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Welcome to my main blog! This is where I reblog writing stuff, comics, media analysis, and any puns I find. I used to make original posts here and maybe will again???
Welcome to my main blog! This is where I reblog writing stuff, comics, media analysis, and any puns I find. I used to make original posts here and maybe will again???
you're required to participate in this poll btw. i need data
tumblr what is wrong with you first the walrus vs fairy thing and now this? are you saying it's less fucked up to find out you're not a biological organism than find out you're a human created from one parent-twin who is genetically identical to you?
Clone: horror at the lie of your body (for what purpose? how many are there? are they like you?)
vs.
Robot: horror at the lie of your mind and your humanity itself (have you ever actually had a thought of your own, or is everything you are/you think/you understand just created by another person’s brain? whose mind/brain are you?? whose thoughts are in your head?? What does it mean to “think” when you’re only a manmade echo of humanity constructed from Boolean logic loops? Do you even have a soul?)
There’s a CLEAR ANSWER HERE.
clone: you are the theft of another being, inextricably tied by the blood running through your veins they may not have even given to you. you aren't you, you're them, you were made to be them, you're not different, there shpuld not be a you, you are them,
robot: ok well im a robot so show me my blueprints so i can install a sword in my arm to beat up ppl that i dont like. what the fuck ever. can i run doom
@/notedchampagne
I feel seen but I don't feel happy about it
Tumblr user hamletthedane sets up compelling arguments for voting either side.
"There's a CLEAR ANSWER HERE."
> game made in an engine called "Unreal" > look at graphics > realistic
> game engine called “Unity”
> look inside
> company is in constant state of division from layoffs
> game engine called "Godot"
> look inside
> ...uhh... I definitely have a punchline, wait for it
>Game engine called 'Source' >look inside >doesn't even have a source wall
I went to the local aviary today and they had some really mean things to say about owls.
I can confirm that most birds have a detectable amount of wiring behind the eyes - blinking lights and buttons and sliders and frizzy things that spark and chirp and beep. They also have a lot of soul that can communicate with ours because the programming is fairly compatible. Vultures are clever and curious, swans are clear and lawful, chickens have a lot of personality, caged parrots are dissociated and disinherited and frankly worrying, falconry-trained birds of prey are tremendously businesslike.
And owls are absolutely lovely beasts with their own irreplaceable validity. but they are basically stuffed with polyester fiberfill. They have one button, like a child's toy dinosaur that opens and closes its mouth when you press the back of its head. And it isn't even a sophisticated electronic button it's just a lever that rocks back and forth to make the claws open and close. I think they may have actually evolved independently from sponges. Their skulls simply exist to create holes that funnel sound and light, and as a place to hang a giant hinged beak. An owl is just an empty tube like a windchime that the wind whistles through, and you can drop meat down it. They use the meat to generate feathers, and then emit the bones in pressed little packages like those machines that flatten a penny and stamp it with the logo of a theme park. I think that's the gist of it - most birds are electronics of varying levels of sophistication, but owls are just a system of levers and pulleys. No elevator music in those skulls, just the wind echoing through empty caverns of slightly irritating design. Absolutely fantastic.
polyarborism
What if we had a plagiarism scandal here on tumblr, kinda annoyed at the youtubies having all the fun
you cant do this to my post
i am going to create the worst lotr fancast
send me anon hate and I’ll do the rest of the cast
hmm. who am i missing
i feel like this is some sort of hate crime.
tags via @bunabi
how does it feel to be the funniest person in the world
...ok but i kinda need to see how nick cage plays faramir tho.
Exploring good traits gone bad in a novel can add depth and complexity to your characters. Here are a few examples of good traits that can take a negative turn:
1. Empathy turning into manipulation: A character with a strong sense of empathy may use it to manipulate others' emotions and gain an advantage.
2. Confidence becoming arrogance: Excessive confidence can lead to arrogance, where a character belittles others and dismisses their opinions.
3. Ambition turning into obsession: A character's ambition can transform into an unhealthy obsession, causing them to prioritize success at any cost, including sacrificing relationships and moral values.
4. Loyalty becoming blind devotion: Initially loyal, a character may become blindly devoted to a cause or person, disregarding their own well-being and critical thinking.
5. Courage turning into recklessness: A character's courage can morph into reckless behavior, endangering themselves and others due to an overestimation of their abilities.
6. Determination becoming stubbornness: Excessive determination can lead to stubbornness, where a character refuses to consider alternative perspectives or change their course of action, even when it's detrimental.
7. Optimism becoming naivety: Unwavering optimism can transform into naivety, causing a character to overlook dangers or be easily deceived.
8. Protectiveness turning into possessiveness: A character's protective nature can evolve into possessiveness, where they become overly controlling and jealous in relationships.
9. Altruism becoming self-neglect: A character's selflessness may lead to neglecting their own needs and well-being, to the point of self-sacrifice and burnout.
10. Honesty becoming brutal bluntness: A character's commitment to honesty can turn into brutal bluntness, hurting others with harsh and tactless remarks.
These examples demonstrate how even admirable traits can have negative consequences when taken to extremes or used improperly. By exploring the complexities of these traits, you can create compelling and multi-dimensional characters in your novel.
Happy writing!
Like to support lancelot’s anti-cat action rb to support the cats who dont give a shit abt him
this is from actual arthuriana! it’s a passage from The Marvels of Rigomer, a 13th century verse romance about Lancelot getting imprisoned in a post-apocalyptic land and Gawain going to rescue him
The radius and ulna are among my favourite bones specifically because they do this
I hate this. I hate that they do this. I think about this every time I rotate my wrist. It seems like the sort of thing that would go wrong in all sorts of horrible ways and leave a bone sticking out of my skin. and yet it keeps happening. every day of my life.
