anything that catches my eye

[gif87a-com]

[zukosgay]

is germany okay

[soloontherocks]

oh scheiße

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

This isn’t quite how I imagined the second coming of Christ.

[not-a-slayer-of-dragons]

What makes this funnier is that I’m pretty sure that’s at the station for cologne cathedral

[i-dont-crow]

It is and everytime I see that hole I think of this video

[babtest]

Remembered to check at the station today and report that

The structural stigmata are still there

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

Why are the 4 holes?? Maybe 5?

[official-german-puns]

It’s his daily commute.

[thatswhywelovegermany]

#it is written that twice did jesus stumble and twice did the cross strike nearby architecture #so really this is method acting

[ninatastic]

Unfortunately they repaired it recently

[pluto-rain-her]

Es hängen jetzt sogar Schilder dort:

In Kölsch, Deutsch und Englisch 😂

[homunculus-argument]

Oh, to be granted the power to speak to animals for just like 38 seconds, so that I could tell this pebble-brained feathery fuckass that nobody is impressed that he started singing earlier than anybody else. There's no bird pussy available at 2 am. The dames can sense your desperation. Stop screaming for at least three more hours.

[10001gecs]

I need to suck you off until you’re groaning like a beached whale 🫣

ok you can give me a blowjob but take the time to think of a more sexy simile please

[10001gecs]

😭

[oneheadtoanother]

idk anything about this but I love it

[lynati]

If any competition needed to be on Tumblr, it's this one.

[galwednesday]

From the SS Food Challenge channel:

[brick-match]

Major pet peeve in my own life is that the brick and mortar on the porch columns of my apartment don't match the rest of the building. It's not something most people would notice at first or maybe at all, but it drives me crazy.

The brick on the building is an old sandmold standard-size flashed burgundy brick and a plain buff mortar in a flush joint. If I were to match these, I would use Belden Brick's Belcrest 740 bricks. Those aren't available in standard size, but the modular size they're made in will work because it's the same height. (Matching size exactly doesn't really matter for columns or other projects where the brick isn't going to be laid directly into the existing brick wythes (in fact, the bricks on the columns are a bit longer and a bit less tall than the bricks on the house)). I'd match the mortar with Heidelberg's Old Colonial, the go-to for matching older structures, from their Flamingo colored mortar series. Heidelberg's premixed Old Colonial could also work.

The brick on the columns is just over 8 inches long and just under 2 1/4 inches tall, so it's a weird size. They may have been "seconds", meaning the factory screwed up and had to sell them at a discount. That would explain the mismatch -- mighta been a 1970s Landlord Special. Nonetheless, they're beautiful bricks. A rusty brown color with ironspot texture ("ironspot" is somewhat literal: the clay and/or shale is mixed with actual flecks of metal, usually manganese these days I think, that melts in the kiln and makes a sort of glaze of freckles on the surface of the brick!), laid with an almost-matching red mortar.

These bricks have to have been discounted, because it shouldn't have been at all difficult to match the brick on the existing building. The reason for the red mortar evades me; colored mortars are usually more expensive than plain mortar. More traditional colors like Old Colonial are popular enough to be not much pricier than the plain grey. Idk why tf they woulda done red, except maybe to hurt me personally.

[cobythinks]

Dead wife montage but it's all slow motion shots of your dead wife throwing grenades and doing backflips and oneshotting the enemy with their long range weapons

[kittydealer]

fell asleep mid convo (unmute)

[ao3commentoftheday]

What constitutes a good Fic Rec list?

I’ll tell you what I look for in a fic rec list and then we’ll see what everyone else thinks is good :)

all one fandom, and if it’s shippy then all the same ship

titles of the fic link over to AO3

include the rating of the fics and a brief description (or the reason why you like it)

tag the authors so they know they’ve been rec’d

I’ve definitely seen fic rec lists with a specific theme to them as well, for example “[ship] hurt/comfort recs” but I’m personally good with just the description and picking from there. 

Do any of you make rec lists? Do you appreciate them? What makes a good list?

