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[crowbrained]

Heya!

Name:

Marty!!

Interests, Games:

The Legend of Zelda, FNaF, Minecraft, Doki Doki Literature Club, Disco Elysium, Needy Streamer Overload, etc.!!

Interests, Books:

The Hunger Games, Fahrenheit 451, And Then There Were None, The Dark Gravity Sequence, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, etc.!!

Interests, Miscellaneous:

Knitting, Painting (oil, acrylic), Drawing, Writing, etc.!!

Other Accounts:

Tumblr: Crowbrained (hi!).

AO3: Pigeon_Apologist

Dni:

If you don’t want to lol.

Thank you for visiting!!

(Dividers by dollywons here on Tumblr).

BTW if this blog stops updating forever it’s cause i cannot get back in. i forgot the password and tumblr’s acting like i signed up with a pencil and a dream instead of an email. <3

[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).

[pansexual-pied-piper]

"Queer space" as in "this space is created with the needs of queer people in mind and you should expect to encounter queerness here", not "you have to be queer enough to be allowed in"

"Queer space" as in "this space centers queerness", not "queers only"

[plague-vulture]

can the main short filmers in V/H/S movies stop being super fucking horny? for like 15 seconds??

[beastliness]

I don't know whether any of you guys have looked outside lately but it's leaves as hell out there

[elodieunderglass]

AND the moon

[karcatgirl-vantas]

the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

[skluug]

this is what ancient greek philosophy is like

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

False! “Sightly” is a positive word, so the default way for things to work is good as well.

The true most ordinary object is beautiful, horrible sounding, very smelly, intangible, and delicious.

I still don’t think it matches anything in existence but to truly understand a thing one must know its true nature.

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

"touchy" is also a word! however it's mostly used for things that aren't objects, like subjects of conversation. it either means "oversensitive and irritable" or "requires careful handling/wording, delicate"

i think the second one works well for our hypothetical object. so we can use that.

therefore, the Default Object is:

beautiful

makes a horrendous sound

smells absolutely awful

is very fragile

tastes delicious

and i still cannot think of anything that matches this

[and-a-pidgey-in-a-wepear-tree]

behold, the default object!

[ospreyonthemoon]

DEFAULT OBJECT FOUND

[herssian]

"there is no way you're not using chatgpt for at least a few things here and there no matter your stance on it" what the FUCK are you talking about

[allykatsart]

[tacticianofylisse]

so im trying to decipher this chart on wikipedia that has common vampire weaknesses in it and

a ‘green/yes’ is a weakness, a ‘red/no’ is something that isnt a weakness, and a ‘?’ is something that has never been addressed but fucking riddle me this

in what lore are vampires weak to getting soggy in milk

[tacticianofylisse]

i scrolled over to check to see what this could possibly be and

places a hand on me cheek

[glitter6ug-deactivated20190325]

happy halloween month time for my favourite post of all time

[homunculus-argument]

Okay I admit I still have no idea what that show is, but today was the first time I actually saw the clip where that "I can excuse racism but I draw the line at animal cruelty"-meme came from. And apparently the gag was that the people at the desk were in a conversation with The Most Racist Man Alive, who had moments ago been racist at the blonde white woman by remarking in utter disgust that swedes have been mixing with sámi so much that they're practically finns (which is worse).

And as a finn I have to say that that line was ...bizarrely well researched? Like for a show presumably made for an american audience, they could've just flat-out made something up, but they managed to strike smack dab in the middle of the kind of Infinitely Nuanced Shrimp Colours Racism Beyond American Comprehension that a sufficiently racist and xenophobic Most Racist White Man Alive could come up with.

Like specifically knowing there are (relatively light-skinned) indigenous people in the Nordics just to be racist at them.

[nwfairy]

The funniest part is that… Chevy Chase is just like that tm. That’s why Dan Harmon both hated his guts and hired him for the show. The first seasons of Community were fucking brilliant satire it drives me crazy

[homunculus-argument]

Wait so did I get this right, they actually hired a guy who is unironically a turboracist clown, to play a character who is a turboracist clown, specifically to make fun of turboracist clowns, and the fucking clown accepted the role??

