Hello

i have a private pinned post that just has a link to this dashboard on it, it's great. two dashboards for life

I mainly reblog to find this again easily lol

Demons and monsters that torture people because they feed on human suffering are so dumb. People are suffering everywhere my guy go literally any place and take a deep whiff.

"But don't their clients feel weird knowing that they're feeding off their suffering?" No they think it's hilarious and they're real shits about it.

Finally a medical professional who believes that they are in pain. Because the fucker is actively chowing down on your agony. Not only am I going to get treated by them I'm going to invite all of my chronically ill friends to come as well.

Turns out if you treat the pain then the humans will bring you more humans who are suffering. It's like a restaurant where the waiter is so impressed by your ability to eat food they're giving you more on the house

They say things like "well, it's a real feast day for Belogarth today!" and "if my meds are held up at customs again I'm gonna put Belogarth in a food coma" and Belogarth is the one feeling weird about it

reading a historical romance novel and reflecting on the way these stories often present woke nobility for the contemporary reader. a big thing is servants. you can’t not have servants in those times but many modern readers think “but I would never have servants. it would be so weird to have servants” and in order to make the protagonists of the story more relatable they are actually friends with the servants. but flip your perspective and think of it from the side of the servants. wouldn’t it be so awful if your boss was always trying to be friends with you. a really common thing you’ll see is the woke baronet having tea in the kitchen with the servants bc he’s not like other baronets. but what if your boss wanted to hang out and talk during your lunch break every day. not so charming when you think about it that way

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

free is like. legitamately a rly good show like YES it is the gay swimming show & yes the gaybait is good and it wld be good if that was all it was. but its also uses the boys love to speak to some really unique and meaningful thingss about being In Sports that i think most sports anime dont rly have the desire to approach. free continuously asks what does it mean to compete? what does it cost to be the best? & simultaneously: why do you want to be the best? how do you become that? think its rly easy to brush off a lot of the characters in free as silly slash quirky but the character writing is quite strong and things like haru's obssessive fixation on the feeling of being in the water move towards asking things like is the love enough to sustain this for me? the fact that free is sports anime about swimming is rly conducive to asking these particular questions first bc swimming is a sport with a the clear delineation btwn person and team thus making the reason one swims, wants to be good at swimming, keeps swimming competitively a very individual pursuit and second because free is also ultimately a coming of age story and swimming despite ultimately being an individual sport it is also a very communal activity that people often start doing very young. so free is about the intersection between the fleeting passions of youth, the importance and value of friendship, the pressing anxiety of future and individual burden of choosing who you want to become. and it also my husband makoto tachibana is in it. no other anime has my husband makoto tachibana

Just want to add that the reason we have such a large moon is because a whole planet crashed into proto-Earth. Theia (the planet) and Earth got so superheated by this collision that their component cores fused and the impact jettisoned a lot of material into space. That massive amount of jettisoned material became our moon. So Earth and the moon have very similar composition. This does not seem to be a common method of lunar formation.

what if the answer to the fermi paradox is that life cant exist without a moon like luna

i didn't realise we were drowned out by our own sun :(

She is screaming so loud

The amount of slavery in Ancient Rome was legitimately terrifying tbh

Y’all know that I’m into ancient Roman history and I do a lot of research on it but even though I should be used to it by now sometimes I read an anecdote about how an individual slave was treated and I’m hit with the realization that like a third of the population was living like that and I just need to put my head in my hands for a second

When you study ancient history you’re reminded that slavery has never once been kind or justified. It just takes on different forms of evil in every time and place that it infects.

imagine someone thinking of you and buying you flowers

ok now imagine a horse as a skeleton with a blue fire mane

When you first see the clock in Princess Tutu, you mostly see the bird and the knightly figure, and as such are probably considering the bird the Raven and the knight the Prince. But later you also see that there are a pair of dancing lovers above them. It occurred to me that this is the endstate of our protagonists, too: a pair of lovers, a knight, and a bird.

I love that showing Fakir encountering Mytho as a kid just. Completely explains why he is the way he is. It's just like, OK yeah you're being a bit mean about it but I too would be a bit irritable and overly defensive of this person I think.

The dragons face never changes, but I still feel like he looks happier in the 2nd pic 🥺

The orb delights him

It’s full circle now. He did it, by god he did. What a little champ.