Lorelei, Tumbling

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[ilovecoelacanths]

went to a new optometrist today wearing my squid facts ‘save our freaks’ shirt from @sarahmackattack that has a strawberry squid on it. and i wasn’t even thinking about it but the optometrist walked in and he was like ‘oh what does your shirt say’ so i showed him and he was like ‘oh that’s neat!’ and then i thought he might like to know about strawberry squid eyes since they have weird eyes and he is an optometrist and all. so i was like ‘yeah it’s actually a real kind of squid called a strawberry squid, their eyes are really cool because they have one big yellow-green one and one small blue one’ and he kind of gasped and went ‘oh my god that’s so interesting i wonder why they have that. do you know what their retina composition is like?’ and i watched as he minimized my chart on the computer and started looking up images of strawberry squid and then he googled ‘strawberry squid retina composition’ and he was like ‘sorry we’ll get to your eye exam in a moment i just really want to find out’ LMAO 10/10 optometrist experience will be returning

[sarahmackattack]

Hell yeah

[soychronicprocrastinator]

He’s in the right for that this is so cool

[guineapiggies]

Via cid_dwyer

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[song-of-the-spheres]

I'm re-reading the Vorkosigan Saga for the first time in a long time (I think it's been maybe 15 years since I read the earlier books) and I remembered how much I liked them, but I forgot how feral they made me. sorry to anyone in my general orbit for the next 12-14 months.

Lois McMaster Bujold really did go: here have space opera shenanigans paired with an exploration of societal upheaval and intergenerational trauma, told from the perspective of a family composed entirely of people who are deeply unhinged. A+, no notes.

[song-of-the-spheres]

I think Tumblr is sleeping on Aral Vorkosigan tbh. fascinating set of life experiences that HAS to fuck one up in new and inventive ways.

witnessed most of his family being murdered at age 11 and two years later his new emperor hands him a blade to help chop up the old emperor who ordered it. obsessed with honor and yet is constantly either flung into situations that force him to override it or lapses in his attempts to strive for it. bisexual and almost certainly weird and repressed about it at first given Barrayar's general cultural milieu, his upbringing, and his first(?) boyfriend turning out to be a sadistic sociopath. kills his first wife's two lovers in impetuous duels and twenty years later confesses this to to the next woman he proposes to within days of meeting her. repeatedly escapes consequences for the times he genuinely fucks up - and he knows this! - and gets ripped to shreds for things he tried to prevent. keeps getting handed increasing levels of political power and he hates it so so much. there are several things wrong with him but crucially I don't think they're the things he thinks.

and we never get his POV directly. 10/10 guy to me, I want to study him under a microscope.

[song-of-the-spheres]

Cordelia kind of wins the award for Most Normal by default, but a) the bar is on the floor, and b) this is also a woman who has, in order: risked her own life to help resolve an attempted military overthrow of an enemy commander that she met like a week ago, left her entire former life behind in part to protect the political secrets of a planet she had one single personal connection to, charged into an occupied city in the middle of a coup for a guerilla raid with THREE people to rescue her kidnapped son, ordered the extremely mentally unwell guy who follows her every order to chop off the head of the guy who did it, and tossed the head in the middle of a conference table to make a point.

I do not think Miles got his impulsive streak from Aral, is what I'm saying.

[kellylor]

Before Cordelia ever met any Barrayarans, she worked for the Betan Astronomical Survey, where her job was to lead blind jumps through wormholes with no known destinations, any one of which could end in the entire ship disappearing without a trace. It’s an ongoing debate on Beta Colony whether the ones doing it for science or for profit are more unhinged. She accuses Aral of being an adrenaline junkie, but she’s just got better rationalizations for the ways she chases her fix.

And there’s Count Piotr still around for Miles’s whole childhood, the most ruthless and effective guerrilla terrorist Barrayar produced in 20 years of occupation, and that was before his wife and two of his kids were murdered.

[sirellas]

the most beautiful woman you've ever seen was a series regular on a bad sci-fi show from 20-40 years ago

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[docd666]

Y'all know what to do Tumblr.

[alanaisalive]

Okay, so about a month ago, I decided that a million is too high, especially since I had comments limited for about the first 6 months because it took me that long to figure out how to turn them back on. (I’ve explained that I am very stupid.)

So I posted to my followers that I’d lower the threshold to 700,000 because I love you all and I’m starting to worry about a handful of you.

