[Something funny]

Brie | he/they | if any of you know me in real life no you don’t this is your chance to leave right now i’m warning you

[spectrometrie]

when i was a kid my parents bought me an inflatable doll of the Scream by Edvard Munch (??) that was significantly taller than i was at the time and i used to slow-dance with it and pretend it was my boyfriend. It had its hands attached to its head obviously so it felt like he was always a bit horrified to be forced to dance with me

[spectrometrie]

i didn't need no imaginary friends i had Screaming Joe right here !

[omgeddon-deactivated20260424]

I love this website I love it when people tell us what's wrong with them

[vocabulary-altering-posts]

PHRASES ADDED!

"i didn't need no imaginary friends i had Screaming Joe right here !"

"I love this website I love it when people tell us what's wrong with them"

CHARACTER ADDED!

Screaming Joe

[wrigglewormz]

I feel like having wings violently burst out of your back would just feel really good. Like itd feel awful but also itd feel really satisfying.

[wrathful-warhound]

Apollo Smintheios (of the mice)

[bodhi-devotee]

why yes, i do find it funny that Artemis and Apollo, gods of youth and children, have the sacred numbers 6 and 7

[sword-wielding-sapphic]

first rule of fandom is everything goes back to destiel

second rule of fandom is everything goes back to kirk/spock

third rule of fandom is everything goes back to holmes & watson

fourth rule of fandom is everything goes back to achilles & patroclus

[sword-wielding-sapphic]

the funny thing is. I originally typed out "fifth rule of fandom is everything goes back to gilgamesh & enkidu" but then I thought 'no, I can't trust that people will be familiar with the epic of gilgamesh'

I should have known. nerd ass website.

[horriblewarlock]

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[esoanem]

[amorphousbl0b]

The tribes of Tumblr appeared to worship Apollo as their primary patron deity, most often under the epithet Apollo Spairahemon ("Apollo the Ball-Thrower") as a god of prophecy and sport. His name was typically invoked to celebrate a user blessed with uncommon prescience. Moments of prophecy were considered highly sacred and were often recorded, and such texts are sometimes accompanied by an artistic depiction of the god — either his traditional masculine image or, unusually, in the form of a young woman, which appears to have been an earlier style before a conservative shift toward more conventional iconography — preparing to cast a round rubber ball that our scholars believe was used in the sport known as "dodge ball". Much as other cults regarded his arrows as bringers of disease and health, this community believed that being struck by this ball would bestow prophetic visions.

Some icons are reproduced below:

An earlier depiction (c. 2020) of Apollo as a girl clad in a simple tunic and playing with other children. Figures are smiling and the image is brightly colored, indicating a celebratory outlook toward knowledge of the future.

A later piece (c. 2022) that resembles the traditional appearance of Apollo. References to childhood and play are omitted, and the god carries a more frightening aspect; perhaps this icon represented grim omens rather than good tidings.

[xenosaurus]

Given the THIRD TikTok I’ve seen this week where somebody has a dragon in their CAR, I think it’s time for another round of “what not to do during hatchling season”!!

Stop trying to get wild dragons to imprint on you. I don’t care what you saw on YouTube about “pure hearts and intentions”, call up your local emergency room and ask how many people get maimed every year.

Seriously, I saw somebody cuddling a juvenile bristleback on Twitter this morning. Do you want to keep all your limbs? Because that’s how you lose your limbs.

The whole “dragons love children and would never harm an innocent” thing is an urban myth. Northern bluescales do sometimes carry off human children without harming them, but that’s because they keep live prey close to their nests when their babies are learning to hunt. It’s not exactly a whimsical journey.

You are not equipped to nurse an injured hatchling back to health. They eat hundreds of dollars in meat on a weekly basis, they piss everywhere to mark their territories and it smells like burning hair, they bite, they screech at all hours, they start fires, and sometimes they just drop dead if they aren’t getting the right nutrients. Just call a rehab center.

If you live near a spawning ground, for the love of god, keep your pets inside. Your cat isn’t smart or quick enough to fight a COYOTE, let alone a beast of legend.

I’m still not over the bristleback thing. They eat people. Don’t hug them.

If you want to soulbond with a scaley friend, ground wyrms are right there. They’re totally domesticated! They like lettuce and having their horns scratched! You can litter train them and their magical aura repels ticks, fleas, and malicious fae! I know they aren’t as “unique” or “cool” as a wild dragon, but they also won’t tear off your fucking arm.

