[archaic-stranger]

aesthetic for @sleepystemkid

dedicating yourself to learning, always wanting to know more

anatomy sketches in the margins of your notes

keeping a list of documentaries you want to see

heavy engineering textbooks piled on your desk

a true crime podcast playing in the background while you go about your morning

reading biographies of Leonardo Da Vinci and other great visionaries

rewatching your favorite movies after a long day

a map pinned to the wall above your desk

getting books on your current interests from the library

closet filled with muted colors

a love of problem solving, working through complicated issues to reach a streamlined solution

hours spent studying in the library

drawing circuit diagrams in your notes

heavy book bags filled with texts on a variety of subjects

going down research rabbit-holes when you get interested in a new topic

growing plants by your desk

scrolling through recent news articles while you wait for a cup of tea to steep

[cibolasworld]

I AM IN LOVE THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER WOW THANK YOU SO MUCH WHAT THE HECK

[strausswinter]

The Secret History Translation Masterlist

i was going to put this on a spam account but then decided to put it on a public one. who knows, maybe someone will benefit from it! if i’ve made any mistakes, do let me know

à moi. l’histoire d’une de mes folies (to me. the history of one of my follies or my turn. the tale of my madness)

quod erat demonstrandum (it can be shown)

cubitum eamus? (will you sleep with me?)

consummatum est (it is done)

hoi polloi. barbaroi [the many/majority. barbarian (person who doesn’t speak greek)]

bei nacht und nebel (at night and in fog)

deprendi miserum est (it is wretched to be found out)

khairei (hello)

bakchoi (initiates)

cuniculus molestus (annoying rabbit)

arrectis auribus (attentively/ears peeled)

dormir plutôt que vivre (sleep rather than live)

dans un sommeil aussi doux que la mort (in a sleep as sweet as death)

requiescat in pace (rest in peace)

n’est-ce pas (isn’t that so)

amor vincit omnia (love conquers all)

raison d’être (reason for existence)

nihil sub sole novum (there is nothing new under the sun)

quel plaisir de vous revoir (what a great pleasure to see you again)

genis gratus, corpore glabellus, arte multiscius, et fortuna opulentus (smooth-cheeked, soft-skinned, well-educated and rich)

dénouement (outcome)

salve, amice (hello, friend)

valesne? (are you well?)

quid est rei? (what is the matter?)

benigne dicis (i thank you)

bureau de tabac (tobacco store)

Χαλεπά τά καλά (beauty is harsh)

mais, vrai, j’ai trop pleuré! (oh, truly, i have wept too much!)

les aubes sont navrantes (the dawns are heartbreaking)

hinc illae lacrimae (hence those tears)

sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat (such eyes, such hands, such looks)

[weirdgirlvampire]

again and again and again and again

[writing-prompt-s]

Just because one of your chicken eggs hatched a fire breathing dragon people think you’re evil. But you’re still just a regular farmer trying to make a living while dealing with an overprotective dragon, heroes that want to kill you and fanatics who want to worship you as the new Demon Lord.

[dycefic]

The thing you need to know about all of this, the thing that got me into all this trouble in the first place, is that chickens will sit on anything when they get broody enough. Anything. Duck eggs, goose eggs, turkey eggs, lizard eggs, egg shaped rocks, anything. Chickens aren’t smart. If it looks vaguely like an egg, they’ll plant their feathery arses on it and wait.

I noticed that there was a bigger egg under one of the broody chickens, when I checked. Of course I noticed, it was twice the size of the others. But I have geese. I figured it was a goose egg she’d found and stolen. It was about the right size, and I didn’t take it out to check the colour because that particular chicken gets very protective of her eggs. I’ve already got a scar on one hand from trying to get eggs away from her. I didn’t want a matched set.

