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[dancingalongthestars]

I think the Eridians would be big fans of Braille writing. I think Rocky especially would be very interested in and curious about people who have eyes but have low or no vision, and how they interact with the world without echolocation. Braille as a writing system is something they'd be able to read through their echolocation, too.

I also wonder how sensory-disabled Eridians interact with Erid. I

[thesunnahthebetter]

they should normalize saying "I'm thinking of you fondly but don't have much to say and frankly I don't even really want to talk rn but you have appeared in my thoughts and it's nice"

[writeouswriter]

Characters will make a very nuanced choice that makes sense for their story arc and internal conflict, and audience members will be like "is anyone else going to misconstrue this in the most black and white, bad faith manner possible?"

[dragoninthestars]

RIP Lauren Olamina, you would have loved Hadestown

[rederiswrites]

Look, I realize that the whole Schrodinger's Mitch thing has real political consequences on a national level, but since I'm not from Kentucky and have no say whatsoever in the outcome of the situation, I'm honestly just finding the entire thing grimly hilarious. Has Horrible Turtle Man died? We don't fucking know! Turns out senators can just not show up to work indefinitely and there are no consequences! What fun!

[dragoninthestars]

#fellow unaffected bystander and this is the funniest thing to come out of world politics in ages

As someone who is from Kentucky this isn't even the funniest thing happening in the state right now. I'm currently having a field day watching Matt Bevin (the former governor who was so universally hated that back in 2019 KY Republicans wrote a letter to Trump asking him to appoint Bevin to literally any office because otherwise he would definitely lose and ruby red Kentucky would have a democratic governor which would be really embarrassing for Trump. Trump didn't. And then Bevin did. And it was.) dig his own grave during his divorce proceedings, by refusing to do basic things like show up in court, and submit his financial documents. The judge is so fed up with him she issued an arrest warrant for him and told his lawyer to stop acting like a law student who needs his hand held through basic court proceedings.

And I'm only following that story because I opened up my local newspaper to try to figure out what on earth is going on with my school district's financials. The Answer: Nobody knows. But everyday we discover that it's worse than we thought!

[kaoinim-deactivated20220927]

[pocketkris]

ps5 brain monday

[what-even-is-thiss]

Oh so THIS is the ps5 post. I can see why you all imprinted on it now that’s hilarious

[dragoninthestars]

I don't usually reblog videos but I'm wheezing and I miss my friend who does this voice

[frankendykes-monster]

[beesmygod]

i read this to adam and he just yelled, outraged, "THEYRE BABIES"

[wonderhecko]

TRUE HATERS, SINCE DAY 1 THEY HAVENT BEEN GIVING THEM A FUCKING INCH

[beesmygod]

this is next level

[wonderhecko]

20 years later. you're kermit. opening night at the muppet theater. you look up. you can't believe it. those two awful cunts from next door are here. neither of them died yet. they're going to be here, forever.

[terriwriting]

You start a Gopatronize.me fund to support the theatre, and surprisingly it works. Then you receive a community arts grant. Muppet Theatre is now Muppet TV, your very own streaming channel. It takes month of preparation, stress, work, and tears, but you finally go live.

The first comments come in literally seconds after you launch.

Its them. They're still alive.

And they're still funnier than any of your acts.

[hachama]

And they have premium membership and early supporter badges on their usernames.

[skijumpingf1]

Never have I ever been so exited for a Monday 😭 The heatwave was that bad

[pencildragons]

kinda awesome that modern rising world scholars are like 'man i wish we knew the origins of pivotal historical figure kaiisteron witch king but alas this knowledge has been lost to the mists of time :(' and meanwhile pivotal historical figure kaiisteron witch king is happily living in a well with his best friend and her wife

[mostlyghostie]

A slightly redrawn and edited version of the Dream Library stack (version 3 if you’re counting).

Since I first drew this, my first wish has come true with the final Book of Dust novel having come out (not what I expected, but I liked it)! Which would you most want if you could pick one?

(Currently part of a half price print sale on my shop!)

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[shirecorn]

A whale shark mermaid and her entourage of remora. These small mermaids form a symbiotic relationship with their large host, helping take care of her physical needs, like hygiene, organization, and navigation, and in return she provides travel and food. The arrangement is not just practical, but social as well. The "crew" of remora form close relationships with each other and with their host, some traveling together for years or even their entire lives. In a wide ocean where size peers are few and far between, this group operates as a complete and loving family unit.

[paroxysmaljune]

i think if you make shirt merch and your big design is always on the back of the shirt you should try again

[dragoninthestars]

Imagine, if you will, that you've been down on your luck. You got fired from a job you loved a few years ago when the company dissolved and you burned some bridges on your way out. Okay so you burned a lot of bridges. Okay so you told the higher ups at the parent company that their new business direction was idiotic and they should go to hell.

Since then you've been living with your best friend, who's just barely rich enough to not have to work, and traveling around doing odd jobs with your buddy who lives out of her RV and a couple other friends. And that sort-of pays the rent, but doesn't really pay off your credit card debt.

