#it's probably pretty common actually

[kaito-spotted]

Spotted !! Unable to find his name in the coke aisle !

(Photo by Evonne Yuwen Teoh on Unsplash)

[tea-cat-arts]

Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

[gray-warden]

I just realized I never posted photos of this really pretty harvestman i came across a while back. Note the green pedipalps and the dark and light spots on its back.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

putting my prediction on record now that the coming decade is going to see the rise of viral-marketed fancy at-home water filtration systems, driving and driven by a drastic reduction in the quality of U.S. tap water (given that we are in a 'replacement era' where our current infrastructure is reaching the end of its lifespan--but isn't being replaced). also guessing that by the 2030s access to drinkable tap water will be a mainstream class issue, with low-income & unstably housed people increasingly forced to rely on expensive bottled water when they can't afford the up-front cost of at-home filtration--and with this being portrayed in media as a "moral failing" and short-sighted "choice," rather than a basic failure of our political & economic systems. really hope i'm just being alarmist, but plenty of this already happens in other countries, and the U.S. is in a state of decline, so. here's praying this post ages into irrelevance. timestamped April 2023

[sentientsky]

god i hope this makes sense. idk how to accurately describe it to non-ocd ppl. in my experience, a “safe number” is like a number you land on (or sometimes multiples or denominations of the number) when doing repetitive compulsions that mean the action is “safe” or “right” and the obsession can be suppressed and/or dispelled. if that makes sense

[edwinisms]

I find it so hard to believe edwin only has a first and last name. like that boy has GOT to have at LEAST one middle name. and/or a baptismal name. like tell me you can’t see this boy having like. four or five names

[osirian-rises]

So sorry to Eddie, peace and love my dude, but I've had NUMEROUS house of Anubis dreams about Jerome being the Osirian that just elevates the Rufus dynamic to God Levels.

I'm dreaming about these bitches almost every night at this point.

[fanciestgeckofella]

yknow, i think that q!maxo death has a very big potential for having one of the biggest lores in the server, because he is the only one that we have seen dying and not respawning. do you remember that theory that the feds were trying to discover how the islanders can respawn in the first place? they discovered how to make something that is indestructible as far as we know (cucurucho), sure, they kinda have discovered something with the eggs only having 2 lives, but they dont know how to kill something and keep it infinitely coming back. but now qmaxo is dead, and if the feds discover how to kill something that was infinitely reborn before, they might discover how to make something that keeps coming back no matter if theyre dead or not. something that death cant touch, cant hold. something perfect.

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

I see a lot of messed up jellyfish washed up on the beach at my job, i'm now afraid that I'm going to look down in the water one day and see the baeve balsimied xerox perceiving back at me

Haha, understandable concern, although you should have no fear! Dreams are just that, stories made up by the subconscious when the brain is cleaning things up. Seems kinda wild to see jellyfish washed up on beaches, in general! What if you step on one!?

[discjude]

whatever afterlife exists in SGE must be the funniest shit ever imagine being some Jaunt Jolie peasant who gets a little too in the way of the Snake and dying only to see The Literal School Master cheering the Snake on. Imagine dying of like cholera or something and taking a little Ghost Vacation to Camelot and seeing the King of Camelot - who's dead, apparently - beating the shit out of some random other boy with weird eyes. imagine how flesh and blood went down. Do you think they all had popcorn for that

[mishy-mashy]

[ralsukriselle]

consider this some Ralsei Positivity to counterbalance all the "ralsei is gonna turn Evil look how Suspicious he is" speculating. it's time we appreciated him a little instead.

sure, he's shrouded in mystery. as to who he is exactly, or what he's a manifestation of, is left unanswered for now. we know he sat, alone, for quite some time, waiting for the Heroes to come fulfill a Prophecy for him. he's got it all planned out, has the Legend ready, tries to make this adventure Intriguing, wearing that hood and playing "Mystical Figure recounting a Tale".

i'm not sure from where he got these ideas, or from whom, but it's clear he's convinced that he has to go a Good Job, or else Unspecified Things will go various degrees of To Shit.

and then his Heroes show up, and oh fuck oh shit it's really happening it's finally happening there's two of them the human and the monster and we're gonna save-

um. why are they fighting a kid on a bike

one of his Heroes is unenthusiastic and a bit standoff-ish towards him and the other one is straight up clobbering everyone in her path. she's decided she's gonna be evil. ok. um.

throughout any of chapter 1, we never see ralsei forcing his ideas onto kris or susie, even though he certainly knows more than we do. but he does Not know how friendship works (how could he?) and sits back and watches anxiously, things resolving themselves in the end anyway, especially in a pacifist run. but! he always grows fond of kris and susie, no matter their choices. even if you go directly against his advice or say nothing nice to him the entire time, he still trusts you and even admires susie. and she's teaching him that you never have to sacrifice yourself entirely. he's learning, give him time!

yes, he can be weirdly dismissive about things, but i believe he has our best interests at heart. he makes special little personalized rooms for kris and susie, second homes, and it makes susie so happy (also kris, probably, though it's obviously significantly harder to get a read on that)! and i can't see that being spun into a "ralsei wants to hold us hostage via escapism methods" narrative, because he's actively pestering them about their homework. is that what an escapist fantasy would do? remind you of your responsibilities back in the Real World? no. loser. ralsei is mom friend. ralsei is toriel.

he knows more than we know, but judging by the end of chapter 2, it's possible he's not always aware that that is the case at all. he's downright shocked everyone would want to cause the Roaring as if they'd know wtf that means.

honestly, i just think it's really great that ralsei accepts susie, and the way she defies the norm and his expectations, despite the responsibility he feels is on their shoulders. and the ambiguous or secrective reactions he tends to have may just be due to the fact that he's never HAD friends, let alone under circumstances where the stakes are as high as they appear to be in the dark worlds. there's no manual on "my new besties may accidentally unleash horrors on the universe but i'm not sure how to tell them that without killing the vibe and also i'm pretty sure one of them has little to no free will"

[waitineedaname]

“You stole my cat!” she yelled. “Is this your cat?” Al tried to scoop it back into his bag, starting to feel rather frantic. “We were just trying to take it to the v-” Without any warning, the girl’s fist collided with his nose.

Alphonse attempts to aid a stray cat. It doesn't go as planned.

[crying-over-cartoons]

seriously considering making a ninjago AU comprised entirely of speculative biology about serpentine because their whole everything is pretty inconsistent but I really like snakes so I wanna fix it up a bit

[bubblybloob]

I'm a multishipper with no preferences, soooo maybe you have an underrated ship you'd like to draw or just promote so I can add it to my shipping pile?

I’m going to be honest, I got nothing-

I sat on this ask for a hot minute, I couldn’t think of any rare pairs that I enjoy. Maybe Skeptic and Opportunist from that one comic I made. But I just drew two bird men kissing, can’t do it again (unless???).

I am aware of other more uncommon ships, like Hunted and Cheated, Cold and Paranoid, and I think one between Adversary and Prisoner. Even then nothing really jumps out to me, unless people want to throw their propaganda at me.

I am in other video game fandoms, but even then nothing comes to mind. Cult of the Lamb, Rain World, and Hollow Knight have a lot of prominent characters who are all related to each other, and the ones who aren’t don’t interest me much, aside from maybe the Lamb and Narinder.

[skrunksthatwunk]

stole this chart from @asubakaa and spent wayyy too much time making my own so. yeah. also i did 6 instead of 5 bc i know no restraint