nymtheriel

spaceship engineer. resentful ex-potterhead. slightly too violent for polite company. definitely some flavor of ND. she/her. is my name spelled "Nim" or "Nym"? honestly who knows at this point. slythernim on AO3 and nymtheriel on bluesky are also me!

[jv]

we joke about Tumblr making your brain unable to interact with regular humans, but today I used the phrase “very slow tigers are chasing me” and no one, NO ONE, understood what I meant.

[jv]

Tumblr is a giant step towards achieving a Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra level of communication.

[jv]

You don’t get to hide this gem in the tags sorry

[nobrain-nothoughts]

Yeah I mentioned the leopards eating peoples faces party to a friend once and the whole conversation immediately derailed. I hadnt even realised I said something weird at first

[jv]

What. I thought that was a common political metaphor in the US

[slythernim]

shit dude that one's even got a subreddit

[toskarin]

sometimes I'm wearing pants and just stop to think about how crazy it is that I'm wearing clothes with a vestigial slot for an entire horse

[toskarin]

my understanding is that it's still operable, even

[slythernim]

you are right but please do not say it like that,

[toskarin]

sometimes I'm wearing pants and just stop to think about how crazy it is that I'm wearing clothes with a vestigial slot for an entire horse

[toskarin]

my understanding is that it's still operable, even

[slythernim]

you are right but please do not say it like that,

[partywithponies]

One of the most annoying genres of people on the internet are people who act like they believe science is one single monolithic thing. Like, you'll see an article saying something like "scientists studying the movement of tectonic plates", and then in the comments there'll be several smug people saying "smh why are scientists doing this instead of finding a cure for cancer", like. Why would a geologist be doing that.

[phantomrose96]

Hey so I know Toph can’t read in canon and like okay, checks out, makes sense, she’s blind and her parents sheltered her from everything so no one taught her to read okay. But I think if someone DID teach her she absolutely could learn. Pen tips leave indentations on paper. Toph can sense the tiniest contours on things, including ants in the dirt, so why not physical marks in paper? And the paper wouldn’t even need to be in view. Wouldn’t need to be facing her. Wouldn’t need to be OPEN. Just would have to be near enough with enough vibrations running through it for Toph to feel it out.

Like, imagine a post-series coup against Zuko being thwarted because the unopened, un-tampered-with, unintercepted letter correspondence between two conspirators was transported via a letter carrier boy who came within 20 feet of the Avatar’s earth bending teacher and she read it.

The Avatar’s blind earth bending teacher.

[egberts]

the world's smallest carnivore is called the "least weasel" 😭😭 i'm dying but like if it's the smallest carnivore then it sure is the least amount of weasel you can have 😭😭😭

[sator-the-wanderer]

Look at him: this is absolutely the least amount of weasel you can have

[daughterofsarenrae]

To really put it in perspective

[flootzavut]

Immediately I love him

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

graffiti discourse is so stupid why the hell would I give a shit if people spraypaint their names or do some cool paintings under a bridge

[theophrastus-bombastus-von-hoe]

There are definitely places I think graffiti shouldn't be (private property, obscuring relevant signage, over existing art installations, natural landscape, etc) but I sincerely think back alleys, dumpsters, shipping containers, underpasses and such should be broadlly considered fair game. They look gross on their own and graffiti artists are doing us all a favor by spicing them up. Why in the world is it illegal to do so. Who thought it made sense to ban one of the most fundamental human behaviors in spaces made specifically for humans to use. Like at that point you're just wasting municipal budget pushing boulders up hills for no reason and then someone is inevitably going to draw a penis on the boulder.

[slythernim]

for me the annoying thing about this ('annoying' here used in the 'going for a stupid walk, for my stupid mental health,,' way) is that like. I do think spraypainting your name on something, or drawing dicks just to be 3edgy5me or whatever, is displaying a breathtaking lack of artistic taste? it's bad art and it should feel bad. idgaf that Dicks McGee Number 32,186 Was Here. if you want to spraypaint a highway underpass do the cool paintings one. half credit if you spraypaint your name in a somewhat interesting artistic manner I guess.

but it is critical to the flourishing of a healthy human society that sometimes people choose to be annoying and tasteless and they are allowed to do that.

[important-cat-pics]

[foone]

Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in:

1. Do not do age verification.

2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

There's a coffee shop near me that has two signs posted on the door.

One says "Students! Looking for a great part-time job that works around your school hours? Apply inside!"

The other one says "No under 18s allowed after 5:00pm without an adult."

And I'm just like, damn, I wonder if "you can be a servant but never a customer" is a well-known hallmark of systematic discrimination or anything. Like come on. How do you not see this

[zakiyah]

"ingredients you can pronounce" learn phonics. coward.

[ostolero]

when people say "girl help" ... eris is listening

[ostolero]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"smart appliances" fuck u i want them dumb as a brick and incidentally as sturdy and enduring

[kosmogrl]

this is so cool!!

[kosmogrl]

[foogriffy]

would you still love me if i was a worm?

[kalichnikov]

Btw when people say "if you want to be a writer you need to read a lot of books" that means bad books too. This applies to all creative mediums and also even if you don't want to make it you should immerse yourself in some mediocre slop here and there and even abysmal dogshit on occasion. As a fan of the medium. If all you eat is perfect A5 wagyu prepared by a Michelen star chef youre gonna end up thinking a well cooked and seasoned grocery store ribeye is basically dog food and this is the path to spiritual rot

[ymutate]

Filippo Palizzi (Italian painter 1818–1899)

Excavations in Pompeii, 1870

Oil on Canvas

119.5 × 86 cm.

Private Collection

[rabid-transcendentalist]

@anthropologist-on-the-loose get peer-reviewed because your shared experience with the subject of the painting really heightened the emotional impact of this artwork for me ( An impact which was already high tbh. The idea that Pompeii was built by generations, buried by generations, uncovered by generations. What if I just started screaming and never stopped. )

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

"Built by generations, buried by generations, uncovered by generations" is ruining me, thanks