One to Speak, Another to Hear by @seventymilestobabylon (61k, T)

Top 5 all time favorite fics. I cried so intensely in a happy way. How do we continue on after shared trauma? We can read this fic and then do our best. 

I love this fic. I love this fic. I love this fic.

just WOW. WOW. The characterization. The depth of the wounds. Broken people fitting together, loving together, trying to be good. The idea, the execution, the detailing, the humanization. Just excellent. Just extraordinary.

I’m struggling to articulate exactly why the characterization is so perfect (in my opinion), and I think it’s because both Remus’s and Sirius’s worst flaws and best characteristics are constantly on full display. They are complicated people. You really get the depth of Remus’s self-loathing and the self-sabotage that Sirius is so capable of (in refusing to be open about his childhood etc). I think that’s also why this subject (wizarding truth and reconciliation) works so well with this ship - because the past is hard and brutal, but you have to work through it for honest love.

I love Hannah, love Layla. Love this Tonks!

Harry!! Noble, brave, teenage Harry!!

I sobbed at the end of this fic. This is a fic that really earns a happy ending. Can we take the violence and the hurt and the pain seriously AND also continue on with love and kindness and justice? Can we build a better world? This fic is a good antidote for despair. If you need to close out 2024 with some hope in the dark (and who doesn’t), this fic is for you.

@hprecfest

One last talent show to save the rec center

Ok everybody here's the deal.

My science education nonprofit, Skype a Scientist (you might know her, creator of the squid facts hotline and matcher of classrooms + scientists) has secured absolutely no grants to support general operations for 2025. But! We're selling advent calendars to fund our program! They absolutely rule. They can save our nonprofit asses. If we sell 5000, which I realize, is so many, we can fund our program for 2025. Then I can offer a bunch of programming for free. Running a nonprofit is a weird job.

Every day, counting down to frankly whatever you want (it's usually Christmas, but man, maybe you want to count down to Halloween, that's fine by me) scratch off the sparkly sparkly iridescence and reveal a fact about frogs! We have 24 top-notch frog facts here.

You should get one for every kid in your life, then get one for all the adults who still let themselves access joy in critters.

Get 'em here: https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/

Hey, @sarahmackattack is awesome and so is Skype a Scientist. Supporting them *and* getting 24 frog facts to scratch off like an advent calendar seems like an incredible win-win to me. So if you can, I emphatically encourage you to do the thing.

I have it from Sarah herself that the Crab Facts calendar has sold over nine hundred copies (though it has been around substantially longer), and the Frog Facts just over two hundred. We need to get those numbers up to prove once and for all that Tumblr’s true passion is frogs, not the crabs that they have foisted on us.

Current numbers for your edification as of 1:28pm Eastern Standard Time

Crabs: 973

Frogs: 342

Want to juke the stats? Get a calendar here.

The second batch of calendars were shipped today!

Thank you to everyone who got a calendar, I'm so lucky to have you all!

Also huge thank you to the folks who have blazed this post, @thingsonmydragon @foxysrevenge @edderkopper @saiyanitloudandclear 😭😭😭

For those who enjoy a little friendly competition (@markscherz)

Crabs: 1040

Frogs: 562

You can get one at Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

@sarahmackattack what number are you at now?

Thank you for asking @ospreyonthemoon!

Crabs: 1094 (of those, 286 sold in 2024)

Frogs: 731

Total calendars sold in 2024: 1017

THANK YOU to everyone who has bought an advent calendar so far!! We're doing it!!!

Want one?? You should get one. Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

This has been going VERY WELL, but we still have a long way to go!

Here's an update on what we've sold:

Crabs: 1,170 (of those, 362 sold in 2024)

Frogs: 1,071

(Hey @markscherz, the frogs are catching up!)

Total calendars sold in 2024: 1433!!

Now... obviously that's way short of 5000... but advent doesn't start for another 54 days so... Let's do this!

Get a calendar (or other merch that supports Skype a Scientist) HERE!

sister: but I'm serious, I need the show to find a way to make actual taylor swift pretend she is in an actual feud with rock star lestat

me: won't happen, not her vibe

sister: but!

me: tell you whose vibe it is tho

sister: who

me: chappell roan

sister: oh shit

One rockstar lestat doing hot to go on stage or Louis coming home to see him singing “good luck babe” on piano, please

One last talent show to save the rec center

Ok everybody here's the deal.

My science education nonprofit, Skype a Scientist (you might know her, creator of the squid facts hotline and matcher of classrooms + scientists) has secured absolutely no grants to support general operations for 2025. But! We're selling advent calendars to fund our program! They absolutely rule. They can save our nonprofit asses. If we sell 5000, which I realize, is so many, we can fund our program for 2025. Then I can offer a bunch of programming for free. Running a nonprofit is a weird job.

Every day, counting down to frankly whatever you want (it's usually Christmas, but man, maybe you want to count down to Halloween, that's fine by me) scratch off the sparkly sparkly iridescence and reveal a fact about frogs! We have 24 top-notch frog facts here.

