small and difficult

Mxchief (They/Them), AoNZ

[clinical-space-podcast]

Reblog if your art project has not, does not, and never will make use of generative ai at any point in your creative process.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Most important rule in science fiction is that if people go into cryosleep, somebody has to wake up in fucked up circumstances. If they're not gonna wake up super confused in a really fucked up situation then what's the point of the cryosleep.

[antfucker98-deactivated20140125]

[aphyllum-deactivated20221117]

why is his avatar a cracker

[nikoiya]

His username is antfucker98 and you’re gonna ask why his avatar is a cracker

[antfucker98-deactivated20140125]

im a girl

[catgirlslimies]

Thank God all these people are dead

[antfucker98]

i’m still alive. i still talk to diggledagger regularly too he’s a friend of mine

[catgirlslimies]

Well now I feel guilty. Sorry

[antfucker98]

it’s ok. you could still feel happy at the thought of me not being alive if you want

[tastylemonbread]

robot who wants to feel around human guts and do surgeries the same way humans fantasize about pulling on wires or whatever

[tastylemonbread]

okay i designed one

[tastylemonbread]

[tastylemonbread]

not very sneaky

[tastylemonbread]

yuo all are being so nice to it

[androfembot]

note to self: do NOT double the chocolate chip cookie recipe. the mixer can’t handle it. I can’t handle it. my knees hurt. I’ve been rotating cookie sheets since I was born and I will be rotating cookie sheets until I die

[androfembot]

help

[alder-knight]

[theanishimori]

The perfect reaction gif does not exi—

[villiedoom]

The more or less finished model of the Mr. Long Alien Wolf ~

What a weird creature it is! I think this is one of my favorite models I've made so far. (WIPs I shared some time ago)

These guys don't have detailed story or lore (yet?), though I shared a bit about them under one of my illustrations. With this model, I tried to shape their realistic appearance, following my idea of a very thin (it's the old idea of my world that almost all its creatures are weirdly long and thin) and alien canine-like creature, which isn't actually canine.

It's also fun to compare them to Solfshein, likely related arctic species which is much heavier and fuffier.

[teaboot]

YOU FUCKING RENDERED THIS???????!?!!!!!!?

[sjorvii]

SCROLL BACK UP THIS WAS MADE IN BLENDER

[typewriter-worries]

there’s this extremely kind soul of a woman on instagram that makes accessible recipes that don’t require standing, chopping, or a stove and she might just have a permanent place in my heart

[peridotglimmer]

She's on YouTube too! For non-Instagram using friends:

I love her, she's great. Her recipes are friendly for both physical and/or intellectual disabilities. And her 5-year-old helps her cook. 🥰

Link to her YouTube channel:

Epicurious Expeditions

Celebrating the intersection of food and culture, travel tales, social commentary, grieving out loud. 🇳🇬/🇺🇸 👰🏽🧒🏽👧🏽👩🏽‍💼⚖️ Paid Collaboration

[copperbadge]

The sandwich gender spectrum post has escaped containment again and reading the responses at this point is almost as fascinating as the original field work that provided the data. It's very hard for some people to grasp, even on Tumblr, that sandwiches have no inherent gender.

Liking a specific sandwich does not gender you in any meaningful way. Loudly rejecting a sandwich because it would portray you as too effeminate or masculine, or demanding a sandwich as a way of asserting your gender identity -- that is the what I'm discussing, not the sandwich itself. A man eating a veggie wrap doesn't impact my data because that's actually very normal; men performatively rejecting a veggie wrap as too feminine is what the post is about.

Don't get dysphoria because you like a sandwich that the patriarchy has assigned to another gender, my beloved trans readers. That's the tox-cis-ity talking.

[copperbadge]

You know, that's fair.

[butchfagminotaur]

sometimes i see people say “indigenous people” as if it’s a big homogeneous group with one core belief set like “oh well indigenous people believed that…” what all of them? all of the unbelievably large amount of different indigenous peoples from around the entire planet who all have wildly different histories and beliefs and stories? all of them? damn that’s crazy

[butchfagminotaur]

literally

[e-wifey-deactivated20201128]

people understand that Spanish speakers speak different dialects of the Spanish language but don’t understand that black people speak a dialect of the English language

[yellowjuice-deactivated20190512]

saw a variation of this conversation on twitter earlier

[brainstatic]

I just want to state for the record that this is completely uncontroversial among linguists. It’s the first day of sociolinguistics class.

[assdevourer]

gamerbros be like “im not a transphobe but if you acknowledge that trans people exist in your game i will absolutely refuse to play it or stop immediately if i am currently playing it”

[rottingandlovingit]

Is the post about that one boomer game reviewer who was seething over a game’s dlc having a scene with 2 10 pixel sized pride flags?

[rottingandlovingit]

This one

[crisedoctobre]

You left out the best part

[draconym]

Me: Fuck, the paper towels I want are on the top shelf.

The Sir David Attenborough That Lives In My Brain: Being smaller-than-average presents an added challenge to foraging ... but necessity is the mother of invention. A little creativity turns a baguette into a tool, and voilà--

(paper towel roll falls on my face)

Sir David Attenborough, pleasantly: Success.

