Where Dreams Are Born

Hi! I'm Senaru! She/They, 37, and a digital artist, writer and RP'er. I was once active on Aywas #28224. I also run an elemental dragonrider RP / Collaborative writing group called Noveltellus! You can also find my artwork on DeviantArt here, and I stream on Twitch here! ❋If you are a real person, Please do not send me asks for donations, I block and report all of them as bots. Ask Scams are rampant at this time, so any calls to aid will be assumed to be a scam. ❋

[yorickish-deactivated20240629]

energy policy would be much better if we still had a tradition of animal sacrifice I think. people would be way more chill about nuclear energy if they could see a large and proud bull being ritually sacrificed every month or so at the base of the cooling towers to keep the plant safe

[yorickish-deactivated20240629]

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#so when I was in schooling for power plant work #my applied electrical theory instructor told us abt this thing his crew had #called The Load Toad #who was a totemic frog statue that was long ago bought for the plant #and was displayed over the switchboard for all the distributed loads (hence the name) #apparently The Load Toad was a force everyone in electrical division sincerely believed needed to be appeased #and the ritual for doing so involved the blood of a virgin (easy to get in a nuclear power plant tbh) and chicken bones #you'd burn the bones in a burning bowl after splashing them with the virginal sacrifice #ANYWAYS apparently one time they got a new head who was either devout Methodist or Mormon I forget #and he made them stop like all of that with firing threats n criminal threats too #then every day for a month 4 loads would randomly inexplicably fail #at first he blamed the men for acting out the Toad's vengeance #but after babysitting down in the pit himself he could see that all the failures were borderline miraculous n impossible to anticipate #so without admitting his wrong he just threw a kfc bucket full of bones into the breakroom and curtly said "just make it stop" #moral of the story I actually agree with this sentiment

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[shoresoftheshadowlands]

I swear I remember a version of this post with a LOT of stories on it, including one about chips on the top of a shelf in...japan? I forget the exact thing but the chips had to be up there or else bad things would happen. And there was another one about a....chemistry lab? how everyone is very logic based and doesn't believe in supernatural stuff but everyone believes in a very specific thing in there like a unit you don't use or something?

And one about a piece of cardboard taped under a desk. If it was removed, the entire internet would go down on the floor. There was nothing special about it, nothing hidden in it. It was just cardboard.

There were a lot of stories and I haven't seen them in a long time lol

[jeidai]

I was thinking of that exact post too. And I found it! Taiwanese "well-behaved" snacks.

I don't think I've ever seen the cardboard post. :(

[shadowisi]

[pangur-and-grim]

if I could have one truly evil action, I’d breed a bloodhound to a borzoi. I want to see what a sighthound looks like with big flappy jowls

[danwithouttheplan]

Shh, it's okay tiny little stainless steel nuts, for I shall take good care of you from here on out.

[danwithouttheplan]

[danwithouttheplan]

[thememedaddy]

[unpretty]

would it have cost extra to steal this post in color or what

[shoresoftheshadowlands]

Wait til you guys encounter the other weird size outliers

[bedupolker]

Guinea Commission!

[clowncartardis]

I LOVE HOW THIS CAME OUT SO MUCH 😭 😭

Turns out you can just??? Commission artists who make stuff you like to make MORE stuff you like??? Incredible. Highly recommend. 10000/10

Pictures of the reference chonk so everyone can see what an amazing job @bedupolker did capturing B Bear's likeness:

[winsaykophum]

Lesbian flag Seychellized.

[datasoong47]

All pride flags should be like this

[winsaykophum]

seychellizes your flag

[xxxdragonfucker69xxx]

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay ill reblog that!!

[phallicide]

composited

[alt234mega]

im peer reviewing these ones (@notpukichosadly)

[whalesharkcat]

Okay this but with a blue shell+shrapnel, pink explosion beams and a white background would be a sick MtF logo.

[trolleybusaberrations]

Give me 10 minutes.

[trolleybusaberrations]

Hey @whalesharkcat I did it :3

[aboutoriginality]

[ferrousferrule]

For those of you who dont get to see fireflies. Yes they are real and yes they are gentle

[pretty-prince-lulu]

absolutely fucking wild to me that there's a bug that glows. like it's a real thing that is just Outside.

if you live somewhere where they're a thing, maybe it's unremarkable, but the concept is mindblowing to me lol

[naamahdarling]

The wonderful thing is that even if you live where they are a thing, they're still magical. They really are that wonderful. I promise we do appreciate them so so much!

[bogleech]

I love everything about where I live except there's no fireflies, no cicadas, no big katydids, very few noticeable insects and this is enough to make me generally sadder every summer. Old growth forests and mossy temperate rainforests are not the creature paradise you might expect.

