We live in a dystopia....
If the background actors don't come in for work because they exist virtually then the background costume and background hair and make up and their catering and transport and all the other departments that look after them get cut too. These things have knock on effects...
There's something so deeply calming about watching megafauna prance and gambol about like they're little lambs
Bison pronking is already so magical, and then the double rainbow and the happy birdsong just put it way over the top
I'm glad I decided to watch this one instead of just thinking I'd already posted it.
I am begging, begging y’all to understand the difference between gore and body horror please.
Body horror is transformation/monstrous sort of things like a mouth where you shouldn’t have one or like, the shifting bones and whatnot in werewolf transformations. It is where something horrific is happening within the body itself.
It is not a bloody nose, cuts, wounds, injuries ect. That is gore. It is not scars, limb differences, or visual disabilities either.
For fuck’s sake please learn this stuff because the next time I see someone tagging a scarred or disabled character as “body horror” I am gonna lose it.
i actually dont mind tumblr posts reposted to pinterest. the 13 y/o "pinterest in the only social media my parents let me have" girlies deserve a little treat
OH MY GOD
now all of pinterest knows i have large ballz
Today I saw a pic of a baby cowbird next 2 its nest "parent" and it was so much bigger!!!!! Which is the sort of thing that gets normal people upset about the injustice of nest parasitism but makes *me* worry if baby cowbirds get bird dysmorphia
This (from Cornell Labs via Merlin) is the pic I was looking at. It's just a little baby but it's so much bigger than its "parent"!!!! Do baby cowbirds feel isolated? Do they understand they're a different bird, or are they just a really bad sparrow?
hey, good news! ecologists have been studying this very thing! it seems young cowbirds have some kind of innate sense that leads them to sneak out of their foster nest at night to hang out in grasslands where they—more often than not—meet other cowbirds and learn more about what they really are.
Thanks I am going to cry so hard I throw up ;-;
I'm gonna be frank, Eddie just does not give me the impression that he was bullied all that much in high school to me. Especially as he got older, like he was the school drug dealer, he was not getting beat up by the same jocks who were going to be buying from him later that week. It just doesn't make sense to me!
I'm not saying he was never bullied at all (personally I think he was probably bullied by the people in his grade in like middle school, but leant more into the satanic image by the time he got to high school (which is when the satanic panic wouldve been starting) and people became more afraid to mess with him or it stopped when BS started dealing) or that people can't headcanon and project onto pm. It's fandom, do what you want lol. I've just gotten to the point where fics lose me whenever they claim Tommy/Steve/Jason was going around beating the shit out of him or shoving him in the halls every week or the like. Eddie just does not give the impression that he is scared of the jocks normally. He looks down on them and thinks he's better than them! He taunts them openly in front of everyone and pontificates on table tops.
I think if you take it in that context too, it makes the town turning on him more sinister? Like obviously, satanic panic was only growing at that point, and it was within the last year or two they started pointing at metal and D&D as recruiting centers for satanic cults. (Eddie also like an asshole is walking around with a satanic symbol on his jacket - peak edgy teen in the middle of a moral outcry.) But while people might've been afraid of him, and most definitely talked about him behind his back, that's worlds away from mob violence. The change was startling, even if Eddie might be able to see it on the horizon.
Idk to me that's more of what the hunt the freak line was about. The knowledge that they could turn on you and would if you gave them a reason (or if you want to go with the Eddie is closeted interpretation - if he got outed). I think he probably has been called the freak for a while but honestly I think he's proud of it at this point.
Obviously all of this is up to interpretation, I guess I've just gotten to the point where a lot of the popular fanon interpretation doesn't feel like Eddie to me anymore
Exactly this!! Wayne (the person in the show to arguably know him best) even says he looks mean and scary but he's really not to Nancy. Not in that exact wording, but that's essentially it.
I agree, Eddie might have been bullied once, but by the time season 4 starts, he sure as hell isn't anymore.
puts on sound 📣🎶🎵
Ok, I NEED you to understand just how insane even ATTEMPTING this was for them.
1. Playing an instrument is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Don’t think I’m stepping on any toes saying that.
2. Dancing is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Still not controversial.
3. YOU AVOID, AT ALL COSTS, MOVING YOUR BODY WHILE PLAYING A WIND INSTRUMENT. To make the correct, pleasant sounds, you need to be in the correct form. And that form involves your ENTIRE body, even your legs when sitting down.
