Hail and Well Met!

Paeve, 24 years old, he/they. I post a lot about cartoons mostly. Well that’s a lie, I reblog other people’s posts about cartoons mostly. Twitter is @PaevePB

[depsidase]

[eebie]

i miss everyone

[eebie]

[un-monstre]

Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.

[un-monstre]

I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.

[jimmythejiver]

Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won't let you copy and paste:

[aromanticduck]

No, I would not steal a car. However, if I had the ability to create a copy of someone's car that I could have for free while the other person retained their original car, I would definitely do that.

[quasi-normalcy]

HOBBES vs. TIGGER cage match TO THE DEATH say goodbye to your childhood because ONE! WILL!! DIE!!!!

[quasi-normalcy]

Picturing two tiger plushies just kind of sitting there facing each other in Thunderdome

[silverwhittlingknife]

i am picturing it

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Hobbes and Tigger would find some aspect of tigerhood to bond over, but Calvin would put Christopher Robin in the ground.

[sedoretu]

just saw the phrase “artesian cheese” on this website. which is sending me

[sedoretu]

artisan cheese = good cheese made by cheese people. fancy!

artesian water: fresh groundwater that is tapped and drawn using natural pressure. not spring water, because the water doesn’t already come to the surface, but when it’s tapped the underground pressure causes it to come up on its own (as opposed to well water, which has to be pumped up). vaguely fancy?

artesian cheese: subterranean cheese that shoots up out of the ground?

[brucebocchi]

[natalieironside]

You should never create anything with a wide audience in mind. The so-called "general audience" doesn't exist; it's a fiction made up by advertising executives. Most of the time, great art and literature is made with the intention of pleasing no more than 4 or 5 specific perverts of the author's acquaintance

[robs-your-robins]

Do you think that Bruce sometimes pulls the ‘my parents are dead’ card? Yes, I get that it was a traumatic and formative event for him but it would also sort of be funny, especially if he’s doing it ironically.

Some socialite telling him that he can’t bring his kids to events, asking what his mother would have said and Bruce deadpans and goes, ‘I think she would have liked to have met her grandchildren. But of course, she never did’

His med school lecturers threatening to flunk him if he doesn’t hand in his essay on blood loss, only for Bruce to say ‘it’s just a touchy subject for me’ and the lecturer blue screening because shit

Some rogue tries to kidnap Bruce at some event, holding a gun to his head, just for Bruce to look at the rogue, almost tearfully and be like ‘i always knew I would end up like my dad’ and the rogue just panics because now they are in a room with a bunch of pissed off people because they’ve almost made the Princess Diana of Gotham cry.

Clark gets mad at him over something, yelling at him and of course Bruce is just no listening so Clark just snaps, Ma Kent’s favourite phrase of ‘who raised you???’ Only to completely fucking choke, pray for the ground to swallow him up because Bruce’s expression just slips a little (inside he’s hysterically laughing). Clark comes by again with a batch of cookies.

He can't obviously use it on the kids and they can't use it on him.

[littlefankingdom]

Canon

[self-loving-vampire]

It turns out that actually standing by "men and women are not inherently very different" is a reliable way to bother absolutely everyone. Left or right, cis or trans, feminist or misogynist, all cling to the binary for dear life.

[sorcerornobody]

From the replies on this post:

[heystephen]

i saw a girl on tiktok who put her salt lamp in the dishwasher and didn’t realize it would dissolve, and it’s been on my mind for like 3 days

[heystephen]

thank god i screen shot it

[ID: a screenshot of a tiktok. text reads, “I thought I could wash my salt lamp in the dishwasher! You can’t apparently!” below the text a hand holds up the remains of a salt lamp: just the wooden stand that once supported the lamp itself. /end ID]

[haunteddollsgeorg]

[reasonablywittyatbest]

Ok you know what that's a good point i hadn't even considered???

[teaboot]

I hate to be that guy but in case anyone here doesn’t know, the electric components in a salt lamp are removable. You just pinch the two inner tongs and the whole cord and bulb pop out. So this still aint ideal but at least girly didn't pop a wet tesla special

[adrianastrix]

My tiny cold black chemist heart is crying over this.

