Your Dreams Are A Much More Interesting Vehicle Of Storytelling Than Any Lucid Thought Of Mine.

It's my 1 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

I got nothing.

Let's get you in the box, fish. It might be a squeeze but I'm sure you can manage.

put me in the 1 inch x 1 inch x 1 inch box coach!!! I'm all fired up, I'm ready!!!!!

Things cats were right about all along:

Fuck staying hydrated by drinking enough water - eat! more! wet! food! (watermelon, cucumbers, SOUP!)

Feels great to be really high up in your house where you can see the whole place (loft bed loft bed loft bed loft bed!)

Express yourself as clearly as possible when people are touching you and you don't want them to.

Optional, but you can also express yourself clearly when your people are not touching you and you want them to.

Sometimes it's important to just go "hmm. actually, I don't care" and wander off.

You don't have to be the strongest or toughest to defend yourself, it's enough to just be difficult enough to not be worth the trouble.

Ghosts will eventually leave if you stare at them for long enough.

Im so enchanted by how the Master is originally characterized. He's devious and power hungry and his whole gimmick is hypnotism and disguise and he's frankly a little stupid but when he isn't manipulating people or allying himself with destructive forces out of personal gain, it's always out of fear and it seems to be an expected outcome that he'll end up backed into a corner and lash out. It only takes two serials for us to learn that the master is SCARED of the doctor, tied up with complicated feelings of care and resentment. This isn't something new who lacks, per se, but their fear is always hidden under their veneer of a cackling maniac. it's very clear from Delgados performance that this pervasive fear is a feature, not a bug, and he is not just naturally reserved, careful, and meticulous because he's a machiavellian evil genius, its because he's paranoid.

You just made my day.

i'm reading The Fifth Elephant (Terry Pratchett) and i love that the immediate impression you get of vetinari and margolotta's relationship is:

they have definitely fucked

2. the form the "fucking" took was sitting across a table from each other fully clothed and trying to psychologically manipulate each other.

I made a chimera, hope it looks alright.

But would they be sworn to carry my burdens?

New H3 idea:

When you go to the base (or whatever it is called in the future), you can choose one of the other characters there to come with you as you travel the overworld, like a partner in crime (or a meat shield)

Why must you mention those words? AAAAAAAAAAAAA

Oh my god.

pleasd tell me someone else remembers Skylanders

It wasn't just a fever dream, right? They were real, right?

I've had one of persephone's voicelines stuck in my head for so long

Welcome back! Are you ready for another magical upgrade?

As someone from a more average family, I’ve always been fascinated by your anecdotes about your upbringing. What’s it like to have parents so deeply immersed in fandom, and when did you realize that most kids’ parents have zero familiarity with fandom stuff?

as soon as I brought up renfaires and D&D and filk songs and cthulhu carols at school and got bullied about it :/ made it pretty obvious nobody knew or cared what I was talking about

But it was nice! Being raised in fandom, a thing built entirely from open enthusiasm for things you love, taught me to pursue things not because they were popular or What Was Expected Of Me, but because I loved them. I think it laid some major foundations in my worldview that helped me avoid a lot of normative expectations that wouldn't have worked for me, just by teaching me from minute one that things that are weird and unpopular can be perfect for you, and things that seem to work for everyone else can not work for you, and that's okay.

Once you've internalized "this seems to be something everyone does/likes/wants, but the thing I want seems to be almost unheard of - and yet I still want it" it may be easier to apply this to things like recognizing one's orientation (in my case "this all seems boring and weird and extremely limiting, but everyone acts like it's normal and great, so I think I'm just gonna… not do it"), pursuing unorthodox careers, and just… trying the weird things and seeing what works.

Identifying the things you love doing is already a difficult exercise, and it's made much more difficult by artificial filters like "these things are Cool And Sexy while these other things are Cringe And Weird and Should Not Be Liked." Being able to decouple your brain from the high school popularity contest makes the search for your passions that much easier, and I think I started with a serious leg up thanks to the guidance and unconditional support of two absolute nerds.

Oh yeah, Crowley was very proud of this one. Probably would get him some commendation downstairs. 🎄🎉🎊🩷