Dan's place

I'm just trying to have a good time these days

[tossawary]

Rewatching the original "The Little Mermaid" animated movie while working on something else... I can't quite recall at the moment (early into it atm) if this movie ever establishes Eric as the heir of the throne of his kingdom.

I think it'd be really funny if Eric was actually a younger brother. So, like, maybe he's a duke, actually, but he still gets the title of Prince. Travels the sea a lot, unlike a more landlocked heir. Hanging out at this summer seaside palace while the rest of the family is elsewhere for some reason.

Like, imagine Eric's parents and older brother and maybe sister-in-law and niblings getting that letter at the end of this movie. Nearly drowned. Miraculously washed ashore. Fell in love with a mysterious voice and then a mute girl. Got enchanted by a shape-shifting sea witch and nearly married her. Killed the sea witch after she turned into a giant. Married the aforementioned girl who turned out to be the beloved youngest daughter of the mythical King Triton instead and have now established a strong alliance with the merpeople. Wild summer! Wish you were here!

[ruffboi-mags]

(via @owl-librarian)

[grumpyjesterr]

on another note, watched The Mummy (1999) the other day and I couldn’t help  feel like the O’Connells and the Addams (Addams Family Values (1993) would get on really well ya know? The O’Connells are basically the pastel adventure version of the Addams, surely they would just be vibin’ over tea and crumpets in an extremely haunted mansion having a ball of a time

[grumpyjesterr]

Morticia: “So what is it you do for a living my dear?”

Evelyn: “We dig up dead people who often have monstrous curses placed on them!”

Morticia: “fascinating”

[grumpyjesterr]

Gomez: *leaping out from behind a pillar which is encrusted with ominous looking runes* en garde!

Rick: *grabs sword from equally ominous looking wall full of weapons one of which seems to be glowing* fantastic I was getting a bit rusty

Gomez: *nearly in tears* oh he’s screaming nonsensically, what spirit! what reslove!

[grumpyjesterr]

*Rick and Gomez, still frantically sword fighting*

Rick: Have I mentioned how wonderful my wife is yet, I really feel like I haven’t really expanded enough on how wonderful she is

Gomez: do go on, I would be delighted to hear about how wonderful your wife is, I strongly encourge all men to extoll the virtues of their wives with rapturous praise, however I should perhaps mention my wife is in fact better

*sword fighting intensifies as both men rapturously extoll the virtues of their wives*

[digitaldiscipline]

Jonathan and Fester and Cousin Itt watch from the bar, where Lurch and Thing are making the drinks.

[lemonsharks]

Jonathan and Thing knew one another from The War; each thought the other to be dead

Their reunion is highly emotional

[burntcopper]

Rick, whilst swordfighting:  My wife resurrected an ancient evil that brought about the plagues.

Gomez: What. A. Woman.

[olderthannetfic]

No, no, and NO.

AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.

AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”

Owning the servers is a core tenet of OTW/AO3.

[zz9pzza]

Warming up a new database server….

[elfwreck]

When people involved with AO3 talk about “the cost of servers” they don’t mean “the cost to pay Amazon for space on their servers.” They mean, like, the cost to physically own them, and eventually replace them with new ones. And the operating costs to run them.

AO3 is not “in the cloud.” AO3 is stored on physical machines that the OTW owns.

While this is not a solution that can work for everyone who wants to deal with controversial content, it is why AO3ple sneer at alt-righters who complain about getting thrown off hosting platforms.

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

I Want Us to Own the Goddamned Servers

Because I want us to own the goddamned servers, ok? Because I want a place where we can’t be TOSed and where no one can turn the lights off or try to dictate to us what kind of stories we can tell each other.

[lierdumoa]

AO3 is what a website looks like when you seize the means of production.

[apofiss]

Some of my black cat / ginkgo leaf paintings from previous autumn seasons!✨

[roboco-san]

the distortion of "there is potential profit we did not earn" as "there is money we lost" is fascinating and disgusting to me. "megamediaconglomerate lost $1,000,000,000 to piracy this year" is a flat out lie. it is not true. they did not have a billion dollars, that they now do not have. they felt entitled to one billion dollars, that they did not have, and still do not have. it's an infuriating perversion of the truth

[bananonbinary]

cant believe i lost $1000 when i told some guy at walmart to give it to me and he said no

[boymounter]

my dad bought a cnc and is going wild

[littlescratches]

No Prablem

[mapsontheweb]

Map of Native American etymologies for “horse”. There were no horses in the Americas before the colonists arrived. Native Americans quickly developed new words for this strange animal, often associating them with dogs, their one other domestic animal before contact with Europe.

