*Confused Penguin Noises*

A heavily underutilised aspect of the digital landscape is the ability to send someone a .zip care package featuring a few podcasts, a handful of indie ttrpgs, a couple webcomics, a digital mixtape, and the .epub or .pdf for some book nobody's ever heard of.

Some countries use cumin like Americans use black pepper. This is ridiculous

yeah yeah fire-based characters are destructive and angry and violent and evil blah blah blah BORING overdone. more fire as a lifegiver. warm and comforting. fire-based characters as guides lighting the way. personal heater in the cold and dark but don’t sleep too close or you’ll wake up with heat rash. fire sterilizes and cauterizes!! more fire-based healers. plants perking up and flowers turning towards them and they attract moths. fire-based characters who are hearths instead of wildfires!! the core of a home the pillar of a community the key to societal advancement. give them an internal flame that visibly glows and flickers instead of a heart that beats. extinguish that light when they die. etc

Just realized that the reason I love making friends on tumblr is because it’s exactly how you make friends on the playground as a six year old. No, I don’t know their name but they love mermaids too and built this awesome sand castle. No, I don’t know their age but their imaginary cheetah is friends with mine. You like this show? You like this character?? You can sing the theme song really loud??? Here is a flower crown. Here is a juice box. You can share my time and I might never see you again but part of you stays in my soul forever. In my mind we’re still on the swing set and the sky is blue and nothing will ever be wrong again.

would anyone's imaginary cheetah be friends with mine...

my imaginary cheetah would be friends with yours

I don’t have any imaginary cheetahs but I do have imaginary owls and they are always looking for new friends. Any takers? 🦉

I would like to hear about the owls 👀

Mostly barn owls and saw-whets, but all owls are welcome in our roost. They are benevolent guardian spirits with extra-soft feathers for silent flight and sleepy cuddles. The pellets they cough up vanish into thin air before hitting the floor.

my fav Junji Ito story is the one with the /fit/ neighbor guy who lifts gravestones for the ulimate gainz+attention combo and who gets kicked out by everyone because he won’t fucking stop lifting their ancestors graves every goddamn night in his underwear

do the ghosts admire his sick-ass muscles

Spoilers but yeah that’s literally the final twist. The night after the dude is kicked out and everyone’s like “Thank god that creep is gone,” all the ghosts come out and go “Where the fuck is our himbo?”

Junji Ito is the funniest motherfucker alive