I Made A Halloween Animatic For The Batfam If Anyone Is Interested Lmao

Not to be dramatic but I do think we need to start flaying the rich alive and stringing up the corpses as a visceral display of opposition to their power and it needs to be very public and looked upon by our descendants as barbaric. It’ll be cute I think

booktok did ruin a lot of romance novels bc of the demand for instant gratification but culturally it is kind of a slay that so many young women are just reading smut and masturbating all day #respect

... is Callum going to use dark magic to trap Aaravos in a coin? In the s6 finale he picks up Runaan's coin, and Rayla found K'ppar's coin earlier last season- what if they use the remaining quasar diamond to free him, Callum learns the spell and succumbs to the dark magic- what if that's the choice thats the sacrifice HOLY SHIT

Callum 'I would do anything for you.' Rayla 'pick the greater good.' What if the greater good is him giving himself over to darkness, what if the greater good means he needs to be the one to trap Aaravos forever.

What if Claudia comes around instead, leaving the path she thought her father wanted her to follow-making her way back to Terry and betraying Aaravos in one fell swoop.

The theme of book 7 is literally 'sacrifice' and is probably going to be titled Dark since the other seasons have the primal magic names already. I am so fucking hyped

Black snake millipede, Californiulus euphanus, Paeromopodidae, Julida

Found in Washington and Oregon

Photos 1-2 by corndog and 3-9 by wetlandwanderer

they call me the bug whisperer. because i whisper to bugs

just to remind myself of that time I somehow ended up recommending the fic op actually wrote about this in the comments to someone without realising op was, in fact, the author of that fic.

sometimes you follow someone for their skyfire/starscream comic and find out later they're the author of your fav starscream redemption fic

this hellsite is alright actually

Look my favourite 'Starscream joins the Autobots' concept involves him absolutely playing up his victimhood in a manipulative attempt to win sympathy. He's a Decepticon! He's Starscream. Of course he does! He will act however weak and vulnerable he needs to, in order to achieve his ends.

This gives him a fascinating duality. He's a Machiavellian selfish would-be-tyrant who fucking dares the Autobots to feel sorry for him; while at the same time, he's a wheedling, snivelling mess, making puppy-dog eyes as he cunningly reveals tailored scraps of his abusive relationship with Megatron to win over the 'soft-sparked' Autobots.

Everything he shares is true.

In fact, things with Megatron were probably even worse than he portrays, albeit more complex - i.e., with far more goading and violence on his side, but which in NO WAY justified the ghastly abuse he was subjected to.

This is a way for him to feel like he's in control of the shit that's been done to him. If he's using his victim status as a weapon, it feels like it's his. He's taken possession of it. He's made it into something more powerful, in his mind (even if this defence tactic kinda... prevents him from fully recognising that what happened to him was actually really really awful).

I wish more fics engaged with this aspect of his character, where he's PERFECTLY WILLING to go 'OH THE ABUSE. OH I HAVE SUFFERED' if it'll get him ahead in life, while perhaps not even fully understanding just how much trauma he's gone through.

If you're a writer you're supposed to write a lot of bullshit. It's part of the gig. You have to write a lot of absolute garbage in order to get to the good bits. Every once in a while you'll be like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time writing bullshit," but that's dumb. That's exactly the same as an Olympic runner being like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time running all those practice laps"

‘Cause I was born with a hole in my heart Yeah, we were fucked from the start Tell me it’s inevitable that I’d End up with scars from falling Down, down We were always meant to fall apart