a lot more competitive than I look

enjoyer of beautiful and true things (and also fandom). sometimes a writer. actual real doctor. woman of faith.

[rowenabean]

[calicotisane]

A speech balloon was found deep in the wilderness hundreds of miles from the nearest human settlement bobbing half deflated with its tail tangled in the branches of a douglas-fir. There were also micro plastics that had been there already for like a hundred years

[otherbug]

hi op i really liked this imagery i hope its okay that i drew it

[yr-tiktok-mom]

[syrnyj]

[summer-fruits-and-cream]

[vampirefabio]

what kind of vacationer are you?

sightseeing—landmarks

sightseeing—museums

sightseeing—hiking

swimming

scuba/snorkeling

boating

shopping

im just here for the food

im not leaving my hotel

Voting ended onJul 19

yes yes ideally you’ll do multiple, but if you have to choose one.

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

you're not making enough of stone fruit season. that's another thing you're fucking up. a few dozen stone fruit seasons you get your whole life. you need to take a hard look at your peach and mango consumption.

[aardvaark]

minor detail i love about leverage: parker can appear & disappear at will with no rational explanation, but ONLY when it’s played for comedy. in more tense and dramatic scenes, she has to have a known entrance or exit strategy as part of the overall heist plan. it’s like she has the ability to teleport but it’s powered by comedic timing lol.

[sixth-light]

Since we don't have a history of blaming tramping disappearances on monsters, I would like to propose: we start blaming them all on the Canterbury Panther. Especially the ones in Te Tai Tokerau

I see your vision but the Canterbury Panther is just so well-explained to me (feral cats get bigger than people expect; people are bad at judging the size of unexpected animals at a distance) that I can't quite feel it in my heart.

The moose, however. There is great potential in the Fiordland moose.

[tahthetrickster]

did a bit of driving through the state of georgia today and wound up driving through a small town that i later discovered was called newborn, which is an odd name but doesn’t technically have anything wrong with it, except for the fact that i nearly gave myself whiplash doing a double-take at a building sign advertising NEWBORN TAXIDERMY

[o-craven-canto]

NEWBORN TAXIDERMY

your move, Hemingway

[redscharlach]

It has come to my attention that some of you have never seen what I firmly believe to be the greatest music video of all time: Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart. It is the perfect marriage of a galactically bombastic power ballad and a writhing mass of 1980s video clichés, thrown into the path of a wind machine and blasted down a moodily lit corridor into the realm of legend.

In case you’re wondering what the heck they were thinking of when they made it, I remember Bonnie once explaining on TV that it’s about the dreams of a headmaster’s daughter, hence all the boys in (and out of) uniform. In retrospect, the whole shebang is quite fascinatingly female gaze-y, and I’m pretty sure it was a major formative influence on my pubescent imagination.

And yes, there is also a very amusing literal version, but for my money, the original is definitely the most hilarious…

[redscharlach]

A sad and deeply fond farewell to Bonnie Tyler (1951–2026). May somersaulting ninja schoolboys sing you to your rest.

[inber]

Even wilder: the song was originally meant for some kind of 80’s vampire rock musical. Sources: 1 and 2

Steinman told Playbill in a 2002 interview that he wrote “Total Eclipse of the Heart” as a vampire love story. He said its original title was “Vampires in Love.”

May her memory be a blessing ❤️

[coldswarkids]

you are a woman in a fantasy book written by a man. choose your personality trait

PETITE but super strong (defeats men easily 3x your size)

crosses arms across breasts / yanks braid in irritation

has giant sexy bazongers (that are sooooo inconvenient for archery)

"ugh, MEN" (acts in completely irrational manner)

only female character among cast of 3,000 men

see male protagonist > i must bone him immediately

written to "defeat sexist tropes" but is just written as a man instead

not like the OTHER girls (tucks hair behind ears)

damsel in distress (faints dramatically) ooohhhhh

Remaining time: 3 days 5 hours

[waterandsilver]

if you have to rely on specific scripts or turns of phrase to socialise that's totally fine, but you must NOT reveal them to your friends while slightly drunk. it's like showing how the magic trick works, you can't do it in front of them afterwards

[waterandsilver]

i like dogs a lot but i can never remember the differences between breeds (apart from the few types i've actually owned/interacted with). but i know people looove their dogs and love talking about their dogs, so whenever im talking to a dog owner i'll ask what breed it is, and no matter what breed they say i'll say "oh! i've heard they have a really nice nature :D" and they always go YESSS THEY'RE GREAT and start gushing about their dog and we have a nice conversation and i build social credit with this person. anyway i told my friends about this script a few weeks ago when slightly drunk and now every time we're in public together and a dog goes past they turn to me and ask "does that one have a nice nature?" im in a hell of my own making

[nothinggold13]

I love Helpful Older Siblings in childcare because sometimes you get to see the 4 yr old join you in trying to convince his 2 yr old sister that she needs to let you change her pull-up, and he does this by taking her baby dolls and gently acting out the “good baby” who changes into a clean pull-up, and the “bad baby” who throws the pull-up on the floor.

But then because he is a 4 yr old boy, the story progresses to the Good Baby and the Bad Baby having a fight, in which the Good Baby — through the powers of Putting On Pull-ups and Jesus — kills the Bad Baby, and now the moral is much more urgent, because if you are the Bad Baby, you will wind up dead.

[weltenwellen]

For years I lived Maggie Smith

[bedupolker]

I know bugs, especially eusocial insects, don't have the remotest conception of human gender, I just like calling them ladies, tiny women, etc to combat how everyone else assumes every animal ever is male and a Good Heckin Boy

[rowenabean]

ok so I really leaned into my "make bad art" NY resolution tonight and the top thing I found: it was REALLY FUN making washes on paper just using a rag instead of a brush - we're trying turmeric sun prints and I used the turmeric straining rag to paint and oh my what a fun time

[rowenabean]

for the record, I REALLY rate this as a NY resolution. Fixed the prints toda and mine didn't really work, and my automatic inner monologue was like "disappointing. But at least it's definitely bad art! Counts as a success!"

[t00thpasteface]

sorry to everyone out there who thinks they have the funniest tshirt but i think i can confidently say i just saw the actual funniest tshirt just now. i passed by a beautiful black woman with long multicolor braids blowing majestically in the beach breeze & she was wearing an oversized tshirt that said in gigantic letters "WHITE BOY OF THE YEAR"

[lost-without-my-boswell]

There’s something wrong with him