iggy stardust

she/her

[mortalityplays]

it just hit me after reading 3liza's post about reading speeds that this is almost certainly why I've never been able to tolerate audiobooks. this has puzzled me my whole life. I have nothing against audiobooks in principle and I listen to podcasts constantly, but for some reason I can't handle being 'read to' for more than a passage or two before I start getting frustrated and antsy and losing focus. my reading speed is ~500wpm depending on text complexity. the average speed of audiobooks is apparently 150-160wpm. even a 'fast' narrator played at double speed would top out in the low 300s (and be unlistenable for other reasons). no wonder I get frustrated. it's the same feeling as when I was in school and we'd be forced to read assignment texts chapter by chapter for the sake of the slower readers, while I was chewing my fingers off with tedium. I'm just accustomed to processing information at a certain speed and density and literally get bored.

[waltzd]

[sandmandaddy69]

[get-thee-to-a-shrubbery]

[ferret-on-pancakes]

[its-your-mind]

[miteistic]

[nick-nonya]

[cleanedupcorporationprogress]

[boothyghost]

[all-save-challenge]

I love this post especially the rat part

going on me feed

[trolleybusaberrations]

what do you mean there are exactly zero rats i. this post

[bingle-official]

[primordialsoupvendor]

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

[definitely-not-a-plant]

[spectroacha]

DOES IT NOT STOP

[t-valentines]

saw a 'that old man' version and was compelled to make this. the og femslash

[armandyke]

Can't stop thinking about how the only times we've seen Armand lose control over his facial expression is when he is being rejected, and how he tries to force a smile each time 😭😭

gifs from @userarmand x x

[knight-in-shimmering-armour]

Just remembered he does this here too.

When in acute distress, Armand will smile a pained, mirthless smile.

Oh Armand, you're so loved.

[did-you-know]

The oldest living tree ever found was a pine named “Prometheus.” It had been alive since before the Egyptian pyramids were built. Some guy cut it down in 1964. Source

[aclockworknick]

he was actually a forestry graduate student who was doing research on bristlecone pines (Pinus langaevea) and got his increment borer stuck in the tree. this tool costs almost $800, so he asked the forest service if he could cut down the tree to recover the tool. after cutting it down, it became apparent that the tree was actually the oldest living organism. ever. (around 8,000 years old). so, not just some asshole. the guy feels extremely guilty and has even broken down in tears during an interview about the accident

[wellshitcaitlin]

OH MY GOD SO LET ME TELL YOU A STORY

So after the grad student cut down the tree and discovered it was the oldest tree in the world he quit studying forestry and went to study salt flats (can’t cut down the oldest trees in the world on salt flats no siree none of that happening) and he was being interviewed about his research, but in the middle of the interview the reporter just stops and says “wait aren’t the guy that…”

And he just takes off running. Literally. Turns around and runs across the salt flats away from the interview and I feel so bad for him but I can’t help but start crying I’m laughing so hard about it imagine a guy high tailing it across salt flats away from a dude with a recorder

[thoughtsofadame]

its so different to know it was an accident and that NO ONE was aware until after. its not like this was one ignorant guy cutting down a fucking relic.

[optimysticals]

I’m glad it was an accident and not like the perks who purposefully cut down the Sycamore Gap Tree.

[fawnpalmer]

quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog

[parapetowki]

still not over louis being so surprised that burning daniel's laptop didn't work because of the cloud. and then. burning daniel's laptop again. and still acting so shocked about the cloud. #myclown

[westenraskiss]

Olivia is in white because Rhaenicent will elope in season 3 finale 🙂‍↕️

[hesitantlyhappy]

iwtv seasons one and two was like being tucked into bed and read a heartbreaking story by Louis du pointe du lac. The Vampire Lestat is like your blackout drunk uncle trying to tell you an anecdote at a family gathering

[stealingpotatoes]

people raised some good questions on that marrocrow post about what vader would think of two inquisitors dating so here's some potential answers <3

[odinsblog]

GO GAY EUGENE!! 🌈

[theweirdwideweb]

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[vigilantsycamore]

eeby deeby... i haven't heard that name in years...

[digitaldiscipline]

[guardianspirits13]

You're dating a girl. Her ex was a scientist. One day you hear on the news that the world is ending because of a micro-organism that's earing the sun.

You see a report on the space team being sent on a suicide mission lightyears away from earth. You recognize one of them as your partner's ex, scruffy hair and glasses and all. Good riddance, you think. His first love was science anyway.

Years pass. Decades. Finally, finally Earth gets a probe back and the world is saved. On it are weeks of video files and the planet learns that aliens, real actual intelligent aliens (not that single celled organism BS), are real.

You watch your partner's ex, long thought dead, introduce an alien by name. It introduces itself as "Rocky- not movie Rocky. Hello Earth. Rocky loves you. Except for you, Mark. Rocky and Grace hate Mark."

Your name is Mark, and you are the first human to ever be hated on by an alien.

[crying-screaming-throwingup]

i miss claudia so much

[insideoutbh]

the entire atp being full of cucks who don't care this guy was fined €450.000 for assaulting his girlfriend (everyone conveniently forgets this when talking about how he was "acquitted" no tf he wasn't! he was fined, he appealed, he knew he would lose the appeal and settled for a €200.000 fine)

[insideoutbh]

like not even from a pr standpoint they care! just to say how much assault allegations DON'T ruin men's life. people aren't even ashamed of associating with him publicly, not even a little bit.

[esarity11]

how daniel molloy feels after trying to conduct an accurate interview about vampires, but his subjects are louis de pointe du lack of information, lestat de lyingcourt, armanipulator, and claudead.