Stranger Things
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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shark vs the universe
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Game of Thrones Daily
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One Nice Bug Per Day
$LAYYYTER

@theartofmadeline
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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Monterey Bay Aquarium
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@crypticcryptocryptids
i hate it when game devs put “fixed several issues” in patch notes
no. tell me what you fixed. i wanna know what the glitch was.
you know those patch notes that are like “fixed an issue where if the player sat in a bush for too long, they’d become the size of a skyscraper”
i wanna read those. tell me those.
Adjusted value of Bees. Now that was a special one… because every item in the game had a minimum value, and a beehive was a container for bees, which each had a minimum value… which meant the moment one of your dwarves picked up a beehive, your entire fortress’ net worth skyrocketed… a value used in determining how powerful the foes that visit and try to murder you are.
Reblogging for the explanation of what “adjusted value of bees” actually means, because I know several folks following this blog have been wondering.
Okay but you’ve all forgotten the best Dwarf Fortress bug of all “Flying creatures give birth in midair, leading to tragedy”
Actually I lied it’s the one where after a major update werewolves and vampires started climbing the nearest tree and refusing to come down. It turned out that he’d given evil creatures the ability to sense each other, but forgotten to set a maximum range on it, so werewolves were aware Hell was underground and trying to flee by climbing
This has to be my favorite patch note ever
“Life after menopause is exceptionally rare in animals. It can evolve only in creatures where grannies help younger family members survive. Only human, killer whale, and short-finned pilot whale females routinely live for substantial periods after they stop breeding. Like humans, killer and pilot whales have roughly twenty-five to thirty childbearing years, then can live another thirty or so. And as Ken’s just explained, some live a lot longer. Up to a quarter of the females in a group are postreproductive. These whales are not waiting to die; they are helping their children survive. As human children often benefit from their grandmothers’ attention, killer whale grandmothers boost their grandkids’ survival. A rather bizarre twist of killer whale society is that killer whale mothers remain crucial to the survival of their adult children. When older killer whale females die, their adult children start dying at high rates, especially males. Male killer whales who are under thirty years old when their mothers die suffer a tripling of the annual mortality rate compared to males in their age group whose mothers are still alive. Male killer whales who are more than thirty years old when their mothers die face death rates more than eight times as high as males in their age group whose mothers are still living. Daughters under thirty show no mortality increase after their mothers’ death. But daughters older than thirty when their mothers die have more than two and a half times the death rate of same-age females whose mothers are alive. Males’ handicaps of the extra drag of their huge dorsal and pectoral fins and the extra food required for their immense size (at around 20,000 pounds, males can be one-third more massive than females) seem to make them reliant on their working mothers for food. Females don’t have the males’ impediments, but while raising young, females may rely on food shared by their no-longer-breeding mothers. Adult females share essentially all the fish they catch, and more than half goes to their children. Adult males share their catch only about 15 percent of the time—usually with their mothers. While no one fully understands their strange death pattern following the loss of a mother, extreme parental care is likely at the root. Toothed whales are the world’s champion nursers. Short-finned pilot whales continue to produce milk for up to fifteen years after the birth of their last calf, likely nursing other females’ young. In bottlenose and Atlantic spotted dolphins (further study might reveal others), some females never give birth. Denise Herzing dubbed them “career females,” because their role in society does not include motherhood. They might be infertile. They might be gay. But their contribution is crucial: they do a lot of babysitting. When Herzing entered the ocean with a visiting nine-year-old girl, “White Patches, the eternal babysitter herself, had never seen me babysitting a young human before. Her excitement vocalizations were audible and electric and she continued to swim around us, eyeing the human youngster attached to me.” (Researchers sometimes call babysitters “aunts.” That’s precisely who they often are.)”
— Beyond Words, by Carl Safina
i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny
field trip cancelled
Based off hit tumblr post:
Hi yes hello it’s me the local wizard, and I- Ok well “evil” feels like a strong word but yes, that’s me. Anyway, I need your help. I know I stole away the kingdoms 12 princesses, that’s my bad. Listen, I didn’t think this through. It didn’t occur to me that having a dozen angry young women from early teen to early 20s and giving them giant powerful wings would be a bad idea.
I know I’m the one who cast the curse but it can still only be broken with true love. I’m begging you, somebody, please come and fall in love with these girls and make them leave, I can’t take it anymore, it sucks so bad. I can’t keep getting viciously bullied by one of the largest living species of waterfowl anymore. I’ve tried running away but they can fly so they just find me. I’m getting nothing done.
