Author: @bettsplendens (BSplendens)

Fandom: Hollow Knight

Summary: Hornet finds herself with a little shadow. Not one she would have expected to see again, and not one she can bring herself to simply walk away from.

i don't. but. WHAT MAKES THIS A HOLIDAY THEMED CARRD

I have noticed that card websites like the one I was shopping on when I found that -- sites aimed at large groups (foundations, companies, etc) where you can buy bulk cards -- often have a small but significant portion of their holiday cards dedicated to the military and first responders. There’s a whole section that’s very clearly meant to be sent out by fire departments, police precincts/unions, and military units. They are surpassed only by cards aimed at doctors and dentists in terms of “themed” cards you can customize for the holidays. 

So the answer is technically “nothing” -- but it’s a card meant to be sent out by a police union or precinct, mostly to police families, which conveys a “we’re cute and harmless and patriotic” message for the holidays. 

dignitywhatdignity

Depending who sent me the covid-snowflake card, I’d probably actually find it pretty funny, in a dark way. This card is just tasteless at best.

Honestly, the second I came up with the covid-snowflake idea I kind of wanted it to be my holiday card. 

bettsplendens

How many of those things have they sold by now? I'd imagine if they worked, at least ONE would have worked by now in a fashion spectacular enough to make the news.

This is in reference to the ouija board and actually that’s what cracks me up about the Tumblr community’s fear of ouija boards. One did make the news -- in 1949. 

There was a satanic-panic style terror reaction to ouija boards after The Exorcist came out in the 70s. In the movie, and the novel the movie is based on, the demon is released into the little girl explicitly because she was playing with a ouija board. This in turn is based on a newspaper account of the exorcism of “Roland Doe” in 1949, where Roland supposedly became possessed when playing with a ouija board. After The Exorcist became a huge hit, two things happened: people became terrified of ouija boards, and people began demanding exorcisms in droves. So to see a resurgence of that weird conservative Christian conflation of “spiritualism” and “demon summoning” on tumblr just made me lol. 

forlorn-kumquat

to me, it doesn't seem that different from having a laugh track in sitcoms

Those are super creepy too! Especially the fact that the actors pause for fake laughter! 

I think part of the creep factor is being unaccustomed to it. We grew up with laugh tracks on sitcoms, whereas we’re used to organic human reactions at sporting events. They serve the same purpose, to cue us for how to react, but we’re just inured to one. 

sarriane

wrestling is sooooo eerie to watch right now. the WWE finally added in LED screens that show live feeds of fans at home, but before they figured that out, it was odd without the atmosphere. i know wrestling relies on theatrics, but it really made clear just how much the crowd is a part of the show, and which wrestlers need the crowd to feed their energy and performance.

Yeah I can see how wrestling in specific would be super eerie, because so much of it is emotionally driven. Like, if someone’s in a match and the crowd is whipping them up and they pick up a chair and just wham the other guy on the head with it, we understand that to be in part spurred by the crowd. If you just see a guy in an empty room get so furious he whaps the other guy with a folding chair, that feels like very personal, emotional violence. Strictly speaking there’s no difference, but the latter feels like maybe someone needs to be in a lot more therapy. 

Given that wrestling is really just a soap opera with a fight-scene framework, I’m kind of surprised WWE didn’t lean hard into quarantine and make it about wrestlers who can’t wrestle, or wrestlers who get into matches because they’ve been quarantined together for six months. Like. Imagine instead of having matches they just put all the wrestlers into a Big Brother style house and filmed that, instead. 

bisexual-nightmare

As someone personally responsible for the company holiday cards (we’re creeping up on 1k and I Hate It) I would *kill* to convince my bosses to spend the extra 300$ and make someone else do that bit

Yeah, this is probably the only year we’ll get to do it, because normally we have people signing the cards -- each of our managers has a small group of people they sign and mail the cards to, and then we do about 700 cards signed by everyone that get mailed to several segments of our donor base. Last year I had to manage the signing of all thousand cards and the addressing/stuffing/stamping as well; I didn’t have to DO the work myself but I had to assign it out to our temps and keep track of how far along we were to make sure it’d all go out on time. 

Thank you, and yea I know. I got tested for it way back when about five years ago when I first started developing problems with certain foods, and it always came up negative in every single test, and I’ve since been avoiding gluten and wheat for the last three years anyway cause I now have a confirmed actual allergy to wheat so why the new GI doctor was insisting on doing the gluten blood test was beyond me. (I mean I get it, stand protocol and all but still, hhhngh, listen to the patient please.) Any suggestion that I put it back in my diet “just to see how I do” is going to be met with profound levels of refusal. I’m not inclined to stick myself with an epi pen for her curiosity.

Y'all yelling at them need to calm down. Rollover issues are a big problem for a lot of sites, and they're working on it.

@bettsplendens I don’t think anyone’s yelling at AO3, I think it’s something that has been frustrating and confusing for a long time for a lot of us. I’m a staunch supporter of AO3, put my money where my mouth is, and I know they’re working on it. In the meantime, people need to understand how this works so that they’re not posting in the dead zone and having the not insignificant effort it takes to write fic buried under a time zone glitch. 

It's a comparison of sorts, but "____ who?" in this context probably means that you're cooler than them here.

...gonna need some, uh, context.

Ok, so those guys are two of the fossil pokemon for sword and shield. And I came across a 4chan thread in which Dracovolt was the subject.

The OP states: “ This little fucker woke up one day and was probably 5 times fatter than he once was but is still the happiest looking thing on the planet. I love him like you wouldn’t believe. “ Attaching the picture I posted in question.

One of the responses was a webm showing it eating a curry, showing off its body in better detail. 

it’s got a skinny-ass torso and an illegally thicc af Nikki Minaj butt. Which brings up the apparent implication that the revival went horribly wrong, the DNA samples got mixed up, due to the paleontologists probably getting tanked and decided to see what horrors they could make.

here is the thread in question

I didn’t touch on Artcozolt, but it only has its neck and hands exposed in the same fashion as Dracovolt has its torso exposed, but the former looks like the rest of its proper body is trapped in a giant snowball that grew legs.

I would sneak over there and tip the bucket over to let the other one loose, like it accidentally got out. Or tell the parents it's going to die of rot.

I honestly considered going and stealing the toad at night but hhh if I got caught I’d be in deep shit

the bucket is RIGHT next to their front door and they have this big ass window and I just fear I wouldn’t be able to do it without people knowing