#stories are magic

[imaginesomethingrand]

i feel like writing a story about the US getting invaded by russia instead of Ukraine-- in order to smack people in the face with the truth. maybe they would care if it were Americans.

--we could see what russians do from a first person POV. stories create empathy. sneak into people's hearts and create imagery they can't get out of their heads and make them feel possibly against their will, if they have feelings left.

of course I would like to show stories of Ukraine, but I don't know it well enough to write from their POV.

I want to uplift their stories somehow, but i want to do something as a fiction writer

attack people's emotions before the election, perhaps sway some people.

scream at them, DON'T YOU SEE?

don't you feel. how can you be war weary after a year when you haven't even been at war.

when Ukrainians are going through the worst things possible.

we can't let russia win. any more than it were USA.

[aesethewitch]

When I was a kid, we moved into a house that had a huge lilac tree out front. It was mostly rotten, and it needed to be taken down before it fell. It took a while, but eventually, it was gone.

Mostly. A couple years later, little lilac babies popped out of the ground in its place. My mom was determined to get rid of them, because she'd planted a beautiful flower garden there, and the lilac trees would overshadow and kill the whole garden. I insisted on saving at least a few saplings. She said fine, but I had to dig them out and put them in pots myself.

So, I did. I spent days digging little lilac bushes out of the ground and putting them into pots. Some couldn't be saved, but some could. When all was said and done, I had five brand-new lilac saplings. Seven or eight years old, and it was my absolute pride and joy.

Three died due to sun scorching, severe drought that no amount of watering could save, and perhaps just being moved from their place in the ground. But two survived, and I was awfully proud of them! I'd go out and talk to them every single day. I watered them by hand and made sure they were fertilized properly. I learned all about their favored environments, and I was determined to make sure they lived.

One of my mom's friends saw what I was doing with the lilacs. She asked if she could have one to put in her backyard, and I agreed on the condition that she take very, very good care of it.

It's now fucking enormous. I'm talking ten feet tall and bursting with beautiful purple flowers every spring. My mom still gets updates each year as they start to bloom, which she forwards to me. And all I can think is, "That's my friend! Thriving some twenty years on, there it is."

The other tree nearly died, too. It lived in a pot for far, far too long. I wanted to plant it somewhere in my parents' yard, but my mom was reluctant. Eventually, we agreed to put it in the far back garden. It grew okay for many years, despite the shade, but in all these years, it's never bloomed.

Last year, the massive tree casting massive shadows over the lilac and the garden cracked in half and fell. It tumbled into the garden, crushing part of the nearby shed and destroying a few plants beneath it.

It missed my lilac by inches.

The clean-up is long done. The rest of the tree has been cut down, and my lilac has full sunlight for the first time in fifteen years. It won't bloom this year, I know. But it's got new shoots up. It's taller than ever. I spent half an hour a few weeks ago praising it for surviving all this time, dreaming about its future and telling it how I believe it'll become the tall beauty it's always been meant to be.

I think next year, I'll see flowers.

[aniseandspearmint]

just having some fun with interesting fantasy imagery! Give it a reblog, if you play, please? And tell me WHY you picked what you picked if you want?

[lightthewaybackhome]

www.pinterest.com

If someone had told me I would utterly fall in love with this show, I never would have believed then. It is the dumbest, silliest, most childish, wonderful, heartwarming, courage-instilling thing I've seen in ages. Not only that, but it perfectly captures both sibling dynamics and male/female differences.

Also, Roanoa Zorro is absolutely my favorite character. I love it when he supports, trusts, and follows Luffy. He's so overpowered and always napping, but man, he has everyone's back.

This dumb show. I love it so.

[datcravat]

In the name of Hades, I'll punish you!

[cracklewink]

I have been wracking my brain on my mane 6 redesign for the past week. Here's my ideas for Rarity!! RD is up next >

[professorllayton]

sorry my stance on stories w no homophobia is just um. well it could do w a little homophobia if im being honest

[egophiliac]

I've had a beast of a cold for the last few days, but I wanted to get this out before the new year! while I've sort of made my peace with my first take on Lilia's UM poster, I really wanted to do a version with the new context that chapter 6 gave us. because. c'mon.

(don't worry, Lilia can carry ALL HIS KIDS AT ONCE)

[sexyrisky]

[magicomens]

One wrong turn and they'd have ended up in Narnia

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[mikeywayarchive]

Instagram story by yallhavingbirthdaycake

[Jul 28, 2024]

[martacorss]

[galacticgoldfishart]

~Arin's Magical Girl Transformation~

[ilov3burnaboy]

black love 👩🏿‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏽❤️

[crustaceousfaggot]

Shout out to Cishet White Teenager Christopher Paolini for realizing that if you give people infinite time, a completely non-judgemental society, and the power to change their bodies any way they want, lots of people are gonna start doing Freaky Anthro Transgenderism on themselves.

Like yeah, if I had the option I'd probably turn myself into a bizzare eldritch creature too

[loveisactivated]