#it Does Something to my brain

[bamsara]

listening to 'kingdom dance' to write a scene, particularly for the dancing scene in the temple, and I think they put crack in this song

[crowleysshittyglasses]

malevolent has made me unable to listen to piano or violin music

[pennywheelfarthing]

I’m just going through my backlog of Dishonoured-related art haha. Please enjoy these sketches.

(Also WOW it’s so nice to be able to just post the full image and not have to deal with Instagram’s terrible cropping)

[mo0nchhild]

when musical numbers do the two characters singing simultaneously and occasionally harmonizing while each one sings their respective lines and sometimes being able to hear one person better than the other one and even though they don't sing the same words it still fits so perfectly together UGH SO GOOD

[prismatic-starstuff]

Happy tenth birthday to 'I was born sick, but I love it; command me to be well' and 'no masters or kings when the ritual begins, there is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin' and 'in the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene, only then I am human, only then I am clean' and other lyrics that drive me absolutely fucking feral each and every time

[cowboyviolence]

I need to do a chore in town today which means I have an excuse to go to the thrift store and Look at the Videotapes

[dany36]

[matildashoney]

me when i think i’ve grown and then i see one person talk shit about niall and i’m ready to go to war

[queer-ghosts]

i have, once again, been watching too much macdoesit.

[twisted-bonez]

literally obsessed with the design of blobjects

[buggachat]

something so fucked up about Chat Noir’s whole deal is that he is in a lot of ways Adrien playing a character. Like Adrien picked up his miraculous and was told he’d be a superhero so he was like “ok, time to act like a superhero!” and he lets himself have fun w it and play up the role and let loose and kind of just allow himself to be silly and goofy and have fun and for once in his life not care about performing Perfection™.

But. But none of the other characters KNOW THAT. So everyone just sees Chat Noir and is like “look at this guy’s ego. He’s so full of himself. Surely it’d be fair to knock him down a few pegs” without being aware of how few pegs he actually HAS. He’s like the “insecure character who overcompensates in ego” trope except he’s really not doing it unironically, he’s just having a fun LARP pretending to have self worth in his off-hours but nobody else is on the same page about it being a game and he refuses to tell them. He just dramatically pouts about it and lets them laugh and pretends like he’s not internalizing it and it is almost 3 am and my brain forced me to write this instead of sleeping I’m gonna take a melatonin

[lucabyte]

On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.

Bonus:

[koifoxes]

mv doodles

[lazycranberrydoodles]

english translation book 5 baby we are in the ‘people assuming kid form hua cheng is xie lian’s son’ era 🔥🔥🔥 / follow for more hualian silliness

[sugarcoatednightshade]

thinking about how Humans Are Space Orcs stories always talk about how indestructible humans are, our endurance, our ability to withstand common poisons, etc. and thats all well and good, its really fun to read, but it gets repetitive after a while because we aren't all like that.

And that got me thinking about why this trope is so common in the first place, and the conclusion I came to is actually kind of obvious if you think about it. Not everyone is allowed to go into space. This is true now, with the number of physical restrictions placed on astronauts (including height limits), but I imagine it's just as strict in some imaginary future where humans are first coming into contact with alien species. Because in that case there will definitely be military personnel alongside any possible diplomatic parties.

And I imagine that all interactions aliens have ever had up until this point have been with trained personnel. Even basic military troops conform to this standard, to some degree. So aliens meet us and they're shocked and horrified to discover that we have no obvious weaknesses, we're all either crazy smart or crazy strong (still always a little crazy, academia and war will do that to you), and not only that but we like, literally all the same height so there's no way to tell any of us apart.

And Humans Are Death Worlders stories spread throughout the galaxy. Years or decades or centuries of interspecies suspicion and hostilities preventing any alien from setting foot/claw/limb/appendage/etc. on Earth until slowly more beings are allowed to come through. And not just diplomats who keep to government buildings, but tourists. Exchange students. Temporary visitors granted permission to go wherever they please, so they go out in search of 'real terran culture' and what do they find?

Humans with innate heart defects that prevent them from drinking caffeine. Humans with chronic pain and chronic fatigue who lack the boundless endurance humans are supposedly famous for. Humans too tall or too short or too fat to be allowed into space. Humans who are so scared of the world they need to take pills just to function. Humans with IBS who can't stand spicy foods, capsaicin really is poison to them. Lactose intolerance and celiac disease, my god all the autoimmune disorders out there, humans who struggle to function because their own bodies fight them. Humans who bruise easily and take too long to heal. Humans who sustained one too many concussions and now struggle to talk and read and write. Humans who've had strokes. Humans who were born unable to talk or hear or speak, and humans who through some accident lost that ability later.

Aliens visit Earth, and do you know what they find? Humanity, in all its wholeness.

[halflifebutawesome]

I am a good person. I am a powerful person, I don't believe in evil. I think that evil is an idea created by others to avoid dealing with their own nature. I understand my own nature, good and evil have nothing to do with it.