That was a decision I regretted the moment I went out to feed the chickens and found a little blue-and-silver dragonet’s head poking out from under a very confused-looking chicken. The poor thing kept shifting around and looking under herself in a bewildered way, like she didn’t know what to do next. This particular chicken is a good mother, and she’s raised clutches of ducks and geese without any trouble – she’s even resigned to some of her children swimming – but this was too much. She didn’t object when I carefully reached in and fished out the little dragon.

It was so tiny, then. It fitted in my hand, with its little head peeking out one side and its tail looping around my wrist. Cute, too, with its big eyes and little snout turned up towards me.

That was when I made my second mistake. I decided to feed it before releasing it. Dragons are innately wild creatures, everyone knows that. They can’t be tamed. People have tried. The eggs are abandoned as soon as they are laid, and the dragonets hatch able to hunt, so they don’t even bond with their mothers. So just feeding it a little shouldn’t have been a big deal. It should have gobbled the meat and fled as soon as I loosened my grip on it and it saw the open sky.

It didn’t. As soon as I’d fed it, it fluttered up to a sunny window ledge and went to sleep. I went about my work, figuring that it’d leave in its own time.

By noon, it was sitting on my boot, squeaking pathetically. I wondered if maybe it was confused by the farmyard – they usually hatch in mountains, if the stories are right – so I took it back to the farmhouse with me and fed it again when I ate, then took some time away from the fences I should have been mending to walk it up to the hills. I found it some nice rocks, with plenty of lizards and beetles and suitable prey for something that size. It pounced on a beetle almost as soon as I put it down, and when I left it was crunching happily.

I hadn’t walked a quarter of the way back before something hit the back of my boot. The little dragon was holding on with all four claws, and when I looked down it squeaked pathetically. If possible, its eyes got even rounder.

Listen, you don’t make it as a farmer if you just let orphaned baby animals die. We hand-raise calves and lambs and ponies, set chickens to sit on abandoned eggs, or put them under the kitchen stove or by a fireplace. You don’t make a success of farming if you don’t value every animal. A good shepherd will spend all night looking for one lost sheep. So despite what was said later, it wasn’t just sentiment that made me sigh and pick up the little thing and carry it back to the farm.  I am a good farmer. I don’t let orphaned babies die just because they’re a little work.

Keep reading

[whatagreatartsideblogtohave]

Find the whole original story by @dycefic here!

[dycefic]

This is WONDERFUL, and I absolutely love it. That puzzled chicken face, and the tiny dragon! 

[charlataninred]

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

[meraarts]

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

[eater-of-hopes-and-dreams]

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

[blitzlowin]

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

Goblin Men (Canines)

[charlataninred]

I am in love with you /p

[incognitoprompts]

What about the queen who lives in the tower with her child so she wouldn’t grow up hidden away alone for however many years? Love that one too

[elidyce]

@incognitoprompts Here’s the queen with three cursed children story for you.

Also, here’s the wizard who lets people choose how they will die, in ‘The Martyrdom Of St Grainne’.

(attempts to look modest)

[tamarrud]

76 years since my grandparents have been forcibly expelled from Jerusalem.

7 months since l've been forcibly expelled from my home in Gaza City.

[tamarrud]

Who's going to tell this bitch that this isn't about her?

You live in a fucking settlement and evacuated to a hotel. You are a settler and are in fact the reason this Palestinian's family was expelled in the years leading up to 1948 and are being displaced as we speak today. The obsession with playing the victim is astounding. You're not suffering, you just continued to benefit from the genocide and help sustain from a different location is all, stop lying to yourself.

[kosmogrl]

yes, you will see me reblogging the same post over and over again. I don't remember what I reblogged two days ago

[anexperimentallife]

[kragehund-est]

hmmm why does my uterus hurt and why do i feel kinda off. weird. surely these are not the warning symptoms of a predictable biological process that occurs on a regular schedule. anyway. im going to wear white pants today.

