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my best friends are my blorbos

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Layla / Avid fan of Star Wars animated shows / but also TDP, HTTYD, MCU, LOTR, THG, EPIC, PJO, Narnia etc. / Christian / fic writer and artist / Unhealthily obsessed with music, mainly Cody Fry and TSwift but a folk music girl at heart (The Arcadian Wild, The National Parks, The Oh Hellos etc) / Really very fond of purple / no NSFW /
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This is not a monstrous nightmare. This is a winged red lizard. This creature is cumbersome and unintelligent. It holds none of the terrifying grace and agility of a true monstrous nightmare. This bulky lizard could not run and climb and jump across an arena. It could not think about anything more than a snail. Its tail is stiff and rigid, incapable of expressing the animals intrigue or joy. Its talons are that of any generic dragon, instead of the iconic large hooks of a nightmare. Its stance is stuck low to the ground instead of the wide ranges of posture a true nightmare could take on. It angers me.

This is how a true monstrous nightmare is. Its body is large, but light. It has fluid movements and eyes that are not dead with cgi. It is agile and strong, capable of running and leaping and scaring the shit out of anyone. Its eyes are forward facing, indicating its stance at the top of its food chain. You can see the cogs turning in this animals head. Its slightly askew proportions make it expressive and interesting to watch. It is active and quick and intelligent. This animal knows and is aware of what is going on. This animal is terrifying.

Call me negative and unappreciative or whatever you want, but this:

Will always pale in comparison to this:

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Shoutout to my biology professor who when I asked what to do for my lab this week that had the instructions of 'go outside and find five organism-organism relationships and describe and categorize them' and I didn't know how to do it because it's the middle of Winter his response was basically "make up relationships that hypothetically could be there"

My professor literally told me to bullcrap my assignments and that was pretty cool of him

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The HTTYD universe's ecosystem must've been so damaged when all the dragons dissappeared.

"but people wanted to hurt them!" people want to hurt wolves to, but we don't send them all to an isolated cave because it would destroy the ecosystem.

In fact, "dragon" is just a collective word for multiple species so they really fucked themselves with that one.

In conclusion, the third movie was stupid.

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clusterbuck

someone on twitter is trying to claim that use of an em-dash is an indication of AI-generated writing because it’s “relatively rare” for actual humans to use it. skill issue

I can admit this is a little out of hand, but I promise AI didn't write my 150k fic 😂

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fuctacles

Reblog if you're a human that uses em-dashes

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Dogs have a fascinating range of personhood. Like they're all on a sliding scale, on one end you've got the kind of dog that's literally just some guy, like that's your uncle's roommate whom you share an awkward silence with when your uncle gets up to go get something and you two don't know each other well enough to make small talk.

And then on the other end of the scale, that's barely even an animal. Not a single thought in there. That's just the world's happiest battering ram.

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"You're so funny"

Thanks, one time when I was twelve it took an hour to read a 300 word section in my science book and it literally brought me to tears because I could not get my brain to focus on that instead of literally everything else around me and it wasn't until I was sixteen and on the internet that I started to speculate that maybe I had ADHD but I've never been formally diagnosed so even though I have every marker for it and it is an immense struggle to do things that should be easy to neurotypicals I still sometimes wonder if I don't actually have ADHD and I'm just not trying hard enough

Because so many of the things that have helped come to terms with/better function with ADHD have come from people with ADHD on the internet talking about their experiences, I worry every day that I come off as a

"Oh I get distracted so easily, guess I have ADHD lol so silly" person

When it was more of a

"Oh wow you mean to tell me that most people can just get up and function? Like its not normal to not be able to read sometimes because your brain won't focus, or for small tasks like the dishes to feel like they take more energy than Algebra homework or to sometimes not be able to do anything other then stare off into space because you cannot get your brain and body on the same page, and its not normal to have been forgetful about everything since you were six years old because your brain runs so fast you barely picked up the information in the first place much less stored it in the proper compartment in your brain, and its not normal to feel awkward and out of place in every social situation you are in because you've never really been able to fully grasp how social cues work, and its not normal to start painting in the afternoon and then snap out of it at twelve in the morning hungry tired and confused because you hyper fixated so much you didn't even listen to your body's signals that were reminding you to eat dinner? People just have control over their brain and body? Wild, maybe I am not in fact, normal."

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"You're so funny"

Thanks, one time when I was twelve it took an hour to read a 300 word section in my science book and it literally brought me to tears because I could not get my brain to focus on that instead of literally everything else around me and it wasn't until I was sixteen and on the internet that I started to speculate that maybe I had ADHD but I've never been formally diagnosed so even though I have every marker for it and it is an immense struggle to do things that should be easy to neurotypicals I still sometimes wonder if I don't actually have ADHD and I'm just not trying hard enough

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Story concept: Amelia Bedelia vs the fae. There's no tricking her with confusing wordery because she takes everything literally.

"May I have your name, please? :)" "Sorry, no, it's mine and I'm still using it! :)"

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"I disrespect people who disrespect me" Oh well congratulations you are disrespectful. You murder murderers you are also a murderer, you steal from thieves you are also a thief. I'm not passing any judgment but like at least be self-aware about the fact that you are stooping down to the exact same level as the one offending you, and stop acting like you're higher than them. Cause you're not

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You're placing your trust in God and not in princes, right bros?

You're obeying the Church's teaching on all matters, not just whenever it justifies your pet political cause, right?

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I'm obsessed with the way different architectural styles reflect different aspects of God.

Like, gothic? The spires and the stained glass and the pointed arches? The gargoyles on the outside of churches, signifying that the demons can't enter into a sacred space? It's grand, almost foreboding. It sings in the piercing, ethereal song of the dryads of old, "He is not safe, but He is good."

And then there is romanesque, and it is God as fortress, God as bulwark. Round arches, heavy stones. Sturdy, safety, support. It sings in low Gregorian chant, "God is my strong tower, my refuge."

And then there is Baroque. And your breath stalls in your throat, and your heart does something strange because, oh—oh this must be what heaven looks like. It's dazzling, marvelous, almost a dream. And its song is not in words because there are no words to express it except "Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus." But its chorus is celestial all the same. It is God as Divine Beauty, the source from which all beauty flows.

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