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ESDs for this school year (emotional support dolls)
College is a lot but with my girls, the move in and transition is a bit less scary. Goony, LaRose, and Yasmin accompanied me last year (bought them/was gifted them in 2023) but now Creepover Twyla and Neonlicous are joining too. Didn’t want LaRose being the only OMG.
#magpieposting#life of a magpie#my dolls#dollblr#dolls#fashion dolls#doll collector#monster high#lol omg dolls#bratz#asd#autistic adult#college#chronic anxiety#generalized anxiety disorder#chronic depression
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YOU'RE DEAD TO ME
Also a cover version done as a joke bc it looked like a novel/manga cover for some reason + lineart :D
#wild life smp#wild life spoilers#goodtimeswithscar#grian#desert duo#traffic smp#trafficblr#my art#grians wings are magpie + sculk#exploding them with my MIND
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I'm pretty sure he developed a very high tolerance for pain *throws him into a meat grinder*
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#connecticut tav#tav#astarion#karlach#shadowheart#magpies are almost done building their super round nests rn if you were wondering#tw blood#farm life
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It’s quiet when the wild cards stop.
Pearl comes to a stop for the first time in hours, her body shaking, heart still pounding. She can feel the heavy thrum of blood in her veins. She stares out over spawn island and the server beyond, her breath misting in the cool evening air.
It hits her then, all at once. Impulse is gone. Her friend, her ally, the man she’d wanted to win. She’d given him everything, her resources, her totem, her time, her devotion…
And he’s gone.
The next breath in hurts, catching against something tight and sharp in her chest. It comes out shaking. She swallows hard against the lump in her throat.
Gem’s gone, too. If she’d lived just another thirty seconds she’d have survived the explosion of wild cards enough to see this quiet aftermath. Pearl could have been her friend, then, maybe, best friends again on red just like Gem had promised. If she hadn’t changed her mind again. Because Gem’s been confusing, all hot-and-cold, and Pearl’s been confused, so confused, and now she’ll never have clarity.
…They’ll never have that 1v1 either.
The breath in burns. Her eyes burn too. The breath out catches at her vocal cords, not quite a whine, not quite a sob.
Impulse gone. Gem gone. BigB’s gone, has been gone for a while, taken by his snail, their friendly, (un)reliable, formerly nosy neighbour. Pearl remembers losing him before, gone too soon, time run out, and she’d wanted him to win, she’d wanted—
Scott’s dead. And isn’t that—isn’t that just—they’d made it to the end as a team. Just like Scott wanted. Because everybody had said they couldn’t, that they’d turn on each other like before, and he’d wanted to prove them wrong. And she still doesn’t know, really, how she feels about him. If this season has healed those wounds. If there's a part of her that will always feel bitter and sick and angry when she thinks about him. Even now, it’s still not gone. But they’d laughed, and they’d stuck by each other, and that had to mean something. It had meant something, however small.
She wraps her arms around herself, curls in around the burning ore in her chest. Her cheeks are wet. The in breath is just as ragged and broken as the out breath.
God, she feels pathetic. Completely and utterly pathetic. Alone and aching and everyone she’s fought with, fought for, is gone. Just like last time. Just like the time before. It hurts, and not in a good way, and she longs for the familiar and soothing sting of powdered snow.
(A pain that is completely inaccessible to her in this world.)
“Pearl!”
She turns. Cleo’s standing on the bank, and she looks just as exhausted as Pearl feels. Pearl hurriedly straightens up, wipes at her eyes, sucks in a shaking, aching breath.
“Cleo!”
Cleo doesn’t say anything as Pearl crosses the water towards her. She regards Pearl with sad eyes, soft eyes, and god, it doesn’t help with how pathetic Pearl feels. She draws in another painful breath, sharp in her throat, and Cleo opens her arms.
Pearl takes the invitation gladly, practically throwing herself at Cleo. Cleo is large and tall and broad and her arms are strong and warm around Pearl, or as warm as a zombie can get, at least. Pearl buries her face into the sweat-and-blood-soaked fabric of Cleo’s leotard and hiccups a sob around the glass shards of grief in her chest.
“Cleo, I’m so lost, I don’t know what to do anymore.”
Cleo hums, fingers running through Pearl’s tangled hair, and her voice catches in her throat, awkward and unsure before hardening. “I—If nothing else, we kill Joel.”
Killing Joel won’t make anything better. It’s barely a goal, nothing like help Impulse win, nothing ever so noble. (Nothing like get Scott back, nothing like protect BigB, nothing like get Bdubs—Joel—Scar to the end, it’s not—)
But it’s something. Something to latch onto, when it feels like the stillness of the world is somehow even more unstable than the chaos that had preceded it.
