Big fat load of random.

Action figures. Fanfic. Plastic skulls modeling my knitting. All these you can find within. And more.  And no.  I am not your mummy.

[tsumugiology]

random question:

what was your first exposure to prev and what made you decide to follow them?

[weedle-testaburger]

brb tearing up rn

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Practical Brain: You don't have to get all the details right, it doesn't have to be perfect, just get the story down on paper

Writer Brain: But if I don't figure out all the logistics associated with a caravan repeatedly traveling cross-continent for a year and half at a time the anthropologists will laugh at me.

Practical Brain, pulling its hair out: What anthropologists?!

[singswan-springswan]

@kanerallels

[janetmayfire]

And then, as a born researcher, I find myself thinking "I could write a story set in these conditions" and get so caught up in the fascinating research that I forget that I'm "supposed" to be writing a story.

[blackdragontavern]

"The Teeth of the Symphony: Beethoven and the Anatomy of Sound"

I have worn a pair of bone-conduction headphones almost every single day since they hit the market. Thanks to some bad decisions and poor proximity to things going bang in my younger years, my eardrums are heavily compromised. When my headphones finally snapped this week, plunging me back into a muffled, ringing quiet, I couldn't help but think of Beethoven.

The general public assumes that when Beethoven went deaf, he wrote his final masterpieces purely from memory and theoretical guesswork. He didn't. He became an acoustic engineer out of absolute desperation.

Because the human cochlea is embedded deep within the temporal bone of the skull, hearing does not strictly require air. If you can vibrate the bone, you can stimulate the inner ear.

Beethoven figured this out as his world went dark. His struggle is deeply documented. He commissioned an absurd collection of massive ear trumpets from inventors, but they ultimately couldn't keep up with his worsening deafness. There is even a famous, fiercely debated historical legend that in a fit of grief, he sawed the legs off his piano so he could sit on the floorboards and physically feel the tremors of the instrument.

Eventually, he landed on a brutal but effective solution. He took a heavy iron rod, fastened one end directly to the soundboard of his piano, and bit down hard on the other end. As he struck the keys, the physical vibrations traveled up the metal, through his teeth, and resonated directly into his skull.

He bypassed the broken machinery of his ears entirely. Relying on a combination of his profound inner hearing and this brutal bone-conduction hack, he listened to the rhythm and dynamics of his final symphonies through his skeleton.

There is no grand moral to this one. A broken piece of gear just brought a heavy piece of history to my table, and I figured it was worth sharing. Appreciate your ears while you’ve still got them, traveler.

[mndvx]

Chris Eccleston on that shit let him talk!!!!

[stars-and-spice]

NOW IS HER TIME!!!!!!! where is SHE????

[grenade-maid]

Whenever I see someone refer to "Victorian era-" for places outside the UK I'm tempted to start saying shit like "Han Dynasty era Rome", "Soviet era Australia" etc

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

“Welcome to Soviet America, home of the McDonalds and Cocaine Cola. Long live Comrade Reagan.”

[olivia-online]

The Civil War, or as I like to call it, Late Tokugawa Period America

[melonisopod]

I know this is a joke but this helps me put a lot of historical periods into perspective.

[computationalcalculator]

"cowboys were a sort of itinerant warrior class common in meiji-era texas"

[designatedloveinterest]

Soviet era Australia was actually pretty interesting

[the-greentext-guy]

[wafflebloggies]

aw i found the sequel!! ;U;

[ozi-uwu]

A actual fucking hero dude

[constance-mcentee-deactivated20]

I’m tempted to say, “Not all heroes wear capes,” but I get the impression this Fine Fellow probably owns more than one.

[beardedmrbean]

[beardedmrbean]

[me----irl]

Reblog if you think the person you reblogged this from deserves to be happy.

[actiiasluna-deactivated20250103]

[batbetbitbotbut]

When I fail to respond it's an homage to letters getting lost at sea

[beardedmrbean]

[groovysarity]

I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue

[mrshamill]

everything about this is gold. Er, platinum.

[iamhisgloriouspurpose]

I am this old.

