[anka-dm]

My illustrations the most based poem about tigers by Nael, age 6

Every time I read it I feel space inside my chest expand in very *emotion* way.

[logically-devonian-blog]

How the Geneva Drive (the mechanical step that makes the second hand on a clock work by turning constant rotation into intermittent motion) works.

[thelynnfiles]

Oh snap!

[cutlerish]

As an engineer, this makes me happy.

[thefurrynerd]

If only one loop of this gif were equal to one second…

[endoshan]

easy peasy

[aibohphobia]

watching this while listening to a clock ticking is the best decision i have ever made

[puppybeargf]

[sonbr]

You may like this amazing web page then: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ It’s a full break down of how a mechanical watch works, every single part including a complication. Every diagram is interactive and beautifully put together. It’s a fantastic read, fun to play with and really informative.

[eightyonekilograms]

Seconding this recommendation, and in fact this person’s entire blog: he has multiple of these explainers and they’re all good.

In particular, if you’re a programmer who finds floating point numbers to be exotic dark magic, I strongly recommend his Exposing Floating Point post. There are many guides/tutorials on floating point arithmetic out there but IMO this is the best one and makes them really not seem so difficult by the end of it (or at least, all their counterintuitive behavior now makes sense).

[yooooowhf]

Wang Pangzi after looking at Zhang Qiling with Wuxie, and Zhang Hailou and Zhang Haixia with each other

Pangzi: Does favouritism run in the Zhang bloodline?

Hei Ziaxi: Definitely

[prokopetz]

There's a weird liminal space in James Bond pastiches between "full on Cold War paranoia" and "guy who lives in a volcano building planet-busting superweapons for the pure love of the game" where the superweapon guy is working for a nefarious foreign power, but, like, apparently they didn't know about the superweapon? I want to see what that guy's funding application looked like. Just once. What did they think he was building?

[dangermousie]

The closest ML got to love as a child was his adoptive mother who abused and blamed him but also put medicine on his wounds when his adoptive father beat him unconscious and would occasionally hug him.

No wonder he gloms onto Ren Susu. This is exactly what he thinks love is! Ongoing mistreatment with occasional tenderness or trying to mitigate others’ abuse sometimes.

Good freaking lord. That man has a squirrel’s chance in hell for any normal romantic relationship.

He sticks by her so hard because this is his normal! He has no functioning boundaries or understanding of healthy relationships or what a functional person should want and accept. It’s not proof of the enormity of his feeling, it’s proof of the enormity of his damage.

(And not even getting how for her, thrown away by the world and treated as disposable toy and trash, someone who even now is living someone else’s life, the fact that someone is obsessed with the real her and is incapable of letting go and treats her as paramount, and someone important and with options at that is better than drugs. She keeps provoking him into jealousy to get another affirmation, she keeps telling him to keep away desperately needing that reassurance she knows she will get that he won’t.)

[dragongirlbunny]

there is nothing a corporation hates more than having employees, but a close second is having to provide a good or service in order to make money. these two reasons concisely explain is why the ai bubble formed in the first place.

[fatfaefemme]

DIMENSION 20: ON A BUS ▶ GAME CHANGER: FOOL'S GOLD (S7E8, 2025)

[navpike]

professional rage baiter katie marovitch really rocked up with a production budget, insulted EVERYONE’s whole shit, blew up brennan’s entire spot, ‘vajazzled’ the box of doom and filled it with cheetos while matt mercer DESPERATELY tried to make a plot and i have loved every second of it.

[renewedmotionforjudgment]

Yes let me inhale your toxic fumes!!

But yes like @dangermousie — she loves provoking him to get that unhinged jealousy from him. Seriously, those two should just consider hate fucking. Da’ge won’t care.

What’s wrong with the two of you and I mean it in the most affectionate way.

[dangermousie]

Da’ge would dance a 1930s warlord version of a jig if he found out he could marry his younger brother to the heiress instead and be free to pursue the lady pilot.

Go for it, you crazy kids!

PS the fact that he’s unhinged murder jealous over her is her sexual orientation. Which honestly kinda makes sense with her particular background and issues.

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

The fair play of it all! She did this to him earlier!

but Qingyu's reputation must never be tainted by murder.

Yes SISTER-IN-LAW, this isn't about us it's about MY BROTHER

[dangermousie]

At this rate they will be banging going “I am doing it for my brother/your brother” oh my god you amazing people!

[dangermousie]

I ship this so hard.

They are not insane like the mains which probably helps.

[hheartsdramas]

this man. this poor tragic stupid idiot. why do i get attached to characters like him.

In this ruthless world, there would be no waiting for her to slowly grow and face the storm. The crisis was everywhere. He could only use extreme measures to force her growth. He wouldn’t let her remain like a floating reed. He would help her find her roots, so he could finally let her go.

She was nothing more than a passerby in his long life. They traveled together for a while, and that was all. The fleeting emotions between them would quickly dissipate with the passage of time. He had become accustomed to being the villain, so he didn’t need her gratitude. In fact, hatred and fear would be preferable.

Such a farewell was the right one.

He had always regarded himself as a dead man, a shell of a body. Only by seeing himself this way could he continue to live. The human emotions of love, hate, and desire were inverted within him—he had to hate those he loved and love those he hated in order to move forward, step by step. Everyone wants the love of family, friends, and lovers, but he deliberately pushed all of these things away.

The slightest greed or attachment would destroy everything.

This was the last time he thought of her. He hoped that her future would be bright, and that one day she would live the life she had long dreamed of.

And then, forever, never to encounter him again.

[laur-rants]

Whale Fall

I still love drawing 'covers' for my fic sometimes, especially (particularly) for my Dishonored werewolf au, so this is the one I drew for my newest one shot piece, Whale Fall. Feel free to give it a read here. Thanks for all the love guys. I missed being in fandom with you. <3

[aromanticduck]

Free service with ads: Well, if I'm not paying for it they have to foot the bill somehow.

Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.

Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.

"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you

[winter103x]

seeing sambucky being described as a situationship always makes me giggle 😭

[noah-wyles]

all i want for 2026 is that gigantic rancid AI bubble to finally burst in such a catastrophic way that the consequences will be so good and i'll never have to see another AI generated image ever again

[fluoritegalaxy]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[lightningstrikes-art]