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Here to blog about random shit I like, like anime and mangas and yarn and maybe even my cat

[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

[pengosolvent]

Edit: the title for this comic is “Puzzle Rat” this one’s a few days late due to having a lot of doctors appointments sorry it’s  just 9 pages, and about some rats… it’s more symbolic than anything really

(it’s completely unrelated to any of my songs that have to do with “puzzleboy”) Patreon: www.patreon.com/PengoSolvent

[mushishiweek]

PROMPTS AND RULES FOR MUSHISHIWEEK 2026

Hi! Thank you so much for the suggested prompts and you‘re patience, they're all super fun!

We continue to make two-word prompts this year. This way more of your suggested words make it into the list and the themes are more narrowed down.

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This year‘s event will be held from Sunday, 24th of August - 30th of August.

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Prompts:

Day 1: good doctor / sickness comfort

Day 2: old art redraw / personal histories

Day 3: insomnia waves / overflowing passageway

Day 4: twilight sweetness / parasite thief

Day 5: teaching hands / silent chasm

Day 6: transparent reflection / submerged wind

Day 7: Free Day!

(Note re: old art redraw - this refers to one of your own past mushishi art pieces you have done, and does not have to be from mushishi-week specifically! Have fun, and if you feel like it include the old art in the posts as well!)

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Rules

For each day, you may use one of the two provided prompts, or you may even combine the two!

PLEASE TAG US OR USE #mushishiweek2026 FOR YOUR WORKS!!! That way we can see and share them.

Just make sure to post your works on the day of the according prompts and not before. (Example: posting day 4 on day 2 already)

Late entries are however okay and welcomed, and we will reblog entries up until a month late.

Feel free to share sketches, unfinished writing and otherwise unrendered works if fully completed ones are not in your power - this event is meant to reflect the healing energy its source material radiates, after all!

Please refrain from posting AI-generated content in this event. If we see such works, we will NOT engage with it.

If you have any questions, note or you just wanna say hi, always feel free to send an ask. :)

[piracytheorist]

“One second from every SxF episode” turned into “One second from each respective manga chapter, with added 1-second anime-only scenes” but that’s a mouthful, updated with s3 moments

[VD: One-second clips of every Spy x Family episode from seasons 1 through 3. The Forger family are most prominently featured, as are Handler, Yuri, Damian, and Fiona. The clips are mostly comedy, with action or emotional ones as well. End VD]

[yihsch]

Mission 2: The Date (part 3)

[Start] [Part 2] <- -> [Part 4]

Yep, that's right, the idiot duo is tagging along.

@witless-winion1 @im-not-a-porno @cyberghoulxxo @circuswitch @xtilminkj-re @y2kinnow @readerreadings02 @godsfavouriteamoebe @a-sociopath-do-your-research @chocolate-addicted @zarastrawberry

[lawreela]

beach outing part 2

(part 1)

[goldenstorm0]

Like, the way I like to evaluate art is different from my family, especially "high" art or contemporary art, and I always worry that it annoys them but I won't stop.

I want to view the piece and try to understand it without any artist input first, maybe title and materials but thats it. And sometimes that means I find things that the artist may not like. Like one peice was clearly a vagina, and yeah I have the maturity of a fifteen year old and giggled and pointed that out. And my sister says well yeah it was intentional thats what the artist statement says. But like. knowing that takes away from the experience for me. I want an immature giggle before I go and find the deeper meaning in it.

Or it one set, I really enjoyed because it was layered paint and dirt and paper and gold foil and I really liked it. And I can imagine that it was something really fun to make. And the artist statement talked about how it was this sort of ritual for her. But it also talked about kabbalah and alchemy and re-imagining it with women in the fore-front and what not and I stopped because like. Isn't like, an important part of alchemy and maybe kabbalism the balancing of the masculine and feminine? And they follow a Goddess, Sara? at least in some forms of it? And I want more info on that and have that explained but it isn't there, just talking about this ritual, and I'm taken away from the art because I don't know if there is some weird misinterpretation here or not. And I'm stuck on this question and not enjoying it as much.

Or another piece, these really cool magnetic poles holding each other still with this eerie sound playing and I thought it was so cool until I learned that the sound was a recording of her brainwaves while contemplating forgiveness and. that's silly. That's really goofy. But I can't really say that because it did bring make my mom cry a little. And my mom and sister were talking about how personal that is and how on earth did she manage to get something like that in a gallery and. It's cause her mom. was the kabbalah lady with the dirt and paint. Like lowkey she is a nepo baby and they have an easier time getting away with weird art. Because there is this weird culture around gallery art like this that can have a high barrier of entry for average people.

