#but if your world is otherwise normal

[notesofarichlycolorednight]

unless you’re really good at combining the two i don’t think i could do high fantasy

#like i have no idea how to express this properly #i expect a certain amt of weird physics in anime #but if your world is otherwise normal #or anime 'normal' #/except/ for like one thing that is Not Normal #it takes me out of my suspension of disbelief #and i'm scared this is starting to become a trend #it could be bc i'm sleep deprived #but it literally makes me sick #chirp.txt #chirp.tags #i'm going insanse #perhaps wacky #one might even say crazy #i'm losing my mind my marbles my bananas #i am falling off my rocker so to speak

[ruporas]

hello there, angel

[ID: Digital illustration in color of Vash and Wolfwood from Trigun Maximum. Vash is sitting facing the viewer and holds a rose between his clasped together hands, but he’s looking to the left, upwards, at Wolfwood, with an awed expression. Wolfwood hovers over him with wings sprouting from his back. He has a cigarette lit between his lips, his arms and legs are crossed, and he looks back at Vash with a neutral expression. The both of them are covered in a blue shadow, casted by Wolfwood and his hovering form, while warm light hits the back of his wings and over Vash’s legs. Small feathers sits next to Vash. End ID]

#vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #trigun maximum #this is not meant to mean anything btw i just wanted to draw wolfwood as an angle #i love angel and follower depiction but i also think wolfwood is just the most angelic human being ever #he was sent to guide him... he protects him... he Saved him #i mean they both just think of each other as the most good they've seen in the world in a really long time #and in turn makes themselves coil and feel a little more disgusted with themselves. but they're also so Good to each other that they can #start to believe that they can be that good too. #they love each other so much and theyve never loved anyone else like this before so i can just imagine the heights their love can reach #endless pouring of affection in a way they can only keep to their own chest in fear they'd never be able to let go otherwise #that is to say i just feel like they'd worship each other and it's probably excessive but i feel like they both really deserve it #i did not even mean to go on that tangent but back on topic -- i just love angel wolfwood depiction in a way that's Normal...... #need more of vash saying cheesy shit like youre my light wolfwood!!!! and wolfwood beating the shit out of him like WHAT ARE YOU SAYING!!! #which is why i have a tablet in the first place. my mission in the world... #ruporas art

[lillylunala]

(Re)training

#adventure time #fionna and cake #fionna the human #finn the human #fionna campbell #finn mertens #wouldve loved to see them interact ngl #but one can dream #I imagine fionna not being as buff simply was bcause she lost the Magic Adventure Exp in the years of living in Normal World jasjhs #otherwise she wouldve grown up to be Big Buff Lady #easier to do when youre literally fighting for your life almost daily #compared to say being a lifeguard for a bit or playing hockey

[julie-su]

Sojourner: ... REALLY, truly? Locke: Yes. Really, truly. Shut up.

#archie sonic #echidna hell #brotherhood of guardians #sojourner the echidna #locke the echidna #sabre the echidna #thunderhawk the echidna #spectre the echidna #I think... Otherwise #Go make your son some pancakes and talk about how the world would be better if men were allowed to satisfy their needs together or.. whatev #normal ramble. #heterosexual ramble.

[imblocking-you]

As a Kaleidoscope of Death enjoyer, I'm really having fun with the vibes the Dreadful Night world is offering

#dreadful night #kaleidoscope of death #// maple #manhwa #listening to rain and river asmr too really sets that chilly camping in the mountains tone #what is one with bada's partner (i forgot his name) he's so sus #like he wants to help but the way he goes about it makes you think otherwise #ch 17 not killing hyungshin but giving him a death flag triggering statement smart but also cruel 😭😭 #the full immersion and when the chills start OH YK ITS GETTJNG GREAT #i love reading horror over watching precisely for this reason bc you dont just follow a story #you flesh out a world in your head and you get to live in it as well #your consciousness stands among the characters while the plot plays out in your head #and when it's not just horrow but they're aware of exactly what's going on and are trying to play it smart #but there's still an air of wonder of what's about to transpire #LOVE IT #ch. 20 i keep forgetting his name 😭 but PARTNER DAMN WHAT A POT STIRRER YOU ARE #wait no sorry for judging you #ALSO this has got to be brain expanding for hyungshin like how a normal person should act learning it's a game #being annoying and curious and shit unlike partner here who is oddly calm about everything 💀 #he moves so strategically it's annoying bro is the embodiment of never let them know your next move #also the way they incorporated sex here 😭 crazy #but i love the vibes so 🤷‍♂️ #im glad we're all acknowledging that partner is truly blackhearted #cunning x perceptive is hiking up in my ship list lowkey #and a character trait i'm starting to like is 'ambiguously something' LMAO #ch. 22 this is a whole 180 from kod couple's dynamic #well granted they're in diff circumstances but still the personalities presented are very interesting #keeps me on the tip of my toes love these type of stories

