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13eyond13 · 2 years ago

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where's all my blogs with nothing but memes at

#you may think that i prefer purely death note blogs but oh no dear reader no #in actuality my fave is when i come across those blogs where whoever posts on them just has IMMACULATE meme taste #just regularly pumping your feed full of the choicest dank memery #with no commentary whatsoever to provide #and like literally no other identifiers or tagging #except for some reason they also often use their actual face in their pic too #i have legit gotten tumblr crushes just bc i love their silent curation of memes hahaha #i need more but theyre like stumbling across a rare gem #p

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fennthetalkingdog · 9 months ago

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Dang, being nonhuman really is just like being trans, where I look back at my life and go, "Ohhhhhhhh, so THAT'S where it came from." It's easy for me to fall into the habit of thinking, "Well I just found this new label but I don't want it to infiltrate my whole life." But... it already has. All those moments pretending to be a cat on the playground, making fake "dog packs" with my friends, wrestling with my dog and laying next to her as if I was just another pup, attaching to my dog and cat stuffed animals, making dog-like noises to supplement my words, pretending I had (and still have) a tail to wag when I wanted, shaking out my "fur" and huffing just because I "liked mimicking my dog"—those were all my nonhumanity shining through. Me identifying with the nonhuman/therian label isn't an outliner, it's just the trend.

#I guess today's just a Therian day #I'm having lots of thoughts about it and it's literally the only thing I can think about so here ya go I guess #“I want to make a long post today” too bad all you can think about is dogs and therianthropy #which is for a reason but I'll make another post about that later today (I have the draft up just editing)#anyways sappy thoughts about therianthropy time #I'm so glad I found this label it's so nice #honestly I feel like if I'd found it sooner I still would've identified with it #just because the accuracy just hits different #and it's so cool seeing other folks feeling the same way #(or feeling slightly different feelings but identifying with the label which is even more fascinating)#so happy I got Tumblr cause all the cool posts my friends were linking were on there #has ultimately enriched my life for the better <3 #alterhuman #nonhuman #otherkin #therian #dogkin #dog therian #huskykin #husky therian #(everytime I use these tags I get a rush of dopamine !!!)

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lunarharp · 2 years ago

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little bit of modern au (SPOILERS for the zelda game.)

#witch hat tag #orufrey #zelda totk spoilers #thus ends the orufrey playing on their switches saga. oh modern au...the place where everything is pretty much ok. Yes i have joycon drift.#hey literally why do ppl leave private replies on twt. not priv qrts. that's like..fine. Whatever. but priv replies...who r u talkin to.#once i posted a comic about writing that went REALLY far before i deleted it and got 400+ qrts and someone left a string of private replies #Yeah go off king. What is the point #what does it mean. what does it all mean. <- me at all times looking at the internet in my puter and understanding nothing and just leaving #i'm obsessed with how i said that qifrey doesnt really 'identify' with link so it's hard for him to play games like this #but he cooks food and sleeps as if things are real. Oh what a mysterious fellow...my darling..meanwhile once again oru plays normally #qifrey: I don't really know who zelda is so... sorry that happened to her...bye.. Oh my stomach must be rumbling by now!#if you haven't seen the other parts to this saga he ended up caring abt zelda because he pretended to himself that she is oru. Princess Oru #i play more like qifrey btw. totk was really good

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anxiously-going · 17 days ago

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Does anyone else raised in church feel like hearing stuff about how "your identity should be in God/Christ" and being warned about being able to truly know what's in your own heart and being raised on the idea that "having character" meant "behaving in public the same way you do in private" messed with your sense of self and identity?

