A Spoonful of Sugar …

Todd, twenty-something, cismale, Chicano, he/him pronouns. Right now I work as a magic space prince but I hope to become a veterinarian. also on this blog--chiku, immortal, nakeyan, cisfemale, she/her pronouns [if you 'it' me i will cut you I swear]. that's me in...

[anxietypuppy]

[retroactivebakeries]

immensely strong. immune to nearly every weapon.

[infinite-magical-recipes]

the words "Studio Trigger's Cybersix adaptation" sprang unbidden into my head and now I'm sad that's not a real thing that's going to happen

[infinite-magical-recipes]

our goodwill visit to bug prison

so a couple years ago todd and i hit up the new orleans invertebrate correctional facility, aka bug prison, to raise morale. it was good to catch up with my old friends on the inside. here are some pictures of the conditions inside.

this is my old friend louise. maybe. probably. could also be a leaf.

this is phyllis. judging from her tattoos i would guess she’s in a prison plague. kinda worried about her tbh

prison makes you hard. unless you were already hard, like these guys, in which case, as you were.

it’s depressing to see my own people in here sometimes. especially millicent here. millicent is innocent, for the record. that guy bit his own head off

i don’t know if there’s any hope for skip here. he may be pure weevil.

maury, zach, and bobby playing some ball in the yard

terry and tom’s escape attempt

bailey here is kind of a living prison shiv so i’m not sure why the warden lets him in the yard

i’m not really sure what the purpose of this display is. is it some kind of creepy warning. like having heads on stakes on your wall. or is it just supposed to make me hungry.

they take turns singing to the prisoners in solitary.

these are assassin bugs

they’re imprisoned, of course

for car theft

i guess this part of the prison is, like. minimum security.

todd still wouldn’t let me eat anyone tho, which is bullshit

prison yard fight over here, but the guards didn’t bother breaking it up, so i don’t know why todd thinks they would have cared

apparently there’s a juvie ward too

srsly tho someone went and started this one but didn’t finish eating, i couldn’t just have had a bite todd.

was the guard gonna come get me. this guy. i’m not even sure he has a head

but some people do get free.

[argonauticae]

im putting together a couple of scottish folk mixes bc that’s what i do and im honestly curious if anyone in my country has ever been unequivocally happy about anything ever

[argonauticae]

scottish trad music genres:

Everyone I Love Is Dead

The English Have Stolen All My Sheep

You Want To Be My Boyfriend? First You Must Answer These Riddles Three

The Protestants Have Stolen All My Sheep

I Love You A Lot But You’ve Left Me And It’s Raining [fiddle solo]

The Sea Is Treacherous, Just Like The English

One Time Bonnie Prince Charlie Punched Me In The Face And It Was Awesome

The Fairies Have Stolen All My Sheep

[plaidadder]

We have of course the traditional Irish music genres to go with them:

* Everyone I Love Is An Allegorical Representation of Ireland

* The English Stole My Farm And Put Sheep On It

* You Were My Boyfriend But Now You Won’t Even Come To The Window To Look Upon Me And Our Dead Infant Child (In The Rain)

* Whack Fol Too La Roo Umptytiddly Good They’ve Stopped Listening Now Let’s Talk About Revolution

* Something In Irish, I Think It’s About Fairies, Or Maybe A Cow

[jean-paul-fartre]

oooo can I add to this? don’t forget Appalachian folk balladry, the American cousin of Scottish and Irish traditional music and just as uplifting as its Anglo-Saxon highland forbears!!!

genres include:

I Left Everyone I Love Back Home In The Holler To Be With This Guy Who Doesn’t Wear Shoes Or Have Teeth But He Plays A Mean Jug

The English Told Us Not To Move West Yet, We Ignored Them, My Entire Family Was Killed

You Were My Boyfriend But You Tied A Sack Of Rocks To My Petticoats And Threw Me In The Creek (And My Baby Too)

Mama Loves All 14 Of Us A Lot But She’s Weary Of Our Shit And Now She’s Dyin’ (Gather Round)