[boychic-deactivated20230922]

@coyotecure your tags have me cackling omfg

[headspace-hotel]

Mystery dog…

[cool-ghoul]

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE

[sandersstudies]

The Spanish: Look at this animal we brought with us.

Native Americans: oh that’s a uh. Weird fucking dog you got there.

[kedreeva]

The heat has claimed its first victim....

Just kidding, this fool is out here sunning himself and taking naps.

DID YOU KNOW, peafowl (and other birds) sun themselves like this to kill ectoparasites? This kind of sunning can take their feather temps to 140F+, hot enough to kill feather lice. And he's just soaking it up like he hatched on the surface of the fucking sun. So comfy he can barely keep his eyes open.

[weirdstrangeandawful]

Does the insulation that keeps them warm in winter also prevent them from overheating? My black dog does the same thing and gets so hot it hurts to touch her but she’s perfectly fine for a certain amount of time and she’s also the type who will lie in a snowbank without being cold as long as her feet and belly aren’t directly touching the snow.

[kedreeva]

I've been wondering the same thing. It would make sense on one hand, because you don't want to overheat YOURSELF trying to kill off bugs (I mean, that's basically how fevers work but not 35F over temp, y'know?), but it wouldn't necessarily be very effective as pest control if the heat is only on the surface. I think it's more like a hot shower. I take a shower that's a few minutes long in REALLY HOT water, basically as hot as I can stand it for as long as I can stand it, which doesn't really hurt me and feels good to do, even though I wouldn't want to stay in that temp forever. So maybe that's what they're doing!

[bonivers]

pushing back against oldest child stereotypes by making unwise choices and not being dependable

[trickstarbrave]

[macklesufficient]

hard to swallow pills dot jpg. the reason people don’t like when you infodump about your uwu favorite things isn’t because they don’t like hearing about deep sea ecosystems or anime blorbos or whatever it may be. it’s because talking /at/ someone is selfish. have you asked the other person any questions? do you care what they have to say? would you willingly listen to them infodump the same way or would you (be honest) stand there and wait for your turn to talk? people not responding well to your tedtalk on the thing you like isn’t because they’re normies who hate ‘nerd stuff’, it’s because you have substituted conversation for verbal masturbation. hope this helps

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

“Your ancestors are amazed at all your spices!”

“Your ancestors are impressed that you are an educated woman!”

“Your ancestors are proud that you are thriving in spite of what society did to them and you”

It’s all very sweet! But! Necromancy! Is! Still! Illegal! Your ancestors are going back in the ground!

Stop resurrecting them to show off!

[phantomofthehoepera]

I want the record to state I have never been this hard in my entire life

[smsomah]

Cormorant fishing in Yangshuo near Guilin, Guangxi, China. Christian Vaisse

Cormorant fishing is an old tradition in which fishermen use trained cormorants to catch fish.

[dostoyevsky-official]

i was also thinking about how sensual the snow was, how suggestive the curves of the snowbanks appeared, their softness

[alterugdalf]

[atiya-nagrano]

andraste rly the most fascinating symbol of the type of misogyny that the setting supposedly doesn't have bc she's literally just the virgin mary. to the point that they give her some of the titles the actual virgin mary has (our lady redeemer, lady of sorrow) or smushes titles together (our lady of perpetual help + our lady of victory = our lady of perpetual victory). she's not the daughter of the maker, she's his bride. she is not in and of herself divine, she receives divine visions. she's an intercessor. like. her death positions her not as the savior of thedas who successfully takes on the sins of the world and redeems them, but as a martyr. deeply confused why she even gets the redeemer title at all bc the maker v much did not come back. like who got redeemed. at best she's a conglomeration of a bunch of female saints + mary. baffling.

[atiya-nagrano]

the question dragon age is asking w andraste is not 'what if jesus was a woman' but 'what if there was no jesus in christianity'

[trumpetsbyjasonderulo]

it’s been ten years and i can confirm that everything still happens so much. happy anniversary king

[bigbigtruck]

quotes taken from the source

(the 4th one is Bumpus wanting dinner, friends can back me up on this)

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

come back to me most perfect of comics