#for shock value

[candygemgem]

[Discord Curse AU]

This is not an infection au per se, but, it follows similar guidelines so I'm going to tag it as such. Differences are; minimized gore, existing-story relevancy, & the end result is not death.

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Enantiodromia

Unable to resolve their missing Elements problem, the Mane 6 went home from the Discord Labyrinth to figure out how to continue life in Ponyville - which was fully intact, albeit still a little strange. It still rained chocolate now & then. There were extra laws to physics that broke themselves daily.

Discord's true curse, at first, was unnoticeable.

Cagey guarding of one special item from Rarity ['She gets tense at work, it's understandable.'], forgotten plans from Rainbow Dash ['She's so active, everyone forgets things, right?']. Occasionally, a fib would slip out of Applejack, but she'd shake her head, correct herself, & say it was a mistake.

Even the physical changes went mostly unnoticed ; to ponies who saw each other every day, they weren't significant enough in their gradual takeover to raise suspicion.

Nobody thought much of it until Pinkie Pie missed a pony's birthday ['She's been hiding herself away a lot lately, I wonder why?'] & one of Twilight's teleport spells failed. Not to mention the . . . unicorn horn? growing from Applejack.

Fluttershy was the first to go missing.

['I hope she's safe.' - The Lost Spark]

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[review-anon]

//Honestly, the entire "Miu has a Scat kink" thing, for me only makes sense if it was something Tsumugi purposely added to her "in-game" backstory, and was something that her "pre-game" never had originally.

//Oh that does make much more sense since we know how fucked up Tsumugi is.

//That’s the best thing about V3’s twist, if you don’t like a certain trait of a character you can blame Team Danganronpa for it and say it never happened.

//Its why Korekiyo is the most tolerable of the serial killers for me, since there’s a high chance none of his murders actually happened.

[mo-mode]

[yelrabmena]

fnaf analog horror series where each episode is just 20 minutes of william afton kicking puppies, stealing candies from and popping balloons of small children, causing 9/11 sixteen years earlier (he does it again on the correct date later on don't worry) , all including a loud screaming audio for everytime he does something evil that goes for longer than it should. Also Freddy's barely if is important except for it being where he does the evil and there being a fazbear branded plane

at least 10 videos, each by different people, will be made for each episode talking about how it's "the scariest fnaf content ever made" and "made fnaf ACTUALLY SCARY again!!!" while the thumbnail is something like a monochrome photo of the twin towers with a fucked up looking springtrap facing the viewer with "HE DESTROYED THEM" written in bold, big red text

[hallowshumour]

SHUT THE FUCK UP🎤🖕💥‼️

[nonbinary-vents]

thinking about how recently I went to King’s Cross with my family, and saw graffiti of ‘viva Hamas’, and like whatever that’s really common, but I told my mum because it is still kind of freaky. And she didn’t have any other response except ‘ugh don’t pay attention to the idiots’ (Hebrew edition so a little ruder obviously lol). And in the moment I was just kind of mad at her for brushing it off so much, but now I’m just…

It’s so normal. It is so so normal to go outside and see stickers or graffiti or posters explicitly calling for me and people like me to be slaughtered. I see it all the time. And it’s become normal. It used to be scary, it used to be overwhelming and completely drowning me. But now it just feels like, idk— I guess just a part of daily life. It has the same effect of someone behind you brushing against your shoe or something. A little annoying in the moment, it might hurt for a split second, but you get over it as soon as you take another step.

this specific graffiti only really affected me as much as it did because we were supposed to be having a nice day, and it had been before that, and I had been nervous about King’s Cross beforehand but hadn’t seen anything weird. It hit me the way it did because before then there wasn’t anything and I was pleasantly surprised, so almost a new normal had been set for the day. Even in this post my first instinct after writing what I saw was to add on a ‘but it’s whatever lol’. Huh?????? Explicit celebration of Hamas is just ‘whatever’ to me at this point???? Seriously????

When I go outside I see that people want me dead. And it’s nothing more than a slight annoyance, ‘just don’t pay attention to them’. It really is such a mindfuck

[turtletoads]

heyyyy *leans on old halo art i never posted*

[bitter69uk]

Wishing everyone a Divine extra-filthy Valentine's Day! Pic by Laura Levine via.

[dedusmuln]

yeah you support trans people but are you normal about trans men who choose to get pregnant

[tangents-within-tangents]

Listen, if you're gonna watch the Clone Wars you just gotta forget that the Jedi characters have the force.

Because that's exactly what the writers did whenever it was inconvenient for them. They'll only use the force when the plot needs them to, and you gotta find a way to accept that and pretend like its not a thing or you will constantly be yelling "but what about the force?" "how bout just USE THE FORCE!?" at your screen

[alicentwhore]

Okay we’re all making jokes about Daemon’s little Oedipal episode but I do think it is a really good way to show just how the Targ incest-superiority-exceptionalism fucks everyone in this family up. You get taught literally from birth to find romantic and sexual intimacy in your familial relationships.