Anyway, we have passed 700,000 sometime in the last 2 days, which is great news because I already have an appointment with my tattoo artist on Monday. It will probably take more than one session, but I’m hoping to at least have a partially finished version to show off by the deadline in June.

[its-your-mind]

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[diana-prince43]

Choose a female fantasy writer PART FOUR

V. E. Schawab

Pamela Dean

Naomi Novik

Nk Jemisin

Holly Black

Kalynn Bayron

Jane Yolen

Leigh Bardugo

Sabaa Tahir

Ellen Kushner

Premee Mohamed

Tui T. Sutherland

Voting ended onApr 26

[kellylor]

Ok I want to reblog this one to advocate for my choice, Premee Mohamed. She is not necessarily my *favorite* author of this group (I mean, look at it, there are people who were legends before I learned to read), but for my money she is absolutely the most underrated. Like, sure, people are going to vote for the highly popular bestselling writers with TV adaptations of their work, and no one has heard of Mohamed because everything of hers except for the one Tor novella has been published by tiny presses with no marketing.

But y’all deserve to hear about her! She is not strictly a fantasy writer, I think more of her work gets classified as horror or science fiction, but it’s all so good. My favorite is The Siege of Burning Grass, one of the most thoughtful and powerful and angry anti-war novels I’ve ever read.

For a free taste, anyone who had feelings about the Artemis II mission, or that project a few years back to repair a computer on Voyager I (I think this story was inspired by that actually), would enjoy Not Lost (Never Lost). It will probably make you cry.

[spindle-and-nima]

Let's go over the scientific terms for the types of cottontail kits that come in.

First:

Grublets

Tiny. Bald. This is a grub

Scribblet

Is this a rabbit?? Skrunkly

Scrufflet

Usually sickness survivors. They look so scrumply and tufty

Squinchlets (personal fav)

Soft....squinch him

Scrabblets

How are you so active??? Up to no good.

[spindle-and-nima]

Crazy to say in a month I've gotten the full array of buggies

[unclepapamoose]

Same as it ever was ✨

[babycheesecake]

Get petted fool

[vivacias]

What's a book written by a woman that changed your life or that you consider a classic? Any genre, any language.

[kellylor]

Continuing my Vorkosigan saga shenanigans, it is time for a Mark Pierre Vorkosigan appreciation post.

Ways to tell Lord Mark is a true Vorkosigan:

Wants to save everyone even when it's obviously impossible

Wife (partner?) guy

Deeply fucked up

Good at personnel and recruitment

Faithful worshipper of Cordelia

Some of my favorite quotes:

"I'm not sure you're ready for this, but here goes. You had exactly three role models to learn how to be a human being from. The Jacksonian body-slavers, the Komarran terrorists—and Miles. You were steeped in Miles. And I'm sorry, but Miles thinks he's a knight-errant. A rational government wouldn't allow him possession of a pocket-knife, let alone a space fleet. And so, Mark, when you were finally forced to choose between two palpable evils and a lunatic—you upped and ran after the lunatic."

[...]

Having named them all, he finally found Mark by process of elimination. Gorge and Grunt and Howl and the Other had sent Lord Mark deep inside, to sleep through it all. Poor, fragile Lord Mark, barely twelve weeks old.

[...] "Don't you dare pity me. I won. Save your sympathy for Baron Ryoval, if you must. I took him. Suckered him. I beat him at his own game, on his own ground. I will not allow you to turn my victory into defeat for the sake of your damned . . . feelings." [...] I don't want to have to fight Ry Ryoval in my head, or in their heads, for the rest of my life. He's dead, I'm not, it's enough."

- Mirror Dance

Mark said valiantly, "If Kareen wants me to marry her, I will. If she doesn't, I won't. If she wants me to go away, I'll go—" This last was accompanied by a covertly terrified glance her way.

"If she wants me to walk downtown backwards on my hands, I'll try. Whatever she wants," Mark finished up.

[...]

"Mark is as much a veteran of our wars as any Barrayaran I know, Kou. He was conscripted earlier, is all. In his own strange and lonely way, he fought as hard, and risked as much. And lost as much."

- A Civil Campaign

And of course, "Miles, what have you done with your baby brother?"

It's not a coincidence that half of these are Cordelia talking to or about Mark. I wish we'd been able to see a little more of the two of them together in Gentleman Jole. All three of them really, with Cordelia gently roasting Miles to Mark's benefit. Maybe Mark could give everyone updates on his luxury sex-hotel.

