#like a cuckoo

[lezkissgifs]

Cuckoo (2024) dir. Tilman Singer

[redmeet]

if you see this you have to tell everyone what your top three favourite books of all time are

[celestialmacros]

How are these colors possible in nature?

Caenochrysis sp., a member of the cuckoo wasps

June 27, 2023

John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, Tinicum, Pennsylvania

[stevebuscemieyes]

[poyameows]

After listening to the newest tmagp episode I have one theory about the baby. I was thinking about changelings in Irish mythology and how a baby would be swapped at birth with a faerie as some cases believe a human mothers milk is needed for the baby to survive. Especially with the 'health visitor' monitoring her the whole time. Since the demon baby seems to resemble a vampire, I was thinking maybe Patricia did originally have a human child which was then swapped for a vampire baby. I can't remember the exact way vampires are born/made in tma so this might be slightly off. But since the baby is mentioned to be eating the mother, it seems likely it's in an attempt to get blood which adult? vampires wouldn't be able to provide. If the baby was swapped at birth it would also fit in with the equivalent exchange narrative that has been prevalent for a while. :)

[lintwriting]

thinking about Binghe being a washerwoman's son, as I do. There's the cuckoo's jade aspect to it—

But also I think it would be fascinating to explore the viscerality of it. Binghe is a laundress's son. He views love through the lens of this mundane, working woman.

And so, love must smell of her bath beans or detergent, and her water-wrinkled hands must look like they're lined with love, like what I'd imagine a palmreader would see taking his hand.

his love is inextricably tied to laundry, so there's a beauty to him doing laundry for Shen Qingqiu.

For him, it's willing work, lowering himself for someone else. For how unfilial he would be if he saw mundane work as shameful!

And when Shen Qingqiu wears his freshly laundered clothes, that's Binghe's love threading the air, like a tether. like a leash. like a lifeline.

he keeps his master's hands unlined, like his mother did for him.

[deadbaguette]

Me: I should make a Paris design I’ve been meaning to since I need to complete my trio piece with Hektor and Kassandra

My pen: Hera and Zeus

Me: what

My pen:

[al-luviec]

zane + nya parallels

[magical-wishies]

Mesmirizer!

[riseandfallofsecunit]

SecUnit saves Ratthi from a concussion; Ratthi gets the wrong idea

[xccentriktigress]

If you grew up with Goosebumps, do yourself a favor and go check out the new Goosebumps series. Because it has an overarching narrative it's very different, but I'm kind of in love with it.

This show has everything.

- Classic Goosebumps stories retold with care

- Justin Long doing the absolute most. I had no idea he had so much physical comedy in him

- Trans actors playing canonically, openly, on screen gay characters

- Hardcore 90s grunge nostalgia

- Plausible villains with plans that make sense, even if they involve ritual sacrifice

- Quickly resolved love triangles

- Goo that smells like watermelon Jolly Ranchers

And so much more. Honestly, if you like campy horror-lite nonsense go find this. It's on Disney and Hulu (or probably your preferred port of call 🏴‍☠️) and it's really fun.

[marsbotz]

you scare me. you’re… different.

[coffeetoffeeart]

hey guys have you heard of laurance from minecraft diaries because i likehim

[ghost-bxrd]

You mentioned that Fae Dick doesn't allow anyone near Jason while he is healing. How does Bruce handle his son being alive again, only for his other son not to allow him near? What does it take for Fae Dick to allow Bruce near the newly resurrected Jason?

Predictably, Bruce does NOT handle it very well.

For one, Dick squirreled Jason away into his own rooms and refuses to let anyone inside on the threat of being chased outside manor grounds by a murder of crows. Only regular meals by Alfred are accepted, and even he is only allowed a few supervised minutes in Jason’s presence before Dick grows antsy and shuts the door in his face.

Bruce is… both concerned and reluctantly hopeful. But mostly he’s his usual pessimistic self and assumes that Jason is an impostor trying to trap Dick in a deal, or attempting to gain a foothold in the batfamily looking like his dead son.

Dick is very much aware of Bruce’s distrust and apprehension which is about ninety percent of the reason he doesn’t allow anyone near Jason. He refuses to have anybody probe and prod at his alive baby brother. Bruce can grow screw himself. Dick doesn’t know how— and he doesn’t care— but Jason is alive. And he’d rather eat iron than make him doubt his place in the family ever again. (Dick has not forgiven Bruce for not believing Jason about Garzonas. Neither has Bruce, but that’s beside the point.)

So yeah, Dick has Jason safely squirreled away and is doting on him like a mother hen, feeding him fae magic and healing the damage to his body one by one.

Bruce only has a chance of meeting Jason if he can let go of his mistrust long enough to let himself believe that’s truly his dead son come back to life. Otherwise Dick will not allow him anywhere near Jason.

[stevebuscemieyes]

CUCKOO

Dir. Tilman Singer

[aurriearts]

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regina and her doll(y)