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Existential Dread

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He/Him. Call me Dread. L4D/2, Magic: The Gathering, Assassin's Creed, etc. Trans rights and Reproductive rights are Human rights.
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prokopetz

Blackout poetry exists on a dual axis from "banal" to "insightful" on the input side and "kind of deep" to "incredibly fucking dumb" on the output side, and while taking something banal and producing something kind of deep is well and fine, for my money taking something insightful and rendering it incredibly fucking dumb is where the real art is.

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darubyprincx

"who radicalized you" ever since i was a child i wanted other people to be treated nicely and fairly because i didnt understand why theyd deserve otherwise and it fills me with disgust seeing how people treat their fellow human beings sometimes

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For any writers who want to have woodland settings and woodland creatures but don’t have much experience in forests (particularly at night):

  • Deer are not as magestic as you think most of the time. They’re kind of derpy and will stare you down for uncomfortably long amounts of time mainly because they can’t decide which way they want to run. They end up running in circles anyways
  • Deer also blow air at threats as they run away, which sounds kind of like an out of breath scream. Do with this what you want
  • Squirrels don’t care who or what you are, they will bark at you from the trees. This is also a startling sound for someone who doesn’t know what the screeching above them is
  • Squirrels are also not quiet runners. If the forest has leaves on the ground and you hear what seems like the thunderous approach of some giant best, 8/10 times it’s a squirrel
  • If said sound is not a squirrel, it is likely an armadillo (if this forest is in the southern US/upper South America. Idk where else they are)
  • Armadillos make a lot of noise when walking through leaves and look funny, but they’re really kind of harmless and just don’t know where they are most of the time (very blind, not fast, but polite and waddle away if someone screams because of them. I would know, I was there when I saw this happen.)
  • Coyotes scream. It’s terrifying. Sounds like murder. It means they likely aren’t interested in you though (unless it’s in your ear)
  • Coyotes are kind of small, think a step down from a lab. Wolves however are a LOT bigger than you probably think
  • Hogs don’t care who you are or what you’re doing. They’re charging. They go for the knees and then tear you apart when your down so I hear. For anyone scared of the coyote screams, I’m here to tell you this is a MUCH bigger threat
  • Everything’s awake at night, but it’s not too terrible to walk if you have enough moonlight and a fairly good idea of where you’re going. 9/10 times if you stomp through, animals will leave you alone (the exception being squirrels which still scream as though they didn’t hear you coming)
  • Turkeys can attack, but brobably wont. Just give them their space or scream and you’re good.
  • Turkey’s also travel in groups most of the time, only really separating around mating season, so it’s pretty common to have a line of birds just walts by loudly
  • Raccoons are cool, but will not tolerate invasions of privacy. Don’t try to get close to their trees and you’re good
  • Same goes for possums. Possums are still a bit more chill than people give them credit for though, and will not attack unless it’s their only option (they hiss or play dead)
  • The only time to be worried about scurrying or footsteps behind you is if you hear a large branch break. That’s the 2/10 that isn’t a squirrel. Still, it’s most likely a deer so don’t worry too much

Let me know if there’s anything else you want to know about and I’ll see if I know anything that could help!

A few additions I think might be useful:

  • Turkeys with chicks and young will fluff up, if they do so while walking towards you, make sure you are walking a different direction. They will attack if they think you will hurt the young, I've seen them go after black bears who got to close
  • Black bears talk in a grumbling noise, move both quieter than you would expect but also not as loud. They rarely chase, preferring to run away
  • Don't worry about flapping noises, that's the bats dealing with bugs.
  • Elk and moose are a lot more majestic than deer, that said, they are also a lot more dangerous and just as foolish at times.
  • Bugs and toads make a lot of noise in the not-winter months, particularly as dusk or dawn.

The forest is also dangerous without the animals. In areas that have conifers, like pine trees, you will occasionally hear the most terrifying progression of something falling from very high up and hitting the ground. This would be a pine cone. You do not want to be hit by one of these. These falling pine cones will dent the hoods of cars unfortunately parked beneath them.

