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he/they 29 What's there to say?

[philcollinsenjoyer]

saying this in a soft tone but i dislike this presentation of artemis 2 in the least political way possible as a wholesome and uncomplicated win for humanity as a whole like it's not american propagandism of the highest and most vulgar degree

[voicelessv]

"For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock."

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

[dauphinofdaylight]

Don't think about how the twins always cooked together and were practically inseparable and how the first time we see taako make food and get praised for it he says "thats how we do" because he would be so used to saying we that it just comes naturally to him. Don't think about it. Don't cry over all the times lup haunts taakos speech and actions. Not again.

[everythingsucksbutthatsokay]

Benefits of shipping Maurcretia: their lack of canon, onscreen interactions leaves the nature of their relationship entirely open to interpretation, while the few canon details we do have about their relationship provides a strong framework of implied closeness, trust, fondness, regret, and interpersonal tension, ripe to be explored and elaborated on

Drawbacks of shipping Maurcretia: I have to make it all up

[deadali]

[maccaulfield]

[snowkissedmonsters]

Anyway I'm thinking about a half-succubus who has been raised since infancy by a puritanical cult that thinks pleasure and non-reproductive sex are irredeemable sins, and they have raised the half-succubus (who has never been told about her true nature) as a deliberate example to their cult, just waiting for the day she is old enough to transgress sexually so that they can then brutally sacrifice her in a show of "purification."

Of course full blooded succubi cannot be born and never die, so are never children, but since our girl is half human she has to be raised. An unwitting lamb to slaughter, never understanding why her community treats her as someone dirty when she's only ever followed their rules perfectly. Of course she grows into a beautiful woman and the cult leaders are frustrated that she has not yet bent to her true "nature," and thus her very existence becomes a threat to their dogma. Because if sin isn't some inherent, demonic quality, then nothing makes THEM better than OTHERS, ie nothing makes the cult any more holy or worthy than non-cult members.

So of course they hatch a disgusting plot to "force" her into revealing her demonic sex-obsessed form, but don't worry!!!! She gets away and she's unscathed but confused and frightened and hurt because she STILL doesn't know what she is or why her community don't love her etc etc

NOW the fun part: fleeing the cult, she stumbles upon the cabin of a kind but isolated werewolf with major social anxiety - he fears the harm he could potentially do if he were to live around other people, bc he can't control the wolfy part of his nature. Of course he takes in this strange woman wandering the woods in the freezing winter, despite his fears for her safety. The succubus, now in the care of someone who is actually kind to her, starts experiencing a new hunger for the first time- bc of course, the reason her "nature" had never manifested before is simply that she'd never encountered anyone she was attracted to in that mean crusty cult.

The succubus doesn't totally understand this hunger, but she knows she can't act on it lest her new friend treat her like a sinful demon the same way the cult did. The werewolf is of course smitten with the first company he's had in years, but dares not act on it in case his wolf side takes over and it triggers a heat (or any story contrivance you desire, you get what I'm putting down here).

The POINT is that both these people are ferally sexually obsessed with the other but painfully unable to act on it. Oh, the yearning 😤

[caesarsaladinn]

romanticizing your life is such a powerful tool and it’s a shame that it’s mostly used by people on tiktok to justify the purchase of expensive breakfast smoothies when there are few better ways to force oneself through unpleasant shit than imagining a cinematic backstory for your extremely quotidian suffering

[caesarsaladinn]

finding the strength to walk home from the library at 3am in the freezing rain by imagining yourself as a Napoleonic soldier hightailing it from Moscow in 1813

[legendlarkpod]

Hi there! I've spent my weekend listening to all the available Nevernowhere episodes while knitting and I'm in love with the new campaign! And I wanted to share my knitting project bc I feel like you'll appreciate a bug scarf. Can't wait for the next episode, especially Friedrich's date!

HOLY SHIT THATS BEAUTIFUL!! I love the design and the colors!