She swallows, pushes herself back from Cleo’s chest, looks up into Cleo’s dim green eyes. They’re rimmed with red and cushioned by deep purple bags, steely and uncertain and the last thing Pearl has to rely on.
“I agree with that. I like that, I like that thought. Okay. Y’know what, that’s fine.”
“That’s—that’s the law.”
“Alright. Fine. Let’s do that.”
And the words come out harsh, bitter, stinging her tongue like lemon juice and bile. Really, there’s nothing else to fight for, nothing else to win, not for Pearl. She’s not dead, but she’s already out of the game, all of her pieces stolen. There’s just Cleo, her old friend, her old enemy, her last remaining teammate. There’s just Cleo, and Pearl, and a half-dozen losses shattered between them.
So Pearl will sideline her grief, and take those shards, and she will do her best to kill with them. Just like everyone’s been goading her to do all season. Red in her clothes, in her eyes, in her blood, between her teeth. A stray dog that’s been ordered to attack. She doesn’t fight it anymore. There’s no point in pretending to be a person now.
After all, there’s nothing left to lose, and nothing left to win.
#wild life#spoilers#fanfiction#magpie feather quill#wlsmp#most of this is below a cut because. spoilers. yeah.#man. it's very funny to me that i could never manage to write something for the SL finale when i was doing weekly ficlets.#and this season i could not manage weekly ficlets but i was possessed to write this.#anyway. come closer. i'm the most normal pearlescentmoon enjoyer i swear.
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I…. Do not really have an explanation for this except for stock photo funny lolololol
#drawing these dudes is so fun for NO reason 😭#Pinterest also has a plethora of the stupidest stock photos I’ve ever seen in my life 💀💀💀#honestly… if you guys have any requests… I may take them .. specifically goofy ahh stock photos plus character I know..#aot#aot fanart#csm#chainsaw man#attack on Titan#avatar the last airbender#toph#kobeni#denji#Hange#Armin#Sasha#magpies fanart#Gabi#Levi
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i love how dead boy detectives presents such a diverse mix of the campiest, most over-the-top tv characters of all time, and the best representation of actual real-life human beings i think i have ever seen on television
#like. esther? the sprites? niko a little bit? dagfinn? THE Most Cartoony; exaggerated Characters of all time.#but then crystal and jenny and charles and edwin (to an extent) feel so much like just. Actual Human People pulled out of real life#jenny ESPECIALLY like every reaction she has to EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS ON THE SHOW is so just. how an actual person would react#its so cool its like they took actual people and shoved them into a show with characters whose every line is clearly written to create the#-feel of this being a CHARACTER in a TV SHOW and then they just. go to town#idk i love it#magpie thoughts#magpie watches dbd#dbda#dead boy detectives#dead boy detective agency
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Humans are so cute. They think they can outsmart birds. They place nasty metal spikes on rooftops and ledges to prevent birds from nesting there.
It’s a classic human trick known in urban design as “evil architecture”: designing a place in a way that’s meant to deter others. Think of the city benches you see segmented by bars to stop homeless people sleeping there.
But birds are genius rebels. Not only are they undeterred by evil architecture, they actually use it to their advantage, according to a new Dutch study published in the journal Deinsea.
Crows and magpies, it turns out, are learning to rip strips of anti-bird spikes off of buildings and use them to build their nests. It’s an incredible addition to the growing body of evidence about the intelligence of birds, so wrongly maligned as stupid that “bird-brained” is still commonly used as an insult...
Magpies also use anti-bird spikes for their nests. In 2021, a hospital patient in Antwerp, Belgium, looked out the window and noticed a huge magpie’s nest in a tree in the courtyard. Biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra of Leiden-based Naturalis Biodiversity Center, one of the study’s authors, went to collect the nest and found that it was made out of 50 meters of anti-bird strips, containing no fewer than 1,500 metal spikes.
Hiemstra describes the magpie nest as “an impregnable fortress.”
Pictured: A huge magpie nest made out of 1,500 metal spikes.
Magpies are known to build roofs over their nests to prevent other birds from stealing their eggs and young. Usually, they scrounge around in nature for thorny plants or spiky branches to form the roof. But city birds don’t need to search for the perfect branch — they can just use the anti-bird spikes that humans have so kindly put at their disposal.
“The magpies appear to be using the pins exactly the same way we do: to keep other birds away from their nest,” Hiemstra said.
