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Recipes for Adventure, Romance, Science, Nerdiness, and other plans you wish you had thought of first. #Who am I kidding #Rarely is anything here original #Hoarding all the posts that make me smile #Or say ooo pretty

[somestorythoughts]

One of the things I really like about To Shape A Dragon's Breath is the lack of secondhand embarrassment.

Because at some point, possibly unjustly, I started expecting the awkwardness of not knowing things to feel awkward or embarrassing in any story that was a variant of "stranger in a strange place "

And there's none of that because Anequs is just, so self assured and refuses to be embarrassed for not knowing things she has no reason to know. I love it. She's confident, willing to explain things, and entirely unwilling to take shit.

I didnt realize I was expecting that till I read this and it wasn't there, and again maybe its an unfair expectation cause I'm not certain when I picked it up. But I love the confidence.

And I love the lack of romantic conflict, because I'm so used to that in stories. I kept expecting Theod to take things worse because I'm so used to characters reacting badly to say "I'm challenging how you grew up", I definitely didn't expect him to react well to Anequs wanting to court both him and Liberty and its just.

There's conflict in media I've grown used to seeing and the fact that it wasn't here was just. Really really good to read. All the conflict is from the outside. Right there, in the main group, you have characters that will talk things out. I love it.

[cassavee]

This right here is one of the (many!) reasons I enjoy this series. So many series with young/new adult heroines put the focus on their being awkward and unsure and worried about what people will think of them. Anequs is just walking along thinking "My people love me, Kassaqua loves me, and I love me, so all these white folks and their internalized racism can go take a long run off a short pier."

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

a lot of people don’t tell you this when you’re starting to remodel your own home but occasionally under the floorboards you’ll find the entrance to an unimaginably sprawling and vast complex of underground lakes connected to each other through intricate networks of tunnels where suburbanite mermaids have set up mermaid strip malls with mermaid verizon, mermaid driving school, the mermaid liquor store, and so on. and many people will think this is a plumbing issue, but it’s actually a zoning problem

[moniquill]

https://www.deviantart.com/ursulav/art/Sewer-Mermaid-468361

[redbelles]

#when the roast is five years old and aging like a fine wine

LOGAN LUCKY (2017) dir. Steven Soderbergh

[da-boy-o-kultur]

The Longer Martin procrastinates the funnier this gets.

[dozydawn]

[what-even-is-thiss]

I like the idea in fantasy that humans are better at maintaining things long term because they set up societies or professions to do it whereas dwarves and elves and stuff are like “just get bob to do it he’s got a good few hundred years left” and then bob doesn’t teach anyone else how to do it

[what-even-is-thiss]

Elf: How have you kept this castle maintained for a thousand years if your lives are so short?

Human: We just train new people how to do it?

Elf: *gears visibly turning in their head*

Human: Are you alright?

Elf: I just realized that we didn’t have to let that whole city fall to ruin just because my grandfather died.

Human: What?

[what-even-is-thiss]

Human: Wait that’s why there’s ruins of elven cities even though you live for so long? You just keep not asking people how to do things? How do you learn anything?

Elf: There’s a lot of “you’ve got time to figure it out on your own” attitudes floating around in our society that I’m starting to question somewhat.

[unassimilatedsoul]

Elf: That sword, where did you get it?

Human: My cousin made it.

Elf: Impossible! Those metalworking techniques were lost a hundred years ago!

Human: What do you mean lost? My great-grandmother learned to make these swords from an elven smith, then taught it to her kids.

Elf: That's ridiculous. No elf would give such secrets to a human.

Human: They didn't. Meemaw delivered the metal to the forge, and no one kicked her out when she stayed and watched. She always said they barely acknowledged her even when doing business with her, like she wasn't worth noticing.

Elf: Come to think of it, my great-uncle always was rather single-minded when he started working.

Human: So he wasn't ignoring her, he just forgot she was there?

Elf: Oh, he was definitely ignoring her, too. He was super racist.

[what-even-is-thiss]

One time I was at a pub trivia night with some writer friends and we almost won but there was a tie. As a tiebreaker they asked us and the other team to write down as many moons of Jupiter as we could in two minutes.

