General of the Great Turtle War

[eyeoftheeagle]

The TV said “bang”…

and bro really said “this is my moment” 💀🦜

Oscar-worthy performance from a parrot who took it way too seriously.

[gailynovelry]

The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.

[thememedaddy]

[sorrrowfull]

[bodhrancomedy]

When I was about thirteen, I remember dreaming a film trailer. When I woke up, I wrote it down and most of it is generic fantasy oppression fight the system by collecting mcguffins stuff -

But a major stylisation of it was that flat, shiny, Tim Burton/Disney CGI. The world was dripping in this. Everything was that oversaturated, over-polished, over-worked CGI.

But every time they collected/destroyed another Mcguffin, that CGI went away. But by bit it transitioned into real sets and practical effects until there is no noticeable CGI at all. Because that’s the system they were fighting - they weren’t being allowed to see what the real world looked like.

Decay and rot and broken infrastructure were being essentially photoshopped over because our villainous leader had no interest or ability to maintain things. It was only ever a temporary solution thought up by someone who thought that transforming a pack of wolves into humans to be her elite guard force was, in fact, a good idea.

(It was not. There was a whole subplot about the secondary antagonists in-fighting and being driven insane by the disconnect between how humans and wolves think and act where the one which were cubs when transformed were desperate to return to something they’d never experience and the patriarch/matriarch of the family knew they were too changed to ever survive as wolves again - definitely stolen from Terry Pratchett)

But, yeah, I’d be tempted to see if that would work, but with a story not dreamed up by a thirteen year old with an obsession with 1970s actors.

[bodhrancomedy]

I've been thinking about this again and, wow, if only I had a plot or characters to go with it that isn't generic YA collect McGuffins.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[deep-state-partisan]

[great-and-small]

Video of a crab where nothing happens

[homunculus-argument]

Having a whole living room wall full of decorative crosses and crucifixes in your house is the spiritual equivalent of consistently taking antibiotics "just in case" and washing your hands with bleach. Not only are you not making anything better for yourself, I'm pretty sure that you're making things way, way worse for everyone.

[thetetra]

Im just imagining a demon building up a holy resistance stat till they can slip past a crucifix purchased at target and slapped on the wall then eventually moving on to one that was actually blessed by a priest and starting the stat grinding all over again.

[homunculus-argument]

They've developed an immunity to christianity, you gotta find a shinto priest to cleanse your home to make them leave.

[waasabi]

Magical pond that changes color with the weather 

Kent Shiraishi took these photos of the Blue Pond, a beautiful body of water in Hokkaido, Japan. Blue Pond receives so much attention because of its shimmering blue hue, which changes into a lovely green in certain light. This pond owes its colors to aluminium hydroxide, a mineral which reflects blue light. 

[asiokhjfakdhfksjhdefunctasjkdf]

[thisblogdeadyeet]

[toastyglow]

the backrooms are simply not as scary conceptually if there is Something In Them

[toastyglow]

the whole reason why they're so unnerving is BECAUSE there's nothing in them!! because they're unrelentingly liminal and lonely and uncomforting. there shouldn't be a monster guy in there chasing you. you should glimpse other humans (?) from a distance but they walk away before you can close the gap and then they're gone. things should run away from YOU. do u get it

[toastyglow]

"and there was a MONSTERowooowwohhhh" the monster is isolation and banal beige sameness and uncanny valley architecture. you fool. you rube. you're putting a hat on a hat and the second hat is not only unnecessary but it ruins the first hat!!!!!!! "there's a monster in there" great so now it's just another place for a monster to be. ridiculous

[free-my-mindd]

[sleepy-bebby]

[succumbing-song]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[sufficientlylargen]

Other fun autological words include:

Short

Sesquipedalian

Fifteen-lettered

Conceptual

Blue

Business-related

Inanimate

Misspeled

Not-actually-a-word

[hideki-koga]

サンコウチョウ（Japanese Paradise Flycatcher）