Shan Master Wiggins

Just a 30 something living the potato life.

[thestuffedalligator]

I'm loving Dungeon Meshi's mix of quasi-probable magical biological realism and "It's magic fuck you."

Red dragons swallow their prey whole and use the undigestible remains as fuel for their fire breath, which is lit by creating a spark with their tongue. Living armors are colonies of mollusks who expand and contract to mimic muscle movement. Actually "man-eating" plants is a misnomer, they catch small animals with a filament that retracts when touched and they use their decomposing prey as compost.

These mushrooms can turn you into a gnome. It's magic fuck you.

[sparksbet]

While Ryoko Kui doesn't explain how the mushroom magic works, I love that she does still explain the ecological niche of those mushrooms. When a creature gets covered in spores and is transformed magically, it gets cast out by others of its kind and driven away. Then, when it dies, the spores sprout into a new mushroom circle. This doesn't explain the magic, but it does explain why mushrooms with that magic effect would have evolutionary success.

I love that even when the mechanism for something is just "it's magic", she still puts so much thought into the world around the magic and how it fits into the broader picture. Absolutely one of the reasons her worldbuilding is so generally stellar.

[probablyasocialecologist]

[animentality]

[solitarelee]

To all the people in the notes wondering how we got anywhere before GPS: we got lost a lot. Like a lot. If it was a new place we would pull out the maps, we all had local maps in the car and then these huge huge huge books of maps called atlases and we'd have one for every state we'd be driving through

And before a trip we would plot our whole entire route, and go back over it every night at the hotel, and we would write all the directions down on a little note and someone would be in charge of navigation and making sure we didn't miss any turns.

For local stuff all directions would be described in reference to other things. You still see this when older folks give directions. Do you ever get the "do you know where the ruby Tuesday is? No? How about the Buffalo wild wings? Yeah okay so from there go down til you see a Wendy's and turn left..." instead of them just telling u the address so u can plug it into ur GPS? That's why.

I have fond memories of getting helaciously lost in Kentucky because we had to go around a bad accident, and we didn't have a Kentucky map because we hadn't planned on going thru Kentucky and we stopped at a gas station to get a map but they didn't have any and my dad came back to the car swearing up and down about these goddamn Kentucky communists who didn't even sell maps in their gas stations,

[fuckingconversations]

honestly the funniest thing about this post is referring to kentuckians as communists.

[only-tiktoks]

[angelicguy]

[hexcolour]

[only-tiktoks]

[devantnuit-ladeluge]

[cryoverkiltmilk]

The absolute contempt for these locks is palpable.

[valtsv]

my favorite personal dragon headcanon is that like birds they also can't see glass, but it just isn't an issue for them

[valtsv]

totally unbothered

[kickair8p]

So from the dragon's point of view, every once in a while, glitter magically showers down around them with a pleasant tinkling noise.

[tamamita]

"We don't want our politicians and military officials to be held accountable for war crimes! :("

[im-mender]

"It's lawless because it undermines our national security interests! ...such as genocide."

[sadomarxist]

"if they can arrest people for genocide, they're just gonna arrest American politicians, diplomats and military personnel!!!" I mean. You said it, not me

[catchymemes]

[hjhb-the-hdgp]

@fitgf

[kuromi-hoemie]

Link in bio. What will he learn?

[mellueminate]

[a-frog-in-a-bog]

[a-frog-in-a-bog]

[windowshrt]

used ublock to delete 90% of features from this site so now i logon and it is simply my posts. and silence

[windowshrt]

[quill-and-chalk]

The police and the higher ups aren’t arresting protesters because they are afraid that their minds will be changed. They chose money over people and that’s set in stone. No, they are afraid that these protesters will change YOUR mind.

free palestine

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

[eldritchscholar]

#kind of a milf reblog

[starscreamhecatoncheries]

I won't apologize

[rogueinkglitch]

How the hell could I possibly explain this post to somebody not on tumblr

[violottie]

🇵🇸 dont forget to keep talking about the genocide and violence by "israel" that is still happening in Gaza and Palestine just as much as you are talking about the protests and divestment camps on american university campuses 🇵🇸

[nanasketchdump]

When the rest of the world looks at the united states right now, we see a government who sends billions to support genocide but cannot help their own people starving on the streets.

We see a police force who won't go in to save children from school shootings, but deploy at a rapid rate to arrest peaceful protestors using their right to free speech to protest a genocide

America, you are a war mongering snake eating your own tail. You will protect and support war criminals in another country but let your own people starve and die

To the students bravely protesting now, we see your strength. We see what we saw when students protested the Vietnam War. We have faith you will prevail

[slowtovvn]

Columbia April 30, 1968. Columbia April 30, 2024

[shadow-banned-the-hedgehog]