(art by @theshitpostcalligrapher)

Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

my followers can have some cave pics, as a treat

Good reference for writers

some of my favourite sign fails <3

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Mined craft

@nathanwpyle

I literally love this.

I couldn't stop laughing for 20 minutes.

No joke.

This has the same energy as a writer desperately trying to make their insanely cool but devastatingly off the wall plot point work with the rest of the story

Knowledge is empowering

you can literally get gender changers for like $3

And yes, that's literally what they're called.

Reblog if you got a gender changer for like $3

In honor of our very first sneak peek of the movie Wicked, my nostalgia kicked into high gear and I'm honoring one of my earliest fandom crazes with a silly little comic I'm calling "Fiyero Doesn't Get Enough Recognition For All The Shit He's Been Through."

Enjoy Fiyero having the weirdest 72 hours of his life.

Sequel comic here.

An immortal with the ability to tamper with peoples' memory just by talking to them, who manages to wiggle their way into the status of a diplomat, repeatedly in the same region under a different name (this works because every time someone points out that they look identical to the last diplomat, the immortal just says "no I don't" and they'll have no choice but shrug and believe it). And they do 100% of their work by gaslighting people.

A king sends the immortal diplomat to a vulnerable nearby land that they're planning to invade in order to negotiate the terms of their surrender. And once the diplomat returns and is asked whether the about-to-be-invaded people are planning to surrender and be annexed peacefully or do they plan to be slaughtered fighting for it, and the diplomat just blinks "my liege, what are you talking about? Invasion, of our closest ally? Their duchy has been part of the kingdom for over a century, essentailly independent in all but name. Also the local commander is not happy about how you have neglected your side of the contract and have not sent troops to protect their border from opportunistic would-be invaders surrounding them."

And two centuries later the same diplomat is sent to the same land to handle riots over the same duchy demanding full independence, and comes back like "what riots? A duchy, independence? Madam president, with all you respect, are you smoking crack? Our closest neighbouring allies have been an independent people this whole time, and I don't think it's wise to throw around such outrageous terms about a proud people with their own army."

Their greatest enemy would be paperwork, newspapers, and any form of record keeping.

All the immortal would have to do is drown out the evidence that contradicts their word with the words of reporters, scholars and record keepers of all kinds with their own idea.

And 300 years later, historians look at the massive stack of contradictory records of this era and wish that they could somehow find whoever or whatever caused this mess of unreliable accounts and personally strangle them. Never knowing that they absolutely could, if they knew where to look.

Actually hold on this would be hilarious if written from a historian's perspective. At first it starts as a mystery story, as the historian starts noticing patterns in the contradictory stories from this area through the centuries. The plot thickens as they make the connection that an old oil painting portrait of some ancient king's emissary looks exactly like the current minister of foreign affairs. Eventually it all goes down to a conflict of lawful neutral vs. chaotic neutral, an unstoppable historian vs unkillable entity, as the former chases the diplomat down with the righteous rage of "I don't care how many wars you dodged and how many lives you saved, you fucked with the recording of history."

"No, I didn't."

Fin.

You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.

oh wow! hey if you take pills check this out. new medicine taking meta just dropped.

according to these models, out of the 4 tested postures, the best position to digest pills is laying on your right side. standing upright has a similar time to laying in your back at twice as much as laying on the right side, and laying on the left side is the slowest by far.

laying on right side: pill dissolves in around 10 minutes.

standing: pill dissolves in 23 minutes. laying on the back has a similar time.

laying on left side: pill dissolves in up to 100 minutes.

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0096877

definitely worth a lot more research.

if you want your medicine to kick in fast, try laying on your right side! if you want your medicine to kick in slower, try laying on your left side.

This makes sense! I learned from a doc that if you have gas pain or nausea, you turn on your left side to make it easier for your stomach to send stuff through. The goal in turning left is to NOT absorb, but to release.

Turning on your right can make nausea/gas pain worse because it has to fight gravity to exit your stomach/body. So, yeah, lying on your right would make things absorb faster because it's going into the stomach lining, which is the point.

Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey

I was going to reblog this anyway for the useful info but the last addition fucking sent me

DC Twitter must have been INSANE when it got out that Superboy’s dads were Superman and Lex Luthor. Holy shit. The memes. The ship wars. The homophobes. The mpreg jokes. People would have lost their fucking minds. Lex Luthor releases a statement like “he’s a clone of me and Superman no birth was involved” and people are like KINDA GAY OF YOU TO HAVE A SON WITH ANOTHER MAN, LUTHOR. Lexcorp’s PR team locks themselves in a conference room and refuses to come out for love or money.

I mean, technically it’s true

Lux Luthor: I did not have sexual relations with Superman, I simply stole his DNA and created a child from it without his consent

Everyone in Metropolis: 

This is my favorite series of posts on this hellsite

The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

you're falling in the trap!! it will be read by many people, many times, and it will live on in their memories. and maybe no single other human will match you in time spent dedicated to your story, but as a collective we will outlast you. acts of creation only grow when they are shared

This. Writing is not like dinner. It can be consumed many times

artist spotlight variant covers by José Luis García-López

I'm gonna link to the animations in case y'all either don't remember or have never heard of some of these.

A quick note: these were made in the 2000s. Comedy is subjective, there's some strong examples of dark and/or "lolz teh random" humor in these. Maybe some cultural blindness, too. That said, enjoy a time capsule of stuff made before/during the birth of Youtube, now hosted on Youtube.

Kenya

Salad Fingers, episode 2

End of Ze World

Schfifty Five

The Hamster Dance

Badgers

"Rejected" by Don Hertzfeldt

Charlie the Unicorn

The Llama Song

Peanut Butter Jelly Time

WONDER BAR (1934) | dir. Lloyd Bacon

Here is the actual clip, and let me tell you, Jolson’s delivery does not disappoint: