Echolalaphile

Yelling about feminism, autism, and mental illness, interspersed with kitten photos, historical oddities, Avengers gifsets, and Good Omens. (Or, indistinguishable from half of the rest of tumblr. Ah well.)

[echolalaphile]

Hi! I am trying to listen to your podfics but Google Drive keeps asking me to sign in… and I’d prefer not to (separation from work/school). Any chance you could update them to be public, like the complete work version of “your albatross: carry it with no regrets” is? I didn’t have to sign in for that one.

Thanks!

Ugh, stupid Google. The problem is that i moved the fics because of storage and that broke all the links, and i have never yet had the brain cells to fix them. Here are the folder links, which ought to get you access to the files:

Podfic of (even if i could) make a deal with god, a series by Feather on AO3.

Podfic of To See You There, a series by Feather on AO3.

Please let me know if you still can't access the files!

[echolalaphile]

ive lost both my Crowleys i don't think i can watch it

[frightfullytreeish]

reblog to slowblink at your mutuals

[chesh-ires-deactivated20210426]

being nonbinary and a fan of non-human creatures isn’t easy. like i’m constantly struggling with the fact that i’m both like “i wish there was more enby representation in humans” and “i’m the same gender as mewtwo and that fucking rips”

[ckret2]

the tension between “representing NBs only as nonhuman characters is dehumanizing and othering” and “but monsters, aliens, and robots are so much cooler than humans”

[mypunkpansexualtwin]

[important-cat-pics]

[dreamy-xo-deactivated20260209]

mutuals for like 10 years but never have spoken a word to each other. the true tumblr experience

[algrolo]

While you were studying the blade, I was studying you. You're weak on your left side and your footwork could use improvement. Also I think I've fallen in love with you. Who said that.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Fun fact! Saint Valentine was beheaded, and here is a photo of his supposed skull! (which is kept in a reliquary in rome because catholics are freaky that way)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I can never ever leave this website actually

[ichi-is-a-cat]

I see a reference to the Sedlic Ossuary, love the decor in that place.

this is a church that supposedly had holy ground or something that let people rot really fast, Idk what that’s about, but people really wanted to get buried there, and so they had overflow of dead people. so they exhumed old bodies and stored the bones in the church, before someone eventually said ‘hey, this would make a cool fucking chandelier.’ and then they started using the bones to decorate. this continued for several generations.

[dharmagun]

Looks like he’s sharing space with a bit of St. Patienta...maybe these are catacomb saints

[marzipanandminutiae]

I love the Sedlec Ossuary

what happened was, some dude from that town (it’s in the Czech Republic) went to the Holy Land in 1278 and brought back some dirt. he spread it in the churchyard, and then EVERYONE wanted to be buried there. because Super Extra Holy(TM). eventually they ran out of room, so they started exhuming old bodies and storing the bones aboveground instead. that’s what an ossuary is, so you have a Fun Vocab Word for the day

in 1870, the church leaders were like “these bones are kind of disorganized and just collecting dust. can anyone stack them better?”

and one František Rint, woodcarver and apparent prior incarnation of Guillermo del Toro, said, “MY TIME HAS COME”

and he. did that.

he also signed it

the church leaders must have been okay with it, because I imagine he ran the plans by them and also they didn’t immediately burn the place to the ground. but I still like to picture them looking over the initial sketches with Rint watching, and roughly these expressions on their respective faces:

(Panel from the Oglaf Comics strip, “Labyrinth.”)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

and on that note, happy valentine's!

[prokopetz]

From the award-winning developer of Seduced by the Busty Elf and Ravished by the Burly Orc comes a brand new title, Made To Question Your Long-Held Assumptions About What Constitutes Sex by Some Kind of Fucking Goblin.

[kyraneko]

This has Chuck Tingle energy all over it.

[asthedeathoflight]

Resisting the urge to Um Actually this dragon novel because it has the dragon eggs be like three or four feet wide but there is simply a limit to how large hard-shelled terrestrial eggs can be. No matter how large the animal is, the embryo needs oxygen, and oxygen needs surface area. The larger an object is, the lower its surface area relative to volume, and the less oxygen the embryo can receive. We think of large animals as having porportionately large young because mammalian pregnancy has the unique benefit of allowing for the size of the young to scale with the adult because their oxygen is provided directly through the placenta, and almost all the megafauna remaining on Earth are mammals. But this is not the case for species which lay eggs! For fuck's sake even the sauropods hatched out of eggs barely larger than basketballs! Your hatchling dragon would be impressively enormous if it were the size of a house cat. Stop trying to make me believe that this (ROUND!) dragon egg somehow supplied enough oxygen to develop an infant the size of a large dog or even bigger. If it were possible the dinosaurs woulda been doing it!!!!

