A Casebook of Curiosities

[palaceoftheprophets]

WIP of the pebbles visiting their Uncle Grace

[mistique-mori]

Everytime I see brushbuddy on screen I want to squish him so bad HES SO CUTE DJXBIDB

[lucidlymelanated]

Your 30s aren't too late. Don't let nobody tell you that stupid shit.

[aetherograph]

Your 40s aren't too late. Don't let nobody tell you that stupid shit.

[loisfreakinglane]

#as long as you're alive it's literally never too late

[wannab-urs]

he definitely fucks but there’s no way he fucks normal

[archliches]

man c'mon

[broken-horn-of-equius]

[enlightened-moth]

[eedweiz]

Adrian is here!! ​​🥳​🎉​

[milly-dew]

They leaked the snugstone and you're never going to guess what color it is, the most minor WHA spoiler you'll ever see below

OLRUGGIO MADE THE OBJECT THAT EXUDES WARMTH THE EXACT SAME COLOR AS QIFREY'S EYE And like. I think everyone always though these things were red or orange despite Olruggio being blue, so maybe it's our fault for still having stereotypes of fire magic users. But I think the color of this stone adds hidden depths I might wax poetry about it tomorrow when the episode comes out

[ladysdork]

Oh no this just… this is what I mean with the romance barely being subtext.

[barstoolblues]

mozzarella and parmesan is kind of like the age gap yuri of cheese

[uss-emberprise]

[professorfcknmoriarty]

I feel normal about this

[asexual-will]

I will asexual-ify any character I want, I will asexualize characters in ways you've never seen before. I Do Not Care. Your fav is a virgin now. They are unfuckable

[itsdappleagain]

[itsdappleagain]

people in my replies arguing for their fav white guy???

[lavenderprose]

Ilya is so lucky that Shane proposed. Ilya would have been a nervous fucking wreck for the entire day beforehand. Wake up in the morning. Look in the mirror. Today's the day. Sob. Breathe. Okay I'm good! Turn around and Shane's hair is all in his face, still asleep on Ilya's pillow. I am NOT good. Cold shower. Breakfast that Ilya does not eat. Morning jog wherein Ilya runs like someone is chasing him. Lunch that Ilya does not eat. Drive out to the cottage. Make Shane pull over because Ilya needs to dry heave on the side of the road. "Baby we don't have to drive out today if you're not feeling well." "NO WE HAVE TO." Get to the cottage. Immediately send Shane on some kind of extended fool's errand. Shane wants to stay because Ilya is SHAKING and he is so worried. "No my love I'm fine it's just the breeze off the lake haha." It's thirty fuckig degrees Celsius. Shane finally gtfo's. Yuna, David, Rose FUCKING Landry all descend to help Ilya set up. Well. Ilya is supposed to be helping but he is standing on the deck fully dissociating. Yuna brings him tea. "Are you going to throw up the tea?" "Yes probably." Yuna takes away the tea. 800 electronic tea lights on the deck. In a parallel Ilya has no way of understanding, he both puts on and takes off a suit. Yuna fixes his curls into the hockey boy quasi-mullet that magnetizes Shane's fingers to Ilya's hair and says, "Oh, you're so handsome!" Ilya cries big fat tears. David tells a story about how his proposal to Yuna almost didn't happen because David went to the hospital for heart palpitations that morning. Thank You David That Does Not Help Even Remotely. Ilya slav squats on the lawn for twenty minutes. Shane's car pulls up in the driveway and everyone hides while Ilya vibrates in the entryway. Shane has no less than thirty grocery bags hanging from his arms, still complaining about why the grocery service cancelled their delivery last minute. Ilya leads Shane and all thirty of his grocery bags onto the deck. Shane is doing his favorite thing (bitching) and his second favorite thing (Follow Ilya) so he doesn't notice his own mother tiptoing behind him collecting the grocery bags he drops like breadcrumbs. There is an Oscar-winning actress hiding under his sofa and Shane does not notice because Ilya takes him on the deck and drops to his knees and Shane is like, "Haha, right now?" and then he sees that Ilya has a look on his face like he's just been told the sun is never coming up again and he has his hands on Shane's knees and he is saying, "Shane. Please?" and Shane puts his hands on his head and says "Oh my God baby what's happening to you" as Ilya melts and melts and then from the depths of the cottage someone who sounds a lot like Shane's very own father is whispering "The ring the ring" and when he looks back down Ilya is fumbling a ring box out of his pocket. The first picture of their proposal is Shane glaring into the middle distance with a hand cradling Ilya's curls like a baby while Ilya ugly sobs into his knee.

[eldr1tch-cr0w]

number one rule! never believe ur thoughts after 10 pm . unless its about The Character then believe all of your thoughts wholeheartedly

[soundoftheirwings]

Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)

[tlbodine]

From now on this is how all petty fandom disputes should be settled.

