Many Random Musings

Welcome to my blog! This is a place where I try to post mainly things for writing (names, quotes, book reviews, etc.) but often get distracted by cute animals or fandom things (cough Sherlock cough cough). Thank you for visiting! If you have a name to suggest for Name of the Day just send it in or if you have any questions don't afraid to ask! Currently reading: Light by Michael Grant

[detectivehole]

what's that one thing where they asked how ripely from alien was so realistic and believable as a female character in scifi for once and they were like "well we just took the dude from the original script and made him a girl and changed nothing else. it works bc men and women are the same?" and people were like "woah no way" and then didn't learn anything from that for 20 years

[detectivehole]

"how do you write such believable men as a woman?" "how do you write such believable women a man?" and the answer people who are good at it always give is "i just write people. were literally the exactly the same. do you think the opposite sex is some sorta totally different animal???" and people respond "woah that's wild. yea i do. and im not gonna stop thinking that goodbye :)"

[anarchistmemedistro]

[self-loving-vampire]

[birdsareblooming]

Dorothy L. Sayers: Are Women Human (1938)

it's older than ripley

[blastdamage]

the paris catacombs are 1000x more fucked up than i imagined

[blastdamage]

did you know the cops once found a fully functioning movie theater with a well-stocked bar inside the catacombs and they when they tried to go back later to formally investigate it was completely emptied out save for a note that read "don't search for us"

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Underground french cinema

[npd-vriska]

my little bro is part of the catacombs community and yeah, it's basically a fully autonomous society! enough that when my bro goes in on a friday night, they don't come out until monday for work- sometimes longer if they took days off.

some of the rooms have fully stocked pantries with cooking equipment, some have movies like the one described above, some have books you're allowed to just take but people always put back- every day people bring things from the outside. artists often set up galleries there. there are rooms with mattresses and hammocks set up for people to sleep. one of the room is just a place where people leave shoes for the fun of it.

this is Known, it's not a secret by any means. the catacombs are as big as paris itself, and people live there just as people live above. it's wonderful when you think about it.

[npd-vriska]

A little update! My little bro is now my little sister. Please don't misgender her :)

[enbylesbie]

[shebsart]

forgot to post these doodles i did on my copy of hmc :)

[elizabeths-storytime]

Happy Valentines Day!

[oifaaa]

Never getting over how differently howl's moving castle book and movie treat the scarecrow

[catchymemes]

[swarnpert]

mao zedong shirt in the live action scooby doo movie

[fallout-lou-begas]

what's the connection

[moki-dokie]

Genuinely this is one of the most beautifully animated things I've seen since the golden age of animation. I could actually cry for how much love they put into this jfc what a beautiful homage

[kescalis]

I had the pleasure of painting this Simon and Clea commission for @araushneee :))

[ostinlein]

Maelle

You can look this animation as a GIF on my Deviantart

[moniquill]

[enki2]

[lipstickhamlet]

okay i think the reason i hate "macbeth gets pegged by his wife lol" shitposts so much is because macbeth and lady macbeth's mutual trust and respect at the start of the play and lady m knowing her husband well enough to take advantage of his biggest insecurity for THEIR gain (not her own, but the two of them TOGETHER) being washed down to macbeth being sexually submissive is just so fucking uncritical & does a massive disservice to their dynamic. it's like there's no way for a man to defer to his wife without also submitting to her sexually, and you're ignoring how their dynamic actually changes over the course of the play. also macbeth's biggest insecurity in question is his masculinity, and his desperation to prove his worth and strength as a man is what drives most of his actions, so he would not fucking get pegged.

[kaijuno]

[evilwizard]

[great-and-small]

I am constantly thinking about this

[great-and-small]

This mild Wikipedia sentence is like the understatement of all time

Here are some crazy grasshopper mouse facts for those who are not familiar with the most badass mouse species on the planet

- They are primarily carnivorous, and their diet is made up of not only bugs but also snakes, lizards and other mice.

- They hunt like true predators, slowly stalking and creeping up on their prey before ambushing them. They will sometimes let out a screech as they attack.

- Like wolves, they howl to establish territory and have a specially developed throat to produce louder vocalizations. They will stand up on their hind legs and throw their head back to howl- a sound that can be heard from 100 meters away!

- Grasshopper mouse behavior is linked to lunar cycles and they are more active during a full moon.

- These mice have been hunting bark scorpions and evolving alongside them for so long that they’ve evolved a mutation where scorpion venom that is lethal to other animals is converted into a painkiller in the grasshopper mouse’s body.

[unholypsychic]

"Oh, boy! I just got two asks! Whatever could they be!" The humble inbox:

[heimeldat]

This little guy has lived in my head for soooo long, but I haven't drawn him since I was a kid haha.

ID: a semi-realistic pen drawing of a squirrel and pigeon combined gryphon style, with loose low-saturation colors slapped on. Underneath it says North American Rock Gryphon, common name American Squigeon. end ID