it has been released from its prison. run.

the radio is free

[aveloka-draws]

I was playing animal crossing w my boyfriend and he pointed out how that game also had a sort of father figure with twins under his care so uh

The one who waits (extremely chill version)

[acis-arts]

Both of you are genius!!

I really wanted to see it the other way around too, so I drew this as soon as I got home X)

[artmagicly]

Art by Julia Zhuravleva

[batsandboba]

I haven’t been on tumblr for quite as long as a lot of people but over several years I’ve noticed this interesting gradual sorta,, shift in the general culture? that it went from this mostly depressed, nihilistic outlook where people would regularly joke about hating themselves and being hopeless and depressed, to a wave of vehemence of “STOP hating everything actually the world is Good and you deserve love!!!” type posts, to now, where those aggressive ‘PSAs’ have faded away and instead I regularly see people romanticizing simple things like stars and hot tea and rainy mornings, and waxing poetic about their friends, and just trying to put love out there. and I don’t know exactly what that means (someone who knows more than me could probably say something smart about generational expression and trauma or popular perception of mental health and whatnot), but I do know that it makes my heart very full to see people learn to love the world and themselves by extension, and a whole userbase adopting healthier coping mechanisms, and therefore teaching the younger users to do so as well. I might just be following different people, but I really do think we’ve grown. everyone has grown. five years ago it wasn’t unusual for the next post on my dash to be a scathing commentary on why nothing matters or an anon ripping into someone they barely knew or someone complaining about how pathetic their interests are. now I have mutuals who get excited and spam reblog art of cows and friends I see tagging each other in pictures of frogs and strangers writing paragraphs about how much I matter. it makes me happy. idk. just an observation I wanted to make. I think people are good and everyone’s just trying their best at the end of the day

[batsandboba]

I take it all back everyone on this site is toxic

[thechekhov]

I have this conversation with myself at least once a month. 

[thechekhov]

WHATEVER NICHE INTERNET DRAMA YOU THINK THIS IS REFERENCING, I SWEAR TO YOU IT’S NOT THAT.

[secretkeeper626]

Of course not this is clearly a homestuck reference

[houseofcucci]

Stop saying “there are plenty of fish in the sea”. I’ve got my eye on one specific, emotionally distant salmon with commitment issues

[beggars-opera]

I'm personally after the white whale that took my leg

[xxtc-96xx]

remember when I started this back in like 2017....better late than never lol

original song

[secretkeeper626]

wow yeah I do remember when you started this in 2017. Damn. Huh. Yeah.

[shiny-good-rock]

do you ever think about dead versions of yourself that are fossilized in someone else's mind

[shiny-good-rock]

i see that this one kind of fucked everyone up

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

[avidraws]

"Once I saw a blade of grass growing up between the metal sheets of the world in a place where they had become loose, and I destroyed it because I felt it must be lonesome. Often I have regretted doing this thing, for I took away the glory of its aloneness. Thus does life the machine, I feel, consider man, sternly, then with regret, and the heavens do weep upon him through eyes that grief has opened in the sky."

— Auto-da-Fé, Roger Zelazny

[obby-feathersnoot]

Inspired by some specific art pieces, and This post: I was gripped by an Au for Legends Arceus, as well as @sincerely-sofie's au.

That being that Dawn is a Hisuian Zoroark.

When Dawn gets banished from Jubilife Village, she ends up trapped in a snowstorm. Despite her Typhlosion's best efforts, she passes in the night.

She wakes up as a Hisuian Zoroark. It's not at all a fun time, given that she sees her own dead body.

She's able to hide this fact from everyone thanks to her illusions. Nobody can know what she is.

During her final battle with Volo, she drops the illusion to fight personally.

She begs to the few people who saw her (besides Volo) to not tell anyone what she is. They can't know. Nobody should know.

Eventually, she's brought back to the present. Nobody alive (to her knowledge) knows about her. They can't know. She's an extinct subspecies of an already illusive species. What would happen to her if they did?

She has to pretend that she doesn't understand any Pokemon. Because then they could indicate what she is to their trainers. And then they can't know because they would tell everyone and-

Barry, Rowan, Her own mom. None of them can know. They don't deserve to know what kind of monster she is.

She gives up her champion title. It's too risky.

She releases her Pokemon. They refuse to leave her despite everything. Despite the fact that they don't deserve to be weighed down by someone like her.

Nobody knows what she is. And she hopes it stays that way.

[scifisillyface]

Cultifying your wooloo

[narwhalsarefalling]

just had a convo with my friend. she mentioned she doesnt like sake cause its sparkling.

“wait, sake is sparkling? what have i been drinking?” i said. because i also dont like sparkling stuff.

i look at the sake bottle ive been drinking from for fun events for the past year. its vinegar.

i’ve been drinking strawberry flavored vinegar.

[narwhalsarefalling]

in my defense:

and:

its very hard to tell for someone who only kind-of reads Japanese and just saw the component for "sake flask" (酉) and, rightfully assumed, that the bottle that said sake was probably sake.

[squirrelstone]

No no, you don’t get to hide this in the tags

[behindnightmaresanddreams]

Summary: no one involved was drinking sake.

[rickety-cricket-official]

[shencomix]

How to be a househusband and housewife together

There are many women out there who want to be a housewife. I, however, want to be a househusband. So, how is that going to work? You can't be a housewife and househusband together, right?

Wrong.

Here is my guide on how that is in fact possible and how to achieve it. Women, please listen up, because this is important to you when you marry me which I know you want to do.

Step 1) I become your househusband.

Step 2) You become my housewife.

Step 3) The bank takes the house.

Step 4) Can't be a househusband and a housewife without a house, right?

Step 5) Wrong. We pretend to move out, but actually we are just moving all of our stuff into the walls of the house, where we will live. Much like house gnomes.

Step 6) This can go on for years if we play it right, but eventually the family living there finds us.

Step 7) We get arrested on some trumped up charges like trespassing. We both know they are actually arresting us for daring to love.

Step 8) We go to prison.

Step 9) But what else is prison called?

Step 10) The jailHOUSE.

Step 11) We just can't stop winning.

Step 12) We get out of prison but have to reintegrate back into society.

Step 13) Where do we do that?

Step 14) The halfway HOUSE.

Step 15) We just can't stop winning.

Step 16) After we leave we have trouble finding stable employment due to our criminal record..

Step 17) So we become freelance DJs who play at clubs, restaurants, and parties.

Step 18) And what kind of music do we play?

Step 19) We just can't stop winning.

[hakonohanayome]

[hakonohanayome]

[droct0]

[loth-caatgirl]

[ymutate]

Minyoung Kim (Korean, born 1989) Sudden Salami, 2023

Acylic on canvas 39 2/5 x 39 2/5 in (100 x 100 cm)

Private collection