#﹒⠀⠀from the nest

[crow-ing]

I coined a role..

AMETOR !

from amare (to love) + -tor (doer) → one who loves (as in cares, protects)

a term for an external caretaker & protector in a system who takes their role very seriously, gets upset when they can't protect the systems loved ones, or feels like their only purpose is to take care of the systems friends and family. May feel sad or useless if they cannot keep their loved ones safe.

I named it ametor because hyperoutcaretector is a heinous name but I adore hyper specific labelling

[FLAG ID: A scalloped stripe pattern with alternating soft pastel shades: lavender, pink, yellow, mauve, and cream. A centered symbol: a stylized hand reaching out with two pink hearts hovering above it, all outlined in a soft lavender-pink tone.]

[stealingpotatoes]

some alternative eras of lady normalgirl and her eunuch <3

[kedreeva]

I've heard about having a nest egg but this is getting ridiculous, Bug

[bonecreek]

Honeywell, Tobias. beach side stroll. 2025, digital media.

[littlefankingdom]

This is how it feels rn. I hate you DC.

Y'all may disagree, but Bruce is a fictional character. So, with the classist bs DC has been saying about Jason, we can say that any classist shit Bruce has ever said about Jaybin is more DC speaking through him than his actual character. And also, it is weird af to have a man that believes in infinite second chances and bad guys becoming good, to also believes children born from criminals will become criminals. The math isn't mathing, DC.

Anyway, 80s Bruce loved his studious adorable baby that stole his tires, and he has admitted his reasoning behind taking Jason in was "I miss having a kid around" and not actually "Jason will become a criminal if I don't intervene".

[flowinlikearivah]

Hello i come bearing aftg MY LITTLE PONY AU ! ! ! !111! ! !

I did these many months ago but i thought itd be fun to share here :3 (when i made these I hadn’t finished TSC so i never made cat/laila but ill do that eventually!)

Trying to make all their cutie marks was….a struggle …

[m--ss--ng]

I do enjoy his blunt ways, makes her fun to quote.

[nyaar0n]

kevneil childhood sweethearts prompt from @fellowexyjunkies !

probably didnt use this prompt right but hey........ close enough maybe?

[septemberlikestea]

as penance for saying we would get news last week i will be continuing to post whatever this is...!

[sandersstudies]

I can’t believe people “like” art but don’t want the artist’s work on their blog.

I see cool art on my dash and I’m overtaken by the spirit of a magpie discovering a piece of tinsel on the sidewalk. I’m like yessssssss perfect decorative lining for my nest (queue).

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: southern gothic

[crow-ing]

tempted to just post our discord username here but that’s unsafe to post for just anyone to friend .. unfortunate

me when I have to protect and care for the system instead of being stupid

[wheretheresawyll]

Picture it. You spend a year getting ready to confront the Big Bad so you can then get everyone to focus on the whole End of the World thing. The Big Bad has a Second Guy who tells Big Bad they should hire an assassin. Second Guy then hires an Assassin with Big Bad's money to go and kill you. The Assassin fails and is at your mercy. You end up sparing his life. Now he's your friend. You finally confront the Big Bad. You duel. The Big Bad loses and you end up sparing his life. Guess what. Now he's your friend. And then a few months later some guy is in a jail cell because he wanted to assassinate you. Turns out he's Second Guy's son and he wanted to kill you because you killed his dad and he's really upset about it. You end up sparing his life. Now he's your friend. This happened to my good friend, the Warden.

[odetojupiter]

the fact that kevin day also witnessed a man being chopped up in the tower at evermore after neil’s audition is mad, and it’s something that is very much not addressed ever. like, maybe part of kevin was so accepting of how things were in the nest because he knew that this is the second branch, and if he were to leave, he’d become the main branch’s problem because he knows too much, and the main branch casually chops men up as a warning to literal children. and then he’s still called a coward for leaving ?? but also a coward for wanting to go back to make the inevitable less painful for him ??? and that’s not even considering what riko and tetusji did to him specifically, before even jean arrived at the nest. and his mother’s death would’ve been quite recent at that point. just insane.

[the-chattering-tower]

I'm losing my mind over the 100 mil dragon having finally happened

Like. I wasn't around for it but Holy Shit. If you're not into IDs I need you to understand how special this is. We went up a digit. All IDs are 9-digit now

For us to see an event like this again there would need to be another 900 million dragons born, which is an absolutely mind-boggling number and also completely out of the reasonable lifespan of any website

This Is It. Some of you were here early enough to see the rollover from 7-digits to 8-digits, or even 6-digits to 7-digits and so on and so forth. Most of us weren't. But you were here for the dawn of 9-digits and you will never see something like this occur ever again for as long as Flight Rising exists

Just. Holy shit man. We're all hatching 9-digits now and this is just gonna be Normal

[skydaemon]

so we (and by we, i mean the very specific overlap of jews and nerds among whom i make my home) talk a lot about how tolkien's dwarves, in both the books and movies, were likely influenced by certain jewish stereotypes. obsessed with gold/wealth, secretive (especially about their language and religion), refugees from their ancestral home, portrayed with big, sometimes hooked, noses and interesting facial hair, and most specifically: the favourite little meow meows of one particular god, causing them to be shunned and persecuted by other races and creeds. this is likely unintentional, coming from the subconscious of tolkien in the same way orcs were "based on mongols" (ew colonialism) and activating subconscious biases/stereotypes in the people who designed the dwarves for the movies. it's subtext, albeit subtext that influenced the next eighty years of fantasy.

but what i don't see much discussion of is the fact that in terry pratchett's discworld, it's intentional. terry pratchett's dwarves are, more or less, jews.

carrot is a human adopted by dwarves, based on human standards. but within dwarf culture, he IS a dwarf. specifically, he has undergone specific rituals and memorised certain passages, making him LEGALLY a dwarf. this is basically how conversion works in judaism. indeed, as in judaism, it's considered rude to even mention that carrot is six feet tall and obviously wasn't born into the culture he has adopted.

the dwarves also have internal rifts - there are a group of 'orthodox' dwarves who consider the dwarves in ankh-morpork (who have adopted other customs and don't follow traditional roles) not to be dwarves at all, and don't recognise carrot as a dwarf for the same reason. they believe that the way to be a dwarf is to live in an all-dwarf community and follow their traditional rules, while other dwarves believe they need to change with the times and integrate (at least somewhat) with larger society. jewish as fuck.

there's also the interaction of dwarves with gender. when cherie comes out as female (which isn't a recognised gender by dwarvish society) she is ostracised for taking on the feminine roles common to other discworld races. however, she could never THINK of cutting off her beard, because she is still a dwarf. i see parallels with women in judaism taking on roles traditionally considered 'masculine' (e.g., as rabbis, wearing tallit and kippot) and the acceptance of queer people into jewish communities. there's lots of great discussion about cherie as a trans character on tumblr, btw.

finally, something that particularly strikes me is the line from carrot in tfe, where he says that the biggest dwarf city on the disc is ankh-morpork. obviously all diaspora communities can relate, but it's really something to know that new york is the city with the most jews in the world (960k to jerusalem's 570k. btw, 3rd is LA!).

i just love that, again, consciously or unconsciously, pratchett incorporated more positive elements of jewish culture into his portrayal of the dwarves.