want to be clear that if i ever talk about a headcanon and then later discuss a headcanon that is directly contradictory to the first one, that’s because headcanons exist in a quantum state where they are all simultaneously true and not true up until the point where i discuss it in detail, in which case that is the one that is true in that instance. schroedinger’s headcanons
that’s what characters ARE. not people, but potential. many things, as needed, no matter how mutually exclusive.
[Image ID: Tumblr tags reading: #good idea generator #yes i think this character is aroace. yes i think she is a lesbian. yes i think she’s bisexual #no not all at once just when i’m not fic writing. once i start fic writing the waveform collapses and only one of those is true #what is the point of being in fan spaces if i cannot explore like 700 different interpretations of the same character/storyline/dynamic/etc #wrow /End ID]
it actually takes 136 years to draw one line. so think about that next time you want to be mean to an artist
I understand why a lot of fantasy settings with Ambiguously Catholic organised religions go the old "the Church officially forbids magic while practising it in secret in order to monopolise its power" route, but it's almost a shame because the reality of the situation was much funnier.
Like, yes, a lot of Catholic clergy during the Middle Ages did practice magic in secret, but they weren't keeping it secret as some sort of sinister top-down conspiracy to deny magic to the Common People: they were mostly keeping it secret from their own superiors. It wasn't one of those "well, it's okay when we do it" deals: the Church very much did not want its local priests doing wizard shit. We have official records of local priests being disciplined for getting caught doing wizard shit. And the preponderance of evidence is that most of them would take their lumps, promise to stop doing wizard shit, then go right back to doing wizard shit.
It turns out that if you give a bunch of dudes education, literacy, and a lot of time on their hands, some non-zero percentage of them are going to decide to be wizards, no matter how hard you try to stop them from being wizards.
every moment of every day i am thinking about this tiktok
Lumpfish come in a variety of shapes and colors.
[He scoops up the fish, it spits water and he turns it toward the camera]
This one is stumpy and green. Very beautiful, very powerful.
[He picks up another fish and turns it toward the camera]
This is what a normal lumpfish looks like. It is more elongated, but still a vibrant blue color. Very beautiful, very powerful.
[He picks up another fish and turns it toward the camera]
This is one of the stumpiest ones we have. Its hump is very high. It is very stumpy, but yet very beautiful, and very powerful.
[He pans over a lot of fish, all looking up at the camera]
My fish army is ever growing, and soon I will over throw the world. Very beautiful, very powerful.
because of this tiktok, i frequently murmur "very beautiful, very powerful" at myself, and i cannot recommend it enough.
[ID: a banner with a screenshot from the above video of a hand holding a lumpfish. the rest of the banner is a similar blue to the fish, with the text: this user is very beautiful. very powerful." end text and ID.]
[id: a brown budgett's frog (lepidobatrachus laevis) resting in a black frying pan set in a white plastic tray. It is lying down in a position so that its arms and legs are tucked under its rotund body, and it appears to be grinning widely at the viewer. /end id.]
chesire frog. love it with all my heart.
I saw the term "malgendering", which is only recognizing someone's gender identity when it can be used to hurt them, and that's such a nice succinct way to describe both massive institutional issues (a trans women who is arrested for public indecency when taking off her top and then sent to a men's prison, mandatory military service countries that require both trans women and trans men to serve, a trans man being denied ovarian cancer care because that's "for women") and the smaller scale social interactions of "well since you're a man now I can hit you" and "don't like random dick pics? too bad. welcome to womanhood" and the godawful usage of theyfab
there's also the more subtle, manipulative forms. if someone uses any pronouns and you want to paint them as dangerous and a threat, stick with "he". if you want to make him seem irrational and whiny instead, call her a Karen. if you disagree on transfem issues, he clearly doesn't know what he's talking about. if you disagree on transmasc issues, she should mind her own business. you see?
if you have a good gender and a bad gender this will always be an issue. kill gender essentialism alongside bioessentialism
Hi new friends. Please don’t censor words, especially triggering ones. Seeing trigger words written l!ke th!s doesn’t stop them from being triggering.
It just stops Tumblr’s built in filter (see under settings) from working which many of us have in place to protect ourselves.
This has happened to me multiple times this week, and as someone currently struggling with suicidal ideation, has not been great.
You are not on TikTok or Insta, please use the full words so people can protect themselves. Thank you 💖
WHY DO GUINEA PIGS HAVE SUCH A HUMAN NOSE/MOUTH SLAPPED ON A FUR POTATO WHY DID GOD ALLOW THIS
oh i kind of see what you mean! wait–
guinea pigs have two modes 1) human mouth/nose on a fur potato and 2) toothy gate to hell on a fur potato
ENJOY
THIS IS THE WORST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE PLEASE MARRY ME
[id: the first two images are guinea pigs with their mouths open just enough to show cute pink tongues as they look at the camera. the next two images are guinea pigs yawning so that most of their faces are obscured by their vertical, oblong mouths with long rectangular teeth. the fifth and last image is a digital illustration in two parts. the first part is labeled 1.) and depicts a brown and white guinea pig whose entire head is replaced by a human mouth and nose. the second half of the illustration is labeled 2.) and depicts the same guinea pig’s round body but the entire head is opened up with a many-toothed round mouth that has flames inside of it and three little mournful ghosts escaping out of its depths. end id]
i was at a little park fest thing today and someone was there with their cats who were trained to hang out in a stroller?? like they were SO chill it was amazing. the cats were obviously enjoying themselves and were very well trained to stay right in or under their catmobile.
until, that is, i rolled up in my wheelchair and one of them turned and saw my vaguely stroller-like contraption and *immediately* jumped out of his cat-approved-stroller to climb around on my chair like OH WOW WHEN DID WE GET ANOTHER WHEELEY THING YAY! :D
i was like sir you are not supposed to be here and he just looked up at me like oh yes i am ! i must stay in wheeled contraption !!! and he was wearing a lil bowtie so i could not argue with him
[id: the Is This a Bird meme edited so that a stock photo of a gray tabby cat with a bowtie is the one gesturing at the It's Free Real Estate meme that has a disability symbol of a person in a wheelchair edited on to it. end id]
[id: #it's free...wheel estate /end id] (via @youdontoutgrowpunk-sir )
stop being funnier than me on my own post!!