whatever goes

I don't control my dash, I rarely queue. I reblog as I see fit. | I change my mind on what I want to be called but for now "Al" or "Almond" is fine. | I am an adult and will reblog and post NSFW stuff on a whim. minors please be aware, remove yourself/block me if/when I make you uncomfortable in any way | cis she/her

[serpentinesomebody]

me, posting stuff for over 7 different fandoms at random all on the same blog:

[fashion-runways]

MANISH MALHOTRA Couture Fall/Winter 2027 pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com

[empire-of-light]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 1.06 Montreal Devil's Minion overtaking Loustat as the Nr. 1 Interview with the Vampire ship on ao3 11.07.2026

[lestatdelioncuort]

#fake idgafers

[reticent-vampire]

couldn't be more over him

[saraloveslove]

This scene, oh my God. They are so vulnerable here, so damaged. Yet, so immensively still in love.

They would just succumb, each to their own ghosts, if it wasn't for what they feel for eachother.

This is possibily the Loustat scene.

[sashayed]

has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing

[boomstab-papa]

[your-cosmic-creature]

“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”

[fukurou-hi]

嫁入高门 | Bittersweet Love E3 ° You're doing this on purpose, aren't you?

[iwait4youalexg]

Oh!

[doh007]

Thank you all, i needed further explanation - And i do find it might help me!

[shijiujun]

OMG WHAT THE HELL THEY FINALLY RELEASED THIS CHENGYU X XIAOSHUAI SCENE FROM THE BTS FOR THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF REVENGED LOVE AIRING

“All men do in bed is lie!”

“In bed? How about on the sofa then?”

SCREECHING

[stephanisoejono]

Recently finished a commission from The Story Seed Library where they hosted various Solarpunk future visions. As I have mentioned in the notes I wanted a vision that is specific to South East Asia. A hawker stall filled with my favourite snacks, with their own home-grown produce growing on-site. Also focused on a single disabled mom and her daughter and Kanekes people for a few reasons. We have often failed disabled people and i want to imagine a future where disabled people can live with dignity. The Kanekes are indigenous people living in the Banten, mostly off-grid. I want to imagine a future where we adopt some of their earth-caring ways but with some techonological amenities still available. I hope I get to see more culture-specific Solarpunk soon!

[parkchanwoohoo]

There's an attitude I've been seeing more and more of where having any kind of artistic opinion that isn't praise is seen as some kind of faux pas designed to yuck people's yum or whatever, and while I understand the kneejerk response behind it I do have to wonder like. How sustainable do you think it is to foster an environment where even the most casual criticism is met with hoards of defensive with Whoa Mama Mia Cunt Let People Enjoy Things style comments

[smiley-asylum]

OK so yes feedback is necessary specifically in art but I have seen people just be full on mean or unnecessarily harsh. There's creative criticism and then there's just being a dick for the sake of it.

[parkchanwoohoo]

Okay. And I'm saying people are allowed to, when they want to, on their blogs, be a dick about things for the sake of it if they feel like doing it. I'm wildly skeptical of the idea that constructive critique is the only kind of feedback one is "allowed" to make in their own siloed corner of the internet, or that insistence on this will somehow create a healthier space for expressing opinions.

Once again. I can understand the kneejerk impulse here, I do. It sucks to imagine, say, a creator scrolling online coming across some needlessly vitriolic post about something they worked on. But anyone is allowed to go "That's dickish" and move on, or people can engage with "I think this is oversimplified blah blah" if they want to but at the end of the day it isn't some kind of crime against the hobby or a fandom or even a singular person if someone just shoots off "This sucked I wasted my night" in their own accounts.

Like. A lot of people are trending towards thinking I'm talking about the importance of constructive criticism and like, sure, I think that is probably a more interesting avenue of analyzing something's flaws, but once again if you're not like, addressing an artist or interested in doing a deep dive that doesn't mean you're Not Allowed to be flippant or quick to judge. It's kind of startling how many times I've seen someone be like, "I can't stand this album" on their blogs, untagged, had that shit shared, only for it to come across someone's feed and for them to respond with "Why? What's wrong with it? People are allowed to like it, why are you being so negative, why are you tearing people down for no reason, this isn't even real critique," as though the intention in the first place ever was or ought to have been substantive critique in the first place.

It's difficult to articulate my feelings on this, but I do increasingly feel that the insistence upon there being a correct form of disliking something that precludes the possibility of making anyone feel insecure or hurt because they like it is significantly more stultifying than an atmosphere where people can shoot off "Fuck this" and be blocked or ignored for it

[the-main-diloolie]

@hagiomoto has been LIVING THIS for the last week.

[hagiomoto]

🥹indeed

[viktor-sbor]

A 50-kilogram anvil floats perfectly on the surface of mercury, because the density of the steel from which it is made is almost half the density of mercury.

