#like AUGH.

[oohlookafrog]

anyways not to get too venty here but. augh. i’m proud of being aro/ace. i am comfortable in that label. however!!! i made the mistake of telling some people i was almost becoming friends with and they immediately switched to treating me like i was an innocent child which! listen its one thing to have my friends jokingly call me a child because i’m the youngest in our group. its another thing to have people i just met be treating me like i’m too innocent to so much as swear once in a while. (“””omg the child is rebelling hahahaha”) SHUT UP. and then on top of that having another girl be like *learns im aro/ace after she wouldn’t stop hitting on me* *asks questions respectfully * *i answer said questions* “OH SO YOU’RE BASICALLY STRAIGHT?” NO. no i am not!!!

Tldr people need to just. let aro/ace people exist because this is exhausting.

[mauxanhduong]

good omens 2 is so like. yeah i think the writing was ass and it was weird and like what even was that. but also i did enjoy watching it for the most part and i'll probably end up watching season 3 whenever it comes out. i can't stand thinking about it for too long but also it's been living in my head every waking moment. it's so much fun to think about as long as i turn my brain off. it's like if i had stockholm syndrome for a show i adored years ago and then forgot about and then watched for nostalgia's sake. you know

[oncorhynchus-nerka]

VERY IMPORTANT a dam in the Netherlands, the weerdsluis lock, is directly on a migratory path for spawning fish. They have a worker stationed there to open the door for the fish, but they can take a while to open it. So to keep the fish from getting preyed on by birds they installed a doorbell. Only, the fish don't have hands to ring the doorbell. If you go to their website, they have a LIVE CAMERA AND A DOORBELL that YOU RING FOR THE FISH when they're waiting, and then the dam worker opens the door for them! I can't express how obsessed I am with this. look at this shit. oh my god.

Please check on the fish doorbell once in a while :)

[goldensunset]

did you know? if you do your laundry you can get your clothes back

[smittyw]

had a category 5 lesbian moment looping midwest princess for the past couple hours so i drew some stills from this vid

[sunsestart]

What a familiar feeling...

I think he's starting to enjoy life on the surface

Perhaps he's not irreparable, he could even try to make new friends

[gunstellations]

rival battle ⚔️

[inktho]

sometimes

[mysteriouswolf]

This picture of Scar and Tango is so gorgeous??? I love it so much I want it framed and put on my wall rn /silly

[axoqiii]

augh

[escapistcatontheinternet]

i love the extras of dungeon meshi in how it fleshes out the world because they make it so much more evident how race affects every part of the story while avoiding the zootopia racism problem. like obv a main theme of the story is like, humanity and desire, 'to eat is to live', etc, but since the majority of it takes place in the dungeon isolated from society and thru the lens of laios, the racial aspects play out more like shadows on a wall for most of the story.

then in the extras we get comics like this

which at a glance fleshes out the racial aspects via a character explaining the racial rules of universe - humans have x amount of bones, while orcs and kobolds have more. however, if u take it less straightforwardly, it points out how the concept of 'human' is a constructed concept in the world. the fact that there are different categories of human in different parts of the world based off of what types of humanoids occur there is already a demonstration of this. in response, the bones explanation seems to kabru and the characters as an objective way of measuring humans vs nonhumans.

but obv, when the culture was deciding what humanoids were humans and nonhumans, they weren't blindly analyzing skeletons and then deciding. just visually, one can glean that orcs and kobolds look less like the ingroup of tallmen, elves, dwarves, gnomes, etc. the bones explanation appears as a justification for that immediate prejudice under a scientific guise - I'm sure that one could come up with the same number of physical differences between a gnome and an elf that they would find between a tallman and an orc. it sounds a lot better to say 'well, an orc has 230 bones while a human has 206' then 'well, an orc looks ewwww yucky yucky to me while a human looks normal'.

and what i like abt the comic is that the characters take the explanation at face value for the most part. when a contradiction is brought up in the oni, kabru can neatly slot them into the predetermined number of bones framework. bc that's kinda how it works irl - there r cultural prejudices that we can posthumously justify, and if we find something outside of it, we can twist it to fit into our predetermined binary. however, since the reader does not live in a world where there are orcs and kobolds to be prejudiced against, we can see that flaw in the cultural logic. when the party encounters the orcs, the number of bones has no bearing on their humanity. They r shown to be cliquish and distrusting of outsiders, but not any more than the elves are later in the story.

tldr dungeon meshi worldbuilding is so good

[egophiliac]

we were fucking ROBBED

[kegareki]

after going thru the celebration it occurred to me that that was probably. the end of act 1. and i hadn't done Shit. so i went back to an earlier save to finish up some questlines (i hadn't even gotten gale or karlach lmao)

and. pained expression. shadowheart has a good opinion of me now, but astarion STILL is in 'ambivalent' territory. he's literally the only one i haven't swapped out for someone else at some point and still he's like "eh"

[pocketgalaxies]

It feels good to be able to help. (for @overnighttosunflowers)

[bureauen]

mabel haters you are not invited to my wedding btw

[voidshrub]

Hello Boots n’ Bombs nation I love them so so so much I want to inject them into my bloodstream