Wyvern's Menagerie

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[katewyvern]

gonna uninstall Tumblr for a bit for a mental health break. We’ll see how long it lasts. Queue on this blog will stay active, so enjoy whatever the heck I put in there while I’m gone

[lily-leaves]

I may need this later, for cosplay reasons...

[wisegirlandseaweedbrainforever]

I've always wanted these dresses.

[wafflebloggies]

EVERY SINGLE ONE IS GOLD My fave is either Sees Stars or Out of This World

[anxeious]

[qqchurch]

[advanced-passenger-train]

[adaarsvitaar]

I know people wanted the post credit scene for the DnD movie to be the actors playing the game, but I think it would have been infinitely funnier if it was instead the characters at a table trying desperately to figure out the date for their next heist. Next weekend? No, there's a festival. Tuesday. No, have a tournament. Any time in the next month??? Nope, there's some noble that half the group already agreed to go rough up, they'll be out of town. Oh hey a letter from Xenk, he can come on Thursdays. Are you penpals with Xenk?! Don't worry about it.

[childmagazine]

MRI of a neuroscientist kissing her 2-month-old son offers a modern, unforgettable take on the classic mother-child portrait. They're curled up inside a 3 Tesla MRI scanner, surrounded by its loud beeps and bangs. Despite the noise, the baby sleeps soundly on his mom's chest, allowing for a clear image of their brains. Capturing this took several minutes, and even a millimeter of movement could blur the scan.

For some, this image highlights the delicate nature of human life; for others, it symbolizes the timeless connection between any mother and child. The contrasting brain structures-smaller, smoother, and darker in the baby-make this moment even more fascinating. [x]

[watchoutboy]

This is Dr. Rebecca Saxe. The source listed here goes to some guy's instagram instead.

Why I Captured This MRI of a Mother and Child

A venerable symbol of human love, as you've never seen it before

[sparrowsabre7]

Reblogging for better source.

[crabussy]

hey. if you want to actually change minds, don't be unkind to the people you're trying to convince. or you CAN but in most scenarios you'll alienate a potential ally. what matters more to you? taking your anger out on someone? or helping them actually understand the situation at hand?

[crabussy]

"wow you're fucking stupid OBVIOUSLY x isn't y. can you learn to read or something" <- changes no minds, the person you're talking to will struggle to agree with you because by extension they would have to agree that they're stupid for being wrong, total happiness for everyone involved is through the FLOOR. in the NEGATIVES. no one wins, even if you feel good in the moment.

[crabussy]

but....

"hey there, I understand that you're very passionate about this, but the most recent studies out there show that x isn't y. I just wanted to let you know, because you clearly care a lot about the subject!" <- I have seen this change minds firsthand, it's easier for the person to agree with you because they're not feeling defensive over an insult, and total happiness for everyone involved either stays the same or goes UP. everyone wins. if they're still being silly about it, at least you can walk away knowing that you tried. and often times, even if they show no change in the moment, that kind of interaction stays with people. they'll ruminate on it. you might have helped incite a later change of heart.

[crabussy]

all that being said, conserve your energy and efforts. if someone repeatedly shows that they have no intention of considering any of your words, disengage! walk away! you CAN change minds but you CAN'T change everyone. "is this a constructive use of my time?" is a question worth asking yourself when you catch yourself talking to someone who is attempting to animorph into a brick wall. patience and kindness are awesome weapons but you do have to pick your battles. [:

[inbabylontheywept]

i got my cat one of those giant hamster wheel things so she could entertain herself then i showed her how it worked by putting her on it and spinning it slowly then faster then as fast as possible. and the good news is that she looooves her wheel. she just loooves being a hamster cat. but the bad news is that she doesn’t know how to use it solo so she will sit by it and scream until i spin the wheel for her. and if i dont go fast enough shell scream some more. so im hunched over this big wooden wheel turning it like igor and my cat is running so fast that shes panting like a dog and if I slow down even a little she’ll go MEEEOOOWWWWW and i frankly think I need to join a union or something. that bingus has no respect for me.

[inbabylontheywept]

not exaggerating the scream thing either. my roommate sent me pictures of my wretched bingus yesterday and, as you can see, she puts her whole face into it. her body contracts like an accordion. she yells so hard that her ass gets two inches closer to her face.

[vertigoambrosia]

op your cat is definitely playing you

she knows how to use it, she just wants you to be involved

like this cat

[inbabylontheywept]

i was suspicious at the time, but it took a minute for those suspicions to be confirmed. she now does solo runs but appreciates it when i come and spin the wheel myself. for old time's sake.

[thefernhands]

If you're fifteen or older an still sleep with a stuffed animal please reblog this.

My friend is embarrassed and thinks she’s the only one and I said id prove her wrong.

[inbabylontheywept]

apparently the average roma tomato contains 11 calories. im flabbergasted by this. it would be so easy to starve to death just eating tomatoes. i bought 30 tomatoes this week for my dehydrator, and my wife was giving me weird looks because that was 2 entire grocery bags of tomatoes. but that is 330 calories of tomato. i would need approximately 12 full grocery bags of tomatoes a day just to meet my basic caloric needs. thats like, 1 bag of tomatoes every hour and fifteen minutes. thats a tomato every five minutes. can you imagine how much your day would suck if there was a timer that went off every five minutes and then you had to eat a tomato or, eventually, you would die?

i used to see those old timey photos of photos of circus fat men and laugh a little because its like. really? this was the fattest guy anyone could find? this guy was so comically fat that he could go to a circus, and people would pay to gawk at him? this guy? i could walk into any bar in my town and lose an arm wrestling match to a guy fatter than this. 110 years ago guy was professionally fat, now he's losing to amateur hobbyists.

