Mostly Reblogs. Sometimes Art

[bloodraven55]

that some people respond to any well-foreshadowed reveal with “ugh that plot twist was so predictable” proves bad faith criticism has rotted their brains to the point they think it’s bad writing if they can correctly identify information the writers were intentionally giving them

[bloodraven55]

like you do realise that the entire point of set up and pay off is that you’re supposed to pick up on the clues the writers give you right? you do understand that plot twists only work when they retroactively make sense bc there were hints building up to the reveal right??

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Some people engage with stories as if it's a competition where their job is to demonstrate that they're the smartest person in the room. These people aren't worth listening to about media.

[theothin]

the thing to ask isn't "was this outcome surprising?", but rather "did this outcome make for a good story?"

[syn4k]

i like the phrases "it's not for me," "it's not my thing," and "i'm not the target audience" because they're the most concise way to express "this thing that you enjoy has merits but idgaf about it" without being aggressive

[stagbeetleboy]

YAYYYY SHEEV!

[transmissionsfromcody]

When the dark protege hasn’t eaten or slept in a week

[stealingpotatoes]

commission for anonymous!

(commissions closing soon!)

[alor-ika-deactivated20250722]

All that sass and murder in one frame?! In this economy?

[guooey]

they are like beautiful tropical birds to me

[guooey]

Literally..

[nattousan]

@guooey ya

[persistentmanlyagitation]

@elodieunderglass

[elodieunderglass]

They are BEAUTIFUL and so well adapted for their different environments!

[girlrustcohle]

fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

[ominouspuff]

Night guard

[thedoubteriswise]

nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations

[woolysubby]

Execute order 66

Inking practice with Star Wars scenes. If you look closely you can see me crashing out every time I remember this scene.

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[unashamedly-pratchett]

[gffa]

Ahsoka | illustrated by Aka

[byjove]

I think if you try to wiggle out of getting your dog vaccinated for rabies due to your own anti-vax beliefs, you should be forced to watch footage of a dog succumbing to rabies and the pathological process of taking brain tissue from a suspected canine rabies victim. I really think treating these people with kid gloves is not working and they need to viscerally see what the consequences of their actions can be.

[byjove]

Rabies is one of the scariest and saddest diseases that an animal (or person!) can contract and many countries have already eliminated it. I think it’s easier for people from suburban areas who have not witnessed sick wildlife to delude themselves into thinking their pets don’t need the rabies vaccine or that the virus is rarer than it is.

[teaboot]

Rabies is a disease so terrifyingly fatal that it is the only infectious disease I know of where, if you have been infected, you WILL be given the vaccine, even if you are deathly allergic to it- because we can TREAT anaphylaxis, but unvaccinated Rabies WILL kill you.

And not only will it kill you, BEFORE it kills you, once it reaches your brain, it will GIVE YOU A PHOBIA IF WATER. Do you know HOW INSANE THAT IS, that a VIRAL ORGANISM CAN *MAKE YOU DEATHLY AFRAID OF DRINKING*? I have phobias. Phobias are not fears. Phobias are your entire fight or flight response taking the reins of your body to keep you away from a thing. You can’t THINK THROUGH A PHOBIA.

And once you show symptoms, it’s over. You get that? You WILL NEED TREATMENT FOR IT BEFORE YOU EVEN KNOW IF YOU HAVE IT.

I don’t believe in fearmongering, so for that reason I am not exaggerating. YOU WILL NOT KNOW IF YOUR YOUR PET HAS CONTRACTED RABIES UNTIL IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE.

And the only way to stop it from spreading further is to kill the animal transmitting it, vaccinate anything that can contract it, and vaccinate anyone who’s been exposed to it.

Not a lot of shit scares me. Rabies scares the FUCK out of me. Rabies is as close as I can imagine getting to a real-life zombie virus, except maybe Creutzfeldt–Jakob’s disease, which is effectively indestructible to the point where medical equipment used to treat it must be destroyed, and might barely be slightly less frightening only because it’s harder to contract.

