#but its still absolutely wild

[lilliths-httyd-blog]

2020

2023

THE JOKES WRITE THEMSELVES

#httyd #httyd live action remake #live action remake #i don't care if it turns out to be a decent film #its still fucking hilarious #like dont get me wrong httyd 2025 could change the premise of the franchise itself it could be absolutely wild #but STILL #LET ME HAVE THIS ONE PLEASE

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

puppets can be considered arthropods

#exoskeleton.... #they are Shelled creatures.... #also invertebrates... there were puppets in the cambrian era i just know it... #personally i like to believe they're related to horseshoe crabs. or perhaps shrimp #hm. getting the mental image of a seafood restaurant #and the waiter brings out one of those fuckin. yk the dish with the metal dome on top #they put it down and lift the top - its a lovely steamed puppet with an entire pineapple in their mouth #and the diners dont use crab crackers - they use little craft scissors. the ones with the squiggle blades #theres still like. crab meat inside instead of stuffing. so. but the rest is puppet #no wait its puppet meat! what would puppet meat taste like... fluffy like stuffing.. a little sweet maybe.. sugar spice and everything nice #absolutely unprompted #be free my darling post! into the wild with naught but your own wings to carry you! #man. now i want crab. just a pile of huge crab legs to crack into and devour like a wild animal #while my cat stares at me with her gigantic imploring eyes #silently begging for a tidbit & drilling holes into my head all the while #normal things to pine for Yes?

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

Barry is the speedforce?

Yeaaaaaaaah?

It's complicated.

He created it, he generates it, he is the avatar of the speedforce, the keystone of the speedforce, he canonically can't be separated from it, he feels pain when the speedforce does, there are ancient prophecies inferring that Barry is the speedforce, ect. One can't live or exist without the other and they are intrinsically linked.

I guess it just depends how much you want to read into the prophecies? You could look at like 'Barry and the Speedforce are soul bonded' or you could look at it like 'the speedforce and Barry are the same and Barry just doesn't know that'. Personally? I go with the latter.

Also this is not to be confused with the time Bart was the speedforce. Because that also happened. All the other speedsters got sucked into the speedforce and Bart ... sucked the speedforce into himself. He became the speedforce and the speedforce became him. So technically at that time Bart was Bart Allen, the Speedforce, Barry Allen, Wally West, Max Mercury and every other speedster at the same time. Twas weird and strange and Bart did not have a fun time with it.

So yeah, usually Barry is the speedforce but it's never explicitly written out, Bart was once but hated it, and Bart&Max are probably the only two speedsters who actually know/understand that.

#bart was fully aware of this the entire time tok #like he was sitting in bed going 'holy shit im the speedforce. its inside of me. holy shit what the fuck i think i ate my family?!' #absolutely wild time #i mean he did technically eat his family he wasn't wrong #barry wally max and everyone else were INSIDE him and he could FEEL them and thats gotta be super fucking weird #especially because he DIDN'T WANT THEM TO BE IN THE SPEEDFORCE #but he couldn't do anything about it #but yeah no Barry has been told all this and he still doesn't get it #like at all #in one ear out the other #wally also doesn't get it #given how hes tried to break the speedforce and barry was on the ground screaming in pain and Wally was like ??? 'wtf is wrong with barry?' #like wally my dude you are currently trying to murder him thats whats wrong with him #dc #the flash #dc comics #kid flash #impulse #bart allen #barry allen

[aq2003]

there comes a beautiful time in life where i have to ask myselg th question, "did i accidentally project too hard onto the character that i only relate to a little bit and in doing so hugely missed this one entire aspect/interpretation of the characters . am i stupid"

