Pollen Over Ponds

I’m 43 years old. Please don’t follow if you’re young or generally uncomfortable with an old fart. I’m white, gender light / a little trans masc, androflexible, and adhd. I don’t share donation posts. Here be Leverage, Murdoch Mysteries, Atla, gay stuff & shit posts. I love all animals. Maybe some manga, dinosaurs, art, anything that comes in different colors, and humanist politics. I’m pro people, and social & economic justice. Free & safe abortions for everyone, forever. Immigration is a sacred part of human history, present, and future. I’m a huge perfume nerd in real life but haven’t found my way into perfume tumblr yet. Star Trek is my original fandom. Been a trekkie since I was 5. Data and Wesley raised me.

[pollen-over-ponds]

I want a sci fi featuring mermaids and whales and undersea stuff. What kind of technology would they develop in the water.

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How would they keep records? Sea water is corrosive and coral, barnacles, seaweed etc…. Grows on everything.

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How is fashion influenced. Like us flowly stuff dangerous, you could get trapped? Most parts of the sea aren’t influenced by seasons, so are there other reasons for looks to change over time - like holidays, or coming of age - or is everything stable until styles change?

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What would public transit be? Are there vehicles of any kind, or is everyone happy to swim themselves whenever they need to go?

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Fire and electricity. Like yes there are undersea heating vents but that doesn’t exactly give the same options as fire. And no electricity. Seems like technology may be more dependent on mechanics, which brings us back to sea water is corrosive and stuff like mussels and coral and seaweed grows on everything.

[pollen-over-ponds]

I suppose I’m focusing on the limitations under the sea. I can’t help it. I have land bias. Learning and listening.

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Are there social hierarchies or different groups from different depths and haloclines? I mean it would make sense for there to be different resources, practices, and therefore cultures? And maybe conflict? Or at least trade?

[macmanx]

A NASA spacecraft discovers a formation on Mars resembling a bear

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped the uncanny photo in December. Eyes are formed by craters. A hill with a "V-shaped collapse struc

Come on [tumblr] where’s my Mars Bear fanart?

[sirartwork]

[halondrus]

Lady in drive through had a bearded dragon sitting on her boobs and she held it up and let me pet it. killing myself canceled

[halondrus]

art is not my strong suit but this is my best recreation of what i saw when i opened the window. i have to emphasize that she was supermodel levels of gorgeous

[jordanbolton]

To The Person In The Newspaper - Jordan Bolton

[apolladay]

Before you are two magic buttons. Button A: you will never have to clean your kitchen again (dishes are automatically done; floor swept and mopped; etc). Button B: you will never have to clean your bathroom again (toilet & sink & tub/shower cleaned and sanitized; etc) Which button do you push?

A

B

Voting ended onJun 3

[heliophile-oxon]

So many comments, many of them wise and all of them heartfelt, and yet nobody has thought to add ...

the fridge-freezer is in the kitchen. Not only are there dishes every day, not only are there food preparation surfaces of various kinds every day, not only are there crumbs and odds and ends that fall on the floor every day ... but the fridge-freezer is in the kitchen. The oven is in the kitchen, the food cupboards are in the kitchen, and above all THE KITCHEN BIN IS IN THE KITCHEN.

I mean, it's not like the bathroom is all sweetness and light, but seriously! Who in their right mind is choosing the bathroom?!?!?!?

Ils sont fous, ces Romains tumblrains.

[sufficientlylargen]

Having a magically-self-cleaning bathroom would be cool, but it wouldn't dramatically change my lifestyle.

If I could cook or bake whatever the hell I wanted, knowing that all my pots and mixing bowls and baking sheets would just zap themselves clean when I finished? If I knew that I could spill batter or grease inside the oven or burn things onto baking racks and it would just go away? I would be making delicious shit constantly.

[earhartsease]

from @baddywronglegs

#You can piss in the kitchen sink but you can't make lasagna in the shower

@theshitpostcalligrapher this one deserves to be writ large

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

yeag.....

[victusinveritas]

[black-crested-jaybird]

I always think of the description I saw years ago: Self-imposed deadlines don't help me, because I know the person who set them, and they're full of shit.

[makingtrouble]

Give yourself the treat before you start. I'm serious. And ideally during the task and afterwards too.

Executive dysfunction comes from a lack of available dopamine. Common advice is wrong. You need to provide your own dopamine before you can start. Otherwise you're trying to run your car on empty.

"But what if I still don't do it" well you already weren't getting it done anyway. Now you have a little treat. Try again later.

You deserve kindness and care even when you aren't being productive.

(Also read How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis)

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[polarhorror]

@inbabylontheywept

What.

[inbabylontheywept]

who said that

[worflesbian]

had a dream last night that the hot new trek ship taking over tumblr was Julian/Janeway. 90% of the fan works were epistolary fic where Julian gets really into the idea of the doomed mission of voyager and sends Janeway fanmail once they re-establish contact, which rapidly turns into a steamy long-distance romance that brings them both much needed distraction from their respective spirals into depression and gives fans free reign to write Janeway going full cougar. and it was so hugely popular in my dream like every third post on the dash was about them

[redcheekdays]

#I think once a month Star Trek fans should randomly generate a pairing from all available characters #and spend that month posting nothing but that pairing #we could create some truly cursed shit #but in amongst that shit would be some true diamonds

i agree and i made a generator! if someone wants to do something with this please be my guest 🤗 https://perchance.org/trekrarepairs

[captainjanewayandtheunicorndog]

Aaaaaah Janeway and Bashir are two of my top three favourite characters in Trek, I don’t ship them at all but I would LOVE to read those imaginary fics. Also the couple generator gave me Harry Kim x Ezri Dax, and they would be a good secondary couple in these imaginary fics haha.

[zoazoaa]

I'm a time traveller from the 20th century. I travelled 26 years into the future to deliver this message. At a speed of 1 year per year

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[arte-artem-artibus]

Herbert Bayer - Chromatic intersection, 1966, acrylic on canvas, 101 x 101 cm

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[targetedknowledge]

[fairycosmos]

apparently youre supposed to perform. they love it when you perform. but it has to be authentic. they hate it when it's not authentic. but you have to perform.

[bedupolker]

Saw a beautiful horned lizard today on a hike, I've never seen one with such a striking peachy color before. Did you know that horned lizards are nicknamed "Cheii," or grandpa, by the Navajo people?

It's also Indigenous People's Day, so I'm taking it as a sign to recommend my favorite horned lizard artist, Daniel Josley (web/instagram) if you followed me for desert critters please go check his work out!

[pollen-over-ponds]

Just a little guy

[theweight]

this orange was pregnant. Isn’t the world amazing

[nemertea]

Tahoma :) Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA June 20, 2026