You’re Daemon. You’re a son so you ought to marry your sister. But you have no sister, only an older brother who REALLY ought to have a sister to marry. And this is how things must be. Your parents are brother and sister, THEIR parents are brother and sister. It must be brother and sister but you have no sister. Do you become the sister then? But you can’t, because that’s wrong too. You are a son, you must be a son and act as a son. And you should love your brother as only a brother. And this is how things must be. But how can you when you’ve been taught not to? How can you when you know if you had been a girl, you wouldn’t be allowed to just see him as a brother. He is your brother. You should have been his wife. But you never can be. And this is how things must be. You never knew your mother. But she is a woman and she is related to you. And haven’t you always been taught exactly what that means in this family? You’ve crossed so many boundaries but now suddenly there is a line. You don’t think you really want her in this way. But you never knew her and you don’t know how else to show love in this family. You don’t know how to love her as family in a life where family means lover. Except when it doesn’t. And gods forbid you cross that line and desire your family in a way that is suddenly wrong. This is how things must be.

[claraoswalds]

#mrs flood who are you: time lord edition

[electronicmail]

I tried to compliment you and you ignored me, you little cumbubble

i save compliments in my askbox, lieutenant freak. clearly yours was a shallow, empty compliment, sent only to receive some kind of reward. I hope you get shot

[queenvhagar]

Criston Cole is a knight of common birth in a medieval, feudalist world who rose to the highest position a knight could hold in the realm, who was pressured into sex with the member of the royal family directly responsible for his position as Kingsguard, resulting in him almost ending his life out of guilt for breaking his vow.

Alicent Hightower is a grown up child bride to an older king who was forced to perform her duties no matter the hour, who visibly disassociated during the act, who never had the luxury of thinking of her own desires at any point in her life, who birthed and raised her babies while still a child herself.

I would ask this show to explore how these two individuals overcame their sexual trauma and ingrained beliefs about duty and sex to start an extremely active sexual relationship but I know deep down that this is as far as the writers want to go with these characters in relation to this pairing:

[bestanimal]

Round 3 - Reptilia - Testudines

(Sources - 1, 2, 3, 4)

Testudines, commonly known as “turtles”, are a unique order of reptiles. They are divided into two major clades: Pleurodira (“side-necked turtles”) and Cryptodira (“hidden-neck turtles”), which differ in the way their head retracts. The are composed of the living families Chelidae (Austro-South American side-neck turtles), Pelomedusidae (African side-necked turtles), Podocnemididae (“big-headed turtles” and South American side-necked river turtles), Chelydridae (“snapping turtles”), Dermatemydidae (“Hickatee”), Kinosternidae (“mud turtles” and “musk turtles”), Cheloniidae (“sea turtles”), Dermochelyidae (“Leatherback Sea Turtle”), Platysternidae (“Big-headed Turtle”), Emydidae (“terrapins”), Geoemydidae (Eurasian pond and river turtles and Neotropical wood turtles), Testudinidae (“tortoises”), Carettochelyidae (“Pig-nosed Turtle”), and Trionychidae (“softshell turtles”).

Turtles are most known for their modified, fused ribs that form an armored carapace. They also have a flattened belly-plate called a plastron. Their shell is mostly bone, covered by keratin scales called scutes. They shed their scutes as they grow, with older scutes peeling off of the newer, larger scutes beneath. As defense, Pleurodirans draw their necks sideways, hiding their head under the overhang of their carapace. Meanwhile, most Cryptodirans can fold their entire neck inside their shell. Box Turtles (genera Cuora and Terrapene) also possess a hinged plastron which allows them to seal themselves tightly within their own skeleton. Due to their streamlined bodies, sea turtles (superfamily Chelonioidea) cannot retract their head and limbs into their shells for protection. Turtles are found in many environments, on most continents, some islands, and most of the ocean. Some are terrestrial, some are freshwater, and some are marine. Some are herbivores, most are omnivores, and some are pure carnivores.

All turtles lay eggs. They do not form pair-bonds or social groups, and have a wide range of mating behaviors. In terrestrial species, males are often larger than females, and will fight with each other for the right to mate. For most semi-aquatic species, combat happens less often, and males will pursue females. In fully aquatic species, males are often smaller than females and rely on courtship displays to gain mating access. All turtles lay their eggs on land, although some lay eggs near water that rises and falls in level, submerging the eggs and signaling them to hatch. Most turtles create a nest for their eggs, digging a chamber into the ground. Depending on the species, the number of eggs laid varies from one to over 100. Eggs can be hard or soft-shelled. Most mother turtles do not perform parental care other than covering their eggs and immediately leaving, though some species guard their nests for days or weeks. Most species have their sex determined by temperature. In other species, sex is determined genetically. Hatching young turtles break out of the shell using an egg tooth, a sharp projection that exists temporarily on their upper beak. Hatchlings dig themselves out of the nest and find safety in vegetation or water. Most species grow quickly during their early years and slow down when they mature.

