#and it's short

[thistlecrimes]

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Saw this IG reel shared on twitter today and I felt compelled to post it here. A great, short summation by someone living with long covid challenging folks to examine, in light of current events, some of the notions about covid they may have picked up from the same media outlets that are actively spreading zionist propaganda.

[corishadowfang]

‘Skuld and Brain have dealings with Frigga, with…questionable results.’

[dedkake]

second chances | t, .5k, ronon/teyla/rodney/john

for the polyshipweek23 prompt “second chances”

“I’m going to kiss you,” Ronon says, his voice soft. It’s not a question.

Teyla shivers. The words aren’t directed at her, but she feels them play across her skin. Beside her, Rodney freezes, his hands hovering over his tablet.

“Not a normal team night kind of thing,” John says, but Ronon hadn’t asked. John doesn’t protest when Ronon leans in, when Ronon kisses him, pushes him down onto the bed. He lets it happen the way he always lets it happen, and Teyla can feel it on her lips, even though she hasn’t kissed him in years.

read it on ao3

[chunkysoup22]

[gorjee-art]

a comic about cuddles

[scramratz]

[thestuffedalligator]

“Are you the witch who turned eleven princes into swans?”

The old woman stared at the figure on the front step of her cottage and considered her options. It was the kind of question usually backed up by a mob with meaningful torches, and the kind of question she tried to avoid.

Coming from a single dusty, tired housewife, it should’ve held no terrors.

“You a cop?”

The housewife twisted the hem of her apron. “No,” she muttered. “I’m a swan.”

A raven croaked somewhere in the woods. Wind whispered in the autumn leaves.

Then: “I think I can guess,” the old woman said slowly. “Husband stole your swan skin and forced you to marry him?”

A nod.

“And you can’t turn back into a swan until you find your skin again.”

A nod.

“But I reckon he’s hidden it, or burned it, or keeps it locked up so you can’t touch it.”

A tiny, miserable nod.

“And then you hear that old Granny Rothbart who lives out in the woods is really a batty old witch whose father taught her how to turn princes into swans,” the old woman sighed. “And you think, ‘Hey, stuff the old skin, I can just turn into a swan again this way.’

“But even if that was true – which I haven’t said if it is or if it isn’t – I’d say that I can only do it to make people miserable. I’m an awful person. I can’t do it out of the goodness of my heart. I have no goodness. I can’t use magic to make you feel better. I only wish I could.”

Another pause. “If I was a witch,” she added.

The housewife chewed the inside of her cheek. Then she drew herself up and, for the first time, looked the old woman in the eyes.

“Can you do it to make my husband miserable?”

The old woman considered her options. Then she pulled the wand out from the umbrella stand by the door. It was long, and silver, and a tiny glass swan with open wings stood perched on the tip.

“I can work with that,” said the witch.

[byelacey]

thinking about my dog and how he makes sure i get my daily mental health outings

[theuglymachine]

Yeah it was me, I made the Cool S sword.

[purple-iris]

765874 Unification - Short Film from The Roddenberry Archive, OTOY, William Shatner and the Nimoy estate, in commemoration of 30th anniversary of Generation being released.

[mias-back-from-the-dead]

tbh i think the funniest phenomena that's been happening in the last couple years is "youtuber, having gone too deep into the research hole, has been made an investigative journalist against their will"

[bob-artist]

Bittern at the grocery store

[miniaturecatmentality]

guys I just found the greatest video on the internet

[armadillorollup]

in honour of wolvie returning to the big screen here's a fond childhood memory

[ghost-mantis]

Truck drivers in Michigan have for years smashed into an undersized bridge called The Big Penny. Normal warning signs have not deterred drivers from wedging dozens of trucks into its hungry maw.

So they put eyes and teeth on the bridge, in part as a further deterrent.

It has not worked…