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Telepathy/mind reading ideas!!
⎠Can't turn it off. Every person nearby is a broadcast they can't stop receiving. Crowds are agony.
⎠They hear emotions more than words. Being around someone grieving is suffocating.
⎠They start feeling what others feel and can't tell anymore what's theirs.
⎠Telepathy = PAIN. The louder someone's thoughts, the worse the headache. Angry people are the worst.
⎠They accidentally hear something they were never supposed to know and they can't unhear it.
⎠Someone who knows about the power deliberately thinking quiet, calm thoughts near them. On purpose. As an act of care.
Okay but imagine being the team of Eridian scientists tasked with keeping Erid's Only Human alive for as long as possible while the whole planet's environment is literally trying to kill him. And then Rocky shows up and is like:
âGrace says he would like half of dome to be water.â
âOh, is necessary for humans to have large amounts of water question?â
Small Eridian equivalent of a sigh. âNo. Not needed for life. In fact Grace will die if he falls in water and does not get out.â
âTell him we give him water in containers that won't kill him. Lots lots lots of water on Erid for Grace to drink.â
âNo. Grace say he want water on ground. Also want it with excess sodium chloride compound so it will be unhealthy for drink.â
âWHY QUESTION???â
Years ago back when I worked in cubicle land, we were hiring junior software developers. They didnât have to have a ton of experience, just a willingness to learn, and some demonstration of their software skills. Like: show me a program you wrote (any language) or a web site you designed. Anything.
And there was this one guy I talked with who seemed super sharp, but had virtually zero experience writing software. When it came time to do the show-n-tell part of the interview he whips out his laptop, brings up a website, and spins it around to show me what he made.
A website of tiny ceramic frogs.
Not for sale. Just⌠all these ceramic frogs, organized into categories. Frogs on bicycles, frogs with hats, frogs sitting on lily pads. It was a virtual museum of ceramic frogs in web form.
I scrolled through his online collection of frogs, slightly baffled.
âThis is your website?â I asked finally.
âYep!â
âYou coded this yourself?â I popped into view-source mode and poked around some incredibly well-formatted, well-commented html. I nodded slowly. This guy was meticulous.
âYep!â
âSo⌠whereâd all the frogs come from?â
âI made those too,â he says, beaming.Â
And while Iâm processing this he rummages in his bag and pulls out a little ceramic frog working at a computer terminal. He places it on the table before us, next to the laptop.
âAnd THIS one,â he says, âI made for you! As a thank you for the interview.â
It was adorable. I hired him on the spot. I mean, why not? Worst case heâd wash out in 90 days and weâd hire somebody else. He turned out to be one of the best developers on our team.Â
And yes, his cubicle was loaded with ceramic frogs.
living mango to mango
I love a good HFY / Humans Are Space Orks post, and I think one element of Humans weâre sleeping on is an instinctual understanding of ballistics.
I mean, I get why itâs not as popular here on Tumblr dot com, given itâs kinda a jock/military adjacent thing, but like. Our ability to just. Pick up a small, firm object, judge its internal inertia and mass by holding it for a bit, and then flinging it with the kind of accuracy and speed Humans are capable of is.
Like thereâs another post about how Humans in an alien zoo would probably be breaking out constantly, since we consider escape rooms to be a fun courtship ritual, but
imagine the aliens who are designing the enclosures just so happen to pick up, say, a devoted amateur baseball pitcher. Not even a legend by any means, just somebody whoâs practiced with intention. And one day theyâre watching her pass some time and blow off some steam by doing some pitching practice and they realize to their mounting horror that this gal can turn literally anything she can wrap her digits around into a ballistic weapon.
this reminds me of a paper I read a while back about how the way our shoulders work to enable us to throw anything from rocks to pointy sticks - plus a brain trained to think in 3D from climbing trees while also capable of calculating future trajectories from living on the savanna - is how we survived terrifying predators and came to dominate the world
Saw someone say that most intelligent alien life forms are likely prey animals, so I wanted to add something after falling down the humans are space orcs rabbit hole for the millionth time.
