Books and Berries

On storytelling: books, collaborative, fairy tales, mysteries, how-to, and such and so on and what have you Call me Bee or Berry or whatever! Pronouns are also whatever

[booksandberries]

I'd already gathered the four elements of Fire, Air, Earth, and Water, but now that I've added secondary elements like Ice, I feel like I need to just make a Hirano whump bingo card

[hangsawoman]

it’s so evil when you have a beverage and you drink it and then there’s no beverage anymore

[afieldinengland]

normal country latest

[redsunrisinginthesky]

[theladymisandry]

You CANNOT hide these in the tags @injuries-in-dust

[booksandberries]

rattling the bars of my cage THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH HOURS IN THE DAY

[syn4k]

[talking about my favorite characters] okay so THESE two come in a bonded pair and if i think about them too hard i start taking poison damage

[productofaritual]

Love character relationships that can only be described as "whatever the fuck these two have going on"

[charlesoberonn]

I offered somebody a penny for their thoughts and they gave their two cents. That's a 100% return on investment.

[knitmeapony]

Question asked at this party I feel Tumblr has opinions on: can a vampire who is a duly sworn officer of the law enter a home if they have a properly executed warrant?

[inqorporeal]

It depends on what laws of physics your vampire is subject to.

If your vampire physics are subject to psychic or spiritual imprint, then no, they cannot, because the person who issued the warrant does not have a psychic connection to the residence and is not, according to vampiric physics, able to overrule the consent of the resident.

If your vampire physics are subject to legal rights, then yes, because the issuer of the warrant represents the law of the land, and therefore can overrule the law of the residence.

[ariesrin]

I love characters who would die for each other but will not, under any circumstances, communicate a single honest feeling.

[fluentisonus]

they're trying to get me to do something called ""my job"" instead of reading about medieval english poaching laws

[justahungrydango]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The Getting Together Incident

Hirano Taiga/Kagiura Akira/Miyano Yoshikazu/Sasaki Shuumei

Rated E

Chapter 7/7: But the sun always comes back in the end (+ 8/8, a short epilogue!)

“Not that I don’t appreciate you, Miyano, but you better have a good reason to drag me here on a Wednesday morning.”

FINALLY DOOOOONE!!! ✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧ hope yall enjoy reading it as much as i enjoyed writing it (⁠＾⁠∇⁠＾⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠♪

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

[silvermoon424]

This tweet read me to filth

[bbcwhereareyou]

[dominacetrix]

Saw someone on Reddit asking what the requirements are for going to the library. Not to get a card and check stuff out. Just to hang out there. I don't mean to make fun of the poster for not knowing. I blame capitalism and the reduction of third spaces for making the idea of being able to just exist in a free public space seem like a strange concept to people. Anyway. This inspired a meme.

[memeuplift]

[mrbrojangles]

[vashti-lives]

It occurred to me today that you can use Miyazaki films as a really quick way to explain the difference between urban/modern fantasy and magical realism.

Kiki’s Delivery Service: takes place in the regular world— albeit at some nebulous point in time— but also magic is real and witches are a thing. Witches exist in this world because it’s fun and we like them. It’s fantasy elements in a familiar setting— essentially urban or modern fantasy.

Porco Rosso: takes place in an extremely specific place and time and contains exactly one fantastical element— Marco’s pig head— which is never given an explanation and is never questioned as a biological impossibility. It’s clearly a metaphor and commentary on a real world issue but it’s also very much literal. This dude 100% has a pig head. No other mentions of magic are made. This is magical realism.

This story brought to you by the fact that I’ve never seen a fanfic on ao3 tagged magical realism that wasn’t actually modern fantasy.

[anxiousbiscuit]

I was talking about Sherlock Holmes with my cool weird 42 year old coworker the other day and he said that he had read other works by ACD but not any Sherlock Holmes. ACD is smiling down from heaven on his one and only true fan.