Managing My Muse

One writer. A million WIPs.

[daisywords]

my two cents on the topic of whether plot twists being "predictable" is good or bad:

when I guess the plot twist in chapter one/first episode: 👎

when the plot twist is so far out of left field that it feels like it's spitting in the face of the story we were invested in: 👎

when I'm surprised by the plot twist but it clicks perfectly into place because it was carefully set up 👍

when I guess the plot twist like ten pages before the reveal 🤩🙌⚡️🤯💯🫢🥳✌️😇💯👏👏👏🎆🧑‍🍳👌💋

[raylangivins]

[thadymiller]

Text: congrats on the failure babe, most people don't even try

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[toasthaste]

according to An Immense World, apparently giant squid eyes are, like, UNREASONABLY large, even for something their size living at those depths. the next largest eyes on earth, blue whale eyes, are less than half the size, and swordfish, who live at similar depths as giant squid and have the largest eyes of any fish, have eyes that could fit inside a giant squid's pupil.

eyes hit serious diminishing returns wrt resource costs vs vision quality as they get bigger, so the question became: what the FUCK do giant (and colossal) squid need to see so badly that they couldn't see with swordfish-sized eyes that's justifying that massive energy cost? that nothing else in the deep ocean needs to see so fucking badly??

turns out the one strength eyes that big really have over much smaller eyes is: seeing large glowing objects in water deeper than 500 meters from an appreciable distance.

sperm whales are the primary predator of giant squid. sperm whales don't glow. BUT! water that deep is full of bioluminescent creatures-- these creatures light up when bumped into. something a sperm whale's size is continuously bumping into those critters, it's just surrounded by a glowing field all the time when it's swimming at those depths, visible from a distance-- if you have the right eyes-- as a massive glowing shape. so basically the only reason to have eyes the size of soccer balls is if you live in the deep ocean and your life depends on having a heads up when a hungry sperm whale lurking around

and also I gotta say, the imagery... the huge lurking threat betrayed only by the ambiguous glowing shape of its movements through the water, is really evocative, if spooky deep-sea games aren't already using that to make things extremely ominous then they should really start

[fernicenty]

older study for a bear illustration 🤎

[sugar-petals]

someone ran the pope’s 42k (!) long anti-ai manifesto - literally titled magnificent humankind - through a checker and the result said “100% human”. even as a critic of the church i gotta say he cooked with this one i had to smile

[bearotonin-international]

Blessed be ye Polar Bear Sunday friends

[datsderbunnyblog]

"I asked ChatGPT-" yeah cool I asked Hex and it said +++Out Of Cheese Error+++

[aritany]

ducks for a friend’s toddler

[sayahbayahboo]

One pool floatie to rule them all

[lady-merian]

in case anyone besides me wanted to see it in use :)

[cilceon]

[flythesail]

You should automatically get time off work until the light returns to your eyes and you feel like a real person again

[autistobrat]

scientists are experimenting on cross-breeding a crab and a cheetah; things could go sideways real fast

[juney-blues]

I'm thinking of Symphony of the Sixth Blast Furnace by Evgeny Sedukhin again...

[juney-blues]

hmm okay i'm trying to dig up a source on this painting, to see if i could find it in any higher quality

but i can't find any evidence of its existence from before 2018 lmao

and searching the artist's name only gets me like 6 pages of results on google

and a little artist showcase page on arthive for this guy with exactly 1 painting listed

and a biography that spells this guy's name like 5 different ways

which i'm pretty sure is because it's machine translated from something

very mysterious

[juney-blues]

oh doing his name in russian gives me some actually useful results, why didn't i think to do that

[juney-blues]

Солнечный город "Sunny City" - No date given.

Мир "World" - No date given.

Чусовские просторы. "Chusovskie expanses." Canvas, oil, 1997. Exhibited at the Nizhny Tagil Museum of Nature.

Осень "Autumn"

[juney-blues]

ooooh this one is really nice

Огни трудового Тагила, "The Lights of Labor Tagil" acquired by the Tretyakov Gallery in 1986.

[juney-blues]

октябрь "October" 2009 cardboard, oil, 29.5x39.5 cm

Осень на Чусовой, "Autumn on Chusovaya" 1999, canvas, oil, 79x100 cm

Чугун идет "Cast Iron is Coming" 1976

okay that's all the art this article had, i'm really glad i could find some this artist's other works!!!!

[hotvampireadjacent]

I’m sorry I thought this was America

[arkatrine]

[managingmymuse]

[billiecauter]

reblog to summon godzilla directly into washington dc

[anthraxofeffervescence]

The core conceit of Lord of the Rings is pretty funny. You are a twenty three year old in a suburb of Maine. The little bracelet in your grandpa’s attic has an inscription on it that is the password to the world’s entire nuclear arsenal. It is up to you to walk to the only hydraulic press in the world, located in Arizona, before the FBI finds the bracelet, kills you, and enslaves the suburb of Maine you currently live in

[marlynnofmany]

#the bracelet is also radioactive

[areyoudoingthis]

the importance of being earnest gdrive link for anyone who missed it or wants to watch it again ✨