Blah Blah Blah

/Female/United States/ Nothing important

[damelancelot-darling]

I see two paths to Ollie ending up being experimented on.

Obviously, Elliott either green lit the program or had a hand in it but there are still small questions I have.

Scenario A

Was Elliott Ludwig sadistic enough to adopt a child for the sole purpose of using him as a prototype for resurrecting his daughter?

It’s very possible that he did and is just using the lure of “being a real family” to ward off any potential danger of Ollie becoming violent.

Scenario B

Or did Elliot adopt Ollie as a way to cope with his daughter’s death only to have Ollie fall sick or injured and be on the brink of death? With it already happening once, I could see Ludwig bypassing any safety checks just in an effort to save Ollie.

But whenever he realized that it had worked, Elliott gave the scientists permission to use Ollie as an example in an effort to find the secret to resurrecting Poppy. Even if that meant horrific torture for Ollie.

What do you think is more likely?

Scenario A

Scenario B

I have a wildly different suggestion

Voting ended onMar 19

If you have a suggestion that doesn’t fit either scenarios and really just want to blab in the replies for a while I’d be happy to listen and discuss.

[the-big-mood]

Heads Up Seven Up 😍

[damelancelot-darling]

Half the class was always cheating so I won a few games by taking off my shoes so they couldn’t identify me by just my plain white socks.

They couldn’t call me out on it unless they wanted to admit they were cheating so I got away with it way longer than I should have.

[damelancelot-darling]

Do you think that Ollie/The Prototype actually cares for Poppy in some ways?

[theartingace]

Horses are really fragile animals. Is it still a death sentence for a centaur if one of their equine limbs gets hurt? Or can they help it somehow?

Oh god, now I'm thinking of amputees and how those would work

Horses are SUPER fragile, or maybe more like delicately balanced.. but particularly their crazy spindle-legs which centaurs get to deal with! But a big part of why hurt legs are a death sentence for horses has less to do with “It kills them” and more to do with quality of life, which a centaur can get around! A horse with a broken leg doesn’t understand it can’t put ANY weight on that leg for an extended period and will attempt to go about their daily life and act normally, which basically guarantees re-injuring the bad leg and a high chance of injuring the other 3 legs as they try to cope with the change in balance and weight distribution. It all leads to a really poor quality of life with almost no chance of truly healing properly. The story of all they did trying to save Barbaro the racehorse is a long sad story that illustrates a lot of the issues even with modern veterinary medicine with trying to deal with a broken leg in horses.

Thankfully with centaurs, They understand the need for healing, are able to manage their own quality of life and have the gear to support themselves in the time it takes for the injury to heal!

Also perfectly good for long term use in the case of aging, amputation, or general disability! Which is common with the front legs and lower backs of centaurs given the unusual stresses caused by their body-plans. They were created with thicker and more robust front legs to cope with the permanent added weight of the torso instead of a horse head, but injury and disability in that area is still very common!

Injuries to the hind are less common and usually less severe, and given the hind legs bear less direct weight than the front they can usually get away with wraps and limping until it gets back to weight-bearing. Something like a rear amputation or ruptured tendon would probably require a custom harness/brace attached to a wheel like these and/or basically a peg leg!

yeah, although the psychological aspect is part of it, physically horses are very heavy animals and if one leg isn’t weight bearing, one or the other feet are likely to founder from the strain of carrying the rest of the body weight - the internal support of the hoof deteriorates & the foot bone rotates downward ( in itself is a very painful & potentially fatal condition). its why you don’t see any amputee horses around, their size means they really need four legs.

however!! these amazing wheelchairs would really do the trick! god they look good!!

(side note, knowing the size + weight of horses heads compared to human head & torso, i cant help but wonder if there really would be extra weight from the human part at all or if they’d actually be lighter on the front end??)

[asmuchasidliketo]

Okay so. Let’s begin by the weight of the human part of a centaur.

A quick research gave me access to a list of different human body parts relative to total weights on this site. Summing it up, I found that for a 150 lbs (68 kgs) human the torso + head + arms is about 110 lbs (50 kgs).

That was the easy part.

I looked up the same things for horses but only found guides to weigh your horse, and a scientific paper that may have the answer, but it’s behind a paywall and I’m not coughing up 15€ to maybe get the answer I need.

