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> read library book

> it's good

Thank you library

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I'm red girl

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Stick em with the pointy end!

There’s a long video that covers this in more detail!

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me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

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an absolute fuckton of people at pride rn

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My favorite slow burn, novelist-and-the-amateur-detective-who's-crushing-hard-on-her to lovers, multi-novel relationship ever. And in the meantime, while they sort out their baggage, their weird friendship remains an absolute delight.

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it’s so evil when you have a beverage and you drink it and then there’s no beverage anymore

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Kiki and Bouba Yuri

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And now, for a cheerier interlude, allow me to introduce you to the third old-fashioned gentleman in my life.

This is the real Icarus, accept no mere human substitutes. He is an extremely second-hand chonk, having been rescued from the streets as an unneutered tom aged about four, after being injured in a fight. He has major food issues (significantly improved from his initial insane food issues), only one remaining canine tooth, and a life-limiting disease (FIV).

He is clever, outgoing, brave and neat; and, fortunately for me, a benevolent monarch.

And while we're comparing him with more famous gingers, he woulda made a better president than Jefferson.

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i had a dream about a museum that had a river running through it, i visited it in while going on a canoe journey. it was analogous to those roadside tourist attractions.

made in krita and blender. i wonder if it's in some way pretentious of me to draw a museum filled entirely with art drawn by me.

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Why is there Italy on your map of the great lakes though?

I'm not familiar with American geography, so the little thin threadlike patches of lands dividing the three lakes, are those accessible? Can people go across the lakes via those barely visible land bridges?

these?

those aren't land bridges, they're bridge bridges!

the southern one is the Mackinac Bridge, which is the longest suspension bridge in the western hemisphere.

it's fucking ENORMOUS. it's about 5 miles long and the deck is 200 feet over the water. the bridge towers are 550 feet tall.

it honestly breaks your brain a bit to look at it, but if you want to cross from Lower to Upper Michigan or vice versa, it's your only choice.

and the northern circle is the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge, which is just fine.

(it's pronounced "SOO saint marie")

it takes you to Canada from Upper Michigan if you want to go, so there's Customs at the end. bring your passport, and also your dog's passport.

and that's how we get around up here! if you need to go somewhere in the Great Lakes area and there's one of these big watery fucks in the way, you either take one of these bridges, hop onto a car or passenger ferry, or drive the long way round.

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Last night I remembered another of my favourite Tolkien wifeguy facts.

So in Western mythology we've often personified the Sun as masculine and the Moon as feminine. Off the top of my head: The Sun is associated with purity, reason, scholarship, illumination, constancy, dragons, gold, and masculinity. On the other hand, the Moon is associated with darkness, silver, impurity, flux, change, uncertainty, fickleness, and femininity.

You can see all this imagery being adopted, eg, in the Mozart opera THE MAGIC FLUTE, in which a benevolent scholar wizard (with solar imagery). straight up kidnaps the daughter of the evil, passionate Queen of the Night so that she can be properly educated in Enlightenment rationalism, purged of all those icky feminine night/lunar influences, and turned into a good submissive little wife for the scholar's young disciple. Guys the music slaps but the story is SO gross and misogynistic.

Anyway, what does this have to do with Tolkien? I'M SO GLAD YOU ASKED.

In Middle-Earth, Tolkien does a GENDERSWAPPED Sun and Moon. The Sun is She, the Moon is He. And, like, it's not that he just thought "oh how can I make this mythology Different" - he really thought this through. In THE SILMARILLION, Tolkien tells us that the Sun and Moon are two vessels made from the last flower of Telperion and the last fruit of Laurelin, the Two Trees which once gave light to Valinor. Two Maiar were chosen to pilot these vessels. The pilot of the moon is Tilion, a hunter of Orome, and the pilot of the sun is Arien: "Arien the maiden was mightier than he", a spirit of fire whom I strongly suspect to be an unfallen Balrog.

Now, just as in our world, the Moon in Middle Earth has a reputation for waywardness and unreliability. Because, get this, apparently Tilion falls in love with Arien: "But Tilion was wayward and uncertain in speed, and held not to his appointed path; and he sought to come near to Arien, being drawn by her splendour, though the flame of Arien scorched him, and the island of the Moon was darkened."

And I just. Here's Tolkien, standing up in the face of centuries of unveiled misogynistic symbolism and saying, "oh, we've got two celestial entities, one of which is powerful and bold and glorious, and the other famous for being kind of lame in comparison? SOUNDS TO ME LIKE A SWAGLESS LOVER BOY ABANDONING HIS DUTIES TO WORSHIP HIS GODDESS. I MEAN OBVIOUSLY. WHAT ELSE COULD THE EXPLANATION BE"

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wash

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Citation needed. Are we sure whales are not usually found in vinegar?

Acetic acid is derived from the Latin a, meaning “without”, and cetos, meaning “whale”. This is an accurate name as whales are not usually found in vinegar.

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Round boi inspired by the radish tattoo on my ankle. If that's not meaningful art, what is ? 🫜

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There’s a lot at stake in this video…

This video was actually a request from a Patron

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i love sluts i love perverts i love dykes i love faggots i love aromantics i love freaks i love librarians i love ibuprofen