[jerk-bending]

JB, she/her, adult, queer, 🔞

I'm not engaging with or entertaining bigots

please curate your own online experience

[transuncletaylor]

The concept art for adult Sokka, we could have had Sokka with braids and a cool ass undercut. I'm searching for more photos because I am unhinged and feral about this

[kalichnikov]

“Terf is a slur used to silence us” dang bitch I wish it worked shut the fuck up

[vitariesocks]

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

[vitariesocks]

2 pics. no caption

[overseer-picard]

Star Trek has always had phenomenal makeup but my word, look at the detail here. The seam, the little wires barely visible, the glint of metal, the fact that Brent's actual skin looks like it's the fake part, it's just insane. And not even a drop of CGI used.

[sci-fi-fantasia]

[feral-jackdaw]

Rewatching ATLA and I just can't stop wondering, how come this mf still has a fully functioning brain after this much head trauma?

[muffinlance]

have you met him? he does not

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[romanceyourdemons]

whenever i look into a historical monarch who doesn’t get talked about much and is just kind of a blank spot in my understanding of the historical narrative, 95% of the time what i find is pure white hot blistering capability. a pencil pusher for the ages. a 39 year reign with no more than three hours of sleep a night. there aren’t any good stories from his reign because he systematically caught and stopped all catastrophic good stories before they could start. you shrimply must respect it

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

This is the face of an opera lover who knows exactly who Gilbert and Sullivan are, has listened to The Pirates of Penzance more times than he can count, but can't let Picard know that because he'll tell Crusher and she'll tell Troi and she'll tell Riker and he'll never hear the end of it so he plays ignorant but then blows it by singing along at warp speed.

[classicalangelzz]

liaisons is one of those crazy Horny Trek eps that catches you off guard once you’ve gotten to the later tng seasons because. riker telling worf he looks good in a dress. troi AND riker tag-team staring at worf like they’re going to split him down the middle and devour him. byleth and worf doing “battle exercises” for ELEVEN HOURS. those writers were pent-up as fuck.

[fuckthisshit-ugh]

please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

reblog. share. don't scroll past.

[translating-posts-into-klingon]

Re: the last ask about how long you were learning Klingon before you created this blog.

If you have more to say I'd love to hear you elaborate on how Russian being your native language gives you an advantage in learning Klingon. Is it just about the pronunciation or does Klingon have actual Russian grammar elements or some other features that are reminiscent of Russian?

I know Klingon was created to sound very "harsh" and "foreign" to the ears of the anglophone audience and if I'm not mistaken the creator looked at Russian for inspiration, but I'm unsure if that's reflected anywhere but in the phonology?

A couple years ago I did briefly try to study Klingon through Duolingo, but my general dislike of Duolingo and its methods quickly put anend to that. Way before that I also taught myself how to read Cyrillic and then spent a couple of semesters studying Russian in a language class at my university. I forgot a lot of it but I'll definitely recognize aspects I learned, so if it's up to me you can actually go quite a bit into detail here :)

Just don't expect me to be able to have an actual discussion or contribute to it in any way. Спасибо)

It's about the pronounciation, and also a bit about the grammar too

The first thing I noticed when I started learning Klingon is that I had absolutely no problem with the Object-Verb-Subject sentence structure of Klingon (unlike the English-only speakers, who weren't used to it because English is Subject-Verb-Object), and that's because Russian doesn't require any sentence structure (because whether a word is a subject or an object is expressed through inflection), so Object-Verb-Subject didn't seem weird to be because I could speak in Object-Verb-Subject in Russian if I wanted to (I've actually noticed that after learning Klingon, I was more likely to say the object of the sentence first when speaking Russian!)

Knowing Russian does make pronouncing Klingon easier too, because Russian and Klingon share the rolled R sound, and because both Russian and Klingon vowels don't do the funny dipthong thing that English sometimes does (eg. English O sometimes sounds like eowh, while Russian and Klingon are just a flat O). Some of the sounds in Russian aren't completely identical to Klingon, but they still allowed me to sound good until I was able to pronounce everything properly (eg. I (capital i) sounds close enough to ы, S sounds close enough to щ and tlh sounds close enough to кь).

Also, I just think that having your first language be as painful as Russian makes you cracked at learning languages in general :P

One thing that I did find that makse Klingon more difficult for Russian speakers are the aspect suffixes. In English, aspect is the difference between something like "I saw it" (no aspect), "I had seen it" (perfective aspect) and "I was seeing it" (continuous aspect). In Klingon, aspect is expressed with suffixes (I saw it = vIlegh, I had seen it = vIleghpu', I was seeing it = vIleghtaH), and you don't have to have aspect if it's not necessary. In Russian, aspect is always built into every verb, so the continuous version of a verb, and the perfective version of a verb, are two entirely different verbs. Because aspect is automatically built in to Russian verbs, there's no such thing as a "no aspect" verb, which makes it really difficult to explain to a Russian speaker when to use or not to use (for example) the -taH suffix, because everything in Russian already has the -taH suffix (or -pu' for perfective), all the time! So I actually don't know how to explain aspect (or lack of aspect!) to a Russian speaker XD. The only reason why I know what it is, is because English is my other native language!

Also, Marc Okrand (creator of Klingon) specifically didn't use any Earth language as inspiration for Klingon, because he wanted Klingon to sound as alien as possible. Any resemblance to Earth languages is entirely coincidental! :P

[translating-posts-into-klingon]

You won't believe me if I tell you this

But ghotI' (pronounced exactly.how it's spelt) means fish in Klingon :D

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Apparently some people still need to hear this so: using an 'ai checker' is still using ai. If you are feeding someone's fic to one of these checkers, you will still not be sure their fic is ai because they are not 100% accurate, but you can be 100% sure that you are using ai. For fic. Furthermore you are doing the work of an ai scraper for them. You are, personally, feeding the machine. There is no actual excuse for using an ai checker on fanfic as a hobby. YOU are the problem.

If you think a fic is ai, mute it and move on. That's it. That's all you do.

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Um. Yikes

[tumblr]

🎬 We got some BTS exclusives from the filming of Avatar: The Last Airbender, special courtesy of Ian Ousely (aka Sokka) himself 🌊🪨🔥🌀

[spaceclown-fromouterspace]

This frame actually actually makes me want to rip my heart out holy shit.

Was it casual when i literally carried your soul in my body and once you got it back you walk straight towards my best friend and you barely even look at me?

[beesmygod]

i read this to adam and he just yelled, outraged, "THEYRE BABIES"

[wonderhecko]

TRUE HATERS, SINCE DAY 1 THEY HAVENT BEEN GIVING THEM A FUCKING INCH

[beesmygod]

this is next level

[wonderhecko]

20 years later. you're kermit. opening night at the muppet theater. you look up. you can't believe it. those two awful cunts from next door are here. neither of them died yet. they're going to be here, forever.

[charlesoberonn]

They're immortal.

They were heckling the actors in Ford's theater on the day Lincoln was shot.

They heckled the first reading of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

They heckled the first lifeform to crawl onto land.

They heckled the big bang.

[charlesoberonn]

"They say that time exists now."

"I can tell."

"How so?"

"Because this show is a waste of it!"

"DOHOHOHOHOHO!"