Terminal Pancake Velocity

Cats, science fiction, dad jokes and weirdness. Oh and knitting! They/them. My Ao3 is here.

[sufficientlylargen]

"Benedict Cumberbatch!" Cry out the tumblfolk, "Silliest dactylic Name you could hear!"

Critical oversight - Lost to obscurity, Engelbert Humperdinck Sheds one small tear.

[lady-halibuts-chambers]

[sclappin]

How convenient it is to attach small, useful objects to your clothes at waist level

[a-book-of-creatures]

The author must have been eating woodland salad, candied acorns, turnip pie, plum-cakes, bilberry tarts, arrowroot shortbread, and glazed maple shoots, and drinking flagons of October ale and raspberry cordial when they wrote this

[romanceyourdemons]

guy currently hurtling toward a migraine at a rate that would impress most astrophysicists: i wonder wgat is happening in my beautiful telephone

[the-catholic-inkling-deactivate]

My hobbies include reading, writing and doing neither of those things

[higgsboshark]

been hearing a weird clicking noise for a while and finally tracked it down to a loose switchplate over some kind of construction hole (landlord special)

first thought: OMG what if there’s a guy in there slowly unscrewing it from the inside to sneak into my house at night

second thought: well, he’d have to be about two inches tall

third thought: that Borrower-ass bitch better start paying rent

[queerliblib]

it’s a beautiful day to check out a book from the library

[meeliesaysno]

its a beautiful day to return a book to the library unread after it auto renews 3 times

[ksfoxwald]

The library says thank you for boosting our circulation stats and the book will still be here later if you want it another time <3

[ithasteeth]

I LOVE LIBRARY

[queerliblib]

WE LOVE LIBRARY USERS

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

I'm probably never going to find it again, but there was a response to one of those "artworks we think we can make" posts that was like "Okay, go for it." Like, dead serious.

Are you going to come out of it with a Klein-level work? No. Dude was bonkers skilled. But I am here to tell you that if you've ever gone to Home Depot and shuffled through paint chips and been like "God, this is such a gorgeous color, I fucking love this color" and then immediately been like "...but I can't imagine painting a wall with it." and bought a can of soul-killing eggshell off-white or what the fuck ever, you absolutely can go pick up a $10 canvas from a craftstore and a $5 sample of that color and just hang 6 square feet of it on a wall and enjoy the fuck out of it.

For real, buds. If you see an artwork and you're like "Shit, I could have made that," that is a reminder that god can't stop you and probably neither can science.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

in every sport it is important to pick a team that is good (and full of lesbians) and then also pick a team that sucks but is full of heart (and also lesbians)

[intrepidheroine]

Maybe THIS new knitting project will fix me.

[peniswizard69]

Oh so when your mom puts a little bit of her heart in every meal that's fine, but when I, Harrowhark the First,

[wizardlyghost]

ok when i said i pray the tomb is shut forever i didn't mean with the fourth book still inside

[aubryjoi]

Read more queer books 📚🌈

[doriangraysrockcollection]

fantasy: Vetinari is so smart and cunning and has everything perfectly under his control

reality:

[andhumanslovedstories]

There's something about lazily studying Mandarin Chinese that's made language learning seem far more approachable. It would be cool to be fluent one day, but I've always been clear with myself that I don't have an actual goal with this besides maintaining a streak in my language app for a certain amount of days. I can quit whenever I want, which is remarkably good at making me not quit. Sometimes I have days where I study Chinese for hours because I'm having a good time, but mostly I'm lazily plucking at this language for sometimes literally a one minute a day. After a year of doing that, even though Chinese is so difficult and different from English, it turns out I can still get from knowing absolutely nothing to knowing slightly more than nothing in a pretty short period. An incredible jump in knowledge with not that much work. In fact, the gap between English and Chinese is so vast that microscopic progress feels incredible. When I have to write out literally any pinyin by memory, and I get 75% of the letters and none of the tones correct, I feel like a genius. Today I almost spelled 音乐会/yīnyuèhuì correctly on my first try, and I wanted to call everyone over to see how I effortlessly nailed two-thirds of it.

It's much more encouraging than any of the "easier" languages I've studied. My primary emotion when studying Spanish was embarrassment that I was still so bad at Spanish. Meanwhile, now I'm like, "If I can suck at Chinese, I can suck at anything," which is very inspirational because doing something really, really badly means that you are in fact doing it. I saw an ad for Hebrew language learning course and had the realization that I could probably get really, really, really, really bad at Hebrew in what, a couple months? The thought made me very excited. I could get horrendous at any language in a couple months. I could get horrendous at anything. With a little time and not that much effort, I could nail two-thirds of shooting a basketball. The sky's the limit, but if you don't care about getting all the way up there, one inch off the ground can still be pretty impressive.

[eerilyquietglacier]