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Kristin (30+), german. This blog is a multi-fandom (shipping) mess with a whole lot of Arcane stuff right now.  I admire the sky - day and nighttimes, love to discover haptics of things and do some other stuff like pen&paper and LARP. Also fangirling over beautiful people (tbh mostly women)

[homuras]

Lycoris Recoil ❀ Eyecatchers

[ms-funky-autumn]

Fuck it

Get Down On It Friday

[lovebirdstiel]

why do we have butt cheeks i dont understand why did we evolve this way

what use do butt cheeks have 

[cuddlebabies]

oh my god I HAVE THIS KNOWLEDGE

fun fact: butt-cheeks are one of the things that make us superior to other animals okay note that other apes do not have butt-cheeks

okay don’t quote me on this because I only did sixthform-bio and I’m sure of forgotten loads of stuff but here’s the down-low

back when we were evolving from ape to human, one of the most important things that happened was when our spine started meeting our brains at a sort of 90 degree angle instead of like 45 degrees, which meant that we could straighten up and walk on two legs which was a pretty rad development

except alas oh no our muscles weren’t built to allow us to walk around on two legs because that requires a sort of twisty motion of your hips as opposed to whatever the fuck it is everything else does AND SO ape-people started evolving with longer, narrower waists so that our bodies could twist with every footstep and we could strut along the fashionable catwalk that is neanderthal evolution

but then once this had happened, people realised that we had an advantage over other animals and we would be better at chasing and killing them but we weren’t very good at running

so that’s when we developed the glutenus maximus which is a really badass-sounding name for the muscle in your derriere which helps us to support our spine in an upright position so we don’t get tired, and helps the legs to rotate nicely so that we can run, and has a nice big fat storage around it to help us get energy so that we can run

and that, basically, is the butt-cheek

tl;dr - butt-cheeks were the result of thousands of years of natural selection so that we could run fast and slaughter things

[lovebirdstiel]

thank you so much for such a fabulous, informative and detailed explanation on the evolution of the butt

i feel enlightened and empowered to know my butt is for such a worthwhile purpose, so thank you 

[markdoesstuff-deactivated202210]

i love this butt science post so much

[speciesofleastconcern]

Also for squeezing

[grison-in-space]

fun fact: that fat on the cheeks? Incredibly useful source of energy to that muscle during endurance exertion, when glycogen is more or less depleted; carries the advantage of being right there and also serving to pad the important muscles in case of injury and provide a comfortable cushion on which to sit. Fat pads do things, and while we’re most used to thinking of individual fat pads in terms of their structural uses, often they function by providing easy sources of local power for sustained use.

Humans actually have quite a lot of intramuscular fat relative to some other species–I’m used to mice, which don’t bother, for example; neither do rabbits, which are so infamously lean that dining too heavily on them can be bad for human health. Of course, neither species relies much on endurance. Fast twitch muscles, which are good for sprinting and darting, tend to be powered by glycogen availability even within species; by contrast, slow twitch and highly oxidative muscles that are used over sustained exercise are generally powered by intramuscular fat.

(I am reading an interesting thesis tonight that also notes that relative to horses, dogs have more intramuscular fat in hindquarter muscles–exactly what you would expect to see in the context of intramuscular fat as a local fuel for endurance running, since dogs are–like humans–adapted for long distance persistence hunting.)

Next time you slap that jiggly ass, stop and reflect on how important and useful ALL its components are! In a very real sense, humanity’s ass defines us nearly as strongly as our heads.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

So what I’m hearing is that having a dump truck ass is literally Evolutionarily Advantageous. Even great-great-great-grandma Ungalug back in the Pleistocene woulda been hunting for a slice of that Cake. Help I’m a Miocene megafauna trying to escape predation but these Hominid ass-cheeks are dummy thick and the resonant clapping of their fatty pads keep driving them onwards beyond the limits of my exhaustion

[czgoldedition]

This is the ass of a killer, Bella.

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[paper-mario-wiki]

HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?

Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.

[tadfools]

I might've added the BG3 Art Book to my dnd assets stash

It' 100% does not have things like the 5e players' handbook + 5e’s character sheet, several gm guides, critical role's explorer's guide to wildmount, baldur's gate and waterdeep city encounters, 101 potions and their effects, volo's guide to monsters, both of xanathar's guides, a bunch of other encounters, one shots, and class builds

In no way are there any pdf’s relating to any wizard who may or may not be residing on any coast

(Edit that I’ve moved the folder to the new link above! So if you catch a different version of this post that link won’t work anymore!)

[mewvore]

a tech company saying "we know change can be scary" in the midst of user backlash has the same energy as "the Titanic is virtually unsinkable"

[mewvore]

so I guess they just don't teach buisness majors about the New Coke fiasco

[hexlix]

It's genuinely kinda weird to me- I recently graduated in UX and a lot of the major issues I've got with the new layout is not that it looks different. The information architecture of the app genuinely means that navigating the app takes more work (more taps/button presses in this case) than the previous layout.

