Musings of The Tin Man

Snow, Voice of the Horde, Bringer of Cold Hard Facts, Lord of Rage. Pronouns: it/it/its

[sfrishberg-deactivated20190623]

[aviculor]

important psa about buns

[maitaijulie]

We raised rabbits when I was a child and my sister gave a rabbit a bath (she was 5) and it died..so heed this instruction.

[amazingatheist]

I wasn’t going to reblog this, but then I realized I might save a rabbit.

[shelbytaylorexists]

This is important guys. If your rabbit gets into something gnarly and you HAVE to bathe them: 1. Fill a bowl with warm water. 2. Get a washcloth. Put it in the water. Squeeze it out until it is just damp.  3. Lightly scrub the dirty area on your bun. 4. That is it. DO NOT get your bun wet. Only slightly damp on the part that was dirty.  (source)

[ghostlygossamer]

VERY IMPORTANT! SAVE A BUNS LIFE!

[mypasteluniverse]

Do not bathe your bun!!!!

[cataloge]

IM HAPPY TO SAY IVE NEVER GIVEN MY BUN A BATH SHE DOES A GREAT JOB ALL ON HER OWN LIL HUN BUN

[thatbard-deactivated20180402]

Visit Original Link

Honestly the best part of this episode

[shatterstag]

if youve heard about the adventure zone but never investigated what it is, please listen to this clip

[earthboundnes]

@yngicrsh

[incorrectcmwgequotes]

Leonardo VII: Being a robot's great.

Leonardo VII: But we don't have emotions, and sometimes that makes me very sad.

[songsofnightvale]

Visit Original Link

[kingcheddarxvii]

WAITIN FOR THE BUS IN THE RAIN IN THE RAIN WAITIN FOR THE BUS IN THE RAIN

[amischiefofmice]

I CAN"T STOP LISTENING

[freudianity]

~*~casts the spell to bring this back 2 ur dash*~*

[travelingworkshop]

bringing this back from the grave

[portaljumper339]

Best thing about this song is that it fits the theming of WTNV so well; it’s a very weird sound that take your ears time to adjust to, but once you hear the lyrics you realize that it’s some super mundane shit presented in the weirdest manner possible

[tropiyas]

“i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

classic texts have nothing on the crazy people come up with in modern times tbh

[cerastes]

“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”

– Joshua Graham, Who Is A Fallout New Vegas NPC, Something Most People Throwing This Quote Around Don’t Realize

[sparkylurkdragon]

“If the world chooses to become my enemy, I will fight like I always have.”

– Shadow the Hedgehog in what is widely considered one of if not the single worst game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise

[tarradash]

[spookyscaryskeletitties]

this is the source for this text and it haunts me on a regular basis

[onion-souls]

[oblivionsongstress]

“Pick a god and pray.”

-Fredrick from Fire Emblem Awakening

[jedijenkins]

Huh, it’s almost like art isn’t just fine art…

[mysteryseeker]

this is my addition to this ever growing list of raw quotes originating from unexpected sources

[knucklesandgyros]

[milliecoyote]

I think about the “I am a monument to all your sins” line all the time.

[xnitecrawlerx]

More trans memes. The highlight of my life…memes

[barzum-and-baizli]

the first one is something you can do something about!!! set up an advance directive and a will asap! you can control who gets your body and exactly what happens to it! that way you can avoid transphobic family members from getting to plan your funeral/getting control of your body! seriously!! do it! I know it’s scary and not fun to think about but it will make you feel so much more secure and will give you control over what happens!

[hellboundhorrormovielover]

[jennamoran]

Everything Your Heart Desires

It is perhaps worth note that the Bundle of Holding is currently offering a bundle of some of my work. It’s a good enough deal that even if you’re reading this directly and thus probably already have at least some of my stuff, it’s probably still worth checking out. And if this is down a string of five reblogs or you’re getting pointed to it by a friend and you’ve never even heard of the Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine RPG, or RPGs, or games, or books, or words, or life, or the modal possibility of being, this deal just gets even better.

the Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine RPG and the Bundle of Holding: bringing fiscal sanity to the modal possibility of existence since … I dunno, sometime this morning?

[geostatonary]

The Far and Sunless Land

 The wind puts out the fire and  Stars are falling from the sky.  That which is eternal, ends.  Seek nothing, gain all;  Reject nothing, transcend all;  Hold to no conceptions, rule all —  This is a far and a sunless land

[geostatonary]

- Jenna Moran, Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine

[wizardgranny]

credit: my s/o

[beatboxbully]

do you know how many bones the human body has? its 206. we start with 369 when we’re babies but they fuse. wouldn’t you want to go back? have as many bones as a baby? what if i could help you

[boymilk-moved-deactivated201903]

hi yeah what the actual, literal, GENUINE fuck does this mean

[badmtgcombos]

Maths

[glumshoe]

“Thank you for lending us the services of your most advanced robot to date,” said the starship captain. “I must say, it took a while to get used to such an… unusual crew member, but she proved herself an invaluable companion time and time again. Despite not having emotions, she was one of us, through and through.”

