#that isn't a random pull

[chase-prairie]

Loving reminder from your land history auntie:

North American golf courses have had 50-100 years of arsenic and mercury based fungicide and herbicides applied to their soils.

Do not eat anything that has been grown on a golf course or downstream from a golf course. I know it sounds cool and radical, but you are too valuable to poison yourself with heavy metals.

Protect each other, turn your local golf course into a pollinator garden, not a sex forest or community garden.

[radiance1]

Mystic Flour Cookie and Child Reader drabble

"Not even the very gods are immune to suffering." Mystic Flour Cookie whispered softly as she ran a hand through your hair. She knew not the reason, nor the power, that had brought you from your world into that of her own. But she couldn't find it within herself to be irritated or disquieted about that fact.

In fact, she could even say she was... pleased.

Whatever power had granted her one true desire... She was thankful to it. To drag the very god that pulled her from the void, imbuing her very dough with strength, bestowing upon her only but the best of toppings and a beascuit leaps and bounds ahead of others to lessen the time between each use of her power.

Even granting her own wishes.

Doing away with the flesh of your divine body in exchange for crispy, fresh dough. Infused with the divinity that you so truly deserved, despite having no level of enlightenment and then, to have you descend upon none other than her. For her to be the first and only one to be granted the privilege of laying eyes upon your new vessel.

Yes.

She was pleased.

"One day, you and I shall crumble, too." She murmured, staring at you through half-lidded eyes. She wiped away the tears at the edges of your eyes with the edge of her sleeve. "Yet that day, shall not be today."

Such a truly benevolent deity you were. This kingdom... Its Cookies... Their ideals of peace, friendship, love and joy. All of it, would be non-existent without you, without the very foundation you laid out for them... The effort and time you put into a world not even your own.

Even going as far as granting wishes.

Cookies... Such greedy creatures. They cannot, will not, comprehend the true depths your very presence entailed, what effort and suffering you had gone through to make this kingdom as truly grand as it was.

They will take you for granted, just as the Cookies of far ages past had done for her. Taking and taking, wanting and wanting, demanding more, and more from the deity that merely wanted the best for them.

In the end, the greed of those who you wished to keep happy would be your downfall....

But why would she let you go through such suffering, to reach the same conclusion she had reached herself....?

You were here. Safe with her. Only, with her.

And the Realm of Apathy shallow envelop you... Welcome you... Protect you....

Yes...

She smiled, eyes slipping closed as he continued to run a hand through your hair.

The greed of Cookies... The suffering and woes of life... Apathy shall shield you from all.

Until the day you, and she, returns to flour....

[shakingparadigm]

my ALNST oc/sona, solei!! they know both too much and too little at the same time.

is your senior year at highschool getting too boring? fear not! a game of whodunnit is now underway!

ok but seriously, they were really fun to make! my idea for them is pretty unpolished (fuck it we ball) but hey we're all here for fun so what's the harm in it

[yuseirra]

I've been keeping an eye on the news every single day since the martial law declaration happened. I even had it on earlier while I was drawing and here's something I JUST LEARNED as breaking news:

Apparently, the "president" seriously attempted to take over Seoul, the capital, using the military if martial law had been enacted. He had all the plans prepared in advance. I have no words. This man really tried to become a dictator in the 21st century, in South Korea of all places—a country where democracy has firmly been established for decades. This is insane. I wish I could describe things better in words. If martial law hadn’t been voted down the way it was, countless civilians could have been killed...

And his party tried to defend him by saying he "was lonely and needed a friend to talk to"? They’re out of their minds.

I’m speechless. If things had turned out differently, I might not have been able to sit here and type all this. I can't believe it. He really could have destroyed this country.

