#why go to those lengths

[johnnyshrine]

★ 093 // “POV: You Died :("

[mylittleredgirl]

genuinely though i love that the critique that gets lobbed at tng sometimes is that it's boring because the characters sit and think and talk and many of the episodes resolve with very few explosions, and yes! that's the point!!!

like the whole ethos of tng was "space (and everyone in it) is not a threat once you understand it" and sometimes you have to get quiet about it for a minute or have a productive group discussion or do some pontificating to reach that moment of understanding and communication, but at the end we warp away having made a friend or gained a greater understanding of the complexity of the universe and maybe it was a little bit silly or a character learned how to be a better version of themself along the way and that's why i love it!!

[non-un-topo]

Trying to kick my art block by doing the opposite of an easy drawing

[huenistar]

i hate stupid people who ask u a question and after u say no they say the question again, are u dumb??

“can i do ur nails” “no” “can i do ur nails” “no” “WHYYYY” “because i dont want u to do my nails” “WHY?” “no” “JUST LET ME DO UR NAILS” “no” = a genuine conversation i have with my sister atleast once a month

if i said “no” 10 times… do u think ill say yes the 11th time??

thats like putting ur hand on a hot stove twice and expecting a different outcome😭😭 HO I SAID NO

(also pls read tags, it continues what im saying🙏🙏)

[thatscarletflycatcher]

The thing is, I do love a cranky, sarcastic, clever, old man writer. I delight in Alasdair MacIntyre, and I have the time of my life reading Etienne Gilson too, even the times I disagree with them.

And then there's one Gilbert Keith Chesterton whom I find insufferable to read most of the time, unless it is fiction (The Man Who Was Thursday my beloved).

[deus-ex-mona]

work hard, whale harder…?

[skunkes]

realizing now that my hair reaches my back, I can just go get it trimmed Anywhere. Which is crazy after 7 years of "I can't get it cut unless [my barber] is free because nobody else in my city will give me the masculine haircut I want."

I want a trim and caught myself saying ugh sucks that I cant get my hair cut anymore bc my barber pursued other things. Its Long Now. It doesnt matter anymore. Wow.

[toucansafari]

with the exception of 1 oc who is very explicitly a self-insert, i want to say that my ocs are NOT self-inserts but i can't help it that they generally end up aligning heavily with my tastes and interests :<

it's the easier, lazier way to come up with ocs but it also makes them extremely boring and similar lol

[ratcandy]

also whats weird is like, that mushroom gotta be like ATTACHED to his brain?? no way he doesnt have brain damage from that. also its not hard to imagine that with all his intense mushroom use, that he'd have some sort of substance use disorder. and he is, suddenly, in a DEATH CULT. actually. i dont feel like anyone talks about the last part. ?? doesnt anyone wonder how hard it would be to adjust just suddenly. being in a cult? we dont really know how his life was before but if he wasnt in a cult beforehand then id imagine all the Cult Stuff would be at least a little uncomfortable.

I guess it would depend to what extent we're leaning into the parasite actually being a cordycep. Because if we're going full throttle on that, teeechnically cordyceps don't attach to the brain at all and only control the musculature; hence why I always hc'd that there's two different mushrooms involved, with the menticide doing the brain fuckery and the cordycep doing. The everything else

But at the same time it could very well just be advanced cordycep and we can make up whatever rules we want ! But YES, regardless, there is some brain nonsense happening that would ABSOLUTELY have everlasting effects on this ant. Not to mention if the cordyceps DID have control of his muscular system, then his entire body has got to be feeling the effects of it as well.

So he's here, in a death cult, probably having to re-learn how to walk and suffering extreme withdrawal symptoms as well as memory loss.

ANd no nobody ever considers the full ramifications of the death cult because everybody is a coward and won't consider how horrifying cults actually are!!!!!! And to be a disabled old man suddenly thrust into a scary ass scenario where people are being sacrificed and brought back to life around you while you can't even remember how old you are or where you've been the past few years because time was fucked while you were Shroomed, it HAS to be HORRIFYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But at the same time it really just works out from a cultist perspective. He's already isolated, vulnerable, and probably only halfway lucid at any given point. He'd be extremely easy to manipulate and keep dependent on the cult. After all, they're keeping him safe there, it's dangerous out there. (Not to mention him just feeling some inherent loyalty to the Lamb upon becoming sober, which certainly wouldn't do him any favors)

Like what's he going to do? Leave? Stumble out, suffering withdrawl, into the Lands of the Old Faith?? As an old man??????????

He has no CHOICE but to make peace with where he is. Despite all the questions about if his FAMILY is even STILL ALIVE. Despite having no idea what he DID while under the influence. Despite the HORRORS around every CORNER

It's FUCKED!!!!! It's AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[delightfuldevin]

I was gonna post the gifs of all the weapons but,, the gifs are kinda ugly,, jdbvjhfdjhs

[dragontatoes]

The cishet white christians that make up conspiracy theories about why queer, BIPOC, Muslims, and Jewish people (among others) are "overrepresented" in certain professions/fields based on their relative population always come to the conclusion that it's because those people secretly possess or steal power that truly belongs to them instead. They never entertain the idea of Black excellence, queer excellence, Jewish excellence, or the profoundly obvious fact that cishet white christianity encourages people to never achieve, to never make something for the betterment of their world. They fail to recognize that the comfort that comes with the privileges of whiteness, especially, have caused them to find themselves superior without attempting anything beyond creating more mediocre, white progeny

[strwbrymlkshake]

It's difficult dealing with so many people who think we aren't meant to be with eachother. I don't get why someone else's relationship can mean so much to bystanders. Can't you find something else to do?

[deviousdiesel]

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[jakes-jules]

Shirt mockup was successful. Did a truly obscene amount of bringing in seams to get here

"But Jules, wouldn't it be easier to just widen the sleeves and neck of a raglan t-shirt instead of taking in a whole peasant shirt?"

I have never done anything the easy way and I have no plans to start now

[danielnelsen]

im rereading asunder and keep having to remind myself that all these characters have french accents fml

[songofwizardry]

it is october of 2023 and i am watching gravity falls for the first time. living my best life tbh