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reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!

We’ll find you Amanda.

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I love that the canon ending to XCom: Enemy Unknown/Within is you lose the game. All that endgame stuff with the Gollop Chamber and the Uber Ethereal and the reveal that the goal of the alien invasion was to create the very super soldier program that XCom became? That's all non-canonical. What actually happened is that the aliens deployed Muton Berserkers and Archons before you researched plasma weapons.

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*Dead media (assassinated)

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there’s this extremely kind soul of a woman on instagram that makes accessible recipes that don’t require standing, chopping, or a stove and she might just have a permanent place in my heart

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Sergio Outdoors

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Well put. (Source: Writing About Writing Facebook page)

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The tragedy of my life is that I keep acquiring and displaying fetish art and having to be corrected by my friends.

Most recently, a friend came over my house and saw my computer background and went, "Wow, um, I didn't know you were into that." To which I look at the picture of the well drawn muscular female minotaur in historically accurate Greek clothing and I start geeking out about how I love the detail the artist did with the clothing and I point out the period appropriate folds and pins, how the artist even inserted the native plant that was used to dye the clothing this particular shade in the background, and even how the belt has technology AND historically accurate weaving patterns on it.

Then I start explaining how I love the muscular choices of the minotaur, that I was so impressed with the artist's anatomically correct depiction of the muscles converging into the neck. That many people get an upright cow's neck wrong because cow's don't have collarbones, so it can be very difficult to merge the upper arms and a chest of a human with a cow's body. I draw her attention to the beautiful way they've merged the pectoralis major so smoothly while also staying true to how muscular they've depicted the rest of the body.

I finish up with my thoughts on the artist's bold choice to depict the minotaur as a female, and despite the underlying themes of a minotaur being violence, child murder, strength, and muscles. I segue into how unlike bulls, cow are perceived as mothers. That they are the major source of milk in human culture, and that idyllic depictions of them in a field usually depict calves frolicking nearby, yet the minotaur kills and eats children.

I finish and there is a long pause.

"Urban, this is fetish art." and she takes me to the artist's twitter and god dammit it's fetish art, not a bold statement on cultural perceptions of women and violence throughout history. I have been tricked again.

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your heart is a muscle the size of a rat

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My take on a PLZA Kalosian Meganium regional forme before I'm promptly incorrect late 2025 lololol

Inspiration was perfume, fashion, modern chic, lavender, and a hint of solar panels. In a sense: a rural, slightly tomboyish Chikorita grew up into Bayleef and then decided to go study abroad at Paris.

( All of my fakemon designs are things I made for myself. If you want to comment about how you would have chosen a different typing, ability, or how you would have done something differently, I suggest to you to just make your own fakemon. )

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babe wake up new reaction image just dropped

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I think the fattest wild pigeon in a given city should be venerated as a sort of civic deity.

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sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

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art fight attack for @neuroticmoths yeehaw

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A lone hope.

Old sketch that I finally got done lol.

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unreasonably charmed by Pendant in the shape of a ram's head, Eastern Mediterranean, 5th–4th century BC, made of glass