ENJOY IT !!!

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[aniseandspearmint]

the cucumbers are ARMED and DANGEROUS

[theriu]

The way she got so cutely distracted from the threat with "Oh a little bee :D" is why the cucumbers let her live

[pharahsgf]

[rigantonas-deactivated20240327]

[animentality]

[arrowandaxe]

[bee-in-your-binnet]

Coyotes trying their damndest to get domesticated

[hst3000]

They coyotes are free you can just take them...

[homunculus-argument]

The fun thing about finnish is that the way you ask for things in a polite way has been in-baked into the suffixes you use, so you don't have to use many words when few do trick. Like asking someone "could you give me [-]" is "voisitko antaa" in written and some variation of "voisiksä antaa" in spoken dialects*, but instead of asking "could you", the polite polite way to ask is "haluaisitko", not as can you, but would you want to. The tone distinction is so clear that asking someone "could you [do thing]" instead of "would you want to [do thing]" is less of a polite request and more of instruction - someone's gotta do it, and the task is being assigned to you.

On the other hand, dropping out the conditional out of the question turns the tone into a passive-aggressive threat. If someone tells you "stop that" as an imperative, "lopeta", that's a command. Asking in conditional, could you stop that, "voisitko lopettaa" is a polite request. "Haluaisitko lopettaa", would you like to stop that, is so polite that depending on the tone it might be sarcastic politeness that indicates hostility.

But asking someone "do you want to stop that", "haluatko lopettaa tuon" is a matter of "do you want to stop doing that voluntarily, or do you want me to stop you." By physical force, if necessary.

* the different form varies depending on what first and second person pronouns are used in the specific dialect. This is a whole another rabbit hole so for shortcut I'm doing the examples in the southern finnish dialect that I have grown up speaking

[kuivamustekala]

Since I use it a bunch in my speech, I also want to shout out "viitsisitkö antaa". I don't think there's a proper english word to translate it with, but the closest approximation of the meaning is "could you be bothered to give me" - however while the tone of the translation could easily be read as passive aggressive, if you're just saying it politely, it moreso has this tone of, like... "if you would be so inclined I'd appreciate it".

Which sounds like pretty dramatic appeasement behaviour when I write it out like that but it's also just a nice, polite request, pretty much on par with the "haluaisitko".

[kevytmaitohorsma]

One more option is to state "you wouldn't have x" (ei sulla ois x:ää) and that's somehow interpreted as a polite request

But the one thing we don't have is "please". The word doesn't exist here.

[homunculus-argument]

You can certainly say "you wouldn't happen to have a [thing] that I could borrow?" in english, too, but I do like how in finnish, the latter half of the sentence is not stated out loud, just implied. You don't word that question like that unless you're asking whether you could borrow it. Which also gives the other person the opportunity to soft launch a "no" by pretending to not notice the implied part. So a conversation can go two ways, it's either:

"Hey wou wouldn't happen to have a hammer?" [Can I borrow your hammer?] "Yeah, what do you need it for?" [You can. What are you working on?]

Or it can go like this:

"Hey wou wouldn't happen to have a hammer?" [Can I borrow your hammer?] "I do own one, yes." [I am ignoring your implied request. Whatever you want to borrow it for, I don't want to let you.] "Can I borrow it?" [I am ignoring your implied rejection. I need to borrow it.] "What do you need it for?" [I will not let you have it unless I know what you want to do and approve of it.]

I don't know how much of this kind of thing is just finnish culture, though, and how much of it is just how neurotypical people universally talk. But the implication waltz is definitely a big part of finnish conversation style.

[toast-the-unknowing]

the bad news: I now hate my current wip and strongly believe there isn't a single joke in it that lands

the good news: I know my process enough to recognize this as the slump that I hit in everything I write when it's like three-quarters-ish done

the bad news: the only way out is through

the good news: I do know the way out!

the bad news: yeah but it's through

[toast-the-unknowing]

making a cross stitch that says "I am funny and he would fucking say that" to hang directly above my monitor

[toast-the-unknowing]

"hey toast you stayed up past midnight because you were working on the fic and not because you were procrastinating by making a hideous pattern for a joke cross stitch" have you never met a writer before

[toast-the-unknowing]

gonna tell my kids this was live laugh love

[nevver]

[gessec]

@quietbluejay

[imgdist0000]

drawing people i see in the city (60/?)