[ifeltfree]

i need everyone to see the funniest fucking pigeon rescue in the world

[ifeltfree]

[birds-in-posts]

Rock dove (Columba livia)

Fancy pigeon

[shushututu]

People seriously underestimate the long term effects of constant loneliness

"why are you so weird?" Idk, maybe because being completely isolated while growing up has destroyed my brain and now I'm nothing more than a human-mimicking creature that bases all of my actions on what I think is normal human behavior rather than just doing things naturally

[ouroya]

[girldraki]

[girldraki]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[odin-n-out]

I feel absolute rage when i call An Office and have to sit through a 5 minute recording telling me I can just use their website thanks!!! I can’t! Believe it or not I’m a child of the internet age who went on your website and it was shit!! Get me a human person!!!!

[odin-n-out]

[teaandinanity]

[scribeofpnakotis]

any government department: ~you can use our website~

me, 2 hours on hold: I really fucking cannot

[intrepidheroine]

Doctor's office hold music: did you know you can book an appointment right now through our app?

Me, who downloaded the app half an hour ago which said "online booking unavailable for this location": -_-

[everythingfox]

Will someone please answer the phone

[theconcealedweapon]

Cops are trained to be bad. Anyone who insists on being good is not welcome.

[denimull]

[make--it--gayer]

[veztemporana-deactivated2019061]

bonus:

[scumbagsblog]

I’ve never seen this with the update and it makes it so much funnier

[yeah-asbestos]

I love that man with all of my heart

[that-house]

i hope this guy got that kiss

[scotianostra]

On February 21st 1842 ­Scotland’s first inter-city railway, the Edinburgh-Glasgow mainline, opened to ­regular traffic.

The building of a railway between the two cities was authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1838 following several years of public discussion.

Construction work on the 46-mile line took almost four years. It was no easy task. To ensure a level route, numerous cuttings were dug, four viaducts were built and three tunnels were driven through hills and solid rock. Members of the public were invited to walk through the Queen Street tunnel on New Year’s Day 1842 to satisfy growing interest in the project. The line opened to regular services on 21st February that year, following a ceremonial opening of the station three days earlier, as I posted on Sunday.

The railway put an end to the slow and cumbersome stagecoaches that had linked Glasgow and Edinburgh for more than a century, and would eventually drive business away from the canal network as well.

The project’s engineers had wanted to build a bridge over the Forth and Clyde canal – but the canal’s owners refused. A tunnel under the waterway had to be constructed instead.

The Scotsman reported in February 1842 that “it rarely happens that a railway can be brought into the centre of a great city”, as it announced the opening of Queen Street station in Glasgow. But the original Edinburgh terminus at Haymarket was greeted with rather less enthusiasm. It was hoped that eventually the train line would stretch further into Edinburgh.

An extension to North Bridge was duly completed in 1846, and work on building the present Waverley station began in 1868.

The line was popular with passengers from the beginning. Initially, four services travelled in each direction from Monday to Saturday. Controversially, two services also ran on Sundays – provoking strong opposition from Sabbatarians. The number of trains throughout the week quickly increased.

Passengers could choose to alight at many more intermediate stations than today – with stops at Gogar, Ratho, Winchburgh, Linlithgow, Polmont, Falkirk, Castlecary, Croy, Kirkintilloch (later Lenzie) and Bishopbriggs. The Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway Company which built the line was absorbed by the North British Railway (NBR) in 1865. The NBR would in turn be absorbed by the London & North Eastern Railway in 1923.

There have been several high-profile train crashes on the route over the years. The most recent occurred on 30th July, 1984, when a rush hour commuter service out of Waverley struck a cow that had wandered on to the tracks near Polmont from a nearby field. The collision caused all six carriages to derail, killing 13 people and injuring 61 others.

The worst accident, in terms of loss of life, took place on 10th December, 1937, at Castlecary. During a snowstorm, the 5.30pm Waverley to Queen Street express collided with a late running local train from Dundee to Glasgow. The locomotive hit the rear of the standing local service at the now-closed Castlecary station at an estimated 70mph. Four carriages were completely destroyed by the collision, killing 35 passengers and injuring 179 more.

The £742m Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP) is the biggest project on the route since it was built 174 years ago. It will eventually see all-electric trains operating on the line, with faster journey times and more seats for passengers. The average journey time by train between Glasgow and Edinburgh (Waverley) is now 1 hour and 14 minutes, with around 191 trains per day.

A new passenger hall at Haymarket station opened in 2014, while Queen Street was recently comprehensively rebuilt.