"the grand canyon is just a big hole in the ground" one, yeah it is and that's awesome, and two you know nothing cease speaking immediately
like I can't get too mad because like this is one of those situations where pictures can literally NEVER do it justice but if you've ever actually been there I feel like there is no world in which you could describe what you're seeing as a "big hole in the ground" it does NOT come across like that at all
it's like what if you were looking at the ocean but it wasn't the ocean it was an echo of a river with the immense power of an ocean that no longer is and all the shadows the waves left were made out of unfathomably huge ancient rocks in a painted rainbow of color and all at once you fully understood how big the world is and how small you are and how painfully, achingly long six million years is and what sailors and storytellers meant when they described the edge of the world...
it's like looking at an elder god but it doesn't drive you insane so much as re-contextualize your place in the universe in a weirdly kind and loving way
idk how people can describe that as "just a big hole in the ground" like bro it's everything
it reaches to the horizon and literally that's the crazy part to me. yeah it's a big hole but it's a bigger hole than my town and it's older than the hill i live on. so.
no but LITERALLY like I think people don't get it you can BARELY see the other side even if you're standing right on the edge, it IS the horizon if you're facing it, it's 100% like looking at a large body of water and it DOES THINGS to your brain
The (European) explorers who first encountered it were horrified by it; one called it "the grave of the world." It feels less like a geological feature than a force of nature.
It has different weather systems on the North Rim as opposed to the South Rim. There are small mountains INSIDE IT. It’s 270 miles long just based on the river (not including offshoots), which is the distance between New York City and Virginia Beach. You can’t take a picture of it that does it anything close to justice. If you attempt to cross it without proper preparation and guidance, and probably a mule, you will die. “Hole in the ground” is just not in your vocabulary when you’re there.
YEAH LET'S FUCKING GOOOO!! Also you can do the Rim To Rim hike without a mule(which was a dream of mine before the Chronic Illness hit) and it's actually so popular the campsites at the bottom are booked like 2 years in advance, but yeah you gotta be prepared. I hiked maybe a third of the way down into it once and I s2g I almost died it was intense as fuck. Don't let your hubris get you, this place is like the ocean in that it's gorgeous but it can and will kill you if you don't treat it with respect.
Also yeah like "hole in the ground" is straight up not even in your brain when you look at it. It looks like someone drained the fucking ocean, your brain legit will struggle to perceive it 'cuz it just wasn't made to deal with things that are THAT big, and you can sit there and feel it flounder. It's amazing, I've been here three times, it's legit my favorite place on the entire planet.
during an interview, game freak was asked if pokemon are sentient and this was their answer
fuck man aren’t we all
This is actually so funny to me. I hope puritans who migrated from Wattpad are so shocked and terrified by the fact AO3 is actually against censorship that they come crawling back to Wattpad and leave AO3 alone forever.
Like why are you surprised that the site that was created specifically to host dark/taboo/fucked up fics—that were banned on pro censorship platforms—because the founders are proships who got tired of censorship, actually hosts and allows dark/taboo/fucked up fics that were banned on pro censorship platforms 😭 Your report will do nothing because AO3 EXPLICITLY ALLOWS AND WELCOMES DARK/TABOO/FUCKED UP FICS. AO3 IS THE PLATFORM THAT WAS CREATED FOR DARK/TABOO/FUCKED UP FICS.
Imagine willingly walking into the Freak and Pervert Factory and then being shocked because the Freak and Pervert Factory is actually a home for the Freaks and Perverts.
1000xRESIST
I am SO insanely excited to share that 1000xResist is now available physically! This is the illustration I made for the box cover of the Deluxe Edition, and I’m so proud to have gotten to collaborate with the folks at @sunsetvisitor yet again on my favorite game of all time.
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