Half-Faust

Just let me blog in peace...

[ravenlynclemens]

calvin and hobbes

[rocktopussy]

[pomme-poire-peche]

"You misspelled Weltanschauung" is one of the funniest punchlines I've ever encountered.

[blessedbycoyotes]

[werothegreat]

one of my faves

[dittoexodus]

[hurtstohope]

i have big plans to try and sew a little felt mouse and it might go badly and that’s okay

[hurtstohope]

he exists bc i made him

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[birds-in-posts]

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

Red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)

[wolfsong-the-bloody-beast]

Photographer Snaps Bird Catching a Ride on Bigger Bird's Stick

Wildlife Jocelyn Anderson captured a one-in-a-million photo of a bird hitching a ride on a bigger bird's stick.

The article contains a link to her photography shop, btw.

[asmrgaret]

it’s weird that professional letters are supposed to start with “dear.” i don’t even call my mom that

[asmrgaret]

my darling hiring manager. my springtime rose. if hired i will bring a strong work ethic to this position

[curiouslyhigh]

[feinseld]

i missed this post

[rewatchingpokemon]

[jareckiworld]

Lee Jaeseok — Dancing (acrylic on canvas, 2018)

[qualitysigns]

Venice, Florida, USA

March 2026

[pangur-and-grim]

what I've learned from having other people edit my work is that I have a sick addiction to commas

[pangur-and-grim]

there have been four editing passes on my spider sex book, and each time they take away so many commas. no fresh commas are being added, this is just a continued culling. if you see a comma in the final book please understand that it survived so much

[pangur-and-grim]

[gumy-shark]

playing stupid games but im really bad at them so im not even winning the stupid prizes

[swordfright]

you guys are so annoying. why do i have to see discourse every year that's like "was tolkien really a woke king or was he your conservative uncle?" the guy was a devout catholic and a genteel misogynist who maintained lifelong friendships with queer people and women, and this isn't even paradoxical because that was part of the upper-class oxford culture he was immersed in. tolkien told the nazis to fuck off (and in doing so demonstrated a real understanding of what racism is and why it's harmful, beyond simply "these guys are bad news because they're who my country is at war with right now") but his inner life was marked by internalized racism that is deeply and inextricably woven into the art that he made. he foolishly described himself as an anarcho-monarchist, and it's kind of crazy to see people on this website passionately arguing that he likely never meaningfully engaged with anarchist theory, because...yeah, no shit, of course he didn't. tolkien didn't have to engage with most sociopolitical theory because as an upper-class englishman of his position, he was never affected by any of the issues that this theory is concerned with. what is plainly obvious from reading both his fiction and letters is that tolkien's ideal political system was that the divinely ordained god-king would rise up and rule in perfect justice and humility; he didn't want a government, he wanted a king arthur, even though (obviously) he was aware that outcome was impossible. why is it so hard for people to accept that he was just some guy! his letters aren't a code you have to crack. no amount of arguing or tumblr-level analysis is going to one day reveal a rhetorically airtight internally consistent worldview spanning jrrt's fiction, academic work, and personal writings, thereby "solving" the question of whether he was a woke king or your conservative uncle. his ideology was extremely inconsistent because, at the end of the day, he was just some guy.

[hacash]

You’ll all sleep a lot better when you realise that actually most people, rather than being purity in human form or evil incarnate, are in fact just some guy.

[jayalaw]

He was some teacher that didn’t like teaching

[marzipanandminutiae]

“you don’t like the proliferation of terms like Unalive outside of TikTok because you realize that you’re aging out of youth culture and it makes you uncomfortable!”

no I don’t like it because there’s something INCREDIBLY dystopian about being forced to soften terms for basic parts of the human experience like death and sex (and even more so terms for oppressed minorities- call me a “le-dollar sign-bian” and I will bite you) purely because advertisers and corporations demand it

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

The idea that young people are getting used to not being able to speak in public about sex, queerness etc without talking around censors, and see this as normal and not a problem, scares me tbh.

[crippledanarchy]

The fact that people are so comfortable with being censored that they Voluntarily censor themselves on words and topics that aren’t even being limited is a terrifying sign

[transcyberism]

I hate to be like the “THIS IS JUST LIKE 1984” guy but. there was literally a thing in that book where you had to say “double plus ungood” instead of “bad” because you weren’t supposed to talk about bad things. if you told me ten years ago that “unalive” was a word that George Orwell had coined for Newspeak I would have believed you.

