Books. Nerdery. Life.

Artist, Bookworm, Writer, Linguist, Utter Weirdo. They/She. Lightning Bisexual. Married to the woman of my dreams. I’m a whole ass adult but that doesn’t mean I have to stop having fun. Icon and header by me. genderqueer/genderfluid/genderwhatever

[kurulover]

I hate that when you’re stressed enough your body just starts falling apart. I think it should realize you’re already stressed and don’t need that and start functioning better actually

[kurulover]

[dreamslessordinary]

[virgoos]

sub this dom that. what if they are both completely chained to their devotion to each other. they’re rendered powerless by it. nobody is driving the bus.

[vintageandroid]

i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

[absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog]

I remember walking down the street and seeing a sign protesting George W. Bush’s war on Iraq, so I think that.

[hellenhighwater]

Ohh I just had a good thought.

I love when I can combine projects for more powerful presentation. Prometheus X The Last Sequoia!

More to follow.

[hellenhighwater]

Wait wait wait wait

[luulapants]

My elderly father started talking about how frustrating he finds “the pronouns thing” and I was like. Oh no. He had such a good stand on this, he’s been they/them-ing his cishet siblings for god’s sake! Is he regressing?? And he was talking about how difficult it is to remember, and how onerous it feels to expect strangers to keep track of it, and I’m like oh no oh no.

Then he says, “I mean, the problem isn’t the gender thing. The problem is four words: she, her, he, and him. We got rid of stewardess and turned it into flight attendant. It doesn’t matter if the flight attendant is a man or woman, so we got rid of it. We just need to get rid of those. I don’t need to know.”

“You don’t need to know… people’s gender?”

“No. I don’t care, I don’t need to know, and I don’t want to remember it.”

So we can relax. It’s just a continuation of his crusade to they/them the world. He doesn’t want to remember anyone’s gender. He’s abolishing the genders.

[teaboot]

Your dad is so powerful

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

He is so so correct

[aistobascistod]

Proton : Electron :: Proto-Indo-European : Electro-Indo-European

[theweirdwideweb]

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[vigilantsycamore]

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

[digitaldiscipline]

[r-girl]

[spicymochi]

your month, your mini bird wearing a hat!

[nerdicornthetrekkie]

[gamechangershow]

Sorry but it's not complete without...

[silversong79]

Someone: You can’t sum up the entirety of Peregrin Took with one sentence!

Me, an intellectual:

[kedreeva]

Take a moment from your busy day to relax and observe all the ways to pester a peahen, at her insistence.

[levelvii]

For the birds that like pets, do beak rubs tend to be their favorite? They seem to ask for more pretty consistently

[kedreeva]

Yep! They like break rubs best, followed by jaw rubs under the jaw, followed by gentle neck rubs where their head is in my hand and my thumb goes over and over the spot behind their jaw/ear. They also enjoy a finger stroking over the top of their heads (especially if their jaw is resting on my hand), and having their little head held like a stick shift (like being tucked into their wing to sleep I guess, because they'll fall asleep like that if they're already sitting down). They don't seem to mind the neck pets where I circle my fingers around their neck and stroke down (but they also don't particularly ask for it), and Bug likes her saddle pet (rapidly and harder than you'd expect, more like you're trying to brush something off her that's a little stuck on...I don't know why she's like that), but none of them really like anything past about mid back to be touched. Some of them have liked feet rubs (Princess is going to be like that, maybe Dragon too, but Bug and Mantis are Not).

This is, I think, tragic for them all. Visitors who want to pet them rarely want to put fingers too close to beaks, so they just end up mildly annoying the birds trying to pet them on the back like a cat or dog. I regret to inform you that peafowl have no bones and their necks are very long, it doesn't matter where you pet them... If they want to bite you, they will. The birds WANT you to pester them in the face, that is counterintuitively where you are least likely to get a hard bite. They show affection through face and neck preening. But I cannot convince anyone to pet them in the face like they want.

[livelovelaugh-777]

[monamoni]

[ralfmaximus]

WET BEAST WEDNESDAY

[laurasinele]

one of my favorite wet beast for this wednesday

[le-jardin-inculte]

#mybal

[dreamslessordinary]

This is just to say that sitting outside drinking wine, watching the fireflies, and playing D&D with your wife is fucking incredible. And I wish younger me knew the life they could have. It’ll all be worth it motherfucker. Keep going

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[hightide-error]

the poster that this incredible illustration is based on is extremely striking. but while searching for it, I also found earlier posters for conveying this message along with a corresponding one for summer, and I fucking love them. absolutely lovely graphic design work. (both are from 1924, artist is Austin Cooper)

the one I was looking for originally also has a summer variant. (artist is Frederick Charles Herrick: 'it is warmer below' is from 1927, 'it is cooler below' is 1926)

[elodieunderglass]

I also like Edward McKnight Kauffer’s London Underground posters, the 1923 Natural History Museum one is such cool piece of visual art