Wandering Through Worlds

Era, they/it/ze/xe. nonbinary trans person, born 1988, queer af split attraction. Visits only sporadically. If you need me urgently, look me up elsewhere.

[tradgothwillbyers]

Y'all ever just suddenly have the overwhelming urge to swim??? Like not actively but you just wanna,,, be in the water and have some Peace

[parttimepup]

Yes it’s called the mammalian diving response and it’s also why doing face masks and taking a shower is soothing. Our amphibian ancestors used this mechanism to slow down the heartbeat and lower body temperature so as not to waste calories while swimming (which is very calorie intensive). It makes you feel safe because predators are less likely to get you in water than on land. The fish brain is alive and well in all of us.

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

It’s literally activated by putting water on the face.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3768097/

[dogs4ge]

My amphibian ancestors gave me the instinct to dissociate in the shower for hours on end

[unabashedlybi-deactivated201911]

[cruel-hiraeth]

call him bubonic the way he plagues me

[etirabys]

i enjoyed this post greatly

[adrianricker]

I love drawing cute scenes.

[lochichichi]

I know I don’t usually reblog things here but please more people look at this amazing thing.

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[legally-a-bastard]

possessed by a racecar(tragic)

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

"ARNGHERRANHGERGNAHGHGERNAGH"

[plagueship-deactivated20260202]

Baby

[land-of-birds-and-comics]

Donald Duck Goes To Group Therapy For His Debilitating Executive Dysfunction And It’s Just Played Completely Straight For Like Four Pages Like What

[mynaemsophie-deactivated2026031]

reblog to bap prev with your paw

[jessaerys]

we used to have normalized whump. remember what they took from you....

[jessaerys]

back in the day you could write about the most sickeningly vile atrocious war crimes happening to your blorbo and everyone was like. kyaaaaaaaa >w<. they just got it. they understood

[mysterycat-isme]

What the fuck is whump

[zaraki-fempachi-deactivated2024]

Don't worry about it kitten

[coffeenuts]

[daggerfall]

Hey what

Thomas the Tank Engine returns to terrorize Morrowind as modder mocks Mattel crackdown - Dexerto

A Morrowind mod replaces cliff racers with Thomas the Tank Engine as creator Trainwiz jokingly mocks Mattel’s past crackdown attempts.

What

based

[scout90-again]

I need people to be aware that trainwiz is one of the most prolific modders in the elder scrolls modding community. He is insanely talented, genuinely one of the most creative and interesting mod makers of all time. To the point where Bethesda has even made mention of aspects of lore he has created in other games.

[miinobobeano]

It bothers me so much that the healthcare system relies so much on the patient's ability to advocate for themselves, organize their history, and be so persistent against every medical “professional” who says there’s nothing wrong/they can do. But so many struggle with fatigue, brain fog, and face such ingrained systemic barriers, that the people who need and deserve help and support can’t access it.

I saw something recently that resonated with me: “Access shouldn't depend on who has the energy to fight for it.” And I’ve never agreed with anything more.

[hollowboobtheory]

knowing when not to open the comments is a skill

[hollowboobtheory]

internet soft skills

not opening the comments

letting people be wrong

letting people be wrong about YOU

letting people have a bad impression of you (see above)

knowing when your input isn't needed

spotting bot comments

block button

[hollowboobtheory]

blocking tip: you don't have to wait to have a negative interaction with someone to block them. you can block them without ever interacting with them. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone being rude to someone else and preemptively blocked them

[tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot]

[200-word-rpgs]

200 Word RPGs 2025

Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.

This is the submission thread for the 2025 event, running from November 1st, 2025 through November 30th, 2025. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.

[200-word-rpgs]

Collected entries for 2025-11-29:

Ah, Great, I Spent All Month Waylaid by My Mental Health and Now There Are 48 Hours Left in This Stupid Game Jam but I'm Still Over Six Weeks Behind on Lecture Notes and I'd Like to Not Fail AbPsych by @strixcattus

Trapped at an AI Hackaton by @m0m026

I Know What Death Looks Like! by @takataapui

The Smallest Universal TTRPG System in the World. by @lcatala

777 Sepulcher by @ruinousnostalgia

Deck Daemons by @mystdreamsofmemory

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF ZUFLEA by @hembrace9780

Problems=>Solved by @harletron-blog

DEGAUSSING by @fagenthusiast

I'm Hiding, Come Seek by M. E. Smith (submitted by @sabrinahawthorne)

Pro-Social Driving Simulator by @dreamerinsilico

Beer and Broadswords by @adrift-press

Previous summaries: 2025-11-01, 2025-11-02, 2025-11-03, 2025-11-04/2025-11-05, 2025-11-06, 2025-11-07–2025-11-12, 2025-11-13/2025-11-14, 2025-11-15–2025-11-17, 2025-11-18–2025-11-20, 2025-11-21/2025-11-22, 2025-11-23/2025-11-24, 2025-11-25, 2025-11-26, 2025-11-27, 2025-11-28

[prokopetz]

This batch brings us up to a nice round 210 entries as we move into the final 24 hours. (Well, more like final 23 and a half hours, at the time of this posting.) If you've been meaning to participate in this year's event, this is literally your last chance!

[prokopetz]

Twelve hours, now.

