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Okay but have you guys considered: Baby Enrique growing up with all the changeling familiars. Baby Enrique being best friends with Waltolomew and Baby Nomura.

#trollhunters #enrique nuñez #waltolomew strickler #arcadia is now official baby town

heywriters

Heyo, my dude, any advice for writing about someone who's in love with a monster? Like a literally monster/not human individual. I'm writing a story and wanted to avoid the whole "it turns out the monster is actually a hot person" trope

The monster is actually a hot mess, but wow they’ve found someone who loves them? Who puts up with their weirdness? Who does their best to stomach their sometimes gross or upsetting behavior? This person is willing to forego a normal life, a normal household, and even a healthy human relationship just to provide for and cherish this freak of nature?

So, what, are they special? Do they get an award for loving this creature and sacrificing other opportunities that might be more beneficial or comfortable to them? Are they some kind of martyr, or are they just exquisitely desperate? Are they reliant on the monster to defend and provide for them?

Is this monster at least sacrificing in return? Do they try their best to accommodate the sometimes gross or upsetting behavior of their human lover? Are they grateful to this person simply because, unlike all the others, they were kind or appreciative of them?

Is this a society where monsters and loving monsters are considered, like, a thing? Are there support groups and couples counseling built around interspecies relationships? Who do they go to when there’s a problem in the relationship? Do they have to tough it out? Are their fights dangerous or heavily one-sided? Which one leaves first in a big fight? Which one has somewhere to run to at that point? Which one will look the worst for running away and which one will be sympathized with?

Are these two people actually prepared or qualified for the unique complexities a monster/human relationship will bring? Are they “ride or die” until the species-specific habits of the other finally get on their last nerve? Are they tolerant and accepting until they realize they have different ideas of how to express intimacy? Maybe even physically they can’t? What kind of toll does that take on the relationship, especially if one or both of them could have their choice of partners of their own species?

Hey, what if they don’t? What if interspecies was the only way to go because one or both of them is a total loser in their own community? What does that kind of self-esteem bring into the relationship? Do either of them flaunt the fact that they have a monster/human as a partner? Perhaps out of defiance (bad) or victor-like pride (bad)?

TL;DR – What is the basis of their relationship? What are their motives? Can they ever hope to understand even half of what it’s like to be the other person?

~Thanks for asking, and…well, I’m curious how you choose to pursue this. Sounds like an interesting idea to explore.

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primsoup

I read this and immediately thought of The Shape of Water – where the whole plot is that the main character is in love with literally a non-human creature. It’s got a lot of layers and isn’t really about fitting into society with the monster, but I do think it would help a little.

#writing advice #writing #monster

Excuse me while I go sing every single damn Linkin Park song in the kareoke

#linkin park #rip chester bennington

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RIP Chester Bennington. Thank you for creating music that spoke to my soul during some of the most depressing moments of my life. I’m sorry they helped me more than they could help you. I’ll try to take your lessons and leave out all the rest.

bondworks

Chester’s Universe

cutevines

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i never reblog vines so this is obviously v/ important to me

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TURN IT ON CAUSE PANDA MAKES NOISE I REPEAT PANDA MAKES NOISE

lntternetexplorer

no omg i think im dead

khoaphan

Baby Octopus!

icanread

psych2go

For more of these posts, check out psych2go

capnskull

the drum is filled with hot steam and then sprayed with cold water. the pressure on the outside of the drum is far more than inside. the pressures try to maintain and find balance taking the drum as a casualty.

everydayconman

“Oh FUCK that’s cold!”

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when youre in the shower and someone flushes the toilet

deadmomjokes

My Chemistry teacher did this the first day of class with a coke can, a hotplate, and a basin of water. I have never forgotten the scientific principles behind it, and here’s why.

