#since I couldn't find it anywhere

[youhavereachedtheendofpie]

Te amo y más (The Book of Life)

[hedgehog-moss]

I lost one of my chickens :( she was caught and carried away by a fox... I’ve been growing complacent about my chickens’ safety I think because we’ve only had one other attack before, a goshawk that swooped in abruptly (unsuccessfully), but no fox sightings nearby so I’ve been assuming Pandolf was a great deterrent. Which he is, just not foolproof. I’ve talked to some people in town about this and they were pretty philosophical about foxes stealing chickens, like “it’s the tribute we pay to woodland animals, it’s just a few hens here and there.” I don’t begrudge the fox for being a fox, if anything I have a renewed respect for foxes because everyone I talked to proceeded to give me their best / worst fox stories, and most of them involved foxes outsmarting humans (learning people’s habits / timetables, opening latches, faking a limp...) Still I feel terrible for my hen, she was only three. RIP Cordy :( You’ll be remembered fondly... (except by the cats.) I feel bad for the other hen too, who just lost her pal!

When I said that last thing, one of my neighbours jumped on the opportunity to try and convince me again to accept a rooster from him. He had a rooster baby boom last summer and I’ve been telling him for months that I don’t need a rooster, I don’t want to raise chickens I just want eggs, and his new argument was that a rooster would protect my hen (or if it comes to that, would heroically sacrifice himself rather than let the hen be eaten—I’m sceptical...) I asked around for a young hen but there aren’t any to be had in this season, so my remaining one is going to be alone until the spring, and my neighbour said she’d get stressed and male company is better than no company. (I wish I could ask my hen what she wants! Maybe she’s penning A Coop Of One’s Own as we speak.) I said the rooster was more likely to stress her out and harass her and he said nah they’re free ranging all day, it’ll be fine, and he’s young so your adult hen will boss him around. I was like, but then will he be any good at protecting her? etc. etc. and after a while I caved in.

When I told her about this on the phone my mum sighed “you’re terrible at saying no”—excuse me, I said no so many times and the guy just kept ploughing on until he could foist a rooster upon me. I’m good at saying no, other people are terrible at hearing it! I reassured her that I had only agreed to take the rooster for a short probationary period, and if he bothers my hen too much I’ll drive him back to his native farm. My mum was like “Drive him back? look I’m sorry I raised you as a city kid but there’s no need to waste gas on driving a rooster around, I’ll have no qualms about wringing his neck for dinner if he’s more trouble than he’s worth.” The rooster’s fate is not sealed though, if he is anywhere from vaguely useful to not actively problematic I’ll keep him, so we’ll see...!

[linusbenjamin]

Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes + Benjamin Linus // A duo

[sergeantpixie]

2023 character wrapped: 9 characters you loved in 2023! Was tagged by @frankensteinsmona

From left to right this is Rory Gilmore (Gilmore Girls), Daisy Jones (Daisy Jones & The Six), Aria Montgomery (Pretty Little Liars), Midge Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Elena Gilbert (The Vampire Diaries), Riley Flynn (Midnight Mass), Erin Greene (Midnight Mass), Annabel Lee Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher), and Ilonka (The Midnight Club).

Daisy, Annabel Lee, and Ilonka are the only three I met this year but I did rewatch all of the others' shows this year so it still counts lmao.

Tagging: @woodswit, @purplesigebert, @randomestfandoms, @imperpetuallylost, and anyone who sees this and wants to participate!

[divinitybeings]

Help me find this song?

I heard this song on an Eddsworld animation (by Foxtrot217, who I believe is now Doom_Shr00m on YouTube) I've been trying to find since around 2018 with no luck. I've tried Shazam, and even I asked the OP in its time for the song, but they replied not even them knew the name (strange, but I bought it), which made me consider the possibility that it could be something like a free to use song on an app library.

Long story short, it's been haunting me since then, so if you happen to know anything, pls let me know

[mack-anthology-mp3]

my copy of good omens should arrive todayyyyyyyyyy ough i can't wait to reread it write in the margins and fold over the corners and underline stuff

[kerorowhump]

i bought these btw (bottom 2 i already have in hand, top 4 not yet)

[crazy-grrrl-on-the-computer]

Last line tag game!

Rules: In a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or however many you like).

Tagged by @fortune-maiden

Thank you so much for giving me the kick my brain needed to finally choose a project to focus on! <3

And as for these documents, they’re going under the mattress and out of sight until I get back. See that, Captain? That’s called thinking ahead. You’re welcome.

