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#just. stuff that’s been on my mind
even-disco-baby · 1 year
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YOU — Are you still afraid?
SHIVERS — YES. BUT I AM ALSO HOPEFUL.
IN TWENTY TWO YEARS, I MAY BE NOTHING BUT A HOLE FOR ALL THE WORLD TO FALL INTO. OR I MAY BE GREATER THAN I HAVE EVER BEEN. OR PERHAPS… PERHAPS I WILL BE SOMETHING I HAVE NEVER BEEN BEFORE.
Is there really anything new to be? It feels like history can only ever repeat itself.
Twenty two years isn’t much time to become anything.
I hope that we’ll be a new animal.
I hope that it will all be over.
Uncertainty is frightening…
SHIVERS — YES… BUT IT IS ALSO SALVATION.
I AM HERE. YOU ARE HERE. THE FUTURE HAS YET TO ARRIVE. THERE IS ONLY US.
I HAVE SEEN IN YOUR HEART A THOUSAND WAYS TO MEET OUR END. BUT I HAVE SEEN JUST AS MANY WAYS TO CARRY ON.
YOU — Why do you care to see what’s in my heart? Why me?
SHIVERS — I AM YOUR HEART. AND YOU ARE MINE.
I HAVE LOVED YOU SINCE THE DAY YOU WERE BORN. YOU DREW YOUR FIRST BREATH IN A WAR HOSPITAL AS SO MANY AROUND YOU DREW THEIR LAST. YOU AND I WERE BOTH SO FRAGILE. WE WERE SICK AND DYING. I HELD YOU IN MY LUMINOUS ARMS AND WAITED FOR THE END. AND THEN…
YOU — And then?
SHIVERS — WE BOTH SURVIVED. IRREPRESSIBLE, MIRACULOUS.
YOU HEAR ME. I SEE YOU. WE ARE KEEPING ONE ANOTHER ON THIS EARTH. THAT IS WHAT MAKES US WHAT WE ARE. THAT IS ALL THERE IS TO THIS, TO ANYTHING. WE CANNOT LOOK AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER. WE MUST NOT. WE MUST SEE. WE MUST LISTEN.
I’m listening. I will stay vigilant. I will keep you here with me.
No. You are the reason I don’t want to be on this earth any longer.
SHIVERS — OH… PLEASE, DO NOT SAY THAT. I COULD NOT BEAR TO LOSE YOU.
YOU — That’s not what your people say. They think I should just hurry up and die.
SHIVERS — THEY ARE WRONG. YOU ARE MY HEART. I CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT YOU.
YOU — Don’t lie. Every day, you beat me within an inch of my life.
SHIVERS — …
…I KNOW. I AM SORRY. NOT ALL OF MY ARMS ARE GENTLE. MANY OF THEM THRASH WILDLY. AND SOME… SOME TEAR ME OPEN. THEY GRASP AT MY HEART, SEEKING TO REND IT APART. I CANNOT HELP BUT HURT MYSELF, OVER AND OVER AND OVER. I DESPISE WHAT I AM.
BUT I WANT TO CHANGE. I WANT TO BE CHANGED. PLEASE, IF EVER YOU HAVE LOVED ME, DO NOT ABANDON ME TO DIE. GIVE ME A NEW NAME. AN UNDISCOVERED PHYLUM. MAKE ME INTO A SOFTER ANIMAL.
Don’t worry. We will change together.
I don’t know that any of us can ever truly change.
SHIVERS — BUT… WE MUST TRY, ALL THE SAME…
OR WE WILL DIE. SWALLOWED BY A REFLEX, NEITHER MALICIOUS NOR JUST. THERE IS NO MEANING IN IT. NO WORLD AFTER THE PALE. SURRENDER WILL NOT SAVE US.
YOU — But it would end our suffering.
SHIVERS — …
HAVE I… TRULY BEATEN ALL OF THE LOVE OUT OF YOU? IS THERE NOTHING GOOD IN ME LEFT?
REACTION SPEED — An answer rises to your tongue before you even have a chance to think.
