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sup fuckers (affectionate)

about me i guess:

~\my name’s lindsey (aka lin, linds, dora, eggplant, egg, aubergine, and probably more that i’m forgetting)

~\i’m a gremlin

~\21 years old (i know my bio says 20 i dont have the energy to go on the website to edit my bio)

~\pronouns are she/they (my dumbass hasn't changed it here it be like that)

~\bisexual and polyam (i think) and questioning if i’m on the aromantic spectrum

~\i have a partner who i adore

~\also have adhd, depression, anxiety, and probably cptsd

~\i’m a kinkster tho i try to keep that mostly off my blog because i know minors follow me

~\i only use capital letters when upset or For Emphasis

~\this is my only blog so all my shit goes here at the expense of anyone who follows me

~\i own a discord server for beans. there are lots of minors there so if you’re uncomfy with that or are a creep dni

~\if you follow me because you like my shit (don’t know why you would do that) but i don’t tag a trigger of yours, send me a message in my askbox or dms and let me know. i tend to reblog shit without thinking about possible triggers but i want folks to be comfy so i can def start to tag shit i usually don’t if i need to.

~\i think i’m gonna start tagging original stuff with,,, like,,,, #lin rambles or some shit like that, and if i’m talking to moots ima tag it #lin’s moots

~\oh yeah i feel like it SHOULD be obvious but ima say it anyway: i’m a feminist, i support blm, i’m pro choice, trans rights are human rights, etc. etc. etc. i can’t remember everything because i’m dumb but. basically i try to be as good of an ally as i can be and if you see me reblogging from someone who is shitty let me know and i’ll fix it.

here’s a few things you’ll probably see on my blog:

~\lots and lots of cursing

~\adhd and other mental illness shit

~\spamming of my mutuals out of love

~\batman and batfamily-related shit

~\shitposts

~\queer shit

~\activism-type posts/spread the word posts

~\basically anything that comes across my dash that i find funny or interesting or important

#this is gonna be my pinned post #if you see this on your dash don't worry about it #lin rambles

revenantghost

lizardsfromspace

My old landlord sent me a check for money they owed me a mere ten years after I moved out! Dreams really do come true. I'd like to thank whatever other tenant sued them & made this possible

raccoonmilf

Shoutout to my dad who accidentally moved into an up and coming black lgbt neighborhood and was very disappointed to learn that all of his “new friends” weren’t actually interested in how to use iNaturalist or where he saw coyotes on his walks 😔🙏🏻

raccoonmilf

You misunderstand. My father has accidentally been on multiple dates now with multiple guys he was hoping wanted to be friends 😅

raccoonmilf

Oh bless him

thedankmemes

brightwanderer

Extremely Important Update: in April 2023 the World Bird Sanctuary had an orphaned eagle chick in need of care, so they decided to see if Murphy could live up to his parental ambitions.

He successfully raised the chick, which is now thriving with the other juvenile eaglets!

Congrats Murphy, you made it happen through sheer determination.

(Pictures are from the Facebook page of the World Bird Sanctuary; I can’t link them directly because I don’t have a FB account and the site is a nightmare to interact with if you’re not logged in, constantly resetting and kicking you to registration pages.)

ximen

Update: Murphy’s foster chick has now been released back in the wild!

silver-tongues-blog

nb-nightwing-deactivated2022111

they posted a full version lol it’s mr Stacy’s dad for me

the-fallen-blue

gumy-shark

when you reblog a post because you think a specific mutual would enjoy it and then they reblog it from you

tf2incorrectquotes

theweirdwideweb

voyagevisuelle

This a Moonmelon, scientifically knows as asidus. This fruit grows in some parts of Japan, and is known for its vibrant blue color. What you probably don’t know about this fruit is that it can switch flavors after you eat it. Everything sour will taste sweet, everything salty will taste bitter, and it gives water a strong orange-like taste. It’s also very expensive…costing about ￥16000 JPY (which is about 200 dollars).

or you know this could be photoshopped

but idk

you tell me

meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerlin

this is alexandrias melon (wow)

it never grows seeds but it can still produce other melons (its magic)

it is grown deep in the jungles of peru and can prevent you from aging well into the hundreds

it is known by the natives there as k’uhul ajaw cacao shi-jiiy.

its really strange how all of these pictures look exactly the same because everything on the internet is true

coolstoryrob

This is the Peppermeloni. (seriously gosh just look at that sexy mother fucker) Its scientific name is Tumblrous Pepperonus.

