Beware the Leopard

British, experiencing regrets, born in '96. She/her. Been on this hellsite since 2012. I also have a sporadic (/not really active) calligraphy/poetry blog which you can find at http://breathingtheworldinwords.tumblr.com/

[evidently-endless]

discworld is so soothing after reading literally anything else

[deaded123]

Wow. It's all new on here, huh.

[thenatsdorf]

Cromch. (via)

[ratsstick]

[great-tweets]

there's nothing to explain, "vermillion" absolutely is a green word

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

verde in spanish, italian, portuguese and romanian means green. vert in french means green. verdant means green. viridescent means green. it tracks that vermillion would mean green, and that it doesn’t just proves that english is a ridiculous language with absurd rules.

[marlinspirkhall]

'Viridian' is also green & viridian and vermilion sound very similar. So you can understand the kind of stress I'm under.

[i-wear-the-cheese]

I find this opposite to be true of chartreuse. It should be red. It is green. I have no basis for this.

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

how I see it in my head

[pimentogirl]

I am one hundred percent in agreement with this. It’s also jangling the funnies with the idea of the bemused face of anyone with red/green colour blindness.

[poutine-supreme]

[lolawashere-deactivated20240904]

Meanwhile, on Twitter:

Brain farts, a thread

[catasters]

[re-peysi]

[exceptionerroralex]

[burymedeeper]

[deaded123]

I want to look up Dune and get cinematic pics of SPACE WORMS and EPIC SANDS but no, I get poncy man-child and "ooh so pretty uwu". Give me my space worms dammit.

[soul-hammered]

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

“fitted” sheets well why dont they then. why dont they

[bowling-with-skulls]

[catasters]

[haya-haya-haya]

it all belongs to her

[nohomo-mrfrodo]

[shiftythrifting]

Whisk or weapon?

Goodwill - Atlanta, GA

[bathroom-spiders]

Imagine the size of the Dalek this was attached to

[inthefallofasparrow]

All you fools are gonna look super dumb when the Queen hobbles out on her walking stick in February, stops in a daze, topples forward and almost falls flat on her face, but at the last second does a forward somersault, jumps back up, and then cheerfully gives a bunch of children a tour of Buckingham Palace, during which she kills them off one by one, in order to choose which one will be the next queen.

[neil-gaiman]

I do not know who painted this quote from Good Omens Season 1 on the studio exit door. I do not want to know. I just love that as I left today after our first day of shooting this was waiting, to welcome us back to the outside world.

[teathattast]

[tunashei]

I love desire paths. There's something so wonderous about seeing an echo of humanity. Depending on it's location, a desire path can mean so many different things.

In a city, like the pic above, they represent rebellion, and efficiency. The messiness of humanity. We like to imagine we're oh so logical and neat so we design our cities to be logical and neat an then real humans literally trample on that idea. The ego required to think you can design something perfect that checks every box. Life is all about compromise and patching stuff when some new problem arises. Though people have certainly tried! Ohio state univeristy let students carve their desire paths, and then paved them over. It looks pretty artsy.

Some people will try to discourage desire paths, but this is almost always going to fail.

Eventually, people just have to accept them. Humans are too dang stubborn.

Certain desire paths are just adorable. A 0.5 second time saver. You just can't design for maximum efficiency, humans will always find shortcuts!

Though on occasion a desire path can actually be the least efficient way...especially if you're superstitious.

In a wilder area, such as below, they show us the curiosity of humans. A desire path somewhere natural often tells you there's something interesting just ahead. (Though remember some ecosystems are fragile and will suffer if trampled! Stick to paths in these sorts of areas)

And how about desire stairs? I always think these look so cool. We get see humans determination to climb, to traverse every kind of terrain.

And for something really crazy...a desire path used for centuries will create a 'holloway'

All of these pics are off the Desirepath subreddit, check them out for more examples! And many thanks to the users who submitted these photos.

[wizardnuke]

not to be a history fucker on main but the whole mystery of the lost colony of roanoke is so fucking funny

[wizardnuke]

governor of the colony: hey I’m gonna go back to england to get more supplies

115 colonists: okay

governor: ends up spending 3 years in england bc of a naval war with spain or some shit

governor: gets back to the colony to find everyone gone

governer: sees the word “croatoan”, the name of a native american tribe, carved into a post

croatoan tribe: has members and children with blonde hair/blue eyes, pale skin

everyone: what could have happened to the colonists of roanoke

[chotimoti]

[wizardnuke]

hi! op here. I’m fucking hyperventilating

[chick-it-out]

.^.