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its been 6 months and im still not over this. easily best and most hilarious play in baseball history

for those who dont really understand:

-the first baseman had no reason to chase Baéz, if he just stepped on the bag he was automatically out

-theres two outs, so if hes out, the inning is over. even if the runner on second base gets home, the run doesnt count. its not until hes safe at first that the run scores

-theres no specific rule in baseball about running backwards from first, just that you “cannot retreat to home base” meaning so long as if you dont touch the plate, its fine

-Baéz ran backwards to kill enough to get the run to score, and then stole and extra base on the base on the bad throw

-HE TOOK THE TIME TO UMPIRE HIS OWN PLAY AND CALL SAFE

what a fucking sport yall

@fractaldunes

altospaceangel

Javier Baéz’s nickname according to those announcers is El Mago which is spanish for The Wizard

Well earned

love how the explanations do not help at all

officiallordvetinari

Let me see if I can break this down a little more.

Javier Báez (the batter, a Chicago Cub, wearing blue) has just hit the ball. His job is now to run around the bases - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, back to where he started (“home”), at which point he will have scored a point. In practice, he will probably stop partway, wait for the next batter to get a hit, and try to make it home from there.

The Pittsburgh Pirates (in white) are fielding. Their job is to stop the Cubs from scoring by getting them out, by various combinations of catching the ball and tagging people or bases with it.

The scoreboard (top left) shows that one Cub has already made it to second base, so he will resume running now that Javy has a hit. It also shows that two Cubs are out. If a third Cub gets out, their turn to bat will be over, it will be the Pirates’ turn to bat, and the Cubs can’t score anymore (for now, but that’s not relevant).

The Pirate at first base (the first baseman) has the ball. All he needs to do is step on first base while holding it before Javy gets there, and Javy is out. This is probably the number one most common thing a first baseman has to do.

He does not do it.

For some reason he starts chasing Javy, presumably trying to tag him with the ball directly. This is a perfectly legitimate way of getting him out, but also completely unnecessary.

This has never happened to Javy before. Unsure what else to do, he just kind of… jogs backwards away from him.

Meanwhile, the Cub who was at second base (Contreras) has made it all the way back to home. Because the Pirates’ first baseman has helpfully walked the ball back home, he can easily toss it to the Pirate at home (the catcher) who will tag Contreras out.

The catcher doesn’t tag him in time.

The umpire signals that Contreras is safe (not out).

Javy also signals that Contreras is safe, just for fun. He’s never been nearby when a teammate makes it home before, and he’s enjoying himself.

Notice that the score has not changed, even though Contreras made it home. That’s because Javy is still technically running to first base. If he gets out before he reaches it, the Cubs’ turn to bat is over, and nothing else that’s happened since he hit the ball matters.

Javy remembers this, and heads back to first base. The catcher throws the ball to another Pirates fielder, who is frantically running to do the first baseman’s job.

He doesn’t catch it.

Javy is safe at first. Contreras scores (although the scoreboard won’t change for a second).

Javy notices how far away that ball landed, and decides he can make it to second base before anyone picks it up and tags him out.

An offscreen Pirate throws the ball to second base, where another Pirate is ready and waiting to catch it, tag Javy out, and end the Cubs’ turn to bat.

He doesn’t catch it.

Javy is safe at second. The video doesn’t show it, but he will go on to score as well.

This should have been a very easy out for the Pirates, but through two dropped catches and one truly bizarre decision from the first baseman, they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and turned it into two points for the Cubs.