4. “oh, but I’ve seen marching bands before and-” MARCHING BANDS HAVE ENTIRE SCIENTIFIC FIELDS DEDICATED TO FIGURING OUT HOW TO MARCH WITH MINIMUM BREAKING OF PROPER FORM. A marching band tries to be as smooth as possible while moving, so as not to jar their instrument, mouth, neck, arms, torso, or anything else.These ladies and gentlemen are BOUNCING and still playing properly, what the FU-!
5. AND ANOTHER THING! Wind instruments and dancing BOTH make demands on your breathing, so the fact that they are dancing (making you breath faster for extra oxygen) AND playing wind instruments (making you effectively hold your breath) AT THE SAME TIME is HUGE. Their lungs must be MASSIVE.
All of that also; the song is Sing, sing, sing (with a swing). If you wanna listen to some of THE SPICIEST big band ever recorded. Its a big hard song and this band does it expertly.
cryin cause batsy got me thinking abt halloween Steddie where Steve and Eddie reunite after years apart only because Steve takes the party's kids out trick or treating and Eddie just happens to live at one of the addresses they hit. They didnt know they lived so close.
like, maybe Eddie left Hawkins after he graduated, he and wayne stuck it out for as long as they could so he could graduate but it just wasnt healthy for him to be there. People couldnt let it go even if he was cleared of the charges, they didnt have a 'bad guy' to pin it on, so they stuck to Eddie, and by association, Wayne.
Wayne getting laid off at the plant because 'it's bad for business to have someone associated with that Munson boy working for us' as if anyone pays any attention to who works at the plant. That's the last straw though.
They leave, there's tearful farewells among the party but they all understand that it has to happen.
They keep in touch for the first couple of years, and then of course days turn to weeks, weeks turn to months, and eventually people just get too busy with their own lives to keep up with keeping in touch.
The party stays close together though, close enough so that they can all raise their own little munchkins together.
and Steve, worlds best babysitter even though he's older now, he's still the go-too for any babysitting, given he's single, and childless. "Have enough kids with these lot!!" he always says whenever anyone asks. relationships just never really worked for him.
Too many questions about his scars, his nightmares, his migraines, sight loss, hearing loss, so many questions he couldnt answer, stories he couldnt tell. Honesty and sharing life stories were both apparently pretty important factors in relationships. Go figure.
Nobodies heard from Eddie since Dustin and SURPRISE El's baby shower, because who the fuck saw that relationship coming? Where he sent a little ukelele and an instruction to get that kid started on music early! Babies first ukelele was probably the biggest hit. El loved it more than the kid did.
It's been six years since then, and Steve's taking the kids trick or treating in his minivan cause the parents are all big shots in their own fields.
The house is a cute one storey with a wrap around porch, there'd been a for sale sign there for weeks a few months back and now there's not, not a 'neighbouring' kind of person as nobody seemed to know who it was, just that it was a guy. but the guy had decorated for halloween so obviously they were gonna knock on, all dressed in a variety of things, from aliens, to cowboys, to witches, ghosts, and superheroes.
And Steve is dressed like a pirate, because he always dresses up!
They knock on, prepared to TRICK OR TREEEAT, and Eddie answers the door dressed like dracula and everything just stops for the both of them while the kids scream their little phrase.
based on the alcohol poll i just saw
FIFTY PERCENT NEVER IS CRAZYYYY
a lot of people live places it's illegal, a lot of people who live where it's legal are under the age where it's legal, and absolutely nobody lives somewhere it's cheap
Steve and Jon s5 Team up it literally HAS to happen. How have they not explored that weird funny tense relationship. We saved the world together 4 times but we’re tapped in this love triangle but I love you but I can’t stand you but also I don’t really think about you. We’ve been protecting the same little kids from monsters, we’ve been having the same nightmares. I was a dick to you in high school and I beat your face in and you ran back into the house and you drove my little brother and his friends around and we’re so linked and we don’t know each other and I’d die for you and kill for you and I think you’re a loser and I think you’re an idiot. Also we’re both just teenage boys. We love all the same people. We know all the same fucked up things. What does she see in you? What does she see in both of us? The inherent comedy the unlikely friendship Like I just NEED them to be on screen together…..
Dude has a death wish
Delighted to announce this bird is real and is a corvid.
Truly the family that just keeps giving.
I haven’t seen it in the notes yet, so afaik, here’s the source of that video! So now you can see the funny poison bird much more clearly.
It was taken by a biologist that studies birds so it seems like he knows what he’s doing. For the most part. Here’s his caption:
You all know that he 100% licked his fingers after handling that bird
A world where humans have no innate magic but our pets do.
Cat magic is pretty raw and they mainly use it for getting into places they’re not supposed to. They can be trained if you’re patient, and will sometimes do favours for their owners out if the blue, but only if they want to.
