Everything You Can Imagine is Real

LGBT+ / Activism / Fandoms / Funny Stuff || 22 || they/them || finally getting treatment for my anxiety, depression, type 3 ADHD, and Compulsive Eating Disorder

[comradeorangutan]

criminalise golf

[delirioushumanoid]

you'd really do that to the entire population of southern california?

[systlin]

Yes

[sunshower-echoes-blog]

As someone living in Southern California-

criminalise golf

[stimman4000]

.

[official-lucifers-child]

this is all pretty and stuff but have you heard the fucking music

[sunshower-echoes-blog]

... What the fuck

[theveryworstthing]

the fight is harder each year.

[theveryworstthing]

gotta keep going because nothing ever stops.

[theveryworstthing]

you deserve to be new and whole.

[nervosityperson]

Can someone explain what’s happening besides someone being reborn?

[naamahdarling]

In the first comic, which is from the Warrior’s point of view, the Warrior has defeated the Monster, who jeers that there will always be another Monster to fight. The Monster dissolves into mist, leaving another tiny, baby Monster in its place. The Warrior picks up this helpless new baby Monster and carries it away. They will try again and do better this time.

In the second comic, which is from the Monster’s point of view, the Monster says that this has to happen; it can’t come with the Warrior, and there will always be another.  It tells the Warrior to use what they have learned to fight.  It wants to die knowing that the Warrior has hope for the future.  It dissolves into mist, and the exhausted Warrior collapses. The new baby Monster comes and brings the Warrior some water in a leaf.  Because we are reading this in the Monster’s voice, we realize that it is a new Monster, but also somehow, magically, the same.  We also see that the Monster is not inherently evil.  It is only very strong, and inevitable.

The third comic is a dialogue between the Monster and the Warrior.  The Warrior is exhausted and horrifically wounded. The Monster is also horribly maimed.  They are both dying. The Warrior doesn’t want to fight anymore.  The Monster tells them to rest and heal. The Warrior hands over their amulet, and we see the Monster’s paw become a hand just before they both dissolve into mist.  It clears, revealing that the Monster has turned into a beautiful humanoid, who says they will take care of the new baby monster the Warrior has turned into.  The two have changed roles.  The Warrior takes up the former Warrior’s gear and strides into the new year with the new baby Monster riding on their shoulders.

It is a beautiful, ruthless, hopeful metaphor about keeping up the good fight, year after year, even when we are worn down, and how we can still face the new year with hope and light, no matter how painful the last one was, and how it is okay to rest if we can’t fight.

[naamahdarling]

It’s not the new year, but things are so difficult for so many of us right now, and we are so worn down from so many fights on so many fronts, I feel like we could all use this again.  Love, rest, fight, love.

[writing-in-the-grave]

I think I might have a new horrible, terrible, fucking amazing story idea.

[writing-in-the-grave]

Okie dokie it took a very disturbing turn very quickly but here's the idea;

Imagine the tiniest, most wimpy, pathetic, pitiful dragon you possibly can. She's got blunt horns and blunt teeth, and her claws aren't very sharp! She's a little smaller than your average house cat! Her name is Altheria. Her hoard consists of;

One dirty gold coin

That's it.

And she's so little she can't even hold the coin in one paw. It's not a big coin, she's just little and doesn't have thumbs! 👍

So the other dragons are all bigger and greedy, and very mean to her. She's struggling to hold onto her one pathetic coin, and these other dragons are fucking HUGE with caves full of gold, yet they're super greedy and want all the gold they can get! So one of them sees Altheria's single little coin and steals it. She tries to fight back, but they're so big compared to her that they just bat her out of the sky like hitting a fly with fly swatter.

So she's lost her entire hoard in one night, and she's feeling pretty pathetic, when she sees a poster!

HELP WANTED - RESCUE PRINCESS ELIZABETH - REWARD 15,000 GOLD

and she gets a very bad idea, but she's pretty desperate and stupid so she does it anyway!

So the story follows Altheria as she blunders her way through this quest to save the kidnapped princess (so tragically taken days before her wedding!!!) And she kinda sucks at it. She mostly skates by because everyone looks at her and goes "She's so small!!! She's harmless!!!"

And there's this thing called The Gift that people are born with. Only people with The Gift can understand dragons, so no one knows what the fuck she's saying anyway. Everyone just ignores her!

Well Altheria makes it to the bandit infested fortress where the princess is only to discover....

Drum roll please!!!!

