#poke positivity

[a-taza]

morning poke~ 🐻✨

[feathers-second-face]

OH!!! OH!!!

DO YOU SEE THIS??

DO YOU SEE IT??

SHE'S TOUCHING HIS SHOULDER!!

Oh mah gawd. He doesn't let anyone touch him unless they're his friends.

If they aren't his friends, he'll either lean away or wipe off his hand. He hates being touched if he's not the one initiating it, to the point of wiping his sleeve off when Lucifer's hat just BARELY grazed against it.

He didn't wipe his shoulder off when Charlie stopped touching him either.

AND!!!

And!!!

Before You Say 'He did lean away', or 'She wasnt actually touching him, her hand was just near him', Take A Look At This!!

Look closely at how he moves when she splits them up. He doesn't lean away, she SHOVED him. She actively MOVED him. That wasn't an 'oh she's making contact with me, guess I should lean away', it was a 'well she's shoving me now, I'll shut up for a minute'.

Which also proves she WAS touching him. She couldn't have shoved him if she wasn't making contact.

He didn't lean away from it, he didn't retaliate. The ONLY people he lets touch him are people he cares for. And not only did she put her hand on his shoulder, she actively pushed him back, and he showed no sign of discomfort towards it. So why am I screaming about this?

Because he DOES care! It proves he cares for her. Don't get me wrong, I still think saying he's her 'dad' is a bit of a strech, but he does care enough to let her touch him. He doesn't dislike or even have a neutral opinion on her. She's his friend, even if just a little bit.

Just an edit to clarify; I know 'friends' is probably also not the best word to use, but it's just the easiest way for me to describe it.

[ohno-the-sun]

Holding their little hands for strength 😭

[twptwp]

Trying to appreciate my body with art

Of course, I draw on eyes for my nipples!

[rxttenfish]

merfolk in general are just. horrible horrible polyglots. their brains are already hardwired for language and quick language acquisition that remains active all their lives, further helped by retaining a high neural plasticity for their long lives, and especially enjoy complex language and language-based play and problem solving. but they also tend to have a lot of their society arranged where there's often multiple different languages at play within the same area, and only really stops being so once you get into especially small villages that have below the merfolk norm for outside contact. every merfolk alive today knows at least two languages, but most of them know far more than that, especially because one of those two will be the common-technical language. its been standardized and wide-scale implemented across the merkingdom after their dominance, to help bridge the gap between these different languages, basically as a successful version of esperanto. but its a trade language, and is mostly used for information you might want to reach as many people as possible, such as laws or business dealings or public announcements or the like. most merfolk don't view it as and don't treat it as a language proper, and its not what they prefer to converse in if they have another choice, usually finding it pretty limiting and restrictive, which is why its called common-technical.

miranda, being a royal who is regularly in contact with many different people around the merkingdom and regularly expected to be fully able to converse with them to do her job, knows just. so many languages. i might be changing exactly how many soon, but last time i counted it was in the low teens. like its just a perfect storm of her brain being wired for swift language acquisition and having a job that requires it and a position that means shes constantly around people from all around the merkingdom. not to mention having to know english too, which isn't just not her first language, it's not even her fourth language.

meanwhile, aaravi knows english and a little bit of hindi, less because of her mother and moreso because of her nana... its not that her mother never used it with her, but she was. less focused on using it or teaching aaravi, let's say. nana mishra uses it a lot more and is more interested in teaching aaravi when she asks her, especially in the intermittent period after her mom died and nana mishra was able to come back into her life to help aaravi pick up the pieces (though not after aaravi kind of. got left on her own. for an unfortunate amount of time). its just also fallen by the wayside with aaravi's whole Everything Else and kind of having a hard time accepting her nana's help and kind of being terrified of her (of no fault of her nana's, aaravi's just. she's just really traumatized after Everything, alright. having someone try to offer her help afterwards, especially when aaravi's scared of getting singled out as half human and half monster, is just. it's not something she can bring herself to trust.)

[ingo-ingoing-ingone]

Idk if you care about a hat in time but theres a great submas mod for it!

