we tried the world, good god it wasn't for us

i write fanfiction when the planets align

[mercurialfeet]

it's time i'm finally making a pinned post

hello i'm mercury it/they/whatever and i have not made an original post in like. two years. maybe i'll start now! who knows

i've been trying to get a more standardized tag system going, the most relevant of which are as follows

art reblog: self explanatory (i do not draw so if you see art on this blog it is not mine)

shipping container: this is a new one as i've gotten into hades ships lately, if you don't want to see shippy stuff from me filter this tag

ask game and its companion ask game answers (i love ask games so so dearly. i love any ask i receive and if it's for an ask game i will almost certainly reply to it at some point)

a few specific fandom tags: hades game, murderbot (i've been using this more often lately as opposed to the murderbot diaries but i use that one too)

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you were almost turned into a vampire, but before you could be fully turned, the vampire was staked. This left you with a vampire weakness, while still being human.

Spin the wheel to find out your weakness!

How much does this effect you?

Nothing changes

It's inconvenient but I can deal with jty

It will be hard to adjust but I'll figure it out

I don't know if I'll be able to live like this

Maybe I can find another vampire to finish the turning?

I might just kill myself

Results/other

Remaining time: 3 days 15 hours

thanks @theemmjay for submitting this poll idea!! Seriously it's such a cool concept I love it so much

[angry-eevee]

when people defend the “Cis white guy is default” thing like “He’s meant to be an everyman we can all relate to and project on!” kindly remind them the largest ethnic group in the WORLD is Han Chinese and the highest gender percentage fluctuates so if you want an ACTUAL  “default” you want a 40 year old chinese person whose gender changes from year to year.  

[galren]

#give us the middle-aged gender fluid Chinese protagonist that we can all relate to and project on (via @mr-and-mr-pavus)

[computationalcalculator]

[koiagain]

Frantically screamingWAIT WAIT WAIT As tumblr refreshes and the Most beautiful piece of fan art i’ve ever seen DISAPPEARS

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags the book that is physically nearest to you at this moment.

[copperbadge]

It’s been the kind of day that culminated in my telling someone moments ago that the date was the fifth of Wednesday.

I hope you all have a really good fifth of Wednesday. 

[copperbadge]

From my family to yours, may you have a very happy fifth if Wednesday.

[wifegideonnav]

gonna be honest i don’t know how many more ‘enter the 6 digit code we sent to your phone’s i got left in me

[i-am-a-fish]

because I'm alive and I don't know what else to do, I'm gonna love everyone as much as I possibly can

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

at the start of every month everyone reblogs some insane poetry that’s like “august has arrived and again I swallow my bones in the burning sun” and every time I’m like damn that makes no sense. but kind of true.

[dyernoga]

[pathos-logical]

[ID: A screenshot of two consecutive posts on the Tumblr dashboard. The first is the original post, and the second is a post by @/shesnake that says, “hello august you piece of shit”. End ID]

[apolladay]

Do you consider yourself a people person*?

yes

no

nuance

Voting ended onAug 3

* people person: A people person is an informal term for someone who is friendly, outgoing, and skilled at interacting with others. Key traits include active listening, empathy, and a natural ease in social settings.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you are now a cat in the warrior cats universe! Spin these wheels for your name!

Do you like it?

YES!!!

yes

eh it's okay

no.

IM MOON MOON

results/other

Voting ended onJul 30

note: I (the owner of this blog and maker of wheels) am not into warrior cats! I just thought this would be fun to make

(prefixes and suffixes from @yarrowleef)

[bringbackmaes14]

I actually haven't been able to stop thinking about this article all day. I'm jittery. Emily Wilson destroyed Christopher Nolan. She basically said "it was nice of him to renew interest in the Odyssey even if he didn't understand the Odyssey at all and did a bad job at it." I feel so vindicated. I'm gonna ride this high for weeks.

‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster

Wilson, whose work on Homer’s epic was praised by Nolan, said his film was grandiose and superficial with ‘nothing convincing to say’

Also, separately, I have to include this quote that is not in the Guardian article. It was an in an article from The Times where Emily Wilson was interviewed, but it's behind a paywall so I'm putting a screenshot/alt text instead of just the link. Emily Wilson is such an icon for saying this.

"[Emily Wilson] does, however have views on the women of The Odyssey. 'By Nolan standards this was great for women characters. By Homer standards it was a bit disappointing.'"

QUEEN SHIT POP OFF

[thelittledaily-deactivated20260]

REBLOG THIS TO GIVE THE PERSON YOU REBLOGGED THIS FROM A GOLD STAR BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN STELLAR TODAY AND THEY DESERVE IT ⭐️

[ashenberry]

reblog game put in the tags how you found prev

[potatosaresweet]

what the fuck did maggie stiefvater put in the raven cycle to make it feel the way it feels it's been years since i last read it but the experience was unparalleled

so many scenes felt like one of those dreams you try to recall the second you wake up but the details are already fading away, but the feeling of the dream is there and it has left you craving more

that's what the raven cycle feels like to me

[amwult]

you contradict yourself because you contain multitudes. i contradict myself because i am wrong.

[1marry]

[moveslikekeithrichards]

the problem with me is i cannot differentiate what is & is not my circus and what are & are not my monkeys. this gives you mental health conditions