[unopenablebox]

unbearable eroticism of one’s girlfriend wearing jeans and a hoodie

#they normally do a whole Smart Casual situation not that they wld conceptualize it as such #such that the first time i really saw them in comfortable relaxed clothes was when i was being overloaded with feelings #during our platonic besties' spring-break-at-your-friend's-house-without-their-girlfriend activity like 2 wks before we got together #so i have certain unshakeable associations between ''gf wears like a slightly oversized college sweatshirt'' #and ''at long last you are about to receive something like unto that for which you have longed lo these untold years; #and yet that which remains unresolved burns ever more fervently!'' #etc. you know how it is #you know when it's spring break and youre at their childhood home and you have your own guest room but they asked to you sleep #in their bed anyway. because otherwise they miss you too much. and then they explain that they want to put your platonic friendship over any #future romantic relationships they might have. and they're wearing a HACK NIGHTS 2017 t shirt. and you wonder if you are in hell #anyway. now they also have a WORLD'S OKAYEST LESBIAN shirt. and jeans. and i am going to bite thru my arm #box opener

[doublekanble]

Can I tell you that you write as a song of Hozier sound? That I caught myself biting on my fist, gigling, kicking my feet of the bed at your writing? The way you write obsession and DEVOTION drives me wild? Just wanted to let you know.

i hope you know i screamed into my pillows because of you /positive

#/kbask #THANK YOU SO MUCH I WAS SO WORRIED NO ONE REALLY UNDERSTAND IT #all of my pieces for Al is made with him being utterly head-over-heels one way or another unless i explicitly stated otherwise #im just a thing juggling like 2 things at once (being normal and being into alastor) im so happy someone can tell #general fear of coming off as unapproachable and worried that my writing would looks like crows feet #i dont know who Hozier is but i did look him up and i take it as a massive compliment!!! #ALSO im so sorry for not being able to reply to all of your comments you left on my other fics! #please know your words means the world to me!!! i love reading them!!! #wasnt expecting it at all literally stand up walk around my tiny room screamed into my pillow/positive

[artificialllovers]

I think some people tightly cling to the idea that it’s normal for people to not care about your interests or accomplishments and to not be happy/celebratory for you because otherwise they would have to confront some unfortunate and disappointing truths about their interpersonal relationships, especially with their own parents.

#i saw a tweet where ppl were mocking a reddit post #where the person was disappointed that their family wasn’t really celebratory or proud of them for finishing their phd program #not even getting into the issue where ppl were mocking this individual by assuming they had some ‘made up’ degree #despite that a) not mattering and b) not even being mentioned in the original post #it’s like… is that normal and just the way the world works? #or did your family never support your interest and achievements or only did so selectively? #and you’re convincing yourself that this is fine/acceptable #because otherwise you might have to content with the idea that they failed you in a significant way 🤨 #*contend not content #💚

[snekdood]

id love to be able to have more hope in my life like you guys think people are supposed to but thats pretty hard when theres people who want believe the worst thing about me no matter how true it even is

#maybe if you came up to me and admitted you believed dumb shit and were sorry that'd be one thing but like #yall dont care about victims lol #so why would you care about my mental wellbeing anyways #idk i wonder why the guy who sought refuge in progressive spaces since they pretend to care about rape victims might feel hopeless with #the 0 support hes getting #give me a reason theres good in the world or prove to me you're just as self absorbed as everyone else #and only care about shit if it directs you personally #if it directly effects you* #otherwise the worlds apparently your playground where you get to point at whoever and decide they're either 100% toxic or not #and its just this fun lil game of black and white for you rather than there being real people with lives invovled #i hate everyone on this site and the only reason a lot of yall are 'progressive' is for your own self interest #like you genuinely only care bc shit effects you. thats prolly why plenty of yall refuse to see trans men as oppressed #bc the shit we go through doesnt directly effect you and thats how you'd probably normally act if you weren't trans/non binary 🤷 #aka a transphobe #prove me wrong or ill just keep going on about my life believing this bc quite frankly its the most true feeling thing ever #bc from my angle yall are some of the most selfish people.

