emotional processing is so funny because sometimes you’ll be violently sobbing on your bedroom floor over something that happened 4 years ago and then you’ll just. get up and make coffee. and go to the grocery store. and take all this fundamental sadness for a walk. and ponder the cosmic experiences of humanity while eating a sandwich. and that’s healing.
The Leshy x Yellow Cat is the cutest ship ever, but I don’t think it works that well with my Leshy considering he grows toxic flora on his body :D They still make it work though <3
Art looks different since a friend mentioned liking my rough draft sketches and I rolled with that-
accepting that you’re objectively weird & owning it is infinitely better than being constantly desperate to appear normal to people who don’t even matter to you
Honestly, if you see an angel that’s all eyes and wings and wheels of fire, you should be worried. Like, not because it’s going to hurt you or anything, but because scripturally, angels invariably appear to ordinary people in human form. In general, they only show their inhuman true forms to prophets – which means if you’re seeing them like that, they come bearing responsibility.
I woke up today with the phrase “spooky scary seraphim” in my head today, looks like we’re on the same wavelength.
today it rained for the first time in ages and ive got my window tilted to let in the cool air and i just heard a woman’s voice say “hey i found another puddle!” followed by a little child’s happy shriek followed by a big splash sound i absolutely love being alive i hope that kid has so much fun bc i am already thriving just listening to it all
“Why do most men have better skin than me when their skincare routine is soap and a washcloth” is one of those questions that, were it not for gender essentialism, would completely obliterate the skincare industry
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I’m a black trans man who is openly disabled and queer and as much as I am ok with my identity I still have to remember I’m at risk of being hate crimed and targeted just for being myself.
it’s scary existing both in online spaces and irl spaces due to bigotry from every corner. I’m just happy to exist despite being traumatized for being heavily marginalized and glad to have others be my friend.
i just ask one thing. which is, if bigoted harassment happens to me, please my friends, please be there for me. boost and protect black trans people.
it’s extremely dangerous on the internet as a minority to be open and honest and even celebrate your identity but I do it proudly cuz I have no shame in myself as much. I just want my friends to be there for me, because there are those who want to harm me. but I try to be brave
About half of all western and especially American media’s message is “revolution makes you bad, nothing could get better, we live in the best of all possible worlds.” Hilariously propagandized people
Saw a post on Twitter that was like “I think it’s entirely possible to be trans without dysphoria, but a lot of you are severely underestimating how much dysphoria you actually feel and how much you’ve let fade into background noise” and honestly? Yeah lol.
[ID: Three panel comic with crudely drawn stick people.
Panel 1: An orange person in a red jacket with bright blue anime glasses is talking to a dark green person wearing some kind of equipment with black and yellow hazard stripes on it on their feet and hands, as well as some kind of red visor. A grayscale person with a green plant pot on their head is also there.
Hazard Stripes: “Hazard stripes.”
Anime Glasses: “Hell yeah.”
Plant pot: “I am green!”
Anime glasses: “Cool. Congrats.”
Panel 2: The person with the plant pot gloats in the foreground while the other two watch, dripping with second-hand embarrassment.
Plant Pot: “Hah. You fools. You simpletons.
You would uncritically accept someone as actually being green… just for wearing a plant pot on their head?”
Hazard Stripes: “Hazard stripes…”
Panel 3: The person with the plant pot takes off the pot, holding it in their right hand while pointing accusingly with the left, as Hazard Stripes and Anime Glasses walk away.
Plant Pot: “I’ve exposed you! Your hypocrisies are out, plain for all to see! The brilliance of my scheme is equal only to its elegant simplicity! You have been destroyed, liberals! Destroyed!”
Hazard Stripes: “Hazard stripes.”
Anime Glasses: “yeah they’re somehow getting worse at this shit.”
what farming items in mmorpgs has taught me: i used to think using ice trays to make ice cubes was free but after thinking about it i have to pay the electric bill to power the freezer so every moment that i’m not freezing new trays of ice cubes is a moment that i’m underutilizing the freezer and increasing the cost of ice cubes. i have to constantly swap out ice trays for new ice cubes on an hourly rotation on a 24 hour basis or else i won’t produce the maximum amount of ice cubes possible and will underutilize the full potential of my electric bill. i need to stop using all other appliances and utilities in my home to make more ice cubes
[Image ID: Tumblr tags reading: #i think about this post so much #whenever a gacha game makes me feel pressured to waste time on a bullshit even i think: #‘am i enjoying this or am i making cubes’ #and then i quit the event lmao /End ID]
Not to get emo on main but you ever think about how the troop sang about their dreams of finding “a girl worth fighting for”, and they think their girl worth fighting for is one of romance, but the song abruptly comes to a halt when they find a different girl worth fighting for.
A tiny girl that had been killed at the hands of the Huns. A child too weak, too small to have any chance of withstanding the murderous invaders. That is their girl worth fighting for.
