[cordezshenanigans]

[narcissistcookbook]

it's "christian propaganda accidentally going hard as hell" month

[pancakeke]

vaseline is op for fucked up skin but its texture stat is dogshit

[pancakeke]

[pancakeke]

we aint putting that on the chart, chief

[mangonetics]

yes the fuck you are if you have any respect for its inventor

[pancakeke]

OKAY FINE JESUS

[pancakeke]

tags like this remind me that this is the only social media site where I'll ever truly belong

[ymawgat]

your car: *bounces back and forth, defeated, its hood swinging by a mere thread*

my car: *triumphantly leaps six feet in the air, spraying hubcaps in victorious fervor*

[mousenemy]

What?

[chromatic-king]

[kickair8p]

So I saw a photo of this hexagon tile floor . . .

The blurb said the shot was taken in Granada, Spain, by Agneta Fondén.  No other info, so I have no idea how old, etc.  There's a game (from 1988) that uses a similar pattern on one of its pieces, but this could predate it by at least a thousand years  — or not.  But the pattern intrigued me, so I made a texture map and used Blender's geometry nodes (no generative AI) to set up a hexagon grid with random rotations for the tiles:

That's all done with a single design:

You'd think this would have a name, right?  (For its historical use as an architectural / decor tile — although I've found out more about its use in games, that's not what I'm looking for.)  Like the Penroses do (and no, it's not one of those).  But I've had no luck finding it, or any other info.  Any (human only, please) help?

Crossposted to Pillowfort and Dreamwidth.

[corvidaedream]

the weirdest thing about my wizard tattoo is that unlike the other tattoo i have, it's really reactive to my lupus

like the first signs of a flare up from stress/over exertion used to be red face + fever + rash on my hands

but the lines of my tattoo will become raised and then a little itchy before it progresses to that point

and im discovering that, yeah, if i just listen to the wizard and rest/recuperate/stop pushing myself when it starts acting weird, i can sometimes avoid triggering the other symptoms

early warning system wizard who lives on my shoulder reminding me to take care of myself

[otakujp014]

(Xユーザーの十五夜【バツ泣き改 単行本発売！】さん: 「日本が世界に誇る最強の刃物と言えば https://t.co/VJwM4ofBxJ」 / Xから)

[bambamramfan]

[star-shapedfruit]

OH HI LUXORD???

[etcstims]

little snakes sips | source

[byrdiboo]

@otiksimr hydrate

[dreg-heap]

I never really considered that a rabbit would care for a scarab one way or the other. Didn't think a rabbit could formulate an opinion on the scarab at all

[dreg-heap]

She looks way more aware of the scarab than I thought she could be tbqh

[doveywovy]

no matter how hard i try, nothing i write will ever be as fucked up as the stuff somebody who thinks they're creating a Wholesome AU with unexamined beliefs will make.

[jerboaoa]

couldn't leave this in the tags

[jame7t]

Coolest thing about lord of the rings? The king of horses shows up. It appears he is no different from all other horses

[cryptotheism]

King of the eagles shows up later. He can talk. Horse king couldn't talk.

[betterbemeta]

He didn't want to talk to you.

[swaglexander-the-great]

[findingfeather]

Uh.

Point of order.

King of Horses ran 450 fucking miles at almost entirely a gallop, without more than a few minutes rest, in 4 nights and basically was like "wait why are we stopping?" when Gandalf took him into the city and he ended up in a stable.

This was not his top speed, nor did it push any limits on his endurance.

King of horses is very different from other horses, actually.

[elodieunderglass]

He just doesn’t do much about his administrative duties

[darkwizardtheorist]

But he didn't need to - his rule was stable, after all.

[singerin]

[thepopejohnpaulii]

me tryna finish my wips

[funnier-as-a-system]

[Image description: an edit of All Might from My Hero Academia. He is saying, "can you lock the fuck in". / end description]

[occudo]

They wear suits, but they don't even know basic etiquette.

Based on @cowardsexual 's post of a very sleepy phm science team and Grace's teacher instincts

[quasi-normalcy]

I'm sorry, I don't believe that anyone who has read regularly since childhood would still count Harry Potter as the best book they've ever read.

[quasi-normalcy]

It's funny when you look at old articles from the early 2000s amongst literary types, saying, "Yeah, okay, it's pretty derivative, but at least it's getting kids reading, right?" And then they just never read anything else and now they're grown adults writing articles in The Telegraph claiming that JK Rowling is the greatest female author of all time.

[quasi-normalcy]

This entire 20-year-old thread on an old SFF forum is fascinating reading, but this comment is downright prophetic:

What exactly is Rowling doing to "subvert the genre"? While her stories are engaging, they're second-rate writing. It's all so simplistic. Sure, she knows how to throw a shocker in there, but it's not exactly a plot twist, especially since everyone guessed her major decision with this last book [Note: The author is alluding to killing off Dumbledore in Half-Blood Prince] well before release. She's still using all of the classic fantasy devices too! Come on, subvert the genre? It sounds to me like she never even READ the genre. Otherwise she'd know she was a good bit behind the greats of fantasy. Especially if her description of fantasy as mentioned in that article is what she really thinks it is. Pratchett is about 1000x more entertaining than Rowling anyway. I've got news for her, instead of subverting the genre, she's only created a place in it for herself instead. Fantasy will go on being what it's being long after Harry Potter and JK Rowling. No one is going to look at HP and say, "Wow, what a revolutionary fantasy series that changed the genre forever!" They'll say, "Wow, look at this series that got kids to read! Isn't that nice?" And even with that, most studies that looked at readers of Harry Potter found that Harry Potter was ALL they were reading. [Note: emphasis mine] It's not exactly encouraging as many new young readers as everyone seems to think. Besides, good fantasy explores the human condition first and foremost, using fantastical means. How does HP do that? By saying his mother loved him, and died for him? By showing Harry's sense of loss regarding his parents, godfather, and now Dumbledore? By writing a cheesy teenage love story into this last novel? Yawn Sorry, but that's nothing spectacular.

[natalieironside]

Mad At You Island is where the events of William Shakespeare's The Tempest take place