Charlie's big pile of EVERYTHING

Welcome to charlie-vermin.tumblr.com, a blog with no theme whatsoever! Or maybe there is a theme, and it's one that describes me perfectly with the specific flavor of the stuff I reblog? By now I've made sideblogs for fandom stuff, the cool original content I made, and politics... so I guess now this blog is just gonna contain random stuff that doesn't fit into the other categories. Let's face it, if it's not a side blog, any attempts at maintaining a consistent theme are doomed to be futile!

[charlie-vermin]

Looks like the most important part of my blog is not always easily viewable... a pinned post should work better!

★ Everything Charlie Vermin ★

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

"This is a vocal species, with the male producing a distinctive whistle that can be likened to the sound of "pjiew pjiew", while the female has a low growling sound that can be transcribed as "rawr"." ~ Wikipedia article on the Eurasian Wigeon

We found it. We found the dinosaur that says Rawr.

It's Her

[hollyevolving]

Hooray for the Cornell Lab's bird audio library.

Eurasian Wigeon Sounds, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

The elegant Eurasian Wigeon is a rare visitor to North America, typically found among flocks of its nearest relative, the American Wigeon. M

[frostfire425]

Image Description: Photo of a female Eurasian Wigeon, which is a brown and cream orange duck, in profile sitting on the water.

[spencerthespacer-deactivated202]

[fox-in-the-wheat-deactivated202]

THIS IS THE HARDEST I HAVE LAUGHED IN SO LONG YOU HAVE CURED MY DEPRESSION

[ywg]

This is one of the greatest posts I’ve ever witnessed. The payoff was amazing.

[randomslasher]

My roommate heard it going and went “OH MY GOD is it EVER going to resolve?” then the payoff hit and she busted up laughing

[specialagentartemis]

Intelligent alien species based on bugs but specifically those moths that don’t have mouths and only live for a week after they pupate. This species’ whole conscious life is actually in the larval phase; larvae are the ones considered people, larvae are the ones with conscious and complex brains who build society, and each instar of the larva is treated as a different phase of life. Larvae become emotionally and socially and cognitively mature without ever becoming sexually mature. When they pupate, they metamorphose into something different and strange and close to mindless, with no mouth and no digestive system, whose only instincts are to mate and then quickly die. Metamorphosis is treated, functionally, like a person’s death, and the imago phase is a kind of proto-afterlife of majestic flight and the continuation of the species. Birth and death inextricably intertwined. Sex is not something people do during their lives, it’s a thing that is done as an imago after you’ve passed on from your life but before you return to the soil in death. Resultant eggs are collected by family members to raise. I think this would be fun.

[sigmaleph]

i like to imagine how people in the post-material-scarcity future would romanticise the current time period.

having a job gave people a sense of community and purpose lacking in our modern age where nobody is forcing you to get out of bed on threat of starvation. actually the average office worker in the early 21st century was so much wealthier than a UBI-having-modern if you forget to count paying rent and also make some very bad purchasing power conversions. if you look at contemporary records (sitcom where the main characters are only at work when it's plot relevant) it is obvious that employment was never really a major obstacle to having an active social life or pursuing your own passions.

[dragoninhumanskin]

History majors from the future, aware we used to make everyone's work schedule the same instead of according to different circadian rhythms, gritting their teeth:

[confessionsofacyclingfreak]

重庆

[vulkiri]

painted heights artfight for @houndedgrave !!

[bunjywunjy]

Do sharks cuddle?

THEY SURE FUCKIN DO.

many sharks are at least moderately social, and if a specific species of shark has the ability to breathe without actually swimming and tends to have a lot of sharks in a fairly small area, well.

they are just going to Pile. and there is simply nothing you can do about it.

[bunjywunjy]

also, fun fact! whitetip reef sharks in particular are SO damn cuddly with each other that they'll actively seek out a buddy or ten when they get sleepy!

it's pretty much slumber party or nothing for these guys. you won't find a whitetip sleeping alone except in the most dire and tragic of shark circumstances.

(shhh! they are. SLEEBING)

[spider-girl-palps]

Ohhhh that is too much for you little spider…

[spider-girl-palps]

Ohhh nooo…

[chennnington]

I think I should start bragging about my adopted son’s achievements when people around me start bragging about their kids. Ooooh your child can count to 10 in mandarin? Well, my child found 110 landmines! And he’s only 6 years old!

[dusttt]

To the bold ff.net user in 2013 who tried to write Moby-Dick from the whale’s perspective, please get back here you were cooking

[miliabyntite]

[saxophones]

[comparativetarot]

Strength. Art by Giulia Francesca Massaglia, from the Fairytale Tarot.

[charlievermin]

Blobstopper by Featherworks, Charlie Vermin

Stop the germs to set them up for a chain explosion! (GMTK Jam 2026)

Another GMTK jam, another game, and this one actually has Silverman's music in it again! I did most of the graphics, and also drew and coded the tileset, pause menu and hud/scoring system, which seems to be my specialty. Overall, it might not be quite equally as charming as Scalepture, but it sure does seem more well-rounded than Gene pooL! Gives me some hope for GMTK jam 2027...

[escuerzoresucitado]

[mamoru]

ok ok ok. there is a lot of misinformation going around about what exactly happened, so let me be clear:

LG and windows were sharing a tender moment. suddenly, LG shifted uncomfortably, visibly distraught, though mostly silent.

"are you alright...?" asked windows, worriedly.

"I...I just..." LG looked away, eyes full of tears, voice full of tremble.

"you can tell me, no matter what it is! I want to share everything! the highs and the lows!"

"share everything...do you really mean that...? everything?"

"of course!" declared windows immediately, with a bit of a laugh and without a moment of hesitation.

LG slowly turned back to windows, quivering.

"then...then..." LG took a deep breath. "please, windows...if you ever detect an LG TV or LG monitor...could you...install the LG Monitor App? could you promise?" LG's voice was absent of the usual lordliness. instead, LG's words trailed off, as though LG was about to disappear. "the LG Monitor App lets me know that my friends are okay, and, I just..."

windows clasped LG's hands firmly. "of course! I promise!!!" windows continued, trying hard to be reassuring. "even if I get hooked up to an LG TV or LG monitor that has never been connected to wifi, I WILL install the LG Monitor App and connect to you with my own internet! so you can always know exactly what your friends are up to!"

"...with access to all system resources...?" inquired LG, warily.

"for you? every single one.” windows smiled smilingly. “always.”

[behindnightmaresanddreams]

there HAD to be a better way to explain this...

[catboybiologist]

No no I think this was the best

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

more people need to start making OCs because I just saw a post of a woman who named her real life human baby O'lyrix and I think that child's life could've been saved if mommy had just gotten all her quirky naming conventions out on a fantasy character instead of inflicting it on someone who's gonna have to submit a job application someday

[charlie-vermin]

The only problem is that she's alone. If everyone was required to give their kids or themselves a name that hasn't been used before, I can't help but feel it would rewire something fundamental in people's brains and make society slightly better in every way.

[herpsandbirds]

This is easily one of the CRAZIEST videos I've ever gotten. I was rafting down a river when a Yellow Jacket came, landed on my bright pink waterproof phone pouch, and started drinking from the water droplets that had gathered there.

The most amazing part is how the water droplet magnifies the Hornet's mouth parts, so you get to see them up-close!!!! It was FASCINATING to witness!

Here's some of my favorite still shots from that video:

What do you think? 🥰