Thoughts and Things

Kit (she/her), 30. A wreck. Cosplayer, crafter, filthy casual gamer. I learned how to cook because feeding my friends feels almost as good as eating. I have too many hobbies and not nearly enough time to do any of them.

[fnordseer5]

our idiotic ancestors used to believe stuff that's not true but luckily we've now figured out all the true things to believe in

[sycamorality]

💯 but its 000 for when something's fuckall

[ispyspookymansion]

[kaytario]

Eileen Mayo

[beardedmrbean]

This is good information to know.

I might need to culturally appropriate the Asian greeting just to see how it goes.

[emma-d-klutz]

[snapdragonnz]

i just found out about this bird (scale-crested pygmy tyrant) trying to find the most biodiverse countries and i feel tears welling up in my eyes because its so cute

why does it look like that i love him so much he's a little fella

[oneheadtoanother]

[thedogeveryonehates]

new fav video just dropped

[posallys]

i'm literally begging people to relearn how to use earbuds and headphones. i don't wanna hear your fucking tiktok while im waiting for my flight.

[southbreak]

100% this.

[pangur-and-grim]

my house is scary at night

[storyweavingspider]

Interpreted this initially not as shelves, but as your cat having erected defensive fortifications

[lordsausage]

shoutout to the words "overmorrow" and "ereyesterday". english losing these words was stupid. "the day after tomorrow" "the day before yesterday" clunky-ass constructions. revolting. i'm bringing overmorrow and ereyesterday back in my idiolect and there is nothing you can do about it

[brazenautomaton]

Threemorrow

[nearlyenoughcats]

In German we still have them and they're basically identical: übermorgen and vorgestern. However, if you want to go further back or on, the clunkiness prevails. Überübermorgen. Vorvorgestern. And you could keep doing this indefinitely if you wanted to be a little extra obtuse today.

[alphagodith]

i love german so much

[thestuffedalligator]

Dragons are fireless until they undergo the Hroom, the traditional draconic ceremony where a fledgling dragon will go out into the world and make a bargain with a spirit of elemental fire to live in their soul in a state of mutual symbiosis. The spirit receives shelter and nourishment, while the dragon receives a source of elemental fire, which it can only now use to defend itself.

In many draconic cultures, the Hroom marks a dragon’s coming of age, a time to recognize that a dragon is now of a proper age to hold a weapon and defend itself. Some dragons believe that it is only by bonding with an elemental spirit that a dragon has a soul, and that a dragon is only a whole dragon when it has both the mortal shell and the inner spark.

There has been a backlash to this in recent centuries, of course. Fledglings these days are going out and making bargains with all kinds of things. This is usually spirits of elemental lightning and ice, but more than one dragon has come back to their clutch with a fairly bewildered witch.

[thestuffedalligator]

#Does the witch live inside the dragon's soul after...?

Metaphorically, yes. One dragon had married the witch she brought back to her clutch, and she said that meant their two souls had become one, which was basically the same thing.

The other dragons in her brood said it didn’t work that way, but she was able to breathe pure magic afterwards, so it at least worked that way for her.

[cipheramnesia]

Bonds with a pistol shrimp and ends up breathing plasma but with a multimegaton volume of sound, but mostly sits around doting on the shrimp and making sure the aquarium is clean with good pH levels and the shrimp gets lots of enrichment. World's most adorable dragon marine biologist but watch out!

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

Fuck Joanne

[gaydiation-poisoning]

It would kill half the 19-25 year olds online to realize "I can't help it I have trauma" is one of THE quintessential abuser excuses

[gaydiation-poisoning]

Like there is a difference between "My trauma creates impulsive urges and has changed my instinctive reactions to be irrational, I need to relearn shit." vs "I'm traumatized so I Can't Help It and you're not allowed to expect better of me"

[the-quasar-hero]

Why do you blog?

Honor

Glory

Duty

Justice

Remaining time: 5 days 1 hour

[ivy-michaels]

This comic is from 2017 and it remains as relevant as ever

[edgedancing-queen]

Obsessed with AI models as compost heaps. Like yeah you're gonna get SOMETHING out of it but it's not gonna be as edible as what you put in.

[lady-halibuts-chambers]

[wyrm-jam]

Ngl Senshi genuinely was the first human adjacent character in maybe ever that gave me something akin to body euphoria because I too am short and stout

Like his whole look is so attainable for me and he is beloved and seen as genuinely and extremely attractive by many, even by characters in the show itself so like

He's gotta win this sexyman thing because I think for once maybe the winner should be someone who actually have a marginally attainable and realistic look.

I don't care if you draw your TV man fat. He is NOT fat in canon. Senshi is short, squat, and while also fairly muscular, he has a visible gut and man boobs

Genuinely Senshi sometimes nearly makes me wish I'd kept some breast tissue when I got top surgery because he makes ME feel like I could have kept some and still have been masculine.