a little bit of everything

wild and free || she/ her || 30 something || german ||

[wholesome-animal-images]

[spatort]

@sinnsenke couldn't leave this in the tags

[1000-life-hacks]

[archeologist-prophet]

Lovely to see we have spaces where you can gain access to so much literature!

[dinchenix]

and there he is, surfing on the horizon of the wide webs ocean, the rogue Pirate Clippy!

(originally done for LBM:))

[kedreeva]

I have no idea what the german text says (neither the czech title tbh)

*yelling* NEN!!!

@nencheese

[suaine]

Quick translation with some liberties:

"This wonderful and strange bird

The kind of which has never been seen

Painted(?) bird came flying in the city of Paris

At 4 in the evening it flew into the mayor's window and all heard that it was a (can't make it that word) of god"

[lenasbraindump]

My rough translation would be:

"This wondrous and strange bird, the likes of which have never been seen Said bird came flying in the city Paris, in the evening at 4 o' clock. At the governor's it flew in through the window and from there it is heard it was an act of providence from God."

The word you have as 'painted' I think is 'Bemelter', which is an older form of 'besagter' And the word you couldn't make out is "Schickung", I think.

I definitely might be a bit off though, that German is a wee bit outdated, lol

[suaine]

"Schickung", of course! It's obvious from context but the letters just wouldn't cooperate for me XD

[kedreeva]

So what I'm hearing is basically "Ma!! There's a weird fucking bird in the governor's house! MA!! It's making a weird fucking noise!"

Also really digging the skulls in the train feathers. Most metal peacock ever

[valiants]

Courting

[sceptixfakemon]

this heatwave fucking sucks how am I going to serve my liege like this

[sceptixfakemon]

im never leaving this hellsite

[sceptixfakemon]

i swear if this is the second stupid sword picture post i make that gets to 10k i'll just go kill someone

[sceptixfakemon]

FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!

[sternfleck]

Thoughts and prayers to my European mutuals suffering under their omega heat

[ralfmaximus]

do NOT google "omega heat"

[chocomiking]

prayers for the people googling "omega heat" for the first time

[reeddraws]

I'm starting to feel like my wrist is close to being overworked, so I'm trying to take it easy today. Daily drawing 2462.

[kyri45]

Was inspired by the wonderful post by @hailed-marys so me and @sam-i-am-27 got possessed by the demons and came out with this.

HC list under the cut

* Astrophage is more like a virus that either alters people, causing them to commit crimes or violent acts, or a power that supervillains are starting to use.

* Grace is still a middle school teacher who got bitten by the spider, obviously.

* Adrian is the one who stitched up the suit (the Aunt May of this universe).

* He has all the perks of a normal Spider-Man, but he's still Grace, so he's incredibly clumsy. He does have a super-strong spider sense, and that's what saves him 100% of the time, but he absolutely does not have the agility. When adrenaline kicks in, he can do anything, but otherwise he'll trip over the most ridiculous things.

* He was wearing his yellow raincoat the first time he saved someone, so now he wears it over his suit (along with his white Converse).

* The spider was discovered by SHIELD (which is undercover as a scientific research facility that Grace works for part-time). After the original test subjects (who were only able to survive the spider mutations if they possessed a specific gene) were killed in an attack, Eva delivered the spider to Grace so he could be bitten before other villains got their hands on that power. (My boy gets unwillingly turned into a savior in every universe.)

* Simon is still an ex-convict who, in exchange for his freedom, is asked by the evil company of the day to test a series of mines infected by what appears to be blood from a meteorite (which eventually turns out to be the symbiote Ellie!).

* At first, they wanted to kill each other, but they end up becoming besties.

[asmeesh]

1$ flea market score. Tiny glass 1960s perfume bottles. I love them.

[shit-show-no-go]

Can you swap their heads ?

[asmeesh]

omg you can

[asmeesh]

Their meeting was foretold in the ancient texts

[theinvisiblespoon]

[pankendev]

there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try

[stormagedondarklordofall]

[treewizarded]

a BRILLIANT read, and even more incentive for me to make my own wizards trope-defying and excellent.