There is no terrifying vaccine conspiracy you can invent or imagine that is worse than the reality of rabies.

That is true of many diseases, but especially true of rabies.

Vaccinate your FUCKING pets

[jameelaillustration]

One of the coolest things to remember is that because prey animals have eyes on the side of their head, they are looking at you when they're in profile, not facing you! Hot tip for artists and animal lovers!

[actuallycuteanimals]

Okay not really. The thing about animals with eyes on the side of their head: they DO in fact look directly at things and they CAN use binocular vision. I am going to use horse examples because horses are what I know best.

A horse uses binocular vision when it is trying to see something better - monocular vision gives a wider field of view but no depth perception and is not very clear.

When alert, the horse will look directly at something, facing it, using binocular vision to determine what it is and whether it is a threat.

A general rule of thumb with horses is that whatever their ears are pointed at is what they are looking at.

In the first image, the horse is looking at me. In the second, she is not.

In this set of images, she is investigating that blanket. You can clearly see her head pointed at the object and she examines with her binocular vision and nose.

Now, in this case, the horse is looking at me without his head facing me. You can tell he's looking at me with his monocular vision by how he has one ear facing me.

In most of the professionally done horse reference pics you see, the horses are going to have their ears pricked up and alert and be using their binocular vision. Why? Because it just looks better. How? Either the horse is investigating/curious about the camera or person holding the camera OR someone standing where they want the horse to look has just snapped their fingers or whistled or waved an umbrella or something to get the horses attention.

I just find it silly to say that the prey animals are not looking at you when facing head on, when the examples you gave do not seem to demonstrate that. To me, all of the squirrel and bird pictures look as if they are looking at the viewer - with the side view being a more 'relaxed/trusting' sort of look while the front view is a tenser investigation. The horse does not look like its looking at the view in either drawing - the first looks relaxed and looking somewhat to the side, the second looks alert and gazing directly in front of it.

[kedreeva]

I will add on for (at least some) birds.

This bird is not looking at you.

This bird is intensely looking at you

Many animals move their pupils. In both photos you can see her pupils, but they're only facing forward in the second.

Here she is intensely examining a chip in front of her face.

She is not looking at me- actually she's not really looking at anything she's listening to something she heard outside.

Peas most often look at things sideways when they need a wide field of view, too- like when they are scanning the sky for hawks, they will walk puffed up with their head tilted to the side to look up.

But when they want to actually look at something or someone, they will look head on as well. It's just that unlike animals with forward facing eyes, they don't HAVE to look at you head on.

[corviiids]

i want devices that are functional and hardy and i want them to last and fuck the rest of the shit i dont need. my ds and 3ds can lie in sleep mode for months if not years and i can pop them open and they've still got two or three bars left. my old phones in high school could go days without a charge. if i leave my nintendo switch on the floor for a few days doing absolutely fuck all nothing i will turn it on and it will cry to me mother i am dying. i am dying mother. and i tell him he'll never be half the man his brother was and he can't hear me because he's dead

[the-bar-sinister]

I'm so glad to see AO3 making it absolutely clear that none of these things are allowed to even be HINTED at.

Here's some of the language from the new post about AO3's police on commercial promotion:

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[mysteryteacup]

#as writers we CANNOT make any money off of our fic#we could endanger our entire ecosystem of authors#does no one remember the Anne Rice stuff#we do our work out of passion and for free. if you want to make money off of your writing DONT WRITE FANFICTION <- prev

Alas, I'm fairly sure a lot of the people whining about not being able to force capitalism into their hobby probably weren't born yet when Anne Rice was sending lawyers after and doxxing fanwriters for violating her copyright. *takes a heavy drink of water like it's bourbon* I feel old.

[frottinq]

Do you ever interact with someone and you realize “this person has never had to consider or think about what their place in the world is, and why they believe certain things or act certain ways, this person has never considered society at length” and it’s just terrifying