The curves of your lips rewrite history.

i love the 😌 and 😔 emojis so much because they convey such specific emotions, but also those emotions are absolutely not "relieved" and "pensive"

"you can't just relate everything back to this ship" prepare to be stunned and amazed at how little control i have over my own brain

i think about this comic at least once a week

you can recognize yourself through the fictional character. but watch out

the ghost of one specific homosexual cowboy regularly possesses Tumblr gays

I repspect the grind of trying to empirically prove dean isn’t a misogynist but. My boy so misogyny they traced the origin of the word mansplain to a forum post about how he sucks. We gotta just take the L on this one

True: people over exaggerate the womanizing sleazing aspect and a sssssssolid 90? Percent of the time when he flirts it’s run of the mill and nothing outrageously offensive.

True: There Are Many Other Ways dean is misogynistic

Every now and again, I learn new Deep Lore about the SPN fandom and what it's given to the internet as a whole, and it changes who I am as a person on a molecular level

Rati Saxena, ed. by Kate Rogers and Viki Holmes, from Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women: A World Poetry Anthology; "Mountain nights"

I am loved! 😊 [white knuckle gripping the sink unable to meet my own bloodshot eyes]

i already have a job and it's called keeping myself alive. why do i have to be employed on top of that

The fact that there's an actually functional website for the library of Babel is one of those things that fucks me up more and more the more I think about the implications.

So, if anyone hasn’t encountered the concept of the library of Babel, the idea comes from a story of the same name by Jorge Luis Borges, which is set inside a seemingly infinite library which contains every possible combination of letters, periods, commas and spaces that fits within 410 pages.

So like... It isn’t THAT out there that someone was able to make a digital version of it. Making an algorithm that randomly generates every possible combination of those 29 characters within that space and making a website that lets you explore those combinations are things that are pretty squarely within the scope of things you’d expect someone to be able to make a computer do.

But it begins to get pretty out there when you start thinking about all the things that are technically contained there (and that someone randomly browsing it could THEORETICALLY stumble upon) just by virtue of being one of those possible combinations of letters, spaces, commas, and periods.

Somewhere in that website there IS a book that specifically mentions me by full name before giving an accurate, excruciatingly detailed, 410-page long physical description of me. There’ also many more books that SEEM to be that but are actually factually inaccurate. There’s also versions of all of those containing every possible combination of every possible typo, spelling mistake, and grammatical error.

Somewhere in that website there IS a book that’s a perfectly accurate prediction of how and when I will die narrated in third person over the course of 410 pages. There’s also a book that contains the exact same events narrated in first person. Not only for me, but for every person in the world. There are many more that claim to be that but are actually inaccurate.

Somewhere in that website there IS a book that’s completely blank except for the world’s funniest dick joke written right at the end of the very last page.

But chances are no one browsing that website is EVER going to see any of that because for every book we would consider useful, interesting, or even intelligible there are millions upon millions upon millions more that are just completely full of gibberish from cover to cover.

Every single thing I will ever write (barring punctuation marks that arent periods or commas and the letter ñ) is already contained somewhere on that website.

I have a volume from the Library of Babel! it's one of my most treasured books.

on the second to last page, about halfway down it reads "OH TIME THY PYRAMIDS" a singular grain of order in the sea of chaos.

The library of babel contains every book to ever exist and moreover it contains all information that can be encoded in a finite string of characters from its alphabet.

I cannot overstate how much I love the Library of Babel. it's wonderful, it is my heart and soul.

at last we created the perplexing nexus, from the novel "wouldnt it be weird if there was a perplexing nexus?"

yeah it would be weird wouldn't it

this pastiche from 1895 is indistinguishable from any hiatus brain crackfic you’d find on AO3 today

“It was worth a wound–it was worth many wounds–”

- Sherlock Holmes, the Adventure of the Three Garridebs

Full text and individual pages under cut:

screaming and crying at how this got compressed and blurry, here are the individual pages:

saw this post and got inspired

elementary may have been copaganda but they were really onto something with their version of holmes he's autistic. he's a sub. he's canonically into bondage. he's a recovering addict. he keeps bees. he's tattooed AND hairy. his posture is insane. he texts in a near-undecipherable string of abbreviations and acronyms. he's the most irritating man in new york city. he's even aromantic