Artisan Scribbles

A Fandom Blog. I am a chronic lurker, so I will rarely post and reblog things. So if it's important enough to be on here, It's amazing.

[soreheadinamblemood]

[loveridden1999]

when england lose, women bruise

[aprill-99]

Lizzie: “How was the honeymoon?”

Taggie: “Great! Well, apart from when Rupert got drunk and tried to set the marriage certificate on fire.”

Lizzie: “Oh my god why?!?”

Taggie: “He said, ‘good luck returning me without the receipt.’”

[tlirsgender]

They don't tell you this but besides the Beloved Mutual there's also the Longterm Follower who you don't follow back but they're always in your notes and you're kind of watching them. Checking on the longterm follower's bio every so often like turning over a log. She's trans now good for her

[tlirsgender]

Longterm followers I am putting fresh leaves and hrt in your enclosure

[paksthestoic]

I love the “captain’s log” mechanism in Star Trek as a method for time skips and exposition.

I am, however, devastated that we never got an episode where any captain’s voiceover is strained and slow. very precise about the events they’re describing. While the screen itself is showing the most batshit insane events and making it clear that the captain is trying VERY HARD to keep everyone involved out of a court martial.

[aristocrating]

its 2026 i cannot handle any more fucking "author A obviously ripped off author B" discourse by people Who Have Only Seen the work of author B and admit themselves that they have no further knowledge of the literary landscape they are moving in. like.

[insomaniackills]

Folks really need to reacquaint themselves with this concept

[girlnephew]

[eloso]

Someone was just setting the table for Christmas lunch when they took half a minute to lay out this vocabulary-changing bsky post, then carried on with their day...

[moonlightingcurse]

And this is hard, anyway, because I can’t take any meaning from the text.  Ophelia’s just singing nonsense songs.

[none-ofthisnonsense]

@aquitainequeen

[aquitainequeen]

‘I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died…’

[planet4546b]

im currently completely losing it about the great stalacpipe organ. are you fucking kidding me they made an organ out of a CAVE???? IT TAKES UP THREE ACRES??? i legit am about to lose it

[planet4546b]

this is a comment left on a recording of moonlight sonata played on an organ that is literally made out of a cave and its making me so emotional its not even funny

[image id: a youtube comment that reads ‘wonderful…and the moon has never shone there…’ end id.]

[marlynnofmany]

All that and no pictures??

According to Wikipedia, it works by hidden rubber mallets on the naturally-musical stalactites that tourguides have been knocking on for over a century. The guy who made the organ may have gotten the idea when his son whacked his head on a stalactite.

Here’s a video. It is hauntingly beautiful.

[spirit-pyrite]

In case anyone is looking, here’s the link to the video op mentions.

https://youtu.be/HsKUUn29tSs

[sunderwight]

The thing about the destiel news meme is that I actually think it's great.

It does let you know that something has gone on in the world. But it's such a short format that it could never even pretend to give you all the relevant information about that thing. It usually provides less detail than the average headline, so it's not actually reporting, it's more like shouting a head's up across a crowded room. Still lets you know that something has happened though.

The very fact that it's a goofy and irreverent fandom meme also serves as a perpetual reminder that using social media to get news is a bad idea. Now that you know something has occurred, go read an actual article from a real source to verify it and get the details. It's an alert system with a format that never lets you forget that alerts are not articles, and that this website is not beholden to any kind of journalistic integrity.

I love it, the comments on destiel news memes are almost always full of people saying that they saw it and then rushed off to go verify the news with a reputable source. Do you know how often more "serious" format news stuff on this site just leaves people complacently certain that they've been given accurate info? Way too often. I wish half as many of those news updates had people commenting that they left tumblr to go double check it.

[penandinkprincess]

sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "mmmhmmm okay yeah i see we both interpreted that differently based on what the show gave us, but i see how you arrived at your ideas even if they're different from mine," and then sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "brother what show did you even fucking watch"

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[isuggestforcemasc]

I will continue posting in favour of there being fewer people like that

[godfrey-the-chaos-duck]

god my heart is fucking breaking for all these people THERE IS STILL TIME DO YOU HEAR ME

IT ISN'T TOO LATE AS LONG AS YOU'RE ALIVE

[boyslit]

hi everybody i started HRT at 35 so like don't even despair

being in ur twenties makes u feel like 30 is a brick wall u either fly over or crash into but i promise u it's a door and it opens up into the rest of ur life like getting past the prologue of an open world game

[boyslit]

very important addition from @thatsladyfaggottoyou ty <3

[doberbutts]

I started HRT at approximately 30 and top surgery at 32 just 4.5 months prior to this photo. It's never too late.

[esoanem]

[fromkenari]

Still time to also know it's okay if you know you were never a girl and didn't want to be a boy either. You're still trans. You can viscerally hate both binary options and still be trans and seek out the best you.

[boo-pin]

🍊🕶️✖️2️⃣

[passengerprincipessa]

also sorry i’m so tired of people acting like they can have nothing in common with someone a few years older or younger than them. have you never had coworkers who aren’t your exact age. have you never taken an art class with someone thirty years older than you. have you never had a friend. like did covid fry everyone’s brains this badly

[dinovelvet]

[shatterpath]

The view from Calvin's neighbor's house.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Underrated book moment is just after Grace shows up to rescue Rocky and he tells him that he's gonna die of starvation probably shortly after they reach Erid, and Rocky's response is:

“Then you go home. Go home now. I wait here. Erid maybe send another ship someday.”

“That's ridiculous. Do you really want to risk the survival of your entire species on that guess?”

He's silent for a few moments and finally answers. “No.”

Like holy shit.

Until Grace showed up, Rocky was gonna die. Rocky was gonna die of radiation poisoning, a horrible death that he watched his whole crew already succumb to, because the astrophage was not only his only fuel but also his only protection from radiation.

If the Eridians were gonna send another ship, they'd probably have sent it forty years ago.

Furthermore, if the Eridians sent another ship, it would almost certainly be made of xenonite, because everything they make is made of xenonite, which means that a) most of the crew would die of radiation poisoning and b) whoever survived would end up in the exact same situation as Rocky, because the taumoeba would escape into their ship the moment they docked and start gobbling up all their delicious fuel.

And still, Rocky gives Grace the chance to leave. Kind of like Yao did.

“Yeah, of course I want you to stay, but you can go. You can go home, and you can live, and I will lie to make you feel like that choice is one that won't kill me and everyone I love, because you deserve to be allowed to live if you want.”

Grace has to be in the Stratt role here. Grace has to be the one explaining that he's made the cold calculations, that he's aware of the consequences and that he's making this decision anyway because it's the only decision he can make. This is the only decision that will save their worlds.

Grace has to be the one to convince Rocky to let him die for Earth and Erid.

And yeah obviously it all works out because of the power of friendship/taumoeba, but this is where Grace earns his happy ending. Grace has to stand on the other side of that desk, watch somebody else beg for his (Grace's) life, and say “no, this has to happen, because it's the only thing that can happen.”

(Rocky, meanwhile, 100% threatens to throw the taumoeba out the airlock when they get to Erid unless the Eridian governments immediately learn how to synthesise vitamin C.)