[artbyblastweave]

How'd I cut back on caffeine? The usual. Diet, discipline. One thing that helped a lot was that I harnessed the void. I tapped into the little incipient void which sits at the heart of every thinking animal, and I fed it. I hatefully nurtured it with every malicious thought, every unkind impulse, every knee-jerk reaction best discarded, and it gorged on these things it metastasized. It swelled past the confines of my heart and fought for space with with my stomach, my liver, my intestines, winning handily, subsuming each in turn, until I was little more than a man-shaped howling wrathful abyss sheathed in taut, paper-thin human hide, wandering through this fallen world in anticipation of whatever fleeting offense finally catalyzes my inevitable rupture and detonation. And now I'm down to two, maybe three cups a day

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Bracelet. Place of origin: Georgia Period: Late Bronze and early Iron Age Culture: Koban Date: First half of the 1st millennium B.C. Archaeological site: Svanetia Medium: Bronze

[forcearama]

The Kenobi series should show a flashback to what had to be the weirdest, most awkward conversation in galactic history:

Obi-Wan: [at a pay phone on Tatooine] Hello, is this Owen Lars? H-hello, yes, my name is Obi-Wan Kenobi. Owen: Oh yeah, you worked with my stepbrother, right? Obi-Wan: …you know who I am? Owen: Well I only met Anakin once for like, a day, but I overheard him yelling your name while he was having a meltdown in the other room. Obi-Wan: …that sounds about right. Owen: Also the message you left for him while he was here kind of interrupted my stepmom’s funeral. Obi-Wan: Oh! I, I am sorry about that. Um, anyways, so, I’m actually on Tatooine right now, and – [Luke starts crying] Owen: …do you have a baby with you? Obi-Wan: Ha! Um, yes, actually, so, funny story – well, no, as it happens it’s an entirely not funny story, but er, so turns out Anakin was, uh, married. Owen: Oh yeah? That girl that was with him that time? You know, they kind of stole our protocol droid. And I still can’t find one that speaks Bocce. Obi-Wan: Oh. That’s unfortunate. Anyways, I’m afraid I have some bad news: Anakin and Padme are both, um, sort of…not alive. Anymore. Owen: Oh, I am sorry to hear that. Both of them? What happened? Obi-Wan: … Owen: Hello? Obi-Wan: Yes I’m still here, I just. [clears throat] Well it was a terrible week, and let’s just say the Empire killed them both and leave it at that. Owen: What Empire?  Obi-Wan: Oh, right, I should have mentioned that the Republic is over and has been taken over by a fascist regime. And that the Jedi Order’s been destroyed. And as a Jedi, I’m now considered an enemy of the Empire. So I’ve fled here, to Tatooine. [Luke cries again] Owen: So what’s with the baby? Obi-Wan: Right! That’s actually why I’m calling, you see, Anakin and Padme had childr- a child, and he’s with me. But I, I have a bit of a target on my back, you see, and I don’t have a lot of experience with, uh, babies. Owen: [warily] …oh? Obi-Wan: …and I was just thinking, you know, perhaps you’d take him in and raise him and help keep him under the Empire’s radar. It should only be for the next 15, 20 years or so. [pause] 25, max.  Owen: … Obi-Wan: I, I won’t be going anywhere, of course! I’m planning to live in this, um, shack I found, beyond the Dune Sea? So I’ll plan to come by every so often to spy – to, uh, supervise, from afar? Owen: Excuse me?! Obi-Wan: Or not! Heh, I don’t, I won’t be any trouble. But I really, really can’t keep the boy myself. Because of the being a fugitive and all. Owen: [the first in several decades of world-weary sighs] OK, come over I guess. Obi-Wan: Wonderful! See you soon.

[forcearama]

So, I’m very pleased that people liked this one, but REALLY: I have been laughing about this whole thing for YEARS. 

How. HOW. How did Yoda and Bail and Obi-Wan just LEAP to this conclusion? Yoda was just that good at predicting the future that he could sense from the other end of the galaxy that Owen and Beru would take a few-day-old infant from some guy they’d never met before? AND THEY SEEM SO CHILL ABOUT IT IN REVENGE OF THE SITH: 

And Bail and Obi-Wan are just like “’k, that sounds like a plan, sure, we’ll send him to total strangers who will for sure be fine with all of this including the fact that Ancient Evil would not hesitate to murder them if any of this is ever discovered” and Obi-Wan is like “yep and I’ll just lurk in the shadows and watch over him” like they are ASSUMING SO MANY THINGS RIGHT NOW. 

I’m dying, because what if Obes had hauled his devastated, emotionally and physically scarred body all the way over to Tatooine with a newborn, and Owen and Beru had been like “…uh actually, we’re not interested in having a child, and we’re not even sure if we 100% believe this insane story, especially since we’ve literally never seen or spoken to you before, ever”? Or “sorry, this is just too big of an ask considering the threat to our lives involved here?” WHAT THE HELL WOULD OBI-WAN HAVE DONE? What if he’d shown up and Owen and Beru had moved off planet, or died or something? 😄 Yes, yes: he’s Good and all and so he probably would have attempted to raise Luke on his own at least for a while or something, which would have been mildly disastrous AND hilarious, but also I would DIE LAUGHING if he’d have GONE BACK TO ALDERAAN or something. 

Bail, grabbing him by the shirt and yanking him inside his palace, all “what in the hell are you doing here, Kenobi?! We agreed to all go our separate ways until the time is right! What – oh my gods, is that the child?! You brought him BACK here? With you?” I’d be down for the AU where Obi-Wan just sort of moves in with Bail and Breha and becomes the Skytwins’ nanny who has to live in a storage room so as not to be seen in public. Bonus points if Vader shows up at some point and his Force-radar is going CRAZY because is there something in your utilities room, Organa? and Bail has to find a way to get him the hell out of there before Anakin finds Obi-Wan hiding in a laundry basket or something. 

[felipeiv]

[gingik]