myriad tales shall befall you

[thecollectibles]

Vegetable girls by Camille Fourcade

[janefdonuts]

Can’t say I’ve ever wanted a vegetable to peg me until now

[charlesoberonn]

It’s the eggplant, isn’t it?

[etakeh]

This is so cool.

Tell me you've never wanted a molting cicada plushie. It's got iridescent wings. LOOK AT IT.

Also got a pitcher plant backpack...with a doomed caterpillar. Sorely tempted.

(he also makes glow in the dark plants) (and breeds monstera) (and has a free downloadable guide to plant breeding for cool characteristics)

anyway support independent artists or something? that make cool things?

[archivedeathdrive]

“litanies to my heavenly brown body” by mark aguhar 

[cadmiumluna]

(image of a printed poem in red text, all caps, with kiss marks from bright pink and brick red lipstick)

Text ID:

Blessed are the sissies Blessed are the boi dykes Blessed are the people of color my beloved kith and kin Blessed are the trans Blessed are the high femmes Blessed are the sex workers Blessed are the authentic Blessed are the dis-identifiers Blessed are the gender illusionists Blessed are the non-normative Blesses are the genderqueers Blessed are the kinksters Blessed are the disabled Blessed are the hot fat girls Blessed are the weirdo-queers Blessed is the spectrum Blessed is consent Blessed is respect Blessed are the beloved who I didn’t describe, I couldn’t describe, will learn to describe and respect and love Amen

-Mark Aguhar, “Litanies to my heavenly brown body”

[fresh-frogs]

Frogs be like:

[dinopuck]

WHY IS THIS OFFICIAL GAMEPLAY IM LOSING NY NIND

[todaysbird]

the red-tailed black cockatoo is a large parrot found in dry areas of australia. with five subspecies that are mainly distinguished by beak size, this cockatoo is mainly known for the bold red bands on the underside of the male’s tail. they often inhabit eucalyptus forests. while relatively adaptable to captivity as far as members of the cockatoo family go, they are rare as pets outside of australia.

[gengarpng]

You know what? Fuck you.

*unshrinkies your dinks*

[gengarpng]

[internetwes]

no..... my dinks....

[sanctumregnum-deactivated202203]

Jean-Jacques Feuchère (1807-1852), Satan - 1835

[onenicebugperday]

Equatorial velvet worm, Peripatidae, Onychophora

Photographed in Panama by squiresk

[livedpoetry-deactivated20230925]

An important message from the National Lawyers Guild - Detroit & Michigan Chapter

source

[zypiris]

<older man and older woman chatting amiably at a table, their conversation is just on the edge of intelligible>

Denise: Oh, hello!

Bill: We were just talking about you kids.

D: I’m Denise Heberle (HEB-er-lee)…

B: And I’m Bill Goodman.

D: Together we’ve been fighting fascism for over 50 years.

B: And so much has changed over those 50 years, such as the ingredients to a successful firebomb!

D (cheerily): And the glass that bank windows are made of!

B: But there’s one thing that hasn’t changed over 50 years, something that is so important to tell you kids who are new to this movement.

Both: Shut the fuck up.

D: You’re sitting in the police transport van after a protest?

B: Shut the fuck up. In a holding cell, with your comrades?

D: Shut the fuck up. Cop knocks on your door?

B: Shut the fuck up.

D: Texting on an unsecured device?

B: Shut the fuck up. Pulled over by the cops after a protest?

D: Shut the fuck up. Cop just asking about your day?

B: Shut the fuck up. Feds call your mom?

D: Tell your mother to shut the fuck up.

B: Now. Repeat after me. When the cops come calling, what do you do?

(Cut to Bill standing with eight kids)

Kids: Shut the fuck up!

(Cut to Card:

“Shut The Fuck up A Public Service Announcement from

NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD

Detroit & Michigan Chapter”)

[new-bitch-who-dis]

Heres your reminder to use literally anything but chrome

[commodorecliche]

And here's your reminder that Firefox actively works to protect your privacy and prevent tracking.

[nomadicism]

Firefox also has “Facebook fence” which is used to contain Facebook into isolated tabs that prevent tracking as you browse, since so many sites have social media plugins/ads that help collect data for Facebook and other apps.

You can tell Firefox to fence in Facebook in the browser preferences. Also a good time to change your search engine to DuckDuckGo and leave Google search behind (or only use it with another browser that’s separate from daily use).

