#does this need a trigger warning???

[birbfeeder2artisticboogaloo]

OOH U KNOW WHAT SORT OF STORY I WOULD LOVE TO SEE???

ok so hua cheng is feeling cheeky and naughty!! 'heehee hoohoo,' he thinks, 'i shall convince gege to let me send a lil butterfly to spy on his dumb friends!! their sexually charged antics will get us ~in the mood~ for fun!!! huehuehue >:D'

he goes to xie lian: 'gege!! let's look in on ur old pals, idiot 1 and idiot 2! it'll be fun :D'

xie lian: 'ohhhh idk san lang, that's violating their privacy, we probably shouldn't...... 👀👀👀' and 'it would be SO HARD to convince me to go along with it....... 👀👀👀' but actually he is. SUPER CURIOUS about how things are going for fengqing, ever since they got together. OFC HE WANTS TO SEE DAMMIT!!!!

so hua cheng sends the lil butterfly!! he and xie lian snuggle up to SPY on poor fengqing!!! (obvs they'll stop if it's VERY BAD and apologise later!! it's just!!! they're just CHECKING on them ok!!! IT'S NOT WEIRD!!! (it's very weird. they are very weird. (affectionate)))

LO AND BEHOLD. feng xin and mu qing are TOGETHER!!!! in a BEDROOM!!!!!!!! IN THEIR.........NIGHT CLOTHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

....................................................but they're just having a cuddle and being the sappiest, gentlest, most adorable couple of ALL TIME and it's AWFUL ;A; it's nothing spicy at all!! THEY'RE JUST MAKING SILLY FACES AND SMILING AND LAUGHING AND USING GROSS PET NAMES!!!!! EW!!!

CURSES!!! hua cheng's plans have been FOILED!!! lol the end 🤣

[slushyseals]

All videos showing people removing barnacles from sea turtles are not rescue videos, they're animal abuse- even if the video is "real".

Please report these videos as abuse and stop letting these people profit off rescue videos

There are many videos where the "rescuer" is actually the one who attached the barnacles in the first place (some you can even see the hot glue underneath as they pull off the pieces). Unless you see the animal in a rescue center with a vet tech treating it, that animal is being abused. How so?

The reason those growths are there is likely something far more dangerous that needs to be addressed. Healthy turtles do not get this level of growth on their shells. So if you see something like this, it’s a sign that this turtle is unwell and has been sick for a while. Scraping off the growths doesn’t solve the underlying issue. Also, doing so without any tools or pain medication can be extremely painful and stressful for the turtle. Often with this level of growth, barnacles will have borrowed through the turtle’s shell into live tissue. And just ripping them off like this without the expertise of a medical professional can do more harm than good. Not to mention that it is WAY stressful and not what the turtle needs most. Imagine if you had a the stomach flu or food poisoning and someone decided to “help” you by first detangling your hair, popping pimples, and exfoliating you when what you really need is fluids and someone to handle you very gently. It’s focusing on the wrong problem first and can worsen the underlying condition.

If you see an animal "rescue" video, always think- how did they find this animal? (Is it likely they just found an animal- or did they put an animal in danger to play hero for clout and ad profits? How did this animal get into this terrible situation in the first place? (The number of giant snakes found wrapped around a dog is pretty unbelievable- usually it's a person abusing two animals they own.) How is this person running into so many animals in dangerous situations? (Especially when you look at their other videos and they reuse the same animals to "save".) I am outside daily and I don't come across anywhere near as many animals needing help like these content farm channels.

Even when videos are real, if they are not a trained rescue worker they are often doing more harm than good! The people kidnapping tortoises and "saving" them by throwing them out into lakes and rivers might have just killed that animal. Many tortoises are land animals and aren't built for swimming like sea turtles, they can easily drown! A surprising number of people don't understand seals need to rest on shore, and end up killing babies and harassing adults by chasing them into the water. Baby seals can't swim for long distances, and chasing them into the water means their mom won't be able to find the baby after she's done hunting fish- the baby will slowly starve to death if actual rescue workers do not intervene!

