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[wizardpostsdotorg]

hi sorry for ghosting you im being tormented by psychic horrors beyond your wildest comprehensions

[mist-spelt]

your frog looks gnc af

[pandalandalopalis]

[kuuras]

🍁 ° ✧ Over the Garden Wall : A u t u m n ✧ ° 🍁

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”

[lisaminnci]

OVER THE GARDEN WALL Chapter 7: The Ringing of the Bell

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[gobbochune-deactivated20241018]

I always find it funny when books like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson get crap for being ‘witchcraft’ and ‘anti-christian’ but you know who no one ever talks about? Phillip Pullman and his masterpiece His Dark Materials trilogy. Some of you may recognize the first book’s title, The Golden Compass from the awful movie adaption, but seriously those books are so so good and full of badass witches rebelling against the vadican for mutilating children, gay ass angels who join the rebellion so they can be free to love each other, an ex nun who escapes the oppression of the church to pursue a life of science, a little girl who is so good at manipulating she overthrows an entire empire in one day, and a 12 year old boy who murders god with a knife

[absolxguardian]

Phillip Pullman is legitimately baffled that Christians got all upset about Harry Potter when he was writing HDM at the same time. And typically when authors have those themes, they still say in interviews that it’s just a story and/or their writing about religious corruption than religion itself. But Pullman just goes and says “If God as the Christians imagine him exist, it would be a moral duty to kill him” (paraphrasing)

[keeper-of-the-flames]

As a Jew, I second that sentiment of Pullman’s.

[jewishdragon]

☝️

[elodieunderglass]

Phillip Pullman: I think Narnia is toxic and bad for children and this series is quite literally meant to destroy it

Everyone: Haha okay sounds like wacky good fun

Pullman: everyone’s soul is manifested in a separate entity called quite literally a daemon

Everyone: sounds cute, nice aesthetic

Pullman: these children shall destroy the concept of heaven and hell

Everyone: ah bless

Pullman: they join with rebel angels to create a republic of heaven

Everyone: such cute fantasy

Pullman: “If there is no longer a king, or a kingdom of heaven, it will have to be a republic in which we are free citizens. We ourselves as citizens have to build the republic of heaven.”

Everyone: NEVER understood the elephant wheels thing tho

[helloitsbees]

[vicholas]

Stop telling people in twitter that things already happened in tumblr!!! I wanna see them organize their own dashcon, dont discourage them!!!

[vicholas]

#Whats that startrek thing? First contact protocol? #Just leave them be

[wufflesvetinari]

im losing my mind over this tweet

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

Peter Parker who, in spite of his internship, still manages to find some time to be J. Jonah Jameson’s Best Damn Photographer On Staff, and so he gets dragged by JJJ to the mayor’s charity banquet to take pictures for the bugle, but this also happens to be like the first time in years Tony Stark got bored enough to grace an event he’s not personally throwing with his presence, and he’s definitely not expecting to see his teenage intern who should definitely Be In Bed Right Now As It’s A School Night, and yet, here he is, being forced by said teenager to pose for press pictures with the mayor, the mayor who is confused as all hell as to why Tony Stark and some random photographer spend the whole night staring at each other like

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

JJJ realizes he has Stand-In Dad™ Competition and uses the Bugle to launch a smear campaign on Iron Man. He digs up the most ridiculous and fabricated dirt possible, but his big damning evidence against Stark, that is mentioned in nearly every article, is that Stark clearly is in cahoots with that menace Spider-Man! They’re OBVIOUSLY plotting something! With their hundreds of criminal offenses between them New Yorkers should spend every waking moment in fear!

Peter finds this absolutely hilarious and contributes to the cause by giving Jameson the most ridiculous pictures of Tony he can get- Tony falling asleep in his lab (‘hazard to public safety!’), Tony in the middle of sneezing while biting into a huge cheeseburger, Tony in a frilly apron holding the charred remains of what was supposed to be a cake ('he expects us to believe he builds all his own technology when he can’t complete the simplest of tasks!’), and a picture of Iron Man and Spider-Man in the middle of a secret handshake, which makes the front page as proof they’re working together

Tony starts making a big show of showing up at the Bugle office randomly to pick Peter up from work and goes out of his way to autograph any stray papers laying around

every time Peter gets made at Tony he goess to JJJ and is like 'Mr. Stark just confessed to me that his father faked all of his iq test scores and he’s not a genius after all’

Pepper and the PR team haven’t known peace since the damn mayor banquet lmao

[urhajos]

Adam Hillman, an artist on tumblr

[glozirina]

[luidilovins]

Wow making Shaggy a hippie as the punchline of a joke in the 60s really backfired didn’t it?

[diver-up]

ok bigger brained take imagine if in heroes of olympus all of the 7 aka the most powerful demigods had been children of the minor gods after the last series literally concluded w/ children of minor gods being claimed and getting recognition @ camp? 

[emothalia]

my hoo hot take is that when jason shows up at chb people start giving him nicknames that they use behind his back including but not limited to

-discount percy

-business major percy

-banana republic percy

-country club percy

percy may be an annoying bitch but he’s OUR annoying bitch and no trust fund percy is gonna replace him

[sillybro]

Yes Naruto would have Wart Jr on his island

[andiree]

I wanna ride that wavvve

[andiree]

To the people who said this looks like Percy, Annabeth, and Hazel…. absolutely yes. I support your vision.

