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dear-ao3

I wish the logistical nightmare of moving upon no one

venndaai

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

venndaai

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

fluorescentbrains

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

muffinlance

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

exilethegame

Surprise...

... hey... y'all... hey </3 Originally wasn't going to post anything until I could update the main demo again but I've been getting a lot of messages so...

Speedrun Challenge:

No, the game is not abandoned!

I have been avoiding social media for various reasons

The Chapter 2 Twine Version has been out for a while. I forgot to announce it here, but it's on Patreon for free. You can play it here. There's a bug w/ meeting Amilia where info gets mixed, so warning for that.

It's not on the main demo b/c the interlude in-between Chapter 1 + Chapter 2 is unfinished.

Chapter 3 is nearing 50% completion.

The next update on the main demo will include the interlude and add Chapter 2 to be properly added.

Bi-weekly to weekly word counts are resuming from today, whether it's a lot or a little. 🧎🏻 And thank you to everyone who sent kind wishes! Ngl life was beating me up pretty consistently for a long while but I finally have some stability going on again.

(Spoilers beneath. Shows Scene Breakdown from old Demo and where scenes are at progress wise for Twine. It has spoilers for anything past Chapter 1. Red is not worked on, yellow is in progress, green is finished.)

interact-if

And that's a wrap!

A huge thank you to the community for their amazing submissions! This event was successful because of your support!

Below you will find all the important links for this event. They include:

The list of winners

The list of interviews and

Full rec lists for each category

Winners Section

Best Fantasy IFs

Best Sci-Fi IFs

Best Action/Adventure IFs

Best Modern/Slice-of-Life IFs

Best Historical Fiction IFs

Best Bonus IFs

Interview Section

A Tale of Crowns by @ataleofcrowns

God-Cursed by @wings-of-ink

Remember, You Will Die by @vapolis

Cantata by @fir-fireweed

Whiskey Four by @johnlouisif

Infamous by @infamous-if

When Life Gives You Lemons by @when-life-gives-you-lemons-if

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Affairs of the Heart by @doriana-gray-games

The Lonely Shore by @thelonelyshore-if

Full Rec Lists

Fantasy

Sci-Fi

Action/Adventure

Modern/Slice-of-life

Historical fiction

Horror/Thriller/Misc

victusinveritas

adhdemonic

here's a link to Ember's website, where you can download a high quality version!

https://www.betterthanember.com/

aromantic-journal

"everyone should get more aromantic" can appeal to tumblr's sensibilities but I genuinely think everyone should also get more asexual. I don't mean everyone stop having sex, what I mean is

Sex is not essential. You can live without it. Full stop.

Not having sex isn't shameful or a sign of failure. It also doesn't make anyone boring.

You are not entitled to having sex with anybody and nobody is entitled to having sex with you.

Sex is not what makes someone an adult.

Nobody's worth is defined by how much sex they have or don't have.

Sex is not equally important to everyone.

You can have fulfilling and happy relationships without sex.

You should only have sex on your own terms, not because you feel like you owe it to someone, or because you feel like you'd be incomplete without it.

Know your boundaries around sex and be firm about them. Know how to respect other people's boundaries.

The previous point also applies when it comes to discussing sex. If someone doesn't wanna talk about it or hear about it you have to back down.

Anything can be sexual but not everything has to be sexual.

qcharlie

please god watch this right now

fangirltothefullest

The editing of this video is hysterical and genius- they switch between so many editing styles to reflect exactly what kind of thing they're going for in each segment its GREAT.

kineticpenguin

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

kineticpenguin

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

yourunderwaterskies

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

aloeverawrites

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,

Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu

mangled-by-disuse

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

lgbtlaughs

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

aliciarose-art

long time no Voltron!

I was gonna draw the other 3 as well but got lazy, maybe I’ll add them in later haha

I was reminded that the 10 year anniversary is coming up soon and it made me think back to how much I loved this series. I used to draw fanart of it like everyday I was unstoppable

sexy-people-contests-2026

Friday:

Now:

Me: Scared

sexy-people-contests-2026

Well frankly now I’m terrified, I was right around 25k Monday morning

sexy-people-contests-2026

Internally screaming

ltorekdraws

so, uh. i've read soul eater for first time in my life and i feel like i'm going to explode... how do i even tag it????

datarep

Time Lapse of the Land Taken From Native Americans

via reddit

jisdu-tsalagi

I will reblog this EVERY GODDAMN TIME so people can understand how the US government taking more and more land from Natives is nothing new (even the land originally promised after being kicked off their original, sacred lands) and they NEED to be fucking stopped. They need to be held accountable for the destruction of our people not just then but also now.