Random Acts of Toast

I am Toast, here me roar. D O W N W I T H T H E C A P I T O L [ identify] D I S T R I C T T W E L V E [ identify GRYFFINDOR { POTTERMORE SORTED } House Stark { GAME OF THRONES }

[maydaytrippe]

Another 48 Hrs.

With another 48 hours left to go on the campaign, loose cannon Detective Sergeant Jack Cates and smooth-talking ex-con Reggie Hammond are forced to work together again to clean up the mean streets of 1990 San Francisco AND you’ve got just two days to help support Something Terrible by sharing it with your friends, family, and followers! 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/298122902/something-terrible-by-dean-trippe

Thank you guys so much for continuing to share this link with everyone you can. We’re well over 600% of our original goal and very close to passing the Third Stretch Goal. Thank you. More funding means MUCH better books, more cool bonus items, and I’ll be printing WAY more books than the 2000 copies I’d originally planned on ordering. 

In related news, yesterday I talked about some of the redesigns and choices in the You’ll Be Safe Here piece (above) over at ProjectRooftop.com!

Two days left, Batman, Inc. Light the signals.

Dean

[anonymoustoast-blog]

Something Terrible, by Dean Trippe

Something Terrible is a short, autobiographical comic about recovery from childhood trauma and the power of fictional heroes.

Anyone who has any extra cash should really consider supporting this Kickstarter. This is definitely a good cause.

[captain-flint]

The stars were out in a dark sky above the trees. He thought of the jewels of the dwarves shining in dark caverns.

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"Well, when I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.” — Whoopi Goldberg

[peterpansshadow13]

”Keep Moving Forward”

[forumgamer]

[persephoning]

If you haven’t seen this, click the damned button. You’ll thank me later.

[kleinecharlotte]

Art History Meme [1/6] Themes or Series or Subjects ↳ Rose Windows

[yeahwrite]

Copyright & Posting Your Writing on the Internet

A guest post by sastielliciousdeville. Thank you so much for sending this in!!

While I’m not specifically in the publishing industry I did a bit of digging on the copyright issue because as both an author and a graphic designer copyright infringement is something that we have to keep in mind and deal with regularly to ensure that clients don’t try to use our work without paying the proper fee’s first. The one thing you have to realize about posting anything you create on the internet is that while it is technically under your own copyright (in that copyright is defined as anything you create) you run the risk of it being stolen.

Copyright infringement is a pretty serious deal but it’s a complicated system.

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[the-absolute-funniest-posts]

Featured on a 1000Notes.com blog

[anonymoustoast-blog]

If you ever sent me a message and I didn't respond, there is a 99.99% chance this happened

Me: Hmmm, that's an interesting question. I'll try to find the kind of thoughtful response this deserves while I browse my dashboard.

Me: Haha, you're too big to fit in that cup, kitty.

*A month passes and I become too embarrassed to respond late.*

[todayinhistory]

January 27th 1832: Lewis Carroll born

On this day in 1832, the English writer Lewis Carroll was born. His birth name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson  but he took Lewis Carroll as his pseudonym. Carroll studied at Rugby School and Oxford University. He is most famous as the author of ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ (1865) and its sequel ‘Through the Looking Glass’ (1871). Carroll’s writing is an example of literary nonsense, and displays his aptitude with word play and logic. His works are still widely enjoyed today by adults and children alike.

[pbsthisdayinhistory]

January 27, 1967: Apollo 1 Practice Launch Ends in Tragedy

On this day in 1967, tragedy struck the space program. Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee had been selected as the crew for Apollo 1, the first flight of the next generation of spacecraft succeeding the Gemini program.

During a practice launch countdown, a flash fire erupted inside the sealed cockpit. Within seconds the men were unconscious; minutes later they were dead. Because of the pressure of the fire, and the fact that the spacecraft’s hatch opened inward, there was no hope of escape. Learn more about the Apollo missions with American Experience's “Race to the Moon.”

Photo: Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, Apollo 1 crew (NASA).

[antics-of-an-actor]

Reblog this if you pronounce 221B as "two-two-one B."

I’m trying to prove something to my little sister.

If you pronounce it as “two-twenty-one B,” go to this post.

If you pronounce it as “twenty-two-one B,” go to this post.

If you pronounce it as “two-hundred-twenty-one B,” go to this post.

[babyilovetheway]

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[anonymoustoast-blog]

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[astronomy-to-zoology]

Can you list a lot of animals that collect things

Well notably alot of birds like to collect various materials to put into their nests. This is most apparent in the Bowerbirds (Family: Ptilonorhynchidae) which construct intricate bowers. These bowers typically have bright trinkets collected around the front to attract mates.

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Believe it or not crabs are also famous collectors as well. A good bit of the species in the superfamily Majoidea are known as decorator crabs. Although while this is more of “self-decorating” than collecting, decorator crabs will conceal themselves by placing random debris and even live animals like anemones and sponges on themselves. Some crabs (Like in the family Dromiidae) will specialize in placing certain species (sponges) on themselves.

(x) Hyastenus elatus

Certain sea urchins will do this as well. Species like Tripneustes gratilla will place random debris on themselves as well, in attempt to better conceal themselves.

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I’m not sure if this counts as “collecting” either but a species of assassin bug, Acanthaspis petax, will collect the husks of the insects it has preyed on and place them on its back. Like the urchins and crab A. petax uses this to disguise itself from predators.

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Collecting food is a very common behavior among a lot of animals, notably rodents and birds. They will collect excess food and cache it away to be accessed later (if they can find it again)

Ants are noted Collectors as well. Leafcutter ants especially are noted for cutting off pieces of inedible leaves and storing them underground allowing them to “ripen” with a fungus that is farmed inside the colony.

Those are all I can think of offhand. I hope this helps!

EDIT: 

Caddisfly larvae will collect things as well. They will collect random debris from their surroundings and by using silk will form a protective case around themselves. Certian moth larvae will do this as well, Mainly Bagworms (Family Psychidae) and Casebearers (Phereocea uterella)

(x) An artist gave some caddisfly larvae gold and stuff to build their cases out of and this is what resulted.

[ivilspirits]

Bioshock Infinite - Hudson's