Poetry and Wordporn

I am a fledgling writer setting out to publish my first novel as soon as I can, but this blog is about more than just me. There will be television, music, movies, comic books, YouTube projects, and lots of other things, too. It's a place for the things...

[victorvonvaporwave]

australians probably call rain something fuckin stupid like dripos or some shit

[victorvonvaporwave]

sorry mate cant come over now its dripos out

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[tastefullyoffensive]

by Floccinaucinihilipilificationa

[idiopath-fic-smile]

steve rogers: pr disaster | gen | 4k

(someone asked about the full version of this, so here u go)

“Wait,” says Sam, “you had a publicist?”

“For my first five months at S.H.I.E.L.D,” says Steve. “Then she quit. Uh, decisively.”

“Well yeah, she had to keep you in line,” Bucky says with a half-smirk. “How many times did you make that poor lady want to sock you in the face?”

“Lost count,” Steve admits. “I did offer to let her, once. Seemed fair.”

Sam laughs. “I feel like you’re sitting on a story here.”

“There’s no story,” Steve tells him. Sam raises his eyebrows. Bucky’s half-smirk tilts towards a full smirk. “Seriously,” Steve repeats, “no story.”

Interlude: The Story of Steve “Walking PR Nightmare” Rogers, and How For a Short While He Single-Handedly Destroyed the Emotional Health of Eva Laura Ortiz, His Now Ex-Publicist

Keep reading

[ainoche]

Do you ever hear someone curse for the first time and think to yourself, “Excuse me, sir...”

[ainoche]

Best Line In Civil War

Iron Man: "Who's speaking?"

Ant-Man in Iron Man's suit: "It's your conscience. We don't talk a lot these days"

[fullmental]

perfect recipe for mothers day:

Water: 35 l.

Carbon: 20 kg. 

Ammonia: 4 l. 

Lime: 1.5 kg. 

Phosphorus: 800 g. 

Salt: 250 g. 

Saltpeter: 100 g. 

Sulfur: 80 g. 

Fluorine 7.5 g. 

Iron 5 g. 

Silicon 3 g. 

trace amounts of 15 other elements.

[ladeemidnight]

Delete this post immediately.

[neverwear]

#AmericanGods is in production…. #believe

[neil-gaiman]

True.

[ainoche]

AH!!! I am so excited! I still remember reading American Gods for the first time and being so terrified I couldn’t put the book down. Now I’ll get to relive that experience as a MOVIE? Yay!

[mindblowingscience]

NASA has trialled an engine that would take us to Mars in 10 weeks

And may have inadvertently created a warp drive in the process.

NASA scientists have reported that they’ve successfully tested an engine called the electromagnetic propulsion drive, or the EM Drive, in a vacuum that replicates space. The EM Drive experimental system could take humans to Mars in just 70 days without the need for rocket fuel, and it’s no exaggeration to say that this could change everything.

But before we get too excited (who are we kidding, we’re already freaking out), it’s important to note that these results haven’t been replicated or verified by peer review, so there’s a chance there’s been some kind of error. But so far, despite a thorough attempt to poke holes in the results, the engine seems to hold up.

Continue Reading.

[flanneldelgay]

[thinkingredwizard]

Well, I for one am getting my hopes up.

[wilwheaton]

Warp factor SCHWING.

[annlarimer]

“Be waiting out front of the HAB, Watney, we’re not fucking waiting for you to get dressed. Places to be.”

[ambidisastrous]

Guys. Guys. I’ve been following this story for a while now and you don’t get it. Some guy made this and was like “well hi I made a thing and it shouldn’t go but it goes.”

And the science community was like okay that… there’s no way that works.

Then they tested it theoretically and it worked.

Then NASA was like okay but technically this breaks one of Newton’s laws so even if it theoretically goes it won’t like, actually go. So they built it and tested it more and it works.

So what we have now is the scientific community slowly cautiously freaking out because this GODDAMN EM DRIVE breaks the RULES OF PHYSICS but every time we test it, it FUCKING WORKS.

How cool is this????

[panbelacqua]

Every time we’ve found something “broken” that functions, it means something is wrong with our understanding of reality. The next step is to figure out what, figure out what’s true, and open up a plethora of new scientific discoveries.

[jumpingjacktrash]

*nerdy joy dance*

[reb-chan]

A while back an anon requested I draw Kylo in a Star Wars shirt so…I’m just gonna…leave this here.

[reb-chan]

People keep saying BB should have a shirt too, so I have delivered!! Poe would definitely make sure his droid was included in the shenanigans :)

[siberienne]

I don’t know who this photo belongs to, but whoever you are I love you, and may God bless these cosplayers

[stucky-things]

HOT DAYUM

[macaedh]

what the fuck ethan

[kvothbloodless]

I wish i had a context for this. But I really dont.

