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[rebuglibrary]

This is a reblog blog, do not DM me.

Welcome to the Library of A Dumb Bug! I reblog things here. Think of it like a storage closet lol. Tags guide if you care:

+ favorite

Posts I really like

+ fandom

Anything and everything related to fandom with it's specific fandoms listed

+ authors and books

Discussions around literature, book recommendations, author recommendations, etc

+ sarcasm

Posts that are written to be sarcastic, whether it's meant to mock a serious situation or not

+ animal

Animals!!

+ original

The rare original post

+ alterhuman

Posts related to alterhumanity in all forms

+ strange and forboding

Odd posts I like

+ WAIT NO THAT'S NOT WHAT THAT MEANS

Misinterpreted phrases

+ food

Food

+ texting

Screenshots of texts, twitter, Instagram, etc

+ silly

Fun posts

+ wtf hollywood

Literally anything having to do with televized media

[lunanyxart]

Hello, I have come with angsty ideas for y'alls Eridian!Grace AUs;

- Eridian Grace is fucking TERRIFIED of going to sleep at the start. Reminds him too much of what Stratt did to him. The whole "sleeping with no dreams and no ability to be awoken" just chills the mercury in his bones and sends him into such a panic the other eridians are afraid FOR him. Adrian and Rocky have to soothe him both in and out of sleeps and make it so the sleeping cycle is as comfortable to him as possible. They also fiercely guard him the entire way through.

- Eridian Grace would more than likely have a measure of limb pain and phantom limb pain from when he was human. All of it basically psychological, no less real. They've found that warm baths actually help his joints and limbs ache less, maybe due to the stress relief?

- probably also has audio processing issues? Since he's lived most of his life as a human with a separate sensory way to see his surroundings, his brain might lag when processing information as an eridian, not because of pure processing capacity but because his psyche is just not used to sight and hearing being essentially one sense. So he takes a longer time to process stuff.

- insanely, ABSURDLY clingly and touchy. Will have bouts of uncontrollable shaking and will basically freak out if he cannot hold claws with Adrian or Rocky at LEAST. Was clearly deeply affected by not being able to touch other living beings for so long.

- gets easily overwhelmed sensory wise too, to the point sound kind of hurts his receptors. Adrian and Rocky have established on pain of Adrian chucking mfers into the artificial ocean of the biodome that if Grace has a "quiet day", then EVERYONE must respect Grace's need for a Quiet Day and if it needs to be more than one day then he'll get more than a day! As many days until sound stops hurting him!!

- He misses being able to see.

[spicy-apple-pie]

Thinking of a scenario where Damian gets kidnapped and replaced by a fairytale type creature. Damian’s stuck behind a mirror so he can watch and hear what his clone and his family do and how they interact with each other.

To his horror, he can only observe as his twin became the ideal son and brother. Never causing conflict or arguing. Perfectly obedient. Totally unlike Damian.

Surely they’ll figure out there’s something wrong with him. That the real Damian is trapped right in front of them. But they don’t. They never mention it or express any concern at the change in attitude. Which is impossible, this is a family full of detectives, they most certainly know…

Then Damian realizes that they do know, and they just don’t care. More so, they might just prefer the imposter to the real one.

Damian is trapped behind glass while his family chooses a doppelgänger over himself.

But in reality, the Batfamily knows. Almost immediately they know. The problem is is that they have know idea where or even how Damian was taken. They have to put up a front for the fake Damian to keep him from getting suspicious while they figure out a way to get Damian back.

And they get him out of the mirror and they all hug and it’s a happy ending :)

[headspace-hotel]

You've heard of Earth is space australia now get ready for: Earth is the space Amazon Rainforest. Aliens land on Earth and they are losing their goddamn minds because every square inch of the ground is absolutely PACKED with life like there are hundreds of species just in this one site, there are winged animals flying through the sky and multiple colonies of sophisticated social insects just in the shadow of their ship, this ONE ROCK is covered in MULTIPLE SPECIES OF ORGANISMS that are themselves MULTIPLE ORGANISMS LIVING SYMBIOTICALLY, the tall, woody autotrophs look so different from each other because they're...holy shit that's like 5, 6, 7???? different species on this one site???

they start talking to a human and the human is like "haha yeah that's a crow!" and the alien researcher is like "you called it a 'bird' earlier, is that a different name?" and the human is like "oh a crow is just one species of bird, there's like, 10 others out there"

"On this planet?"

"No, in the back yard right now."

[headspace-hotel]

imagine aliens that come from a tidally locked planet where only a thin band of the planet is habitable, or a planet life was only able to develop in small areas at the poles, or in the few pools of liquid water on the planet's surface, or just in isolated areas where geologic activity causes geysers and springs, visiting Earth. They seem completely unprepared for the shock of realizing that Earth's continents appear green because the continents are absolutely covered with green organisms.