[dctrfate]

one of the fundamental issues i see with post-resurrection barry allen is that both writers and fans need to elevate him to a more “powerful” position than wally to prove he’s better or equal to his flash. but like. that's not how barry functions as a character. barry is a creative problem solver who doesn't need speed because he uses his powers as a secondary tool in preference to his mind. meanwhile, wally is far more intuitive and his powers work as an extension of his own consciousness so he'll resort to speed first and a viable plan of action second. to remove this characteristic from barry and make him so reliant on speed inadvertantly proves that he can't stand on his own BECAUSE of this constant comparison. tldr; barry shouldn't be the fastest most specialist speedster to ever have been created because he has his own strengths apart from speed mcgee wally and so engages with the audience differently to begin with.

[iveneverbeenmorestressedinmylife]

why is hugh laurie constantly dying from presbyterian shame.

[bleaksqueak]

Ultra cursed: twins Audric and twins Elias in the same universe.

Wait wait wait Do you mean twins as in two sets of Audric and two sets of Elias or Audric and Elias as twins? I don't know if you've ever read The Violinist of Hameln, but I'm picturing a situation ala Hamel and Sizer as babies with Pandora

But, you know, luckily for Lyra and Audun, these two would actually not be airborn at any time. (... Hopefully?) The other scenario though... see, two Audrics would balance two Eliases (Eliasi? Is the plural of Elias Eli?) out. The true curse would be "One Audric, Two Eli"

[plaquerat]

on my hands and knees i am begging you to stop assuming everything is Terzo. Mummy Dust is about Mammon who has explicitly been associated with wolves. The statue of Romulus and Remus is an incredibly recognizable depiction of twins. I promise you these aren't related.

[moonsidesong]

thinkign about recovery centers i luv Youuuu recovery centers

[iniziare]

I got massively, massively distracted yesterday (but I had a great time, so it was all good in the end, and very worth it), so I got absolutely nothing done writing-wise. But I'm here now, so I intend to catch up on writing, before I catch up on DMs, and an ask that's waiting for me in response to a little post I made yesterday— which I also need to elaborate on. Okay, oof, I need to get through my to-do list. But before I do, I wanted to write up a couple of things as reminders to people (I need to double check how much of this stuff is in my rules, and in the separate pages of muses, but—):

Asks. I'm not automatically fine with them being turned into threads, unless it was previously stated/plotted, (or in rare cases: I can encourage it in my tags). And in that light, if I in turn send you an ask— don't worry, I will never assume that it's okay to turn it into a thread, regardless if your rules specifically state anything on it. I like to communicate, and also I don't want to add 17 things to your draft count without communicating. I also like to have a vague red lining for a thread, which asks are not always prepared for. They're a momentary glimpse more often than not. Chances are that I'm fine if you ask me, as long as you know what you want to do with it if you decide to turn it into a thread, and don't put that full expectation on me.

Dorian (+ shipping). Dorian Pavus is not a ship device. Dorian Pavus is not a ship device. Ships will be formed organically, whether that's behind the scenes, or simply through consistent writing (or ideally, both). However, if you come to me exclusively with the intent of shipping, I will shut it down. Yes, yes, I know, he's attractive, he has buns of steel and has a stupidly good heart, but I do not ship easily with him. And besides, I do not go into ships lightly either way, simply because I don't do 'hype-shipping' (I never have, never will) I will be as intensely, and ferally invested in a year, as I am now. And nothing bums me out more than people leaving their portrayals (though I understand that people move to new 'lands' but alas, we're all emotional creatures at the heart of ourselves), or only being intensely invested for a short period of time. I don't do the 'honeymoon phase' type of shipping, I'm in it for the long haul— if you're not, then we're just not compatible. I'm kind of over 'losing' my ships to be quite frank with you. /adds in a little thing in my notes.

... I thought I had more of these, but for now, mind is blank. I believe this is its way of telling me to get to writing, so here we go.

