Back in MY day I was hunted for witchcraft

[postsofanimmortal]

Imagine how horrible it must be for Christians, you would never be able to eat dino nuggies again

[postsofanimmortal]

Keeping demons away can be annoying. Salt is ecologically destructive, running water can't exactly be brought around with you, and I can't get holy water because priests refuse to come near me. I have devised another solution though: just fucking scream in their direction till the demons go away. it works surprisingly well.

[beriliaa]

[a-book-of-creatures]

You can only reblog this today! Next time Thursday 20 will follow Wednesday 19 will be in 2439!

[mentally-unstable-bagel]

bold of you to assume I will die before 2439

[irishfry]

I believe you could live till then, I mean, you just have to make sure no one eats you

[postsofanimmortal]

I may not be able to pay the toll, but I would rather rot on the bank of the styx with those misfortuned than lay one foot on the side of the rich.

[karcatgirl-vantas]

the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

[skluug]

this is what ancient greek philosophy is like

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

False! “Sightly” is a positive word, so the default way for things to work is good as well.

The true most ordinary object is beautiful, horrible sounding, very smelly, intangible, and delicious.

I still don’t think it matches anything in existence but to truly understand a thing one must know its true nature.

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

"touchy" is also a word! however it's mostly used for things that aren't objects, like subjects of conversation. it either means "oversensitive and irritable" or "requires careful handling/wording, delicate"

i think the second one works well for our hypothetical object. so we can use that.

therefore, the Default Object is:

beautiful

makes a horrendous sound

smells absolutely awful

is very fragile

tastes delicious

and i still cannot think of anything that matches this

[and-a-pidgey-in-a-wepear-tree]

behold, the default object!

[themostnormaltextdoctor]

Wrong! the answer is children.

[postsofanimmortal]

!!??

[catchymemes]

[postsofanimmortal]

One of these centuries I'll get around to repairing that chair.

[postsofanimmortal]

nvm the wood turned to compost like 2oo yrs ago.

[inkskinned]

oh i don't know what young adult needs to hear this but you should google what day your 10,000th day will be & set a reminder in your calendar. it happens somewhere in your 27th year. i was really bummed when i googled my own and found out i had missed it by like 2 months.

(if you missed yours too, no worries, we both get another chance to celebrate 15,000 at 41. Unfortunately you will be 54 years old before you are 20,000 days old, at which point we will have overthrown the concept of linear time anyway)

life is very cute, and you have struggled a very long time to be here, and i love you. sometimes i think we need to invent our reasons for celebration. maybe today you are 10,345 days old. or 12,345. or 8,435. maybe u should just celebrate because it is a weekday, and those are hard days. i love u , light a candle and blow it out. i'm proud of you for staying.

[preservationofnormalcy]

I'm SO excited! You may have seen my last set of 18 posters, and now I present set 2!

For those who don't know, these are workplace posters from a fictional government agency that deals with the supernatural called the Office for the Preservation of Normalcy. It's become an interactive unfiction world - check out my pinned post for more information!

All of these posters will be available in my Ko-fi shop in a few days, probably Sunday, as 11x17 posters, stickers, buttons and keychains!

You can use these for your own stuff like TTRPG campaigns or print them out, but keep in mind these versions in the post are 50% size so not full quality. If you do use them, consider tipping my ko-fi as linked above!

[postsofanimmortal]

While I love posts referring to God with female pronouns, Imagine if you met God and it was Terry Pratchett. I think that would explain a lot.

[basiliskonline]

@lingerie_addict has a really cool thread on ancient fashion over on twitter.

Those source links are here

cambridge.org

Youtube

ucl.ac.uk

[year-of-the-rabid-dog]

[brightlotusmoon]

[feminismishot]

"Humans will always make gods out of the absurd" is killing me rn

[brightlotusmoon]

Thank you! I wa extremely stoned when I wrote that tag.

[internetdruid]

Gogle how.toi stop wildshap,e

[internetdruid]

Nevrmind. Me and my freind.

[soracities]

hold up what do you mean humans can't tell if something's wet . what

[soracities]

im sorry WHAT

[sexy-necromancing-bird]

Think about it, what's the first thing you focus on when you touch something wet? Usually it's temperature.

And if something is dripping down your skin you might feel ticklish

But like you've probably touched something cold and thought it was wet for a second before realizing it was dry and your brain just assumed

So you guys can feel wetness based on experience but it's just that your skin isn't specialized to feel that I think

[kalichnikov]

[patchoulism]

[thiefnessman]

Human skin wetness perception: psychophysical and neurophysiological bases

The ability to perceive thermal changes in the surrounding environment is critical for survival. However, sensing temperature is not the onl

yeah we don’t have sensors for wetness (other creatures do) but we just learn what wetness feels like to make up for it.

[rabbitindisguise]

you've heard of Shrimp Colors get ready for its unexpected sequel: Shrimp Knows Water Is Wet But We Don't (yes really)

[callista-curations]

Checks out.

Had an injury on my hand a while back that damaged some nerves in my finger. Took me months to stop thinking my finger had gotten wet whenever I picked up a cold piece of metal cutlery.

[cor-ardens-archive]

10 year old me was like when wings sprout from my spine then you’ll see.. you’ll all see…

[ferveurs]