[headspace-hotel]

The alien biologists are so uncomfortable because there are certain protocols for maintaining certain distances from life signatures to avoid harming unfamiliar organisms, and groves of plant like autotrophs and pools where aquatic life dwells are carefully protected and respected, with very important rules for approach

On Earth, the inhabitants are just. Playing and walking LITERALLY STEPPING ON CARPETS OF ORGANISMS the whole time. the aliens are like "it doesn't hurt them??? Can't you just...move them to a place where you don't have to step on them?" and the humans are like "no of course not, grasses evolved to tolerate being stepped on, and besides, more plants would grow there if we tried to move the existing ones"

It then must be explained that humans would need to regularly spray poisons on the ground to prevent any given area of bare soil from filling up with plant life, and that "regularly" means "multiple times within a single solar cycle." And that the poisons stop working within a few decades because the plants evolve to resist them that fast.

[headspace-hotel]

Human: yeah solar is the dominant energy source these days but some of the recent solar farm projects are pretty controversial because they're in reclaimed strip mining sites that others argue should be restored as best as we can to their previous ecological state

Alien: I don't understand...why would you not place the solar farms in an area of the planet with no existing ecosystem?

Human: ...what?

Alien: You have rather sophisticated protective gear and have done some space exploration, surely you could establish them in an area of the planet to which life is not yet adapted?

Human: ...there isn't one.

Alien: ...what do you mean there isn't one

[headspace-hotel]

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU 'DON'T KNOW' HOW MANY SPECIES THERE ARE"

[headspace-hotel]

"Our biologists would love to collaborate with your Earth scientists to draw up a definitive listing of Earth species and resolve any inconsistencies in the records."

"I don't think you understand what I'm saying. Only 25% of Earth's species have been formally described, at most."

"that's...that's most of them."

"Yes?"

"Well...I suppose the ocean trenches and abyssal plains must be difficult for you to reach...where did you have to travel for your discoveries?"

"Travel? I moved here to Alabama in the first place to study its aquatic ecosystems. The crayfish I discovered live in that creek I showed you earlier."

[dvandom]

"Too bad you couldn't have come here a few thousand years ago, humanity has really been doing a number on our diversity of species. Some say it might be the next great extinction."

"Wait. I believe this is something your language refers to as needing 'unpacking.' The current biodiversity represents a historical low point?"

"Well, a local minimum, as the math people say. But yeah, I think there was some recovery after the Younger Dryas about ten thousand years ago, but for every new species humanity creates intentionally or unintentionally, tens or hundreds have been wiped out. We're not proud of this."

"We will need time to digest this, to the point I'm afraid to ask the next question: NEXT great extinction?"

"Yeah, I forget how many there've been total, and there's some arguing over how bad it has to get before it really counts. A comet or meteor strike 65 million years ago wiped out the majority of life...the majority of species or even genera...there's entire classes of life we didn't know ever existed until we found their fossils a few hundred years ago. And then there's the Permian, when a good chunk of a continent erupted and I think we lost...ninety percent of all species? Maybe more? I'd have to look it up. There was also a mass extinction that just happened because all the continents got pushed together and apparently that was bad for life on land and in the sea. You're looking a little faint...do you need to sit down?"

"But...even a single great extinction has always meant the end of life above the unicellular level, on every world we've visited. This planet has evolved complex incredibly ramified life repeatedly despite three mass extinction events?"

"I wanna say...five?"

[explorerrowan]

A Deathworld is scary. A Lifeworld is fucking terrifying.

[neechees]

I'm making a list of some beadwork artists on etsy (+ a couple other sites) because I was sick of seeing ai scams made from Moniyaws so here's a list of authentic, Native made beadwork from real Native artists and their tribes if you're in the market for some beadwork. Feel free to add yourself if you're an ndn artist!

Kiwewin Beads (Cree)

RonnieReneesboutique (Diné)

BeadinByCourt (Sac & Fox)

WhisperingWindsShop (Cheyenne River Lakota)

SweetgrassCrafts (Cree)

BlueSpruceBeadwork (Mi'kmaq)

MahtheyzhaweyArts (Ponca and Choctaw)

BiidaabanStudio (Ojibwe)

BeadworkByMegh (Metis)

BearRiverCreations (Washo/Lakota/Oneida/Cheyenne)

pihpihcewbeadwork (Cree)

Gitxsanmysticcrafts (Gitxsan/Cree)

YellowBearWoman (Cree)

SweetGrassByHeather (Cree)

DearFears (Chahta)

Kauyumarishop (Wixárika and Mexica)

WabanakiBeadwork (Metis/Abenaki)

Indigannette (Metis/Inuit)

OdeiminandSage (Ojibwe)

beadworkbytayy (Choctaw/Chickasaw)

MemengwaaBeads (Ojibwe)

KatawashishinBeads (Metis)

StrangekatCreations (Metis)

GreensCraftsStudio (Algonquin)

SpiritSistersbyLisa (Inuit)

BorealForestBeads (Cree)

LoveAlaskaDesign (Aleut/St'at'imc)

ThornyBeadwork (Dakota)

BougieBascan (Athabaskan)

TheSunkenMoon (Occaneechi Saponi)

SimplyNizhoni (Navajo)

