shes got that DAWG in her

GRAHHHHHHHHHH

i have been constantly in tears over this newly hatched duck i found on instagram last night

This is like the greatest animal ive ever seen

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I would still use my turn signals in the Mad Max Wasteland. They'd call me "Signal" because I'd hit my blinker before ramming the enemy hot rods into the side of a desert ravine. I'd use my turn signal every time. They would respect me for this.

jesus fucking christ

one of the most important things, perhaps the most important thing I have learned in my life is that nice people can fuck each other up in monstrous ways. people can be bone deep kind and loving and self reflective and still lash out under pressure. people can be earnestly neighbourly and charitable and hospitable and generous and still find themselves in situations where they become selfish. people can be well meaning and easygoing and gregarious and hold deep seated opinions that turn them into vicious little bullies under the right conditions. nobody is just one thing, and nobody stays one way. every person is a kaleidoscope and they will surprise you. you will surprise yourself. it's not a warning and it's not a judgement and it's not an excuse, and it's certainly not a reason to stop trying or to stop trusting. it is just a fact.

the thinkerrr

(made with wigglypaint :D)

this diagram from my science textbook reads like a tumblr shitpost and i love it

girl

with big tail

girl

by HeckoGecko

How did Bethesda get away with having a character like Vivec in 2002

He’s intersex and non binary, canonically identifies as both male and female. Is male presenting and appears to mostly use he/him pronouns and canonically had sex with a male presenting Daedra to get information out of him.

I think they got away with it because he’s a god. But also not really? He’s not really a god? Just kind of?

Like, good lord. Vivec is such a complicated character. He sucks but also he doesn’t. He’s a character of dualities and contradictions.

Like in order to have an intersex bigender character in 2002 they had to wrap him up in layers of theological duality but they still did it. They made Vivec. And people accepted it. Vivec is there. He was bigender and intersex even when he was mortal. That was not caused by his divinity.

They made an intersex bigender warrior poet not afraid to use his sexuality to get ahead in life. And from what I can see people just let them do that. Did they even know what they were doing? Did they even know how cool that was when they did it?

don't forget his force feminization hobby

his what now

Of these, I talk now of the demon-king of the Star-Wounded East, Vehk and Vehk the Circle Talker, anon Ansu-Gurleht in Yoku, the God of Makes Us Women, whose powers are so terrible that even Redguards must bend to His will, though foreign and thus benighted; if He comes, we run until we can't.

Vivec is known as the God of Makes Us Women for his hobby of fighting RaGadan champions in duels and when they lose, he makes them his wives

just to ease my followers