#'okay that was deeper than i thought'

[mysdrymmumbles]

So the street I grew up on (and still live on), dips down where the bottom of like three hills meet, and for a long time, the sewers were messed up, so when it rained it wouldn't drain quickly.

They fixed it so that it drains better now, after the house at the bottom of the hills flooded with about 2 feet of water during a really bad storm (might've been a hurricane), but if it's raining hard, it'll still temporarily flood the street and make it impassible.

But.

When I was about 12-13, I had my besties over when there was a bad storm, and after the rain had stopped, there was the usual flooded bit in the street.

And I dunno why we did it, but we said fuck it, kicked off our shoes and went down to see how deep it was.

It came up to about our mid thighs, so it was pretty deep.

We had a water fight.

Supposedly a neighbor saw us gleefully running in and out of the water and splashing us and told my mom they thought it was adorable.

I miss doing stuff like that.

[yan-springlove]

Still not over the fact that vi and jinx/powder had a love song in Arcane tbh

[leatherbookmark]

Every once in a while there will be a blogger I'm not following, but whose posts I know and whose blog I visit from time to time. They can either be a generally popular user, a fandom-popular user, a mutual-in-law, or simply someone whose posts I've seen reblogged by other blogs I visit. You know how it is on tumblr dot com.

Anyway, impressing me -- and at the same time making me take you for a Cool Person Who Knows Things, And Whose Opinions Are Important And I Should Defer To Them -- is only a little bit harder than biting into an overcooked noodle, or accidentally stepping on an ant. So, I'll often admire these people from afar and feel sad and inadequate if we disagree on something, or of they criticize something I think is fine (especially if they do it without giving a reason, like 'well, it goes without saying that X simply sucks').

However -- sudden salvation -- every once in a while this blogger will have an opinion that's so nonsensical, or they'll behave in a way that's so unnecessary hostile to someone who doesn't really deserve it, that it's honestly both sad and surprisingly relieving to me because ohhhh okay you're just a fucking asshole. You're not a special, sophisticated mini-god, you're just an asshole who's mean for no reason. Phew! Aaaaand block.

[fictional-men-enthusiast]

TophAbe shippers, it is ON SIGHT, I am NOT SORRY-

[dashiellqvverty]

another thing about "autistic girls being bamboozled into transitioning" is like are we not famously resistant to change???? like speaking for myself at least i have known i am transmasc for like 8 or 9 years now and while there have been other barriers to accessing HRT it has always been something i'm very unsure and hesitant about, largely because i am so terrified of permanent change!!!! like idk it comes from ableism as well as transphobia bc you have to think autistic ppl are stupid and cant think for themselves to think like this but its like. many autistic people are going to be some of the most likely to be EXTRA hesitant and wait and think and plan and stuff before medically transitioning

[girlivealwaysbean]

so I was thinking this since yesterday because of these tags on the webweave

and this one came after that

and it made me think like what if. what if. it's actually not that deep it's just me who's so emotionally attached to this piece of media because i have known it for this long and it's my coping mechanism.like what if that second person watches jjk and doesn't connect with them like this and they end up hating it because i gave them hope and i made it deeper than it is💀

i am so mad at your brain for spiralling down this road because all i can think is OMG!!!!!! YOUR WEBWEAVE IS SO AWESOME PEOPLE WANT TO WATCH THE SHOW JUST BECAUSE OF SOME PICS AND QUOTES GLUED TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!! also pls i love the first tags so cute with DO ANOTHER!!!!

[void-tiger]

Someday I’ll just have my Howl-esque whimsigoth cottage core with geek couture corvid layer. Lots of soft curtains and tapestries and lamps and fairly lights. Me and my cat and my bird. Tea kettle on the stove screaming. Full spice rack.

And if people wanna see me they can come to ME and invite ME out into The Great Outside.

[seonghwasblr-moved]

Goodnight friends aka moots I’ve probably never talked to! Remember you are loved and beautiful and the world is a better place with you in it! ♡

[kath-artic]

big pet peeve of mine is people who never outgrew surface level solipsistic thinking. like yeah when i was little and first realized my own consciousness was the only thing i could verify i thought it was neat, but i pretty quickly realized that it doesnt. really. matter. like yeah sure we dont know anything for certain, but unless we accept our current frame of reality AS reality then we can't have a fucking conversation because we no longer have a frame of reference. anyway this is specifically about people who pull some variation of a "but what if its not. what if we're wrong" response to the most basic claims (even more specifically when its established claims that you're making to set up a larger point and you keep getting cut off before you can get there)

[pebblezone]

Every day I find out a different song I like is in fact a cover and lose my shit

[captainkingsley]

anyway this blog is a Molly appreciation zone and that poll didn't have a "can't choose" option so ♥️

[goodobservationshirley]

I hadn’t read His Dark Materials in years (well over a decade), but I watched the show with my mom who hadn’t read the books, and I think the only change that I noticed that kind of bugged me (again assuming I’m remembering right) is Roger’s attitude in the land of the dead upon first seeing Lyra. That said, I completely understand why they made that change since I had to look up his actor to make sure it was the same kid, and clearly they needed a reason why he’s now like the same size as Lyra, but I do miss his unwavering faith in her that was in the books. I’m now planning on re-reading the books and am very curious if I am remembering the mulefa description correctly because the show is not how I pictured their legs at all.

the whole land of the dead thing is very different in the book

part of it i would say is just that it's a different form of storytelling and they had to rethink it to make it work in the time frame they had

but also the land of the dead, in the book, is kinda a huge moment for lyra's journey. she suddenly can't rely on what she does best (lie) and finds herself completely out of her depth. the problem is that we can spend a lot of time on this in the book because lyra lying almost by default and in a sort of childish easy way has been well established by that point, it's basically her defining characteristic

in the show? not so much. it is mentioned a few times that she's a liar, yes, but show!lyra is a bit older, hence less childish from the get go, and she's not so much of a fanciful liar as her book counterpart is. all these changes make sense for the show, but lyra-not-lying is only a meaningful part of the story if lyra-lying was an important part of it. it is in the book, but it isn't in the show

all that to say, yes the land of the dead scene is very different and i understand how it's the point where your memory would have been like 'wait a minute'. because of other changes they made, they kinda had to rework this moment to give it a bit of a different emotional weight. the change in roger's attitude to lyra is part of it

[steelycunt]

trying to plot the timeline of this thing on an actual calendar and uhh. i don't meant to make threats or anything but upon reading it if anyone asks even a well-intentioned question about said timeline. you WILL be taken out back and shot. ok thanks

[shoutmonishere]

That primordial urge to gush about an underrated main character

[gentlemanpiraate]

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[javierduffy]

@galacta-phantasma now why would you say that to me .

replaying this game after the second game is making me honest to god so beyond miserable … javier looks so absolutely defeated here. it’s genuinely breaking my heart. please don’t make me think about the thoughts he’s having now- perhaps ones of regrets, or flashes of laughter and singing around the campfire, of clanking beer bottles together and sharing stories, of looking at the shine in dutch’s eyes during a speech and how he felt, somehow, the warmth of the mexican sun. and how that sun never felt the same when he got home again. and how the only time in the past eight years that he ever felt warm was when john’s hands wrapped the rope around his hands and legs. when john’s rope was the noose around his neck, and he finally, finally could stop running. guilt, fear, regret … relief. please kill me im so sad