Genuinely asking because I am struggling rn

#screaming into the void #i dont even know how to actually tag this #i just need something #validation that theres something to this line of reasoning i guess?#after all i was literally taught that i couldnt trully know my own heart and mind and my sole/most identifying trait should be #that im a christian #i also feel like being labeled gifted at 8 years old amind the other fuckery that was going on in my life really did a number on me #it's really kinda fucked me up that i was told i was/praised only for being smart mature and quiet and was fully supported in those things #and tried so hard to grow up to be something acceptable either working in stem on in ministry somehow and ended up #trying to be an artist ang given absolutely zero support for that #its left me feeling a little robbed of identity honestly because ive become all the things i wasnt supposed to be #so now i just feel like maybe its safer to be nothing at all because it turns out im not actually the things i was told i was and #im not allowed to be the things i want to be/the things i am so maybe i just wont be anything because that feels safer somehow

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bunnyboy-juice · 2 months ago

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i have had such an urge to pamper a girl for a full day - not just waiting on her hand and foot but like. actually pamper her. plan an entire day just for her with activities i know she'd love. a special breakfast just for her. picking her clothes. stops for treats and drinks and meals she loves. new clothes if she wants, new toys if she wants. going with her to new places she wouldnt wanna go alone, forming new experiences. - whatever she wants! just make her smile and feel like the center of the universe

#feel mushy #this can extend to sex too but like idk i just love doing this with people #i love planning days around my friends & lovers so much #honestly i actually really love wooing people but i dont usually do it cause this is NOT romantic behavior for me!! i do this for my friends #as well as lovers!!! this is just what love is for me!!! i love making people happy and loved and cherished!!!#but i get really scared about doing these things at the same time cause even when ive talked ab it to ppl ab the fact that this behavior #isnt like. Me Pursuing Them I've had so many ppl feel bad/led on from me doing this so i really only do it if someone Agrees to it (like a #full day scene lol) but like. idk. i crave doing this. so much. i love making people feel special and loved #i wish there was less romantic pressure sometimes bc like. i just love?#(+ its SO hard to do this regularly cause ALL MY FRIENDS LIVE SO FAR AWAY 😭 i miss them all so bad even tho I havent met most of them irl)#anyway idk. this is really vulnerable in the tags. i just really love loving people and i wish i could do it more freely how i want w/o #the expectations of romance or sex (also this complex feeling is why I struggle calling myself aromantic Or polyamorous bc none of these #experiences capture how i engage w/ these things cause when i say aro ppl think “no romance ever” and when i say poly ppl think “wants lots #of partners/relationships“ when it's really just. relationship anarchy in action. and also i dont really care about Identifying with these #words i dont care about the Identity itself at all really - i just wish others didnt put so much weight into them either!!!! 😩)#< also. whining as if he doesn't literally have 4 virtual friend dates next week and one the following already 🤡#bunnyprints

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synthetic-sonata · 3 months ago

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i just split like 3 tadc alters at once oh my god its joever.

#aria talkz #system stuff #system talk #its one of those two tags idk #for the curious; gangle zooble and pomni who specifically is he/she transmasculine for some reason but i support it. the swag #split is in quotations bc while its technically the correct term idk if theyve been here i just watched tadc got emotional then gangle #fronted for like a few minutes to make us eat.#god bless tumblr fanart it makes it much easier for us to find and identify with specific appearances and designs ppl have...#like a treasure trove or costume box of very similar but different costumes to wear. yk. interpretations. iterations. etc.#for the record we dont hate tadc but we didnt rlly feel much ab it and got annoyed when it got popular but its good. its pretty peam #^ part of that is bc i could personally care less ab other glitch production shit esp smg4 stuff n murderdrones #even if the episodes are pretty short and like simple rn. The gangle masking metaphor goes crazy #( i say as its the most literal and obvious thing ever but its still cool )

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avese23 · 5 months ago

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Gremlin hours and the creature inside wants to gaslight white people on the internet

#the answer to people being pressed about nonsense is often to be amused #like hwyte mehn will be out here debating serious shit for shits and giggles just to be triggering #imma make shit up about things you take too seriously and see how far until you give out #mental wrestling #no ethics violations cuz literally internet people can log off whenever #but get trapped in the back and forth #I love no longer being 13 #I’ve discovered the block button #you can vent about people after feeding them to the kraken #it’s gorgeous #don’t process your feelings while the troll is still standing #stick the knife all the way into its neck #rejoice in the safety from the colonizer #then rant #I forget my eepy tag #anywho this is more an ig thing #tumblr nonsense is trickier #but I’ve been too active there so I return to my bog #I love my fake stories website #it’s funny growing up being like #hi I identify as weird and hypocritical #and then watch people get mad when I’m weird and hypocritical #like girlypop I told you this #my brain is not on #I’m curious about the science of limited functioning #like tired in my case or drunk in others #I can literally feel the front part of my brain overheating while the back goes blank #like I can only access a shallow part of my personhood #I have the ability to continue sentences #and nothing else. wow peak writing conditions. anywho I reached 30 tags wow

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moe-broey · 9 months ago

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VIVID fucking idea I had last night....

