#only slightly exaggerated

[monstermonger]

Fire-roasted chestnuts bring in the best visitors C:

#dragons #dragon art #bird feeder #tbh i’m a tiny bit shy posting this one because- #i’ve seen a VERY popular post cross my dash multiple times that looks very similar to this xD i promise i made this 3 yrs ago #had only uploaded to twitter tho #based on my balcony in the summer #only slightly exaggerated #bird art #fantasy illustration #fantasy creatures #small dragons #chickadee #nuthatch #stellars jay #pnw #fantasy art #dragon #fantasy garden

[alpaca-clouds]

Still Only Slightly Exaggerated GIFs

Travel Oregon - Still Only Slightly Exaggerated (2022)

#gif #animated gif #gif collection #travel oregon #only slightly exaggerated #fantasy #anime #anime gif #oregon #magical realism #solarpunk

[historicity-was-already-taken]

advice to independent and public scholars/academics who work outside the university system

BUILD A NETWORK. because one day you’re gonna need that rare albanian-language only booklet they printed 400 copies of in 1953 and the only way you’ll be able to get it will be via that girl from grad school who now works in Elite University Special Collections and can backdoor you in since only enrolled students from X Department are allowed to view it.

#only slightly exaggerated

[helladventurers]

I love it that every time the game takes me back to azys lla, my first reaction is "HEY DON'T THINK I FORGOT TIAMAT IS JUST OVER THERE SUFFERING FOR ETERNITY, ARE WE GONNA DO ANYTHING TO HELP DRAGON MOM MOVE AWAY FROM HER TRAUMA AND GUILT OR ARE WE GONNA JUST GO BACK TO REDEEM ANOTHER ASCIAN/IMPERIAL INSTEAD?"

#gui plays ffxiv #shadowbringer spoilers #only slightly exaggerated #but if we never do anything to help and free her i'mma flip my shit #hashtag free dragon mom #also don't take this post as an excuse to tell me spoilers since i'm obviously playing through the game yet

[nukenai]

My Pokémon self insert has like really extensive lore and a very detailed story but also I can describe her by saying she's a feral whale princess who collects orphans and keeps throwing people off buildings at every possible opportunity

#only slightly exaggerated #my kids are also insane bc their father is a moron #can't help myself

[static-skeletons]

trying not to be such a bastard vs having had so many negative experiences with strangers you think every person who comes up to you is about to call you a slur

#only slightly exaggerated

[beaversatemygrandma]

Spanish moss. Such a lovely layer of fur for every tree in the Southeast US.

You know, this stuff.

It’s great and all until you learn that it’s parasitic to trees (allegedly), homes these annoying tiny red bugs that bite you (also allegedly), and falls all over everything you own (not alleged. That shit’s real. It gets everywhere). And that one time you light a bonfire in your yard during the summer, burning all your school papers with your friends right under a Spanish moss covered tree. Then, of course, that one friend with pyro-manic tenancies decides to give the fire a little more oomph, which makes the bonfire reach up into the tree above, lighting each piece of super flammable moss on fire above you, raining down ashes and embers onto you and your group, leaving everybody terrified that you’ll burn down the whole neighborhood. Until your mom shows up and tears out the rarely used hose and starts spraying the fuck out of the fire with it until it’s out, leaving you and your friends with a wet fire pit and unburned papers and a bottle of lighter fluid.

#taks speaks #true story btw #only slightly exaggerated #fun night back in high school and the reason why i wasn't allowed to give that one friend lighter fluid #we had more fires. just no lighter fluid. we'd use the moss as starters #and for some reason we didn't move our fire pit to out from underneath that tree for another three years #spanish moss makes a good fire starter. it's just a shame that this is how we learned of this

[fullscoreshenanigans]

Ray intends to die. From what he said, he's doing it so you and I don't get killed. He didn't include himself in the numbers. He's not escaping. Ray has decided to die inside this house. He's going to set himself on fire to distract Mom in order to let us run away. That's his entire plan.

But I won't allow him to do that. Not ever.

