#deep nonsense

[queen-vessaraia-ashlynne]

If everyone lived to serve others, then who would be served? For you cannot be both the servant and the served.

[aaaalexthewritersir]

my biggest fans are literally me and my two friend-family sisters

one of them wrote a coffee shop au with my oc's and the other was devastated when i gave up on my wip she'd been hyping up from the start

as for me? i get excited at my own stories like i've never read them before. like omg what happens next? the thing that i just wrote? no fucking way dude, how was i supposed to see this coming?

maybe this is wildly off topic, but found family is truly at its best when you see yourself as one of the people that you found.

feeling like an outcast as a child because i was too afraid to show anyone when i was feeling a negative emotion. giving myself criticism i wouldn't levy against my worst enemy. my real Moment of growing up was taking that kid by the hand, taking them to a mirror, and saying 'i think every part of you is wonderful' and offering a place in my found family.

my friends are my found family. without a doubt. but i'm also my found family. and that's pretty dope.

[daeneryssansa]

THE LION KING (1994) HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, 2.04 (2024)

[ohmerricat]

missy says “the doctor kills people too, i just enjoy it more. he’s the farmer, i’m the hunter, you know” and that makes me think she’s intimately aware of the sacrificial lamb paradigm. the lord is my shepherd. companions as beautiful little foals raised for the slaughter. with sorrow, of course, and remorse. the farmer loves every new creature in their flock with an emotional tenderness reserved for children and lovers. he’ll grieve when the butcher comes. he always does. but it’s inevitable. and you can always pretend your pet will live as long as you but fifty dog years are ten of your own. and when the time comes to put them down you’ll blame the vet. you’ll blame whoever has to bleed the calf. you’ll try not to blame yourself. after all, creatures in the wild alone lead such boring, listless lives. you’re showing them the wonders of the cosmos they’d never have seen with their normalcy-blinkered gaze. you’re doing them a favour. you’ll adopt another one. it will thank you as the light leaves its eyes.

but the hunter is evil, you say. the hunter kills willfully, the hunter stalks its prey, the hunter attacks with no mercy. instantly. painlessly, maybe. is that really so much worse?

after all, many moons ago, with a bloodied rock in his hands and the spectre of Death breathing down his neck, the hunter’s future had become the farmer’s first sacrifice. many moons ago, cain was the farmer and abel the hunter. and cain killed abel

[californiatowhee]

x-men: first class screencap redraws (ace attorney edition), ft. phoenix/edgeworth from the rage and serenity scene

[king-mera]

One good thing that came out of the AI art boom is that it made me appreciate abstract art more. I never hated it, but huge canvases painted in one solid color never impressed me much until now. Someone actually had to put the effort into gathering the materials and creating something. They didn’t simply come up with an idea and let something else produce it for them.

It’s not the end result that matters so much as the process. The act of creation is, in itself, a work of art.

[books-books-smolderinglooks]

"Lookin' at you got me thinkin' nonsense, cartwheels in my stomach when you walk in.." 💜❤️

[seventhartandothers]

I really need an episode where Caine goes all into adventures with Pomni to possibly try to make her have fun and get along the circus but is like the most terrifying thing to Pomni.

It would be hilarious please give me a

Pomni: We're going die-

Caine: of FUN!

[cyborgmagpie]

I don't think any would make it as is the Myth, but yk. You pick who's Orpheus and who's Eurydice.

[theotherbuckley]

Okay but Tommy drops out of high school — he told his father he was gay and he told him he could either be homeless or go to military school. He goes to military school and joins the army and he likes flying the helicopters because it means he doesn’t have to do any of the killing himself. And he makes some friends.