The princess wasn't kidnapped. She ran the fuck away because she was not vibing with that whole marriage thing. She's taken over this small army of bandits and become their leader. She's plotting to take over her father's kingdom and become queen instead of being sold off to some prince. She's building an army.

Elizabeth has offered every would-be rescuer to show up a choice; join her cause, or die. Out of 37 would be rescuers, only three have joined her. The other 34 she defeated and killed in single combat. Because she's a badass.

She then ransomed the bodies to their families for a shit load of money.

So Eliza has The Gift, and gives Altheria the same choice but with some added sugar; if Altheria joins up, she can be Eliza's treasurer.

Altheria takes one look at the 35,000 gold Eliza has built up, and Eliza promises they'll get even more gold if they can take over the kingdom... And Altheria is 100% on board!!!!

But the reason dragons need gold is simple; the more gold a dragon possess, the larger they grow. That's why Altheria was so small. She only had one coin! But now she has 35,000 that she (kinda, she shares with Eliza) owns.

Altheria starts growing again. Throughout their quest to take back the kingdom in Eliza's name, she gets bigger, her teeth and horns get sharper, her fire gets hotter... She becomes a fucking badass, just like Eliza.

That's as far as I've gotten so far.

[oumiyuki]

This story is badass. hehe~ Imagine Eliza and Altheria going around defeating the other dragons that bullied Altheria before (in the sense of robbing; unless dragons do “fair and square” matches to get the Gold) and Altheria just becomes this extra huge, extra strong, extra badass dragon and the rest are now the tiny fly treatment dragons. XD hahaha

[writing-in-the-grave]

I have this image in my head of Altheria eating the alley cat that was mean to her in chapter one, but this works too

[artfromthevoid]

OP can I 🅱️lease draw fanart

[writing-in-the-grave]

I would die for you if you did

[artfromthevoid]

Bless

And you know I had to draw my favorite part

[writing-in-the-grave]

I'm actually crying oh my god I can't see the screen anymore my eyes are too blurry with tears in my god oh my god oh my god do you understand you're my favorite person now? Holy shit holy shit holy shit I love you she looks so little and perfect it's exactly how I pictured it thank you THANK YOU THANK YOU❤ ❤ ❤

[writing-in-the-grave]

I hope you know I've been sitting here in hysterics repeating SHE'S GOT A LITTLE FORK SWORD SHE'S GOT A LITTLE FORK SWORD SHE'S GOT A LITTLE FORK SWORD OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS SO MUCH OH MY GOD

[if-i-am-not-for-me]

I would absolutely buy this if it became a novel

[lauralot89]

Jesus Christ was a brown Jew in the Middle East, conceived out of wedlock in an arguably interracial if not interspecies (deity and human) relationship, raised by his mother and stepfather in place of his absent father.  He may not have had a Y chromosome.  He spent his early youth as a refugee in Egypt, where his family no doubt survived initially on handouts from the wealthy (You think they kept that gold, frankincense, and myrrh from the wise men?  Hell no, they sold that stuff for food and lodging).  He later returned with his parents to their occupied homeland and lived in poverty.

The religion of Jesus’s people has no concept of a permanent hell and instructed its priests on how to induce miscarriages.  Jesus explicitly rejected the concept of disability as a divine punishment.  He spoke out against religious hypocrites.  He had enough respect for women to let his mother choose the time of his first miracle.  He blessed a same sex couple.  He told a rich man that he must give up his wealth to get to heaven, and also told a parable about a rich man suffering in agony in presumably Gehinnom (basically Purgatory) just to hammer the point home.  He told people to pay their taxes.  He declared “love your neighbor” to be one of the two commandments on which all laws hang.  He commanded his followers to help the poor.  He commanded them to help the sick and the needy.  He spent time with social outcasts.  He healed the servant of a high priest during his arrest rather than fighting back.  He was put to death by the occupying government because he was a political radical.

Trump and his administration are xenophobic, misogynistic, racist, fear-mongering, warmongering, tax-dodging, anti-Semitic, anti-choice, anti-welfare, anti-equal pay, anti-LGBTQIA+, anti-immigration, support tax cuts for the rich, support Citizen’s United, want to keep refugees out of this country, want to limit our ability to speak against the government, plan to abolish the Affordable Care Act, and they wrap all of that up behind a banner of “Christian family values.”  If you support them, you have no right to call yourself a follower of Christ.

