a buffalo monster, in a cape

"If they have to hurt you to help the world, then the world's too broken already and it should blow up, who cares"

[kubb-is-a-swedish-lawn-game]

the trolley problem except the guy tied to one set of tracks is your friend and someone you trust and one of the few people in the world that you genuinely like and he's begging for his life and he's saying that you're murdering him and he's screaming and clawing and running like a wild animal. on the other set of tracks is every living thing on the planet. its a no brainer, obviously. but he will still scream. this happened to my good friend eva stratt

[barkrooms]

can someone help me find the picture of a bunch of webkinz(?) like gathered in a living room and some of them are playing a ds and some of them are sitting around a tv playing the wii and some of them are playing webkinz on a laptop and i think some of them were drawing too?? it looks like it was taken with flash on iirc and it was circulating on here a while ago

[fudhchshfhvhffuckoff]

[havingapoemwithyou]

Scientific method by James Tadd Adcox

[vonlipwig]

developing the hots for ryan gosling because of project hail mary is so fucking embarrassing I swear to god. that is a conventionally attractive man. a noted hollywood heartthrob. he's even blond, are you kidding me? did he win people magazine's sexiest man alive? I don't know. I'm not going to check but it wouldn't surprise me at this point. it's such a mainstream taste. such a clichéd celebrity crush. like oh I fancy ryan gosling and my favourite drink is coca-cola and my favourite snack is ready salted crisps. jesus christ. 'b-b-but i only like him when he's in a science pun tshirt and playing a dorky-awkward loner type!' doesn't matter. he's still ryan 'ken from barbie' gosling. it's so trite. I feel like the weird nerd girl in a teen coming-of-age romcom falling for the super popular jock. don't I know that I have a reputation to uphold here? cringe.

[fandomsandfairytales]

This post is the spiritual successor to that post about David Corenswet:

[segamascott]

[crabussy]

eating a crisp cold apple in the warm sun with my doors thrown open and a winter breeze kissing my face. life good. I like my apple

[philcollinsenjoyer]

Thank you divorce for all you've done for music

[prettyboyhere]

sister post to this

[risenshiney]

Paint’n studies I did on my Wii U gamepad earlier in the year.

[sony-official]

on your what

[a-m1dnight-dreary]

“You have one black eye already, courtesy of the Seventh House, and you seem to yearn for symmetry” is the coldest line to ever leave Harrow’s lips

[thasmin-vibes]

I fucking can't breathe

[punkitt-is-here]

In reference to that other post i gotta say trans guys you are not failing Your Fellow Woman by transitioning into a dude because we need Cool Dudes. Trans girls will pick up the butchness and it will come natural to them as being a dude does to you. We need Cool Dudes so desperately so join that club

[werewolf-transgenderism]

irritating as fuck when people get mad at Black people existing in premodern historical fiction/fantasy media. like first of all, you're racist. and second of all, you are acting as though Black people didn't exist in premodern Europe which is simply false. especially when we're talking about the Mediterranean, like what the fuck do you people think is along the southern half of the Mediterranean Ocean?? everyone's on boats, there are GOING to be interactions with Black people in Northern Africa, and there are GOING to be Black people in Mediterranean Europe. stop being stupid. your imagined homogeneous white European past is not historical reality, get over it you massive losers

[justshoveabezoar-again]

I’m having a huge problem with liberals not understanding what a “black person” is. Sure there were africans in europe, but those africans were either traveling or enslaved, or people with very special circumstances that you must explain. They weren’t “british”, they weren’t immigrants. You can’t have some character be black and a nobleman from England in the 19th century without giving some context cause yeah that wasn’t the norm.

“Black people existed”, the whole concept of blackness is so new, mentioning it is anachronistic.

And the whole “north africa” argument. North africans were considered white until 2 years ago when the US decided Arabs are not white anymore. Stop it with your fake “inclusion” as if people only exist when they step onto your continent. Write your damn fic in africa. Write about actual african characters, and actual asian characters, they don’t have to step in america/europe to exist.

People who believe that north africans and indians are interchangeable cause “both brown” are telling us to “celebrate the inclusivity”. We are already in our media, we didn’t stop existing cause western media didn’t have “people of color” or whatever other ridiculous term you want to throw at 80% of the frickin globe population.

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If it’s fantasy explain how this reality is different from the one we’re living in. If it’s “historical” then have it make sense in the historical context. You can’t just have characters “happen to be an ethnicity from a different continent”. That shit was not the norm. Some places in africa still freak out if they see a white person, most chinese people haven’t seen a black person, and you think 18th century Europe was “open”?

Anyway, history exists, read on it or decide to go with a whole different reality and it would be nice to see why in that reality Africa wasn’t plundered by europe and why europeans in that reality considered them equal, or whatever the race situation is in that fictional work. Whatever else you’re doing is a cop out and dumb.

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I’m gonna stop here cause that whole is so ridiculous.

