The toadstools grew in a perfect ring the width of a child’s hula hoop.

They were upside down and clinging to the ceiling like stalactites.

“I have concerns,” she said.

“So do I,” they said. “If I step under it, does it count as stepping into a fairy circle? I mean, if a plane flies over a fairy circle it doesn’t count as stepping into it, but do the same rules apply if you’re walking under a fairy circle?”

“Right.”

“Actually, what is the area of effect for a fairy circle? Is it like a sphere that has the same circumference of the circle, so if I just duck underneath it I’ll be fine? Or is it a cylinder? How far up does the cylinder go? Or down, in this case.”

“Right.”

“Some of the many mysteries of the fey we may wonder about forever.”

They continued to stare up at the ring of toadstools. Thoughtful seconds ticked by.

“See, my concerns are mostly about how much moisture you have in your room.”

“Sorry?”

“You have mushrooms growing out of your ceiling.”

“Oh.”

She patted their back with sympathetic pity. “I appreciate that you live in a world of whimsy and delight, and I don’t want to squash that because I love you, but I also really don’t want you to die of black mold.”

“She’s right, you know,” said the goblin sitting upside down in the circle.

I have been waiting all of my life for a .gif set of this scene. This struck me so hard when I was younger.

Seriously. I didn’t quite understand as a kid because I too thought she was still so beautiful.

It’s so sad how cruel and shallow this world can be, and the horrible psychological damage they can inflict on people who had so much confidence and still possess potential for greatness.

Yet another example of how amazing this show was.

What makes this even more powerful is that Paige Monroe (Calendar Girl) is voiced by Sela Ward, a real-life model and actress who was infamously turned out of the Hollywood system for being ‘too old’.  In 1995, even though she was a three years younger than Pierce Brosnan (then-Bond), she was turned down for a role in James Bond because "What we really want is Sela, but Sela ten years ago”.  In response she made a documentary, The Changing Face of Beauty, about American obsession with youth and its effect on women.  Then this episode came afterwards.

This wasn’t just a general message episode, this was a specific attack on the sexist Hollywod system by somebody who had been one of its victims.

"But Hamas is using the civilians as human shields!" They've been doing that for nearly 20 years now. The solution is to plan around that, not just shrug and plow right through because it's easier to fire a missile and write it off as a "tragic accident" than it is to give a damn about the people trapped in the crossfire.

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This made me feel really happy ❤️

as a POC I can’t overstate how much I appreciate this, the third one especially who has this look that has lost so much hope, you can see her eyes swell in real time post transformation and it just goes to show that looking good makes us feel good

it warms my heart to see so many reblog this from me, yet unless you’re Black? (with little exceptions) I don’t think you all really get it, so let me really paint the story here.

the thing about Black hair is that it is varied, like incredibly so. some of us luck out and get what we dub “Good Hair”, hair that is normally not as tightly curled and manageable with a little to midrange amount of effort. But many MANY of us have natural hair that is tough and thick, the curls are small, sometimes very tightly wound, it makes brushing and combing damn near impossible on top of other hair care methods. short as well as braided hair isn’t always desired but for many of us we have no choice, it’s just easier to maintain it that way, it is a sentence, not a style.

keep in mind that hairstyle is a statement, especially when you’re Black, your hair says so much about you in this community in particular. we also have the fact that our standard is held against White standards of beauty, and that is a whole different conversation involving privilege, systemic racism, and internalized hatred—like bitch, this has LAYERS!

take the age into account here for all these women, but in this case I’m specifically talking about the third. now, these are all educated assumptions, but you know where those tears are from? she’s had to live with this hair her whole life! and you just KNOW she’s tried everything!—heat, curling, straightening, perms, softeners/relaxers, HUNDREDS of products that make hundreds of promises, and many of these risk taking out the natural oil and proteins in hair which is a death sentence for Black hair. she had given up hope that anything good could ever be done I’ll bet. that transformation did more than style her hair, it gave her years upon years of hope; Listen to Black folk when they tell you, it’s more than just hair.

this man is doing more than hair, he’s changing lives…I just hope he knows that.

For those not in the know, this is one of the Amanita mushrooms referred to as a Destroying Angel. Never, ever, ever, ever forage with an app. Especially for mushrooms.