[datastate]

tracing hearts around michiru...she makes me so unbelievably sad

#imagine finally finally being given recognition for your research #and the opportunities to fully explore it regardless of ethical standards because of how closely your work is in line with weaponry #but every day you're reminded that as far as the world knows or cares - you're dead. #& it shouldn't bother you because you truly only ever did this to help advance humanity's ability to recover from otherwise fatal accidents #you didn't want or need the fame. but now you wonder if it really will be used for normal people or if it's only going to be #a healing the organization uses to draw more people into their grasp. into relying on them #and you've seen firsthand what they do to people who don't prove their worth. you've seen them gone within the day. out of commission. #executed. #you've experienced the intense pressure to abide to it. you've seen the results of emiri's breaking point #and her desperation to revive people. no matter the cost. her bitter alliance with asunaro as they promised her the opportunity to fully #pursue this. and maybe. just maybe. she'd get her husband back. as they promised in return for Her. #she was the primary driving force and quickly impressed gashu but she was so angry and upset and shallow and scary #and you've heard from a friend - an 'assassin' - that he has accepted he will be executed soon for his lack of work #and how he wishes he could apologize to the child who was murdered by her own parent - kai's aid. #who was there to finish the job if he couldn't #and the horrible fact that if michiru ever returned to her family or gave them a signal she was alive...they'd be killed just as violently #any string of asunaro's truth is to be cut. no matter the situation #whether you expose it purposefully or its a childish curiosity... #augh.. #jestersvaguely #yttdposting #character death #fictional child death

[iamthedukeofurl]

Scott Pilgrim is, I think, the best example I can think of for establishing a setting's Nonsense Limit. The setting's Nonsense Limit isn't quite "How high-fantasy is this". It's mostly a question of presentation, to what degree does the audience feel that they know the rules the world operates by, such that they are primed to accept a random new element being introduced. A setting with a Nonsense Limit of 0 is, like, an everyday story. Something larger than life, but theoretically taking place in our world, like your standard spy thriller action movie has a limit of 1. Some sort of hidden world urban fantasy with wizards and stuff operating in secret has a nonsense limit around 3 or 4. A Superhero setting, presenting an alternate version of our world, is a 5 or 6. High fantasy comes in around a 7 or so, "Oh yeah, Wizards exist and they can do crazy stuff" is pretty commonly accepted. Scott Pilgrim comes in at a 10. If you read the Scott Pilgrim book, it starts off looking like a purely mundane slice of life. The first hint at the fantastical is Ramona appearing repeatedly in Scott's Dreams, and then later showing up in real life. When we finally get an explanation, it's this:

Apparently Subspace Highways are a thing? And they go through people's heads? And Ramona treats this like it's obscure, but not secret knowledge. Ramona doesn't think she's doing anything weird here. At this point, it's not clear if Scott is accepting Ramona's explanation or not, things kind of move on as mundane as ever until their Date, when Ramona takes Scott through subspace, and he doesn't act like his world was just blown open or anything, although I guess that could have been a metaphor. there's a couple other moments, but everything with Ramona could be a metaphor, or Scott not recognizing what's going on. Maybe Ramona is uniquely fantastical in this otherwise normal world. And then, this happens

Suddenly, a fantastical element (A shitty local indie band finishing their set with a song that knocks out most of the audience) is introduced unrelated to Ramona, and undeniably literal. We see the crowd knocked out by Crash and The Boys. but the story doesn't linger on the implications of that, the whole point of that sequence is to raise the Nonsense Level, such that you accept it when This happens

Matthew Patel comes flying down onto the stage, Scott, who until this point is presented as a terrible person and a loser, but otherwise is extremely ordinary, proceeds to flawlessly block and counter him before doing a 64-hit air juggle combo. Scott's friends treat this like Scott is showing off a mildly interesting party trick, like being really good at darts. The establish that Scott is the "Best Fighter in the Province", not only are street-fighter battles a thing, Scott is Very Good at it, but they're so unimportant that being the best fighter in the province doesn't make Scott NOT a loser. So when Matthew Patel shows off his magic powers and then explodes into a pile of coins, we've established "Oh, this is how silly the setting gets". It's not about establishing the RULES of the setting so much as it is about establishing a lack of rules. Scott's skill at street-fighter battles doesn't translate to any sort of social prestige. Ramona can access Subspace Highways and she uses it to do a basic delivery job. It doesn't make sense and it's clear that it's not supposed to. So later on, when Todd Ingram starts throwing around telekinesis, and the explanation we're given is "He's a Vegan" , you're already so primed by the mixture of weirdness and mundanity that rather than trying to incorporate this new knowledge into any sort of coherent setting ruleset, you just go "Ah, yeah, Vegans".

