the lonely fanboy

idek what this is anymore, just whatever I see and want to reblog but I hope you enjoy it or whatever

[shadowgremlin]

My wife’s idea of decompressing after the busy holiday was to rearrange every piece of furniture in our home is this an ADHD thing or just a her thing

I’m not complaining the way she’s done it is much better than it was it’s just like how is this your idea of a relaxing weekend

[kaity--did]

Listen I don't get to decide when the drunk elf that is my executive actually does the functioning but when he does we have a SMALL WINDOW OF TIME before he finds the schnapps again and we're done

[honeysbunchesofoats]

[kaity--did]

yes this exactly

[luminouspica]

So to me, there are spoons (general energy cost) and carnival tickets (specific energy cost).

Spoons can be used pretty much anywhere.

Carnival tickets are only good for the carnival, and it’s only in town for a limited amount of time.

So like, if I get “kitchen cleaning” carnival tickets, I can’t use that to clean my bedroom, that’s not where the carnival is.

[lingonberry24]

phrase added to permanent vocabulary

[unbfacts]

Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!

[redladydeath]

No wait I looked this guy up and this shit’s amazing

It’s so incredibly humanizing to see people from the very distant past in such authentic color

And like. look at these landscape shots!! They’re so vivid!! Even aside from the historical value, these are just legitimately beautiful photographs

[avoidingapples]

14th century doctors be like “i don’t know what’s wrong with you but you’re a woman so i diagnose you with witchcraft”

[avoidingapples]

19th century doctors be like “i don’t know what’s wrong with you but you’re a woman so i diagnose you with hysteria”

[avoidingapples]

21st century doctors be like “i don’t know what’s wrong with you but you’re a woman so i don’t believe anything is wrong with you and won’t diagnose you”

[tempest-caller]

That’s not entirely fair. Sometimes they also diagnose you as “fat.”

[hackfurs]

did anyone else feel the timeline split or was that just me

[animalcrossingmemes]

[kaijuno]

I realize this is an animal crossing meme but as an astrophysicist I was really excited for a second that someone was finally seeing the light on how fricking difficult and a huge waste of time it would be to try to terraform Mars

[transbaphomet]

[wvterways]

[abigailinc]

[wintermutaldeactivated5062024-d]

still reading frankenstein and i completely forgot that theres a part where victors wrapping up doing devious deeds on a sparsely inhabited island off the shore of england and he loads all his mad scientist shit into a rowboat and pushes off into the water and then fucking falls asleep with no navigational tools and when he wakes up hes like, adrift with no land in sight and hes like ‘FUCK my creation!!!!!’ even though the monster had absolutely nothing to do with getting him lost in the middle of the fucking english channel and he starts lamenting about how hes going to die and his family is never going to see him again and hes going to go to davey jones locker or whatever because hes been without potable water in a rowboat for like 4 hours and then he sees land and hes like ‘oh thank god im saved!!!’ and he gets to shore and is met with an angry mob who thinks he murdered someone and hes like ‘but where is english hospitality?????’ and theyre like ‘this is ireland you dumb slut’ and as theyre marching him to the magistrate hes like ‘i was still thirsty but did not want to show my weakness……’ like could you even imagine

[downtroddendeity]

Frankenstein is an unflinchingly realistic portrayal of the highly specialized form of stupid that comes from being told for your entire childhood that you’re a world-changing genius who can solve every problem because you’re so smart, but now you’re in college and you have depression and you keep fucking everything up because being good at reading science books when you were 12 doesn’t actually translate into making smart life choices and you’re constantly beating yourself up about your horrible failures but you couldn’t possibly ask anyone for help, and in fact the idea doesn’t even cross your mind because obviously you will be able to handle it this time because you’re a world-changing genius who can solve every problem, and consequently you keep right on catastrophically fucking everything up, and I don’t think it gets enough credit for that.

[amuseoffyre]

Byron: Where did you find the inspiration to create such a wretched man?

Mary, who has been stuck in a house with him for weeks: No idea, mate 😑

[weepycat]

it is not normal for grown men to find teenage girls sexually attractive. in fact, the older you get, the less attractive teenagers should become. i cannot believe people are arguing about this

[weepycat]

humans are not “wired” to find younger people attractive. you are just poisoned by the normalization of pedophilia and capitalist ideals of beauty. your tastes are supposed to age with you.