#ARE THEY STUPID! #dr who #this is about ten specifically his relationship w martha lmao #m being so serious i genuinely did not. see the 'ten was on purpose leading martha on to make her think her feelings were requited' angle #until going out into the wild and reading the tumblr posts. like i genuinely did not. at ALLLLLL. its like a brick hitting my head #bc the ENTIRE time s3 ten came off to me as 'doing stuff w no romantic intent behind it but would consistently get misinterpreted as such' #cuz IIIIIIIII have done this. IIIIIIII have run into this problem before. and it sucks so incredibly bad. #i actually do want to think my og interpretation still holds water cuz like. well i could gather all the evidence but #first one that comes 2 mind would be him going 'it's like when you fancy someone + they dont know you exist' to martha. in episode TWELVE #two routes; either ten is needlessly cruel and callous even after a season's worth of building up trust and friendship w her #or he is on super 'i dont think she has feelings for me and this is a very unhappy coincidence of a line' cocaine #Or the 'she fancied me' line in s4 to donna. either he is disregarding all the good and positive impact she did him. or the fact that this #went over his head the whole time made him look back on that time w discomfort <- I DID THIS. I MIGHT HAVE BEEN PROJECTING #THIS ONTO HIM. AM I STUPID.?.????? #you know how mikage rgu can either be read as an incel or a gay man lost so completely in the sauce #ten is like in this same ballpark. i think. of 'emotionally manipulative and disrespects women' or 'aroacespec and missed the cues' #funniest possible options to pick from. ten my brother how did you set yourself up like this #absolutely not denying that he was toxic and unhealthy during s3 in like 500 ways btw. but well. ths is the one concwpt that #flew over my head. so completely. and i can kind of see it now but i also still find it hard to incorporate into my belief system #bc its like. brother I'M aroace and missed the cues too lol #tangential note we can trace many problems down to a writer's room filled w white people not giving #martha's character the respect/agency she deserves for the existing narrative she has. bc they pulled this w mickey too both in series 1+2 #if they wanted to portray ten as manipulative then him and martha should've been given more screentime #together where martha (or anyone else) calls him the FUCK out on this. and ten would need to suffer narrative consequences of doing smth #as fucked up as that rather than his happy stable dynamic he has w donna. if they wanted to portray him as oblivious then marthas character #shouldn't have constantly been boiled down to an unrequited crush (particularly her dialogue in the s3 finale - there's a LOT more reasons #why she would choose to leave/why their dynamic was unhealthy besides ten not returning her feelings) #if you read all these tags you may be entitled 2 financial compensation #ten and martha #aspec doc tag

[lunar-wandering]

Theres a new percy jackson book and no one told me?????????

#everything ive heard about chalice of the gods #sounds absolutely incredible #to the point its making me want to read it #which is wild since i hate reading books written in first person #tbh the percy jackson books are the only first person books ive enjoyed #but also just what even if the plot of chalice of the gods #ive seen like 25 posts of screenshots from the book and i still have no idea whats going on #honestly absolutely perfect

[flambo19]

Look this is incredibly self-indulgent but hear me out on this:

The iterators create rain

The Hydro Dragon's (aka almost certainly Neuvillette's) tears are said to cause rain

Furina is my poor little meow meow

I've connected the dots 😎

#genshin impact #rain world #two absolutely wild tags to put back to back. the brain rot is strong with this one #neuvillette #furina #iterator #slugcat #its honestly a fun challenge to put characters into something so totally different and try to make them still recognisable #dont think i totally nailed it but this is more of a haha fun doodle than anything serious #flambo art #uhhhh anyway posting self indulgent stuff makes me nervous so goodbye

[companion-showdown]

Who is the Greatest Accomplice to the Doctor's War Crimes?