[the-haiku-bot]

I’m still not over

the bristleback thing. They eat

people. Don’t hug them.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[writeouswriter]

I have this disease known as inability to remember how I fucking did that. Cool art style I achieved? No idea how to recreate it ever again, no clue what steps I took to get there. Baking went well? You are never tasting something that good or good at all from me again. Poetic writing? I've actually suddenly forgotten how to read. I don't know, I just don't know

[julianplum]

🐟🐟🌕🐟🐟🐟🐟 // swallowtail shiners // gouache on hot press paper

[manyhugsandkisses]

[free-and-to-none-accountable]

Hey does anybody have any advice or know any tips? I've always wanted to know how to do something.

[ofdirtandbones]

Listen. You ARE nature. You’re an entire ecosystem. Your flesh sculpted from the dirt. Your blood brewed from rain water. Thousands of creatures living inside of you, on your skin, who wouldn’t be alive without you just like you wouldn’t be either without them. You are born from the forest and the sea. Be kind to yourself.

[karmicpunishment]

ASK CHATGPT??????? i would NEVER. i ask all my questions to the pythia at the oracle of delphi like apollo intended.

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

unlike most people I don't give into mindless consumerism [sees cute stuffed animal advertised online] Ooooh i'd like to have it with me every second of the day.

[bethanydelleman]

My dad raises grass-fed beef cattle and I help him sell it, mainly by maintaining an online presence. For a while, I kept having the most ridiculous conversations with people who I assume were marketing students. I didn't want to be rude so I'd try to let them down gently but this one guy just kept insisting that with his magical marketing skills he could grow our business.

What he could not seem to comprehend is that we could not grow our business, at least not without significant time and monetary investment. Cows take two years from pregnancy to the size that you can sell. If we buy adult cows, our margins become razor thin or even negative. Even if we somehow could acquire some cows, our barn and hay fields are already near maximum capacity. Renting another field would be relatively easy, building a bigger barn not so much.

Cows are living animals, they aren't widgets that can be produced infinitely. Besides that, many businesses inherently cannot grow, because if they do they'll become something else. The delicious bakery down the street cannot produce much more than they do, if they began mass marketing and production they'd eventually be selling the equivalent of Twinkies. We grow grass-fed, organic beef, if we expanded how long would that last? Eventually we'd become the very factor farms that we hate. Some things can only ever be made on a small scale and they are usually the best things.

But also, what are they teaching them at marketing school and how is it so disconnected from reality?

[lew-basnight]

People kept trying to do this to my petcare business. “Let us build you a website! Let us buy you some ads! Let us print you flyers and cards!” I have exactly as much business as I can handle, and I’m happy with that. “But if you expand you could hire other people to do the work and pay them less, and raise your prices and eventually you can work from home!! Let us help you!” I’m doing this because I like playing fetch for a living, I like being outside moving around all day every day, I like spending time with each animal separately, I like being trusted by my clients with the keys and codes of their homes, it makes me feel proud. None of what you’re offering me is what I want. I don’t want a dozen miserable contractors who I pay 40% of each visit, I don’t want to try and wrangle and hire and vet people to do the part of my job that I like for me. That sounds bad. That’s a bad idea. And they looked at me like I was speaking an alien language. “But… website!! SEO! Ad buys! Targeted coverage! Constant growth!!” I don’t want any of that in my life it sounds fucking awful

[stjohnstarling]

One of the cruelties of capitalism is that if you want to do work you’re good at and love, a lot of the time your only option is to enter into some kind of business, and as soon as you do that, all the structural incentives of the system start trying to pull you away from the parts that you’re there for (i.e. the things that make life worth living) and towards various kinds of exploitation. Anyway, this also applies to writing and selling novels.

[weirdreindeer]

[lockedharrow]

i used to work for a nature center and we would constantly have wild owls come and call out to the owls in their cages and try to 1.) get them to follow them or 2.) they were looking for a mate

[shu-of-the-wind]

in the spirit of this post: when you live in areas with wild horses, the number one culprit for horse theft is actually other horses, because the young stallions that get chased out of the herd wanna start their own, and oh, look, look at all those cute mares in just,,,,a fenced off grassy area,,,how easy would it be to lure them over the fence,,,like some four-legged yodeling pied piper,,,

i think about this a lot

[praise-suns-and-chill]

This is so cute wtf

[alexaloraetheris]

Social animals will see another animal amd be like: Is anyone going to befriend this? And then not wait for an answer.

Humans are, delightfully, nowhere near the only ones who do this.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Many such cases