Taco's Crazy Ramblings

My silly little blurbs and writings. Primarily I'll be writing about Undertale AUs I can't write, but I'll also post updates on my stories here.

[goobra]

my unpopular opinion is that i hate tiktok because now people just publicly watch loud ass videos in public spaces with no regard for anyone else. 100% it was not this bad with youtube, it’s such a different thing with tiktok. put on headphones. you are grown.

Girl……

[byjoveimbeinghumble]

This is it! This is what social media/smart tech have done! They’ve rotted away any distinction between private and public.

Yes, we do have the right to make demands on public behavior. Of course we do. Have you never heard of laws and etiquette? I’m not allowed to grocery shop naked. You can’t rummage through my purse. I can’t have a work meeting in the middle of a movie theatre.

I remember when it was taboo simply to answer your cell phone in public. The person answering would apologize and try to go to a more private area. Then public calls were normalized. Then putting people on speaker. Then listening to music without headphones. Do you know how many times I have hiked up a mountain or driven to the beach, only to be met with someone blaring shitty top 40 music from their portable speaker, because Heaven forbid you go one hour without noise?

Old woman yells at cloud and all that, but I can’t believe someone is not only admitting this behavior, but saying it’s a good thing! No one likes you! You’re a menace!

[elidyce]

BEING INCONSIDERATE OF OTHERS IS STILL BAD.

It was obnoxious when it was youtube.

It was obnoxious when it was music.

It was obnoxious when it was the radio. 

It was obnoxious when it was dudes wanting to talk to you instead of letting you just read your freaking book.

Do you want to be this guy? Because being obnoxious in shared spaces is how you become this guy. 

Wear your damn headphones like an adult participant in the social contract.

[10thingsihateabout-all-yall]

Best art history lesson ever, thank you

[hazeldomain]

[breelandwalker]

And for the record, we bitched about it back when it was loud car stereos and battery-operated boomboxes BECAUSE IT WAS RUDE AND INCONSIDERATE THEN TOO, YOU ENTITLED LITTLE SHITS.

[marsupials-of-mars]

Everyone on tumblr has Conditions. maladies. I log onto tumblr and my mutuals are unwellposting. Conditions I didn't even know existed and sound like dark curses but I will see a post from friend like "died about 60% today, fine now. Made egg on toast #yummytoast". There are so many people in this world with life experiences

[homunculus-argument]

The people who go "well who's going to look after you when you're old?" when you say you're not having kids are breathtakingly naive. Our next-door neighbour, somewhere in her mid-80s, has a son, grandkids, and a grear-granddaughter, and who's the one she calls when she needs help, and checks that she's not spending christmas alone? Me and my boyfriend.

Having kids is irrelevant if the answer to that question is still going to be "the mentally ill faggots next door."

[depsidase]

[headspace-hotel]

[katacala]

Something that gave H.P. Lovecraft nightmares is the work of my favorite artist. In "At the Mountains of Madness" he specifically mentions "the strange and disturbing Asian paintings of Nicholas Roerich."

This is what Roerich's paintings look like:

[chaifootsteps]

#hp lovecraft thought penguins were grotesque and horrifying#he was not a difficult man to frighten

[i-am-a-fish]

I made this, please feel free to use

[i-am-a-fish]

I made this post a couple months ago, and I completely forgot that I made it

today has been one of the worst days of my entire life, and this post somehow made its way back to me, like a mental-health chef boyardee can.

it actually helped me a lot

[i-am-a-fish]

have some more

[slugonascrabbletile]

s is for slug

[monstrosity-positive]

i’m enamored by the specificity of this blog. like this is the only post they’ve ever made. this account was solely created for this special little guy. does he know?

[ao3commentoftheday]

you're not turning your fandom hobby into a job are you? giving yourself deadlines and quotas that you have to meet? focusing on the numbers instead of your enjoyment of the act of creation?

[ao3commentoftheday]

you're not taking your love of something and using it as a tool to hurt yourself are you? loving it so hard that you forget to take care of yourself? telling yourself that people only care about you because of what you make and that they'll stop if you take a break? pushing yourself to work instead of rest so that the thing that used to give you joy and energy is now also burning you out, like everything else?

