I am an enigma even to myself

welcome friend / have fun traversing my inner monolog / any / local enjoyer of meat and odd anniversaries / major

[theinfiknight]

Love when you try to take a screenshot but fuck up the timing of the volume down lock button combo and are left sitting there with slightly softer music and a black screen and you just have to sit there looking at your reflection on the locked phone and contemplate your failure for a bit

[iphigenesis]

in a way john watson is a fantasy (what if you had this brilliant enigmatic friend and what if he liked you in particular and what if he offered you the excitement of youth and adventures and a way out of boring society life and all without having to actually give up your status as a gentleman so you could have the best of both worlds) and in a way sherlock holmes is a fantasy (what if someone never got tired of you despite your various strange habits and mood swings and instead of simply tolerating you they genuinely liked you and what if you didn’t have to live alone forever and what if you never had to give up doing the things you love) and of course there’s the most fantastical part of it all (what if you could afford london housing prices)

[homunculus-argument]

in Finland, it is illegal to kill a bear when it’s hibernating. If you ask a hunter why that is, a number of them will tell you it’s wrong simply because it is the law, and they don’t make a distinction between what is right, and what is legal. Most people like that are perfectly normal, decent and respectable people, just like the rest of us.

 But if you ask people who think about things, the answer is vague. Killing a hibernating bear would just feel… impolite? You can’t fucking shoot a man when he’s sleeping, that’s just fucking rude. It’s just not the right thing to do.

 Long before hunting laws were established in Finland, you couldn’t kill a sleeping bear, and what commands you is something older than law: tradition. Even at a time when hunting was a matter of life and death, and a bear fighting for its life is mainly a matter of death, you just didn’t kill a hibernating bear, you have to wake it up first. Hunters risked their lives, the lives of their brothers and everyone in the hunting party, who were friends, family and men that they loved, to give the bear a fighting chance.

 In the modern time, the hunting season of bears is in the summer, for the warmest summer months. There are many reasons for why they are allowed to tread safely in autumn and to sleep in peace through the cold months, almost all of which are rational and scientific, and do not touch the old traditions.

 Old faith says a living thing has many souls - henki, luonto, itse. Plants only have one - the one that wills them to grow. Animals have two, both the spark of life and nature that enables them to act. A human being also has the third, one that makes them a person, personality, itse, literally “self”. But the soul that travels in your dreams is not the soul that defines a human - animals have that one as well. When your dog runs in her sleep, her soul is elsewhere, where a dog is needed.

 One’s waking soul is elsewhere when they sleep and dream. A bear’s soul is somewhere else when they are hibernating - there are two words for “hibernation” in finnish, one of which is talviuni, “winter sleep”, and that is the one that bears have - and if you kill a sleeping bear, their soul is not in the body, it is still out there, and it can find you, and as a revenge for killing its body, Ghost Bear will kill your entire fucking family.

[emohell]

absolutely enamored with these lines from janet burroway’s imaginative writing textbook

[start id: an excerpt from a pdf that reads: “as readers, however, we will always, if the story succeeds, have our capacity for empathy enlarged by having lived in the character’s skin for the duration. every story is in this important human sense, a “love story.”“ end id]

[librarycards]

I saw this post recently that implied that “kink is playing toys” and “kink always has wider, social and cultural implications” are like, opposing statements. I think that’s so wild. like, have you ever heard of Cowboys and Indians? Cops and robbers? “Little boys”, beaten for playing dolls? “Little girls” forced to stay in and clean up after their brothers playing outside? In what universe is playing toys not deeply implicated in. Everything??? This isn’t even an argument about harm in kink this is like a very basic observation about the nature of play.

[whimsy-on-the-moon]

tagged by @vampiric-decay it wouldn’t let me rb for some reasonnn

Mario Kart Main: Rosalina everytimeee (she may have been my gay awakening in the motorcycle suit tbh)

Gas station order: blackberry iced tea and a pep n cheddie (theyre usually gross but road trips make them taste good idk)

Animal you were obsessed with when you were 8: foxes since I was wee

Lightsaber colour: I would want Ashoka’s white double wielding ones they’re soooo cool

Vampires, werewolves, or dragons: obviouslyyyy vampires there’s no competition I fear

tagging @little-doggy-boy-kisserstraight @zombies-sold-cheap @renee-minkowskis-therapist @angelgarters uhhh whoever else I tag I forget

[renee-minkowskis-therapist]

Thanks for the tag!