[hempkitty]

can someone please be proud of me like fuck I’m trying

[gremlin-pattie]

reblog to let prev know you’re proud of them

[qillermeme]

[schistcity]

christmas hymns, rated.

carol of the bells: ₘₑᵣᵣᵧᴍᴇʀʀʏᵐᵉʳʳʸchristmasₘₑᵣᵣᵧᴍᴇʀʀʏᵐᵉʳʳʸchristmas. creepy as shit and loving every moment of it. perfect for holiday-themed vampire lurking outside the gothic cathedral of your choice. just enough of a frantic tone to keep you on your toes. and sung with a child choir? you’ve knocked it outta the park, bud. 10/10.

hark, the herald angels sing!: not the best. a bit dry. can lose you if you’re not paying attention. points for being easy for kiddies to sing at church though! we froth accessibility. 5/10.

good king wencelas: thin 👏 and 👏 crisp 👏 and 👏 even 👏 6/10.

o come, all ye faithful/adeste fideles: sex symbol. inventor of the crescendo. the absolute vibes this thing has are haunting, especially under and good church roof. smack an over confident leading tenor in the mix and you have a winner. 10/10.

ding dong! merrily on high: makes me feel like i’m a young peasant girl running through the streets of a quaint european village in the wintertime with no cares save what father christmas shall deliver to my stocking this eve. would definitely ₒₒᴼooᴼᴼᴼᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᴼᴼₒₒₒₒₒoooₒₒʰᵒˢᵃⁿⁿᵃ ᶦⁿ ᵉˣᶜᵉˡˢᶦˢ again. 9/10.

o holy night: the shift from relatively normal sounding verses to 𝖋𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖔𝖓 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖐𝖓𝖊𝖊𝖘, 𝖔𝖍 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖑 𝖛𝖔𝖎𝖈𝖊𝖘 will never fail to shatter me like glass. 11/10

away in a manger: like hark, the herald angels sing! this one is pretty simple. easy for the whole family to sing which makes it an ideal church song! but lacks energy. a good wind down, but that’s about it. 5/10.

we three kings of orient: i always thought the “three kings” were sorta stupid and unnecessary. like, the shepherds i understand, but three randos from “the east”? seems shoehorned in honestly. kinda feels like whichever apostle (matthew?) wrote that in somehow knew that, years in the future, groups of unenthusiastic children were gonna have to be assigned roles in nativity plays and added three more possible characters just to stop half the kids from having to play sheep and grass so they could be “included”. cheers matt. song is okay i guess. 6/10.

once in royal david’s city: pretty inconsequential hymn, but the Choir of King’s College Cambridge do an arrangement that makes me believe in God for approx. four and a half minutes every time I listen to it. 8.5/10, bonus points for the king’s col. boys. ur doing so good lads. big love.

the first noël: a true banger and a great song to sing in church because there’s always some lady in the front pews who tries really hard to do all those killer soprano parts by herself. absolutely magical when sung right and absolutely magical when sung wrong. 10/10.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

1) the assessment of “o come all ye faithful” (my favorite carol ever) is 100% accurate

2) it’s missing some of my other favorites so:

silent night: ~controversial opinion~ but this song only works if you’re doing it as minimalist as possible. no fancy orchestras, no belting, no vibrato. IF YOU’RE NOT DOING IT WITH A SINGLE GUITAR BECAUSE YOUR ORGAN IS BROKEN THEN YOU’RE NOT DOING IT RIGHT. 6/10 (the Austrian version is 10/10 because everything sounds better in German and that’s that about that)

god rest ye merry, gentlemen: super spooky. has satan in it. sounds like a threat. subsequent verses are kind of boring, though. 7/10.

coventry carol: ALSO super spooky. literally just about dead babies. there’s a reason it’s in the soundtrack to a vampire movie which otherwise has zero connection to christmas. 7.5/10

lo how a rose e’re blooming: love the visuals. again, is best in german because the german language just produces the best carols, sorry, I don’t make the rules. 8/10

[tlbodine]

Modern Christmas music sucks but these? These slap. Good shit, atheist approved.

[randomramblesofaraven]

The Holly and the Ivy (Gardner’s version) - Perfectly encapsulates that manic buzz of having scoffed way too much Christmas chocolate. Got an adrenaline rush just thinking about it. Makes me jitter in place like I’m about to vibrate through the cracks between dimensions. 9.8/10

[ober-affen-geil]

I do just want to say that we three kings deserves an extra point or two if you sing all the verses. There are five verses, traditionally the first and the fifth are sung because those are general and easy. The second, third, and fourth are NOT usually sung because they are about the individual gifts the kings were bringing, and two of them (gold and frankincense) are fine but myrrh…..

Myrrh is mine; its bitter perfume Breathes a life of gathering gloom;— Sorrowing, sighing, Bleeding, dying, Sealed in the stone-cold tomb.

Myrrh SLAPS and we are too cowardly to sing it and because we cant sing about two of the three gifts, we don’t use any of the middle verses.       

[shieldmaiden19]

Oh come oh come emmanuel: Haunting. Isolating. The weight of the world on your very young shoulders (no matter your age). Reckoning with your sin, mortality, and imperfections for four very intense minutes. 15/10.

It came upon a midnight clear: A lullaby or a lover’s song. Fun to sing, stunning to listen to. Makes you believe in angels. 8/10.