PAIN THRESHOLD — *No.* I’m not down yet.
LOGIC — There is still something keeping you here, or else you would not *be* here. It is as simple as that.
VOLITION — You have loved her and hated her just as you hate and love yourself. And even in your lowest moments, you could not bring yourself to abandon this world. At the last moment, you always found a way back— clawed your way to shore, wiped the slate clean. You wrapped your arms around yourself and cried, and the city cried with you.
You cannot bring yourself to abandon her. She is too much like you.
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YOU — Are you still afraid?
SHIVERS — Yes. But I am also hopeful.
In twenty two years, I may be nothing but a hole for all the world to fall into. Or I may be greater than I have ever been. Or perhaps… perhaps I will be something I have never been before.
Is there really anything new to be? It feels like history can only ever repeat itself.
Twenty two years isn’t much time to become anything.
I hope that we’ll be a new animal.
I hope that it will all be over.
Uncertainty is frightening…
SHIVERS — Yes… But it is also salvation.
I am here. You are here. The future has yet to arrive. There is only us.
I have seen in your heart a thousand ways to meet our end. But I have seen just as many ways to carry on.
YOU — Why do you care to see what’s in my heart? Why me?
SHIVERS — I am your heart. And you are mine.
I have loved you since the day you were born. You drew your first breath in a way hospital as so many around you drew their last. You and I were both so fragile. We were sick and dying. I held you in my luminous arms and waited for the end. And then…
YOU — And then?
SHIVERS — We both survived. Irrepressible, miraculous.
You hear me. I see you. We are keeping one another on this earth. That is what makes us what we are. That is all there is to this, to anything. We cannot look away from one another. We must not. We must see. We must listen.
I’m listening. I will stay vigilant. I will keep you here with me.
No. You are the reason I don’t want to be on this earth any longer.
SHIVERS — Oh… please, do not say that. I could not bear to lose you.
YOU — That’s not what your people say. They think I should just hurry up and die.
SHIVERS — They are wrong. You are my heart. I cannot live without you.
YOU — Don’t lie. Every day, you beat me within an inch of my life.
SHIVERS — …
…I know. I am sorry. Not all of my arms are gentle. Many of them thrash wildly. And some… some tear me open. They grasp at my heart, seeking to rend it apart. I cannot help but hurt myself, over and over and over. I despise what I am.
But I want to change. I want to be changed. Please, if ever you have loved me, do not abandon me to die. Give me a new name. An undiscovered phylum. Make me into a softer animal.
Don’t worry. We will change together.
I don’t know that any of us can ever truly change.
SHIVERS — But… we must try, all the same…
Or we will die. Swallowed by a reflex, neither malicious nor just. There is no meaning in it. No world after the Pale. Surrender will not save us.
YOU — But it would end our suffering.
SHIVERS — …
Have I… truly beaten all of the love out of you? Is there nothing good in me left?
REACTION SPEED — An answer rises to your tongue before you even have a chance to think.
PAIN THRESHOLD — *No.* I’m not down yet.
LOGIC — There is still something keeping you here, or else you would not *be* here. It is as simple as that.
VOLITION — You have loved her and hated her just as you hate and love yourself. And even in your lowest moments, you could not bring yourself to abandon this world. At the last moment, you always found a way back— clawed your way to shore, wiped the slate clean. You wrapped your arms around yourself and cried, and the city cried with you.
You cannot bring yourself to abandon her. She is too much like you.
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inkskinned · 11 months
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the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.
sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.
you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.
it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.
but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.
they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.
they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.
barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.
and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.
but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.
they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!
this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.
