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Post about increasingly niche stuff that nobody follows you for and barely has a tumblr presence NOW
That indie game no one else has played. That show from the 1980s that isn't big in the pop culture osmosis. Your deep dive into Tudor history. A liveblog of your experience learning C++. Your welding skills. Post all of it. This is your house
Sucks how many people were taught that "horses put their ears back when they're mad" but then never taught the difference between "angry backwards ears," "mildly annoyed backwards ears," "pain backwards ears," "concentrated backwards ears," "sleepy backwards ears" and "just happens to be listening to something behind it."
"Horses put their ears back when they're mad" idk man i think it depends
These are all completely different expressions in completely different scenarios, and only two of them are decidedly negative.
Actually, I wanna talk about the third horse, the one putting its ears back in pain. Over the last 15 years veterinarians and animal scientists have worked out pain scales for most domestic animals by taking photos of the during routine procedures.
We know vaccines painful, and by comparing horses at rest with horses getting vaccinated, we've been able to determine how they express pain visually. By looking at horses with disorders like colic, broken bones, wounds, and so on, we can determine their facial expressions during more severe pain.
At zookeeper school we were drilled through the pain faces of the most common lab animals and livestock. Nowadays I believe this has become a routine lesson in all animal related fields, but the general public still doesn't know that this is a thing that exists.
Here are all the pain face/grimace scales I've been able to find. Please study them if you interact with any of these animals on a regular basis:
just witnessed something devastating
guy on the subway with one ear pierced, little gold hoop. other guy on the subway very quickly and subtly googling "which one is the gay ear". it is not the gay ear. visible disappointment on his face as he puts his phone away.
Posters and flyers
Every year I get people making posters and flyers for the Gender Census and they email them to me, and I LOVE THAT and would really like to make them more widely available, so it's time to make a system.
Here's a Google Drive folder. I'll throw in posters and flyers that people send me, provided they meet all of the fairly minimal Official Gender Census Promo Criteria:
❌ No mention of any gender words that someone might want to choose or write in for the identity words question. (So, no mention of trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, queer, etc.) This is a tough one, right?
✅ You can, however, mention the "gender binary", use acronyms like LGBT+, and use symbols like pride flags or Mars/Venus.
✅ If it's for an open survey, mention the closing date. (This year that's 13th August 2026.)
✅ Mention the website address: gendercensus.com (or, if it's for an open survey, survey.gendercensus.com)
✅ You have explicitly consented to me putting your file in there for general use.
I'll include these rules in the folder in a Google Doc as well. :)
there's this book written in the 1870's by an abolitionist minister, Moncure D. Conway, and I find it super interesting. it's called 'Demonology and Devil-lore', and it's basically this guy's theories as to how various deities evolved. keep in mind this is all just a single dead dude's opinions, so a big spoonful of salt is required, but he says that older deities (like Old Testament God) rarely have a clear split between good/bad, and can deliver both with the same hand, and that the later splitting of good vs evil (like New Testament God, who's quite a bit nicer) can sometimes be attributed to politics. because if you're attempting to use religion as a form of control, it's better to position your guy as the Good guy. and he goes over how various demons are just the bastardized remnants of gods from conquered/colonized religions that have been swallowed by christianity, and then makes an attempt to exhaustively categorize them by type (this is where the book gets a bit dull. as an aside, this guy would have loved Pokemon.)
anyway, it got me thinking about how religious syncretism would work in a world where gods were REAL, and so that became the subplot of The Ignoble Invasion of Prince Proculo.
it's set in 'fantasy Britain', which is a land that has experienced wave after wave of conquest and colonization. about mid 1500's, so we've had the Bell Beaker people, the Celts, the Romans, all the way to the current spread of Christianity, sorry, I mean The Goddess of the Resurrection. and she has to ability to literally demonize worshippers of other religions (which is why there's so many fun animal-people hybrids around), which makes it mentally easier for the crusaders of the Goddess to mop them up. easier to kill people if you don't see them as people.
her ultimate goal in all this is to swallow up all the gods she can and incorporate them into herself, because that's just what every god wants as part of their life cycle. and she's had great success, so far!
tl;dr The Ignoble Invasion of Prince Proculo might be an isekai yaoi monsterfucking book, but I couldn't have done it without minister Moncure Daniel Conway and his autism-fuelled theory book.
it's also funny, because when there's talk of 'The Old Gods' or 'The Elder Gods' in TIIOPP, a lot of the time they just mean like..... Apollo or something. it sounds very eldritch, but it's just roman leftovers.
the game Pentiment was actually a huge inspiration for this. I won't spoil why that is, because that would be giving away the game's climax, but it's very worth checking out. also the entire game is styled to look like a medieval manuscript, so it's just a beautiful world to walk around in.
i....found a rare shoegaze tape. legit. band does not exist online. tape is at least 20 years old. This is so Sam
rare tape.
