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[gallusrostromegalus]

Sure we all know lots of animals, but there's absolute shitloads of animals and a lot of them have weird fucking names. NOTE: there are seve

I made a quiz about some of my favorite animals :)

[gallusrostromegalus]

Ask and You Shall Receive!

A sequel to my very popular and not at all rage-inducing animal quiz. After much constructive feedback, I've decided to try some new format

[gallusrostromegalus]

This came back up in my notes so we all get to enjoy* them again!

*Quiz 1 has an average score of 40% and Quiz 2 has an average score of 25%

:)

[tragicwaif]

Supernatural is a tv show for peoples who are very sick,

[makingsenseofwhathappened]

Friday Advice

log off enter river of choice become unbothered mammal

[animentality]

[mikkeneko]

#my family does this thing#when we've majorly unfucked a room or done chore that we were putting off#or whatever. Any sort of household Improvement.#'Come brag on me.'#I means come look I cleaned/rearranged/did dishes/put away the laundry#and the scripted response is 'oh nice it looks SO much better in here now'#like my mom did this when we were kids.#'girls comr brag on the garage I finally organized it so I can get my car in there'#and we go and 'ooh' and 'aah' and tell her how nice it looked and how she did a good job#and we could have her 'come brag on' us for like doing the dishes or cleaning our rooms#I do it to my wife now too#it's a dialogue that means#'I did a chore and it feels like an Accomplishment even if it objectively wasn't a big thing. Please acknowledge this.'#and#'Wow you sure did do a thing. It has improved our material circumstance even if only in a small way. Thank you for doing it.'#like yeah scrubbing the pans is my Job and it's a Little Task but sometimes it feels like a Big Task#and it's nice to have an Accepted Script where I can just demand 'I have functioned as an independent adult praise me with great praise' - by @thepioden

[crabanarchy]

They say ooooh be a good boy for daddy and you'll get a reward. But then the reward is just gay sex. This is bullshit. I wanted a skateboard

[crabanarchy]

Then they say if you're a bad boy daddy will punish you. But what's the punishment? More gay sex! You can't escape it. This whole damn place is in the pocket of Big Sex

[small-giant-plans]

oh brother, my brother, my brother who have you become in the wake of all that's happened here? they're burning down the orchard to the soil, to the soil, to the grave spreading out the ashes of a love that only gave and gave

[darkacademiaarchivist]

reminder!!

you don't have to be a ghost here amongst the living. you are flesh and blood and you deserve to be loved and you deserve what you are given.

[feather-bone]

[ID: five images of details from a larger digital drawing. it is a colorful long horizontal drawing of many animals and plants on a stylized riverside background, including a turtle, frog, hummingbird, fairy shrimp, raccoon, trout, and cicada. end.]

Details from an upcoming community mural project! If you happen to be in the Connecticut area on June 13th you're invited to come help paint. :)

More info here! Ko-fi patrons can find progress pics from the design process on my ko-fi page.

[feather-bone]

Gettin there! Got started on some fiddly spots and set up a paint by number, waiting for this coming Saturday for the community to have at it and help fill in the rest of the base colors.

[inkskinned]

you know what? fuck it, man. the world is held in the fists of people who like to break things. at this point i’m saying who gives a shit. wear that victorian dress you don’t have an excuse for. dress up like a witch, pointed hat and all. who cares anymore. why worry about it when there’s bigger stuff to worry on. i’m saying. yeah, this lipstick is too dark, wanna share? i’m saying go talk to her, tell her that you like her hair. i’m saying she’s out of my league but i’m still swinging, i’m saying yeah i’m in a ballgown and it’s a pta meeting. what about it. eat the extra brownie, tell her your feelings. i’m saying if nothing matters than we might as well give nothing meaning.

[inkskinned]

#i’m saying if existence is a void at least i’m going down screaming.

it’s been 9 years since i wrote this. i was experiencing 24/7 anxiety so badly that i needed serious medication. these days in the back of my car is an “emergency party box.” when people admit they no longer really celebrate their birthday; i tell them to put the sash on and queue up kesha, we’re going bowling or something. these days i can’t spin around without finding something i am enamored with. these days i list 3 things i’m grateful for before i fall asleep. you’re probably one of them, just by virtue of you existing.

at the time i wrote this, i was suffering through a severe panic attack literally every night. i tortured my brother with constant 2 AM calls just to hear someone else breathing, because i couldn’t be alone in the silence.

i rarely wish i was still 23 even though ironically i had more hope back then. what i can tell you is this: i love the same way, but bigger now. i’ve worn the velvet cape to several business meetings. i spent thursday in a crop top without caring what my stomach looked like.

i told her i like her; i often dress as a witch. i still got glass in my foot this morning. i’ve kissed maybe a thousand people since then and met a million more than that; passing like the shadow of a hammerhead in trains and planes and buses.

i saw you, beloved, there, maybe, on platform in south station. you didn’t speak, but you said: i struggle to give the nothing meaning. the nothing fills up everything. it is just loud and yellowed panicked silence. i can’t stop shaking.

on the roof, birds curl together against the chilled spring wind. the sky outside of the craft store was an iridescent pink. the nothing already had meaning; you are giving it meaning by witnessing.

the act of living, beloved: it’s just decoding how to translate it.

