#summing up

[deadhornedgod]

This year started off chaotically, but it made me happy and I feel like I was able to move forward in many ways, even though it felt like I was starting all over again. Drawing became good therapy for me (even though it sometimes got on my nerves)

I didn't think that by returning to Tumblr I would be able to meet a lot of people. And I'm very glad that I was able to communicate closely with many of you. You are all incredibly interesting and wonderful (o´▽`o)

And I hope that the new year will please you all with something memorable (only good) and will be full of adventures no worse than Baldur's Gate (o･ω･o)

[sohannabarberaesque]

Postcards from Snagglepuss

All in all, how did Pie Day turn out?

AT TOBIE'S RESTAURANT IN HINCKLEY, MN: "Snagglepuss--?" asked Huckleberry Hound over a plate of Tobie's legendary caramel pecan rolls and a pot of coffee shared between us.

"Yes, Huck, if I may call you that?"

"I do have to acknowledge these sweet rolls are rather delicious ... and a little on the gooey side for my tastes."

"And who could concur more?"

"Nonetheless, Snag," Huck was quick to remark, "our Character Convocation back at Braham Pie Day turned out rather well ... not to mention several among us taking some decent honours."

"I do admit that my Grasshopper Pie, at least as per the judges, may have been a little strong with the mint flavour ... but at least they appreciated it enough to recognise it with Honourable Mention."

"Meanwhile ... Clementine's huckleberry pie, lattice-top crust and all, impressed the judges in its own sweet way. Though it's worth knowing that Clementine adds a little lemon juice to cut down on the tartness and tapioca for added juiciness."

"Which, as I understand it, has been recommended for fruit pies for some time."

"And it's not all that often, Snag, that you still see a lattice top crust so skillfully crafted. And I wonder how Clementine goes about it."

"So I've wondered ... so I've wondered!" [Short pause to catch my thoughts and refresh my coffee mug.] "Oh, and how did Kitty Jo's chess pie, much-hyped as it was, turn out?"

"The judges were rather surprised that such a pie was known this far north, yet Kitty Jo--"

"From the Cattanooga Cats, I know."

"--Kitty Jo explained that such was a little touch of the South that she enjoys fixing from time to time for the band as much as the post-concert receptions they host. Even if she had to explain such was custard pie with cornmeal and vinegar."

(The waitress came along to refresh the coffee pot, and I do have to acknowledge that, for such a legendary stop on I-35 towards Duluth, Tobie's serves coffee as legendary as their sweet rolls.)

"Inevitably, Huck, the Hair Bear Bunch were their same old lovably crazy selves at Braham Pie Day ... be it in the meet-and-greet, or even when they entered berry pie in the competition."

"And well-timed, I have to admit, it being just as the bear mating season they're ever fond of was winding down. And who could blame them for just how incredibly crazy their mating season antics could go, to begin with?"

"Even allowing for that kind of oven mini-motorhomes, camper vans even, are notorious for--running off propane and having to be rather impatient in getting such to the right temperature ... yet the crowds cannot resist them. Hair Bear especially, for some reason or other."

"... and a wonderful time was had by all," Huck couldn't help but admit acknowledging as the last of his caramel pecan roll was taken to mouth. "You bet," added I.

Even allowing for where a few days in Duluth before the Minnesota State Fair were in order, including going along the Skyline Parkway.

"So," asked I as we paid our bill, "who among our Funtastic kind would you like along heading into the fall?"

"Let's not forget that Peter Potamus is planning to have us along with his merry band of divers come the fall for some diving over in the Caribbean," Huck reminded me.

"Thanks, Huck," saith I, "for bringing this reminder up."

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[snootchie-mcsnootchface]

[All IDs from alt. The three images show Marisha Ray and Brennan Lee Mulligan at a table playing D&D with others.

ID 1: "Marisha Ray: rock bottom is a good place to be"

ID 2: "Marisha Ray: can only go up, right?"

ID 3: "Brennan Lee Mulligan: theoretically you could also move laterally to a different area of rock bottom"

End ID]

[callmebliss]

Y’ever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way opened to it?

