welcome to head pain game.

if migraines were an olympic sport i'd be grabbing gold since 2012. header from @80sanime

[spooneristart]

More Bug this time featuring his friends! From left to right we have Finias [@mikethemighty], Jessamine [@dorics], Albedo [@mysticpinetreeforest], Kimia [@rambling-et-al], Lio [@green-and-breathing-thing], and Bug! They're a group of clerics on a mission to secure the holy relics of the gods

[lychi-kinesis]

*SPOILERS FOR THE TOTK DRAGON QUEST*

I drew this as an excuse to draw Zelda in her new dress and then that never happened. ALSO THANK YOU @katydoodles FOR DOING THE BACKGROUNDS <3

[vampireopossum]

happy holidays to those who celebrate

[detectivehole]

"why do you know that" i am curious about the world around me

[r--g--b]

transformers is funny because it seems to be a simple niche interest but in reality its like if your hot wheels came with greek mythology

[r--g--b]

returning to this one more time to say that since posting this, people have compared it to other religious stories & mythology both here and on twitter, which is fine but whats really important is that i was thinking about it like this

[green-and-breathing-thing]

@rambling-et-al

[homunculus-argument]

Pitbulls are so funny because someone really walked in like "hello, I would like the most dense fucking dog you can possibly manufacture. I'm talking 2x the amount of dog you can condense in the space of one dog. A neutron star of a dog. Compress that motherfucker. Make it stupid also."

[justnoodlefishthings]

I'm sure the comments on this will be normal

[justnoodlefishthings]

By Talos this can't be happening

[maghrebim]

here are some of the actually good comments on this post though:

[rambling-et-al]

searched through the comments for more good stuff:

and my personal favorite:

[lillithpanda]

Hey! Do you like ghost? What about rainbows? Ever wish you could mix the two?

Well now you can!

Head over to solstraledesigns.com to buy your own rainbow making window cling ghost!

Solstrale Designs

Hi, I'm Amanda and this is my shop! I’m a graduate student who uses crafting to keep sane. Mainly specializing in rainbow making window cli

[clmntne]

had to share this note i woke up and wrote in the dead of night

[captainlividllama]

ryuk

[bananonbinary]

i will never forgive the internet for what it did to the word “mansplain”

[bananonbinary]

mansplaining is a very specific phenomonon wherein a man who is NOT qualified to talk about a topic assumed he knows better than other people who ARE qualified, purely because of sexism.

sharing a fun fact you learned isnt mansplaining. infodumping isnt mansplaining. adding your relevant personal experience to a discussion isn’t mansplaining, (as long as you remain respectful of others’ experiences as well, but that’s always true). correcting someone who is objectively wrong and spreading misinformation REALLY isn’t mansplaining.

stop telling men that all of their interests and attempts at socializing are insulting and unwanted, your gender essentialism is showing.

[bananonbinary]

people in my REAL LIFE i have had to convince i like to hear them talk, really:

trans men talking about their oppression

trans women talking about their oppression

autistic men infodumping

perfectly kind cis men who are answering a question i literally asked, or getting passionate about one of their interests

people who AREN’T self-conscious about this:

men who actually fucking mansplain, oh my god the whole POINT is that they dont care about other people’s thoughts, why do you think whatever this fucking campaign is would bother them

[bananonbinary]

this is making the rounds again and the amount of people in the notes accusing me of being a man is hilarious. like no i just dont like being mean to people and alienating my friends, sorry.

[brucefromfamilyguy]

[weirdmageddon]

[titlecard]

GHOST IN THE SHELL (1995) dir. mamoru oshii.

[hedgehog-moss]

Some very sweet elephant behaviours I read about in Carl Safina’s Beyond Words:

a young elephant kneeling down in front of their car in a playful way and throwing zebra bones at the researchers, trying to get them to play with him

an 8-month-old elephant trying and failing to pick up some grass with her trunk (the author: “it reminds me of someone learning to use chopsticks”) and whose mother then pulled a sheaf of grass and ate it while making sure her daughter was watching the demonstration

baby elephants suck their trunk for comfort (as we all know!!) but also like to swing and whirl it around as they try to figure out what it can do and how to use it, and sometimes accidentally step on their trunk and trip over it

“often, babies reach with their trunks into the mouths of family members, taking a bit of what they’re eating”

all the female elephants in a family rushing over to help when someone’s baby trips and falls, while making comforting vocalisations

an enormous adult male elephant walking up to a family group and making an exaggerated display of nonchalance, with his trunk casually draped over his tusk, to show the other elephants that he’s not scary

researchers messing with an elephant family by collecting a bit of urine when the elephant walking at the back of the group stopped to pee, then driving some distance to leave the urine ahead of them. “When they encountered fresh urine from an elephant they knew was behind them, they seemed truly baffled, as though thinking, “Wait a minute—how’d she pass us? She’s back behind us!”

