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Maintainer of FYMacross and Kirin's Retro Closet. Retronauts podcast contributor. Programming Director for Shatterdome Atlanta. Here you'll find pretty things, fandom things, con things, etc etc.

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Holy crap this is the best thing ever maybe

[oekaki-chan]

Pokemon trainers!

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I’m uncharacteristically a few days late with this, but: yes please.

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Woot, got the first batch of loot for They Might Be Giants’ 2018 Instant Fan Club!

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Well this is a thing.

[guilherme-rm]

More classic Samus

Long time no post, I’ve been busy with real life.

Anyway, happy hollidays \o

HD

[neil-gaiman]

Shadwell’s newspaper advertisement. The other advertisements are there for people who like to freeze frame. #goodomens

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Aww, that’s adorable. (And we saw previously Terry’s hat is hanging out in Aziriphale’s bookshop. Hopefully someone saves it before it burns down.)

[sailorfailures]

[sailorfailures]

Actually this isn’t just for vague aesthetic purposes: as @thunderflan pointed out, this tea is flavoured with rum and raspberries in an attempt to imitate ethyl formate, the sweet odour astronauts experience when they reach the ISS. So it actually literally does taste like the smell of space.

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I... I kind of want some.

[cartnsncreal]

She should have a statue. Not those confederate MFs.

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She was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom in ‘15, and had a huge research building named after her at NASA Langley in VA, so that’s something.

And of course she and two other pioneering African-American women at NASA, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan, were portrayed in the movie Hidden Figurres which was excellent and you should all watch it.

[laughingsquid]

College Student Creates Gorgeous Geometric Ground Designs Using Fallen Gingko Leaves

[madmanatw]

This is my aesthetic.

[kayinnasaki]

So I noticed there wasn’t a good high res transparent gif of the Utena rose frame thing so for no good reason and with no real use for it, I made it.

So if you wanna make stupid gifs you can go grab the resource pack I made over on DA.

https://kayinnasaki.deviantart.com/art/Animated-Utena-Rose-Frame-resources-719694673

[tmbgareok]

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Whoa what, I’d never seen this Doubleclicks TMBG cover before. Clearly from quite a while ago, I guess before I started following them.

[skullflowers]

[gideonseymours]

miscommunication as a plot device makes me angry

if you just talked to each other but no

[squirrelstone]

on the one hand i agree with this but on the other hand one of my coworkers rented an alpaca from a petting zoo and brought it to work because my boss said she wanted an alpaca sweater but the guy didn’t hear her say sweater and didn’t want to upset her by asking why the fuck she’d want an alpaca

[libraryoftheancients]

I think that highlights a good genre difference: miscommunication in drama is frustrating, overused, and just kinda shit. Miscommunication in comedy is fucking hilarious.

[kitsunetamashii]

[howstrangethemusicsoundstome]

Taika Waititi talks about the double standards applied to “rogueish” characters based on their gender in this interview.

[ivarthefuckboy-deactivated20171]

i fuckin love this dude???????

[byzantium-glytch-deactivated201]

YEEESSSSSS

[dinofloof]

Feathered dinosaurs were even fluffier than we thought

A University of Bristol-led study has revealed new details about dinosaur feathers and enabled scientists to further refine what is potentially the most accurate depiction of any dinosaur species to date.

YES GOOD

[kimmywithay]

big floofy friends!

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Why has nobody added the delightful reconstruction pic from the article:

Such floof!