⭐Memory Enby⭐

it is beautiful rolling hills just stuffed to the GILLS with hobbits

including BABY HOBBITS

HOBBITS BUT SOMEHOW IMPOSSIBLY EVEN SMALLER

and yeah the adults might be fairly wary, but we see in the first movie that the kids come running immediately to see gandalf in hopes of seeing something magic

and now??? here is LARGE PERSON??? who can play swords and toSS THEM REAL HIGH UP IN THE AIR AND CATCH THEM???

the idea of a hobbit mama scolding her faunts not to get too rough with "nice mr. boromir" as this man is exactly where he wants to be being dogpiled by giggly bb hobbits who absolutely "defeated" him in "combat"

warrior hands that have seen so much violence SO gently holding a TEENY TINY baby hobbit he was handed to let a papa hobbit track down his wayward toddler

(boromir fighting back tears because THEY COME THIS SMALL??? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE???? THE BABY FITS IN ONE OF HIS HANDS???) (baby yawns and snuggles their lil cheek against his thumb and this man is nearly brought to his knees)

Official Manager Of Lifting Big Things

boromir accidentally joining a hobbit stitch and bitch club because someone's gammer asked him to carry her yarn for her to the meeting and he didn't know how to leave after he was greeted and handed food and tea

the club is actually fun, and the hobbit grannies respond to his tales of politics and battle with the same sympathetic clucking that they do to rivals stealing recipes, including his hand being patted sympathetically

(five of them are holding up boromir's shield and can't see past it) (they will charge headfirst into a tree) (they will learn nothing from this experience)

boromir having to learn how to do the cat owner shuffle because there are always faunts underfoot (usually trying to catch a lift on his feet because he can step SO high :D)

@little---furnace

oh my god cultural misunderstanding of

in gondor: constantly at war, awareness of supply use, the polite thing to do is to ask for more if you want it but to always have finished what's on your plate when you're done.

in the shire: with hobbit appetites, a fully empty plate means a guest needs more. no one wastes a bunch (leavings will be fed to the pigs), but good manners to show you've had enough involves leaving just a bit to show you were well-satisfied and completely full. an empty plate means you need more to fill up the corners.

so boromir is trying to be done, but the hobbits just keep putting more on his plate, and it turns into a feedback loop of politeness that ends with boromir eating more than he ever has and still being stuck at this tea party two hours past when he first tried to leave.

sam: “okay. well it’d be okay if it was located where my house is.”

ponk: “would it be?”

sam: “yeah, of course!”

~

ponk: “tubbo’s expensive and he’s scary to approach!”

~

[asked sam for legal advice, wants sam to be the only person on the jury so that he can win, sam is unsure because he knows the jury is supposed to be unbiased]

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ponk: “okay, over the mountain! and then there’s another mountain that we have to climb. and then there’s a… there’s a, there’s a mental mountain as well, but we can’t get to through that yet, alright? i still need time.”

~

ponk: “sam, what do you think of a big tree here?”

sam: “a lemon tree?”

~

ponk: “i said it with chest. and y’know what? i would’ve said it with both my hands above my head, but i can’t! i cant for some reason sam! i cant!”

sam: “well… that’s kinda on you. i told you to give them to me and you wouldn’t.”

ponk: “okay, okay. alright! play the moral high ground! play it!”

sam: “no, not really moral high ground. i’m just trying to remind you there was a reason.”

ponk: “sam? sam.”

sam: “what?”

ponk: “just so you know, just so you know. you can come to me, after… after everything. i will still support you sam! okay?”

sam: “mhm.”

ponk: “you’ll have a place to stay. because… all the wrong you’ve done is gonna catch up behind you, you know? all the wrong you’ve done.”

sam: “i haven’t really done anything wrong.”

ponk: “haven’t you? haven’t you?”

sam: “no. i think i’m a good guy.”

ponk: “you think you’re a good person?”

sam: “i don’t know, you don’t think i’m a good person?”

ponk: “i— i mean… my opinions are biased. lowkey. alright?”

sam: “fair enough.”

~

ponk: “why’ve you got a sword out?!”

sam: “it’s just the first thing in my hotbar.”

ponk (backing away): “so that’s the first thing your mind mind goes to? a sword?”

sam (sadly): “well it’s just the first thing in my hotbar.”

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ponk: “it was great. it was good days! good days.”

sam: “back in the good old days.”

ponk: “and it all changed—“

sam (excitedly): “when the fire nation attacked?”

ponk: “when the fire na— no. no. when the shears attacked, sam! when the shears attacked.”

