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[ghostlytuxedo]

I've tried switching to DuckDuckGo multiple times, but all it ever gives me is vague, "Top # tips about..." clickbait articles that, at most, might say, "You can find more info on this if you look it up." And if I put anything in quotes whatsoever, it says it can't find anything. So back to Google it ends up being. It's crazy how, degraded as Google is, it still somehow has more reliable results than other engines. I dunno if I'm doing something wrong or what, cuz everyone else seems to like it more. Someone just needs to recreate the Google I thought I knew from ~2010, somehow.

[ghostlytuxedo]

Kicking off pride month with a friendly reminder that

[spaceboibrainrot]

If I may add this as well

[ghostlytuxedo]

ID: A Twitter thread from June 2017.

TheRealMesplace: "I'm doing a project for Pride month and I was wondering if there were any LGBT characters on Invader Zim?"

JhonenV: "I don't even know that there are any straight characters on the show, or characters that like ANY other kinds of characters."

[aspacelobster-deactivated201812]

[aspacelobster-deactivated201812]

[birdography]

The most dangerous flightless bird in Australia is sitting under a beach umbrella stealing grapes.

[calleo]

Are you going to tell what’s basically a dinosaur that it can’t have your grapes or beach spot? Because I’m not.

[moriendel]

this is how the movie went right

[explorerrowan]

Kronk: By whom, though? I might be your classic "hunk" body type, but I'm not exactly a top. I have a couple exes I could call that might be his type. Do you want someone who would take him out for dinner first, or just...

Yzma: ... I WANT you to KILL him!

[thegeekstressart]

You ever see something innocuous, minding its own business on the clearance shelf at Michael’s and before you know it, it takes over your life for a few weeks?

So it was with this desktop greenhouse.

I took it home and after taking an appropriate time to “season” my idea in my mind (read: a month or two) I set to make my vision of a mini botanical garden a reality.

I started by removing the heavy glass panels and building a raised floor above the latch. I wanted to use the base as a foundation on the building.

I wrapped the foundation in plastic stone textured flooring (meant for Christmas villages) and built a pond at one end of the same. I then gave it a more realistic paint job and designed a rough layout for my plants and displays.

I also knew I wanted to make the ironwork significantly more intricate, but I wasn’t sure how just yet…

Up next - PLANTS! I went wild making all kinds of plants. Some were specific species and some were more conceptual.

I made several trees with polymer clay and moss, cacti out of beads and flocking, cattails out of raffia, hot glue and coffee grounds, and giant monstera leaves out of paper and wire.

This part should have taken me a long time, but it really came together fast. I loved finding ways to replicate natural shapes and patterns using bits of this and that.

I did make adjustments to my plans as I went like eliminating benches in favor of a simpler overall design.

Then I needed to fill my pond with water. For this I used resin. Lily pads were added to the top layer, and I wired in simple LED fairy lights. The batteries are kept in the box under the foundation.

In a weekend frenzy I added more plants, metal (paper) steps, new (plexi)glass windows, a roof, wrought-iron vines (paper again), doors that open, and a hose reel disguising the latch. Suddenly, a project I thought would take months was finished…

I love my desktop botanical garden. Right now it sits on a simple lazy Susan in my office. But I’d love to get it a proper display box to protect from dust.

Thank you for coming on this little journey with me. This piece packs a lot of joy into a tiny space. I always love building miniatures, and I’ll be doing more in the future I’m sure.

[ghostlytuxedo]

Someone asked what the holes in my vision are like, & I didn't think of a decent comparison until later.

Because people's brains patch together what we see in a way that makes more sense, some blind spots just look like objects within them get photoshopped out. My smaller blind spots don't even look like they exist, likely because my nystagmus gathers enough information to piece together, and doesn't allow me to find the missing places.

Some blind spots are like tearing an image into sections, scrapping a piece, & sliding the rest to fill the gap as best as possible. They tend to look like refractions, not coming out the other side quite where it should.

Particularly big spots do have dark/hazy spots around them, but they don't fill in the gaps precisely. I don't know if they perceive minimal light, or if it's just my vision trying to convey depth despite them.

Relatedly, to my vision in general, I can't see or identify some things unless I know they're there, due to visual clutter & how I identify objects. As for what I mean by, "Things don't look blurry, just less detailed," I haven't figured out yet. But there's plenty I'll never quite grasp about what normal-sighted people can or can't see, so until then, I call it even.

[thatdisasterauthor]

Don't ever let anyone tell you disability rep doesn't matter, because I just got a comment on one of my fics from a person whose husband has struggled with driving for fifteen years because he can only use his left foot to drive, and they had no idea left foot gas pedal modifiers are a thing until they read my fic that involved a character getting their leg amputated.

It was a tiny scene at the end of the fic, one I put in because I'd been researching left-foot driving adaptions for myself at the time due to some leg issues of my own. But it was something the commenter and their husband had never heard of before, so now the commenter is going to get him one as a surprise and for the first time in his life this guy is going to be able to drive comfortably.