There's one guy who's like the squad leader who's a few years old and built like a Greek god and Tommy's young and a little bit in love. And they're friends maybe even family because this whole group of people spend every waking (and sleeping) moment together. And they all talk like a family and they all say they love each other and tease each other and it's nice. And one night it's just the two of them trading a flask of some sort of alcohol that Tommy doesn't know the name of and the man asks Tommy why he joined the army and where he wants to be in five years and Tommy trusts this man. He's half way in love with him so he doesn't even think twice before he tells the story about the time he came out to his family and his father nearly beat him to death before sending him here. And the conversation tapers off after that and he doesn’t register the change in the air but when he wakes up the next morning he’s being dishonourably discharged because he poses “unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability”. He knows what that means.

Tommy joins the fire department because he doesn’t know what else to do. He represses anything regarding his sexuality because he knows now that it’s wrong. He almost feels like he has a family again because his captain seems to like him and some of the guys are cool even if they say things he doesn’t agree with. And then he starts agreeing because maybe they’re right and he’s wrong and he’s just inherently wrong. So he follows their leads and is just straight racist because that’s how he can fit in.

And then a black lesbian woman joins and says she’s a black lesbian woman and Tommy doesn’t understand that either because you can’t be queer you just can’t be because it’s wrong.

But he nearly dies and and an Asian man saves his life and a black lesbian woman comes up with a better idea than any of them had and she tells them she’s no different and she is just as capable. So he improves himself he does and he tries to be better but he still can’t be who he is because the last 2 times he was honest about that he was betrayed.

Tommy leaves the 118 and “don’t ask, don’t tell” is lifted and he meets this guy he likes who likes him back and the 217 don’t seem to have a problem with the gender neutral pronouns and he slowly but surely lets himself open up again and be who he is and when the thing with that guy doesn’t work out because he’s moving to New York and Tommy’s not sure he’s ready to leave, it’s okay because his crew is there and they support him and he can still be himself.

[yea-baiyi]

is hua cheng really taller in his true form than as san lang. or is it just the five inch platform boots that mxtx doesn’t want to admit he’s wearing

[marzipanandminutiae]

still not over the absolutely braindead take that "if you say brutalism looks dystopian, you care more about your aesthetic than people having homes!!!!"

like

can't criticize Shein or you must want their workers to be unemployed

oh you don't like that restaurant? guess you want the people eating there to STARVE

fuck both roses AND bread; nutrient-dense gray EnergyCubes would keep you alive so wishing for a better sensory experience is basically capitalist bootlicking

(I agree that considering Soviet-era brutalist apartment buildings in the context of "shit we need housing; put something up quick" is important for those specific structures- though I think that can coexist with "wow that's ugly" -but. this person did not stop there)

[thelassoway]

Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso Season 3 » Casual Sweaters/Jumpers

[fromtheseventhhell]

Unlocked a new piece of "Arya can't control herself' lore and, apparently, people think her ability to control herself comes from her pretending to be someone else. So it isn't Arya who has self-control, it's Arry/Weasel/Nan/etc. and that's why she wouldn't be able to control herself in KL, cause she couldn't handle being "Arya". I am fascinated by people twisting themselves into pretzels to deny Arya's capabilities, at this point it's an unhealthy compulsion 😭

[danshive]

So, you can know how long a mile or a kilometer is in terms of numbers, but... Do you KNOW how long a mile or kilometer is? Is that actual tangible information for you?

Example: If something is five feet, that has meaning I can immediately understand, because I can compare it easily enough to my own height. It's not a vague idea.

If you were to ask me where I'd end up a mile north from my home, however, I wouldn't have a clear answer for you in spite of knowing the surrounding area well. Even with a map, I would require a ruler (or the digital equivalent).

If told "go a mile that way to get a prize" (and ignoring that this is very obviously a trap), would you know when to stop walking without a predetermined landmark? This general idea isn't specific to miles or kilometers. What I'm truly considering is the difference between knowing something, and KNOWING something.

If that makes any sense.

[ink-the-artist]

u been hit with the scambaiting craze too huh? I really like kitboga's vids, would recommend!

yessss i luv this animation someone made of one of his calls