Happy Memorial Day. War is bad, PTSD is not a noble war scar, the draft is an abomination, and the best way to honor veterans is to stop making more of them.

there are two kinds of 'living under a rock' i think. ignoring petty social media and celebrity drama, not caring about beauty and fashion trends...admirable. that shit doesn't matter. being wilfully ignorant of important problems happening in the world, especially ones you have the power to change... selfish and cruel.

By existing as a citizen in and paying taxes to the imperial core, we automatically hold complicity in imperialist oppression because we are literally footing the bill for it. That is just the basic nature of being born to privilege in systems of oppression in general. We can be disadvantaged and marginalized in every single other consideration and we still have to understand and cope with this, and ensure we leverage it as effectively as possible.

Voting abstinence/sabotage does not absolve us of our responsibility to do everything in our power to lessen harm, but it DOES show that when our personal morals aren't satisfied, we retreat into (imperialist, this time) privilege to 'wash our hands' of the situation and declare it's not our fault and it's not our problem.

Consider this: how much fucking help can you be to people who are facing problems all over the planet outside of the United States if you are unable to feed yourself and they make your gender illegal?

Consider also this: Trump's feelings about Palestine are worse.

Consider also this: If the Palestinians knew you had this choice that they don't have and are choosing not to use it, do you think they would thank you?

"Will also probably commit genocide". Not probably. His stated response to the pro-Palestine protests taking place are to deport the protesters and "set the movement back 25 to 30 years", he wants to ban all Gazans from traveling to the US, has openly opposed Palestinian statehood, he shut off a UN agency for giving refugees food, and when asked what he would do (besides claiming that 10/7 would have never happened if he was President, as he usually does) he said he would "finish the problem".

Let's drop all assumptions that Gaza might survive a Trump presidency. Palestine barely survived a Trump presidency. Trump's supporters want to see the whole region flattened and any pressure to limit civilian casualties will disappear the moment he steps into that office.

fucking idiot gets PRANKED

8th dimensional superbeings doing this shit to me right now

@farewelltocats

to be honest its crazy to me people even entertain “kids shouldn’t be in public spaces” as like a legitimate point. like great thank you for your input anyway this is real life and we live in a society and people have children. your perspective is warped and misanthropic but most of all its just like laughably out of touch and unrealistic. you might as well be arguing that rain should be made of grape juice instead of water.

Actually, you know what would happen if kids were to be banned from public spaces altogether?

They'd all grow up into dysfunctional, immature adults who don't know how to behave, interact with each other, or regulate their emotions.

They'd inherit the Earth, and you'd be stuck with an entire generation that (rightfully) hates you for keeping them sequestered for their formative years.

You think a toddler having a screaming fit in the supermarket is annoying?

Imagine a hundred or so grown adults who never learned how to behave in public all doing the exact same thing, because none of them have ever been allowed in public before today and now they've been thrown in the deep end without any practice.

Just a thought for anyone who UNIRONICALLY pushes the "children shouldn't be allowed in public" idea.

to be honest its crazy to me people even entertain “kids shouldn’t be in public spaces” as like a legitimate point. like great thank you for your input anyway this is real life and we live in a society and people have children. your perspective is warped and misanthropic but most of all its just like laughably out of touch and unrealistic. you might as well be arguing that rain should be made of grape juice instead of water.

"Capitalism allows you to follow your dreams. Socialism forces you to give up your dreams."

Yeah. Keep telling yourself that.

”Wow you’re so self aware for your age!” I’ve been filtering every experience I ever have through a thick sieve of shame ever since I turned 12

RUSSIA BOMBED MY UKRAINIAN PUBLISHER?!

I'm trying to get in contact with my Ukrainian publisher for more information but this is what I've found online so far:

For donations I also recommend Razom to support more aid in Kharkiv, the city being shelled intensely right now

when I was a kid playing lego star wars with my brother and we got to the end when you're playing as anakin and obi wan on mustafar I thought you were supposed to be fighting and killing each other the whole way. you weren't, it's a normal co-op level, and there were no unique pvp mechanics or anything. you lose a bunch of your studs when you die, just like normal, but I thought that was intentionally symbolic of how much anakin's hubris and lust for power was only hurting himself or something, so we kept killing each other and the level took so fucking long to get through because of it