Atlas

Just here, chilling when I'm not concerningly immersed in fanfic :)

[goldfishinabottle]

alright it’s like 2 AM let’s finally do an intro post…

HI :D

I’m Goldie (or Atlas, take your pick), your friendly neighborhood spiderma- I mean uh, inconspicuous-looking neighborhood… goldfish… I guess. Concerningly dehydrated for a fish... regardless.

I love Percy Jackson, the Dream SMP, the Apothecary Dairies, My Hero, Harry Potter/Marauders (no support to JKR), AO3, PnF, Brooklyn 99, art, Simon Snow, the color green, EPIC THE MUSICAL, pretty much any music genre ever, SHOOT FROM THE HIP (only comedy group ever), Sherlock Holmes (and many adaptations), bbc Merlin, da Pitt, PROJECT HAIL MARY, and other odds and ends things.

CURRENTLY TAKING PART IN A LMANBURG SUMMER 🎉🎉

I love tag games and random questions, ask me about my art or something and I will be very happy to ominously and enthusiastically reply!

beautiful/gorgeous/handsome people with pretty personalities:

@the-ineffable-parker - I BLAME YOU FOR MY GO OBSSESION

@ivysbea - evil gang assembler, the artist of all time, summer-er...

@frivolousclown69 - the only friv ever

@leobean130 - a bean :)

@ashes-of-a-moon-crater - one of my first moots! :D

@traderotales - sammmmmmmmmm

@keyriingz - ugh we need to talk about fics more, sorry

@sweetronancer - i know this one

Tags (there’s actually stuff in these ones…)

#Atlas listens (tma) - the Magnus archives listening updates

#Altas listens (s&co) - Sherlock and co listening updates

Tags (beware there’s practically nothing in them):

#The Door - the (now finished ) project of me paining my door

#Goldie’s gallery - random art I’ve made

#Atlas updates - just little life things and thoughts

Here’s a picture for you

Go have fun on a swing

[asneakyfox]

one of my favorite bits in lord of the rings is something the movies didn't really try to do because it's entirely internal, but sam's carrying the ring and it starts trying to do its work on him, so he's having these intrusive visions of himself marching at the head of a vast and terrible army, and he just starts laughing because, me? samwise gamgee? sam gamgee the general sam gamgee the dark lord are you for real? man i just want to go home and do some gardening. and the ring gets frustrated and it starts trying to figure out other stuff that would actually tempt sam and it's finally like, okay, but hear me out: imagine if you could have...A REALLY REALLY BIG GARDEN

[elbiotipo]

More than "here in the Southern Hemisphere we have inverted seasons :)" thing, which is TECHNICALLY true, I would go a step further and encourage to think about that "much of the world does not exactly has a spring-summer-fall-winter season sequence as they show in cartoons"

[paperdragonsong]

I will scream about this to anyone who listens forever. AUSTRALIA DOES NOT HAVE "ENGLISH SEASONS BUT BACKWARDS" and the insistence that it does creates a massive layer of alienation from the natural world.

I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).

By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.

Most Indigenous nations around Australia had six or more seasons, revolving around wet and dry times as much as hot and cold, and marked by the appearances of certain native animals and flowers. Schools need to start teaching the real seasons, and explaining that climate cycles are too complex to generalise globally, or else we will keep raising generations who view the natural world as hostile and unpredictable and climate predictions as generally irrelevent and frequently wrong - and I'm sure I don't need to spell out why that's a problem in the era of climate crisis.

[tiredtransgal]

i want to add that 40% of the world's population lives in the tropics, and the 4 season model just doesn't make much sense for a lot of places in there. usually it's just the wet season/monsoon season and the dry season. it's often hot year round.

the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.

in general the way humans define seasons is largely subjective and varies across cultures. the one you were taught is not at all universal!

[spookynest]

Grace just fits this meme so well

[loveridden1999]

constantly trying to see the inherent good in people is a humiliation ritual that i continue to willingly participate in

[ruffboi-mags]

[gloamglozerglam-deactivated2022]

only the true king could remove the sword from the stone…. no one else could…… they didn’t have…. arthurization

[dragonologist-phd]

the thing about heavy handed symbolism is that sometimes. it's fun.

[cat-the-comet]

devastating: artist who has not practiced fundamentals enough to execute high concept idea eats shit

[annabelle--cane]

you know I think I WILL bet on myself for a change [is mysteriously losing dog shaped]

[ravioliet]

a long distance friend is kind of a dead wife in a way

[gayhockeyshow]

Hey…. Hey… Characters covered in blood, okay? You remember characters covered in blood?? You used to love characters covered in blood

[do-not-u-dare]

Do you think bricks would be crunchy if you ate them

i think they would be crumbly and abit sweet

[brick-offical]

can we stop eating me please and thank you

[do-not-u-dare]

nom

[funpression]

sometimes you dont eat fruit for awhile and then you eat some fruit and you're like oh fuck its fruit

[dogpuppy]

[victusinveritas]

[kaylmao]

has anyone seen my pet bacteriophage its name is styrofoam and its about [hand touching the floor] this tall

[redpandarascal]

in conversation about white people who go to Japan and expect their knowledge of anime to culturally carry them, I was once posed with “it’s like if there was a Japanese guy who was obsessed with spongebob and came over here and thought he could get by just communicating in spongebob quotes.” This is a false equivalence because if such a man existed we would crown him king. We’d love him. Americans would fucking love that. sometimes I get sad that this isn’t a real guy I can invite to a party.

[hong--zhi--zhu]

[frustratedasatruar]

[rainbowgod666]

Ok the last one got me laughing actually