[sarking]

Ooh, I love rec lists, but I have fairly different preferences for them:

All one fandom is good, but it doesn’t need to be all one ship. I don’t have anything against multifandom rec lists, but the odds of me being familiar with multiple fandoms on them are slim. The important thing is to be clear about the rec list’s theme before you actually list the recs themselves (e.g. random works I liked, coffee shop AUs in small fandoms, m/m slash in Specific Fandom, etc).

The reason you like it, or the reason you think other people should read it, is absolutely 100% necessary, and ideally it consists of at least a couple sentences (unless it’s a 100-word drabble you’re reccing). Without this, and especially if I don’t know anything about your taste in fic, it’s not any different than skimming a work listing.

If there’s something that you had to overlook while reading the fic, or something that made you hesitate to rec it, mention it! If I know the reccer would usually consider a lack of empty space between paragraphs a dealbreaker, I might be willing to give the fic a go despite the fact bad paragraph spacing is usually also a dealbreaker for me. But if I just click on a link and find a wall of text, I’ll probably back button from not just the work, but possibly the rec list as well.

I think of recs as being for potential readers, not authors, so if I were making a rec list, I wouldn’t tag them. (But I would try to comment on the fic!)

[kiragecko]

Ooh, I always want the authours tagged if possible! Mostly because if a tagged authour I follow reblogs it, I get to see other authours that the reader considers similar enough to rec together with this person I love!

Since I love Gen recs, it’s usually about a single character, instead of a ship, or about a bunch of fic with a similar tone. (Agree it should all be one fandom, unless you’re dealing with fandoms that have a huge overlap of fans.) Lists with similar tones are actually my favourites. “Ten fic with haunting prose”, “my favourite dramatic fic about siblings from 2025”, “dark-ish fic with hopeful endings”, etc.

I like a brief summary/teaser (usually a sentence or less) and then some of the reasons the reccer enjoyed it. The goal is to interest the reader just enough that they click through and read the actual fic’s summary and tags, not tell them everything they need to know.

I often include warnings in my own recs, but rarely ratings, since I find that information about tone and major warnings will usually provide more information. It doesn’t have to be the usual AO3 warnings either - I used to target my recs at aroace fans, so I’d include the amount of icky kissing in the warnings section.

If you’re going to include a wide range of ratings, people often start with the lighter ones and end with the higher ratings. They also often separate Gen and shippy stuff if they’re including both.

But the absolutely best thing you can include is bias! The more I learn about what you like and dislike, the more valuable your recs become. Praise fic for being canon compliant, or having great worldbuilding, or for the writing style, or how steamy the sex is - things that show me how you’re judging what’s on the list. I’ve followed several people because they cared about elements of fic I also cared about, to the point that I could trust their recs without even having to read the blurb.

Basically, I think your recs should focus on the elements you care about, because those are the things where your opinion will actually tell us something. I don’t include ratings, because I have nothing to say about them that the fic doesn’t say better. I do include information about how many times I needed to take a break and calm down, because that lets the readers know I like emotionally intense stuff, and this one rated highly on a emotional intensity scale!

[official-sonic-team]

i can’t lie this is the realest shit

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The smartest man in the world

[civvic]

The mere concept of a resident evil male nude mod is so funny to me. Boy put that boaner away lest a sloppy little critter grabs hold of it

[medievalsquire]

my knight keeps saying fuck it we ball before charging into battles and it's reallynot inspiring confidence in my heart

[mikufanclub]

remember when teachers would tell you to fold paper hamburger or hotdog style. kind of sounds like some fake shit but just another example of burger centric american thinking

[mikufanclub]

non americans in the tags doubting if this is true. you think burger is a fucking joke to us??

[acti-veg]

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

[namu-the-orca]

Cetacean echolocation is one of those things that boggles your mind once you really start to think about the implications. They can see each others' hearts beating fast with fear or excitement. They can see if another dolphin is healthy, or pregnant; how the fetus is doing; if they have ingested debris. Their echolocation is also incredibly precise: a bottlenose dolphin could discriminate between cilinders differing in wall thickness by just 0.23 mm (0.009 inch) from 8 meters away!! And they certainly notice when something is off.

