Dipshit

Hi guys. This was originally a personal tumblr account that I've reworked into an account for my writing and overall shit-eatery. Look around. Like. Follow. Enjoy. (Content includes personal writings, writing prompt answers, and the fandom I have an unhealthy obsession for at the moment)

[mysweetoddbird]

sorry but once you notice how often ppl use a southern accent as shorthand for being unintelligent you can never unsee it. classism is baked so deeply and why are you acting like anyone who talks the way my grandfather talks is stupid.

[depsidase]

[afurioushawk]

Euros over here for the World Cup discovering we were right about this

[archaeocoyote]

[depsidase]

[haunted-hideaway]

I’m glad that OP:

1) Figured this out.

2) Shared so others can learn from their mistake.

[eternalgaylord]

collecting tweets

[eternalgaylord]

#vessel alert

that's right

[teaboot]

My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying

[teaboot]

Well-to-do finance manager with tidy shoes: "Why hello, sweetheart. Can you say 'hi'? Aren't you cute. Are you on a trip with your mom?"

4 year old me: why must we do this

Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"

4 year old me, suddenly paying attention: Finally, A Person Of Intellect

[scarlct-vvitch]

grace, who has been alone for five minutes: oh my god. an alien! im not alone anymore! i hope he wants to be friends :)

rocky, coming up on 50 years of solitude, imprinting on grace in ways baby ducklings can only dream of: if you leave me to sleep where i can't watch your heart beat i am blowing up this tunnel with us both in it

[scarlct-vvitch]

free fic idea up for grabs. godspeed

[tastylemonbread]

a post about when someone tags someone else on your post

[siderealscion]

[orbsdotorg]

This was my actual favorite part of working in a theater. People would come in and use a string of words no human had ever uttered and I’d have to be like “ohhhhkay let’s parse this out.”

[yunisverse]

When we had Moonlight: Moonshine, Moonrise, Midnight, Nightlight, Nighttime, Twilight

My favorite in recent memory, though: “The Big Sick” = “The Fat Bad”

[biglawbear]

Don’t… Don’t movie theaters have…the names of the movies… Right… There?

[gemstonechronologist]

Ah, see, the problem here is that you’re making the common mistake of assuming people bother to read anything. At all. At any given point. When in the presence of customer service worker.

[shamesonlydaughter]

it doesn’t have to be good it just has to be done

[fiyero3305]

The phrase "They don't want it perfect, they want it Friday" does wonders for my productivity.

[blueindeed]

I tell this story all the time but I'll tell it again! When I taught kindergarten full time, we had a working bee one weekend where we did a bunch of gardening/landscaping in the outdoor area. One of the dads put up a bit of fencing, then stood back and had a look, kind of frowning like he wasn't sure. His wife then came along, and the following conversation ensued:

Wife: GETMO? Husband: (after a moment, with a sigh) Yeah, GETMO. Me: GETMO? Wife and husband, in perfect unison: Good Enough To Move On

Absolutely LIFE CHANGING acronym, friends and enemies.

[king-of-kaoss]

martha wells said sometimes all you can do is cling like a tentacled parasite to something you love and let it carry you to safety

and she also said if you need to cling to murderbot it canonically said "okay fuck it whatever" and allowed it

[hanna-writes]

Not to be aggressively European on tumblr dot com, but I did make it through the entirety of Platform Decay without once considering that, mayhaps, Murderbot’s struggles with public transport might be somewhat relatable to some people

[penna-nomen]

On a related note, Martha Wells mentions some of her inspirations for the public transport scenes in this interview -- I can definitely relate to her thoughts about DFW and Atlanta airports. And while I'm fortunate to live in an area with good (for the U.S.) public transportation options, what she described in Japan sounds like a dream.

The interview is really interesting and touches on a lot of topics besides public transport. For instance, she recommends a show that encompasses what she imagined as Honor Princess Detective.

There are also a lot of spoilers for Platform Decay, so keep that in mind before you listen or read the transcript. And she touches on what's planned for the next season of Murderbot the TV series.

[murderbot-moodboard]

11 minutes in and so far my favorite quote is Martha sarcastically saying "That's not propaganda at allllll..." 😆

[murderbot-moodboard]

Confirmed info about which books Murderbot S2 will cover below the cut!

Martha says that S2 is going to cover Books 2-4 (Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, and Exit Strategy)!

[murderbot-moodboard]

Finished the interview and it's definitely a fun and worthwhile listen! Really fun discussion of multiple characters and events in Platform Decay with some background info and ideas of what Martha was thinking. There's also a little bonus lore drop about Holism—according to Martha, it's older and friendlier than ART and doesn't really care about ART's one-sided beef with it, lol.

If you need a transcript or you'd just prefer to read rather than listen to the episode (which, I've been there), the webpage penna-nomen linked above also includes a handy dandy transcript!

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[alleesaur]

the productivity creatures

[shenoego]

GET BACK HERE

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

no one is coming to save yo- wrong!! everyone who has ever shown you love and/or care is saving you a little bit.

[phaeton-flier]

Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.

[phaeton-flier]

The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there

[theaudientvoid]

[centrally-unplanned]

Regular bears tell stories of angel bears sent by the Bear God, pure white and twice as strong as any normal bear could be, who rule the summit of the Earth and kill all who stand in their path.

And they are right, those bears exist and totally do that. Humans just have fake angels as a cope.

[theabigailthorn]

love the idea of bears being the chosen species actually. having a near death experience and glimpsing heaven and realising it's just full of bears, no humans at all, humans not ensouled actually, humans an accidental byproduct of God's plan for bears

[rsuperg]

Brother Bear

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

good.store just passed $13,000,000 raised for charity, which is both a lot and an amount that sometimes comes out when billionaires cough really hard.

anyway, why buy your household cleaning supplies, socks, soap, coffee, tea, and more at a regular store that enriches the few when you could buy it at good store and support vulnerable people and ecosystems?