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Hi!! You can call me Z, Killdeer, or Scuttle (or any nicknames you come up with, i don’t mind)! This is a maladaptive daydreaming blog where i post daydream lore/updates as well as original art and writing <3 a lot of the older stuff was reblogged from my main @swamplatibule

Major Paracosms:

The Starwritten Society

Lantern Eclipse

Wicked Wheels

Killigan

The Moonstone Files

Starsailors

The HEIRS Project

Wisteria Academy for the Unfortunately Enhanced

Ancient Ascendants

There are many other paracosms aside from the ones here; these are simply the ones i spend the most time daydreaming about!

More about me:

16 years old! Currently trying to find a good summer job </3

I am obsessed with D&D; I DM a few campaigns IRL and I’m also very invested in Dimension 20

I do theatre as my main extracurricular, although I’m not currently in a show!

I’m working towards becoming a screenwriter and film director (as well as an actor) so that I can share my little brain stories with the world!

I also do art commissions! you can find information on that here

my art can be found in #my art; original writing is in #my writing; major daydream plotlines and infodumps are tagged as #daydream lore while other stuff (ask games, para rambles, etc) are in #my musings! personal posts are in #scuttles

as a general rule i don’t engage in/care about discourse and i make frequent use of the block button if the vibes are bad. free palestine 🇵🇸🍉

#scuttles #actually madd #maladaptive daydreaming #paraportal #madd positivity #maddblr #are the madd tags all dead? idk #it’s been a while since i checked any of them #but. hey guys

roadhogsbigbelly

i think the reason "fiction affects reality" trips so many people up is because they think it means "engaging with media that depicts uncomfortable subjects will taint your soul" when really all it means is that "fiction is meant to reflect certain ideas of the world intentionally or not, and it's going affect your perception of it, if you don't go in with a healthy bit of skepticism"

roadhogsbigbelly

like playing a first person shooter isn't going to turn you into a school shooter, but that doesn't mean that Call of Duty isn't like. explicitly military propaganda.

or (for a more specific but also weirdly common example) enjoying horror movies isn't going to turn you into a serial killer, but if you watch a lot of horror where the killer is "a gender confused man who kills women whilel dressed in drag, because his repressed female split personality hates his attraction to women because it gives her gender dysphoria" than you should like. be a bit criticial of what you're enjoying. or something like that.

batmanisagatewaydrug

anyway re: the second to last reblog it is genuinely crazy how the default position in america is the sense that the military is inherently deserving of admiration and respect and early boarding on planes and discounts at fucking applebees or whatever just on the basis of being In The Military. they don't even have to do anything, fucking tyler who's 18 and just enlisted yesterday in a Brave Warrior of Democracy now and he deserves our respect. and this shit is bipartisan. you have to be soooooo far dirtbag left before it's okay to even lightly suggest that Maybe The Military Shouldn't Do All That, let alone that it shouldn't exist and that you don't think people should get any kind of hero worship for signing up to occupy a foreign country and kill civilians on demand. and it's doubly insane because the government so badly doesn't give a fuck about actual veterans, like so so so many of them are disabled or addicted or unhoused or whatever and they receive like. little to no support for it. but the CONCEPT of someone being in the military is supposed to make you nut with patriotism and if you hate the military it's obviously because you're commie scum. stupid ass theme park of a country.

batmanisagatewaydrug

impossible to explain how hard my mind was blown when I started reading books from non-American authors and realized how many countries there are where a common and accepted opinion is that the military is dangerous and corrupt and full of shitheads, which by all accounts seems to me to be the most reasonable possible stance. it's like the fucking pledge of allegiance, you know? you don't realize how fucked it is until you realize not everyone is Like That.

#it’s exhausting being anti-military and also a military child #no i do not want my name on a purple paper star in the school hallway. i didnt do anything #people in the military will list all the sacrifices they’ve made as proof of some kind of heroism #rather than evidence of it being deeply predatory. the military wants everything from you #all for the sake of killing people you’ve never met over disagreements between people thousands of times richer than you #to gain things that you as an individual will never benefit from.#you dove headfirst into the meat grinder and called it heroism why am i supposed to be proud of this

glowstickhaloboy

thinking of jesus at the gay bar again………

heart-sprout

Do tell

glowstickhaloboy

screamingbingusthecromulentone

[ID:

a poem by Jay Hulme, titled Jesus at the Gay Bar

He's here in the midst of it - right at the centre of the dance floor, robes hitched up to His knees to make it easy to spin.

At some point in the evening a boy will touch the hem of His robe and beg to be healed, beg to be anything other than this;

and He will reach His arms out, sweat-damp, and weary from dance. He'll cup this boy's face in His hand and say,

my beautiful child there is nothing in this heart of yours that ever needs to be healed.