There were 20-something of us in the classroom, all dying of sleep deprivation since it was the first day back to school, first class of the day. Mr. Moses was that teacher you weren’t sure how to deal with. I mean, the man’s name was Noah Eugene Moses, for starters. He drove a Harley to school, but also drove the bus. He had giant cokebottle glasses and a doofy mustache with shaggy ex-Beatles hair. He always wore suspenders and a grease-stained t-shirt because he had a potbelly and taught the shop/electrical classes. He wasn’t even really lecturing; he was throwing in tidbits of the syllabus in the midst of bad jokes and fun stories. We were all a bit nervous, because none of us had taken a class from him before, but his tests were legendary—nobody had ever made it out with an A (until I did, but that’s another story for another time and involves a really awesome bet and some hair cutting scissors).

Well, as we were fighting to stay awake, and attempting to take notes of whatever he was talking about, he was pacing around the room from here to there, straightening things and moving stuff. He was very scatterbrained, and it was easy to tell from how he kept forgetting where he put his coke. Turns out, that was just a ruse. He had the can filled with just a tiny bit of water, and the things he was moving around were stacks of papers and books hiding the hot plate and water basin. So he set his coke can down onto the hot plate, continued talking loudly enough so we wouldn’t hear the water boiling, and then knocked it over really fast into the water basin.

BANG!!!!!!!!

Three girls fell out of their seats, one dude swore so violently I’m pretty sure the devil himself cringed, everyone at least jumped and screamed, and I actually broke my pen in half.

See, with rapid decompression comes a vacuum, and with a vacuum comes a rushing of air that creates a massive sound. Think “thunder”. That’s the same principle behind it. His little tiny coke can of steam into a bucket of ice water, and we had a bang so loud the band teacher came in from across the hall to see “what was exploding today.” To which Mr. Moses responded, “Nothing, it imploded. Explosions are chapter 3.”

And that’s when I knew it was going to be the best class ever.

ramblingmushroom

in-a-mellow-tone

Read the whole thing

rjzimmerman

Rat Empathy

Upworthy carried a story summarizing an experiment demonstrating that rats exhibit empathy. Why do I care about this? Because the graphics showing the experiment on Upworthy made me smile, and smiling is good. Here’s the link in case you want to watch the video embedded in the story.

Some scientists ran an experiment to demonstrate that. Here’s how it worked:

The scientists put a rat in water (which rats hate). Not enough to hurt the rat, but enough to annoy it.

Then they put another rat in a safer, dry area with a door it could open to save the first rat.

When the dry rat heard the damp, miserable rat get upset, she came to the rescue.

Still not satisfied with the result, the scientists ran a more complex test.

What if you bribe the dry rat with food? Will she ignore it to rescue the wet rat in the next chamber?

Scientists presumed it would be easier for the not-in-peril rat to take the obvious selfless route when it was given only one choice. But what if they gave her a delicious bribe (chocolate cereal) and then let her choose between saving her friend and a buffet?

The rats, by a significant margin, still usually saved their friend before getting their delicious bribe. What does that mean?

Rats might care more about each other than things like food, and that prioritization might be encoded in their DNA.

Why should we care about super-thoughtful rats?

It is often argued that humans are inherently selfish — that without guidance, we would all default to killing and stealing and an “every person for themselves” mentality. That we only help others if it helps us. That evolution can’t make us selfless; it’s something we have to force ourselves to do.

But if rats show human-like qualities (they laugh like us, they dream like us, they like to have selfless lovers) like altruism, that means it isn’t a human-learned behavior. It could be encoded in our DNA. It means humans could be empathetic and kind by default.

It also means that rats and humans have more in common than we think.

An adorable rat not spreading the plague and hugging a tiny teddy bear. Much empathy.

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mauther

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TINY WONDERFUL BABBIES

sosuperawesome

Pressed leaf and flower illustrations by Helen Ahpornsiri, on Tumblr

On Etsy

inritum

reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

ghostdog07

OH MY FUCKING GOD, IT’S BACK ON MY DASH.

THIS SHIT WORKS OKAY, I AM DEAD SERIOUS.

The last time I saw this on my dash, I didn’t think it would happen, so jokingly I wished I could go to a fun. concert.

AND GUESS WHAT, I WENT TO A FUCKING FUN. CONCERT.

