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KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

drtanner

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

#kick the can #tumblr history

so I've started working at a daycare

they've shoved me in a room full of 2-year-olds (there's like 11-15 of them at any given point in time) all of whom Do Not Want To Do what I need them to do and have all decided to make that My Problem

so I've decided to start keeping track of the dumbest things that happen each day

and venting about them here.

names will be changed for the sake of privacy

Bob, who is probably 1 and a half, screamed, wailed, threw himself on the ground and kicked for 10 minutes because I would not let him knock a table over onto himself

Jamie screamed at the top of his lungs for half an hour because I could not hold his hand every minute of the day

Isla bit another child for playing in the same area as her. When notified, Isla's mother defended her by saying that Isla had been bit earlier in the day, so it caused a "domino effect"

All of this, while my voice is completely shot from allergies.

#life of a daycare worker #toddlers #Daycare #if I weren't desperate for money #If literally any other job had accepted me #If my college weren't quintupling the cost I have to pay out of pocket #I would be GONE

cornflower-uvu

A class at Hogwarts

#harry potter #fred weasley #george weasley #the weasley twins #remus lupin

hummelimhimmel

I just love Back To the Future The Game……….. So underrated one

emmkittycat

this art is so wonderful i lvoe emmett thank you so much op for doing him justice

#back to the future #bttf #emmett brown #edna #marty mcfly

bucketofdeltav

So my beta reader for the Big Fics is an astrophysicist, right. Who is currently also writing a hard sci-fi novel about the exploration of Phobos (more power to them, I cannot with the physics required for that, best I can do is soft sci-fi/fantasy and that reminds me I should finish that story).

Anyway I was bitching about how hard it is to come up with feasible planets in Star Wars because sometimes you need a new planet from scratch and sometimes you need to know more about a planet than the 'has jungles, is probably a moon technically' than Wookieepedia will give you, and they're like 'oh yeah I can do something about that'.

So they've written (in Matlab but they swear it will run as a .exe as well and I may be conscripted to embed it as a web tool at some point) a star system generator.

You input what you know about the planet (ecosystem, population, sun colour, does it have liquid water, does it have a moon or moons, is it a moon or moons, temperature averages, atmosphere, you get me) and it will give you the... everything else about the star system, in obedience to real-universe physics. And if you input nothing you get a randomly generated star system.

And I’m like oh I know people who will be into this with a vengeance, and they're not on Tumblr, so this is me seeing who exactly would be keen on, and I cannot stress this enough, a real-physics comprehensive star system generator.

It's still in the debugging phase (last error fixed: every planet wants to have a population of exactly 5000 regardless of other factors, turned out to be a missing equals sign somewhere), but I'm psyched for this and trying to gauge interest for how high a priority 'make this an accessible web tool' needs to be.

melyzard

elodieunderglass

@bucketofdeltav says the URL is here: http://tumblr.com/star-system-generator

Follow @star-system-generator and get more of the good stuff by joining Tumblr today. Dive in!

homunculus-argument

A fantasy story starting with the protagonist minding her own business gathering firewood, when a demon appears out of nowhere announcing that she belongs to him now. The protagonist demands to know on what grounds, she's never signed no damn contract. The demon is kind of baffled by this, and awkwardly explains that just now her father had promised his firstborn for something, and she is his firstborn.

The protagonist digs her heels in and says no, she never knew her biological father and by the way the demon explained the situation, evidently her father also doesn't know that he already has a daughter, so therefore the man who had made no contribution to her life after he bred and fled has no claim to her as something he could barter.

