Onward, to Brundisium

Terra. Old as dirt | She/her | 🍳 Mostly void. Partially whatever I'm hyperfixating on at the moment. My ask box is always open if you need an ear or a shoulder. Always.

[idlelizard]

Hm why do my paints smell fishy

[l00r0ll]

Control Room, 2004 (embroidery on black velvet) & Space Station, 2006 (embroidery on canvas)

Farhad Moshiri

[parkchanwoohoo]

When will it be my-- oh holy shit that's crazy

[sistersorrow]

When will it be my turn to be a car

[animentality]

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you're laughing. charles dickens had a son named plorn and you're laughing

[mediummarketpaperback]

HE HAD A SON NAMED

WHAT

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Plorn

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NICK I LOOKED IT UP AND SAW NOTHING OF THE SORT IS THIS A PRANK

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technically his name was edward but everyone called him plorn

[mediummarketpaperback]

Edward “Plorn” Dickens. my god.

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I have something worse

[mediummarketpaperback]

oh???

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[mediummarketpaperback]

imagine getting stuck with the nickname Plorn

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imagine getting sent to live in the Australian outback when you were sixteen

[mediummarketpaperback]

WHY WERE THEY SO CRUEL TO MY BOY PLORN

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I have an answer to that one too

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[cogentranting]

The face of a man whose father nicknamed him Plorn.

[elodieunderglass]

Born without a groove 😔

[linguisticparadox]

[telomeke]

With each addition to this, I find myself nodding and murmuring, "Mm hm. The Plorn Dickens."

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[sentient-tent]

This is Tie, she is going to eat all of the notes

[sentient-tent]

reblog to feed her notes

[elodieunderglass]

How is she doing this

[elodieunderglass]

Oh well none of my business

[aprofessionaln00b]

Hey another broken post!

[jojo-the-dogg0]

Equiping an armor tutorial

i'll prob make more bc i love talking ab armors

[berlynn-wohl]

Me in 2006: I’m still bitter about that

Me in 2016: I’m still salty about that

Me in 2026, probably: I’m still umami about that

[allaark]

Well, are you?. We’re waiting.

[berlynn-wohl]

There’s a lot to be umami about these days.

[renthony]

When I was in college, I got my first tattoo. Not long after, a guy who sat behind me in one of my classes tapped me on the shoulder and told me that he'd seen my tattoo online, being made fun of as an example of "dumb shit fandom girls do." I'm not a girl, mind you (I'm nonbinary), but to a bunch of people online I was a "stupid girl who got a stupid tattoo for a dumb fandom."

Anyway, the guy from my class was really nice about it--he apologized for having to tell me bad news, and gave me the contact info for the guy who posted it so I could ask for it to be taken down.

Now, the tattoo in question? It's a bird. It's not actually a fandom tattoo, it just coincidentally looks vaguely like a bit of symbolism from a fandom that was popular at the time I got it. But it was enough to unleash a firestorm of "look at this stupid girl with her stupid cringe tattoo" comments.

(Even if it WAS a fandom tattoo...who gives a shit??? It's my body and my tattoo and I don't really give a shit what strangers think.)

The misogyny of my body being put online and circulated for mockery without my consent really fucked me up at the time. I felt awful. I was mortified. I was scared more people would recognize me from the post and give me shit. It sucked so bad.

So I just kinda think you're a fucking douchebag if you participate in tattoo shaming for anything that isn't, like, a blatant hate symbol. I don't really care if you think it's tasteless, or cringe, or badly done, or whatever other justification.

It's jackass behavior.

[polkadotmotmot]

Emily Simmons - Curiosity at the Fountain, 2026 - Aquarelle, watercolour on canvas

[fozmeadows]

Watching my toddler figure out how to language is fascinating. Yesterday we were stumped when he kept insisting there was a “Lego winner” behind his bookshelf - it turned out to be a little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing the word for “trophy”, he’d extrapolated a word for “thing you can win”. And then, just now, he held up his empty milk container and said, “Mummy? It’s not rubbish. It’s allowed to be a bottle.” - meaning, effectively, “I want this. Don’t throw it away.” But to an adult ear, there’s something quite lovely about “it’s allowed to be a bottle,” as if we’re acknowledging that the object is entitled to keep its title even in the absence of the original function.