Humans are predators right? But in our day to day lives we donât really act like predators very often. Very few of us actually have an experience with hunting, with one exception; bugs. Especially flies or mosquitoes.
Imagine you board a ship and all of your crew mates are life forms from other planets, all of them just so happen to be prey. Youâre an engineer and general arenât seen as very threatening. Youâre the first human the crews ever had on board so they have no reason to think you would be. That is until somehow a fly gets onto your ship.
Itâs meal time and this fly just will not stop bothering you. No one else seems to be doing anything so you decide to be the one to kill it. You go dead still and track it with your eyes, watching to see where it lands. Once it does you move slowly until your hand is directly above it, holding your breath before slamming your hand down. Finally the pesky bug is gone and you can go back to eating. To you itâs no big deal. I mean itâs just killing one bug right? But when you look up after rubbing the dead fly off the table with your shirt, everyoneâs staring at you with a look of shock, horror, or fear.
After a minute or two everyone seems to unfreeze and go back to what they were doing, still nervously glancing over their shoulders at you every minute or so.
After that your crew mates seem to always be slightly on edge around you. Listening to you more often than before, and letting you lead in situations where violence might need to be resorted too. While itâs not technically your job on explorations, you in no way mind being able to protect your crew.
Plz tell me how to tag this is my first time posting something I actually spent time thinking about.
Eridians can't see*, smell, and hopefully can't taste. Does this mean they only have 2 fucking senses?
I thought Grace would already be freaky with just the ability to perceive light alone but it would probably be way worse when it gets learnt that he has three additional senses over Rocky and all other Eridians for that matter.
Like,
Rocky: Constructing the biodome will be easy. The only thing we'll struggle on is sight since humans have 3 senses instead of 2.
Grace: 5.
Rocky: what?
Grace: we have 5 senses. debatably 6, though its unproven. sometimes people even think we have a 7th.
Rocky: what.
The beginning of the end for every digital artist
When the brain fog kicks in..
I was tidying up a room, and right in the middle of it I saw a massive grandfather clock. At some point I noticed it had the AO3 symbol on it, so obviously I decided to take a picture and post it on Tumblr.
Except I accidentally captioned it, âguys check this out, Iâve got the one and only AO3 grandfather cock.â
I realized immediately, but by the time I reblogged it with âCLOCKâ in all caps, it was too late. It had already done numbers on this hellsite.
#mygrandfathercock
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Hey there! Just a friendly reminder/PSA from your friendly neighborhood Pixiemage!
âDead Dove: Do Not Eatâ is too often (incorrectly) used as a cover-all tag, on fics ranging from Vaguely Uncomfortable to Serious Shit, as a replacement for any intense tags relating to the story. People will use it to say âHoly shit guys some INTENSE SHIT happens in this storyâ without actually saying what that Intense Shit⢠is.
In actuality, the âDead Doveâ tag is meant to be used in addition to other warning tags. Pulled from a scene from the show Arrested Development (look it up on YouTube!), it means âHi! Hey! I labeled this fic to warn you of whatâs in it, so you might REALLY want to read those labels! This fic is exactly what it says on the tin! The tags are accurate! Donât say I didnât warn you, because this is me warning you! Read the tags!â
So before you accidentally use the âDead Dove: Do Not Eatâ tag without context, hereâs your preemptive lesson for next time. Please tag your fics accordingly! Ta!
~ Pixie
top 5 horror movies
-having a job
-not having a job
-applying for jobs
-the job market
-the concept of working my whole life
I think people would be less suicidal if they were allowed to talk about being suicidal without risk of being sent to the Torture Dungeon
FUCK. honestly just FUCK. We missed a very important day yesterday.
what was yesterday, cat?
Iâm not missing it this year.
happy raccoon birthday