[homunculus-argument]

Wait nvm I see where I got it mixed up. That's not the guy playing the guy.

[eightfifteen]

Crazy how many people want characters in fiction to speak and act like they’ve had 20 hours of intensive therapy. Could NOT be me I want these bitches fucked up insane

[plutojester]

[doingthewritethings]

my friend briar and i lovingly call this one ‘therapy speak joker’ and it almost caused her to drop biological samples one time

[dizzyghoast]

i think the joker should start talking like this for real. no other character should do this only the joker. i want batman to have to deal with this

[teaboot]

Would you be comfortable with me sharing the story of how I got these scars

[janmisali]

unlisted the entire conlang critic series. hopefully now people will have to at least notice that the playlist describes it as "on indefinite hiatus" so they'll stop asking me when the next one is coming

[ask-azula-voiree]

it's actually "definitely on hiatus". hope this doesn't help

[janmisali]

what is this meant to be correcting

[scp-threats-is-back]

Happy asphalt monday

[scp-threats-is-back]

Asphalt Monday is a weekly holiday in my calendar..i have forgotten what it is for. Please help

[scp-threats-is-back]

Happy asphalt Monday

[lamp-idiot]

Happy asphalt Monday

[scp-threats-is-back]

Happy ass fault monday

[scp-threats-is-back]

Happy ass fault monday

[jerrythegenius]

Happy arse fault Monday!

[crowyaoi]

happy ass crack monday

[briarpatch-kids]

My answer to the "what is the point?" (Of living disabled) Question that ableds always seem to ask is "man, are you so disconnected from life that all you have going for you is an able body? You don't have people you'd miss and who would miss you, you don't ever see a nice sunset and feel a breeze and go 'that's really Nice?' Have you never tasted a really good cup of tea? What's the point of My Life? What's the point of YOURS?"

[wingscanspeak]

I am going to eat this entire candy cane.

[nightowlsupreme]

You’re going to get a cavity

[wingscanspeak]

good

[wingscanspeak]

30 min later, not much progress. 

[wingscanspeak]

Its been an hour. I bit my tongue, my teeth hurts and I’m almost halfway done…

[casualfanboy]

One hour and half done. That’s impressive That takes real skill and perseverance

[wingscanspeak]

an hour and a half. my grandma called and I didnt take it so i could eat this… i hate everything

[wingscanspeak]

i’d rather be eating anything but this

[wingscanspeak]

two and a half hours…. my mouth will never taste normal again

[wingscanspeak]

3 fucking hours

I’ve tasted Satans asshole and it tastes like 3 hours of mint. 

[wingscanspeak]

Please. Please don’t bring this back.

[butchercat]

‘Tis the season.

[clausy4life-deactivated20190624]

It’s November

[killjoygem]

TO BE JOLLY

[taiscerayne2426]

I’ve tasted Satan’s asshole and it tasted like 3 hours of mint

[wingscanspeak]

Y’all can’t forget this for like one year can you

[imsomeguy1]

fuck no

[sleepinginmygrave]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[willisiam-woodiam]

@theshitpostcalligrapher can you do satan’s asshole tasting like mint pls

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

oh my god this is one of the ANCIENT texts, i remember first seeing post like ten years ago

ink: diamine firestorm

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

hello fellow non-Black tumblr users. welcome to my saw trap. if you'd like to leave, please name one (1) Black woman author who is not Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Octavia Butler, or N.K. Jemisin. bonus points if she's published a book in the last five years.

[evegoldenwoods]

For my own future reference, and for anyone else who wants it, a list of authors mentioned in the notes. (I cannot promise this is comprehensive, there are a lot of reblogs and I might have missed some.) I've included a link for each author, where possible I've tried to find one that leads you to their books, prioritising own websites/publishers, falling back on wikipedia otherwise.

If you find any mistakes in the links let me know and I'll edit. This post will be in two parts, because I literally broke tumblr with how many authors there were. I think it's about a hundred and fifty.

