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Mineral Meadowcore
Watercolor On Cotton Paper
2023, 22"x 30"
Purple Poppies
Amethyst
skyfall x dolce
or, in other words, emotionally-repressed blond serial killers and their curly dark haired sarcastic bitch boyfriends surrounded by paintings with far too many metaphors
Celestial Library
i think kids online should really get back to making internetsonas instead of whatever fuckshit this is with putting their entire real faces, names, ages, and such everywhere. you're not gonna realize how nice internet privacy is until you dont have it anymore and no chance at getting it back. make up a guy and a name and just be that online. make up conflicting details about your completely made up backstory. make a fursona or something
Please, for the love of god, please donât be this person. No matter how long itâs been since an update, no matter how many unfinished stories are sitting on their account, no matter what - do not be this person.
Not only is it insanely rude, but you also do more damage than you think be being such a self-entitled ass about something someone created for free and for fun. âThis authorâ can see what you say.
RIP decency indeed.
I was literally about to post a chapter once and got a snide comment similar to this - not addressing other readers, just me - and decided to keep the rest of the story to myself. It's still there. I could post it anytime. But I'm not going to.
I also got a glowing compliment on a fic and went into a flurry of writing, suddenly inspired, then by happenstance got a nasty, impatient comment on that same fic a few days and moved onto writing a different fic that didn't have that associated annoyance.
Like. I am writing for fun. For me. I reread and enjoy my fics all the time because they're exactly the story I want to read. I get the same enjoyment out of a fic wither or not anyone else ever sees it or knows it exists.
I'm sharing it for fun too.
I'm not going to share if sharing isn't fun.
Iâm not going to share if sharing isnât fun.
I once got a comment on a fic that just read RIP with my username. It's really fucking demotivating. Maybe the work will end up abandoned, maybe it won't, but don't fucking leave this sort of shit on a fic. It's more likely to prevent any future updates than encourage them. Authors are not vending machines. You can not shake us and force the story out (believe us, many of us have tried doing this to ourselves because we want to finish the story but sometimes life and other shit gets in the way).
sir that is my beloved mutual with whom i have not shared a fandom since 2013
... can people still turn other people's works in AO3 collections "unrevealed"? I swear I am seeing more and more bookmarks for suspiciously old "mystery works" in people's bookmarks pages. Kinda weird for the bookmark to have been made in 2019 for unrevealed work in a collection that was created in 2022.
Yup, this is why I don't let people add my works to collections anymore. They can anonymize your stuff too. I still remember that one time someone anonymized their whole collection that one of my fics was part of, so my fic went the same way, and I didn't even get so much as a notification email about it. The only reason I found out was because I stumbled on it while looking through a tag.
I'm looking for a fic where Peter deaged himself and pretends to be a new transfer student. He thinks nonoe of the pack realizes who he is but at the end of the fic they all tell him they know exactly who he is and that they don't care. I can't remember if this was on AO3 or FF.net.
I also think they wanted him to be Alpha?
Hi @obsidiandestiny! @merchymynydd says it's this one.
The Joys of Youth by Anonymous
(1/1 I 4,756 I Mature I Steter)
When Peter comes back from the dead he's different.
He's 18.
But Stiles is still delectable
Okay, my favorite HC about how Tony survives his snap involves his nanotech. Tony didn't actively create the nanites to be sentient. But in the words of the Grandmaster, life finds a way. Somehow, exposed to Friday and Tony's other AIs, and existing within his literal heart, the nanites were on the verge of evolving into a new lifeform and when Tony snapped, the power surge from the infinity stones was the catalyst the nanites needed to bridge the gap from ultra advanced technology to sentient life. In an instant, Tony wasn't simply wearing armor, he was surrounded by millions (billions?) of newborn children that had the capacity to understand what was happening and made the collective decision to help their creator absorb and channel the power of the stones. Even their help wasn't enough to prevent all the harm that power can do to a mortal, and it burned out the brand new life of the nanites in the process. They knew the consequences of their choice and they made it anyway, because they were the child of Earth's Best Defender and how could they do anything but follow their father's example? So Tony survives, hurt, but alive, probably never realizing exactly what, or rather who, it was that saved him.
