there's something wretched about this

This town ain't spooky enough for the both of us

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kelpeigh -> wretchedly

changed my url!

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Alright everyone what’s your favorite/go-to response to some dude telling you “you’re not like other girls”

Mine is “correct! Most girls aren’t actually lizards”

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The internet is gonna be so funny once time travel is invented.

“Ummmm can’t help but notice [xyz] has had access to time travel for 2 months, and there are still several Horrors that have occurred throughout history? What are they waiting for— unless maybe they condone the Horrors? Not a good look :/”

[wretchedly]

We’re all assuming Grace is teaching to a classroom of tiny Eridians from multiple families because that’s how our schools work. What if those are all Rocky’s kids. What if Savior Grace is just the most bestest babysitter ever

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I know it gets overshadowed by the revelation that Grace expects to die in space, but… in that scene, Rocky also learns that Grace hadn’t actually been communicating with other humans. He’d assumed Earth had been getting Grace’s updates in real time, right? IIRC he also asked a question implying he thought Earth could send messages to Mary in real time.

Rocky had been alone for a long, long time. When he found Grace, he found company and camaraderie but also something to stave off loneliness. And even if Grace was the only one present, the apparent revelation that Grace was in touch with his own planet must have been huge. In a sense, it’s not just the two of them in complete isolation, even if Erid is completely lost to Rocky. He too can talk to humans indirectly through Grace!

So learning that Grace isn’t talking directly to humans after all must have been uncanny. Even when he offers Grace the astrophage to get home eventually, their current “world” had just shrunk dramatically to Rocky.

On the flipside, when Rocky found Grace, his chances of getting home eventually improved dramatically. Finding Rocky did not improve Grace’s perceived chances of getting home at all. That doesn’t reduce the immediate sense of relief of not being alone (once Rocky’s established as non-hostile, at least), but Rocky always had the security of a way home at the end. Rocky had the extra motivation of going home to the planet he saved; Grace only ever had a detached/altruistic drive/obligation. There’s also the fact that Rocky got to start his journey with companions and had no bout of amnesia. Grace woke up completely alone, without the cold comfort of remembering a time he wasn’t alone.

All this to say, Grace and Rocky each had periods in which they each perceived the other as being less alone than themselves in some way. Rocky’s loneliness had past and future constraints that Grace’s didn’t; Grace’s loneliness was perceived as proximal and also had a potential end.

So the revelation that Grace wasn’t talking to humans virtually and had no way of getting home was a double (perhaps triple) gut punch.

[beatsheetromanroy]

it's hard to wrap my head around, at 400 million years, just how old Castiel actually is. 400 million years puts his creation in the Devonian Period, a time when complex relationships were first being formed on land. Castiel is as old as terrestrial ecosystems. He's older than songbirds, than flowering plants and all land vertebrates. The famous "don't step on that fish, Castiel," is still 35 million years away when the tiktaalik becomes the first first four-legged vertebrate to clamber onto land. The trees of his day didn't have the hard insides we know, but were weird and soft and spongy inside. Without animal vocalizations, the world sounded like wind, like water, like insect wings. Castiel is older than the seven stars that make up Orion and older than Sirius by hundreds of millions of years. He was a young when the mountain range that is shared by Scotland and Appalachia was still connected. He's older than motherfucking Pangaea.

Maybe Naomi knew then, that he was doomed from the start. Of course he'd feel a fondness and a desire to protect life when he was there for it. Of course, he'd love the dirt bound, the struggling beauty, the evolution, the animals in the sun.

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Not to derail your great post OP but I feel the need to add that sharks are older than Castiel. That makes me uncomfortable

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How it feels becoming a mare person after having a lifelong gelding bias

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Everyone look at my mare pretending she’s in a Renaissance painting

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look at this

I’m TRYING but it’s so fast

[senatortedcruz]

I hate Elon musk so fucking much

[senatortedcruz]

Exactly!!!!!

[maryfitzroy]

as joyce carol oates once said, “the poorest persons on twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world.’”

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One thing about living in the woods for which I was not prepared: owls sound like monkeys sometimes

You hear some “ooh-ooh aah-aahs” followed by whooping and a classic chimpanzee screech, and you think ‘surely the neighborhood kids are pranking me.’ But then you remember there are no neighborhood kids. There is no neighborhood.

And after some googling on your shitty wi-fi you find out that owls just fuckin be like that sometimes. And they will continue to be like that— usually when you’re trying to sleep. This is your circus now and these are your not-monkeys

[sylestial]

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Lord Huron’s rival/nemesis, Lady Huroff,

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A wedding band should be worn on the pinky. Because you’re making a promise

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How the hell did diamonds become the pinnacle of gemstones when agates and opals exist?

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“Don’t step on that fish, Castiel. Big plans for that fish.” will never not crack me up because it implies some amazing potential scenarios:

-Castiel had previously been stepping on fish (by accident? Who’s to say), hence a warning to be careful to not step on this one

-Castiel had planned to step on that fish and had to be told not to

-Neither of the two prior options are true, and Castiel looked at that angel like “uh?? Okay???” and consequently kind of wanted to step on that fish, because he was already a closeted rebel

[hellygf]

pov you're about to get squashed

[hellygf]

[wretchedly]

pov you’re the first tiny fish to heave itself up onto the shore millions of years ago