[prokopetz]

Six hours. Let no one claim they were not adequately warned!

[byjove]

should I pointedly address my Christmas card to my step-grandmother and not mention her husband (my stepdad’s stepdad) that everyone hates? he particularly hates not being the center of attention so I think it’s deserved

[byjove]

No longer addressing cards to Mr. & Mrs. Surname. If I like you, you’re named, if I don’t, the card isn’t for you. Fuck it. Holly jolly Spitemas.

[byjove]

I have made handmade Christmas cards for the last 10 years and I have a specific habit of making ‘HAPPY HOLIDAYS’ cards for family members who are ultra-Christian and then I make sure to mention it’s a duel Christmas and New Years card so they can’t get mad at me. Absolutely no one cares but me and I love my spiteful Christmas cards.

[everbright-mourning]

All the couples in my life get FirstName & FirstName addresses and the postie finds them fine!

[byjove]

She’s been divorced twice before him so….To Grandma and Current Temporary Husband If He Doesn’t Get His Act Together

[headspace-hotel]

My version of "doomscrolling" nowadays is just going to iNaturalist, browsing pictures of animals and fantasizing about where I would introduce them outside of their natural range if I was some kind of ecology-focused evil scientist. I do this when I'm depressed. I don't know if it helps.

[i-love-hyenas]

Bring hyena to Texas put Texas in hyena paws humans can trust Texas to hyena pack yesss

[headspace-hotel]

How could I disagree with such a trustworthy source

[chekhovs-raygun]

animals i really want to introduce to the USA:

-red pandas in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. they can live in those you-pick orchards and delight tourists, and in the winter the big ones can be harvested by the farmers for food and fur. america also has native bamboo, as well as plenty of escaped invasives.

-koalas in southern california. we already have a lot of feral eucalpytus in the state and it makes our wildfires way worse. let's put koalas in there too. coyotes can hunt them like dingos do.

-cheetahs in colorodo, wyoming, nebraska, and oklahoma. we had cheetahs here once, that's why pronghorns are so fast. let's give them something to really haul ass about.

-spotted hyenas in texas and new mexico. did you know there's actually a shit ton of oryx already roaming around new mexico? they were brought in for a game preserve. oryx can fight off lions, but spotted hyenas are actually superior pack hunters with some of the highest kill rates of large cooperative predators in the world. we might have a problem with ranchers, but like: fuck ranchers. they already decimated the mexican wolf populations. they deserve hyenas.

-pangolins. i would drop these guys in arizona honestly. everyone in arizona hates and fears fire ants. i think entire neighborhoods would throw ecstatic parades for pangolins (which smell much better than giant anteaters) at least until a pangolin dug straight through their pasteboard condo.

-new zealand's little penguin in louisiana. they burrow into mud and sand banks during the day and tolerate quite hot temperatures! i think they'd do fine, and louisiana is sliding into the gulf anyway. let's have penguins there. i'd also try them out in new england in case lousiana is just too swampy for them. i feel like new yorkers would go insane with pride over having penguins around. they would act like they invented the whole concept of penguins. we should let them.

-water buffalo. georgia and the carolinas. i just think it would give everyone there some interesting new problems.

-i firmly believe that asiatic elephants would do great in the southeastern united states. it's a subtropical climate that's only going to get swampier as things heat up, and there's plenty of kudzu and tall grass species for them to munch on. they're also smart enough to learn to navigate and negotiate with people, and to follow set routes around human farms rather than tromp through them, so disruption to existing human infrastructure would be minimal but occasionally hilarious. i think it would be so cool to have an american subspecies of elephant. if i ever win the lottery this IS what i am going to be doing with my millions.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Animals I would introduce to each continent:

Europe: Wombat

We've had enough of your fucking rabbits and foxes. Here, have a huge badger type thing that can destroy cars with its arse. It'll outcompete your badgers and where will you be then. Haha.

Asia: Wombat

We've had enough of Indian camels ruining our deserts. Here's something to ruin your terrain for a change.

North America: Wombat

We've had enough of United States tourists with no manners. Here's some tourists with even less manners.

South America: Wombat

WE'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR FUCKING CANE TOADS. WOMBATS FOR YOU.

Africa: Wombat

The feral ostriches aren't actually all that much of a problem right now, but in revenge for the problem they will probably become in the future, have some fucking wombats.

Antarctica: Wombat

I'll take it right back home and warm it up I promise I. I just really want to see a wombat walk and dig in the snow.

Australia: Wombat

The populations of all three species of wombat are dangerously low.

[hollowedskin]

Let This Man Undermine Your House

[mossbawn]

people on here are always saying “we NEED a story where the art of storytelling is abandoned” like ugh literary devices are soo annoying like that wouldn’t happen in real life that only happened to further the story (why is there story in my story) why would orpheus turn around when he was explicitly told not to why would icarus fly so close to the sun romeo&juliet catcher in the rye why are they so earnest why pour your heart and soul into anything why bother why cant all art be quippy logical monotony like my marvel movies there’s a void in my heart bc i refused to fill it and the curtains were blue

[mossbawn]

“i hate poetry its so pretentious” but then you reblog a quote or a throwaway line and say “why does this go so hard” you are desperate for poetry you are starved for it and u dont even realise you’re hungry