hellsitelurker

[vulpes-aestatis]

Baby sphinx trying to be like mama and waylaying travelers, but all its riddles are completely non-sensical like the ones a 1st grader would tell

[thecactifindahome]

[mewvore]

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s

[shithowdy]

today i took the worst photo of a loon one can possibly take while remaining identifiably a loon

[shithowdy]

loon :)

[shithowdy]

i painted my loon :)

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This loon :) is joyful and whimsical!

[plasticlibrary]

One of the benefits of watching psych (2006) is that in most shows with a weird protagonist you find yourself asking why are you like this but in psych you don't do that because you just saw. You just saw 10 minutes ago at the start of the episode when Henry was putting him in a trunk

[alienthegreenalien]

fascinating that when you tell people "you have to learn the rules to break them" when talking about drawing/painting etc everyone nods and agrees but the second you say "you have to read books if you want to write better" there's a horde of contrarians begging to be the wrongest people ever all of a sudden

[cumaeansibyl]

"well what if I have a disability that makes it hard for me to read"

then it will be harder for you to improve your writing. disabilities have a way of making the things we want to do harder, that's kind of fundamental to the concept. there are some suggestions in the notes on how to work around that but it does mean extra work, there's not a magic solution whereby you can avoid reading altogether and still get better at writing.

[spicyvampire]

The way all the 2020s have done so far have been making me categorically against every new generation of tech that comes out is insane. Like I'm from a technological boom generation, saw the first portable phones, nokias & blackberries & flipphones etc, and the first smartphones, and the first ipods & ipads & tablets in general while still having cassettes & DVD & MP3 players around so I know how all of it work, I had computer classes in high school, I did the transition between home desktop computers to laptops and back to gaming computers. But then they started to put internet in your printer & microwave, everything has ads & AI now and every update is worst than the last. I literally loved technology and they ruined it

[neat-deadandlive-things]

The creature outside my window that has been building a nest all week finally had a baby!

[stingchronicity]

i always see “tag fav fruit” posts but i’ve never seen a fav veg post so rb & tag your favourite vegetable

[corvids-corner]

I have a degree in environmental biology you can trust me 👍

[wanderingcas]

when you get an ao3.org comment where someone quotes fic lines back to you?? unparalleled. brain exploding. best feeling in the world

[pmamtraveller]

Strikingly lifelike mid-13th century sculptures by the anonymous sculptor known as the Naumburg Master

[rvllybllply2014]

He needs to hunted for sport

[elljayvee]

Every now and then I mention this, but if you have Netflix you can watch "School of Chocolate", where he teaches people how to do this kind of thing. You get to see him carefully explain how to do it and show the process, and then you get to watch a bunch of people figure it out and try to learn stuff that is, objectively, quite difficult. High-level pastry chefs fully shocked out of their skins at the demos and struggling through the learning process.

From these videos it is sometimes easy to think that either it's all an editing trick or that it's magic, but that show will show you how it is done, and how hard it is, and how incredibly, incredibly good at it he is. And he's a good teacher, and kind. It's really lovely.

[thememedaddy]

[thememedaddy]

[guiltfactory]

"for my own sanity, i'm going to stop thinking about this!" ← person who's going to think about it all the time forever

[official-keyes]

HEADBUTT STRENGTH OF 10,000 SUNS

[official-keyes]

just kidding. nap strength of 10,000 sleepies

[tvguts]

i think we've done a great job expanding the view of what a child's favorite animal can be. kids these days can say they love axolotls or pangolins or coelecanths and their decision is respected. maybe their parents can even find them a stuffed animal of it if they know where to look. and i think that's beautiful