Then I remembered I have a Facebook friend who’s passionate about horses, and has access to a lot of scientific literature. I asked her. I presented the question as something pretty weird, as I don’t know if people other than I are interested by strange scientific inquiries.

She loved it.

So here is the data :

- If we take in account the center of gravity of a horse, behind the shoulders, we know that its position varies a lot based on the position of the head + neck block (the higher the head gets, the more the gravity center moves towards the rump), so – laws of physics – the head + neck block is an important part of the weigh of the horse, with a leverage effect.

- Also, the position of the center of gravity tells us that 50 % of the horse’s weigh is before that point : head, neck, shoulders, front legs. Even when comparing a strong torso + arms and a slender neck, it means that for a 1,000 lbs (450 kgs) horse the “front block” is about 500 lbs (225 kgs).

This doesn’t give us the weigh of the neck + head block, but it tells us that with the shoulders and front legs (that a centaur keeps) it’s nearly five times the weigh of the human part. And I doubt the front legs of a horse weigh that heavy (to give a vague idea, both legs of a 150 lbs human weigh about 52 lbs – 23 kgs).

Another thing about centaur anatomy (from the same trusted source) : in a centaur, the torso is (most of the time) held straight, so the center of gravity is closer to the rump than for a horse and the distribution of the weigh on the four legs is probably more even (for a horse about two thirds of the weigh is borne by the front legs). However back pathologies like kissing spines could happen more often, since equine anatomy means that horses need to lower their neck to limit the risk of back wounds.

That’s all folks, I hope my translation to English isn’t too bad!

[sufficientlylargen]

One thing that I rarely see in posts about centaurs is considerations of how scale works between the human and horse parts. Most illustrations of centaurs seem to assume light riding horses, but what about, say, a one-ton Shire centaur?

If you remove a Shire horse’s head and neck and replace it with an average human torso then its front half is gonna be MUCH lighter, and also it’s maybe gonna look a little ridiculous… Or do we just assume that Shire centaurs have human parts proportional to, say, a ten foot (3m) tall heavily built human?

[theartingace]

Omg somehow i missed all this great discussion happening here??! I love that @asmuchasidliketo did the math!!? That’s amazing! Not long after i made this post i started wondering the same thing about the weight of a human torso vs horse head and neck. I assumed the human torso would weigh more on the centaur because it would be like having a permanent rider but then realized even small horses like those I typically model my centaur bodies off of have heads almost as big as their rider’s torsos in pictures- and that doesn’t even account for the leverage effect and weight of the neck! So the lack of not only that big ol head’s weight but also the leverage of it being held out a solid 3-5 feet from the top of the shoulder would almost certainly make everything WAY lighter than the added human torso- even if the torso is larger than the typical rider of a horse of the same size as I tend to do when proportioning my centaurs.

(An older proportion sheet I worked up a while back for @sufficientlylargen - I have an old post on this but I may do a whole other post because I have EVEN MORE thoughts on size limits at least for my own headworld’s centaurs) Because the size of the human half that feels right to me is definitely larger than a rider of the same sized horse would typically be (for the long term health and safety of the horse) but even so, it’s still way less straight up bone weight being held up at a much more upright angle which means less leverage pressure on the (lower)shoulders. Which, I agree that would probably make them more prone to kissing spine than poor knees! Though centaurs would be more aware of the issue as it would likely be common and stretching and preventative movement would likely be implemented to mitigate some of it. But just like humans with bad backs -because everyone in their twenties thinks lifting with their back and sitting like a shrimp will never come back to bite them- it would likely be the most common issue of aging. So any which way it still results in the same need for mobility aids but it’s fun to be able to better pinpoint what the more likely issue with their crazy bodyplan is!

[theartingace]

So on my recent revisit of centaur bodyplan challenges on my Centaur Wheelchairs post there was some talk of how centaurs would be stretching to make up for the decompression horses usually get in their backs when they graze, and also I've just seen a few tags and other notes curious about centaurs stretching and folding so.. here ya go! Some new stretches focused on stretching more like how horses do with their necks, and then just a collection of all my wibbly wobbly Big Stretch! and general range of motion doodles

[damelancelot-darling]

I have an Etsy shop if anyone is interested!

There are more than just pride earrings but I thought I'd start with one topic at a time.

Here's the link!

If you buy something you'd really be helping out a struggling queer kid.