What child is this: wonder. Mystery. The glory and majesty of God in the humblest form. Feels like something Bach would write. More moving the older you get. Singable! 7/10

[drst]

Put “Oh Holy Night” at 12/10 for the third verse which many people do not know:

Truly He taught us to love one another; His law is love and His gospel is peace Chains shall He break, for the slave is our brother And in His name, all oppression shall cease

There was just a Twitter thread on this a few days ago, which noted a lot of popular versions of the song omit the third verse.

Also, amazing version of the song:

[ekjohnston]

Very glad to see the amendment on We Three Kings and the additional point for O Holy Night.

[minnarr]

not 2 be annoying but addition re silent night: it is best done with the lights dimmed. the organ can be there but quiet, quiet, mostly just a lead in, and then the congregation sings together soft and reverent. it is one of my favorite moments of the christmas service at my childhood church (episcopal, with music very reminiscent of kings college choir/other anglican choirs we get recordings from). it’s the polar opposite of o come all ye faithful (also a fave) where the organist pulls out all the stops and the choruses thunder and there’s an infectious high descant. it’s just… simple, and sweet, and the closest i ever get to really feeling the wonder of the christmas story.

[lesbiankiliel]

this is missing “praise the lord, he’s coming down the birth canal” from the vicar of dibley

unfortunately can’t find a video of it, but it’s a banger, 1,000,000/10

[severalowls]

Thinking fondly about the entire genre of victorian hauntings that were "everybody who stayed in the house after dark saw weird shit going on for months until the entire structure suddenly combusted of its own ghostly accord" which abruptly ended as soon as we stopped lighting our homes with vast quantities of odorless gas

[whitepeopletwitter]

[sindri42]

So I looked this up and the whole story is wild.

Basically, market research for japanese bakeries determined that a) they sell more breads and pastries the more different varieties they have, and b) japanese bakery customers prefer items which are not wrapped, because individually wrapped things give the impression of being like, preserved or something instead of fresh and good I guess? So the obvious solution is to sell as many different kinds of unwrapped breads and pastries as you can.

But! In actual practice, that’s a nightmare. No packaging means no barcodes to scan, so the cashier needs to know all like 200 different (often very similar) items by heart and add them up manually, which means training new employees is a slow and painful process and customer service in general suffers badly. And having a person handle all those un-packaged foodstuffs to count them or examine them, in addition to being slow and clumsy, is unsanitary as fuck.

So one bakery chain owner approached this computer guy in 2007 asking for a system to automate the checkout process. It took five years and the company barely survived a financial crisis in the middle, but long story short they developed a highly specialized AI that will look at the pile of bread a customer picked out and automatically identify everything, tally it up, and charge them correctly, while the live cashier is free to make small talk or help people out or whatever. The whole process is simple, fast, sanitary, and pleasant for customers and employees alike, and to an outsider it looks like fucking magical bullshit.

But then in 2017 a doctor saw an ad for this bakery scanning system and it occurred to him that cells under a microscope don’t look all that different from weird loaves of bread. And it turns out that yeah, you can use almost all of the same code to analyze a tissue sample and pick out any potentially cancerous cells in it. Other people have started buying the same program for everything from analyzing the readout from big physics experiments to labeling charms and amulets for sale at shrines to detecting problems in the wiring on jet engines.

[jackrabbittransport]

Guess who’s excited for Episode 3? (Spoiler alert, it’s me!)

[tldsurvival]

Jeez, looks like even during the Apocalypse we have to deal with mob bosses.

[jackrabbittransport]

There’s no rest for poor Will, and assuming that Episode 3 is all Astrid (which it appears to be from the trailer and the hints Hinterland have dropped), we won’t even get to find out who he is and how Will can escape until Episode 4 or 5.

[tldsurvival]

Maybe he meets Astrid in Episode Three, though. It’s way longer than the other single episodes right?

[smaointeoireacht]

Let’s hope, maybe Astrid comes to save him? I forgot it was longer, now I’m even more eager for Episode 3! Can’t wait to find out what happened to Astrid after the crash and seeing what she gets up to in Pleasant Valley. Who knows, we might even make it up Timberwolf Mountain.

[tldsurvival]

Honest to god, best game I ever played. It might not be on par yet with other games of the same genre but the love put into it, the authenticity and the absolutely unique style make more than up for it. No other game has ever managed to capture me the way The Long Dark did. Almost 450 hours over the course of 4? 5? years and still I am just itching to start a new game, try a new setting, explore a new map and win a new achievement. I can’t wait for what Hinterland Studios still has in store for us, even if it takes them another few years to bring it to the game. I am utterly captivated and for someone who loses interest in games, books and TV shows at the speed of light, this means the world.

[bookshelfdreams]

tag urself: fibre crafts edition

[centiwheatley-deactivated201904]

happy 10th birthday to the best anime out there