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raevenlywrites

Its me, your feral godmother

raevenlywrites

*waves a wand and grants you the teeth and claws to fuck your evil step family up*

raevenlywrites

Good luck kid you're in a reverse beauty and beast situation. Do not let that princely motherfucker fall in love with your inner humanity or the spell will fail and you'll turn human again

raevenlywrites

Good news if you bite his ass you can start a pack together. Go forth. Enjoy the ball

raevenlywrites

You can bite a princess too if you want. Or a milkmaid, or a butler or whatever. Go nuts. The more the merrier

raevenlywrites

#misread as feral hogmother

That's my girlfriend, she's rooting for you too

raevenlywrites

#investing at 70 notes

That is the nicest thing anyone has ever said about a post of mine that wasn't an addition to a post of someone else's XD

raevenlywrites

#posts that will become Tumblr heritage

I wish. I don't think it's even gonna crack 500 notes

honourablejester

I don’t know why that affected me so strongly, but I’m watching a youtube video on disasters on Lake Huron, and the first one involves a coal freighter that was lost in the White Hurricane of 1913 called the SS Argus. Everyone on the ship was lost. But it’s mentioned that the captain’s body washed up later, and was found without a life jacket. So they thought, based partly on testimony of another ship that thought they saw them go down, that it just happened too fast for him to have time to get his jacket. But then another body was found, that of the second cook, and she was found wearing the life jacket marked ‘captain’. And that’s …

It didn’t work. It didn’t save her. But it’s so very possible that he spent his last moments alive trying to save someone else, one of his crew, and they probably both knew that it wouldn’t work, that there wasn’t a lot of hope in a blizzard on the lakes in November, but he tried … he tried anyway. Even if it did nothing but maybe make her body easier for her family to find.

You know that Mr Rogers thing of ‘look for the helpers’? How many times has someone, facing the end, done something tiny and fragile and maybe hopeless just to try and help someone else? Whether it works or not. How many people went to their graves at least trying?

That has to say something about us. As a people. As monstrous as we sometimes (perhaps often) are, so many times we were also …

Whoever saves one life, saves the whole world.

And sometimes you can’t save one life, sometimes it doesn’t work, sometimes there’s no getting out of this for anyone, but … try anyway. Because it matters anyway.

And maybe no one will ever know. But maybe also some day more than a century down the line, maybe some idiot will be crying into her coffee because of what you died trying.

pjharvey

we have to start running a massive PSA campaign to young gay people so everyone understands there is a difference between being a dom and being a top and between being a sub and being a bottom. and also that sometimes you are neither a sub nor a bottom and you're just like shy. we need to be handing out flyers we need ads at every train station spreading the word

#a bit exhausting that these roles have become Gender mk 2 #No there doesn't have to be a 'girl'#No there doesn't have to be a 'boy'#No top and bottom aren't hardwired personality traits #Not everything goes in boxes and that's okay!

hollowedskin

I got a 4 min long video of Kimchi dreaming today, so here's a clip

You get the whole walk cycle and the little sprint at the end.

Sometimes her sprints last for like 4 or 5 seconds and she can shoot herself off the couch or into a wall if she gets a grip with her back claws. If she does it next to a wall, her head smacking into it sounds like someone is trying to break into the house. She doesn't wake up.

Later in the dream she injured her paw and was limping, and earlier she caught something and ate it.

hollowedskin

cassandracalin

Re-creating my first webcomic from 12 years ago, "Hair Expectations vs Reality."

I can't help but feel all kinds of emotions after re-visiting the original comic: the one that started it all. A lot has changed since then, and I feel so fortunate to still create art and tell stories for a living. Thanks for your support, and sticking around for so long ❤️

Check out the other versions:

2014 (OG)

2020 (6 year anniversary)

nchntd

In the club

vacuously-true

I think I’m literally never gonna be sick of this masterpiece. I think watching it on a loop for eight hours could fix me. Dancing’s what clears my soul. Dancing’s what makes me whole.

dimmadoome

I just love that this very video is an accumulation of thousands of years worth of art made by people who have never met each other. The concept of this video was so completely unfathomable to every single artist who made the sculptures and yet they’ve all put something toward the creation of it.

i-restuff

ITS BACK ON MY TIMELINE

chern9byl

Happy bday to my boy!!! Better late than never

celestetumbledryer

u know the ship is good when one of them is dead

popqorn

thecatholicseamstress17129

Show idea: magical girl group but each girl is based on one of the seven heavenly virtues

elgringo300-deactivated20260512

ok so turns out this already exists and it was written in the fifth century AD

elgringo300-deactivated20260512

they have their own weapons and everything

caffeinial

hey bros that just means it's public domain

grimamethyst

Feels like the names of Adeptus Sororitas ladies. Time to draft up some fanfic about this specific group battling on their own to save some small population on a far flung world that is somehow (yadda yadda) important to the Imperium.

