#creekfiend

[oolunar-spams]

Tumblr is telling me to get off my ass

[max-righ]

My dash did A Thing lmao

I had to scroll between these two images for a solid 30 seconds to realize it was not a purposeful gimmick

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

TAVROS: jUST ASKED THE BARISTIA FOR A "12 INCH" LATTE RATHER THAN A "12 OUNCE" LATTE, tRIED TO CORRECT MYSELF, aND DID IT AGAIN,

TAVROS: i'M ALIVE AWAKE ALERT ENTHUSIASTIC TODAY, cLEARLY,

TEREZI: B4RK33P!!! G1MM3 TH3 FOOTLONG

[the-haiku-bot]

I used to draw these

all the time in high school. I

called them Indeed Cats

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

I used to draw these all the time in high school. I called them Indeed Cats

[incorrectdmp]

Baku: kids these days just want to be on phone. NO ONE is dying at my antarctic research station

[peeemsaymorebeamnotifs]

WHO'S BEEN HIT WITH THE SEYMOUR BEAM TODAY

@saintgothicsoul @shylokvakarian @justarandomguyiguess @melodyfrogface @solidwater05 @alessandromancodogphotograp-blog @sexhaver @6qubed @la-luna-verde @drizzileiscool @nbtelethia @tim-official @demi-ro-demi @mayhamster @lenaisanerd @pukicho @forswornseparatist @bunjywunjy @korensolust @cannibalchicken @paneerlajwanti @chablemisspell @suddenlysprite @theoneofwhomisblue @eggshellsareneat @catchymemes @prescription-cactus @whentobuytraintickets @cooler-cactus @zegalba @adobe-outdesign @liquidstar @creekfiend @probablybadrpgideas @sovietnam

You guys have gotten in the newest P.M. Seymour video!

[morhath]

gf responded to the fucking "hey don't do that thing" novel I sent her and her #review re: how I presented things pretty much boils down to "so you accidentally reinvented dbt from scratch"

[obeetlebeetle]

something with dora that pisses me off re: the critical reaction to her is that she is absorbed by her metaphor in a way that harry or fan-favorite npcs like, say, kim or jean are not absorbed. kim and jean both function on a similar metaphorical level as dora, but bc they are more present in the story -- and frankly bc they are seen as romantically desirable -- they dodge the bullet of dehumanization. jean in particular is frustrating to me, bc ppl want to either erase or villainize the role harry's alcoholism played in their relationship in order to make their romantic content more digestible or compelling, depending on their chosen approach to framing alcoholism in a deeply reductive light. so you have ppl doing double the work to give jean texture without actually exploring the relationship between harry and jean in a way that respects either of them. (similar shit with the way kim is regularly depicted as harry's savior (from alcoholism, among other things.)) meanwhile dora, who is as much a victim of harry's alcoholism as jean and harry himself, will never be extended the same generosity in her reading. never ever have i seen someone talking about what it would have been like for her to enter this relationship with harry, watch him join the rcm, and subsequently lose him in every possible way to alcoholism and other forms of substance abuse. idk. exhausting when the wiki is able to better articulate caveats for character analysis than most of the ppl doing the analysis

[b-blushes]

anyway i'm proud that i found some nice things to do today because waking up with a completely blank day due to health uncertainty is my idea of hell and i feel like i did things that're way better for me overall than idk sitting on my laptop and feeling sad all day :P

[hypokeimena]

i was just talking about this after being wrecked by the discovery that the little elf-goblin fellows my parents/family used to tell me warnings and stories about as a little kid are regionally specific, and that you can trace people's geographic origins by what word they use for "little spirit-fellows who live in your house". no matter what you call them (domovoi, kobolde, brownies, so on); for purposes of this post henceforth "little guys"

i think one of the things that i find frustrating about like, idk, modern animist revivalist movements is that very few of them ime spend a lot of time romanticising and spiritualizing human habitation. obviously, we as a culture need to think more about protecting and defending nature/the earth/so on, but like.