The Cubs won this game by two points.

fucktheflagandfuckyou

HAPPY OPENING DAY OF BASEBALL 2022 YALL. LETS PRAY FOR MORE OF THIS BULLSHIT

uncahier

I know I’ve reblogged this before, but here’s a version with an explanation for folks unfamiliar with the game* and this amazing comment:

Never change, Pittsburgh

baseballheritageposts

baseball heritage post

chicago-mentioned

evilfuckignskeleton

youre-only-gay-once

"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"

purgaytorysupremacy

if you’re wondering why spellcheck and grammar check is worse now, it’s because they replaced it with AI! 🥰

now, instead of maintaining a comprehensive, nuanced, and human-maintained encyclopedia by which to check your document, they have switched to an AI that just compares what you’ve written to what other people write in, say, Google Docs, and use the most commonly used iteration.

ever have it change something like “all intents and purposes” to “all intensive purposes” or “should’ve” to “should of”? that’s why!

people make the same spelling and grammar mistakes so often, AI thinks that’s the way you say it because it is a PATTERN DETECTOR and cannot THINK let alone use language.

youre-only-gay-once

"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"

#fuck ai

route22ny

Today's Doonesbury cartoon.

artphobos

This is why the ridiculous tiktok and youtube banned terms lists bothered me so, then hear kids using euphamisms instead even irl. JUST USE THE WORDS.

chongoblog

Scanning the QR Code feels kinda harrowing

theladysunami

Current List:

- abortion

- accessibility

- Accessible

- activism

- activists

- advocacy

- advocate

- advocates

- affirmative action

- affirmative action programs

- affirming care

- affordable home

- affordable housing

- agricultural water

- agrivoltaics

- air pollution

- all-inclusive

- allyship

- alternative energy

- anti-racism

- antiracist

- asexual

- assigned at birth

- assigned female at birth

- assigned male at birth

- at risk

- autism

- aviation fuel

adventurerintraining

Thank you for this list, the website just shows 404 error for me

skys-seond-side

@i-add-sources

Sorry if this is overstepping or you already did this one ^^;

i-add-sources

newspeak

The website linked through qr-code appears to no longer be online.

For example: my post on the removal of the words "bisexual" and "transgender" from the stonewall national monument page

Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows ma

^ March 7, 2025 article by nyt about 'flagged' and removed words. Includes less words than previous reblog, but time has passed since then.

Somewhere after Jan 15, 2025, the entire reproductiverights.gov website went offline.

The reblogged list is from pen.org/banned-words-list, updated May 28, 2025

While not all these words are fully banned, they are still 'to be used less' or used to flag material for 'further review'.

I therefore consider it right to say this is true

#fuck maga #fuck this shit #anti censorship #stop burning books and banning words

animentality

simon-says-lots-of-things

We are all doing this

Calm down, you're meant to have fun here-/lh

fangs-4-fags

why don't most vampires just find ppl who are into getting pinned down and bitten and drained. this shit is easyyyy

fangs-4-fags

"who could ever love a MONSTER like me..." bro you can find like ten people on the street who would be sooooo into you if you just flashed your fangs and told them you were an unholy creature of the night. trust me. i know what i'm talking about. maybe lust isn't love but at least it keeps your belly full babey !

fangs-4-fags

i can obviously appreciate a good vampirism as a metaphor for self-loathing and the fear of yourself but truuuust me dude it is not that serious . go call a bunch of people blood bags and see which freak gets weak in the knees. this shit is so easy

fangs-4-fags

you will find humans who match and even surpass your vampiric freak.

depsidase

ceaselessbasher

I swear to god one of these days were going to see a video of Amaury Guichon and he's going to be making some wings and they are going to look dope as hell, the detail of each feather will be breathtaking, he'll spray paint them to perfection, but as the video goes on, he's not building any sort of winged creature, just the wings. And then there's a human-sized harness (also made of chocolate, somehow, he can do it). And he's attaching the wings to the harness. And he's putting the harness on and he demonstrates how he can flap the wings. And then he'll be off. Out the window and up and up and up. And we'll be looking at the livestream (it's a livestream now) and we'll scream "No, Amaury, the sun! It's going to melt the wings!". But he knows this already. And he is free.

