[warmfuzzyanimal]

me when i fucking get you

[foone]

This is the one downside to living on a farm. There are Creatures who will try to Ate You

[phantomchimes]

My name is cow

And wen its day

And when the hooman

Comes my way

They go to pet

My little head

I want to lik

I bite instead

[margauxmara]

More shameless Dr.Goodsir fanart ^^’

[phantomrose96]

"Toph did not have a 'life changing field trip with Zuko' episode because, being absent from season 1, she did not have significant Zuko-related trauma to unpack" - reasonable, sensible, passible explanation.

"Toph did not have a 'life changing field trip with Zuko' episode because doing so would have meant sacrificing Ember Island Players, thus denying the Avatar crew the opportunity to have the stupidest pre-series-finale recap episode ever" - stronger, smarter, worthy of throwing hands over

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Toph didn’t have a life-changing field trip with Zuko episode because the fallout would’ve taken a fourth season to clean up.

[pinniposting]

everyone knows what a baby harp seal looks like, but here’s an adult! this one’s tracker makes it look like a live bomb

photo: W.J. Grecian, SMRU

[littleguysdaily]

[mariana-oconnor]

[lisdens]

rereading nona the ninth and this is what john chapters look like to me

[itseasytoremember]

(To the tune of Rasputin): BLEH BLEH DRACULA, KING OF TRANSYLVANIA, HE IS A BAT AND ALSO A MAN

[targetedknowledge]

[alex-and-nova420]

made this into a gif bc i liked it so much. shark Denied

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

Can we make an exception for him? He seems very polite...

[targetedknowledge]

[alex-and-nova420]

made this into a gif bc i liked it so much. shark Denied

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

Can we make an exception for him? He seems very polite...

[bob-artist]

Bittern at the grocery store

[sparkly-heretic]

A very elegant crime.

(edit: my partner just pointed out that maybe the bittern is going to pay, and that's a good point)

[bob-artist]

Don't worry, his disguise was flawless and he got away with his snack :)

[macmanx]

A NASA spacecraft discovers a formation on Mars resembling a bear

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped the uncanny photo in December. Eyes are formed by craters. A hill with a "V-shaped collapse struc

Come on [tumblr] where’s my Mars Bear fanart?

[sirartwork]

[velvetys]

I was too scared to watch edward scissorhands has a kid but I thought about how could a woman go through pregnancy with a fetus growing metal scissors hands it took years of theorizing, still without watching the movie, to even think that maybe he wasn’t born with scissor hands

[duncebento]

maybe women are stronger than you think

[velvetys]

Sorry listening and learning here

[visenyaism]

I can see that you don’t understand the importance of the Amethyst Empress myth being mirrored in Rhaenyra’s story via the female heiress being usurped and killed by her younger brother. It’s not some random occurrence that most dragons were born during Rhaenyra’s lifetime and her death ended the magic that made the dragons flourish. The dragon births coincide with Rhaenyra’s own blooming fertility and in the end Rhaenyra’s bloodline prevails against her usurpers. Rhaenyra’s life represents the height of Targaryen power and her death ended the dragons just as the Amethyst Empress could’ve brought a new dawn to the Great Empire but instead her death caused the Long Night. The Amethyst Empress had no bloodline to survive her so that’s why the Long Night happened. The survival of Rhaenyra’s bloodline is important precisely because of the role they will play in ending the Long Night.

I can see that you don’t understand that this interpretation of the text is over-literal, thematically myopic, and dumb. And most importantly, boring. Now what.

[visenyaism]

Interpreting asoiaf as a story about the eventual triumph of a chosen bloodline to the point where everything their ancestors ever did is retroactively completely justified to get them to that point is just so profoundly whatever. The only two characters in the main series who really believe that are like Viserys III (wrong) and Melisandre (double wrong.)

​Targs and Valyrians keep apocalypsing themselves and then when given the chance to build something better on the ashes of the old world, fail to do so. Dany is interesting because she’s the last one, and as a teenage girl, someone who the dynasty would’ve completely discarded in her own right. But the narrative points at her and says because of that she’s the first one that might get it right. Daenerys is a hero largely because of her own choices. Ones she makes largely because of an upbringing removed from the power, privilege, and mythology of her family.

The dragons died in the Dance because the Targaryens used their incomprehensible power to start a realm destroying civil war, and war is bad (even if Rhaenyra was obviously wronged) not because the world lost Rhaenyra’s “blooming fertility.” The purpose of the Amethyst Empress myth is to counterbalance the Azor Ahai one so we know that what one culture calls benevolent patriarchal self-sacrifice another calls murder. Question more things that the narrative tells you. I think you’re supposed to.

[random22765]

The way people talk about the Dawn Empire on the ASOIAF fandom GENUINELY pisses me off.

First- maybe, just maybe, is not a good look to make the legend of the equivalent of China not being about their ancestors, but the ancestors of the White Evil Blood Incest Empire. JUST MAYBE.

Second- I think the legends that exist IN THE BOOKS should have more narrative relevance then the legends in basically a footnote of Martin Nerd Worldbuilding book with a bunch of shit that will never be relevant to the story and he just thought would be fun to apply

But if you even SUGGEST that this legend is not that important people riot and will impale you.

3- is boring narratively. Dany was always destined to be the Chosen One since the beginning of time and her and her family choices never mattered because gods would always find a way to ruin her life and give her dragons. It takes away the core of Martin writing, of the human heart in conflict with itself, of the consequences of previous generations falling on the back of the new. And makes the gods suddenly caring abou ONE person/family (Targaryens) above the untold millions of life's destroyed by Valyria along millenia. It takes away the consequences of humans being about humans and make it about gods and divine justice.

[visenyaism]

I can see that you don’t understand the importance of the Amethyst Empress myth being mirrored in Rhaenyra’s story via the female heiress being usurped and killed by her younger brother. It’s not some random occurrence that most dragons were born during Rhaenyra’s lifetime and her death ended the magic that made the dragons flourish. The dragon births coincide with Rhaenyra’s own blooming fertility and in the end Rhaenyra’s bloodline prevails against her usurpers. Rhaenyra’s life represents the height of Targaryen power and her death ended the dragons just as the Amethyst Empress could’ve brought a new dawn to the Great Empire but instead her death caused the Long Night. The Amethyst Empress had no bloodline to survive her so that’s why the Long Night happened. The survival of Rhaenyra’s bloodline is important precisely because of the role they will play in ending the Long Night.

I can see that you don’t understand that this interpretation of the text is over-literal, thematically myopic, and dumb. And most importantly, boring. Now what.

[visenyaism]

Interpreting asoiaf as a story about the eventual triumph of a chosen bloodline to the point where everything their ancestors ever did is retroactively completely justified to get them to that point is just so profoundly whatever. The only two characters in the main series who really believe that are like Viserys III (wrong) and Melisandre (double wrong.)

​Targs and Valyrians keep apocalypsing themselves and then when given the chance to build something better on the ashes of the old world, fail to do so. Dany is interesting because she’s the last one, and as a teenage girl, someone who the dynasty would’ve completely discarded in her own right. But the narrative points at her and says because of that she’s the first one that might get it right. Daenerys is a hero largely because of her own choices. Ones she makes largely because of an upbringing removed from the power, privilege, and mythology of her family.

The dragons died in the Dance because the Targaryens used their incomprehensible power to start a realm destroying civil war, and war is bad (even if Rhaenyra was obviously wronged) not because the world lost Rhaenyra’s “blooming fertility.” The purpose of the Amethyst Empress myth is to counterbalance the Azor Ahai one so we know that what one culture calls benevolent patriarchal self-sacrifice another calls murder. Question more things that the narrative tells you. I think you’re supposed to.

[yellbug]

when your friend gets a masters degree make sure you send them every single gif you can find of anime girls in maid outfits saying master!!!! right away

[anistarrose]

immortality is a disability. to me

[anistarrose]

the nature of your body has changed in a way you don't understand. there will always be a "before" and an "after." why did this happen? and why did this happen to you? you're searching for a reason. you're searching for a meaning. is this a punishment? is it a divine gift in disguise? is there a cure? do you want a cure? all your friendships seem to drift inevitably away from you. will people ever see you again as the age you actually are? will you ever be able to interact with the world again like how you used to?

[anistarrose]

but. and this is crucial. you should hit your immortal characters with normal disabilities too

[technoturian]

Jonathan Harker: I feel comfort thinking of the lovely, sweet ladies who spent time in this room... Jonathan Harker: Oh, here's the ladies that spend time in this room. Jonathan Harker: Jonathan Harker: Oh. Jonathan Harker: Oh I don't like that.