Then your absentee mother calls you up and is like "Hey, I want you to look into this guy who was working for the family business and disappeared. If you do I'll pay off your credit cards." And you kind of hate your mother, but you know she's good for the money, so you agree.

So you look into this guy and find out that he was doing some shady stuff with experimental physics and either was kidnapped about it or noped off to California to sell whatever he was doing to the highest bidder. So it looks like you and your friends are going to California.

But before you can do that, some rich guy accuses your roommate of some petty crime which he swears he didn't do but is also totally on brand for him. So before you can get on the road you have to go to small claims court and hope your roommate doesn't get thrown in jail.

Neither you or your friend can afford a lawyer, so you end up representing your roommate in court by virtue of being the only one of the two of you who's ever been employed. This is doubly unfortunate because you kind of don't believe your friend is innocent.

So you show up at court and the guy suing your friend comes over and is like, "Hey man, I know I'm suing you and all but I just wanted to say that I heard your father died and that really sucks. I'm sorry about that." And your friend is like, "My father what now?"

So since the other guy seems sympathetic, you try to persuade him to drop the case, but the prosecuting lawyer just keeps aggressively pushing for life in prison, even when his client is like "That seems a bit extreme."

Eventually you manage to settle the case with a small fine and the opposing lawyer is apparently so enraged by this that he pulls out a gun, murders his client, murders the judge, and is aiming for you and your friend when you jump out the window and hightail it across town.

Not to be deterred this guy (who you're beginning to suspect might not actually be a lawyer) chases you all the way across town where you just barely manage to meet up with your other traveling companions and make a getaway in your friend's RV.

Unfortunately, the RV was damaged in the shootout, and double unfortunately, your friend's sister has done so much monkeying around with the insides of this RV that a mechanic doesn't have a prayer of figuring out how to fix this thing, never mind a bunch of randos stranded on the side of the road. Triple unfortunately, you discover this while stranded in the middle of nowhere in a blizzard.

Miraculously your roommate knows just enough about mechanics for you to scratch your way to some church out on the edges of a one stop sign town. However before you can ask for help you notice that this church is under attack by some sort of masked militia??? So you help scare off the attackers and find out that the only people at this church are like two monks, a visiting cardinal, and a secret service agent he brought along with him who just so happens to be your godfather.

So you ask what that was all about and the cardinal's like "Idk, they were here a couple days ago, murdered a bunch of townsfolk and set fire to the whole place. It probably has something to do with these books we found in the basement on creating a nuclear bomb 2.0."

And at this point your roommate starts to sweat nervously because apparently when he was in college he did his whole thesis on nuclear power 2.0 and then just never published it or did anything with it.

But it turns out this cardinal is also going to Silicon Valley so you get him to give you a tow, and the entire ride there your kind of afraid the Secret Service agent is going to disappear your friend for knowing too much, but it turns out he's too busy lecturing you on how you should be nicer to your absentee mother for the entire trip.

So you finally get to California and find someone to repair the RV, and can start looking for that guy your mom sent you after. But your roommate's like "Hey, so since my father apparently just died, I should probably like, call my mom, and make funeral arrangements and stuff." And being a good friend your like "Sure buddy. Whatever you need. I'm here for you." And after an emotionally taxing morning the two of you decide to get lunch. So you walk into some random cafe and there, sitting at one of the tables, eating a sandwich, is the lawyer who tried to kill you???? Like, how do you even respond to that?

Happened to my good friend Stephano de Guichen

[glorious-spoon]

While I sort of get the impulse, it does always get my back up when people talk about something like Animorphs with this attitude of 'omgggg remember these books, how on EARTH were we allowed to read these books, they're so grim and dark and violent and tragic, no adults could possibly have known what they actually contained or they'd have been banned.'

And like. Allowing for the fact that there absolutely are adults who think every distressing topic ever should be banned from children's literature - they're children's books. You were allowed to read them when you were a kid because they were written for kids. Bridge to Terabithia is also a children's book. So is Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller and Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry and The Giver and loads of other books that deal with heavy, difficult topics. It is appropriate and good for children to have books about these things that are tailored to their reading levels and it genuinely really bugs me when people act like they're somehow not really for kids because bad things happen in them or they end tragically.

[valtsv]

executed for the crime of asking me stupid shit in this hot ass weather

[valtsv]

sentencing will be carried out at dawn because it's the only time it isn't too facking hot to be out side

[the-supernatural-atheist]

if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills

[the-supernatural-atheist]

where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*

[makaeru]

I hate learning about instances of "oh yeah we know how to do that, we just don't".

[marzipanandminutiae]

this is exactly why I love talking about historical passive heating and cooling techniques

oh wow the glass-tower office buildings we constructed when we thought air conditioning and central heating would never have downsides...have downsides?

and we're still building them?

while the Victorian house museum where I work, with thick walls and small windows and big wooden shutters stays ~10 degrees above (winter) or below (summer) the outside temperature for days on end with no help at all?

uh. okay then

(also public transit. the history of public transit in the US is infuriating, because we had it! and then we destroyed it!)

[headspace-hotel]

THIS IS SO TRUE