Stuff and Whatnot

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

unfortunately I’m watching supernatural and someone on screen said ‘there are No Wolves in pennsylvania’ and I was like. what a bold incorrect statement. where did they possibly get that idea from. so I googled it…google is insisting there are no wild wolves in pa?? except I’ve Seen wolves here?? there used to be a wolf that would hang out in my backyard and roam around the neighborhood?? like Everyone knew about this wolf we assumed he lived on the golf course and would come to our yards if he got spooked by golfers (very quiet block). like we all thought he just lost his pack or whatever so people just gave him a wide space and let him chill, he didn’t try to break into any houses or attack any pets but this was definitely. a wild wolf. where. where did he come from what do you MEAN there aren’t wolves in pennsylvania I’m literally spiraling right now

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

still feeling so gut-punched over this

[the-ginger-is-loose-again]

To be fair, PA also said “we did not reintroduce mountain lions, they are not there, you’re seeing really big house cats, please keep coming to the parks and camp sites and ignore that video, that was totally not a mountain lion, someone took last week”

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

okay I’m sorry but this came up on pinterest and I Screamed

you are the state of Pennsylvania (allegedly)

[jovialgnomejpeg]

i just showed this to a friend from pennsylvania and 1. theyre losing their mind bc theyve seen mountain lions which prompted them to look it up which leads me to 2. this fucking bonkers article

[caption: “We’ve been here 45 years and I’ve probably been told by people at least 100 t imes that they’ve seen a cougar or mountain lion,” said owner Vince Hall. “I kind of doubt they saw a cougar, but I’m not God.”]

[inkloom]

PA: I can’t believe we’ve lost all our native apex predators Citizens of PA: there’s a mountain lion right there PA: sometimes we can still hear the sound of them scaring away tourists

[novas-grimoire]

…PA has fucking EMUS and you want me to believe we have no wolves or mountain lions?

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

what the fuck do you mean we have emus

[lynati]

http://emusontheridge.com/ https://www.abc27.com/news/us-world/strange/update-runaway-perry-county-emu-found-after-seven-months-on-the-run/

[talkgentlytome]

Tag yourself I’m the “Overdressed and Underappreciated”. Artist : http://www.mattadrian.com/ 

[vvillowenna]

If you thought “hm those styles of art AND speech seem very familiar,” you are right because it is the same person that did these

[the-husbando]

Oh my god damn

[feytouched]

don't talk to me i'm thinking about dog statues turned golden by all the hands that pet them

[just-shower-thoughts]

Mammals both produce milk and have hair. Ergo, a coconut is a mammal.

[blogtitletaken]

I know you’re being facetious, but this is an actual issue with morphology-based phylogeny.

[castiel--for--king]

*leans over and whispers to person beside me* what are they talking about

[sonneillonv-deactivated20220218]

*leans over and whispers back*  Human ability to quantify and categorize natural phenomena is sketchy at best and wildly misleading at worst

[nonlinear-nonsubjective]

consider the coconut

[bemusedlybespectacled]

this reminds me of that time Plato defined humans as “featherless bipeds” and Diogenes ran in with a plucked chicken screaming “BEHOLD A MAN!”

[kascaban]

i love how you say “it reminds me of that time” like you were there.

[butchdotgov]

Millennial Sisyphus keeps entering all the information from his resume into the web form, only for it to delete everything when he tries to move to the next page. He just goes back and types it all up again, over and over again, forever, and he never gets a job.

[crystalandrock]

Millennial Tantalus has been promised that his unpaid internship will become a paid position as soon as the company has space for him. Every week he sees their new job posting. Every week he asks his boss if he can have a real job. The boss shrugs apologetically and says he’ll just have to make do with being paid in experience a little longer. He goes back and keeps working, over and over again, forever, and he never reaches the fruits of his labors.

[fiftysevenacademics]

Millennial Persephone can’t get a job without a degree, but because she had to take out loans to pay for college, she must spend 1/3 of her life working just to pay them off.

