arelsee

Scottish, Bi, She/her. Likely to go through fandom phases. Pretty much everything goes in the queue  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[redstonedust]

when boy bands sing a love song addressed to the listener does that imply all 5-10 of them are in love with you at once. that seems like a lot of pressure i don't know if i want to be the nucleus of the boyband polycule.

[applefudge5]

[hobgobknowsbest]

"Mountain Climbing Horror Stories" by SoysenSyndrome

[aniseandspearmint]

see this is why you always pay attention to the signs when hiking

[homunculus-argument]

Random worldbuilding: there's a region in the country with a strong culture of offering homecooked dishes as gifts for all occasion. And over time, they have accumulated an entire category of dishware that aren't any particular individual's property - they are constantly in rotation, being gifted and re-gifted as the dish holding a pie, a casserole, loaf of bread, the list goes on. Once a gift dish is in your possession, you need to make something in it as a gift in return - not necessarily to the one you received it from, but to someone nonetheless.

They're called lovers' dishes, but not for any romantic reasons. The name was adopted after people started deeming the previous name, courtesan bowls, inappropriate. The term courtesan bowl was also a slightly more cleaned-up term replacing a previous one, as the dishware were originally known as slut cups. As they, you understand, they get around.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[inthegatheringgloom]

I love baking, this is beautiful :)

[queerautism]

Let's remember a true classic today

[myfriendscallmeglados]

It's okay Haiku bot, we all make mistakes, we love you anyways.

[the-haiku-bot]

It’s okay Haiku

bot, we all make mistakes, we

love you anyways.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[burntheedges]

me to my husband: ao3 is down again [explains outage]

my husband: someone should write a spicy fic about the two database engineers locked in the server room trying to fix it

my husband, smug: there was only one spreadsheet 😎

[valtsv]

you cannot save me!! i am unsaveable!!! i have never been saved!!!!!!!!

[valtsv]

what the hell are you doing. stop that.

[catboybiologist]

Imagine if a like 8 foot tall guy that looked kinda like an alien species just kinda showed up at the house you rent a room in and crashed on the couch and at first everyone hated him but you kinda just accepted this weird massive kinda-human alien species thing as a part of your group even though he's like twice the size of everyone else there

[catboybiologist]

Cuz that's literally happening to sea lions in San Francisco right now

[catboybiologist]

So there's two species of sea lion in North America: the California sea lion, ranging along California (including Baja) but not ranging into the north coast or into oregon

And the Stellar's sea lion, which are WAY bigger and live in Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska

A male Stellars sea lion showed up in SF like a month ago and just kinda. Didn't know what to do, and joined a colony of California sea lions, and is just kinda chilling there now.

[catboybiologist]

Weird vagrant species happen from time to time, but this is just a particularly funny instance of a highly social species getting very lost, and just trying to blend in with its closest nearby relatives

[ghazal67]

[daco-broman]

flex on em

[robotlyra]

EXCUSE ME?

[cashonlydreams]

That reveal though

[pleasetrysomethingelse]

[imthegirlwhowaited]

the russian commentary is truly the best part though

“He’s huge!! So chubby!”

“Is he gonna goddamn dive already for fuck’s sake?”

“Just let him catch his breath, let him catch his breath!”

[kraznyoktyabr]

That is a Steller’s sea lion. Adult males can get up to 2500 pounds. Big suckers. Only things larger in the pinniped family are walruses and elephant seals.

They can also hold their breath for 20 minutes so he probably wasn’t too stressed from being caught in the net.

They tend to follow fishing boats and steal fish from the nets, as well as eat the bycatch that’s thrown overboard, because it’s less effort. This guy probably was trying to steal fish just at exactly the wrong time.

[swan2swan]

Men: *spraying the hose*

HIM: 

[whitepeopletwitter]

[debkorvelus]

I feel sorry for the old man, but it was stealing.  There is no apparently about it. Water is not free, it’s not a right to have it, and people pay must pay for it.  If a government gives a thing to you like utilities, its still not free because they take it from somewhere else, like in taxes.  

[nutsacktorturer]

[gigastacyy-deactivated20231011]

my friend visiting my house: hey i’m thirsty can i get a glass of water

me:

[stormesandshowers]

Nestle isn’t gonna fuck you

[asingularcanadian]

Also water IS a human right, it’s classified as one by the UN the only country that really disagrees with this is the United States

[ruffboi-mags]

I know this post is a few years old, but I stumbled on it and I just want to also point out… Even aside from water being free or not, even aside from water being a human right,

the old man wasn’t stealing.

He was using a neighbor’s water, that the neighbor pays for, with the neighbor’s permission. Nothing was stolen. The old man just wasn’t the one paying. If someone comes to my house and I let them charge their phone while they’re there, are they STEALING electricity because I’m the one who pays the electric bill? If I take someone out to dinner, are they STEALING their meal if I pay for both of us? Get fucked.

I hope that person has become a better kinder person since 2021, but I"m not holding my breath.

[importantcatpics]

[serendipitous-posts]

Imagining the first time the Vox Machina saw a gun is so funny to me. You meet a depressed twink of a man who clearly comes from money. Maybe you think about mugging him a little. But he has nothing on him except for this stupid metal pole thing. But hey, may as well let him join you. You ask him about weapons and he lights up, whips out his metal thing and says "this is all that I need". It's only a bit bigger than his hand and there's no sharp bits or Mechanisms on the outside to give away what it is. You see him feed it little metal things so it's maybe?? Alive?? But you don't want to ask because he looks like he'll actually answer and maybe never shut up until the end of time.

Next time they're in combat, Percy whips out his pistol and blows the opponents head off in one shot.

[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

[valtsv]

unfortunately i can never hate on a "power of friendship" narrative no matter how corny because the thing is it's literally real

[oldpaintings]

John Fabian Carlson (Swedish-born American, 1874--1945)

[astrangergivingthestrangewelcome]

I will never understand how normalized it is to put cameras in your home now. I can recognize some scenarios where it makes sense- if I had a stalker for example, but like. It would have to be That Big for me to consider it. People today use it to tell their kids it's time to stop playing video games and do homework like. Like?? I do not understand how you don't understand how harmful it is to raise kids with the sense they're always being watched like why does anyone under normal circumstances invite this into their home

[wizardarchetypes]

saw a video recently, recorded by a camera in a child's bedroom, of a toddler reading her favorite book after bed time. her mom went in and told her it was time to sleep, and she said, 'but i just love reading so much.' her mom laughed indulgently and told her to sleep once the book was finished. she agreed, but before the video ended, she said, 'you're so silly for watching me!'

she was smiling when she said it, but i found that one sentence so abysmal. that toddler knew her mom didn't just happen to come and check on her. she understands that there is a camera in her room by which her mom (and as far as she might comprehend, any adult) can access her in her private space, in her private time, at all times.

can you imagine? never on your own. can't sleep? too bad. you're a child and the grown ups are watching you. lie in bed in the dark. pretend to sleep. behave.

it's 10 pm and the rest of the house is enjoying winding down after a long day. your parents don't need to worry about putting on a professional face like they do at work. your older siblings get to be themselves instead of who they have to be at school. everyone gets to relax. but not you.

it's 10 pm, and you're three years old, and you must continue to do everything right, because they are watching you.

oh, and when you don't behave, if it's cute enough, your mother will post footage of you in your bedroom for millions of strangers to watch!