The McCleans Stole A Firewood Log From Our Pile So We Won’t Rest Until The Last Of Their Male Kin Is Laid In The Cold Ground

We Knew The River Would Rise But We Still Didn’t Fix The Levee 

The River Rose, The Levee Broke, Everyone Died, It Was Just As We Reckoned (dulcimer twang-a-lang) 

When The Rebels Come A-Marchin’ I’m A Southern Man And I Feed Their Horses My Best, When The Yankees Come A-Marchin’ I’m A Northern Man And I Feed Their Horses What The Rebels Left

The Tennessee Valley Authority Killed All My Sheep Somehow

[shredsandpatches]

Don’t forget that old standby “The Mine Collapsed and Everyone Died”!

I think someone needs to put in a word for the English folk tradition though:

I Met a Girl and We Went Hunting (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)

I Met a Girl and We Caught Some Birds (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)

I Met a Girl and We Found Her Lost Pet (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)

I Met a Girl By Staying At Her Parents’ House and She Made My Bed (It Was an Especially Thinly-Veiled Metaphor for Sex)

I Am a Girl and I Regret Engaging In Metaphors for Sex Because Now I’m Pregnant

I Met a Girl and Bribed Her Into Sex But She Stole My Horse and Ran Away With It

I Met a Girl At an Inn and We Had Non-Metaphorical Sex But She Stole My Stuff The Next Morning and Now I Have Syphilis

Your Fiance Died Either at Trafalgar or Waterloo, Let’s Get Married, I’m Glad You Said No Because I’m Really Him In Disguise

Lord Nelson Sure Was Awesome

The Press-Gang Dragged Off All the Important Men in My Life (And Now They Are Dead)

Farm Laborers Are The Salt of the Earth And Are Never Grindingly Poor

Begging Is a Completely Viable Career Option With Flexible Hours and Unlimited Access to Alcohol

[infinite-magical-recipes]

behold mongolian folk music genres

I Went Out Riding and Noticed Mongolia

We Fought a Bunch of Guys (On Horseback)

Witness My Many Ungulates

(While On a Horse) I Met a Hot Girl Who Reminded Me of a Plant

On Three, Say What That Terrain Feature Looks Like to You (One, Two, Three, A Horse)

Witness My Many Ancestors’ Many Ungulates

I Also Enjoy Heavy Metal, Especially If It’s Made of Horseshoes

Oooorrrrweeeeuuurrrreeeeuuuuwwwwwrrrrrrrr (Is Tuvan for “Horse”)

You Might Not Know This About Me, But I Own a Horse

[neil-gaiman]

How do you get over a broken heart?

You don’t, ever. Not quite. But time can do amazing things. A deep wound scabs over, and the scab becomes a scar, and then one day you look for the scar and it’s barely visible. 

What’s important is not to become the wound. Not to spend your life and your time and your attention on the hurt and the heartbreak. Take it and make art with it, instead, or use it to push yourself forward, into things, not away from them.

Good luck.

[just-a-silly-little-guy]

My attempt at some Pearl voice acting. This song is just too good!!

[infinite-magical-recipes]

as a narrow, pointy murder goddess i can confirm this is lit

[did-you-know]

The Singing Ringing Tree is a musical sculpture in Lancashire, England. It is made of galvanized steel pipes that produce a dischordant choral sound that simultaneously resonates a range of several octaves whenever the wind blows through. Source

[dee-the-red-witch]

EXCELLENT. We’ll need at least sixteen more. And can you equip them with vuvuzelas? 

[naamahdarling]

….Why did we, as a race, do this? This is DEFINITELY going to summon something down from the void beyond the stars to feed upon us all.

[kyraneko]

Why are we so sure that this void-dwelling horror is coming to eat us, tho? Prey drawing in a predator with vocalizations is not usually how things work. (Granted, most preys are less stupid than humans, but the point stands.)

