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a humble toaster

@toastedpotatoes

she/they, serial reblogger, writer/artist, a minor :>

intro post??

hi hello salutations! i'm potato :))

stuff about me: - my favorite ice cream flavor is currently coffee! - i will reblog literally anything i like that comes across my dash - i use the #potato prattles tag for the posts i actually write, usually on miscellaneous topics - i use the #potato's pages tag for the stories i write! you can also read them all here: https://www.quotev.com/PotatoToast/published - i use the #potato's pictures tag for my art! it's mostly just my ocs lol - currently in over my head with school - aroace B)

stuff i like: - birds!!! - science!! - linguistics!!!! - people writing words to me about stuff!!! (wink wink nudge nudge) - art!!! - writing!!! - knitting!!! - wasting time on tumblr...

fandoms i'm in: - genshin impact - alan becker's stick figures - omori - dungeon meshi - chants of sennaar - does it count as a fandom if it's just you and your ocs

nice to meet you! :DDD

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BIRD ASK GAME!

this is a pigeon totally doves are basically pigeons-

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🕊️: a sweet quote!

you win you actually got me to write more of my chapter because i didn't have anything else lmao

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"Yours is done!" Ell held up the circlet for them to see.

It was nice—blooms carefully arranged by color so that it looked like a sunset, ends fastened with impatient fingers and silent prayers to not fall apart please. She reached up on tiptoe to set it on their head.

"Now we match!" she said, sounding pleased with herself.

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thank you for asking!!!

you ever have “cry and scream yourself awake” level nightmares that are immediately the stupidest premises imaginable the moment you actually wake up

The last time I wailed “help, please, help me, heeelp” loud enough to have the whole house come running, it was because I was having a nightmare that I was in my laundry room, and out of the corner of my eye I witnessed a Snoopy stuffed animal slowly rise up on two legs, as if being manipulated by a ghost or perhaps made animate by a possessing spirit, and slowly start to dance the Macarena.

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chaumas

I can’t stop thinking about this

Eeeeeey macarena

nothing will remind you that eating is good and okay like fantasy books will. “and that night in the valley they brought out the best plum cake and sweet cream, trout and turnips roasted over the fire, mead and goatsmilk and fresh cold water from the spring-“ and it’s like yeah dude you’re absolutely right. then sometimes it’s like “as he slept that night in the woods, he sorely missed the valley, where they brought out the best plum cake-“ and it’s like man that sucks i’ll have some seconds in his honor

I love this trope so much every time it shows up. Give me all the lavish feasts and improvised half-foraged camp meals and unexpected comfort or luxury foods at a bad time; give me dishes weighted with personal meaning or emotion or history, give me strange and delightful new foods or dear familiar old ones; give me characters who luxuriate in their favorite things to eat, characters who make a love language of feeding their friends or a life’s work of feeding total strangers or both at once, characters who cook. All of it.

(And yes, I will absolutely try to recreate the dishes if I can.)

wip game of birds!

Rules: askers can send a bird, and receive the corresponding thing. If you don't have something that corresponds to whatever bird it is, or you don't want to share the only thing that fits (I'm not telling!) then either share a matching quote from a published work and link it, or share a random quote from your wips of your choice. :)

🐦‍⬛ a great quote of dialogue (maybe you're proud of how in-character it is, or how sharp the back and forth!)

🦜 a pretty quote (you like the prose, or symbolism, or it's poetic, or you just like how it feels/the word choice!)

🐧 a funny quote (silly! laughs! jokes! puns!)

🦚 a sexy quote (spicy, outright nsfw, etc--if you're not comfortable with this one specify in the tags!)

🦃 a big, meaty quote (JUST A BIG OL PARAGRAPH YOU WANNA SHARE)

🦉 a clever quote (something you're proud of!)

🦅 an angsty quote (something PAINFUL!! ouch ouch ouch!)

🕊️ a sweet quote (something sweet, fluffy! maybe it's cute or funny banter! or sappy wedding vows!)

🦤 a quote you had to delete :( (but still wanna share!)

🐦 a romantic quote (can be sweet or sad or sexy, or just your favorite interaction between them!)

🐤 a mystery quote (take out the context, even censor the names if you want! let em guess!)

🐓 fuck quotes, give me a summary or some ao3 tags

🦆 asker's request (what do you want to see? from a specific wip, a specific mood, a specific ship or character...?)

🦩dealer's choice (choose any quote at all! or the summary / ao3 tags thing! whatever! wild card!)

Today I was chatting with two guys and mentioned I was aroace. It went a little something like this.

A: wtf is that

B: it means she’s not attracted to people in that way

A: bro you can’t just not pick a side, that’s crazy

B: nah, it just means she’s spectator mode

A: OHHH IT MAKES SENSE NOW

I have never felt more validated or laughed so hard

there aren’t enough posts going around about the swedish cryptid known as the skvader which is a rabbit with pheasant wings and also a very good boy.

like this one dude just made a fake taxidermy and spread it around as a hoax for a good ass while and it lead to this really cool fantasy creature and i am genuinely dissapointed that it never gets used in anything

Rabbirds, by the amazing @tkingfisher/Ursula Vernon (source).  

The lack of skvaders is particularly frustrating when you realize it forms the third point of a wonderful cryptid trifecta.

You got the jackalopes, which are rabbits with antlers.

And you got the wolpertingers, which are rabbits with antlers and wings.

And then… what? Do you escalate? That’s unbalanced, those two rabbit cryptids don’t have the same number of extra things, the wolpertinger is clearly the jackalope But More.

BUT with the skvader on the other side, balance is restored. Antler rabbit, winged rabbit, winged antler rabbit. It’s a classic Venn diagram of imaginary lapine beasts, and it’s only complete if you acknowledge the fucking skvader.

Good thing Ursula’s got our back, at least.

This is a really excellent point and I applaud your advancements in Cryptid Theory.

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magathapai

Gentleman, if I might add:

yes you may add this

I think balance in crypdids is VERY IMPORTANT.

Absolutely obligated to reblog this.

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