you BOOP Miette?????????

YOU BOOP HER LITTLE POST LIKE THE FOOTBALL????

For Boop-Badges Collectors

Rough estimate: It's possible to reach 1000 boops in less than 2 hours (took me 1:30h), if you got some people to spam it to.

If you are a blog where people can spam boop's to, reblog this.

reblog only if you’ve received less than 1000 boops! we can all get each other to “max”

mutuals, non-mutuals, ops of years old posts, you can all catch these paws

me coming to your blog to give you a boop. (you cannot hide from me)

me when you boop me:

my only complaint is that the paws appear when you boop someone and not when someone boops you. I want to be scrolling and minding my own business and suddenly get whapped by a cat paw

Reblog to let your followers know that they’re safe from jumpscares/screamers/etc from you on April 1st but they are NOT safe from getting boop’d like an idiot amen

BOOPHIS SNOOT!

Specifically, an undescribed Boophis from the B. goudotii species group that I discovered in 2015/2016.

magic system where “dark magic” and “light magic” are literal terms - dark magic consumes photons, making an area around the spell visibly darker, sometimes to an Extreme extent, and light magic releases photons.

because of this most dark mages tend to work in very brightly-lit areas (either artificial light or outside in the daytime) to fuel their spells and wear and use lightly coloured clothes and tools so that they’re easier to see in the dimness their spells create, whereas light mages wear heavy, sometimes leaden robes (depending on the work being done) and the magical equivalent of welding masks to protect themselves from what can be an extreme amount of light, and sometimes other kinds of electromagnet radiation!

needless to say this is incredibly confusing for anyone unfamiliar with the culture

due to the fact that both magics react with basically all of the electromagnetic spectrum - not just the visible light part of it - dark magic is enormously useful for radiation protection (uv-eating spellwork as sunscreen, anyone?), but also has the slightly uncomfortable effect of eating infared as well - which does have the effect of making areas around powerful or prolonged dark magic uncomfortably chilly.

nothing that a nice fur coat or enchanted light-magic IR-emitting lamps can't fix!

okay this is some truly genius world-building

SOMETIME IN THE LAST WEEK MY SCHOOL PUT UP A LARGE BANNER DEDICATED TO THE :-) EMOTICON

happy birthday :-) face

it’s that time of the year again everyone say happy 40th birthday :-)

This is apparently what was contained in the original message that invented the :-) and I'm obsessed with Fahlman's diction here

I’m not sure how to feel about the fact that I am exactly 1 week younger than :-) ...

Like Real People Do Giveaway!

Do you want a free signed (by both me and Deacon!) copy of LRPD shipped straight to your door? Of course you do.

Rules for entry: 1. Must be following me 2. Like this post 3. Share this post

Closes October 1 midnight. Winner to be announced October 3rd! I'm doing a separate giveaway on Instagram if you want to double your chances. :)

Nineteen-year-old hockey phenom Alexander Price is the youngest-ever captain in the NHL. With a polarizing social media presence and a predilection for dirty play, he typifies the stereotype of young, out-of-control athlete. But away from the cameras, Alex is a kid with an anxiety disorder and the expectations of an expansion franchise on his shoulders. And maybe he tries too hard to fit the part of asshole playboy, but it’s better than the alternative; in his line of work, gay is the punchline of an insult, not something he can be.

Eighteen-year-old vlogger Elijah Rodriguez is a freshman in college recovering from an injury that derailed his Olympic figure-skating dreams. Mixed-race, disabled, and out of the closet since he was fourteen, Eli is unapologetically himself. He has no qualms about voicing his disapproval of celebrity jocks who make homophobic jokes on Twitter and park their flashy cars in the handicapped spaces outside of ice rinks.

After an antagonistic introduction, Alex and Eli’s inexplicable friendship both baffles and charms the internet. But navigating relationships is hard enough for normal teenagers. It’s a lot harder when the world—much of it disapproving—is watching you fall in love with your best friend.

Also if you don't want to let fate decide your ability to own a copy, you can find them on Amazon any of these ebook retailers or in print at your favorite bookstore nationwide!

Schrödinger’s Cat stitched by crossstitchwizard. Pattern ($3.21) designed by Cassandra Armstrong of KookyCrossStitch.

:-D

This is the Goose of Outrageous Self Assuredness.  Take from her example, her ludicrous and excellent poise in the face of bullying, and be confident in your place, your course, your equal validity.

I’m always amazed by the amount of fucks geese refuse to give.

This is it, this is everything you need to know about geese in one video.

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*releases pack of dads into home depot* go……be free

invasive species encroach on lesbian territory

This is a common misconception because they’re such similar environments, but you should be aware that dads are native to Home Depot, while lesbians are actually native to Lowe’s. At this point, however, both dads and lesbians have made themselves at home in both Home Depot and Lowe’s to the point that trying to separate them back into their original ranges would probably do more harm than good to the delicate ecosystem of large chain hardware stores.

A properly raised and socialized Dad will be perfectly comfortable cohabiting with Lesbians. Its not really “encroaching on another’s territory”. You wouldn’t say that about foxes in a forest that also homes bobcats, would you? No. It’s just two different species that have both evolved to live in similar/the same environment. As long as they recognize each other as equals, Dads and Lesbians are more than capable of cohabitation.

