#endless thread

[innervoiceartblog]

I think it's a deep consolation to know that spiders dream, that monkeys tease predators, that dolphins have accents, that lions can be scared silly by a lone mongoose, that otters hold hands, and ants bury their dead. That there isn't their life and our life. Nor your life and my life. That it's just one teetering and endless thread and all of us, all of us, are entangled with it as deep as entanglement goes.

― Anon

• Seb McKinnon, illustration from The Moon's Daughter, 2021

[emetophobiahelp]

If anyone listens to the podcast Endless Thread, be warned that the latest re-released episode (“episodes we love: doom jelly”) contains audio of real, not fake, v*ing. It’s at a point over halfway through the episode, and I’m pretty sure it lasts less than 15 seconds (when it started happening I skipped ahead). It happens right after one of the reporters is explaining that there’s video footage of the researcher guy in the hospital after he’s stung by a jellyfish, and then she says “at one point he starts t*ing u*.”

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[dinosaurwithablog]

I find this very comforting. The commonality throughout living beings gives me a very peaceful calmness. I love that!! ❤️

think it's a deep consolation to know that spiders dream, that monkeys tease predators, that dolphins have accents, that lions can be scared silly by a lone mongoose, that otters hold hands, and ants bury their dead. that there isn't their life and our life. nor your life and my life. that it's just one teetering and endless thread and all of us, all of us, are entangled w it as deep as entanglement goes. v neat i think.

[npr-stan]

Listen to: Group Chats: The Dark Matter of American Politics

Listen to: Group Chats: The Dark Matter of American Politics - https://one.npr.org/i/fis-568542542-d31bd53126683fe391a81ad415ebf77f:fis-568542542-d31bd53126683fe391a81ad415ebf77f-enclosure-audio

https://one.npr.org/i/fis-568542542-d31bd53126683fe391a81ad415ebf77f:fis-568542542-d31bd53126683fe391a81ad415ebf77f-enclosure-audio

[emptybamboogirl88]

Give this a listen

A couple years ago, as the writer Sarah Elizabeth was working on her book, “The Art of Fantasy” (out September 12th), a particular illustration kept popping into her mind’s eye. It was the cover for the 1976 Dell/Laurel Leaf paperback edition of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic sci-fi/fantasy novel “A Wrinkle in Time.”

[amielot]

Hiii @embroiderling here. Can we see Dinner V2?

Thanks 💕

This WIP is from the HGAU!

It takes place after Hob and Dream finally find his herd. Dream arriving with a human is met with VERY mixed reception.

This comic features Desire sitting across the table from Hob and Dream at dinner....

they silently hold up vegetables like "???????" They start with a green bean and just keep picking progressively bigger vegetables.

IYKYK

Hob wants to die. Dream wants to stab his sibling.

I've mentioned before that I have a creator thread on the Mr.Sadman discord server and occasionally someone will "yes, and" something so funny/ in character/incredible that I have to draw it. This one came from @the-apocrypha XDXD the snippets they pitched for this were absolutely amazing and def deserve a read.

[drgeppo]

interesting podcast about this exact joke!!

had to be there i guess

[starry-bi-sky]

changeling danny has his wretched little claws in me so here's some AU fey lore

Okay so, i've got a lot of ideas for the Fey Lore in this au. But to start out what may become a sling of posts: a simplified set up of the Infinite Realms. I think I mentioned it before in a reblog of the original changeling danny post, but the fey wilds exist in the IR. In most fanon I see the same scale as the rest of the realms, however i have a different idea for it.

In simplified terms, the fey wilds and the ghost zone are two different things. They both exist in the Infinite Realms, however, they exist on different planes of existence. In simplified terms, there are three separate planes in the Infinite Realms.

The Long Far: Highest realm in the infinite realms. Home to most, if not all, the Ancients. Beings that reside in The Long Far are eldritch abominations, gods, personifications of concepts, and other celestial-type beings. The only way to access the Long Far is through the Starflare Currents in the Feywilds. Which are a nebula of stars that work similar to the ocean currents in Finding Nemo. They are a rapid vortex full of stars that pass over the feywilds that can be seen at night. In order to reach the Long Far, one must fly up to the Current and latch onto one of the stars rapidly flying past. And then they must stay on the star until the currents begin to ascend rapidly upwards. This is harder than it sounds. Ever been indoor surfing? Where you lie on your stomach on a small board and try not to get flung off? Exact same concept. It’s basically the world’s most terrifying escalator to the gods.