#this shifts gender so much bc it actually affects everyone#yes it's a gendered phenomenon. i have written a LOT about how different genders experience it. that's for a different post.#writeblr#ps my comments about seeing someone cry -- this is not to shame any person#and on this blog we support workers.#at the same time it's a really hard experience to see someone that looks like you. clearly in agony. and have them forced to keep going.#when you're young it doesn't necessarily look like acting. it looks scary. and that's what this is about - the fact that teens#have likely already been exposed to that definition of things. because the internet exists#and without the context of healthy education. THAT is the image burned into their minds about what it looks like.#it's also just one of those personal nuanced biases -#at 19 i thought it was normal to be in pain. to cry. to not-like-it. that it should be perfunctory.#it was what i had seen.#and it didn't help that my religious upbringing was like . 'yeah that's what you get for premarital. but also for the reference#we do think you should never actually enjoy it lol'#so like the point im making is that ppl get exposed to that stuff without the context of something more tender#and assume .... 'oh. so it's fine i am not enjoying myself'. and i know they do because I DID.#he was my first boyfriend. how was i supposed to know any different#i didn't even have the mental wherewithal to realize im a lesbian . like THAT used to suffering.
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matchandelure · 3 months
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blanketorghost · 3 months
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Octomer Baby Development: A guide for new parents (Part 1)
Parenthood can be as fulfilling as it is challenging, and for new parents, this may seem like a daunting task to make. But with the help of this handbook, you will be walked over all there is to know about the newest member of your family and how to take care of them.
PHASE 1—THE EGG:
0-2 months:
The egg has just been laid. Roughly about the size of a bead. Though coloring may vary, most octomer eggs look transluscent with a bright colored center, in which the embryo is located.
Unlike octopuses, octomers only lay one or two viable eggs per mating cycle. This greatly increases their life expectancy as their digestive system no longer shuts down inlieu of producing viable eggs. Octomer eggs, like most marine life eggs, are extremely fragile and squishy. Parents often create a small nest out of weaved kelp, sea cucumbers, and soft live coral. These are not only meant to cushion the egg, but the toxic tendrils of the live coral help protect their precious offspting from predators.
Another difference to Otopus eggs, is their shspes. Since Octomer eggs aren't hung on the ceiling of an underwater cave, they lack that telltale teardrop shape most octopus eggs are known for, instead taking a more spherical form.
3-5 Months:
On this stage, the egg is about the size of a ping pong ball. Eyes and a mouth start to look visible and the embryo's body starts to develop the octomer's signature 8 arms. Though poor, their sight and hearing will develop and the embryo will start reacting to sounds and light. It is recommended parents start talking to the egg to incentivize development.
It is common for octomer parents to carry their egg around in small pouches or bags so the embryo can be stimulated by outside sounds and light fluctuations at different sea levels.
5-7 months:
Most of the octomer's body is fully developed at this point and sex can be determined by the lack or prescence of a hectocotylus. The outer membrane of the egg also starts to lose color and become more fragile as the embryo absorbs more nutrients. The egg is about the size of a billiard.
At this point, it is not recommended to move the egg, as it could possibly harm the delicate shell and cause premature hatching.
7-9 months:
After absorbing all the nutrients from the egg, the octomer baby is expected to pip and hatch around this time. The outer layer is expected to be completely transluscent as all nutrients have been absorbed, and instead all coloration has been transfered to the newly hatched baby.
At this stage, their chromatophores aren't fully developed, and as such, most octomers at this stage only have light pale coloration alongside freckles or marks reminiscent of their specific species. Octomer babies have also not developed the ability to create water jets, and due to their small size— around the size of a baseball— can be swept by ocean currents. This is why, most octomer babies will be constantly in the care of their parents up until they've reached 24 inches or 61.4 cms in size.
