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[footlongdingledong]

had a dream that there was this new tiktok trend called "scrubbing" where people would take images of fictional characters and put them in images of bathtubs and drag around transparent pngs of soap and brushes with their tiktok art tablets and like liquify tool their hair down to mimic giving them a shower. and people would get into flamewars in the comments of every single video over the types of soap they picked and if the images had decently removed backgrounds and if they got soap in their eyes. and it got onto the news because it turned out everyone doing the trend was doing it compulsively like they physically couldn't stop and each video was a solid few minutes long because they were just collectively obsessively recording themselves fake-showering these fictional characters and arguing about it online

[footlongdingledong]

for the record I have never used tiktok and like explicitly in the dream I learned about it secondhand from a discord server so there's that also which is funny I think

[hellsitegenetics]

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Closest match: Mya arenaria isolate MELC-2E11 chromosome 1 Common name: Soft-Shell Clam

[so-much-to-read-deactivated2025]

This damn site. If I described this site as accurately as I could, I would be unable to justify the time I spend here.

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Moma bird bringing Flaming Hot Cheeto home to baby

The children crave Flaming Hot Cheeto

[madhighlander]

Birds aren't affected by capsaicin so to them this would probably be kinda bland.

[uncharismatic-fauna]

(via Wild Green Memes for Ecological Fiends)

[madhighlander]

"Homo sapiens, the crab-eating ape..."

[uncharismatic-fauna]

*hands u a woollybear*

*holds him so gently*

[madhighlander]

One time when I was in elementary school I tried to come back in from recess carrying one hundred and twenty three of these in my arms.

[shencomix]

[shencomix]

[mousegard]

in awe at toby fox's creative timeline

- comes up with a character named "ralse" while making an rpgmaker game with his brother

- comes up with the idea for ralsei after receiving the ending to deltarune in a dream, names him after ralse as a tribute

- realizes that "ralsei" is an anagram of "asriel" which is itself a portmanteau of "asgore" and "toriel" and that "asriel dreemurr" is an anagram of "serial murderer"

- invents undertale

[madhighlander]

Something doesn't seem right about this but I don't have enough info to dispute it, so I will choose to accept it at face value.

[mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026]

I always forget there are maga people on tumblr, this doesn’t feel like a website you’d find them on, so to keep them away:

Reblog if your blog is a maga free zone because if it wasn’t clear enough fuck ice, fuck maga, fuck Trump, Fuck Rowling, and fuck all the other bigots I missed

[pukicho]

My crappy first attempt at astrophotography on a 50mm lens went better than expected. I got a fucking PLANET in there.

[bunzy]

FIRE DUDE!!!!!

[pukicho]

No. Planet.

[madhighlander]

Fire planet

[bogleech]

Have I mentioned how this illustration from scary stories is probably one of my favorite creature designs of all time and a HUGE influence in how I design monsters myself? I was obsessed with it for years of my childhood and I completely ripped it off for some of my earliest semi-original monsters. He is so perfect.

[madhighlander]

I've seen this image before but this is my first time consciously noticing that it has six limbs, but not the usual type of six limbs where it's four arms and two legs or four legs and two arms, no, this guy has three arms and three legs.

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Wall of Wonder

Artist: Richard Thomas TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[madhighlander]

Anyway here's Wall of Wonder

[doomdos]

[moviesludge]

why wouldn't they

[madhighlander]

Where did you get this photograph of me during my depression arc

[a-book-of-creatures]

Have you seen this post?

You probably have. It currently has over 120,000 notes, largely because of this addition.

Of course it's going to get reblogged, this kind of unsourced factoid does numbers on here. But something about it wasn't quite right.

A bit of searching turned up the origin of the "fact".

Alright, so it's someone who posted this on reddit 4 years ago and somehow ended up in the search hits. And the post confuses the electric eel (from South America) with the electric catfish (from the Nile, which the Egyptians would have known about).

Reminder: this is an electric eel (Electrophorus electricus). It is from South America. (image from Wikipedia)

And this is an electric catfish (Malapterurus electricus). It is from the Nile and would have been familiar to the ancient Egyptians. (image from Wikipedia)

And then of course people were speculating in the notes to that post about trade routes between South America and Egypt. Excellent scholarship everyone.

At this point I was ready to call it another made-up internet fact that gets reified by people repeating it. But something was still bothering me.

An ancient Egyptian slab from 3100 BC. What could that be...

Oh.

The Narmer palette. It's the goddamn Narmer palette. (image, once again, from Wikipedia)

So where is this "angry catfish"?

It's not the Egyptian name for the electric catfish.

It's... Narmer. It's Narmer himself.

Narmer's name is written as above (detail of top middle of the palette), using the catfish (n`r) and the chisel (mr), giving N'r-mr. The chisel is associated with pain, so this reads as "painful catfish", "striking catfish", or, yes, "angry catfish" or other similar variants, although some authors have suggested that it means "Beloved of [the catfish god] Nar".

So.

Where does this leave us?

It would appear that this redditor not only confused electric eels with electric catfish, but also confused a Pharaoh's name with the name of a fish. And then it got pushed to the top search hits by a crappy search engine and shared uncritically on tumblr.

In short, "the electric eel is called angry catfish" factoid actually literacy error. Angry Catfish, who ruled upper Egypt and smote his enemies, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

Also the Arabic name for the electric catfish is raad (thunder) or raada (thunderer).

References

Afsaruddin, A., & Zahniser, A. H. M. (1997). Humanism, culture, and language in the Near East: studies in honor of Georg Krotkoff. Eisenbrauns.

Clayton, P. A. (2001). Chronicle of the Pharaohs. Thames & Hudson.

Godron, G. (1949). A propos du nom royal. Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte, 49, 217-221.

Sperveslage, G., & Heagy, T. C. (2023). A tail's tale: Narmer, the catfish, and bovine symbolism. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 109(1), 3-319.

[madhighlander]

To add on to this, what the *actual* electric eel was called before electricity was 'puraké', which means 'one who numbs' in classical Tupi.

[coelii]

[cipher-of-the-round-table]

Right, considering the current state of corporate politics on this site, and that it seems that only those affected seem to be actively speaking on the matter, it is up to I, the only fucking cishet on tumblr, to drag this out to a wider audience.

REBLOG IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS A TRANSFEM SAFE SPACE.

We need to show these higher ups how much we truly value them.

[lynxgriffin]

Young kris waking up asriel by saying "AZZY I FREW UP."

"Oh, Azzy, you're going to LOVE being a big brother!" Dess said. "You get to do all this cool stuff with them that's just special with you two!" she said. "And they'll depend on you to teach them all sorts of things and I just know you'll be so good at that!" she said.

[madhighlander]

It's because they ate moss

[itsapmseymour]

I can’t believe Trump’s guilty verdict is how I find out that convicted felons can’t vote

BUT STILL CAN RUN FOR PRESIDENT

[madhighlander]

The Founding Fathers never anticipated any scenario in which non-felons would want or even be willing to vote for a convicted felon.

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

From the Wikipedia page on loons

[madhighlander]

The War of 1812 be like