#amaury guichon #he is amazing

alanaisalive

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

iguanamouth

oh shit

throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight

alanaisalive

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

docd666

Y'all know what to do Tumblr.

moonlitceleste

Maribat Tumblr Fic Recs

This is a list of Maribat Tumblr fic recs; it does not include fics that are cross-posted on ao3. My ao3 rec list is split into categories: this one is for beginners, this includes all my favorites, and this for general Maribat fics I enjoyed/would read again.

Since I’ll be periodically adding to this list, go to my masterlist and click “Tumblr fic recs” to make sure you have the most recent version of this post!

@bluerosette23 has five “Maribat Masterlists”; the links cannot be clicked when accessed directly through their Tumblr account, so if you’d like to view those I recommend searching “maribat masterlist”. The posts each have a relatively high amount of notes and should appear near the top. Although the lists could be considered a bit outdated, I think they’re a great resource. I’ll provide them links here: 1 2 3 4 5

I’ll admit I haven’t read some of the fics I’ve linked below yet, but for the sake of all you lovely readers I included them anyways. I know there are a lot more out there, but these links are mostly for fics that might be harder to find/one-offs from smaller accounts. Accounts that regularly post Maribat content are typically easier to find, so I linked their masterlists at the bottom.

This isn’t even close to finished, but since I’ve already spent four hours compiling it I’ll save the rest for later.

Daminette

18 by @ghostlyvictorianwriter [x 1]

And They Were Roommates Masterlist by @justcourttee

College Fic Masterlist by @writingideasandrandomstuff

Captain the Retired Police Dog Masterlist by @thebookwormfairy

Daminette December Mini-Series by @mochinek0

In the Death of the Night Masterlist by @difx-writing-blog

I Won’t Try Again Masterlist by @justcourttee

Maribat Tropes by @fan-written [1 2…]

Mutuals by @anjuschiffer

My Hand Was Forced by @iloveitwhen

The Great Ikea Game by @batsandbugs [1 2 3 4 5…]

There’s Always Two Sides by @mochinek0 [1 2 3]

There’s Blood on His Mouth by @the-fusionist [1 2 3 4 5 6]

Timari

Cataclysm by @lizzieraineplots

Day and Night by @unmaskedagain

Gotham Nine-Nine by @a-marlene-s and @ladylucina28 [x y z x 1 2 3]

Lady Noir by @a-marlene-s [1 2 3]

Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting Masterpost by @black-streak

World Domination by @iloveitwhen

Keep reading

#maribat #fic recs #recs by op

randomflower-in-a-field

Superheroes vs. Catching people

So I know nothing about physics. But I do know it's not fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop because the force makes all your organs go crunch. Now, I've seen tons of superhero movies and comics that do the catching people wrong (the science behind this is common sense). That being said here is my list of superheroes who I think would be good or bad at catching people if the laws of physics did apply.

DISCLAIMER: I am not a huge superhero nerd, and I don't know much about superheroes, so this hypothesis is based on what I do know. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Superman: Bad at first. The first couple of times he would kill people and feel horrible about it. But he wouldn't understand what went wrong and has a Saving People Thing™ so it would take him a couple tries and some scathing articles to fix it.

Batman: Good if he wants to be. Now this one depends on which version of Batman we're talking about. In general, he would be good at catching people because he is also human and is smart enough to know how physics work. However, whether he would actually try to catch people would depend on the version and the situation.

Any of the Robins: Again, same as Batman, good if they want to be.

The Flash: Hands down the worst. It's not even just catching people. Flash may be immune to whiplash but normal humans aren't and he would kill anyone he moves fast. With his powerset there's not much he can do to work around this, but he's also smart so he might eventually figure out a way.

Green Arrow: Mostly good. Since he's human, I think he would be good at catching people in general because he would also be working within his own limits. But I feel like there would still be some accidents here and there until he gets into a good groove.

Spider-Man: Good at catching people...ish. Now this depends on the version, but for the most part, I would say he's good at catching people because he has to know a lot about physics to swing around on his webs like that. However, this excludes extenuating circumstances that aren't Spider-Man's fault.