Testudines are not closely related to the two major living clades of Reptilia, Lepidosauria and Archosauria, so their exact place on the reptile tree has historically been disputed. The most recent evidence points to them being closer related to archosaurs than to lepidosaurs, but their ancestors are estimated to have split 255 million years ago during the Permian. The oldest known members of the Pleurodira lineage are the Platychelyidae, from the Late Jurassic. The oldest known unambiguous Cryptodire is Sinaspideretes, a close relative of softshell turtles, from the Late Jurassic of China. Turtles began to diversify during the Cretaceous.

Propaganda under the cut:

The largest living species of turtle is the Leatherback Sea Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), which can reach over 2.7 m (8ft 10in) in length and weigh over 500 kg (1,100��lb).

A turtle was the symbol of the Ancient Mesopotamian god Enki from the 3rd millennium BC onward.

If a female sea turtle does not want to mate, she has multiple ways of refusing a male’s advances. Her larger size and strength may allow her to simply swim away faster, or she may bite the male. She may take up a refusal position with her body vertical, her limbs widely outspread, and her plastron facing the male, keeping her rear away from him. If water is too shallow for the refusal position, the female may resort to beaching herself, as males are not adapted to come ashore.

In Hindu mythology, the World Turtle, named Kurma or Kacchapa, supports four elephants on his back; they, in turn, carry the weight of the whole world on their backs. The turtle is one of the ten avatars or incarnations of the god Vishnu.

There is experimental evidence that the embryos of Chinese Pond Turtles (Mauremys reevesii) can move around inside their eggs to select the best temperature for development, thus choosing their sex.

The Yangtze Giant Softshell Turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) is one of the most endangered animals in the world, considered to be functionally extinct. The species has a known population of only 1 in captivity and potentially 1 in the wild, with no remaining fertile females. Conservation teams continue to monitor lakes and ponds in China and Vietnam and interview local communities to gather more information about potential surviving individuals. Efforts are also underway to explore new areas of habitat that could support this species.

An ancient Greek myth told that only the tortoise refused the invitation of the gods Zeus and Hera to their wedding, as it preferred to stay at home. Zeus then ordered it to carry its house with it forever. Not the worst Zeus curse by far, tbh.

The oldest known living turtle, and land animal, is said to be a Seychelles Giant Tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa) named Jonathan, who is estimated to be 192 as of 2025. He lives on the grounds of Plantation House, the official residence of the governor of Saint Helena and is cared for by the government. The Saint Helena five-pence coin depicts Jonathan on one side.

Among vertebrate orders, turtles are second only to primates in the percentage of threatened species. They face many threats, including habitat destruction, hunting, the pet trade, pollution, light pollution, and climate change.

Chinese markets have sought to satisfy an increasing demand for turtle meat with farmed turtles, even turning to American markets to cover their decreasing supply, as harvesting wild turtles is legal in some American states.

Threatened species of turtles, such as the critically endangered Radiated Tortoise (Astrochelys radiata), Angonoka Tortoise (Astrochelys yniphora), Philippine Forest Turtle (Siebenrockiella leytensis), Yellow-headed Box Turtle (Cuora aurocapitata), Indochinese Box Turtle (Cuora galbinifrons), Golden Coin Turtle (Cuora trifasciata), McCord's Box Turtle (Cuora mccordi), and the Roti Island Snake-necked Turtle (Chelodina mccordi) are in high demand in the exotic pet trade, and their populations have plummeted as poachers capture them from the wild.

Large numbers of sea turtles are accidentally killed in longlines, gillnets, and trawling nets as bycatch, or struck by boats. In Australia, Queensland's shark culling program, which uses shark nets and drum lines, has killed over 5,000 turtles as bycatch between 1962 and 2015, including 752 critically endangered ones. Light pollution at night threatens young sea turtles who use the moon to guide them toward the ocean, instead crawling into brightly-lit city streets where they are struck by cars or fall into storm drains.

Native turtle populations can also be threatened by invasive ones. The central North American Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans), often kept as pets and then released into the wild, has been listed among the "world's worst invasive species", outcompeting native turtle species in eastern and western North America, Europe, and Japan.

As of 2021, turtle extinction is progressing much faster than during the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction. At this rate, all turtles could be extinct in a few centuries.

[hallowshumour]

You could hate my guts with the bass turned up. 🔥🎤⚡️‼️