EphemeralCat

sara, 21, born in May and super gay. Actually I was born in September but that doesn't rhyme with lesbian.I post cats and cartoons and nature and whatever the heck else I see and like.

[bisexualbaker]

Tips for baking with arthritis and other hand-related chronic pain

With some changes to techniques, a careful selection of kitchen tools, and tips from fellow bakers, the joy of baking can live on.

I luckily haven't had to deal with much chronic pain or hand pain yet, especially with regards to baking (crochet is another story). That said, these look like some pretty solid tips! There's also some in the comments section.

[bisexualbaker]

As this link nears five hundred notes, I'm just... very quietly touched at how many people are sharing it. Whether they need it themselves (or think they will someday), or know someone else who might need it, the fact that all of them are sharing the sentiment of "I want the people who love doing this thing to be able to keep doing the thing that they love" is... yeah. It makes me happy.

[sabertoothwalrus]

[mythgendered]

[awed-frog]

Okay but imagine you’re a tiny lizard living your humble & scaly life well hidden inside tomato leaves and then one day God starts leaving hills of brownies and avocado toasts three times the size of your head right by your front door.

[source]

[bunjywunjy]

okay so I'm curious now:

which one would be more dangerous when encountered in the wild: a sun bear, a polar bear, a grizzly, a spectacled bear, or a black bear?

THE POLAR BEAR, FULL STOP.

all of the other bears on that list may very well attack you with fatal results if they decide you’re a threat or an interloper, but the polar bear is the one that WANTS to eat you, and if you’re not careful, WILL eat you.

prey is scarce in the arctic and polar bears are big animals, so they’ve evolved to be long-distance stalking predators that will NEVER turn down a warm meaty meal, weird opposable thumbs or no!

if you see a polar bear in the arctic, even if you’re with a group, take extra care the next few days to make sure that it’s REALLY gone and not just following you at a distance to learn your habits and ambush you when you least expect it!

more than one arctic researcher didn’t change up their routine often enough and opened the station door for their smoke break only to find a polar bear waiting for them patiently on the other side, at which point they were dragged off onto the ice and never seen again.

I would say it’s a grizzly fate, but that pun would be simply unbearable.

[bogleech]

Wish there were more animals like this. You’re always hearing “oh it’s not a man-eater it’s really quite nice” about every other beast. BORING. There should be an animal for every environment that always wants to eat people.

[funnydwagon]

@pictures-of-dogs

[pictures-of-dogs]

That sounds about right. This is where “if it’s black fight back, if it’s brown lay down, if it’s white say good night” comes from. If you’re attacked by a grizzly, playing dead MIGHT help because you’re no longer a threat, but if an ice dog is attacking you, it’s probably because they want to eat you. Playing dead will just make their job easier.

[xipiti]

Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It)

/Film spoke with several Oscar-winning sound designers, editors, and mixers to learn why it has become tougher to understand what characters

I used to be able to understand 99% of the dialogue in Hollywood films. But over the past 10 years or so, I've noticed that percentage has dropped significantly — and it's not due to hearing loss on my end. It's gotten to the point where I find myself occasionally not being able to parse entire lines of dialogue when I see a movie in a theater, and when I watch things at home, I've defaulted to turning the subtitles on to make sure I don't miss anything crucial to the plot.

Knowing I'm not alone in having these experiences, I reached out to several professional sound editors, designers, and mixers, many of whom have won Oscars for their work on some of Hollywood's biggest films, to get to the bottom of what's going on. One person refused to talk to me, saying it would be "professional suicide" to address this topic on the record. Another agreed to talk, but only under the condition that they remain anonymous. But several others spoke openly about the topic, and it quickly became apparent that this is a familiar subject among the folks in the sound community, since they're the ones who often bear the brunt of complaints about dialogue intelligibility. 

