#where's my cow

[dimity-lawn]

[stargazingdustbunny]

Pov: you're a deep downer about to get wrecked

[chekhovs-tantrum]

There's a parallel moment in both Thud! and Nona the Ninth that brings me to tears just talking about it (vague spoilers for both)

The setup is that our main character has been possessed by a horror they don't quite understand. They're falling apart in mind and body. It would be much, much easier - and maybe even better for everyone - to lay down and give up and die. The pain and madness are blurring everything.

And then someone reminds them about a small being they love very much. Bad things will happen to this small bean if they don't survive this moment.

And that realization launches them into turbo survival mode.

What I'm saying is that my favorite trope is "uncomplicated love that carries the sense of duty that gives you the will to drag yourself through hell." Tearing up just writing about it

[picturebookshelf]

Miss Felicity Beedle's The World of Poo (2012)

Story: Terry & Lyn Pratchett -- Art: Peter Dennis

[electricpentacle]

Aha, I have been dropped in a small rural village, this will be easy!

Let me just head out on the main road till I get to the fields of livestock...

That's not a cow.

These are also Not Cows.

Oh look, there's the next village, I wonder what they farm there?

COWS?

The rules of the game are simple:

You go to geoguesser

You set it to world map

You go through locations, through multiple games, driving around those locations

Until you see a cow

When you find a cow, you win

[girlboyburger]

your fursona is one of the cutest on the whole website

WRONG all fursonas on this website are cute and to prove it i impulsively drew a few that came to mind

(tags under the readmore)

left to right, starting at the top row + goin across then down

@feybeasts (dragon) @kimskam (cow) @vonkarn (dragon) @punkitt-is-here (unicorn) @krisispiss (wolf) @wolfertinger666 (bunny) @soft--dogs (doggy) @skunkes (skunk) hi hello i hope it's alright i drew your sonas i adore all of y'alls work <3

[headcanonsandmore]

Sauron: Aha, who is now in possession of the One Ring? A common soldier? Perfect; they will be tempted by dreams of conquest, wealth and power! But... wait, what is happening? Why is the tempation not affecting them? What sort of lowly human could possibly resist my power?

Sam Vimes, chucking the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom before striding off to get home before 6pm: Bloody stupid piece of jewelery-

[pennzance]

The fact that a book with a name like 'Thud!' is at once an excellent statement on the futile foolishness of racism and passed-on hatred, a fantastic mystery novel, one of the best stories that follows a new father as he navigates the divide between his work and his obligation to his young boy, and also possessed of a climactic sequence of berserker violence that can make me cry and is legitimately hard to me to get through EVERY TIME is a testament to the skill and craft of Terry Pratchett.

[dimity-lawn]

Wow! I can’t believe that the first two pictures are mine! How did that happen?

Look at us go!

[classicslesbianopinions]

the other thing about being disabled in academia is everyone is like "yeah we can't do much about the buildings they're old :/" as if "old" being a synonym for "inaccessible" isn't just a constant reminder that the people who built the school did not imagine that someday someone like me might study there

[dimity-lawn]

May your day go soft and pink!

[inkskinned]

she says he won't let her get a dog, which is fine, because they're in an apartment, and that's the kind of thing people say about their partners. he won't let me get a dog. and you're at a dinner party and you tilt your head a little to the side just like that dog he won't let her get, because is this the thing that's going to upset you? you don't know every corner of their relationship, she could be joking, they could have had so many healthy conversations about the dog, right, and maybe she's not letting herself get the dog because of money and time and whatever. but, like, she did say let

and she wants to move away from his hometown and he wants to stay and then he tells you with a wink and a conspiratorial stage whisper don't worry i'll convince her and she laughs about it - so clearly this is something they laugh about. but you do just stand there and stare at him like what the fuck, man. you can't say what you want to say which is why do you get the final say on everything because they're both obviously aware of the other person's stance on this and have obviously had private conversations about it and what are you going to do about it except make a scene and then he'll be mad at you and call you one of those bitches behind your back and she'll cut you off, which is a loss that doesn't feel worth it just because he makes you a little skeeved out every 3rd comment

and they both agree he just isn't the type to get flowers which is fine because everyone shows love differently, and are you really gonna judge someone based on their sense of individual relationship responsibility? maybe he's constantly cleaning her car and writing her poems and making her furniture or something. maybe she doesn't even like flowers and this is perfect, actually. and no you couldn't date him, obviously, ew; but like, she tells you she's happy. you almost send her a tiktok that says don't be 25 and the cool girl that doesn't need anything, you'll hate not getting flowers at 30, but that's like, starting drama & you shouldn't start drama needlessly.

and you're a little older than her but not so much older you can pull the whole trust me on this one babe thing and besides that wouldn't have worked anyway (when does it ever) and besides you have trauma so you and your therapist both agree that you're always looking for a problem even when there isn't one. and you tell yourself that just because you see them for 15 minutes every month does not mean you can identify every single red flag based on a single shitty half-joking(?) comment

and besides, what are you going to do? she says i actually wanted another stand mixer but thankfully he stops me when i'm about to spend too much money and you're standing there like are you okay? is this normal? is this just something people say? and again - what are you going to do?

to your therapist you try to language it - it's not, like, any of my business. but sometimes, doesn't it feel like - you should do something. there's got to be something, right? you've tried dropping little hints but they sail right through and you've tried having a single serious conversation and she got upset because why does it matter to you, yes it's different but we're happy, it doesn't need to make sense to you and you're like. really unwilling to push a boundary about it anymore; because the truth is that you know logically it shouldn't matter to you, as long as both parties are happy.

and besides, you've been wrong before. it's just... like, every time you see them both, something else happens, some kind of shiver down your spine like do you even hear each other when you talk. it's their strange, bickering orbit. just the way he's on his phone through dinner or watching sports instead of helping in the kitchen or, fuck, another one of these little throwaway comments he makes about we'll see about that, babe. she laughs when he calls her passions stupid shit and meanwhile she gets him tickets to see the knicks and he tells you well at least she's smart about something and still! it's none of your business.

you say get the dog anyway and she laughs. like, this is is you being funny. and not you saying - no really. get the dog. get the dog and get out of here. pack up and start running.

[pennumbra]

Let him frolic

[skittykittybean]

Woah hey! Did I ever tell anyone that I’m a writer? :3

Well, now I am! Just posted my first story onto VoyceMe for a competition they’re doing. Part of the judging criteria is view numbers. Every click counts!!

(Though reads are appreciated too! X3)

[fisheito]

how it feels to read chapter 14 but still have to do event dailies afterwards

[ewwww-what]

It probably won’t (it will)