#we arent back but we are back

[heelcody]

saintescobar -> heelcody again

[rabbitmotifs]

what did he mean by this

[plesiosaurys]

getting emotional over footage of an amateur scuba diver interacting with a coelacanth. they are hunted by large deepwater predators, and here comes a large creature bearing the brightest lights it's ever seen, making strange noises, but it does not shy away. it hovers, calmly, as the diver reaches out and trails a hand down its back. im strongly against the anthropomorphizing of real life animals but the stupid emotional part of me loudly insists this is because it recognizes us, the alternating movements of its four paired limbs matching the diver's four paired limbs, & it is thinking, "hello, cousins, we missed you these 66 million years, it's so good to see you again. welcome back, welcome home."

[chitinleg]

got him off-balance!

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo being put into a situation where there is absolutely no fighting, just verbal manipulation and perception games, would be amazing to witness. We see a lot in the series how good he is at subterfuge and how he uses his perception to manipulate to great effect, so it’d be so cool to really see it put to the test even more.

Manipulation is one of the most effective tactical strategies of all time, so just imagine Leo putting this skillset of his to the full test. Imagine the boys slowly get up to busting bigger and more powerful criminals, including those with networks of crime under their belt, and a simple fight isn’t enough to take them down. For criminals like this, Leo’s skills in subterfuge would be deadly.

[deimosatellite]

like idk it just seems actually nefarious to take one of the very few widely known instances of queerness in older history being a symbol to show queer people that we've always existed and aren't alone for CENTURIES and taking away the queerness from it. like. i know some people say that ''the queerness isnt important in the book" which i mean in my opinion i could go off for 10k words in an essay as to how basil's love for dorian is integral to the story BUT EVEN APART from that its really just. having a real explicitly queer character in such an old and widely regarded classic novel is HUGE for queer history and this is just. literally like. its 2024. why are you doing queer erasure to DORIAN GRAY

[sanjiaftersex]

Favourite pre-timeskip Sanji moments

These are a few of my favourite pre ts sanji moments

(1) Baratie arc when sanji served fresh food for don krieg despite everyone telling him that krieg was notorious for betraying people. Sanji still served the food because of his value of "feeding the hungry no matter what"

(2) Sweet sanji preparing bentos for Luffy vivi and a special drink for Vivi's duck karoo so they can go explore the little garden island. Also packing and tying the lunches for the kids (luffy and karoo) by himself

(3) water 7 Sanji following his principle of "never waste food" while fighting CP7's ramen guy wanze (who had a full ramen armour and sanji cut his armour up and served the ramens all in different plates around the kitchen)

(4) thriller bark Sanji holding an unconscious nami up so she won't get injured while he takes all the hits from Absalom He's not just a simp, he genuinely cares for nami

(5) water 7 Sanji smoking a cigarette while spying and finding out sensitive government information

(6) Post enies lobby filler sanji crying throwing up stressing over finding out the right spices of a fried rice. He is a true chef at heart and has so much love for his craft

(7) post skypiea filler G-8 arc sanji when someone says he is better than all of the navy chefs and sanji cutely offers to give his recipes to them. He is so cute kind and humble

(8) sabaody sanji kicking the Celestial dragon knowing what'll happen and not giving a fuck anyway

(9) skypiea sanji being all big smiles and happy while showing conis the bento he has arranged for her and telling them how arranging food is an art (look at the little winged angel he put there as a representation for conis who has wings)

(10) Sanji leaving a message for nami in water 7, even in the dire situation they were in (usopp left, robin was abducted, they were all accused of murder) sanji being his usual cute loser self

[saltyverse]

WHATS UP PARTY PEOPLE !!!!!

[casualavocados]

#he doesn't want to fight with you ai di, he wants to Kiss🙄💘🥺

Nat Chen as CHEN YI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023)

[pixiltalks]

Back in my day, kagerou project used to hit number one trending on Tumblr every 15/08. But now we can't have that anymore. Because of woke.

[huginsmemory]

Vive le revival

[captainsparklefingers]

What I want to know is why Ludinus is convinced that Predathos will stop with just the gods.

