Toadstool Mentality

Hello all. Please send me pictures of horrible architecture (real, no AI). I write. A lot. A great deal of my writing ends up here. Currently, I am writing The Dark Crystal fanfiction most often. The things I reblog often include art, and fandoms including RotG, Labyrinth, Venom, Animorphs, Babylon 5, Abarat, light, shadow, water, masks, poetry, and bad humor.

[aropride]

come play blorbos with me

we can do tghis. our touy

[lamine-19]

scientific fact

[oysters-aint-for-me]

do me a favor and plz reblog with your five most recently used non-face, non-hand, non-heart emojis

[carriesthewind]

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From CBC's Uncover. In Akron, Ohio, murder cases that went cold for years are suddenly being solved. But defense attorney Don Malarcik isn’

Good stuff

[savouryduck]

[1five1two]

'Thundercloud over Butte'. Dan Namingha.

[wtf-scientific-papers]

[Many college students experience introductory physics as psychologically threatening.]

Benson-Greenwald et al. (2026)

[fission-mailure]

A lot of people are ragging on the 'cable diverted to avoid Dobby's grave after Harry Potter fans raise a stink' thing and while I also love ragging on Harry Potter fans being weird, in this case it looks like the story was completely made up.

tl;dr: There's no evidence the interview that this was mentioned in even exists, no evidence the route of the cable has ever changed, and the whole story seems to originate from one dude's podcast.

The story also broke into mainstream via the Daily Mail, who are ... rarely if ever honest or accurate.

[phaeton-flier]

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[nixscriptum]

[madebykyra]

My sister took more photos of my dress. I am very happy with how this turned out :)))))

Only one more weekend until the Renaissance Faire!!!!

[gretchensinister]

hi, i never got into the rotg fandom bc it always seemed to expansive for me, however i am older now and am struggling to find a place to start in reading and fics. i found a nice master list you made in 2017 that im still reading thru, but im curious if you know of, or remember, any users i can go back and find some more stuff to read/consume! if not, that’s okay! i imagine its been a while, thanks tho!!

Hello! I'm so glad that my master list has been helpful for you! :D

I don't know exactly what your tastes are for Rise of the Guardians fic, but my favorite pairing is Pitch/Sandy (blacksand), so the people I know from RotG fandom are those who wrote at least some blacksand.

I also enjoyed an offshoot AU that became known as Nightmare Dork University, which involved four different versions of Pitch, but @sylphidine (Ao3: Sylphidine_Gallimaufry) might be able to explain that better at this point.

Let me recall some more authors for you:

@tejoxys (Ao3: Tejoxys) rec: Black Tuesday

@emeraldembers (Ao3: Emerald Embers) rec: Light Illuminates the Scene

@lithefider (Ao3: LitheFider) rec: Not Quite a Total Eclipse of the Heart

@marypsue (Ao3: MaryPSue) rec: Dreamland

@queerpyracy (Ao3: hilaryfaye) rec: No Need to Speak

@bowlingforgerbils (Ao3: notastranger) rec: When You Wish Upon the Moon

@rachie-neyiea (Ao3: Neyiea) rec: And I Will Make Thee Beds Of Roses

You can also try searching the blogs of

@aroshi-wish, @arc03verdigris, @injureddreams, @whentheoceanmetsky, @xxdaimonxx / @thismightyneed, @ksclaw, @linddzz, @mira-eyeteeth

All of the mentioned blogs tag things differently. The peak of what you are searching for will have been posted between 2013-2015 or so.

I apologize to anyone I've forgotten!

[strawberrydykke]

opened up ravelry to look at patterns and the very first thing i saw was

The Garment by Robert Cole

[littlebirdinagarden]

I had to immediately look for myself and I feel like this post needs the addition of the very first line in the pattern description

[jetix]

Sea glass collection, 2026-07-07

[gretchensinister]

I want to contrast the image of my aesthetic tomatoes and basil with this other situation from today:

The scene: morning, I'm sitting on my couch drinking an iced coffee.

Suddenly! A sharp popping noise, very startling and also very mysterious. There shouldn't be anything in my apartment under pressure. I look around for clues, and to my horror, I quickly solve the mystery.

A pysanky egg that I made in the spring and have been keeping on a bookshelf so that I remember to turn it so that it dries out evenly has. Well. Not dried out. In fact it has exploded, and the insides are very goopy and horrible indeed!

It's on my books. It's on the other knick-knacks that were next to the egg. It's obviously on the shelf. Shell fragments and goop drops are all over the carpet, and even on a chair and the coffee table.

It all smells horrendous, of course, so my plans for this morning are immediately derailed since I have to clean up exploded rotten egg RIGHT NOW or I'll regret it.

Even after cleaning the smell lingered, and I left my sliding door open in the 90% humidity for like an hour and a half to try to help with the egg stank (unclear if this did help). Removing the trash with the yucky paper towels and burning a scented candle for about three hours seems to have solved the Smell.

(I've let pysanky dry out before, I don't know why this went so horribly. All future eggs like this will be blown empty.)

RIP...and this was where I would put a picture of the egg that exploded, but it looks like I never actually took one :/

[gretchensinister]

Some tomatoes and basil from the plants I grew on my balcony! A storm really did a lot of damage to my tomato plant this weekend, so I might not get any more tomatoes than this. But! This is still more tomatoes than I would have had if I hadn't tried.

[jelloapocalypse]

Someone asked me a while ago if I still had a photo of the worst sink I had ever seen while apartment hunting in Los Angeles. I assumed I deleted it so I didn't answer the ask and now it's gone, but as it turns out, yes, I do still have a photo of it.

[ametoraeye]

[elgreytea]

What are you reading rn, why are you reading it, and what format are you reading it in (physical book, ereader, on your phone etc)