Heck, some people have found perfectly healthy and happy baby seals waiting for their moms on the beach, but because the person doesn't understand that the mom isn't there 100% of the time think the baby has been abandoned; a man kidnapped a pup when the rescue wouldn't send someone out to get the animal which not only hurt that pup whom he caused to be an orphan, but now that pup is taking up resources that could have been given to babies that actually needed it. Rescues don't have infinite resources and I don't want to put to words what can happen when they reach maximum capacity. (The guy was also very lucky he didn't get bit- seal bite infections are much worse than regular bites!) So many others people mistreat because they don't know better, like the baby seal that had people dumping water and ice on it like it was Free Willy. Or trying to feed them sandwiches. Both of these actions make life worse for the animal.

That video of a dog as a service animal rehabilitating a baby seal? That was made by a couple idiots who likely scared the mother off and caused the baby to starve to death just so they could make their intentionally misinformative video knowing full well they were lieing! Dogs should be leashed and kept far away from any seal as they are a reason many seals are horrifically mauled to death each year! Videos like this are absolutely vile as they misinform the public who own dogs and may see a seal on the beach and think, "Oh! My dog is a good boy and can go play with the water puppy! They enjoy that!" Please do not do this! Seals shouldn't be encouraged to associate with or like dogs, that puts puts in danger not only of cross contamination with things that can make them very sick, but you don't know the temperament of any and every dog that seal will see in its lifetime. All it takes is one- and there are plenty of dogs who act fine around human children and vicious around a random seal they find. The babies don't even have a chance against a full grown dog! Their ONLY chance is that situation never happens; keep your dog leashed, because it will see that seal and shoot off before you can stop it. As well behaved as your dog is on the best day, it has free will and at the end of the day is a dog and will be an animal.

Let's face it, most of us don't know the proper care of any and every wild animal we could run into and can only guess when faced with a genuinely unexpected situation. Any legitimate rescue video should start with the person contacting the local rescue to ask the experienced and knowledgeable staff what should be done if they themselves are not a trained rescuer. Often times the animal is perfectly fine, humans just see something they don't expect and misread what's going on causing a situation that didn't previously exist. Other times if there is an issue, the rescue will instruct the person what to do- which may be to keep an eye on the animal until trained rescuers can arrive. And lastly, please be aware of fake animal rescue channels and report any videos you see and inform others about this so these channels stop being praised and profiting from animal abuse.

[carlatsukinamistolemyhamsandwich]

I always said I'd never post anything like this when I was actually active on this blog as I didn't want to start drama but you know what, screw it, I'm not here anymore and I'm tired of staying silent on this.

The way some of the fandom treats Yui is absolutely nuts.

And no, I'm not talking about people who call Yui "weak" or who get jealous over her situation (that's a whole other can of worms), I am talking about the other obsessive fans.

I'll start off by saying I am not saying all Yui fans are bad (some are delightful) but I swear she also manages to attract some of the most unhinged people I've encountered on the internet.

I can't even begin to name all the posts I've seen defending her and arguing against anyone who would call her weak or criticise her in any way etc. And while I know there certainly are people who call her weak or fanfictions where she acts as a love rival for one of the boys versus an OC or reader character, I've actually seen far less of those posts than ones defending her, to an almost problematic degree. Like I literally once saw a post where someone was genuinely telling people to kill themselves because they were treating Yui badly in fanfiction and like what the actual fuck?

I personally have no gripes with Yui as a character. She's written to be exactly what the story needed, and if you like kind cinnamon roll characters, she definitely falls into that category, but people don't have to like characters just because they're good people.

In the same way, the diaboys are all terrible to some extent and if they were real people, you wouldn't want anything to do with them. However, I would argue all of them are well-thought out characters with interesting backstories that clearly tie into who they are by the time the series starts. An immoral character =/= a badly written character in the same way a moral character =/= a well written character.

Now I'm not trying to say Yui is a badly written character, as I mentioned above, I think she fits the role she needed to in DL perfectly, but I do think people need to stop treating her like literal perfection at the expense of actual real human beings. I'll admit, I have seen people dislike Yui for immature reasons, but you can't have a go at people for not liking a fictional character.