The Fey Wilds: The Fey Wilds isn't exactly strictly home to the Fey, however for convenience sake I'm calling it the Fey Wilds. This is the home to fey and other folklore and mythological creatures that may not want to reside in the Ghost Zone. There are no Fey in the GZ. It's not that they hate being down there, but. well.. they hate being down there. They think the place is ugly. The Fey Wilds has ever shifting, expanding amount of biomes. These biomes range from massive redwood forests, to swamps, to essentially Pandora from Avatar. The place can look almost entirely human one moment, and then like a different planet the next. Fey and other inhabitants know how to navigate this easily -- but ghosts? Not so much. There are currently two known ways to reach the Fey Wilds from the Ghost Zone and vice versa: Lake Portals, and Cave Tunnels. Which I will expand upon in a moment.

Ghost Zone: Exactly how it sounds! The Ghost Zone is, well, the ghost zone! It's essentially the same as canon. Same looks, same everything. This is the home of mortal souls and the occasional mythological creature or two, as well as weaker concept spirits. By that I mean like, ecto-octopi. Concept spirits can manifest in both the GZ and Feywilds. Ghosts tend to stick inside the Ghost Zone and avoid venturing into the Fey Wilds because, well, they're still mortal souls. They're gonna get jumped by a fey looking for a new decoration or a new pet/servant/whatever. Best to honestly avoid the fey wilds as a whole.

Now, I just mentioned that there were two known ways to reach the Fey Wilds from the Ghost Zone: lake portals and cave tunnels. I made goofy little visual aides which I will attach below, and then I will explain how they work.

I'll start with the Lake Portals. They are, well, as the name suggests lake portals. Not every lake in the fey wild is a portal to the ghost zone, and vice versa. They're rather uncommon to find in both planes, but it's not like they're hard to recognize.

In the Fey Wilds, lake portals will have a sheen over the water like an oil spill. But instead of the regular rainbow-y colors, it will instead have the ghost zone's colors swirling in it; green and purple. The water will have that sickly green tint to it, and have a slight glow. The plant life surrounding the water are not typically what you'd find in the Fey Wilds, but might in the Ghost Zone. They look different from the regular noxious swamp bogs in the wilds, so its easy to tell that they're lake portals.

In the Ghost Zone, the lake portals will instead be shimmery and blue like a tropical ocean. And just like how there are GZ plants in the fey wilds surrounding the water, there's fey wild plants on the island where the lake is.

How these portals work is rather simple. You dive in and begin swimming down. It's a long swim down, but that's all you gotta do. It will get dark, as there are no plant life in these portals, and no aquatic life either.

It starts getting complicated when you reach what I like to call the border. The border is as the name implies; its a border between the planes. In the lakes it's not physical, however you will feel when you've reached the border and crossed it. Intense vertigo washes over you as your sense of gravity begins to shift and flip; up is becoming down, down is becoming up.

Your goal at this point is to try and push through that vertigo and discomfort and make it to the other side of the border, without getting flipped upside down and swimming back to the surface you came from. This is harder than it sounds as you become dizzy underwater, and since there's no light anywhere, you will try and instinctively seek it out and follow it. You're down too deep to know where that light is.

Once you've reached the other end of the border successfully, your gravity will have flipped without you needing to do anything. You are now swimming up to the surface, and once you do, boom! You're in the ghost zone! Lake Portals are faster to use than tunnels, but very disorientating.

Now cave tunnels are longer, but simpler. Essentially some caves have tunnels that lead into the ghost zone, similar to how in greek mythology there are random entrances to the underworld in the mortal world. I haven't exactly figured out what the tell is for when you're in a tunnel leading to the Ghost Zone, but I know that when it's the other way around it's rather easy -- as you start to climb up.

It's a less complicated explanation: essentially you are descending into the ghost zone through this tunnel. You are on your way down like Orpheus in search of his wife, or like Heracles doing his twelve labors. It can get claustrophobic and of course there is the border.

Unlike experiencing a shift in gravity, you're instead hit with the intense vertigo and an intrinsic fear to turn around. It's an instinctual response to your surroundings changing on a molecular level, and your body in response is telling you to Flee. Basically, you've taken a rip of the Cave Gasses and you feel like you're losing your mind. Once you exit the border its smooth sailing.

