#despite appearances

[pratchettquotes]

The last ninja was upright, but only just; Hamish had run his wheelchair over his foot. Mr. Saveloy patted the taxman's arm. "Excuse me," he said. "I find I often have to intervene at this stage."

He padded over to the surviving man, who was looking around wildly. Six swords had become interlaced around his next as though he'd taken part in a rather energetic folk dance.

"Good morning," said Mr. Saveloy. "I should just point out that the Ghengiz here is, despite appearances, a remarkably honest man. He finds it hard to understand empty bravura. May I venture to suggest therefore that you refrain from phrases like 'I would rather die than betray my emperor' or 'Go ahead and do your worst' unless you really, really mean them. Should you wish for mercy, a simple hand signal will suffice. I strongly advise you not to nod."

Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“I love this. Because it's a Truth: you can be utterly ordinary and unnoticeable by our cultural standards -- AND be teeming with Magic. It's one of the tricks of the Divine.

[Thanks Leila L'Abate]

* * * *

"I want to sleep for a while, a moment, a minute, a century; but let everyone know that I am not dead."

- Federico Garcia Lorca

[Literland]

[rebeccasteventaylor]

Do you ever have a moment where you look at the Moon and think ‘fuck me, that’s a huge ball of rock in space and I can see it. I can see its valleys and mountains. I can see this amazing huge thing IN SPACE’

Just - blows my mind

[aleisters]

concept raphael fucked so hard - i love the final design of him but i wish we got this skintone at least, this deeper desaturated burgundy colour. it's SO fucking sexy.

[whowouldwininafite]

[logicthompson]

"WHERE I WANNA BE" 24"x36"

by Logic Thompson

Despite Appearances...

I am a mess of different thoughts, feelings, ideas, blood, tissue, hair, sweat, discomfort, fear, and weakness. I've spent 30 years of my life feeling like I didn't belong anywhere and would never have anything. Even among my wins and my blessings, I am confronted with the fact that none of it lasts. Yet I understand now... that Despite Appearances, I somehow, am right WHERE I WANNA BE.

[mage8]

Yeah but Dan had been watching him on YouTube for ages. He knew him. ...Parasocial relationships make you feel like you know someone. There are accounts of quite a few YouTubers who used this to take advantage of their viewers. Thank God Dan went to meet Phil and not anybody else.

18yr old Dan risking it all and taking a train to meet some random guy on the internet for a weekend alone at his house

[abyssalaerlocke]

Rereading my WIP. Had a good laugh at the typo...

Enver's mind screamed at him the importance of this man.

I know you. I know you. I know you.

Dark eyes fucking up to meet his own.

"I take it you missed me," he grinned.

[bluegiragi]

priorities

early access + nsfw on patreon monster!AU masterpost

[lilianade-comics]

the face of a man who neither regrets his answer nor is aware of his imminent violent demise

[paradoxbeta]

Who wants a bit of Minecraft spec bio?

In my headcanon for Minecraft the majority of mobs share a very recent common ancestor with a slime-mold adjacent organism called the "root node," meaning most mobs (villagers, illagers, skeletons, zombies, mooshrooms, others) are fungoid/plantoid-appearing creatures.

Villagers are among the most complex of them all, boasting an intricate method of expression through extendable facial "petals" (thin, mostly transparent membranes) that shift in color, pattern, and intensity to express a vast and dynamic field of emotions. The protrusions on their head resembling eyebrows and a nose light up in patterns to convey information. Conversation is occasionally emphasized by vocal cues (the iconic "hrms").

While impossible to translate standard villager conversation into something intelligible to humans without advanced technology, Steve is the most "fluent in villager," with a baseline understanding of what different colors mean on a villager's petals and even dyed paper cards to replicate the expressions himself. He also has established a rudimentary sign language with the nearby village.

Steve works with a certain villager he's nicknamed The Language Guy, or "TLG," to propose new signs or revise existing ones. TLG distributes language updates to the village when they happen. TLG is the most "fluent in human," so they are the village's Steve equivalent when it comes to diplomacy with humans. They are also working on writing a book with every established sign and its definition. Since villagers don't have a written language yet, it consists of easily interpreted pictograms.

Humans and villagers have rather shallow avenues of communication due to their complete lack of intuition about each other's natures. However, due to their frequent interactions, TLG and Steve are very close friends for creatures with a compatibility gap bigger than the Grand Canyon.

Alex would really like to learn about all of this, but she's not quite got the hang of it yet.

[thelostmoongazer]

yeah he's baby girl or whatever

[freelanceplatypus]

Dungeon Meshi modern au where both Laois and Falin are food vloggers. Laois is always travelling to remote areas and cultures to try the most "extreme" foods and bring them to light. He's known as the guy who will drink blood and slam a still wriggling bug just to comment on it's nutty flavor. Meanwhile Falin is visiting long-standing eateries and sharing the stories behind local cuisine.

Nobody actually puts together they're siblings (in part due to wildly different viewerbases) until Falin in one video mentions how she enjoys eating insects and the comment section is full of folks asking her to "collab with the bug guy". Her very next video is her and Laois smiling infront of a mukbang style platter of insects and she introduces him as her brother.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Good Morning, World.

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[skiptoyuri]

what i've gathered from this is that hagi is physiologically opposed to having normal thought processes

why is asagi the only one with two brain cells around here is this who we really are

[jadecantcreate]

ouaw meme adjacent doodles part ivelostcounttheyhavetakenovermylifefreeme

edit: this is mostly just about them in general guys, they all care so much (too much, even)