So glad to hear you’re digging the new campaign! We’re very excited to play more of it! 💛

May god help Friedrich, most tightly wound little man in the universe. 😔🙏

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

so what you're gonna do is you're gonna trim the top off a bulb of garlic, using the knife's edge to take off the tip of every individual clove, that's important. you're gonna place the garlic face-up in a square of tinfoil, drizzle with olive oil, wrap completely in foil, place in baking tray, repeat with a copious amount of garlic bulbs. you're gonna put that baking tray in an oven set to 375-400°F, for 30-50 minutes, until soft and browned. you're gonna toast some good bread, slather generously with butter and honey, maybe a tiny lil bit o' salt. and then. you're gonna SQUEEZE. OUT. THAT. ROASTED GARLIC. onto the butter honey toast. and you're gonna eat it. food stolen directly from the plate of the gods. that's what you're gonna do.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

the garlic. it beckons you

[nonaferatu]

This would have had me crucified on tumblr 10 years ago but maybe we are ready for this conversation now:

If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.

This is a PSA to about 3/4s of the Portland Youth populace

[nonaferatu]

everyone who reblogs this and is like "I ordered my own tea this week" or "I only barfed once when I had to give a presentation'- you are doing amazing sweetie. Have patience with yourself, you are relearning a skill so difficult that people get 4 year degrees to do it professionally.

[theforestknowsmydreams]

what changed my life (and is still changing it) was advice a therapist gave me, barely 17, after most people had given up on me, after years of switching therapists and only getting worse:

"go through the movements, go as far as you can, and when it gets too much? you turn around, go back home, and reward yourself"

i couldn't really believe it at first because going home meant failure, that's what i'd been taught. if my goal was going to school, pushing myself to a panic attack and having to leave early only meant i hadn't tried hard enough.

but he made me realize that even getting out of bed was active movement towards something i knew to be scary and painful. i was being brave, that deserved a reward– and definitely not beating myself up further

so i started getting dressed every morning, as if leaving the house. then actually going out and just walking around the block before returning. taking a friend to walk with me as i got closer to my goal. and within 2 weeks i was inside the school building again.

now this was like 7 years ago and things didn't work out perfectly, but i still remind myself of that therapist when i really want to avoid some scary social interaction (and it works probably 70% of the time)

[cruelfeline]

A few days ago, one of my colleagues saw a one year old kitty for sudden onset seizures. First thought was idiopathic epilepsy, but:

Turned out that someone in the family had brought lilies into the house and put them up high, thinking that the cat wouldn't get to them. Alas, even a lick of pollen from lilies causes fatal kidney damage in cats.

Said cat was not epileptic. Her kidneys were fried, so she lost her life at one year of age.

If you have cats in the house, that means no lilies, no matter how high up they are.

[magicman1972]

No lilies. Ever. Not even once. If someone gives you a bouquet with lilies, throw the lilies out before you ever bring those flowers into your house. Just breathing the pollen in the air can kill a cat.

If you have cats, please take this seriously. No lilies.

[thebibliosphere]

I’m reading, and the fic I’m reading gave me such a strong flash of second-hand embarrassment that my brain tried to counter it by turning down the volume on my phone.

My phone which is currently not making any noise.

... Yeah. I got nothing. New level of “using the flashlight on my phone to look for my phone” just dropped, I guess.

[justnoodlefishthings]

"Coca-Cola made an AI ad!"

"McDonald's releases AI Christmas commercial!!"

Don't care didn't ask plus here's a beautifully animated ad for a French supermarket that was made by actual artists

[radiofreederry]

???

[jenlog]

[a52-i-guess]

[what-even-is-thiss]

“Cats don’t actually love you”

A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.

Don’t you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it’s helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.

Cats love you so so much. But they will keep trying to eat plastic.

[menlove-archive]

you ever have situations that make you want to take people by the shoulders and go "you are not 15 any longer. this behavior is no longer quirky and cute. it is exhausting for you and everyone else to act like a teenager you haven't been in a decade or longer. knock it the fuck off"

[menlove-archive]

lots of ppl making this about adults who have interests they find cringe but let me be clear this is about emotional immaturity. idgaf if you're 35 and like goku okay but can you have an adult conversation without making yourself the victim is the matter at hand here

[very-small-giant]

it’s the parley room…the parlor room? the parley parlor.

[mydaysaresmall]

This piece took over my life for a few months last year! Here she is my favourite girl.

This was done for @taz-balance-zine and you should absolutely go view the full zine FOR FREE here! It has been so inspiring working with all the amazing contributors and the zine is incredible I cried multiple times :P