~

ponk: “but sam, if someone— if someone you cared about didn’t trust you, but then you built them a massive gift, to prove your trust, and to make— make them trust you again, right sam? right? for only… someone, who’s already destroyed… a graveyard, to get— to get at me, right? destroys it, completely, you know? completely destroyed. what would you do? would you be mad?”

sam: “i would be frustrated.”

ponk: “frustrated? but… in what sense.”

sam: “maybe mad. i dunno. look, i have a random crossbow from one of those guys that we killed.”

ponk: “you said that so casually!”

sam: “well we did kill those guys you know.”

ponk: “life is precious you know! life is precious.”

~

ponk: “sam! so tell me about this bank my friend!”

sam: “what about it?”

ponk: “tell me— tell me about it! i wanna know the history. you know?”

sam: “well it’s a bank. that i’m building.”

ponk: “do you need any workers? i’m free to work.”

sam: “well… well if you had told me you wanted to work earlier maybe but i already hired hannah.”

ponk: “yeah but hannah needs an assistant. and id love to assist hannah!”

~

ponk: “the prison does look good, but it doesn’t look inviting, does it? it’s scary! it’s— ‘stay away—‘“

sam: “doesn’t that just mean that i did my job building it, right? i mean the whole point is to keep people away, right?”

ponk (quietly): “…right.”

~

sam (jumping in front of ponk and takes an arrow that was coming towards him): “i caught it!”

ponk (laughing): “you saved me!”

sam: “i saved you, i saved you!”

~

ponk: “technoblade… i haven’t seen him in a while.”

sam: “technoblade?”

ponk: “yeah…”

sam: “what about him?”

ponk: “whats he doing? is he overthrowing governments in a far-off land?”

sam: “i’m sure that’s what he’s doing, yeah. haven’t heard from him in a while.”

ponk: “y’know he killed me with a pickaxe once?”

sam: “that was pretty messed up of him, wasn’t it?”

ponk: “yeah, he bonked me on the head. blood everywhere, sam.”

~

ponk (trading his redstone to sam): “actually, how much for my arm back?”

sam: “…i destroyed that.”

ponk: “HUH?”

sam: “you wanted me to keep your arm?”

ponk: “at least put it in like an icebox or something!”

sam: “well it was kinda mangled and destroyed i mean…”

ponk: “damn!”

sam (laughing): “you weren’t reattaching it to say the least, i used a pair of shears to cut it off i mean—“

ponk: “right! right! i’m— i’m— i’m not mad at all! it’s okay! it’s okay.”

~

ponk: “you know the law of the lands! you seem like— you don’t care, do you?”

sam: “i am the law of the land. i’m the warden.”

the woke left: young and fashionable. visible tattoos. often enjoys matcha, lavender flavoring, oat milk, and cold foam. pretty decent customers.

sweet old man: drinks very sweet iced lattes, pays in cash, puts all of his change in the tip jar. sometimes orders hot coffee and i get scared that his shaky old man hands will spill it and he'll get burned but that has not yet happened and god willing never shall.

evil old man: only wants drip coffee and declares it ridiculous that any other form of coffee exists. some variants only want americanos and these variants are even scarier. watch out.

sweet old woman: might need her daughter's help to order but is very bubbly and open to trying new things. compliments baristas freely and frequently.

evil old woman: does not want coffee and only wants sweet tea or soda. will not tip even if she spends three hours in the shop repeatedly asking baristas to fetch things for her.

errand husband: either stiltedly recites an order to you or shows you the order in their texts/notes app. needs to step out of line and make a phone call if you ask any follow-up questions.

grindset girlie: always wearing scrubs, an apron, and/or a name tag. orders the exact same thing every day and knows the exact change she'll need to pay for it. her regular order is both extremely caffeinated and extremely sweet.

#mamabear: is actively wrangling two to four children while ordering. order changes repeatedly because the children cannot decide if they want a muffin or a cookie or apple juice or chocolate milk etc. for some reason these women are always wearing an article of clothing or carrying some personalized item that says "mama" on it.

schoolchildren: band of two to eight adolescents hanging out after school. extremely indecisive but generally quite polite and tip well.

amnesiac in love: grown adult who needs their partner to tell them what they like. gets asked a question about their own preferences and turns to their partner to answer for them. generally acts like a shy child looking to their guardian for behavioral cues if you try to interact with them and only wants to talk to mommy i mean their wife.

