Herbert westgender

Ryn | 31 | non-binary | they/them | Aus

[henstomper]

i love when people get so online that they start talking about how you shouldnt call yourself a pervert if youre only into normie shit like petplay and erotic hypnosis

[cocomantou]

too tired to finish the sketches so it doesn't look as good as i want it to ;-;

second pic : the last thing u see before dying 🙏

[flowerprintundies]

grabbing hands grab all they can

[spandexinspace]

I need everyone to know that the ship Götheborg, the world's largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, answered a distress call the other day.

Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.

[foxgirlofficial]

pov: you’ve been transported to the 17th century

[uvradical]

#in the article it says that the sailboat sailors were concerned because they could not be towed quickly because of the kind of boat#so they asked Götheborg what type of ship they were and warned that they would not be able to go above a certain speed#and götheborg went ' we are also a sailboat. 50 meters length. no worries :) '#and the poor sailboat sailors were just like ' That's not possible. they have to be messing with us' and then the ship Rolled Up (via bunjywunjy)

[ms-demeanor]

I'm crying. Here's a photo of a sailor from the Götheborg watching over the little sailboat in tow:

From the story:

We repeatedly emphasized that we were aboard a small 8-meter sailboat, but the response was the same each time: "We are a 50-meter three-masted sailboat, and we offer our assistance in towing you to Paimpol." We were perplexed by the size difference between our two boats, as we feared being towed by a boat that was too large and at too fast a speed that could damage our boat. The arrival of the Götheborg on the scene was rapid and surprising, as we did not expect to see a merchant ship from the East India Company of the XVIII century. This moment was very strange, and we wondered if we were dreaming. Where were we? What time period was it? The Götheborg approached very close to us to throw the line and pass a large rope. The mooring went well, and our destinies were linked for very long hours, during which we shared the same radio frequency to communicate with each other. The crew of the Götheborg showed great professionalism and kindness towards us. They adapted their speed to the size of our boat and the weather conditions. We felt accompanied by very professional sailors. Every hour, the officer on duty of the Götheborg called us to ensure everything was going well.[...] This adventure, very real, was an incredible experience for us. We were extremely lucky to cross paths with the Götheborg by chance and especially to meet such a caring crew. Dear commander and crew of the Götheborg, your kindness, and generosity have shown that your ship is much more than just a boat. It embodies the noblest values of the sea, and we are honored to have had the chance to cross your path and benefit from your help.

"Our destinies were linked for very long hours" is just knocking me out.

[greentrickster]

People discussing ‘unhinged’ fanfiction always seem to talk about dark!fic or explicit stuff, as opposed to the truly unhinged stuff like the fic author zapping all their favs from a story onto a set, assigning them roles, and forcing them to act out popular movies. Because, let me tell you, I read a fic like that with the original Yugioh cast acting out Disney’s Aladdin approximately fifteen years ago, and it is to this day one of the one of the most unhinged pieces of media I’ve ever consumed.

[getintherobot]

????????

[crowcollared]

world's best dad or whatever

[shoomlah]

(posting this again since Tumblr seems to have eaten my original post, what)

Half-Life: Alyx concepts | Part 1 ( Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 )

TIME TO FINALLY POST MY HALF-LIFE: ALYX CONCEPTS AFTER A MILLION YEARS

Rough concepts for young Alyx—you don’t see her in-game, but we still wanted to be able to picture what she might look like: five years younger than in HL2, still wearing some of the same items of clothing, but wearing them on a slightly smaller frame.

A couple of my favourite thumbnails from our key art brainstorming sessions, the first of which was painted up into a full piece by the lovely Chris Welch

[zydr8anatomy-deactivated2023111]

she herbert on my west till i blasphemy? before what god? a god repulsed by the miserable humanity he created in his own image? I will not be shackled by the failures of your god.

[itsa-me-kermio]

Happy labor day from Rom, a real union man 💞

Thanks for the correction! I called him nog at first.

[marzipanandminutiae]

“you don’t like the proliferation of terms like Unalive outside of TikTok because you realize that you’re aging out of youth culture and it makes you uncomfortable!”

no I don’t like it because there’s something INCREDIBLY dystopian about being forced to soften terms for basic parts of the human experience like death and sex (and even more so terms for oppressed minorities- call me a “le-dollar sign-bian” and I will bite you) purely because advertisers and corporations demand it

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

The idea that young people are getting used to not being able to speak in public about sex, queerness etc without talking around censors, and see this as normal and not a problem, scares me tbh.

[crippledanarchy]

The fact that people are so comfortable with being censored that they Voluntarily censor themselves on words and topics that aren’t even being limited is a terrifying sign

[rinielle]

It’s also really weird that you (hypothetical young person who thinks we’re all just old and uncool) think that we never did this ourselves when we were young.

I was on sites as a child, that were geared towards children, where we had to find creative ways to write perfectly normal words because there was a ‘bad word’ contained within the spelling (god forbid you wanted to say you liked grapes)… and yeah we found ways to convey the sentiments of the actual ‘forbidden’ words too, but we also grew up and off those sites and didn’t feel the need to carry that censorship with us because… we were growing up and understood that those words which maybe were quite big concepts for kids around 10, were perfectly fine for young adults to see and use.

