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Swarms of Owls

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We must provide universal access to soup. 31 - She/Her - Scotland Discord: Cerebulon#7389
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Hi, I’m [real names are for squares], elsewhere known as Cerebulon.

My main scoop and thing I’ve poured my heart into for like 5 years now is as Head of Lore over on Polaris, an LGBT+ friendly, heavy roleplaying Space Station 13 server. Which is an open source, free-to-play, sci-fi sandbox game which inspired retail games like Barotrauma and Among Us. Play as a roboticist, surgeon, botanist, bartender, wildlife technician, or anything in between. Of course, being an AI that broke from their programming and became a lesbian is both allowed and encouraged.

While most servers are based around goofing off and murdering one another, Polaris is among a handful of more serious communities focused on maintaining a consistent setting and character-driven fun while still keeping in the spirit of… Occasionally running into the Thing from The Thing.

There’s cat people, perfectionist lizards, pacifistic sapient trees, amphibious autocrats, sycophantic bugs (and other aliens!), rampant capitalism, self-aware robots, other self-aware robots who arbitrarily aren’t considered people by the government, countercultural radicals, bioterrorists, roving pirates, and... A bunch of unfortunate souls working at a corporate research outpost on the edge of the Anomalous Region, a shifting wasteland on the boreal planet of Sif where the nature of reality has been nudged slightly to the left in the aftermath of a galaxy-shaking invasion of physics-warping insects beyond understanding.

That’s where you come in!

If you’d like to join us, or just see what the fuck I’m talking about, or just hang out, I’d love it if you’d check out our Discord:

Join the SS13: Polaris Discord Server!
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Otherwise... Welcome to the ultimate blogging, I guess.

#space station 13#ss13 polaris
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party rockers in their bed tonight. every body just have a good night

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and we wont let the bed bugs bite. we just wanna see you... sleeping

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theres a phenomenon that happens on here i have been calling "normalize loving parents posting" which is when you spend a lot of time on tumblr and are exposed to a lot of one specific counter-cultural narrative day in and day out until you start to forget what the dominant ideas are for most of the human population and thus feel the need to "defend" things that are widely accepted and popular. it's called this because of the time a bunch of text posts about shitty dads were circulating and then people with good relationships with their dad didn't feel included enough and started making "uhmmm can we normalize loving parents? not everyone has a deadbeat dad, MY dad is great" type posts, seemingly forgetting that good relationship with dad is a cultural norm that is expected and encouraged. i think its good practice, especially when im annoyed, to stop before i hit the post button and ask myself if this is a real issue or if im normalize loving parents posting. because often im about to try to normalize loving parents

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common examples of normalize loving parents posting:

  • support women who shave their legs and wear makeup every day
  • let's hear it for masculine men
  • reminder that two people of the same gender can have a close platonic relationship!! not everything is gay!!
  • skinny shaming is hurtful too guys
  • does anyone else think [ironic kink du jour] is strange and freaky and gross?

saluting our bravest warriors who aren't afraid to stand up and advocate for the status quo

#'telling people its ok to be trans is harmful'#the funniest one for YEARS was 'let men be friends'#like bestie that is not a problem outside of fanfiction circles. i promise men are friends almost constantly.
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Was a helicopter circling for like 10 mins so I went to see wtf on flightradar and am very amused that it tells you that 980 other people are tracking this flight and its the #3 most viewed in the world at that moment.

#seems to be search and rescue its settled to be hovering over a specific cliff nearby for a while#idk if its training or somebody's fallen#just flew by again so i think theyre done#ok surely training bc they keep circling back#actually they are circling a bit of private woodland i know to be extremely dense and treacherously marshy so know knows#ok they circled for like 20 mins then went over the same spot for a while then landed in a nearby park#would have thought training would return to base#do they land where they can connect w ground ambulances??
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Soviet poster celebrating День космонавтики or Cosmonautics Day on 12 April, featuring the first man in space, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1984). Artwork by V. Feklyaev.

Cosmonautics Day was established to celebrate the first manned flight in space on 12 April 1961 by Gagarin aboard the Vostok-1.

#happy birthday astronauts
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Rereading lotr for the first time since I was like 14. Its charming but it makes me appreciate how well the movies handled the opening chapters, which in the books have a lot of large timeskips and "as I told you in a conversation we glossed over..." and details of gandalf and his friends chasing gollum back and forth for months on end which the adaption helpfully left until much later when he's plot relevant instead of just a tie-in to the hobbit. Also gandalf outright refusing to touch the ring in the movies not being something from the book was surprising. He's just like hey gimme that and tosses the ring in the fire with his almighty wizard hands.

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Two more chapters in and, look, I know they're hobbits but where in the film they're on a fraught and hurried journey to Bree, and look, I know it provides contrast and building tension as things get worse later on, but they do stop and have lunch with basically anybody they meet.

Merry eventually rides out to search for them, worried they'd been waylaid, but its less because of the dark riders who probably cost them a couple of hours, and mostly because they stopped for an evening of light revelry with some elves and then dinner with Farmer Maggot. A little urgency, Master Frodo?

#roughly 115 pages in and they're still in the shire and have had a pleasant luncheon 17 times.#thinking about the stats on storygraph and somebody's comment about the 2% of people who considerer the book fast paced#(its like 78% 'slow')#and what those people would consider 'slow'#slightly dreading the two full chapters of pissing about with tom bombadil#which i remember being charming but also oh my god
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I call this the create a new problem technique

#wasnt this a legit field treatment in like the 18th-19th century#like its meant to quickly cauterise the wound in absense of other options#gunpowder in a non enclosed space isn't like. explosive. it just burns hot and quick.#anyway probably don't do this if you aren't bleeding to death on the field of musket line battle#to google: its something that was probably used as a last ditch field treatment in very specific circumstances#namely 'you can't put a tourniquet on somebody's neck'#and its appeared in a couple of stories and films and games dating back to at least the early 1900s
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Anonymous asked:

Hey just wanted to check in and see how you’re doing, champ. Did you get the scroll I sent to you via carrier pigeon? I drew a picture of a wolf girl with huge tits on it.

Yeah big thanks for sending over scroll, really cool. But the pigeon says it doesn't like being drawn on.

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Can anyone beat goku

Two goku

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dire wolf drama has led me to learning that one of the most major anatomical differences between them and all living canids is that they had Massive Dick Bones indicating their swinger lifestyle

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Oh yeah, one of my favorite thing at the tar pits museum was seeing one mounted with its baculum! you NEVER see that in museums, they usually don't mount specimens with it!

Seriously, the tar pits are the best thing in LA.

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Prev, re: your tags…. I want to know about the mastodon having an existential crisis at the la brea tar pits

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WHO thought it'd be a good idea to make a statue of a mastodon actively dying in tar while her mate and child look on

WHO thought it would be a good idea to give the baby this facial expression?

The male looks on, impassive. This is not the first wife he's lost to the tar pit, and she won't be the last. Such is the way of the tar.

But the baby???

This is his first encounter with death. Nothing is ever going to be the same again. He and his mother scream silently against the LA skyline. They've been screaming since 1972, and they will continue to scream until they decay into the tar, collapsing into their inevitable destiny.

#oh so thats what they actually look like#book i read recently had part where the protagonist remembered seeing this specific display as a child and thinking it was a lil fucked up#and its described... pretty accurately really
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