TOURNAMENT MASTERPOST

#greatest accomplice: round 3 #wouldn't be mad if vicki lost here #but honestly its still her #we all know 4 hated k9 #he tried to ditch that dog twice and only succeeded on the third attempt #im not saying i agree with 4 #k9 is great #but its difficult to be an accomplice to someone who keeps trying to get rid of you #vicki on the other hand #1 thinks shes great #specifically because she has a pet monster #she's on board with his absolutely wild plans #she laugh at rome burning with him #lets get vicki to the quarter finals

[jacks-the-flower]

ok so i popped in my earbuds to be able to listen to the voiceovers in afk journey, and "let me show you my moves" is absolutely insane like valen what are you ACTUALLY talking about man-

#for context this is during fights when he does his special anime clip thing #valen #afk journey #absolutely wild #mc can pull some bitches is all im saying #i'm at a point in the game where valen isnt with the squad and im feeling the withdrawal #but its fine tho bc i just customized my squad to match my normal fight squad so #valen mirael cecia <333333 #and lucius and vala #but tbh i'm thinking about replacing th #and dont come at me for still having mirael i am a hopeless bisexual you are not going to win that fight

[feerz]

Jesus Christ Superstar is the most powerful musical out there, cause why am I suddenly into actually writing down fanfics instead of just keeping them in my head??

#jcs #beloved discord and my mooties def had an effect on pushing me there too #ive been motivated to start drawing more to like tf #also ive actaully fully watched it like 6 times? i think?? #for context even when i am extremely in love with a musical i rarely watch it in full #like never watched a slime tutorial for hamilton before its relise on disney+ despite it being absolutely obsessed for a year before that #never ended up watching mor despite there being an easily accessible proshot #still havent watchet great comet or ghost quartet #but somehow ive watched jcs like 6 times since like october #wild for me

[scribbling-dragon]

the lizzie angst is bubbling away in my brain

#the Only reason i am not getting up to write this right now is because i have to do neurone revisoon tmre #and that shit SUCKS #anyway. lizzie u will always be my darling sorry for not writiny abt you more <33 #her angst potential? often overlooked #like yh. jimmy was the small egg in empires. but lizzie was caring for thst egg. she never knew if it was gonna survive. if therr was smth #she could havr done to help. smth shr could have done better #last life? shr had peoplr devoting themselves to her and she still died. unnoticed. quietly #anyway. absolutely wild that i am thinking abt these people so much that it works its eay into my DREAMS #i had a DREAM abt a secret lifr episode last night. i am. so unwell

[floofyfluff]

we're in this phase III trial of this thing that is soooooooo cool and i want to talk about it sooooo bad but 1. no. 2. no one will understand me if i do. 3. no.

but its so wild to watch disease processes go from totally untreatable to like. one time novel solution. in half of a lifetime. like from "not only do we not know why this is happening or how to stop it but i can tell you that you're just going to go blind," to "well if you come in and get this done every x weeks actually you will preserve most of your vision" to "actually maybe we can just do this one procedure and the thing that robbed 25% of your family of the ability to read by age 75 will simply not be a problem for you"

#like for adult seeing people 80% of your sensory input comes from your vision so you can imagine what it's like to be 78 and lose vision #it ages people like you would not fucking believe #and it's absolutely wild to see it come back like cataract surgery is the most fun bc its like 10 min and life altering but alas #not everything is in the front of the eye #and its really amazing to see people go from rapidly aging and cognitively declining to like fully functional and active #just bc they got their vision back #a thing we could not do 20 years ago in this modality at all even a little bit like we still have og patients from THAT original study #the first one and done treatments for neurodegenerative diseases are soooooo close like they are happening i am seeing them #if your appt takes 84 yrs its bc suddenly there were millions of treatable patients and now and exponentially increasing aging/diabetic pop #if you can imagine: this is cliff-shaped curve that is rather difficult to keep up with from the provider-training perspective #so i would also like this to work so we dont have this 4 hour monthly appointment. for everyone involved which includes me who is so tired

[thee-babbo]

have this wayne preview

#hylics #hylics 2 #hylics fanart #wayne hylics #hylics wayne #ive been working on this for way too long and its still not done but i am PROMISING myself it will be bc ive put too much time and effort #into this to just drop it also i love it #i just need a break from this pic lmao #hylics has fundamentally altered my brain i stg #i say that with love and affection #also fic for this series is WILD an absolute fucking HOOTENANNY #anyway yeah have this wayne preview

