050325. Infantilism.

they’re saying it’s gonna be hellygemma summer

fearsome fangs friday!!!!!!!!!! bite everyone

underrated form of humor: just making shit up in past tense

My personal favourite:

official linguistics post

Unusual new gummies discovered during @destinationtoast's trip to Tokyo! I grabbed them impulsively without looking too closely ("Cat? Cat = Toasty!" was about the extent of my thought process), so when we opened them, I was surprised by their gimmick! The label says 毛糸玉 [けいとだま] からねこ!? / "From a ball of yarn, a cat?!" and I was like, huh. Cat from yarn. What could that mean?

Well.

Is there something in there? It looks like there could be something in there. Unclear if it's actually cat-shaped though. Certainly not to the extent it is on the package art. Right?

After careful exploratory surgery (nibbling with our incisors, the way a waitress in Shimane bullied/taught me to eat a fish eyeball [like an ear of corn except the cob is a sphere encompassed inside another sphere and the outer sphere is not kernels of corn but a gelatinous mass]), we could see that there was, in fact, a little purple gummy inside of the yellow gummy!

Gently, we squeezed him forth and birthed him.

And he was recognizably a cat! Mostly! Right?

It was impressive and surprising. And by the time we were done, it was snowing outside! And we were all a little tipsy. All in all, slightly unreal. But such a fun afternoon with a friend who is usually so far away!

I have not stopped thinking about these, nor that delightful afternoon!! Every time I have had an American gummy snack since (or even gummy vitamins), I have thought back to this superior gummy technology. I was SO surprised when I squeezed and the first cat emerged. 😹😹

(Though now I'm also not going to be able to stop contemplating eating fish eyeballs... that's a very evocative description! 😯)

AO3 in popular culture

Neither Wikipedia nor Fanlore have this subsection in their AO3 entries, which makes me sad. I'm aware of N.K. Jemisin's use of "Tales of Our Own" in Far Sector

And I just found this gem in Django Wexler's Everyone Wants to Rule the World But Me:

"Fun fact for readers from the future: Before AO3 was a benevolent government ushering in world peace and prosperity for all, it was a fan-fiction archive! [star] THE MORE YOU KNOW [star]"

Anyway, I'm interested in other sightings in the wild, especially in visual media/moving pictures. Please add any of which you are aware!

light of Aurora, Anastasia Trusova, acrylic, 2021

Juan Brufal

Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.

It was a global problem

they do not go in the direction you think they will go

ummmmm excuse me Human, i am noticing we are not petting me? i am a little baby of seven (7) years old and i have never been loved in my whole entire life (tragedy.) your eye balls must not have seen when i ran in front of your legs six times in a row. i will now Scream until this mistake is fixed

Good Will Hunting (1997) Dir. by Gus Van Sant

The new Hellraiser movie looks great

Trio for Harmonica, Rubber Duck, and Belt in D Minor

The children of the night, what beautiful music they make...

upstairs neighbor behavior

I love how all the comments at once as completely accurate but still cannot encapsulate what the fuck is going on here.

Five Things orphan_account Said

In Five Things, orphan_account discusses having one of AO3's oldest accounts, preserving fanworks, and being mistaken for a real person. Read more on otw-news.org/yck7a29c

Hm? Did anyone hear something?