THIS SHIT WORKS, TRY IT.

deathklaue

YOOOOOOO

I SAW THIS ON MY DASH THE OTHER DAY AND THOUGHT “ITS WORTH A TRY” SO I WISHED I COULD GET A 3DS

LITERALLY LIKE 4 DAYS LATER MY DAD SENT ME A PICTURE OF THE 3DS XL HE BOUGHT FOR ME WHILE I WAS AT SCHOOL

IM STILL FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS

doryishness

holy fuck, I didn’t expect this to work, I was like psh, whatever it’s just a quick reblog, but I wished my Dad would actually respond back to me AND HE FUCKING DID A FEW DAYS LATER, I GOT A FUCKING TEXT FROM MY DAD TODAY WHO HASN’T SPOKEN OR RESPONDED TO ME IN MONTHS HOLY FUCK WHAT IS THIS MAGIC IT WORKS.

victoriaringsinyourears

I WANTED TO SEE MY BOYFRIEND AND I DIDN’T THINK I’D GET DAYS OFF BUT THIS WEEKEND I’M HEADING UP THERE??? THIS IS CRAZY SHIT

lenshade

SO LIKE I JOKINGLY WISHED FOR MY OWN LEN KAGAMINE AND THEN LIKE A WEEK LATER I GOT A LEN NENDOROID??? H ELP

themixedbagofwhat

WTF OKAY SO THIS SHOT ACTUALLY WORKS BECAUSE WHEN I WISHED, I HAD WISHED MY CRUSH WOULD LIKE ME BACK AND GUESS WHAT? I HAVE A BOYFRIEND NOW. WHAT THE HELLLLL?????

wodkat

ok I’ve said this before but IM DOING IT AGAIN THE FIRST TIME I SAW THIS, MY WISH DID COME TRUE SO I REBLOGED AGAIN AND SAID IT IN THE TAGS BUT THEN I WISHED FOR SMTH ELSE AND IT LITERALLY LITERALLY HAPPENED LIKE A COUPLE DAYS LATER WHAT THE HELL SO NOW IM WRITING THIS HERE FOR YOU BC I DONT BELIEVE IN THIS CRAP BUT STILL IT’S AN AWFULLY BIG COINCIDENCE

acstiel

THE BOY I FELL I LOVE WITH LEFT TO TRAVEL THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD AND HAS BEEN GONE NOW FOR 3 MONTHS. WE HAVENT SPOKEN SINCE BECAUSE I DIDNT WANT TO MAKE HIM FEEL TRAPPED TO ME AND NOT ENJOY HIS TIME SO I WAITED FOR HIM TO CONTACT ME FIRST. I SAW THIS ON A PARTICULARLY LOW DAY WHEN I WAS MISSING HIM SO MUCH I CRIED FROM THE PAIN, GUYS I REALLY LOVE HIM, SO I THOUGHT MEH WHAT THE FUCK, AND WISHED HE WOULD JUST LET ME KNOW HE WAS OKAY.

GUYS.

HE FUCKING CALLED ME 20 MINUTES LATER

20 FUCKNG. MINUTES. LATER.

GOOD THINGS DO HAPPEN. AND ITS IN THIS POST.

juststrokemyglabella

I wish for someone to leave something in my ask.

adweeb-deactivated20160228

OKAY SO I ASKED FOR A HEDGEHOG AND NOW GUESS WHO HAS A PET HEDGEHOG

mydeadcarcass

I WISHED FOR SNK MERCH THE FIRST TIME. I GOT A JACKET.

I WISHED FOR MY GIRLFRIEND THE SECOND TIME. I HAVE A GIRLFRIEND.

openyourthird-eye

THIS WORKs I WISHED I WAS MOVING TO NORTH CAROLINA AND GUESS WHAT GUYS IM MOVING TO NC IN AUGUST I PROMISE U IM NOT LYING

ariya-art

guys ok ur probably thinking that this is all just bs right? WELL I THOUGHT SO TOO BUT I WISHED MY CRUSH WOULD CHAT ME AND HE DID AND IM FREAKING OUT not even kidding i swear on my grampas grave this works