[achillbeing]

I love you /lh. Experts going off on their particular fascinating cool topics and adding unexpected context to things we take for granted is like my favorite thing this was delightful. Talk to me more about eggs and geometry and biology all you want :D

[achillbeing]

Amazing concept

[ineffectualdemon]

OP: I know a shark species incubated the eggs inside and the first to hatch hunts down and eats their siblings while slightly underdeveloped and finishes developing in the mom before being birthed

(I think it's lemon sharks I could be misremembering)

Marsupials also give birth to undercooked young that proceed to finish development in the pouch.

So my proposals:

1. Ostrich sized eggs but underdeveloped young that finish development in a pouch: ala Marsupials

2. Leathery eggs that hatch internally and are followed by deathmatch/incubation in womb ala shark

I'm not doing this to disagree with you btw I just think life cycles that aren't just "big egg hatch" for dragons are fun and want more knowledgeable opinions on my proposals

[velvetys]

How is bnha anime of the decade...... they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second

[grimeclown]

The notes on this post were so toxic that staff just axed em

[abraxasrinbalt]

1969.........

[harperhug]

Yes, when the original post is deleted from the server (not just the blog, but the Tumblr servers), there is no root post for notes to be added onto, and also no root post for time to be counted from, so it starts from zero. Most computer operating systems use Unix, which was launched in 1971 with t.he epoch date of midnight on January 1, 1970 as 1. Therefore zero is one second behind that date: December 31, 1969. Also, very unfortunately, this also means nobody except you and anyone you reblog it to will see this explanation, as you cannot open the notes to see comments when there are no notes.

[ti0mumu]

[nick-nonya]

Tumblr is truly one of the webbed sites ever

[solnight99]

ohmg

[aroace-ryland-grace]

[thegreatlazule]

post's haunted.

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[jezunya]

Thinking about Network Effect again, as one does, and it occurred to me that all Murderbot had to do to not get kidnapped, was not carry ART's communication device around on its person every moment of every day for however many months it had been since they'd last seen each other in Artificial Condition

Like, yeah okay, ART still could have told the hostiles that SecUnit was a weapon, and still could have found out when Arada's survey team was due back, and still could have attacked them/dragged them back to the Adamantine colony with it, but they wouldn't have had a specific signal to lock on to

and yes, obviously, things would have gone very very very badly for everyone involved if they hadn't managed to kidnap SecUnit, but my point is:

we talk about Peri being soooo obsessed with MB, manufacturing its own 'true love's kiss password wakes the sleeping princess' moment, but ART wasn't the one holding a literal piece of MB in its heart for months on end on the off chance that they might someday come within ping range of each other again

the obsession goes both ways is all I'm saying, Murderbot is just being a whiny bitch (gn) about it

[jezunya]

[where-is-the-angst]

and you get a little heart <3 and you get a little heart <3 and you get a little heart <3

[a-mysterious-ghost]

Reblog to give your mutuals a little heart <3

[the-girl-lost-in-fandoms]

[isadibus]

Not the supernatural meme reshaped as the final fifteen for the date oh my god

[parabolagnese]

the converse of SecUnit watching Sanctuary Moon in the corner at parties is Gurathin listening to death metal while he data engineers. i know he’s at that habitat console sullenly flicking through files like :| to the sound of two jet engines killing each other. if the hopper has an aux cord Dr Gurathin is NOT allowed on it. he’s calculating p values to industrial noise and it scares people. metalhead!Gurathin…i made him up but this truth is real in my heart and i ponder him often

[chalkbird]

when you're a shapeshifter i bet letting yourself slowly fall off a rooftop only to turn into a bird and fly away feels soooo good

[horreurscopes]

hey bro can i ask you a question that will reveal a deep and fundamental gap in my knowledge of the world

[topazlight]

of course bro opening up about your lack of knowledge and asking questions is the only way to fill in that fundamental gap

[copperbadge]

Bro do you know there is nothing I like better than filling in the deep and fundamental gaps in peoples' knowledge of the world like some kind of pedagogical pothole mender