[publicatiosui]

I asked her what the problem was. 'I call it summing up,' she said with a cheerful squawk. Whenever she conceived of a new piece of work, before she had got very far she would find herself summing it up. Often it only took one word: tension, for instance, or mother-in-law, though strictly speaking that was three. As soon as something was summed up, it was to all intents and purposes dead, a sitting duck, and she could go no further with it. Why go to the trouble to write a great long play about jealousy when jealousy just about summed it up? And it wasn't only her own work -- she found herself doing it to other people's, and had discovered that even the masters, the works she had always revered, allowed themselves by and large to be summed up. Even Beckett, her god, had been destroyed by meaninglessness. She would feel the word start to rise, and she would try to hold it down but it kept coming, rising and rising until it had popped irreversibly into her head.

-- Rachel Cusk, Outline

[justaboutsnapped]

If I see one more naive white queer speaking over actual Chinese queers people and proclaiming xiaohongshu/rednote or even China in general is somehow a fucking wonderland incapable of violent bigotry I’m gonna explode

1) a lot of the queer related tags have suddenly become usable again after the great migration

2) the #le tag for lesbians literally comes from the #lesbian and #les tags being banned so to act

3) the welcome you’re receiving by chinese people isn’t what actual Chinese queers have experienced (we experience a bombardment of loud angry homophobes/transphobes every single fucking day) and every single Chinese queer I know has been ranting about this for days. Unfortunately a lot of people are hypocrites who are only nice to the guests in the house

4) not only is this rhetoric of don’t ask don’t tell being the main consensus in China FALSE (I don’t even want to get into the media’s suppression of hate crimes and how many queer activism accounts are being banned left and right), passive queerphobia is still FUCKING QUEERPHOBIA…

The audacity to come into OUR HOUSE and speak over us after 3 days of being pampered on this app just for being western is vile and so fucking demoralising because we’ve been yelling about our condition for so long and you guys would rather not miss out on social media brainrot than to actually apply some nuance for once… you guys wanted to distance from the sinophobic propaganda take of China being unequivocally evil so bad that you’ve swung to the other end

[evercelle]

bust... or maybe i'll take it all!

[queerstudiesnatural]

funny how celebrities will raise $26M for a fashion institute but can't be bothered to mobilise even a fraction of that energy and money to help the people being tortured and killed in an unapologetic genocide as we speak. love that for society. what a moment for The Culture.

[saints-who-never-existed]

“In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy—as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh—as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege—as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover—as long as he is riddled with bullets. 

Violence makes the homo-eroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.”

–Tarantino’s Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence. Kent L. Brintnall.

[sophsun1]

#me too bestie

[chloesimaginationthings]

Happy 1 year anniversary to FNAF ruin!!

[artsymeeshee]

run away, boys!

[noodles-and-tea]

jon holding damian like a fucking badly behaved cat is everything

It feels in character

[hanquality]

oscar interrupting lando's interview to offer a gentle comforting touch on the shoulder. lando interrupting oscar's interview to roughly slap him on the ass. the landoscar historians will write songs about times like these

[disgracedaantt]

ok wait. hallucination/dream jackie actually brings up a great point! shauna is possibly the worst communicator out of the yellowjackets! she deceives, she lies, she covers things up and then gets mad when people don't know what she wants. like girl, jackie had NO idea that you didn't want to be called shipman. she didn't know you liked jeff, she didn't know you resented her or how inferior she made you feel because you never fucking told her! the crux of like 99% of jackieshaunas issues stems from the fact that shauna is incapable of communicating issues before they bubble over into fits of rage! which shauna knows! because when she told jackie she was bothered by the dress/randi hookup thing in season 1 jackie immediately dropped it! COMMUNICATE SHAUNA!!! pls for the sake of literally everyone COMMUNICATE!

[calocera]

based on this awesome post about how if a vulcan and betazoid accidentally touched hands it’d be like a flashbang going off for the vulcan. sorry for ocifying the idea 🫡