[shrimpodile-art]

week 4 of kittenhood is the peak. their ears haven’t even straightened out and they have triangle tails. unbelievable.

[twocrabcake]

re-animator plot

[halcyonminor]

howard young showdown (vote below)

s2-3 young (near flawless, boundless, colony collapse, a resounding success)

s5 young

sim/subentity young

s6 young

Voting ended onSep 10, 2023

someone on discord joked about this so i made it real. may the best young win

if youre shaky on the distinctions and want a quick guide from your local young expert [detailed spoilers under cut]:

s2-3 young:

stationed on mimir 9 (got promoted at some point)

unknowingly cloned from s5 young

has memories of the events of season five minus the last three episodes

seems to have chilled out a bit but reverts under stress (see: boundless)

gets trapped in a labyrinth by sayer and future at the end of s3 and dies offscreen

s5 young:

the "original" young

simultaneously consumed by envy and suspicion towards human coworkers while blissfully unaware of any potential threat from AI ones

easily manipulated by flattery

gets trapped in a labyrinth by sayer and future at the end of s5 and dies offscreen

sim/subentity young:

digitally cloned from s5 young's memories

not, by any reasonable definition, human

nonbinary in the sense of being neither alive nor dead but a third worse thing

future's best friend

gets trapped in a labyrinth by sayer midway through s5 and gets deactivated offscreen

s6 young:

cloned from s2-3 young

capable of admitting fault

has one line of dialogue at this point but he's cute so i put him in

sayer's lab assistant

current labyrinth status of floor 13 unclear, he can't really leave at this point so i guess you could also argue he is trapped right now

[commonprose]

Ah the free market at work. (Similar to when I went to CVS to pickup a 90$ prescription and they had their own generic version for 7.99).

[totalharmonycycle]

This is important! Tell your Friends.

[bringingupbrighton-deactivated2]

I can’t believe some insurances quit covering them 😐

[cosmicmoves-deactivated20170412]

From Slate:

The generic Adrenaclick will cost $109.99 for two doses, compared with $649.99 for the same amount of drug in an EpiPen. That’s good news, both for financial and safety reasons: STAT reported last year that some parents and institutions had begun filling up syringes with epinephrine as a cost-cutting measure, a DIY solution that could pose great risk to the children who may have eventually needed injections. A more affordable alternative will help ensure safer epinephrine injections.

That’s assuming, though, that the people who need these devices know exactly what to ask for when they’re sitting in their doctors’ offices. Otherwise, they’ll still be stuck with the overpriced product. Here’s why: The mechanism by which Adrenaclick injects the drug is slightly different from EpiPen’s mechanism, so the Food and Drug Administration has ruled that the two are not therapeutically equivalent. That distinction is important because it means a prescription for an EpiPen cannot be filled with Adrenaclick. If you want the cheaper option, you have to have an Adrenaclick prescription.

You must ask your doctor for an Adrenaclick prescription! 

I also found a coupon from Impax on 0.15mg and 0.3mg epinephrine injection, USP auto-injectors, which appear to be the generic version of Adrenaclick; these coupons cover up to $100 per pack for 3 packs of these injectors (6 total injectors).

Some customers may be automatically eligible for $100 off the retail price thus only paying $10 for a pack, but this may be good backup for those who for whatever reason do not meet those requirements.

[lethargicactionhero]

Pass this information on, potentially save a life.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

A Haunting Vista by phantom.painting

[wizardshark]

Being nice to someone you don't like is not manipulation btw it's being civil

[aflirtingaccident]

you know those posts where you see them and you know it's just a glimpse of the iceberg of discourse that the post is truly about

[wizardshark]

We have to destroy tiktok

[cupsofsilver-deactivated2026052]

"Johnny's fears that his identity "has just been made up" and that his thoughts and actions are outside of his control ("some other voice. defining me, directing me") can also be read in relation to the postmodern loss of self and identity in an age of pervasive skepticism, evoking arguments made by theorists such as Butler and Foucault that one's identity, thoughts, and opinions are socially-produced constructs rather than natural facts (Louwen 8). This idea is further evoked by Johnny through the formal structure of the novel and its multiple layers of mediated discourse, which echoes Barthes assertion that one merely rearranges ready-formed linguistic structures into narratives when writing rather than producing something original or innate. Johnny's writing largely consists of transcribing Zampand's manuscript, that is, literally reproducing someone else's words. Also significant in Johnny's narrative is his remark that his memory is "built upon story after story, so many, how many?, stories high, building what? and why?" (297-98) in that the motif of building here, like the house, can be seen as metaphorical of the postmodern realization that identity is "constructed." Here, Danielewski is in keeping with the American tradition of having houses reflect not only the social structures in which characters are entrapped but also their psychological structures (Chandler 3). Like our dominant discourses, the house and its inhabitants are empty constructs."

Seán Travers, Empty Constructs: The Postmodern Haunted House In Mark Z. Danielewski's House Of Leaves