[miiilowo]

the coolest people are actually weird and fucked up and strange and peculiar and they just dont care. the coolest people are actually lame as hell and they rock it. this is what ive learned

[miiilowo]

the coolest people are cringe and free

[writing-prompt-s]

Many years after the evil overlord was deafeated by the forces of the light, there are whispers rumors that the evil overlord has secretly returned to his citadel. You know immediately it could only be an imposter, as you are in fact the evil overlord, living a peaceful simple life in exile.

[determined-mind-deactivated2025]

[girlwhorpsalot]

I needed this.

[mentalmentalhealth]

Thank you to all the people who posted this so I ended up seeing it. I really needed this right now. Thank you!

[aro-ace-christian]

Yeah… Not gonna lie… I cried…

[muslimintp-1999-girl]

We need more people like this

[armillary-spheres-lover]

Goddamn it stop making me feel human

[dreamsrainandwitchythings]

The therapist I wanna be.

[positivelyqueerace]

Text in the image:

“I’m a therapist and keep this poster in my waiting room, apparently it’s saved a few lives.”

I don’t like the phrase “a cry for help.” I just don’t like how it sounds. When somebody says to me, “I’m thinking about suicide. I have a plan: I just need a reason not to do it,” the last thing I see is helplessness.

I think your depression has been beating you up for years. It’s called you ugly, and stupid, and pathetic, and a failure, for so long that you’ve forgotten that it’s wrong. You don’t see any good in yourself, and you don’t have any hope.

But still here you are: you’ve come over to me, banged on my door and said, “HEY! Staying alive is REALLY HARD right now! Just give me something to fight with! I don’t care if it’s a stick! Give me a stick and I can stay alive!”

How is that helpless? I think that’s incredible. You’re like a marine: trapped for years behind enemy lines. Your gun has been taken away, you’re out of ammo, you’re malnourished, and you’ve probably caught some kind of jungle virus that’s making you hallucinate giant spiders.

And you’re still just going, “GIVE ME A STICK. I’M NOT DYING OUT HERE.” “A cry for help” makes it sound like I’m supposed to take pity on you, but you don’t need my pity. This isn’t pathetic. This is the will to survive. This is how humans lived long enough to become the dominant species.

With NO hope, running on NOTHING, you’re ready to cut through a hundred miles of hostile jungle with nothing but a stick, if that’s what it takes to get to safety.

All I’m doing is handing out sticks.

You’re the one saying alive.

[ultimate-science-nerd]

I legit cried at this. I’ve needed to hear it put this way. Bless this post.

[tea-rabbits]

Every time I see this post I stop to read the whole image. It always helps — even on the good days.

Because it wasn’t weakness. It wasn’t shameful to seek help. It wasn’t pathetic to “cry for help”. I was looking for a stick, be that from myself or from someone else. I was trying to find a way out. I was trying to heal myself.

[aurora-nerin]

this is fuckin incredible. 

[irondad-not-ironsad]

I’m sorry if I repost to many of these, but if it could be someone’s “stick” then it’s worth it

[imfemalewarrior]

For anyone that needs to read this today. 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They 

[rosered3-deactivated20240912]

They also have this one and I think quite a few others but these two I keep on my phone and pull up on my bad days.

[mythigal1966]

Text on second poster:

‘WHY ARE YOU SO LAZY?’

But you’re not lazy. Lazy is when you shrug things off because you can’t summon up the give-a-damn. When you’re curled up tight in your chair at your desk, alone and grey and desperately wishing that you had your life in order, that you did all those things you had to do, that it didn’t feel like breaking rocks just to feed and clothe yourself and get some sleep, that’s not lazy.

People don’t understand. You tell them “It’s hard.” They tell you “No it isn’t, you’re just lazy.”

You start to wonder if they’re right.

is breaking those rocks easy for everyone else? Are they that much stronger than you?

They don’t look like they’re struggling.

“Just try harder,” they say. But you’re trying. It’s not working.