[tlatia-the-radiant]

- @askthecaptiangeneral

I will club you to death with your own fucking femur

[thethingything]

so CBT never worked for us in therapy. basically every instance of it was therapists trying to get us to stop being anxious about very real problems that were very likely to happen. like, situations that were not only likely, but would be very dangerous if they did happen. sometimes even things that had already happened and were likely to happen again.

meanwhile we have an app on our phone that guides you through various CBT exercises and it turns out when we use that for the kind of shit where we already know our brain is being irrational and we just want to get our thoughts together and work through the issue by writing it out, it works really fucking well and oh look suddenly we've been doing CBT for an hour and processed the root cause of several key emotional issues we've been having for years.

funny how that works. it's almost like we can actually figure out for ourselves when something is irrational and when it's an actual real problem that could put us in danger and shouldn't be dismissed. who'd have fucking thought it

[rosedhall]

ADON wiki summoning information I don't even think is mentioned anywhere canonically. Where did yall get this nolej? You on speaking terms with the ghosts or smth?

(If I'm mistaken and Rose's DOB is mentioned somewhere in game or by Tim/Huld/whomever, please correct me and link it. I'm very curious)

[new-haven-psych-ward]

Kamen Rider Geats episode 38 poorly summarized via memes with as little context as possible:

[thediktatortot]

I keep seeing like 5 different ways that people are wanting to help tumblr, change tumblr or fight against tumblr and I have still yet to see anyone make any concrete ideas as to what it is people are supposed to do in order to keep the site from being monetized & become something it's not.

If the site does not pay off it's debt, it will eventually cease to exist. If you don't petition for change, it will continue to label queer bodies as mature and sexual, continue to remove BIPOC folk from it's premise and continue to allow white supremacists to infiltrate this site.

So what's the options? What are we supposed to do? How are we supposed to change a site without everyone sitting down and actually talking about what change means and how to get there?

I see so many people just tossing out ideas that in theory do work in one way or another, but might not fix all the problems so there HAS to be something that can fix things without disenfranchising half the communities on this site?

There's so many "don't do this, this hurts these people and now your a horrible person for suggesting this thing." When most the people on this site have no idea who most of each other are and why or how it would effect people.

Give actual insight as to what could be done to get Staff to pick up their fucking big boy pants and do their job. Going around and telling people that they are horrible people for trying to suggest a solution or the people who share those solutions in an attempt to help isn't going to help anyone.

This isn't aimed at one post or idea in particular either, I've seen NUMEROUS ideas floating around that in theory could work for one thing or another and all there is, is people shooting these ideas down without actually backing up with something that might work.

Half the people on this site are children who have no idea how websites work on a corporate level, the other half are adults who've been on this site since they were children and just want the site to stay online and not disappear. There's disabled people who need this site (I'm one of them) to keep having a social life, there's artists who need this site to contuse having any form of recognition, there's writers who've got their entire portfolio on here and people who's entire blogs are dedicated to helping queer and trans kids learn about themselves and communities dedicated to finding people like themselves so they don't feel so alone in this world.

So what is it? What are we supposed to do? Without money the site fades away, with strikes you completely disenfranchise entire groups of people, without fighting against the staffs changes, current policies and lack of care about the white supremacists and TERFS that run rampant then people are still going to get harassed, reported into the ground and completely removed from the site for no reasons at all.

So if you have any fucking ideas then please actually tell people because at this point, everyone's trying to not get people to do one thing or another and yet no one is backing up these ideas with actual action that will work.

[proton-wobbler]

It's funny because the rook was the first bird that I submitted and the only one that got in. After the submissions were closed, I realized that I had totally forgotten about the oilbird, so I was really hoping someone else had submitted it. Now I'm glad that I didn't do it, but the rook is going against the oilbird! I don't know how to feel about this, but it seems like a funny coincidence

Ahh that is a fun coincidence!

I almost didn't include Oilbird since it's been in a few polls, but it seems to have lost most of those from the start, which feels unfair seeing as it is such a unique bird! I'm hoping it gets another chance here, but corvids always poll well on tumblr.