[mochlus]

Realizing after however many years that I should probably make a pinned post with links to my sideblogs so that people don't have to like... Type in the url themself from my profile. Oops. Anyways.

@sasaranurude - my most active sideblog, for anime and manga and mobile games and undefinable "2D character projects". Lately, that means mahoyaku, charisma house, and idolish7.

@simfur - my transformers sideblog. Less active these days.

This blog @mochlus is my main, so likes will come from here. Mostly here I reblog jokes and art and chatter about my life, but sometimes there's also paleontology or star trek or monster video games. My AO3 is nichelium, but if you're here for fic-stuff, you're more likely to find it on my anime blog where I talk about the stuff I write fic for.

[mochlus]

Today my coworker was describing a truly terrible corporate event the owner had him go to (owner did not expect it to be terrible) and he said there were some people who described our other coworker as "the one with pronouns" and I screamed

[treecitysessions]

Why does everyone think fiction is just fantasy wish fulfillment now and not like an exploration of themes and ideas

[treecitysessions]

People will be like “this movie is evil and gross because it depicts a predatory relationship” and then you watch the movie in question and it’s about how preying on young women is bad and impacts their lives negatively

[treecitysessions]

“Why would they do this instead of just making everyone in the movie nice and normal and good” so we would have this conversation….

[tlbodine]

"so we would have this conversation"

This. This is something I see people not understanding. Folks seem to increasingly want fiction to model correct behavior for them. Which, sure, can be something for fiction to do, but what fiction is really really good at is creating a model of a situation that allows you to experience a bad, messy, complicated thing, and see what people did, and how it turned out, and imagine what you would've done instead. Even more powerfully, it gives you something you can show someone else or point to and they'll have a shared understanding. Stories can give you stuff to think about so that you grow from experiences you didn't even have.

That's a real superpower of storytelling. Neutering it of that ability is just....a waste of potential.

[feralratbitesu]

[fictionalgod]

[waspsinyouryard]

admittedly i know little of the subject but one would think, at 45 years of age, he would be a ryan goose by now

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

they killed him for this

[soup-mother]

Between 1979 and 1998 there were 53 deaths from snakes, according to data obtained from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. With your help we can bring these numbers up!

[soup-mother]

#Forge historical snakebite reports

[soup-mother]

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[my-dailydreams]

[creekfiend]

I'm so glad that that truncated fucking ran-into-a-wall-at-speed tadpole-ass looking squirrel only lives in high altitude forests in Borneo bc this means I am extremely unlikely to encounter one in my day to day life. thank god

[tuftedpygmysquirrel]

Hello.

[creekfiend]

DID YOU MAKE THIS BLOG SIMPLY TO TORMENT ME

[tuftedpygmysquirrel]

I can go upside down.

[creekfiend]

WHERE IS THE REST OF YOU

[afloweroutofstone]

My favorite category of government program to run across is "program you've never heard of doing extremely important work to solve a major problem which you have also never heard of." On that note, the US drops millions of pounds of sterile bugs over Panama each week in order to prevent a parasite infestation from moving into North America. Everyone say thank you to the Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of the Cattle Borer Worm (COPEG)

[afloweroutofstone]

This program had its funding cut during the DOGE cuts last year and now the parasitic worm they were trying to slow the spread of has officially arrived in the United States.

[orcboxer]

wizard college is going to kill me I swear to god. I just saw someone without a component satchel reach into their pocket and pull out a handful of LOOSE tapioca to use as a substitute for blood in their fell ritual. and it worked. I've never been so fucking mad.

[orcboxer]

experiencing microaggressions apparently

[lakemojave]

People are unfazed if you hate women but if you dislike dogs they assume you're a bad person

[cheaphalloweencostume]

yesterday my grandma found a penny on the floor and said to my grandpa “there’s that penny again, pa!” and i absolutely lost my mind because i couldn’t shelve the thought of a single panel Far Side comic of two old people on the front porch in the middle of nowhere and a giant penny angrily and inexplicably rolling through the wastes

“there’s that penny again, pa!”

[secreteggplantbaby]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

this is hands down my single favorite post ive ever made that got notes

[morgannalefey]

I sincerely hope that the OP realizes that gramma was very likely quoting that cartoon.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

the cartoon that was drawn and posted based on my post? probably not, but i guess we can never know

[passumbapper]

did chikorita ever end up decreasing the increase or was that another of bidens failed promises

[memecucker]