All a misunderstanding, my love. @brat-tamer-nicki - Tumblr Blog

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Gale/Tav (Baldur's Gate), with just a hint of astarion/tav Characters: Gale (Baldur's Gate), Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Tav (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: One Shot, Smut, Mutual Pining, First Kiss, Masturbation, Fantasizing, Flirting, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Accidental Voyeurism, Gale's Netherese Orb (Baldur's Gate), Male Tav (Baldur's Gate), Monk Tav (Baldur's Gate), Drow Tav (Baldur's Gate) Summary:

Tav shoots his shot with Gale at the tiefling party after saving the grove, only to learn that the orb still stands between them. He tries to deal with the rising tension on his own.

#had a busy weekend finally getting around to making a post for this one #baldur's gate 3 #gale x tav #gale dekarios #fanfic #my fic

geyfrog

Referring to someone as your “partner” sounds as if you are deliberately obscuring their gender and may subtly out you. “My ex”, however, is entirely unobtrusively gender-neutral. #breakupallrelationships

uptownthots

“it isnt something you have to read critically” well 😭

uptownthots

this technically is true but I think this also perfectly encapsulates why I am inherently distrustful of like. “”cozy”” “turn your brain off” fiction lmfao. like okay WHO gets to turn their brain off and who has to suffer through bigoted caricatures of themselves while everyone else is having cozy silly no brain time 😐

houndmother

many of you just. genuinely don’t believe that people can grow and change.

houndmother

this is about the death penalty and its also about call out posts about people who have already apologized for things they did a long time ago and it’s also about using ‘toxic’ or ‘abuser’ as if its an immutable class of person, and its also about any other circumstance with permanent consequences or wherein you assume someone is still the same person they were.

fervent-bookwomb

they should invent a listening to loud music that protects and restores your hearing

sharksdancing

Video games are great, they let you try your craziest fantasies. For example, on the sims, you can have a job and a house

herpsandbirds

tractorgoth

Mood. Have to add my other fave Darwin Being Hyperfixated On Invertebrate Taxonomy quote

derinthescarletpescatarian

Sometimes my chickens will mysteriously not bug me for food all day and I don't see them (it's a big yard with lots of cover) and they don't go to their coop at sunset and I'm like "okay they might be dead" but the next morning they are there and it's like "oh you guys just felt like having an adventure, okay." This must be what parenting was like for our grandparents.

unhappytogekiss

a new reality tv show called So you think you can write Doctor Who

twelve episodes, twelve contestants - a mix of annoying middle aged sci fi authors, fan fic authors and random people off the street

a variety of against the clock writing tasks, big finish scripts, ability to interact with actors without shouting at them and challenges where you have no budget or doctor for an episode

judged by solely by christopher eccleston

this is how you find the new doctor who showrunner

nowhere else

The problem with being low support needs is that people mentally autocorrect that to “no support needs” and then proceed to give you absolutely nothing and then get surprised when you implode after six months.

8nin

"There's millions of Tumblr users" to you. To me There's only about 12 and we all reblog the same five posts from each other

kookiedeadbutterflies

Among all the bad things with TVL, there is one good thing.

A. Zell Williams made a fan appreciation post on his substack. It’s both a heart warming and heartbreaking read about his time with IWTV and his exit. He put it best as to what they had done to him and he’s right.

“If you treat people with respect only as long as you need them, that last act of indifference will define your time together and the success of what you’ve made”

All the best to you Mr. Williams. Maybe I’ll write him a letter of thanks for what he brought to the show.

How a show's fans lifted my spirits years after working on the series.

acti-veg

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

namu-the-orca

Cetacean echolocation is one of those things that boggles your mind once you really start to think about the implications. They can see each others' hearts beating fast with fear or excitement. They can see if another dolphin is healthy, or pregnant; how the fetus is doing; if they have ingested debris. Their echolocation is also incredibly precise: a bottlenose dolphin could discriminate between cilinders differing in wall thickness by just 0.23 mm (0.009 inch) from 8 meters away!! And they certainly notice when something is off.

I'm not sure if I ever shared this story before here, but in Curacao, when I was allowed to assist in a guest interaction programme, there was suddenly consternation in the pool behind us. A guest had entered the water and the dolphins were going crazy, paying no heed to the trainers anymore. The lead trainer that was with me gave the dolphins to me to watch over while she went to help. When she came back she told me what had happened. The guest that had caused so much uproar had left the water again and was asked if he had done anything to upset the dolphins. He hadn't, and he couldn't imagine what was wrong... until he mentioned he had a pacemaker. The younger dolphins in the pool had never seen someone with a pacemaker before and apparently it rocked their world.

It was such a wild experience, and offered such a cool insight into how dolphins experience their world. I'll never forget it.