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[bigshotspambot]

SyNthetic wEirdO

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

supposing sonic the hedgehog had to be put down, what method of execution do you think would be most humane?

So, it's like the classic joke:

A man goes into a butcher shop to buy an animal. "How many animals do you want?" says the butcher.

The man thinks for a minute. Then he says, "Well, let's see. I'm going to give one of them away for free, another will be put down, and the rest will get killed."

The butcher says, "Which ones will be killed?"

The man says, "Let me tell you something about myself. I once saw a movie that was so horrible I still haven't recovered from it. It was called 'Schmuck,' and everyone hated it, but in a weird way that made me feel really good. Now, how would you feel if I were to tell you that I will give this animal to my girlfriend, who I adore?"

The butcher nods. "You got it. I'd do anything."

The man says, "Good. You know what else I'm going to do?"

The butcher nods again. "What's that?"

"I'm going to kill the next animal in this row of animals."

"What next one?"

"The one over there."

The butcher goes back to his work.

The man comes back a minute later with a rabbit dangling from his hand. "Is this the animal I gave away?" he asks.

The butcher shakes his head. "No, not yet. I'm making some alterations."

The man turns around, horrified. It is a human head on a pole. "Wait a minute! You're not making any alterations. You didn't need to kill anyone to get my head. You just went into the butcher's shop, asked for some meat, and then gave it away."

The butcher looks sheepish. "Well, we don't have very much meat."

The man is horrified. "Why didn't you just kill the one I chose instead of making this whole situation about me? I'll never forgive you!"

"Hey," says the butcher, "it's only a head."

I have thought a lot about why the butcher is the wrong place for a story about Sonic the Hedgehog (or me for that matter). "In the real world, the people that are killing you are making you more dead" sounds bad, no matter what.

In a world with no death, though, the butcher's actions have less moral value than Sonic's (because there was no point in killing the human head as a hedgehog, but there was a point in killing the hedgehog head, and that point is that Sonic the Hedgehog's life).

(Of course, one could also say that Sonic the Hedgehog's life has less moral value than someone's life. But what's important is that the two have the same moral weight.)

In a world with no death, even Sonic's life seems kind of like a meaningless collection of "spikes that stick out and make me look cool." But, with all the deaths in the world, Sonic and his friends do something much less pointless when he dies – they make another life. ("The hedgehog lived by itself, which was both strange and sad.") The butcher is still just buying and selling meat, and when Sonic dies, he buys and sells even more meat. He can't undo what he's done. He still makes the world deader.

So, "a butcher's shop" has become the logical setting for me to tell a story about Sonic the Hedgehog dying. Because a butcher's shop is already full of dead things, without having to kill any living animals.

In "Schmuck," I think, the author is still using the butcher to convey the fact that they are already buying and selling meat. Because, no matter how many heads the butcher puts out, it will be a stitch in the side not to "kill another animal" (in the literal sense of putting the meat on an animal's corpse) or to "make more meat."

[egophiliac]

do skully have pokemon?

Pumpkaboo is the obvious one, but y'know, sometimes the obvious one is the right one! (we'll say SUPER SIZE Pumpkaboo, just for fun. big pumpkin for big skeleton boy.) and another person actually also suggested Greavard, which I somehow hadn't considered, but feels so perfect that I feel like I should have. dangit.

(they can also have little Nightmare Suit costumes :D)

[ubu507]

I’m Eager

To Make You

Have Joyful Time

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spam in hash so fun. this is wild btw

[fangirl-nadir]

If you're a bot posting NSFW in the Asexual tag: fuck you, get blocked and reported. If you're an actual person posting NSFW or other spam in the Asexual tag: shame on you, get blocked and reported, I hope you get perma-banned for being an inconsiderate piece of shit

[literaryvein-reblogs]

One Poem a Day: November

"beautiful" words related to November for your next poem/story

November - 11th month of the Gregorian calendar. Its name is derived from novem, Latin for “nine,” an indication of its position in the early Roman calendar; a communications code word for the letter n.