I have just learned that Mountain Goats are NOT, in fact, actual Goats.
I have never heard of this band. I AM in fact referring to the animal.
But wait, thereâs more!
but you know what IS a goat? a musk ox
WHAT
(Will never not reblog this beauty. What genius.)
nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon's stuck in a time loop. nasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moonâs stuck in a time loop.
nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon's stuck in a time loop. nasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a pistol* moonâs stuck in a time loop. do you have extra ammo? this wonât be enough. nasa employee: enough forâŚwhat? astronaut: *finding extra clip of ammo, pocketing it, and getting back on the rocket-ship* donât worry about it!
nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon's stuck in a time loop. nasa employee: what? astronaut: *emerging from supply closet with a space harpoon, getting back on the rocket-ship* moonâs stuck in a time loop.
nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut:   oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon's stuck in a time loop. nasa employee: what? astronaut: what? nasa employee: how did you know what i was going to say? astronaut: *punching in key pad code for base evacuation signal, getting back on the rocket-ship* i told youâŚmoonâs stuck in a time loop. *red warning lights begin flashing*
nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon's stuck in a time loop. nasa employee: what? astronaut: *rifling thru bookshelf of operating instructions, selecting one that says âAIRLOCK MANUAL OVERRIDE INSTRUCTIONS,â getting back on the rocket-ship* moonâs stuck in a time loop.
nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon's stuck in a time loop. nasa employee: what? astronaut: moonâs stuck in a time loop. hey, do you have anything to eat? iâm starving. *opens random drawer, finds nothing, closes it* nasa employee: a time loo- uh, we donât have food in hereâŚwe canâtâŚeat in the control room, only the break-room. astronaut: *sighs* nasa employee:âŚmy lunch is in like 10 minutes, though, and if my lunch is actually STILL THERE and not STOLEN, AGAIN, i can share it with yo- astronaut: nah, thatâs okâŚno time. *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* orâŚtoo much time. but thanks, anyway. OK, bye! *alarm begins blaring* nasa employee: youâreâŚwelcome? wait, a TIME LOOP?!
Alphonse Mucha
âAlfons Maria Mucha (IvanÄice, 24 July 1860 â Prague, 14 July 1939), often known in English and French as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs.â
reasons to visit the Mucha museum in Prague.Â
The Best News of Last Week
1. âWe are just getting startedâ: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world
In 2016, Japanese scientists Oda and Hiraga published their discovery of Ideonella sakaiensis, a bacterium capable of breaking down PET plastic into basic nutrients. This finding marked a shift in microbiology's perception, recognizing the potential of microbes to solve pressing environmental issues.
France's Carbios has successfully applied bacterial enzyme technology to recycle PET plastic waste into new plastic products, aligning with the French government's goal of fully recycling plastic packaging by 2025.
2. HIV cases in Amsterdam drop to almost zero after PrEP scheme
According to Dutch AIDS Fund, there were only nine new cases of the virus in Amsterdam in 2022, down from 66 people diagnosed in 2021. The organisation claimed that 128 people were diagnosed with HIV in Amsterdam in 2019, and since 2010, the number of new infections in the Dutch capital has fallen by 95 per cent.
3. Cheap and drinkable water from desalination is finally a reality
In a groundbreaking endeavor, engineers from MIT and China have designed a passive solar desalination system aimed at converting seawater into drinkable water.
The concept, articulated in a study published in the journal Joule, harnesses the dual powers of the sun and the inherent properties of seawater, emulating the oceanâs âthermohalineâ circulation on a smaller scale, to evaporate water and leave salt behind.