Background info, I think Moe has some really distinct tendencies that Alfonse ends up being able to immediately identify it by (and finds a lot of comfort in doing so). One of which, is it doing a quiet, hesitant, but steady knock. Persistent, but with long pauses in between.

ENTER..... the Vision........ just. This entire sequence. "You'll never hear from me again". Into, the quiet knock only a few hours later. Into bursting in with the MOST enthusiastic, "HOLY FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Moe really is Some Type of Guy LMFAOO

Fave panels.......

#fire emblem #feh #thinking way back to that one ratatoskr moe comparison comic i made. where in one scene #ratatoskr startles alfonse vs alfonse immediately identifying moe is following him due to it's shuffling/Noticable Presence #like i feel like you would just be able to Feel it. like when you can feel your pet Looking at you #staring at you. intensely.#a little bit of characterization i put into alfonse there is him preferring that actually.#finding comfort in knowing exactly where his loved ones are/being able to tell immediately if they're near #this comic is also. such a good portrayl of how their dynamic ends up being actually.#moe says A Lot of things. that aren't always necessarily true. it makes odd jokes and can be VERY flighty #its number one response to anything stressful is to Leave. also deeply psychologically.#it just feels like it Has To. it is always saying it.#but after a while it becomes clear to alfonse that moe's words really don't match up w its actions.#and after a lot of work. esp on moe's end for alfonse's sake. moe still has a lot of trouble w it tbh #that response is just so deeply ingrained in it. but they Do end up building a level of trust between them #alfonse has faith in moe. moe's love for alfonse is stronger than its fear and seething hatred of romance in general #they are.. best friends.... in the historian sense but also. literally. that is the most important part.#also. moe absolutely is on the other end of this as well whenever alfonse has to do something and moe needs to stay behind #AND IT IS. handling it WAY WORSE LMFAOOO it is soooooo fucking mad..... entirely at itself/its own feelings 😭😭😭#moe is just. a guy who has A Lot of VERY intense feelings. and it hates every fucking second of it 😭😭😭😭😭#but it's like. it doesn't even feel That strongly.... it's FINE..... it's handling this sooooo well.#it's SO much better than alfonse. way more well-adjusted. clearly.#fe alfonse #moe tag #summoner oc #my art #my comics #moe lore #esp @ the tags LMFAOO the Snippets..... the Glimpses into its character.......

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unrestrainedbalderdash · 1 year ago

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NOOO WHY'S THERE BI LESBIAN EXCLUSION IN THE ORIENTED AROACE TAG.

#DUDE. YOU'RE LITERALLY IN THE ORIENTATION THAT IS MASSIVELY BUILT ON THE SPLIT ATTRACTION MODEL #AND YET YOU CAN'T EVEN COMPREHEND THAT ALLOS COULD HAVE THE SPLIT ATTRACTION MODEL?????#(not saying all the bi lesbians are alloallo just trying to point out op's foolishness)#(also there's probably people identifying as bi lesbian for reasons other than that which is also valid #but pointing this out because it's in the oriented aroace tag)#like. it won't cover all the nuances but i can think of an extremely simple explanation for bi lesbians existing #you can just have different attraction types to different genders. it's simple!#dw i'm not getting too angry at this i'm just baffled by their chopt logic #anyway. bi lesbians are extremely valid and if you don't agree get out #queer discourse #<- not looking for any debates here just tagging for filtering purposes. get gone if you disagree. or think and change your mind.#tw discourse #cw discourse #if anyone knows the specific tags people have filtered for mspec and bi lesbian discourse let me know #just hovered over their accounts to block them. the asker is a minor so i guess i can understand them being stupid #but the answerer is 24 you should have developed critical thinking and common sense by now #rancid takes #<- gonna use this as a general tag for filtering

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eugeniedanglars · 10 months ago