The inclusion of these two simple frames in the anime is everything to me actually

#i'm only slightly exaggerating #the manga has panels of him looking at Ray and reflecting on this too but I adore how solemn yet determined he looks here #to go with prev post bc always obsessed with this #The Promised Neverland #Yakusoku no Neverland #TPN #YnN #TPN Norman #TPN Ray #Norray #Norrayemma #Noremray #like vaguely because of her inclusion in the quote and my biases lol #FSS Chatter #Norman #Ray #TPN S1 #TPN S1e11 #Escape Arc #and tweaking a 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠‚ 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠 quote that's originally Ray → Norman #but Emma and Norman were the ones who helped Ray understand it in the first place #[[𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛] 𝑖𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠. #𝑆𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑙𝑢𝑐𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑜𝑢𝑡‚ #𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 [𝑅𝑎𝑦] 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙.] #He wants him to see it so badly he wants to save him so desperately after a lifetime of despair and hopelessness #and it is so fucking endearing #that lingering unspoken vow of “I'm going to save you…” #with help ofc but especially poignant with how he internally berates himself for being willing to toss Ray aside for two weeks #and swift and fierce shifting of Ray back into the “dear friend who must be protected at all costs” category in his mind

[shkika]

What would happen if saint appeared and the ancients were still around?

pathetic sopping wet kitten crawls out of hell and walks over half the globe to find her gf more at 9

#ask #anonymous #rain world #looks to the moon #rw saint #this is only slightly an exaggeration #saint if THIS EARLY in the timeline would be extremely different #still very traumatised though

[hanzajesthanza]

geralt "i will NEVER deadname my best friend" of rivia

"he will ALWAYS be dandelion to ME"

#also 'including milva in male costume' goes SOOO HARDDD #everyone say thank you regis for citing a dozen precedents to pull that off. the effect of knowing your herstory <3 #c: geralt #s: i want to be by your side #geralt is like the reverse situation of a transphobe who 'has known you for 20 years so he can't call you something else now' #it's that he has known dandelion for so long that he can't call him anything else but his STAGE / CHOSEN NAME :') #the 'viscount dandelion' is so funny to me #i can accept that he's a viscount but I DRAW THE LINE at calling him by his birth name #milva: 'you can accept that he's a viscount??' #also it's lost in english but that his stage name and birth name begin with the same letter & thus sound. jaskier... julian... #not the 'chosen name starts with the same letter as the birth name' stereotype. and swag #the witcher books #book: lady of the lake #excerpt #one thousand million years ago in posada: #dandelion: 'don't you want to know my name' | geralt: 'but i already know your name. it's dandelion' #dandelion: 'but it's not my real name. don't you want to know my real and famous name' | geralt: 'not particularly' #geralt has the same relationship to dandelion's birth name and viscount status as dandelion has to kaer morhen 💀 #geralt and dandelion are like i don't care who you were back then i cannot comprehend your sad backstory all i care is about who you are no #i think this kind of friendship helped them both slightly detach from their exaggerated levels of perceived self-importance #geralt from his 'woe is me i will never be seen as a normal man' and dandelion from 'im the most interesting man in this tavern' #only SLIGHTLY detach. when they're around each other they temper expectations. but when they're apart it grows back

[aurpiment]

Stephen: So I’ve noticed that when we park— Mowett (visibly suffering): If you please, sir, it’s not called ‘parking’ for a sailing vessel. Stephen (spending all his nautical brainspace on remembering what a brig is; proud of it): Quite so, terribly sorry. So when we park the brig 😊, everyone so dreads doing so at a shore where the wind is blowing towards the land. Is that some sort of... sailing superstition? Mowett (trying to put it politely): … no, sir… that one’s real, on account of... you know, the danger of getting stuck or smashed to smithereens. Stephen: Ah! Most classic thing to be smashed to, to be sure. But why ever would such a shore prove so dangerous? Mowett: Jesus, man, er, let me draw you a diagram or something.

#mt #NOT verbatim but only SLIGHTLY exaggerated for comedic effect #aubreyad #master and commander

[alpaca-clouds]

Only Slightly Exaggerated GIFs

Travel Oregon - Only Slightly Exaggerated (2019)

#animated gif #gif #fantasy #magical realism #anime #ghibliesque #travel oregon #only slightly exaggerated #gif compilation #solarpunk #oregon

[captainofthetidesbreath]

Travis, during the episode: icb you didn't let me just stab the bull 😒

Travis, the SECOND Matt ends the episode: Oh my GOd, Umudara is so touching and moving. 🥺 Going to walk all the way across the wildlands to end up at the dying Savalirwood. 😭

#I am exaggerating but only slightly lmfaooo #Travis during the episode and Travis after the episode are completely different people. And he's so valid. #'I am not who I was then [forty seconds ago]' type shit. #Really just 'when I'm off the clock I'm OFF the clock.' except the clock is the D&D session #Critical Role things #CR spoilers #Critical Role

