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coyote therian just talking about stuff

[goblinbathwater]

I used to be really into horror and scary and gore but I've been kind of unable to watch anything like that for a few years now and I don't like it. It didn't use to bother me but now I'm getting paranoid at night and having trouble sleeping every time. I really want to get back into it but I'm in a place where I don't feel safe and I don't think I'll be able to until I move out (which should be soon if everything goes well) But yeah I really feel like watching horror stuff but I can't because if I do I'm not going to have a good time

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[c-kiddo]

me when im pretty pretty princess

[goblinbathwater]

Just so very gender

[goblinbathwater]

I've had to shave my head and I'm not happy so I'm writing here.

First of all my head feels naked and vulnerable. Unsafe. Cant hide behind hair. Also too neat. I loves messy hair. Cant have cool hair clips anymore or do fun hairstyles. Branches leaves and stuffs don't get caught in there anymore (I liked it:(.cant do little braids anymore. Cant wear animal ears anymore cuz not only can you see the headband but also my human ears. Dont like. If i dont wear a hat in the sun I have no hair to protect my head. ALL MY HATS ARE LOOSE NOW. I don't look like me anymore. I really hate it.

[goblinbathwater]

My homonculus is spilled the enchanted bottomless inkwell. There is ink up to my knees and I cannot find him.

[liebelesbe]

Yeah man, this wizard sleepover is cozy. I just saw a guy gently clap his hands together and say "hot beverage conjuration" or something, and suddenly everyone was holding a perfect mug of their favorite warm drink in their hands. Nobody who was already sleeping even woke up, that's how cozy it is. I'm over here casting pillow and level 2 pyjamas. I think I just heard "power word: blanket fort" two groups over. I gotta get in there.

[thecrowsteeth]

I keep doing this thing where I start a warmup exercise and then just go balls help

[oathofwhimsy]

[ID: a digital drawing of Molly's and Caleb's hands from Critical Role. Molly's hands have Caleb's pinned onto the grassy ground. End ID]

[heaveninawildflower]

Terracotta figurine of a fox scratching his neck (Greek, late 6th–early 5th century B.C.)

Image and text information courtesy MFA Boston.

[brightgoat]

"TESTIFICATES" of My World AU

Lore Masterpost. More stuff:

Villagers

Villager's view of the Hero // More on Villager Roles // Iron Golems // Growth // Magic // Hands // Courting

Illagers

Illager's view of the Hero // Childhood // Growth // Death // Totem of Undying // Magic // Courting

Witches

Witches' view of the Hero // Gunpowder

Traditional Colour Symbolism

Other fun facts:

They all naturally have very little to none hair. Any significant amount of hair is a genetic oddity. A head full of hair like the Hero's is just absurd to them.

They all speak a shared language, that the Hero cannot understand. But they can understand the Hero. One sided language barrier. There's no work around this barrier.

Although they all seem to be from the same evolutionary branch, the origins and history is long forgotten by them. The term 'testificate' is archaic and not really used.

They all have a shared mythology, but focus on different parts of it.

[sevdahalma]

most fantasy books or fics i’ve read that contained a desert biome fell back on real world prejudice and misconceptions in place of authentic worldbuilding for a place and people, and it is so telling that the trope seems to repeat itself

things like

the desert as a lifeless wasteland where ‘life is crushed underneath the shifting sands and blazing sun’ blah blah blah. deserts are full of life and they are beautiful and people have lived and prospered in them for eons. please read a book

the desert as an ugly or barren terrain where everything is harsh and threatening

the desert as something scary

the inhabitants as backwards religious zealots

the men as overly violent and oppressive

the inhabitants in need of outside instruction/intervention, i.e. “civilizing the savage”

the “harem” and women as exotic, sensual, mysterious

writing tribalism with no knowledge of how tribes actually function

djinn (or for the westerners, genies)

Islam Lite (the aesthetics or spiritual practices appropriated and stripped of meaning)

sprinkling random arabic words for ✨flavor✨instead of expanding your worldbuilding to include language as well

clothing as oppressive or mysterious, instead of serving its actual purpose (protecting you from the elements, which should be obvious but i guess it isn’t. covering your skin keeps you cooler and safer in most deserts)

people who live in deserts as ignorant, superstitious, uneducated

this isn’t worldbuilding, it’s just ignorance and bigotry

[sourb0i]

So true!

To anyone writing stuff set in the Mojave/Sonoran Deserts (and maybe the Colorado?) Please please please look up Palo Verde forests!! The trees are green but completely bare of leaves- they photosynthesize directly through their bark. And instead of leaves they have spikes! It's so trippy and cool to be walking through a lush green forest knowing that the nearest water is 50+ miles away.

Other Mojave/Sonoran specific things:

There's tortoises! They're pretty rare to see but you can often find their burrows, or sometimes skeletons

Nightjars will wait till you get super close and then fly up, scaring the crap out of you

There are areas called 'desert asphalt', which are large expanses of black volcanic rock. Looks totally different from any other part of the desert

There are jackrabbits everywhere

Everywhere there aren't jackrabbits there's lizards

It's actually pretty loud; there's loads of insects- mainly crickets and the like- but also lots of birds! You won't see them but by God you will hear them

Wildflower blooms in the rainy season are the most beautiful thing you'll ever see in your life. There will be so many flowers that you never even knew existed

If you live near any mountain range, you'll actually see thunderstorms fairly often. You'll never actually get rained on, but there's almost always thunder on the mountains, especially in the evening. Idk maybe that's a metaphor or something

Source: I lived on the edge of the Mojave and Sonoran for a bit, and most of my job involved wandering around the desert for 8 hours a day

[winrytheweirdo]

“it/its pronouns are so dehumanizing!!”

I'm going to take you by the shoulders when i say this…  

[jay4ther]

so so so tired of being physically human, reblog if u agree

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

People will be so mean to teenagers do you literally not remember what it was like to be sixteen. Every time I talk to a teenager I feel I should hold their hands and tell them I think they're one of the bravest people on the planet just for choosing to endure but I don't because I don't want to be creepy.

[wickermops]

I think they like each other 🔮🔥

[juunipupu]

Knight and Valentine / sydänystävä

[juunipupu]

Context discussion under cut

There’s not much to add and yet it’s a topic on my mind recently. This is mostly a ‘pun’ between the title and the imagery. In contrast to traditional Valentine’s Day, Finland (and other countries too) has Friend’s Day. Theming is much the same, but basically the romantic aspect of the day is changed toward remembering friends and familial connections. (and the further I go I want to apologize to Friend’s Day catching strays, I actually love this version of valentine’s) The other part of the title ‘sydänystävä’ translates closest to bosom friend but literally translates as heart friend. I don’t connect the word with anything romantic, and often I see this used for ‘they were roommates’ type of comments. So there’s not only a rather big contrast between who is a valentine versus sydänystävä but also seeing how homoerotic the picture is, it’s ridiculous to title them as bosom friends. And yet..this is a topic we see happen repeatedly in regard of queer love and identities, historically and currently. I’m especially saddened to see recently how homo/lesbophobic ‘medieval’ trends have been, and how in service to these power fantasies we erase queerness as if it never was there to begin with.

[luminous-void]

Artist Unknown, Wyvern Weathervane, c. late 1800′s

[samimarkart]

embroidered fossils added to my shop as a test run, will be adding more as I work on them! each are one of a kind