The EFF (OP of the tweet) has various types of privacy tools that they’ve created. Some are browser plugins. I recommend going to their site to learn more about internet privacy and advocacy (and donating a few bucks if you can spare it). https://www.eff.org/pages/tools

Tools from EFF's Tech Team

EFF’s team of technologists and computer scientists engineers solutions to the problems of sneaky tracking, inconsistent encryption, and mor

[probablygoodrpgideas]

The “Necromancy is evil“ we see in most fantasy worlds stems from a christian view of having to honor the body after death in a certain way to ensure the soul’s safety in the afterlife. And while I encourage you to explore societies that don’t see necromancy as evil, I also encourage you to explore societies that see necromancy as evil for different reasons.

Drow might believe that after death, your body belongs to Lolth and must be fed to spiders. Reanimating a body means stealing from Lolth and must therefore be punished.

A Zoroastrian inspired society might believe that with death, evil starts infesting the body, so dead bodies must be kept away from the community, and reanimating them keeps them in the community and is therefore bad.

[pomrania]

Ooh, sounds fun! Let me come up with some more.

necromancy is associated with the culture’s traditional enemies, and is the same level of frowned-upon as using certain symbology or weapons or languages etc which are also linked to those enemies

once someone has died, it is severely disrespectful to look upon their corpse, so anything which is VISIBLE as being an undead is Very Bad, because it means you can see that person’s dead body

the reanimated dead have historically been used to spread plague and do other biological warfare type stuff; if you create something like that, a) gross b) unsanitary c) this is interpreted as the intent to commit war crimes

[135weirdos-deactivated20250128]

A society of druids that uses the dead to grow sacred gardens, and reanimation deprives the dead of their part in the cycle

A society where each plot in the cemetery is used to grow vegetables/herbs for community use, to ensure that everyone is fed and the dead are visited/remembered. Necromancy deprives the community of the food that person would have grown and disconnects the dead person from their community

A society obsessed with history/recordskeeping/memory, and necromancy prevents the dead from being properly catalogued

A totalitarian society wherein the citizens are property of the state and necromancy is stealing

Death is nirvana and reanimation deprives the dead of this experience

The dead are ritually eaten by friends/family to allow them to live on, and reanimation ends their time prematurely

The finest jewelry is made of the bones of the dead, so there’s a lucrative trade in grave robbing, and the bone jewelry lobby has convinced the public that necromancy is worse than the expensive jewelry made from the bones

[pomrania]

when someone dies, their death is considered a “sacrifice” to the deity who presides over their cause of death; how exactly you deal with the body, that doesn’t matter so much, but USING the body to your OWN benefit, that’s an insult to the god of warfare / disease / ocean / etc. Like stealing the offerings from a shrine.

[eclipseyeger]

~~a culture that recognizes the effort and emotional strain their people go through in life, and when someone dies they throw a huge wake and celebrate their break from life before joining their god/reincarnating/guarding something/etc.  Reanimating someone or trying to bring them back to life is seen as a huge taboo because it’s like asking someone who constantly works and finally gets a time of rest to go straight back to work before they’ve recovered.  Except it’s the hardest job/adventure ever.  For the same reason, motherhood, illness, leadership, recreation, personal growth, and winter are all highly venerated concepts/times in the culture, as times of rest or things in need of a period of rest eventually.  To honor these times as sabbats is commanded by one of their gods after a great catastrophe. The whole community is involved with these things, and so too are is the whole community involved with death and picking up the physical or emotional slack of the person who died.  If permission is given from the person who is being reanimated, then maybe maaaaaybe it’s ok, but that’s only happened once when a guardian was once needed, and it’s pretty hard to verify if it really was the person.  

[pomrania]

reanimation is seen as asserting “ownership” over that being; so while it’s okay to have an undead animal (so long as it wasn’t someone ELSE’S animal, as that would be theft), reanimating a HUMAN counts as “slavery”

necromancy is considered “lazy”; like, dude, do the work yourself, or pay/convince someone else to do it, what kind of loser has to resort to CORPSES

only the divine can raise the dead; reanimating the dead is a poor mockery of the gods’ ability, and you are liable to be punished for your hubris, and that kind of punishment tends to have a lot of collateral damage so it’s best for mortals to solve the problem before the gods take notice

[dailycharacteroption]

This is a good follow up to the post about necromancy and enchantment a few days ago.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

All I can think of now is some kind of weird Jewish comedy where a Cohen gets reanimated and then has to figure out a way to avoid himself.

[treskolii]

Come on founder/king of Athens, aren’t u gonna slay the Bull of Minos or not?

[raimagnolia]

Huh...

Huh...

[olderthannetfic]

“Slay”, huh.

[raimagnolia]

[missmamibee]

year 3 give it up for year 3

[rpgchoices]

[immortal-maschine]

*thunderous engine noises*

[ruinedchildhood]