Somewhere lost in thought

27, IBD on Infliximab. Fan of many things. Tiels, math and cross-stitch. Will always reblog Howl's Moving Castle or David Tennant

[thebibliosphere]

In the spirit of offering bad medical advice, there's been some success with riding roller coasters to get rid of kidney stones. Which is clearly something you should try that wouldn't end badly at all

You know what, I'd be for it if I didn't think my wobbly head wouldn't pop off the top of my spinal column like a malfunctioning Pez dispenser.

[akatstuckinatree]

I always thought rollercoasters were just really rough and I didn't like them....

20 years later and learning that I'm hypermobile... Rollercoasters are really just bad news when you are so bendy that you bend to any and all g forces.

[thebibliosphere]

To celebrate Bite Your Neighbor’s one-month anniversary (if you haven’t read it yet, you really should), @brynwrites has put together a fantastic collection of achillean vampire romance novels for you all to enjoy, including yours truly!

There's a wonderful mix of slow-burn (my beloved 💖), friends-to-lovers, forbidden love, second-chance romances, and plenty more to choose from. So if you've been looking for a new vampire romance to sink your teeth into, I highly recommend checking out the full listing, complete with heat ratings, trope listings, and buy links at:

🦇🌈✨www.dnbryn.com/gay-vampires/ ✨🌈🦇

(Also, a huge thank you to @brynwrites for choosing the Fluff and Fangs version of Hunger Pangs for the promo image. The Fluff version doesn't get much love when it comes to listings, so it's nice to see her included 😊)

[charlataninred]

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

[meraarts]

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

[eater-of-hopes-and-dreams]

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

[blitzlowin]

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

Goblin Men (Canines)

[charlataninred]

I am in love with you /p

[caffeinewitchcraft]

Yooooooo I just realized I’m on this list 😭 I’ve been reading through and number 10 is me! Wow, I am honestly stunned, thanks y’all! If you like that demon king universe, I wrote another one the same world here (x)

BRB gonna print this post so I can say I rank with the other writers included

[discount-supervillain]

[splickedylit]

Diamonds and platinum, I find them, I flatten them, I take what I'm handed, I break what's demanded // A Gem could crack, under so much pressure.

((AKA the Steven Universe + Surface Pressure AMV, because hot damn y'all. This was SO much fun to make.)) ((spoilers through the entirety of SU/Future)) (youtube)

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Kristie says, "My grandmother has some mad skills.“ Indeed.

via gothic home decor enthusiasts

[the-odd-aardvadillo]

@thebibliosphere we need to group commission a multi-colored one for you

[thebibliosphere]

It’s so beautiful 🥺

[soufre-de-paris]

Some fairy tales may be 6000 years old

Study traces history of some of our favorite folk stories

GUYS THIS IS AMAZING

SERIOUSLY

6000 YEARS

STORIES THAT ARE OLDER THAN CIVILIZATIONS

STORIES THAT WERE TOLD BY PEOPLE SPEAKING LANGUAGES WE NO LONGER KNOW

STORIES TOLD BY PEOPLE LOST TO THE VOID OF TIME

STORIES

[soufre-de-paris]

GUYS LOOK AT THIS

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS

GUYYYYYSSSS

[dwarven-beard-spores]

“Here’s how it worked: Fairy tales are transmitted through language, and the shoots and branches of the Indo-European language tree are well-defined, so the scientists could trace a tale’s history back up the tree—and thus back in time. If both Slavic languages and Celtic languages had a version of Jack and the Beanstalk (and the analysis revealed they might), for example, chances are the story can be traced back to the “last common ancestor.” That would be the Proto-Western-Indo-Europeans from whom both lineages split at least 6800 years ago. The approach mirrors how an evolutionary biologist might conclude that two species came from a common ancestor if their genes both contain the same mutation not found in other modern animals.” 

[yuk-tepat]

How do they control for stories that were borrowed, which almost certainly happened?

[gacorley]

“ Unlike genes, which are almost exclusively transmitted “vertically”—from parent to offspring—fairy tales can also spread horizontally when one culture intermingles with another. Accordingly, much of the authors’ study focuses on recognizing and removing tales that seem to have spread horizontally. When the pruning was done, the team was left with a total of 76 fairy tales.”

This article doesn’t say how, but I bet those methods are in the paper.