1: Murphy: spoon full of nutella counts as lunch right? OP: murphy that will kill you Murphy: im only allergic to like 4 things in it OP: exhibit a

2: Murphy: technically speaking can i put a safety pin in a piercing? [eight minutes later] i can

3: Murphy: i want mac and cheese but im allergic to life OP: eat the mac and cheese

4: Murphy: what happens if i microwave an uncooked egg still in its shell? OP: idk find out Murphy: kk [two minutes later] {all caps} It Explodes

5: Murphy: bleach cant like hurt my skin right?

6: Murphy: if its any consolation i know why stink bugs are called stink bugs now

7: Murphy: how much chocolate before it makes me sick challenge Op: you….yo..your e….alerg.ic.. Murphy: and?

8: Murphy: what happens if i microwave grapes? [six hours later] {all caps} They Explode

And I said, "oh, no, I'm sorry, I won't be spraying for spiders, I like them. I want to encourage them."

And he gave me kind of a weird look and was like "why?" And I was honest and said that they were my pest control, they take care of my mosquitoes and and and flies, and then I kind of laughed and said that I should stop because I know way too much about spiders and if he let me go I'd talk his ear off.

And then he made his fatal mistake and asked what I knew about spiders, and if I knew what kinds of webs he'd walked past to get on the porch and what spiders were in my yard.

A large friend:

Look, this is basically a kitten:

A goth icon.

Strong, independent women that I don't want to fuck with.

"Red Paper wasps? Those are very dangerous! They're very aggressive!" he sputters.

"Really? They seem to be quite placid." I indicated the Fine-backed Red Paper Wasp nest about 16 inches above his head under the eaves.

He stared.

I picked up a crumb of KFC from the porch shelf with my finger and held it up. One of the ladies investigated, then landed and sat on my finger and munched happily for a few seconds before returning to the nest.

"Would you like to see the common paper wasps? They've got a great nest going on the side of the garage."

Another pest control guy showed up and knocked on the door and mentioned that he does bug spraying and I just straight up said "oh i'm the crazy spider lady, I like the bugs, that's why I don't mow."

And he said "Well, do you have any rats or other rodents you need handled?"

And I said "No, we have a barn owl living out back. You should see my collection of rat skulls. Do you want an owl pellet?"

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Fantastic article!! The guys looking for it were fish researchers who saw it one time, knew instantly it was an undescribed species, and then tried for nearly 20 years to find and document it!

It's a type of ghost pipefish, related to seahorses, and it floats around coral reefs looking like a piece of algae and hunting unsuspecting prey

They are, of course, named after Snuffleufagus from Sesame Street!

Later on it the project, they got citizen science involved, and people across the Pacific started reporting sightings of snuffy fish from all over!

I've decided to start sharing some of my DSMP headcanons here! Info subject to updates. For this one in particular (LGBTQ+ identities), please remember I'm talking about the characters, so some details are different from the CCs. I'll also add links to explanations for identities that aren't as well-known. Enjoy :D

Philza: Paraman (considers himself a man, but immortality has faded his connection to gender). He/him; masc presentation. Heteroromantic, queerplatonic and demisexual.

Technoblade: Cassmale (considers himself a man, but deems it unimportant to his self-image). He/him; masc presentation. Queerplatonic and aro-ace.

Wilbur: Cis man. He/him; masc presentation. Rochillic bisexual.

Tommy: Cis man before his revival; boyvoid afterwards. He/him, sol/solar/solars/solarself; masc presentation. Heteroflexible, quoiromantic, queerplatonic and ace.

Tubbo: Boyflux. He/him; masc presentation. Asterosian, queerplatonic and greysexual.

Ranboo: Genderfaun and kenochoric. He/they normally, re/rem/rems/remself when enderwalking. Masc and androgynous presentation. Toric, queerplatonic and ace.

Fundy: Trans man. He/him; masc presentation. Gay.

Eret: Versandrogyne, GNC. He/she/they; fluid presentation. Omnibi.

Puffy: Trans woman. She/her, ae/aem/aer/aers/aemself; fem presentation. Lesbiromantic demisexual.

Niki: Cis woman. She/her; fem presentation. Salietian finsexual.

Jack: Cis man. He/him; masc presentation. Queerplatonic aro-ace.

Sam: Cis man. He/him; masc presentation. Panromantic aceflexible.

Ponk: Pangender and GNC. He/she/they; androgynous presentation. Toric and demisexual.

Bad: Aquoigendermasc. He/him; androgynous presentation. Queerplatonic cassexual.

Quackity: Cis man. He/him; masc presentation. Homoromantic and caedsexual (became the latter after Schlatt).

Sapnap: Fervian. He/him, flare/flares/flareself; masc presentation. Achillean.

George: Manflux. He/him; masc presentation. Biro and cassexual.

