the myths and legends of old

-various little blorbo guys running rampant in my head-mostly reblogs-18 yo-

[myfictionalfables]

Intro ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

Been here for awhile so I thought I should do this :] you can call me fable(s), or by my full legal name (myfictionalfables) if you’re silly like that

DNI proshippers, bigots of any kind, terfs etc.

Secondary art blog @theartoffables

Mostly just reblogs, I don’t post my thoughts much (or at all) :]

[aqueerkettleofish]

For those who have missed it, a tourist in Hawaii decided it would be fun to chuck a rock (a BIG rock) at a monk seal. He missed, but he was captured on video, and when told it was illegal to interfere with them, said "I'm rich, I can pay the fine."

Is the best part that he got doxxed? No.

Is the best part that he got tracked down by a local and beaten? No.

Arrested on state at federal charges, looking at up to 5 years and 50K? Nope.

The best part is the local city council's reaction.

And the best part of that is the look on the attorney's face.

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[singse]

being upset about artists rightfully wanting to be credited in a visible place if you use their work in headers for your fic is so very wild.

[singse]

they made the argument about how since fan art is drawn from a piece of media that isn't the artist's own property then why should they have to credit since it's stolen property.

...people really are kind of...stupid, y'know? because by that logic, if you write a fic and i plagiarise it then it's not wrong for me to do because you wrote a fic based on someone else's intellectual property. 🤷🏾‍♀️ so it's not yours. 🤷🏾‍♀️

see how stupid that sounds? 😐

[bae-fong]

and avoiding to put credit because it'll "ruin the aesthetic of your post" is childish stinky aura highschool behavior. grow up. credit these artists, or don't use their art at all.

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[e-wifey-deactivated20201128]

people understand that Spanish speakers speak different dialects of the Spanish language but don’t understand that black people speak a dialect of the English language

[yellowjuice-deactivated20190512]

saw a variation of this conversation on twitter earlier

[brainstatic]

I just want to state for the record that this is completely uncontroversial among linguists. It’s the first day of sociolinguistics class.

[samcormac]

what’s the rush?

[rainwasheseverythingaway]

The time will pass anyway

[546potspansnroaches]

"what yaoi, question?"

[heavensenthousepet]

you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old

[melonisopod]

[catsdelightful-deactivated20240]

Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.

Anyway, go check it out. I just wanted to save it and share it because I didn’t know how much I didn’t know!

[misslunarose]

This is an amazing resource, not only for artists, but for writers too! I love this!

{ID - tweet from @/Iron_Spike that reads, “Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread. Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but arent confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair. END ID}

[obi-mom-kenobi]

I noticed in the comments that some people can’t see the thread, so I took screenshots for y'all!

More will come in reblogs, since tumblr has an image limit

[obi-mom-kenobi]

[jamiegeode]

@creatingblackcharacters !!!

[d1s4strous]

i NEED to know how the conversation went before Season 3 Episode 5 Buffalord Soldier

[beifong-brainrot]

Always kinda thinking about the phenomena of what I'm calling 'left behind girls' who are extremely young girl antagonists who are utilised by an older male antagonist (often a father), who very clearly require help, yet are not given any of it, especially in comparison to characters adjacent to them, such as siblings (often brothers). Most often they also have a distant/neglectful mother and seem to carry characteristics of the hyperfeminine "mean girl" character archetype and they often have this weird madonna/whore thing with a female protagonist. Havent yet found a way to fully articulate how I feel about all the characters on this list but I knkw there are more. Like Susan Pevensie from Narnia for example.

They all Haunt me.

[silvaerial]

Patron Saints of One-Way Trips

[scarlct-vvitch]

project hail mary is insane bc the first half is like oh my god the world is dying and there's alien bacteria eating the sun and there's some guy alone on a ship and he's having a breakdown and the flashbacks are getting darker and this is a tragedy the likes of which i have never seen. then BAM andy weir says fuck you actually. here's this pokemon guy he's here to save the day with the power of friendship. and it's the best thing you've ever seen in your life

[perksofbeingahalfie]

[ID: A tiktok by @ str4wb3rry_sh0rtcake. A fan edit consisting of clips from the show Avatar: The Last Airbender edited artistically to the song "Lesson Number One" from the film Mulan II.]

[wormzandgutz]

rtte screenshot redraws Thought I was going to do more, but it's been a week, so I'll just post these for now