This is fucking horrific
It’s also worth noting that ‘A Girl Worth Fighting For’ is the last song in the movie. Up until here, it’s a fun movie, and the imminent invasion feels like it’s just there to keep the plot moving, and to provide a little bit of drama to spice things up. None of the soldier’s are quite taking this seriously yet; sure, Mulan wanted to save her father from the draft, and on some level she was aware that he would die if he went to war, but beyond that she’s interested in not being caught, and not shaming her family. Her motives are good, but they’re entirely self centered. All the other soldiers are more or less in the same boat - they want to get tougher, they want to impress girls, they want to be cool soldiers. Shang’s easily the most serious of the bunch at first, and even then it’s just because training bad soldiers will reflect poorly on him, and important people are paying attention.
The abrupt ending of ‘A Girl Worth Fighting For’ is the wake up call. The soldiers and the audience get slapped in the face with the realization of what’s really at stake here. China is being invaded. Villages are burning, civilians are dying, and this isn’t going to stop until the country is conquered or the invaders are defeated. This is not a fun musical, this is a major crisis.
Mulan is such a good movie for so many reasons, but the abrupt tone shift is such a major reason why. It’s an excellent commentary on the reality of war, and it being a kids movie just meant they had to make their point without showing any actual gore, which I’d honestly say makes it that much more poignant.
That moment, when they come over the rise and see the razed village is one of the best scenes in film. Period. Somehow, instead of giving me tonal whiplash, it took my breath away, and that’s one fuck of a balancing act.
So i’m just watching youtube, trying to chill out and whenever, when I get a Lego Movie 2 Ad for a video I was watching
do you see that timestamp at the bottom? Yeah, this is apparently 5 hours long.
And at first I was wondering, well is it the entire movie? No…this entire ad is for their newest “everything is awesome” type song. It is called “this song is gonna get stuck inside your head” and I am pretty goddamn sure it is going to repeat that one line over and over until my brain melts
So I am going to see if they really are playing it for 5 hours
10 minutes in. No breaks from looping yet
about half an hour in. I have been staring at what appears to be the child of Jack Frost and Edward Cullen wondering just how is he able to move in the cold if his body is dead
It is only 40 minutes in, and I can’t tell if I am immune to the music, or if my brain has stuck it as background noise
made it one hour and I swear I can hear them say the same line in two different ways
1) This song’s gonna get stuck inside your
2) This song’s going get stuck inside Joe
hour and 15 minutes
I have now found that even if I mute it I can still hear the song on point to the video
I have made a mistake. I paused the music for like one second. So the music that I hear now is clashing with the pace of the music I heard before
“THIS SONG’S BURN AGAIN STUCK INSIDE JOE”
almost 2 hours of watching a lego blob’s deep shoulder action. how does she do it? I will never know
I keep forgetting that I clicked on a different video to begin with. Like every minute I remember that this was an ad, then I just forget again
Is it possible for your ears to feel numb?
I can’t think anymore it took me 10 minutes to figure out that this was the half way point of 5 hours
it’s true. Hell is a skrillex concert with no bass drop
I’m losing track over what thread to use. I need to talk out loud to write or I would be writing the song
I can time my blinks so every time I open my eyes I see the same scene over and over and over and over and over and over and over and
i need to FEED
this is how the CIA tortures people i hope you know this
Everything I know is a goddamn lie. This movie this hellsite everything why do I even exist
I am almost done with this nightmare. God I am so afriad I can’t remember what silence sounds like
I am going to find the man that greenlit this piece of shit and shove legos down their throat
I hate this movie so much
IM SO FUCKIN CLOSE I,M SO FUCKING CLOSE
IT HAS A FUCKING END CARD
MY FUCKING GOD
…….i need a nap I need to just be absorbed into the void and hope that I can succumb to the darkness and not dream of legos
their entire hunting strategy is making their bodies into spears. basically they can extend their necks super fast at prey and stab them hard enough to the point they can have a hard time getting their prey off of their beaks by themselves
you can see here in this x ray that one vertebra in their necks is elongated right at the s-curve, and this is what makes them crazy efficient hunters. the elongated vertebra allows them to basically launch their heads at prey incredibly fast where they stab it with their sharp beaks. like any animal herons aren’t going to hesitate to defend themselves if they have do and it would probably suck to get stabbed by a bird. even bitterns can do a lot of damage like this, plus bitterns have a tendency to go for the eyes
also they can and will snatch gophers right out of the ground. they’ll eat pretty much anything they can fit down their throats (which is way bigger than you think. their esophaguses are very elastic)
i’m not saying you should be scared of a heron or anything but people dont realize how much damage they can do
if this guy wants, he can skewer you. remember this
fun fact there’s a pretty good body of work suggesting that azdarchid pterosaurs used essentially the same kind of predation model as herons
every gym leader is like “I lost!?! UNBELIEVABLE!” buddy you live in a world where every ten year old child has always been offered a free fire breathing monster at least once and you brought nothing to this fight but anthropomorphic flowers
gym leaders’ whole job is to provide a specific challenge, a battle of a certain type and difficulty level. if you’ve brought the tools and skills to complete that challenge, you’re going to win by design. the pokémon in that battle are probably not actually the strongest pokemon they have.
when gym leaders go “argh, how could i lose??” they’re acting to give your victory legitimacy because you’re 10. they’re like a villain cosplayer letting a baby knock them over. they’re being nice!!
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