Another urban magpie nest, this one from Scotland, really shows off the roof-building tactic:
Pictured: A nest from Scotland shows how urban magpies are using anti-bird spikes to construct a roof meant to protect their young and eggs from predators.
Birds had already been spotted using upward-pointing anti-bird spikes as foundations for nests. In 2016, the so-called Parkdale Pigeon became Twitter-famous for refusing to give up when humans removed her first nest and installed spikes on her chosen nesting site, the top of an LCD monitor on a subway platform in Melbourne. The avian architect rebelled and built an even better home there, using the spikes as a foundation to hold her nest more securely in place.
...Hiemstra’s study is the first to show that birds, adapting to city life, are learning to seek out and use our anti-bird spikes as their nesting material. Pretty badass, right?
The genius of birds — and other animals we underestimate
It’s a well-established fact that many bird species are highly intelligent. Members of the corvid family, which includes crows and magpies, are especially renowned for their smarts. Crows can solve complex puzzles, while magpies can pass the “mirror test” — the classic test that scientists use to determine if a species is self-aware.
Studies show that some birds have evolved cognitive skills similar to our own: They have amazing memories, remembering for months the thousands of different hiding places where they’ve stashed seeds, and they use their own experiences to predict the behavior of other birds, suggesting they’ve got some theory of mind.
And, as author Jennifer Ackerman details in The Genius of Birds, birds are brilliant at using tools. Black palm cockatoos use twigs as drumsticks, tapping out a beat on a tree trunk to get a female’s attention. Jays use sticks as spears to attack other birds...
Birds have also been known to use human tools to their advantage. When carrion crows want to crack a walnut, for example, they position the nut on a busy road, wait for a passing car to crush the shell, then swoop down to collect the nut and eat it. This behavior has been recorded several times in Japanese crows.
But what’s unique about Hiemstra’s study is that it shows birds using human tools, specifically designed to thwart birds’ plans, in order to thwart our plans instead. We humans try to keep birds away with spikes, and the birds — ingenious rebels that they are — retort: Thanks, humans!
-via Vox, July 26, 2023
#birds are literally learning how to better live/survive alongside us#this is like. actually kind of remarkable. and the technique is spreading including to other species.#is this hopepunk? it kinda feels like hopepunk to me.#animals are literally learning how to use our attempts to get rid of them against us#that's kind of amazing#and also VERY encouraging re: life's innate resilience#crows#magpie#corvid#crow#bird#bird nest#bird nerd#bird news#adaptation#urban animals#ornithology#climate adaptation#kinda#good news#hope#hope posting#hopepunk#animal intelligence#wildlife#animals are awesome
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Bad boys..... Ssave me bad boys..... Oh God oh no.......,,..
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#bandit's doodles#grian#joel smallishbeans#jimmy solidarity#the bad boys#the monthly urge to rewatch the life series is back#I loathe them#i saw a compilation of them last night and I needed more content of them#So I took it into my own hands#I stepped up to the plate and drew my heart out#drawing non-creature Joel was nerve wracking#Hes still kind of a creature though right#i will always wait for the next climbing into conversation episode#limited life was so beautiful#i hope next life series is limited life 2#electric boogaloo#limiteder life#Limited life (now with less time!)#also uh european magpie for bad boy grian anyone#i was gonna add more tags#But I can only say 'drawing this was fun' so many times#Though!i haven't finished a full drawing in a minute#So that's something!#goodnight#And farewell!!
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i just think if kaito sees this shinichi he's gonna lose his goddamn mind like i think he's actually gonna end up stealing for real just to sate this deep-seated desire he never even knew he had of wanting to decorate shinichi with jewelries and gems and ooooohhhhh like i know he's gonna find the ones that compliment shinichi's blue eyes the most, i fear for all the sapphire owners in japan y'all better hold on to them cause kaitou kid might just not return them for real lmaooo
#kaishin#I JUST THINK KAITO WOULD SEE A SHINY PRECIOUS GEM OR A PRETTY NECKLACE OR GARISH CROWN AND BE LIKE#I NEED TO PUT THAT ON MY BOYFRIEND RIGHT NOW#dc prattles#lowkey this reminds me of that one fic called magpies mate for life#shoutout to that fic sometimes i think about it and i wish there was more *sobs*#need more tied up shinichi :>
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these days i just want to lay down and rot into the earth and become a pretty flower
#this isn’t a cry for help i think. my brain is always morbid like this#if i got to choose i’d become a wax plant. i’ve been fascinated by them since like age 6#they had them running up the walls of my kindergarten. i think that started my hyperfixation for plants and flowers#did you know wax plants only have flowers after they get to age 7?#it’s really cool#that means i was able to keep my wax plant alive for more than 7 years#the small joys in life#magpie talks will they shut up?#personal#late night depressive thoughts#ask to tag
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do you think other Mourn Watchers are able to tell that Emmrich is coming their way 'cause the clanking of his bangles just echoes throughout the Necropolis?
