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rare words
adomania: the sense that the future is coming too quickly
anecdoche: a conversation where no one is listening
kairosclerosis: the moment when you realize you're happy
monachopsis: the subtle persisting sense of being out of place
opia: the ambiguous intensity from looking someone in the eye
rubatosis: the unsettling awareness of your heartbeat
vellichor: the strange wistfulness of used book stores
zenosyne: the sense that time keeps going faster
The thing that cracks me up about the Addams Family is that they literally live in their own family cemetery, but no one ever asks the most important question: what the fuck kills an Addams?
Like, they literally have cartoon invulnerability. They intentionally put themselves through physical torture, electrocution, falling from ridiculous heights, etcetera, and they always come out completely unscathed. In the movies, they’re actually shown giving the baby a mixture that includes raw egg and vodka, among other things, for regular feedings, which, if you need to be told is bad then you ought to have your parenting license revoked.
So, how do all of the graves get there? What horrid fate could possibly KILL an Addams? The world may never know.
They leave when they are done
They just nappin they’ll get up when they’re done
grocery stores should pick a random hour every day where the employees can chase you around the aisles
if they catch you, you become produce (neglected to mention that this game is mediated by a sorcerer)
US Elevation.
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man the Appalachian mountains really aren’t shit huh
The Rockies are new, young and virile and fresh from the Laramide orogeny, tall and lanky teenagers on the geological scale. the Appalachian mountains are old, formed hundreds of millions of years ago before dinosaurs walked the Earth. They are ancients, elders, witnesses to half a billion years of life coming and going. To be tall is not a virtue. To be small is not a sin. The Appalachians are eroding under the weight of time, slowly shrinking and returning to the Earth from which they sprang. Appreciate them while they are still here.
I do want to say real quick again about the age of the Appalachians…
They said “before dinosaurs,” but we have a cave here that began forming between 450 million to 550 million years ago.
There are no bones in that cave. No fossils. No nothing.
That’s because this cave began forming before bones existed on land, and had only just started to exist in the ocean. Shellfish hadn’t evolved yet. Limestone, which forms many caves, was just starting to become a more prevalent rock.
The mountains aren’t older than dinosaurs. They are older than bones.
see that little lump up at the top of minnesota? the sawtooth mountains? so small most places would just call them hills?
those are over a billion years old.
that’s why they’re so small. they’re the last ancient remnants of a lava flow 5 miles thick. the lava didn’t kill any dinosaurs. or any fish. or any animals at all. because there were no animals. you know what there was?
algae.
those mountains were 5 miles tall when the most advanced life on earth was algae.
so i’m just gonna go ahead and keep calling them mountains, even though all you need to climb them is hiking shoes and a nice afternoon. because a place where you can crouch down and touch basalt that was lava before leaves were invented deserves some respect.
“life is old here, older than the trees. Younger than the mountains, growing like a breeze.”
how do ao3 fans rationalize the fact that in spite of them consistently making 5x their goal every donation drive, the site is virtually unchanged since its inception and has been in beta for 12 fucking years
ao3 doesn’t make money off of ads which are what pay for 90% of other websites. you don’t want ads on ao3. ads mean the sponsor gets to dictate what kind of content they want their ads paired with, and who they want to see their ads. this is why youtube, for instance, is so heavily censored, and why facebook can collect so much data on you as a user
their donation drive earnings are pennies compared to what it costs to run other websites with a comparable amount of users. their latest drive is sitting at 220k which is NOTHING when you’re talking about cloud data servers. facebook spends 3.2 billion *in a single quarter* on servers
they also have an entire post with a breakdown of their budget here if you’re curious
ao3 has a very refined search system that has been tweaked and modified over the years. posting and searching for fanfiction back in the fanfiction.net/livejournal days was very much the wild west. you can now easily find a well-tagged fic for any pairing or fandom you want in under five minutes. you don’t have to worry that it’s going to get removed because the platform has suddenly decided to ban all adult content.
i’m not an ‘ao3 fan’ because being a fan of a website is weird, but i remember what it was like before. this is better
Has it occurred that perhaps the reason it appears ‘virtually unchanged since its inception’ is a feature rather than a flaw?
Think about how many times Tumblr has fucked with something on the back end or even UI and it has HORRIBLY broken this cursed site. Now compare that to AO3, which is one of the most stable fucking web archives I have ever come across and I’ve been doing this internet thing for oh, a couple decades. Sure, it goes down occasionally when there’s an issue that needs fixing (which they always do ASAP), or they suddenly get a craptonne of increased traffic (which, it’s pretty ridiculous to get angry at someone for not being able to predict a surge in readership), but they always get on the issue as soon as humanly possible.
I am completely okay with them not changing up features all the time and potentially breaking shit left right and center in some ill-advised attempt to draw a few more eyeballs for ‘aesthetics’ or some finagled feature.
I’m also really okay with them not constantly changing features ala Tumblr. Remember when they swapped the post and delete buttons? Remember any of the multitudes of site-breaking ‘features’ they have introduced throughout multiple administrations?
Yeah, I’m pretty okay with AO3 *appearing* to be unchanged for 12 years because it tells me one really important thing: they’re doing a bloody good job. If they really had not done anything and made no improvements over their lifetime, that site would be broken dozens of times over, and unusable. But it’s not. As the internet and demands and changes have occurred, they have kept pace and maintained a very stable and reliable platform.
