Things Not Quite Right

A Cacophony of miscellaneous goods

[foxmagpie]

all my students in my dystopian film class think gale is a better match for katniss than peeta and i told them they were Objectively Wrong and they assigned me a slideshow for homework to prove it and—

look. these children are about to be destroyed.

[foxmagpie]

my speech was 17 minutes long and when i finished the boy who challenged me to make the slideshow pursed his lips and said "okay fine, you're right, but i'm docking you points for being biased when you called gale a brat baby"

[dragonfire814]

Oh I get it now. I was team Gale for the longest time as well and haven't finished the films because of this (among other reasons).

I was so angry when she choose peeta at the end of the first book because Gale for me represented the necessary rebellion. But in the end, you're totally right.

[thing-a-ling]

I can’t wait to go over this in my grade 9 English course 😂

[gracefletcher]

Might be the greatest Hunger Games edit I’ve ever seen omg

[sugarfrostedapples]

animals in armour

[thing-a-ling]

Very important

[cookietastic]

We need to bring back the athletics body type post

[cookietastic]

This one

[cookietastic]

Tumblr has 10+ image limit had to add these on too

[areasontobreathe]

I will probably never NOT share these photos.

These are *peak athletes*. All of them.

Literally. These are Olympic athletes.

Seeing the variety of body types that are honed for a specific purpose just makes me so happy and does so much for my mental health. ❤️

[canyouhearthelight]

Due to my recent post about the Olympics, this popped back on my dash and I need to share it.

Literally peak performance. Human bodies at peak performance. Love it.

I want to add that both women's gymnastics and women's track have gotten far more muscular since these photos were taken. And if you want to say that decreases performance, I DEFY you to watch Simone Biles or Sha'carri Richardson perform.

They literally only compete with themselves. They are on that level.

Or watch Ilona Maher absolutely dominate at rugby. Again, peak performance.

And I. Love. It.

[headspace-hotel]

this illustrates what I was saying about how eugenics makes no sense because theres no such thing as "best" traits. It depends on the situation

[thing-a-ling]

Sometimes I get really frustrated with my body and how I look, and why how I look hasn’t changed a whole ton since starting to regularly work out and exercise and posts like this remind me that there is no one way to look healthy and fit. These are the kinds of post that need to go viral to help diminish the damage of body dysmorphia amongst modern society. Why are we alway comparing how we look to models and celebrities who all look kind of the same and not embracing the complex and beautiful bodies of those athletes among us? Is it because of the male gaze and being told that that is not what beauty and health look like or are we really just trying to further damage ourselves?

[delicious-dream-before-the-storm]

When you are a classical musician and the public asks you to play Queen …

[francesca-feasts]

@hieronymus-bush … although I’m not sure what you’ll think of it 😆

[hieronymus-bush]

Holy hell. He has amazing technique AND he didn’t just transcribe the piece to piano, he essentially composed classical music (and honestly some neo-classical, lol) based on the melody. Plus, he kind of looks like Freddie.

[muchymozzarella]

People in the 1800s would've gone apeshit over this in the concert halls

[emeraldbirdcollector]

Reblogging to watch later...

[hussyknee]

I think this guy just invented shredding on a piano

[blackratbighat]

"Why is the song called that" "Oh, that's why"

[missy832001]

[anruik]

ok if i traveled back in time and had to sit in the audience and heard this suddenly play i cannot guarantee i would be able to stop myself from singing the actual lyrics and completely out myself to the pianist

[northern-punk-lad]

I understand it’s difficult to be a parent but it’s time we start telling parents bluntly it’s not the internet responsibility to keep your child safe it’s your responsibility to keep your child safe on the internet

[medievalreligiousfanatic]

[ursus-arctos-horribilis-chadder]

Foul beast ate that adventurer whole, RIP

[grumpyseaman]

She stayed by his side. For hours. In mud, in fear… in love.

On a quiet afternoon in Avalon Beach, Australia, Nicole Graham faced every horse owner’s nightmare.

Her beloved 18-year-old horse, Astro, suddenly became trapped in thick, sinking mud — like quicksand. His massive body, nearly 500 kg, was pulled down to the neck. And the tide was rising.

Nicole could’ve left. Could’ve saved herself.

But instead, she stayed.