#blah blah text post#emmrich volkarin#dragon age the veilguard#honestly no shade. as a life long magpie type of lady i admire Veilguardians just. accessorising their outfits so well.
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VENT
I am up late working on a humanities paper and I can’t focus. I’m terrified about the future of this f*cking country and world. I’m scared.
I’m currently away from my special person and cat (my emotional support animal). If the election results go how it looks like they are gonna go, I just don’t know what I’ll do. I’ll be safe (I have built up enough coping mechanisms) but mentally, idk. I just don’t.
If anyone reads this and is also an autistic adult with mental health issues, how do you take care of yourself in times of uncertainty and extreme overwhelm? What helps you self regulate? Ways to avoid panic attacks? Any advice is appreciated.
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Smell Check [Easy: Failure]
MDZS Disco Elysium AU part 1 (part 2 - part 3)
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan wangji#disco elysium#MDZS Disco Elysium AU#So sad I didn't manage to get this comic out on the 15th (pd-mdzs's 8 month anniversary and DE's 4th year anniversary) but I'm here *now*#I have a very extensive and detailed MDZS Disco Elysium AU that I am Not Normal About.#I've seen a few other people point out the potential in a crossover (true) but they make the mistake in having it be set in 51!#A true crossover would take place closer to The Antecentennial Revolution!#Disco Elysium did not go that hard on its cool lore for people to only make surface level crossovers!!!#One day I'll write the fic or post my notes. I don't know who would read it but it tickles *my* brain and that's enough.#No spoilers for DE (here or in comments (please)) but please consider....Magpie Wei Wuxian B*) On his way to be an innocent.#I do think there is a good chance a chunk of the MDZS readership would enjoy DE but...it's also not a game I easily recommend#It's more of an experience you have to marinate over. It's dark in ways that are off putting to some people.#It makes you feel like a very bad person all the time. It gets extremely personal if you allow yourself to be honest in your answers#and it's also the game that saved my life. My life was truly forever changed after playing disco elysium.#If I recommend it to people it's a badge of the trust I have in you to appreciate something dear to me B'*)#If you decide to play: PLEASE go in as blind as possible. You will regret spoiling yourself.#edit: this is based on real disco elysium dialogue. HDB has many canon kinks but this is not one of them
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"I feel incredibly personal about the things I make anyway, but this is obviously next level. So it's been amazing and also quite overwhelming and strange... Certainly in a creative way, building a character from the ground up knowing so intimately every word, every line, every moment. And really knowing that with the rest of the characters. Really feeling that— particularly with Tom's writing. And then being on set hearing his words be spoken knowing that each word, each sentence, each comma means something is sort of amazing."
—Daisy Ridley about her original concept movie Magpie (2024)
#daisy ridley#film#filmgifs#dridleyedit#indie film#filmedit#filmsource#independent film#cinemapix#cinemasource#cinematv#moviegifs#swladies#swcast#swcastedit#dailywomen#femaledaily#daisyridleyedit#magpie#dir: sam yates#life in film podcast#dre edits#my edit
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Pearl and Gem glance at each other. Then, as one, they glance back at Tango, who is, evidently, not Tango.
“Do we have an amnesiacold on our hands?” Gem asks.
“Maybe,” says Pearl, glancing back at Tango again. “Tango, buddy, you feeling alright?”
“I—” Tango opens his mouth. Closes it again. “I mean, I’m a little under the weather, to tell you the truth—I ate a South African sausage and it disagreed with me.”
Pearl hums. “And it’s messed with your memory a bit, right?”
“Yes! I mean, no—I mean, how did you—?”
“Would you say that you have a bit of an amnesiacold, Tango?” asks Gem.
“Amnesiacold?”
“You know. Amnesiacold!” Gem says. “When you get sick and forget everything and feel like somebody else?”
“Ah.” Tango pulls himself to shore. Frowns. “It’s more of an amnesia-food-poisoning, if I’m honest.”
Pearl winces. “Your poor digestive system.”
“It’s not very nice Pearl, I’ll tell you that much,” Tango says, voice low, one hand pressed against his stomach as he pulls a face.
