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[hodinodi]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I mean, why not

[what-the-fuck-is-homestuck]

Songs for Rune, an album about me (Rune) from artists and musicians who brought you Homestuck…

Is name your price for 24 hours! All of Bandcamp’s proceeds today go towards The Transgender Law Center. They take some amount out of every purchase, and that amount today goes to a great cause. The rest of it goes to me!

But since I want everyone to hear it so much, you can pay $0, and I will be glad too! As long as someone who could use some cheering up today can get their ears on this album, everyone can pay nothing.

Spread the word!

[blazeshard]

COMING UP: THE BEST LINE IN THE ENTIRE KINGDOM HEARTS SERIES

[blazeshard]

[barbarosboitoi]

this line is even better when you remember Ansem the Wise programmed the Prologue, meaning he thinks teens talk like this

[ziedrak]

joker strikes again

[rainyazurehoodie]

*sees P3D and P5D*

me:WHERE IS MY DANCING DOG!?

[yee-art]

Be careful what are you insulting.

[cerastes]

I reiterate that I’ve never meet a group of fans more resonant and welcoming of rapid-fire shitposting than Fate fans.

[cerastes]

[chronologiical]

I DID NOT EXPECT MOZART TO BE SUCH A SWEETHEART

[gb-camera]

Visit Original Link

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[kawuli]

Stones Have Been Popping Out of People Who Ride Roller Coasters

Using centripetal force to prevent a $4 billion healthcare cost

1. Doctor finds anecdotal evidence that people are passing kidney stones after riding on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disney World

2. Doctor makes 3-D model of kidney, complete with stones and urine (his own), takes it on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad 60 times

3. “The stones passed 63.89 percent of the time while the kidneys were in the back of the car. When they were in the front, the passage rate was only 16.67 percent. That’s based on only 60 rides on a single coaster, and Wartinger guards his excitement in the journal article: ‘Preliminary study findings support the anecdotal evidence that a ride on a moderate-intensity roller coaster could benefit some patients with small kidney stones.’”

4. “Some rides are going to be more advantageous for some patients than other rides. So I wouldn’t say that the only ride that helps you pass stones is Big Thunder Mountain. That’s grossly inaccurate.”

5. “His advice for now: If you know you have a stone that’s smaller than five millimeters, riding a series of roller coasters could help you pass that stone before it gets to an obstructive size and either causes debilitating colic or requires a $10,000 procedure to try and break it up. And even once a stone is broken up using shock waves, tiny fragments and “dust” remain that need to be passed. The coaster could help with that, too.”

SCIENCE: IT WORKS

[kawuli]

Update: 

“In all, we used 174 kidney stones of varying shapes, sizes and weights to see if each model worked on the same ride and on two other roller coasters,” Wartinger said. “Big Thunder Mountain was the only one that worked. We tried Space Mountain and Aerosmith’s Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster and both failed.”Wartinger went on to explain that these other rides are too fast and too violent with a G-force that pins the stone into the kidney and doesn’t allow it to pass.“The ideal coaster is rough and quick with some twists and turns, but no upside down or inverted movements,” he said.

MSU Today

[kawuli]

I just love this because it’s HILARIOUS and yet also a perfect archetypal example of The Scientific Method:

1. Hypothesis

2. Experiment

3. Results

4. Discussion 

5. Conclusions

6. GOTO 1 (the scientific method is iterative, don’t forget that part)

[chongoblog]

When you have the first good sleep youve had in like a week I’m on mobile someone add a pic

[dykeike]

[chongoblog]

Why do I ask you people to do anything

[schniggles]

THERE’S A PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLANATION FOR THE WESTERN WORLD’S PROLIFERATION OF FURRIES??

[doctorvtumbls]

Okay no, you can’t just drop a knowledge bomb like that and not EXPLAIN! Or at least link! Gimme a search term?! Anything!

[schniggles]

ok i’ll write up the lightning-bolt of bizarre mental synthesis later but here:

the pacific standard article and the pdf of the study in question

find the term “folkbiological reasoning” and peruse this paragraph in the psmag article:

“Studies show that Western urban children grow up so closed off in man-made environments that their brains never form a deep or complex connection to the natural world. While studying children from the U.S., researchers have suggested a developmental timeline for what is called “folkbiological reasoning.” These studies posit that it is not until children are around 7 years old that they stop projecting human qualities onto animals and begin to understand that humans are one animal among many. Compared to Yucatec Maya communities in Mexico, however, Western urban children appear to be developmentally delayed in this regard. Children who grow up constantly interacting with the natural world are much less likely to anthropomorphize other living things into late childhood.”

now consider, and i say this in the least pejorative way possible, that furry culture seems to arise at least partially from a desire/instinct to anthropomorphize and identify with non-human animals, often in broad, non-species-specific categories (cat, dog, etc.). 

i need to lie down

[drferox]

As an outsider to furry culture the whole thing is really interesting.