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he could kiss a hundred girls in bars

#eddie when will you realize these women aren't going to fix you #i don't even mean that in a gay way (though he is)#i literally mean i feel like eddie has always sought something from his partners other than romance #there's some sort of void at the core of eddie's being that i can't quite identify and neither can he #but i think it's always been there even before shannon #and when he's in a relationship he can at least cover it up even if that cover is stretched thin #don't ask me to explain these tags btw i don't know what i'm talking about i just know i've been rewatching s2 and. something's off #911 abc #911 spoilers

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byakuyasdarling · 1 year ago

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can’t deal with the fact people glorify anxiety,,, like yes the disorder that literally keeps me from normal functioning and is detrimental to my physical and mental health is so cutesy and so easy to live with and I can totally sleep at night and I don’t get massively painful ulcer flare-ups when I’m stressed (it is literally debilitating) panic attacks are quirky! /s

I don’t have repetitive thought cycles that make me constantly worry and exhaust me throughout the day from a whole other disorder that’s exasperated by my anxiety! It’s so pleasant in both of these ways! I love when people think me flapping my hands is so cutesy when it’s totally not a sign of distress for the most part /SARCASM

I have no clue why anyone would want to fake something I am so desperate to get rid of. Like this is not fun — especially when so many people close to me in my life atm have this strong image of me that I hate living up to.

Though I will say that most likely, even people who fake disorders do have something bad going on and is symptomatic of broader issues (there’s literally a term for this, I forgot) — so I’m not going to go haywire at confused and hurting children. Though their actions are ignorant and can romanticise what living with these things is actually like and diminish other people’s struggles — I’m fairly sure they’re too young and confused to properly process that and I doubt it’s malicious the majority of the time. You’re just going to further push them into boxes by harassing them.

#I usually just suffer in silence and deal with it but even with coping mechanisms it’s extremely hard to control #like it’s 1am here and I have to wake up in 5 hours for work and I’m still not well and I just hate my anxiety because I’m thinking of so -#- many bad things. even when I rationalised it and spoke to people I’m still nervous and upset.#I will clarify my ‘other disorder’ is not formally diagnosed — my anxiety and depression are though.#(the ‘other disorder’ was just identified as ‘highly probable’ from my therapist. that’s why I don’t speak of it in direct terms)#i would also like to say I would deal with it and my sensory issues so much easier if it wasn’t for anxiety and depression. I could be very-#- functional with it. (I know because I was once there LOL)#Dysthymia does run in the family but mine is listed as MDD (clinical depression or Major Depressive Disorder I think).#I can’t remember if they actually specified my anxiety on my record but I know my therapist generally points to GAD.#I’m talking like a weirdo again but it’s just comforting to actually say this out loud because I never do #I am literally employed as having no mental neurodivergency so I can’t really speak about it at work #but I think people kind of just figure it out I’m a little off. or very off.#vent tw #tw vent #// ask to tag

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xx-obliviousfantasy-xx · 6 months ago

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^Slightly confused by this but decided to add it a n y w a y s

still so fucking weird to go from real life, where a cis man being flamboyant/effeminate/camp is judged like 70+% by how he speaks and carries himself, to online queer communities, which often seem to have no concept of male gender non-conformity that doesn’t involve wearing a skirt

#This is what I was talking about!#I mentioned to a moot the other day #that before transitioning— when I was a gnc ‘girl’ in men’s clothing #people perceived me as masculine #I remember my own mother seeing me one morning in my outfit for the day #and telling me I looked ‘butch’ and that no guy would ever like me or want to date me #because they’d assume I’m a lesbian #I was perceived as masculine because my clothes and attitude transgressed the feminine ideal #but after transitioning #people perceive me in the opposite direction #my style hasn’t changed. neither has my attitude #but my demeanor and attitude aren’t ’masculine enough’#to the point that it affects people’s perceptions of me #like I had a friend tell me recently. after I successfully identified a car: ‘I could never see you as a car guy. You hate manual labor.’#and I blinked. I hate going to public gyms. Because bathrooms. And people. I also hate running because my knees #but I used to dig holes for my father #(literally. my summers consisted of working in a gravel lot. no shade. digging holes for my dad)#and I also spent those summers working on my grandmother’s farm helping my grandpa out #a childhood of manual labor is why I’m shaped like a square today #and I volunteered to help out. I wanted to #even the slightest transgression against the masculine ideal—forget not being straight or cis—invalidates your manhood & masculinity #it’s fucking wild #<prev tags. Holy shit

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melkor-did-nothing-wrong · 12 days ago

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Bruh people will just put ANYTHING on the angba.ng tag these days. Like damn I'm begging you guys to come up with your own ship names and tag them properly so people could see them learn them and filter them out if they so choose.

