cobblestones by Graziano Russo

Wait, it got better.

He does this a lot, to my deep surprise in undergrad:

For reference, the reason nobody likes this book and you can press tofu with it is that it’s about 1600 pages long.

It’s also, by all accounts, the origin of Cousin Throckmorton

You know, it makes perfect sense that the guy who would amuse himself by going around Twitter as above would also have come up with the skateboarding cousin Throckmorton for a word problem.

Like it totally follows.

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Arrival, 2016

Taken from Trailer 1

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Cinematography: Bradford Young

#I didn't realize this was an age thing and not the animaniacs are coming after you thing (via @spacebras)

I didn't stretch and Yakko Warner personally beat me with a sack full of hammers

I hate that planned obsolescence is starting to reach fandoms. I hate that fandoms are starting to die after two, three years, I hate that whenever you stop getting content that means the fandom will die and be gone.

I need people to stop trying to brush off old interests as being 'cringe' as soon as you lose interest, or worse: make it seem like it's imoral to like something that they themselves held so dear before.

Fandoms are meant to last for years and years, the moment content stops being created is the moment we truly thrive because we keep creating the content ourselves the way we love it and expand on the things that are already there for us.

I don't care if you lost interest on something, it's fine and normal even, but stop trying to blame and make fun of people who still do love the fandom and the content and the things we can create.

I need people to enjoy fandom again

I hope Kate Middleton is photoshopping those pictures herself. I hope she had a fight with the royal family and they are all outside her door, begging to just please, let us take one normal picture of you, they all think we murdered you! Kate! Kate!

And then she puts another, even shittier, photomanipulated pic on twitter.

youm: nibblinge thoughtlesslé upon a tuna salad sandwiche of untolde deliciouseness like a culinaré croesus

me, havem't eaten anythinge whotsoever in the past 99 secoundes:

denied even one meagre bite im wastinge away againe in tuna sandwicheville

Cosplay

Khajiit has cosplay if you have coin

A thing I love to do is telling prepper dudes that one of my disaster readiness skills is making stuffed animals. They never get it. Like, my dude, when things get very bad and we're all sharing overcrowded shelters, you're gonna want the power to comfort children. Trust me.

You know what, I got a whole bunch of fabric / old clothes at home and no idea what to do with it. I might just learn how to do this too

Then you might be interested in a database with hundreds of free plushie sewing patterns of just about any animal, as well as dinosaurs, pokemon, etc: https://craftresource.fandom.com/wiki/Plushie_Sewing_Patterns

& If that's a little overwhelming, here's some easy beginners plushies: - Manta Ray https://cholyknight.com/2021/05/14/manta-ray-plush/ - Whale https://craftresource.fandom.com/wiki/Whale_Plushie_Sewing_Pattern_(Lacey) - Simple dino: https://welivedhappilyeverafter.com/diy-long-neck-dino/

and a little more chalenging but my personal favorite: - totally not that one shark from a Swedish furniture chain store that everyone loves: https://freesewing.org/docs/designs/hi

Man, when I was still running archaeology field schools, every year, without fail, two things would happen:

1) the velociraptor attack joke

2) the boys would all succumb to zombie apocalypse/disaster planning, and arguing about which people on the dig would be critical to survival.

I was usually on the list of Key People, but never for the right reasons (I always asked why and usually got some answer along the lines of “you can hunt/meat prep,” which is hilarious for several reasons, but primarily because I have literally never shot an animal with my bow and have limited knowledge on how to prepare a whole animal without contaminating the meat). The second most common reason was because I knew a lot about civil planning and could define a defensible city. OCCASIONALLY I got “you know how to farm and grow crops!” Which at least showed they were thinking somewhat about long term survival, but was also an eye rolling answer because growing the majority of crops is not rocket science.

Not ONCE did those boys ever choose the correct reason, which was: my extreme knowledge of how to make fabric out of plants and hair, and how to turn that fabric into clothes and blankets.

The lack of respect fiber arts get for being a necessary foundational cornerstone of Not Fucking Dying will never cease to amaze me.

Anyway, learn how to sew so you don’t die of exposure. Or have permanently traumatized and LOUD small children.

A short animation of my cat Merlin begging to be fed. He usually starts this a full hour before food time.