#or so i believe

[linterteatime]

All (or most) of Zim's costumes/outfits/alternative universe versions/whatever (3/3)

(Group 1 here, group 2 here)

[freddiesflowercrown]

not to talk about the final fifteen again but the difference in aziraphale's expression when he is telling crowley about the metatron's offer and the one on the flashback where we see the metatron making the offer is huge lmao. In the bookshop aziraphale seems excited ? happy ? but when he is talking with the metatron he looks the exact opposite ? a bit anxious ?

[doodles-with-noodles]

The missing son and the wyvern

This is one of my original characters Mathildis! Please be nice to him.

[silverloreley]

Does anyone else remember a movie that was like The Little Mermaid but in our time (well, the 90s or early 2000) and no sea witch? The mermaid made a deal with her father so she could explore the human world but she had to find love in uh, a week or so, or he'd call her back into the sea forever.

The best bit is that she goes to the ground and makes friends with two girls who try to help her get a boyfriend but, in the end, she doesn't make it, so her father casts a spell to drag her back to the sea, hence she and the two friends have this very dramatic scene holding hands in a whirlpool and "I'll never forget you, I love you" "We love you too" which, obviously, lead the father to admit defeat because love is love, he didn't specify she had to get a boy, only prove that humans were capable of good feelings towards merfolk.

So, I'd like to rewatch it, does anyone know the title?

[cienie-isengardu]

@nereiix said to Jango Fett and Walon Vau: Age Difference and Childhood Trauma:

Interesting, as always. I just noticed one minor mistake: Vau was not depressive on Kamino. I can't find where it's said in the books, but it's near the passage where we learn Mird hunted and killed a Kaminoan.

Thank you 🙂

As for Vau, I assume you mean this paragraph from True Colors:

Vau hadn't actually disliked Tipoca in the eight years he'd been cooped up there. Inside the pristine stilt-city, it could have been any urban environment; he didn't miss shopping and entertainment, so it was largely indistinguishable from Coruscant, although the lack of hunting troubled Mird. The strill stalked Kaminoans instead. It even caught one once, but its prey was just the blue-eyed variety, the lowest genetic caste of Kamino, and the gray-eyed elite seemed only annoyed at the loss of a menial.     Yes, that was probably the day Vau's ambivalence toward Kaminoans evaporated, and he joined Skirata in thinking of them as aiwha-bait.

Of course this is up to personal interpretation, but for me Vau is solely making a point about Tipoca City as a place of his and Mird living (and why his ambivalence toward Kaminoans changed). He doesn’t need to hate Kamino (planet) to be depressed about seeing two(four) years old, tiny kids bred for war so Republic citizens won’t dirty their hands and bleed for whatever cause Jedi had in mind when commissioning a clone army.

It is hard to tell if Vau was truly depressed about that at any given point - especially when there is Kal to compare - but I wouldn’t cross out this possibility as the books pointed out quite often that the training took its emotional toll on both clones and their instructors. And sure, Kal is the main example of that as he is generally speaking an extrovert whose emotional state is hard to miss but though Walon was always presented as the most detached character, even he wasn’t immune to seeing his tiny cadets for the first time - something he admitted himself in the same book. He said he already had a “midlife crisis”[1] - that from my calculation fits the year of starting commando training - which may as well mean he had  an indefinite depressive period of time that could last few days, weeks or months but in contrast to Kal, Vau had better grip (control) of his emotion and did not let them interference with what he was paid to do. 

At the end of the day, it all comes down to people’s individual feeling toward Vau - I personally give him benefit of doubt because the series showed he cared more than he let himself show and when things take emotional toll on him (the news of Sev being MIA), he is more prone to shut down to the point it may look like he doesn’t care at all while in fact he is deeply affected.

[1] midlife crisis sounds as something easier to admit for Vau than depression that could be also influenced by his guilt about Galidraan but in all fairness I don’t trust RC book series when it comes to characters’ mental illness, depression or broadly understood (lack of) mental health nor the characters' approach to it.