Kneeling, waist-deep in the cold, sucking sludge, she held his head above water… for three hours.

She whispered to him.

She cried with him.

She wouldn’t let him give up.

As the ocean crept closer, rescue teams raced against time. With the help of vet Stacey Sullivan, Astro was sedated — and with the power of a tractor, slowly pulled to freedom.

Exhausted. Shaking. But alive.

Nicole never let go.

Because love doesn’t leave when things get heavy.

It holds on — even in the mud.

[artaxlivs]

My hero, clearly.

She saved her horse and the heart of every single grown up with grief trauma because we watched Artax sink in the mud when we were too young too understand what symbolism was.

[eziojensenthe3rd]

Petition: Do not stop transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards

The previous government proposed changes to the NHS constitution which would mean transgender hospital patients in England may not be treate

Well fucks? Get to it!

[hadleysmis-deactivated20260401]

41.7k notes and as of 7th April, the signatures are only 14,817.

The deadline is 9 July 2025.

Trans rights are always wavering in safety and are not stable and well protected in the UK. Please sign.

Trans rights in the UK is my rights.

[naamahdarling]

Spread, sign.

AS IF trans patients, by definition ill and in need of care and even more vulnerable than usual, are a greater risk to other patients than THE MEDICAL STAFF.

ESPECIALLY the danger medical staff poses to TRANS PATIENTS.

But nobody wants to talk about the verbal, physical, and sexual abuse, the neglect, and the casual acts of various bigotries even cis patients receive during health care, let alone the escalation that trans patients get on top of that.

For anyone, a hospital is a very unsafe place to be. For trans people, it is moreso, and segregating inappropriately makes that worse.

This is punitive, not scientific.

[blessyouhawkeye]

he's got a sadness about him you only see in catholic stained glass windows

[victusinveritas]

[the-lost-alchemist]

How Mexicans feel about duendes too.

[designertrances]

True. Most Irish people, as Norwegians do with Trolls, will happily let the 'fairies' be a thing to make tours for tourists and idle threats to make children behave. Most Irish people will have a very normal and mature explanation of fairies as a common folk mythology that expresses some dimension of Irish culture but are not, obviously, to be taken literally.

And most Irish people, if you ask them to move a stone from a fairy circle will immoveably, flatly respond with 'absolutely fucking not'.

Construction projects have had to halt and be abandoned for it.

[roach-works]

At work me and a couple coworkers (black, white, and mexican) had a fun discussion on whether there are more ghosts at a hospital or a cemetery.

everyone individually took a moment to specify that ghosts probably aren't REAL real. then weighed in on where and why.

for the record my position was that there's probably way more ghosts in hospitals because that's where people die horribly, but since you can only see ghosts in dark, solitary conditions, graveyards at night is where the majority of ghost sightings occur. hospitals are usually well lit and busy, so even if they're crammed with ghosts the living are too damn busy to see them. meanwhile if a cemetery has even one ghost that followed her corpse there from the hospital, she'll be spotted because that's where all the ghost hunters go to look.

this theory was received as extremely sensible, and a coworker drew the conclusion that that's why abandoned hospitals are even scarier than graveyards. once the place gets abandoned then you can tell how much ghosts got built up.

we all liked this explanation a lot and explained it to everyone else all night. and of course, none of us believe in ghosts.

[nickiemoot]

i think this is a reasonable stance to have and its why i do not fuck with demons, ghosts, spirits, etc despite not believing in them. they dont fit into my world view, theres no scientifically sound evidence for them. but... what if im wrong? better to be polite to thin air for no reason, which is harmless, than to find out they are real by pissing one off ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[silviacrossdresser]

Published in “Transvestia” magazine #38 (April 1966). I think original art could be by Bob Tupper.

[spentgladiator]

not sure if anyone’s added this info here but because I wanted to know more I checked and….

Every issue of transvestia magazine, which ran from the 60’s through to the 80’s is available through the uVic archives. It was a groundbreaking publication for the crossdressing and later the transgender community. Check it out.

https://vault.library.uvic.ca/collections/6576cedf-1282-4089-8351-08f73f4199b4

[roathena]

[thing-a-ling]

This would be so funny if they did this you know?

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Here, Within, I Create So Much Beauty by Emerald Barkley

[patientno7]

the suffering never ends

[sinksanksockie2]

This is the real process

[thewritingbeast-blog]

Resources for you!