Not giving a shit about the fact she's gambling her life in doing so, the protagonist makes contact with the local woodland fae, asking them to negotiate on her side. The fae think that this is fucking hilarious and go with her. So, having lawyered up and with a reluctant demon in tow, the protagonist heads off on a quest to find her father and do whatever it takes to wrangle everyone involved into unmaking the contract.

maimonideznuts

Convene the Beit din, we have a matter to settle.

greatmountainfloofsquatch

I imagine if the fae existed, Jews and especially rabbis would have a lot easier time dealing with them than gentiles.

homunculus-argument

If you need an exorcism you find a catholic priest. If you need to get fae contract divorced, you find a rabbi.

tryingtobecoollikeyou

I am not Jewish, but I would buy every book of a series featuring a rabbi who has a side job dealing with the Fae.

maimonideznuts

The Exorcist and the Rabbi are partners... When the problem is talkative the Rabbi takes the lead, when the problem is violent the Exorcist is in their element.

#fae #demons #writing prompt

witchinatower

Neurodivergent mystery twins return, at long last!! These two supporting each other is everything to me 🧡🩷

I imagine Mabel would get diagnosed way before Dipper, since her executive dysfunction effects her schoolwork (and she's more hyperactive) while Dipper's has more to do with self-care and cleaning. Fortunately, this does mean he has an understanding sister!

#dipper pines #mabel pines #dipper and mabel #mystery twins #gravity falls headcanons #gravity falls #neurodivergent #executive dysfunction

jvlianbashir

my friend's discord server has a "proof of touch grass" channel where they post pics of them doing regular activities outdoors/in public. i think many online spaces could benefit from such a thing

weaselle

when i was super depressed - like struggling to eat anything barely able to get out of bed to pee depressed - my good friend asked me every day to send her a picture of me holding a leaf and a picture of a meal i was eating and it helped me significantly

(also, she was never judgey - if my meal was a single potato chip she would simply say good job eating a potato chip today <3 )

which is to say, i agree proof of touch grass is a good idea for online spaces

yadelah

This kinda required my brain a bit

#touch grass #discord server

owlgams

Hello old friend, I sent you out there years ago and you went and spread a lot of good karma, I just need your favour again, help me find some work 🧡

#Please #🥺#I NEED two jobs this summer #Employment jelly

seventeenthya

i'm not sure what they're thinking about but i don't think it's whales...

reverse!aziracrow drinking and chilling in azirafell's antique shop. angel!crowley study demon!aziraphale study more headcanons about these versions of them:

if you ask azirafell what his favourite sins are he would definitely answer: gluttony, lust, pride. if you ask crowley the same question, even though they shouldn't answer it (corporate ethics and all), they would probably shrug and say "sloth"

azirafell is still very pedantic about rules, so more often than not he reminds crowley that they need to do their job for scales to be balanced

crowley had a bit of a crisis in late 19th-early 20th century. azirafell had advised them to find a hobby. maybe try growing plants

when god was sending crowley to earth, she said it was a job for her most bright-eyed angel. crowley wasn't that enthusiastic

crowley doesn't like working with gabriel, hates the system, doesn't believe in greater good, sometimes feels disenchanted with humanity, but the earth is still so much better than heaven

he likes talking to kids, and looking at the sky, and listening to good music, and touching grass

azirafell thinks that what people do with their emotions is definitely worth the temptation. "The finest poetry in this world was written with the blood of a broken heart", he says.

he sometimes misses the Light, and Love, but he's pretty much content with his very hedonistic way of living.

azirafell sometimes wonders if she even should hang out with him, if it's proper for her. "Why not?" shrugs crowley. "Who's there to stop me?". azirafell definitely isn't complaining.

please let me know if you like it! my good omens art is not doing very well on tumblr lately :(

#Good Omens #Good Omens Art #Good Omens Fanart #Ahh this is so pretty #Why does their relationship seem healthier #Than regular Crowley and Az

martymcflyboy

Had to do at least ONE prompt for Doctober! Luckily I made it in time for my favorite one.

Also its kind of a continuation of the last comic I did. Enjoy!

#back to the future #bttf #marty mcfly #doc brown #bttf doctober 2025

pronouncingitwang

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

yokowan

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

le-jardin-inculte

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

shithowdy

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

#baking tips