Dream: A-Faunic (considers himself a man, but has never felt a deep connection to it); he/him. Post-Tommy's revival, infideimagender (divine in a masculine way). Masc presentation. Aro-ace.

Punz: Demi-guy. He/they; masc and androgynous presentation. Minromantic ace.

caelboy | caelmasc caelgirl | caelfem caelenby | caelneu

caelboy(guy/man/male): an aesthetically-centered male gender that is largely focused on space-related things; a male gender aesthetically associated with space/the cosmos

caelmasc(uline): an aesthetically-centered masculine gender that is largely focused on space-related things; a masculine gender aesthetically associated with space/the cosmos

caelgirl(/gal/woman/female): an aesthetically-centered female gender that is largely focused on space-related things; a female gender aesthetically associated with space/the cosmos

caelfem(inine): an aesthetically-centered feminine gender that is largely focused on space-related things; a feminine gender aesthetically associated with space/the cosmos

caelnonbinary(/enby/nonbin): an aesthetically-centered nonbinary gender that is largely focused on space-related things; a nonbinary gender aesthetically associated with space/the cosmos

caelneu(t(ral)): an aesthetically-centered neutral gender that is largely focused on space-related things; a neutral gender aesthetically associated with space/the cosmos

so, fun fact about me, the first neolabel i identified with (besides demiboy) was caelgender! back then, i called myself a caelguy, but i hadn’t yet started coining/flagmaking and thus never gave the term a flag. i started thinking about the term the other day and figured, why not coin some caelgender variants?

caelgender definitions are from here and here, and all stripes besides the center ones are picked from the original flag!

flag id: six flags with 5 stripes. the top two stripes of each flag are blue-black and dark indigo, and the bottom two stripes of each flag are indigo and very light purple. the center stripe of the top left flag is light blue, the center stripe of the top right flag is dark turquoise, the center stripe of the middle left flag is light pink, the center stripe of the middle right flag is dark purple-pink, the center stripe of the bottom left flag is light green, and the center stripe of the bottom right flag is light yellow. end id.

Since c!Tommy is my favourite DSMP character to write, and I know heaps of others love him too, I thought it'd be fun to share my take on some nicknames other characters give him.

DISCLAIMER: These are all platonic, and of course referring to the fictional character.

EVERYONE

Toms: Started by Wilbur.

Vice-President: During the New L'Manburg era.

PHILZA

Spitfire: Because Tommy is loud and aggressive; meant fondly.

Fledgling; eyas: Means an unfledged baby bird.

TECHNOBLADE

Kid(do); runt: Not condescending, but rather fond.

Rascal: Equivalent to Wilbur's "gremlin".

WILBUR

Sunshine: Because Tommy is bright, warm and proud.

Gremlin (child): Because he's a well-intentioned troublemaker.

TUBBO

Big/boss man: An age-old title of sorts.

Diamond: Because diamonds are precious and you must keep them safe.

RANBOO

Allium: Referencing the flower they exchanged; symbolises loyalty and affection.

Diamond: Picked up from Tubbo.

SAM

Nookling: Between the Disc War Finale and the Prison Incident. Sam felt paternal toward Tommy, and Sam Nook was the younger's unconditional protector.

PUFFY

Lamb: She is a sheep hybrid, and feels maternal toward Tommy.

Sweetheart: Rare, only on the younger's good days. Intended as motherly and benevolent - an attempt to decondition Tommy from when Dream called/calls him that.

DREAM

Sweetheart*; sweet/precious thing: 100% platonic, and familial in a manipulative way. Quite patronising. Used to trigger Stockholm Syndrome.

(My [little]) Pet; puppet: Extra possessive and dehumanising.

(My [little]) Phoenix: Post-Jailbreak onwards. Ironic because phoenixes are typically a symbol of life, hope and courage.

Little mouse: Post-Jailbreak onwards. References their "cat and mouse", predator-and-prey dynamic.

Sunshine: Similar to "sweetheart". Extra fucked up because Wilbur called Tommy that first. Attempted use only a few times, and vehemently rejected each time.

Tommy: Hey Big Q I wanna make some more lamps. Do you know what this server has a distinct lack of? Moths! How do we get moths? Lamps! Come with me

Quackity: What the hell’s a moth?

Tommy: Da fuck? 

Quackity: What’s a moth? What’s a moth? I was doing a Wilbur impersonation yesterday…

Tommy: Stop just stop just- your brain is going too hyper you’re like  asdfha;skdlfha;slkdfjas;lkdfas;ldkjfas;ldkjfsl;dkjf 

Quackity: I’m speedrunning the brain things. Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, listen to me, listen to me-