Anyways, y'all can correct me if I'm wrong. Also, I know this is not an extensive list of superheroes, these are just all the ones my friends and I discussed (yes, I do know that we jumped from DC to Marvel for that last one, but I do not care).

constancetruggle

I'd like to add that Spidey catching people in is his webs would be good, because they're like a net. Solid and firm, but with give to cradle the body.

randomflower-in-a-field

You're cursed to speak in the slang you're exposed to the most.... but you read fanfiction A LOT

So, this idea has been bouncing around in my brain for a bit. Ever since my mom was like, "You need to think before you send a text when you're mad," to my dad, and I was tired so I didn't think before I said, "No beta we die like men." And my poor parents were so confused.

Anyways, imagine a witch (for some reason) curses you to speak in the slang you've been exposed to the most.... but you mostly read fanfiction and no one else in your family does.

Witch: Ha! You can now only speak in the slang you've been exposed to the most!

OP's Sibling: Ok, boomer.

OP: I wish you all the hurt no comfort.... *realizes they're speaking fanfiction slang*... You A+ parent.

OP's Parent: Dude, I'm hella confused.

OP: This is so not canon compliant.

randomflower-in-a-field

Other additions I have thought of:

"This better be a one-shot."

"No beta we die like my will to live."

"Out of all the AU's this is the one I'm stuck in."

OP: I signed up for fluff, not crack!

OP's parents: *concerned parent noises*

OP: *sigh* "I'm bad at tagging."

randomflower-in-a-field

Because my brain can't shut up here are creative ways to curse/threaten someone in fandom slang.

"I hope you choke on lemon and die in the slow burn fires of Wattpad."

"When I'm through with you, they will have to tag your body Dead Dove: Do Not Eat."

"You less than 1k WIP."

"There will be no ambiguous/open ending, just major character death and all the implied/referenced torture."

"I will go cannon-typical violence on your ass."

"Warning, graphic depictions of violence ahead."

madlori

On being an older fangirl

I was probably 10 years old when I first conceived of what was, looking back, fanfiction. Me and my best friend would lie in bed together on sleepovers and I'd make up stories about what happened after the end of our favorite book, "The Westing Game." She'd ask me for more stories, and I'd tell her more, inventing them as I went along. "Then what?" she'd say.

I was 14 when I went to my first convention. I had discovered Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was 1987, and my youth pastor was a huge Trekkie. He took me to a one-day crappy Creation con, but it was amazing to me. I met Nichelle Nichols. My dad showed me the Trek movies. He and I watched TNG together.

When I went to college in 1991, my dad used to videotape TNG episodes onto VHS tapes and mail them to me, so I could keep watching (I didn't have TV in my dorm room).

By the time I was a senior, we had Trek watching parties in the dorm lounge, where the TV had cable. Star Trek: Voyager had started up, and I wrote a column about it for the college newspaper. I joined a mailing list about it, with people in it that I still know today.

I got my first computer that could go online in 1995. I was on newsgroups. I discovered Doctor Who. I went to Trek conventions where we still passed around fanzines containing fic and art and smutty K/S fan creations.

Then it was Harry Potter. Then there were websites. Then there was Geocities, where we could all make our own little spots. We organized them into webrings. We talked on newsgroups and mailing lists. There were fanfic archives. Then there was fanfiction.net.

Then...there was LiveJournal. And we could interact in entirely new ways. We could form communities, and debate things, and fight over canon, and get into ship wars. On LiveJournal, I met my best friend of 22 years. I was in her wedding. She's my sister of the heart (which is what she calls me).

Then there was Tumblr. And Twitter. And now there's Discord. But it's all the same.

I am the same.

I am still that little girl who made up fanfiction in her head to entertain her best friend. I am still the one who was amazed to find communities on the internet - which was so new, so raw, so uncommodified - where others like me could meet. I found there people to meet in real life.

