Bittern at the grocery store

Long hair wyll? Ponytail? Or just hairstyles you think could be fun for him. Love how you draw him!!

Thank you! I’ve always imagined him with twists. He could pull off anything, though.

The Blade stands at the ready!

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As an adult I think me and all my friends should all have matching schedules and work like 20 hours a week and also everyone lives within 15 minutes of each other why is that so much to ask

When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

how does tumblr even work do you just like talk to yourself until people are like "i like this one"

[image: Photos of a small wooden table that is designed to look like a beetle from above. When the small shelf (shaped like the mouth of the beetle) is opened, the "wings" pivot outwards. The table legs are shaped to mimic segmented beetle legs]

beetle table <3 maple, white oak, walnut

John Wick is not an “action series” it’s an urban fantasy leaning heavily on fae rules such as a hidden world overlaid over the mundane world, miraculously out of sight despite its vastness, operating by strict and bloody codes of fairness. AND it’s an action series

in a medieval groupchat nobody would make fun of your typo they would just assume that its a new spelling youre going with and roll with it

When it comes to high-context and low-context cultures, where one has the expectation of people understanding specific subtle nuances of what someone says, and the other has the expectation that everything needs to be explicitly said to be understood, I've heard plenty of people from low-context cultures ask "why not say what you mean and mean what you say then, why would you have to speak in riddles?" about high-context ones, like people of the latter type are just being cryptic and esoteric on purpose.

But culture does not consist of things you do on purpose, it is just the way things are done where you were raised. And when you were raised in a high-context culture, the thought of needing to explicitly state something instead of using some phrase or expression that you've learned to use comes as a culture shock, too. It's not "fuck you for not correctly understanding my riddles three", but "oh shit, I hadn't occurred to me that I would need to say that out loud."

The first time I went on a business trip to the US, my partner came with me, and we immediately discovered that he does not fare well on long flights. So when my publisher asked me about future trips, inquiring whether my partner would be coming with me, I asked him. He said that he would, if the flights weren't such a problem - he would need to travel in some way where he could get his feet up or lay down during flights, like business class or first class. Being also a finn, I understood what he meant and relayed the message as is to my publisher, not considering that they might not.

To both of our surprise, they started to actually look for first class tickets for us.

Finnish culture is a high-context one, people don't talk much and aren't very confrontational. Being demanding and putting someone else into a position where they're forced to be upfront or demanding is rude. And in finnish, saying "this would only be possible if these entirely absurd/completely impossible conditions were met" is a polite way of saying "no". You are simply explaining why something cannot be done, without either saying an explicit "no" or seeming like you're making up excuses. It offers the other party an opportunity to agree that these conditions cannot be met, so neither party will come off as confrontational or demanding.

Both me and my boyfriend considered it self-evident that the request was absurd, and could not be read as anything but a polite way to decline. It had not occurred to me that an american's natural response to "it would be impossible to do this" is to start figuring out how to do it anyway.

Existing on tumblr the past few weeks

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[image: Engraving-style drawing of an enormous bird flying along tall sea cliffs. The birds' wingtip skims the sea below and stretches up above the clifftop. Its shadow drapes over the cliff and blankets the lighthouse above.]

The artist can be found on Twitter and has a dormant Tumblr blog.

Flying South by Clara Scintilla, 2023

I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

All six tarot cards collected! I decided to use white accents on elements that have an important symbolic role in each character's stories. My favorite picture out of the six is probably Karlach's card. And what do you think? Which card do you like best?

There's a bunch of adhd advice out there that's like "people with adhd tend to work better under deadlines due to the anxiety so here are ways to artificially induce a stress response in order to get you to get work done" and it's like well what if I don't want to be stressed out all the time in order to function

harrow is like if you had a creature designed so specifically for living under rocks and snuffling in the dirt and never seeing the light of day and then you took her out of that environment and made her do things like Socialize At Family Dinner