REBLOG if you have amazing, talented WRITER friends.

Because I certainly do, and I love every single one of them and their work.

would you rather be waterboarded by blizzard game ads or disney movie ads

this image is making me realize fandom wikis are so impenetrable and smothered in ads that I have never actually seen any of the attempts at branding that fandom tries to make with its logo or choice of colors or whatever because I literally don’t have the opportunity to do so on their own goddamn website

this seems like a good opportunity to remind everyone that the Indie Wiki Buddy extension exists, and works on both Chrome and Firefox!

it makes it so that whenever you click on a link to a Fandom wiki, it helps you redirect either to an independent wiki (if there is one), or to a site like BreezeWiki that removes ads, suggestions, etc from Fandom pages so you can actually read them without all the clutter!

reblog to save a life

Comet C/2006 M4 (SWAN)

Credit: Michael Jäger & Gerald Rhemann

i think we should bring this back (with some amendments ofc) if we ever needed an "internet etiquette" for the younger generations, now is the moment to remind them. purity culture kills fandom

as well as the three laws of fandom:

Don't Like, Don't Read (DL;DR), Your Kink is not My Kink And That's OK (YKINMKATO) and Ship and Let Ship

I know I go on and on and on about self-censorship, but I do so for a reason. Sanitizing everything out of fear you might... *gasp*... OFFEND someone is the best way to kill creativity and discourse. Purity culture is toxic and exclusionary in its demand that everything has to be palatable for the masses, which is how the intolerant minority tries to control the narrative. Don't let them.

Far worse, in my opinion, than the famous “he wouldn’t fucking say that” is “he WOULD fucking say that, as part of his facade, but you seem to think he would mean it genuinely”

shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

Reblog my poll boy 🫵🏻

Friendly reminder that LGBTQ+, Queer, and LGBT+ are the preferred terms for the community (x).

Friendly reminder that Queer is approved by 72.9% of the people, and the groups who don’t prefer it’s use as an umbrella term are straight people, exclusionists, transmeds, truscums, sex-negative people, and sex work critical people (x).

Friendly reminder that aros and aces are excluded only 9.2% / 8.1% of the time respectively while being included  78.9% / 81.2% of the time (x)

Friendly reminder that exclusionists are in the minority and aro/ace people are included in the LGBTQ+ community by the people within the community.

Also, i checked out the survey the second claim sources a while back: this is not OP choosing the words truscum, exclusionist, etc. These are labels that the survey gave people the option to self-identify as. It’s self-proclaimed exclusionists who dont like the word queer, not random accusations

yeah that’s super important. 

This one gets reblogged on main. The reclassification of ‘queer’ as an inexcusable slur is a recent development which stems in part from exclusionist rhetoric. We reclaimed it decades ago. Learn our history. You are not immune to TERF propaganda, but you can absolutely choose to educate yourself to spite it.

Be kind. 💜

“friend of Dorothy” was used to say you were gay discreetly for fucking years. Where did it come from?

“You have some queer friends, Dorothy”, and she replies, “The queerness doesn’t matter, so long as they’re friends.”

Like, it was popular enough for it to be a thing in ww2.

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, a glitch enables Mario to kill an opponent twice with a single attack, but only if that opponent is at 999% damage and Shadow the Hedgehog is currently on the field.

When Shadow crouches down during his animation, Mario must throw the opponent (Kirby in the footage), causing him to be stuck in mid-air. From then, performing Mario's Cape side special on the frozen opponent will cause him to die, as expected.

However, when Kirby respawns, he will also immediately die a second time as a side effect of the glitch. Note Kirby descending from the top of the screen near the end of the footage and then being tossed diagonally offscreen despite nothing touching him.

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"Pluto isn't a planet" Fine.

"Dinosaurs had feathers" Fine!

"Neptune isn't a beautiful oceanic blue, it's actually the same washed-out disappointing color as Uranus" I will kill you with my bare hands

Look how they massacred my boy

Oh and if you thought Uranus was boring before, boy have I got news for you:

default blender ball

Colour is a combination of two factors. There's the actual light hitting your eyeball and activating your red/green/blue colour receptors, and there's the way your brain interprets those colours.

We can only really see combinations of three "colours". Our brain interprets those combinations in really interesting ways. For example, if you define the "colour" of an object as being the wavelength of its peak blackbody emission, the sun is green. We all think it's yellow because "sky" is a background level of Rayleigh scattered blue light and within that context the green sun looks yellow.

When satellite images are shown, they are often some flavour of false colour where e.g. infrared channels are being shown as red/green/blue.

None of us will be going to Neptune any time soon, so we can take whatever wavelengths of light we like and shift them to make more interesting things for our brain to interpret, and that will be just as valid as the boring white ball of "visible light" Neptune photos, and a lot cooler. Accuracy doesn't require that we are restricted to raw data, only that we not misrepresent the underlying features of the data.

jon gray art appreciation post ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Yeah quiet quitting is great and all but have you tried chaotic working?

Like. I remember back in my grocery store cashier days I did so much crazy shit.

When WIC (Women, infants, and children voucher program to help low income mothers/families with children) people were in my line I would pretty much know who they were. Before the cards they had to tell us upfront they were WIC and show us their vouchers for what they were allowed to get (it was awful some times. Like. 2 gallons of milk. $4 worth of vegetables etc etc). They’d always have items hanging back, waiting to see what the total was and if they would have to take it off the belt.

I began to place the fruits/vegetables a certain way on the register scale so that like 1/2lbs of grapes read as like .28lbs or something. Then act shocked when I said that they still had X amount of lbs left. They got all their fruit and vegetables.

I think it started to kinda? Catch on to the women? Because I would have the same moms in my line month after month. And even after they switched to the cards (they worked like food stamp cards?) I’d still do the same thing. They were able to get more produce for whatever shitty max amount Indiana gave them.

Anyways. Be chaotic. It’s more fun that way.

The 21st Century ritual of the Earth Sandwich, where in two people on opposite sides of the earth place a piece of bread on the ground, creating a sandwich with the entire planet as its contents. Truly, a beautiful ceremony symbolizing the interconnected nature of the modern world.

EARTH SANDWICH DAY

Looking Beyond the Veil This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) of star-forming region NGC 604 shows how stellar winds from bright, hot young stars carve out cavities in surrounding gas and dust.