Don't play Mario Kart, but:

Gas station order: Pickle-flavored potato chips, Life Saver gummies, and a bottle of water.

Animal you were obsessed with when you were 8: Bunnies, and I still kind of am.

Lightsaber color: My only exposure to Star Wars came when my now ex-best friend made me watch the original trilogy, and my dad's attempts to get me to watch the rest have mostly failed, so I do not know the extent of the lightsaber colors. The green ones are pretty.

Vampires, werewolves, or dragons: While I'm not a big supernatural creatures guy, from a literary standpoint I really fuck with werewolves.

Tagging @aro-geo-turtle, @manesetgalaxies, @lyss-overcomplicates-everything, and anyone else who wants to join in!

[aro-geo-turtle]

Also don’t play Mario kart

Gas station I usually get whatever candy I’m in the mood for, like sour patch kids or Swedish fish are some of my usuals. Ooh or mini doughnuts/doughnut holes. Maybe a slurpy. I am going to miss living somewhere where they occasionally have gas station fat cakes

My dragon obsession started young.

Lightsaber color: purple!

And I already sneered dragons dragons dragons

@sadswamp-things @steviecrowdude @program-251 @gogogoat495 @yourlocalpileofcrows @yellows-secret-blog

[yourlocalpileofcrows]

Thanks for the tag!!

Mario Kart main: Link

Gas station order: I don't think we have the same kind of gas station culture in the UK? (I might be wrong there don't kill me please) Anyway I'm a public transport user, I suppose whenever I've went to a gas station it's usually for coffee (I'm an espresso drinker) or an energy drink (peach RedBull my beloved)

Animal I was obsessed with when I was 8: Equally Wolves and Dragons

Light saber colour: I've honestly never watched anything star wars. Ever. But uh. Red? Those ones look the coolest I think

Vampires, werewolves or dragons: Vampires for sure.

Tagging @long-suffering-little-spoon @alarastirling @splonkblonk @pseudonemisis

[pseudonemisis]

Ahh, thanks! Sorry this took me so long to see

Mario Kart main: Yoshi usually but I dont play enough to have a solid main

Gas station order: on the days that I have to bring lunch to work and forget/dont want to cook something ill swing by a gas station and get some Jerky, trail mix, fruit, and maybe a treat.

Animal I was obsessed with when I was 8: also wolves and dragons, and horses

Light saber color: okay, so my brother really likes star wars and is into the lore and he explained all of the color meanings to me But I dont remember them perfectly. I think purple or white

Vampires, werewolves, or dragons: i love them all but definitely dragons

[the-grassy-hill]

sorry if i come off as rude my mother didn't like me for several years

[toddsolondz]

destroying and betraying yourself for nothing all by yourself, handsome?

[wizardarchetypes]

the most fun part of writing poetry is writing it. the least fun part is once it's written and it's the worst thing anyones ever written. the second most fun part is 2 years later when it turns out actually it aint so bad babeyyyy

[mysterycat-official]

My new sexuality Coward where it don't matter what you attracted to because youare too scared

[nreads]

[fruitviking]

Can we stop with the character development. Where's my beach episode.

[homunculus-argument]

"Can't pour from an empty cup", but it's about your parents trying to teach you to respect them when they've never respected a single thing in their entire lives.

[agentukelele]

Hello binary gendered tumblr user. Before you is a nonbinary character in a relationship. You have three hours to describe the relationship without calling it yaoi, yuri, or anything else that puts them in the binary. If you fail, the room fills with toxic gas.

[hymnism]

[stephexmachina]

when i was a kid i was so mad all the time bc i thought someday i'd have to be somebody's wife i didn't know it was optional. is everybody reminding the young girls in their lives that it's optional.

[stephexmachina]

AND SO IS BEING SOMEBODY'S MOTHER‼️

[the-seelie-court-official]

you cannot fix that blond man please step away and let the professionals take over

[the-seelie-court-official]

ma'am please let the blond defusal squad do their jobs. they have better life insurance than you

[dozenssporks]