They did have a section from what appeared to be more local artists that I liked more. This cool picture of two ladies getting ready for the day etched into two doors. A circle of calligraphy, messier on one side. Two large papers, one white and one black, embossed with this wave like pattern that you can't see from a distance. A shadow box with semi-transparent colors so it changed when you moved. This section was just a lot smaller than I would prefer.

Also, my mom mentioned off hand that kabbalah ladymay have been a spy during ww2, need to look more i to that

[goldenstorm0]

at a contemporary art museum, people don't appreciate my "so I get that this would be considered progressive and feminist in her time but" energy

[lawreela]

beach outing

[justalurkr]

Truncated text of tweet from MrPitBull, Mar 11, 2026:

She kept finding women in laboratory photographs from the 1800s. Then she read the published papers—and every single woman had vanished. Someone had erased them from history.

Yale University, 1969.

Margaret Rossiter was a graduate student studying the history of science. She was one of very few women in her program.

Every Friday afternoon, students and faculty gathered for beers and informal conversation. One week, Margaret asked a simple question: "Were there ever any women scientists?"

The faculty answered firmly: No.

Someone mentioned Marie Curie. The group dismissed it—her husband Pierre really deserved the credit.

Margaret didn't argue. But she also didn't believe them.

So she started looking.

She found a reference book called "American Men of Science"—essentially a Who's Who of scientific achievement. Despite the title, she was shocked to discover it contained entries about women. Botanists trained at Wellesley. Geologists from Vermont.

There were names. There were credentials. There were careers.

The professors had been wrong.

But Margaret's discovery was just the beginning. Because as she dug deeper into archives across the country, she found something far more disturbing.

Photograph after photograph showed women standing at laboratory benches, working with equipment, listed on research teams.

But when she read the published papers, the award citations, the official histories—those same women had disappeared. Their names were missing. Their contributions erased.

It wasn't random. It was systematic.

Women who designed experiments watched male colleagues publish results without giving them credit. Women whose discoveries were assigned to supervisors. Women listed in acknowledgments instead of as authors. Women passed over for awards that went to male collaborators who contributed far less.

Margaret realized she was witnessing a pattern that stretched across centuries.

Women had always been present in science. The record had simply pushed them aside.

She needed a name for what she was documenting.

In the early 1990s, she found it in the work of Matilda Joslyn Gage—a 19th-century suffragist who had written about this exact phenomenon in 1870.

In 1993, Margaret published a paper formally naming it: The Matilda Effect.

The term captured something that had been hidden in plain sight for generations. Once you knew the term, you saw it everywhere.

Her dissertation became a lifelong mission.

For more than 30 years, Margaret researched and wrote her landmark three-volume series: Women Scientists in America. She examined letters, institutional policies, individual careers. She gathered undeniable evidence that women in science had been consistently under-credited and structurally excluded.

Her work faced resistance. Many dismissed women's history as political rather than academic. Others insisted she was exaggerating.

Margaret didn't argue emotionally. She presented data. Documented cases. Patterns repeated across decades and institutions.

Eventually, the evidence became undeniable.

Her research helped restore recognition to scientists who had been erased:

Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray work revealed DNA's structure—credit went to Watson and Crick.

Lise Meitner, who explained nuclear fission—omitted from the Nobel Prize.

Nettie Stevens, who discovered sex chromosomes—received little credit.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered stars are made of hydrogen—initially dismissed.

And countless others whose names had nearly vanished.

Margaret changed the narrative. Science was no longer just the story of solitary male geniuses. It became a story of collaboration that included women who had been written out.

The Matilda Effect became standard terminology. Scholars used it to examine how credit is assigned, how authors are listed, who receives awards, who gets left out.