[pervocracy]

I was all ready to “um, actually” this, but, um, actually there’s about 3-4 grams of iron in a person, which x400 is 1.2-1.6kg, which is a smallish but not unreasonable sword. So. Math checks out.

[maxknightley]

How would you extract the iron, though? The more practical solution would be to kill a mere hundred men, then mix 1 part blood with 3 parts standard molten iron, imo. Cheaper and faster, while still retaining the edge that only evil magic can give you.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Or, you could just make the sword of iron, and then use the blood to temper the blade.

[squeeful]

1.2 to 1.6 kilograms is a perfectly reasonable large sword.  Your average longsword was 1.1–1.8 kg and I don’t even remember if that’s including the weight of the hilt, guard, and pommel or just the blade.  Your more classic “knight sword” was a mere 1.1 kilograms on average; the blood of 400 men is more than enough.

This is using the comparatively crappy metallurgy of medieval Europe and their meh iron swords.  Move east to, say, contemporary Iran and make a scimitar using high carbon steel (~2%) for a .75 kilogram blade and you only need the blood of about 225 men.

[optimysticals]

So putting my thoughts in on this… because how could I not.

So you’ve exsanguinated your 400 guys to get the iron for your sword. Cool. But now you have 400 bodies lying around.

Why not put those to good use and cremate them. Use the carbon from those 400 bodies (you won’t need all of them) and now you can make a nice mid-high carbon steel sword.

Now you have a sword forged with the blood of your enemies AND strengthened with their bones.

[argumate]

Tumblr is all about dismantling oppressive power structures with the help of a sword forged from the blood and bones of your defeated enemies

[hybridzizi]

@onlyslightlytwisted

[resinsculpture-deactivated20221]

Okay but seriously, how would you extract usable iron from a corpse? I believe that there’s a way, it just isn’t at all obvious to me what it is.

[nuclearspaceheater]

Turn it into a plasma and put the atoms thru a magnetic deflection field similar to a mass spectrometer and capture the iron isotopes. This is actually used for uranium enrichment and sorting atoms that differ by atomic number would be way easier.

Probably a cheaper way, though.

[elefantnap]

You will encounter tremendous difficulty trying to do that with (70kg * 400 bodies) = 28000kg of meat though, trying to get that 1kg of iron, compared to refining a much higher ratio of desirable uranium/wrong isotope uranium.

[nuclearspaceheater]

No, it would still be way easier. With Uranium you’re separating atoms with the same charge but slightly different mass. This is the entire reason why enrichment is such a huge expensive undertaking. Whereas the things you’re separating here are sorted by charge, and you can discard everything into a common collector for lower, and another for higher, and only differentiate around what you’re looking for. (Which is a lot of other useful metals for your evil metallurgy needs.)

[adzolotl]

Magnetic fields will only differentiate things with different mass-to-charge ratios, right? By that metric, iron-56 is harder to separate from carbon-13 than U-235 is from U-238. And there’s enough carbon in a person that the C-13 is going to outweigh the iron.

[blashimov]

Gas chromatography on thousands of liters of blood is a silly idea. At a minimum you can isolate the red blood cells physically, probably isolate the hemoglobin and then iron chemically. In fact, just heating/burning apparently gets you straight to iron oxide. www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=17485

TA da!

[startarevolutionandloveyourbody]

@niskalatrav

[iguanamouth]

flightlessxphoenix submitted: this lil guy was in the factory where i work and no one else appreciated his cuteness but i know you would. He just wants to be a hard worker.

LET !!! THE SNAKE !!! WORK !!

[peshamup-deactivated20240108]

He’s going to need a hard hat and a nice reflective vest!!

[iguanamouth]

shit youre right

[ainoche]

UPDATE

Hello,

It’s been a while. BUT I AM BACK, PEOPLE.

It’s been a long time since I’ve bothered to tumble, but I’ve gone through some changes and I wanted to give my people -- all like, 300 of you -- a little update on where I am in my life at the moment. 

I lost my job. I have one lined up, but it doesn’t start for like a month, so I’m going to keep looking in the meantime. 

On the writer-side, I’m working with two professional editors in my new writing group. Their insight has been astounding.

I am not sure what the future holds, but here’s to hoping things are looking up. March had two of the worst days in my life, so at least those are over, right?

Anyway, thanks for reading. It means more to me than you’ll know.

[taeyieon-deactivated20201030]

You really should hold off on celebrating until you’ve actually made a clean getaway. Otherwise, you’re just tempting the fates. You know the drill, boys. Assume the position. (The Brave and the Bold #33)

[hellyeahthomassanders]

Goals 🙇 by Thomas Sanders

[cold-brew-enthusiast]

this is so fucking real

[an-istant-of-nature]

[lisbon]