This is what we know about Predathos, with the new information from Downfall:

- It, like the gods, came from Tengar. It wasn't some extraplanar entitiy that came to their home and drove them out, it (or what would become it) was born in the Orchard of Possibility, when Edun picked a fruit from a new tree and went away, becoming this point of lightnessness.

- The collapse of Tengar was this all consuming nothingness growing larger and larger. It wasn't hunting or anything like that, it just drew and sucked things in and made them into nothing. It WAS nothing.

- We can't say for sure, but it's possible that as the nothingness grew, it was forced into a more tangible physical form like the gods were as they fled, but we don't know that. So we don't know is Predathos is still this nothingness entity, or if it's taken on more and is something that can be contained. Well, it's contained now, so something happened.

- It didn't follow the gods immediately to Exandria, it arrived sometime after the Founding, but before the Schism, and the gods sealed it away with the Elementals into what is now Ruidis... but not before it consumed two more gods.

- It's definitely got a more tangible consciousness now, it wants to be awakened and released, but it sounds like it needs some sort of vessel?

- It's (supposedly) got a core of glass with big spikes sticking upwards throughout the moon, and that all is remnants of its last form from when it was sealed...which doesn't tell us much about what Predathos used to look like except that whatever it was was pressurized to the point of forming glass that's similar to obsidian (and magic).

- Ludinus does not seem to be a candidate for the vessel, since he's not Ruidisborn.

- And Ludinus thinks, or claims, when it's released it will be happy with consuming just the gods...which is weird because we just saw it consumed their ENTIRE PLANE OF EXISTENCE RIGHT AFTER BEING BORN.

So with all of that in mind, I once again ask: what makes Ludinus think this can be controlled? What makes him so sure that this will end with the deaths of the gods, that Predathos will be satisfied and malleable?

[intheholler]

I'm a many-many-generations-Appalachian, and when I was a teenager, everyone assumed I'd leave, so I thought I should. And then when I did leave, someone called my mama and told her I was the most homesick child they'd seen in decades, that she should come get me. She didn't, because she wanted me to succeed that badly, but I got myself back to Appalachia PDQ. And then I never left again, because Appalachia is where I belong.

I know the stereotypes, but we can be happy here, too. I've got a good life, with a well-paying job I love, a silver anniversary spouse, wonderful children, and a nice house. My mama lives with us and that's just how we like it. Our quietly queer little family is proud to be Appalachian, and our children learn our history, like the recorded story from their great-grandfather who saw the Baldwin-Felts get off the train in Matewan.

Are there problems in Appalachia? Sure. But that doesn't mean we are all living in misery. Appalachian lives are more than poverty porn and strip mines and drugs and Dew mouth. We have our own festivals and music and art and foods and books to celebrate our shared heritage. We have our own holidays, too, like the first day of deer season. There can be a lot of joy in our Appalachian lives, if we let it.

And of course, we can all join together to remind folks that #heaintfromaroundhere ;)

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[sarcastictissy]

Just a friendly reminder that saying things such as "the qsmp better not come back before 2025" or "in less that 3 or 4 or 6 or 8 or 12 months" is not helpful as we genuinely have no clue what progress has or has not been made behind the scenes. They could be starting from the beginning, they could be halfway through the process, they could be in the brainstorming stage, they could be taking a hiatus before working on things behind the scenes. We truly have no idea what is going on.

Don't get me wrong, it's absolutely fair to say we want them to take the time necessary to sort out all the issues, but realistically, we don't know how long that may or may not take. None of us have been in that situation before and therefore have no real accurate expectation of when things should be sorted by.

I want things to work out, I want admins to be paid and I want all workers to be in a good position where they're treated fairly. However, I'm not going to say it should or should not take a certain length of time to complete this restructure and I hope you all realise the same.

[mikey-stardust-way]

Yall ever think that like...people in the 50s thought Marty was gay? Just due to his everything...

Like...

Marty: *fumbling around, wears weird clothes, doesn't want to kiss his mom rightfully*

Everyone: What are you a queer? One of them fruit? A damn pansy?

[spitblaze]

You know I probably would have figured out something was up with me genderwise sooner if people assigned female at birth were not conditioned from a young age to absolutely loathe their bodies in order to sell beauty products and diets and unattainable standards