Now, if you were to release a pack of Lumberjacks into a Lowes or Home Depot, that’s where chaos will reign. Being adapted to a far harsher and more demanding environment, the Lumberjacks would simply push Dads and Lesbians both out and also consume far more than a sustainable amount of resources. It would be like releasing bears at a country club.

As a former timber-harvester… I feel this is potentially accurate in theory. But highly improbable in actuality.

Lumberjacks, like most megafauna species generally require more space than the average hardware store, even a big box store could provide. The misconception is that Lumberjacks are a social species because of how they often work and live together.

This is a matter of necessity, not preference, and a survival technique for thriving under the LogBoss.

A “pack” of Lumberjacks, if not under the environmental pressure of a LogBoss will naturally disperse until they each have a wide territory.

Lumberjacks rarely fight for territory.

One on one, a Lumberjack could drive out a Dad or Lesbian, however the latter tend to travel in social packs.

Lumberjacks will passively retreat on the presence of large numbers of people. Kind of like Sasquatch.

Getting a “pack” of Lumberjacks assembled would be hard enough unless they were forced into a Hardware Store by a LogBoss. In that case, they would already be in a heightened and potentially agitated state far above their natural behavior. This artificial scenario can be likened to a circus animal running amok. If it had been in the wild, the incident would not have occurred.

Free-roaming Lumberjacks are the cryptids of the Hardware ecosystem. They are surprisingly quiet and unobtrusive.

Please stop labeling Lumberjacks as dangerous roving social predators. They are intermediate level omnivores and remarkably peaceful unless threatened.

As a hardware store worker I can say that this is all 100% accurate.

now how in the FUCK am i supposed to leave tumblr when a god tier post like THIS is just is just waiting for me daily?!?!?!

question where does the “art student” or “DIYer” “crafter” or “soap maker” or “miniaturist“ etc. who has ventured into the store for supplies fall into the ecosystem/what is their impact of said ecosystem?

Most of the above are native to craft and hobby stores (art students, historically, are native to museums, but having been introduced to hobby stores, have found a niche for themselves and thrived), but all can be seen in hardware stores on occasion due to territorial overlap. They are generally low-impact, as they tend to stick to specific small areas and primarily utilize different resources. While a large group of any of them can be disruptive (art students, in particular, are known to travel in packs), in general, they are more likely to have territorial disputes with one another than with the local fauna. 

A point of clarity -“crafter” is a bit misleading; while it conjures a specific image, much like ‘fish’ or ‘reptile’ it actually covers a broad array of wildly disparate species, and in general, more descriptive nomenclature is preferred. Fiber artists in particular are a genus to watch out for, particularly in groups. Beware a roving pack of domesticated quilters. They fear nothing, will go anywhere, and due to their social nature, will often seek interaction from other species that thrive best in solitude. They are quite friendly, and will happily adopt members of other species; the concern is that their adoptees do not always wish to be adopted. 

#in search of taxonomic precision and peaceful coexistence (via welkinalauda)

Sorry for the late notice, but I only knew I’d be part of this myself yesterday, and it’s still very much an airplane being assembled as its flown–but I’d like to advertise a conference:

Beyond IQ Boston (except really online) happening April 23, 24 and 25, 2021.

A conference about and for Gifted people. This year’s theme: Success vs Failure and Other False Dichotomies

I am authorized to tell my followers to select the “Discounted” registration fee option and use “Lis” as the discount code. ($30 USD for an adult for all three days, $25 for a young adult or grad student, descending rates for individual days and additional family members).

Beyond IQ (BIQ) is my favourite Gifted conference, partly because it’s like 40% less pretentious than anything else in the field. Like, if other Gifted conferences are bright-eyed keeners with sharp pencils, BIQ is the stoner at the back of the class drawing amazing art in a school textbook and dodging teachers who say “but you had so much potential…”

Basically, its major focus is Gifted underachievers and (pardon the euphemism) the “twice-exceptional”, which means Gifted students who also have mental or physical disabilities or learning problems. There are no sessions in how to coach your kid into acing an IQ test. Also, the traditional Saturday night schmoozefest is an ice cream social.

If you’re like “I don’t know if I’m ~*Gifted*~ or not, I just know that I vibe really hard with posts about former Gifted kids and my brain is definitely not standard-issue,” this is the conference for you (and if you can make the First-Time Attendees panel Saturday 9am EST, definitely do it)

I’m presenting in the Young Adult track about Self-Care for the Neurodivergent, but I have no idea when I’m scheduled to present yet. They have the schedules for adults and kids ages 5.5-12 posted, but the YA schedule hasn’t been announced yet.

Also, the Friday of the event is for professionals to hang out and talk shop–teachers, mental health therapists, psychologists, occupational therapists, policy wonks, etc. It’s a fun fun time, even if they will try to talk you into reading Kazimierz Dabrowski.

Here’s the program listing for this weekend!

I’m very interested in attending this conference, but I’m a little confused—is it completely online, like a Zoom meeting type of thing? I checked out the program listing and it looks as though it’s structured to take place in an actual, physical building (in which case I can’t go, as I live nowhere near Boston). Sorry for the silly question!

Completely online this year! Happening in a virtual building in Gather.