4. Worldâs 1st drug to regrow teeth enters clinical trials
The ability to regrow your own teeth could be just around the corner. A team of scientists, led by a Japanese pharmaceutical startup, are getting set to start human trials on a new drug that has successfully grown new teeth in animal test subjects.
Toregem Biopharma is slated to begin clinical trials in July of next year after it succeeded growing new teeth in mice five years ago, the Japan Times reports.
5. After Decades of Pressure, US Drugmaker J&J Gives Up Patent on Life-Saving TB Drug
In what can be termed a huge development for drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) patients across large parts of the world, bedaquiline maker Johnson and Johnson said on September 30 (Saturday) that it would drop its patent over the drug in 134 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
6. Stranded dolphins rescued from shallow river in Massachusetts
7. âStaggeringâ green growth gives hope for 1.5C, says global energy chief
The prospects of the world staying within the 1.5C limit on global heating have brightened owing to the âstaggeringâ growth of renewable energy and green investment in the past two years, the chief of the worldâs energy watchdog has said.
Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, and the worldâs foremost energy economist, said much more needed to be done but that the rapid uptake of solar power and electric vehicles were encouraging.
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would you like to know what this sounds like in TTS?
"STRAIGHT FACE DOT STRAIGHT FACE DOT STRAIGHT FACE DOT STRAIGHT FACE CHAPTER 1 STRAIGHT FACE DOT STRAIGHT FACE DOT STRAIGHT FACE DOT STRAIGHT FACE"
i am no longer begging people to use standard goddamn punctuation (ellipses are three dots not twenty) and not do cutesy fucking page breaks
i am fucking telling you that from now on when i open a fic and see this i am immediately closing it and muting you forever i'm not putting up with that with every fucking POV shift
(this does not apply to anyone i'm following any errors in your text are solely down to english being a bastard that humans can barely parse much less speech engines homographs shouldn't even be allowed to exist)
idk i just don't think it's too much to ask for you guys to use TTS to listen to your writing every once in a while. not even every time! just sometimes when you're editing, turn on that old read aloud feature and give it a listen. it'll help you with proofreading even!
i only use TTS sometimes and i'm this mad, just imagine how people who rely on screenreaders exclusively feel
Please, it doesn't take long to make your fics accessible to people. You just have to care and believe me I've learned over the years that some of you asshooes don't fucking give a shit about people who need adaptive devices and programs to access fic.
If there is ever something in my fics that make them hard to read, listen to, or even just access. Tell me. I'll do my best because fanfic should be for everyone, not just the able bodied people.
the notes are broken đ
Reblogging partly for awesome computer shortcuts, and partly because I wish to once again take part in a Post That Broke The Notes.Â
I didnât know ANY of these. Reblogged to save a computer from a virus :)
I started thinking about that one post about how from dogs POV humans are beings that live like 500+ years (because I was petting my dog and I was looking at her like âthirty thousand years of cooperation have led to this. our species have spent 30k years building up to the point where you, child of wolf, descendant of noble hunters and wild things, Â would come all the way out of the office and come sit with me in the hopes of letting a souped up monkey rub its paws on youâ)
and then I thought about what it must have been like for the first humans to let a fucking wolf, maybe only a few generations from the wild, behold their infant child. Like man can u believe that? Maybe this alliance is only a few years old and sure youâve seen the wolfâs kids but now youâve got one of your own. And even though youâve seen this wolf tear out the throats of creatures that could kill you, this wolf is your family. This wolf is your friend, you love them and they love you and you gotta show âem the new kid, look, friend, I had a child. I know you are wild and dangerous, but look at this, my most precious thing, sniff him, give him a lil lick, his children and your children will be bound together for thirty thousand fucking years because I love you
Thereâs a set of  preserved footprints from 30k years ago that is a young child and a wolf standing side by side can you fucking imagine? Maybe the kidâs mom was like âhey go get some water from the stream, but take the wolf with you. I trust him, he will protect you.â