Breaking boulders in your path until you’re spent isn’t lazy. And you do it day after day after day.

You’re not lazy. Most people don’t have those rocks to break. They don’t even know what it’s like to have to break rocks to get things done. They don’t understand how hard you have to work, and how hopeless you can feel, when you try and fail to do what they do so easily. Things are harder for you. They really are. And if those people had to deal with your problems, they wouldn’t be doing any better.

You’re not lazy. You’re not weak. You’re fighting hard. I guess I just want you to know that I know that.

[nerdpoe]

Danny puts up with a lot of stress, okay. His coping mechanism is....okay, it's a little weird, he's not gonna lie.

It is widely known that he has a human form and a ghost form; it is not widely known that his ghost form can do pretty much whatever he wants it to.

This includes making it smaller. Changing the ghost tail to a fish one. Making the suit be scales instead of a suit.

He does it so many times he now officially has three forms, and one of them is purely for himself and no one else.

His stress relief is to go to the aquarium, switch to the tiny merman form, and hide in the rocks of his favorite exhibit; the shark exhibit.

He stays in the back, away from the people visiting it's sight, and just vibes. He's even made a small cave the sharks can't fit into a tiny little nest.

No one would expect him there. No one would be looking for him there. He was free to just...take a moment.

Well, so he thought.

Because the humans visiting did see him. Multiple times.

They took pictures.

Now the Amity Park Aquarium is in some deep shit with Atlantis, because there's documented proof that they're keeping a literal baby mer in there as a spectacle.

[ailithnight]

Consider: Perhaps mers naturally grow to the size befitting their environment. They don't really have distinct species, they simply adapt to the space and food availability around them. The same mer that only gets to about humanoid size in a river could grow massive if moved to a lake or ocean with abundant food.

So when Aquaman catches these pictures and discovers they date back several months and the supposed-to-be-fast-growing mer baby isn't so much as an inch bigger, he concludes that the Aquarium is keeping the baby underfed and confined to a tiny area to keep it small and "cute".

Realizing the infant is in a tank with sharks, predators that would gladly eat something the size of a baby mer, only stokes his rage.

[noxcheshire]

I’m just imagining the idea that Danny himself has NO IDEA that Aquaman and his entourage are even coming fast into Amity Park because he’s just so focused on everything else in his (unfortunate) teenage life.

Aquaman? Yeah he knows WHO the guy is, who wouldn’t know who the Justice League members are, but is he keeping up with that news? No.

He’s barely even awake in school to process the news from other teenagers and teachers. He’s deliberately blocking out all the chatter just to take standy-uppy cat naps. He doesn’t have the time or brain capacity to handle you.

Going little baby man mer is his time to really relax. To unwind, laze about, and curl in his little nest with all his little possessions like a fish dragon and just rest.

So of course after a treacherous day AND night, Danny simply slips his way into the Aquarium and into his favorite water tank with the sharks where he has to avoid their curious nipping so he can unwind in his little enclosure.

It’s only going to be a little while after all.

Just a little moment to stretch out, rake his claws across the walls to make some doodles; maybe even watch the cold night outside before a short decided nap.

Just… a little… nap.

Sleep takes Danny fast and swift, and Danny stays at the Aquarium far longer than anticipated.

But Danny is so tired, and it isn’t like it’s the first time he’s overslept to the gentle sound of shark fins swimming through the artificial currents and was rocked to sleep by the gentle waves in the tank.

So what if he sleeps there longer than intended?

No one has ever seen him before, and Danny has never minded the light of the rising sun when it brings the sharks to wakefulness, or the building noise of a slowly waking Aquarium building.

It is all familiar noise to sleep to.

He only slightly minds it when he hears static — electricity — zapping outside, making his sleepy little self jerk and whine before he curls himself deeper into his tail.

It’s silent.

It’s so blissfully silent for a very long time that Danny’s tension flows right out of him.

An ear fin twitches at the sudden change in the waters currents, something bigger having entered, but nothing the sharks seemed to be worrying over. Danny thus pays little mind as he drifts away to sleep once more.