[sci-fantasy]

Millennial Cassandra’s title is Social Media Coordinator, she was hired to be the expert, but every time she tries to explain the problems in her company’s social media decisionmaking, the managers don’t listen…and end up hiring expensive PR flacks to repair the damage to their reputation when things blow up exactly as she predicted.

[necrofuturism]

Millennial Medusa uses multiple shades of primer and opaque foundation to cover the scars snaking across her face, hiding the bruises, aligning the asymmetry in her broken nose and jaw. Red matte on the lips, green shimmer on the lids. Flawless liner on the first try. She’s had lots and lots of practice. She films her transformation in secret for all to see and learn, and again, men are turned to anonymous stone faces screaming in horror. “Liar!” “Witch!” “Take her swimming on the first date!” These words do not discourage her. These words are a challenge. GlamGorgonXx posts another video.

[mao-tenno]

Millennial Prometheus uploads another PDF to his site. He’s lost track of the printing and edition of this textbook. He knows they just rearranged some of chapters then charge 150 dollars per copy, and the professor wrote the book himself. the ZIP fills uploads successfully, and he starts uploading the next one. He isn’t afraid of the potential lawsuit. knowledge shouldn’t held out of reach like this. 

[i-will-not-be-caged]

Millennial Circe screenshots all the lewd messages she gets from men on online dating sites and posts them on her very popular Instagram along with their pictures and usernames. When people accuse her of attempting to destroy their reputations, she insists she’s just revealing them for the pigs they truly are.

[jukeboxemcsa]

Millennial Odysseus is starting to suspect there’s something wrong with his GPS…

[powerfulweak]

@nighthawkes

[newsweekscience]

When loggers cut the end off a chestnut oak tree, they found a decades-old, mummified dog inside. 

Today, “Stuckie,” eternally reaching for freedom that will never come, is on display at a tree museum. 

What happened? Why didn’t Stuckie rot? A biological anthropologist explains.

[oxygeninhale-deactivated2026010]

The real question is how the fuck did a dog get stuck in the middle of a goddamn tree?!

[strangebiology]

you gotta read the article

[strangebiology]

Happy Arbor Day!

[tastefullyoffensive]

Just a Grizzly bear casually fixing a fallen safety cone as they walk down the road.

via

[internetbt]

[human-dumpster-fire]

[krispytm]

He redeemed himself

[thighetician]

The duality of Manguin

[a3battery]

got obsessed with the penguin drama

his girlfriend’s name is lulu and she doesnt deserve the naughty list for this. :C mac’s gone too far and dragged her down wish him. glad he redeemed himself

also look tux is such a bastard that taking him down = good behavior

[a3battery]

THEY KEEP REFERENCING THE PIER INCIDENT saldkjfah its like his defining moment

im just losing my mind with penguin receipts right now 

and he’s pepper’s bf from above, who got on the good list while they had to call out tux for being lazy sldkjfa

u deserve ur spot in the 2020 poll mr. tux. go call out to UR girlfriend to get her food and maybe u can have a redemption arc too. see how well its working out for mr mac

REDEEMED HIMSELF U EVIL POLLSTERS

(since this started out as me wanting to check up on whether or not the penguins were alive, they ARE and u can meet them virtually BY THE WAY)

[a3battery]

PEPPER IS MR MAC’S DAUGHTER??!??!

this entire family is problematic but lulu was framed and that’s my conclusion 

[luisonte]

Me duele la cabeza

[humandryersheet]

This is actually examples of the field of mathematics called topology and it’s fucking bullshit wizard shit.

[sereniv]

[ingridverse]

Someone’s bondage session just became very awkward

[stele3]

I fucking…

Since age 10 I have remembered a puzzle at OMSI, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. It basically had the premise of the first issue in this video.

I never solved this puzzle. I was taken to OMSI as a child, as all kids in the Portland area were at some point in their schooling; I always remembered this fucking puzzle. It has bothered me for years. I never came up with a response. Neither did anyone else.

I could…I could kill someone right now. I hate this.

