A world of unruly kites

Spec fic writer, scientist, cyclist, occasional triathlete, neuroatypical. Someone's imaginary friend. Here are odd thoughts from the squirrel brain.

[secondlina]

New Crow Time 🐦‍⬛🦊🌟

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Aaaaaaah!

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Empathy and fear

I love the monologue at the start of #Legion S1 EP4, delivered wonderfully by Jermaine Clement as Oliver Bird.

"There are two kinds of stories we tell our children.

The first kind:

Once upon a time, there was a fuzzy little rabbit named Frizzy-Top, who went on a quantum, fun adventure, only to face a big setback, which he overcame through perseverance and by being adorable.

This kind of story teaches empathy. Put yourself in Frizzy-Top's shoes, in other words.

The other kind:

OLIVER ANTHONY BIRD! IF YOU GET TOO CLOSE TO THAT OCEAN, YOU'LL BE SUCKED INTO THE SEA AND DROWNED.

This kind of story teaches them fear, and, for the rest of their lives, these two stories compete. Empathy and fear.

And so I bring you tonight's play: a work in five acts about fuzzy little bunny who got too close to the ocean and what happened next."

[dankmemeuniversity]

[ravenbait]

This 7-legged spider is more aesthetically pleasing than the tedious monkey, which just looks like it was ripped off from the Gorillaz.

[modernwitchesdaily]

WITCHY ART CHALLENGE  ✨ 🌘🔮

Summer is coming and here is for you, all witch artist/writer of this world, a Challenge with only witchy stuff to draw or write about! You can do whatever you want with it, whenever you want! It’s just a list of witches I really wanted to design and bring to my story or I really wanted to draw just for fun~ 

You can mix it with some color palette meme found on the web, there is a lot of it around deviantart and Tumblr! It doesn’t have to be done in the order, you can just reblog it and ask to you followers to suggest you some of these! And you can suggest me some of these too! I’ll do it in July or August anyway ;D

This is a character design challenge~ You can do anything, any body type, any skin color, any disability, any religion or any gender you want, it’s totally free, so be creative ♥ That’s the only thing that counts! 

Lots of love *:･ﾟ✧

[modernwitchesdaily]

Inktober is coming soon! You wants to do the Witchy Art Challenge? ✨🔮🌿

[fuckyeahscifiwomenofcolour]

The bolded sections represent quotes from the criticism he received. All the z-snaps are in order.

Your characters are unrealistic stereotpyes of political correctness. Is it really necessary for the sake of popular sensibilities to have in a fantasy what we have in the real world? I read...

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This made me grin like a fox eating shit through a wire brush.

[fhauvhebsucbejdiak]

Atlantic blue marlin larva (Makaira nigricans)

In one spawning, the female blue marlin may release up to 7 million eggs, each approximately 1mm in diameter.

The planktonic young may drift in the pelagic zone and may grow as much as to 1.6cm in a day.

© Cedric Guigand

[illesigns]

Pixars 22 Rules of Story Telling

[ellenkushner]

This is smart!

Especially #10 and #18.

[grammarly]

So you won’t confuse them again!

[quollism-deactivated20190427]

Welcome to Tasmania.

[ravenbait]

I can't stop giggling at this.

[leasthelpful]

Like duh, the Earth is round THEREFORE lizard people.

[creativesomething]

The rules of a creator's life.

Click to view a bit larger. And share with your friends, co-workers, and creative icons.

[arcfinity]

February 2012 will see the debut of Arc, a bold new digital publication from the makers of New Scientist. Arc will explore the future through cutting-edge science fiction and forward-looking essays by some of the world’s most celebrated authors – backed up with columns by thinkers and...

[kevinbolk]

As promised, here’s the Avengers parody (namely of this promo image of the movie) I’d been working on. Those are some strong male characters. Am I right, ladies?

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Oh yeah. Absolutely spot on.

[the-helix]

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I am loving this. There's something really sweet about the calligraphy, as well.

distroia:

This is how much this store owner loves books and loves other people reading books.

[johnthemonkey]

the greatest trick the motoring lobby ever pulled was to convince pedestrians that cyclists are the problem.

Nick Curtis (via johnthemonkey)

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How I Imagine the writing for Sherlock goes:

Moffat: We just can't have them kiss!

Gatiss: Why not?

Moffat: It wouldn't make any sense to have them--

Gatiss: I'll let you kill Rory.

Moffat: What?

Gatiss: I'll let you put Rory in and kill him.

Moffat: I...I love you. Just no sex scenes.

Gatiss: You can kill Rory more than once.

Moffat: Okay no full frontal nud-

Gatiss: Three times.

Moffat: Fuck the ratings, lets do this.

[edmacfarlane-deactivated2014061]

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Via mumblingsage.

They should put up a balloon.

A klein bottle balloon.