Like girl. M'am. Sis. It's salt. And while I concede that, chemically speaking, a lot of non-hydrophiliac* things are salts, you can always give your crystal a quick lick to make sure before shoving it in water**. If it's salty, make no mistake: it WILL dissolve. Use any 100% alcohol to clean it, if you absolutely need a wet cleaning, just test a bit in a corner to make sure the alcohol hasn't absorbed any water.

To answer @teaboot, I'll just state that, at a room temperature of around 30°C (86°F), you can get almost three full tablespoons of common salt (NaCl) dissolved in 100 mL (about 6,5 tbsps) of water. It's almost 1:2 in volume in terms of how much salt a certain volume of water can hold in the empty spaces of its molecular arrangement.

So yes, putting it in a machine that sends hot pulses of water for 30-60 minutes will dissolve the whole thing five times into oblivion.

Don't even get me started on how sugar is even more soluble than that. That video of the racoon washing cotton candy illustrates it heart-breakingly enough.

*hydrophiliac = soluble in water

**yes, licking a rock to see if it's salty is indeed one of the classic procedures to identify gems made of NaCl (I don't know the name in English, I think it's halide? Somethig like that. In Portuguese, it's called, pretty literally, "gem-salt") - chemists and geologists never really develop this "survival instinct" thing fully. And yes, I've indeed licked a piece of rock in my Minerals 101 finals. Just to make sure.

[teaboot]

Oh My God

[oneclickangel]

reblog if you're corny and insufferable

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[john-boneman-lich-lord]

"Summon ketamine ape is a banned spell" fuck it fine whatever, I summon a normal gorilla. I summon some ketamine.

[grimoiremanifest]

[maplemaplemaplemaplemaple]

been thinking about this post all day

[zoesupreme]

she's really had almost a whole year to consider why her campaign failed and one of the answers she's landed on is she should have said something that she did say

[barryogg]

I wish all environmentalists a very suck cocks in hell

[barryogg]

I wish that this person would receive perfect clarity of mind about her actions and their consequences, and I wish a gun with a single bullet would be placed before her so that she could make good use of this mindstate

[barryogg]

Step 1: Mandate alternatives to emission-heavy systems

Step 2: Fail to provide energy for said systems

Step 3: ???

Step 4: ??? still

Step 5: Guess I’ll die

[barryogg]

Ma! Maaaaa! The Germans are blowing up their power plants again!

[shieldfoss]

[i-love-linux-and-need-cat-ears]

my favorite graph regarding nuclear

[dragon-in-a-fez]

reminds me of the time I said something pro-nuclear to my ex and they said “I don’t think you’d feel that way if you grew up near a nuclear plant like I did” and I asked “oh what happened” and they were like “well. nothing. nevertheless”

[headspace-hotel]

no discussion of nuclear power is complete without the fact that coal and other fossil fuels very much do produce toxic and radioactive waste

[theemeraldwings]

Anyone who is anti-nuclear is anti-environment. Nuclear is safe, it is clean, and it is even more energy dense than fossil fuels. It might not be truly renewable, but there’s so much energy available that it doesn’t make much of a difference. To try and shut it down is to put down one of your strongest allies in the fight against fossil fuels.

[whisperingsoup]

Everytime this comes around again, I remember that there was a push to refit coal power plants to run on nuclear, due to the fact that other than the power source, your still just boiling water so everything else is the same.

They couldn’t get the ok to refit the coal plants tho, because the coal power plants were too radioactive to pass nuclear power plant standards.

THE COAL PLANTS WERE TOO RADIOACTIVE TO BE TURNED INTO NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS.

[wiki-kitty]

[lachonk]

I think it's a shame that "Oedipus complex" refers to fucking your mom instead of the actual point of his story, fulfilling your destiny through your attempts to avoid it. It just so happens his destiny was to fuck his mom

[charyou-tree]

Yeah, I don’t know what Freud was thinking, but Oedipus very much did Not want to fuck his mom. He spent the entire play trying to avoid that, and then gauged out his eyes when he learned that he had anyway.

[lachonk]

I think Freud was too caught up with the fantasy of fucking his mom to appreciate the themes of the story tbh

[its-the-freak-phone]