I know, and have seen, some people argue that your attitude towards Yui reflects your attitude towards rl abuse survivors and just no. That's not how that works. If someone is reading an account of actual abuse and starts victim blaming that's one thing but DL is NOT REAL and it was never meant to be an allegory about abuse or abusive relationships, it's made for people who are horny about vampires. That's it. There is no deeper meaning. I cannot emphasise this enough.

I think if there's any real point here, it's that if some of these fans genuinely value morality and goodness as much as they claim, they would take a good look in the mirror at how they treat real people. If you love Yui so much, use her an example (i.e. being nice), not some icon to beat people over the head with. And people liking and enjoying the darker aspects of DL doesn't make them bad people in the same way watching a horror film doesn't make you a future serial killer.

Anyway thank you for coming to my TED talk. Again, I am not talking about all Yui fans, just the worst ones I've seen. And to be fair a lot of the points I've made here are true for rabid diaboy fans as well. At the end of the day, it's how you treat other people, not fictional characters, that matters.

[wordswithkittywitch]

I'm just saying, if they wanted a compelling anti-hero plot with Cruella de Vil, they could have done so much better with less effort. Just... have her not care.

All we need is one speech about, "Animals only have the importance we give them. Humans only have the importance we give them. So my coat used to be an 'adorable' puppy? Your burger used to be a calf. A calf that looked up at it's mother with big round eyes, not understanding that it would be locked in a cage far away from her for the rest of it's, rather short, life. But I'm not asking you to care about that. I'm asking you what makes dogs different. They aren't. The only difference is you've decided they are because you've met dogs and you haven't met cows. And you can make up imaginary rules to live your life by, but don't act surprised that not everyone made up the same rules as you. The only reason we don't wear human leather is it doesn't look as good as deerskin." And there. Now we have Cruella de Vil as a lady Joker. It's not that hard.

[discountalien-pancake]

I keep thinking these covers will get easier but they just get more elaborate. And creepy. Given how on-the-nose this cover is, you wouldn’t think it took @longsightmyth and I literal hours of back and forth in the harem discord to hammer out all the specifics!

[runawaymarbles]

When you love a fic but are deeply irritated by the author's notes. We all contain multitudes.

[lasagnebats]

some Jonathan Crane doodles for tonight 🥼🩶

[fishybehavior]

I wrote it! :>

Jay gets kidnapped by the administration and implied memory wipe

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Jay winced and blinked as a bright spotlight suddenly turned on in the pitch black room he was in. Suddenly aware that he was restrained to an uncomfortable metal chair, he blinked and squinted against the light to see a desk he was sitting in front of. A woman in her late 40's was sitting behind the desk, not even glancing at him as she shuffled her papers and cleared her throat.

"Congratulations Mr. Walker on passing your interview at The Administration's offices." The lady spoke, her voice monotone and bored, not paying any attention to the man she was talking to as Jay struggled against the restraints keeping him to his chair.

"You must have the wrong guy!" Jay chuckled nervously as the woman glared at him for the first time, "I haven't applied to any job recently. This is just a misunderstanding." The woman glared at him for another second before continuing with her speech in the same monotone and bored voice.

"As you might know, many more positions have opened in the conpany with the recent merging of the 16 realms. And we need upstanding and hardworking people to help maintain order and harmony as The Administration swears to all under its jurisdiction -

"Lady! You don't seem to understand!" Jay snapped lighting arching off him as he became increasingly annoyed and panicked, "I don't know what interview or job your offering me, I crash landed here a week ago and I've been trying to leave this whole week! I don't want to work here, I already got a job! Yeah, I'm a NINJA, the elemental master of LIGHTNING!! I don't need a desk job!!"

The lady didn't even look at him as he talked, instead standing up and fiddling with a contraption hanging from the ceiling over her desk.

"I understand, Mr. Walker imposter syndrome is a very common problem, when someone feels that a position being offered is above their previous experience and expectations. Especially when you are being offered this manager role with no previous experience. But the Administrator themselves picked you to head this new department.

"But do not worry. A part of your benefits is access to a confidence and training program that is offered to anyone who may be hesitant to accept these responsibilities." The lady said, pressing a button on the contraption, and it began to hum. Slowly getting louder as if it was powering up.