I’ll pay you, I’ll grant you wishes, I don’t care, please just come and fall in love with the mean angry women who live in my yard and hate me so bad
nevermind post cancelled he's dead again
"Idiots," I say, referring to the characters I have spent hundreds of my real life hours contemplating.
bad saw trap where you have to inject yourself with various mystery solutions (some are acids, some are virus cultures, etc) to find the antidote for the neurotoxin they poisoned you with
if you escape you get knocked out and wake up on a park bench wearing a shirt that says “celebrating 650 years of the bubonic plague!” with a get well soon balloon tied to your wrist and a 20$ bill in your pocket to cover the taxi fare to the hospital
this was funnier in my head
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yeah i drive the truck that isekais all those lonely 20yo NEETs and bored salarymen. it’s a really hard job. they keep sending me to workplace counselling after each hit. “it’s normal to feel guilt at ending someone’s life,” they say. how do i tell them that’s not what makes me feel guilty? “but it’s okay. he’ll live a better life in another world.” yeah, with 100 girls who could have lived normal lives but got drafted into being in these boring dudes’ harems. how many women’s lives have i ruined. and they don’t even know. they don’t even know
Sounds like you need "His Soul is Marching On to Another World; or, the John Brown Isekai" by CabbagePreacher, an actual fic on AO3 about famed abolitionist martyr John Brown getting isekaied to such a world and going on a rampage abolishing harems.
140 CHAPTERS?
Hello, Katrina.
Imagine, if you will, a dance studio. This studio is regarded globally as one of the, if not the most prestigious academy of its kind. It can accommodate dozens upon dozens of troupes, and provides arrangements specific for every single style of dance, no matter how specific. Even the design of the building itself is very ergonomic: the main entrance, or lobby, leads into a neat row of hallways, one for each generic classification (tap dance, ballet, etc). These broad, “generic” hallways then branch into several narrower “subtype” paths, which finally lead to a sort of cul-de-sac of individual, enclosed studio rooms for several groupings of dancers to practice in.
Now, back in the lobby, there is a P.A. speaker hanging in the entranceway of each “generic” hallway. These speakers play live audio feeds of the dancers practicing in each studio room, swapping to the next after allotments of about twenty seconds. The sound systems are in excellent quality, and you can listen with near-perfect clarity whence you are near them. Not only that, but they are spaced just so that- as long as you are not standing in the front of the lobby, or in between two of the halls- you will only hear one P.A. speaker at a time.
Now, imagine a pack of enraged silverback gorillas are released all at once into the dance studio. It does not matter in what mode of transport they were delivered, or the party who delivered them. What matters is that they are all profusely enraged, and looking to attack anything that poses a modicum of a threat to them. Normally, this would extend to the gorillas fighting each other- but in this scenario, every individual gorilla is enclosed in a personalized forcefield bubble that prevent them exclusively from harming another gorilla. Any given primate cannot punch, kick, or throw objects at another gorilla. As such, they instead focus their anger on the likes of the dance studio- and the people inside it. The gorillas, being naturally intelligent creatures, listen in to the P.A. speakers one by one, as to decide which studio room to target first (they are unfamiliar with the terrain, and because they cannot harm each other, they have decided to operate as a single unit).
Now, Katrina, in these circumstances, what type of style- depending on music, and then the specific movement of the dance- do you believe would be the most objectively likely to merit the wrath of a tribe of embittered, invincible, silverback gorillas? There is a pen and paper on the table before you to write down your answer, as well as a cohesive list illustrating every style of dance being practiced in the studio. In the far left corner, there is a 1980s Emerson 13" CRT Tube Color TV, and roughly 450 VHS cassette tapes containing footage of each dance style practiced, nearly identical to the list- though in a separate order entirely. Additionally, these VHS tapes are labeled using doctors’ prescription shorthand, and thus are very difficult to decipher for anyone unfamiliar with the methodology.
If you are unable to provide a written answer, provide an unclear written answer, or an incorrect written answer, in the provided span of six hours, then forty outraged silverback gorillas will be unleashed upon you via the row of forty separate chambers, paneled on the south wall and currently locked.
Good luck, Katrina. You are going to need it.
important addendum: i received a second message from this person immediately after getting this trap that read, “sorry about the gorilla post”
so there's this fic by @startingatmidnight...
me rn but /positive and /notinvasionofthebodysnatchers
If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.
1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.
2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.
3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.
4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.
5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.
Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.
Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.
September 25, 2005
[seeing a high definition photograph of a poison dart frog after a three week tolerance break from looking at images] HOOOOOOOOOOO