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Hey can I be Down Bad for a second please
titty sprinkles!
Listen, if I could leave my gender in a brown paper bag by the roadside like an empty 40 after a bad party, I would, okay? Other people are just so HELLBENT on gendering me, it feels like they keep going “oh hey we found this abandoned bag full of expectations! Here, take it back!” and handing it to me like they expect me to be grateful.
I like the expression new-fangled. I don't know what it means for something to be fangled, but I sure as hell know it was recent
It’s from the Old English word feng, which can mean “to take”, or also “to grasp, hold, or embrace”. So something that’s newfangled is something that was taken up recently.
The reason it’s using this pretty archaic root is that it’s an older word than a lot of people think. Here it is in the Canterbury Tales.
Minutes after posting: "Why did I write archaic when I could have gone with old-fangled?"
Reblog to fangle this post
THE ORIGIN OF THIS IMAGE:
So in my etsy I sell a pin of some isopods having at a bag of doritos based on this photo. Today I was contacted by the person who took it.
I asked to share this info and he gave permission!
Here’s the picture of him working with isopods and here’s a link to their published research!
I'd like to introduce everyone to this horrid thing I created about a year ago but haven't shown many people yet (probably for the best).
This is Baby. AKA The Monster. AKA Sight Tremendous and Abhorred, AKA Vile Insect, AKA A Thing Such As Even Dante Could Not Have Conceived, etc, etc. It's made from bits of scrap fabric I scrounged from various sources and is roughly the size of a human toddler. Its design is based on Mary Shelly's original descriptions of Frankenstein's creature.
But that's not all! Behold!
You can dissect this little abomination to reveal a full set of crocheted, knitted, and scrap fabric organs, all hand-stitched by yours truly!
It has a heart, stomach, lungs, liver, small and large intestine, kidneys, bladder, and, of course, a brain! So it can ponder the horrors of its own existence!
I used this pattern by Less Than Three for the heart. I ended up felting it because I screwed up most of the stitches (I was relatively new to crochet at the time). The result was a bit of a blobby mess, but oh well.
So yeah. This thing lives in my house now (my family hates it). I have yet to reap the full consequences of my hubris.
:) This is fabulous.
~360 votes at the time of writing, and this reblog is the 40th note. PLEASE press the reblog button I am begging everyone
Gonna go paint gold betta fish all over my dark green bathroom walls. Posting this as motivation to actually follow through on it.
Progress shot! It’s metallic so it changes with the light a little bit.
Slowly but surely expanding the school!
Added more bettas today! Once I’ve added them all I think I’m going to fill in the gaps with a swirling school of little fish.
Hid the message & two fish behind my husband’s towel to surprise him.
Love this! Bettas are fab. :)
be free!!
What a dashtangular thing to have happened!
Via @norbaikin.bluesky.social, who says, "Today I learned a new word, and it is fucking 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭."
Just feeling curious so poll time! Answer to the best of your recollection ^-^
This Sunday afternoon I was running for a tram and there was a knock at the door
I live in a city where you don't use the front door so thought "I'm already on my way out, I'll see who it is when I get round the front" (there's too much stuff in the way to even open the front door)
So I get to the front door and
... OK yeah I was a bit surprised.
A few friends know about this meme, live in the same city as me and know my address.
Four were at home and had yet to find a walrus with which to do this bit.
Two were about to leave the house to be somewhere else (same place I was going).
One is apparently in France.
Not one of them admits knows who did this.
I'm not ruling out the possibility they all know exactly who did it.
We're trying to figure out who it was on Discord and virtually everyone is saying "I wanted to, I planned on, but I didn't have the time" or "I couldn't find an appropriate walrus" or "I'd have given it fairy wings"
I feel like I'm in a reverse Murder On The Orient Express situation (spoilers I guess, sorry) where everyone had motive no-one had means but the victim just died anyway. Or in this case, received a walrus.
I'm being absolutely Agatha Christie'd on with a plush pinniped.
Klimt + The Addams Family
so my roommate is completely straight edge like no drugs no alcohol etc and so im sure y’all can imagine my surprise when i saw she brought home this sign
so i immediately inquired
and now you may ask. what the fuck did my roommate think that sign meant? well
anyways i moved the sign so it’s now front and center in our living room and ive been laughing every time i pass it
what a terrible time for me to remember that my roommate has a tumblr account and could theoretically find this post. *********** if you see this im sorry but it was funny and needed to be shared
I mean, botanically, “sativa” just means “cultivated” and “indica” means “of India”.
Cultivate to change the things I can run off to India
to accept the things I can't