Sometimes you get unlucky and there's a Pit Drop and you're suddenly Alice in Wonderlanding your way down to the Ghost Zone. But hey! At least you're not swimming.

those are currently the only two ways i've come up with for traveling between the GZ and Fey Wilds. But all in all, it's meant to be very disorientating stuff; vertigo and nausea-inducing, with just a dash of Existentially Terrifying. Traveling between planes usually is.

[ghoulnextdoor]

GUESS WHAT Y'ALL THE MYSTERY IS SOLVED

Artist: Known — Illustrator for 'A Wrinkle in Time' gets long-overdue credit

[shisasan]

by Zoltán Boros & Gabor Szikszai

[daggerfall]

Interesting...

Would love to see something like craft bag storage for treasure maps, surveys, and writs. Never thought I'd see furnishings on the list. I'm just so used to the idea of having a storage house I forgot life doesn't have to be that way lol

[npr-stan]

Listen to: Nothing Violent

Listen to: Nothing Violent - https://one.npr.org/i/fis-568542542-ce36dc035a776c78278312418a2696e5:fis-568542542-ce36dc035a776c78278312418a2696e5-enclosure-audio

[kelvingemstone]

save me the mountain goats songs that begin with "going to...", save me the mountain goats songs that begin with "going to..."

[relaxxattack]

if grub sauce does come from culled wigglers, like you suggested with the paints being confirmed to be that, then one has to ask: why do Beforan trolls have grub sauce?

OH SNAP. the plot thickens???????

and also, now that you mention-- here's sollux's blood once again, but now being referred to as a grubsauce substitute specifically, instead of just tasting like it.

but then again, here's cronus just using grubsauce as a word meaning blood. (seems like captors specifically get this a lot?)

what the fuck? i guess this is a mystery for the ages. which nobody is ever going to solve

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (15-21 Jun 2025)

ngl lads (gn) i wish packing a flat you've lived in for 27 years was this easy. i am going thru it. 😤

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊 🎧The Beast of Littleton Woods (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #12) (T.E. Kinsey, author; Elizabeth Knowelden, narrator) - more low-key adventures with Emily & Florence - the cozy mystery comfort read I really fucking needed this week

😊 War & Peace and the Redemption of Bucky Barnes (ThePirateStorm) - 51K, stucky modern no-powers AU - bucky's a writer, steve's a single dad with a teenage daughter, they have a meet ugly that quickly turns around - enjoyable read, I was quite chuffed I correctly identified the IRL book series that Bucky's is based on

😊 🎧Murder at the English Manor (A Miss Underhay Mystery #20) (Helena Dixon, author; Karen Cass, narrator) - Kitty & Matt get roped in to investigating the disappearance (murder) of a maid from a local estate (whose folks are trying to facilitate a 'Dollar Duchess' marriage and would prefer no unpleasantness)

😊 Fall Into You (Dylan Morrison) - very enjoyable contemp queer romance with a really great meet-ugly, explored a lot about how messy and contradictory and complex people are and also about how fucked up family dynamics are. -

💖💖 +39K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Favorite Things (ann_anotherthing) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 17K - more adventures of middle-aged men 😂🥰 I just fucking love this universe/these versions of them (most of it a reread due to a new chapter being added)

Fates (E_Greer) - Justified: Boyd/Raylan, 22K - a wibbly wobbly timey wimey trip - AN starts "buckle in we’re doing six alternate universes" with a super cool guide on how to read each section (I am making it sound way more complicated than it is! Also it's just a banger fic, so enjoyable. I love these two)

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

WIRED | Tech Support - Film Historian Answers Old Hollywood Questions

Murderbot - s1, e6-7

Game Changer - s7, e6

Parlor Room - s1, e5

Um, Actually - s10, e11

D20: Neverafter - "The Trials of Baba Yaga" (s16, e18)

D20: Adventuring Party - "It Happened" (s11, e18)

D20: Neverafter - "The Ending Of All Things (Part 1)" (s16, e19)

D20: Adventuring Party - "The Orange Fairy in the Top Hat" (s11, e19)

D20: Neverafter - "The Ending Of All Things (Part 2)" (s16, e20)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Three Cheers for Jesse Harron" (s11, e20)

D20: Cloudward, Ho! - "The Path Out of Gath" (s26, e2)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Meaty, Meaty Combat " (s21, e2)

D20: Cloudward, Ho! - "Secrets at the South Pole Station" (s26, e3)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Wonder Awaits" (s21, e3)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Materialists

