serial dabbler

they/them “sometimes the most curious things require not much understanding at all”

[aro-wyrm]

Intro Post

🌱 Hi! I'm Aro, your local serial dabbler, I usually repost content I find relatable or cool.

🪴Pronouns: They/Them, None

🍃Fun Facts: I use knee braces + my cane to get around! I'm slowly achieving my dream of escaping forever DM status. I like doing niche science puns to the exasperation of my friends. 🍄Likes: Tabletop RPGs, Tabletop and Boardgame design, Minecraft, Baldur's Gate, Celeste (any 2D platformer game in general has my heart), Gothic horror/literature, absurdism, songs that don't have a pattern to follow, and more I've forgotten to add-on. 🍂 Future Plans: Hopefully finding the time to make more sideblogs! 🍀Tags: #aro's rambles [for when I decide to ramble and scream to the void], #aro's comic recs [comics I obsess over and would love people to know about more] 🌟Things I hope people check out more: Across the RPGSEA made by momatoes [awesome place to find cool games by ASEAN game devs!], ARC a doom tabletop RPG with a countdown clock for 3 hours of gameplay before the end of the world [also made by momatoes] 🌵Userboxes:

Made in Canva with kudos to KMBee Studio [speech bubble with scribble], Marx Fidel [amazing DnD character art], and Kirduun Studio [little human blob in-between two pride flags]

[sndwave]

the mythbusters once tested "herding cats" and at one point they brought in a proper trained herding dog and the poor dogs face when the first cat responds to his herding with swipes and aggression is to look at her human and go 😰 the sheep is broken?? what do i do boss??

[blades201honors]

@greatandholypangolin you cannot leave this in the tags

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tags from greatAndHolyPangolin reading: this except often during lambing season you do get sheep fighting back when the dogs are too pushy, either mama sheep going Don't speak to me or my son ever Again, and giving the dog a solid headbutt, Or, In rare cases, a lamb will try to nip a dog and will find out that it works at deterring them and will lose all respect for the concept of sheepdogs, at that point we need to keep an eye on the lamb because if it continues to not have consequences it will become rogue and unherdable, in my family they're affectionately referred to as Sweetheart Darling Bastards (which I recently found out it a poem reference? Wow) /End ID]

[cat-the-comet]

devastating: artist who has not practiced fundamentals enough to execute high concept idea eats shit

[valeriapryanikova]

THE BUTCHER / THE BUTCHERED

[aexphr]

i will not be explaining myself HAPPY IRON LUNG RELEASE DAY

[hanniballecterkinnie]

the angsty concept of simon finding logs of a man in the past trying to stop the planets and stars from disappearing… but failing….

[jurassicpeanut]

No bond stronger than a disabled girl and her disabled cat

[disabilityaidpositivity]

Ginger tea has greatly improved my life as someone with chronic nausea. Ginger is one of the few things that can consistently improve my condition and make me well enough to keep food down. I consider it an aid for me.

Ginger is great for nausea! And I think I've read it's just all-round healthy. Thanks for sharing!

[bigbigtruck]

quotes taken from the source

(the 4th one is Bumpus wanting dinner, friends can back me up on this)

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

come back to me most perfect of comics

[laterkiss]

happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈

[aurumacadicus]

I don't have the words for this but. Art and science are always hand in hand.

The perfectionism of artists has them researching stuff in a way that only scientists can compare. Some artists become experts in biology or anatomy. Other special interests have them going down rabbit holes to make them better at their art.

Disney animators said "we are perfecting the code for this snow if it kills us" and researched and invented code until it acted like real snow in Frozen and snow scientists were like hey. Did we just fucking solve the Dyatlov Pass mystery. And the animators answered no. We made snow. YOU applied the knowledge and did the experiments to solve what could have happened at Dyatlov Pass.

And it was a team effort because of course it was. You can't have art without science. And you can't have science without art.

[astrotheyge]

'FIND SOMEONE TO BE BRAVE FOR' PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026) COLOR PROJECT + YELLOW

[cuprumbao]

you guys cooked so hard with rocktiz i love him so much

[tendebill]

grace & rocky hug in zero-g <3

(no-xenonite version under the cut!)

[skaraptor]

AO3 should have an Annotation Mode where you can click to view all of the author's commentary and thoughts about certain parts of the work. A little comment that says "I spent five hours researching vintage radio mechanics for this and didn't even end up using it" or "this is an ancient Hebrew literary technique!" would make my day

[tenderwatches]

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

[senikas-blog]

Look... I'm gonna save this but I'm gonna forget about it the next second lol

[alexxuun]

Exploring Eridian’s biology. Most of it are taken from the book, but I want to add to it :)

My headcanons:

-Rocky and Adrian had kids before Rocky went away. They are now in their (human equivalent) 20s.

-Adrian and Rocky used to be around the same age, now Adrian is MUCH older.

-Baby Eridians are called pebbles (like baby goats are called kids). Yes, this is all Grace doing.

-Eridan’s eggs are like geode.

-Eridian’s eggs (canonically) are laid together when mate and then merge. I however, also think that they would usually go for two at a time for protection (they can watch each other sleep as they get older).

-Rocky name his two new pebbles after Grace and the Hail Mary.

-I’m not a geologist and very much not knowledgeable about rock, but I believe that the green/blue we see Eridians have (movie ver) could be caused by the various level of metal element on their rock layer, like copper and bronze, interacting with the elements over time (Verdigris).

-Baby Eridians are smooth rock. As Eridians grow, they became sharper and more complex looking, caused both by natural aging and external elements.

-Most elder Eridians are green/blue since it’s a form of rusting, kind of like human with grey hair.

[pineappical]

i've always wondered what human speech would look like visually in the POV of eridians in the same way eridian speech is written as music notes in the book and my favorite version of it i've seen in fics is when words are written as phonetics in rocky's POV :-) oh and also that one post about rocky and grace figuring out random words they can say in the other's language