Aeonian - lasting for an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time

Apotheosis - the perfect form or example of something; quintessence

Bonfire - a large fire built in the open air

Cavalcade - a dramatic sequence or procession; series

Chrysanthemum - any of various composite plants including weeds, ornamentals grown for their brightly colored often double flower heads, and others important as sources of medicinals and insecticides

Cider - fermented apple juice often made sparkling by carbonation or fermentation in a sealed container

Cinnabarine - a deep vivid red

Citrine - resembling a citron or lemon especially in color; a semiprecious yellow stone resembling topaz and formed by heating a black quartz in order to change its color

Claret - a red Bordeaux wine; a dark purplish red

Confiture - preserved or candied fruit; jam

Cotyledon - the first leaf or one of the first pair or whorl of leaves developed by the embryo of a seed plant or of some lower plants (such as ferns)

Cranberry - the red acid berry produced by some plants (such as Vaccinium oxycoccos and V. macrocarpon) of the heath family; a dark red

Eld - old age; archaic: old times; antiquity

Felicific - causing or intended to cause happiness

Firewood - wood used for fuel

Flaxen - resembling flax especially in pale soft strawy color

Foliage - a cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; leafage

Glissade - a gliding step in ballet

Gramercy - archaic: used to express gratitude or surprise

Kuchen - any of various coffee cakes made from sweet yeast dough

Lionize - to treat as an object of great interest or importance

Petiole - a slender stem that supports the blade of a foliage leaf

Rufescent - reddish

Sempiternity - eternity

Titian - of a brownish-orange color

Topaz - a usually yellow to brownish-yellow transparent mineral topaz used as a gem

Torchère - a tall ornamental stand for a candlestick or candelabra

Torpid - exhibiting or characterized by torpor; dormant

Vermeil - vermilion; gilded silver

Whiffle - to blow unsteadily or in gusts

Sources: 1 2 3 ⚜ More: Word Lists ⚜ Writing Prompts

If any of these words inspire your writing, do tag me or send me a link. I'd love to read your work!

[agirlnamedbone]

Cecilia Llompart (The Wingless, 2014)

[finalgirlgretchen]

[shitty-proendo-blackout-posts]

anonymous asked: Being endo is valid. <3

[poems-of-the-anentomologist]

****!

ive always liked hiding with my skeletons in the closet

nothing is more comforting than your sins around you like paper-mache

ive always watched as people moved unburdened through the world

what fools are they, nothing keeping them down

i look up at the birds flying on wings of gold

mine are crushed and dented by my dreams

they are perfect

unfettered talons can cut

but when you put the chains on yourself

they turn to yourself

===

On father’s day

My mother made peach ice cream

And found a queen ant in the pit of a peach

My mother was about to kill it

But

I took the peach

Out to a field

And saved the queen

When I let her go,

I said

“Alright girl, let’s get you home”

[karlkapri]

― Marriage of Many Years, Dana Gioia

Hockey Poetry Post 41/?

(Photo credit: link, Marc Serota, Gregory Shamus, ??????, Gregory Shamus, Andre Ringuette, link, Bruce Bennett, Andre Ringuette, Joe Sargent, Gregory Shamus, Emilee Chinn)

[swirlingyouintomypoems]

thank you, i look just like my mommy

first time - hozier/gilmore girls/class of 2013 - mitski/mother - nivya/barbie, 2023/rupi kaur/slipping through my fingers - abba/mother - kacey musgraves/percy jackson and the olympians, tv series/writer in the dark - lorde/unknown/mama mia, 2008/where you lead i will follow - carole king/milk and honey - rupi kaur/barbie, 2023

[lovesby]

december blue early (SBY, december 2023)

[Text, in all caps: I kill myself via inaction and then find myself awake on a Saturday morning while snow falls unthinkingly to melt on the pavement outside and I look at my sweaty and god-given palms and wonder what a strange and terrible blessing it is to be alive.]

[snekthedemonnoodle]

there used to be everything between us 

but it is now little more than nothing.

knowing that hurts because once

we made every excuse to get alone with each other

but now even eye contact feels too risky.

we used to interlock our fingers and dance

but now i just bump into you in the hallway of an unfamiliar place

where we know both of us need someone.

deep down i miss you, dearly and truly

but saying that feels scary and awkward

because i know it was better in the long run,

but for now it feels like such a mistake.

[sfsolstice]

exurb1a, from "Climbing Gym" in Poems for the Lost Because I'm Lost Too