Critical Minutiae

The grey-matter dump of an ex-teacher current proto-scientist. Be forewarned: reading this page will likely lower your IQ and shove it slightly to the left.

[perryriposte]

Okay, this is awful, but it appeals to my weird sense of humor. And it's my tumblr.

[angry-heard]

Remembering that time my friend rescued what ended up being a dying female Luna moth, who laid 80 eggs inside a Big Mac box and she and I spent the summer raising Very Hungry Caterpillars!

[obisooth]

oh my

[angry-heard]

I'm mostly upset that the eyes are assymmetrical. No selfing-respecting chelicerate would go out looking like that. Finish your molt, sir!

[somedaywithyou]

the word utena itself means "calyx," the part of a flowering plant which protects the bud and supports the blooming petals. i had heard this before in a fun fan fact kind of way but heard it from Hiroshi Nagahama-san, rgu's art director, whom i had the privilege of hearing speak at otakon years back.

he also mentioned something i had not heard; he said the show's english title is not terribly accurate to the intent of the creators, but a poor translation problem on their part. he said a better translation is Utena: Girls' Revolution.

i get chills thinking about this distinction. he elaborated that the title wasn't referring to utena tenjou herself, or at least not Just to utena; nor any singular character for that matter. there's no Revolutionary Girl. its about the revolution of and for and by girls. and "utena"...the Support.

anyway tldr you could say the title as Support Girls' Revolution and that makes me crazy

[somedaywithyou]

so glad folks enjoyed* this! ^_^

a little quote from Enokido Youji's rgu script notes i was reading today (you can read the rest of them here):

"The 4th Arc, the “Apocalypse Arc”, starts from episode 34. From here on out, the story will be progressing towards something (alt trans: an end point) that we’ve decided on from the very beginning. The Girls’ Revolution. [...] By the way, a revolution is when the oppressed destroy the system that oppresses them. A girls’ revolution then, because it is referencing girls, is a story about girls becoming free of what oppresses them. The “prince” that appears throughout the work is, in fact, created as something that oppresses girls."

[tiktaalic]

Arugula is some crap they found on the ground for real

[creepymutelilbugger]

thats because its plance. there are others as well

[angry-heard]

I'm gonna hold your hand while I tell you where most plants grow...

[flopstat]

i think abt anne rice’s answer to “what are your work habits for a novel?” probably every single day

[flopstat]

[angry-heard]

This is the most, "Yup...that tracks" that has even Yup...that tracked.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

today I found out my mother doesn’t know what dandelions are and now I’m wondering what other strange secrets she’s been quietly harboring

[krystal-prisms]

Where do you live that you don’t have dandelions?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

we have dandelions EVERYWHERE, they are basically our State Weed, it is absolutely impossible that my mom has never interacted with a dandelion before, this requires further investigation

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

So after extensive interrogation I have an update:

my mom is in fact aware that dandelions exist. she temporarily forgot the name and there was some miscommunication.

the truth is actually weirder

she’s aware dandelions look like this

she is familiar with this flower. she knows the name of this flower. she declines to believe, however, that these are also dandelions

she does not believe these are the same plant. I tried to explain, and she thought I was either misinformed or lying. so I asked her what exactly did she think the yellow ones were called?

she answered, with complete confidence: Daffodils.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

gosh I enjoy this website

[authoratmidnight]

For comparison, this is a daffodil

[quietlygrousing]

See, folks in the southern US will tell you up and down those are buttercups, actually.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i don’t think so? i’m southern and buttercups are what we call these things (much tinier)

[maejacrezz007]

Wait I thought those bigger cup ones were Easter Lillies???

[fractiousrvt]

This is an Easter Lily. It is an actual lily and therefore deadly to cats.

[blood-trip-god2]

They’re marigolds and I know a bitch when I see one!

[delphinidin4]

This is a marigold:

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

….we need to start taking the phrase “go touch grass” more literally. go outside and examine a flower i beg u

[jmtorres]

“buttercups” is a name applied to MANY flowers. in my part of the south it was this one:

imo there’s correct identifications of dandelions, daffodils, easter lilies and marigolds in this thread, but buttercups are simply impossible to agree on and the only solution is for everyone to post pictures of their local buttercups

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*squints* is that a motherfucking EVENING PRIMROSE?!??

