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I want to [remembers that suicide jokes only further damage my mental health] fuck you like an animal

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when I was a kid I read a sci-fi story where some researcher discovers that all crocodiles since prehistory have had the same congenital heart defect, so they set about curing it. when they do, suddenly their research specimen starts getting stronger and healthier and growing rapidly and developing new appendages, and it turns out all crocodilians were actually stunted sickly forms of dragons. that story really stuck with me because it's basically an expression of the "what if I went to the doctor and they discovered I was deficient in one special vitamin and then I took a pill and all my problems and ailments vanished immediately" fantasy.

unrelated, I started taking daily antihistamines this month for the first time in my life,

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i mean fuck i like pain i like grief i like desolation i like sorrow i like to mourn

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La plante et ses applications ornementales by  Maurice Pillard Verneuil (French, 1869-1942) Part 5

1.  Chrysanthème (1896)

2. Pavot 2 (1896)

3. Capucine 2 (1896)

4. Pavot

5. Chrysanthème 2 (1896)

6. Chardon 2 (1896)

7. Chardon (1896)

8. Chardon 1 (1896)

9. Capucine (1896)

10. Capucine 3 (1896)

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MONKEY MAN 2024, dir. Dev Patel

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i feel like counter-trolling is an essential skill that kids online aren’t learning and it’s kinda worrying

like back in my day, the day of online forums, learning how to trick someone in to getting themselves banned was an essential skill. if you could tell someone was a chud, you would ask them short, leading questions and watch them get frustrated and post longer and longer rants until they said something that would catch a mod’s attention and get them banned and/or at least publicly humiliated. 

and guess what? that’s the exact same tactics the alt-right use now. these people are exclusively acting in bad faith. every interaction these people post online is done with the intention of getting someone to respond to them so they can screenshot the massive paragraphs of text and laugh

so, what’s the solution?

dare ‘em to post dick pics.

don’t acknowledge the content of the stuff they post. if you see someone trying to engage you in bad faith just dare them to post pictures of their penis until they either get frustrated and leave or get frustrated and do it. either way they lose. 

this is the tactic used by the fans of a podcast (that i haven’t listened to) called the Chapo Trap House, and 4chan’s /pol/ users fucking HATE them. they hate Chapo Trap House and think they’re crazy because Chapo Trap House fans refuse to engage in meaningful debate and repeatedly demand dick pics. they get frustrated and leave. it works. 

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James Flint + Blood.

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the elephant in the room is actually really important for the feng shui of the place so i’d appreciate it if you left it alone

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And The Eyes Of Them Both

This was a farewell love letter to my favorite childhood anime. I'm glad those kids finally grew up. You're all free now.

'And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they naked. And they sewed fig leaves together, and made for themselves aprons.' -Genesis 3:7

I've never posted this here, as I did this during my time away so I decided to fix that. Hope you like it, it's one of my favorites~

I'm currently doing a timed edition 18x24 screen print poster of this that you can grab here. Thanks!

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The ehlers danlos syndrome person to historical costumer pipeline is or will be a thing and I shall explain why.

At some point one discovers that some sort of supportive structure around your torso feels incredibly comfortable and gives your tired muscles a rest. What’s the coolest and most non obtrusive torso bracing garment? A corset. Believe me when I say that when your torso has the structural integrity of a wet sack of jello, a tightly laced corset makes you feel like a god.

And because historical corsets tend to be more comfortable and are usually made with regular wear in mind, they are the natural choice.

Then you have the shoes. What shoes is someone with unstable ankles supposed to wear, you ask?Lace up boots, for stability. And due to their middle of the heel heel placement, historical lace up boots tend to be way more comfortable than the modern variety.Even the non healed ones, really. Couple that with the fact that Edwardian and Victorian boots are really really pretty…

And after the boots and the corset, it’s a very slippery slope.

Pretty soon you’ll be wondering how to hide your corset under your clothes for when an outer corset is not the vibe, and you’ll be buying yourself a corset cover. Or making one yourself. They’re a great starter project. But that looks weird with a fitted top so cool flowy blouse it is.

Then you realize wearing this with a skirt makes you feel intensely powerful but you don’t want to keep tripping over it so you add petticoats.

And then you realize your neck isn’t so great at holding up your head so you really need to find a hairstyle where your hair sits on top of your head instead of to the sides or to the back so that it’s balanced and you don’t get a neck ache. A high bun it is. Not too tightly, because your scalp is sensitive, but a high bun still works if you bobby-pin it in place.

