Actually Life Is Beautiful Because The Sound I Make While Trying To Breathe Around Hot Food Sounds Like

Actually life is beautiful because the sound I make while trying to breathe around hot food sounds like my dog trying to eat an apple. When I yawn my cat tries to put his face in my mouth like a little dentist man and when he yawns I put my finger in his obligate-carnivore trapzone and we both know he will not hurt me. When I do not fold my clothes, they do not hold it against me.

I am demonstrably sad, and lonely, and full of fear. But there are other people who will hold my hand, who will point out the hawk overhead, who will give you That Look in a public place. The other day at a coffee shop a child said "look! It's snowing!" so all of us strangers went to go look out the windows. It wasn't the first snow and it won't be the last but wasn't it lovely, like that?

How wonderful to live in a world where birds and frogs both say beep! How wonderful to have an ocean of beautiful sharks with their dinosaur teeth! How wonderful the moon and her changing face, how wonderful the bees and their dancing to communicate, how wonderful shrimp and their forbidden layers of vision! How wonderful, you, and what you will give the world! The way we love things enough to spend entire blogs devoted to them? How people will let me explain my Pokemon team to them? How we will both jump at the scare in the movie, how we laugh so loudly, how it feels to give someone your baking? How wonderful to be alive. I am sorry for forgetting.

This is the process of getting better. With wonderful people and wonderful strangers and wonderful friends: I am getting better, slowly. Thank you, whoever you are. In some way, you've been wonderful, and left a wonderful place in the world to ripple out to me. In some small way - isn't it beautiful - I promise, you've been helping.

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4 years ago

Spent the thanksgiving weekend to doodle this. How to Train Your Dragon is my all time favourite movie ever!

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4 years ago

Made a Light Fury edit! Basically all I did was just change her proportions a bit but imo she does look better. I made her eyes smaller, her nose larger, her neck slightly thicker, and her main set of ear plates longer and a bit thinner. (I also made her mouth larger but you can’t really see it lol)

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Zac Efron On The Verge Of Tears After Eating Pasta Is Both Extremely Relatable And Also Incredibly Sad

zac efron on the verge of tears after eating pasta is both extremely relatable and also incredibly sad

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shilohs-things

4 years ago

You know, Dean, if you really wanted us to believe that dragons are wild animals who will always attack first and think later...

Then you could have shown that here.

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shilohs-things

5 years ago

Words cannot express how much I wish this was canon

Can DreamWorks please just remake the movie

New design, this time vaguely based on a leopard shark. She’s actually aquatic now!

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shilohs-things

5 years ago

We were robbed of so many things in the deleted scene, but especially this face the Light Fury makes. This moment when the camera focuses solely on her, and what she’s feeling, without including Toothless.

In the deleted scene, she’s real and fallible and actually very snooty. She sniffs Toothless’s auto-tail and grouses about it and flies away while still sneaking a glance back, trying to pretend she isn’t still interested. He makes her laugh, they go on their wild, playful flight through the clouds, she teaches them how to do the stupid lightning thing, and they emerge from the stormhead grinning big gummy inelegant fury grins, happy as can be. And then he licks her and we get this and that’s the moment that everything really changes.

This isn’t some dragon who just checked off the last box on her Big Dumb Call of the Wild Mate Candidate checklist – this is it hitting her that she’s never met anyone like Toothless, who’s fun and unrestrained and wears his heart on his sleeve and absolutely adores her.

It’s earnest and vulnerable and so much more compelling than the Light Fury in the movie, who isn’t allowed to be either of those things because I guess character development isn’t “sexy and graceful.”

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shilohs-things

2 years ago

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4 years ago

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5 years ago

Day 2: Sky Burial

The peckish pecks of vultures will separate my skin.

Food for wildlife and nature, my death allows life back in.

It matters not beak, claws, or teeth. The mountain is their rightful home.

Leave my body to the wild.

Leave my body alone.

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shilohs-things

5 years ago

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