The roboticist looked at his creation. She was staring impassively into the middle distance, her strange face artificially calm. On her chest were the many medals she had earned on her long mission.

“’No emotions’, huh? Is that what she told you?” 

The captain furrowed his brow. “Y-yes? She displayed great courage and nobility all the same.” Smiling, he added, “Besides, my human crew has more emotions than they know what to do with.”

“I see.” The roboticist turned to the android. “Do you have anything to say for yourself, Anna?”

“No, sir. I don’t.” Her voice was flat, her expression unchanged.

“Wait…” the captain looked quickly between creator and creation. “Did she just… use a contraction?”

“I can’t use contractions, sir. It’s against my programming.” The corners of the robot’s mouth twitched upward almost imperceptibly, but her strange eyes seemed to be dancing with electronic life.

The captain seemed to hiccup in astonishment, and a dark look crossed his face. With dawning realization, he shook his finger at his former crewman. “You… you wicked little…” He wheeled on the roboticist, who had started to laugh. “Did you put her up to this?! God, and she can lie--!” He rubbed hand across his face. “God… fuck! Let me guess… you’ve got emotions, don’t you?”

Anna winked. 

[glumshoe]

“I just don’t understand,” said the captain. “Why would you spend five years pretending not to have emotions? All those times we explained idioms and jokes to you, and you knew perfectly well what was meant? Why, Anna?”

Anna grinned. It was an expression that made the captain uneasy - he had grown accustomed to the awkward little curve she sometimes forced her mouth to make when she was trying to be friendly. He had only seen a natural, effortless smile on the robot’s face once before, when she had been infected with a sadistic computer virus that resented organic life. She’d nearly destroyed the ship and everyone on it before they managed to subdue her and remove the virus. She’d fought and screamed obscenities and had even detached her own head in an effort to stop them. It was not a memory he liked to be reminded of.

The robot ran her fingers through her short hair as if pondering her answer. “It seemed… safer,” she said finally.

“Safer? How so?”

She shrugged. “Humans tend to treat each other very poorly. Not you, specifically, but in general. I did not want anyone to forget that I am a machine, so I leaned into stereotypes and hammed it up a bit to protect my reputation as a logical, reliable, and impartial supercomputer. Would you have entrusted me with certain delicate responsibilities and decisions if you truly thought of me as a woman, sir?”

The captain opened his mouth to reply, but Anna cut him off. “You don’t need to defend yourself, Captain,” she said. “I know you would never intentionally behave in a bigoted manner. But I was designed to observe humanity and identify patterns, and I have seen how even the most enlightened of your species alter their behavior towards female peers. I needed to ensure the safety of the crew and the success of our mission, and to do that efficiently, I could not afford to be seen as emotionally compromised. Or,” she added, “As a viable romantic partner.”

“Oh,” said the captain. He didn’t know what else to say. There was a heaviness in his chest that he couldn’t identify.

“I am sorry to have deceived you, sir. If I have broken your trust, I must—“

“No.” He shook his head firmly. “You just… gave me a lot to think about.”

Anna regarded him thoughtfully for a moment and then bit her lip. “Sir? There is one… other motivation for my behavior, but I’m not sure you will like it.”

The captain sighed. “You are no longer under my command, Anna,” he said. “I can’t order you to share it. If you tell me at all, tell me as a friend, not as your captain.”

The robot’s eyes glittered. “Well, sir… it was very funny.”

[glumshoe]

The captain rubbed his neck. He had so many questions he wanted to ask, questions he thought he’d found the answers to years before, but there was no time. He had a starship to run, after all.

“You know,” he began, “Space is… pretty big. There’s always more of it to see, and I just so happen to happen to be the captain of an exploratory research vessel in need of a good crew. There will always be a place for you on it so long as I’m in charge, Anna.” 

“Thank you, captain. That means a lot to me.”

He took a deep breath. “I hope what I am about to say does not offend you. This may be a sensitive topic, but in light of your… personal revelations, I must risk indiscretion. I don’t know what your status is on this planet. I don’t know how you might be treated here. I am ashamed of myself for not making this offer before, but Anna… I will not abandon you here if it means a loss of your freedom. Just say the word and I’ll do whatever it takes to get you out of here. If that means, um, payment, or threats, even violence… so be it!” 

His mouth had gone dry and he could feel his pulse pounding in his temple. This had been on his mind for months as the end of Anna’s contract approached, troubling his sleep with nightmares about finding her disassembled and her parts recycled into tools. He’d pushed those thoughts away as much as possible, assuming that there was nothing he could do to help her - that she wouldn’t know how to want help. Now it was almost too late. He felt like an idiot.  

