ophelia @ophaeliaa - Tumblr Blog

what’s the point of giving your character severe trauma if it doesn’t make them an asshole to work with. not in a cute way. they should be a fucking cunt. they have to make problems on purpose. they have to lash out at their friends without even being provoked, just because they’re having a bad day and they want to hurt someone to cope with it. on purpose. they have to want to hurt someone on purpose. they can regret it later, but they can’t just say something mean on accident, it has to be calculated and cruel and so, so intentional.

#been watching the case study of vanitas #and i’m very much enjoying it #but yeah this is absolutely vanitas #brief ramble but i was genuinely so shocked by like how the author portrayed vanitas’s trauma?? like???????#ive very rarely seen characters’ trauma written that realistically/well in anime #granted i also haven’t rly watched anime in a few years and i was a lot younger when i was rly into it #so it could be that i just wasn’t picking up on the character writing #not that the writing wasn’t there #EITHER WAY yeah this show is so good and vanitas is such a fascinating character. noé is too ohhhhhhh my god i love them so much #spins them in the mental salad spinner #yeah

the-big-mood

During a high speed car chase pursuit, the FOX 11 Los Angeles helicopter had an unexpected moment when they spotted a rooster and a chicken casually walking down the sidewalk right in the middle of the pursuit.

#i’m crying this is fantastic

ryhsrunner

The four most interesting parts of time loop are when the person kills themselves for the first time, when they kill someone else for the first time (in a fuck around kind of way, this doesn't count if they already were killing people outside of the loop), how they break the loop, and the weeks afterward where they loose their fucking minds in an entirely different, significantly more damaging to the world around them way. And yet I rarely see anything done with that last one. People leave time loops and are all happy go lucky 'oh boy'. Where's the grappling with people you know who will never know you? Where's the knowledge that the safety of the loop is gone, and you can't fix any mistakes you make? That's the good angst I want

#YES YES YES YES YES #ITS THE STUFF AFTER THE TIME LOOP #THE GRAPPLING WITH HOW NOBODY KNOWS YOU ANYMORE #THEY LOOK AT YOU AND SEE SOMEONE YOU USED TO BE #AND YOURE NOT THAT PERSON ANYMORE #BUT TO THEM NOTHING HAS CHANGED #YET YOURE SOMEONE ELSE #AGRHRRHRHRRGHRGRHR #lowkey highkey i could go on about how time loops are a trans allegory. also cycles of abuse. and also like. a lot of things. i fucking.#i LOVE time loops #had an amazing discussion in the comments section of an outer wilds fic with the fic’s author #about the way they wrote the characters reacting to the end of a time loop #because the POV jumped around from the characters who were in the time loop #and the characters who weren’t #and the characters in the loop didn’t talk about being in the loop so the other characters just noticed that something Wasn’t Quite Right #AGRHRGRRBRGRHRGRHRGRG #i fucking love this trope so much i LOVE time loops i LOVE THEM #and i really really love the post-time-loop #because being stuck in the same day where nothing ever changes and then suddenly Not Being There Anymore? that’s gonna fuck you up #(or month or year or century or such (in honkai star rail’s case literal life cycles of the planet))#and time loops themselves are such a good characterization tool #because escaping the time loop (unless some sci-fi stuff is at fault or smth) almost always depends on the character themself changing #the character reaching out for help after stubbornly failing to escape the loop alone (i eat that one UP)#or the character discovering that their mentality/stubbornness/fear is what’s keeping them trapped. or something along those lines #so once they’ve broken the loop #and had the requisite character growth necessary to break the loop. what then? because like #they’ve had the realization that things need to change. but habits and cycles (and loops) aren’t so easy to break.#because they’ve changed but they’re also still themself yknow?? and i really love stories that grapple with that!!#theyre out of the loop but the loop isn’t out of them. they’ve been doing the same thing for so long that it’s hard to lose that mentality #AGRHRGRHRGRHRRGRH i LOVE time loops SO much

log6

I'm not gonna lie the secret to success for a great many people is absolutely stimulant abuse

luulapants

Wait hold on what was that

placeholdername-1

#i think about this post a lot #people truly are the most people ever #yeah

stratfordsympathizer

i love when ppl draw elias bouchard wearing like anachronistic ass emerald green waistcoats and a monocle in their fanart bc it makes s1 so much funnier to think about. like you know what? yeah actually if i was jonathan sims and my fucking freak of a boss dressed like that and did an evil monologue voice at all times and paid me to read ghost stories in his basement all day, i would also probably be like "yeah this is a deeply unserious job and i am the only normal person here. sick paycheck tho" and then clock the fuck out without ever thinking about those fuckass statements again!! like what are we dunking on him for!! who would chalk that up to anything other than "my weirdass boss has clearly taken his eccentric edwardian magician LARP too far but goddamn if that check doesn't come in every month"