Dogs have been bred for specific magic over the centuries and each breed can do certain things. Showing off your magic is an essential part of a dog show.
Horses come in horse, pegasus, and unicorn, each with their own magical talents.
Fuck knows what birds can do, I don’t trust birds.
For an obvious example… dalmatians have been bred for fire magic. A properly trained dalmatian will run into a burning building and all the fires around it will go out. Caution is necessary, of course, because they can also do the opposite. Their favourite toys are often a bit blackened, and puppies must be kept in fireproof surroundings, with extinguishers in easy reach.
The Pekingese’ magic is camouflage - they can change colour to match whatever they touch, whether a blanket, a mossy rock, or even a reflective mirror. This ability originally enabled them to hide in a robe, so their owners could take them into places where dogs were technically not permitted. The classic image of a pekingese is of it sitting outside a building, appearing to be part of the stonework… until it reveals itself to growl at an intruder.
Portuguese water dogs are canine silkies - in deep enough water they transform into curly-haired seals, and when they climb back out and shake off, they turn back into dogs.
Cats are often thought to be selfish and troublesome, to only use their magic for themselves, and for random but odd favours.
This is not the entire truth.
Cat magic is largely Watch and Ward, which is only observable in what does not happen. Cats are known to protect sleeping humans from danger simply by being present, their lamp-like eyes acting as a sort of n’est pas possible upon all possible intruders, from pests to more deadly threats.
Pitbulls over the ages were bred to emit magic to calm children and help them sleep
Collies can multiply themselves for a short time to corral animals
St Bernard’s turn into snow and can feel where an avalanche is going to happen hours before the event
Anatolian Shepherd can shapeshift into other animals around them to blend in
corgi magic is banned in most public areas, and one of the few dog magics not to be demonstrated in show- allowing your corgi to perform magic in public can be punished with up to $1000 in fines, even before the costs of damage to people and property
Golden Retriever magic is sometimes considered “disney” magic, as they typically attract waterfowl and game birds. this is not always the benefit one thinks it would be, as some lines have a penchant for attracting swans! some, however, attract vertebrates of a different sort. one remarkable individual was given an honorary degree in wildlife biology for her prodigious ability to attract frogs and toads, and is currently hard at work in Costa Rica.
no. you must live for her. she demands it of you. how else would you be able to appreciate all these great amphibians she’s finding?
A cat’s protective aura gets stronger in response to affection and respect. If you bond strongly enough with one, you can actually FEEL the magic working, soothing fear and anxiety. They also work in dreams, catching and killing nightmares. Some can do this from several rooms away, while others like to work more closely and will sit on their owners’ chests or heads while they sleep.
Yes please to all of this.
Rat magic: a mysterious multiplication of SOMETHING–food or other valuable resources generally–which can be pretty handy if you don’t mind the nibble marks.
Beagle magic is mostly low-grade telepathy, which is very handy for coordinating a pack hunt, but also makes individual dogs prone to neurosis.
Some cats, like their behaviour of presenting a prey, also sometimes present their owner with a small magical favour. Sometimes this involves a transmuted treat. Sometimes this involves a clumsy owner growing whiskers
What the hell do Corgis do that it is illegal for them to do their magic in public?
Domesticated bird magic (chickens, pigeons NOT parrots) is, at baseline, a magic of bounty. Usually for a good garden. Pigeon magic has been in the last two centuries or so, been intensely bred for a bounty of SPEED in messenger pigeons, and in other pigeons a bounty of - well, depends on the breed.
Corvid magic was, historically, in the seeing things and knowing things domains, and to some extent, it still is. However, recent years have suggested that Corvids may actually be learning additional varieties of magic, which is scientifically fascinating, and also kind of terrifying.
this is so cool are u guys seeing this!!!!!
I love how humans discover this rare new sight in far distant space, and immediately go “That looks like a part of me.” A vast dust cloud from an ancient star, and we see ... the tips of our fingers.
Good ol’ humans, always making things relatable.
(Anyway it also looks like the rings of a tree.)
Well, Fire fighter dude certainly didn’t hold back on his thoughts.
I have only had like maybe three dreams total where my phone was in it and it’s usually weird as fuck and I made a comic about it like two years ago
Teaching creative writing to 8 to 12 year olds this summer, a demographic whose stories include a shocking amount of murder. The use of "unalive" was so egregious I had to tell them, "if you aren't comfortable using the words death, die, and kill, you aren't mature enough to be writing about them yet". Kiddo asked me if that applies to adults as well, and I told them it very much does, so here's a PSA.
If you aren't comfortable using the words death, die, and kill, you aren't mature enough to be writing about them yet.
