Flying thoughts

Whatever I think is interesting and should be shared around.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[immortalbeingz]

[fatfemmefreaquency]

[russianfolklore]

Wolves by Ivan Bilibin.

[dogpuppy]

[im-all-out-of-ideas]

first original eva joke in decades i HAD to reblog it

[the-haiku-bot]

first original

eva joke in decades i

HAD to reblog it

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[marwyn]

Is your first name canon in asoiaf

Yes

No

Sort of (spelled differently, etc.)

Remaining time: 3 days 22 hours

Here’s the character list on the wiki for reference

[yesterdayiwrote]

The irony of this new breed of self-righteous AI hunters on AO3 is that they're all just copy and pasting peoples fics into AI detectors, which are all operated by AI and therefore THEY are feeding people's work into the algorithm without their consent and in some cases no doubt circumventing the locks people put on to avoid getting scraped...

Don't copy and paste anyone's AO3 work into third party websites, you're not the good guys in this situation?

[zaziki1412]

Reblog cause FACTS

[thirstkanaphan]

[rohirric-hunter]

Why are people still in the year of our lord 2026, acting like a six foot wide exhaust vent on a battle station is some kind of major flaw that the designers should have noticed and fixed? And not just a normal side effect of all that machinery needing somewhere to vent heat and exhaust? Like it's a plot hole? Newsflash, if you shoot thermonuclear missiles into the exhaust pipe of a car it will also explode. Most cars' exhaust pipes are not shielded against this, because they don't expect you to shoot thermonuclear missiles into them

[rohirric-hunter]

I promise you this is just how a big incompetent government works when designing technology, without the need for any sabotage at all

[fangs-4-fags]

my favorite thing about crocodiles is yeah they're fantastic swimmers and yeah they can run pretty fast and yeah the smaller ones can even climb trees but also. they don't wanna do any of that shit. they just go no, no thanks. that's not for me. i think i'll just wait for someone to mistake me for a log and get too close. and then i'll eat them. many reptiles love this strategy but none pull it off like the humble croc

[mutantfactor]

Fangs of Fortune

Bonus:

[maimonideznuts]

Me: I'm just sent by an artist hiding a big veiny cock in a world cup mural

Mutual: "hiding" is a strong word

[travelling-my-little-pony]

Octavia Melody has found a fungus.

On Dartmoor, in Devon, England.

[bamboophoenix]

AU where PIDW!native Shen Yuan somehow ended up as a slave in Qiu Manor before Xiao Jiu was brought in. He takes a liking to Xiao Jiu and basically decides that he’s adopting him as his little brother. Cue Shen Yuan doing everything he possibly can to keep Xiao Jiu out of Qiu Jianluo’s clutches.

He schemes and plans and outwits their master at every possible opportunity, taking the punishments and the mind games and making sure to take care of Xiao Jiu when he fails. One night he overhears Qiu Jianluo talking about how he plans to summon Xiao Jiu to his room the next night. The next afternoon he takes Xiao Jiu out to do the shopping for the household.

Alone.

When he returns to Qiu Manor - blood under his fingernails and scratches on his arms - he shoots Qiu Jianluo an angry, defiant glare and tells him that he made sure he could never lay a hand on Xiao Jiu. That he was now far beyond his reach.

Qiu Haitang screams and Shen Yuan doesn’t deny it when he’s accused of killing Xiao Jiu.

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Meanwhile, a dozen li away, the newly named Shen Jiu hunkers down next to a couple of young courtesans moving from the local brothel to the Warm Red Pavilion at the foot of Cang Qiong Mountain Sect where a promised owed to Shen Yuan’s late father will see him housed until the next disciple selection less than a week later.

[tokkibean]

i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did

[harpyharpyharpy]

You don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette

[thatsbelievable]

[niyarest]

can someone explain what he's talking about i got distracted by his giant jiggling honkers badonkers

[x]

[niyarest]

[official-boob-posts]

the slut is back !?

[zisurru]

something i think would make a lot of historical romance more accurate & interesting is the realization that people are less likely to totally disparage the ethical & social values of their time than they are to use those values to defend whatever it is they want to do

a woman is less likely to go "it's stupid that women are expected to be modest" than she is to go "there is nothing immodest about a woman going out without a chaperone" or even "i can go out without a chaperone because i am so modest"

people also seem less likely to see someone's shitty behavior as reflecting a shitty society than they are to view that behavior as being out of accordance with that society - e.g. a father who's excessively controlling of his daughters' marriage prospects isn't, in her mind, acting that way because he lives in a repressive patriarchal culture, but is actually outdated in his values - his cruelty is unmodern, ungentlemanly, stuck in the past, barbaric. we might think he's upholding the values of his culture perfectly, but the people around him who took issue with his behavior probably wouldn't see it that way