I Can't Think Of A Title, This Will Have To Do

An Assortment Of Ponderings, Puns And Odds n' Ends

[ayra0]

I couldn't decipher his outfit. BUT HEY LOOK, HE HAS SOME SICK ASS RITUAL TATOOS

[quietwingsinthesky]

its so weird to me that cis people will dislike their name so ardently and yet. not change it. you guys know that’s an option, right. no one can make you keep the shit name your mom gave you. no, not even her.

[penrosesun]

One of my friends in undergrad changed his name because he didn’t want to bear the name of his abusive and absent father. It’s been years since he did it, and he still says that it was the single best decision of his life.

One of my friends in high school changed his named as soon as he turned 18, so that the ethnic name his family gave him was finally the name reflected on all of his paperwork. He told me that he understood why his parents had given him an “English” name, but that he felt that if he needed to assimilate in order to succeed, then that was a type of success that he didn’t want.

When I was on my way home from the courthouse after changing my own name, I got into a conversation with my rideshare driver, who was extremely interested once I told him what I was in court for, and wanted to know how I’d done it, how much it cost, was it difficult, etc. It turned out that his girlfriend had chosen the name “Yo-yo” when she came to the United States, unaware of how rare that was as a name, and that she was frequently made fun of because of it. Neither one of them had realized that a name change was so easy, and he told me he was excited to let her know that she had options.

There was an intern at a summer job I had once, who changed her name to be the same name, but a different spelling. She said that she had no idea why her parents had spelled her name so oddly to begin with, and suspected that it was just an honest mistake either by them or by some nurse, but it had been a headache for her entire life, and it was a huge relief to not need to be correcting people’s spelling on important documents anymore.

One of my exes legally changed his name to have an exclamation point, because he liked to sign his name with an exclamation point.

You can always change your name if you don’t like it. You always have that option. It doesn’t matter why – it can be conformist or anti-assimilationist, serious or silly, a minor change or a major change. Your name is yours, and you have every right to change it to be whatever you want.

[random-questions-fairy]

Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!

[theredscreech]

Heads up that this is a very extensive questionnaire and might be daunting to a lot of writers (myself included). That being said, it is also an amazing questionnaire and I will definitely be using it (or at the very least, some of it).

[heroineimages]

Bookmarking this…

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

woe! texted a casual acquaintance "I've been considering getting into knotting"

[jaguarguard]

Why?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

KNITTING TYPO

[i-suggest-murder]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

thank you faithful henchpeople of tumblr. you do my bidding well...

[tally-art-deactivated20201005]

Only the subtlest metaphors on this Tumblr.

[pastel-hutt-deactivated20180115]

This works as a metaphor for children but also it works perfectly well when played totally straight because horse people are actually like this

[rider-waite-blog]

it literally took me three solid readings through this to realize that it wasn’t necessarily about horse people, because they are exactly like this

[yuumei-art]

Shrouded Stars🌟 It was so fun painting Hidden Stars that I had to make a mirrored version with dark wings :)

Video of the painting process:

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

more characters with superpowers who look into the whole superhero thing and decide "hm no i do not want to participate in this actually"

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

to be clear i'm not saying they turn to supervillainy. they just look at their superpower-based career options and decide to go in an unrelated direction. dental hygienist. supply chain management. HVAC technician in surprisingly high demand

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

some of them do superpower hobbies on the weekend, but a good portion of them are just "eh. my body could technically do it but this is not fun for me?" like it's literally just excercise. why spend your free time training for a marathon when you could be crafting

a lucky few have highly marketable powers which make for extremely well-paid gig work (standard teleporter hourly pay is insane), but it's not exactly a passion driven career. yeah speedsters can make bank working production lines but that gets repetitive real fast. also that shit is tiring. yeah the agricultural industry is paying you big bucks to control the weather during harvest season but you're going to have back spasms for months after.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

as a younger person I'd sometimes get overwhelmed with the violence of the world, not just human violence but the violence done to animals and by animals, the innate violence of being an animal. because an animal is, by definition, an organism that must consume other organisms to live. and this would lodge in my spiraling young adult mind, the tragedy that to live, to be a creature, is to cause harm. that life is sustained by consuming life.

eventually I got older (and medicated), but in the meantime spending time in woodland really helped. it comforted me to be around plantlife, which feeds not on life but on sunlight, and therefore causes no harm.

anyway now I'm reading The Hidden Life Of Trees by Peter Wohlleben (incredible book) and it turns out that was a big fat LIE. forests are violent as FUCK

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

life as a tree is fucking BRUTAL. ok no they don't actually eat each other (well, not until they've been broken down and digested by microorganisms first) but competition is FIERCE. sunlight and water are finite resources. survival rates are dismal. a tree can release a million seeds in a lifetime and have only one offspring live to maturity. some species evolved ways of stealing sunlight from trees who got there first, bidding their time as a sapling then shooting out from under older canopies to hog as as much light as possible. next-door neighbors? fuck em, let em starve.

