Nice. Thanks for the go-ahead, @raccooninthedaytime
Let’s talk about mimosa pudica, otherwise known as makahiya to all my Filipino friends.
The story of makahiya is actually one of my faves, mainly because I miss the good ol’ days where the stories actually had some karmic justice done.
So we start off on the forest floor something-hundred years ago like always. Right now, makahiya is a well-beloved yet vain plant. They had flowers and a nice smell.
Sugar cane, tubo, was just cane, they didn’t have any sweetness and was just kind of there. Just existing.
Firefly, alitaptap, had no light. They were just existing too.
Ant, langam, was still a hard worker with no regard for their own safety.
And the diwata, divine arbiter spirits, were still amongst us.
Gotta love how the Filipino myth-makers really multitasked with this story. Like, 3 origin stories crammed together? Dang. J.K Rowling could never.
So it’s raining and our friend ant is dragging home his rice that he found. And since he has no sense of self-preservation, he gets caught up in the flood and is literally drowning for a grain of rice.
They pass by makahiya. Ant asks makahiya to help them, or at least let them cling to their stems until the water went down. Makahiya basically told ant to get fucked and shook them off back into the storm.
This is the modern equivalent of someone going to their friend’s for help, getting shot in the kneecaps, then dumped in a burning ditch on the side of the road.
...
Ok, I retract what I said earlier. Makahiya was kind of a dick.
Anyways.
While this happens, firefly passes by and sees the exchange. Firefly feels bad, and runs to their friend sugar cane for help. Sugar cane lends firefly a leaf, which firefly then drags to the drowning ant, saving their life.
Little did everyone in this story thus far know that the forest god, the diwata Maria-Clara, was watching. As she usually is.
She goes to reward sugar cane and firefly, giving sugar cane sweetness so that people loved them and firefly her lantern so they could help more people. And then she went after makahiya.
If you’ve read stories involving Maria-Clara before, you know she don’t mess around. She don’t play. She goes straight for your damn eyes.
Basically, she gave makahiya social anxiety, no reason to live, and pretty much eternal damnation of a sort.
So that’s why when you touch the mimosa pudica, it folds in half like a lawn chair.
-fin-
Someone please tell me about something you really love. i want to be infodumped on and i crave knowledge
The sheer Drew energy channeled into this post had me floored and dragged away like I was in some slasher film
imagine being the popular girl attending goode highschool/olympus high 😘💅, and there's suddenly this kid with green eyes 🟢👄🟢 and he's like crazy hawt and ur gonna swoon 😳😩 he says his name is percy and you go ??? cause this isn't the percy you knew from middle school, this one is tall 🌳🔥 and u ask him out and he smiles at you 😏😍😤 and declines cause he has a GIRLFRIEND???? 😱😔😡 but that's impossible so u ask to see her and u suddenly hear "SEAWEED BRAIN!" 🤔 and there's some blonde girl with eyes the color of a silver refrigerator that sparkle, 💿👄💿 and she looks at you and raises a blonde eyebrow 🤨😤 and u get mad cause he's YOURS 😡🤬💥 but then all these cars pull up, a whole bunch of rich people cars like a Ferrari and a Toyota and Ferrari 😍🤑😎🚙 and the whole crew comes outs, and there's like 20 of the kids for some reason wearing this ugly orange shirt, and your jaw drops and the blond girls looks pleased 😐🙄 and she kisses Percy in front of you EVEN THOUGH HES YOURS 🤬🤬🤬😱😱😫😫 and then percy says "see you tomorrow 😝" cause he has to go back to camp, and then he leaves in the fanciest car there with his 😒 concrete eyes girl friend 🙄😤😭 and you gotta go back to class while ur clown football friend laughs at you for being rejected 😒🙄😢, and then you sit in class and try to ignore the fact that percy is probably gonna fail out of geometry cause it's literally 10 AM and he just left with his fast and furious carrot shirt squad when there's literally 6 more classes in the day 🤔
I’m just here thinking “if there’s any justice in the world tell me it’s that I end up catching a .55 to the head instead of, say, taking an oath that swears me to having to deal with someone for the rest of my life”
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what a great morning to poke a hole into a gas canister, sit down beside it, and eat some lit matches!! (the honda odyssey scene but its the scene in the fearamid penthouse because nothing is more analogous to toxic yaoi say gex than trying to kill each other)
Deadpool and Wolverine are the undoomed counterpart to billford. do you see my vision? DO YOU SEE MY VISION
It’s Thanos snap time, baby
This is kinda nice.
@biggest-gaudiest-patronuses Well, I guess you could use them as ornaments/jewelry to float about in your putty-like being instead of eating them. They are absurdly colourful and would go well with your Pepto-Bismol pink.
the jelly bean company is raffling off an entire candy factory, willy wonka golden ticket style, and that is still not enough of an incentive to convince me jelly beans belong anywhere but the grave
au where tom and marco kissed in the photobooth instead??
this was mostly self indulgent
Ok.
Every url that reblog’s will be written in a book and shown to my homophobic dad.
This video is living in my freezer and I can’t get it to leave.
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COME ON YALL WERE HOOKING THIS UP TO THE SUBWOOFER
yall: i support people with ADHD!! yall when an ADHD character shows any symptoms beyond uwu hyperactive: lol this character is so annoying. they should die
whatup, im soda im 20 years old and i never fucking learned to write smut full of brainrot contagion and fandom rabies!! the current main menu is: JJK
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