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#*tilts head 90 degrees* #well i suppose it IS bent over... #and #Wet #for me tho it is like the inside of the washing machine!! #entrancing #all that's needed is someone to regularly throw a handful of heavy sopping wet laundry into your face #immersion complete

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Give me jelly beans you fuck head

#you STARVE quokka?? #you starve quokka like the cheeseburger cat???? #OOOHHHHHH JAIL FOR TUMBLR USER! #JAIL FOR TUMBLR USER FOR ONE /QUODRILLION/ YEEEEAARRS!!! #......am sorry smol fella #u cannot haz... #</3

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brutalist candy cane

#forbidden crunchable #:(

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The most embarrassing thing In my life is whenever I see people and they ask what I’ve been up to . Literally nothing ever . Im like ohh you know this and that …. The usual ..

#unless otherwise specified please presume i've been dreaming of girls making out #probably one of them is also carrying a bladed weapon #as girls should

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so they said i should change my icon

#you are a smol creeeture of yarn #and also cheeky #we shall make you ruler of the tumblr #may you govern softly #and with snark

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But if your favorite character isn't on the floor panting and dying and in horrible pain in a terrible situation then what's even the point

#'m feeling guilty about it but also i wanna see 'em suffer #OwO

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#im not a good data point but for the family (without running water) baths seem to be a weekly thing #more or less #me? #........ #im not a good data point #i got soaked by the rain last summer #so that's something

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heidiwranglescats

#never has a clutch of kittens been so perfectly named #RIBBIT

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Do you sometimes write something so good, you're reading your own WIP and go "what's next? i want more!"

And you're the bitch that has to write more.

Only read, no writeeeeeee

#“oooh i wonder what ending the author has in mind-” #O`m'O

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I had a very interesting discussion about theater and film the other day. My parents and I were talking about Little Shop of Horrors and, specifically, about the ending of the musical versus the ending of the (1986) movie. In the musical, the story ends with the main characters getting eaten by the plant and everybody dying. The movie was originally going to end the same way, but audience reactions were so negative that they were forced to shoot a happy ending where the plant is destroyed and the main characters survive. Frank Oz, who directed the movie, later said something I think is very interesting:

I learned a lesson: in a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow — in a movie, they don’t come out for a bow, they’re dead. They’re gone and so the audience lost the people they loved, as opposed to the theater audience where they knew the two people who played Audrey and Seymour were still alive. They loved those people, and they hated us for it.

That’s a real gem of a thought in and of itself, a really interesting consequence of the fact that theater is alive in a way that film isn’t. A stage play always ends with a tangible reminder that it’s all just fiction, just a performance, and this serves to gently return the audience to the real world. Movies don’t have that, which really changes the way you’re affected by the story’s conclusion. Neat!

But here’s what’s really cool: I asked my dad (who is a dramaturge) what he had to say about it, and he pointed out that there is actually an equivalent technique in film: the blooper reel. When a movie plays bloopers while the credits are rolling, it’s accomplishing the exact same thing: it reminds you that the characters are actually just played by actors, who are alive and well and probably having a lot of fun, even if the fictional characters suffered. How cool is that!?

Now I’m really fascinated by the possibility of using bloopers to lessen the impact of a tragic ending in a tragicomedy…

#tbh ALL movies should have blooper reels after the credits sPECIFICALLY for MEEEEEEEE #i love seeing how many stupid mess ups go into the film #especially love seeing any moments where the movie people were relaxed or having fun or just overcome with sillies #oh real people made this #y'know? #oh wow its amazing they actually got that shot / take in the end #later you rewatch the movie knowing the bloopers and you're like YES YES GOOD JOB YOU DID IT LOOK AT THAT IT LOOKS GREAT!!! #“but what about the tone of the movie ending-” #well then don't watch the bloopers #i wanna watch the bloops #let me end titanic and then see the actors stumbling over their dramatic lines 1000 times in a row #healing

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there is no way to imagine early chaggie's first meeting that isn't at least a little silly

Charlie: "SO! Umm- What's a pretty lady like you doing in a place like this?"

