I like dragons a lot

I just learned that the Russian word for “ladybug” translates to “God’s Little Cow”

It’s the same in Irish! bóín Dé!

in hebrew it’s “our rabbi moses’s cow”

Oh I love this news!!!!

Multiple cultures upon seeing a ladybug for the first time: “Who’s cow is this????”

It feels like some early humans were naming things and one of them ran out of ideas.

Human 1: (points at animal) What’s that?

Human 2: Cow.

Human 1: (points at bug) What’s that?

Human 2: … little cow.

Human 1: But it’s so much smaller. Who would have use for such a small cow?

Human 2: (panicking but in too deep to stop now) God.

The “Lady” in the name “ladybug” is the virgin Mary. People just cannot stop giving religious names to this bug.

The reason for this was that if you lived in an agrarian society then your survival was a throw of the dice every year, depending on the success of the crops. A failed crop year is a very hard year where deaths are expected. And if you grew a cereal like wheat, there were several things that could cause your crops to fail, but one of the big ones was if you happened to get a fuckton of aphids. You know what eats aphids? Ladybugs! If there are lots and lots of ladybugs around, there was a good chance that it’d be a good crop year! They were little crop protectors! When your family lives or dies on the success of that crop, of course they’d be seen as a blessing and given an appropriate name!

A 22 yr old in my org got drunk tuesday night and kinda shit on the fact that I'm running a community cleanup for our chapter. Said something along the lines of "i didn't join up to pick trash." Which really bothers me and it took me a while to figure out why. The whole point of the community cleanup is that we're returning to the neighborhoods where we knocked doors for A4 to help clean up their streets and provide material improvement for free in an effort to build inroads with those neighbors.

Like... if your socialism doesn't include picking uo trash, I'm guessing it also doesn't include doing the dishes, babysitting, or anything else that is important but not prestigious. Idk man, fuck off with that shit. You'll pick up trash and you'll like it until you understand why picking up trash isn't anyone's job but your own. I hate that attitude. If helping and doing activism was always fun and visible and impressive, everyone you know would already be doing it.

boss makes a dollar i make a dime

that's why i read ttou on company time

You guys heard em, purchasing my books and giving me and the digital storefront money is anti-capitalist praxis and everyone should do it.

Yet another "I don't know which one it would be funnier for Cinderella to lose" pair of shoes

this one is easy.

have her lose "Mother"

her remaining shoe just says "fucker", which is funny on its own. wax poetic and you get something like, "hither, the charming prince comes, and with him he bears; the mother to the fair maiden's fucker"

Also Cinderella's whole plight started because she lost her mother so losing her "mother" on the palace steps during the Dark Night of the Soul part of the story something something

My cat hasn't stopped purring for 3 hrs?

Loves you <3

prev tags "#or is sick #those are the options" OR thinks YOU are sick and is trying to heal YOU by purring on you. (there's some real adorable stories about this floating around tumblr. My cat's been doing it to my bum hip lately <3)

Experimenting with river pebbles - the shape of this one reminded me of horse's head, so. Carving it with my tiny 9 watt graver was an exercise in humility but you can't fight the need to make things. Tried to give it this rustic vibe of an amulet of sorts.

Looks just like the fucking horse that would bite me at polocrosse

types of games tagged "exploration" on Steam

I just want to play a game where you explore many different types of environments

⭐ hey for the first time in uuh 5 years i uploaded a new episode of my comic BAD THINGS. it's about a sparkly thing. you can find the full episode here: tapas.io/series/Bad-Things

people always talk about evil clones like oooh a dark mirror oohh what if you saw what a cruel person you were/are capable of becoming. and well yes but what if you were the evil clone. what if you looked in the mirror and what you saw was so bright it blinded you. what if you had to know exactly how good you could have been.

what if you saw the bright version of yourself you weren't allowed to be by others. what if you saw the bright version of yourself you wouldn't let yourself be. what if you saw the bright version of yourself that only came to be by experiencing something you didn't or not experiencing something you did and could only exist as someone fundamentally unrecognizable to you.

what they don’t tell you about making art is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHH!!!

that comment about how you should not borrow grief from the future has saved me multiple times from spiraling into an inescapable state of anxiety. like every time i find myself thinking about how something in the future could go wrong i remember that comment and i think to myself: well i never know, it might get better. it might not even happen the way i think it will and if it does happen and it is sad and bad ill be sad about it then, when it happens. and it’s somehow soo freeing

I need this reminder today.

I wish my dad had an interest so I could get him a Christmas present based on it

Get him a sword

I'm a scifi writer what makes you think I have sword money

You could check in your area, or online, and see if there is a liquidation shop near you. Up in my part of Canada we have a liquidation chain (Bianca Amor) where you can get liquidation swords for very affordable prices.

If your shop don't have cheap swords, you never know what other weird/neat gift ideas they may hold.

I GUARANTEE THAT MY AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY TOWN DOES NOT HAVE SWORD WAREHOUSES WITH EXCESS SWORDS ON SALE

IF PEOPLE WANT SWORDS THEY GO ONLINE OR DRIVE SIX HOURS TO THE CITY

what about learn how to make them, are there any hobbyist blacksmiths do you think

I need you to understand that all the nerds in my town move to the cities after high school. There's me, a few guys who run the comic shop, and a legion of Warhammer-playing teenagers waiting out the last few years of high school so they can move to the cities. The medieval fair happens once a year here and that's the one day a year that the women all get excited to put on longer-than-normal dresses that they wouldn't wear otherwise (that's be weird, people would stare!) and buy knockoff versions of Disney products sold by vendors who drove here from the cities.

I was stage manager for one of my dad's plays a couple of years ago and I had to explain to the theatre group what larp was. To the theatre group. The THEATRE GROUP didn't know what larp was.

I explained and they DIDN'T GET IT. I then had to explain the basics of a tabletop rpg (I just said 'dungeons and dragons' because most of them recognised those words) and didn't get particularly far.

The "nerdy" girl in the theatre group asked me if I'd ever heard of this new thing going around called "superwholock". (This would've been around 2020 or 2021). My only response to Superwholock being called this new thing was a sort of stunned "uh, yes, I'm on Tumblr." She then asked me what Tumblr was.

Do you live in the smurf village

I live in one of the many, many locations on this planet that is not a major city

Diesel's owner: I hardly ever see Diesel any more :( He just shows up occasionally to see if I've left him and food on the porch and then leaves again :( :( He barely even hangs around for snuggles at all :( I love my cat but I never see him :( :( :(

Me, who can't walk three steps without tripping over this purring furry bastard demanding love and hasn't been able to use a computer keyboard in peace for months: Huh, yeah. That sounds tough.

Do they even know he's moved in with you?

They know he breaks into other people's houses but I don't think they know the sheer amount of time he spends here

This is Gilbert. He’s been around a while. Attributes his long life to many, many years of always getting what he wants

2 Chapters left of ghost trick! Cat sissel let's goooooo I believe