Quietly Existing

Raene/Nikki - shadow dwelling cryptid - adult - she/her is fine (anything goes, might be greygender) - ace-spec (grey/anego)

[notsobabblespace]

Book #2 of the Mercedes Lackey Library is Go!

The crowdfunding campaign for the Deluxe Heralds of Valdemar omnibus volume has launched on BackerKit!

Pledge price is $125 for the leatherbound trilogy omnibus in the same style as last year's Grandmaster. Scholarship applications will also be available again for those who are unable to cover the cost themselves.

Mercedes Lackey's Deluxe "Heralds of Valdemar"

The complete Arrows trilogy in one deluxe leatherbound omnibus, including silver and blue foil, six ribs, full-color interior art plates, pa

Included art plates include contributions from Nene Thomas, Rob Carlos, Care Halverson, Olivia Hintz, Dasha Park, and Alyssa Trudel. Stretch goals can unlock up to 6 additional paintings from Care Halverson, Emily Pritchett, Jabari Weathers, and Larry Dixon & Ben Dobyns.

[notsobabblespace]

Now fully funded (in just under 3 and a half hours) so stretch goals will be added soon!

[notsobabblespace]

Nearly 13 hours in and 4 out of 9 stretch goals have been unlocked!

[notsobabblespace]

Book #2 of the Mercedes Lackey Library is Go!

The crowdfunding campaign for the Deluxe Heralds of Valdemar omnibus volume has launched on BackerKit!

Pledge price is $125 for the leatherbound trilogy omnibus in the same style as last year's Grandmaster. Scholarship applications will also be available again for those who are unable to cover the cost themselves.

Mercedes Lackey's Deluxe "Heralds of Valdemar"

The complete Arrows trilogy in one deluxe leatherbound omnibus, including silver and blue foil, six ribs, full-color interior art plates, pa

Included art plates include contributions from Nene Thomas, Rob Carlos, Care Halverson, Olivia Hintz, Dasha Park, and Alyssa Trudel. Stretch goals can unlock up to 6 additional paintings from Care Halverson, Emily Pritchett, Jabari Weathers, and Larry Dixon & Ben Dobyns.

[notsobabblespace]

Now fully funded (in just under 3 and a half hours) so stretch goals will be added soon!

[notsobabblespace]

Book #2 of the Mercedes Lackey Library is Go!

The crowdfunding campaign for the Deluxe Heralds of Valdemar omnibus volume has launched on BackerKit!

Pledge price is $125 for the leatherbound trilogy omnibus in the same style as last year's Grandmaster. Scholarship applications will also be available again for those who are unable to cover the cost themselves.

Mercedes Lackey's Deluxe "Heralds of Valdemar"

The complete Arrows trilogy in one deluxe leatherbound omnibus, including silver and blue foil, six ribs, full-color interior art plates, pa

Included art plates include contributions from Nene Thomas, Rob Carlos, Care Halverson, Olivia Hintz, Dasha Park, and Alyssa Trudel. Stretch goals can unlock up to 6 additional paintings from Care Halverson, Emily Pritchett, Jabari Weathers, and Larry Dixon & Ben Dobyns.

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, back pain, tight hips

X

[ao3commentoftheday]

You’ve heard of lemons and the Citrus Scale? Well, what about KINKTOMATO?

KINKTOMATO is an important concept in fandom. It’s a humourous re-spelling of YKINMKATO - Your Kink Is Not My Kink (And That’s OK). This is the idea that if you don’t like a particular kink or ship etc, that’s fine but you don’t need to attack or shame the people who do. Just leave them alone to enjoy their fics and art in peace and ask that they do the same in return. 

KINKTOMATO is the “you do you” of fandom. It’s the “whatever floats your boat” of leaving other people alone. It’s an easy and judgement-free way of hoping that your fellow fans enjoy their content as much as you enjoy yours and understanding that different folks like different strokes. 

Having preferences is human. Having squicks is totally normal. Everyone has NOTPs or lines they don’t want to cross. But fandom is a large group of diverse people with varying tastes and interests and backgrounds. Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. Ship and let ship. Don’t like? Don’t read. Your kink is not my kink, and that’s okay. 