prokopetz

It's striking how much mental health advice directed at kids and teenagers boils down to saying "you have to be okay with people treating you like you're not fully human because they're right, but it's okay because one day you will be human", then being genuinely surprised when it doesn't help.

pmamtraveller

Denver Balbaboco - The Birth of Wednesday Addams

sigmaleph

so a thing i often think about while showering is that controlling the temperature of the water is tricky, right? how hot the water is when it comes out of my showerhead is going to depend on a lot of factors like what temperature the water is before going through the water heater and how much gas the heater is burning and how much water is flowing and how much cold water is getting mixed in. and i have no control over some of those factors, limited control over others (I can't change my water heater settings if i'm already in the shower) and for the ones i do control more-or-less directly (flow of water from the 'hot' and 'cold' parts of the system) it takes some amount of fiddling and the system has some inertia and if i get it too wrong it can be very unpleasant because i am physically there getting water at the wrong temperature thrown at me.

and like if i had to design the magical perfect shower system, the two dials would not be 'hot water' and 'cold water' but rather 'temperature' and 'flow' that can be adjusted independently with small movements of the dial corresponding to small, predictable changes in the relevant physical variable and you might even imagine presets per person or something.

and like. there are practical difficulties with that sort of thing ofc (e.g. water famously has a pretty big heat capacity, so there's gonna be some inertia if you're trying to change its temperature quickly) but it doesn't seem beyond our abilities as a species, right? expensive, I am not surprised I don't have this at home, but. Does someone?

I have no idea how the showers of rich people work but are they remotely like this or are they just doing something entirely different and presumably-better-by-their-preferences or do they also have to deal with fiddly showers? i am curious.

nia--san

Yes, there are fancy showers with digital controls that do this, and they are expensive. Although now I'm wondering if this is feasible with a traditional water heater setup or if this is only practical with hot water on demand.

serinemolecule

and like if i had to design the magical perfect shower system, the two dials would not be 'hot water' and 'cold water' but rather 'temperature' and 'flow' that can be adjusted independently

This exists and is called a "thermostatic mixer" faucet. @nia--san has probably seen ones with digital screens, but the tech is completely mechanical and are usually sold without any electronics at all. They're also not expensive; here's one for USD$20.

Basically every Japanese shower works like this, and, I repeat, it has zero electronics:

As you can see, the right knob adjusts temperature, and the left knob adjusts pressure. There's also a button on the showerhead to turn it on and off, so once you set the temperature and pressure you like, you can just press the showerhead button before and after every shower.

I've seen these controls in a few luxury hotels (and airport lounges) outside of Japan, but it's pretty rare rare.

adjusted independently with small movements of the dial corresponding to small, predictable changes in the relevant physical variable

You can see from the pic that this one has a bunch of temperatures marked on the dial. You can literally just select the exact temperature you want.

(e.g. water famously has a pretty big heat capacity, so there's gonna be some inertia if you're trying to change its temperature quickly)

Not actually a problem. As you can see, the mixer bar has hot water and cold water going directly into it, so you're not changing the temperature of the water itself, so much as changing what percentage of the mixture is coming from hot water.

In my experience, feeling the change happens pretty quickly, but that's also true of every other shower I've used (which also work this way), so I don't know what's up with your showers.

I have no idea how the showers of rich people work but are they remotely like this

Nope, I've been to a lot of pretty rich people's houses and seen some ultra-luxury showers and they may be huge and made of marble and have rain showers, but the controls seem optimized for artistic value rather than convenience.

I'd much rather use a Japanese shower. It's not like thermostatic mixers are expensive (the first one I found on Amazon Japan was USD$20). They just haven't caught on in the rest of the world for whatever reason.

andmaybegayer

thermostatic mixers are becoming more common (my apartment in Czechia has one) but you mainly see them in new construction and commercial spaces because of energy efficiency and safety regulations, also because people don't ever replace old fittings and even when they do they usually buy the same kind of fitting. If you cheap the fuck out (motels love doing this) you put in a single-knob version that only controls temperature, not pressure, but the two-knob ones are excellent, you can just set the temperature and forget it.

In commercial settings these save you from accidentally burning anyone, and it allows you to use much hotter water in the pipes which reduces risk of bacterial growth and allows you to use less, hotter water from a smaller, better insulated tank.

The way these work is cool, there's a piston containing a plug of wax that's exposed to the post-mixer water, and the wax expands when heated such that actuates the mixer valve. When the piston extends it mixes in more cold water, and you adjust a springloaded offset adjustment with the temperature knob so that you can change equilibrium. Closed-loop mechanical control with an adjustable setpoint!

acearchaeologist

Thermostatic mixers in a regular shower setup are a pricey but have been around forever. My parents house has one that adjusts the ratio based on temp (I think it uses the expansion rate rather than ratios?) and that's like 30 years old.