if you don't have room in your heart for making up a little guy who lives in the water heater, or who squats under your stove and makes it run 15 degrees off the programmed temperature, and thinking of him with the same kind of respect/affection as you do for the spirits (or whatever) of the wildlife you interact with like.

genuinely: what are you even doing. you are removing a source of richness and fun and whimsy from your life! like, pip @creekfiend made up the concept of "little guys who live in an airport (and are the reason it's so shitty to be in an airport)" and i already like airports like 30% more just knowing it's the little airport inconvenience guys doing that.

more importantly, like. genuinely: interrogate what parts of the world seem ~rich with spiritual meaning~ to you. what parts of the world are "wild"? what does that make the rest of the world - a chore? a burden? who has to carry that burden?

we're never going to like, "return to nature", because that's nothing and the concept of untouched nature is also nothing; we're always going to have some sort of human habitation and interaction and cultivation with nature. if you can't extend grace and whimsy and genuine and sincere meaning to human habitation, including its inconveniences and annoyances, you are making your own lived experience duller!

notably, most of these kinds of little-guy-spirits historically exist in the parts of human habitation that are partially abandoned, partially removed: haylofts, inside the walls, under the house, in the bathhouse, behind the furnace... i've been thinking a lot about urban wildlife lately, and the animals who make space for themselves in and around human habitation. the "natural" and the "wild" persist inside and around the edges of the "tame" and always, always have. if you have a crawlspace, there's a little spirit who lives there and he's the reason the dryer always eats your socks.

LIVE WHIMSICALLY.

[seaglassandeelgrass]

The swingset scene was very melancholy and moving and I'm sure it would have been even more so had I (real-life-i) not had the WORLD'S WORST CASE OF THE HICCUPS as it was happening

[veddabredda]

I love her so much.

She was noodling around and then she saw her best friend Dexter

[hollowedskin]

@creekfiend I was thinking about your Guy Who Only Wants Graphic Depictions Of Violence, and the Art Looker, and I think I've found a new type of guy via incomprehensible Tumblr ads.

Behold:

Guy who just wants the conversation to be uncomfortable. Any topic.

[nefja]

New list. Old one was from 2020.

A - @achoirofcritters @armasthekooiker @agent-fluff-agent-wrinkle @a-framed-dog @archy-with-a-y @abirddogmoment

B - @blueboyluca @boofblr @bouncyrabbit @beansnpeetsets

C - @clocksallzeros @creekfiend

D - @darkwood-sleddog @darcy-of-the-dondaloo @doomspaniels @dandylittleman

E - @exploring-with-blue

F - @fishsticksfromthenorth-ish @floofboof @fidgetspringer @fjordfolk @firelightfoxes

G - @golden-girl-daisy @groenendaze 

H - @halleythecometcorgi @hadissima

I -  @intriga-hounds

J - @justslowdown @legomydoggos

K - @konmari-dogs

L - @lokis-hexe @little-fox-adventures @lifewithduma @logan-maya

M - @maisietheyellowlab @mango-pup @mongrelization

N - @northerndogs

O - @ofcarnivora @oregonforestdog @ollietherottweiler @onebrightflash @odddogblog

P - @pointy-pup @poodletime @pseudopoodle @photozoi @pocketdogs

R - @riley-coyotl

S - @sammythesheltie @smalltownweenies @sidetongue @sheepdog-and-fakegoldenretriever @spitzonthefritz @soulpups

T - @twogriffons @twobigears @twoweirdmutts

W - @woolywoofs @winedogs @washingtonhound

Z - @zeldathesheltie

[gender-trash]

oh my God I got to your blog from creekfiend and I neglected to read your bio before sending that ask about the little gadget. assuming it's not a joke about you being a robot master lol

yeah, it's not a joke, i am a professional robot torturer! (technically my job title is 'roboticist' but yknow. same difference.) not a mechanical engineer though, i mostly do software (and sometimes firmware or electronics). in this house we love a Little Gadget <3