[twinklecupcake]

Suddenly thinking of 1989’s The Little Mermaid and you know what, give Eric some props here because he had the weirdest fucking hour of his life—

Wakes up from hypnosis where he was about to marry a woman he’s never seen before with his mystery girl’s voice, the instant he wakes up then the cute girl he’s actually fallen in love with now has that voice. Then she drops to the floor and has a fish tail, and then the first girl is suddenly cackling “too late!” and bursting out of her skin. So it turns out she’s actually an octopus woman who drags herself over to the real mystery girl - who’s a mermaid?! They’re real?! - and taking her back into the ocean. And Eric has no idea what’s going on here but okay, one of these women is clearly evil and he needs to go after his mystery girl.

And all of this happens/he realizes what he has to do within like, a single minute.

Prior to this he was just living out a sweet romance after having a Meet Cute with a shipwrecked girl, but okay, guess he’s involved in whatever the fuck this is. Acting first, questioning later.

And this is all before the kaiju attacks.

[twinklecupcake]

And let's also remember that Eric is one of the few Disney heroes who actively, deliberately murdered the villain.

He went "Okay then" and killed.

[disgruntledexplainer]

I would say killed the villain, not murdered. Murder implies that it was premeditated and out of malice. Eric was defending his girlfriend's life while Ursula was attempting to murder her. He was well and fully justified in his actions.

[angelfishcake]

In legal terms, 1st degree murder is any murder that is premeditated, even if the premeditation was only for a minute. 2nd degree murder involves no premeditation but resulting in a deliberate action to cause harm. 3rd degree/manslaughter is purely accidentally and/or a result of gross negligence.

With this in mind, it's safe to say that Eric did murder Ursula, as he deliberately steered the ship to impale her with the bowsprit, but would be pardoned on account that he was defending the life of another (Ariel).

[twinklecupcake]

THIS IS ALSO TRUE.

[grumfy]

i had a 4 hour drive today so i put on the revenge of the sith audiobook and the part where palpatine tells anakin to kill dooku came on right around the time that i saw a cybertruck and for a brief and beautiful moment when he said "do it" i had the urge to ram my honda full on into that shitty ass car

[grumfy]

everyone who says that anakin’s fall in that movie was too sudden has never been so angry at an Elon dickrider trying to cut in front of you at a traffic standstill while a droning, pleasant British voice tells you that murder is okay and necessary. I’m sorry guys but I would have folded too

[fulcrvm]

illya is so dramatic oh my god i love him

[thememedaddy]

[prismatic-bell]

FUN FACT

We do do this! It's just that because English is a terrible frankenlanguage, we often don't recognize when we've done it because we technically did it in our language but made up from bits of other languages. Here's an example:

Telegram, telephone, television, telepathy.

Or, as we might say if we'd done it all in English-derived-from-Old-English instead of slamming together bits of Greek:

Farwrite, farvoice, farsee, farfeel.

Here's another along the same lines, but Latin this time:

Hemorrhage, hemostat, hematology.

Or, using only EDFOE words:

Bloodbreak, bloodhold, bloodlearn.

And here's one that actually is EDFOE words:

Bookshelf, fireplace, website.

We do it all the time. You just have to understand how language works to know it.

[yoites-blog]

It's true that a lot of languages use compounds (though in English they are usually spelled apart if they have been created relatively recently, but that's beside the point - "cookie dough" is a compound noun as much as "Keksteig" in German is) - but what makes German different from English is the ad hoc nature of compound building. You can create in-the-moment-definitions that have a limited but very efficient short-term use.

For example, if I'm making cookies with friends and we're washing up afterwards, I can point out a sponge to everyone and call it the "Keksteigschüsselschwamm", and for the duration of the evening everyone would be referring to it by its new spontaneous designation which makes its momentary purpose clear, i.e., we use it to clean the bowls where we had mixed the cookie dough, and nothing else.

In English, even though I could theoretically build this same compound, "cookie dough bowl sponge", it would sound strange if I pointed and said "this is the cookie dough bowl sponge" because in English you don't give objects spontaneous names for a limited time like that. In English I'd say "this is the sponge we can use to clean the bowls with the cookie dough".

This is useful to give a specific short-term purpose to something that can be used in many ways, and thus you basically create a bit of new shared vocabulary for a particular time, place and group of people. For example, you could spontaneously define a corner of your house as the "Rucksackabstellecke" ("rucksack parking corner") when you have people coming over, and use it in the same way you would use any noun that has a permanent meaning ("Where is the toilet?" - "It's the door next to the rucksack parking corner.") - then, as the group dissipates, the compound fades away, too.

Just some random thoughts I had, others might disagree.