I approach animals from a certain point of view (veterinary medicine) and I think I understand them, what they are and what they do pretty well. I assumed somebody who goes around introducing themselves as a cat, for example, actually knows something about cats.

Not in this case.

So one evening my brother brought a few of his friends around to my home with fursonas consisting of a dog, cat and kangaroo.

I was bottle raising a litter of seven adorable kittens at the time (a handful and a half, let me tell you) and I thought this was brilliant. Three animal lovers, in my home, which don’t have any pets of their own. Perfect future kitten owners, right?

I mean, at a certain stage in kitten season you start trying to pimp out those cute little fuzzballs to anybody.

Mr Cat Fursona had no idea what to do with a real live cat or kitten. He’d never interacted with one, he’d only seen pictures and videos. He was so thoroughly awkward, and possibly a little bit afraid, completely unsure about how to hold them, what to do if they wiggled and even if they were happy. He marveled at the way their ears twitch when they swallow but freaked out about their toileting habits. And to my surprise he wasn’t actually interested in these real cats for more than three minutes.

They had minimal interest in this litter of kittens, they were not interested in real animals. They were not familiar with real animals.

I don’t think they’re ascribing human characteristics to an animal. This group seemed to be taking perceived animal qualities (eg dog=loyalty, cat=aloof) and applying it to themselves. Even if the real animals don’t actually have those qualities at all, they were interested in the qualities that society had assigned those animals and then applying that to themselves. Is was society’s concept of a cat that was of interest to him, not the real thing.

So you can be a cat, it seems, without knowing a single thing about cats. And perhaps if he had grown up with cats then he wouldn’t have chosen one for his fursona.

[c4bl3fl4m3]

Fascinating!

I grew up in the woods, in farm country, very close to nature and animals. I wonder if that’s why I’m not a furry? *shrug*

[aliaoftheknives]

id like to thank god, jesus, and those bullshit lake camps my parents sent me to when I was ten

[lookatthisbabybird]

here’s the post I was referring to.

[steampunktendencies]

Amazing dress by french creator Sylvie Facon 

Additonnal credit :  L'Oiseau de la pluie - Costumes et créations

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[sangatsunolion-deactivated20171]

uh no yeah he would

[hodinodi]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I mean, why not

[tobermoriansass]

Like tbqh most of the discourse on this hellsite sounds like this to me:

1) This character stole some bread, they are the literal worst and if you like them you are personally endorsing stealing and are the literal worst.

2) This character stole some bread from my favourite character and DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE REDEEMED

3) This person drew art of this character stealing a loaf of bread and is romanticizing the act of stealing and is making fandom toxic.

4) This person wrote Problematic TM fic in which this character steals MORE LOAVES OF BREAD AND ISNT PUNISHED FOR IT how dare they.

5) I’m trying to make fandom a non toxic space for all of us so here’s a list of all the bloggers and artists who have created art which did not directly punish this character for stealing bread and on occasion have drawn them going on to steal more bread. Please don’t harass them =uwu=

6) How dare you even think of writing a redemption story for this character who once stole bread.

[caracalliope]

PSA: known bread theft supporter tumblr user 24601 is now posting under the name medeleine. Their old blog has been deleted. Message me for receipts.

[cyanwrites]

Anyone who sees fic/art of fictional characters stealing bread will start stealing bread too.

If you post fic/art of characters stealing bread, you’re directly responsible for all bread-stealing that ever happened.

Even if Aladdin is a canon bread thief, do NOT make fic/art of Aladdin stealing bread!

YOU ARE EXPOSING MINORS TO DEPICTIONS OF CRIMINAL ACTS. YOU ARE AN ABUSER.

* You’re allowed to make fic/art of fictional characters stealing bread IF someone once stole a bread from you AND you make a public post telling everyone the size of your loaf. BREAD ROLLS DON’T COUNT, IT MUST BE A WHOLE LOAF OR YOU’RE JUST FAKING.