You should get one for every kid in your life, then get one for all the adults who still let themselves access joy in critters.

Get 'em here: https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/

Hey, @sarahmackattack is awesome and so is Skype a Scientist. Supporting them *and* getting 24 frog facts to scratch off like an advent calendar seems like an incredible win-win to me. So if you can, I emphatically encourage you to do the thing.

I have it from Sarah herself that the Crab Facts calendar has sold over nine hundred copies (though it has been around substantially longer), and the Frog Facts just over two hundred. We need to get those numbers up to prove once and for all that Tumblr’s true passion is frogs, not the crabs that they have foisted on us.

Current numbers for your edification as of 1:28pm Eastern Standard Time

Crabs: 973

Frogs: 342

Want to juke the stats? Get a calendar here.

had I but known, I would have bought two frog calendars instead of one frog, one crab

if we could read minds I still don't think we'd understand them.

like I've spoken to people who think in images, who have to translate each thought into words before they communicate. and I think entirely in words, laid out across the void inside my head. my father's thinking is 3d, concepts structured in ways that are incredibly difficult to translate into words. and how would that look to me, if I could see into it? how do I perceive a thought that my mind cannot contain by the nature of their construction?

we all speak a private language to ourselves and we are always translating so we can speak to each other...don't touch me I'm emotional

One last talent show to save the rec center

Ok everybody here's the deal.

My science education nonprofit, Skype a Scientist (you might know her, creator of the squid facts hotline and matcher of classrooms + scientists) has secured absolutely no grants to support general operations for 2025. But! We're selling advent calendars to fund our program! They absolutely rule. They can save our nonprofit asses. If we sell 5000, which I realize, is so many, we can fund our program for 2025. Then I can offer a bunch of programming for free. Running a nonprofit is a weird job.

Every day, counting down to frankly whatever you want (it's usually Christmas, but man, maybe you want to count down to Halloween, that's fine by me) scratch off the sparkly sparkly iridescence and reveal a fact about frogs! We have 24 top-notch frog facts here.

You should get one for every kid in your life, then get one for all the adults who still let themselves access joy in critters.

Get 'em here: https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/

sam reid percy blakeney WHEN

this is such a good idea that it is causing me physical pain

Please reblog if you vote for a larger sample size!

it's actually really important to me to raise awareness that the reason John Smith of Pocahontas stopped doing colonizing and went home is that he blew up his junk. that is also why he didn't have any children. it's because his genitals ceased to be useful for reproduction after he AGAIN I SAY blew them up. nobody talks about this. I am a lone truth-teller.

lowkey keeping an eye on the camilla hect tag in case anyone gets inspired to draw her using Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat as a reference

I am just saying

@ people who carry bags everywhere what do you put in them what is there to bring other than chapstick, keys, phone and maybe a tampon why are you packing a suitcase to be outside for 5 hours

pens, tic-tacs, sunglasses, small umbrella, fold-up fan, page flags, painkillers, pens, spare masks, little toys to give to kids I see whose parents are having a hard time with them, small rosary, fidget cube, notebook, pens, lotion, phone charger, PENS, chapstick, tiny scissors, Tide pen, hairbrush, foldable shopping bags, wobble wedges to prop a table at the bar, cafe, or restaurant if it wobbles

After every episode of IWTV, there should be an accompanying episode where all the characters just sit in a lounge and bicker with each other about the episodes events. Like RuPaul's Drag Race Untucked but it's all vampires.

*walks out of the homoerotic friendship covered in blood and wounds* you should see the other guy

*regular guy walks out, completely unaware anything is happening*

WAKE UP BITCHES THEY FOUND NEW EURIPIDES FRAGMENTS

98 LINES, 80% COMPLETELY NEW MATERIAL

I love these guys.

just wanted to add to this post that we don't know how octopuses and cuttlefish see color. they don't have enough photoreceptors to perceive color! if we were just going on photoreceptors, we'd be like, okay, these guys are colorblind.

but because we simply cannot believe they are colorblind, we're all falling over ourselves to try to explain other mechanisms by which they might be perceiving color. maybe their pupils act like prisms? maybe the cells on their skin that create color also modulate their skin's photoreceptors to help them see color? WE DON'T KNOW.

anyone who's always wanted to watch leverage but couldn't afford it and couldn't find it to pirate it, or just prefers watching things on youtube instead of futzing with unofficial sites:

the first three seasons are on youtube, in full, uploaded by the creators, in the correct order (the first season was aired out of order by the network)

y'all, and when I tell you the pilot episode of Leverage is a perfect pilot

it is a PERFECT PILOT. I can't believe how many events and twists and character moments they crammed into a single episode of television. they kept this shit TIGHT. if you like the pilot you'll like the show. every time I think about the pilot episode of Leverage, I want to watch the pilot episode of Leverage.