Adaine and Aelwyn: *casually talking about not being able to bear existing in a loving household after growing up in an abusive one, even craving someone being mean to them again*
Me, fully having my trauma locked away behind a 30 inch lead door:
@headinfantasy / headinfantasy.tumblr.com
Adaine and Aelwyn: *casually talking about not being able to bear existing in a loving household after growing up in an abusive one, even craving someone being mean to them again*
Me, fully having my trauma locked away behind a 30 inch lead door:
I love how Avatar perfectly balances "the kids are going to save the world!" with "which is pretty fucked up, actually."
Wisdom in the tags.
Kakapo aka Owl Parrot (Strigops habroptila), family Strigopidae, order Psittaciformes, New Zealand
CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.
Photographs by the New Zealand department of conservation
Theory Time
The reason endermen don’t like it when you look at them is because they communicate telepathically with one another by locking eyes! Humans are absolutely not designed to do this so when we look at them we are accidentally projecting all of our thoughts into them at the same time and it hurts :(
But like, since the player is not of the Minecraft world, the player is just what the use to explore it, what if it’s like:
Enderman: *looks at player’s eyes*
Player: 01010010 01100001 00100000 01110010 01100001 00100000 01010010 01100001 01110011 01110000 01110101 01110100 01101001 01101110 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01010010 01110101 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100001 01101110 00100000 01110001 01110101 01100101 01100101 01101110 00100000 01101111 01101000 00100000 01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01100001 01101110 00100000 01100101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01101101 01100001 01101110
Enderman: oh ok *attacks player*
This kills me every single fucking time
I don’t even play Minecraft but this is hilarious
Tenth-century-or-earlier Old English poem Deor is great because it's just the poet going "my problems are just like when Blorbo from my legends had problems" and providing a long list of names of people in vaguely-described situations.
And then modern scholars have to read it like "we have literally barely heard of any of these guys, who even are they" because it's been a thousand years and several massive culture shifts, and some of the poet's blorbos now only survive in his references to them.
Okay I'm exaggerating a bit, because most of these do have footnotes with "here's some context (even if we don't have the full picture)" but this verse is really funny.
Great use of time travel:
Go back and find all these down-on-their-luck storytellers and poets and whatnot. Offer them each a deal.
“So good news, your financial woes are over. What? Yeah, sure, we’re elves, whatever. Now, you can live here in… let’s just call it the Land of Faerie, sure… as long as you want, but we need you to write down (or dictate, if you can’t write) all of the old legends and stories you know. If you run out, we’re also interested in general information about your culture, customs, beliefs, the history of your people, and what everyday life is like for you. We’ll maintain you here in comfort the whole time, and you’ll have the option to go back when you’re done, but… listen, I need to explain the concept of an NDA to you, because the Ethics board is starting to raise some chicken-and-egg questions about the whole ‘stolen away by elves’ bit.”
This will haunt my nightmares.
Squelch! Squelch is the technical shorthand for noise gating. Your antenna will constantly pick up ambient noise, which is useless and annoying to listen to all day while you wait for a call. Squelch tells the radio to mute the speakers if the overall power of the signal coming through is below a certain level. You twiddle your squelch until it just cuts out ambient noise, and when someone tries to talk to you the extra power from their signal will go above your squelch setting and it'll unmute so you can hear whoever's calling you.
You know what? Fuck you. *untwiddles your squelch*
she twiddle my squelch till i end up abandoned and unidentified at a local museum
reblog to twiddle prevs squelch
watching tng for the first time :^)
do you ever just
happy 10 year anniversary to this game changer thank u @joscribbles for your services
can’t believe it’s been 10 years since i learned to always put my name on my art, even if it’s just a shitpost, bc u never know what’s going to blow up
anyway here’s a signed version if you wanna use it to shut up people who are trying to tell you their Opinions
When Trump says he'll be a dictator on "day one," do you understand why we need to do everything in our power to stop him?
Doctor Who | Wild Blue Yonder
Cultivating an obsession w studying & absorbing knowledge & learning more about the outside world is the only way. Make it ur never ending infatuation
I love recreational reading as much as the next person, and I think it’s absolutely vital to anyone to engage in it, but I don’t like the demonization of textbooks & just generally reading for the sake of understanding more about the natural world. The education system sucks (especially in the US) but idk growing a distaste for studying as a result of it is sad to me. I’ve had my own journey healing my relationship w education, but once I unlearned the whole “I don’t fuck w textbooks” rhetoric studying became so much more fun. I do fuck w textbooks actually. Why wouldn’t I?? 8 diferent phds sat down to write just one. It’s a privilege just to read their work & years’ worth of effort and commitment to a field
I think this needs to be added, bc I’m not sure many people know: but it really does take multiple PhDs to finalize a textbook. And when it’s finally finalized, yet another team of editors has to meticulously comb through it to ensure it’s palatable to an audience of college-aged students. I interact w a lot of PhDs due to my orgo research—and PhD-MDs from my clinic—and I can only hope to one day be as devoted to what I love as they are. There’s a wealth of knowledge in a textbook—and that’s a wealth of knowledge people from as little as a century ago would’ve killed to get their hands on.
There definitely needs to be a conversation about how to improve education in general, but I don’t think it starts w hating textbooks—or painting them to be any less captivating than other genres of reading.
The effects of Cincinnati Chili after having your gallbladder removed. Absolutely worth it.
If you can't be bothered to learn the difference between a rock and a mineral, well...
Based on a submission from stubeardsly.
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Hallgrímskirkja in all it’s glory. Iceland 🇮🇸
Government stimulus works.
Democratic policies work.
Republican supply side economics, their tax cuts, and their trickle down are all MASASIVE FAILURES. We have the proof.
Never forget, all the Democratic recovery plans and policies had zero Republican support and they all saved America. Not only that, Republicans predicted the recovery plans would not work.
Three strikes! Republicans caused the economic crisis, Republicans predicted the stimulus would not work, then they voted against the stimulus.
Still drawing some redesigns! I saw some y2k inspired outfits and really wanted to draw some baggy baggy baggy baggy baggy baggy jeans. Yes that was a kpop reference 😅