It’s more likely that the Singing Ringing Tree is going to accidentally function as a transgalactic mating call, a siren song that resonates into the void and draws some monstrous alien leviathan from the abyss between stars to copulate with the Earth, hoping our planet will sire a vicious clutch of discordant-voiced offspring to unleash upon the stars.

[infinite-magical-recipes]

sounds like we’re fucked

[hog-kong]

Really confused as to how my logo changed to kermit the frog. Unless im starting to have hallucinations from lack of sleep. Still. mindfucked. 

[infinite-magical-recipes]

o shit waddup

[archival-purposes-only-here-dea]

badassbonerfarts420 replied to your post:dear lefties: stop espousing eugenics and…

it fucking destroys me how many people casually support eugenics and like, don’t even seem to REALIZE it’s eugenics

RIGHT??? like – it’s like they’ve internalized the idea that eugenics is a thing Bad People like, but literally sterilizing people they don’t like against their will unless they have special dispensation from the government – that’s some other word that isn’t a bad mean word like eugenics :D!!!! 

nope sorry still morally indefensible, even if it’s against people you personally dislike h t h

[infinite-magical-recipes]

I feel similarly about complaints about “stupid people.” It’s one thing to criticize bad judgment, but when I hear someone indict anyone who wasn’t as lucky as they were in the genetic lottery, or who didn’t get the education they got, their privilege shows. Complaints that stupid people shouldn’t be allowed to breed tend to come right after.

[crossingscon]

Playing RPGs

“But I’m a shark-person with a giant axe.”

“It’s like ding-dong-ditch, except with blasters.”

[jamesmendezhodes]

new headcanon: Naomi Bishop from Lady Blackbird is a shark person

[unseenphil]

#so is Captain Hollas #He’s a goblin shark man

Wait, shouldn’t Snargle be the Goblin Shark? Or is that too on the freaky bulbous nose?

Man, I need the rest of Blades in the Dark to come out so I can try to write a Shark hybrid playbook.

[infinite-magical-recipes]

when a goblin and a shark person love each other very much

[non-eadem]

[infinite-magical-recipes]

from the all-mantis stage adaptation of ‘a separate peace’ by john knowles

[iguanamouth]

I've been thinking a lot about water dragons but that are like, manta rays? Dragon rays? Manta dragons? Does this have potential or no???

I THINK IT DOES YEAH

single manta ray dragons are often found hiding among schools of actual mantas, and usually its only their head shape when seen from above that gives them away. despite the name, their similarities to actual manta rays are mostly superficial - instead of filter feeding, theyre avid hunters that use short bursts of speed to catch fish unawares, and they can be fiercely territorial about the schools of rays they swim with

( they ended up looking really similar to skyweiners whale shark dragons h h hah a)

[ayellowbirds]

i need to pet one :O

[cabooceratops-deactivated201912]

oh my goodness flap flap dragons

[mentalflossr]

Scientists Create Tiny 3D Glasses for Mantises

[pipistrellus]

#pip this picture was made for you

thanks

[archival-purposes-only-here-dea]

@faypire

[infinite-magical-recipes]

scientists are dicks

[infinite-magical-recipes]

note to self

next time some shit happens, bring some extra memories. like. beforehand, go experience some random things and remember them, in case I need to feed them to an adventure.

[princessandknightfanboy]

Awwwww not again. :(

Tentacle monster?

[infinite-magical-recipes]

no it was some science thing this time. boss's problem, not mine. i did my job, me and …

… fuck

[infinite-magical-recipes]

note to self

next time some shit happens, bring some extra memories. like. beforehand, go experience some random things and remember them, in case I need to feed them to an adventure.

[infinite-magical-recipes]

o rly.

[infinite-magical-recipes]

brb kidnapped by time lords

it's kind of like that show "inspector spacetime." they need me to save a universe or some shit. what kind of species names itself lords of a dimension though. i'm named after a priest. autumn plz feed and walk todd while i'm gone. not sure how long it will last b/c time travel bullshit.

i will send recipes if i can find anything to eat, and if they have wifi in whatever dimension i am visiting