I am still that twentysomething going to her first major convention, being told that someone loved my fic, being asked about my writing process.

I am still that thirtysomething watching something I wrote blow up. Seeing friends from other fandoms find me in new ones, finding them there, too. Forgetting which fandom I know someone from, because I've known them for twenty years.

I still know some of the people who created those early websites, those mailing lists, those archives. I still meet people in new fandoms who say "Oh, I read your fic in [fandom] fifteen years ago!" There's no feeling quite like having someone remember something you wrote for that long. Or meeting someone whose fic meant a lot to YOU, or who you talked with on rec.arts.drwho.creative in 1997.

Aging in fandom is a gift. Being middle-aged in fandom is a joy. Having people who still read what I write and ask "Then what?" is a blessing.

It breaks my heart that so many people see it as something to be ashamed of, when it is one of my life's greatest gifts.

randomflower-in-a-field

Damien saying "I know a guy" but it's just Marinette in various costumes

I have this idea that won't leave me alone, so I thought I'd share it so that others may be cursed with thinking about it too.

(This can be read as either sibling or dating Daminette)

Damien is all grown up and joined the Justice League as a permanent hero. Everyone knows he was Robin, so they think there won't be any surprises. Until there's a big mission and they need to infiltrate somewhere and plant cameras for evidence (or something). However, this place is a fortress (like the best anti-hero security money can buy) and the only way in is through the vents which are too small for humans to fit through.

The Justice League meeting turns into one big loud argument. Until Damien says, "I know a guy."

Obviously, he's very dodgy about his contact, but he says they can be trusted. Since, he's Robin, they let it slide.

The Justice League is all waiting at the contact spot when Marinette pulls up. They're confused, Damien is light-tipped, and she's in her multimouse ensemble looking all cute.

Marinette pulls off the mission then dips and Damien is stubborn even when Batman questions him. (Could be either good parent or bad parent Bruce Wayne).

Eventually, they let it drop. Until another big mission happens and they need a specific skill set and Damien says, "I know a guy." Cue Marinette with a different miraculous.

This keeps happening.

The Justice League assumes all the girls are different people and they're very confused like, "Robin, where do you keep finding these girls?"

Cue lots of half thought-out shenanigans

#maribat #hilarious #damian wayne #marinette dupain cheng #i know a guy

saint-batrick

do y'all even know how much i hate being an "elder queer" at 40? a whole goddamn generation before me was wiped out by a plague that politicians deemed not their problem bc it was killing the "right" people. like. this was OPENLY STATED. i spent a large chunk of my childhood going to funerals. nevermind the fact that killing queer people for being queer wasn't codified into law as a hate crime until i was a junior in high school.

i should NOT be an elder queer, i should be middle at most. i am a middle aged queer. most of the elder queers died.

when i was growing up i didn't go to pride parades, i went to pride marches. because that's 100% what they were in the 80s and 90s.

from the absolute bottom of my heart, LEARN OUR FUCKING HISTORY. a generation was nearly wiped out so you young queers could be here. don't let that have been in vain, please.

saint-batrick

the fact that people have reblogged this and tagged it "q slur" makes me want to eat glass.

mybigfatgaylife

We’re not all gone. Some of us survived. Those funerals OP went to as a child? My friends and I were the ones arranging them.

I was always kind of grateful that the marches slowly became parades. That the protests slowly gave way to parties. It was progress, it was healing.

I was grateful for that because I never healed.

I’m still remembering how straight society turned their collective backs on us and let us die. I will never forgive or forget that. Maybe that’s a shortcoming on my part but it’s true. I’ve tried and I can’t. That scar runs too deep.

And now we’re back to the same shit again. Straight society is turning their backs on my trans brothers and sisters. Ignoring their pain. Trying to legislate them out of existence.

Even our so-called allies are saying shit like “well if we want to appeal to a broader base we can’t keep going on about the transgender thing.” Fuck you Gavin Newsom. In particular.