And then one day, you look in the mirror and you’re dressed like Anne of Green Gables.

And you’ve never looked cooler.

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mcapriglioneart

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no! healthy relationship will kill the character! he needs an unhealthy codependent romance with a side of power imbalance to live

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Librarian Dragons (D&D)

So there’s this lovely little tidbit about 5e Deep Dragons in Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons. In their regional effects, there’s this lovely little thing:

Preservation of Knowledge. Books, letters, and any other physical forms of writing within 6 miles of the dragon’s lair become magically charged and can’t be damaged by nonmagical means.

Because deep dragons love collecting knowledge. And that just …

Any library, archive or store of information within 6 miles of a deep dragon is just immune to non-magical fire damage, water damage, book burnings, manual destruction, or even just normal aging or wear-and-tear. You don’t have to go through and magically do this book by book or page by page, literally everything in range is automatically immune to damage as long as the dragon is alive.

If the Library of Alexandria had been parked within 6 miles of a deep dragon lair, it would have been fine.

(Granted you can still steal and/or remove all the material, move it more than six miles, and destroy it there -or, you know, kill the dragon-, so deliberate and knowing destruction is still absolutely on the cards, but the whole city absolutely can burn down and your records still be fine if no one was going out of their way)

That’s just an incredible little worldbuilding thing to throw in. How many institutions in this world want to kidnap, raise or bribe a deep dragon to lair beneath their libraries/records? Mage colleges. Bardic colleges. Scriptoria. Royal records. Evidence lockers. City libraries. Tax offices.

(You could put that in a legal code: if you attempt to hurt our deep dragon, we will take that as an attempt to damage the city’s records/economy, and if the dragon does not kill you, the city will)

Also? Great place to store your blackmail material, if you can get the dragon’s cooperation.

And on the dragon’s end … Literally the first thing I thought of here was underwater libraries. Deep dragons live in the underdark and like underwater entrances/sections to their lairs. If the bulk of their hoard were books/knowledge, and they didn’t want people to steal them, they could squirrel them away in flooded chambers around their lair, because who would look for (intact) libraries underwater? But around a deep dragon water damage isn’t a thing. The books are perfectly fine.

And just … on a historical level. Dragons live hundreds and even thousands of years. Every bit of writing that dragon thought to keep is still perfectly fine and fresh after potentially a millennium. Imagine the hoards.

Like, not even spellbooks. Not even magic. Imagine a deep dragon that just hoarded love letters for a thousand years. Imagine a whole cavern filled with tiny hopes and dreams and sweet nothings over centuries of time, lovingly preserved by this strange fungal nightmare dragon. (Bard quest line?) Imagine the city tax records. Like, from a historical perspective. A thousand years worth of records survives completely intact. If the dragon is exceptionally long-lived, or there’s a line of dragons in the one location, maintaining the same lair, then you could have thousands of years worth of history completely intact. Unless someone went out of their way to magically destroy it.

And all the little extras. Every bit of writing in range is immune to damage. All the little note scraps. The shopping lists. The notes in the margins. The pissy memos. The recipes. Yes, the love letters. Grandma’s secret romance novel under her bed. The blackmail notes and threatening letters. Everything. How much history and life does a deep dragon’s mere presence preserve?

Language drift. You could track language drift, so long as the dragon stayed consistently in the same area. Like you could just … Depending on how it was dated. Would the dragon’s preservation make dating things difficult? If the dragon or someone else wasn’t organising things?

Honestly, how many academics are just camped on deep dragon doorsteps? If you kill a deep dragon, you are committing a crime against knowledge. Just straight up. Would you like to burn the Library of Alexandria again while you’re at it?

Yes, granted, I realise the dragon themselves may be evil. I get that. But. But. Hear me out. A thousand years of records. And, yes, you have time to preserve things manually once the dragon’s dead, it’s not going to automatically crumble to dust (though if it is stored underwater, you have 1d10 days to get it all out before the effect fades), but now you have to manually protect all of it. If the dragon’s alive it’s just automatically fine. You see what I’m saying here?

What I’m saying here is leave the nightmare fungal dragon alone, and historians won’t have to personally set you on fire. Just. You know. Saying.

Skewed priorities, I don’t know her. What?

Deep dragons are perfection, and a gift to worldbuilding. I love them.

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most problems will go away if you ignore them. of course they'll resurface with greater intensity, so you have to ratchet up your ignorance every time. luckily this can go on forever, until you die in some strange- assuredly unrelated- way