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé - speculative fiction

Marguerite Abouet - graphic novels

Elizabeth Acevedo - fiction, poetry

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - fiction

Tomi Adeyemi - young adult fantasy

K Ancrum - speculative contemporary young adult

Lily Anderson - fiction

Ashley Antoinette - fiction

Ama Ata Aidoo - poetry, fiction, plays

Kemi Ashing Giwa - speculative fiction

Kalynn Bayron - young adult, fantasy

Malorie Blackman - childrens' books, young adult

Natasha Bowen - fantasy

Gwendolyn Brooks - poetry

Natasha Brown - fiction

NoViolet Bulawayo - fiction

Constance Burris - speculative fiction

CL Clark - fantasy, speculative fiction

Wahida Clark - urban fiction

Lucille Clifton - poetry, fiction

Alyssa Cole - romance, thrillers, graphic novels

Kamilah Cole - fiction

Claire Coleman - fiction, essays, poetry

Maryse Condé - fiction, non-fiction, plays

Emma Dabiri - non-fiction

Edwidge Danticat - fiction

Angela Davis - philosophy

Carolina Maria De Jesus - memoir

Hayley Dennings - fiction

Tracy Deonn - fiction

Nicky Drayden - speculative fiction

Tananarive Due - horror, comics

Camille Dungy - memoir, poetry

Esi Edugyan - fiction

Zetta Elliot - childrens' books, teen fiction, adult fiction

Bernardine Evaristo - fiction

Conceição Evaristo - fiction, non-fiction

Eve Ewing - poetry, fiction, non-fiction, comics

Radna Fabias - poetry

Namina Forna - young adult fantasy

Latoya Ruby Frazier - non-fiction

Stella Gaitano - fiction

Camryn Garrett - fiction, middle grade

Roxane Gay - fiction, non-fiction, comics

Nicole Glover - fantasy, speculative fiction

Nikki Giovanni - poetry, essays

Jewelle Gomez - fiction, plays

Annette Gordon-Reed - non-fiction (history)

Pumla Dineo Gqola - non-fiction

Deanna Grey - romance

Yaa Gyasi - fiction

Andrea Hairston - fiction

Lorraine Hansberry - plays

Saidiya Hartman - non-fiction, theory

Alexis Henderson - dark speculative fiction

Adriana Herrera - romance

Talia Hibbert - romance

bell hooks - fiction, non-fiction, poetry

Pauline Hopkins - fiction, non-fiction, plays

Nalo Hopkinson - speculative fiction

Jordan Ifueko - comics, fantasy, young adult

Samantha Irby - non-fiction

Justina Ireland - science fiction, fantasy, comics

Meka James - contemporary and erotic romance

Tiffany D Jackson - young adult

Beverly Jenkins - romance

Alaya Dawn Johnson - speculative fiction

Micaiah Johnson - science fiction

Mariame Kaba - non-fiction

Petals Kalulé - fiction, poetry [Petals is noted as using she/they, I'm not 100% sure of their gender identity and past a certain point it feels weird to investigate too much]

Mikki Kendall - fiction, non-fiction

Jamaica Kincaid - fiction, non-fiction

Zaire Krieger - poetry

Nella Larsen - fiction

Karmen Lee - romance

Kirsten R. Lee - young adult

Margot Lee Shetterly - non-fiction

Audre Lourde - poetry, non-fiction

[evegoldenwoods]

And here's part two:

Terry Macmillen - fiction

Robin Maynard - non-fiction

Amber Mcbride - poetry, young adult

Janet Mock - non-fiction, screenwriting

Brittney Moris - comics, young adult, fantasy

Bethany C Morrow - fiction, science fiction, young adult

Leila Mottley - fiction, poetry

Beatriz Nascimento - non-fiction

Leticia Nascimento - I think non-fiction primarily

Gloria Naylor - fiction

Zora Neale Hurston - fiction, non-fiction

Grace Nichols - poetry

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu - fiction

Trifonia Melibea Obono - fiction

Shirlene Obuobi - comics, fiction

Nnendi Okorafor - science fiction

Melatu Uche Okorie - fiction

Chinelo Okparanta - fiction

Helen Oyeyemi - fiction

Nell Painter - non-fiction

Morgan Parker - poetry, non-fiction

Nikki Payne - romance

Koleka Putuma - plays, poetry

Claudia Rankine - poetry, plays, non-fiction

Sarah Raughley - young adult

Dia Reeves - fantasy, horror, science fiction

Kiley Reid - fiction

Stacy Reid - romance

Djamila Ribero - philosophy

Legacy Russell - fiction, non-fiction, poetry

Layla F. Saad - non-fiction

Sofia Samatar - fiction, non-fiction

Liselle Sambury - fantasy

Analeigh Sbrana - romance, fantasy

Namwali Serpell - fiction

Ntozake Shange - plays, poetry

Christina Sharpe - non-fiction

Nisi Shawl - fiction, alternate history

Jamison Shea - dark fantasy/horror

Patricia Smith - poet

Tracy K Smith - poet

Zadie Smith - fiction

Sister Souljah - fiction

Kiki Swinson - fiction

Mildred D Taylor - young adult/children's lit

Katerina Teaiwa - non-fiction

Teresia Teaiwa - poetry

Angie Thomas - young adult, middle grade

Leah Thomas - non-fiction

Spike Trotman - comics

Tloto Tsamaase - science fiction

Nikki Turner - urban fiction

Maxine Tynes - poetry

Ngozi Ukazu - comics

Shola von Reinhold - fiction

Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ - fiction

Jasmine Walls - graphic novels

Alice Walker - fiction, non-fiction, poetry

Jesmyn Ward - fiction

Monica West - fiction

Phyllis Wheatley-Peters - poetry

Rita Williams-Garcia - young adult, middle grade

Stephanie Williams - comics, non-fiction

Tia Williams - fiction, romance

Raquel Willis - non-fiction

Jamila Woods - poetry

Jacqueline Woodson - childrens' books, young adult, fiction, poetry

Alexis Wright - fiction, non-fiction

Zane - erotic fiction

Fiona Zedde - fiction

[bespectacledbunnys]

Attica Locke - Mystery/Thriller Fiction

Oyinkan Braithwaite - Fiction

Isabel Wilkerson - Non-fiction

[moonshinemagpie]

I really appreciate folks who are contributing to and making these lists! the lists also make me feel anxious because they're reductive and I'm like ahhhh there's so much more to say.

I get it. We're trying to bust out of the saw trap. But also I wanna talk about specific writers and their specific works for just a sec:

The book Well-Read Black Girl is a super fun non-academic introduction to Black women's fiction. It's a collection of essays by Black women writers on Black women writers:

The anthology's editor (/book club founder) Glory Edim also came out with her own memoir last year on the books that changed her life:

And then, regarding, 'Nell Irvin - nonfiction':

Nell Irvin Painter is, like, the historian on race in America. Have you ever heard or said "race is a social construct"? Well, Nell Irvin Painter helped put that thought in your head, and she helped prove it. She was a historian, professor, and the director of Princeton's Program in African-American Studies from the 90s until retiring in 2005.

One of her most groundbreaking works came out five years after she retired from academia, The History of White People:

And then eight years after that, she wrote a memoir about retiring from being one of America's foremost historians and a renown professor to, uh, go to art school...in her 60s:

Old in Art School. She makes art that protests and exposes the censorship strategies of the far right.

Like, look at her crazy-ass CV*, and note the years of her degrees:

*She has 2 CVs on her website, a "historian" and an "artist" one, because again, crazy-ass life, and on her artist's one she just casually leaves off her first master's degree.

It sort of made me laugh when 6 years after Old in Art School, in 2024, she published a book of essays called I Just Keep Talking:

I have much more I want to add, but I'll stop here.

[shopkeeper]

i went to grain of sand island and there was alot of them

[kurgy]

wheres seasons greasons

[kurgy]

[kurgy]

its that time of year again

[theangriestlittleunicorn]

It doesn’t have to be

[kurgy]

its not optional