butterflies and bulbasaurs

Side blog of @naomi-carmichael .. plan to be full of writing one day -Love all things Pokemon, Miraculous, Cosmere, also generally Space, Magic, and Fantasy 

[froginamoodboard]

"But I am captain, and I must not leave my ship."

Requested by: me, in honour of Dracula Daily

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[wolfiered23]

I received a letter from the Captain of the Demeter today! Seems his journey to Whitby is going well, though…crew members are disappearing? And they say “something” is aboard? That can’t be good…hopefully they all make it safely, since they found nothing while searching the ship, besides those boxes in the cargo of course.

[juzo-kun]

I've seen a lot of these "humans are the weird guys of the galaxy" kind of stories and I recalled a scenario. So, humans at last gain FTL drive and start to roam the neigborhood and there are a lot of sentient life on a lot of planets, star trek style. And star trek style a lot of them seems to have origin in the same class (in the cladistic means of the word).

Except humans are the only mammals. Those tall people? Reptiles. These other people? Reptiles. Flying people? Birds, thus originally reptiles. Naga people? Obviously reptiles. The ones that look like turtles? Those too. The dragon-looking ones? Guess!

Basically, everyone on a planet of the same type of Earth seems to be somewhat reptilian in nature. Nearly every single one, with the rare outlier like insect people and yeah, us humans.

And every single one of them is quite wtf at seeing us mammals. Like, big sentient version of those fluffy, rare, small critters that some of them still have on their planets. Some of the most technologically advanced cultures managed to discover how, given more or less the same starting point and a bunch of technobabble, evolution tends to go the same way everywhere.

Until a human scientist talked about that whole meteorite in the cretaceous thing...

[atlaculture]

Cultural Fashion: Fisherman Pants

Thai fisherman pants or kangkeng le (กางเกงเล) are lightweight unisex trousers that are made wide in the waist so that one size fits all. The pants are wrapped around the waist and ribbons are tied to form a belt. They tend to be lightweight and very comfortable. As its English name implies, it is commonly worn by fishermen in Thailand.

Like what I’m doing? Tips always appreciated, never expected. ^_^

https://ko-fi.com/atlaculture

[idontlikedicktionaries]

REBLOG IF ITS OKAY TO TALK TO YOU.

Please.

[sycamorality]

"why is the character like that" >look inside character >it's the author's subconscious attempt to love themself

[sycamorality]

this is meant positively by the way. sometimes you love the character so much you end up putting a piece of yourself in it to learn how it is to love yourself without realising and thats ok.

[memecucker]

Apparently one type of deer hunting practiced in the Middle Ages was using “stalking horses” which involves crouching behind horse in a forest and slowly guiding it towards a deer that’s been tracked because deer are not frightened by the sight of other tall quadrupeds and I like how “horses as a form of camouflage” is belongs to the list of uses for domestic horses

[elodieunderglass]

Thank you @chiropteracupola ! “Stalking horse” is still a phrase and one whose meaning is easy to remember, I think

[sabertoothwalrus]

much appreciation for people who create ocs that are clearly derivative of The Character because even if the inspiration is clear, they had the self awareness that their headcanons had snowballed so far past character analysis into pure self indulgence that there was very little of source material left. and that’s beautiful. sometimes when you’re preoccupied playing touys it’s hard to take a step back and realize you’ve actually created something wonderful and new

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

I'm probably never going to find it again, but there was a response to one of those "artworks we think we can make" posts that was like "Okay, go for it." Like, dead serious.

Are you going to come out of it with a Klein-level work? No. Dude was bonkers skilled. But I am here to tell you that if you've ever gone to Home Depot and shuffled through paint chips and been like "God, this is such a gorgeous color, I fucking love this color" and then immediately been like "...but I can't imagine painting a wall with it." and bought a can of soul-killing eggshell off-white or what the fuck ever, you absolutely can go pick up a $10 canvas from a craftstore and a $5 sample of that color and just hang 6 square feet of it on a wall and enjoy the fuck out of it.

For real, buds. If you see an artwork and you're like "Shit, I could have made that," that is a reminder that god can't stop you and probably neither can science.