Vaggie: "...." (is in Hell)

Charlie: "....." (princess of Hell)

Charlie: ".....aside from the, damned for all eternity by Heaven for your past actions, thing."

Vaggie: "Nothing much. Meeting pretty demon ladies, I guess?"

Charlie: "Oh who? Is she a friend? Where'd she go??"

Vaggie: "...."

Charlie: "......."

Charlie: "It's me isn't it. I'm the pretty demon lady."

Vaggie: "Sorry."

Charlie: "What? No don't be! I've, I just haven't been called pretty in a while, or talked to anyone who wasn't a living demon plushy, so I'm kinda out of practice with the conversational cues and-"

Vaggie: "Not for that. It's uh.. I've lost lot of blood... I think I'm about to pass out."

Charlie: "-you WHAT!?"

Vaggie: "wha's your name again..?"

Charlie: "I- I didn't say but I'm Charlie WHAT BLEEDING!??!?"

Vaggie: "'s nice meeting you Charlie." (slumps over)

Charlie: (catching her) "Ah! Ahhh!?" (hugging vaggie while frantically shrugging off jacket) "Pretty lady unconscious, the unnamed pretty lady IS unconscious!!!" (wrapping vaggie in jacket like burrito and scooping her up) (RUNS)

Charlie: "EVERYBODY MOVE MOVE MOOOVE! UNCONSCIOUS AND EXANGUINATED PRETTY LADY COMING THROUGH!!!"

#hazbin hotel #charlie morningstar #vaggie #chaggie #incorrect quotes #charlie having very limited understandings of first aid outside of “put bandages on them” “put blankets on them” “???” -> “healed??” #vaggie has very little blood flow left in her brain atm #but it's enough to be at least Kinda Gay

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the girls sleeping

#hazbin hotel #aaaaaaawwwww #not charlie smiling as she snuggles! #LOOK AT THAT SMILE #it is soft and intent and full of love #keekee!!!!! #vaggie is OUT #she has become a nap sandwich #ooooh the bright shiny blue and pinks for the lighting edges.... #oooohhhhhhh

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vampire who’s married to an archaeologist voice: my love, stop trying to carbon date me

#unlike vampires- archaeometrists do not need to be invited #and instead of sucking blood from your veins they inject new information directly into your brain #say thank u #to the friendly neighborhood archaeometrists

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I love animals that are, like, the opposite of cryptids: we know for a fact they exist and have a clear idea of what they look like because we have photographs and individual specimens, but we haven’t the faintest idea where they’re coming from - they just keep showing up out of nowhere, and the locations of their actual population centres are a complete mystery.

#oh it that guy #he as came over only to say “dead? ME? i think the fuck not” #and then be nice and round for his photo shoot #what a great guy

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I looove when food is in a bowl. Frequently plates are being brought out and I'm thinking this could've been a bowl meal but nobody gets it

#sometimes i've run out of clean bowls and had to put the spaghetti on a plate and it's made me very very sad #:( #the noodles cannot curl up propperly #they need to huddle for warmth and yet #laid bare upon the plate #very depressing

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#IT MATCHES THE EYES #yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#listen when i was a kid / teen there were hardly any boys in town AT ALL #it was almost entirely girls #and the neighbors kids were girls #but i still managed to hang out with guys pretty often #sword fighting / wrestling / drawing pokemon / shooting hoops without talking #generally tho i was tagging at the edge of a girl group #there weren't enough guys to make a group #they huddled together in sets of two or three and further weakened their social power by not combining age levels #i think there was ONE boy in my class in middle school #thats it #i loved it #i got to be the evil north wind and the angry dwarf and a prince AND anubis in our little hodge podge school plays #it was great #i've fully deleted gender from my inventory since then #at the end of the day the only real difference between hanging with the girls and hanging with the boys #was in what ways their parents tried to make them do stuff #the girls also liked sword fighting and wrestling- but got grounded for getting their clothes ripped or dirty #the boys liked sitting around dreaming up fantasy stories about friendship- but got pulled away to do heavy duty yard work #none of them seemed to mind me being odd #as long as i drew dragons and helped make sure the games of tag stayed fun #.............. #well i didn't notice them minding anyway #social cues? #i don't know her