But maybe he should have tried being a little more awake, a little more alert. Surely then he would have noticed the sharks gurgling, would have noticed the tip of a sharks nose pressing against the hidden opening of his nest. Surely Danny would have noticed a very human-like hand reaching through the entrance to fish him out.

[mutable-manifestation]

Okay but imagine he wakes up. Just imagine the sheer hilarity of it. The king of Atlantis just chewed out you, your whole staff, and all of your ancestors with the Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman - in person - and the world - thank you local news station at least someone is enjoying the accidental international incident - watching on.

And he finally goes in the tank to get the mysterious baby mer that you truly Do Not Know how it got there.

And the second he gets it out of its hidey hole this tiny, absolute speck of a mer's eyes shoot open with all the energy of a bomb going off, takes 0.0001 seconds to register the hand holding it, and - in front of God and everyone - bites the ever living fuck out of his finger, escaping the moment the guy flinches (and oof if the cloud of color is any indication bro might need a stitch. The baby has some TEETH).

Baby mer dives back into the hidey hole, Aquaman tries to soothe it into coming back out, he's here to help, blah blah. Baby Mer just hisses like an angry cat.

Aquaman tries to grab the baby again and manages to get a grip on it, but the baby latches his little claws onto either side of his hidey hole and won't let go for anything (and Aquaman could just tug harder but it's a baby he doesn't want to hurt it :(((( [and Danny could just phase out except he doesn't want to do that with people watching him when they seem to think he's a mer {he doesn't know they think he's a baby mer, he just thinks that they think he's, like, some runaway or something} rather than a ghost and is that Batman???])

[spacessomethingxdcsideblog]

They finally manage to get Danny out.

(Batman has experience with bitey children. He shoved his armored hand in, and when Danny bit him he pulled him out. Like those videos of people catching fish bare handed)

Danny obviously doesn't stick around. He disappears as soon as everyone looks away. This, of course, leads to the Justice League panicking because "We lost the baby!"

From there it could be either shenanigans cracky or misunderstood angst cracky.

Shenanigans: The Justice League gets a call from the aquarium that Danny's back and it devolves into them trying to keep him contained and out of the aquarium yet he somehow always ends up back in his little nest. Like an octopus determined to escape its tank.

Angsty crack: He gets spotted flying back to Amity Park, and, since this is Amity Park, people realize he's a ghost. So now the Justice League is angsting over Danny being a dead child while Danny is whining about his nap getting interrupted to an unsympathetic Sam and Tucker.

Bonus points for this one would be having Danny's mer form look like one of Aquaman's dead relatives.

[mayfay]

Consider

Danny looks like a small child to the merfolk, and he’s been in here for who knows how long! Little baby brain was Not taught about Aquaman or Language or life outside an aquarium. But they can’t Force him aparently, he’s got some weird Hodini stuff going on (probably exposure to ecto making him liminal mixed with the constant danger of living in a shark tank leaving him skilled enough with some weird power to escape).

The solution? Teach him.

Try to teach a basic understanding of merfolk language so they can take him Home.

Danny didn’t necessarily Like his hideout being discovered, but hey it’s a free nap, good food, and apparently some kinda tutor…. He can see where this goes right?

Meanwhile Aquaman is finding out while the baby mer’s grasp on language is Abysmal, they’re remarkably advanced in other departments (and for angst God does this small child need food and rest, their power really seems to take it out of them and they Won’t Stop Using It)

Also I wonder if the sudden publicity over cute small baby merfolk might catch others attention. I mean they Are cute, and the rich Are Willing to spend truckloads of money for cute illegal status symbols. Bit more dangerous than usual, but Hey! Smugglers are decent at their jobs okay! They gotta be with the amounts of cash flowing their way for these kinda jobs.

It might start with just Any merfolk, but it won’t take long before the pay for The baby merfolk gets too high, and the Justice League to distracted, before someone takes a crack at Danny

[fanaroff]

Yeah I’m just gonna add this to it-

[taco-rambles]

It's been a busy few months, and there's another alien invasion. Just one thing then another, but Aquaman makes it back to the aquarium... only to find the security team panicking and the mer child gone.