[canonkiller]

many people sharing the writing post today... hard to keep up with..... know my universal advice:

if it sucks you should still write it

if it'll be unfinished you should still write it

if you never share it you should still write it

if it's not a linear fiction adventure you should still write it

if you will have fun writing it you should write it :)

[phantomrose96]

I like when fic length/book length/movie length is its own punchline

[phantomrose96]

characters: Ah, I'm so glad that's all over now :). But luckily that's done and dealt with and we can all resume our normal lives now :)

fic length: Chapter 9 out of 48

[phantomrose96]

[medievalspecs]

[memorilore]

[epilepticfox]

Odysseus: Thank you for the concern, but brother, I can assure you Our journey is almost done.

Song 11 of 40

[prophetic-writer]

I'm sorry but I have one draft that I never finished but I laugh every time I see it

[hellsquills]

Writing Tip

Neither do i

[eviliens]

Unreliable everyone

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: When exploring outdoors, don't act recklessly — not every body of water you see is meant for swimming. (cr 神秘园)

[bunjywunjy]

heyy bunjy can you tell us about your favourite things from the deeps?

it varies depending on the day, but I'm a real fan of the stoplight loosejaw and the black swallower!

the stoplight loosejaw is a gamebreaking aimbot of a fish that has re-evolved the ability to see the color red, and emit red light, in a deep sea world where red light simply is a thing that does not exist because it's filtered out of the water column close to the surface.

coincidentally, many deep-sea organism have evolved red pigment because it's biologically easier cheaper than black pigment to produce and it appears black under the fragment of blue light that makes it from the surface anyway, so what's the difference?

nothing, if you're not being hunted by a guy with an invisible flashlight who can also see the color you actually are. whoops.

the black swallower is a wrangly vorefish with an expandable stomach that it can use to eat prey up to twice its length and ten times its own mass! if you fit in the mouth, you're dinner, period.

(you don't fit in the mouth. he's 8 whole inches long.)

I also really like tripod fish.

hehheehe look at him. he sit.

[theunfortunate-author]

my daily affirmation as an author

[chandra-telescope]

hope is a skill

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

hope is a weapon you are trained to wield

[chandra-telescope]

favourite additions

[chandra-telescope]

[tenaciouswritingdragon]

You cannot hide this in the tags, bestie. This is too lovely to keep a secret.

[wonderwyrm]

[scrmnviking]

Theodor would approve.

[muffinlance]

Watching movies with small children is an EXPERIENCE, like tiny human, you have NO sense of story progression

Which is to say we put on the first How to Train Your Dragon

And at the dramatic "first flight" scene, two-year-old shouted "HIM FALL" and started SOBBING. She straight up thought that movie had murdered Hiccup and Toothless halfway through. Had to get double parental hugs and a constant stream of reassurances until they figured that whole flying thing out

All movies could be horror movies if your brain hasn't equipped Plot Armor to the protagonists

Anyway five-year-old is pleased to report that he "liked the part where the big dragon exploded"

[esmeralda-anistasia]

#Welcome to the action adventure genre my children#Five year old was VIBRATING through the climax like straight up legs kicking fists clenched#Had to be held by Spouse until we figured out he wasn't afraid#He was experiencing baby's first blood lust#Kid wanted that dragon DEAD and it HAPPENED and he was VIOLENTLY SATISFIED

[atlaculture]

I have a somewhat related story that I've always wanted to share.

At my old high school, one of our graduation requirements was to do 10 hours of community service. I decided I would knock out one or two of those hours reading to kids at the nearby elementary school during my free period. I brought this book here:

Which is just a collection of all the classic Disney movies adapted into book form. I ended up reading Cinderella to a group of kindergarteners.

When I got to the part where Cinderella's stepsisters ripped apart her first dress, all the children were on the edge of their seats. One little girl was on the verge of tears. Another little girl shouted in horror, "She doesn't get to go to the ball?!"

I can't even begin to tell you how tempted I was to immediately close the book and go "Yup, that's life, kid" and walk off without missing a beat.