[leafy-autistics]

TLDR:

its hard to hear words in movies because

1. directors like Christopher Nolan record fuzzy dialogue to make it more "realistic"

2. actors mumble or whisper to act their characters, and making it louder can't usually make the words clear in the finished movie

3. microphones have to be placed away from visual setpieces so they can't be seen in the finished movie, making it harder to put them where they can record the best audio

4. sound designers not being respected and time crunches with production mean they're often told to "fix it in post" (while editing the film) instead of being allowed to record good audio

5. people add extra sounds because they can add them easier now

6. working on a movie for so long means you can get so used to hearing the fuzzy words correctly that you don't realize other people can't understand it

7. sometimes movies are released too loud, and so movie theaters turn down the volume for all movies, making normal-volume movies too quiet

8. movie theater employees are more inexperienced and play the movie as it is originally, instead of making sure it sounds good like they did when they used projectors

9. some streaming platforms compress the audio too much, making it low quality and too hard to understand

10. tvs also sometimes change how the audio sounds

11. not all films have their sound changed by the people making it to sound good on a home tv

the article ends by talking about ways to fix all this, mostly by educating people about why sound design is important

[wizardpotions]

There's no mobility in a job like court wizard, regulations and whatever they're never going to promote you. Quit and become an evil warlock and terrorise the townsfolk.

be your own boss!

[wizardpotions]

Who the fuck is Jennifer of vengaboys

[wolveswolves]

European wolf (Canis lupus lupus) fails to jump in tree

Video by wolveswolves

[wolveswolves]

Still the funniest wolf video I took to this day 

[nowletsfixthismess]

So I watched that Single All the Way on Netflix and.

Yep. Some guy at Netflix was like “holiday rom com for gays, we reckon we can get Jennifer Coolidge, but what else do the gays like? Just spitballing here people, no bad ideas,” and some new kid at the back of the board meeting tentatively raised their hand and was like “uh, have you guys heard of ao3” and when they all said no this kid just straight up pitched their favourite fuckin slow burn friends to lovers holiday au and there’s only one bed

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[adamsmasher]

I can NOT stop thinking about this tiktok

[tikkety-tok]

What's a thing you didn't know would consume so much of your time as an adult?

[phantomrose96]

“Be sure to shake it!” the bubble tea barista tells me but I don’t. I won’t. Why would I? “It mixes the sugar” maybe you want that. Maybe YOU do. To be drinking some homogenous concoction. Uniformly distributed. Each sip the same as the last. Just as sweet. Just as sweet. Just as sweet. All pointless flat indulgence. No personality. No humanity. A time-loop of your own devising, bereft of experience, sanitized of risk.

I want my first sip to be teeth-curdlingly sweet. I want the next to be horribly disappointing. I want to hunt. I want to jab my straw into pockets of substance like my ancestors stirring twigs into a bug colony. I want to raise the straw to different depths and feel something. The ocean is so far but I know what it means to rise from its syrupy dark depths into the still waters above.

I want all boba. I want no boba. I want to scoop the bubbles with my straw when the ice-rocks have been washed dry by the tide. “Be sure to shake it.” Never. I want to experience every human emotion in this cup of tea. I am not a coward. I am not a sheep. My tea is still enough for pond-skaters to glide. It will not shake. Live your repetitive nothing. Live in fear of the unknown. Live your fear of change. I am choking on a boba.

[gen-is-gone]

[phantomrose96]

You. You understand this post.

[futubandera-cl]

[oddishtea]

I’ve watched this like 30 times and I cant stop laughing aksjska

[surprisebitch]

the girl has big dick energy

[sl33pyd3mon]

she stole all of his dick energy and killed him

[flowerr--child]

The timing of thriller coming on is

perfect

[josieandthepussycatsofficial]

[pastelspacecowboy-deactivated20]

What kind of noise is that??

[ayellowbirds]

everyone expects seals to bark like sea lions, but NOPE

[mothmans-sexy-lamp-deactivated2]

@hiimelle

[bigtigers]

Sopping Fucking Wet

[gayweeddaddy69]

It is, despite everything, once again Wet Beast Wednesday

[transmechanicus]

It must be exhausting being a vampire and eating someone who gets off to it. I’d take psychic damage too if my lasagna was into vore.

[an-eccentric-devil]

[nyanbinyuri]

me: *slaps neck* COME GET Y’ALL FUCKING JUICE

the vampire whos been avoiding my horny ass for the past 6 months:

[brainscrewz]

tbh if someone just handed me a pressure washer and set me loose in the streets i would go into a trance and just start hosing shit down indiscriminately. it's not a question of how much i could clean, but how long until i get hit by a car and die

[sabertoothwalrus]

I get attached to such silly things tee hee like the past couple days there’s been a black widow living inside my frame shop’s broken-glass bin, and I keep opening the lid like “omgggg hi girlboss how is it hanging :)” and I refuse to let anyone kill her. she’s my coworker now

[sabertoothwalrus]