SCIENCE TUMBLR, EXPLAIN!

Hello that is a touch lamp and basically it uses something called capacitors to turn off and on. Capacitors in touch lamps store charges and when those charges are altered, they activate an oscillator responsible for turning the lamp off and on.

Humans have what is called body capacitance; we can store tiny electrical charges in our bodies and use them to activate touch sensors (which is why your phone's touch screen works, too, and why it won't work if you're wearing cloth gloves that aren't conductive), for example, altering the charge in a capacitor like the one in this lamp.

The cat doesn't have enough body capacitance to set this lamp off, but it IS conductive enough to relay a human's charge. So when the human makes contact with the conductive bare skin of the cat's nose, their charge travels through the cat to the lamp through their toe bean, activating the lamp. Fur is not conductive, so it won't do it when the human just pets the cat.

(A butch Kara comic for Pride month - trigger warning for slurs.)

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There’s a reason a sewing kit includes scissors, a wood shop has a saw, and a kitchen is full of knives. In order to build something, to create something on purpose, you have to be prepared to cut away what’s extra. A bolt of cloth does not a blanket make, a piece of wood a shelf, nor a loaf of bread a sandwich. When you snip off frayed bits of string, cut the wood into shape, or slice the end off a loaf of bread you are creating, with the act of removal, something closer to what you desire. 

Now let’s say you’re not sewing a blanket, you’re not building a shelf, not making a sandwich. Let’s say you’re crafting a life in which you are happy. You will end up removing things. You’ll leave partners, stop talking to family members, let go of friends. You’ll move apartments, lose jobs, change wardrobes. And you will feel their absence. You’ll look at the scraps of cloth, the odd angles of wood, the stale end of the loaf. But that cloth couldn’t keep you warm and that tiny corner of wood can’t store books. You wouldn’t be full from that little bit of bread or happy with that person. In the art of creating there is the act of removal and it is essential. 

A good thread on whether “queer” is a slur and if it should be used or not.

“If I am unashamed of being queer, you do not get to give that word BACK to the fuckwits who made it a slur.”

you do not get to give that word BACK to the fuckwits who made it a slur

EVERYBODY WHO CAME OUT BEFORE YOU HAS TAKEN THE ROCKS AND BOTTLES AND MADE THEM INTO SHIELDS AND WINDCHIMES

Holy motherfucking shit. Don’t fucking come at me about Queer is a slur. I FUCKING KNOW IT IS. It was hurled at me like a fucking spear all through my youth. I know it’s a god damn slur. And it’s mine. You don’t get to take it away from me because you can’t take also away the scars it gave me while I was standing in front of my younger queer siblings in this community. 

always, always reblog this one.

If my enemy swings a sword at me and I take that sword away from them, it’s my sword now. And the person telling me I can’t use it because it belongs to my enemy and I have to give it back to them sounds quite a bit like an enemy themselves.

^^ god that analogy

THIS.

Vilifying the word “queer” is a way of erasing certain identities within the queer community; it is not a rational or valid complaint against the word itself. Because if it were rational, its opposers would also be vilifying practically every other word by which we have ever called ourselves, as almost all of those words have been previously used to oppress us.

No community that deploys such exclusionary tactics against its own has ever survived. We cannot afford to start now.

Specifically, villifying the word “queer” is a way of trying to build a resurgence of the utterly failed homophile" movement that predated Stonewall, in which rich upper-class white cis gays and lesbians aggressively excluded everyone else in order to sell themselves to mainstream society as “normal”.

Disabled people being killed off or cured in stories tells us very clearly that we are not wanted and it fucking hurts

Do you not want to be cured, though? Say, if you had the chance to live without your disability, would you not take it?

And even for disabilities that are solely or almost solely negative, like illnesses, curing a character that has a disease that cannot be cured in real life removes the representation to those people still living with the disease. I’d love to see representation of people with joint pain, and i’d fucking love a cure for my pain. But I wont get one. And curing a character when the people their representing can not be cured only serves to tell us “you can not be happy until you’re cured.” and we can’t be cured, ie we can’t be happy. Don’t even get me started on disabilities that aren’t bad like autism or deafness.

Curing characters does nothing for them except remove representation

Nat2020 Giveaway

Hello Travelers! 

As promised, once I hit 6,969 followers, I would do a giveaway. I had originally planned to launch this giveaway on January 1st, but family emergencies occurred so it is starting today, January 10th, 2020. Let’s make this year a smashing success, with two nat20s in a row! 

This giveaway will have TWO prizes. 

The 1st place prize will consist of :

The 2nd place prize will consist of:

The Rules: 

Extra Info: 

I have waited ALL FUCKING YEAR TO POST THIS

Santa is coming tonight.

And none of us are getting ANYTHING CUZ WE’RE ALL A BUNCH OF DISGUSTING PERVERTS

But that’s fine.

I bought myself the Loki costume in Minecraft, so its a Merry fucking Christmas for me!

Happy Holidays, followers!

Today’s Mood: Deflating Squidward

the fight is harder each year.

gotta keep going because nothing ever stops.

you deserve to be new and whole.