Octavia E Butler wrote about a time traveling black woman who found herself a century ago and guess what, she was taken as a slave. Cause that’s the fuckin context of history.

Ok stopping now.

PS: read an actual book that was written before 1930, not “historical fiction released in the 2020s” and read how the europeans spoke about non-europeans. Like get a clue about reality before throwing your 2 cents.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

racist with a Harry Potter blog in 2026? fork found in kitchen

you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. you are simply incorrect. there were Black Ethiopian Christian monks in the middle ages. there were Black people in medieval Scandinavia. there were Black people in Ancient Greece and Rome (attested in literature). There were Black people in al-Andalus. there was regular contact with both Black and Arab populations in Africa, and there were Black and Arab people traveling to Europe, prior to the inception of chattel slavery, which you seem to think is when Black people started existing.

"the concept of blackness is new" "read something prior to the 1930s" okay! I have! I am a fucking medievalist who is nearly done with a PhD, I have read more premodern literature that includes Black people and POC in it, including FROM AFRICA, than you probably know even exists! the concept of Blackness is not new, actually! nor is the concept of race! there is a whole field of premodern critical race studies which, in my field, has done a lot of work for DECADES to illustrate how the concept of Blackness functioned in medieval European literature. there are Black knights in Arthuriana. there's a Black Magi and also the Queen of Sheba in religious literature. there are Black knights in a variety of medieval Arabic epics from all over the fucking place. fuck's sake, Black people show up in Isidore of Seville and Pliny and allllll sorts of encyclopedic literature! maybe check out some work by Kim F. Hall or Cord Whitaker or Rachel Schine, etc., etc., so you're not just talking out of your fucking ass!

you are just so hilariously misinformed about every single point you are trying to make (Black people can't exist in FANTASY??? where shit is 100% made up and there are dragons and magic???? be fucking serious. and I'm not even going to touch on how incredibly poorly you're reading Kindred, learn to think critically and stop misappropriating the work of Black authors to prop up racist fucking arguments) that I'm just gonna recommend you do some serious learning instead of opening your mouth to be racist and wrong online. do better.

[lastflowerofyourhouse]

pyrrha dve: look, kid. look at me. i know you're kinda reeling right now but before we're swallowed by cthulu i need you to understand that i did fuck your mother. yes i know you just met your father for the first time and hes god or whatever, but so you know you've always been a daughter to me, especially that one time when i killed your mom and also maybe you. it's ok she understood why i did it. all that said i think we should kill ourselves right now. what do you mean you don't want to kill yourself? your mother would have killed herself with me.

[weaselknievel]

*introducing myself to the guards who caught me* seized to meet you

[grynwood]

Your honor, I love them, they're so horrible

[transheadcrab]

why do they always show cranberries in thos big pits n its implied its wet and possibly swimmable. do cranberries really grow like that. wh

[khamingbird-blog]

You’ve never heard of The Bog?

[transheadcrab]

th

the what

[transheadcrab]

EACH ADDITION TO THIS POST MAKES MY BLOOD RUN COLD

[punkrorschach]

This is a cranberry bog (unflooded) it’s how cranberries grow. Once they’re ripe, the blog is flooded and the cranberries harvested.

Basically by using big floaty things to round them all up and then scooping them out of the water.

[transheadcrab]

thank u. i hate it a little less but the horrible little man in my head is still screaming “BOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODY”, but i appreciate the education,

[bomberqueen17]

oh here is a fun lil perspective on cranberry harvesting i never heard about anywhere else. the guy who owns the restaurant right down the road from the farm, who fries our chickens sometimes, is from Boston, with the strongest Boston accent ever, and in a former life before he started slinging reasonably priced barbeque and occasional organic chicken, he was a cranberry farmer.

His farm was on the leading edge of kinda using organic/sustainable pest control methods, and one of the things that they did to keep insect damage down was that they encouraged wolf spiders to live in the cranberry field, to eat the bugs. 

This was all fine and good until they flooded the bog. Now, you don’t just like flood the bog and then go around it in a boat or whatever. No, you use hip waders to get in there and put the big floaty things where they go and get all the berries and such.

Well when you’re in the bog in hip waders, that makes you the tallest thing. Wolf spiders can swim a bit, but they don’t like it, so they’re, quite understandably, looking to climb out of the water onto a tall thing.

So yeah the first interview question he always asked potential cranberry bog harvester hires was “are you cool with spiders?”

“You’d be amazed,” he said to us, shaking his head a little, “how many guys would just straight lie. Like, you think I’m asking you that question to be cute? Nah man you’re gonna have like a hundred wolf spiders trying to climb your eyebrows, you gotta be chill, those wolf spiders are fellow employees. You really gotta be chill with spiders if you’re gonna work a cranberry harvest.”

[lilstinky]

its cool how every language has wordplay.... we created language like ok step 1) convey info so we can stay alive 2) get silly with it