#you can smell it

[chipthekeeper]

Huge season for Carlos Sainz incoming

[victusinveritas]

[postersbykeith]

[monstrousproductions]

So, I responded to a post over on my personal blog about people behaving "weird" in public and mentioned that being a bit smelly is not, in fact, a moral failure. And I just looked at the comments and feel deeply moved to reiterate:

Smelling bad in public is not a moral failure.

In fact, I'll go one step further:

There is no moral dimension to cleanliness.

There are all sorts of reasons a person might be dirty in public. They might not have access to the facilities or products they need to stay clean, they might be coming home from a dirty activity, they might have mental or physical conditions that make it hard for them to maintain their personal hygiene, they might be dependent on other people for their hygiene needs and those needs aren't being met.

Also, with smells in particular, "bad" is subjective. I'm personally extremely sensitive to perfumes and aftershaves, and while I can sit quite peacefully in a crowded bus that smells of BO, I often have to leave shops or get off buses because someone's perfume, which they no doubt think makes them smell lovely, is actually making me gag.

You don't have to go and huff great, gusting lungfuls of air around the next smelly person you bump into in the corner shop. By all means, breathe through your mouth, change your seat, open the window, wish the situation were different.

But you do need to let go of this idea that a smelly or dirty person is also a bad person. They're literally just a person - just another human animal living in their animal body, trying to get from one day to the next. Sometimes, people are dirty. Sometimes, they smell bad. If that's not something you can encounter without taking personal offence, you need to seriously reassess your own expectations of being in public.

[pitsazawr]

Jack Stauber — The End

"It's only just the end", Tim

[so-i-did-this-thing]

The ironic thing about returning to my floofy forelock look is that age + T have now made it necessary I use a blow dryer & hairspray to achieve the volume I once had without effort, and I distinctly remember teenage me (during peak 80s and early 90s fashion) desperately wishing to be forever free of these styling aids.

[densewentz]

[kaiju-krew]

too many wips, too little time😓

[gojoest]

love when tall men lean in to hear you better

[besavvy]

You know how in most fanfiction Peter Parker has like a ridiculously strong sense of smell? He usually is portrayed as having a nose pretty comparable to the average dog.

Medical alert service dogs are trained to look for certain scents to make their handlers aware that they are about to have a medical episode-usually well before it actually happens.

Peter could be a human service dog.

Just imagine spiderman being midfight with this gang or whatever and all of the sudden he's like trying to get this one dude to sit down or something because he's about to have a seizure.

Or he's helping some lost kid and gets him a snack because his blood sugar is tanking.

Or maybe while they're working in the lab one day he suddenly stops and tells Tony to take his migraine meds and Tony of course is like… why?? I feel fine??? And Peter is like no seriously. You about to be Miserable. Take your meds.

And he's right! And Tony is just like wtf?????

I thought of this while I when I was reading a fanfic and my service dog wouldn't leave me the heck alone because she knew twenty minutes before it happened that I was about to have a severe blood sugar crash.

[lilacnothlit]

Somewhere in Andalite Chronicles, I think, Elfangor offhandedly mentions that they've rendered all their predators extinct. They collapsed their own ecology with industrialization and scaled back to a point where they have artisan spaceships, on a world with three birds (18?) and no insects (MM1). Part of why the Animorphs are OP is you chillingly come to realize that earth is the only planet left with wildlife, much less useful wildlife. The Andalites may be egotistical blowhards, but they're also ungulates and I totally believe they could get scared by a plastic sheet in the wind. Otherwise their first response wouldn't be "turn the planet to glass" every time they get scared.

i've finally decided to throw the animorphs tv show on, just in the background, because i've never been able to slog past the first two episodes (mainly due to my extreme aversion to how wrong they do it all) and it just gets worse, overall, but visser three has me grinning and giggling and shit because That's Him. That's Him right there.

there had to have been a better way to do that morphing bit though. right.

this cant be real

[magerightsmagefights]

Nothing Rook can say to Solas will ever be more savage than Spite looking him in the eye and going “Hmm. Smells like lies and crying.”

[ladyinthebluebox]

Taash out there like: I smell bullshit.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Remember: The burning sensation is part of the process.

[keferon]

Okay I’m. Usually. Usually I don’t enjoy human aus and usually I hate drawing transformers as humans because it feels so wrong to my brain.

But then I stumbled upon Dream of something more by Gemma_Inkyboots and aaauuuhh fuck. Here’s the pile of the most vague and unspecific and undetailed fanart. Because I’m being torn between “I can’t drawing human designs” and “If don’t draw something for this fic I die”.