#fairy walrus

[the-dragon-girl-27]

It is the middle of a Sunday afternoon. You have nothing on, and aren't expecting visitors, deliveries or post.

Unexpectedly, there is a knock at the door.

you are greeted by...... her

#fairy vs walrus #walrus vs fairy #walrus #why is this so well textured its fucking shitpost art #like why cant i pull this off in my normal art it had to be the walrus fairy #meme art #things that would give people outside of tumblr a heart attack #maybe #has the fairy vs walrus debate breached containment yet #also that generic girl i drew ended up looking a lot like how i look irl (yes i look like an npc) #also that door is unreasonably large but i needed you to be able to see the walrus in all her glory #i wanted it to be bigger so you could see her wings #fairy walrus #dragon draws creatures

[jeida-chi]

Was talking about the Fairy VS walrus poll with some friends which led to "but what about a walrus dressed as a fairy?" and so this was born 😌

#Fairy #walrus #fairy walrus #Walrus fairy #fairy vs walrus #walrus vs fairy #Fairy Vs walrus poll #walrus vs fairy poll #idk how to tag this so I’m trying every combinations I can think of don’t mind me lmao ✌️ #My art #art #jeida-chi #burntblueberrywaffles #Enjoy my little guy

[rusty-lustful-fireflies]

fairy and walrus? these gay bodytypes are getting wilder names each year, I swear it was still twink and bear not so long ago

#fairy vs walrus #fairy #walrus #fairy walrus #very dumb post #twink and bear #funny

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so while i was trying to fall asleep last night, my brain just said "martin doorsese" and then this happened.

please enjoy.

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[fancykraken]

insp

#walrus #fairy #fairy walrus #walrus fairy #idk how to tag this #tumblr meme #animals #photoshopped by me #very poorly 😂 #walrus vs fairy

[quasi-normalcy]

(I'm testing a hypothesis, please reblog)

#fairy walrus #testing a hypothesis

[dev-solovey]

The answer is a walrus and I can explain why.

You know that episode of Unraveled where Brian David Gilbert goes through all the Smash Bros stages to figure out how many OSHA violations there are in each of them? The one where he finds the most violations is the stage that's actually supposed to be a construction site, simply because the fact that it is a construction site makes the violations easier to identify. It's easier to find regulations about a faulty ladder than it is to find regulations about like, a pit of lava.

I think the reason it's more baffling if a walrus shows up at our front door is because we have more concept of what that entails. Like, fairies are entirely a mystery, because they don't exist. The best we know about them are various tales about fairies, which differ from culture to culture, and there is no verifiable consensus information on them really. How did it get there? Fairy magic, idk. How do you get rid of it? Ask it to leave, it probably understands human speech. How do you react to this situation? Who fucking knows, it's a fairy.

But if a walrus showed up on our door, we do have some idea of how to react, because it's more grounded in things we already know. And we would have far more questions, because we have a better frame of reference for what it would take to get the walrus there, what the walrus might do, and what it would take to get it to leave. How did it get to my doorstep, in the middle of the desert? Did they fly it in on a helicopter? Why didn't I hear the helicopter? How did they keep it alive during the entire flight from San Diego to the Sonoran Desert? Is it a threat? How do I get rid of it? Call the police? What are they going to do about a wild animal that weighs as much as a car? Endangered species are protected by law - are walruses endangered? If they shoot it dead, will that cause controversy? Am I going to have reporters on my doorstep every day for the next month? Etc etc

I can get why some people would be more baffled to discover that fairies exist, but the problems presented are unknowable - and, given the very few bits of consensus information we have about them, they'd probably be a lot easier to interface with. A walrus is way more complicated, and probably more likely to gore you with it's tusks.

Anyway, I'm not sure how to end this but that's my thesis

#fairy walrus #walrus vs fairy #unraveled #brian david gilbert

[boytranscending]

Ok, we've had the fairy vs. walrus debate, now there's the clone vs. robot debate. I want to know if there's a relationship between people's answers to these two questions

So, our questions:

If you heard a knock at the door, would you be more disturbed to find a fairy or a walrus on the doorstep?

Which would be more disturbing: finding out you're a robot, or finding out you're a clone?

I have a theory about what the answers are going to look like, but I'll wait on talking about it until I've got some data.

#me talking #polls #memes #fairy walrus

[melancholia-ennui]

Lessons learned from last attempt:

Polls, even on a current topic, do not explode out of nowhere like they did when first introduced - gonna need more than 24hrs to get anything like a representative sample with a reach this small

Adding further polls in the reblogs is a bad idea cause everyone only ever reblogs the first poll so they quickly get lost

Lessons not learned:

My questions are dumb, vague, and need to be phrased better to get the info I'm actually interested in

Based on that, I still want to try and find some kind of casual factor in this damn walrus fairy case so here's another attempt.