Not exactly the last line, but it's the last section I wrote and decided I liked enough to share. Is it from any of the anticipated projects I've actually told people about? Nope, it's part of a self-indulgent OC-centric fic that was conceived in 2012 and never saw the light of day for good reason.

Tagging: @auniverseforgotten , @shadowmellow , @darth-salem-emperor-of-earth , @thatlittledandere , @koolkitty9 , @floweryuu , @lanliingwang , @otakushrew , @ryoseii , @mostlikelytofangirl

I am so very out of the loop about who in my small Tumblr circle is still active, writing, and interested in tag memes like this. So please know there's no pressure to share and if I missed someone who wants to be included feel free to consider yourself also tagged~ <3

[iactuallytryingtolovemyself]

love this scene!!!

did i spend like an hour trying to find it? maybe

but i'm mostly posting this so i can save it somewhere

[solradguy]

Do you think the drops of the Scales of Juno talk to Ky if the Flame of Corruption talks to Sol? For that matter, Aria is the one who had the Scales of Juno and Dizzy inherited that, but is it the same Scales? Is there one Scales of Juno or do you think it’s more like fragments?

The Scales of Juno are like…a universal function, right? Can that even be fragmented? How much power does Dizzy even have? Sin is a Juno-type gear (a Junos Gear? Is there a single word to describe ‘of Juno’) isn’t he?

I know you’re not Daisuke, so I don’t expect you to have answers to all of this. Mostly I just got caught up in thinking about the Scales of Juno!

I don't think the Flame of Corruption so much as "talks" to Sol as it does more like... compels him like an intrusive thought might? There's one line in the Xrd Sign story where he complains about it always being there whispering in the back of his mind [1] but afaik he never says it straight up talks to him. In Begin it's sort of written like it's an uncontrollable bestial impulse too. Sort of similar to how sharks are drawn to blood or vultures to the smell of carrion, the Flame of Corruption draws towards destruction and violence.

Justice definitely had the Scales of Juno, so Dizzy must have it too and also Sin to a degree. The Original hypothesized and then discovered the existence of the FoC and SoJ in the Backyard—and that they were the cause of previous mass extinction events (Absolute Worlds)—then sealed them inside of "seeds"/cores to prevent an Absolute World from happening again [2]. There is only one of each of the FoC and SoJ but they are inherited at least slightly or in a diluted way through offspring (or blood; whatever the hell's going on with Ky). Dizzy is at least extremely powerful compared to other Gears despite being only a Half Gear, since that Gear half is from the original Scales of Juno Gear, Justice. The end of Strive briefly mentions the "blood of Juno," since Ky has it so it must be transferrable. [3]

I don't know if Gears like Testament or Paradigm are descended from the SoJ or if there's a "neutral" non-seed version of Gear cells. It would make sense that they were descended from one of the seeds though (more likely the Scales; iirc Sol was given all of the Flame of Corruption core) since the lore uses an Adam and Eve metaphor to explain the mechanics around the seeds a few times. We might be able to assume then that that means every Gear has at least some percentage of one of the seeds but in an extremely diluted amount since, in the Bible, Adam and Eve were the original humans that all others are apparently descended from. It may be that all Gears are somehow descended from the Flame of Corruption or Scales of Juno.

This entry on Gear Cells from the in-game encyclopedia seems to support this (copied from the Gear page on the GG wiki [4]):

Gear cells are known to have a certain "purity" according to the number of times they have been replicated since they were created by That Man. The most pure Gear cells—that is, those replicated the fewest times—can be found in the two Gears that hold the cores of the Absolute World: Sol Badguy and Justice.

With Sin and Ky's Gear-related lore still being vague, we're gonna have to wait and see what happens in the future with Ky's blood of Juno to determine how strong they are in comparison to Dizzy. I'm especially curious about whether or not they're also command-type Gears like her too, or if that's something that's lost the further away from the original seed source a Gear gets. At the very least, Justice seemed to be the only command-type Gear until Dizzy. Dizzy's power is also mostly unexplored. We know from her Emotional Gamma Ray in Xrd that she's strong enough to intimidate a good portion of the cast with it. I'd be surprised if she wasn't as strong or nearly as strong as Justice was.

[the-cookie-of-doom]

i miss traveling and seeing new places and trying new things and journaling about it

[consolecadet]

I need to get more vain again. I was wallowing in vanity in like 2017 and I should do that more

[sotc]

*salutes u all* see u on the other side..

[arcxnumvitae]

[vettelcore]

my favourite perfume got discontinued bye in gonna kms

[perchingominouslysmwh]

...I’m convinced that sleep deprivation is it’s own kinda drug-