#they're wild

[aestherians]

I just had the oddest experience. I was brushing my teeth, looking in the mirror, when suddenly, for a split second, my face seemed different. Not like a hallucination (or p-shift, good gods), more like... I stopped noticing the traits that didn't look like my fictotype. Like a visual sensory shift. A perception shift. I only perceived our visual similarities and somehow blocked out our differences. Like I said, it was over in less than a second. But it was there, clear as day.

[very-bad-poetry-captain]

Started reading The better man by Howard Weinstein and when I say the beginning pages made me feel insane-

I'm 60 pages into this book and it may just be my new favorite trek novel. The premise alone is insane - McCoy has to face his old childhood friend turned bitter rival and go back to a colony where 18 years ago his love story with the woman who is now the president of the colony planet resulted in a daughter he never knew... and that's just the summary on the back of the book 🤨😳🙊

[crisalidaseason]

Hi cris!!! Not a request but I always find weird when people forget how close Mikasa and Armin are. I feel ppl focus too much on Eren/Mikasa or Armin/Eren and forget how much Mikasa loves Armin and vice versa. Not saying that Eren is not important or doesn't love them as much but I think Eren/Mikasa kinda feels like manipulated by the ackerbond.

Hello friend!! This took a bit too long to respond, I am so sorry. Don't worry, you can send me anything on here and I'll devour it like a hungry gremlin. And OH you came here with a controversial take. I love it, let's go!

Yes I also find so weird how many people underestimate Armin and Mikasa's friendship. And it's not really necessary because acknowledging their bond doesn't make Eren/mika or Eren/armin any less important. They are allowed to love each other in different ways and I truly believe Armin and Mikasa have one of the strongest connections.

Armin loves her so much, and not in a romantic sense, he just loves her as a true platonic soulmate, much like Connie and Sasha love one another. And the same goes for Mikasa, that woman loves him so much (she has a freaking loud breakdown when he is essentially dead on season 3). Also, Armin and Mikasa trust each other so much that it's kinda scary. They don't hesitate to follow each other's advice, no questions asked. Like you said, It's not like Eren is not important or less connected, it's just that Armin and Mikasa have a unique link to one another.

And I also understand why you think Eren and Mikasa's connection is quite strange since the ackerbond has a huge influence, but I don't think it's an enslavement situation like Eren said once. Mikasa is capable of being angry and disagreeing with Eren, holding him accountable for things, having feelings of protectiveness for other people. If she was an actual slave of the ackerbond there would be no autonomy altogether. I'm not saying she is completely free from the ackerbond's influence, but she's also not this mind controlled slave.

I find that inside their trio dynamic, Armin and Mikasa had a need for a duo companionship due to Eren's wandering away tendencies (Mikasa does acknowledge that in the manga with the "why is Eren always getting away" line). Also, we can't deny that as much as Eren loved Mikasa and Armin, he was always keeping distance, especially as they grew older, which inevitably made both of them stick together for comfort.

[that-was-tedious]

hi yes why do tumblr ads all want me to drink olive oil? i'm so confused

[bagog]

Nightmare Walk

Ryan could hear the crack of the flail in the next room, Patrick's mournful groans and austere sounds of agony. There was a syrupy tendril of false blood that was beginning to drip from Ryan's false beard, about to fall and join the puddle of red-dyed cornstarch at the foot of the cross.

Ryan wore a long brown wig and a false beard and little else besides a blood-stained cloth around his boxers: in the semi-dark of the haunted attraction, he was the spitting image of the crucified Christ. His arms were strapped into the cross-beam of a large cross which held him high above the extras in Bible-clothing who were milling around waiting to be jeering onlookers. He was covered in fake blood, and occasionally as it trickled down over an eyebrow and he would waggle his head, unable to free his arms to brush it away.

The things you did for the Kingdom.

"Every 'hit' you take, every person you defile yourself with outside of marriage, every Sunday you slept in: each of those is another crack of the whip onto Jesus' flesh."

Ryan could hear the guide narrating through the scene right before they were supposed to enter this room and see that Jesus on the cross, dying for their sins. The attendees had been through the drugs room, the suicide room, the school shooting room, and were proper scared and ready to see some Biblical violence.

And so, next door, Patrick, dressed almost identically to Ryan, was being 'whipped' by a costumed Roman soldier: tortured. Then, with their trespasses still rising in their throats, they'd walk through the door and BAM: cross.

He was sweating beneath the fake blood and cold everywhere else, but it didn't matter too much to him. It was a big honor, he'd been doing Nightmare Walk all through high-school, and finally he was allowed to play Jesus. Still, as he hung there, Ryan thought that he was glad this would be his last year. It had turned out that, since meeting Patrick especially, he more looked forward to hitting the local Denny's with the other actors once the night was over.

"AGH!"

Ryan shook himself from his reverie, tried to stretch his arms which were quickly becoming numb. He heard it again, another shout. This one wasn't austere and Biblical, it was Patrick, and he was actually screaming.

"The fornicators, the idolators, the thieves, and the homosexuals will not be permitted to enter the kingdom of heaven!"

The narrator was 'preaching' at a fever pitch now, and Ryan didn't recognize the voice or the script they seemed to be using. His stomach sank.

"Oww! Hey, time-out, stop! STOP! Davis--AUGH!--stop!" Patrick was sounding panicked now.

"This one is guilty of lying with another man. He is abomination. Play-acting as our Savior with this unrepented sin still upon him!"

Ryan began to struggle with the bindings that held him fast to the cross, but they wouldn't budge. Patrick's cries had grown softer, broken, pleading. The door opened, and a crowd of people in fall-coats and scarves sidled in, led by a woman Ryan did not recognize.

"And here's the other one, the other homosexual. Dressed up like the Son of God, mocking the almighty with his iniquity." The woman proclaimed. Ryan couldn't make out the faces of the crowd in the darkness, but when the woman stepped forward, he saw she was carrying a brick. Maybe everyone in the crowd was.

Ryan pulled at his bonds, tried to twist out of them and off the cross. The sounds of a whip splitting flesh continued in the next room, and the woman raised her brick, eyes fiery and grin alive. The extras jeered and booed. The dark crowd stepped forward, arms raised.

[anneliis18]

they do the bamboozle

[wiisagi-maiingan]

What a terrible world we live in where you can google wild plants or bugs because you're interested in them and the first results are all "how do I kill this"

[desertduality]

they pull up to the drive-thru window wyd

[atlas-hope]

guess who rediscovered the feral ford tag

[bigbababooeyboobies]

I LOVE THIS MOVIE SM AAAA

[pokimoko]

Asexual bird? Please

How about two asexual birds?

[scottie-draws-sometimes]

Fun little redraw of this meme by @fish-cakez because it made me laugh so much, I can't stop thinking about it

Oh, and I'm playing around with digital art now (yippeeee)

[causticflower]

what if the bamboozlers bed is actually a nest (since they're all parrots) and THAT'S the real reason why grian keeps sleeping in it

bird brain takes over

[boxofoxberry]

the ittiest bird to bird ever......