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[selki]

hopefully this won't be needed but some contact info if you need to find me off tumblr:

@silverselkies.bsky.social on bluesky

selki6718 on discord, though i'm less active in one on one chats there and mostly hang out in servers

i also have an online-friends email address which i'm happy to give out if we've talked before :)

and again if we've talked and/or posted stuff before, can keep up via snail mail

[saintofsilence]

Elephant seal flipper

[starhalation]

I only read Naruto briefly as a youth but I really love both seeing and using Naruto and Sasuke as like. Regulars in the cast of the modern commedia dell'arte. They have grown beyond the need for a canon

[youcanstillwhistle]

I think the "pre" and "post" parts in "preposterous" should cancel each other out but everyone else seems to find my idea completely erous

[theprofessional-amateur]

Item and letter never reached their destination in Denmark because Royal Navy seized cargo ship in 1807

Omg

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This is so freaking cool!!

[brick-match]

Major pet peeve in my own life is that the brick and mortar on the porch columns of my apartment don't match the rest of the building. It's not something most people would notice at first or maybe at all, but it drives me crazy.

The brick on the building is an old sandmold standard-size flashed burgundy brick and a plain buff mortar in a flush joint. If I were to match these, I would use Belden Brick's Belcrest 740 bricks. Those aren't available in standard size, but the modular size they're made in will work because it's the same height. (Matching size exactly doesn't really matter for columns or other projects where the brick isn't going to be laid directly into the existing brick wythes (in fact, the bricks on the columns are a bit longer and a bit less tall than the bricks on the house)). I'd match the mortar with Heidelberg's Old Colonial, the go-to for matching older structures, from their Flamingo colored mortar series. Heidelberg's premixed Old Colonial could also work.

The brick on the columns is just over 8 inches long and just under 2 1/4 inches tall, so it's a weird size. They may have been "seconds", meaning the factory screwed up and had to sell them at a discount. That would explain the mismatch -- mighta been a 1970s Landlord Special. Nonetheless, they're beautiful bricks. A rusty brown color with ironspot texture ("ironspot" is somewhat literal: the clay and/or shale is mixed with actual flecks of metal, usually manganese these days I think, that melts in the kiln and makes a sort of glaze of freckles on the surface of the brick!), laid with an almost-matching red mortar.

These bricks have to have been discounted, because it shouldn't have been at all difficult to match the brick on the existing building. The reason for the red mortar evades me; colored mortars are usually more expensive than plain mortar. More traditional colors like Old Colonial are popular enough to be not much pricier than the plain grey. Idk why tf they woulda done red, except maybe to hurt me personally.

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

this is exactly the type of rant i signed up to tumblr to see

[corruptimles]

[shigure]

i'm sorry i never did your tag game. i love you

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[krematoorium]

[funstealer]

Fountains Abbey, England

[thebreakfastgenie]

Quand il faut expliquer la pâtisserie à un Américain: imaginez un hamburger

[vintagepromotions]

'Leg in the air - Parthenon' (1986). Photograph by Edgard Alsteens.

[anarqueeen]

Hate when I'm trying to find my luggage at the baggage claim but they all look the same. Many such cases.

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

[medusolo]

[indolentjellyfish]

summer's coming so I made them some fancy little drinks

[selki]

Haven't worn watches in years but now I've seen 3 different space-themed watches online this week and... it's tempting but also can't choose between any of them