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

yknow something i really love about WH so far is that i really, truly, have no idea what the fuck is going on. like i can theorize and speculate on the Scrumptious little crumbs we have so far, but looking at it as a whole and the info/hints sprinkled everywhere. man i cannot guess where this is going to go lmao

#im so so so so excited #i have a feeling its all eventually gonna slot together like a tasty little trauma puzzle #but for now. wow. no clue! #every time i think i have a vague thought i remember a tidbit that blasts it into oblivion #which makes absolute sense since its barely started #but still it amuses me. trying to cobble together a coherent idea is like trying to think during a migraine aura #but fun and nonpainful! #it makes even me more interested in wh honestly #like a carrot dangled in front of a horse #is that the saying??? fuck if i know! #welcome home #also the fact that a big content warning for future wh stuff is gore... #the part of me that just wants the puppets to be safe and happy is terrified #the part of me that fuckin LOVES gore and traumatizing characters is going buck wild

[steampoweredskeleton]

Migraine hit on the way home from work yesterday and I have now slept for 15 HOURS nearly completely straight

HEAD STILL HURTS THOUGH

#delete later #it is way better. just still that warning pain of stay away from light ahd loud noises! #i think i may be properly awake thos time? its kimd of insane I've slept this much bc i can never fall asleep this quick #im so lucky that migraines make me exhausted enough to just conk out rather than the pain keeping me awake #called in sick to work bc i cannot look at my computer screen for that long. went back to sleep fot another 3 hours #absolutely wild. on second thought exhaustion is still tugging at me but im gonna try stay awake so i dont completely fuck my #sleep pattern #migraines suuuuuck

[rw-ethology]

Do you have theories on why lizards and how relatively open are they to being befriended by slugcat? Them continuing to be a threat to slugpups makes sense, as well as possibility of the lizard accidentally biting the slugcat during a careless attempt at feeding (which is why I now only give them snacks by tossing and running the moment I am sure the Lizard is locked on it). But usually it seems predators take longer to form such mutualistic (suppose?) approach, especially to prey. Cycles maybe?

Looks like kind of a mixture of both generally recognising when it benefits them to stick around, and resource-guarding behaviour directed towards a creature that has made itself look very valuable.

There's two main ways a slugcat can go about taming a lizard- by establishing itself as either a source of food, or a source of protection (saving one from a vulture causes your reputation with it to go way up). Either way, you've convinced it that eating you or letting you die would be counterproductive at this point, so as long as it remains convinced it'll follow you around and protect you from its rivals and other threats so it doesn't lose out. There's probably a number of things that factor into why they'll act in this way so readily, but if you look at it as an alternate expression of other traits and behaviours they already show off, you can kind of see where it might stem from.

Lizards are incredibly food-motivated- they'll go for pretty much anything they can fit in their mouth (that's large enough to be worth the effort), and will ignore almost everything else to run and cache it in their dens, presumably to store for later instead of wasting time that they could be spending finding more. Especially considering the state of the world and limited time pressure placed on every creature by the rain, in general it's probably kind of difficult for a large carnivore to consistently find enough to eat every single cycle. A successful catch whenever you need it isn't at all a guarantee; with that in mind, them having developed some degree of stockpiling behaviour would make sense, and suggests at least a rudimentary understanding that being careful with your food supply hugely bolsters your survival odds in the long run. Likely as a direct consequence of this, many lizards are highly territorial and/or competitive to varying degrees, and will chase rivals down and fight viciously to steal each others' prey or protect their resources under threat. It's also important to note lizards have a global reputation system- if you're nice enough across the board they'll become passive and if you harm enough they'll start to fear you, a behaviour unique amongst predators that suggests as a species they're just about intelligent enough to learn from experience and observation when it's better to just leave something alone.

