Books and Ghosts

This is not a good book blog. I am terrible at reviews, I just reblog books and quotes mostly cause I'm lazy. If you use the tag 'My Bullshit Opinions' you get to read original posts.  Or use the tag "Other Peoples Valid Opinions" for intelligent people I have reblogged and follow them. I use to have these as links but they stopped working and I can't remember how to do it again.

[littlestpersimmon]

Free Ornamentation III. This work is dedicated to the public domain ♡

[ullathynell]

This piece is now available as art prints (worldwide shipping)!

I originally created this illustration for the cover of the book The Dragon of Ynys, written by Minerva Cerridwen and published by Atthis Arts (2020).

[liberalsarecool]

Cosign.

[primarybufferpanel]

Something I love in the Murderbot books is how even in the corporation rim, people will do good things and help others when they have the option. People in charge of lowering zone barriers wait until the last possible moment to give more of the public a chance to evacuate. People in charge of transport warn passengers not to get off (because there's a dangerous situation) or like in the new book, go 'screw tickets, get as many people on board so there's a chance we can get them safe'.

Even as tiny cogs in that brutal, dehumanising system, people find ways

[szczekaczz]

Arthur Wardle, A terrier at a rabbit hole

[sunderwight]

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

[adizzyninja]

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

[julianova44]

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

[echointhewindwind]

Being an Eridian scientist has to be so funny. You train your entire life as a biologist, becoming specialized in your field, probably giving lectures or educational speeches to other Eridians, and then the star savior Rocky comes home with his weird pet dog. Your job is now to cultivate food so the weird dog who is the age of average baby doesn’t die. The dog also saved the stars. Your job is making dog food out of the dog. You also learn that you and the dog have the same job. You are the happiest scientist on Erid.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

The dog knows more about how the universe works than anybody else on your planet. The dog understands how relativity works and how the universe began. The dog has access to complex machines that can store and process massive amounts of information, launching your society into a new age of scientific and technological advancement.

You later find out that these machines were originally invented because the dog's species has a memory like a sieve and struggles with primary school level maths.

[setulose]

Trace amounts of Monica in my life

[setulose]

A statistically insignificant level of Monica in my life

[setulose]

My life manufactured in a facility that also processes Monica

[pmamtraveller]

Semele by Jannik Senium

[adirtnap]

[penny-anna]

Do Eridians know they are different colours. I bet Grace's alien kids love finding out what colour they are. It means absolutely nothing to them but they're like :O :O

[penny-anna]

Some of them think he's making this whole 'colour' thing up to mess with them and try to catch him out by asking again on a different day to prove he's just saying random noises but he's like you are still blue buddy and they're like :O :O

[penny-anna]

Like if we met an alien species who had extra senses & they said that some humans felt spingly and some humans felt spoingly I bet we'd all want to know if we were spingly or spoingly humans

[seadeepspaceontheside]

Stupid ugly statement

[critter-of-habit]

something something red string theory something something petrova line

[daveedmee]

explosion at health potion factory 0 dead 0 injured

[marlynnofmany]

Here's hoping those health potions work on mental health too, so the various employees can turn their trauma into comedy.

"Sir, what was it like to live through that kind of catastrophe? What went through your head?"

"My foot did!"

[turbomalice]

[spookshollow]

[horsefriend]

[putnamspuppeteer]

For those who don't know: Ikumi Nakamura is the woman who was senior artist on Bayonetta, and designed the titular character along with Hideki Kamiya. Their greatest moment of bonding was over their insistence that Bayonetta keep her glasses on at all times. Nakamura cannot go to horny jail. She is the warden.

[brookietf]

[catgirlforeskin]

Happy pride month to her and her exclusively

[seraphiminn]

she made a comic about the experience on twitter

[catboybiologist]

happy pride

[ikindamaybewanthertositonmyface]

An Update from back in October I'm surprised wasn't added to this post. lol