#dots in the middles of names to prevent this vent post from showing up on and thus spamming the tags.#I WISH I could send money internationally to incentivize people to properly tag their stuff but I can't. I hate it here.#Saur.on x Sarum.an? Angba.ng tag. A post about Thuringwet.hil that doesn't even mention Melk.or? Angba.ng tag.#A post about Complaining someone blocked you? Angba.ng tag. Mair.on x 958948493854 people none of whom are Melk.or? Angba.ng tag.#Mair.on x some random animal that isn't even an Ainu in animal form but literally just a feral mindless beast? Angba.ng tag #Like yes yes I get it Angba.ng bad and Melk.or isn't enough for Mair.on bc all gay people are greedy and unsatisfied with just 1 partner.#Insert other outdated stereotypes here #Can we tag things now. please.#Why doesnt anyone fill the Manw.eXVard.a tag with content of Vard.a being f'd by 50 people none of whom are Manw.e or whatev while hes busy #Oh right because that one's a canon ship of a straight couple and people will complain and protest because that'd be tag spam.#I'm so exhausted. I'm so exhausted.#I wish I was straight. Normal and straight and never identified with or cared for same sex ships. I hate myeslf so much sometimes.#Most of all I wish my brain was normal. I've been living my life on nightmare difficulty and I can't escape it. I can't do this anymore.

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checkeredflagggs · 4 months ago

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Unexpected Roommate

pairing: lando norris x pet owner!reader

summary: when moving in with his girlfriend, lando gets confronted with the new side of her pet

a/n: inspired by the guy walking his pet down the street I saw yesterday…

yourusername

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yourusername: and it’s moving day! It’s a big step for us but I can’t wait to start living with you landonorris!

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user1: oh god the fomo I have

↳user2: saaaaammmmmmeeee

oscarpiastri: the question is was lando being helpful today or just disruptive?

↳landonorris: oi!!!

↳yourusername: Oscar!

↳oscarpiastri: it’s a valid question! I work with him — I know his habits

↳maxverstappen1: same

↳alex_albon: same

↳georgerussell63: same

↳danielricciardo: same

↳carlossainz55: same

↳landonorris: you frickin muppets!

↳yourusername:…

↳yourusername: he was helpful moving me out but quite distracted when we got to our new place

↳landonorris: oi!!!

↳yourusername: sorry baby but it’s true

user3: god the heart fingers…when will it be my turn…

user4: we need a tour!

↳user5: yaaassss! I need all the details for my fantasies where I’m living her life…

↳user4: ok let’s not get too crazy here

alex_albon: let us know when you’re all moved in!

↳landonorris: why?

↳maxverstappen1: so we don’t get roped into helping of course!

↳landonorris: I’m gonna block all of you

carlossainz55: did he let you get anything done once you got there?

↳landonorris: yes!! And I helped!

↳yourusername: the bedroom and his game room are done…

↳oscarpiastri: yeah that sounds about right

↳landonorris: stop slandering me!

↳user6: little lando norris learned a new word!

↳yourusername:🤣🤣🤣

↳landonorris: babe! 😢😢

yourusername

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yourusername: didn’t know I would gain a limpet when I moved…or that my dinners would now come with live entertainment 🤣🤣

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user7: I’ll take that issue off your hands

↳user8: or me!

↳yourusername: sorry he’s mine only!

↳landonorris: I’m yours?

↳yourusername: I’d fight all your fangirls for you

↳landonorris: babe 😍😍

landonorris: babe…why you gotta do me dirty like that??

↳landonorris: you said you wouldn’t post these photos!!!