Make no mistake: they want us dead. Not just closeted, not just silent. Gone. Non-existent. And I say us because they’re just starting with the trans people. They’ll come after the rest of us if they succeed.

I am old and so, so tired.

But I’m alive. And I’m not going anywhere.

ladyshinga

For anyone who hasn't heard, the OP here, @saint-batrick, passed away about a year and a half ago. So yeah, please... love the queers that are still here, still alive. Love us while we're all still here, and learn why so many aren't.

juniorsailmakermattcruse

I need everyone to watch this immediately

#phineas and ferb

everybidenjusthavegoodtime

*releases pack of dads into home depot* go……be free

hotcommunist-deactivated2019032

invasive species encroach on lesbian territory

dreaming-shark

This is a common misconception because they’re such similar environments, but you should be aware that dads are native to Home Depot, while lesbians are actually native to Lowe’s. At this point, however, both dads and lesbians have made themselves at home in both Home Depot and Lowe’s to the point that trying to separate them back into their original ranges would probably do more harm than good to the delicate ecosystem of large chain hardware stores.

ailithnight

A properly raised and socialized Dad will be perfectly comfortable cohabiting with Lesbians. Its not really “encroaching on another’s territory”. You wouldn’t say that about foxes in a forest that also homes bobcats, would you? No. It’s just two different species that have both evolved to live in similar/the same environment. As long as they recognize each other as equals, Dads and Lesbians are more than capable of cohabitation.

Now, if you were to release a pack of Lumberjacks into a Lowes or Home Depot, that’s where chaos will reign. Being adapted to a far harsher and more demanding environment, the Lumberjacks would simply push Dads and Lesbians both out and also consume far more than a sustainable amount of resources. It would be like releasing bears at a country club.

chequerootlurks

As a former timber-harvester… I feel this is potentially accurate in theory. But highly improbable in actuality.

Lumberjacks, like most megafauna species generally require more space than the average hardware store, even a big box store could provide. The misconception is that Lumberjacks are a social species because of how they often work and live together.

This is a matter of necessity, not preference, and a survival technique for thriving under the LogBoss.

A “pack” of Lumberjacks, if not under the environmental pressure of a LogBoss will naturally disperse until they each have a wide territory.

Lumberjacks rarely fight for territory.

One on one, a Lumberjack could drive out a Dad or Lesbian, however the latter tend to travel in social packs.

Lumberjacks will passively retreat on the presence of large numbers of people. Kind of like Sasquatch.

Getting a “pack” of Lumberjacks assembled would be hard enough unless they were forced into a Hardware Store by a LogBoss. In that case, they would already be in a heightened and potentially agitated state far above their natural behavior. This artificial scenario can be likened to a circus animal running amok. If it had been in the wild, the incident would not have occurred.

Free-roaming Lumberjacks are the cryptids of the Hardware ecosystem. They are surprisingly quiet and unobtrusive.

Please stop labeling Lumberjacks as dangerous roving social predators. They are intermediate level omnivores and remarkably peaceful unless threatened.

thatdisasterauthor

As a hardware store worker I can say that this is all 100% accurate.

swindle94

now how in the FUCK am i supposed to leave tumblr when a god tier post like THIS is just is just waiting for me daily?!?!?!

fromchaostocosmos

question where does the “art student” or “DIYer” “crafter” or “soap maker” or “miniaturist“ etc. who has ventured into the store for supplies fall into the ecosystem/what is their impact of said ecosystem?

terulakimban

Most of the above are native to craft and hobby stores (art students, historically, are native to museums, but having been introduced to hobby stores, have found a niche for themselves and thrived), but all can be seen in hardware stores on occasion due to territorial overlap. They are generally low-impact, as they tend to stick to specific small areas and primarily utilize different resources. While a large group of any of them can be disruptive (art students, in particular, are known to travel in packs), in general, they are more likely to have territorial disputes with one another than with the local fauna.