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tuulikki
  • If you hear what sounds like the agonised screaming of the vengeful ghost of a murdered woman, it’s a cougar/mountain lion/puma. It is the worst sound you will ever hear in the woods.
  • Raccoons sound like the Nazgûl from the Lord of the Rings but they usually do it only when they’re fighting. Raccoons will kill your dog if your dog tries to start shit. 
  • Most forests you’ve been to have been highly impacted by human contact, especially logging. They either were replanted or a few hardier species recovered (either recently or in past centuries). New growth creates scraggly monocultures, rather than the biodiversity of old growth. So look up old growth forests as a reference for premodern (pre-1500s) settings.

Throw back to the time I went outside to feed the cats at night without my glasses and saw one I didn't recognize. It didn't run away from me so I made kissy noises at it and slowly approached. It still didn't run, so I petted it.

It did not feel like cat fur. It was bristly and coarse. Also, it hissed, and it reminded me of an alligator. It was surprisingly loud and very low. Reptilian.

I stood back up and went back inside. Turned the porch light on and put my glasses on before I looked to see what exactly it was.

It was a possum.

We named it Kitty.

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it is not enough for you to simply be gay for us to build intimacy together

you must also beat me in a game of wits

mtg is one of many homosexual mating rituals and you should say it

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snaxle

btw if a trans man decides that they want to get pregnant and you're not normal about this and start spewing a bunch of transphobic shit i show up at your house and beat you to death with a baseball bat

this has been bothering me for awhile now but few weeks ago i saw a tweet that was from a supposed ally that said some shit like "if you wanna be treated like a man then don't get pregnant" and it's like. whatever happened to letting people do whatever they want with their own bodies. im trans masc, i would like to have children when im older and will probably get pregnant in the future. i will still consider myself a man. if your support for people like me ends if we so much as even do Anything you consider Too Womanly and not man enough, then you're a fucking cunt

it's always "support trans men!" until they do something you personally dont like, and then you're standing side by side with conservatives who would rather see us dead than let us live our lives happily.

This blog is pro m-preg

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look! the moonlight shows us for what we really are. we are not among the living, and so we cannot die — but neither are we dead.
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nylarac

The pirates of the Caribbean could not be made today because disney would not take a risk on one of thier rides and have it go this fucking hard.

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andrewmnyard

So my dad gambles quite a bit

And he’s pretty good at it, so he’s a diamond-level guest at all the harrahs casinos, meaning they always comp his room and meals. My mom has a second job with her friend’s modeling company, and they were working a banquet in Vegas. My moms main job is as a flight attendant though, so we fly free. So my dad just took off to Vegas the night of my moms job, and when they were done, he took her and all her model friends (7 of them) to a fancy-ass restaurant. He’s friends with one of the waiters there just from visiting so often, but they don’t know much about my dads life/job/whatever. So when my dad shows up with a bunch of models, the waiter comes up and he’s like “ok dude spill. what do you do? what’s your job?” And my dads like “it’s a mystery” because he’s a mailman

Fallout: New Vegas (2010)

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I love that every year fire departments are like "hey. maybe DON'T fry your turkeys?"

and across the nation, patriots rise up and shout "FUCK YOU" bc surely it'll be fine for THEM

and then start massive grease fires in their backyards

it is my most favorite thanksgiving tradition

for non-americans who have no idea what I'm talking about, a TON of fire departments and public health people will do annual presentation videos on how deep frying turkeys can go catastrophically bad

and every year, the american public goes "...anyway, where's my propane tank-"

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i have spotify. open. right now on my computer. do you want me to blast you? do you want me to put you on blast cuz i got your history right here in the side bar take it back by jimmy buffet. nautical wheelers by jimmy buffet. jolly mon sing by jimmy buffet. STEAMER by jimmy BUFFET! treat her like a LADY by jimmy BUFFET! mañana by jimmy BUFFET! WHEN SALOME PLAYS THE DRUMS BY JAMES BUFFET. HaVaNa Daydreaming by Jimmy Buffet. what the FUCK happened to you? are you HAUNTED? are you FUCKING POSESSED??

YOU USED TO BE MY BROTHER

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slurpygunch

reblogging for a bit larger sample size