↳yourusername: I lied! Gotta show everyone your true character

↳landonorris: babe!

↳yourusername: sorry not sorry 😘 forgive me?

↳landonorris:😢😢😢

↳yourusername: 🥰🥰🥰

↳landonorris: ok but only cause you’re really hot

maxverstappen1: need a crowbar there?

↳alex_albon: or maybe another set of hands to push him away?

↳yourusername: is both an option? 🤣

↳charles_leclerc: might need some chains and a tow truck…

↳maxfewtrell: can you even breathe?

↳landonorris: I’m literally going to report all of you for bullying me

↳charles_leclerc: you’d need to detach yourself from her first

↳alex_albon: are we supposed to be scared?

↳maxverstappen1: so?

↳maxfewtrell: in real life too?

↳yourusername: even me? 🥹🥹🥹

↳landonorris: never you baby

yourbff: he is NOT invited to girls night

↳yourusername: of course not!

↳landonorris: you said I could come!

↳yourusername: the council said no!

↳landonorris: is the council yourbff?

↳yourbff: And coco!

↳landonorris: coco would never! She loves me!

↳yourbff: still a no!

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lnupdates: I don’t even have words for how chaotic Lando’s last stream was… can anyone identify the voice in the background that was cursing them out?

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user9: it wasn’t yourusername was it?

↳user10: no she had photos posted of her and yourbff at a concert

↳user9: then whoooo???

↳user10: I think I heard them say coco??

user11: like I’m concerned about who that was but…that was freaking hilarious

↳user12: I completely agree. Whoever they were, they were roasting max and lando

↳user13: the absolute shock on lando’s face when the first motherfucker rang out…

user14: taking notes 📝📝📝📝

↳user15: what for???

↳user14: Lindsey is going down next time

↳user15: oh my god let it go

↳user14: never

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yourusername: the criminal from last night’s streaming…snafu. Meet Coco! She’s a mature African Grey Parrot I adopted from a friend who could no longer care for her.

She has…strong opinions and an even stronger way to express those opinions 🧡

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user16: oh my god I’m in love

landonorris: you didn’t tell me she talked!!!

↳yourusername: babe it’s well known that african greys are considered the smartest parrots

↳landonorris: WELL KNOWN TO WHOOOO?!?

↳alex_albon: everyone

↳yourusername: everyone

↳lilymhe: everyone

↳charles_leclerc: everyone

↳maxfewtrell: everyone

↳maxverstappen1: everyone

↳carlossainz55: everyone

↳mclaren: everyone

lnupdates: oh my god!! I would never even guessed a parrot!!

user17: she’s absolutely beautiful!

↳user18: god I’d love to get a parrot

↳yourusername: take care! Parrots are one of the hardest breeds to take care of and one of the longest living ones too — anywhere from 40-60 years

↳user18: …ok maybe not a parrot

↳landonorris: 40 TO 60 YEARS???

↳charles_leclerc: maybe you’ll learn a new language listening to her!

↳landonorris: 4 to 6 DECADES OF BEING SWORE AT?

↳alex_albon: awesome!

↳yourusername: she doesn’t swear all the time…

↳landonorris: 😨😨😨

a/n2: so I saw someone walking their pet parrot down the street and it was so cool! I didn’t get swore at (which would have made my day tbh) but this popped into my mind and I had to write it out. I don’t know why but lando makes the most sense to have a pet parrot that swears

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versegm · 9 months ago

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Reminders:

"Intersex" means "someone born with sexual characteristics that don't fit quite well in the male/female sex binary."

"Intersex" is not synonymous to "non-binary". In fact, being intersex has nothing to do with gender at all. Intersex and trans people have many struggles in common, but if you're talking about trans-specific issues you really don't need to say "intersex and trans people".

Intersex people can be trans. Intersex people can also be cis. Intersex people, in the majority of countries, are assigned a gender at birth just like everyone else.

"Intersex" doesn't necessarily relate to genitals. When I say "sexual characteristics" it can also mean secondary sexual characteristics, hormone levels, chromosomes, and probably a bunch of other shit I forgot about. Please stop reducing intersex people to their genitals.

