wetland indicator code: FACW

al/buzz/buzzard || it/he/they || the real prize was the wetland plants we met along the way.

[pylonsaint]

You’re an organ in the working body of this world, Mallory Glass. No amount of scornful looks and sour remarks is going to change that.

[annabelle--cane]

one the secret sauces of the silt verses is that it's deeply grim and pessimistic about systems and society at large but it's still remarkably kind and optimistic when it comes to people. a person can always change, they have reasons for being the way they are and if their circumstances shift then most people will want to be merciful and good if and when they can, and the actual Difficulty is that society is structured around making violence as easy as possible and mercy as dangerous as possible.

[mumblesplash]

it’s so magical and beautiful that there are sprawling interconnected cave systems carved deep into the earth by various geological forces and you don’t have to go in them. there are miles and miles of stone passageways in total darkness that require you to exhale all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through parts of them and you don’t have to be there. some of these squeezes are underwater and require cave divers to take off their oxygen tanks and push them through ahead of them and me i am above ground looking at the sky as we speak. there are untold subterranean wonders no human has ever seen and i will not be the one to discover them #grateful #blessed

[mumblesplash]

cave divers when they are happily married with kids and beloved by their community but theres a crack in the bottom of a lake called The Devil’s Rotting Esophagus where 57 people have died

[lady-of-vitreous-sight]

ungrounding exercises.

[lady-of-vitreous-sight]

what are five things you can't see? can you breathe in and out really really quickly for me? what are your biggest fears and what are the fastest ways they might occur? slouch in your chair put your hands on your head and picture yourself using your psychic powers to kill everyone. shoot the nearest dog.

[lezarus]

one of the worst parts of entering an established fandom is reading through the tags and realising with a dawning horror that fans have collectively decided to give one of the characters a horrible, non-canonical, cutesy nickname

[abrillustrates]

Damaya, Syenite and Essun from N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Series!!

[papasmoke]

you just hate the cis because of the things that they did

I hate the cis because it is led by the treacherous count dooku

[tartaeya]

i think there is a difference between a knowingly flawed character and a thematically uncomfortable character and knowing the difference is half the battle

[tartaeya]

knowingly flawed character: this character has traits that the author deliberately put in to show they have nuance and aren't perfect as a person. this will put them at odds with some readers and endear them to others, depending on them as people, and that's good!

thematically uncomfortable character: oh boy the author has some Beliefs

[pylonsaint]

Doodles

[targetedknowledge]

[schmergo]

is he…… you know….. [imitates crab claws]……. from Maryland?

[great-and-small]

Don’t mind me just thinking about the hole in the middle of the United States where Chipping sparrows refuse to fuck

[great-and-small]

[mortalityplays]

remember like 15 years ago when black bloggers were talking about this exact shit, 'digital blackface', white internet users appropriating images and clips of black people and using them as cartoonish exaggerated expressions of absurdity or high emotion. straight line from minstrelsy to your reaction gifs and nobody fucking cares any more. white people just decided not to acknowledge it and it went away, just like every other time black users have ever tried to criticise any aspect of online culture.

[highfunctioningfool]

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[cervinesatyr-deactivated2021083]

I have to reblog this every time because frankly this is absolutely genius prose

[fruiitlins]

hey!

[jan-aki]

The more I learn about baseball, the more interesting it seems, which is weird because I'm not really a sports person

Anyways I wanna share something neat that I learned but I'm gonna preface this by saying that I'm not "into" baseball. I'm just visiting the baseball zoo and reading the little blurbs the have on the cages

With that out of the way, when you swing a bat, your momentum naturally goes with the bat, right? So for righties, immediately after batting, their momentum starts to take them to third base, meaning they have to fight against the bat's momentum before running to first

But for lefties, the bat's momentum is already taking them to first! Apparently lefties can, on average, reach first base a sixth of a second faster than righties

Apparently it also makes a difference in receiving a pitch, since a righty receiving a pitch from a righty will see it coming from behind their shoulder, but a lefty receiving a pitch from a righty can clearly see the ball

Because of this, they started bringing in lefty pitchers to counteract the lefty batters and the result is a sport with 2-4x as many lefties as the general public

[alanfromrochester]

even as a sports nerd, I had heard of lefty batters having an advantage seeing righty pitchers, but not the idea of lefties getting to first base slightly quicker (which would make a difference on close throws).

Also fielding angles make lefties better suited to certain positions

[baseballheritageposts]

baseball heritage post

[steampunktendencies]

This is a literal "Hammerhead" shark created by artist Matt Sanders.

The sculpture is made from 685 reclaimed steel hammer heads and weighs 500 lbs (about 227 kg). It took approximately 2,500 hours of work to weld together. Sanders even used sledgehammers for the eye sockets and ball-peen hammers for the eyes to give it a realistic look.

It was displayed at the Aquarium of the Pacific in California and remains one of the coolest examples of upcycled art out there.