but then i think, you know, yes. i could outfat this man with the benefit of modern technology. i could eat two twinkies and smirk at this bastards two fucking grocery bags of tomatoes. i could do that.

but it is actually a hell of an accomplishment to do this with 1910s food. imagine the hell of being the 5 minute tomato man. like, your part time job is just chewing. 20% of your life is going to be chewing. its a grind. its awful. and then you look over, and theres this beautiful bastard, and the timer hasnt even gone off and hes eating another tomato. you're looking at him, and you're gonna say hey, i think you heard someone elses alarm, you dont have to do that, but then he gets another tomato. look at that defiant posture. look at his arms crossed. 12 bags of tomatoes? make it 20. im not scared of you, this posture says. im not scared of being alive. is it work? is it work to exist? of course its work to exist. so much chewing. but whats the alternative, let the fuckers grind you down? let the tomatoes win? he eats another one. you're grinning. you eat your tomato. you cant keep up with him but it feels a little better. this isnt a losing battle. youre alive. youve seen fat bastards before but they were rich. they got fat the easy way, with good food, with good drink, with honey and butter and jam. this guy has tomatoes. he eats another. he cant beat em but he can join em. he can do this. youre cheering. your friends are cheering. he does this for another six months and then he says hes got a new job. hes joining the circus. he is now, finally, professionally fat.

its like watching your friend in a small town get accepted to harvard. youre so proud of him. you wish you could join him, but at least one of you is gonna make it. and you know, youre proud that it is him. you give him a hug. your timer goes off. you eat a tomato. you wipe the tears from your eyes. you wave at him as he goes. your heart is heavy. your timer goes off. you eat. you eat. you eat.

[beau-and-arrow-99]

Op i love this post but i also am contractually obligated to ask: What the fuck?

[inbabylontheywept]

so sometimes i write with my brain and sometimes i write with my fingers and this time i started off writing with my brain. but then my brain got tired and my fingers kept going and i just kept watching the words pop up on my screen, and i just kept getting more and more confused by the Work of my Hands until eventually the only thing i could do was click post and hope someone smarter than me would know what just happened.

and now we’re here. confused. together.

tomato for your troubles?

[miseria-fortes-viros]

so on a scale of one to ten how bad is the acid reflux

[inbabylontheywept]

canticle of threnodies 5:7

[dddreamscape]

Mutuals do this

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

You've heard of parallel play, now get ready for perpendicular play.

[amuseoffyre]

Hot cross buns?

[neko-mancy]

just saw a "only one bed" fic with the major character death warning

[dontbreakthechain]

#i guess that's one way to solve that problem

[idabbleincrazy]

“This bed ain’t big enough for the both of us.”

[drops-of-universe]

why do men have this eternal fear of being used for money they don’t have lol

[papidehasbi]

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

i have so much owrk to do... but... but someone on tiktok posted a shiny button and pin they found that looks like a lil shield and sord for despereaux.....

anyways have mouse

[xanamaus]

It could be this world, OP. It's not too late.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

imagine if i just went off the grid cold case style from this comment and the next time you see hide nor hair of me it's in a new acclaimed children's book series in a smaller font under the author

[galahadwilder]

Imagine being a young superhero and newly-minted member of the Justice League. You’ve got a monitor shift with Superman, who you know as an invincible alien demigod who lives at the North Pole. You’re nervous about spending time with him—what do you even have in common with him? What could you even talk about?

And then shortly into monitor duty he casually mentions

his

WIFE???

[galahadwilder]

“I was driving my son to preschool this morning—“

ARE THERE PRESCHOOLS AT THE NORTH POLE, SUPERMAN?

AND WHY WERE YOU DRIVING, FLYING MAN?

[galahadwilder]

You start the shift thinking that Superman is this inhuman messiah-like figure who watches humanity from on high and has no human connections and then you spend the next hour steadily getting more flabbergasted as he tells you about how his six-year-old headbutted him in the nuts this morning before school and invulnerable toddler plus invulnerable nuts means actual pain and you’re just like “what the FUUUUUU—“

[galahadwilder]

At one point Batman wanders in all brooding and Superman perks up and goes, “hey Bruce! How was the Parent-Teacher Conference?”

Batman has a name? His name is Bruce? He goes to PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES?

(Batman replies, in the most tired dad™️ voice you’ve ever heard, “Damian tried to stab his chemistry teacher again.”)

[galahadwilder]

@dayables statistic of “average JLA member has 2 kids” is 100% accurate. Childrens Broos, who lives in a cave and obtains 2 new children per year, is not an outlier and should be counted.

Clark, Diana, Oliver, Barry, and Wally are all racing for “largest number of children by any definition” and Bruce is currently winning.

[etherealnoir]

It’s actually so sad how many men will just casually admit that they were coerced into sex by a hookup or a partner.

I was talking to a guy at a bar last weekend, and he was like “Yeah, I didn’t really wanna hook up with this person. But she kept asking me and I felt bad so I just did it. I didn’t really like it. But it was whatever.”

And I’m like… “Dude, that’s not okay. You have the right to say no if you don’t want to. And the other person should accept that and leave you alone.”

And that’ll be a NOVEL concept for them. Like they never considered that they could say no and stand firm in it. Because they’re convinced that as men they should always want sex, even if they don’t actually want it. It’s so sad.

EDIT: The fact that they don’t consider this coercion despite it being the TEXTBOOK definition of it absolutely explains why so many of them do it to women and don’t think it’s wrong.

[backtornado]

insane headline to pair with the actual photo of the beastie itself

this is just a gormless little creature. what are we doing here.