[babycheesecake]

does the creechur have any investing tips

Invest in Big Hay

[rabbithaver]

the humble balloon

[kellylor]

I've been reading The Last Binding trilogy, currently about halfway through the third book. And I'm enjoying it overall for the magic plot and like, heist-adjacent mischief, but it's becoming clearer that I'm not so much a fan of the romance plots as I am of Edwin Courcey, specifically.

I did some tumblr skimming to get a sense of the ~fandom discourse~ after finishing A Marvellous Light, just because, and saw someone recommended it for drarry shippers, and like, a) really, in 2025? do we need this? b) as far as I can tell the only resemblance is that Edwin is blonde and kind of mean and Robin is dark-haired and kind of dumb, but then my understanding of draco-related shipping was always that people just made up a new character to take the place of the cardboard bully in the texts, so whatever.

BUT, it kept niggling at me, because I am in fact a huge mark for horrible prickly geniuses guarding their softest vulnerable hearts, so surely I could come up with a better comparison. And then I read the following two scenes, and I realized the obvious parallel is McShep from Stargate Atlantis.

"Blast, I hate riddles.”

“No, you don’t,” murmured Sir Robert.

Edwin reached out without breaking his hungry perusal of the letter and flicked the back of Sir Robert’s hand, winning himself a smile that he didn’t notice.

...

The next few sentences began sensibly enough but soon spiralled off into a level of judgemental detail about cradling minutiae that was extreme even for Edwin. Robin began to open his mouth, then closed it again.

Manning was clutching his books to his chest as if they’d save him. Finally he managed to interrupt—“Stop! I—look, I didn’t write it. It was my sister. Abigail. But you can’t tell anyone. Our parents don’t approve of her fiddling around with spells.”

“Well,” said Edwin sniffily, “you can tell her it’s sloppily argued and lacking breadth.” [...] This was the most amusing thing to happen in weeks: a jealous Edwin Courcey trying to wield secondhand academic cattiness against someone who’d fucked his partner.

Rodney McKay would absolutely get into a jealous academic pissing contest calling someone's thesis sloppily argued and lacking breadth.

Meanwhile Robin's out here being Just Some Guy/himbo who doesn't even go here and then turns out to have a very Special and Important ability that no one really understands. At first Edwin is like, ugh, I gotta work with this guy? and then is quickly obsessed with studying him like a bug for both his magical mysteries and his beautiful, muscular forearms. And Robin is like, this guy's an asshole, but also a genius, and amazing. And anytime he sees anyone else be mean to Edwin his reaction is, how dare you insult this man? He is MY asshole and you are hurting his feelings, I will punch you.

Also repeatedly, one of them almost dies and the other one almost loses their mind over it.

So yeah, extremely McShep.

[ginkgocrown-old-blog]

I showed this post to my boyfriend and he tried to take his shirt off like a girl and 

uh

yeah

[castielsteenwolf]

Out of the 82k notes my post got this is by far the best comment holy shit thank u for being u

[wingscanspeak]

So i tried it both ways and uh

i mean how do you do the first one without pulling out all your hair?

[zorobro]

this made me laugh really hard….

and it made me realize that girls and boys pull their shirt off differently. /amazed

but seriously I think girls just do the cross arm thing because of HAIR like demonstrated 

[wingscanspeak]

So one year, one URL change, and a hair cut later, I decide to try again… FOR SCIENCE! 

Its not science unless you write it down so 

[30secondstocalifornia]

First method:

Well done, i guess…

Second:

I fucked up

Girls… how?

[ohshititsmama-deactivated201812]

I DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW WE CAN HAVE SUCH DIFFERENT WAYS OF TAKING OFF SHIRTS AND SO MUCH DIFFICULTY DOING IT THE OTHER WAY

[iprayforangels-deactivated20220]

I FIGURED IT OUT!!!!!

It’s all in the way that girl/boys shirts are made.

Girls shirts have less armpit room then boy’s do and are generally shorter so pulling it off over your head is more practical because by lifting your arms all the way up you make enough room for the sleeves to just slip off.

Boys shirts have more room and are generally longer so it is easy to slip them off over your head.

but if you take a girls shirt off like a boys shirt you will get your arms caught because there isn’t much armpit space.

and if you take a boys shirt off like a girls shit you will still have your head in it when you’ve lifted your arms all the way up because of the shirt’s length.

It has nothing to do with us. It is entirely to do with how our shirts are made. I figured it out for you. YOU’RE WELCOME!

[prince-cake]

bless you

[wingscanspeak]

look what is back on my dash. Jesus.

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