Fantasy stories should have more "what do you mean you don't do X" things in compare and contrast of cultures. Like the differences between peoples aren't the stuff they show off as "These Are Our Culture :)" things, fucking everyone has food and music and folk tales, but the things they've always assumed that everyone has, and are baffled to discover that they don't.

The people who are always barefoot are baffled that humans don't have a wash basin at their front door where people can wash their feet before stepping inside?? Do they just walk in with their dirty feet? The fuck do you mean you take your shoes off?

Humans don't have small baby-sized spellbooks for toddlers who just learned to read, so they can safely learn to practice tiny cute and harmless, age-appropriate magic spells before progressing to more mature and demanding spells? What, do they just throw teenagers completely unprepared into the arcane - hold the fuck up, is that why human sorceror mortality is so fucking high?

Dwarves who have always wondered why the entrance to human residences is so fucking big, why do you need to take up such a large area for a door that's just there to lead downstairs to the underground halls? Are the timber walls really as thick as a human is tall? What for? And once one of them gets invited to a human house to stay and rest, nobody ever fucking believes her: That's not the entrance, that's the whole fucking house. 100% of the human house is aboveground, there is no tunnel to the underground levels. They might have a single storage room down there, but the aboveground section is so fucking big because that's the whole house.

This post was brought to you by: People who butter their bread and who had no idea that there are people who put mayonnaise on their bread, and people who put mayo on their bread and had no idea about people who put butter on their bread discovering that the other kind of people exist.

How many people’s most beloved childhood stuffed animals are actually teddy bears, like I feel like that’s a thing someone made up. Reblog this and put what your longest owned and/or favorite stuffed animal as a child was in the tags, inquiring minds want to know

From @mumblesplash

You are deranged

i’m like if a bloke who does fuck all was a shonen protagonist

HEY.

Y'all are missing the best part.

U would think a wolf would be afraid of fire

where do i find a ghost to kiss? this is the most important question.

oh that’s a geographical question

i think they have ghosts in ohio

“They are looking for help and this is part of the research we do on the show. It’s like, where are the vulnerabilities in modern society and it’s the fact that you rely on the people you expect to fix things.” “I like how you’re teaching people how to rob buildings.” “Yeah exactly, why not! Fight the power.” - John Rogers and Aldis Hodge, The Long Goodbye Job DVD Commentary

Twitter and tiktok are like a coral reef

It’s loud and bright and productive and glamorous. It’s fast-paced and things cycle through the environment in hours. Everyone is trying to fight for their position in the food chain and stay Relevant. There are lots of pretty things to look at. If something gets Popular it has an impact on everything around it, for a brief time until the next big thing arrives. To an outside observer it’s chaos but to those involved it has order, reason, a Purpose.

Tumblr is like a deep-sea ecosystem.

Things are slow and weird. Memes bounce around for years and even decades. People exist in their little isolated hydrothermal vent communities of mutuals. Sometimes something big happens (suez canal, November 5th, Queen Lizzie kickin’ it) and we all gather around like a whale fall but for the most part we’re just snootling around in the sand doing whatever the fuck. Occasionally someone comes down and shines their flashlight around and immediately leaves and tells their friends about what freaky shit we have going on in the depths. We don’t care. We’re very busy talking about Our Friend Jonathan from a book published in the 1800s like worms slowly digesting the bones of a long-dead organism.

Sometimes you'll be drifting around minding your own business, and something massive and horrible will drift past just out of sight range and you'll know it feom the way the current changes. And you'll be glad it didn't see you.

Game Boy Advance startup sound

Robot girl wakes up from a nap w a big yawn but instead this sound plays from her vocal speakers instead

httyd 1’s design for toothless was the best one IMO . there is just something so Creature about it that is missing from the second movie onward

this was b4 they changed his face to be blockier, have bigger brows. they made him more traditionally cute, and exaggerated his expressions. it’s not a bad thing, but something that isn’t as appealing to me personally. to me He started looking less n less Animal and more Human , n i feel like something was lost there

this is the best comparison i have . they r both the same emotion but the first movie’s design for toothless is way more effective in conveying it. the hostility is literally tangible in the left image. but in the right one you can still tell that he’s angry, but it feels less visceral , less animalistic . too anthropomorphized to be as intimidating yknow !!

same opinion with these !! one feels like a dragon and the other is more like a human

THIS TOO!!! the stripes were so lovely. totally unnecessary to remove them !!

@flyingmanta

brightened some images of him so the stripes are easier to see. i’m sad that they’re gone, they were super cool!

you think this is bad, when you turn around there's one lone bird in the middle of the road not moving, looking past you in completely opaque sunglasses such that you cannot perceive its eyes whether day or night.

it’s almost as if Tolkien knew what he was talking about

It’s almost as if Tolkien personally witnessed one of the bloodiest wars in human history and then used that to fuel his writing.

Zak and Friend, Northern Fells, Lake District, Cumbria, England

My room is very cosy now.

fuck all cis people except for the guy who dmed me on instagram to ask about my new name and, upon me explaining the concept of transgenderism, said, “interesting strat. i like it.”