[emmhauer]

[walkin-in-the-cosmos]

floating loafs on several degrees of squish

[jake-clark]

[meiiiwaku]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame @worldheritagepostorganization

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

is this the ORIGINAL?!???

[laughconfetti]

[creepymutelilbugger]

oh holy shit i didn’t even know where this meme came from

[roses-blog-of-things-deactivate]

OH MY ACTUAL GOD THE ORIGINAL

[thenumberonevelvetcake]

ORIGINALS ON THE ROLL

[ristay]

Sorry if it’s a little cramped- had to make this all fit in ten photos. Hope you guys like it….. and again…. sorry Andrew

Follow me on Webtoons

[ruby-white-rabbit]

The window visual did me in I’m wheezing

[floralpopie]

NO

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

WELP

[doctor-seamonster]

I haven’t seen this in years and yet it is burned into my memory forever.

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

This is on the short list of Eternal Reblog because it’s fucking legendary.

[magrowette]

An honourable candidate for the @hellsite-hall-of-fame

[femmenietzsche]

Neanderthal adhesives were made through a complex synthesis process

Birch bark was heated in underground chambers to create a tougher adhesive.

Neanderthal tools might look relatively simple, but new research shows that Homo neanderthalensis devised a method of generating a glue derived from birch tar to hold them together about  200,000 years ago—and it was tough. This ancient superglue made bone and stone adhere to wood, was waterproof, and didn’t decompose. The tar was also used a hundred thousand years before modern humans came up with anything synthetic. After studying ancient tools that carry residue from this glue, a team of researchers from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and other institutions in Germany found evidence that this glue wasn’t just the original tar; it had been transformed in some way. This raises the question of what was involved in that transformation. To see how Neanderthals could have converted birch tar into glue, the research team tried several different processing methods. Any suspicion that the tar came directly from birch trees didn’t hold up because birch trees do not secrete anything that worked as an adhesive. So what kind of processing was needed? Each technique that was tested used only materials that Neanderthals would have been able to access. Condensation methods, which involve burning birch bark on cobblestones so the tar can condense on the stones, were the simplest techniques used—allowing bark to burn above ground doesn’t really involve much thought beyond lighting a fire. The other methods involved a recipe where the bark was not actually burned but heated after being placed underground. Two of these methods involved burying rolls of bark in embers that would heat them and produce tar. The third method would distill the tar. Because there were no ceramics during the Stone Age, sediment was shaped into upper and lower structures to hold the bark, which was then heated by fire. Distilled tar would slowly drip from the upper structure into the lower one. The resulting tars were all put through chemical and molecular analysis, as well as micro-CT scans, to determine which came closest to the residue on actual Neanderthal tools. Tars synthesized underground were closest to the residue on the original artifacts. “[Neanderthals] distilled tar in an intentionally created underground environment that restricted oxygen flow and remained invisible during the process,” the researchers wrote. “This degree of complexity is unlikely to have been invented spontaneously.”

[andmaybegayer]

Weeping with joy over the idea of a Neanderthal industrial engineer

[aandvarchaeology]

The paper is Open Access by the way, if you'd like to know more about the techniques and see some cool figures!

[violet-periwinkle]

GUYS GUYS GUYS

THEY RELEASED THE COYOTE VS ACME TRAILER !!!!!

WE WON !!!

[chucktaylorupset]

sorry the looney tunes movie that got buried by a massive company for corporate purposes is about fighting back against a massive company trying to bury incidents for corporate purposes?

[writtenoffantihero]

Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

Google says it’s no different than checking IDs at the airport.

This is just another form of censorship, control of what we can/can't see and engage with, and another means of getting our private information.

[monarchofmonsters]

Alternative forks of AOSP (Android Open-Source Project) which are not maintained by Google and will not be affected by this:

LineageOS (I use this one)

Graphene OS

Functionally they are virtually identical to stock Android. Android began as an open-source project, and these versions are built off of that.

Fuck Google.