[roachpatrol]

God it’s fascinating to look at the timestamp on this one and then realize that Pratchett went on to write his Witches Series and Granny Weatherwax, who’s strong and fierce and brilliant and austere and so achingly, bitterly, intensely good. I think Granny Weatherwax would give Gandalf a hard look and Gandalf would remember he had a very urgent appointment three shires away and stroll off really fast. 

[ceruleancynic]

Holy fuck, everybody go read this right now. 

Pratchett is one of the people whose work is not only hilarious, but legitimately brilliant. I learned so much from reading his books. Even this talk is peppered with the kind of thing that makes you snort out loud and get stared at by coworkers: 

No wonder witches were always portrayed as toothless — it was living in a 90,000 calorie house that did it. You’d hear a noise in the night and it’d be the local kids, eating the doorknob.

And he fucking nails the witch/wizard dichotomy. Wizards = wise, powerful, organized, educated; witches = crones who give you warts. The Tiffany Aching series addresses this directly, as do the regular Discworld books focusing on the Lancre witches. Like Roach says, Granny Weatherwax is achingly, bitterly, intensely good, and that’s partly because she’s constantly aware of how easy it would be to be bad. How someone has to do the mucky jobs and help the obnoxious and stupid and never, ever take credit for anything you didn’t do; how the hardest thing is to stay balanced just on the edge between extremes, maintain that equilibrium, do what needs to be done no matter how awful or difficult it may be. Wizards never have to think about this. They just forge straight ahead, eating big dinners and squabbling amongst themselves and taking their power for granted.

[roachpatrol]

Come to think of it, that’s one of the most significant divisions of power in Discworld: the men all gang up into this big elitist mob and loll around indolently, specifically not doing magic. Their magic is so powerful and dangerous that it’s a better use of their time to all keep each other down, all the wizard books basically revolve around ‘Oh no, someone’s doing magic, we’d better stomp them flat and then go home for second breakfast’. They keep the world from turning inside out but not much more than that, and they’re kind of a bunch of assholes about it too. Meanwhile the witches are just grimly slogging along, delivering babies and rousting out vampires and changing compresses, like, they stake out territories and then take care of everyone in it… while everyone still thinks that wizards are respectable and witches are shady. 

[oldmanyellsatcloud]

The line about equal rites killed me, though. The insightful commentary (on the internet no less) here helped buffer that.

[discworld-heritage-posts]

Discworld Heritage Post

[kyraneko]

It’s the difference between status and value. Who does the necessary work, and who takes the credit. Who the world would actually fall apart without, and who reaps the rewards of being considered important.

There’s gender in it, but shades of poor-and-rich as well.

[singlecrow]

What’s marvellous I think here is that Pratchett’s criticism of Le Guin, on Earthsea, was made in 1985 - and in 1990, she wrote Tehanu, which is a fantastic indictment of the sexism and misogyny of the earlier Earthsea books. Doesn’t meant she saw this, she probably didn’t - her own unease with the earlier Earthsea books was evident in other places - but it’s what Pratchett himself is saying, reality creates fantasy creates reality.

[mific]

Terry being brilliant, and read the comments.

[shamebats]

The (European) sun is a deadly laser, stay safe everyone

[unfuckablebogtroll]

☝️🤓 it’s because the further you move toward the earth’s poles, the lower the angle of the sun is at the hottest parts of the day, meaning the radiation hits your whole body, causing it to feel 10-20 degrees warmer than the thermometer reading will tell you. People from tropical climes, aka close to the equator, are used to the sun’s radiation hitting a much smaller target- their head and shoulders.

Also the further you move toward the poles the more pronounced the difference between the length of day and night is. Worst part of a far-north (or south) heatwave is it doesn’t get dark long enough for meaningful cooling.

It’s not the heat. It very literally is the sun.

[reeddraws]

I really like painting clouds, but my process is so much slower than I'd like it to be. I need to try to get practice in when I can. Daily drawing 2459.

[nasa]

Moon Joy June: Earth Inspo

It’s the last week of Moon Joy June, and we’re feeling the love for our home planet.  This week’s prompt is “Earth,” so we’ve compiled some previously unreleased images of Earth captured by our Artemis II crew this past April. If you’re feeling inspired, share your creations on Tumblr with the #ArtemisArtShow hashtag!

[nocturnal-stims]

Flexible feather armor

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[burntundertones]

[silly-signs]

Official silly sign