#tma #AGAHDKFDHSMDHWKEHWKDJHK #i’m crying this is fantastic

hug-your-face

via @swatercolor [insta]

hug-your-face

This is the best tag I've ever received on a post, I think

#<3

popsunner

So there’s this huge dudebro in my class, who, yesterday, sat next to me. And I’m sitting there sweating because like… I’m wearing my shirt with the lesbian flag on it, and he’s the most popular jock in school, and always has this look on his face that say ‘I can and will kill you’. He looks me up and down, stares at me for a minute and then goes, “So. Girls in skirts and long socks, am I right?”

To which I nodded solemnly, both out of agreement, surprise and also a healthy amount of awkward fear. He nodded and went, “You get it.”

I said, “Yep.” He fistbumped me, and on went our lives.

popsunner

Oh! I forgot to mention! I saw him at lunch the same day, and he ran up to me, tapped me on the shoulder, pointed at this super sweet girl who comes to GSA and asked if she’s gay. I told him he should ask her because that’s not my place and he said he would.

I thought that would be the end of it.

Except ten minutes later he came back and told me he found out (she’s bi) and that both of us have a shot. I said “You more than me.” because he’s attractive and popular.

But this wholesome dumbass looked really confused and asked, “Because I’m tall?’

popsunner

So this isn’t lesbian/jock solidarity but I thought you guys would want to know-

My math teacher was trying to fix the rolling whiteboard and he just offhand said “This would be easier with a wrench”

And deadass, dudebro said “Hang on” and then proceeded to pull a fucking wrench out of his backpack

popsunner

Update- after school today he saw me in the library and he didn’t say anything? He just pointed at the book he was holding and I gave him a thumbs up because it’s a pretty good book, and he went “Yes!” Really quiet and pumped his fist and then left

popsunner

Okay so today he asked me if I know how to help people having a panic attack and I was like yeah? And he smiled at me and then went “cool I think I’m having one”

And I was like what the fuck Colin we’re in the middle of Tech class sit down and we went out in the hall and sat there for a while and he told me about the test he’s stressed about so we kind of went over his study guide and when he was feeling better he kind of like… smacked his head against mine gently? And I helped him up even though he’s almost a foot taller than me and yeah

popsunner

Today at lunch we walked to the football field and laid in the grass and I told him thank you for being my friend (because I don’t have that many) and fistbumped me and said, “You always looked so nice and chill, how could I not want to be your friend?”

And honestly y’all, I would’ve started crying if he hadn’t sneezed and accidentally smacked me

annabanannabeth

xandromedan

@hellsite-hall-of-fame this is a legendary post

10/11/2020

found some pages crediting this photo to David Silverman. I couldn’t find the exact photo, but here are the same bears (mama and baby) from another angle <3

#awwwwww

timcurrysbooty

carlottagiudicellivevo

takiki16

NO FEAR. The actors who played Long John Silver and Captain Flint in Black Sails FULLY ACKOWLEDGE that the Muppet adaptation was the best

(source)

saint-batrick

alder-knight

hi i hope i get to be the one to break this news on Tumblr, because

I am reading Tim Curry’s 2025 memoir, Vagabond

and in it, he not only devotes a chapter to Muppet Treasure Island, but also references this very post

so, to recap

no, Tim Curry is absolutely NOT a Muppet; however

yes, he and Miss Piggy ABSOLUTELY fucked

#DHSHDKFHSSKDHWKDHJG

catchymemes

wereopossum

The sheer energy. The beauty of this woman. The women hugging in the background. The man in rainbow parachute pants. This whole video is art.

inthefallofasparrow

XXI. The World

taboo-delusion

This is what world peace looks like

#<3

beggars-opera

Not to be that person, but if you remember this, how's that newfound back pain going for ya babe

vocabulary-altering-posts

PHRASE ADDED!

LET'S DO THE FORK IN THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL

DING-DING-DING DING-DING DING DING-DING DING DING-DING-DING DING-DING DING DING-DING DING DING-DING-DING DING-DING DING DING-DING DING DING-DING-DING DING-DING DING DING-DING DING

#SGAHSHFKSHWJWHDJWHDJSHAKF #IM CRYINGGGGGG

future-crab

So I follow N. D. Stevenson (comics writer and animator, most famous for Nimona and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) and his husband Lee Ostertag (also a comics writer and animator) on Instagram. When I started following them, they were both publicly presenting as women, and then a few years ago N. D. came out as transmasc nonbinary, and then earlier this year Lee also came out as transmasc. Anyway this is all setup to say that Lee had the chance to make the funniest post of all time and he took it:

Absolutely iconic.

fearoftheminotaur

I want to throw in that part of the context behind this meme was N.D. talking about how he sometimes gets hatemail for marrying a man as a former lesbian, and how many people seem to think he divorced his wife.