ok ok....track for you from rare tape. ripped by me
I HAVE SOURCED MORE INFO!!!! from my friend who works at an nz audio archive and they HAVE THE TAPE THERE? COVER:
Final info ive put together after i have just looked over the insert notes (inside the other tape) sent to me by my friend:
This band had Steven Wells and Andrew Bain in it - they went on to be in a pretty popular NZ rock band called Fur Patrol from late 90s-2000s, so this is a precursor to that. in the notes they also thank Campbell Kneale, a prolific underground nz musician in bands like Birchville Cat Motel and Black Boned Angel. they also thank "Drinkwater".
alright everyone. after 33k+ notes on an obscure 90s indie song from Aotearoa i gotta admit many want to hear the rest, & as i cant think of a better format to supply this, here's the rest of the tape in this post. please let it stay here where it needs to be, don't spread it like its yours. its not mine either! i now present to you: Clayflower - Still (1993, Aotearoa, Cassette, Shoegaze/Indie Rock)
beautiful and cool obscure music like this is everywhere if you just wanna look for it even for a few minutes. dont let yourself think someone has to come along and show it to you <3
It’s difficult to fully articulate the hold that Patrick Stewart had on audiences when TNG was airing. Between the hundreds of magazine covers, the talk show circuits, and the paparazzi nonsense, the amount of baldness puns editors were compelled to create was astounding.
It was like the media fixated on this man because he had catastrophic levels of charisma and audiences were losing their minds over him (TNG was regularly beating network shows in ratings), yet he was so far removed from the narrow Hollywood standards of beauty that it vexed and haunted these people for years.
Baldness was a joke in Hollywood. 75% of George Costanza's identity revolved around bald jokes. If you were a bald actor, you were cast as a villain or a buffoon, never the hero. And if you were losing your hair, you had to slap a wig on or risk losing your career. Yul Brynner was somewhat of an exception but he was from a much different generation of Hollywood and even Bruce Willis didn't fully shave his head until 1994 (post TNG success incidentally).
In Patrick Stewart's case, there was often an undercurrent of snide putdowns with many interviewers, drawing focus to his baldness over and over and over again with low hanging jokes. It was like you could see their vanity-based paradigms cracking in real time and it was strange to witness. Imagine how bizarre it would be if talk show hosts today could only ask The Rock, Vin Diesel, or Jason Statham about their bald heads.
But karma swooped in to the rescue. In 1992 Stewart was voted TV Guide's "Sexiest Man on Television" with a whopping 54% of votes. He beat out the likes of Luke Perry, John Corbett, A. Martinez, and even Burt Reynolds (with a total of 20 contenders).
The middle-aged bald guy in the syndicated sci-fi show beat out the hottest of the Hot Guys™️ and it wasn't even remotely close.
^ Bald joke
So yeah, today he's an old, revered thespian who is occasionally Charles Xavier, but not only did Patrick Stewart pave the way for other bald actors to be considered leading men, he discombobulated Hollywood with his unconventional attractiveness and it was amazing.
Don't forget that he originally auditioned for TNG with a wig on, and the executives were sold on his performance... but then swooped into the dressing room right after so they could see him without it. They wanted to see for themselves how authoritative yet approachable he came across with his natural bald head.
Now, I don't actually know which wig it was that he auditioned with... he apparently got The Wig Mandate last-minute, so his wife had to pick one out from one of the plays he had recently acted in. Rumor has it that it was the wig he wore in "I, Claudius".
...But this is the image usually associated with the story:
I've heard people claim that they decided to let him go without a wig because they just couldn't arrive at anything that looked natural, or that they didn't want to deal with having to put the main character in a wig every day. These people are obviously just making stuff up without actually thinking very deeply about it; for every single scene featuring Worf, who appears in all but four episodes of TNG, Michael Dorn had to be fitted with a latex forehead and makeup, a wig, and fake facial hair.
The reality is that Patrick Stewart looked perfect as-is, and it sent a strong message. In a near-utopian, post-scarcity society, in which you can do whatever you want to do, be whoever you want to be, and look however you want to look... some people choose to be bald.
The thing about Leverage is that even on the rare occasions where I don't believe a normal person would fall for something, I 100% believe a billionaire who's never been told "no" would. This is the same group of people that tried to visit the Titanic with a video game controller
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i agree with this totally #whenever a mark falls for something i think is obvious #i remind myself: #what reasoning would they have to think that this situation has been carefully rigged through ultra-complex maneuvers by #a hypercompetent team of people who don't have anything to do with you— all for a not-necessarily-obvious purpose— #and why would that rube goldberg machine type explanation seem more likely than the far more straightforward appearance of the situation? #kind of like an occam's razor double-cross #i also ask #why would this mark— who is frequently conceited; privileged; overconfident— be suspicious of a situation that usually completely suits #their worldview? the crew has to know how to play into a mark's expectations to do any con; and the mark's downfall is always that they were #too carried away with the story of the con to avoid shooting themself in the foot. they're used to things going the way they want: #he considers himself a genius and he's searching for aliens— so of course he would be the one to make first contact. #he thinks he's too clever to fall for a con and he considers everyone else beneath him— so of course he would outsmart the crew and win #he's a hypochondriac— so of course he would become too carried away when he seems to show signs of sickness to be suspicious. #we get to see the sixteen layers of strategy behind the con; but the marks only see the facade. that's why leverage works so well. #it's not just bad people receiving a simple revenge; it's bad people shaking hands with karma and walking into the consequences of their #actions with foolish confidence. yknow; why not buy a popular social media platform to become its king and tailor it to your whims? #after all; you're a genius; you're popular; and your opinions are always right. and it'll obviously be successful; so what could go wrong? #good post op #i did not mean to write this much
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Happy Moon Landing Eve! Remember to leave out milk and cookies for Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, and don’t let Michael Collins convince you to prank NASA!
