Meg

She/her/hers Tweet @megmotherwort www.youtube.com/megmotherwort My tumblr is mostly about either The Art Assignment or Studio Ghibli

[megmotherwort]

Is tumblr the least worst?

Hello again, tumblr. I logged back in after a pretty long hiatus (almost a year), which was unnecessarily extended by the fact that I had forgotten my login info and didn’t want to deal with the rigmarole of retrieving it for the 157th website in my life (I forget passwords a lot). So I just kind of stayed logged out and didn’t really miss it until tonight when I was missing a place where phrases like “trigger warning” and “social justice” are not treated like bad words. On a related note, what is up with Facebook lately? It’s like eating itself alive and gas-lighting anyone with an ounce of perspective-taking skills. I’m squarely in the Oregon Trail Generation, so I’ve never really fit in on tumblr-- always a little awkward, not using the lexicon quite right, plus I find it extremely difficult to really connect with others-- but I can fake being in on it all well enough. It’s a free internet after all, so it’s not like I’m gonna get kicked out. Anyway, there is one thing I have learned during my time away that I truly appreciate about you, tumblr, and it’s in the approach. I have noticed that people seem to come to the table accepting the value of diversity and a respect for the emotional space of others. As a reader, I feel more room for my own reactions and background here than on any other social media platform, and I like to think that people with different reactions and backgrounds from my own can feel the same degree of personal latitude. Everywhere else, I end up feeling brow-beaten, shouted over, and quite frankly, exhausted. Of course, I say this after being gone for about a year, so it’s possible everything has changed and this platform is as simplifying & polarizing as anywhere else now. But I hope not.  What do you think, dear reader? You made it to the end of this relatively long text post, so now I want to know your thoughts. Does this platform offer hope for the future of respectful dialogue compared to other arenas of the interwebs, or is this just some kind of grass-is-greener idealization? 

[gotham]

[megmotherwort]

Fun fact: did you know that the voice of Jiji was female in the original Japanese cast? I think I would have liked that interpretation of the character better than Phil Hartman's, who was an enjoyable personality in his day, but honestly a bad fit for this movie imo. <3

[aaronburrssexdungeon]

I did go to bed at 10, promising myself a rich sleep. Lay two hours vigil; that cursed one single dish of tea! Note: My bed had undergone a thorough ablution and there were no bugs or insects. Got up and attempted to light candle, but in vain; had flint and matches but only some shreds of punk which would not catch. Recollected a gun which I had on my late journey; filled the pan with powder and was just going to flash it when it occurred that though I had not loaded it someone else might; tried and found in it a very heavy charge! What a fine alarm it would have made if I had fired! Then poured out some powder on a piece of paper, put the shreds of punk with it and after fifty essays succeeded in firing the powder ; but it being dark, had put more powder than intended; my shirt caught fire, the papers on my table caught fire, burnt my fingers to a blister (the left hand, fortunately); it seemed like a general conflagration. Succeeded, however, in lighting my candle and passed the night till 5 this morning in smoking, reading, and writing this.

The Private Journal of Aaron Burr, August, 1809, attempting to light a candle with a gun and accidentally setting himself on fire (via aaronburrssexdungeon)

#THE QUESTION REMAINS HAS AARON BURR EVER SUCCEEDED AT ANYTHING???

(via gwenfrankenstien)

[sdzoo]

The coconut crab is the largest land-living arthropod in the world. pic: Brian Connolly

[ta2dlibrarian]

Two of my favorite things: libraries and art.

http://magazine.good.is/articles/artist-design-miniature-libraries-make-literacy-open

[userlobbying]

Airbnb ad campaign, as part of $8M campaign fighting Proposition F in San Francisco, highlights $12M the company contributes to the city in hotel taxes. The ad campaign backfires nearly immediately.

Photos by @jessamyn @jden415 @fineplanner and @mbridegam

[aprettyfire]

[mirkokosmos]

by Emerson Tung

[oliviawhen]

A solid way to accept someone’s feelings.

[roachpatrol]

i’m gonna die still laughing at this

[montagemode]

I gleefully showed this to at least four people and nobody got the joke so

[megmotherwort]

Heading into the castle.

[ghiblli-deactivated20150919]

The food in Howl’s Moving Castle

[roronoa-deactivated20180902]

[megmotherwort]

waiting waiting

[mirkokosmos]

Solar Plasma Tornado

A small, but complex mass of solar material gyrated and spun about over the course of 40 hours above the surface of the sun on Sept. 1-3, 2015. It was stretched and pulled back and forth by powerful magnetic forces in this sequence captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO.

[megmotherwort]

My #Pathfinder Half-Orc Ranger. She's a badass.

[wilwheaton]

I'm starting as a n00b GM for me and two of my girlfriends. We are using 3.5 rules. Any tips to starting your first campaign?

Never let the rules get in the way of the story.

[geekandsundry]

New Post has been published on http://geekandsundry.com/fandoms-give-back-by-channeling-passion-into-charities/

Fandoms Give Back By Channeling Passion Into Charities

Fandoms are typically known for their passionate reactions to anything related to their TV show, film and/or genre of obsession. But they can do more than bring people together to celebrate a common love. They also leverage enthusiastic audiences to impact the world in positive ways. In recent ye…

[theycantalk]

Shark Rescue 

[wilwheaton]

The villain is the hero of his own story.