#from the fridge

[it-isw-hat-itis]

water here is not taste

[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.

[daftmooncretin]

last three seasons spn are crazy. its just dean being borderline suicidal while sam tries to fix it by basically dangling his keys at him and going : “dean look! cowboys!” “dean look! strip club!” “dean look! haunted action figure.”

Meanwhile castiel is like i see that dean is suicidal, this is clearly my fault so i will remedy this by dying.

[justslightlyconfused]

Book Jaskier: chaotic idiot who starts shit like he isn’t the size of a football you can punt over the fence

Hexer Jaskier: chill lil dude who follows you everywhere and just wants to snuggle and lounge in the sunniest window

Netflix Jaskier: unhinged feral last kitten in the sad box on the corner with big ol eyes that make you forgive him for destroying your couch

Geralt: always desperately trying to herd cats

[c-rowlesdraws]

[wisteriasymphony]

every time a tumblr post mlb rewrite mentions the fact that they're taking out marinette's 'obsessive stalker' characteristics an angel gets run over by a steamroller and fucking dies

[jhonnyhotbody]

It gets ransacked every week

This was them b4 they got their wives

[zephyrchama]

Lucifer probably does his best to keep the House of Lamentation clutter-free, meaning no personal effects are allowed in the hallways or common areas. He has to be very strict about this. Showing any of his brothers even a little leniency will cause the house to soon be overrun with massive piles of their random possessions.

What if the one (1) exception is a picture? A picture hand-drawn by MC, of everybody standing together and smiling. It has been hung up in a spot that humans supposedly only use to display their most precious art: the refrigerator door.

[teaboot]

how is Ollie doing?

Ollie crawled into my lap and snuggled with me for a solid hour and a half the other day. I thought this was odd, because he's been really bitey lately and isn't much of a cuddler. But his stomach was kind of bloated so I thought he might be gassy and feeling bad. So I rubbed his belly and enjoyed the cuddles until he was feeling better.

AND THEN I FOUND THE HOLE HE CHEWED THROUGH THE CAT FOOD BAG

[dear-ao3]

while i have you all pissed off about how to pronounce capri sun, now seems like as good a time as any to make my Things In Gas Stations And Grocery Stores That Would Send Non Americans Into A Coma post

[sailorsun546]

I have recently acquired this "rabbit" and we can't decide what to name her. She is a Jersey Wooly and everything in the world sticks to her fur.

She looks like shit right now but don't worry I'm brushing her every couple days and making sure she has plenty to eat. When I rescued her she was matted and a little under weight, but that's all being taken care of.

[nightskywrites]

the young justice team is crowded around tim’s bed in the infirmary, yelling at each other, blaming each for what went wrong when tim starts to stir. he’s flat on his back, blinking up at the team of superpowered individuals huddled around his bed, vision blurry as hell from his massive concussion. “you ok, Rob?” kon asks. “you had a bit of an accident.” (the accident was that kon and slobo were busy showing off and a stray bit of rubble went flying and hit tim in the head) “oh no,” tim slurs. “my insurance is gonna go up.”

naturally everyone is like “what the hell are you talking about” and tim just goes “jersey is a no fault state. dads gonna be so mad at me” and conks back out again.

the funnier part is that tim is 14 so he a.) does not have a license and b.) does not have a car, he just illegally drives the batmobile sometimes

[barghuest]

Here's the companion piece to this one, you're all welcome

[sylvanianfamilieslove]

[theworldlookswhite]

that eggman picture

[ot3]

I disagree with the premise that mia is a character who was Fridged in any meaningful sense of the word. Of all the misogyny in the writing you can critique ace attorney for I reaaaallly don't think mias death is because the franchise Hates Women. I think it's just pretty clearly another instance of the death of the mentor trope, and the only reason fridging is even on the table is because this instance happens to be that you have a female character who is the mentor to a male character, which is just not something that happens very frequently, and I think has a very different gendered dynamic to it than fridging implies. Like its usually The Man's Problems or Enemies that harm a woman during fridging, but mia was entirely dealing with her own shit there that phoenix knew nothing about. He just worked here. Yeah it was the inciting event for the narrative but also it's not really the source of his primary emotional conflict at all?