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I’ve never come across a more threatening magnet

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i have headcanons about Your gender

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hey there, you've arrived at a Tumblr checkpoint!

are you thirty? have a sip!

are you hungry? have a spack!

have you been snitting in the sale proclation? mack your tabbers!.

are you stick? purt your indies!

do you need to prot a buntle? go! now!

are you tired? break your togs!

do a quick snat of your vitals. are you fond? do you need to reduct your plandles? if you have a trick, tog it. if you need to sitch, go so.

are you grod or too trinking? if you need to break off a grint or mend the bontle, go to that now!

I hope this helps! and I hope your tunderfal day :-)

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Just remembering the time @confusinglyamusingly took me to a disused former nuclear bunker in Essex for my birthday and we saw the most ominous fucking sign I’ve ever seen in my life

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i am simply obligated to post this candid pic from karaoke after that aforementioned boston tekken tournament. had the fucking time of my life singing and dancing

credit again to @gutsrighteye / warmhalo (twitter) for the photo AND for putting the karaoke outing together. the actual greatest

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Little Egret - Garça-branca-pequena (Egretta garzetta)

Setúbal/Portugal (23/05/2025)

[Nikon D500; AF-S Nikkor 600mm F/4E FL ED VR with Nikon AF-S TC-17E II]

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my pet mold spore

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Blunthead Slug Snake

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mirrorless or DSLR?

Mirrorless, man, we're in 2025.

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I once fed a bird screws and he kept flying back asking for more.

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Having myths and lore-within-lore in your worldbuilding

I mentioned this elsewhere but having lore within your lore that the narrative never reveals whether or not it’s true is some delicious worldbuilding that I live for.

It’s the opposite of “characters in a fantasy setting are inexplicably extremely knowledgeable about politics and history that does not concern them to inform the clueless protagonist”.

As with fairytales and myths in real life, having myths within your world, and which groups believe in them, can say a lot about their perspective on their world and how they see themselves in relation to others, the gods, the earth, etc.

Even better is when there’s multiple refuted versions of the same myth and which characters believe which version also speaks to their personality, and anything they probably would never admit about themselves otherwise.

You can reveal which myths are true, but I think it’s more fun to leave it unknown and let both the characters and the audience speculate.

Example:

I write about fantasy vampires, and my deuteragonist tells the protagonist ~allegedly~ where they came from. In my universe, vampires have a signature scent, as unique as their voice, and it’s always from the land. Soil, petrichor, flowers, wheat, cut grass, herbs, spices, nectars, fruits, etc.

Why? Nobody knows but…

“Allegedly, the first vampire was a person wrongfully murdered for the death of their child. Brought back by their grief to seek justice on the true killer. So we are all reborn from the earth and the flowers that were buried with them.” … “Other versions say it’s the child who came back to guide their anguished parent and others say it was the secret killer cursed by the gods to live forever with their guilt, and the shroud of all their unmarked graves.”

Which is the real reason? Idk. It doesn’t matter. Which version is believed by my characters—and which versions were propagated by those who hate vampires—speaks volumes.

Are vampires ruthless serial killers compelled to kill every chance they get, or are they just people, trapped by immortality while all they’ve ever known and cared about inevitably ages and dies around them?

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DESTIMATION: GLORIOUS

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ON THE ROAD TO GLORY

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Fresh out the egg with my big feet