[dahmerhatesthetcc]

it’s so rare, yet so fulfilling, to see the J-man on my dash

[killerchickadee]

One of my friends is literally the most religious Christian I have ever met. What does that mean in regards to her lifestyle and outlook? She loves everyone. EVERYONE. Unconditionally. And she supports healthcare and education and birth control and everything that’s necessary to have a healthy, stable society.

Because that’s what her homeboy JC would want.

[balladofabrokebitch]

Amen

[sunshower-echoes-blog]

Hi hello Americanized Christianity is a lie made up to serve the purposes of the straight rich white men.

Real Christianity is, at it's core, about being a fucking decent human being and caring about your fellow people regardless of differences.

So please fuck off with that 'Trump defends Christian values' bullshit and reevaluate how you got so far off the right track.

[sunshower-echoes-blog]

Sometimes I wonder why it's so much harder to tire out my legs than my arms while I'm working out... But then I catch myself doing The Bounce™

[sunshower-echoes-blog]

So I had a somewhat brief hyperfixation on the idea that ADHD might be on the autism spectrum and went hunting for studies on the major similarities and differences.

The main difference that I saw reoccurring in these studies was routine- people who have autism tend to want routine and repitition while people with ADHD tend to find those things impossible to maintain (I for one can attest to that).

I wonder why that is? With all the major similarities in sensory symptoms and other aspects, why differ there? What is it about routine that causes such different reactions in such similar neurodivergencies?

I'd be interested to hear opinions from both people with ADHD or autism since I only know my own personal experiences with ADHD.

[assigned-sexual]

A little off from your point but my understanding for the reason why ADHD isn't apart of the Autism Spectrum is because we can understand pragmatic language (things like body language tone and social cues) while autistic people can't, ADHD people have issues with pragmatic language in some areas such as interrupting people isn't because we can't tell when it's our turn but because executive dysfunction makes it hard to conform to that aspect of pragmatic language.

However as for your point I believe it has to do with a combination of memory and executive dysfunction.

[sunshower-echoes-blog]

Oh that's interesting! I hadn't read much on that. That makes sense, and would also explain to me a little better how people can sometimes be diagnosed with both autism and ADHD at the same time. I myself wouldn't have really noticed because I also have pretty severe social anxiety which causes me to often read into body language too much to the point where I just wind up interpreting it completely wrong anyway or not understanding at all.

I know ADHD definitely affects memory in a pretty unique way and executive dysfunction is a driving force behind a lot of my personal inability to conform to a routine so that is something I can understand.

This may be slightly off my own topic (but I suppose that's only natural), but autism can cause executive dysfunction as well, right? I imagine that would interfere with a routine even for someone with autism who needs to follow a routine to feel good (not quite sure how to phrase that since I don't have experience with the feeling of being able to follow a routine versus the feelings caused by not being able to follow your routine when you have autism). Does the severity of one's executive dysfunction maybe lead to a simpler routine, whereas people with autism who don't struggle as much with executive function might appreciate a more complex routine?

I suppose that also depends on how much their brain craves routine.

I know I can always look up more studies and research to answer these questions but I prefer first-hand personal accounts to clinical data. Of course, no one has to answer or give their personal experiences if they don't want to!

[sunshower-echoes-blog]

Idk if this is weird or a product of me being socially inept thanks to Hell Brain™ or both but sometimes I just feel a sense of absolute joy and comfort with the majority of my coworkers. I care about them, I think they care about me, and they're all really cool.

Like, it's a mix of being the Mom™ friend and also feeling like a younger sibling.

Some of these guys have sketchy pasts- jail, gangs, etc. Some of them have sketchy presents, even. But the minute one of them so much as says ow or looks a little sad I'm in immediate Care Mode. What do you need? Painkillers? Bandaid? Heart to heart talk I have to drag out of you because you're almost the physical embodiment of toxic masculinity minus a lot of the sexism (not all of it though)? And like, occasionally I'll just look around the warehouse and just be so happy. Like... These are My Boys (and one Girl). I'm so proud. Even though they can be total idiots at times.

And then other times they'll be teasing me or telling me to take care of myself or comforting me when I'm upset and I'll just feel like I've got a ton of big brothers and one big sister. I'm not the youngest working there but I'm close to it, only three people are younger than me and each only by a couple months. Considering how I've only ever had an older sister and even then I've had to take care of her constantly, never the other way around, it's a nice feeling.

Idk I just wanted to put it in writing lol

[sunshower-echoes-blog]

So I had a somewhat brief hyperfixation on the idea that ADHD might be on the autism spectrum and went hunting for studies on the major similarities and differences.