(On that note, having both working sets of genitals is at best extremely rare and at worst physically impossible. Sorry, intersex people can't fulfill your futa fantasies. Please stop tagging futa shit as intersex. The two are unrelated.)

Please. This pride month remember that intersex people like. Exist. Intersex folks are not hypotheticals they're not "that one letter we gotta tack at the end of every queer post and never think about any further" they're. People. Remember that they exist. Every year I have to make a post like this one where I explain the very basic things you can learn by reading the intersex wikipedia page because people see "intersex" and make assumptions as to what the word means without actually reading the dictionary definition. Please remember that intersex people exist, I looked up "intersex pride" on tumblr and half the posts I saw were a variation of "happy pride to people of all genders and sexualities!" when being intersex has nothing to do with either gender or sexuality. Please. I understand that you guys don't mean any ill, but I am very tired of making basic posts over and over.

And inb4 someone tries to strike dumb discourse on this post: I live in a country where it is legal and encouraged to perform surgery on intersex infants. Looking up "intersex athlete controversy" returned to me like three different cases of athletes who were coerced into surgery without being informed of all the risks and having to lead with lifelong consequences for it. When I say "remember intersex people" I don't mean "uwu intersex people are valid" I mean they're a demographic whose literal human rights are constantly spit upon. I don't give a shit if you think intersex people belong or not under the queer umbrella or what you think are the proper qualifications to identify as intersex literally everytime I talk to an intersex person I hear a variation of "my doctor straight-up lied to me to get me to undergo medical procedures to make me normal without my consent or input" I think people should be aware of that actually I think it's more important than arguing over labels.

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alithographica · 2 years ago

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Fun biology in TOTK’s designs

I'll keep this post updated as I go through the game. I'm going to skip the more general identifiable things like apples (they're based on apples!) because there are tons of more unusual species to talk about.

Overall, the really interesting thing I've noticed is that many of the more unique Earth-based lifeforms in TOTK are super ancient, like predating dinosaurs ancient, which is a really cool tie-in to the overall time-hopping plotline of TOTK. Specifically, they're found in the new areas (caves, depths) while the surface remains a bit more normal.

(There will be no plot spoilers in this post, and also I've barely gotten into the plot because I'm spending all my time wandering, so shhh no spoilers in the tags for like a month please.)

Most recent additions: More lilies, irises, wild ginger, spiny bones, pigeon extravaganza, plus added some more real photo comparisons to old stuff.

PLANTS

Bryophytes my beloved. Bryophytes are among the earliest land plants, waaaay predating flowers and even seeds. In our world, they’re small by necessity—they lack vascular systems to help move water around like other plants, so they have to stay small and moist (hence their frequency in caves in TOTK—though they do need some light in real life.)

In TOTK they’re quite large and I think that’s very sexy and art directors should give us big bryophytes more often

Anyway, there are three types of bryophytes: mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. First image pair is a moss, second is a liverwort. Those red-brown and palm-tree-like structures, respectively, are their reproductive structures.

Not yet spotted: Hornworts! Did they forget the third bryophyte sister :(

I think these next guys are probably lycopods (specifically club moss, which is not a true bryophyte moss, thanks science.) Very old, but vascular, so they're a bit more evolutionarily recent than bryophytes.

All the enormous curly-topped trees in the depths: Ferns! They curl like that until they unfurl. Another very old plant, though younger than bryophytes and lycopods.

Real photo via The Cosmonaut, Wikipedia

Brightblooms and some of the other giant plants in the depths: Possibly based on a cycad? Again, a very ancient plant lineage. At this point, evolutionarily, they've developed seeds—that giant cone in the center is called a strobilus, and that's the seed structure.

These next few plants are angiosperms, meaning they produce flowers. Angiosperms are a more recent evolutionary lineage—still many millions of years old, but it took a while to develop flowers as a reproductive tactic.

Sundelions (left) are a fun recolor of a lily. There are also some scenery lilies (right) in various places—there are yellow ones that spring up when you turn on a lightroot (which gives them literal and thematic connection to the surface) and several other varieties, including tiger lilies, throughout Hyrule. Fun note, the sundelions appear to only have 5 stamen, while other lilies in the game (correctly) have 6. Seems to be an intentional decision to make it a more distinct fantasy species.