None of us are very into astronomy so at first everyone was like oh we’re gonna lose but there were three of us at the table that night who were either former classics majors or otherwise super well read on Roman mythology and the three of us were like give us that paper right now and we just took turns writing down all of the lovers of Jupiter from mythology that we could.

So of course we won lol

[what-even-is-thiss]

You really never know what random niche knowledge you have will come in handy at trivia night. You really don’t.

[i-am-the-oyster]

[tgatbc]

[tiktoks-repost]

[dokurtybitz2]

This was amazing

[peanutbutterpickletime]

100% worth it

[tsulasgi]

5 Strawberries for 5 sisters 🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓

Cherokee Double Wall Baskets

When I went up to one of the reservations up north I made a few friends, one of them asked me to make five strawberries for her and her four sisters. None of them are exactly the same, I set out to make each one just a little bit different from the other.

two more purses and then I'm done with strawberries for a while 😭

[silly-jellyghoty]

Omg these are adorable!

[sofietrophied]

argentina this is… really embarrassing for you

[stopiwanttotalkaboutcheese]

funniest thing about the halftime show is that the audience seems to be generally divided into "what the FUCK is this/OMG IT'S THE MUPPETS/what in the world was that bieber song?" and somehow all of those opinions are 100% correct

[sarahmackattack]

Oh hey, it's Skype a Scientist again, here to fund science education projects with COOL ART.

Introducing SHRIMP CITY!

Look cool as hell in while talking about shrimp science with your friends.

For example: 🦐 Mantis Shrimp (who punch so fast they create pressure voids in the water that collapse to produce shockwaves, heat, and even a flash of light!) 🦐 Pistol Shrimp (Instead of a punch, pistol shrimp create their shockwaves using the snap of their claws!) 🦐 Hermit Crabs (who aren't "true" crabs, but Shrimp City is an inclusive town) 🦐Yeti Crabs (who live in Shrimp City's sister city, Hydrothermal Ventopolis, where they grow bacteria on their hairy arms that they lick off for a snack!) 🦐 Insects (who are not shrimps per se, but did you know recent research suggests that insects group with the crustaceans?? You may have heard that shrimps is bugs, but nay… bugs is shrimp).

These shirts were designed by Philly designer The 666 Cat!

What kind of science education are you funding by buying a shirt, you ask? Well, lots of stuff, but here's a recent example:

Here's a mural all about local biodiversity that we painted in collaboration with a Philly public elementary school with local artist NDA!

We got the kids from the school to help us paint it and everything! These projects are educational and cute as hell.

So hey. Get a shirt <3

[sarahmackattack]

UPDATE: as of Sunday morning, we've sold 271 shirts. To fully fund our fall mural series we need to sell 1100. Each mural costs about 330 shirts (this is a goofy way to fund good projects, but hey, that's life in the 2026 hellscape babbyyy).

This means we are 60 shirts away from our first Philly Bug mural being funded. So whaddya waiting for?? Get a shrimp shirt!

[larchraven]

and if you are like me and white is not your color.... can I interest you in a plant native plants

or a biology is bigger than binaries?

[sarahmackattack]

This is true, it's all going to the same place

[sarahmackattack]

Update to the update: 12 more shirts to go to fund mural #1

782 to fund the whole project. But hey! That's major progress! Thank you to everyone who bought a shirt or reposted this. I'm a lucky dog to be able to do cool projects like this.

[sarahmackattack]

Just did inventory on all shirts!

Would love to clear out as many as we can because:

Squid shirts arrive next week (hell yeah)

The more shirts we sell, the more projects we can do to connect people with science

[pocket-deer-belly]

making my onlinepresence 1% more dutch by making more words into compoundwords when applicable by dutch grammaticalrules. my awesome new typingquirk

[pocket-deer-belly]

these rules are extremely intuitive to me but if you need a basicexplanation here you go: https://schrijvenonline.org/nieuws/taalpolitie-spatie-streepje-of-aan-elkaar

there's a lot of cognates i'm sure you'll get it

[formlines]

White Raven Feather Red Cedar 71” x 12” x 10”

Luke Marston

[spookberry]

Was reminded of my old monster Cinderella x Snow White story and felt like redesigning them a bit

[silly-jellyghoty]

I support this adaptation. They both deserve having means to fuck shit up if they so chose.

[spicymancer]

Dungeon Mastery