[science-of-noise]

For this, they used a library of cultural traits for each culture a fairy tale occurred in, and then measured the likelihood that trait t occurs in culture c due to either phylogenetic proximity (inheritance) or spatial proximity (diffusion), using autologistic regression:

(Autologistic regression is a graphical model where connected nodes have dependencies on each other, except instead of an undirected graph, ALR is a special case that requires sequential binary data and assumes a spatial ordering.  In this case, the binary data are the cultural features).

Cultural traits states are generated using Monte-Carlo simulation and phylogenetic or spatial influence are fitted as local dependencies between the nodes in the graph representing cultural traits.  I can’t find this in the paper (though it may be mentioned in the citation of the method they used), but presumably if the spatial influence exceeds the phylogenetic influence by a certain threshold, the trait is removed.

The full paper is here.

[thepleasuregoblin]

you can always steal from wizards of the coast. it's always morally correct.

[louchie]

Thought this was a shitpost and nearly reblogged it with 'you can never steal from wizards of the caves. It's always morally despicable.' Then remembered it's a brand

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

horror movie like the grunge or whatever where a woman is initially haunted by a vengeful female spirit, but halfway through it turns into a lesbian romcom

[akatstuckinatree]

This is like the opposite of my nightmare where it's a het-romcom and by the end, she removes her skin to consume the male. after elusively stalking and consuming the entire cast throughout the second act.

[programmerhumour]

Proud of the terrific design!!

[herallalong]

the urge to bite someone cuz you love them

[thuriweaver]

[viejospellejos]

Vestido croma:

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

I’ve done something.. a little weird

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

seeing the fandoms people write fics for is honestly more concerning than the fact you made this.

[oofmilk]

[Video ID: Various screenshots of Ao3 fanfiction titles to the lyrics of Toxic by Britney Spears. Toxic is playing in the background, and the fanfiction titles pop up in time with the music. End ID]

[otterlyhuman]

Tubby Hot Summer

Webtoon / tapas / Patreon / Twitter / Instagram

[haltraveler]

Fool that you are, you forget that you too are mortal. The elephant dies as surely as the ant, but one exists on a scale beyond the other’s comprehension. The ant can bite and sting for days, yet its greatest victory can only be to be noticed, and in being so, crushed beneath the magnitude of its foe’s attention. Do you dare draw their gaze and risk that fate? 

[persephinae]

Add this one to this list of raw ass lines, lads

[alpunka]

@gallusrostromegalus

[mcnostril]

I have discovered the truth about chainmail bikinis, and it is imperative those wearing such armor do not think about it too hard or they may inadvertently cross the line between Sexy Hero and Homicidal Pervert.

[randomitemdrop]

Item: enchanted chainmail bikini/headband/anklet set

[brittany]

The Secret Garden (1993), dir. Agnieszka Holland

[catsi]

beating breath of the wild in under 40 minutes is an incredible feat and also fucking excellent in the context of the game. ganon spends 100 fucking years preparing this onslaught, building energy, getting ready to tear the world apart, and one elf twink wakes up butt-ass naked in a cave and legs it to the castle and kicks ganon’s ass apart in under an hour with a sword he found along the way

[ultracrashunderride]

Just screeching obscenities as he sprints barefoot across a field of killer robots

[elegyofikana-deactivated2018102]

Link?

[chaxtic-love]

yeah it was link

[kirboob]

link, after waking up not knowing anything but anger:

[max-out-of-ten]

The current record is 27.5 minutes. Knowing that speedrunners skip the Great Plateau tower, this means that they don’t get the cutscene where Ganon and his Guardians awake until they reach Hyrule Castle. Ganon doesn’t even know Link is awake until Link is at his doorstep, which is about 16:50 into the run.

Less than three minutes later, Link kills the first of Ganon’s Blights with a single arrow and swiftly takes down the next three. Within five minutes of Ganon being face to face with his arch nemesis, he is killed.

Ganon had a total of 10 minutes and 40 seconds to stop Link.

Just screeching obscenities as he sprints barefoot across a field of killer robots

Ganon fucking wishes. Link comes flying in on a paraglider at like 80 mph just because he jumped off a bokoblin’s head. I can only imagine Link screaming “FUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOOUUUUUU” all the way (about 50 seconds in the run but 30 seconds without lag)

[algrenion]

link: [wakes up] when i see Ganon it’s fucking on sight

[voidwerks]

[thebibliosphere]

@mothman-etd