lavender snail sketch
someone put this screenshot in my notes and i wasn't gonna put the op on blast but i cannot stop thinking about it. this is up there as one of the funniest doubling downs i've ever seen. "it's called craft. it's called storytelling." is going to enter my meme vernacular and no one is going to have any idea what i'm talking about. the count of monte cristo shows a clear lack of craft in its wordcount. if only ernest hemingway's editor had killed more of his darlings while he wrote for whom the bell tolls. readers and editors alike are always complaining about how fucking long to kill a mockingbird is.
The explosion community is dying btw. Reblog to blow up the person you're reblogging this from
i think rolling down a grassy hill would fix me
I know autumn and spring are the shoulderest of seasons for this, but have you ever tried iceblocking, aka summertime inverted sledding?
For today’s lucky 10,000, the steps are:
- Clear out a dishpan’s worth of space in your freezer
- Get some scrap lengths of rope to use as two handles.
- Fill dishpan with 4"-6" (10-15 cm) of water
- Tie a knot in each end of each rope, then set the ropes in the dishpan. Tape the ropes to the sides if necessary to keep some of the rope out of the ice.
- Freeze. May take a few days.
- Scout out your best local sledding hill. We preferred our college’s golf course after dark. Warm evenings work well.
- Extract the ice block from the dishpan. It may require a little help with warm water at the edges or outsides of the pan.
- Summon accomplices. Meet at sledding hill. Bring towels.
- Set towel on ice block at top of hill. Sit on towel and ride down. Repeat until tired, bored, cold, or out of ice to slide on.
Usual sledding hazards apply, but once you dodge those, it’s a wonderful time.
Attention Northern Hemisphere: here’s your reminder about the coolest new fad.
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text: Aw buddy did you knock your eyeball under the couch again?
So basically if you make most creatures a size they're usually not it is wrong in some way. A kobold or maybe even a funny doggy the size a building is just too much. Sure there are instances of it happening but it's rare and a source of much wonder confusion for how that happened. Now a dragon. You can basically make a dragon any size you want and it still makes sense. Is it 1 building big? That's normal. Bigger than a small moon? That's nature baby. A mere 3 grapes tall? Well that little critter makes an awful lot of sense now doesn't it? This is because basically dragons are like fish. you wouldn't dare tell a fish what it can and cant do,that would be absurd. the fish woudlnt even hear you because it is too busy chowing down on an delectable detritus it found. and dont even think of saying that to the dragon cause baby, the dragon is the fish's diner buddy and it's chewing louder than a lawn mower caught over a rock! you really should join in you know,its rude to stare
oh. i just found out that the writer of the vincent van gogh doctor who episode wrote it as a tribute to his sister.
Richard Curtis wrote, "So – here’s the thing – the key reason I wrote this episode – was out of love for my sister Bindy. She was a gorgeous and brilliant person, 2 years older than me. She loved Vincent Van Gogh and life. She couldn’t have been more full of generosity and joy.
But half way through her life she was hit by depression and intermittently it hurt her for the rest of her life. And a few years before this show, like Vincent, she took her own life.
And in the key scene of the episode - when they bring Vincent to the future... that was me trying to show Bin how glorious she had been in our lives - and how nothing could change that.
And then also to deal with the fact that mental health issues are hard - and the capacity for joy, as I know Bindy did know how much she was loved, is intertwined with the immense difficulty of the illness sometimes...
So taking her own life wasn’t a failure by her, or a rejection of all of us. It was, as they say on Love island, what it was."
died and came back trans call that an autopsurgery
[guy who doesn't want people to know he's a reanimated corpse voice] uh yeah they're um. top surgery scars. yeah i'm transgender.
yo yo yoooo here's the cards that were purchased for a few bucks from saturday's usual livestream! ty for everyone for donating!
this cannot be a real fortune i just got
me: oh yay! i love fortune cookies 🥰 can’t wait to see what my fortune is! 😄💕
this cookie: kill yourself and shut the fuck up
me: so..... see anything interesting lately?
the many eyed creature living in my basement: YOUR LAUNDRY IN THE WASHING MACHINE. IT WAS DONE CYCLING 4 HOURS AGO
me: oh shit i forgot thanks
little kids love spooky mascots like bendy and Freddy but I notice they interpret the characters as totally benevolent basically and I think they deserve good quality media that plays into that, a horrifying but objectively heroic protagonist earnestly made for really young audiences. Yeah they got venom but that's still aimed at teens to adult nerds. I guess there's probably no media company right now with the guts to openly market a slavering fanged ghoul as a friendly children's hero but it is literally what they're clamoring for.
I dunno it just feels shiftier how all these newer mascot horror games are only kind of "implicitly" for kids, like they're still made with adult sensibilities and content kids might not be all that prepared to handle yet on the down-low they're hoping to get kids buying merch. Feels off. If you want the baby market then do it unironically and honestly.
There should be like an unironically scary character like you'd expect aesthetically to be the main threat of an adult horror franchise but it just protects kids from harm AND its associated media should be entirely G-rated other than the monster design itself. Make it like a skeleton bat clown with anglerfish teeth or a big black hairy centipede with a bunch of broken baby doll heads but it only hurts mean people and only adults. Or you know there isn't even any violence but it scares away bullies and then it helps the kids find their cat or make a sandcastle or whatever. The writing should not be like it's also for adults. It should be like the level of Bluey or Octonauts, like high quality but intellectually accessible to a three year old. And like the monster lurks anywhere dark like under beds and stuff. Yes there are children who would still be scared of it anyway but there were always children who got scared of big bird or the teletubbies, you know??? I bet other kids would get it and they'd get to feel like the scariest fucker they ever saw is inherently on their side.
they gotta do more ambitious mimics in games i think. say you finally come across a city after days of wandering through the wilderness. you go in to resupply but you notice it’s not on your maps and the roads around it don’t connect to anything. whole city comes out of the ground and starts trying to eat you. that’s a mimic
what is your most controversial video game hot take? 🎮🎮🎮
The pursuit for photorealism in games is a fruitless endeavor that only results in bloated file sizes that take too much space
why do people on the internet know so much about the epic of gilgamesh
people have started throwing shade at other ancient works of literature in the tags how long do you think before I have a college educated cage match on my hands
Emm speak your divinely-inspired thoughts with your whole chest like a man
i do love fucked up eye imagery. too many eyes where they shouldn’t be. no eyes. Things that are not eyes in place of eyes. it is like stained glass. to Me
That’s a front page and a half.
imagine if this was any other country in the world. imagine if they had a massive coronation for Xi Jinping while working class people in China were starving to death. they would be nuking the entire country before I even finished this sentence. but because it's the UK, it's perfectly fine and just a necessary consequence of capitalism. apparently the proletariat have to be sacrificed so that the bourgeoisie can afford to sit on a throne of gold and broadcast to the entire world how much stuff they stole from countries they colonized. and this is just treated as fucking normal by people who worship the monarchy?!
sorry for ranting, but I'm going absolutely insane. I hope suckingham phallus blows up in a terrorist attack.