Just trying to have a good time in this life

A nerdy, cat loving dude! Duncan, 31, he/him 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Art blog is Vaporwavemonk-art.tumblr.com Header art by pettyartist.tumblr.com !

[poison-p1nk]

self. 🐅

[amnhnyc]

I choose you, kinkajou (Potos flavus)! This arboreal critter, which inhabits the tropical forests of Mexico, Central America, and northern South America, is known for hanging upside-down in the treetop while using its prehensile tail to hold onto branches. It also leverages its strong, 22-in- (57-cm-) long tail for balance. What’s more? The kinkajou can run just as fast backwards as it can forwards, thanks to its ability to turn its hind feet in the opposite direction.

Photo: Lina Shatalova, iStock

[delatoid]

For HillelArt's upcoming Rhythm Heaven Groove collab look forward to it!

[lemongogo]

hi y'all, i'm reaching out on behalf of a dear friend of mine who is dealing with some urgent and unfortunate vet bills. if anyone could help out with a donation or by sharing this post, i'd greatly appreciate it. thank you so muchh <3 :

"Hey everyone! My name is Pastry. My kitty, Ferdinand, unfortunately had to go to the vet tonight. He has a high fever of 105, and the vet is running a lot of tests to figure out why. The entire thing is going to cost around 1600 dollars. I'm disabled, and this is a lot for me. I'm trying to raise money for this, so I can bring my son home nice and healthy! Anything helps! My paypal is [email protected]. Even sharing helps a lot! Thank you guys!"

[kynimdraws]

FYI the full (almost) name of this cat is Ferdinand von Aegir pls signal boost or help if you can!

[bippus]

Turning dog gravity off so they all get whisked away

[ryan-sometimes]

Why are you gay? 🎤

When I was 12 I watched one too many Evanescence music videos

[sabertoothwalrus]

it’s 2026 so we can stop referring to bras solely by their cup size, right? everyone knows that cup sizes change depending on the band size right and thus are meaningless when mentioned on their own, right? that a 38B has a larger boob volume than a 32D, right? that “D cups” are actually pretty small in the grand scheme of things, right??? that the number on a bra size is your ribcage measurement in inches so if someone wears a size medium it’s impossible for them to have a band size over 36, right?????????? right???????????

[sabertoothwalrus]

please learn this

[litpathechoes]

exploring the coast

[solmarillion]

i hate how much people care about their ships being "canon" now. spirk fans didn't publish zines full of fanfics in the 70s only for modern fandom to grovel at the knees of corporations and beg for things to be canon. use your imaginations, don't allow billionaires to think for you.

[femboy-c-cups]

american ronin grips his baseball bat tight and flicks his wrist. after a beat your head explodes off your neck into the atmosphere and the baseball homerun organ noise plays

[sceptixfakemon]

have some transmasc knights for the soul

[pokemonarchive]

Mega Sceptile (2026) - TCG Pocket Playmat Illustrator: danciao

[robertbegg-art]

welcome to the dark side

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us

[wire-smith]

I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.

I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.

[effiesketch]

Retired spring bonus mini print for the shop, which is back up after a mini hiatus...there's a little sale through this week to apologize for that.

Was playing around with ink and watercolor again for this one. Now available for individual sale, and the summer mini will be included with orders of $15+ through the end of September!

[prokopetz]

The reason you can't be the next J R R Tolkien isn't because you don't have the talent, but because you're not the right kind of unwell. Tolkien wasn't bent for fantasy worldbuilding; he was bent for constructed languages, and got into fantasy worldbuilding in order to provide a material context in which to ground the notional evolution of the languages he invented. If you want to be the next Tolkien, you can't start with the worldbuilding; you've gotta find something extremely specific to fixate on, and develop it in such depth that inventing a world to contain it is genuinely the most logical next step.

[crabussy]

when you get crazy enough about The Character you'd think the situations you imagine them in would get more elaborate and lore intensive. but no. imagining my wizard pacing around huffily being slightly peeved at a mild inconvenience. I don’t even know what the inconvenience IS. and it's giving me enough joy to power a city for a month

[crabussy]

you understand this post more than anyone else