[prinz-myshkin]

Bothersome beast, comforting friend

[bluebeetle]

This is definitely not a google drive full of the sleep stuff from the Headspace app, including sleepcasts, music, and wind down meditation, that normally costs 17.99 a month, no siree and you definitely shouldnt share this with people

[thatbastardlass-deactivated2021]

and here’s a link that does not lead to a google drive full of tv shows movies + books and also does not contain a shortcut to the above

[gigilberry]

this is absolutely not a link to another google drive with shows + movies + audio books either nope no sir

[ehlers-world-problems]

[daffy-taffy]

@timetravellingcactus cause for some reason I’m not able to send this to you

[do-you-have-a-flag]

the goog drive directory titled “the library” is transferring to a different platform soon so hustle on that one!

[nero-neptune]

this absolutely isnt a google drive of the imdb top 250 movies

and this couldn’t possibly lead you to even more books!

these arent musical bootlegs… what do you mean?

[olivay-official]

And they absolutely arent up to date as of 2020 :) nope no sir

[neapolis99]

100% not ad0be after effects cc2019, photosh0p cc2018 AND cc2019, premiere pro cc2019, animate cc2020!

NOT a sp0tify premium apk AND NOT among us for pc!!!

ABSOLUTELY NOT A LIBRARY OF iTALIAN AND eNGLISH TTRPG MANUAL PDFs INCLUDING D&D, PATHFINDER AND OTHER SYSTEMS

and this ISN’T a folder with artbook pdfs, art softwares and brushes, etc. (lots of Italian stuff)

[lethalhedgehogs-deactivated2023]

👀

[dietspam16]

DONT share this

[misstextures]

It would be such a shame if someone reblogged this. Whoops my fingers slipped

[i-say-ok]

ok.

[flufflogic]

Oh dear I accidentally clicked on the “copy URL” link in the dots menu and sent it to the family Whatsapp

And then reblogged it

I am so clumsy today

[metalgearbawlin]

Whatever you do, DONT look at any of the above information. Only look at high-quality mozz sticks gif.

[s-8-t-a-n]

Being on tumblr feels like living in a house full of women. Every other social media feels like being out in public.

[huffylemon]

damn ok lake superior

[songsofwaterandnight]

Ok yeah that lake is superior

[academia-lucifer]

@academia-lucifer

[typhlonectes]

[digital-magus]

The left never radicalized, the center has just been dragged further and further right until we became radical by not moving.

[90377-sedna]

When I was 10 I asked my dad to explain politics to me and when he was done with his shockingly nuanced description of the American bipartisan system he asked me how I would structure the government if it was up to me. I described a world where everyone was paid what they needed, had a house, and enough food. He said, "Void-juice that's great, but you should know most people call that communism".

[littlethingwithfeathers]

I've told this story on here before but @void--juice's story made me think of it again... My dad worked for NASA and he did a lot of work on the telescopes that went up in the late 90s/early 2000s. I was a curious kid and I knew his work really mattered to my dad so I was always asking about when things were getting launched. Often the answer was "we're waiting on Congress for funding" or similar. And one time... I was probably about 10 years old, I said "well... I guess that makes sense. I'm sure going to space is one of the most expensive things we do." And my dad looks at me... I'll never forget the look on his face. He goes "What do you think the most expensive thing we do as a country is?" And I hemmed and I hawed because I was sure it wasn't the space program even though I was sure that had to be in the top three. My first guess was education. Everyone had to go to school. Nope. Roads? Bridges? Cars were everywhere. Nope. What about... things like electricity? Phone lines? Cable? Nope. "The military. By a factor of ten at least." I was gobsmacked. It was peacetime (at least by most reckoning... this was post-Gulf War and well before 9/11). What the hell was the military doing being so expensive if we weren't doing anything with it? So that was the moment I became a "radical." Because that was absolutely stupid and continues to be.

[freefreeepalestine-deactivated2]

France becomes the first western state to formally call for a ceasefire. Keep up the calls and protests.

[cazort]

This is fantastic news, keep up the momentum, more western states can follow. I know the US is gonna be slow to the game but I am working really hard over here to do the best I can to nudge it in this direction.