And now the weather

Hello! I mostly reblog. I like Percy Jackson, everything by Diana Wynne Jones, the Discworld, His Dark Materials, Gregor the Overlander and Artemis Fowl. Not purely fandom. She/her.

[cryptidfuckery]

Hey so like omen wise how are we doing. Are we doing okay

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

Could mean good things!

[strange-aeons]

Father Strange, when considering the famous shoelaces code, do you interpret the president they were stolen from to be whichever US president is currently in office, or is it still Obama? I've held in my heart that it has been Obama this whole time

I also feel like The Shoelace President is Obama but I'm curious what Tumblr at large thinks

Who did you steal your shoelaces from?

Obama

Whoever is current US president

A non-US president (put in tags)

Remaining time: 6 days 17 hours

[k-mraz]

Pros of vampirism: cool commissions from over 100 years ago. Cons? You have to pay to see them.

[nat-20s]

out of curiosity, how many books have you read this year

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over 50

Remaining time: 31 minutes

[springinsfeld]

Hab dieses Kunstwerk wiedergefunden, das ich vor ein paar Jahren gezaubert hab. Ich hab das Gefühl, die Schoethe/Deutsch LK Leute wird das ansprechen. Goethe Big Naturals.

[pansytheleia]

mal mich wie Goethe in der campagna

[egberts]

can grief stop hiding in the half smoked cigarettes my impoverished father would've farmed from the cracks in the sidewalk outside of a convenience store? the same half smoked cigarettes that eventually killed him of lung cancer? that he insisted on taking secret puffs of until he literally couldn't breathe anymore? it's an ironically cruel place for a fond memory to be

[egberts]

my dad would've smoked that

[curlyburp]

[egberts]

this made me howl with laughter so thank you

[hamletthedane]

Which line in Les Mis’ Finale goes the hardest:

To love another person is to see the face of God

Do you hear the people sing, lost in the valley of the night?

It is the music of a people who are climbing to the light

For the wretched of the earth, there is a flame that NEVER dies

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise

We will live again in freedom in the garden of the Lord

We will walk behind the ploughshare; We will put away the sword

The chains will be broken and all men will have their reward

Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me?

Somewhere beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see?

Do you hear the people sing? Say, do you hear the distant drums?

It is the future that they bring when tomorrow comes

Remaining time: 18 hours 41 minutes

(Original lyrics, “we” is now replaced by “they”)

[wakingfromthewater]

Still thinking about this mobile game ad I got. You will f**k increasingly large creatures.

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

[teaboot]

"No, I can't be starting my period... I must have eaten something. It can't have been a month already." <- Guy who's starting his period

[teaboot]

"Oh shit... my stomach feels weird, my nose has been extra sensitive, my skin is acting different... must be that time of the month" <- Werewolf who pays attention to this kind of shit

[thestuffedalligator]

“When we were kids, the Phonics Wizard came to our town to show off how the letter E can change the sounds of vowels. He turned a can into a cane, a pin into a pine. This one kid had a cap and he changed it into a cape, that kind of thing.

“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”

She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”

After a moment, she put the ball of twine back onto its pillow. “Anyways. They tried to arrest the Phonics Wizard, but he had a plan in case something went wrong and he turned it into a plane and flew away.”

[apolladay]

Choose a genital situation for yourself! The catch: no standard human arrangements allowed

-none, thank you

-cloaca

-prehensile tentacle

-ovipositor

-detachable penis, a la octopuses

-female spotted hyena clitorophallus

-four penis heads on one shaft, like an echidna

-marsupial-esque three vaginal canals

-snake hemipenis

-bigenital/bigonadal situation--the one who loses the swordfight gets pregnant, like with slugs

-I'll just perform genetic exchange through conjugation like bacteria

-something else (do share in the comments!)

Choose a genital situation for yourself! The catch: no standard human arrangements allowed

none, thank you

cloaca

prehensile tentacle

ovipositor

detachable penis, a la octopuses

female spotted hyena clitorophallus

four penis heads on one shaft, like an echidna

marsupial-esque three vaginal canals

snake hemipenis

bigenital/bigonadal situation*

I'll just perform genetic exchange through conjugation like bacteria

something else (do share in the comments!)