Nothing in an app or site should take more than 3 taps to get anywhere. It kinda just tells me they didn't have any concurrent users testing it (WHICH THEY SHOULD BE- AS THEIR TARGET AUDIENCE) prior to pushing the changes. Yes it might be Prettier and seem better organized than before, but switching between a server and a dm was 1 swipe 1 tap before, now its:

Swipe to bring up the menu, tap the dms menu, tap to pull up the unread dm, and your previous dm that you were looking at no longer pulls automatically too.

And that's not mentioning you can't search for a message server-wide on mobile before. You have to check each channel painstakingly instead of having a full peek at the entire server.

On voice it is much harder to pull up the conversation to mute my mic if needed, I just needed to swipe up before, now pulling the nav bar is a double tap and a swipe up (unsure which because it's barely responsive for me). Additionally, maybe my friend just couldn't find it, but they may have removed mobile push to talk as well.

And the fact that we can't swipe right to pull up the other side menu and must instead click the header when in a chat channel? It isn't intuitive. The reply function is given priority over an entire side menu. That doesn't make sense to me.

Anyways the point is. They committed one of the major sins of UX by rearranging their information architecture. The user has to work more to navigate the app period. It's not an issue with adjusting to the new layout. It is actually SIGNIFICANTLY more work to navigate the app.

Sorry to have a huge rant over this I'm just very passionate. If anybody has any questions you can ask me though. 👍

[lautakwah]

warning for discord users

If you're on the app, immediately go to your dms and then "add friends". After the latest update they allow your contacts to find you and have that option turned on by default, so make sure it's unchecked!

This is very obviously not great for a multitude of reasons, but especially for people in vulnerable positions who do not want people in their contacts to see who they are on discord and/or know they have discord in the first place. I've also tried finding out if this is a thing on desktop but haven't been able to find any mention of it, so either it's not a "feature" (yet) or they've hidden it. Either way, stay safe, and turn off finding friends via contacts!

[ID: three screenshots from the discord app with circles around the buttons to press to get to this "feature". 1: the messages/DM button, 2: the "add friends button", 3: in the add friends page, the "allow contacts to add me" checkbox. /END ID]

[halorvic]

how have you been?

[halorvic]

Update:

[magicandman]

Witchcraft, Wisdom, Death...

[whirlwindofstuff]

[callmebliss]

Y’ever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way way opened to it?

[macleod]

I've seen this passed around a few times, and I have one thing to say:

It's online. The book was carefully and wonderfully recreated online by hand. You can find it here. The entire book is this easy.

calculusmadeeasy.org

[haarleps-moved-deactivated20240]

For anyone worried about missing anything in BG3 or replaying the game and wanting to find something they missed there’s a ton of checklists available online and I’m just gonna post the ones I’ve been using for all the acts in case anybody else wants to reference them!

Baldur's Gate 3 Act 1 Checklist: Every Main and Side Quest Before the Point of No Return

Act 1 of 'Baldur's Gate 3' can take dozens of hours to complete, with a multitude of sidequests and activities. Here's everything you need t

Everything to Do in 'Baldur’s Gate 3' Act 2, Before the Point of No Return

Act 2 in 'Baldur's Gate 3' is a massive undertaking, with a lot of hidden quests and details. Here's everything you'll want to do in the Sha

Baldur's Gate 3: Act 3 quest list for BG3

Act Three is jam-packed with quests for you to complete.

Baldur's Gate 3: All Missable Side Quests & Content in Act 3 of BG3

Don't miss any Act 3 side quest and secret available in Baldur's Gate 3 with this guide.

Everything to Do in Baldur’s Gate 3 Act 3, Before the Point of No Return

Act 3 of Baldur's Gate 3 is massive, finally taking you the titular city itself. Here's everything you'll want to see and do.

[obsidian-hollow-archives]

"homosexuality is unnatural! there's only two genders! it's a sin-"

I'm sorry, have you seen NATURE???

and there's so many more species than this that exhibit homosexuality, varying genders, etc. SO! MANY!

it's very much a natural thing. it always has been. unfortunately, while homosexuality is found in many species, homophobia is only found in one

[funnytwittertweets]

[dkpsyhog]

An apple farmer and a garlic farmer team up to fight their mutual nemesis, a vampire doctor

[doriansbutt]

Dr. Acula

[dogposts]

My sister’s husky has a fantastic costume this year

[relevant-catnik]

I cannot stress how important it is to have the sound on for this.

[soft-stims]

Tea set

[wifwlf]

This is the kind of shit gnomes drink their tea from. Jsyk. But it's little so it's like a life sized snail and sometimes they pick up an actual snail by accident and have a little giggle about it. Can you hear me is this thing on

[rhikanja]

@shingruen

[catchymemes]

Happy october 3rd!✨