oomen’s other eyeball

she/they six of crows and wicked and whatever other random shit i like

[beardedmrbean]

Beyblade heavyweight division

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This is the most unsafe thing I've seen in a while

[justeliiijah]

@osha-unofficial

[osha-unofficial]

back in the 60s they let you do this on airplanes

[detectivehole]

the classic trope of "what if you went to a town and it was weird" never fails

[cannibalchicken]

[icedoatmilkmatcha-deactivated20]

also

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

Yeah okay Ill reblog that!

[aggressivelybicaptainamerica]

Not a scholar at first, but the guy who wrote Jaws hated that people used it to justify hating sharks so much he dedicated the rest of his life to shark research and advocacy.

[ruffboi-mags]

The woman who popularized gender reveals wishes she hadn't, afaik.

[fall1ngfeather]

(afaik- the woman who popularized gender reveals did so because she had a long history of miscarriages. The reveal was a celebration of the fact that one of her pregnancies had gotten far enough that there WAS a physical sex to reveal. It was never intended to be like... *gestures at modern gender reveals* all that. That same kid later came out as trans and yes, the family had a second gender reveal for that lol.)

[p00pym00py]

This whole thread is so beautiful to me that I can explain it

[my-random-fandoms]

[pouncequick]

K-Cup coffee pod creator wishes he'd never thought of them | CBC News

The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pod almost 20 years ago says he regrets doing so and can't understand the popularity of the products t

[jackironsides]

L. David Mech, who popularised the idea that there were 'alpha' and 'beta' wolves in his 1970 book The Wolf, has spent the rest of his career trying to debunk this. (The original studies were done on captive wolves, and thus didn't simulate an accurate model of wolf pack dynamics.)

Is the Alpha Wolf Idea a Myth?

The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, comes from old studies of captive wolves. In the wild, wolf packs a

In the wild, researchers have found that most wolf packs are simply families, led by a breeding pair, and bloody duels for supremacy are rare.

“What would be the value of calling a human father the alpha male?” says L. David Mech, a senior research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, who has studied wolf packs in the wild for decades. “He’s just the father of the family. And that’s exactly the way it is with wolves.”

[theseventhcrow55]

i'm so anti-gun. except for Jesper Fahey's guns those are literally his babies

[largishcat]

starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is

[menaceanon]

I know I just reblogged this but I think the really important takeaway here is that this techbro is not genuinely asking “how can we improve fanfiction?” What he’s asking is “how can we tap into this massive market?”

I keep thinking about how many of these chat bots are free—for now. And of course they are! It’s a classic marketing technique when you’re trying to get your foot in the door with a novel product: let folks use it, let them get used to it, then start charging for it. You don’t have to look any further than streaming to see a very recent example of how this happens.

And it’s going to happen with AI.

There’s nothing these assholes love more than making money off of other people’s hard work. But you can’t legally charge for fanfic! So how do you get around that? You charge for a chat bot (which you trained on other people’s fanfic). You can’t charge for the content, but you can charge for the thing that produces the content.

AI is theft, and there are a whooooole lot of people gleefully looking to make a buck off of our hard work.

Don’t use AI, don’t feed AI your favorite fic writers’ and artists’ work, don’t read AI fic, don’t engage with it. And if you do, well, I can’t force you to give a shit about other people, but AI is a paywall being built, brick by brick, between you and the things you love. Stop slathering on the mortar.

[jonjos-library]

👆👆👆

[sagekuromi333]

was talking to an ex friend once about being disabled and was like “yeah, the government wants me dead” to which she responded “noooo dont say thatttt that’s not true :( “ and i just need people to fucking think critically before saying something they think will be comforting because what the fuck do you mean the government doesn’t want disabled people dead have you never fucking heard of EUGENICS

[gabeofcrows]

post-ck kaz knows that wylan doesn't really enjoy chemistry or making bombs that much, but he still wants him to be part of the crows' (him and jesper) plans.

he asks what wylans actually likes doing, he tells him he just likes playing the flute. kaz ends uo centering an entire scheme around wylan's role being playing the flute as a distraction.

[orteil42]

I must not explain the joke. Explaining the joke is the joke-killer. I will face my followers who did not get the joke. I will permit them to pass over me and through me

[orteil42]

you are making this so difficult

[whatthekoi-deactivated20260510]

“can’t believe women fought to work!! i don’t wanna work!!” women have Been Working they fought to get Paid you know that right ?

[yellow-cat]

actually hate that the bodys response to anything is nausea. ate too much? nauseous. ate too little? nauseous. an imaginary threat got you scared? be nauseous. on your period? you guessed it. sawed into your hand and need to go to the emergency room? perhaps throwing up into your open wound will be of help

[action-and-echo]

Nothing breaks my brain more than reading anti-kanej sentiment or like “I don’t see them romantically interested in each other” or “the romantic angle was forced and came out of nowhere” or “they’d never be able to get through touching and opening up to each other.” Breaks my brain.