The only known specimen is in a pot in David Karps treasure dungeon. It is a tradition that a single slice is given to every tumblr blog that reaches 500,000 followers.

It has the remarkable property of being as healthy as watermelon but tasting like cheesy pepperoni pizza.

This planet is really just so amazing guys wow.

bestrooftalkever

Patrickmelon

The taste of this melon will always surprise you.

ninja-sex-tarp

I’m fucking done with this site

celticpunkandcoffee-deactivated

This is the evermelon.

If you cut this watermelon a certain way you will find that it has seemingly regenerated. You can do this an infinite number of times and will have a neverending supply of melon.

deltadragoon-deactivated2018111

neenernina

OH GOD I haven’t seen this post in YEARS and THAT is the fucking additon to it!?

amor-moved

ALRIGHT THATS IT ITS TIME TO STOP

thereisagirlwhonevergoesoutpt2

Hi my name is Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Ravenmelon and I’m ebony black (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips, and a lot of people tell me I look like watermelons (AN: if u don’t know what dat is get da hell out of here!).

memeseverdie

Nothing will ever be better than the last one

theinfiknight

HASHBFJGJDHRJFKFKRJ

liquid-geodes

That last one took me out at the god damn kneecaps-

locatescape-deactivated20190801

mandatalks

Someone wrote a really interesting article about why people believe these sorts of things so easily.

naamahdarling

Wow. That explains…a lot, actually.

imitationgod

ahhhh so the guilt is NOT supposed to be neverending and haunting and constant and persisting beyond a doubt over even the most menial of things that i would not be upset at someone else for. i understand now.

imitationgod

i think i hauve ocd.

beepbopitsgt

Reblog to make him lose another 200 billion, like to make him lose 1 billion

tenaflyviper

He's throwing a tantrum about it, too.

I cannot wait until this man snaps.

thefirstanomally

Does he really think he can just...cancel a holiday?

bugkrumch

depsidase

coldcrashpictures

Not to mention Jesus very much did just give people fish. Like, that was a significant thing that happened.

themythicalcodfish

and he made sure that there was enough for everyone. It was a pretty big deal.

pocket-deer-belly

(through gritted teeth) sometimes what's good for your mental health isn't another do nothing day or a little treat sometimes what's good for you is putting in some of the work. Not all of it at once but sometimes you have to finish that essay or at least take the next step or you have to clean your room or at least dust the shelves or you gotta do the laundry or at least put it all in the hamper and it's not fun and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks but you have to because i read a post on the internet that told me that's what being nice to yourself is sometimes

pocket-deer-belly

Are you guys ok you’re all reblogging this post a lot

hacvek

reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

olyia-stories

@dragonpyre any chance you could elaborate on this

dragonpyre

I grew up learning about land formations. Seeing fictional maps that don’t follow the logic and science of them makes me upset

serinos-kitt

What are the most common sins you’ve seen relating to this? I wanna know

dragonpyre

Mordor.

Why is the mountain range square. How did the mountain range form. Why is there one singular volcano in the center. Why does it act like a composite volcano but have magma that acts like it’s from a shield. If it’s hotspot based volcanic activity why is there only one volcano.

And then the misty mountains!!!! Why isn’t there a rain shadow!! And why is there a FOREST where the rain shadow should be!!!!!!!!

serinos-kitt

So what is a rain shadow?

lethalbutterfly

Wind blows clouds in from the sea, but mountains are so tall the clouds can't get past 'em, so you get deserts on the windward side of mountain ranges because clouds can't get there to water the land, or do so only very rarely.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Oh yeah nothing is more annoying than fantasy maps that can't get mountains, rivers and rain shadows right.

mindfulwrath

May I recommend my new favorite tool: Mapgen4. You start with a random seed and then add mountains, valleys, shallow water, or oceans as you like. You can adjust the wind direction to make wind shadows off the mountains fall where you want. You can adjust overall raininess to make the rivers larger or smaller, or have more or fewer tributaries. It works best for small, isolated landmasses (think islands more than continents) but as there’s no scale bar and it’s all slightly abstracted anyway you can do whatever you want with it. I’ve only just started playing with it but it’s SO FUN.

jeanjauthor

I do think this could be useful for writers! ...Caveat, if you're going to use this for making a map for anything published (digital or paper, even if it's only in a fanfic archive or whatever), please, please credit the creator and their program as how you made that map! The more ways information like this gets out there, the more useful it'll be to other writers, roleplaying game DMs/GMs, creators, etc.

oh-opossum

One of my favourites for mapping plates, biomes, etc is Tectonics.js. If you're familiar with how tectonics shape a planet, you can guess where the features go by toggling plates, crust thickness, etc. Between Mapgen4 and Tectonics.js, we've got some pretty sweet tools at our disposal.

brehaaorgana

More stuff!:

European Geosciences Union Blog — Beyond Tectonics: Building fictional worlds to better understand our own

Reshaping Reality's Worldbuilding Tips

Worldbuilding pasta's series, An Apple Pie from Scratch also check their resources page!