"I'll go ahead and sign you up for the program. Welcome to The Administration. Remember to dot your i's and cross your t's. We are counting on you." She finished, and the machine made a popping sound.

Jay felt a sharp pain in the center of his forehead, his body jolt, and just as quickly as he came to, he lost consciousness.

[theshadowrealmitself]

Pet shop of horrors was one of my favorite mangas growing up (I haven’t read it in forever so I don’t know if anything aged horribly, but from memory it was fantastic and you need to read it immediately, there’s also a mini anime series but I don’t know if it’s good) and the bunny one still messes me up to this day (spoilers ahead)

So a quick overview of it is that Count D runs a pet shop, and all the animals in it are actually supernatural that appear to be humans to Count D and customers, and he always warns people on how to take care of the pets when they buy one, but they always ignore his warnings and end up dead, and this detective just knows Count D is related to the murders but can’t prove anything (especially since the animals actually look like animals to him)(there’s so much other stuff going on this manga please, please read it, it’s so great)

And the bunny one is that this couple recently lost their daughter and decide to get a pet to help them with their grief, so they go to Count D who introduces them to this bunny, except the bunny looks like their dead daughter, so obviously they get the bunny

And Count D’s like “even though this looks like a human to you, this is still a bunny, so do not give the bunny any candy” (at least I remember the rule being to not give it candy), and they’re like “we understand” and go home and celebrate over having their “daughter” “back”

And at some point (I wanna say this happens almost immediately?), the bunny looks up at the mom with pleading eyes and asks for candy and the mom caves, which leads to this horrifying outcome of small bunnies (that actually look like bunnies this time) clawing their way out of the main bunny and then I think killing the parents? before all dying themselves because bunnies can’t have candy

And it turned out that that’s kinda how their daughter originally died too, the mom could never say no to her, and when their daughter was in rehab, she begged her mom for more drugs, and her mom slipped her some because she couldn’t say no to her and thought a little bit wouldn’t hurt, and it led to her overdosing (again this is all from memory because I’m scared to pick up the manga again and not have it live up to my nostalgia, so apologies if I got anything wrong)

And that just still messes me up, like she clearly loved her daughter, you can’t deny that, but she couldn’t do right by her, because instead of giving her what she needed, she just kept giving her what she wanted, and it killed her daughter, her daughter’s replacement, and even her and her husband in the end

And I just think if that was in more things (accidentally killing the person you love because you love them and you don’t understand that it’s because you love them that you should say no and disappoint them at times) it would mess me up even more but I’d go feral for it

[peteytheparrot]

The Lorax. The orange guy

Ok

[svartalfhild]

Delighted to report that the Fallout show fucks severely.

The writing is good. The music is good (the leitmotifs!!!). The lore and the vibes are on point. The references are not too many, not too few. I can actually say this sincerely for once: thanks, Todd.

[wigglybug]

my pink oyster mushrom growth yesterday !!

[ongsasuns]

guys this is going to sound really heavy? insane? but. first of all going on a hiatus. i’ll put the rest in the tags because idk. it feels really weird doing this but also unfortunately it is very very necessary at this point.

[polyamzeal]

Worst part of polyamory is ending up being ousted and ganged up on by an abusive polycule and being forced to move to another city because of their actions all because you were stupid enough to exist as a fat disabled person

I am so sorry that happened to you. Sadly bad seeds exist in every orchard. I hope that your future relationships are more healthy and positive. Personally I have been part of polycules with many different fat disabled people in them and they have been showered with love and caretaking. I hope you can find the same.

[kvothes]

trying to tell my students who matthew shephard was like. you need to know this. i’m sorry. i wish you didn’t need to know this. i wish this hadn’t happened. but if you’re gonna study queer history you need to know this.

[skiddlecat]

i'm sorry but the fact yandev is like "i may have engaged in sexual misconduct with a teenager but i, a 35 year old man who definitely should have known better, was actually the one being groomed and i was the victim the whole time!!! also i'm probably autistic so all of my actions can be excused!!!!!!" is actually fucking crazy. BEING AUTISTIC DOESN'T MAKE YOU GROOM KIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!