then you get shit like epiphytes that decided to just grow on top of other plants. strangler fig vines, for instance, which decided well fuck, im just gonna cling to this tree trunk and let it do the support work. maybe entangle our roots and envelope my host completely over time. oopsie my host died? that's ok I'll just cling to its corpse for eternity

equally horrifying is the honeysuckle, which preys on young trees boa-constrictor style, squeezing the life out of saplings, which grow with permanent deformities before dying prematurely (makes for a neat walking stick though)

then you get out and proud parasites like mistletoe who are happy to attach themselves to tree canopies and suck their blood extract water and nutrients. so yeah some plants do eat each other actually. gives ya some perspective on the old christmas tradition of hunting mistletoe with guns (yes that's a thing, shooting them down out of trees like squirrels. yes, unlike squirrels they deserve it). as for the romance angle, who doesn't want to kiss a lover beneath the dying corpse of a parasitic trophy kill? sexy as heck.

in conclusion, PLANTS ARE VIOLENT AS FUCK, and that's not even getting into the eternal chemical warfare they are forced to wage against insects, fungi, microbes and other enemies.

one day soon the forests will turn on us, and when that day comes I'm cheerfully betraying humanity and skipping away to cross enemy lines 🫡

kofi

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

to those who thought this post was heading in a heartwarming direction, i do NOT apologize and i DO hope the forest and its creeping mycelium tendrils crawl their way into your nightmares

[animentality]

[animentality]

[thecollectibles]

Mountain shepherds by Ivan Yakushev

[a-book-of-creatures]

Make more unicorns built like draught horses. Put some meat on those things. No more delicate pretty unicorns, I want unicorns with bulging muscular necks and barrel-like ribcages and pillar-like legs and hooves bigger than dinner plates. They need to be able to impale and lift an elephant on their horns

[a-book-of-creatures]

They need to be terrifying. You know that feeling when you jump a fence and suddenly you a massive bull bearing down? That’s what they need to elicit. The sheer terror of being run down by a mountain of meat with a single very sharp horn in front

[a-book-of-creatures]

They can keep the beards and the tufty liony tails. They’re cutes :3

[the-haiku-bot]

They can keep the beards

and the tufty liony

tails. They’re cutes :3

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[valerie-an]

do you ever want to gently float up to someone and whisper “this isn’t a debate; i am actually educated on the subject and i’m telling you you’re wrong”

[shantronathon-deactivated201606]

Yes and I would also like to gently float in general.

[valerie-an]

this is the most positive addition that has ever been made on my post

[the-quasar-hero]

It’s SO obvious that some of y’all are incredibly mad that my wizard hat is bigger and supremely balanced.

[schakira]

okay... i can still see the folds on your wizard robe... iron it.

[the-quasar-hero]

Now I know you ain’t talking with ya dusty ass grimoire. That bad boy is held together with scotch tape, spit, and faith. Helpful hint: you want the spines of your enemies to break, not your magical tomes.

[schakira]

no cause it's really cute hearing that from you when last i checked your grimoire isn't being passed down from generation to generation. i know you got it from walmart with your dollar store lookin ass staff. you can keep your hint.

[the-quasar-hero]

I just think it’s funny you think anything that isn’t dusted and busted like your grimoire is somehow less authentic, when the reality is you a broke ass wizard who can’t get your coin up! You gotta use hand-me-downs cuz no king wants to make use of your services! Maybe you should dress like this isn’t the third century and ppl would visit your sad lil’ wizard tower. Your grimoire so old I bet that shit got spells to deal with dinosaurs. I got a spell in mine to make wifi anywhere. Oh, and I know you ain’t talking about staffs when you carry around that plywood looking ass shit. You tryna conjure forth a Home Depot employee?

[schakira]

you scroll-stuffing spell stealing nasty little SLUT

[the-quasar-hero]

Nuh-uh, bitch, try again.

[entguarde]

And I’m supposed to listen to you two when you both wear TRAFFIC CONE HATS?? Hate to tell you this buds, but I do think that the plastic hat kinda matches y’all’s plastic fashion taste and y’all’s plastic ass spells.

Yours truly, the wizard frog

[schakira]

DO NOT INTERRUPT US

[afrophunk]

You talk all this mess about wizard hats, and yet I don't ever see you wearing one 🤔

[the-quasar-hero]

FYM?

[afrophunk]

That's just a purple traffic cone

Ain't got no class

No drip

Just goofy-

[the-quasar-hero]

FYM?

[afrophunk]

GUCCI be selling $300 bathroom sandals

Still look goofy in that GUCCI

[the-quasar-hero]

Hmmm, yes counterpoint:

DIE

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

you guys are ruining brunch

[wizard-of-kindness]

"WHILE WE HAVE A MOMENT, HOW BEST SHOULD I GO ABOUT APPLICATIONS FOR A NEW GANGRENEOUS SERVANT?"

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

That would be form 44-AAAAAaaaaAaa AAA ah! whose familiar just bit me?!

[whipcreamsucks]

two cakes theory: even if a similar idea already exists, make it anyway

pink cake theory: even if nothing like this exists yet, someone is bound to enjoy and get it so make it anyway

whole bakery of pink cakes theory: nothing like this exists yet but it's taking up all the space in your brain and it’s all you want to make so you might as well put all you have out there. people will come visit your bakery. MAKE IT ANYWAY

[criminalizegolf]

I'm in the tub AND I have lemonade you hoes wish you were me

[jareckiworld]

Hideo Tanaka — Cut II   (oil on canvas,  2017)