There may or may not be a method to this madness.

Don't give up. Unless you have to for a little while. Then don't panic. CONTAINS: Star Trek, Dungeons and Dragons, Critical Role, History, Current Affairs, Space, Cats, and Etc. Adult.

[medusasstory]

Hello, I'm Medusa, she/her. I'm an adult (30+).

[tonyalmeida]

[ceruleanheaven]

one day i will crack my back in a way that will solve all my life problems

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

from like 9 to 12 i would try to fall asleep by ‘making’ a new seinfeld episode in my head. i would open with a jerry seinfeld standup bit that was almost nonsense (its not like i can write standup like he can at 10 years old) and then it would be jerry and george arguing about a girlfriend i made up with some kind of pointless issue (”she wears bigger pants than me, jerry! everyones gonna know, who wears the pants!”) and then kramer would walk in. by that time id be almost out

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

I should also say i was ‘typing’ out the dialogue with my hands as if they were on a keyboard, but my hands were across my chest like a vampire

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[lesbian-moon-gf]

Girl you are an obligate carnivore

[humedetector]

but her appel

[projectorthus]

Not lovers or friends but a secret third thing (they play Catan together and Stratt pretends she's not preparing Grace for a one way trip to space)

[batmanshole]

crisp glass of water moodboard

[stay-the-knight]

[when-you-fail-again]

[some-lionheart]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[adastrabbit]

[animusbell]

you can't come to my birthday party? aw dang, (remembers it's bad to guilt trip people) this doesn't matter to me at all (remembers to demonstrate that i am affected by you to affirm your positive presence in my life) but while you're away i will die (remembers not to guilt trip again) unpreventably. unrelated to you. don't worry about it. (remembers to express care through actions and not just words) you're in the will.

[lesblackwidow]

reminder to visit museums, even if you feel out of place. you feel out of place because there is an established concept of inaccessibility of "high culture" to the masses, purposefully developed to distinguish between social classes.

take up space, read the plaques, get the audioguides. you are just as entitled and right in being there. visit museums, boycott museums, be expressive about your opinions about museums.

a lot of museums are free, or discounted for youth and students. take advantage of that. check your local art museum. check your local history museum. museums are there for you, they are there to educate the public, not to distinguish between class. it isn't a private collection, it's a public exhibit.

GO TO MUSEUMS!!!!!!!

[theprofessional-amateur]

Many libraries also have passes (sometimes called Culture Passes) for museums, zoos, and other such places you can check out for free with your library card. Ask your local library!

[ladyofthehouse]

Museum worker here:

We genuinely LOVE first time museum goers and will pretty much bend over backwards to make sure you feel welcome, and like you're part of art and history. If you let someone know it's your first time at a museum, chances are their eyes will light up, and you'll get "These are my favorites" or "Oh, here's a little secret" and most likely a "thank you for choosing US!"

Genuinely, part of the job is to make visitors aware that museums are for everyone, and we're all part of this human story.

[delgrosso]

Back in my museum days, I rarely got to talk to patrons because I was an archivist and therefore not in the patron-facing part of the institution. Some of my archival colleagues dreaded having to talk to visitors, but I actually loved it. When I would walk through the public areas of the museum, I'd often carry an artifact with me at random, just to invite conversation. I'd stop and look at something on a gallery wall and a patron would say, "oh what's that you're holding?" and I got to say "oh, this? This is a reel of the original Technicolor negative of The Wizard of Oz," and they would go ooooh and then I got to spend ten minutes excitedly explaining the Three-strip Technicolor process to someone who didn't ask, which made me happy, and made them feel like they'd gotten some secret behind-the-scenes knowledge that no one else got.

tl;dr museums of any kind are not ivory towers – go enjoy exhibits, but also talk to anyone and everyone working there! No one will stick their nose in the air because they know more than you; they work there because they are amazing and very approachable nerds who will spend their entire day info-dumping to you and it's wonderful.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

@delgrosso YOU GOT TO CARRY AROUND AN ORIGINAL TECHNICOLOR REEL OF THE WIZARD OF OZ?????

Please explain the three-strip technicolor process!

For me this is like finding out someone had the holy grail in their care.

[delgrosso]

Ok, I forgot to add a photo to my reblog, but to be fair I was talking more about the museum experience and used the Technicolor reel as an example. But here is one reel:

The three strip technicolor process (and here I am massively oversimplifying because I could write about this for hours and also don’t @ me because I do know what I’m talking about) required a custom camera, which was GIANT and FUCK-ALL HEAVY. The camera processed three strips of standard black and white (monochrome) film when exposing, with a beam-splitter sending the light through a prism and filters to each strip simultaneously.

This, obviously, required a shit-ton of light on the sets in order to get the right exposure for each strip. One strip would go through a green filter, so that only the green part of the spectrum was exposed on the film. The other two reels were sandwiched together and filtered only for red and blue (but not just with filters; there was a chemical process used to treat the raw film for each color in order to make it sensitive to certain parts of the spectrum).

In the printing process, the reels had to be specially processed by imbibition (a suuuuper complicated chemical dye-transfer process) in order to put the three color channels together and make one master color print for duplication.

If you’re at all interested in mechanical engineering or chemistry or just film in general, it’s an absolutely fascinating process to learn about.

[moonlightredfern]

Love this ad. Sponsored by the concept of garlic. And you know? Top tier product. I do enjoy garlic.

[red-garden]

“Do dishes” and “take out trash” both require the use of a spell slot, vs “use phone” is a cantrip, and brother, I am a level one wizard

[theonion]

The grave implications of his vanity dawning on him, local man Ed Paitz realized what an arrogant fool he’s been after skipping the moving walkway at Los Angeles International Airport, sources said Thursday. “My god, what have I done?” said a despairing Paitz, realizing that, alas, he must live with the sorrowful consequences of his own hubris and proceed down the carpeted corridor on his own two feet, watching in shame as other travelers with the humility to board the conveyor platform flowed past him with ease.

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