“Okay, that’s enough, I don’t need to hear about your gut issues,” Gem interrupts. “But—you have an amnesiacold! You know, I was an amnesiacold last season.”
“You mean, you had an amnesiacold?”
“No, I was one.” Gem winks. “Like—Tango has an amnesiacold. But you? You’re the amnesiacold. You know?”
Tango’s shoulders hike up with discomfort. “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m Tango. And I think you guys should—should skadoodle somewhere else. Should bother-someone-else-ificate. Begone.”
“I had an amnesiacold last season, you know,” Pearl says. “Gem was one. You can tell us, buddy, we’re not gonna tell anyone.”
“Promise,” Gem says with a nod. “This is a safe space! You don’t have to pretend to be someone you’re not with us.”
Tango stares at them for a long, long moment, then sags, face falling. He looks exhausted, suddenly, and Pearl feels a rush of sympathy. It can’t be easy, being thrown into the game halfway through, with no context for anything.
“It’s been rough, dudes,” Tango says, voice cracking. “It’s been really really rough. I forgot how hard it was to get anything done on this server! There’s so much chaos, and—”
Wait.
“Ren?”
Not-Tango grins. “In the flesh,” he says with a bow of his head. “Or… not my flesh, exactly.”
“Ren?” Gem asks, tilting her head in confusion.
“Oh, that’s right, you’ve never met…”
Gem and Ren peer at each other for a moment. “You do look familiar,” Ren says eventually.
“Yeah,” Gem agrees. “I mean, obviously you look familiar—you look like Tango!—but… yeah.”
They stare at each other for a moment more.
“Maybe we met in a dream?” Ren says at last.
Gem nods. “Sure. Makes as much sense as anything else.”
Pearl glances between them, rocking awkwardly back on her heels. She clears her throat, drawing their attentions back to her. “Welcome back, buddy,” she says to Ren. “Good to see you again.”
“I wish that I could say the same,” Ren says morosely. “I thought I was—I was done, Pearl.” Now that she knows it's Ren, she can hear his cadence in Tango’s voice, voice dropping rough and low with drama as he bows his head. “I was done. No more games, not for the ol’ diggity dog. And now… Here I am!” He laughs a little, stretching out his arms to indicate the server at large. “In a body that’s not mine, in a world I’ve never seen, in a game I do not understand.”
“Oh, Ren…” Pearl frowns. She doesn’t know what to say.
Gem jumps in. “Hey, it’s okay! It’s just one session, you know? You can do one session!”
“I suppose I must.” Ren looks up at them, jaw tightening. “If I am here—I suppose I must.”
“I’d never been in any of these games before I was Cleo for a bit last season,” Gem says. “So you have an advantage there! And, hey—maybe you can come back next season, and we can meet for real?”
Ren shifts uncomfortably. There’s something heavy hanging about him, something Pearl can’t quite understand. She remembers the last time she’d seen him, skull caved in from the dripstone spike dropped on his head. She remembers her own amnesiacold, the exhaustion that had dragged at her before it had settled in, the memories that had plagued her and just wouldn’t go away. And she wonders—
Just how exhausted would you have to be that your body would have to leave as well as the rest of your self?
Just how sick would you have to be before you didn’t want to come back?
Still, Ren steadies himself. Quirks Tango’s mouth into a smile. “Maybe,” he says, meeting Gem’s gaze. “That would be nice, to meet for real.”
#secret life#spoilers#fanfiction#obligatory post-session ficlet time!#there was so much going on this session i could have gone with almost anything for this#but amnesiacolds is where we landed#this one is very much playing with martyn's lore which i think is very fun#also. i miss rendog when will he come back from the war ;-;#magpie feather quill
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All I'm saying is not every day that a blond British man gets influenced by a purple all-consuming greedy deity, but it has happened more than once.
At least, Philza is lucky he actually told someone and stopped before something worse happened, unlike Martyn because who the hell is he going to tell he can listen to the whispers of the Watchers.
#mocking magpie AU#angel's art#philza minecraft#qsmp philza#philza fanart#qsmp fanart#martyn inthelittlewood#martyn itlw#life series martyn#limited life#itlwart#martyn inthelittlewood fanart#qsmpblr#trafficblr#but seriously what are the fucking odds#like this was a joke#like I already made these 2 “twins” but man#the more shit happens#the more I'm like why do these 2 have so many similar experiences#also just from how the canon works and what the CC has said c!Martyn doesn't regret it ONE BIT#qsmp au#still need a good duo tag for Martyn and Phil#because I hate cloneduo so much
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