The traffickers had drugged the whole tank while Danny was napping and snagged him. Due to unique physiology, while the drug worked, it wore off much faster than expected. Danny wakes up in a holding tank, in a warehouse with other kidnapped people. A few are metas, their abilities suppressed. A few aren't. Either way, Danny decides to become a PROBLEM(tm).

This could go many ways, but I have a mental image of him shape shifting into a colossal form of his mer form, like a terrifying one, and gathering up the smugglers/traffickers while protecting the other kidnapped kids. The justice league shows up, and Danny just bloops back to the baby form once they're there and takes a super cute nap in Aquamans arms. Because he's exhausted now. How would the jl deal with a baby looking mer that can do that?

[doggosource]

[doggosource]

Mood

[sufficientlylargen]

[tsuchinokoroyale]

Me giving my parents my report card in second grade

[mlembug]

[sufficientlylargen]

This post starts getting more notes around the end of every semester.

[the-haiku-bot]

This post starts getting

more notes around the end of

every semester.

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

[foxes-in-love]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

we need more divorcebaiting. how strongly can canon imply (without technically outright stating) that these two characters are bitterly, acrimoniously divorced? essential we explore this

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

not what first come to my mind but hey speak your truth

[dclovesdanny]

Dead serious

3/4

Danny had always had a high pain tolerance. It came from both his injuries and the bullying at school(plus the times at home when the food fought back or weapons misfired.) it was something he was grateful for as phantom. It meant that shots that would’ve kept any normal person down, didn’t phase him as much. He was delighted when he realized his soulmate was not getting hurt as much now then he was when they were young(Danny refuses to think about how he was researching child abuse, and had to put his laptop away at nine years old when he started to realize that he qualified for it too.) he hoped his soulmate was safe.(he was so so sorry they had been stuck with him. He was so so sorry they had to feel this pain. At night sometimes he worried about they hated him for making them suffer, tracing over the Lechtenberg scars and hoping his soulmate was somehow oblivious to the pain. right now he could only help his soulmate didn’t feel him being cut open.)

Damien had always been conflicted about his soulmate. Growing up, he was taught soulmates for a weakness, so he ignored the pain that would come from his soulmate. However, father taught him soulmates were gift, and slowly became more used to his soulmate.(he often worried for his soulmate, wondering if there’s any way to find him. It only seemed that his soulmate was getting worse pain as Damien got away from the league.)(Alfred and Drake were the only ones there when his soulmate was electrocuted. The pain was worse than anything Damien had felt, and he was brought to his knees for a few agonizing seconds. When he came to, Drake was crowding around him while Alfred prepared medical supplies. He was only ever able to inform a broken voice that his soulmate had gotten hurt.(he was never so relieved when the next day he felt poking sensation in his arm that wasn’t his.))

It was in the middle of dinner when he felt the tearing sensation across his chest, and he couldn’t help but let out a wine, drawing the attention of everyone in the room. Pain was excruciating, and he barely managed to choke out the words “My soulmate” before the pain got loud enough that he had to bite his tongue to keep from letting out yells. Even all of his torture training didn’t make sense in the face of this. He could barely register what was happening around him. He didn’t even notice father calling Constantine to see if there was a way to track down his soulmate or a way to make the pain stop. He couldn’t even feel Grayson‘s arms around him. All he could feel the pain of being cut open, of being vivisected. All he could do was hope against hope that his soulmate could be found before the pain stopped for good.

[callese]

S.686 - RESTRICT Act

[thatdisasterauthor]

They would shut down Tumblr in a HEARTBEAT if this bill goes through. Call your senators, call your reps. This needs to be stopped, now.

[a-pan-with-pots]

Spread this around. I screenshotted my post to make it easier for people to add it to their own. These are campaigns that are being spearheaded by Tiktok. These are the conclusions we've come to on the best methods we could find in the short amount of time. In person protest as well. Hell no one's opposed to credit card info being publicly shared of those fighting for this bill. But this is the first steps we've come up with.