[todaysbird]

i think this is…actually the most extreme stupid dove nest I’ve seen.

video

[kaiapraxidike]

[tartrazeen]

Imagine you're coming home after a long day of hunting, and the first thing you hear is your seven shitty kids screeching at you for no reason, how pissed off would you be, I'd immediately fly away too

Imagine you're the oldest of seven and a fucking HOA member broke into your HOUSE and SHIT AN EGG and is BITING at your siblings, but your dad shows so you try to tell him the problem but you're very little and you don't speak English and he doesn't speak English either so you can't communicate that a fucking GOBLIN is in your HOUSE and the only reason he doesn't know is cause his ASS was on that bitch's HEAD and he must've assumed it was one of your brothers and sisters but it was actually that FREAK WOMAN who got in, and now your dad is flying away 'cause he has no idea what's going on

Imagine you're a parent and you've calmed down and gone to get McDonald's for your seven kids, and you come home expecting to get cheers because you know the D's are always a winner, but when you fly back in through the door the kids are all still screaming, and it's not even excited screams but you don't know what's wrong so you just look into the camera like you're Jim from the Office

Imagine you're one of the small middle children and probably the one that this HOA WITCH was BITING after she broke into YOUR HOUSE and SHIT an EGG and you tried to be a good host by cuddling with her to congratulate her on her egg but then she started BITING and taking over your ROOM and threw out all your GOOSEBUMPS books and your eldest sibling couldn't call dad so you all just had to wait, and then dad comes home but your STUPID FAMILY won't stop SCREECHING to explain what's going on so your dad leaves but then comes back and he's brought McDonald's which is like yay but there is an INTRUDER, and finally your dad looks around the house and notices BITCH BIRD KAREN IN YOUR BEAN BAG CHAIR, and you're like ok dad can handle this but then you learn he's more scared than you?????

Imagine you're a dad and you just got home with McDonald's and WHO THE FUCK IS THAT IN MY HOUSE but luckily you have seven children and the mean one is willing to fight this bitch and you're just gonna chill in this corner until this problem is resolved even if your other kids are straight-up judging you

Imagine you're Kevin McCallister and you're doing Home Alone except you're not home alone 'cause your dad is home too but he's not helping, he's just holding a bag of McDonald's, so you have to be the head of this house at eight years old 'cause you're home alone emotionally but this FREAK ON AN EGG isn't leaving so you decide to screech at your dad and he's more scared of you than she is

Imagine you're a dad and your child has publicly shamed you in front of your other kids and this ASSHOLE KAREN and you decide you're not gonna take this shit anymore so you tell your kids that you paid for this McDonald's with your hard-earned bird money and they're gonna damn well eat this, so everybody stop looking at that side of the house and just eat your fucking french fries but then that fucking MONSTER starts BITING your only child willing to go into battle so you recognize this is a lost cause and throw the burgers on the counter and you remember you're an ADULT so you grab your car keys and fly the fuck away

Imagine you're all seven children and dad left you with the pigeon again

[goldenstorm0]

Also shout out to that one guy on reddit who found out what a ton of the different cars are based on. Incredibly useful, 10/10

[goldenstorm0]

"oh hey, haven't really draw a comic lately, let's doodle a little short one, something small and easy-" at 11 pages and not done, need to gather some references for cars and generall action help, something I don't draw often. I think it will be 14-15 pages? idk, I've been knitting and crocheting a lot and am now out of practice, but I have brain worms and want to make this

[goldenstorm0]

new phone came in, refurbished flip7 so I can continue to enjoy the extra pocket space. Quick question tho: why the fuck does it pre-install apps i dont want? I dont want spotify or netflix or goddamn linkedin. fucking facebook. pls back off i dont need or want them

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

First humans ever to leave the solar system suddenly drop out of communications and the ship can't be found with any equipment. After one month of no contact their home countries start reluctantly holding funerals for the space heroes only for them all to turn up, healthy, well fed and extremely disoriented, in the middle of Tokyo, talking about alien abduction. Turns out that aliens found the poor humans straying out of their solar system, presumably lost, and took them to Alien Wildlife Rehabilitation before dumping them back in the middle of their native habitat.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#bonus points if none if the crew are Japanese#aliens just dropped where they thought was best

I literally just googled "city with the highest population"

[helicalsymmetry]

complaining to my husband about the video where a bunch of scientists start maligning hagfish when the hagfish is just SITTING there and then ties itself in a knot and it's CUTE and it's just an animal living its life: they're calling it evil! and they're professionals! give me your job. give me your blood. give me your bones.

husband, consolingly: you should get to take their jobs. and their blood. and their bones.

[goldenstorm0]

Sad to say one of the pagoda snails died. Letting the shrimp and other snails eat him, next water change will be a little earlier and smaller feedings jic. But I like letting the system process the bodies, like a little circle of life. Plus I want to keep the shell in the tank, its cool