[mordcore]

[amiibo-king]

for those like me who cannot install alternative android forks on their phone because the phone in question is thoroughly unrootable, I would recommend downloading anyapk on your phone while you still can. In their own words:

anyapk is a lightweight Android application installer that bypasses Google's developer verification requirements by using local ADB (Android Debug Bridge) connections. Smoothly install any APK file on your device without restrictions, gatekeepers, or corporate approval.

If you're reading this after Google's lockdown date and are unable to install anyapk the regular way, there is a method outlined on the github linked above which tells you how to install anyapk on your phone by plugging it into a computer with ADB installed on it. Once you have anyapk on your phone, you will not have to do that ever again (unless you delete anyapk off your phone)

[aromanticbastards]

[Description for the first image:

a tweet by @/Pirat_Nation:

From September 2026, all apps, including those outside the Play Store, must come from verified developers.

No more anonymous sideloads. No quick comebacks for malware gangs.

First: Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand.

end description]

[chromalogue]

[Description for the second image: a post from jrepin that reads:

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware.

--Eugen Rochko of Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115093185284473606]

[depsidase]

[torstherapy]

[tinsnip]

Per @spoonstrek

[slippery-domjot-balls]

Did any of you notice the Nausicaans playing darts in the background?

S4 E16 Bar Association

[respocked]

Quark: Doesn't that hurt?

Brunt: I'm sure it does. Most Nausicaan games do. Speaking of pain - did you talk to your brother?

[computer-voiced-by-majel-barrett]

Fun fact, those aren't just any background actors; They're James Lomas and Shawn McConnell, real professional darts players who also worked as "dart advisors" on DS9! McConnell even went on to become a professional stuntman in things like Daredevil (2003) and True Detective.

Moral of the story: It's always a worth it to hire highly skilled pros just to have them perform their job as incorrectly as possible, For The Bit™

[writergeekrhw]

I am stupidly proud of this bit.

(Also... I'm pretty sure the way we did this was to have the pro dart players throw actual darts at each other and hit corkboards built into their costumes. God bless those guys.)

[deheerkonijn]

little spoon!Leg for @loveandslander

I love the concept of elf-sleep and true-sleep. What if elves just fuckin………conk out for 18 hours and wake up forgetting what year it is when they true-sleep

hot take all elves ugly-sleep

[what-your-elf-eyes-see]

Because we know that Legolas went days without sleep feelin’ spry as ever, I see this and I raise you 48 hours when they true-sleep

[deheerkonijn]

@what-your-elf-eyes-see Not only am I into this, I’m obsessed with this. What if the reason why elves don’t really like to true-sleep is because they’re basically comatose and it makes them super vulnerable?

It takes him a minute to get started back up again, he’ll get there.

[mxtr3ssquickly]

Not my fandom, not my ship, but I am HERE for this and want to just bury my face in how wholesome and sweet it is and cry. Bless.

[deheerkonijn]

#i love this so much#i wonder how freaked out gimli was the first time he saw legolas true sleep#cause you know he doesn’t know much about elves 

@yeahletsdothat

There’s a sweet fic! :) Check out Small Comfort, by @roselightfairy

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[hashtagloveloses]

this kid’s post and his replies to people’s questions are so pure I’m sobbing

[digidiskette]

What’s better— the thread is filled with people giving some good advice on how to respect a woman’s boundaries and how to ask what she would be okay with, publicly. Lots of trans girls thanking him for being so patient and thoughtful with his words, and lots of people cautioning him that his purpose as a boyfriend would be to keep her safe, even from his own friends and family if need be. A+ shit right here.

[stop-stalin-and-suck-my-dick]

This is so FUCKING cute help me

[gardeninthevoid]

hey, trans girls who are into guys? THIS is what you deserve. don’t you ever believe that you have to bend over backwards for men to like you, that you have to accept being disrespected and mistreated, that you’re something to hide or be ashamed of. you’re beautiful, you’re a fucking princess, and you deserve someone who sees that and loves you deeply and unconditionally, who will choose you over the world and fight the world for you. THIS is the kind of guy.

[queer-joy-detector]

Queer joy detected!