The main difference that I saw reoccurring in these studies was routine- people who have autism tend to want routine and repitition while people with ADHD tend to find those things impossible to maintain (I for one can attest to that).

I wonder why that is? With all the major similarities in sensory symptoms and other aspects, why differ there? What is it about routine that causes such different reactions in such similar neurodivergencies?

I'd be interested to hear opinions from both people with ADHD or autism since I only know my own personal experiences with ADHD.

[cracked]

22 Things Movies Get Completely Wrong About Mental Illness

[tiggurix-deactivated20180731]

Cracked doing the Lord’s work and shedding light on ableism and inaccuracy.

[corvidaedream]

i love the idea of ghosts not being dead people but just places where time is kind of thin

like one of my friends & his girlfriend have a ghost in their very old new england house that's apparently an old timey little boy who does shit like jump on the bed and slam doors but if they tell him very sternly "daniel, stop that" the activity stops immediately

and i love the idea that years ago theres this rowdy little 19th century boy just being alive and playing in his room but if he gets too loud sometimes, the ghostly form of my 21st century friend shows up and is like "Hey! Cut it out." and then vanishes and no one believes this child

[simonalkenmayer]

This is likely very true and real. not that time is thin, but that human perception is capable of seeing it fold back on itself. The important factor is the mechanism. What causes repeating images like we find in “Stone tape theory”. I surmise they are not actually repeating, but are in fact knots in time. It’s not a spirit stuck in a loop. It’s time moving in a pattern that can be seen given the right conditions.

The other ghostly nonsense...well that’s just an overlap of human ability and Drifters. Honestly humans become fearful at the drop of a pin.

[sunshower-echoes-blog]

Wow I've never seen this theory put into words before but damn if I haven't been mulling this over for basically my entire adult life

Especially because my family has this "ghost" that's literally just one of us being seen in a room we are not actually in wearing clothes we're not actually wearing that day.

One time my grandfather saw my grandmother at the foot of their bed in a blue nightgown when she was actually in the kitchen already fully dressed. Another time my mother saw my aunt in the hallway of their childhood home wearing all white when she was actually at the store wearing something purple I think it was? And then a different time (which is what lead to my entire family talking about this and realizing it was a reccuring thing) my dad saw ME in the garage of the house we lived in when I was a teen wearing also all white when I was actually upstairs in my bedroom wearing PJs.

Now as far as I know none of us have actually been in those places wearing those specific clothes (I for one wouldn't be caught dead wearing all white) but perhaps it was simply something to do with the fold in time not being entirely clear? But still I think it's pretty cool.

[minjiminjiminji]

XKCD’s excellent presentation on historical global temperature and anthropogenic global warming. 

[After setting your car on fire] “Listen, your car’s temperature has changed before.”

[prokopetz]

Concept: a superhero whose civilian identity is five different people. Not like they’re a hive mind or they can duplicate themselves or anything – they’re just a group of five people who all have different powers but coincidentally wear roughly the same size costume, who’ve decided to team up and share the same heroic persona. As far as both the general public and the broader super-powered community know, they’re a single incredibly hard-working super with a bewildering variety of seemingly unrelated powers, except they only have access to any given power some of the time owing to complex criteria they refuse to adequately explain.

(Thus far they’ve been very careful to ensure that their heroic persona is never provably in two places at once, though honestly it’s only a matter of time; there’s some argument among the group whether to deal with that eventuality by coming clean, or by claiming that bilocation is also one of their powers.)

[hazeldomain]

Each of them has a different specific weakness. After a long and harrowing fight their Archnemesis discovers that the Hero’s vulnerable to silver. Three weeks later they’ve got the Hero wrapped head to toe in silver chains, only to have the super-strong Hero break out like it was toilet paper. 

(That one’s allergic to bees, not silver.) 

[mystery-ink]

The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Superhero Spandex

[catsbeaversandducks]

This speech-language pathologist taught her dog 29 words, and he can even form full sentences.

Video by Christina Hunger

[trustmeimanengiqueer]

[jenniferrpovey]

Dogs actually do have a language center in their brains. They process language just the same way we do, just not as well.

They do understand our words. This is not true of all domesticated animals (horses, for example, can only manage to distinguish a relatively small number of spoken commands…but boy do they know what you’re really saying).

They don’t understand “just your tone of voice” as a lot of people think.

As of 2016 the record vocabulary for a dog demonstrating understanding of words is over 1,000.

So if you give them a way to talk back, they’re going to use it.