[demon-and-human]

Hello I would like to add to the confusion:

That purple fella is a Morning Glory as told by my mothers (texan)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

⬆️ morning glory

[huehueiamabaguette]

wait so if thats morning glory what is this?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

[delphinidin4]

*Puts hand over gaud’s mouth* It’s a butterfly pea. Please ignore the Latin name.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*licks ur palm* i won’t be silenced THE PEOPLE HAVE TO KNOW

[angry-heard]

As a botanist, this thread caused me actual pain.

As a lesbian botanist, however, it ended just right!

[flamingkorybante]

My friend worked with the People With AIDS Coalition in 1990 and found this while cleaning out some old folders. I can't stop thinking about it.

[atomkind-deactivated20150911]

‘do u have kinks’ yeah like five in my neck

[angry-heard]

Wife: "Honey, where's the magic wand?" Me: *pulls massive white club out of drawer*

Wife: Oh God! Yes! Right there!

Me: *jack-hammering her shoulder*

[apolladay]

Have you ever had a doberge cake??

yes

no but i've heard of them

no and have never heard of them

maybe/unsure

I learned recently that this type of cake is uhhhh apparently far more regional than I thought? because they're pretty ubiquitous around here and I was admittedly very confused when my (long distance but not THAT long distance) friends had never even heard of them 💀

Have you ever had a doberge cake??

yes

no but i've heard of them

no and have never heard of them

maybe/unsure

Voting ended onJun 27

[angry-heard]

Fine, gotta go everything myself...

A doberge cake is a southern Louisiana thing. It's a tall layer cake made up of several thin layers of cake separated by layers of relatively soft filling, often pudding. Traditionally lemon or chocolate flavor, often half and half of both. Sometimes caramel.

They're delicious, but in a crowded field of amazing food from New Orleans and surrounding areas, these aren't as broadly known.

[dykethang]

big if true tbh

[paradoxgavel]

looking it up, apparently this was an artist who made signs like this to parody the actual city council's signage, just told apart by his logo in the corner, "christchurch city confusion", and they had locals rly confused for a bit. my favorite is this one!

[aquilacalvitium]

@ominous-signs

[angry-heard]

Thought the first picture was Shibden Hall for a moment, and it made sense that Anne Lister would still be about the place. Worse things than being haunted by a lesbian protoTory, I guess.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[princesssokphanny]

A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow. Caught at just the right time. 🌈 🌕

[kedreeva]

Sourcing the photos as taken by Mark Ham on Instagram, according to one of the replies.

[leebrontide]

Happy Pride month to the moon

[angry-heard]

Nice to Luna being the queer icon she clearly is.

[drtrinitysantos]

sdxfcgvzdxfcgvhzdxfcgvhbjnkmlcgvhbjnk science

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

#the reason that lab safety regulations are the way they are is because literally all chemists are like this #as in 100% of them #no exceptions (via @prokopetz)

[angry-heard]

My undergrad chemistry department had a mystifying habit of storing lab reagents in gooseneck squeeze bottles. These bottles invariably held a drop or two at the tip and it was very, very easy to squirt out those couple of drops if you aren’t careful.

Freshmen are not known for being careful. My lab partner “helped” me learn that nitric acid acts on skin and sulfuric acid acts really well on cotton t-shirts! The skin on my hand turned yellow before sloughing off with the nitric, so that was fun!

[sexhaver]

lmfao the Scots in town for the World Cup have made a pilgrimage to Boston's world-famous Cop Annihilating Slide

[dammitjean]

@pileofknives

[angry-heard]

Apparently the trick to not rocketing out the bottom like the cop is to bare-ass it down in a kilt.

Amazing, gentlemen. A+!

[shop5]

let’s be real the pressure to use AI as an adult is exactly what they said the pressure the do drugs as a teenager would be like but the people that told us that caved immediately for the AI and definitely did not just say no

[femmchantress]

I don’t care if Monday’s yuck

Tuesday, Wednesday tread through muck

Thursday maybe eat a duck

It’s Friday, Flat as Fuck