The OysterBed

amateur poet, full time bookworm

[gursevraq]

shipping the popular yaoi pairing but shaking my head while i do to indicate that i also care about the work's themes and other characters

[brakvrack]

FINALLY I GET TO SHARE THIS PICTURE

[definitely-not-several-bugs]

The spell master: God damn it, where on earth is my magic crystal ball????

The suspiciously hungry and round bug:

[the-true-tusk]

What is this thing

[brappypatty]

shoutout to my fellow Ornate Amphipod enjoyers

[i-post-hilarious-shit]

[thishasalwaysbeenmyname]

Nice sheep

[eldritchbauble]

People who have a pervasive shit attitude toward everything are extremely exhausting to be around. No, this doesn't make you a bad person for having trauma or depression. You're allowed to go through hard times and lean on others for support. But there is a point where being negative and spiteful about things all the time is not only self-defeating but harmful to your relationships. There is a meaningful difference between talking about your struggles vs. almost pointedly refusing to engage with opportunities for positive experiences/emotions. The latter becomes contagious and fatiguing for people around you, because you're essentially expecting them to dig themselves into a hole, too. It can even start to feel like you're punishing others for enjoying things if you're not happy. And it's wrong.

[eldritchbauble]

Like my mother will often respond to a comment that's positive or happy by talking about how she's unhappy, upset, or angry about things, and she does it with a spiteful "good for you" tone. Absolutely nothing I say will get her to acknowledge that she's still being shown support and caring even if people aren't willing to be miserable with her all the time. It's a very unhealthy and emotionally immature trait. If this is you, I strongly suggest that you look at ways to improve your distress tolerance and consider the emotional impact you have on others. It is NOT others' job to regulate your emotions or fix all of the wrongs in your life for you. Other people's happiness or attempts at happiness aren't a betrayal.

[eldritchbauble]

The bottom line is that it does actually matter how you frame things, sometimes. A lot of the time. Are you committed to being miserable because you take some form of satisfaction in it, and is that maybe preventing you from being healthier and happier?

[vrabia]

ambitious indie project this, surprise box-office hit that, iron lung (production budget: $3mil) is the 'someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this, my family is dying' tweet.

[vrabia]

set construction: $800

cast & crew wages: $1,200 + uber eats

fake blood (assuming generous discount on bulk purchase): $2,000,000 i am so not kidding i did the math this is nuts

editing: average adult body-weight equivalent in monster energy drinks

[vrabia]

update when markiplier announced he's producing the dvd/blu-ray himself i was like cool he's personally supervising the process and then he was like no i mean i'm making them myself at my house and i imagined some kind of complicated gargantuan contraption dutifully chugging along 24/7 blowing up this man's electricity bill and then he was like

anyway if you buy an iron lung dvd/blu-ray: it was made on a printer-sized machine. at markiplier's house.

[santas-clauze]

every western movie ever made: The wild west is dying. theres no more room left for cowboys anymore…

me everytime: :(

[nem0c]

every samurai movie ever made (both edo and bakamatsu periods): The bushido code is dying. there no more room left for samurai anymore…

me everytime: :(

[rickfuckingdalton]

A lot of westerns are remakes of samurai movies

[bonesawcagematch]

those samurai movies were very often heavily inspired by 50′s and 40′s westerns

[simon-newman]

Cowboys and samurai are brothers separated by time and space.

[eric-coldfire]

Best duo.

[seriousfic]

[breadgunner-deactivated20200418]

I’ve got y’alls new favorite art piece right here.

[phoxxent]

According to Google, Samurai were abolished in 1868.

This means that at the same time that cowboys were reaching their end, so too were samurai.

Cowboys and Samurai were separated not by time, only space.

[shoudesuka-mechadork]

I’ve got something else to add to this: there’s also an extremely specific species of mushroom that can only be found in Texas and Japan. I’m serious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorioactis

[anybodyandsomebody]

The most ambitious crossover

[ghost-cassette]

Fantasy setting but it’s just Texas and Japan together at last

[ladymaplecourt]

Mycelial portal between cowboys and samurai

[superpixie]

@britonell your tags I’m dying xD

[langernameohnebedeutung]

My favourite little x men thing is when someone is like "Give up, Magneto! You stand no chance against this plastic weapon/gun/suit I have built!"

And Magneto is like "I see. Whatever will I do."

and throws the surrounding infrastructure at them.

[rvstedscraps]

because he's an absolute girlboss is what he is

[nondelphic]

writing? oh, i’m definitely writing. in my head. during the most inconvenient times. like in the shower or when i’m about to fall asleep. actual typing? no, no, we don’t do that here.