If Tumblr is still here next July 19th, I fully expect this post to obliterate my activity feed.
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tv from the mid 2000s was so good. if you can look past the everything
i like the phm book and movie in different ways for different reasons but one but thing i think the movie was missing that made the book better was the scene between stratt and grace where they're talking about the hard decision of whether to put the astronauts into comas (which would drastically lower their available options for astronauts, since only a very small percentage of people have the coma-resistant gene they'd need) or risk the best candidates being awake and getting cabin fever on the way to tau ceti.
because, IMO, it's an INCREDIBLY nuanced scene, and it sets up an interesting dynamic between the two of them that isn't quite there in the movie.
the way the scene goes is that stratt is having a bit of a crisis about which of these two bad options to choose, and grace sits with her and essentially gives her permission to pick the option she already thinks is the right one, despite the fact that it's still a terrible option. stratt is there to make the hard decisions, to do things that people don't want because it's what humanity NEEDS, but this is the first (and only) time we see her falter in her ruthlessness.
which, on it's own, is INCREDIBLY profound. stratt was chosen to do this for a reason, and aside from this she is INCREDIBLY effective. there's only one other time i can think of where she didn't get things exactly her way, and that was the prison scene (and, of course, she still got what she wanted by the end). but this conversation, this moment, this choice... it rattles her in a way we hadn't yet seen, and don't see ever again.
so the stratt characterization is already so incredibly neat. but then there's also the way that, because of this choice, because of the fact that she chooses to put the astronauts to sleep for the trip, she sets up the dominoes that lead DIRECTLY to grace being the best choice to send to space, even against his will. because grace has the right genes. because grace has become her number two, and has risen to every challenge yet far. because, in her moment of weakness, grace gave her the strength and the PERMISSION to do exactly what she thinks is best. and, lo and behold, however many chapters later, what she thinks is best is to send grace out to tau ceti.
it's just... it's such an interesting detail. the fact that grace is betrayed by stratt in exactly the way he permitted her to do. the one moment when eva stratt might have had made a different choice, might have been slightly less ruthless or domineering or sure of herself, grace says no, actually, you know what you have to do and you're going to do it. and so she does. she does it, just as she later betrays grace, and, in doing so, becomes the catalyst for grace to save the human race.
just.... damn. the layers there, man.
i would have loved to see that in the movie.
its kind of distressing how you can tell a lot of people see popular indie artists and writers and such as like "a Celebrity but one which i stand a half decent chance of bullying to death"
#I've been watching four different iterations of this going down this past month#and the pattern is always the same#I get that people feel powerless in their own lives and have all this despair and anger with no outlet#but it's just wild to see this stuff spread by aspiring creatives#because it's like. what do you think will happen to you?? if you reach the top of the bucket?#not even taking into mind the professional bridges being burnt by flaming your potential peers#(because people in animation/writing/game development know each other and keep an eye on this type of thing)#but you're stoking the exact same flames that will burn you if you ever find yourself lucky enough to have success#you are not free of sin. no one is. there will always be some clumsy stupid thing you said or some unintentional subtext in your work#or some tweet from eight years ago or video clip that you've since apologized for#there's always something. and when it happens you won't handle yourself any better than the e-celeb you're making fun of. I promise.#ANYWAY very self-indulgent rant so apologies for that
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In case anyone hasn't heard, the cyclospora outbreak affecting tons of people in the US right now is coming from Taylor Farms produce. Best to stay away from bagged lettuce and prepared salads completely right now, but especially the ones mentioned in the screenshot:
Taylor Farms Earthbound Farms Little Salad Bar (Aldi) Marketside (Walmart) Kroger House Brand Target private label greens Costco salads and greens etc Trader Joe's chopped salad kits and fresh produce Fast food: McDonalds, Taco Bell, (Yum! Brands), Chipotle, Subway, Pizza Hut, KFC, Olive Garden, Top Golf, Red Lobster, Burger King, etc.
This is not the first time I've heard about a Taylor Farms foodborne illness outbreak. I stopped eating their salads after reading a description of the conditions in their facilities. Doesn't sound like they've improved anything.
We need a fully funded and staffed FDA, and regulations with teeth - and that's exactly what we don't have under Trump. To make things worse, the CDC is no longer tracking these outbreaks. We're on our own.
having a job is very weird bcos by and large your coworkers will be a variety of ages and you will not all be at the same stage of life. your coworker will be like, well I’m off home to spend time with my husband & child, what are you going to do with your evening? and you’re like, well, I plan on playing Rollercoaster Tycoon for as much as it as possible
And you are older than them