It matters. Not just the big pieces of representation, but the little ones too.

(And yes, if you have issues with your right leg, it is easy and relatively inexpensive to modify your vehicle for left foot driving! You just need to be willing to drill into the floor of your vehicle, or have a mechanic do it. No electronic modifications or anything, it's purely mechanical. Just make sure you're getting a system from a good manufacturer that has done safety testing.)

[scoobandshagtalk]

Like, shit man!

[Read the full story]

Twitter 

Instagram

[queenophydea]

What

[sepulchritude]

No for real this is a whole webcomic and it’s worth checking out

Also this

[fitzreiley]

It’s an insane series. It started with a joke comic ‘what if scooby doo had a gun’ and developed into a sprawling sci-fi action series with epic fights. The last one I read (current that I know of right now) is a fight between Dexter from Dexter’s lab, fighting Foghorn Leghorn from looney toons.

[asundergrowth]

Please read this

[antique-scarecrow]

I binged on this entire series, could not put it down. Highly recommend. It’s soooooo funny but you will get unironically invested in these characters.

[mx-t4t0]

i just finished binging it and it’s GOLD, please read it

[pitviperofdoom]

Imagine if Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a sci-fi shonen manga with horror elements. That’s Scoob and Shag.

[ghostlytuxedo]

I like being called an, "alphabet person," actually. It makes me feel mystical, like a fairy. The elusive alphabet people, frolicking & playing in the woods. Always be on guard, for they are known to deceive careless humans.

[ghostlytuxedo]

When I was in middle school, part of tech class was learning how to use Google search effectively. Back then, we were taught to use keywords. "Less is more." Now, if you don't phrase it like a question (or it doesn't understand the question), Google can't tell wtf you want, & dumps out random searches related to one word, or even, "Doesn't include [your search verbatim]." Even when you do it right, it often assumes you mean a popular topic that's vaguely related, because all the other silly humans want to know about it, so you must've typed the wrong thing. Silly, silly human.

[ghostlytuxedo]

Does anyone else have a weird relationship with their name?

It's familiar. It's the name I associate with myself & respond to on reflex. I can't toggle it at will like temporary names, so I feel discomfort when it refers to other people. But at the same time, it often feels...surreal, not in a good way. Sometimes I get the signal it refers to me, but I don't feel any meaningful connection to it. Often it just sounds off, or feels more like a random label than I feel like it's supposed to.

It'd be nice to try other names, at least to people outside my family, but aside from a few rules & semi-rigid sound preferences, I don't know how to choose one, or if it's mentally possible for me to be fully comfortable with a name I consider mine. I wish using random/fluid names in some settings, or telling people to call me whatever they want, was socially acceptable or feasible for me. The disconnect would be expected, & nothing gets too familiar.

[ghostlytuxedo]

Unpopular opinion: I can't stand Chappell Roan's music. Nothing against her personally—in fact, Good Luck Babe is a great song in other circumstances—but if I hear that or (especially) Pink Pony Club (an already repetitive song) playing at Pride-related events or in public one more time, I might actually be sick. I can't handle hearing one thing over & over again wherever I go. I thought we learned this lesson with Christmas music.

[ghostlytuxedo]

Whenever I need to wake up on time for something, I have dreams where I wake up hours later & freak out because I missed my alarm. Then I wake up & it's, like, 4am.

I don't know if those dreams are meant to make me grumpy or relieved.

[ghostlytuxedo]

The World Trigger english dub is the best worst thing I've ever heard, & I hope it got appreciation for that. I genuinely think it'd feel out of place if it was "better." It has so 'early 2000s' vibes, in all the best ways.

[slumbernot]

and we (ME) STAY WINNING 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

[catboyspells]

I love Lilo And Stitch bc even though it makes me sad David just goes and blames what he thinks is a normal dog for making things worse for Nani and Lilo and it’s constantly funny to me

[catboyspells]

YOU DID THIS

[shammerham]

Just so we know just exactly David was dealing with. 

[raeloganthesonic06fangirl]

It honestly never occurred to me that Stitch could have been mistaken for a French Bulldog by everyone

I really have been just accepting that Lilo’s cover story “Stitch used to be a collie ‘til he got run over” as the story everyone accepted.

[dubiousculturalartifact]

yeah in David’s defense, “Nani’s chaotic little sister brought a dog home and then immediately dyed the poor thing bright blue” is not an unreasonable assumption

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

Supervillains announcing their plans is actually a union thing so they can’t be sued for damages someone else may commit at the same time

[ulrikavolf16]

“No, Your Honor. I clearly stated that I would be using my freeze ray to weaken and shatter the federal bank vault door. As my "weapon”, as you call it, was only designed to create cold, I cannot be held accountable for this woman’s burn injuries, clearly caused by another supervillain’s lava gun.“

"You are certain that it was another’s device that caused this woman’s injuries?”

“Yes Your Honor. Witnessed it myself.”

“Tell me the name of this other supervillan.”

“No ma'am. Union code: Snitches get stitches.”