24, Preemptive Mourner, Just About Every Square Inch of This Planet Contains a Friend of Some Sort, Treasure Them While You Can, Please.
Icon by @alexis-royce
took me a hot second to find it, but here’s the source for the original image this was based off!
im seeing a lot of people in the tags/comments respond to these creatures in a weird way. a lot of “kill it,” different variations of: “i want this dead”
i counter this by asking you why you feel the need to hurt something you’re afraid of?
You ever think about how unified humanity is by just everyday experiences? Tudor peasants had hangnails, nobles in the Qin dynasty had favorite foods, workers in the 1700s liked seeing flowers growing in pavement cracks, a cook in medieval Iran teared up cutting onions, a mom in 1300 told her son not to get grass stains on his clothes, some girl in the past loved staying up late to see the sun rise.
there are scriptures all over the world painstakingly crafted hundreds of years ago with paw prints and spelling mistakes or drawings covering up mistakes. a bunch of teenage girls 2000 years ago gathered to walk around their hometown, getting fast food and laughing with their friends. two friends shared blankets before people lived in houses. a mother ran a fine comb through her child’s hair and told it to stop squirming sometime in the 1000s. there are covered up sewing mistakes in couture dresses from the 1800s, some poor roman burnt their food so well past recognition that they just buried the entire pot. there are broken dishes hidden in gardens of people no one even remembers anymore