#and then released outside

[fleuranna]

One of my favorite facts about snail slime is that it's a natural material that has properties of both a lubricant and an adhesive! How many other materials can you think of that can reduce friction and stay sticky?

Unrelated but a slug broke into my apartment yesterday and I found her just vibing on the bottom of my laptop. I think she squeezed between the (theoretically closed) window panes. She left a lovely slime trail on my curtains and wall lol

Slug tax

ive recently been able to get over my sensory issues regarding moisturizer by literally just saying "im going snail mode"

[sexhaver]

cannot even begin to imagine the Blade Runner cyberpunk shit this ladybug i found on my RGB keyboard was going through

[themetalhiro]

At least thats what i think he said.

[gorgynei]

"I thought I could do it. And the world will remember me as its greatest villain. [...] I'm a fool. And I brought ruin to the world. Hope that you are forgotten." —Vespin Chloras

ohh bells hells. what have you done.....

[morggn]

shoutout to the girls

commission info

[theblack-dog]

The OG #ihatemybf

[toxiccaves]

Animated Metal Cardbot WeChat stickers from the official JUMPGO account.

I am not sure if these are authorized for use outside of WeChat, so use at your own risk.

[avariceaside]

thinking about him

[blueskittlesart]

*sigh* thoughts on Nintendo's botw/totk timeline shenanigans and tomfoolery?

tbh. my maybe-unpopular opinion is that the timeline is only important when a game's place on the timeline seriously informs the way their narrative progresses. the problem is that before botw we almost NEVER got games where it didn't matter. it matters for skyward sword because it's the beginning, and it matters for tp/ww/alttp (and their respective sequels) because the choices the hero of time makes explicitly inform the narrative of those games in one way or another. it matters which timeline we're in for those games because these cycles we're seeing are close enough to oot's cycle that they're still feeling the effects of his choices. botw, however, takes place at minimum 10 thousand years after oot, so its place on the timeline actually functionally means nothing. botw is completely divorced from the hero of time & his story, so what he does is a nonissue in the context of botw link and zelda's story. thus, which timeline botw happens in is a nonissue. honestly I kind of liked the idea that it happened in all of them. i think there's a cool idea of inevitability that can be played with there. but the point is that the timeline exists to enhance and fill in the lore of games that need it, and botw/totk don't really need it because the devs finally realized they could make a game without the hero of time in it.

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

just got an absolutely despicable idea for a Stevepop fic I need u guys to know I am making this exact face

[blossoms-phan]

thinking about how ever since they met there was a time period of a handful of months where the longest they would go without seeing each other was a week or two at a time and they publicly longed and yearned for each other every time they were separated and then their visits were defined by hometowns and train rides and then phil moved out and dan showed up and kept him and the longest they were apart from 2009 to 2022 was two and a half fucking weeks and then dan went on tour for 2 months and travelled across the world to make it back for phil’s birthday and oh god they’re literally inseparable

[chirpsythismorning]

Yeah a teaser dropping on ST day would be cool. But can we agree that a DNA board reveal would be infinitely better?

[marketableplushieenthusiast]

(Spoilers for Shadow Generations)

I think what I appreciate most about Shadow Generations is just that it gives Shadow ACTUAL, CANON closure for his struggle between good and evil.

By the end of Adventure 2, he remembered his promise to Maria and made his choice to save the world, but then he "dies".

When Heroes revives him, he doesn't remember any of that.

His namesake game (and I say this as gently as possible), as cool as the multiple endings were, feels so unsatisfying. We get to see Shadow's potential for good and evil, sure, but then the true canon ending comes, and it doesn't specify what he did (or even what exactly he remembered about his past) to get there, and then he just decides not to let his past control him. Which isn't a terrible direction on paper, but the symbolism of him literally throwing away a picture of his family just seems... Like the opposite of what made this character appealing in the first place?

And from there, the games kept giving mixed signals. Sonic '06 shows how deeply he and Team Dark come to care for each other, but then its events get literally removed from the timeline. Sega begins to pretend that Team Dark aren't even friends in their mandates for a while (despite the fact they clearly care for each others' wellbeing before anybody else's). Shadow becomes practically a popsicle stick puppet for "angry, serious, violent rival", and they never feel a need to explain his motivations or reactions beyond waving at that four word character description again.

Shadow's appeal (at least to me) was never that he was a character who didn't care about anything - it was that he cared very deeply, actually. (Someone who nearly lets the world be destroyed as revenge for losing his family is the exact opposite of someone who doesn't care!) He may not be cheerful, he may be quiet and stern, he may have a temper and be capable of terrible things if he isn't careful, but he isn't heartless.

And Shadow Generations FINALLY got it right, I feel.

There's now no doubt that he remembers his past, and that it did matter to him. It still does, in fact, and we're dropping the idea that he'll move on from it like it never happened. That's not how tragedy works.

But he will be able to move forward.

He has finally, WITHOUT GETTING AMNESIA, IN THE CANON TIMELINE, gotten to become the hero Maria wanted him to be.

That doesn't mean his story's over: I'm sure they can still find adventures to send him on. And that doesn't mean he needs any kind of complete personality overhaul, either. He can still be more aggressive than Team Sonic, and more stern, and maybe even more willing to resort to questionable methods to fight next week's bad guy.

But all of Team Dark has gotten to acknowledge that they do, in fact, care for each other, even if their attitudes aren't as chummy as Team Sonic.

Shadow has gotten to hear from his family that they are proud of him, weird alien DNA and all, and that even though he will have to go the rest of his long life without them, their love will always go with him, and give him the strength he needs to overcome any of his darker parts.

Shadow having a darker edge than Sonic and Shadow being a hero are things that can and SHOULD coexist, and I'm so glad we finally got to see it for him without it getting wiped from canon or his own memories again.

[normalbrothershow]

LUCIFER Until then, I’ll be in my room.

SAM It—

DEAN (to LUCIFER) : It’s not your room.

SAM: It’s my room.

[ra-vio]

this blog is 11 years old now 🎉

I drew the siblings ever to celebrate as usual

[dancingdaffodils08]

I’m excited for season 2 of pjo because we get to see Charlie Bushnell be evil. I am deprived of his cunty head tilts.