[moved-to-ofswordsandpens]

but if Percy had gotten to keep the curse of Achilles??? and the romans are literally presented with a son of the “cursed” Neptune, who carried in a god – an event that is so rare at camp jupiter that it doesn’t even happen within the lifetime of some – and whose skin doesn’t break just like the greek myth of achilles???? the DRAMA that would have had!!! the tension, the flavor!!

[moved-to-ofswordsandpens]

#bro imagine they find that out bc someone tries to attack him#and the sword just fucking BREAKS#um the DRAMA????#you bet no one would trust him except for hm that weird pluto kid who no one trusts either ( @queenangst​​ )

and the buildup to the reveal could have been so GOOD like yeah Percy probably wouldn’t go out of his way to broadcast that he’s invulnerable, or maybe even Reyna would have warned him specifically not to say anything about it to the other campers but just?? Percy having NO reaction to physical attacks because he’s had the curse long enough that its no longer an instinct to flinch at oncomming blades or what have you. During the war games and Frank is SO certain that he saw an arrow hit Percy’s arm but, no, that’s not right because clearly his arm is fine. And it’s not until like you said, where a kid tries to take a swipe at Percy with a sword and it just like BREAKS or something equally dramatic where Percy just instinctively stops the blade mid swing with his bare hand and everyone is like 

[queenangst]

the cursed son of Neptune, a god the Romans fear. unpredictable and powerful, with no loyalty to Camp Jupiter? a threat their blades can’t touch?

how do you restrain the sea itself?

[anarcho-vampirism]

so I’m rereading bella’s transformation, and she mentions having had venom and morphine in her veins before (from when james bit her) and I was thinking it would be very interesting to consider if that venom had actually made a difference to her in the intervening years. like, sure the process was halted pretty quickly, but it’s not like a computer program that has to download and then it’ll install. the venom starts its work right away, and that work is not undone even if it is quickly halted. so maybe after twilight bella is slightly stronger, slightly better at hearing, smelling. it’s slight and she attributes it to “bouncing back” well from her injuries. it’s why, in breaking dawn, when pregnant bella has to drink blood, that it smells and tastes good to her, despite the fact that a couple of books ago blood made her faint. it’s the reason she and edward were able to have a baby at all, despite the supposed chromosomal discrepancy between humans and vampires. you could consider her a carrier, perhaps. it gave her this edge, these hints of vampire traits while still stuck with frail human body systems.

[beatsofdarkheart]

the consistency……. smeyer wishes!

[twihardtrash]

Honestly this could explain why she physically sees projections of Edward whenever she’d do something reckless in New Moon. Then after her transformation, this skill is heightened and her power is to project force fields and memories or thoughts.

[demetris-left-shoe]

Honestly I’m not a bio expert, but there must have to be some level of genetic compatibility of vampire venom with human blood in order for transformation to happen at all, so there is already some previous compatibility that exists.

Which means that theoretically, any human female should be able to have children with a male vampire (what with their wack body chemistry allowing them to be able to produce semen after being dead), but she should not be able to survive the ordeal or be able to carry the child to term. One of the reasons why Bella was able to do the above was presumably because of the lingering venom in her system.

I’m not sure if I remember correctly, but it has been mentioned that the bite on her skin shimmers in the sun - that was the primary site of injection of the venom, so it would make sense. Also (again, not sure if I remember correctly), but didn’t the wolves say she smelled a little funny? That could also be because of the lingering venom in her system. 

This also explains her growing pallor and the many jokes about her being half a vampire, because in a sense, wasn’t she genetically partially one?

[rues-maroon-hoodie-deactivated2]

Y'all are so clever and talented

[scream-still-screaming]

And it could possibly be why in later books (Eclipse) she doesn’t get woozy from her own blood?? Like when she cut her finger to spread it on the tree before the battle? (I could be misremembering)

[jazzs-side-hoe]

YOU ARE RIGHT AND YOU SHOULD SAY IT

[demigodmerman]

ok but this could also explain why Bella didn’t go through all the crazy mood swings and newborn behaviour when she first turned because her body had already been exposed to vampire venom witch might have heightened her repsosne to an influx, and then what with her having had Renesme that must have had an effect on her biology, because all that exposure to vampire dna might have helped her build up a tolerance 

[anarcho-vampirism]

OH ok i really like that. so maybe the transition only appears to take a few days, but that’s only the violent, accelerated process of mainly physical changes, and further changes in the brain take longer, which is why newborns are so crazy. like bella wakes and describes having a “lot of extra space” in her mind and being able to have multiple trains of thought at once, thirst always being one of them. but the cullens warn her, while she’s still human, that the only thing she’ll be able to think about - for years even - is blood? and i think it’s because traces of james’ venom, though they weren’t enough to change her, still lingered and forced the minute changes in brain chemistry that normally happen after one becomes a vampire. so she had already expressed her newborn chaoticness and singlemindedness in new moon while she was human and learned to handle it.

[twisci]

Just to add, James’ bite not only shimmered but was always a few degrees colder than other parts of Bella’s skin and this really makes me believe the closest parts to the bite were transformed a bit.

[anarcho-vampirism]

that makes me think, maybe bella punching jacob would have gone different if she’d hit him with the hand james bit? her hand is vampire, you could maybe say

[captain-yeet]

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