/end ID]

littlestrangething

The Lock Screen of the device you’re on right now is your therapist, how is it?

good

great

My trauma is cured!!!!

Oh no

Oh please no

*screams in fear*

Neutral

Voting ended onJun 18, 2025

#…james mcneill whistler’s 1875 painting “nocturne in black and gold” ??#i guess we doin art therapy now

elliegoose

i'm curious, what's everyone's Default Outfit? like what would you be always drawn wearing in a cartoon? mine is concert tee + mid length skirt

#baggy jeans + graphic tee + JacketTM #i have more jackets than brain cells. i am a warm little man #also the gloves. always and 4ever. gloves and chain wallet and headphones

avatarmerida

Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum

personification-of-anxiety

in-love-with-remus-lupin

orc-boar-dyke

chace-vito

incognitopolls

Do you feel weird/wrong using "it/its" pronouns to refer to animals? Are you neurodivergent?

Yes, it feels wrong for all animals; I'm autistic

It only feels wrong for animals generally considered "pets"; I'm autistic

It only feels wrong for a different subset of animals (elaborate?); I'm autistic

No, it feels perfectly fine/normal; I'm autistic

Yes, it feels wrong for all animals; other neurodivergent

It only feels wrong for animals generally considered "pets"; other neurodivergen

It only feels wrong for a different subset of animals (elaborate?); other ND

No, it feels perfectly fine/normal; other neurodivergent

Yes, it feels wrong for all animals; I'm neurotypical

It only feels wrong for animals generally considered "pets"; I'm neurotypical

It only feels wrong for a different subset of animals (elaborate?); NT

No, it feels perfectly fine/normal; I'm neurotypical

Voting ended onJun 7, 2025

"Animals generally considered 'pets'" would include dogs, cats, rabbits, lizards, etc– whatever you'd consider a common pet, even if the specific animal is not one, like a feral/stray cat.

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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

#i tend to default to he or she for animals but it doesn’t feel ‘wrong’ to use it #it’s also partially because i tend to also default to referring to everything by a non-it pronoun. like how boats are she #it started as a bit and now it’s subconscious. there’s no rhyme or reason to it it’s vibes and instinct

dduane

Director Phoebe Kemp said: "Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance – it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us"

"Director Phoebe Kemp said in a statement: “Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance – it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us. This reading is about joy, solidarity and showing what’s possible when trans and nonbinary artists are at the centre of the story.”"

introvertia

And:

“The production will be staged at The Space Theatre in London on 25 July 2025, on the eve of London Trans Pride, with a global livestream available to audiences everywhere.”

#NEED TO WATCH THIS. THIS IS GONNA REWRITE MY BRAIN CHEMISTY

curioscurio

okay fine we'll get rid of diversity *fires only straight people so the whole office is lgbtq+ and therefore no longer diverse* problem solved

#the starwritten society #<- it’s been 300 years. we are not in fact Back but this did remind me of it

girlnephew

#para: avery steele #(you do not know who she is yet)

officialunitedstates

I want to be the first person on the moon to shoot a sniper rifle at earth and hit a wasp nest. my whole life so far is leading up to that moment

dat-soldier

You know what other popular tumblr post is about to hit a million?

d3ad-on-arriva1

is your birthday gay or straight

gay

straight

nuance

Voting ended onMay 17, 2025

not you your birthday as a concept. for example april 4th is gay but march 11th is straight

#apparently my birthday is the day bill clinton denied having sexual relationships with monica lewinsky at a press conference.#dunno what that makes it!! i just learned this

copperbadge

As AI art gets harder to clock, I feel like we are going to need to have a discussion about attribution and it's probably going to bum some people out.

Because the surest way to avoid platforming, reblogging, or encouraging AI art posting is to know where every image you share originated and that's 1) boring, tedious research and 2) extremely limiting in what you feel you can reblog. But if unattributed images never gets traction, people will start attributing their images.

I've been guilty of this in the past, but for a while now it's been my policy that if I can't verify the origin, I don't share the image. That goes for stuff like screen grabs of headlines too -- more than once I've avoided spreading misinformation by saving a post to research before I reblog, then seeing the post refuted before I've been able to verify it.

And I usually try to attribute photos I take -- case in point, the "woman with shrimp" post gets a lot of attention but not one comment about it being AI, despite it being pretty similar to something you'd get from an AI. That's because I clearly state it's in a museum and link to its catalogue page.

I'm not saying this to scold anyone -- I think yelling at the Internet to cite its sources is very much a losing game -- but because I don't see this discussed much. We're such fertile ground to be fooled by AI art because we've grown accustomed to not questioning the origins of any given image. And of course I also want to encourage both OPs to attribute their images and rebloggers to verify unattributed ones.