Glorious Reblog Shame Cave

The reblog blog of skullbird. It's mostly reblogs of whatever dumb anime I'm into, memes, and artwork I find inspiring. I tag for organization.

[karcatgirl-vantas]

the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

[skluug]

this is what ancient greek philosophy is like

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

False! “Sightly” is a positive word, so the default way for things to work is good as well.

The true most ordinary object is beautiful, horrible sounding, very smelly, intangible, and delicious.

I still don’t think it matches anything in existence but to truly understand a thing one must know its true nature.

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

"touchy" is also a word! however it's mostly used for things that aren't objects, like subjects of conversation. it either means "oversensitive and irritable" or "requires careful handling/wording, delicate"

i think the second one works well for our hypothetical object. so we can use that.

therefore, the Default Object is:

beautiful

makes a horrendous sound

smells absolutely awful

is very fragile

tastes delicious

and i still cannot think of anything that matches this

[and-a-pidgey-in-a-wepear-tree]

behold, the default object!

[ospreyonthemoon]

DEFAULT OBJECT FOUND

[dykealloy]

i don't understand the criticism of opla being lame or looking stupid. as if all the late 90s/early 2000s-era goofiness isn't fully intentional. can one not appreciate the beauty in refusing to turn away from the camp of it all? do we still abide by the marvel belief that anything non-respectable to good taste must only by enjoyed satirically? are we so insecure we cannot surrender ourselves to the wwe kayfabe of a green-haired guy that fights with a sword between his teeth and is tormented by visions of his nemesis sir cunty renaissance-dracula?

it's okay. irony poisoning is dead. jump onboard. have some fun.

[skulblorg]

got me some of that oregano for savages

[yjxyjqvelfr]

[viktormaru]

who let him book anything

[beemovieerotica]

[skulblorg]

My dog has a similar-but-different behavior to this!

He’s reactive, so ive been training him to look at me when i say “leave it” instead of freaking out at other dogs, and if he does that i reward him with a treat.

It’s worked well! Too well honestly. Now when a dog is barking at him, he’ll give me the Look totally unprompted.

But see,

he’ll do the Look in response to other things now:

People walking too close to us.

Children playing.

People who are talking on the phone.

A balloon.

To me the command is: “resist barking at the scary thing and you will get a treat”

but to him the experience is: “when i feel this flavor of fear, i look at my human for a treat”

I think the cat here is doing something similar. Really cool to see animals communicating their emotional state unintentionally~

[lesbomaticlove]

part one of pokedex entries for starberry.kat's one piece fakemon designs~

full design credit to starberry.kat on instagram, im having a lot of fun translating these into 32-bit style! the coloring is getting to me but i feel like im getting a bit more comfortable with emulating the pokemon pixel style.

can you guess which of the games ive been playing?

[willofdpeople]

HAPPY MAY 5TH TO MY BELOVED!!!!!!!

[jollyfurydragonballer]

[woman-becomer]

IT'S TIME TO FLOP IN THE SLOP

[sayhelloanimalfriends]

no music 🎧

[vitrified-vitriol-deactivated20]

Thank you for the no music note. Animal frolicking noises

[lazer-screwdriver]

This comic makes me so stupid emotional. She might have never known.

[yr-tiktok-mom]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#apparently this is ai but its also the closest ive ever gotten to my parents being proud of me for being good at chess

It's Vocaloid. They used software to make the song, same as we've been using software to make music at home for over two and a half decades. Some modern programs for doing this let you tell the software what to sing, and the vocals are made from a voice bank sourced from paid artists who signed up to make the voice bank because they wanted to. It's not fucking. Autogenerated by chatgpt or something.

I'm pointing this out because "ai" means like sixteen different things and these days if you say something is AI everyone assumes it's autogenerated dross created in the least ethical way they can think of. In this case, it just means they made a cool animation and wrote a cool song and happened to use a voice synthesiser for the song.

[parkchanwoohoo]

[eeveestho]

ok but the full translation is also extremely good

[miradas-world]

So beautiful

[junoniadoesart]

@fishyfishyfishtimes

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Aaah there’s so many of them!!!!

[bogleech]

I am so stressed that theres a person swimming right near these massive multi ton animals who are all colliding with each other at random. One wrong move and I feel like they could accidentally empty you like a toothpaste tube.

[skulblorg]

Whats REALLY stressful is that they dont need to touch you to destroy you.

They’re the loudest animal on earth. At 230db their sonar can essentially vibrate a human body to death at close enough range.

Which is insane.

They wouldn’t do this intentionally of course! They never have! They are just passively THAT powerful that they could.

Diving With Sperm Whales Can Be Painful or Deadly - For Scuba Divers

Sperm whales' clicks are powerful enough to penetrate and vibrate your entire body to death. Sperm whales are amazing in so many ways.  They

[untitled-by-unknown-artist]

November 8, 2021 at 04:45PM

[neverthere12345]

[dr0wnedperfectionist]

wow i love this

[neutralangel]

One of the truest things I’ve ever heard is that people who say they’re “brutally honest” are more interested in the brutality than the honesty.

[bogleech]

Excuse me mr bogged leech but why do jellyfish need such unbelievably potent venom? Especially that one extremely tiny jellyfish whose poison makes you feel the worst pain possible for days on end and has a symptom along the lines of "makes you feel impending doom." What evolutionary factors could there be for such a tiny creature to evolve a toxin that makes you feel like Death is personally coming for you

It is Precisely just because they prey on fish! A fish is a highly active vertebrate that evolved for lightning fast movement and reflexes through deep, heavy water, so more than half of a fish’s body is a dense hunk of proportionately high-powered, dense muscle all the way through! Look how little space is devoted to organs in even just an anchovy, muscle and bone fills ALL the remaining space:

That’s muscle for escaping sharks and dolphins! Muscle that can fight currents stronger than hurricane winds! But a jellyfish evolved for an extreme conservation of resources: just barely enough tissue to hold it together, which allows it to grow and multiply on barely a sliver the resources it takes to make a vertebrate, a high efficiency approach to building, growing, and multiplying a living body that has allowed jellyfish to keep thriving in the harshest conditions and through global extinction events.

So, relative to one another, a fish is practically built like a cheetah, a stallion or an ox while a jellyfish is built like...a cobweb, a snowflake or a latex balloon. The only way a latex balloon can possibly hunt oxen for a living is with sheer firepower alone, or some kind of magical instant-death-touch, so that is exactly what evolution resulted in. While box jellies prey on fish seldom larger than themselves, a single sting delivers venom potent enough to kill a THOUSAND little fish in an instant, or completely wreck an entire massive human. The venom equivalent of a point-blank shotgun blast.

[bard-powers-activate]

This is cool as SHIT

[patentlyabsurdrpgideas]

Patently Absurd Item: latex balloon with some kind of magical instant-death-touch.

[modernchemical]

watching death note with my family and after the college entrance episode my mom asked offhandedly if anyone had ever pictured L and light as a couple before. it felt like one single white dove had landed on a crystalline lake in a beautiful pure clearing. no i dont think anyones ever thought of that before