Life Should Taste As Good As Ghosts

Rachael, she/her, white, 26, autistic and schizophrenic gay, likes cats, cartoons, and video games.

[milksockets]

truly the only way to get through to audio terrorists

[dps2004]

[thydungeongal]

Someone recently posted about how Tumblr clout doesn't actually translate into anything in real life, it just means X amount of people read your post, so what's the point?

I mean besides the fact that some people actually use their posts for good, like activism and combating misinformation, there's just posting for the sake of posting which is its own reward.

But also, sometimes you'll make an impression with your fucked up posting that someone decides to send you a DM to talk to you about elves or a podcast or a podcast about elves or something and now you've made a new best friend :)

[thydungeongal]

Also sometimes you get to teach people about sauna gnomes and that's rewarding in and of itself

[phyyn]

PLEASE tell me what a sauna gnome is

[thydungeongal]

Okay, so: it's "saunatonttu" in Finnish. The word "tonttu" gets translated as "elf" sometimes but like as a Finn I emphatically disagree with that shit, these ain't no elves. "Gnome" has its own issues but I think it's funny.

They're basically a type of tutelary spirit of the sauna. Whenever you build a sauna a sauna gnome will eventually move in. I mean you can always expedite the process by going to someone else's sauna and telling everyone there that you've just built a sauna and it's such a shame that you don't have a sauna gnome yet, so the local sauna gnome will put the word on the grapevine that any sauna gnomes in need of a sauna know that there's a new sauna in town.

And they basically take care of the sauna for you, making sure it doesn't burn down and that it works properly. But they're also capricious and vindictive: to stay on their good side you gotta make sure to behave properly in the sauna (the sauna is no place for drunkenness or obscenity, in fact going to the sauna should be treated almost as a somber religious ritual), you gotta greet them when coming and going, and it's customary to leave them a vihta/vasta (a bundle of birch branches with the leaves on, used for cleaning up in the sauna) and to leave them one last löyly (a very specific term for the steam that rises from the sauna's stove, called "kiuas") before you leave so the sauna gnome can enjoy the saunaing.

If you're in breach of sauna gnome etiquette they may turn against you and skin you alive or burn down your sauna.

[headspace-hotel]

Passing this along in case any of my mutuals were thinking of building a sauna.

[parakeet]

[gondwana]

had a dream that I met a wizard and we fell in love and became unhealthily attached to each other so we decided to meld into one single creature together but the process was horrifically slow and painful and most of the dream was us lying in bed holding hands while lesions opened up in our skin and seeped out blue and green fluid and the wizard said "this is going to take a very very long time" and I said "that's ok"

[gondwana]

the critics are raving

[victusinveritas]

[syn4k]

"who radicalized you" ever since i was a child i wanted other people to be treated nicely and fairly because i didnt understand why theyd deserve otherwise and it fills me with disgust seeing how people treat their fellow human beings sometimes

[k3yreviewer25]

One of my favorite hobbies is thinking about the fucked up implications of this fantasy world map my parents got me for christmas

[Image ID: photo of a map. On the left side of the map is Middle Earth, with the Shire and Mordor labeled. To the direct right of Mordor is Whoville.]

[strawberryqueen00]

I FOUND THE FULL ONE AND ITS SO MUCH MORE CHAOTIC.

HYRULE SHOOK ME TO MY CORE!

THIS WORD HAS TWO KINGDOMS RULES BY A BEING IN A TOWER!

The existence of Oz and Neverland is wild too. Does this mean that there is a REAL Earth outside of this? Could Wendy hang out in Westeros?

[tenthousandand]

[ayeforscotland]

If you ever needed proof that the new hate crimes laws are a good thing lmao

[ayeforscotland]

Obviously this has exploded in notes a wee bit. Leading to a lot of really strange misconceptions.

1. Scotland already has hate crime laws, like most laws they evolve over time.

For example, in the past few years, Scotland’s domestic violence laws were updated so that the psychological aspect of domestic abuse was defined and actionable. It also included reference to controlling behaviour like financial control.

Laws evolve, so people in the comments going ‘woah Scotland had no laws against hate crime’ aren’t correct. They are simply evolving to suit the time.

2. Hate speech does not equal free speech. You don’t have the right to stir up hatred against a group of people without any consequences.

[traycakes]

3. This isn't going to be "arresting people for not wanting men in the women's restrooms." JK Rowling and her transphobic friends have moved so, so far away from that bit of plausible deniability that they now say that cis men with guns should go into women's bathrooms to protect women from trans people.

This isn't about 'reasonable concerns' or 'just asking questions' JK Rowling and her friends are openly genocidal monsters that want to completely eliminate all trans people.

[dwarf-scum]

She’s so openly bigoted at this point that even the people on her side jump straight to her as an example of someone who commits hate speech.

[ayeforscotland]

Lmao, she’s the poster child of bigotry.

[cipheramnesia]

Zombies shouldn't growl or snarl, they should babble a mixture of incomplete word sounds and whole words or sentence fragments. Every zombie should sound almost but not quite like it's trying to tell you something.

[january-summers]

this may not be what you're saying, but what I'm hearing is that zombies should make everyone feel like they've developed sudden onset audio processing disorder.

Like if you could just hear it more clearly, you'd understand what they're saying, but in reality it's nonsense and there's nothing to understand.

And damn if it doesn't convince so many folks that their loved ones are still in there, they just need to keep them locked up safely in the barn until someone finds the cure, then everything can go back to the way they were.

[transpidergwen]

THIS is exactly what this particular zombie trope is missing. Like we all understand, conceptually, that this still looks like someone they love, but it would be 1000 times more effective if it still somewhat behaved like someone they love.

[transmalewife]

oooh muscle memory. i’m not into zombie media enough to tell if this has been done or not but. zombies that will automatically reach into their pocket for their phone when they hear a ring, even if it’s dead, broken or lost. zombies that reach up to play with their hair or necklace, the same way your loved one did. zombies that bite their nails. a zombie rolling up its sleeves with perfect practice while looking at you with the utterly blank eyes of a dead animal

[everythingfox]

Did not see a single one of those coming

[viralfrog]

[wizardlyghost]

[sexygaywizard]

I can't I can't I can't I can't

[sexygaywizard]

HELP how is this a real published book by the most popular booktok writer I feel like I'm losing my mind

[sexygaywizard]

Imagine being a baby and your parents laugh at your huge balls and then you immediately fucking die

[viralfrog]

[selkypostergirl]

Hot queer spaces tip: never trust any spot that has fewer than 2 fat and hairy people present!! You have no idea what other problems the space has if they can’t even meet the bear minimum

[pinkfairiesteaparty]

[vaporwavesimulator]

creature in fiction: *is portrayed as bad and mean*

8 year old me: but what if there was a good and nice one :0

[discardedmilkywaywrapper]

there’s no age limit for this

[vaporwavesimulator]

youre right…………..

[thedemonsurfer]

me at 8: but what if you gave it a hug?

me at 31: but what if you gave it a hug?

[holdmecloseandfast]

The neurodivergent reaction to bad and mean creatures: but what if someone loved this unlovable thing? Maybe it would be possible for me, also a strange and burdensome and unlovable thing, to be loved as well?

[everybody-loves-to-eat]

Berry Galettes with Honey Goat Cheese and Herbs