mothers instructing their babies to switch to the other side of their body and walk in their shade when the day is very hot

an elephant child trying to climb all over a bigger male teenager who was lying down for a nap, receiving a kick in response, and running back to its mother in alarm—then the teenager followed and lay down flat beside them as if to apologise and invite the child to climb onto him again

elephant children throwing tantrums when they are being weaned and their mother blocks them from nursing (“He got so upset, pushing her, poking her and tusking her, […] it was like, ‘Ooh, I hate you!”)

researchers followed a family that included a baby who was born disabled, with twisted forelegs that he couldn’t straighten. The entire elephant family (from the adults to the baby’s 8-year-old sister) nurtured him, patiently helping him up every time he fell over, “slowing their pace to his disabilities, continually turning to watch his progress, waiting as he caught up from behind” until (after a few days) the little one managed to straighten his legs and learn to walk normally

a researcher once saw an elephant pluck up some grass and place it in the mouth of another elephant whose trunk was badly injured. Also adults are sometimes seen carrying sick baby elephants on their tusks

a researcher saw a baby elephant who was wary of going into the water, wrap her trunk around her mother’s tusk as her mother patiently entered the river with her, like a child nervously grabbing her mother’s arm

“little elephants show lots of concentration while working to master such tasks as picking up sticks. A youngster might twirl and twirl its trunk around a single blade of grass, finally grasp it, drop it and have a hard time getting it back, then simply place the grass blade atop its head”

[guildenstern]

the fact that children are both more likely to catch and to suffer death or complications like blindness from monkeypox, combined with the cdc and media's immensely irresponsible framing of it as a gay sti and the massive recent spread of "groomer" rhetoric is going to get lgbt people killed

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

To be clear for those who don't know, monkeypox is NOT an STI. It's transmitted the same way chickenpox is, touching skin or objects that have touched the skin while infectious, or breathing the same air at close quarters. There's NO evidence thus far that it's ever transmitted through semen or vaginal fluids.

[guildenstern]

yes. while it is unproductive to assume any bodily fluid carries no risk of infection, (especially as monkeypox dna has been found in semen, saliva and feces) this is a disease which can also spread via things like ATM touchpads, laundry, doorknobs and toilet seats, and people are reporting having their symptoms of fever and sores dismissed and being refused testing because they are not men who have sex with men.

fortunately there is a highly effective vaccine, however there is an extremely limited amount available and in places with better availability such as NYC it is restricted to men who have recently had sex with multiple men, and newspapers like the NYT and Daily Mail have been blithely publishing photos of the men waiting outside in line to recieve it, outing them

[sexygaywizard]

Sometimes I'm a boy or a guy but I'm never a man. "Man" as a term is too serious for me. Men do taxes. Guys commit tax fraud

[musclemanveryregular]

You know who else commits tax fraud?

[sexygaywizard]

Well don't be a fucking snitch, muscle man

[perpetuallyfive]

As a gender nonconforming cis dyke, I’ve received a lot of weird hostility in bathrooms. Like, a lot. The mild but frequent stuff is when people see me, do a visible double take, and go check the sign again. The not entirely common, more aggressive stuff is when people verbally question why I’m there. More than once I’ve had someone call me “it” or confront me about my gender in public settings. I’ve had people try to tell me to leave.

But the only place I’ve had someone physically try to remove me from a bathroom was in London.

Some random middle aged woman thought that she had the right to put her hands on me simply because I don’t match her ideas of what femininity is, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this happened in a place where transphobia is running rampant. Of all the weird stuff that’s happened to me in pretty conservative parts of the US, they simply are not as emboldened here as they currently are in the UK; but don’t think for a moment that they don’t intend to get there.

Trans people are reason enough to fight these bigots. It’s a good enough reason. Trans people deserve respect, dignity, compassion, and protection. But if you think they’ll be satisfied with only pushing trans people back into the closet, you’re utterly deluded. They want absolute conformity, simple as that, and they’re increasing their push here too.

Any lesbian who aligns herself with transphobia is a traitor. Simple as that.

[generalchelseamayhem]

Every single time someone tries to arbitrarily define what femininity is and is not, particularly with the intention of excluding icky trans woman so that only the Approved Women remain, it starts negatively affecting cis women too.

Every. time.

It’s happening with gender-segregated bathrooms, it’s happening with gender segregated sports, it’s happening when female on female abuse comes to light, and it will happen again whenever a new issue of True Femininity™ vs trans women pops up.

Almost as if - bear with me - attempts to make an enforceable definition of femininity only end up replicating the rigid, restrictive gender roles and stereotypes that feminists and the LGBT community spent so much time and hard work trying to break away from.

[sonic-justice-real-for]

My new favorite Animal Crossing emotion is now Intense.

[sonic-justice-real-for]

[sonic-justice-real-for]

Intent to kill

[sonic-justice-real-for]

I'm a gay vampire you son of a bitch

[thevilebeast]

op you look like someone insulted you and you’re about to say “father shall hear about this”

[dognotman]