[possiblytracker]

courtesy of the enablers in my notes, here is my Flamingo Wisdom gained from the catch today

first of all, a flamingo separated from its flock (as it has to be when you are moving that beast around) is kind of like a horse, in that it will freak the fuck out if a leaf so much as moves in the corner of its eye, and it really really really wants to break its stupid twig legs by any means necessary. and you really cannot let them do this, because they will probably die, but they are stronger than they look and despite their insane 70+yrs captive lifespan they appear pretty fucking determined to spectacularly remove themselves from this mortal coil. if they cannot kill themselves, they will simply attempt to kill something else; if you do not personally clamp their beaks shut using your entire hand they will reach around with their long stupid tube necks and start swinging without hesitation. they bite, and will rip out hair and earrings and whatever else in reach they can get their fucked up beaks on. several of the flamingos were covered in visible blood stains of unknown origin before even picking them up, and half the day was spent wondering if one had been attacked and was doing all this bleeding, but as far as i know nobody ended up finding any which left way more questions than answers

to transport a flamingo is a two-person effort, because they are so long and so desperate to fuck up themselves or whoever is around them that you need at least two sets of hands to pull it off safely. one person holds the flamingo facing backwards tucked under one arm kind of like a set of bagpipes. with the other arm you have to hold both legs apart, because if they are allowed to lash out you get fun accidents like "vet tech pummeled in the balls with full force of both flamingo feet at once, advised to leave premises". you have to hold the legs facing downwards, otherwise the circulation gets cut off, as they are physically incapable of pumping their own blood down there without the effects of gravity. the resulting effect looks kind of like you are holding a guitar wrong, or slow-dancing in a really fucked up way. it is also objectively impossible to place your hands on the bird in a way that you will not get pissed on.

the second person has to stand just behind the first and supervises the head, holding its beak shut as shown and supporting the neck in a comfortable position. some flamingos do not Have a comfortable position and will just spend the entire time wriggling and trying to bite you, which you just kind of have to deal with. you also get direct eye contact with the beast at all times, which is. interesting and unnerving

the only people handling them solo were the vet in charge of weighing the animals, the guy sticking them into the back of a van, and my boss, who stood in the corral chasing groups of them into a smaller pen for catching. every time a pair came to collect their next bird he would open the door to the pen, head in alone, you'd briefly hear the most fucked up cartoon fistfight-esque noises from inside, and about thirty seconds later he would reappear with an entire flamingo tucked casually under one arm like a football and just hand it to you. most baffling part of the entire experience, i think

despite the turbulence however they did make it safely to their new home :)

#THIS IS NOT 100% ACCURATE SOME DETAILS ARE SLIGHTLY EMBELLISHED FOR FUNNY PURPOSES. IF ANYONE AT WORK SEES THIS DONT FIRE ME #i am only Barely exaggerating though like im not Lying #only learning the most vital skills for my resume at my work experience volunteering job. at the Duck Zoo. flamingo holder #most fucked up birds ive ever been up close to i am fascinated and appalled. #the first image is a rambunctious young man (born 2017) the second image is a senior citizen (caught as an adult bird in 1961) #LIKE. some of these birds have been here since the sixties when it was still legal for a guy to just Take Birds from places #isnt that insane. its insane to me #anyway that it thats the post #tw unsanitary #ask to tag

[botwstoriesandsuch]

Hold up I'm out of the loop and didn't play age of calamity why do we hate the little white guardian

Ok imagine you watch the play Hamlet and then the Shakespeare Company announces a prequel for the events of Hamlet and it's advertised as a heart pounding and desperate adventure that fleshes out the characters you know and loved.

Then when you go watch the prequel, instead of getting a look at the politics and relationships and murders and events that shaped the world and characters you knew in Hamlet you instead were introduced to a time traveling watermelon that saves Hamlet's father in the first five minutes of the show and the rest of the play is dedicated to having all the various characters react to this watermelon before the watermelon then kills Claudius for Hamlet at the end and everybody goes home and has brunch

#this is what the eggbot is to me. #this is only slightly an over exaggeration #age of calamity #terrako hate blog <3 #Kip answers semi-coherently

[hedonists]

my astigmatism be like

#nemesestext #it’s only slightly exaggerated #pretty boys too pretty for their own good