Character Ideas:

Character creation masterpost

Character Alignment Chart

More character alignment descriptions

Muslim Character questions

Characters with magical powers

Building a new character advice

How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)

Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page

Basic character profile

OC masterpost

Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)

D&D Character Building Tool

Character Design Ideas:

How clothing affects a character’s personality

Character Design Inspiration blog

Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by

Character design references and inspiration

Sources for POC character design ideas and models

Create your own character model using HeroForge

For horned characters

Body and hair types guide

Random outfit generator

Naming Help:

Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources

General advice on avoiding naming appropriation

Hispanic Surnames

Gothic Victorian names

Huge master list for character things in general

Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more

Another name masterlist

How to pick a character name guide

Yet another names masterlist

Creating Background/backstory:

Character Sheet/Development Sheet

Another character development list

In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet

320 talents and passions for characters

On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous

Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary

Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes

Random backstory generator

Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Comparing character height/height references

Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science

Describing what different voices sound like

Describing skin tones

Writing friendship interactions that are platonic

Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea

Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing

Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)

How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters

How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero

On platonic OC and canon character relationships

How to avoid Godmodding in RPs

When it’s cheap to kill off a character

Writing dialogue

Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters

Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs

Slang resources

Dialogue tips

Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships

Bonus art masterlist!

[brucewayneright]

BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.

[jasmehraj]

Oh my God!

It’s amazing, some links aren’t working for me but those who are, are spectacular.

[tamsinswriting]

Reblogging because NAMING IS HARD

[writing-prompt-s]

!!!!!!!

[goldenaltar]

“I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was. Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it, watched him anxiously as he explored its vitals, and listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles - and he always fixed my car.Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for an intelligence test. Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an academician. By every one of those tests, I’d prove myself a moron, and I’d be a moron, too. In a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly. My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist itself on the rest as an arbiter of such matters.Consider my auto-repair man, again. He had a habit of telling me jokes whenever he saw me. One time he raised his head from under the automobile hood to say: “Doc, a deaf-and-mute guy went into a hardware store to ask for some nails. He put two fingers together on the counter and made hammering motions with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He shook his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk brought him nails. He picked out the sizes he wanted, and left. Well, doc, the next guy who came in was a blind man. He wanted scissors. How do you suppose he asked for them?”Indulgently, I lifted my right hand and made scissoring motions with my first two fingers. Whereupon my auto-repair man laughed raucously and said, “Why, you dumb jerk, He used his voice and asked for them.” Then he said smugly, “I’ve been trying that on all my customers today.”“Did you catch many?” I asked.“Quite a few,” he said, “but I knew for sure I’d catch you.”“Why is that?” I asked.“Because you’re so goddamned educated, doc, I knew you couldn’t be very smart.””

— Isaac Asimov (via skinnybaras)

[nenehyuuchiha]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski Characters: Derek Hale, Stiles Stilinski, Nogitsune (Teen Wolf), Scott McCall (Teen Wolf), Sheriff Stilinski, Jordan Parrish Additional Tags: Dark Stiles, Nogitsune Stiles Stilinski, Possessed Stiles Stilinski, Pining Derek, Pining Stiles Stilinski, Alternate Universe - Werewolves Are Known, Magic, Accidental Voyeurism, Humiliation, Imprisonment, Getting Together, Angst, Don’t copy to another site Summary:

The sheriff watched him for a moment, then he sighed and turned slightly. He reached out to open a cabinet door beside him, and pulled out a shelf. It was on a track, so it rolled out of the cabinet fairly easily, and held a small CCTV. Derek frowned and inched his chair to the side a little bit so he could get a better angle.

He was looking at a teenager, or someone at least young enough to be the same age as Scott. He was sitting on a bed in what looked to be a larger room, the area he was in surrounded by four glass walls, with his legs crossed and head tilted.

He was also staring directly into the camera, as if he knew someone was watching. A creepy smile slowly slid onto the teen’s face, and he held up one hand, wiggling his fingers in a slow, eery wave.

Derek felt his mouth run dry. He didn’t know who this kid was, but he didn’t like him.

“Who is that?” he asked quietly.

“That,” said the sheriff, “is my son.”

[thing-a-ling]

I loved this one❤️🐺