[pangur-and-grim]

I can’t sing because it makes pangur super upset

[boundwithpurple]

it is crazy to me people complain about the two year waits for house of the dragon there is no way they could reasonably do what they do in a year. game of thrones did but it had to have just burnt everyone involved out. like it is a massive, massive undertaking fans seem to have zero curiosity about, just absolutely no interest in the actual human labor that makes it. but from the way the cast talks about how grueling those shoots are, from seeing the kind of physical sets they build etc., i am literally fine with them only doing them every two years.

[wizzard890]

Part of why Game of Thrones ended as messily and badly as it did is that everyone was fucking exhausted. Actors didn't want to sign on for the extra years it would take to properly land the plane, there were production errors (the infamous Starbucks cup) because everything was being executed on a massive scale multiple times a season, and Benioff and Weiss, for all their many sins, just wanted to do something else! It was really never meant to be the Biggest Show In The World, with all expectations that come with that; they could do it year to year at first because it was mostly people talking in rooms.

I love House of the Dragon and wish I could get it every year, but I love labor rights for people in television more.

[sunbutch]

Would you mind elaborating on the “wanting to be a lesbian is a symptom of being a lesbian” thing? Sorry to bug you. It just caught my eye and now I’m curious

what i mean by that is that many repressed or questioning lesbians don’t think they can be a lesbian for whatever reason, but they want to be. they’re drawn to the word lesbian, lesbian culture, and lesbians in general. they dread the idea that they’ll have to settle down with a man eventually. they wish they could be a lesbian so that they’ll have a reason to not be with men, but they think they’re not cool or brave enough, or that maybe they could possibly, theoretically love a guy at some point so calling themselves a lesbian would be wrong. so to all those questioning wlw out there, i’m telling you right now: if you want to be a lesbian, you’re probably a lesbian. you’re allowed to be a lesbian. 

[geniusbee]

these are getting weird

[iamjaynaemarie]

Dangers of working on a set.

That’s what I said.

[seawitchkaraoke]

Okay but you forgot the best part! During the scene where Aragorn, Gandalf and the other Main CharaktersTM ride ahead to go shout at the gate (and talk to the mouth of sauron in the extended edition) they were very firmly told only to ride up  ahead “this far” because that area was cleared and beyond that it wasn’t.

But. Viggo Mortensen is absolutely mad and lead them just…. a bit farther than that. Everyone else was very scared they might blow up any second. Viggo said it “added a little extra tension”.

[mikkeneko]

[ithinkitsdashing]

#they just don’t make behind the scenes stories like lotr anymore

[ophidahlia]

Viggo was just Like That™ for the whole trilogy, taking method acting to extreme levels:

he would spend multiple days walking overland to locations in full pack, sword, & armour when everyone else was travelling in trucks

refused to use any prop swords that weren’t actual steel

basically lived in the forest in-costume, sleeping rough under the sky, even fishing & foraging for his food when possible

often spent hours in the barn just bonding with the horses. He adopted the horse he rode, Uranus, after filming ended

repaired all his own gear by hand, which was often since he never took it off

had a tooth knocked out during filming but had the crew simply glue it back in place so they could keep filming

the instructor who taught everyone swordplay said Viggo was the best swordsman he had ever trained

carried his sword literally everywhere & practiced non-stop, resulting in the cops being called when locals reported “a wild man swinging a sword around his head" outside a gym in Wellington

an orc actor fucked up & accidentally threw a dagger directly into Viggo’s face, but Viggo just deflected it with his sword. They kept that shot

infamously broke 3 toes kicking that helmet but stayed in-character & sold his very real scream as part of the scene. They also kept that shot

Viggo insists on doing his own stunts; in The Two Towers where Aragorn is unconscious & floating down the river, the strong current pulled him underwater for so long that a rescue team had to go in to save him. Viggo survived by grabbing a boulder on the riverbed and pulling himself to the surface

It’s probably more accurate to say that Aragorn played Viggo Mortensen in the off season, so I’m 100% unsurprised to hear he put a whole crowd of fellow actors in genuine mortal peril for a 12% increase in authenticity

[mushbeast]

My Child

[oneheadtoanother]

idk anything about this but I love it

[lynati]

If any competition needed to be on Tumblr, it's this one.

[agoldenplum]

Thanks @slightlylightly founded by Sunny Somrat, This is  SSFood Challenge

The players in and around Bangladesh play and are rewarded with food even losers get food. The combination of colorful games and the feel-good factor of nobody going home empty-handed has given Somrat a genuine hit.

[toreth]

“I can’t be your wife, Jack. But you and I are gonna be partners ‘til they put us in the fucking ground.”