I rotate my arms regularly just because I like it when they do this.
iiiiiii dont. think thats how bones work
Yeah i doubt someone would make these gifs for the purpose of an online joke so I have no choice but to believe it
i have a degree is bones (bioarchaeology) this is how bones work and i hate it
@invisible-goats During your education, do you ever stop mourning that your field is not called boneology?
When the Chocolate Guy (Amaury Guichon) sets the challenge!
I recognize that this is MASTERchef, so the contestants, especially this far in, are actually very good chefs but Amaury really woke up and chose violence huh.
Chocolate man went for their fucking throats omg
the whole damn thing was a draw
somehow despite his swiss heritage, this man chose murder, and the execution was public
Those replicas are so sad, I feel bad for the contestants. But it tells us what level Chocolate Man operates on.
Disappointed, i expected the watch to be functional.
I'm convinced this man is a demon who escaped from hell because loves making chocolate more than anything but also kind of misses tormenting people sometimes.
Y'all, J R R Tolkien did not invent "race fantasy". His take on it is certainly the most recognisable owing to it having been taken up by fantasy roleplaying games, but fantasy literature using fantastical species as an explicit proxy for race in the modern sense pre-dates Tolkien's literary success by at least several decades.
I'm saying this not to exonerate Tolkien, but to point out that the fact that your fantasy setting isn't doing the standard elf/dwarf/hobbit/orc shit doesn't automatically let it off the hook. There's a long history of species-as-proxy-for-race in fantasy fiction before, after, and entirely apart from the Tolkienesque strand that needs to be reckoned with, and if your thought process stops at "well, I'm not literally imitating Tolkien, so it's fine", you're gonna miss some implications.
Basically, put down the degenerate cannibal lizard man and think about what you're doing, is what I mean to say.
I wasn't vaguing Wizards of the Coast there, believe it or not – I just went with that example because I swear whenever I bump into unexamined race fantasy tropes from authors who are convinced they know better, like 80% of the time it's lizard people.
And here I was thinking Warhammer Fantasy.
I could imagine it happens to a lot of lizardfolk though, because a) lizardfolk are often portrayed as notably inhuman and b) Tolkien didn't have any lizardfolk, at least not any that are widely known, so people probably think they're 'safe' working with them.
That can be part of it, yeah. Another big part of it is that there have historically been multiple distinct strands of race fantasy specifically involving lizard people, and folks sometimes get so focused on avoiding one of them that they trip right into another.
There's the "shape-shifting lizard men from outer space" stuff of modern Antisemitic conspiracy theories, of course.
Then there's the stuff from the sword and sorcery fantasy of the front half of the 20th Century, which tends to use lizard people as explicit stand-ins for Black and Pacific Islander cultures – in some cases to the extent of taking existing manuscripts and quite literally search-and-replacing all the dark-skinned people with lizards.
And then there's all that mid 20th Century pulp fiction that takes lizard people into deep Yellow Peril territory and depicts East Asian people as the product of miscegenation between humans and serpent-men from the Earth's hollow core, or whatever.
There are probably at least a couple of other strands that aren't springing readily to mind. I don't know what it is with race fantasy and lizard people, but it's a whole thing.
I, for one, thought OP was vagueposting about Robert E. Howard's serpent people.
Change.org - Petition To Hire 1,000,000 People To Put Their Fingers In The Shoot Hole Of Peoples’ Guns So They Can’t Shoot Them
It’s still gonna shoot… And they’re gonna lose a finger
No. The finger blocks the bullet. We can do this
This is a gun we’re talking about. The projectile is fired using an explosion, not by compressed air of a toy gun or the elastic forces of a sling shot. People would be lucky if they only lost their finger.
The finger blocks it
The finger won’t block it - the shaft is only there for keeping the bullet straight, all the propulsion happens behind the bullet. The bullet would rip through the finger, not that many would actually fit without the victim being a child, and beyond.
The bullet would go forward a little and then hit the finger and stop it’s not that hard to understand
Why the dingleknockers would you even consider sticking your finger in the barrel of a loaded gun?? the amount of force propelling the bullet at that close of range would shatter the finger at the very least; this is a petition for 1,000,000 people to loose the use of their hands. If a bullet explodes the back of a persons skull when they shoot it in their mouth it sure as hell will explode a finger.
No the finger would stop it
I’m loving the idiocy of this post.
Ppl with brains: ummm finger go boom…
Others: no bullet stop. U no kno fisics >:V
no the finger would stop it
You guy who think the bullet would stop at the finger have never shot a gun and can volunteer to it their fingers in the barrel of my 9 mil and I’ll I’ll the trigger and see if it will stop the bullet. Dumdasses
the finger would stop it
date of origin: 28th of december, 2015.
These fuckwits are back again? How’s it going, Nine Finger Nasty? About to turn into an Eight Finger Egghead?
@meatswitch @raptorific this is a US based site. US Americans are known for two things- obsession with guns and incredible stupidity. Had this been anyone else, I’d say they’re trying to fuck with us. But with US Americans, about 70% of them are dead serious about mangling their hands trying to stop a bullet.
I’ve had four years to think about it and now I think the finger would stop it
I just tested it with my buddy. It stops the bullet
….Mythbusters WELDED A METAL SPIKE into the barrel of a gun to obstruct it, something heaps stronger than a human finger (and sealed the barrel better with the filler metal used to fuse the metal spike into place and prevent the explosive gases from escaping) but even that didn’t stop the bullet from doing damage.
It’s because they didn’t use a finger like I did
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The fuck’s going on here? You’d rip your hand apart you fucks
no the finger would stop it
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