[silviacrossdresser]

From German magazine Lustige Blätter, 1932.

[meantfortheshore]

[moremetalthanyourmom]

Okay but after seeing this I started doing it too and it’s amazing how many men I’ve run into bc they expected me to move

[youcangofindatree-deactivated20]

Gotta try it

[clevermanka]

I work (and walk) on a college campus. I’ve lost count of how many men I’ve smacked shoulders with.

[emmagrant01]

Recently, I was standing outside my son’s classroom waiting to talk to his teacher. I stood on one side of the hallway, not even close to the center. At some point, a man came walking along. I was standing right in his path, but the hallway was empty, so I logically expected him to swerve around me. Instead he kept walking right toward me, got to me, and stopped, as if waiting for me to get out of his way. I didn’t; I just smiled politely at him. He finally walked around me, clearly annoyed that I hadn’t leapt out of his manly path.

Now I’m wishing I’d leapt aside, taken off my jacket and laid it on the floor before him, then bowed deeply and said, “My Liege!”

[mercurialkitty]

I also work at a college campus. I smack shoulders sometimes, but I find that if I stare straight ahead and follow the advice below, people get the heck out of the way.

[songbirde108]

Honestly this post changed how I carry myself when walking alone in public, or in a situation where I’m the one leading. People definitely move for the murder gaze.

[onethingconstant]

Confirmed. I once had to rush back inside a convention hall as the con was closing in order to a retrieve a sick friend’s medication, and I didn’t understand why people in the crowd were jumping out of my way (literally—one guy vaulted a table) until I realized I was dressed as the Winter Soldier and doing the Murder Walk because that’s just how I walk in those boots. I got the meds, got out, and made a mental note.

I repeated the experiment later, wearing the boots but otherwise my usual clothing and mimicking the expression I thought I’d had at that moment. People parted like I was Charlton Heston.

I now wear that style of boots whenever possible. I recently had a man do a double-take as I walked by and ask me, politely, where I had served because I “looked like a soldier.” I’m not current or former military. I was wearing a flowy purple peasant top and looked as un-soldierlike as possible.

Moral of the story: wear comfortable shoes, square your shoulders, and walk like you’ve been sent to murder Captain America.

[naeonnoir]

WALK LIKE YOU’VE BEEN SENT TO MURDER CAPTAIN AMERICA

[retroasgardian-deactivated20180]

[spiduhgirl]

It’s called the Murder Strut.

[elegantmess100]

IT’S BACK!!!!!! I was searching for this to show my daughter the other day and couldn’t find it. I’m so glad IT’S BACK!! I will always reblog the Murder Strut!!

[b3gayd0crim3]

A guy on a bike went around me because he could tell I had no intention of moving. Thanks to this post.

[linkedsoul]

One day and I bumped into a guy while doing the Murder Strut and he apologized to me even though I was the one who had bumped into him.

It works wonders.

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

In case you were wondering, yes you can do this in a wheelchair. Same look in your eyes and let ‘em know you will run them down. Just picture yourself in a sports car accelerating towards someone with the intention of flattening them.

If there’s anything more satisfying than watching Abled men leap out of my way when they realize I’m not moving for them, I can’t think of it atm.

[chasing-asterion]

[seperis]

Walk like you’ve been sent to murder Captain America.

Wheel like you’re gonna win the Indy 500 and don’t care how.

Your crutches are short swords; walk like you can see them buried in the bodies of anyone who crosses (in front of) you.

Tumblr: teaching women how to be Moses and part the fucking Red Sea with the power of their minds.

[taraljc]

I had never seen these updates to the Patriarchy Chicken Game before and they are all a goddam DELIGHT

[marithlizard]

Patriarchy Chicken and The Murder Strut, dance names for the new millenium. 

[humoristics]

The ocean molded this clump of bricks into a rock shape

via

[pochowek]

real life texture glitch

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Domesticated rock has returned to the wild and become feral

[beardedmrbean]

[datclassydame]

Can @raccoonmilf vouch for this? Super rad if true.

[raccoonmilf]

Yes it’s true