Two Snakes Enter, Three Snake Leaves

[froggo-friend]

These are like the same type of guy to me

[hagenlastkiss]

Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder, nov 6, 1997 - Alien resurrection premiere

[shesnake]

you humans are so predictable

[this-is-trans-joy]

I know that Elliott Page probably isn’t playing Achilles in the new Odyssey movie but it would have been cool to have a trans man play a character whose name is a very common sexuality term amongst trans men and mascs… one can only dream 😔

[repelsteeltjes-blog]

Canonically transmasc achilles is blowing my mind actually. Like Thetis prophesied to have a son greater then his father who would then die, but would be remembered forever, then giving birth to a girl, thinking she might have subverted fate, only for Achilles to transition and dive head first into war so that he might be remembered long after his death.

Like theres stuff there

[this-is-trans-joy]

I hate how we’re missing out on so many good movies and storylines just because cis people cannot think about trans people or trans allegories beyond a cardboard cut-out of a trans person that says “these are my pronouns!” every so often.

[weirdoughnut]

transmasc achilles temporarily detransitioning in Skyros to hide from the war, on orders from his mother, is crazy actually. using unwilling detransition as a device to show how achilles is forced from the fate he chose for himself would go so hard. his time on skyros directly feeding into his' infamous wrathfulness would be so insane. a trans man who is praised and loved for grabbing destiny by the throat to take it down with him in a blaze of glory...

achilles never making it into elysium not being an inexplicable outcome but instead happening because the ancient greece afterlife would not accept him as a man... but getting immortalized anyway—by people, not the gods—because he lived his life as the greatest among the greeks. would be so incredible.

[rhiroreads]

Along with movies, TV shows, and video games, the Hail Mary, of course, has approximately a bajillion books and audiobooks. Grace naturally starts with audiobooks for Rocky's sake, but one day while he's reading silently on a tablet, Rocky asks him if he can read to him. So he starts. And then he reads another. And it isn't long before audiobooks are replaced almost entirely with Ryland's read-alouds, because Rocky prefers his voice to most audiobook narrators. They learn thousands of shared words this way.

One day, Rocky is working on his laptop, when he tells Grace he has something to show him. And he starts reading aloud! It turns out he's been practicing while Grace was asleep. He can understand most Eridian at this point, and Rocky can translate it ftom English to Eridian grammar on the spot. So then they start taking turns reading to each other. Grace gets really good at character voices, and Rocky adds his own Eridian flourishes. They've read hundreds of books together by the time they get to Erid.

[jennydreadful]

Sous La Glace, Georges Leonnec for La Vie Parisienne, 1926

The caption is a little fuzzy, but I think the meaning is “Has the Parisienne become economic? You see a lot less panties this year!” :D

[macklesufficient]

rb to give it up for laura hall and linda taylor

[carlandrea]

The reason Animorphs works as a deconstruction of the kid hero archetype is that it comes at it from a place of respect for the genre, and for the children reading it.

It never denies the kids agency, because it is a book for children, who want to read about children being given agency. Animorphs doesn't treat its child soldiers as victims the way a story aimed at adults would. They are full agents within the story who make moral choices. The fact that they are children is treated as a tragedy, but it's not treated as something that absolves them of any responsibility.

It plays by the rules. These kids are the only people who can save the world. They cannot trust the adults in their lives. It just takes that story—the story it's telling—seriously.

The message of animorphs isn't actually of "isn't it fucked up that this book I read when I was a kid sent a twelve year old on an adventure" it just uses its take on the kid hero genre to get across the actual message, which is War Is Hell

[dwarven-beard-spores]

Starting a gofundme for my friend Bunbury who's a terrible invalid,

[enchantedbook]

'The Wild Swans' illustrated by Elenore Plaisted Abbott, 1922

[threesnakeleaves]

Patayta

[herpsandbirds]

Peninsula Supple Skink (Lygosoma peninsulare), family Scincidae, southern Thailand

photograph by Rupert GL

[fallout-lou-begas]

i cannot even begin to describe how load bearing this video has been for my mental health lately. thank you macho man randy savage. i'll get over it but not really

[fallout-lou-begas]

like i don't think people understand. it's affirming. it genuinely is. whatever you're dealing with or whatever you went through may not ever really go away. but you can manage it. you can survive it. you can live anyway. you'll get over it but not really. you'll be back. the emotion and the burning desire that you have inside you right now wiyull☝️ continyeough

[fallout-lou-begas]

[soulren]

“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

“Ghosts aren’t real yet” the fuck are you going to do

[sleepnoises]

someone just tagged my post of Ruth McDowell's beautiful art quilts "some of the most brilliant artists in the world live quiet and happy lives and leave behind pure magic" which is, like, a nice sentiment, and also i think a quite sexist thing to assume about a single mother who supported her family through her internationally [niche]famous art & who was also kind of an intense jerk (source: daughter)

possibly other brilliant artists lead quiet and happy lives but i don't think you can ever tell just by looking at their art. possibly every artist is human

[anak1n]

no rest for me and im not even that wicked ?

[findchaos]

We visited an old glass factory that was converted into a park and the photos can get very surreal.