I have not managed to find anyone who thinks that in the wild, but it is so damn funny.

natequarter

[ID: a Bluesky thread between ND Stevenson and Lee Ostertag. Stevenson's original post reads, "Latest strain of out-of-touch Instagram comment has been ugh of COURSE you'd end up with a man and like, TAKE IT UP WITH HIM HE'S THE ONE WHO DECIDED TO TURN INTO ONE". Ostertag's reply reads, "Omg are they saying I pass 💅 ". Stevenson's response reads, "LEE HELP YOURE DOING TOO GOOD A JOB THEY THINK I DUMPED MY WIFE FOR YOU". /end ID]

#AAHDJFNSHAFGLG

very-small-giant

vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas

#vnc #OHHHHHHHH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS #THIS IS SO PRETTY

babyjanedough

Already know I wanna send this to people on June 1

spoopyandtired

ITS TIME

#YEAHGHHHHHHHH #HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!

4gifs

socially-awkward-supervillian

Fun fact: Cheetahs only attack prey that runs

youwinagainmoffat-blog

jesus that is good to know.

chandra75-deactivated20180905

Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten.

magehenry-moved-blog

REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit

my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies

pkmnbreederbrianna

Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs. So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly - not spazz themselves into miscarrying. So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs! The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!

emo-islandniles

AJHHHHFDDGHH SO PRECIOUS

renirabbit

this post just got so much better

enjoying-nudiustertian-deactiva

THIS IS OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE POST

wylltingtrees

sashayed

this is emmett and cullen they are best friends

clover11-10

This is the greatest thing I’ve seen all day.

Dogs are truly angels.

oshiawaseni

so THATS why these cheetah ft dogo pics exist

erin-luci-and-me

the anxiety cat

peppermint-madness

Also! Cheetahs are not in fact classified as big cats, they are simply very large lesser cats, due to the fact that they purr, meow, chirp, and cannot roar. Also many cheetahs have learned to recognize wildlife photographers are friends and not foes, so they will just come up to people and be friendly occasionally as pictured at the top of the chain. Some will even leave their Cubs with photographers to look after while they hunt. So. Yeah. Cheetahs are great

elfwreck

bunjywunjy

this works because cheetahs are actually fairly social animals, and they look to members of their group for context on how worried they should be about any given Situation. but since cheetahs are also nervous social animals, they can work each other into an anxiety spiral pretty easily over things like “being in an enclosed habitat” and “there’s a guy over there”.

so by introducing a dog as a member of the group, the cheetahs will now look to the dog for context clues on how worried they should be! and the dog Is Not Worried At All, Thanks, so the cheetahs think everything must be chill even if they were personally unsure about it, and they stop being so freaked out about literally everything.

june-egbert-official

Cheetah: oh god what’s going on how are we feeling weird spotless cheetah

Dog: :) fine, thanks

Cheetah: :) oh, okay

greatlordfluffernutter

soratayuya

Wasn’t expecting this of all posts to be the first tumblr post I’ve ever seen crest 2mil notes, but I’ll take it

madanimalscientist

So the thing about cheetahs is it’s the males that are social. The females actually aren’t once the cubs are weaned, and having females have too much contact with each other will make it hard for them to get pregnant. They need their own, non-overlapping territories, with minimised female-female fenceline contact. Too much female-female contact stresses them out in general and makes it hard for them to conceive. The whole ‘I need to be chased to get in the mood’ thing is another thing that makes breeding hard for cheetahs, you need enough space so that that part of the breeding/courtship process can happen too.

Males on the other hand, form coalitions and are very social in their social group . Coalitions are usually 2-3 brothers that share food and resources and play together and it is adorable.

Cheetahs also usually have twins or more, and a cheetah that births a singleton will often abandon it. We don’t know why this happens but it does. But if you have another cheetah with cubs, you can sneak that cub in and she goes ‘oh another one, okay’ and the cub can be reared that way (the process of sneaking the cub in involves some scent transfer too iirc).

Monarto Safari Park in South Australia, which has one of the highest rates of cheetah breeding success, makes this work by giving the females their own territories but the males have their own shared space for that particular coalition. I very recommend going to check them out if you’re ever in the area, as it’s an amazing place doing a lot of great work in animal conservation and science and improving our understanding of what is needed to keep these animals happy and healthy. Also last time I was there I saw two rhinos playing tug of war with a stick and it was ADORABLE AS HECK.

#that’s so cool??????#i love. animals