The development of language skills is probably a side effect of domestication and of being kept in close contact with humans. A dog that was a better hunting partner would be kept and bred and over time they developed a better understanding of language.

In other words, dogs are pretty dang smart because we need them to understand us.

And also that is a very good boy.

[sandersstudies]

^ Would like to agree and make one amendment - very good GIRL. This is Stella the dog!

Check out the owner Christina’s Instagram: one of the first things I saw was a video where the dog started barking and, when prompted by the owner, said “outside, look look look look look look look, come outside.” Which is basically exactly how one would expect a dog to speak. 

The owner described bringing an unknown package into the house, and the dog ran away to push the buttons for “help no no help help” which is also about what I expect goes on in a scared pup’s mind.

In another video, the dog tried to push a button, and the button wasn’t working. The dog paused and then pushed the buttons for “No. Help.” 

In yet another (which the owner seemed impressed by), Stella said “come eat come play.” The owner asked the dog which she wanted to do, to eat or to play? And the dog clarified “come eat.” After eating, then the dog tried to instigate play. So the dog may have been able to understand a short spoken question, and how “questions and answers” work, and also understands sequences, even if she can’t express them (”I want to eat, THEN I want to play”)

Stella can even recount short-term memories, like when her family returned from the beach for dinner and she said “water good, no eat, play”

By the way, the owner uses the buttons as well, which probably really helps reinforce their meaning. She uses them to say things like “Stella all done eat” or “Stella and Christina go outside, bye!”

Wanna know my favorite part? Stella sometimes pushes the buttons for “Stella good” when she’s done a good job. Stella IS good! :D She also makes phrases using “love you,” like “Christina, love you, come play!”

[randomslasher]

*whispers* amazing 

[simonalkenmayer]

My dog and I have complete conversations because I understand him and he me. Neither one of us speaks the other tongue, but you would think that we did if you heard us carrying on at one another. The other day I asked him what he wanted for breakfast and he went to the fridge and pawed at it until I went over and gave him some left over chicken.

[sunshower-echoes-blog]

Dogs are incredible.

[frogmp3]

Here lies Asia. They are not going to be able to make it.

[skydodie]

Here lies Kay. She is a great friend.

[noseforahtwo]

Here lies Nosy. She nasty and it’s not as complicated as I’m making it.

[raisedbyheathens]

Here lies Kat. She is the one out of spite.

Does that mean I am out of spite, like all my spite is gone, or does it mean i have become the “one”(like Neo!) simply through the power of spite?

[noseforahtwo]

Our phones know what we’re about, man.

[brialavellan]

Here lies Tali. They said they would be able to get a hold of the guy who was the guy.

[rashemibabe]

Here lies Ari. She is a very good writer and I am very interested in the job.

[veritashopian]

Here lies Ashley. She was just so rude to me.

[bileshroom]

Here lies Michael. They have a call on the time of y’all and I have no idea what to do.

[queenofthefaces]

Here lies Creo. She was just a little bit more comfortable than I thought she was.

[iamtypinglike98madmen-deactivat]

Here lies Kel. They were both murdered by the time I was going to be there.

[badarzewska-deserves-the-world]

Here lies Amber. They had a good lord what time do you want to go to the store?

[constant-state-of-self-discovery]

Here lies Kaycee. They are you can you please send me the address

[commanderforeskin-deactivated20]

Here lies Mya. She was a cat

Here lies Mya. She was just a little bit of milk.

Here lies Mya. She was gonna kill the babies.

[catshrek]

here lies audrey, she was so sad

[love-is-a-chemical]

Here lies Salem, he thicc

[smooththegoofyshark]

Here lies [REDACTED] she was so excited to see you tomorrow at least

[awkward-scarfy-boi-deactivated2]

Her lies Maddox Page, he was going to commit a few crimes

[official-lucifers-child]

Here lies Mickey. They were gay until the end.

[sunshower-echoes-blog]

Here lies Roane. They were going to be a little late to the party.

[hungryhedon]

ELIZABETH RAAB PHOTOGRAPHY

Guerriere series

www.elizabethraab.com

[stefkaryan]

I know it’s a photo, but my heart says it’s a Renaissance painting.

[nerdvanauniverse]

I’m honestly tearing up rn. I’ve never seen someone who looked like me in modern art shown in a positive light like this. Thank you so much

[sunshower-echoes-blog]

Had some fun with my Halloween costume and a cute Snapchat filter 😊🎃💀🦇