Okay, Gotcha.

I am just a person and I am trying very hard. I think.

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Me, at the local coffee shop: Hey, can I get an objective experience of reality? Blue-haired feminist barista, pronounedly: Oh, you mean a construction of the intellect according to its a priori principles? Me, rolling my eyes: No. I said an objective experience of reality. Barista, too addled by college to understand: So... a phenomenological reality whose grounding in a world of noumena is bracketed? Me: No, an objective experience of reality. Barista: A representation, made of relations to yourself as a subject? Me: No! I want a frickin' objective experience of reality!

Barista: *stares blankly* Person behind me in line: Hey, could you hurry up and order? Some of us are trying to experience a series of mental events which we interpret as going places!

[undying-princess]

knowing how it tends to go with male authors and their wives it was probably marge who wrote the odyssey

[ivebeentraveling]

I love editing podcasts. I love editing podcasts. I love editing podcasts. I do actually want to edit podcasts rather than play pokemon in my cozy bedroom for endless hours. I do want to be editing podcasts instead of smoking a joint and playing pokemon.

[shopkeeper]

[campgalaxy]

[loreleywrites]

girlknight who gets possessed by four elemental spirits that change her fighting style so that she can properly defend her princess's domain from the four elemental witches that attack from the four cardinal directions

[kaiju-kueen]

But...hear me out. What if the four witches are just trying to invite the couple out to brunch and the girlknight just doesn't realize it, cause everyone involved doesn't understand social cues?

[loreleywrites]

actually the witches are trying to claim the princess's castle because 1000 years ago it was built on top of a vergence of leylines and the witches can channel energy from their own domains at the edges of the world into this vergence and bring about a cosmological evolution that will usurp the old order and reinstate them as godlike beings with dominion over all physical existence

BUT

they don't know that theyre each planning on betraying the others to seize the power for themselves

AND

the girlknight can be possessed by the four elemental spirits because her sword is embedded with the prism of the elements, a sacred gem created by an ancient sorceress 1000 years ago and thought lost to time

BUT

the princess is aware of all of this and has been manipulating events throughout this whole war so that when the time is right she can turn the girlknight into a sacrifice that opens the Celestial Door to grant her access to the power thats tangled up in the leylines and then all witch squabbling ends and all knight bravery ends and forever and ever and ever there is only the domain of the princess beloved by existence itself and all who dwell within it

BUT

the girlknight has allied with a shy girlthief and a plucky girlwizard and a maid questioning her loyalty to the throne and they have the power of friendship and kindness on their side

SO

in the end no one claims the cosmic power to dominate reality and instead everyone's gotta learn how to build peace in the world as it is and deal with their problems with help from each other

[kaiju-kueen]

That sounds like a D&D plot.

Is that a D&D Plot?

Cause it'd be a good D&D Plot.

[loreleywrites]

no its real

[ivebeentraveling]

can confirm this happened to me and it sucked but good for those girls I guess. kinda would have liked to just live in eternal exaltation of a perfect princess god but I'll just continue making peace or something.

[gay-little-izzet]

Wooo woo I finally finished some EoE fanart!!!

Wanted to try painting faces and also playing with weird lighting. Definitely a very frustrating process but I’m proud of myself for finishing it!

[ivebeentraveling]

I think I finally figured out the best way to describe my “type” and it’s “weird little guys (gender neutral)”

[ivebeentraveling]

Would it be really funny to tell my ex this

[ivebeentraveling]

I think I finally figured out the best way to describe my “type” and it’s “weird little guys (gender neutral)”

[eurasianmagpies-deactivated2026]

people love to find progressive ways to say we should all be arranged into separate groups and try our hardest to not relate to one another

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i don’t get horror movies, why doesn’t the protagonist just act in a way which will prevent a story from being told or piece of entertaining media made

[ivebeentraveling]

It kind of bogles my mind that I was incredibly active on Tumblr for years and I never really followed more than like 150 people at a time. I follow like 400 accounts on other websites but here I was happy with less than a third of that.

[ivebeentraveling]

Tumblr asking me if I want to add tags to my posts so that people can find them and I think it misunderstands the reason I post anything on here: I do not want it to be found.

[ivebeentraveling]

It kind of bogles my mind that I was incredibly active on Tumblr for years and I never really followed more than like 150 people at a time. I follow like 400 accounts on other websites but here I was happy with less than a third of that.

[ivebeentraveling]

I like to make what I call my potion, which is when I mix Liquid IV powder, Emergen-C powder, and Metamucil all together in one drink. It’s like a superior potion of healing. 8d4+8 ass drink.

[spinnaker1509]

“Dogs don’t know what they look like. Dogs don’t even know what size they are. No doubt it’s our fault, for breeding them into such weird shapes and sizes. My brother’s dachshund, standing tall at eight inches, would attack a Great Dane in the full conviction that she could tear it apart. When a little dog is assaulting its ankles the big dog often stands there looking confused — “Should I eat it? Will it eat me? I am bigger than it, aren’t I?” But then the Great Dane will come and try to sit in your lap and mash you flat, under the impression that it is a Peke-a-poo… Cats know exactly where they begin and end. When they walk slowly out the door that you are holding open for them, and pause, leaving their tail just an inch or two inside the door, they know it. They know you have to keep holding the door open. That is why their tail is there. It is a cat’s way of maintaining a relationship. Housecats know that they are small, and that it matters. When a cat meets a threatening dog and can’t make either a horizontal or a vertical escape, it’ll suddenly triple its size, inflating itself into a sort of weird fur blowfish, and it may work, because the dog gets confused again — “I thought that was a cat. Aren’t I bigger than cats? Will it eat me?” … A lot of us humans are like dogs: we really don’t know what size we are, how we’re shaped, what we look like. The most extreme example of this ignorance must be the people who design the seats on airplanes. At the other extreme, the people who have the most accurate, vivid sense of their own appearance may be dancers. What dancers look like is, after all, what they do.”

— Ursula Le Guin, in The Wave in the Mind (via fortooate)

[afklancelot]

ulysses ogre's branching out to different books now

[just-a-sketchbook]

House Of Leaves zine!

It's a basic 8 page fold in way too big and it took me forever (I'd say about 30 hours over 3 months) and I'm so pumped about it. I beg of you, click on the pictures for quality.

All backgrounds are coloured ink + linocuts and some good old prints from actual leaves, then there's collage, collage from negative and film photographs I had from way back when I did a year in art school, also stitching and couloured pencil drawing. All texts by me as well. I had to repair an old typewritter my Dad had down in the basement just so I could type Johnny's bits :)) (so add another 10 hours for that).

My handwritting is terminally bad so I had a neat handed friend write the letters very small

It is unfortunatley too big and fragile to be scanned for reproduction but here's not very good pictures of the secret #8 that's on the other side of the fold :) - cat for scale.