Tawny's Tales

[fishcrow]

You will suffer the curse of caw!

Share if you care to spread the curse even further! 

[ayeforscotland]

And with this the Clacton by-election has four candidates:

Billionaire-backed racist Nigel Farage

Divorced racist dad Laurence Fox

Pasty racist Victorian child Kai Stephens

Count Binface

[ayeforscotland]

Guy has a certain ‘breastfed by mum through the school gates’ look about him.

[diablo-sera-tops]

hey don't cry. blorbo coughing up blood

[diablo-sera-tops]

blorbo writhing in agony ok? don't cry

[diablo-sera-tops]

blorbo screaming so much their voice becomes hoarse and weak and the pain still won't stop

[diablo-sera-tops]

blorbo unable to close their eyes and avoid the visceral sight of their own body

[diablo-sera-tops]

blorbo suffering unimaginable pain and being powerless to stop it ok? ok

[zxid]

collection

[fishlung8877]

[whooooomp]

enriching situations for characters who are deadly terrified of being vulnerable around others:

being gravely wounded and having to put their life in another person's hands. either fighting back with the last of their strength, or being too weak to protest when someone undresses them to take proper care of their injury

having a panic attack around (or caused by) another person. the fact that they're seen by someone like this only intensifies it, making them hyperventilate more

sleeping next to someone, trusting that they won't do anything to them. likely still going to wake up multiple times during the night at the slightest movement or sound

facing a fear/phobia they have and trying to remain composed as to not reveal their fear to everyone.

getting sick, feeling weak and utterly helpless. passing in and out of conciousness. flinching instinctively as someone checks their temperature

having limited mobility (ie. due to injury). needing to rely on someone else to help them move and do basic daily tasks. taking a bath together and allowing to be gently washed

bringing someone to the place they were raised in, allowing them to see into their past and judge it for themself.

[zatanindie]

Top reason why I barely post tf2 arts💔 sorry gang, there was a lot of soldierspy comic drafts I never finished cuz this sassy blue space cowboy keep controlling my mind

[microsff]

The parking attendant paused by the double-length bay. Intended for mobile homes and cars with trailers, it was currently occupied by a sleeping dragon.

No parts of it extended beyond the lines, and the paper ticket was clearly displayed, impaled on a horn.

The parking attendant moved on.

[lionessfeather]

I was going to just queue it for later but then it stuck in my brain, and I decided to make it everyone's problem

[ab-rinart]

[prodomius]

[mouse-doubleo100]

the more i watch star trek tos, the more it becomes abundantly clear that the reason why modern trek doesnt get kirk at all is because they dont utilise mccoy nearly as much anymore

in modern trek, they always present the idea of logic vs emotion, with spock being logic and kirk being emotion, but thats not how tos has it. in tos, the logic vs emption debate is spock vs mccoy. kirk is supposed to be the mediator between the two, sometimes siding with one side over the other, sometimes finding a middle ground between the two. thats why hes the captain, hes able to see all angles and pick the best course

when you make kirk the emotional one, it completely breaks the format, because 9 time out of 10, it means kirk has to be correct. theres no more balance

mccoy is just as important to tos as spock is, and while i do understand why spock is as popular as he is, without mccoy, the show doesnt work. you need them both. kirk spock and mccoy are the three leads of the show, and removing one requires you to change the others, which is whats happened to kirk

[trek-tracks]

I have been saying this for approximately 400 years, thank you.

When I teach rhetoric in my college essay writing/analysis course, it's always with the example of Kirk, Spock, AND McCoy. Ethos, Logos, Pathos--you need all three. Kirk isn't the counterweight to Spock; he's the fulcrum that balances Spock and McCoy.

Kirk isn't emotion. Kirk is ethos: credibility, authority. Spock and McCoy are there to stop him from damaging that credibility by falling back on an authority he doesn't actually have in the situation, to remind him of the logic or compassion that's lacking when an abuse of power would be the easy or basely satisfying thing to do.

What keeps Kirk credible is that he usually chooses the most ethical thing to do based on the information he has; what makes him a good leader, outside of his own innate abilities, is his understanding that he requires these two trusted advisors to keep him on an even keel. When Kirk says "I need you" to both Spock AND Bones, he means it.

[unamccormack]

I endorse this message

[sophiamcdougall]

Heart, brain, and spirit. "Mediating" can make Kirk sound wishy-washy and bland, which of course he isn't, which I think is part of what tempts people to scrap the whole thing and sideline Bones. But Kirk's main thing isn't supposed to just going with his gut, it's curiosity and exploration, which necessarily is both an emotional and intellectual endeavour...or enterprise, if you will.

I often say, we've heard the "space, the final frontier" speech now said so many times by so many characters that it's easy to think of as just a thing that starship captains say. But it's put into Kirk's mouth for a reason, "to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no man has gone before." Those are his words; that's who he is.

That's why Spock and Bones both love him so much. He's the one inspiring them to do and be more than they otherwise would.

[ab-rinart]

[markodragic]

I love love love saying "I scavenged a working microwave in the boylands" but nobody ever knows the reference and it breaks my heart

[markodragic]

like, the first time I ever saw this I laughed so hard I started choking on spit but it's just not the kind of thing you can share with the average person in your life. this world is so cruel

[buddie-i-slitheredherefromeden]

Grace: *cracks his knuckles then his neck and his back and eventually his ankles because everything needed to reset*

Rocky: what the fuck statement

[bellabs-dream-lab]

Just remembered I had this screenshot on my phone somewhere and had to post it here because it really speaks to me

[deadpowol]

[by-ilmater]

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[lotusss518]

Goodbye, goodbye.