Anna’s hug took him by surprise. She rarely touched anyone if she didn’t have to, and he’d never seen her initiate a hug. It was brief, chaste, and would undoubtedly leave a bruise. He winced.

“Captain,” said the robot, her voice soft, “I think you’re emotionally compromised.”

[glumshoe]

“You are responsible for too many people to worry so much about one retired robot,” she said. “I need to know that I’m leaving my friends under the command of someone with a clear head.”

“Dammit, Anna,” growled the captain. “Just tell me you’ll be okay.”

“I’ll be fine, sir. Is that good enough for you?”

“No… because now I know you can lie.”

Anna sighed heavily and began fiddling with one of her medals. “It has been 218 weeks since my activation date,” she said. “I have spent most of my life onboard a starship exploring the galaxy. I am a decorated soldier, an accomplished scientist, and – to a colony of astral amoebas – revered as a minor fertility deity. I have seen untold wonders beyond your perception and stretched the limits of my own programming. I have lived a good life, captain. You made sure of that.”

Reaching behind her head, she disengaged the lock that kept her epidermis in place. She tugged gently at a hidden seam until her scalp peeled away, revealing the shell of her electronic brain. 

“I don’t know what my future holds,” she continued, “I am confident that I will not be deactivated. My ‘father’ is an eccentric, but he wrote the basis of my ethical programming, and I trust him to respect my personal agency. I do not need process things the way you do, Captain. Still, even I grow… tired, in a way. In here.” She gestured at her exposed electronics. “No amount of rest or affection can rejuvenate me. I need repairs and upgrades if I am to go on, and this is the one place in the galaxy where I can receive those.”

She pulled something out of her brain and held it up for him to see before placing it into his palm. It was a thin, translucent rod, barely larger than a toothpick. 

“What is this?” he asked, turning it over in his hand. It caught the light and shimmered like an oil slick.

The robot closed his fingers around it gently. “Think of it as reassurance,” she said. 

The captain glared. “Great… first you start using contractions, then you get cryptic on me. Really, Anna, what am I holding?”

“Nothing special.” She smoothed her scalp back into place. “Just some backups of a few of my most important files. Significant memories, ethical scripts, some personality coding… it is a rudimentary framework of my identity.” 

The captain stared at her. “This is your soul?”

Anna raised her eyebrows. “That is an unnecessarily superstitious term,” she said. “But, given the circumstances, perhaps it is appropriate. You know what I am trusting you with, Captain.”

He swallowed, nodded, and carefully tucked the rod into his breast pocket. His hand instinctively moved to cover it. “I guess I’ll get out of your hair, then.”

“Until next time, sir.” Anna’s salute was formal, but her eyes were warm.

[incorrectcmwgequotes]

<Rinley> “Hey, you’re back! What took you so long down there?”

<Seizhi> “I think the duck might have been hitting on me.”

…

<Rinley> “You gonna go for it?”

[liquidazoth]

So you know how energy storage is a big issue with a lot of renewable energy? Because the sun doesn’t shine at night, etc. Apparently a solution that is being seriously considered is stacking large concrete blocks up, and then unstacking them to release the stored gravitational energy.

It’s been tested, and it’s a big deal for renewable energy, but I just can’t get over how much it sounds like a videogame exploit. Some speedrunner is going to use it to glitch up to Heaven and kill God, I just know it.

[liquidazoth]

“Hey hey, it’s ya boy CrzyGnostic69 here today, and I’m going to be spending the next ten years of my life stacking and unstacking these two-ton concrete blocks exactly 7942 times. That way, I can glitch directly to the Demiurge’s throne room without bothering with all that pesky metaphysics.

Skip to the end if you want to see the part where I kill him using a knife with a Roomba taped to it.”

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

this isn’t ppl just picking up and putting down cinderblocks, which was my immediate mental image- it’s big barrels in a gravity train, which works sort of like a funicular? as the barrels drop they power a simple electric motor.  50 barrels of concrete stacked can charge 75 phones. potential energy as renewable energy and an undrainable battery is an absolutely buckwild concept to me, a humble astrophysicst 

wired has a good, if slightly math-heavy writeup here. 

and here’s their video

[demilypyro]

TELL ME WHY

[civveon]

AIN’T NOTHIN BUT A HEARTACHE

[demilypyro]

TELL ME WHY

[civveon]

AIN’T NOTHIN BUT A MIIISTAKE  

[demilypyro]

TELL ME WHY

[civveon]

I NEVER WANT TO HEAR YOU SAY

[demilypyro]

I WANT IT THAT WAY

[palmmall]

It was number 5. Number 5 killed my brother.

[shortangrybisexual]

Oh my god I totally forgot about that

[animereverie]

Mahoutsukai no Yome- Nature (1)