It's most likely these specific characteristics that allow a lizard to become "tamed" so quickly. All you're really doing is taking advantage of their ability to recognise a valuable benefit, and redirecting their drive to defend one onto you, by teaching them to associate you with good things. No matter how tasty a slugcat looks, if it's proven time and time again that it will provide more food and support (that you desperately need) while alive than it could ever be worth dead, then why on earth would you want to let it die, or allow some other creature to take advantage instead?

However, this relationship only lasts as long as you put the effort into maintaining it. If you fail to let them into your shelter or feed them enough in subsequent cycles, or throw weapons at or around them (even by accident), they'll decide you're no longer worth the effort and quickly go from warning-bites to straight up turning on you as your reputation drops. Additionally, considering they by and large don't seem to recognise the slugcat's other companions- be it other tamed lizards or pups or friendly scavengers- as anything other than a rival or something else to eat, it's pretty clear that to their understanding they really are just guarding a resource and not joining a pack; lizards are not social creatures by nature with very little need to have developed emotional intelligence (even yellows I suspect aren't very close with each other beyond their advanced hunting formations and sharing prey), and any cooperation is strictly down to improving their odds of survival, not any form of attachment or gratitude as we would recognise it. It's still considered mutualistic, as both parties benefit from the relationship, but while a slugcat might become emotionally attached to their companion, the lizard isn't really capable of reciprocating in the same way.

With all that in mind, it's likely not the case that they're any more open to being "befriended" on an emotional level than any other predator in-game- they're just the only ones you can successfully lead to believe that you might actually be more useful alive than you would be as a few extra food pips, and for that to work out in your favour. Other major threats to the slugcat like vultures, miros birds and most large invertebrates most likely either lack the intelligence to discern one prey item from another, or they're so high on the food chain there's simply no meaningful benefit they could get out of collaboration (or both). It just so happens that lizards manage to be in the perfect position on the food chain with ideal behaviour to take advantage of that it's made possible to convince them being your friend is worth it, however temporarily.

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BONUS: the first lizard i ever tamed. was a little bit pathetic and utterly failed to protect me from anything before falling off a building in sky islands trying to wrestle a white lizard and losing, but the several painful minutes I spent being mediocre at squidcada hunting were worth it anyway. I miss him every day. godspeed you blue idiot

#rw-ethology #main post #asks #anonymous #my screencaps #rain world #rainworld #slugcats #lizards #really good question i love mutualism.. had a lot of fun coming up with this stuff #*taming* a wild animal is absolutely not the same as *befriending* it in a way that we/social animals would consider a friendship #or like.... domestication (that is a WHOLE other beast and i Highly doubt that's where lizards are heading) #like ofc it can be friendship To You! but believing an animal feels exactly the same is assuming a lot. can be dangerous at worst #though it can also be argued that to a creature where that's the closest it can Get to caring- like reptiles- it's still really meaningful #its just a matter of perspective. even if its not Affection based you can still have a strong bond with them/be important to them #so imo of course rw lizards can still be your friend :) they think you're important enough to protect after all. thats a high honor #perhaps the highest a lizard can give #just be nice to them!!! #downpour spoilers #< nearly forgot. for slugpups ment

[marsixm]

ep 7 is just weird bc i dont think any of the Things that happened were out of character i just feel like a lot of the dialogue absolutely was

#like not just for ed and stede but everybody #maybe im wrong but idkkkkk #i know ‘oh thats ooc’ coming from a fan is always a biased topic but i never felt that way before #imma zip it about this subject now tho bc i dont want it to be one of those sticky ocd points for me #but i do still feel quite unfuckable about the whole thing #idc if myself and everybody else absolutely despised an episode baby aint nothing gonna break my stride anymore #its wild seeing some of the more intense younger fans on twitter being intense about it the way i used to be abt things…. #like ships passing in the night… #i Get It but also the joy is more important 2 me now