just a humble bard

do you guys remember when we googled something and we would get results that were actually related to the things we searched

it’s a shame more vampire media doesn’t pull from vampire bat behavior because they’re such sweeties. they can only survive their incredibly specialized diet because bats will share blood with colony members that didn’t find a meal! there’s evidence that suggests the donors sometimes initiate this behavior themselves by approaching hungry bats! the colonies are mostly harems of females with a few males but they’ve been observed letting unrelated males in when it gets cold so they can all stay warm! cute little social critters!

americans are sooo desensitized to guns and sometimes it manifests in ways that affect your media literacy. like remember in the first episode of sherlock when john watson opens up his drawer and you see a gun in there and youre supposed to understand that this is narratively significant and conveys his suicidality as well as his willingness to skirt rules and laws but the first time i watched it i was like oh well theres his desk gun. lots of people have those

I've recommended this one before, but for all the non-human vertebrate likers out there... the art of animal drawing

“this character did not act in the most objectively logical way possible!” is not ! actually valid literary criticism

there's no greater betrayal than finally starting to read a book you've had sitting for months on your shelf or your desk or your nightstand and then finding out it's bad. like. i gave you a fucking home.

recently discovered something even worse: finally reading a book you bought years ago and realizing that you don't like it and knowing that if you read it around the time that you got it you would've loved it but the version of you that liked those kinds of books and would have loved to read it doesn't exist anymore

the problem with musicians is how they're always touring their latest album instead of like their critically hated second album from 2009 which is the one i'm obsessed with