A point of clarity -“crafter” is a bit misleading; while it conjures a specific image, much like ‘fish’ or ‘reptile’ it actually covers a broad array of wildly disparate species, and in general, more descriptive nomenclature is preferred. Fiber artists in particular are a genus to watch out for, particularly in groups. Beware a roving pack of domesticated quilters. They fear nothing, will go anywhere, and due to their social nature, will often seek interaction from other species that thrive best in solitude. They are quite friendly, and will happily adopt members of other species; the concern is that their adoptees do not always wish to be adopted.

midrashic

#in search of taxonomic precision and peaceful coexistence (via welkinalauda)

kriladoodles

I do wonder how lesbian/bisexual lumberjack-mimickry fits into this

marablake

I can say as a former craft store worker that if you wish to see true fear, look into the eyes of a Dad who must venture into a craft store. Despite the overlap of familiar beings known to him from his native hardware store habitat, Dads are instinctively aware that craft stores are not for them; they contain unfamiliar perils and even the seemingly familiar may have strange variances and unnerving secrets. (”Why is this airbrush so small? What do you mean nails, why would you… WUT!!”)

Only experienced silverbacks or the boldest young Dads dare venture into a craft store for long without his mate or offspring to keep roving Craft Ladies at bay and guide him in this strange ecosystem. If a Dad enters with his mate and is separated from her, he will often scuttle for the seeming familiarity of Woodcrafts, Models, or Paints (the latter not to be confused with Fine Arts, unquestioned territory of art students), but he eyes Scrapbooking and Jewelry with trepidation and will usually venture into those exotic areas only in the company of females of his pack.

Lumberjacks are rarely spotted entering craft stores of their own volition, for while they do not fear it as Dads do, they know it is an environment unsuited for megafauna such as themselves.

Hardware store Lesbians generally adapt more easily to craft stores, although they may enlist another Lesbian of a subspecies more adapted to that environment to guide them until they find their niche. Lesbians have even been known to seek the aid of a Craft Lady, a native fauna that share similarities with Lesbians but are usually smaller and nimbler to suit their chosen habitat. Dads who witness this are often awed by the Lesbians’ temerity, for although larger, Dads are generally wary of the cunning and dexterous Craft Ladies and may mistake their enthusiastic pack greetings as predatory swarming.

Craft Ladies, secure in their ecological niche, have no fear of interlopers and take the presence of non-native beings in stride, although they may become territorial about scarcer resources.

The only truly invasive species that threaten craft stores are Brides-to-Be, who are mere annoyances individually, but like locusts may descend in hordes and lay waste, leaving swathes of destruction in their wake. Fortunately for the Craft Ladies, Brides-to-Be are seasonal and usually only a threat in the spring and early summer.

link-the-feral-anon

It Got Better

fireflyfish

Is anybody going to address the newly invasive species of BuJo enthusiasts into the craft store/art supply store environment? Why aren’t we talking about the dangerous proliferation of Leuchtturm 1917s and the growing threat of Dotted Moleskins? I had to liberate a Dad from a tangle of washi tape in the art supply store the other day and it wasn’t pretty.

rpendleton

The natural habitat of journalers was stationary stores, which have been replaced by office supplies stores, not the same. Journalers invade the craft stores and art supplies stores to get the markers and washi tape and Sakura pens they require for survival.

greatatuintheworldturtle

@great-art-and-a-purple-tongue @onbearfeet THE LORE HAS BEEN UPDATED.

onbearfeet

VERY IMPORTANT AND ENTIRELY ACCURATE now excuse me I gotta hit Lowes and Michaels.

gothiccharmschool

Another thing to note is all of those habitats must adapt to the seasonal migration of goths. As soon as the faintest hint of spooky can be detected at those stores, goths will arrive in packs. A small pack of goths determined to forage can strip the shelves of a seasonal section bare in 30 minutes.

#as a fiber artist #i concur

epicb00knerd

saw someone post this lmaooo

#S I M P Squirrels in my pants!

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