NativeNerdery (Potawatomi)

IbaabiwinWiigwaas (Odawa & Potawatomi)

also, non-etsy:

Mathosapabeads (Lakota)

Chulalusa (Chahta/Cherokee)

NeepinMoon (Cree)

sleepymakwabeads (Ojibwe)

[despazito]

challenging all white women to put in even half the effort they spend on fearmongering to other white women about parking lot abductions to instead support MMIWG initiatives if they want to actually make a difference in protecting women

[lwyzlwyz]

missing and murdered indigenous women and girls(mmiwg)

[allmightyscroll-art]

Random Au idea; Miraculously, the Blip-A crew survive, but at the cost of their travel time, making it so they arrive at Tau Ceti around the same time as the Hail Mary. (Don't think too hard about it)

Grace now gets regularly hassled by many Eridians, all of whom can hold multiple conversations at once, unlike him.

Naturally, opinions about the local wet organful thang Tau Ceti dragged in are varied

[gunsandfireandshit]

PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE

[gothcostco]

From another article i read today 😭

[hustlerose]

alt link

[rincewindthecheese]

he wasn’t even there to be a contestant he joined the crew as a CHINESE TEACHER but the directors noticed his good looks and begged him to compete. poor guy made it to the finals and if he had been one of the winners he would have been contractually forced to be in a boy band whether he wanted to or not

[lastvalyrian]

this is the closest any human being has ever come to actually being sold to One Direction

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

gentle reminder that if u feel hungry soon after eating, it might be bc you’re eating mostly carbs without adding enough protein. try eating a handful of nuts or smthing alongside your next meal.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

and you don’t have to change the recipe or anything! you can eat what you were going to, just add some cheese cubes or a handful of nuts or salami slices on the side. u don’t have to change your meals, just add a little extra protein

[kreature-ofthenight]

thats nice but what do I need to do If I wake up around 3 am every other night with an unquenchable hunger for flesh even tho I ate normal balanced meals trough the day?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

spoonful of peanut butter

[screampotato]

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

[glitched-out-mess]

[theramblingvoid]

Hit "view post" and lost it

[pointless-letters]

One of the best letters I’ve ever seen just popped up on my Facebook memories. Still makes me laugh.

[pointless-letters]

As today is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, it’s a great time to revisit Dinah from Devon’s memory of this historic event. And yes, still makes me laugh.

[pointless-letters]

Today is the 54th anniversary of the moon landing, but Dinah’s diary entry is still absolutely magnificent.

[pointless-letters]

57th anniversary of the moon landing and the best diary entry in the history of diary entries. Sit down Samuel Pepys, it’s over. UGH.

[funny-tik-toks]

[fierceawakening]

I love how hard Steve is laughing.

[blastovkatamarinecromancy]

Assigned Daquan at the Stand up comedy club

[gandalfsbignaturals]

oh my GOD what is her name i wanna watch more

[starmancyrus]

That is Christopher Caldwell aka Bob the Drag queen and he is iconic

[geocaprican]

I’ve seen this clip countless time (and still fucking funny 😂🤣) but I was today years old when I learned Bob’s government name, which honestly makes this joke even funnier

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I'm sorry Chris chose the name Bob and is complaining about Steve?

[analogue-dragon]

Who up fantasizing about their disorders and ailments being worse than they actually are so that it was visible what was wrong with you even though you know it's not a perfect world where you'll get taken care of and you don't even like people asking you how you're doing / if you're okay but you imagine anyway a world where there is so obviously something wrong with you that people just take care of you without ever thinking that your faking or just want attention or being a bitch because it's so obvious that something's going on. If only things were worse, right?

[oddarette]

“Do Dead Malls Go To Heaven?”

Experimented a bit with a new way of detailing the tiles. Kinda like it? This particular piece took a hell of a lot of work. I’d love if you shared the vibes it’s giving off, for research purposes 💖

[supergameboytwo]

[supergameboytwo]

If you guys don't start behaving I'm going to turn off reblogs for this post. This post is about launching matchbox cars into your wall at high enough speeds to lodge them there. Nobody cares about how strong the walls in your house are, and I'm suddenly learning that a lot of people on this webbed site don't know what drywall is, but none of that matters.

The only thing that matters is shoot cars into your wall.

[ankle-beez]

surprisingly forward-thinking of jim henson and co. to make a female character in the 70's that's allowed to be loud-mouthed and violent and kind of overwhelmingly romantic and even a huge bitch at times and not have a moment where any character asks her to change

[ankle-beez]

going through all the muppet movies in a row made me realize that like. miss piggy was made in the 70's. and it's so rare even today to have a character like her. she's loud, she's selfish, she's funny, she's extremely vain, she's obsessed with romance, she's violent, she's kind of annoying, and there's not a single moment in any of these films where she's asked to tone down any of these personality traits. i am not joking when i say that miss piggy might be one of the best treated female characters ever written

[freak-phone]

I get asked a lot for tips with coloring black people, so i put together a little tutorial! (and bumps my kofi if you found this helpful)