enkidu decimononico

he it - 20 yo - mlm transmasc - how can one stay silent how can one be still my friend whom i love has turned to clay

[captain-nemonychidae]

today, I abandon the five star system

henceforth, whenever I read a book, I will be rating it according to the extent to which it approximates my experience of reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

example: “wow, this novel I read the other week was great! I would give it a solid 18,560 leagues under the sea”

pros of this system:

20,000 > 5 increments - facilitates much more precision in mercilessly pitting a reading list against itself

hypothetically no set maximum rating - a book could very well be more than 20,000 leagues under the sea (sacrilegious, I know, but in this chaotic day and age, we must be prepared for anything)

easy to interconvert with other systems of measurement (i.e., “that is to say, this novel was the equivalent of 64,069.12 miles under the sea”)

pretty sure this is not a feature on most review platforms yet, but I assume it’s only a matter of time

[amarillomlm]

scrolling through the t4t mlm tag purely to witness the chaos and experience the whiplash of the nastiest nsfw posts known to mankind immediately followed up by the most wholesome yearning i've ever seen and then 3 posts in a row about what someone ate for lunch. ily trans gays never change

[depsidase]

[unicorncryptid]

"my life isn't a crime, I'm not one of those people -"

"you sure? new parameters for Those People just dropped. check again."

[lizardywizard]

And if you truly cannot imagine this, if you're convinced that it will never happen to you, consider this one thing.

Would you want scammers to know the state of your loved one's dementia?

[headspace-hotel]

Oh. Shit.

[cutecipher]

science has always been political. what gets studied. what doesnt. who gets to do the studying. on and on and on.

[cutecipher]

scientists on this post: yuuuup 👍

people who aren't scientists: um actually ☝️

[dumbpuppyfag]

UNGRATEFUL tech companies are saying things like "turn off your ad blocker" and "we need your photo id" instead of "thank you so much for not just pirating our shit, youre so handsome"

[wolfythewitch]

And heaven and nature sing

[and-fishing-equipment]

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

and don't forget to stay silly

[maybe-a-gatto-or-a-catto]

Maybe a silly thought but the messages of deltarune about agency, defying fate and how your DO choices matter is I think one of the most important messages to share in this day and age and I'm not exaggerating

[dokelsss]

living room catfish

[librarycards]

@sadhoc

[yokadon]

Orthocone 🐙

[primordialcore]

epicness of gigamilk fanfic

[sturgeonista]

Lovely Spotted Gar, at the Beijing Zoo Aquarium.

[fish-identifier]

fish

[great-and-small]

I can’t tell you how much I love this artwork from ancient Egypt (the Middle Kingdom). People have been raising cattle and practicing animal husbandry for so long, that there is something almost inherently human about this scene.

Everyone in the field of veterinary medicine or agriculture knows the feeling of staying up late with a laboring animal trying to make sure both mom and baby are okay. Delivering a calf is often physically and emotionally exhausting work that takes enormous patience and learned skill. It requires a unique balance of physical strength and gentleness to do correctly. There is no feeling quite like getting that baby out and everyone is okay. I’m certain ancient people must have felt the same way, and I wonder if the artist knew this feeling firsthand. I wonder if those humans depicted were people the artist knew, if the cow and calf maybe were as well.

[mediocretidings]

@bovineblogger

[bovineblogger]

i get so emotional about this piece... we have been assisting cattle with birth and making sure theyre ok forever and ever. peace and love

[infectiouspiss]

kids deserve so much more respect and it turns out that saying that is a great way to locate the horrible people in any community <3

[infectiouspiss]

you'll say something as simple as "no child deserves to be hit" and people will crawl out of the woodwork to explain why they should be allowed to beat a 6 year old for spilling some water

[infectiouspiss]

you'll say "i think it's weird that adults literally have control over when children are allowed to use the bathroom" and up pops a teacher to say that when they're not shouting at the kids they teach, they're trying to stop them from hiding in the bathrooms

you'll say "i think children shouldn't be forced to eat food they hate" and here comes someone who feeds their kids plain rice and boiled chicken (while eating a nicely seasoned stirfry) claiming that it's okay actually and kids shouldn't be allowed to taste things

you'll say "i think kids should have bodily autonomy" and in comes someone who pierced their babies ears before it was even 24 hours old, frothing at the mouth because their kid wanted a haircut and thats somehow an insult

[infectiouspiss]

children are an oppressed class and everyone should be looking back at their own childhoods and making sure they don't ever make a child feel the same way they felt.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[enkidusbi]

that one margin note about gilgamesh that's like "everyone experiences loss, you are not special" like THAT'S THE POINT!!!!

gilgamesh is king and two-thirds god and he believes there's no one like him. until enkidu, who's his equal and his friend, his Best and Only Friend, and suddenly there is someone like him.

until there isn't, because enkidu dies. and gilgamesh is experiencing grief and loss like everyone else. and suddenly he is like everyone else, in this feeling of loss. but that's the point, that he doesn't want this feeling, he doesn't want this pain and fear, he doesn't want to be like everyone else. but he has to. because he's human and he's mortal and it's his fate, it's our fate

and that's the point baby!! that's what keeps me lying awake at night!!!! that it's not there is no one like me or there is only one person like me but everyone is like me!!!!!!!

[20kmemesunderthesea]

@nautilusgays , I think it’s about time we circle back to the “What If Nemo was a vampire?” idea.