And in newer very cheap European builds it's quite common to see instant electric water heaters in the shower itself so you can set the temp that way.

pipariperho

I'm trying to figure out if this post talks about some luxury/novelty thing I can't understand because to me it seems like they are talking about something that's been so common in my life I can't figure out what the other type of showers are like.

greaseonmymouth

What @pipariperho said - that kind of shower is ubiquitous where I’m from. OP do you live in the UK? I have seen showers (and sink faucets) with separate hot and cold controls with no pressure control there a LOT, and I always wondered why nobody bothered to switch that old crap out with modern thermostatic mixers. Like mentioned upthread it’s not like they’re that expensive.

elodieunderglass

Not to bother OP, but Brits say ‘boiler’ more often than ‘(gas) water heater’ or conversely have/are familiar with electric showers in concept, which are so fucking unhinged, but have separate temp and flow. General life in the UK will often expose you to an electric shower or two, if only at a campsite. (and the two-separate-taps thing is supposedly about the Historical Dead Pigeon Being Unhygienic For Brushing Your Teeth, there’s no reason to propagate it any more.)

It wasn’t unusual or weird of me to choose a thermostatic fitting when we fitted the bathroom in our UK house. In fact I don’t think we could have chosen a different design.

Honestly, I remember those showers best from old houses in the USA.

Anyway, hurray for OP - what a lovely feeling when a problem is solved, and you can enjoy planning your future bathroom around a product that will bring you joy and pleasure! May we all find products that solve our problems so well!

phantomrose96

When you meet Edward Elric he gives off the impression that he's the short-tempered hot-headed "violence is the answer to all life's questions" kind of protagonist, and it's in fact incredible character craft that he's actually the character who ends the series with a negative-3 kill count.

phantomrose96

people killed: 0

direct orders of "you really really need to kill this guy" ignored: 1

ongoing murders being committed by Ed's own friends/colleagues that Ed got in the way of to specifically stop that murder from happening: 2

phantomrose96

God's worst soldier Edward Elric. Showed up as the youngest member of the Amestrian army, took millions of dollars from them, never followed a single order, helped dismantle their fascist regime, left with a lower kill count than he arrived with, then fucked off to go be a house-husband. Character of all time.

aka-blaa

You know, when you said "negative-3 kill count," I, who haven't seen the anime, thought, "He resurrected 3 people?????" But I'm seeing here on the wiki that apparently resurrection in this anime is a terrible idea.

phantomrose96

Official addition to this post.

neat-deadandlive-things

The creature outside my window that has been building a nest all week finally had a baby!

requiodile

despite the similar coloration, this isn’t a juvenile of the same species. the mature form of a vibrating plate compactor looks like this:

neat-deadandlive-things

It's adopted!

hellenhighwater

Okay, I've officially made a buttload of bunting (over 70 ft) and some of you have asked how I did the appliques because yay not sewing those on.

To do this you need:

quilting cotton fabric, any pattern you like. Nothing too heavyweight!

heat and bond iron-on interfacing (link is amazon; your local fabric retailers should have it. Buy local if you can!)

an iron and ironing board

a computer, with access to www.photopea.com or an image editor of your choosing.

a cricut or other cutting machine that works with sticky mats to feed material.

A roll of vinyl transfer tape--you can do this project without it, but it will be easier with.

To begin, make your design in your image editor. You want large, single color, relatively simple shapes on a transparent background. I have a 12x24 cutting mat, so I made my image 11.5x23.5. Export it as a PNG, and then upload it into design space or whatever application runs your cricut or cutting machine.

Prepare your fabric by cutting it to the size of your mat. For me, that's rectangles of 12x24 material. Also cut the same size out of heat-and-bond. DO NOT REMOVE THE BACKING PAPER FROM THE HEAT AND BOND. Once you've got rectangles of fabric and rectangles of heat and bond, attach the heat and bond to the fabric with an iron.

Prepare your sticky mat by attaching a layer of vinyl transfer tape face-down, so the sticky side is up when you remove the backing paper. This will prevent the fabric from leaving lint all over the mat, and the backing paper for heat and bond is very prone to tearing--without the transfer paper, you'll be cleaning your mats a lot between every cutting.

Stick the heat and bonded fabric face-up on the mat, so the paper backing of the heat and bond is adhered to the transfer tape. Smooth out to remove bubbles. And then load the mat into your cricut! I've got an explore air 2 (several years old now) and I used my normal blade at its deepest cut settings, and fire away. (Designs do not need to be mirrored.) Before removing your finished cut from the sheet, double check that the blade has gone all the way through and you will not need a second pass-I never did, but check just in case!

Peel everything off the mat, discarding the paper backing/transfer paper layers, then iron your fabric designs onto your bunting! If you want things to be really durable, you can sew the edges down like a normal applique, but for bunting, I didn't feel it was necessary.