Carelessly growing up and growing old

reblog to thank ur mutuals for providing enrichment to ur enclosure

my luminous mama

I realized this evening it had been ten years since pterry died and my heart skipped a beat. GNU.

This is more unsettling. I know it's there. I know it should be there. I know this pristine landscape is hiding its horrors like teeth.

[I.D. an edited version of the "children's hospital" meme photo where the splattering red pattern on the hall floor has been removed. End I.D.]

#’watson you must allow me to tell you how ardently i admire and love you’ #’you pierce my soul. i am half agony half hope.’

#my dear watson #for that is what you’ve always been #if i loved you less i  might be able to talk about it more

#and u cry and ur tears are bees

screaming at all the tags

seen so many posts that are like “I was so confused when I saw all this posting about some non-existent movie “Goncharov” like it was real” I wasn’t. this happens 5 times a week. my dash is routinely filled to the brim with passionate analysis of absurd-sounding movies and tv shows I have never heard of. I never for a second doubted the existence of a russian mafia movie set in italy with massive numbers of bizarrely named characters and no cohesive understanding of the movie’s themes or plot until I saw a post saying to tag it as unreality. this is tumblr. this happens daily. not one thought crossed my mind except “ha, looks like a few of my mutuals have a new hyperfixation.” this is what tumblr has done to me. you could tell me there’s a new tv show about dolphins with french accents living as royalty in victorian england while secretly starting a cult to renew the worship of the greek gods and the shipping discourse is intense and I would simply think “sounds legit” and keep scrolling

This idiot hasn’t seen The Dolphin Court

what sicko blazed this

#i bet in some cases of really iconic daemons they keep the actor's daemon offstage #and use puppets or something #also opens up a world of new possibilities for child actors (via @pigeonhawk)

#I had to preserve these. the bit about child actors made me go ''oh fuuuuck'' out loud #there must be some majorly significant coming-of-age plays that have to do with daemons settling #and like. at least one instance of a daemon /actually/ settling during a performance #the reviews! the doctoral dissertations! #also love the idea of daemons-as-puppetry #something something the facsimile of theater while daemons skitter along under the stage like matched magnets #distinct schools of theatrical production and history based on live-action or puppetry daemons and mixed-form shows trying to make a point (@impossibletruths)

WOW how have I never seen this? Someone in the comments quoted how magnificently leggy this performer is, and this is very true, but more impressive than that is how he nails the physicality of the role. He doesn’t just look like Jack and sound like Jack, he moves exactly like the cartoon, which is mind-blowingly difficult to do when you’re imitating a world that doesn’t contain gravity! Unbelievable! Thank you for sharing this!

very strange phenomenon now that many people have learned online not to pet service dogs is that they walk by little bird and me, wave their hands at little bird, and say in a baby voice "oooohh you're so cute! you're so cute! i'm not going to pet you because i know you're working! ooohhhh puppy puppy puppy, i want to pet you but i'm not allowed~" and i have to tell them what they're doing is literally as distracting as petting her. this happens almost every single time i'm out with her.

few things more humbling than the realization that you really do write the same fic(s) over and over again

Okay but do you understand the TREASURE TROVE of reading a fic you enjoy and then looking at the author's page and discovering they have written multiple just like it?! That is the ultimate score!

highly recommend keeping a small portrait of a historical figure who met a grisly end on your work desk. for perspective.