[draconym]

Me, 3am: But am I even deserving of love

The Steve Irwin That Lives In My Brain: Crikey, get a look at this art teacher! These are so important to the local area, right, because they create habitat for heaps of vulnerable critters like juvenile nerds, goths, and furries. I love finding these because they often have these great ornamentations that they can use to identify one another. Take a look at the piercings and tattoos, here. Absolutely gorgeous! Let's let this one get back to sleep.

[godspeedyoublackemperor]

[prokopetz]

More favourite numerical memes:

Implicit or implicit enumeration of uncountable things (example: taking inventory of the fucks which one gives)

Suggesting the divisibility of things which are not customarily thought of as able to be subdivided (example: "six whole people")

Using words that aren't numbers as numbers (example: "one William dollars")

Technically correct but contextually misleading estimates (example: looking at a group of several thousand things and observing that there are "at least three")

Incongruous qualifiers for apparently simple sums or tallies (example: she was twenty-seven years old, not counting 2014)

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

I love all of these, plus I would like to propose two additional, both things that I do on the regular:

6. Comparing a stated number to a somewhat larger number in a context where this adds no information. (example: "I found 50 dollars!" "Wow, that's almost 60 dollars!")

7. Improper use and conversion of units. "I'm turning 21 tomorrow!" "Wow, that's 69.8 in Fahrenheit!"

[tentacleteapot]

if I may add a couple of my personal favorites:

8. Saying “maybe more!” when someone very clearly states an exact number, ie, “I have $2.45 on me right now.” “maybe more!” “no, just… just $2.45”

9. dismissing a legitimate fact because the method used to confirm it is also completely legitimate: “it looks like there’s 75 copies of this book in here.” “I mean sure, if you count them.”

[sufficientlylargen]

11. Absurd precision on approximations: "I'm roughly 1.77863982 meters tall, give or take a few cm."

L. Numbered lists with items inexplicably missing or out of order.

13. Numbering things but mixing in letters, Roman numerals, etc. ("First, we need a way into the party. B, we need a distraction so we can find the safe. And 3, we need a getaway route that will still be open after the alarms go off")

14. Counting things by adding up the numbers or numeric prefixes inside them: four bicycles is one octacycle, three forks is one twelvk, and if you divide a pork tenderloin into five equal pieces each one is a twoderloin.

[bitsow]

15. Using a range with a general lower bound but comparatively precise upper bound. "between 1000 and 1003 people showed up"

16. Using a number and its synonym like they're different. "do we need a carton of twelve eggs, or can I just get a dozen?"

17. Conflating a number's size and its value.

3

is bigger than 4

[baddywronglegs]

18. Mixing in irrelevant unit conversions, e.g. "I have £3, but that's 21 in dog pounds which is enough to buy alcohol in America"

[shoebillstork]

Someone pulled up ao3 on the smart fridge at qork

[math-camel]

a) basically modern art about why smart appliances are bad and dumb

2) an ao3 author would post a chapter from a fridge at Lowes while buying supplies to rebuild their house after a tornado swung through. #builtdifferent

C) listing the viewing history? This fridge chose Violence

[jv]

we joke about Tumblr making your brain unable to interact with regular humans, but today I used the phrase “very slow tigers are chasing me” and no one, NO ONE, understood what I meant.

[jv]

Tumblr is a giant step towards achieving a Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra level of communication.

[jv]

You don’t get to hide this gem in the tags sorry

[nobrain-nothoughts]

Yeah I mentioned the leopards eating peoples faces party to a friend once and the whole conversation immediately derailed. I hadnt even realised I said something weird at first

[jv]

What. I thought that was a common political metaphor in the US

[radio-halo]

I once described damage to a lock due to someone repeatedly not putting the key in it correctly as “Sherlock thinks you’re an alcoholic” and the person I said it too understood completely and we were both very embarrassed.

[shmreduplication]

Only one person in my dnd group is not on tumblr so it’s not uncommon that we have to explain things to him

Most recently was how the Pacific is the most fuckable ocean

[irawhiti]

hi! i saw there was a lack of a māori takatāpui flag and i wanted to try to make one to fix that!

i wanted to include the diversity of gender and sexuality under the flag so i tried to incorporate the rainbow and the trans flag's colours with the māori flag's colours + koru to blend them to signify how none of these things can be separated from each-other in life's path. i wanted to try to get the opinion of other māori (especially takatāpui māori) on this flag as i'm just one person and i would like to hear from people who may want to use this flag in the future. i appreciate any feedback! either way, reblogs are appreciated!

the flag is made with icons in mind and can be cropped into a square while still showing the entire design. if people are interested, i can post a full quality square version of this flag.

thank you for reading, arohanui!

[irawhiti]

i've had a few people ask so i'm just going to put a permission to use my takatāpui flag for any events, websites etc. as long as credit is given by officials :) none is needed to simply fly it at an event by individuals, i would love for my flag to get out there more to give more māori a flag to use. simply seeing my flag out there brings me joy!

[irawhiti]

another flag for everyone, an irawhiti flag!

irawhiti translates very loosely to "to cross over the river" (a bit of a simplification, but it works) and i wanted to show that with a mangopare (strength in adversity, the hammerhead shark) breaking through the middle bar of the trans flag, the stream, with koru (new beginnings, growth, the fern fiddlehead) shown as the splash being made.

(thank you to @mucking-faori for the mangopare idea!)

i may or may not post this as a separate post, depending on how it goes, lol.