#shallow stream

[vgwater]

[a-fast-rebloger]

RIP to Elphaba and her water allergy I know she would've loved to walk barefoot around a creek

[asha-mage]

I think nothing exemplifies this site's commitment to bad faith takes of Taylor Swift better then fact that everyone is circulating that '1830s without all the racists' line as proof that Swift is out of touch and vapid for glorifying the past uncritically/romanticizing it, and then when you actually go and listen to the song, this is the full verse-

My friends used to play a game where We would pick a decade We wished we could live in instead of this I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists And getting married off for the highest bid Everyone would look down 'cause it wasn't fun now Seems like it was never even fun back then Nostalgia is a mind's trick If I'd been there, I'd hate it It was freezing in the palace

And it turns out that Swift is lambasting the very thing people are claiming she's doing- and talking about the experience of making people deliberately uncomfortable by drawing attention to their rose-colored view of the past, while rejecting the idea that nostalgia is anything but a fantasy we use to comfort ourselves without engaging with the reality of what it was like.

Like you don't have to like her music or this album or even her as a person, but when your playing out the 'Coolsville sucks' meme unironically, it might be time to take a step back and think more critically about what is driving your anger at this person.

[whitmore]

charlie slimecicle slash lore very clearly knows codeflippa isn’t juanaflippa somewhere inside of him. the specific avoidance of questions with codeflippa points us in that direction and is further confirmed by the direct questions he asked juanaflippa today during dia de los muertos— are you safe? are you in a happier place? he’s not in any level of denial barring performative, he’s just willing to settle for a codeflippa rather than no flippa at all, and that’s paraphrased but he’s said something very akin to it out loud. plus today he realized that if the missing eggs don’t have ofrendas they’re likely still alive, and i think to some end even after really processing that his current flippa isn’t the original juanaflippa, he’d still want her around emotionally to cope with the possibility of bearing witness to everybody else’s real egg reunifications. mariana isn’t around, his entire family was fundamentally gone at one point. he doesn’t want to have nothing again. and if codeflippa leaves, he’s left with nothing. again.

[thelittlespanielthatcould]

He is such a dedicated and thorough investigator

[dazais-crab-addiction]

Okay listen, hear me out. I needs to summon any one who ships Nikolai and Dazai. I dont ship it and it seems super rare pair but my partner and I are gonna be cosplaying them and think it would be fun/funny to do ship stuff.

So I need recommendations on what kinda chaotic stuff we should do! Pls feel free to say literally anything :D

Plans we have already come up with include the following: fucking around in a grocery store to buy cosmic brownies so they can show me the fucked up way they eat them (very fitting for Nikolai), going out to eat at a Chinese place in character, fucking around in the woods, possibly wading into a small 'river' (i keep having to tell myself I will not choose to float down it. I will not fuck up my cosplay like that. I must resist!!)

[mythical-art]

Stream in Val d'Aosta, c.1909 by John Singer Sargen

[bibleofficial]

thought i was going to meet up w this guy i’ve been chatting w this weekend & he tells me ‘ur age makes me uncomfortable’ like ok. it makes me uncomfortable to have been talking to an idiot but here i am. w my shit in 1 hand and urs in another.

[vgwater]

[zer0point5ive]

guy who delivered my dvds smashed the case a little & now i have hard plastic shards in my bed. authentic saw experience <3

[catastrophic-crisis]

There's been plenty of complaints about books and the like being presented as [genre] [genre] [trope] [trope], but it's amazing how much more compelling even brief descriptions of the characters, their goals, setting, themes, et cetera can be.

[sing-me-under]

if im being honest, you're one of the only people i trust with character analyses of the dsmp characters

I’m very glad you trust my analyses! Thank you!

I really enjoy analyzing the characters of the DSMP because they’re all so interesting. Their motives, their actions, their beliefs. They all feel so real! They’re all such nuanced characters, and the content creators did such a good job with consistency! You can trace their individual progressions throughout the years, and isn’t that amazing! The characters have so much heart put into them by their creators.

The characters really feel like real people within their own world. They have their flaws, and they’ve made mistakes and misjudgments. They’ve been hurt and they hurt, but it all feels like the natural progression of choices in their circumstances whether they realize it or not. People are complicated! And that’s fantastic!

I love the DSMP so much, and I believe it deserves to be analyzed with respect for both the characters and content creators. I see so many shallow interpretations fueled by unbridled hate and unconditional praise, so I felt like I should at least throw my two cents into the void.

If you ever want to hear more about my thoughts on anything specific, feel free to drop more asks! I have a lot of thoughts.

[rulesforthedance]

My favorite cousin, the Alaskan one (who grew up in a remote log cabin and is an English professor now and the only person who can consistently beat me at bananagrams, and used to visit a lot when he was in college and I was in high school and (when he came to visit) would run around in the snow barefoot in a t-shirt and do parkour off our deck), just posted a video of his two-year-old daughter downhill skiing

[fridayiminlcve]

this post is best served with piping hot tea but i really hate ppl like leah kate gayle sam smith the kid laroi but then again it's not fair to say that abt them bc if they tried im sure they could make good music but it's not anyone will listen to them bc no one cares abt their songs anyway they're just designed to go viral for a short ass clip of supposedly a "cool" lyric and no one ever listens to them outside those songs which is really a pity for them

[malewifehenrycooldown]

Something something I really want to watch the bleach anime because of the thousand-year blood war arc that got adapted quite recently.

[headspace-hotel]

so many areas have been un-wetlanded and we need to re-wet them. if there is an area that makes a big puddle for days every time it rains everyone wants to make a channel to make the water go away faster. but actually that solution creates muddy polluted water flowing rapidly into the streams. the real solution is to dig a wide shallow pit to become a pond and make the water hang out for longer so it can become the cattails' and rushes' home. make sure to make the edges a gradual slope so the frogs can get in easily btw