[buge]

[buge]

got them again lads

[frogsdocrimes]

[mothermishy]

Popsicles Made From Different Polluted Water Sources

https://trendland.com/polluted-water-popsicles-raise-awareness-pollution/

[kermitlesbian]

damn she just eviscerated everyone on this website

[sunshine-tea]

*mug shaking and spilling coffee everywhere as I bring it to my mouth for a sip*

[thecottageinthedark]

[umbrielchip000]

The real reason I liked A/B/O in highschool and later left it behind was because it was a time where I realized how complicated love and relationships can be. In A/B/O there are super clear rules and therefore, it's so easy! But I learned to appreciate the complexities of real life and grew out of that particular genre.

[carnival-phantasm]

Gordon Ramsey fursona reveal!

[averyboneyguy]

:/

[unfaggy]

:/

[certainkindofsurgeon]

:/

[krystal-prisms]

:/

[pepsimansthickjuicymeatyschlong]

:/

[strugglingqueer]

:/

[4chanbf-deactivated20240815]

:/

[frank-ieros-knuckles-deactivate]

:/

[fundipluver-deactivated20230330]

:/

[the-worm-man]

:/

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[umbrielchip000]

:/

[jasonrainville]

The Bather

Tried for a twist on the classic art history trope of the bather :)

[podle5]

I adore this painting.  I never ever see my body type represented in art.

[cipheramnesia]

tbh same and that’s why i reblogged it

[bunjywunjy]

got any cursed fossa facts? they’re like a cat but stretched out. a ferret but huge

the fossa’s scientific name, Cryptoprocta ferox, literally means “fierce hidden anus”! 

this is because fossas keep their buttparts in a special pouch which conceals them from view all polite-like, which apparently really impressed the scientists who were naming it more than any of their other fossa attributes. who signed off on that grant?!

tell all your friends! tell your mom! tell your coworkers! (don’t tell your coworkers.)

“fierce hidden anus” is here to stay!

[veeaziel]

every day i am percieved™️

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

There is a reason for this though!

The original tweet summarizes it pretty well. Fanfic tends to be popular among certain types of neurodivergent people (aka people most likely to read excessively as a child, and have burnout as an adult) for the same reasons that we tend to hyperfixate–neurochemical signaling (I hope I’m using that phrase correctly). What I mean is, for people who are really dependent on changes in dopamine/serotonin/neurotransmitter levels, who have low levels or wonky neural reward systems (perhaps the most common types of neurodivergence)…people like us rely on dependable external sources of those neurochemicals. In order to function, we spend a lot of our free time trying to level out our brain chemistry using things that can reliably bring us a steady stream of joyful moments (rewards) without costing too much of the mental effort that is already in short supply. 

significantly: the investment of reading has to be balanced with a steady “return on investment”–and this return has to start fairly quickly. because again, we don’t have a lot of attention/energy to invest on tiring things. we have perpetual “low batteries” in that regard.

that doesn’t mean these stories are “simple,” or that they lack complexity or value–only that the reward has to come in short regular intervals, and it has to have a low “upfront cost.” these stories are only “easy” to read in the sense that the effort we put into them is rewarded in a timely manner. which is why fanfic stories are so perfectly formulated for neurodivergent readers–they are often beautifully written, but skip a lot of the upfront costs (of introducing new characters, of world-building, of getting the audience emotionally connected to the story elements).

the nature of fanfiction is that the reader has a pre-existing relationship with this world and these characters. that–combined with the shorter average length of fics–means that fan fics very quickly start rewarding the reader in a way that traditional fiction struggles to. that’s not a bad thing! and maybe it’s something more traditionally published writers should be paying attention to.

Fanfic, as a genre, has been uniquely helpful and accessible to many neurodivergent readers who would otherwise struggle to immerse themselves in stories. I’m glad so many of you have found a way to love and enjoy reading again! The important thing is that you are spending time inside stories you love–the way those stories are published or presented to the world is just one detail. The fact that you find joy in the process of reading (or listening!) to stories–that is what matters.

[attackofjak]

I feel understood 🥰

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

a bunch of people have reblogged this with the default “i feel called out” reaction….and i know when we say that we mean it tongue-in-cheek….but this comment sorta blew my mind & shifted my perspective up and to the left a little thank you♥

[funnytwittertweets]

[drewluski]