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wasyago · 11 months
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the brainrot won
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hedgehog-moss · 2 years
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When I’m an old lady I’ll still be informing young people that Halloween never existed in this country until the 90s /early 00s when people who sell us stuff realised they could use it to sell us more stuff, and Halloween-themed stuff suddenly appeared in shopping centres without warning and was relentlessly marketed to children, and adults saw right through it and disliked it (“what’s this American sh*t, why are there pumpkins and witches in shop windows this never used to be a thing”) until they got used to it and young generations grew up thinking Halloween had always been a thing here even though kids born just a decade earlier had to be taught about it by the TV or school. Also it trampled over our pre-existing Fun Cultural Event When Kids Get Dressed-Up which had never needed to be marketed so aggressively and therefore became less relevant
I don’t mind at all if you love Halloween but it’s so weird to see my younger cousins convinced that it was always a thing in France when I remember being taught at school what trick or treating was, like “let’s learn about cultural traditions that are exotic and fun and different from ours!!” and I’m not old. Millennials literally saw Halloween get astroturfed into our culture with no explanation when shopping centres just went “from now on this is something we’ve always done” and we had no choice but to be like well OK I guess 🤷‍♀️
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ectonurites · 3 months
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CHAPPELL ROAN THE LATE SHOW [2.15.24]
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dianagj-art · 18 days
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Oh yeah I can finaly post these!
this initially was just a "I wanna draw tiny One on a Viking outfit too" and it just went downhill from there
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wispscribbles · 6 months
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why are you and your drawings so cool 😭🙏
afdsasdfasg thank you !! irl ppl would laugh at me being called cool lol - Have a ghoap as thanks <33
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leafsfromthevine · 2 months
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the boys are fighting (together. homoerotically, even).
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nanstar200 · 26 days
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Hi gueys 🧍 (run away again)
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z0mbzii · 5 months
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t girl apollo I love you 2 the ends of the earth ♡
(Click 4 quality as per routine)
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robinfollies · 4 months
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KEEP THE DANGER OUT // KEEP THE DANGER IN
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#billie bust up#bbu billie#bbu fantoccio#robin’s art#2024 art#COMPANION PIECES BABY!!! started these last year (month) and finally finished em!!! :33#i could write an ENTIRE essay abt billie and fanto and their parallels and stuff#which actually i love tumblr tags. lets do some of that here!#okAY IM NOT GONNA GO INTO EVERYTHING BUT HERES A BASIC RUNDOWN OF SOME OF MY THOUGHTS#let’s start by looking at goatshire + the lost city of magic !!#both places have some kind of border around them keeping SOMETHING in/out#goatshire’s wall keeping the trolls/other danger out; keeping the villagers inside safe#and the city’s barrier keeping the curse inside; while keeping everyone outside safe from it#but in turn it’s also keeping billie and fanto trapped in their respective places#one moreso than the other i guess but ahahaha. haha. heh. OKAY MOVING FORTH#unrelated but how sick would it be if the barrier broke and let the curse out. just sayiiin.. a lil theory thats been on my mind recently#anyways back to THE POINT#okay this parts gonna sound insane BUT JUST HEAR ME OUT HERE#goatshire citizens / the cursed city citizens.#billie and fanto both kinda stick out in their respecitve homes; fanto being the only uncursed guy and billie with their magic#so theres like. a real disconnect between them and others there. u get what i mean.#theyre both outliers and like something something allegory for neurodivergence and struggling to connect with others probably#SORRY GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF. idk how to explain it BUT DO U GET IT!!! DO U UNDERSTAND!!!!#also they were both abandoned by SOMEone stares at arthur#okay specifically whoever fanto’s cretaor was left him behind but u know me im such a fanto elmtwig jak#something something loneliness and being left behind and having ppl around you who kinds understand u but also not totally. kicks rock#someone get these siblings some THERAPY!!!!!!!#this was a very disjointed explanation bUT HOPEFULLY I GOT MOST OF MY THOUGHTS ACROSS GOOD. IM BAD AT EXPLAINING THINGS SORRY#someone order me a yappuccino!!!!! BYE!!!!
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franeridart · 5 months
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The Housecat Philosophy - Ep 39
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Read the next four episodes on Patreon || support me on ko-fi~✨
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11syrups · 22 days
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“You believe me like a god, I betray you like a man”
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silvers-starrway · 2 months
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So the wildest thing happened where @mactheactor decided to dub over (if that's even the correct terminology) the Chaos Sonic animation I made!!!!
I'm still in utter awe about this like, hands down the coolest thing ever I've been thinking about this non-stop. Hope y'all enjoy it as much as I do!!
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