#fairy vs walrus poll #fairy vs walrus #fairy walrus #walrus #fairy #polls #tumblr polls #random polls #philosophy

[vendimeyers]

The fairy/walrus thing is actually kind of an incredible testament to the truth behind Brandon Sanderson’s first law of magic.

For those that don’t know, popular fantasy author Brandon Sanderson has become quite renowned for how he implements magic in his stories and he decided to write three different essays on the rules he follows and why they work the way they do in storytelling. He calls them his “laws of magic” and the first one is: An author’s ability to solve conflict with magic is directly proportional to how well the reader understands said magic.

Basically, in general for good fantasy writing, you can do anything you want with magic and it will almost always alway be accepted by the reader as long as you set up beforehand what the magic is capable of. Or if you didn’t do that it has to be something the reader discovers with the characters (I mean this generally of course I’m sure there’s always exceptions).

Both the walrus and the fairy scenario imply to the reader (of the poll) some form of magic was employed. The reason a fairy sounds more plausible at that point is because the general cultural consensus in people’s minds is that fairies are already magic and it’s not far of a stretch to believe that a fairy would employ the thing it’s universally known for in order to show up at people’s houses.

However with the other scenario, a walrus knocking at your door. Implies that a walrus is employing some form of magic. But the problem with that is that we already KNOW what a walrus is capable of. A walrus has RULES. When the only rule a fairy has to follow in order to knock on someone’s door is “be magic” a walrus has to first break all the rules we already have about it before “be magic” is even an allowed concept. Before a walrus can be magic it has to take a journey of some length from its aquatic origins, have a specific destination in mind(outside of their regular behavior patterns), and have the capacity to knock. All forms of magic that walrus’ are not known for employing.

Like if the walrus scenario was a book someone was reading and at the very beginning the author described a world in which there was a secret society of walrus’ who have there own politics and methods of travel and cultural nuances, and then went on to describe one of THOSE walrus’ appearing on the reader’s doorstep then the reader would left with a much smaller sense of disbelief more comparable to that of a fairy showing up on their doorstep.

Anyway this wasn’t to say that there was a wrong or right answer to the poll I just think peoples brains are neat and I love how something like a silly little poll can highlight such a big truth in how people communicate to each other and take in information.

#walrus #fairy #fairy walrus

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

I mean, here's what's realistically gonna happen.

If I see a fairy at my door, it's just gonna be like. "Wait, what is this". Fairies are small, so there's no real ... presence to them. They're just tiny! Unless they're human-sized, in which case my first impression is "what's this cosplayer doing here." I'd be more confused than anything else.

If this fairy cast a spell which imparted knowledge into my brain, well, I mean first of all, if it could do that, it could give me all the surprise it wanted. But the option on the poll wasn't "fairy surrounded by an aura which will destroys your brain and increases your level-of-surprise to an arbitrary level", it was "fairy". Of course, if it merely bewitched me with a spell that caused me to believe anything that it said, and said "I am a fairy, and I am real" ... well, I certainly wouldn't have any reason to doubt it after the spell wore off! I'd definitely have to lie down for a bit, it'd be a great big mind-bender that I'd have to unpack for a while, and it's certainly shocking. But once the initial shock has worn off, and it's gotten what it wanted out of the conversation, like ... okay, I'll just have to deal with that now. I didn't know fairies were real until a minute ago, so I can't make any definitive statements about how they work. This might as well happen.

(I also disagree with the idea I've seen third-hand that if you're less-surprised by the fairy, you're gullible and superstitious or whatever. In the scenario described by the poll, fairies are real! This hypothetical scenario is one in which they actually exist! It is reasonable to believe in something which is genuinely real when you see it with your own eyes! *cackle*cackle*cackle* Hiiihihihihihihih! ... sorry.)

Whereas with a walrus, my thought process is gonna be "HOLY SHIT IT'S A WALRUS", since walruses are big and instinctively potentially dangerous. And walroids have a very clearly defined set of behaviors, which does not include knocking on doors, and a highly specific range of locations where you'll find them, which does not have any overlap with landlocked houses, let alone the umpteenth floor of an apartment building, which means that my next several questions are going to be "HOW!? WHY??? WHAT." in no particular order.

#shenanigans #philosophy #walrus vs fairy #walrus fairy poll #walrus #fairy #fairy vs walrus #fairy walrus #walrus fairy #umineko #red truth

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[goblinmatriarch]

Asked my 7yo the fairy/walrus question, and she nonchalantly replied, "I'd be more surprised by a walrus, because I go to fairyland every night anyway."

Then followed up with, "there was that time a fairy dressed up as a walrus to trick me, but they forgot their wings so....I knew."

#fairy walrus #fairy walrus discourse

[gacorley]

I think an angle nobody’s really mentioning on the fairy vs walrus thing is, a fairy hoax would be pretty easy compared to somehow hauling a walrus to your house.

#fairy walrus

[ass-deep-in-demons]

@staff we need a fairy🧚‍♀️/walrus🦭 tumblr badge

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[oi-lucy]

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