These next ones are Peruvian lilies/Alstroemeria, just used as a scenery plant but a very fun inclusion. Fun fact, not true lilies, so they're not deadly to cats like true lilies are.

Plum trees: These are also called out as plum trees in game! There's a journal in Kakariko that refers to the plum orchards.

Okay I'm a little proud of figuring this one out. Bomb flowers blend a few botanical references. Superficially, the fruit resembles a type of seed pod called a capsule—specifically it's very similar to a poppy capsule. The little red thing in the center is a nice addition to resemble both a flower stigma (reproductive part that leads to the ovary) and a bomb fuse. Now, poppy capsules disperse their seeds via wind, but there are other plants who do explode their seeds outwards as a dispersal tactic! This is called explosive dehiscence.

There is one tree in particular called the sandbox tree, AKA monkey-no-climb or dynamite tree (yes, really.) Their capsules look more like little pumpkins, but are known for violently exploding when ripe—they can launch seeds at 150 miles per hour (250 km/h) and spread them roughly 200 feet (60 m) away. The photo comparison is a poppy capsule but you should def go look up dynamite tree videos.

Fire fruits (and the other elemental fruits) grow on the same generic plant that looks kind of like it has grape leaves. Fire fruits resemble a specific botanical thing too though—the black netting is a papery calyx (part of the flower) seen in a nightshade genus, Physalis (golden berries, tomatillos, etc.)

I think this stuff is an Asarum, AKA wild ginger. I was actually puzzling over it until I walked past some today and went HEY

Not sure of the exact species but they're very green and heart-shaped and love being dense and low to the ground.

Real photo via David Stang, Wikipedia

Irises: Love irises, one of my favorite flowers and words, very happy to see them in game.

MISCELLANEA

Cup lichen! Lichen is not a plant, but a symbiotic structure of an algae + a fungi. Cup lichen is just a type of lichen formation that has a kind of vertical cup-like structure.

Real photo via Bernard Spragg

Geology crossover! Go look carefully at some of the whiter walls in the depths—they look like they have fossils of coral and other undersea hard-structured animals in them.

ANIMALS

Sticky lizards: Based on Diplocaulus, a very early (now extinct) amphibian! Their skulls are wacky. We're not sure whether the long sides stood out separately or were smoothly connected to the body by skin flaps, but the separate arrow-like shape is the most popular rendition.

Deep firefly: Might be a stretch because it could just be a multi-winged fantasy critter, but I think the "wings" and antennae are very reminiscent of Anomalocaris, an ancient aquatic arthropod.

Update: Other folks in the notes/tags have pointed out that they're probably based on a cryptid that's especially popular in Japan: skyfish AKA rods! They show up in photos and people think they're an alien lifeform. In reality, they're an optical blur created when a lower quality video captures intermittent flaps of an insect's wings, leaving sort of a many-winged smear in the photo. Thanks to all who left info!

Little frox: Another stretch because it totally could just be a Hinox-like frog, but every time I see the little ones I can't help but think of like...Ichthyostega, Mastodonsaurus, Eryops, and other early amphibians. They were pretty hefty—little frox size or bigger—and had with little waddling legs. This is less "I think it's definitely this" and more "it makes me happy when I picture frox as primitive amphibians."

I haven't detailed many of the scenery animals around Hyrule because most are identifiable with the camera function—it'll tell you that a certain animal is a heron or porgy, for example, and those groups are real, even though the exact species is made up. But I think the pigeons are fun because they're all crested pigeons. Pink-necked green pigeons may have also been the inspiration for the color palettes on the wood and rainbow pigeons.

Both pigeon photos via JJ Harrison, Wikipedia

Spiny bones: Not a specific critter, but those spiny bones that you can find lying around Eldin Canyon are vertebrae—possibly from the same thing that left those big rib cages around? The top spike is the spinous process where muscles attach, the littler spikes on the side are the transverse and articular processes. The dark O in the center is the spinal cord.

Also I made a friend who finally recognizes my purpose in Hyrule.

That's all I've got for now! Will add more as I keep playing.

#tears of the kingdom #totk #legend of zelda #loz #science fun #biology #lizard #plant #botany #image heavy #long post

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