[e-102]

damn that shit is light lmfao

[telltaletypist]

[vienna1954]

Fun fact! Many lighthouses with especially large fresnel lenses would have huge fucking tubs of liquid mercury in the lantern room because it’s a super easy way to make these giant lenses rotate quickly!

Shockingly, however, spending most of your time in close proximity to 500 pounds of liquid mercury is Not Great For One’s Health and tons of lighthouse keepers started to go crazy from the whole. Mercury poisoning thing. Hence why there are a lot of “haunted” lighthouses or wickies that lose it and maybe do a bit of manslaughter.

Anyway, people saw a bunch of lighthouse keepers go crazy and get sick and got empirical evidence that it was in fact related to the 500 pound mercury bath they have to visit every day and then they decided nah it’s fine actually. So we’ve kept the liquid mercury thing and I think that’s beautiful

[ben-the-hyena]

I love how it is so dense it does not "wet" the anvil, the drops all run and leave with nothing behind them unlike water, oil, sauce... it's super satisfying it's like in cartoons

[macleod]

In a letter written on April 19, 1825, Augustin Fresnel proposed the use of mercury to reduce the friction in revolving lenses. His statement follows: “I propose to float our rotating devices, of the first order, in a bath of mercury, instead of placing them on rollers. This project won't present many difficulties; nevertheless, as I have not put it into execution, I won't require you to adopt it for your first lighthouse.”

Fresnel’s plan for mercury flotation was not put into practice until 1890 when Monsieur Leon Bourdelles, Chief Engineer of the French Lighthouse Service, designed and built a workable mercury flotation system. The mercury bath allowed the lens to operate in an almost frictionless environment and, additionally, allowed the speed of rotation to be dramatically increased.

Lens Rotation by Thomas Tag | United States Lighthouse Society

[sashaforthewin]

Ah to be a sailor in 1890 who has to turn to his fellow men and ask "is it just me or are the lighthouses flashing faster?"

[asteroidtroglodyte]

They had been slowly getting faster for decades.

It mattered for optics reasons.

Under less-than-ideal conditions, you can only see the beam when it’s pointed more or less directly at you. In-between beams you would not be able to see anything. One solution to this was to create multiple beams, and the lenses Mr Fresnel designed usually created 8 beams. But, even still, duration between flashes could be as long as one minute in the old mechanical roller systems.

The nearly frictionless operation of the Mercury suspension system allowed the lenses (large pieces of precisely ground glass weighing several hundred pounds in some cases) to rotate fast enough that they could be redesigned to create fewer (usually 3) beams. Fewer beams from a similar light source will be proportionally brighter, and the gains in speed were sufficient that duration between flashes could still be reduced to as little as 10 seconds.

This was a big upgrade. It didn’t just make the lighthouse signal faster, it allowed them to completely overhaul the lens and derive more visibility from a light source.

What’s a little Madness, in the face of Progress?

[myth-myth-yeth]

mods are asleep, post the fresnel lens

[relevant-wikipedia-articles]

History of lighthouses - Wikipedia

[swordseer]

The Lighthouse that I work at has the only working Mercury float on Lake Superior. It took me forever to figure out how it worked, this post is great,

[sarakipin]

My piece for the upcoming Gallery Nucleus tribute show "Together From Afar: A How to Train Your Dragon Tribute Exhibition" ! Opening Reception is on April 11th from 5–8 pm 🐉☁️

[platoapproved]

By the time we left Italy I was playing dangerous little games with mortals. I’d see a man, or a woman—a human being who looked perfect to me spiritually—and I would follow the human about. Maybe for a week I’d do this, then a month, sometimes even longer than that. I’d fall in love with the being. I’d imagine friendship, conversation, intimacy that we could never have. In some magical and imaginary moment I would say: “But you see what I am,” and this human being, in supreme spiritual understanding, would say: “Yes, I see. I understand.”

— THE VAMPIRE LESTAT | Part VI - Chapter 2

[baltharino]

Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) R.O.D - Read or Die (2001) Destiny of the Shrine Maiden (2004) Love Live! School Idol Project (2013) Madoka Magica: Rebellion (2013) Soul Eater NOT! (2014) Izetta: the Last Witch (2016) Love Live! Sunshine!! (2016) Laid-Back Camp (2018) She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2020) My Next Life as a Villainess (2020) D4DJ: First Mix (2020) Honkai Impact - Lament of the Fallen (2021) Otherside Picnic (2021) Love Live! Nijigasaki (2022) Love Live! Superstar (2022) Tokyo Mew Mew New (2022) Gundam: Witch From Mercury (2023) Yuri is my Job! (2023) I'm in Love With the Villainess (2023) The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess (2023) Delicious in Dungeon (2024)

[notbecauseofvictories]

good morning exclusively to the atlantic’s science editor, or whoever it is that titles their animal biology articles

[notbecauseofvictories]

fellas, they’ve done it again

[notbecauseofvictories]

me, weeping openly: potato

[notbecauseofvictories]

DEFECTOR HAS TAKEN UP THE MANTLE