#and this one in particular stuck with me

[stealthrockdamage]

3: A song that reminds you of summertime!

SHOFUKAN by SNARKY PUPPY

[keeskiwi]

So much more of the natural world feels close and accessible now. When I started birding, I remember thinking that I’d never see most of the species in my field guide. Sure, backyard birds like robins and western bluebirds would be easy, but not black skimmers or peregrine falcons or loggerhead shrikes. I had internalized the idea of nature as distant and remote — the province of nature documentaries and far-flung vacations. But in the past six months, I’ve seen soaring golden eagles, heard duetting great horned owls, watched dancing sandhill cranes and marveled at diving Pacific loons, all within an hour of my house. “I’ll never see that” has turned into “Where can I find that?”

-Ed Yong, When I Became a Birder, Almost Everything Else Fell Into Place

[starryluminary]

I liked The Arch Villain and The Schemer a little too much

[mssallsunday]

mouthwashing features a mc who rapes and impregnates a woman and then crashes a spaceship full of innocent people to cover that fact up when the news gets out to the ppl she confides in and the captain tells her her assaulter wouldn't do that because he "knows him" and the mc pretends like it never happened as he is haunted by the images of his lies and deceit and cowardice and the image of his unborn child and the sound of a child's cries and the captain who failed to act cannot move himself or feed himself or speak for himself or defend himself when the mc attacks him and berates him and blames him for every lie he's ever told as the captain loses every scrap of autonomy he has left. but yeah it's about fucking. capitalism and yaoi. whatever i guess

[adastreia-12]

rip percy calling echidna an anteater from australia you will be missed

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

and if i said suguru’s relationship with weakness (’the preciousness of the weak, the ugliness of the weak’) was born out of his feelings towards his mother …

[fatedroses]

I know I design him with the intention that he becomes an evasion tank, but there's an irony I find very amusing in making his new magitek armor lighter than his original.

[bardicbird]

fanart of very normal girl doing very normal girl things don’t worry abt it !

[mawrrbid]

Last night, I dreamt that I was getting married to a man, and as we were eating dinner with his family, his sister was saying something along the line "now the next step is children".

Idk what got to me at this point and I started praying to whatever god to send me a sign to tell me how fucked I was, then a bumblebee try to crawl in my nose and I just woke up.

[radiantmists]

binged both chalice of the gods and the hidden oracle in the last few days and tbh i don't care if zeus would blast me to bits, if he were real it would be on sight

[flufflecat]

More effigy progress

[cassmouse]

If you want to follow me you may have to defeat my seven evil simultaneous hyperfixations

[immortalsins]

potentially got invited to the pub by the people i met last night, not sure if that's on but i'll be paralysed with stress until i know

[arctic-hands]

Not to be a downer and this isn't an indictment of people celebrating this, but I remember watching an as-it-happened documentary (my favorite type of documentary tbh) on the fiftieth anniversary of the Moon Landing and then halfway into it the spell it had over me snapped and I just started thinking "What did the people fighting in Vietnam, both sides, think of all this? Where was that 'moment of global unity' everyone has been talking about for the last fifty years that was allegedly during this moment? What about the people slaving away in factories or in fields or prison during this? What about the people who couldn't afford a TV because of rampant wealth inequality? There was so much vitriol in this moment just for people who wanted to be treated equal but I'm told the world as a whole and America in particular had come together."

I love as-it-happened documentaries because I love putting myself in moments that witness history in the making, good or bad, but I couldn't reconcile this idealized version of what I've been told my entire life and the historical truths I knew were going on as Americans landed on the moon

[banannabethchase]

Is it normal to ask a question at work via email to multiple professionals who have more expertise in the particular area, get a response from one of those individuals, find out you might have sent some of the wrong people your question email, and then spend the rest of the day panicking because if you think you look stupid? Even though one of the people you emailed was in fact the correct person to email, and that person helped you figure out what actually was going on because you didn't know what it was because you were not the specialist in that area, which is why you emailed three people because you knew one of those three would be the specialist that could help you? And one person was the specialist, who came and was able to help you figure out the next steps to work through the situation?

This can't be normal. I feel like normal people don't focus on whether or not they look stupid when they first of all got the answer to their question, and second of all did indeed find one of the people out of their email who could help them answer the question.