Oh my god. That's so CUTE AAAAAA

I don't have a very good laptop so I don't have steam, but I have played this game on my friends computer. It's SO fun and I adore all the characters, very good game

[umbrellajamming]

New Teen Titans (Vol. 2) #10 - "He's like something out of a bad romance novel. Man, talk about your cornballs. Who writes his dialogue? Hallmark cards?"

Vic speaking my thoughts on Mr. Wing Man >_> and wow, they're sure having him pull overtime on the lampshading meta snark in this issue:

New Teen Titans (Vol. 2) #10 - "Why will the next Teen Titan hate her parents? Will we have to turn Titans Tower into Titans Hotel? These questions will be answered...in the next sickening segment of--"Daze Of Our Lives!" Same Bat time! Same Bat channel!"

[carriesthewind]

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[oh-no-its-bird]

I love finding really niche, super rare crackships with an immediatley interesting sounding premise bc my first thought is always "oh is this @ blackkatmagic ?"

Like. Multiple fandoms too. And then I'm always either mildly surprised when it's not or do a really smug little dance when I guessed right and it is

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

"It's too silly to make jyl's cutie mark soup" - the artist who made an entire equineswap au with lore seemingly spontaneously

[grumpygilly]

its his day and nobodys allowed to be mean

[sergle]

Isn't the joke the people who brag about "only eating iced coffee today"? Like the people weirdly flexing like some Gen X almond mom like we should praise them?

It is literally categorically About That, yes

[naomiknight-17]

It is absolutely piss-pouring rain out

The ground is saturated. The sidewalks are rivers. My shoes were soaked through before I even made it off my own property

It is a goddamn miracle that I powered through and made it to my physio appointment today. When I opened the door and saw the rain, I almost turned back. When my shoes soaked through walking through my yard, I almost turned back

When I reached the sidewalk and found it flooded, and there was no dry place to walk, I really really wanted to turn back

But I'm here.

I deserve a cookie

[markscherz]

what's your take on pacman/ornate horned frogs?

Okay so Ceratophrys themselves are pretty great (all round frogs are good frogs), but have you heard of PROceratophrys?

[source]

Some species are just like Ceratophrys, but with eighteen times the eyebrow.

Like, honestly?

[source]

Whose idea was this?

Interestingly, even though they're called PROceratophrys, they're not even in the same family (Odontophrynidae versus Ceratophryidae), and are separated by over 60 million years. Proceratophrys are more closely related to bufonid toads and hylid tree frogs than they are to Ceratophryidae!

Sometimes taxonomy is just dumb that way.

[snowshinobi]

Once again, Kaveh and Alhaitham throw down at the House of Daena, their peers feverishly reading around them. Kaveh is exceptionally sleep-deprived and Alhaitham is exceptionally agreeable—it's noon and Kaveh is the first person to speak to him. Their debate has circled around to the evolution of language; to what degree is definition-shifting a natural and inevitable process vs a slow poisoning of the meaning of language altogether? There are strong arguments for either side. In classic in utramque partem fashion, he chooses a stance at random and goes all in.

Within five minutes, Kaveh's shoulders are shivering with rage. Nearby readers have looked up from their tomes to tune in. Alhaitham nods to the room. "Fascinatingly, none of our esteemed peers have chimed in to decry my position alongside you."

Kaveh explodes "THAT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE MEAN AND ATTRACTIVE! Not because you're correct!"

Eyes shift between the duo. Kaveh keeps his gaze locked on Alhaitham's, slowly turning pink. A pair of birds flits past the stained-glass windows. Birdsong follows.

Ever so slightly, Alhaitham smiles. He looks away. "True. Silence may indicate, but cannot prove, acquiesce."

Alhaitham spares his friend because he knows this is worse. Kaveh will be kicking himself for this admission all the way back to their (shared) home.

[fellowfights]

I don't have many fears, but a big one for me is the fear that a large streamer or youtuber plays Disco Elysium and introduces it to people with no reading comprehension skills.