OhHowNovel

26. She/her or they/them. PhD student in medieval literature. I like magic and fairies and liminal spaces.

[mmhhch]

giles & spike // beating up a cop

[woodsdyke]

i was tidepooling today and overheard someone say 'chatgpt it so we can figure out what it is' about some sort of creature. loser behavior. you're not in it for the love of the game. i have to do everything around here. let me see the creature. i'll tell you the real answer about what it is and i won't kill the environment. AND i'm literally nice.

[woodsdyke]

it's funny because 5 minutes before that i was IDing something by using the search string "SEA SLUG GREEN STRIPED SMALL SEATTLE" which took me to a very badly designed, hauntingly non mobile optimized website that immediately gave me way more information about my creature than i needed or thought was possible. get good. bitch

[woodsdyke]

hold my hand. come with me to emeralddiving.com's salish sea species index.

[mayoiayasep]

t-shirt that says i watched i saw the tv glow and all i got was this ache in my chest from an emotion i cant put the name to

[mysticmagdalene]

Galo B. Ocampo, Brown Madonna, 1938

[comradesummers]

imagine being a fictional character so good that florence welch writes a whole album about your suicidal depression era. this happened to my good friend buffy summers.

[impishglee]

the television program buffy the vampire slayer is absolutely nooootttttt about the power of friendship. its about the tragedy of being surrounded by people who are too uncomfortable with your painful reality to be willing to meaningfully engage with you

[impishglee]

being the slayer is a terminal illness that grosses everyone out if they think too hard about it

[becauseitswrong]

the way many people say that Buffy the Vampire Slayer should have ended after season 5, with Buffy fulfilling her pre-assigned destiny as the chosen one by dying as the sacrificial lamb / 'The Pink Opaque' series in I Saw the TV Glow getting cancelled after 5 seasons, ending with the two main heroines being buried alive by the Big Bad that was always coming for them, trapped in the ground forever with their hearts ripped out / Buffy crawling out of her grave at the start of season 6 and her behaviour deviating from what her family and audience have always expected from her as a girl, to the point where a lot of fans would have rathered her show to have never came back at all than see her "come back wrong" / Jack Haven's character in I Saw the TV Glow running away from their hometown and transitioning, getting buried and digging themselves out of the life they couldn't bear and into the world of the Pink Opaque "and I was me. I was finally me again. And it was the season 6 premiere" / Buffy eventually breaking the doomed cycle of Slayerhood in Chosen that had always stopped her from living her life as a woman in control and changing everything for herself and other slayers like her / "THERE IS STILL TIME"

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

at the start of every month everyone reblogs some insane poetry that’s like “august has arrived and again I swallow my bones in the burning sun” and every time I’m like damn that makes no sense. but kind of true.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

omg guys happy bone swallowing august

[mediaeval-muse]

Where it began...

I can't begin to know when...

But then I know it's growing strong...

Wasn't the spring...

Then spring became the summer...

Who'd have believed you'd come along...

[mediaeval-muse]

HAAAAAANDS

TOUCHING HAAAAAANDS

REACING OUT

TOUCHING ME

TOUCHING YOUUUUUUU

[mediaeval-muse]

SWEEEEET CAROLI(NGIAN)!!!

[escuerzoresucitado]

[tehnakki]

Hummingbirbs is shrimp?????!!!!!!!!

[copperbadge]

Shrimps is boids.

[runawaymarbles]

I love living in 2026 because I go to Home Depot and buy a 5-gallon bucket for $4. I say I do not want an email receipt. They know my email anyway because I once ordered a mop online. They email me to ask how I like my 5-gallon bucket. I do not reply. They email me again. They would like my feedback. Reminder ‼️I have purchases to review. Did my 5 gallon bucket live up to my expectations? 3 minute survey!!

[runawaymarbles]

[catsbeaversandducks]

Via Medievalist Matt

[podcastwizard]

you don’t realize how important lunch is until you’re wandering around thinking about how unloveable and untalented and uniquely cursed you are and then it’s 4pm and you finally eat lunch and you go Oh. oh right.

[podcastwizard]

lot of people commenting on this post like "who eats lunch at 4pm that's a terrible time to eat lunch" yes. that is the point. 4pm lunch is inadvisable. 4pm lunch is not the ideal. 4pm lunch makes the mind demons real.

[podcastwizard]

folks you’re never gonna believe what i did today

[ultrafacts]

A cyanometer is a device used to measure the intensity of blue in the sky, often used in meteorology and atmospheric studies. It typically consists of a series of blue color patches or a color gradient, allowing the user to compare the sky’s color to these reference colors.

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

Do you like the wheel of the sky

[friend-crow]

Well I like that it doesn't take 5 minutes to scroll past.

[velvet-jellyfish]

If you get into white work embroidery, you might discover cutwork. And when you start doing cutwork, you might get curious about incorporating detached elements. And before you know it the fabric is gone, you are making needle lace, and there goes the rest of your week.

Buttonhole stitch - not even once.

[ismenes]

you know those studies showing that cursing helps with pain tolerance or whatever. that’s how i feel about making my weird little noises to get through my basic daily activities. sometimes you just have to go hggblaaaah for a minute so you can find the strength within yourself to get up or wash the dishes or send an email. mmmnneh. urgh. the torments are unending but you can always make some little sounds about it.

[rainbow-femme]

“How do you know stuff like that?”

Those are just my things that I know. You know how everyone has their own different things that they know? Those ones are my things. They are different from yours because we are different people. You know many things that I do not know. Those are your things. These are just my things. But now some are also yours because I have shared them with you, and some of yours are mine because you shared them with me. Rumor has it this is how people acquire all of the things that they know.