[bebx]

“if you love this character then you must make him happy in your fics, right?” wrong. the horror. suffering. internal hemorrhage. hospital. immediately

[vault-heck]

We all love the "becoming the very thing you sought to destroy," trope. but I have a growing fondness for "destroying the very thing you sought to become"

[ladycyon]

Apothecary Diaries is so funny. The ladies in waiting look at Maomao and are like ohmigosh a poor adorable abused puppy we must smother her in love and teach her our ways 😍 and the concubines are all like she saved my life and she saved my baby and she's so brave and smart and we love her so much and jinshi and everyone else is heart eyes about her and meanwhile Maomao is like el chupacabra in the corner barfing up goat bones

[venomdoves]

what if you were desperately vulnerable to the call of the ring. what if you had spent your entire life watching your friends and peers being murdered by the dark forces of mordor and then placed in front of you is the only weapon that could possibly vanquish the monster that’s murdered scores of your friends and you just have to not take it. you have to commit yourself to destroying it. and you held out for months until it broke your will as it would have all in the fellowship in the end but there’s a particular shame in being the first. and then you’re so overcome with guilt for what you’ve done and compassion for your friends and a reckless primal need to regain your honor that you run into a suicide charge against an army you have no hope of defeating and you die like all your friends did before you and the last thing you see as the world slips away is the companions you gave your life for being hauled away to certain death. and they look to your coming from the white tower, your people. but you will not return.

[thethirdromana]

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

[sandersstudies]

People shit on homeschooled kids a lot for not being “socialized” but I will say one thing I’ve noticed about a lot of healthy homeschool families is that their kids are better at interacting with people much older and younger than them because their day isn’t composed of following one or two adults in authority with a bunch of people born within 12 months of them.

[sandersstudies]

I’m running mics for a children’s performance and here’s a pattern I see.

Public school kids who don’t know me: Hello Authority Figure I have arrived for my microphone. 🫡Thank you, goodbye.

Homeschooled kids who don’t know me: Hello my Professional Peer, how are you today? How long have you been doing this kind of work? That’s interesting. Can I ask you a couple questions about the sound board? I’m 9. Would you like to hear a fact about bugs? Okay thank you goodbye.

[sandersstudies]

A grade-school homeschooled child (~9) recognized me at a public event, came up and greeted me like a peer, and shared pleasantries. She was excellent at turn-taking and intuiting how to continue the conversation either by asking me a question, or by adding something of her own to the conversation.

Kids of a similar age and familiarity with me who attend public school usually do NOT approach me like this. They may greet me or ask a single question — they are still polite and cheerful children — but they do NOT carry conversation like this. It’s usually a brief exchange and then they say “okay… bye!” Their conversational skills only begin to progress around middle school age.

[aetherograph]

Thank you so much for acknowledging that homeschool children who aren't the product of weird niche cults exist. Some of us just had parents who disagreed with public school pedagogy because it's shit, not because it isn't shit enough, and couldn't find Montessori schools that went past the age of 11.

[moveslikekeithrichards]

the role of the person in the passenger seat is not only navigator but secretary as well. you have to type up the drivers messages to random ladies on facebook about cbd cream & google whether that billy joel song was the theme song for that show or not

[moveslikekeithrichards]

you also have to provide a henchmans disdainful scowl at whoever the driver is flipping off in the target parking lot

[the-apocrypha]

other assorted roles may include

retrieval team for objects in the backseat

custodian of the parking garage tickets

"All clear my way"

en-route dining concierge

announcing "Horses!" when there are horses

[lynx-girl]

Don't forget the Tommy Gun

[help-my-ocs-breached-containmen]

You should never forget the Tommy Gun

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[toasthaste]

according to An Immense World, apparently giant squid eyes are, like, UNREASONABLY large, even for something their size living at those depths. the next largest eyes on earth, blue whale eyes, are less than half the size, and swordfish, who live at similar depths as giant squid and have the largest eyes of any fish, have eyes that could fit inside a giant squid's pupil.

eyes hit serious diminishing returns wrt resource costs vs vision quality as they get bigger, so the question became: what the FUCK do giant (and colossal) squid need to see so badly that they couldn't see with swordfish-sized eyes that's justifying that massive energy cost? that nothing else in the deep ocean needs to see so fucking badly??

turns out the one strength eyes that big really have over much smaller eyes is: seeing large glowing objects in water deeper than 500 meters from an appreciable distance.

sperm whales are the primary predator of giant squid. sperm whales don't glow. BUT! water that deep is full of bioluminescent creatures-- these creatures light up when bumped into. something a sperm whale's size is continuously bumping into those critters, it's just surrounded by a glowing field all the time when it's swimming at those depths, visible from a distance-- if you have the right eyes-- as a massive glowing shape. so basically the only reason to have eyes the size of soccer balls is if you live in the deep ocean and your life depends on having a heads up when a hungry sperm whale lurking around

and also I gotta say, the imagery... the huge lurking threat betrayed only by the ambiguous glowing shape of its movements through the water, is really evocative, if spooky deep-sea games aren't already using that to make things extremely ominous then they should really start

[paulfrankjuliusthemonkey]

anyway. onto better things

[sburbling]

onto better things thursday