Remaining time: 4 days 18 hours

* the one who loses the swordfight gets pregnant, like with slugs

[creekfiend]

although if we ARE talking about passive aggression my technique is generally (and I have had a LOT OF PRACTICE developing it lmao) is to interpret what I think they're implying and then say "are you asking me to (x)?" in a very polite tone with a friendly (sincere! not mocking!) smile. I find that this often 1. ceases the tiresome cycle of ignoring passive aggressive behavior -> behavior escalates -> ignore it -> it escalates, and on and on that you get if you simply ignore it, 2. lets the person know that in the future they can just fucking ask you directly for god's sake, and very importantly 3. although I strive not to sound condescending when I do this, it is inescapably and obviously something that I learned to say when talking to toddlers. the people I use this with the most (mostly older female relatives but not infrequently on men as well) will often catch a hint of that and sort of realize that their method of approaching me was childish, not in a derogatory sense, but in the sense that they don't need to try to get me to do stuff in the way they got used to working in the past. they can do it differently.

obviously how effective this is varies wildly based on the relationship, or lack thereof, that you have with the other person. but I find it effective with people who are In Your Life but don't meaningfully have any control over you. quite often it DOES result in increased directness in the future, especially if it's something I end up doing fairly often. and it's not rude; I'm just politely seeking clarification about what is being communicated. it makes the person have to think about what effect they were expecting their behavior to have on my behavior, and then just... tell me straightforwardly. but without escalating the situation or making the person feel 'called out' most of the time.

its very simple but I so much more often see people say "always ignore passive aggressive communication" and while I think that's absolutely a good approach much of the time, especially especially from strangers. it is not especially EFFECTIVE at helping them change how they're approaching communicating with you in the future. in my experience. so. I prefer to use my method when I determine that it might be effective.

[gayofgaymark2]

I use this technique on my grandmother a lot.

She frequently makes requests by telling me what I want, eg "oh wouldn't you like to.." "don't you think it's be nice if..."

It used to drive me up the wall, but now as an adult with better understanding of what's happening I say "Actually I'm fine with x, but I'd be happy to do y if that's what you want?"

One day she actually asked me, "Why is it so important to you that I say that y is what I want?"

and i got to say "Well I don't like being told what I want. I have enough life experience to know my own desires and limitations, and I can advocate for them when I need to. However your opinions do matter to me and I want to take them into account. It's much less stressful for me to do so when I'm not guessing what's in your mind."

And folks, she Actually Listened.

Later that day she wanted something that ended up not being possible, but because she said so directly I was able to help her find a different way to achieve the same goal!

She still slips up, of course, but it was so good to see her Understand.

[creekfiend]

I love thissssss. yes I have had similar experiences modeling this behavior for older female relatives. I think a lot of them got real used to having to be indirect to get their needs met and it becomes maladaptive but they get stuck.

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

Very fascinating to me how many people are very much not a fan of caves. I fucking love caves. I'm very much a Holy Shit a Cave! Let's Go Inside type of person. I never even considered other people were not like this until the last couple years when i started seeing No We Don't Need to Go In The Cave posts. Y'all really don't want to go to the cave? But like it's a cave. There's so much cool stuff in the cave. If i don't go to a cave at least once every 3 years I feel a deep internal agony. Let's go to the cave!

[cryptotheism]

Teleporting does kill you but it also launches your soul through samsara in a sort of geostationary orbit velocity, so you reincarnate instantly.

[1nayaa]

nobody is more stressed than a 24-29yo thinking they are running out of time lol

[screwpinecaprice]

Lion wishes they keep him out of this.

[screwpinecaprice]

Reblogging because I'm just realizing they're also matching colors with their rides. 😆

[pukicho]

Here's an image. The inspiration was to go into a forest with a flashlight and take a poicture of tree with my flash light.

[cowserthekhelinace]

All those dumbass birds trying to sleep:

[pukicho]

Fuck them. I’m busy shooting HEAT.