Seer of worlds, purveyor of dreams

“Life does need things to live” Touch educator. Licensed Massage Therapist Trained hypnotist and psychic. Witch of my own creation.

[stilltheturtlemoves]

Everyone’s favorite school board president

[thebellekeys]

europeans be like “omg north americans are so racist it’s horrible” and then elect fascists

[thebellekeys]

I would like to emphasize that I agree with all of these tags by the way. My post wasn't aiming to pin all of Europe's grotesque racism on the new elections.

[dailymanners]

A few weeks ago I was at a board game night with some of my old classmates from various mainland European countries. They started talking about how horrible Trump's treatment of immigrants is and how they're so glad to be in Europe where nothing like that is happening right now. I asked them what they thought about the fact that their own governments were complicit in turning the Mediterranean into a mass grave of asylum seekers, and some of them legitimately didn't even know and were surprised to hear that their own governments had enacted policies that caused the deaths of thousands of asylum seekers.

Even here in Iceland, almost nobody has been talking about the fact that some of the far right populist parties have legitimately been talking about wanting to establish detainment camps to keep asylum seekers in.

[barishal]

Additional readings:

Greece suspends asylum applications for migrants from North Africa by Laura Gozzi (BBC).

Greece passes draconian legislation with prison terms for rejected asylum seekers by Helena Smith (The Guardian).

Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say by Lucile Smith and Ben Steele (BBC).

Bill on Detention Centres for Asylum Seekers Published by Jelena Ćirić (Iceland Review).

Italy sends 40 rejected asylum seekers to Albania by Karl Sexton (DW).

Record number of migrants, refugees reached Canary Islands by sea in 2024 (Al Jazeera).

Portuguese government announces major migrant expulsion plan by ANSA (InfoMigrants).

[dailymanners]

This post is a few months old now, and the bit about Iceland is now outdated, because Alþingi (the Icelandic parliament) passed the bill approving the detention center for asylum seekers. It will be legal to handcuff and detain children there.

Never let anyone from Europe feed you the lie that racism and fascism are unique to North America in the 21st century.

[poketcg-art]

Dunsparce -- Asako Ito

[targetedknowledge]

[ursiday]

Earth

[nonlynear]

my high horse is actually awesome and fast like the wind

[hemipenal-system]

FATAL is a wonderful ttrpg for terfs. jk rowling ass beliefs

[hemipenal-system]

the thing is, maybe you see this and think there’s gotta be more context. that 60% difference is so unbalanced that there must be SOMEWHERE women get to come out on top. and i’m here to tell you, there’s… well… um, uh…

there’s… this

[hemipenal-system]

i genuinely dont think this is even, like, top 50 worst things in this ttrpg. but the top 10 are all things my account would get glassed from orbit for posting lmao

[dionysianivy]

Dionysus Androgynos

Happy Trans Day everyone! May you all be blessed and feel comfortable in your own skin. Today we celebrate the joy and beauty of being ourselves 💜🏳️‍⚧️

[heylenne]

Black Phillip, Black Phillip, king of sky and land!

Black Phillip, Black Phillip, king of sea and sand!

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I re-watched The Witch a few days ago and since then I can’t stop singing that song.

[bluphlox]

but verily, it be the nature of dreams to end

[Sticker]

[animentality]

[achievement-hunter]

[textandimageenjoyer]

[49er-likesbonsai]

[49er-likesbonsai]

Tanuki bonsai is a unique technique for making bonsai look much older than they are.

Many traditional styles can be created by joining a live plant with a piece of dead wood. Other familiar names for Tanuki are deadwood bonsai and phoenix grafting.

[49er-likesbonsai]

[iamthemaestro]

found this at an antique shop the other day and was immediately like oh this belongs on tumblr. sniles sneetly. fwowns fwangry.

[fiercestpurpose]

There’s a quality that certain books/movies/TV shows have that leads me to say, “Yeah, I can see people making fanfiction of that.” It’s something to do, I think, with how tight the story is, how much feels open-ended or like it could be elaborated on.

Something like Breaking Bad, for example, has low squiggability (that’s what I’m calling this quality). It’s tightly written, the characters are consistent, there’s little left to interpolate or extrapolate. Obviously, people DO write fanfic of Breaking Bad, but it still has a low squiggability score. Whereas something like Supernatural has a high squiggability score. Fantasy and science fiction often have high squiggability scores. This suggests squiggability could also be related to worldbuilding and potential for people to borrow a premise or setting.

And sometimes you’ll read or watch something and you’ll say, “Ah, low squiggability,” and then you’ll open tumblr and find out that everyone else seem to think its squiggability was very high indeed.

[girldraki]