Can someone explain what’s happening besides someone being reborn?

In the first comic, which is from the Warrior’s point of view, the Warrior has defeated the Monster, who jeers that there will always be another Monster to fight. The Monster dissolves into mist, leaving another tiny, baby Monster in its place. The Warrior picks up this helpless new baby Monster and carries it away. They will try again and do better this time.

In the second comic, which is from the Monster’s point of view, the Monster says that this has to happen; it can’t come with the Warrior, and there will always be another.  It tells the Warrior to use what they have learned to fight.  It wants to die knowing that the Warrior has hope for the future.  It dissolves into mist, and the exhausted Warrior collapses. The new baby Monster comes and brings the Warrior some water in a leaf.  Because we are reading this in the Monster’s voice, we realize that it is a new Monster, but also somehow, magically, the same.  We also see that the Monster is not inherently evil.  It is only very strong, and inevitable.

The third comic is a dialogue between the Monster and the Warrior.  The Warrior is exhausted and horrifically wounded. The Monster is also horribly maimed.  They are both dying. The Warrior doesn’t want to fight anymore.  The Monster tells them to rest and heal. The Warrior hands over their amulet, and we see the Monster’s paw become a hand just before they both dissolve into mist.  It clears, revealing that the Monster has turned into a beautiful humanoid, who says they will take care of the new baby monster the Warrior has turned into.  The two have changed roles.  The Warrior takes up the former Warrior’s gear and strides into the new year with the new baby Monster riding on their shoulders.

It is a beautiful, ruthless, hopeful metaphor about keeping up the good fight, year after year, even when we are worn down, and how we can still face the new year with hope and light, no matter how painful the last one was, and how it is okay to rest if we can’t fight.

It’s not the new year, but things are so difficult for so many of us right now, and we are so worn down from so many fights on so many fronts, I feel like we could all use this again.  Love, rest, fight, love.

even if ‘they’ was grammatically incorrect for a singular pronoun, if you value grammar over a human being then there’s a bigger problem here

This says it all.

i was doing that thing where you go to a hardware store for craft purposes and keep having to explain to the employees that no, you don’t need help, and yes, you really do need to just wander through every aisle in the store and poke at everything made of brass, and after half an hour of this the elderly shopkeeper asked me yet again if he could help me find anything, but this time when i said no he stared at me for a moment and seemed to have some kind of realization.

“ah,” he said, “you’re Creating.”

and then he smiled sagely and walked away.

Ah yes, the ‘I know what I need it for but not what it IS and whatever I use it for will certainly not be related to its intended purpose’ hardware store search

I used to be a dragking and one Christmas we were going to do "Dick in a Box" of SNL fame. I was tasked to make Christmas boxes wearable and to be able to be spun around on the "axis". It was really funny trying to explain to the guy at Home Depot what I was trying to do.

Anyone have the gif’s of the Chilean goalkeeper Christiane Endler lifting two of her teammates with ease.

I need them for um reasons lol

Let’s take a look at it one more time

100 Carmilla Stories - RunWithWolves Masterpost

Missing Hollstein? Already re-watched the series dozens of times? Need some Carmilla in your life? Then I have the fics for you. Seriously. I’ve written 100 Carmilla stories and categorized them here for your convenience (some stories fit into multiple but i did my best)

If you want…

Fake Dating/Marriage - i just really love this trope

General Fantasy - Supernatural beyond just vampires

Myths and Fairytales - sometimes you need a Hollstein happily ever after

Science Fiction Fun - time travel and space and oh my!

Cops or Superheroes Au - nothing like a good bout of crime fighting and a mystery to get flirty Hollstein roaring to life

Could Be During Canon? - Trying to fit stories inside the world we love

Canon Alternatives - twists on the way it went

After Canon Ends - what could happen next

Musical Hollstein - Trying to write melody with words

Coffee Shop and Cooking Hollstein

Human Hollstein - Nothing supernatural. Just our girls being cute.

High School Hollstein Stories

Hollstein with Animals - Fluffier than fluff because animals are fluffy

 Playing With Words - Hollstein examined in a story

Soulmates - because who doesn’t love some soulmate Aus. Usually twisted from the typical soulmate version or an original idea

This has been a 3 year labour of love. The stories vary in length from about 2k to over 100,000k for a total of more than half a million words. Have suggested stories? Let people know! It’s a big list!

Hope you enjoy them and thank you for all of your support creampuffs! <3 Aria

Your purpose in life is not to love yourself but to love being yourself.

If you goal is to love yourself, then your focus is directed inward toward yourself, and you end up constantly watching yourself from the outside, disconnected, trying to summon the “correct” feelings towards yourself or fashion yourself into something you can approve of.

If your goal is to love being yourself, then your focus is directed outward towards life, on living and making decisions based on what brings you pleasure and fulfillment.

Be the subject, not the object. It doesn’t matter what you think of yourself. You are experiencing life. Life is not experiencing you.

Thank you this is the first post about self love that hasn’t made me want to throw things