[damonalbarnsgf]

one day it’ll be over and the suffering will make sense

[chenopodiumlang]

whatever happens I'll be spending the next month on my silly little research and my silly little languages and my silly little self improvement and my silly little workouts and everything will somehow be ok in the end

[lesbxdyke]

I could think of no better way to share the news than this!

So when I was 17, my cat went missing and I'd given up hope of ever seeing him again.

Until on Monday, 27th of May, 2024, my friend sent me a FB post asking 'isn't that your mother?' about the person named on the microchip.

Here he is! 16 years old, and found safe, twelve whole years after he went missing!

Yesterday (Tuesday the 28th of May, 2024) I went to the rescue that had him, and I reclaimed my boy, renaming him Artie! (He'd originally been called 'Cat' because my mother and I couldn't decide on a name)

He's home safe with me now, currently inhabiting my bathroom and purring up a storm every time someone goes in there!

I'll be doing slow introductions between him and my current cat to give them the best possible chance of living in harmony!

Here's some pictures of Artie once we let him out of the carrier:

[ratsonfire]

I never thought a Honda Odyssey could be so homoerotic

[dendrochronologies]

maya angelou saying the funniest thing anyone has ever said about editing, which i can never let myself forget EVER AGAIN [x]

[emjaydoubleyou]

this post is fearmongering. the results of this study are concerning and should definitely be a matter of public discussion, but this is certainly not the conclusion the researchers came to.

the point of the study was to assess the risks of exposure to toxic metals- something one of the co-authors notes are “ubiquitous” fwiw- via menstrual products. Their research confirmed that these metals are indeed present in tampons, but no further conclusions are drawn. it is possible the metal entered into the cotton from the soil, which is a well-known phenomenon; cotton is so good at lifting heavy metals that it has actually been suggested as a part of the solution for revitalizing polluted ground.

the authors conclude with an acknowledgement that the study should be repeated- their sample size was 60 tampons- and a suggestion that further testing ought to be done to indicate whether or not these metals can even leech out of the tampon in the first place, let alone whether or not such leeching could occur at levels deleterious to human health.

there is, in fact, a body of research- too small, for sure, but much larger than this single study- indicating that long-term proper tampon use has no observable negative impact on health. i am grateful and thrilled that more research is being done and i hope that this study is the first of many on this line of questioning, but i am really frustrated at this post and the response it got.

obviously, if this study alters your approach to menstrual health, more power to you. consumers should be informed-risk-takers, and menstrual health is double-obviously a very personal choice. but it definitely wasn't the researchers concluding that you ought to “avoid using tampons at all cost," only this tumblr user did. the lead author of the paper, in fact, specifically says that she hopes people do NOT panic about the results.

(the notes of the post were disappointing. people affirming that they knew they were right to be suspicious of tampons all along, or even recommending alternatives that actually have very little to no research regarding the safety of long-term use, etc. it’s a different conversation, but categorical distrust of tampons is old-school misogyny. you certainly shouldn't wear them if you don’t want to, but there is nothing inherently scary or wrong about them, and people who prefer them are not being reckless or crass.)

((if you're really worried about exposure to heavy metals, you may want to turn a critical eye to fast fashion, as an aside))

[demaparbat-hp]

Arsonist's Lullaby

[vaperarmand]

hey guys if you’re planning on making a vaguepost on the dashboard can you message me with the details and some of the lore behind the vague post you’re making. a vaguepost for the dash and a detailedpost for me. because i like to know what’s going on. if you do this i will automatically take your side because you’ve done the right thing by letting me know what’s up. thanks in advance ❤️

[baravaggio]

one of my favorite facts about gekko hayashi (artist who drew gay erotica) is that he was straight guy who pivoted from sci-fi & monster stuff to illustrating for gay & bdsm mags at like 50 years old because he wanted to expand his artistic horizons, and compensated by lack of lived experience by setting up a phone line for gay men to call in & recount their stories so he could illustrate them...legend

[whatkindofnameisella]

can you believe that we have fanfiction. that we have websites dedicated to fanfiction. that there is a place that you can go and read tens, hundreds, thousands and thousands of pieces of writing that strangers have made. people who are not "writers". people who come home at the end of the day and have feelings and say, i am going to put that into words. i am going to share those words. short, long, sweet, sad, horny, funny, wonderful words. we are all just human and we all love to make and remake and share that with others. can you believe that.