[damelancelot-darling]

Don't forget the code!

https://lasercutejewelry.etsy.com?coupon=CUTEJEWELS

[damelancelot-darling]

I have an Etsy shop if anyone is interested!

There are more than just pride earrings but I thought I'd start with one topic at a time.

Here's the link!

If you buy something you'd really be helping out a struggling queer kid.

[charlemane]

writing tip: searching "[place of origin]ish names" will get you a lot of stuff and nonsense made up by baby bloggers.

searching "[place] census [year]" will get you lists of real names of real people who lived in that place.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

I feel like I'm constantly shilling for them but BehindTheName.com, the only baby name site that doesn't feel like it's run by mommy bloggers, includes census-based graphs for dozens of countries/regions (though not all of them go back very far yet)

And you can expand them to see rank, number of babies, and percentage of babies and add a second name to compare. (in 1973 four percent of babies were named Jennifer! 1 in 25!!!)

Also this. Cursed.

[emperorsfoot]

@homoqueerjewhobbit what name did you search for your example, and what's going on with Moldova?

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Those are the graphs for Samuel. They only have 1 year's data for Moldova right now, so that's why it's a straight line. Similarly, they only have 2 years for Mexico right now. The US goes back to 1880. I'm not sure how much of that is publicly available/translated records and how much of it is that it's like 1 or 2 guys maintaining a website of 27000 names and a finite amount of time to format and upload.

Here's the list of all of the countries/regions they have popularity statistics for if you want to nerd out on it!

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

You can't advertise BehindTheName for writers without mentioning the advanced search! You can search names based on cultural origin and usage, gender (including unisex), meaning, and even things like meter and number of syllables, or famous namesakes (you can also see a list of famous namesakes on every name's page, along with meaning, history, related names, alternate spellings in different languages, the above popularity graphs, and more).

I wouldn't even call BehindTheName a baby name site. They have a surname sister site and a random name generator with tons of variables to set that is very clearly intended to be used for fictional characters (iirc it can even generate a cause of death? I haven't looked at it in many years so it might have changed but these things predate generative AI so unless it's been forcefully enshittified it shouldn't be slop). Like, you can use it for baby names, but the website isn't explicitly intended for that purpose. This website caters to us.

[silverfox66]

Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.

[audacityinblack]

For general graphics: use GIMP For vector graphics: use Inkscape For drawing and illustration: use Krita For print and web publishing and design: use Penpot For PDF authoring: use LibreOffice For PDF reading and form filling: use Okular

All are free, open source and cross-platform. None use AI.

[magicalgamerfaun]

For visibility

[androgynosaurus]

I love you so much I hope we get reborn as housecats who sleep together like puzzle pieces

[androgynosaurus]

This is us in the next life

[androgynosaurus]

Of all my posts to Do The Numbers over the years I think this is one of my faves because the notes are full of two things: people tagging their friends/loved ones, which is very sweet, and people posting photos of their own cats cuddling, which means I get to see more cat photos

[damelancelot-darling]

[chxrry-bombs]

5 Tiny Writing Tips That Aren’t Talked About Enough (but work for me)

These are some lowkey underrated tips I’ve seen floating around writing communities — the kind that don’t get flashy attention but seriously changed how I write.

1. Put “he/she/they” at the start of the sentence less often.

Try switching up your sentence rhythm. Instead of

“She walked to the window,”

try

“The window creaked open under her touch.”

Keeps it fresh and stops the paragraph from sounding like a checklist.

2. Don’t describe everything — describe what matters.

Instead of listing every detail in a room, pick 2–3 objects that say something.

“A half-drunk mug of tea and a knife on the table”

sets a way stronger tone than

“There was a wooden table, two chairs, and a shelf.”

3. Use beats instead of dialogue tags sometimes.

Instead of:

"I'm fine," she said.

Try:

"I'm fine." She wiped her hands on her skirt.

It helps shows emotion, and movement.

4. Write your first draft like no one will ever read it.

No pressure. No perfection. Just vibes. The point of draft one is to exist. Let it be messy and weird — future you will thank you for at least something to edit.

5. When stuck, ask: “What’s the most fun thing that could happen next?”

Not logical. Not realistic. FUN. It doesn’t have to stay — but chasing excitement can blast through writer’s block and give you ideas you actually want to write.

