he is sitting and pondering
everyone: writing fanfiction is a great way to explore your various sexual fantasies
me, through clenched teeth: what if they lived in a TINY house and took NAPS all the time
I truly had no idea this would pick up so much traction but i’m glad to know we’re all in the same boat of living out unrealistic fantasy scenarios re: intimacy and home ownership
me, sobbing: And they had game night with friends and everyone took turns hosting and everyone was okay.
omg everyone was okay
if we could read minds I still don't think we'd understand them.
like I've spoken to people who think in images, who have to translate each thought into words before they communicate. and I think entirely in words, laid out across the void inside my head. my father's thinking is 3d, concepts structured in ways that are incredibly difficult to translate into words. and how would that look to me, if I could see into it? how do I perceive a thought that my mind cannot contain by the nature of their construction?
we all speak a private language to ourselves and we are always translating so we can speak to each other...don't touch me I'm emotional
I cannot stress this enough that the French word for fox, renard, is the name of a fictional fox from medieval stories.
The fox in French was originally called goupil, derived from the Latin vulpiculus, (small vulpes).
But the medieval Roman de Renart (Reynard the Fox) and other writings gave the title character the name of Renart, equivalent to the German Reinhart or Reinhard. And it was so popular that the name became a byword for the fox (he’s cunning as Renart) and eventually supplanted goupil as the animal’s name.
This is wild. It’s as if “seagull” was dropped from English and replaced by jonathans. Or something.
Actually that did happen! (sort of) A lot of the names of British garden birds come from the craze of giving birds Christian names - Jenny wren, Robin redbreast and so on. In some cases this resulted in the bird’s original name being dropped and the name being kept to mean the bird, as in the case with the robin.
Can’t find any comprehensive sources on the phenomenon but this blog mentions it:
As does the wikipedia article for robin:
Source: twitter.com
my toxic trait is being fervently convinced that if i ever came across a dragon irl we would make eye contact and understand each other at a primal level of transcendental trust instead of charring me into a crispy onion
Who wants to see a FAT otter. A real ROUND boy. A HUGE man. A CHUNKY guy.
otters-against-ddlg
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Voltaire
“There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be diminished by a nice cup of tea.” - Bernard Paul Heroux
The urban fantasy show I actually want to see is a hospital drama with a dedicated wing for supernatural illnesses.
Vampirism. Lycanthropy. Cheap spells gone wrong. A woman brought in for her prenatal has to be told her baby is a lindworm. Someone is literally being followed by the anthropomorphic personification of the Black Death.
Someone somewhere out there is having their perception of the world irreparably shattered by the knowledge that magic is real, and at the other side is a team of doctors who have to roll their eyes and pull out Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales because some high school kid tried to go Carrie with a cheap spellbook and turn all the kids at prom into frogs, and the doctors have to wrangle a couple dozen teenagers into admitting if they have a true love who can break the spell.
I want the hospital director to be some dark entity that feeds on human misery but figured out that if you successfully treat the source of the misery then instead of hunting you down as an abomination the humans start bringing more miserable people to your house en masse and things kinda got out of hand from there.
Grimm's Anatomy
I feel like when I say ‘relatable’ what I really mean is ‘resonant.’ I don’t want characters who I feel are like me, I want characters who have emotions so strong I can feel them through the page.
not all of it is bad i think….…. we are going to be okay i think.