[starsunfirelight]

hey guys!!

So, if you're anything like me, you grew up watching youtube :>. Unfortunately, for people like us-- youtube's changed. You've seen it. Tommyinnit's made a video about it. More and more of the people we used to love to watch are being forced to change their content to meet the new guidelines, or just leave the platform altogether. Matpat and many others retired. (Tom Scott 😭) But still, youtube is there. It's making money, and people still post stuff (sometimes). Some of the new kids make content that get it. But... the times are a changin'. They've changed, already 😭. YouTube used to be a way to escape the real world. Everyone posted whatever they wanted, and we'd all laugh and smile :). It was like we were one big millennial family, with a few old folks that were warm and friendly too! They were like our mentors, in a way. The (awesome!! 😄 🫶) kids watching probs thought they were millennial too! The whole genz/alpha terms weren't even a thing. But slowly, maybe sometime after the 2016 adpocalypse, normal people started finding youtube. They realized they could make money, and we got the same people who make trashy tv shows try to do the same here. Suddenly, you'd think "ah, it's a minecraft reference!" and look to see your normal friend chucking and "wait what do you mean you know what that means?" (bro this legit was on snl 😭 I'm not joking snl made a minecraft reference and I just about lost it 😭) The people who just wanted money started doing yt like it was a homework assignment they didn't want to do. And some old creators were forced to do the same. And, we could all feel it. 2016 felt like the worst year ever. I mean, Harambe died, so did so many other wonderful people (rip Stefán Karl Stefánsson 😔) and we could feel the sadness everywhere. Vine was one of the last great moments of a generation we shared together, and then...

the normal people found us. We got pushed out of our own spaces, and made to feel like we don't belong. 😔 it's really sad

Today I realized the wonderful people I had the opportunity to hang out with were nerds all along. They never "fit in" to normal society. And they didn't intend to. They just wanted to share whatever cool thing they wanted to share, and make someone's day just a little better. They had tons of trauma, weren't neurotypical (though if everyone on youtube usually has adhd, wouldn't that be typical? I digress) or just weren't super popular in school. That, or they were rich and were full of a whole lot of love :').

Point is, it's like the 90's again. Except on the internet this time. So, I guess, for me, I just had to accept the fact that

this is hard to say

I need to be the one to stand up for myself, even if no one else will. Don't be sad (no really, PLEASE don't be sad) that I don't have adhd. Or autism, for that matter.

I tried so hard to fit in to the old youtube community that I had no idea that I might not get along with normal society. I tried to act in public like I normally do, and had to sorta kinda find out the hard way 😢.

Now I learned that I was trapped in a super tight bubble of intentionally watching all the things I really, really don't like, just to try to be seen as normal. This was gonna not end well. So I can't/shouldn't do that anymore.

Time to be myself again.

It's kind of scary knowing that I could get shoved in a locker like in all those movies I saw (verbally, though, the methods may have changed but bullying still happens)

ok normal post over and just pulling stuff out of my mind here.

have a great day! ❤️❤️🩵🩵

living in fear is like stress blooming. A bright flame that burns bright but then goes out. it's all people with trauma have, so PLEASE and /i REALLY mean it PLEASE don't be jealous of them and try to self inflict trauma on yourself really hard by watching anime with toxic parents and trying really hard to internalize that fear because you think that's the only way to get good grades like the rest of your peers in school but no now you can't do anything. Cuz that fear is really holding you back.

But being yourself? A raw uncut really cool gemstone that looks really cool. And then if you work on yourself it only gets cooler! Sorry I envisioned like the perfect gemstone kinda amber in color to match a specific person from the start but anyhoo I hope you get the point. no wait like you're already perfect just by being yourself learning skills just like makes you able to do cool new tricks with it!! like in sailor moon!!!! 🥹

just realized I sound a bit like a boomer lol