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[mockva]

This guy's illusions are great

[alexaloraetheris]

[retropopcult]

Cosplayers at a Star Trek Convention, 1976

[foone]

in this house we have endless respect for cosplayers from the days before VCRs.

You couldn’t just rewatch the episode to look at all the details of the costume. You got lucky with press photos showing up in magazines or you just watched the episode/movie while sketching furiously

[silencedrowns]

thinking about that one woman who made a Star Wars flight suit in 1977 entirely from trading cards and sketching details in the theater. or stories I’ve heard about old school Trek cosplayers getting the bizarre seam placements right by photocopying magazines onto overhead transparencies and projecting them onto butcher paper.

I’m a semi old school cosplayer (started in 2001) so some of the old school techniques are still things I learned on (I’ve sketched from stuttering VHS tapes on pause and used the overhead transparency trick)… what we have access to now for costume recreation blows what they had out of the water just in terms of reference material, let alone specialty costume supplies like thermoplastics and cosplay wigs.

[meeedeee]

That Star Wars fan who made the flight suit from trading cards and movie sketches is TJ Burnside and she is still with us. In fact, I am adding to her Fanlore page with info about the flight suit (and how it went viral on Twitter and Redditt a few years back). Fanlore.org, is a fan run fandom history wiki. Stay tuned.

Her (sadly) barebones Fanlore page is here: https://fanlore.org/wiki/T.J._Burnside

[durnesque-esque]

The flight suit in question:

[pangur-and-grim]

the club moss I got for my terrarium is dying, despite being lovingly packed into organic soil with oven-fried leaf litter and bioactive springtails and isopods, and meanwhile in my fridge my fuck ass onions are sending out bright green shoots as happy as could be in their cold dark box of fucking nothing

[pangur-and-grim]

I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU

[kholdseid]

[sighinastorm]

As dandelions to sidewalks, so onions to refrigerators.

[the-haiku-bot]

As dandelions

to sidewalks, so onions to

refrigerators.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[parkchanwoohoo]

[fbi-angel-in-a-trenchcoat]

Ryland Grace who is terrified of death and dying.

Ryland Grace who is a teacher in an American school.

Ryland Grace who has sat through countless hours of active shooter training.

Ryland Grace who has stood in his classroom and tried to figure out the best plan to keep everyone safe in that room with oh so many windows.

Ryland Grace who has awoken from nightmares alone, imagining he heard the sound of gunshots in the corridors.

Ryland Grace who has spent hours on the floor during drills reassuring his kids and desperate for someone to reassure him.

Ryland Grace who has walked into work every single day knowing this might be the day he has to stand between his kids and a gunman.

Ryland Grace who was <brave> before the world even knew of the Petrova line.

[charlesoberonn]

Can we find a sun god or diety from every timezone and make a map of them all?

[greyt-expectations]

We probably can, but the question is should we?

[charlesoberonn]

How else will ship captains know who to pray to when they circumnavigate the globe?

[greyt-expectations]

…Give me until the end of the weekend. 

[greyt-expectations]

I actually had some unexpected free time today so I was able to create this a lot faster than I expected. 

It isn’t perfect, but following the initial post I assigned each timezone one sun deity, so travelers know who they might pray to while exploring the world.

This was a lot of fun to create and to research mythologies from across the world, and I think I learned a couple of things doing so!

[charlesoberonn]

Well, there you have it folks. Safe travels.

[i-am-a-fish]

I hope you get your favorite food this week and your favorite drink and your favorite 2k dollars

[i-am-a-fish]

I'm sorry there's no magic in this post I'm just talking. I hope good stuff happens to people online I hope good things happen to all of us

[sandersstudies]

It’s really fun to be

1. dedicated to Playing Nice with others, and helping others get along

And also

2. notorious for Taking No Shit

Because people will be foul and nasty to each other and then I insert myself like “hello all of my Friends how is everyone today :) is everyone feeling Kind?”

Nobody tries to convince me they’re right. Nobody tries to get me on their side. They know I Take No Shit. Everybody just Plays Nice until I’m gone.

If only they would realize that they can Play Nice and also Take No Shit. It’s possible.

Play Nice is about being civil, not being a doormat.

Take No Shit is about setting reasonable boundaries, not being mean.

[sandersstudies]

I’m gentle parenting a bunch of adults.

[sandersstudies]

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[sandersstudies]

It is like. Shockingly difficult to argue with someone who is both dedicated to being courteous but also not moving an inch. It’s easy to be mad at them obviously but it’s difficult to argue.

I’m living life with everybody mad at me and nobody arguing with me. And if you never argue with me well then as far as I know we are Friends and I’m going to continue to treat you like a Friend.

You might think Clarity and Kindness can’t piss you off but oh what if you want to fight what if you want to fight SO bad and I don’t give it to you? I’ll let my Clarity and Kindness be the worst thing about me.

[sandersstudies]

You understand. Making people say what they mean really can shock them.

Asking “what action can I take to help you right now?” in the middle of a string of complaints stops them cold in a similar way. They can’t just keep saying things they are upset about, they have to be part of the solution.

[systlin]

In 38 years of life I have learned 1 thing;

If anyone is ever training you to replace them in a position and tells you 'its an easy job I don't do much' what this means is that you are about to spend six months to a year catching up on all the stuff they didn't do and sorting out the stuff they did poorly.

In related news I finally managed to finish un fucking my predecessor's lack of a filing system.

[systlin]

Apparently this post is wildly Jon from Magnus Archives coded but I regret to inform everyone that there were no weird sketchy paranormal occurences. There were only ten banker boxes full of unsorted training records, incident reports, uniform recipts, daily activity reports, and similar quite ordinary and boring paperwork. There have been zero flesh worms or NotEntities. I did find a stash of paper clips in one box under the papers but that's it.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[binniebinniebop]

BiniBini Study

[tmos-time]

Oh noooooooo! The mystery is solved! You’ve solved my final riddle, you are ze new riddle master... Congratulations… You have proven yourselves... quite the adventurers... oh, I’ve landed on Bryan- Bryan, ahhh… Bryan, I’m so proud of zem… I’m going to die now... My life is flagging from my body... I’ll see my family... goodbye cruel worrrrld-

[geekandmisandry]

I literally have no context for this and it’s fucking me up.

[thelilskee]

I don’t know how but this post is funnier in night mode

[thelilskee]

[kittydesade]

New contender for worst children’s hospital design just dropped.

[holdyourthroat]

some emergency alert operator just gave me a three minute taste of being an indie horror game protagonist jesus fuckin christ

[pollen]

you should really get comfortable believing in love and magic and whimsy or you’ll continue to live a half-life for the rest of the time you have on earth

[davinaclaires]

SCOOBY-DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED 2004, dir. Raja Gosnell

[animentality]