"Whozits and Whatzits Galore!"

Just a blog covering whatever I find interesting, beautiful, amusing or important. Or all four.

[kradeiz]

How did this happen? Wrong answers only.

Done for me by @napstachill who just continues to knock it out of the park every time.

Inspired by this, which was inspired by this.

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us

[wire-smith]

I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.

I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.

[dimetrodone]

Eridians

[thedarkangel74]

In retrospect, one thing I kinda like in ATLA is how Zuko never tells the gaang how he got his scar.

It would have been cool to see their reactions to Zuko's story and see how their perspective on Zuko changed. And I have no doubt that he tells them about it at some point. But this way, it doesn't come off as emotional blackmail, with him trying to paint his actions as 'Yes, I hunted you across the world, but I actually had a really good reason."

If he did, he might have had a better chance of joining the Gaang, but he doesn't. In traditional Zuko fashion, he takes the most challenging route possible.

Zuko takes full accountability for his actions, even though they came from a place where he felt he had no choice. Because at the end of the day, he realized that even though his father put him on his avatar's path, he was the one who zealously attacked them at every opportunity. He isn't letting himself off the hook for anything.

[jaggedcliffs]

#zuko is so funny to me because at multiple points throughout the show if he had any manipulative bone in his damn body #he wouldve gotten somewhere #blue spirit? why are you throwing fire. the avatar is talking with you. LIE. #its so fucking funny bc the gaang is like 'zukos EVIL he is PLAYING you' guys zuko doesnt know how to do that. #full honest truth confessing insane shit in front of them. he didnt even gaf about being friends or being FORGIVEN it was abt the goal #'i need the avatar to take me into their group so i may aid in however possible to stop my father' that was the goal. truly was like #'take me as a prisoner if this is the way i can help' HES CRAZY (@ponytailzuko)

[mermaidhugs]

YSO fill 🥤🍑🍓

[amonguys]

Game Over

(Part 1) | (Part 3 (Bad end))

[lettiethepasta]

I think about this a normal amount

[kradeiz]

#bonnie looping au's where Loop has to guide them make me so ill #like could you imagine you pass the baton and make the torture nexus someone else's problem and IT'S YOUR KID??? #THE KID YOU BLINDED YOURSELF FOR? #THE KID YOU LOVE MORE THAN YOUR ENTIRE SELF??? #I think Loop would just give up the passive roll and go in the house with Bonnie #cause as painful as all that is and was they could never ever do that to Bonnie (tags by @loop-lover-central)

[silima]

i made this at 4am and it was a lot funnier then but we persist

[ikimaru]

the "I'll teach you everything" meme redraw from twt ehehe

(ok maybe she won't teach her anything but she tried)

[charlattesweets]

Giving the evil gang their own designs

[charlattesweets]

Evil Marionne ref

She's finally here

[lilianade-comics]

He's so desperate to get a good grade in "boyfriend".

[bluemuffin-draws]

Based off this post by @7-inches-of-satanic-panic

Part 2

[bluemuffin-draws]

Endurance runners

Part 2 of this

[sugar-petals]

hot take in a roundabout way i think that's also why so many of us opt out of becoming parents ourselves

[disgruntled-ferret]

"why can't two women just be friends" Oh they can. Not these two though. They screwin each other

[fallout-lou-begas]

something that i find interesting about independent animation nowadays is that if you don't have studio/streamer backing, you have to release your work yourself on the internet, but you have to do it for free on the internet because virtually nobody is going to be willing to accept a paywall just for one original show, so what you have to do in order to make any money off of it is make all of your money from merchandising, but then this means that you show must be merchandisable and have very toyetic character designs that translate easily to plushies and whatnot, but then you also need to cater your show to people who are disproportionately inclined to buy merchandise like that in the first place so that your sales can be enough to sustain you, which means that even if you want to communicate complex or difficult ideas in your work, your independent animation project must attract (at least on a first impression) and retain viewers who are both very consumerist and very capable of rabid passion, which unfortunately has a single-circle shaped venn diagram with a lot of the most toxic fandom tendencies known to man, and this explains a lot of things about independent animation and its fandoms nowadays I think

[fallout-lou-begas]

why, i haven't the foggiest notion of what you're talking about

[beesmygod]

unrelated but one of the bad fanfiction lines that has been trapped in my head for LITERALLY 22 years was a beauty and the beast fanfic in which belle said “be careful, im a virgin in my vagina”. this has been on the tip of my tongue threatening to burst out of my mouth for decades

[beesmygod]

this one is SOOOO  good thank for you sharing. im going to be thinking about po’s honda civic too now

[hauntedchronicler]

this line from a wolfstar smutfic on ff.net has haunted my every waking thought since 2007

[do-you-have-a-flag]

this is one i only read as recently as 2017 but it’s from a 1999 star trek fic and it’s so good

[darkprincecait]

There was an absolutely terrible Tokyo Mew Mew fic I read circa 2006 that gave me “Ichigo was going to Cafe Mew Mew, but also to have some lesbian sex” and “It was like walking on air, only without the falling!” to describe said lesbian sex, and both have forever entered my vocabulary