What’s a tip that unexpectedly helped with your writing? Let me know!! 🍒

[official-lucifers-child]

mr sandman was playing in this gas station and the cashier and i both sang “man me a sand” at the same fucking time without hesitation

[hte-spagheti]

[summerchat]

My boyfriend and I regularly recite this one to each other

[absolutegibberishandnumbers]

jokes to make after failure that aren’t self-deprecating:

I’m the best to ever do it

Nobody saw that (best if said loudly)

No one’s ever done it like me

I could be President/they should make me President

Behold, a mere fraction of my power!

The public wants to be me soooooo bad

I’m an expert in (thing you just failed at)

How could this have happened to god’s favorite princess?

Nothing ibuprofen and a glass of water cant fix

I’m being sabotaged

[atruedonaldist]

11. I got possessed

12. How's them apples?

13. That didn't happen (same vein as 'no one saw that'

14. 2nd times the charm

15. 3rd time's the charm

16. 4th time's the charm

17. 5th time's the cha

18. Yell FUCK really loudly and then leave. For the bit

19. Alternatively, say fuck really quietly and pathetically. For the bit

[aroace-get-out-of-my-face]

20. Nailed It

21. Ya know, I've been thinking of becoming a (person who does whatever task you just failed at)

22. Hey, speaking of changing the subject

23. This is exactly like a dream I just had

24. It's as the prophecy foretold

25. Now that's just rude (spoken to whatever object isn't listening)

26. WOW [insert nearby person] I can't believe you just did that

27. Aannd Scene.

28. They're going to make statues of me

29. IM OKAY! (spoken very dramatically)

30. Okay is everyone watching this time? Okay? Im gonna do it again (best if you fail at it AGAIN)

[the2headedcalf-archive]

You know that Ada Limón poem where she’s like “i can’t help it i love the way men love”? my dad recently confessed to me that he became a shoemaker because they buried my grandma shoeless

oh…………………………………

[urlocalchangeling]

Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds - Ada Limón

[generic-dumb-bitch]

[tundrakatiebean]

[gingernutsenthusiast]

@filmnoirsbian

[chambaeli]

[chandaniyan]

[chandaniyan]

[machineryangel]

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[shithowdy]

i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

[shithowdy]

hey this is apparently helping a lot of people! adding that on top of this you can also go to settings > personalization > colors and turn off transparency to also boost performance. this wasn't the Big Fix for me but might as well do that too if you're trying to optimize.

[shithowdy]

past a certain note threshold on tumblr posts you unlock a bloodborne-esque insight and the strange lives of this site's users become visible to you

[flipocrite]

(x)

[theothin]

we fucking found them?

[prof-grace-aspen]

Ok I know we joke about this but I just went to the settings and first clicked "adjust for best performance" and then re-checked only 1 box:

"Smooth edges of screen fonts"

My computer was running hot before I turned everything off; the office I'm in is very warm, I could feel the heat of my CPU through the keyboard. The fans were going, not as loud as they usually get, but they were still blasting.

Y'all.

I can barely feel the warmth through the keyboard now. It's been like 2 minutes. The fan is nearly silent.

Click the Windows key and start typing "System settings", and "View Advanced system settings" will pop up. Then click "Settings" under Performance:

Then you'll see this:

TURN IT ALL OFF.

I turned "Show window contents while dragging" and then turned that off again. It's up to you.

[bitchwhoyoukiddin]

FUCKING THANK YOU.

[daughterofscotland]

I am also keeping "Show thumbnails instead of icons" because otherwise my brain hurts.

[woodlouseandbird]

my therapist suggested i imagine my intrusive thoughts in the voice of donald trump bc i do not possess an ounce of respect for him or trust in his competence. going thru it today so i made this. hope this helps

[tilthat]

TIL in 1896 a temporary, one-day city was named in Texas called Crush, where two locomotives were to be smashed head-on for purposes of spectacle. It was, for a few hours, the 2nd largest city in TX with 40k attendees. The collision caused engine boilers to explode, resulting in death and injuries.

via reddit.com

[justthesource]

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush,_Texas

[mangonetics]

you could just do shit back then

[pyomorphic]

texas is still like this

[tyrannosaurus-rex]

[snowriddenwolf]

[zagreus]

[damelancelot-darling]

I’m really late to the party but I love this video covering this topic 💜