Short Wave - Why Weed's Signature Scent Has Changed Over Time

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Dylan’s Mailbag: Trips We’d Never Go On, the First Places in the Atlas, and Worst Bathroom Experiences

Short History Of… - The Spanish Flu

Welcome to Night Vale - Deeper Than Purpose, Older Than Thought

No One Saw It Coming - Where freestyle swimming really comes from

The Sam Sanders Show - Can Faith and Queerness Coexist? (ft. Jeff Hiller)

Pop Culture Happy Hour - The Life of Chuck

Code Switch - The administration's fight against antisemitism is dividing Jews

⭐ Vibe Check - Everything Comes Back to Love featuring Danez Smith

Switched on Pop - "Manchild" and other songs about male incompetence

Decoder Ring - The Boston Cinematic Universe

Decoder Ring - Decoder Ring Plus | The Boston Accent Is Wicked Complicated

Wild Card - Kyle MacLachlan daydreams about the future

⭐ Song Exploder - Key Change: Shirley Manson on Siouxsie and the Banshees

Shedunnit - Book Club Fact File: Lady Molly of Scotland Yard by Baroness Orczy

99% Invisible - The Red, the Black, and the Green

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Watch This: Pee-Wee As Himself

Short Wave - Why Emotions Run High For Sports Fans

⭐ Endless Thread - Pics or this episode didn't happen

Pop Culture Happy Hour - 28 Years Later And What's Making Us Happy

Short Wave - What Makes South Korea's 'Super Divers' Special?

It's Been a Minute - Welcome to midlife, Millennials. Are you in crisis?

The Sporkful - The Hidden History of Regional Burgers (Reheat)

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - The Adventure of the Second Stain

Ologies - Aquaculture Ecology (SUSTAINABLE OCEAN FOODS) with Ben Halpern

Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #44

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - AO Mailbag: Is It Normal to Share a Checked Bag With Your Boyfriend?

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

my 'Liked Music' playlist

[knot-ee]

For once, just once!, Suguru Geto -- sorcerer, cult-leader, revolutionary -- wanted to forget and relax. It was difficult what with being surrounded by monkeys. It smelled of humans. The air of devoid of cursed energy. Everything in the room was created by ordinary humans. No one, not even his allies, would ever think Suguru would willingly place himself in a hot building surrounded by monkeys. It was exactly why he was there. There were no expectations, no obligations, and no jujutsu pricks to ruin his style. He had always been a free spirit long since joining Tokyo's Jujutsu Tech as a teenager, then killing curses took over his life, then paving a new future for sorcerers while being a father.

He couldn't go back to his naive and burden free days; this was the closest thing he got. One night to let his hair down, literally, and let loose... probably literally too. Peach and plum flavored drinks were buzzing in his system. The sugar content would have killed him if he wasn't a superior being but the alcohol was definitely messing with his brain. It felt good though. He was even being generous with the filthy monkeys because he had the money for it. Drinks were flowing free and Suguru licked his lips to taste what was left of the fruity wines. Someone took that as an invitation. Several people did.

Women were eager to rub up on Suguru and only after twenty shrug off did they finally get the hint. Who could blame them? Suguru Geto was better than any idol on a billboard being 180cm tall, with hair which silk envied reaching to his lower back, and a killer body accentuated with great fashion choices. From head to toe Suguru was decked out in premium ware. High top leather boots, tight black pants with chains hanging around his waist, a black button-up with the top buttons undone and a leather harness layered ontop, and silver rings, necklace, and his usual plugs switched out with those patterned with a silver dragon.

It was far too hot though what with the alcohol and the hands occasionally roaming across his body. He didn't give into anyone's touch until he felt large strong hands wander down his back to reach his waist. A man. So Suguru figured. It was the modern age but Japan was still judgemental and antiquated. In the dark though... who could tell. The person behind him (Suguru ignored it was a filthy human) smelled good at least. And felt good when the sorcerer arched his body to contour to that behind him.

The press of an erection at his ass was unmistakable. His hair was moved aside for the human to murmur something into his ear. Suguru didn't hear. Didn't want to hear. He just moved with the music and pressed the curvature of his well-sculpted ass against that bulge. So wrapped up in his own needs, he never expected to find another sorcerer in the club.. especially not a jujutsu sorcerer. The jujutsu sorcerer with six eyes eyes noticing everything.

@fateofflames