I'm not sure if I ever shared this story before here, but in Curacao, when I was allowed to assist in a guest interaction programme, there was suddenly consternation in the pool behind us. A guest had entered the water and the dolphins were going crazy, paying no heed to the trainers anymore. The lead trainer that was with me gave the dolphins to me to watch over while she went to help. When she came back she told me what had happened. The guest that had caused so much uproar had left the water again and was asked if he had done anything to upset the dolphins. He hadn't, and he couldn't imagine what was wrong... until he mentioned he had a pacemaker. The younger dolphins in the pool had never seen someone with a pacemaker before and apparently it rocked their world.

It was such a wild experience, and offered such a cool insight into how dolphins experience their world. I'll never forget it.

[spitzonthefritz]

this is going around twitter rn but im also super curious: please tell me your top four comfort movies that you’re always down to watch bc my friend thinks mine are ridiculous and now we’ve realised everyone’s version of “comfort” is hilariously different

[theshehulkproject]

Some D&D party is out there playing the coolest campaign ever.

[nonasuch]

I saw this when it was posted! Some highlights from the comments:

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

If Dis is the deepest levels of hell then it only follows that in the Divine Comedy Australia, home of the Ute, is the highest levels of heaven.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

"Utopia" just means a place full of these things

[chekhovs-raygun]

"A real utopia could never be built!" yeah that's what a guy without enough utes would say.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#3pm on a friday when all the tradies who started work early are knocking off and the road is chockers with hiluxes call that a utopia

[argumate]

we used to have a utopia, then all the tradies started buying Ford Ranger Raptors 😩

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

:(

[acaciaeocene]

I work in a light industrial area, and it's amusing to compare the horrendously oversized 4WD trucks with the beaten-to-hell utes in the carpark, often sitting side by side. It's very clear which of them are for showing off versus which are for doing actual work.

The purpose of the stripped-down brown VW Beetle from some time in the 70s is unclear, but I appreciate seeing it around anyway.

[frenchtugboat]

A random 70s beetle is a more functional every day driver than the yank tanks with the useless 3.5 foot waist-high plastic beds, which are also the commuter cars of the wankers that drive them.

We have an infestation of rams that make the stupid fucking already ridiculously huge ranger danger shitheaps look like tonka trucks in comparison.

Also note that a surprising amount of these horrible shitheaps (that shouldn't be allowed on australian roads in the first place) aren't even 4WD, they're fucking 2WD, they're front wheel drive. They're not even pretending to be useful at that point, and pretending is all those pieces of shit ever had. If you go to a hardware store car park, the trailer parking section is filled with yank tanks towing fucking trailers because a fucking 3.5 foot bed too high to lift shit into is a fucking joke.

If I see another disabled person, pram pusher, child wrangler, dog wrangler, shopping cart wielder, or any pedestrian at all have to try go around a stupid fucking giant engine bays blocking the footpath, I'm going to overload their useless trays with rocks (doesn't take much) and then fill their fucking petrol tanks with sugar instead of simply keying the thing so deeply panels need to be replaced. Now, keep in mind that some panels are more expensive to fix or replace than others, like panels that span the B/C pillar of the cab through to the tray for the manufacturers stupid enough to not separate the cab panels from the tray panels. Fucking tray panels? get a real fucking ute, losers.

[phantomrose96]

Kind of funny to me when humans are saddled with instincts which, historically over millions of years, offered a net-benefit to survival. And yet now in certain circumstances of modern day living just result in a doctor going, "yeah, so don't do that."

[phantomrose96]

As hairless and warm-blooded creatures, we surely, I imagine, have been highly susceptible to parasites attached to our skin.

As creatures with dexterous opposable digits and fine-tuned motor skills, we surely, I imagine, have been able to fight back against this parasite blight by detecting the parasites on our skin and picking them entirely off.

And yet. When there is a highly unauthorized blemish. On skin. You """"shouldn't"""" """"pick at it"""" because that's """not the way to deal with acne""". Which is advice from someone who just sounds like they're jealous because their ancestors weren't nearly as skilled at skin parasite eradication.