[legit-writing-tips]

Another good post to read for those writing small human characters. 

[jennytrout]

My son was about three when he came to me in the middle of the day and said, “Mommy, there’s a knight behind the bush.” I thought he meant a toy knight or something. So I follow him outside and he goes, “Listen. Do you hear it? It’s night behind the bush.” It was a cricket. A cricket was standing in the little patch of shade under the bush, chirping. So, my son saw this dark area with accompanying nighttime sounds and decided, okay, well, that is a night right there. Their brains are incredible.

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My little bean knows she’s two, constantly saying proudly ‘I’m two!’ And the other day she saw this very frail old lady who looked one foot in the grave, pulled a face and said ‘oh shiiiit. She’s three.’ I almost screamed.

[cantnotknope]

I live in Korea and have a lot of international friends, and the same is true with language barriers in adults. 

*Looking at a bowl of pears* “Can you please pass me the… apple’s friend?” 

[masterofbirds]

OH SHIT SHE’S THREE

[ovenroastedtwerkey]

the two year old bean is now 11, that’s how long this post has been going around, and I STILL bust out laughing like a maniac whenever I read ‘oh shiiiit. She’s three.’

[elodieunderglass]

Yeah, I’m not ready for foz’s kid to be a teen….

[fozmeadows]

@elodieunderglass I’m going to hold your hand when I say this -

[elodieunderglass]

😔 🫩

[conleches]

some fucking resources for all ur writing fuckin needs

body language masterlist

a translator that doesn’t eat ass like google translate does

a reverse dictionary for when ur brain freezes

550 words to say instead of fuckin said

638 character traits for when ur brain freezes again

some more body language help 

[bellero]

REBLOG TO SAVE A WRITER

[semolinaart]

[semolinaart]

Can I have large fries, two cheese dips, and a Coke

And a Happy Meal!

And a Happy Meal

[not-your-average-url]

I miss when ads were a single click and then they’re gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesn’t even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.

I hate advertising. I hate that you can’t do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.

[runraerun]

This but make it domestic Spirk:

[eldar-of-zemlya]

Maaan, this Ernest Chiriacka illustration has been in my K/S inspiration folder for over a year now!! Thank you for making this post—this was the push I needed to finally make it happen xD

✨ Full size on AO3 ✨

[telomeke]

[ID-

First image is artwork titled Sharing the Mirror by Ernest Chiriacka (captioned with text that reads Salon des Arts). The work depicts a man and a woman reflected in a vintage mirror, and is painted in a mid-20th century style. The man is in an old-fashioned white tank top and is shaving with a razor (his lower face is covered in foam). The woman is glamorously dressed (she has on matching earrings, wrist jewelry and evening wear), is fully made-up (with ruby lips and mascara-laden lashes) and is tidily coiffed (her blond hair falls neatly down to her shoulders and her fringe lays obediently brushed to one side). The man looks disheveled by comparison. The woman is drawing on her eyebrows with a make-up pencil. The man side-eyes her with a touch of irritation (probably because she's squeezing him to one side), while she remains fully focused on her task at hand.

Second image is artwork that shows Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock from the original Star Trek series, in almost exactly the same pose, reflected in a similar mirror. The style is more photo-realistic, and the painting is signed "eldaz of zemlya". Kirk is dressed in a black t-shirt, shaving with a razor (his lower face is covered in foam). Spock is in full Starfleet uniform, and looks as perfectly made-up as he did in the series, with a neat bowl cut fringe, shaded eyelids and dramatic Vulcan brows swooping upwards at the sides. Despite his fully made-up look, Spock is also wielding an eyebrow pencil and appears to be touching up his eyes. Each is side-eyeing the other – Kirk with a touch of irritation, Spock impassive.

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[gatorzaeder]

Take my gay cats, Tumblr!

This is part 1, the next part will be gender identity centered :)

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[pingintech]

literally a cartoon bad guy

[ralfmaximus]

Disclosure Day (2026)

[maimonideznuts]

You're not doing a very good job of cooking that chicken.