R/worldbuilding's Reading List. Also check out their collected resources link. This basic geology guide from 11 years ago is still nice.

Creating an Earth-Like Planet, and The Climate Cookbook (aka Geoff's Climate Cookbook) technically the climate cookbook is a part of Creating an Earth like Planet I think.

Related: Worldbuilding Workshop's "Working Out Climates Using Geoff’s Climate Cookbook." Which goes through using the resource in order to map make. Also just the Worldbuilding Workshop in General.

Madeline James Writes's Worldbuilding Guide

Worldbuilding 101 (this links to the Biomes section but there's like...everything.)

Also I would recommend looking into Landscape Archaeology as well! That's because Landscape archeology is basically adding the social/cultural layer on top of all that geology and geography. Environments change when communities live in them, and communities likewise adapt to various environments.

This is a short free introduction to the concept: "Notes on Landscape Archaeology." To summarize, Landscape archaeology sort of like...studies the relation of people to places/spaces (that is, landscapes) in time.

Also this paper [An Archeology of Landscapes] breaks down/introduces the key concepts that I learned which is first that you can form the "construct paradigm" of a landscape from settlement ecology, ritual landscapes, and ethnic landscapes.

And then the highlights of their summary of what constitutes defining a landscape:

Landscapes are not synonymous with natural environments. Landscapes are synthetic (Jackson, 1984, p. 156), with cultural systems structuring and organizing peoples’ interactions with their natural environments ...

Landscapes are worlds of cultural product ... Through their daily activities, beliefs, and values, communities transform physical spaces into meaningful places. ...

Landscapes are the arena for all of a community’s activities. Thus landscapes not only are constructs of human populations but they also are the milieu in which those populations survive and sustain themselves. A landscape’s domain involves patterning in both within-place and between-place contexts ...

Landscapes are dynamic constructions, with each community and each generation imposing its own cognitive map on an anthropogenic world of interconnected morphology, arrangement, and coherent meaning ...

Basically a "landscape" is made by a community living in an environment. Once you have a geological environment that makes sense, landscape archaeology is like... Basically how I feel confident knowing where trade routes would be on a map, where there are areas of continual high conflict, what kinds of agriculture exists where, etc. once the geological stuff is hammered out, it's like...I know how that would influence the local cultures and vice versa. At that point, it's easy to start marking the natural borders, settlements, trade/port cities, and even strategic fortresses. If you have properly put rivers on a map, then marking your port cities is effortless, basically.

Also:

This course syllabus for a Landscape Archaeology class is freely accessible. It includes an online resources page.

Place, Landscape, and Environment: Anthropological Archaeology in 2009

(Landscape Biographies is open access, as is Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science: From a Multi- to an Interdisciplinary Approach. But I wouldn't try to read every essay.)

dedicatedfollower467

If you are like me and find it helpful to have video reference for a process/activity in addition to a written guide, Artifexian is a YouTube channel that does a LOT of world building stuff and specifically he's in the process of creating a world following a lot of Worldbuilding Pasta's methodology!

mysteryteacup

Regarding Mordor: the being upset with the shape of it is pretty much what Tolkien wanted. Because an evil wizard literally made it that way in defiance of the rules of nature. It's supposed to be wrong and upsetting. That's the point of it being that unnatural shape. It's the will of the person being forced upon the land. Same vibe as big-ass mining pits that ruin the local ecosystem. Nature's not supposed to look like that, and nature did not make it.

Mordor's mountains are man/maiar made damage.

So, fantasy writers, go ahead an make scientifically impossble things (that's why you're fantasy writers, not sci-fi writers) but have a justification for why the unnatural thing exists.

And by justification I mean: a reason that ties into your themes of your work (you do have themes, right? you're not doing a D&D GOT bullshit "themes are for 8th grade english" failure to understand how writing works, right?) not just slapping a wizard did it down on things to make them look cool.