#Scott Pilgrim

[artisticmenace]

ive got the embarassed sim moodlet and for what

#artisticmenace #themenaceuseswords #help mee #like wtffff #i wish i could be normal #FINALLY a friend who likes the same shit and my parents were like “HE???? DOES THIS ONE HAVE A DICK??? YOU CLEANED YOUR ROOM FOR A GUY???” #like. no. and also it was a good excuse for me to clean my room. an excuse for myself. otherwise i wouldve left it all there. #like i can invite cool trans people to my house and be mildly uncomfortable with seeing the disarray that was caused by my yearly depression #i can think people are cool and be excited and not like them like that #LIVING IN THIS WORLD IS HARD #SOMEONE SHOULD SEND ME TO A PLACE WHERE I AM THE STANDARD FOR NORMALCY #AUUUGHHH

[mrfoox]

If I ever come across someone who loves similar to me and we both attach to each other.... Like I'm probably marrying them :/

#miranda talking shit #Tired of being the overbearing bitch all the time. Someone be overbearing at me already #Do you even love me if you don't want to talk to me every time you're awake? And see me every day? And thinking about me whenever #You're having an moment of your own? Like... Do you even? I know people are normal and such but man. I am not!!! #You will have my attention as much as I can give and usually then some #But unfortunately my brain is like.... OK but does your loved ones even love you since they're not this way about you? :/ #I know they do otherwise they would stop talking with me but man... I want someone to want me as bad as I want them #I'm just the desperate and clingy bitch. I at least think I... Usually show up when I am needed. I know it's impossible to do so 100% of th #Time but. If you need me. If you say you need me. I'm coming. I'm there. I may not be able to help the way you need me to but I will be #Present. You're a big part of my world and I want to help you

[streetwiseangel]

the wealth disparity is literally what causes disordered eating on such a mass scale prove me wrong

#rationing yourself while your roommate orders in for the 12th time this week #using food as the only reward for undesirable but necessary behaviors #going broke because you moved to a new city and restaurants/cafes are some of the only otherwise accessible first meeting places #having an interest in cooking but no time to try and fail and no patience to use up all your perishables in time #regularly creating a negative association with cooking or eating all together #but since you need it to live and your body will send painful hunger cues when you push too far #you finally cave and eat processed garbage #too much of it because you’re kind of starving now #and reinforce the negative association when you feel bad immediately after #wrapped nice and neat isn’t it #at the end of the day plenty of people are going into debt over binge eating because it’s hahahard to keep up with trends #insta famous chefs and popups and delivery service exclusives #meanwhile restaurant employees the delivery drivers and the consumers all suffer #for a few ubereats and doordash execs to rake in cash so they can vacation while the world plummets into health and climate catastrophe #I’m normal about this

[fuckingrecipes]

Wait, which animals raise livestock?

Several species of ants will 'herd' aphids around (a type of plant lice)- even picking them up and putting them back with the group if they wander off. The ants will attack anything that approaches their aphid herds, defending them. The aphids produce a sugary excretion called honeydew, which the ants harvest and eat.

Some ants will even 'milk' the aphids, stroking the aphids with their antennae, to stimulate them to release honeydew. Some aphids have become 'domesticated' by the ants, and depend entirely on their caretaker ants to milk them.

When the host plant is depleted of resources and dies, the ants will pick up their herd of aphids and carry them to a new plant to feed on - a new 'pasture' if you will.

Some ants continue to care for aphids overwinter, when otherwise they'd die. The ants carry aphid eggs into their own nests, and will even go out of their way to destroy the eggs of aphid-predators, like ladybugs.

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Microhylids – or narrow-mouthed frogs - have an interesting symbiosis with Tarantulas.

While the spiders could very easily kill and eat the much-tinier frogs, and DO normally prey on small frogs, young spiders instead will use their mouthparts to pick up the microhylid frogs, bring them back to their burrow, and release them unharmed.

The frog benefits from hanging out in/around the burrow of the tarantula, because the tarantula can scare away or eat predators that normally prey on tiny frogs, like snakes, geckos, and mantids. The tarantula gets a babysitter.

Microhylid frogs specialize in eating ants, and ants are one of the major predators of spider eggs. By eating ants, the frogs protect the spider's eggs. The frogs can also lay their eggs in the burrow, and won't be eaten by the spider.

So it's less 'livestock' and more like a housepet - a dog or a cat. You stop coyotes/eagles from hurting your little dog/cat, and in return the dog/cat keeps rats away from your baby.

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Damselfish grow algae on rocks and corals. They defend these gardens ferociously, and will attack anything that comes too close - even humans. They spend much of their time weeding the gardens, removing unwanted algaes that might overtake their crop.

The species of algae that they cultivate is weak and and sensitive to growing conditions, and can easily be overgrazed by other herbivores. That particular algae tends to grow poorly in areas where damselfish aren't around to protect and farm it.