Stable & reliable > new features. Any damn day of the week in my book, but that’s just opinion that no one asked for.
Oh don’t keep these in the tags love they are spot on!
#way too many of y'all have no idea how much stuff costs#i work in a medium-sized organization with its own servers#and tech support for those servers supports at *least* 5 *full time* positions for people who are *extremely* highly trained#these are not entry level positions#each of those people is salaried at between 60-160k#that’s JUST the support not the servers themselves#A03 does incredible fucking things on PEANUTS#and y'all bitch every gd year#the site is accessible#easy to search#easy to filter#you can customize it a ton#jesus christ please shut up until you know something about large scale operating costs#not to mention? They LISTEN TO THEIR USER BASE when the last time twitter or facebook did something#that the userbase wanted? literally never. not once.
Lemme tell you little skippy kiddos, twenty years ago, finding ANY content was a deep-sea dive, and sometimes you had to stick your hand into a hole that ended up being a virus pot on the chance you might have found that specific thing you were looking for.
Fifteen years ago, you spent HOURS scrolling through FF.NET for something you might want, and may the literature gods HELP you if you wanted something from a BIG fandom like Harry Potter or Naruto. Best you got was a rating, ONE genre filter, and TWO characters to narrow it down. For the Harry Potter fandom, it was those three things to get you through over a HUNDRED THOUSAND FICS.
And then the ads came. Now you get TWO filters and maybe FOUR characters….but you still had to get through ads. And a new story upload system that blew big fat nards because a WIP chapter vanishes after like two weeks.
From someone who used FF.NET for over a decade and the umpteenth O on Google longer than THAT, I am saying with every fiber of my being that AO3 is LEAGUES UPON LEAGUES BETTER. The old days were NOT better.
You’ve got tags for ANYTHING you can imagine, a system for FILTERING tags you DON’T want. What more DO you want??
You can harp about ‘but-but-the PEDOPHILIA!!!!! the TRIGGERS!!!! the GORE!!!!!’ all you fuckin’ want, but the moment someone decides what they want to censor, it’s fucking over.
Put your filters on, follow DL;DR, and curate your own experience and be grateful for it.
Her name is Katalin Karikó. Hungarian. Daughter of a butcher. Her thesis work became the basis of the mRNA vaccine technology. Read the article here.
Lots of my favorite vines are old ones, so here are some that I didn’t want lost to the wind
Might make part 2 w/more modern vines(?)
Feels like home, y’know?
Vine has such a different energy than tiktok like this is definitely more chaotic.
theyre so rude and in their mind theyre so nice for even talking to you at all
this gave me PHYSICAL PAIN
i didn’t realize that i repressed that memory but i absolutely did and it happened almost exactly like that
I only made it halfway through.
She creates more content like this on tiktok and they're hilarious but it's also so painful to watch. I even lowkey started to hate seeing her because of how accurate it is. But then I saw this comment in one of her videos and it really made me think
Why this got my boppin at my desk tho lol
"lola bunny space jam this, lola bunny feminist icon that" everyone shut up lola bunny space jam will never amount to whatever the hell was going on with her in the looney tunes show
Why this got my boppin at my desk tho lol
i didnt shovel enough driveways as a kid so i didnt build enough character and thats why im the way that i am
i have never had to mow a lawn and you can tell
New form of joke: telling someone to roll an ability check for something that obviously doesn’t need that type of check
“I wanna see if this dead body is anyone we recognize” “Roll an acrobatics check”
You say joke, but I like to use it as an opportunity to genuinely fuck with players. “I want to see if the dead body is anyone we know.” “Roll acrobatics.” “11?” “The body seizes you by the wrists and lunges at your throat with its teeth, howling like a demon. You are grappled. Roll initiative.”
Or, “I want to check the chest for traps.” “Roll performance.” “Okay, uh. 17…?” “You start whistling quietly while you go about tapping, poking, and examining the sides of the chest. It’s a pretty catchy tune you picked up a couple days ago from the bard.” “Alright, neat, and the chest?” “The chest starts humming along.”
OH MY GOSH THAT SECOND ONE IS A RLLY GOOD IDEA
So basically all these separate posts are kind of combining into my head into this one epic fantasy series with mermaids and knights and dragons and pirates
where all the relevant characters are lesbians.
@thefingerfuckingfemalefury
I WANT TO READ THIS FANTASY SERIES VERY VERY MUCH :D
Would totally pay good money to read this
AGREEEED :D
We need more excellent lesbian fantasy fiction in our lives
Well, I might just have to write something like this myself \ò_ó/
:D
Go for it hon!
There can never be too many awesome fantasy stories full of lesbian pirates and hella gay mermaids <3
I got a cover for the story if someone needs one, Cannibalistic Siren Pirates by LordSantiago on DeviantArt
:D
OH MY GOSH
Avatar Kyoshi? I just think she’s neat 💛
What is your wisdom 7ft tall womannn
This was a man, dressed as a plant, making pigeon noises at people walking by. I said hello, asked if it was okay to take his picture, and then asked why he was dressed as a plant. He said, “I’m just working through some stuff. Thank you for asking. No ones asked yet.”
I’ve been dealing with stuff the wrong way.