…they think almost exclusively about each other from the very beginning. They linger on each other’s physicalities at points. They are both always on about each other being The Most Important Person internally. There’s such an obvious understanding when Inej says “go on” and Kaz finally tries to kiss her. They are holding hands in the end. Like I don’t know how to. How.

To be clear:

My complaint is about “Kanej IS platonic” “Kanej IS forced/poorly written” and “Kanej IS aroace” etc people.

I am NOT talking about “Kanej platonic au/Kanej only being platonic would be so cool” or “Kanej is my least favorite relationship amongst the crows, it’s not for me” or “I love writing aroace Kanej” people. Even I enjoy the alternative Kanejs sometimes.

I am only upset by the “this is canon / this is backed up by literary analysis / this is morally right / this is the only way Kanej is any good” people. Like. They have fully written a different book in their heads…or maybe they are coming solely from the show and calling it canon. Dear god.

[whimzzzyarts]

Period.

I'm so tired of people thinking that overt physical touching and flirting are the only things that indicate romantic chemistry. People can be in love without touching each other so much.

That was kind of one of the biggest points regarding Kanej. That you can love someone, despite being so restricted from them or not touching them. The touching doesn't mean love, it's only a facet of it. Intention, desire, genuine comfort, yearning and willingness to heal with your partner is love.

[monster-of-the-margins]

I am the biggest turn everyone aro ace person ever, and if I ever say that kanej isn’t textualy romantic, shoot me with a high point. That being said then both being demi is making my brain whirl like a helicopter

[action-and-echo]

Thank you. So so true. Canonically ace spectrum? Not necessarily, but viable. Demi makes a lot of sense. Canonically romantically and physically attracted to each other? Yes. That’s undeniable. That’s the text. “He wanted to—he wanted.”

Kanej working towards romantic and physical intimacy is just one of the most powerful points of their stories. It is absolutely a central strain of the novels. They both come from extreme situations that made all intimacy so impossible for them. Them experiencing full on attraction to each other and working on trust and messing up and getting scared is the point. Healing is messy but it’s about hope. They get there.

A story about people like them who have no romantic or sexual interest in others, who only make progress because of letting in their friends, that’s valid. It could be very powerful in its own right. That’s just not what happens with (canonical) Kanej.

[shastafirecracker]

eridian children in Grace’s class interested but slightly disappointed to learn that much earth life is bilaterally symmetrical with even numbers of limbs

Grace going “oh!! But!” and teaching them about starfish, to their absolute delight

new eridian schoolchild trend of starfishing aka flopping flat down with all legs out and moving by wiggling and squirming around, giggling. parents hooting at Grace in despair. why did you teach them this

[sanjalijah]

From the Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo.

[autisticlittleguy]

"Grace Ryland is Rocky's dog" is such a funny fucking dynamic when you think about it

Eridians are further behind than humans technologically right? They dont have computers, relativity, quantum mechanics, etc. In fact, Eridians probably dont even know about the Big Bang because their atmosphere would filter out most of the cosmic microwave background radiation we use to detect it. On a human timeline, theyre anywhere between like early-mid 20th century. Rocky's basically a cosmonaut.

So the human civilization is pretty advanced from Rocky's perspective. Rationally he understands this. On a conceptual level he knows this to be true.

But at the same time... imagine youre one of the first ever cosmonauts to make it into space. Then you meet a 10 year old alien dog who cant do 2+2 without pulling out its calculator. It forgets everything constantly and has to keep notes everywhere, like it basically lives in Memento (2000). Also if it doesnt nap constantly it gets even stupider. And you somehow has to reconcile this with the fact that this dog has a better understanding of physics than your entire civilization does. Like the dog knows how the universe started.

[autisticlittleguy]

This isnt better from Grace's perspective btw. Eridians never developed computers, so all their ship systems are steered using basically the manual labor of 24 Eridians. Also theres no radiation shielding on their ship. Actually im pretty sure half the reason why Rocky is always busy fixing shit is because the radiation keeps frying all the onboard electronics, so hes always building and fixing and replacing components

Like imagine being a modern day sailor navigating the Pacific with GPS and strong hulls to protect against the raging ocean. And from portside you see like an honest to god viking ship. Except its made of some high tech carbon fiber material. But like, its still very definitely a viking ship. You can clearly see there's 24 oars along the hull where sailors are supposed to use to manually row their ship. Also the ship is leaking and theres like one little dude on board whos skittering around patching the holes constantly. Also this little dude is blind and doesnt know about water. Thats how insane Eridians look being an interstellar species without computers or radiation shielding.

Both of them thinks the other one is the completely ridiculous and absurd one and theyre both totally amazed at how far the other has come in spite of it

[applejaymi]

touch starved

[applejaymi]

im sorry everyone i made them hug

[prophecyofgray]

imagine we all started saying previous instead of prev

[fathers-marvel-blog]

Accidentally got them addicted to miiboros