Damselfish will ALSO actively protect Mysidium integrum (little shrimp-like crustacians) in their reef farms, despite eating other similarly sized invertebrates. The mysids are filter feeders, who feed on zooplankton and free-floating algae, and their waste fertilizes the algae farms. Many types of zooplankton can feed on the algae crop, and the mysids prevent that.

While Mysids can be found around the world, the only place you'll find swarms of Musidium integrum is on the algae farms that Damselfish cultivate.

Damselfish treat the little mysids like some homesteaders treat ducks. Ducks eat snails and other insect pests on our crops, and their poop fertilizes the land. The ducks can be eaten, but aren't often, since they're more useful for their services than their meat.

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There are SEVERAL species of insect and animal which actively farm. They perform fungiculture and horticulture: deliberately growing and harvesting fungus and plants at a large-scale to feed their population.

Leaf-cutter ants and Termites both chew up plant material and then seed it with a specific type of fungus. The fungus grows, and the termites/ants harvest the mushroom as a food source.

Ambrosia beetles burrow into decaying trees, hollow out little farming rooms, and introduce a specific fungii (the ambrosia fungi), which both adults and larval beetles feed on.

Marsh Periwinkles (a type of snail) cultivates fungus on cordgrass. They wound the plant with their scraping tongue, then defecate into the wound so their preferred fungus will infect it and grow there. They let the fungus grow in the wound a bit, and come back later to eat.

#Mutualism #algae farm #fungus farm #ants #aphids #ant farmers #termite farmers #beetle farmers #pet frog

[nerdvi]

In the wake of the whole james somerton fiasco and inspired by this post, I wanted to share a few of my um, soft signs, like, orange flags to detect when someone is bullshitting you.

First of all, I am on the spectrum which means 1) I tend to take what people say at face value and 2) I have a strong sense of justice which makes me prone to biases, all of which combined means I am at perpetual risk of swallowing the bullshit.

So, what to do about it? You turn on the critical thinking and pay attention.

As one of my favorite youtubers, Hannah Alonzo, likes to say: "consider the source, remember the motive". Who is talking to you?? What do you know about them?? What biases might they have?? How do they interact with your own biases?? Where are they talking from?? Is it anger?? happinness? boredom?? Also, why are they talking to you? Are they trying to sell you something?? Are they trying to convince you and why?? How do they go about the finantial motivation, if present? If you have, in this case, a white cis gay man talking to you as it he has it the worst of the worst in the world, there's probably some exaggeration and you should start to wonder. There's a good chance he's bullshitting you.

How they talk about women and POC No, no, stay with me. There's a rule I had back when I was dating men: Always beware of how they treat their mother. With the exception of extremes like mama's boys and cases of abuse, how a man treats the woman with whom they have that familial bond is a good indicator of how they are going to treat you. Do they berate her? speak ill of her? are aggressive or controlling? do they dismiss her opinions? Same with creators, and by god I tell you, specially cis male creators, queer or otherwise, always always beware of how they speak of women, how they treat women, how they treat POC. Somerton had a weird vendetta against straight women. It went mostly unnoticed. Then, he was dismissive towards lesbians and other queer women and it was once again overlooked. Then he went ahead and made sinophobic content about genres and cultures he knows NOTHING about. Again, it went unchecked. What I am telling you is IT'S NOT NORMAL. Contempt about women and non white-western cultures is not normal and if someone has them as them as an enemy or a scapegoat, they're probably bullshitting you. Take what they say and fact check it, see for yourself.

If at any point in a video or an essay you find yourself thinking "wait, really??" then it's time to fact check. Is it a bit suspicious?? is your logic telling you that's not quite how this works?? Then take to google, my friend, they might be bullshitting you. At worst, you dodge a fake fact, at best, you learn way too much about a topic you were already interested in.

Beware of the lack of nuance. I can not stress this enough. We all love monochrome, but life and societal issues are never black and white. It's just impossible, there's too many factors to consider. If you are being presented situations or anecdotes as absolute truths, you're probably being bullshitted. If it's too good to be true, it is. If it sounds waaay too convenient, it probably is. A good researcher, a serious investigator, will always have some nuance because they have done the work and checked the sources. If someone provides you 1) no nuance and 2) no sources, THEY'RE BULLSHITTING YOU.

These are the ones I can come up with just of the top of my head, I'm sure there's more and please, add them. Remember that naivité isn't a crime, I'm fairly naive and that's made me distrustful, and these are some of the techniques I've found that help me navigate through a world of information without losing myself.

#james somerton #hbomberguy #plagiarism