science project with a broken snooze button

they/them | current hyperfixation: assassins creed | my dumping ground for random shit | putting jonny sims characters in blenders since like 2022

[sorbusaucuparia]

im Sorbus or Rowan or any variation of my username

i go by they/them

im from the southeartern us (eastern time)

im in college, not a minor

dni if you have a tumblr account

art i really like is rbed to @sorbus-art-cuparia

moots can ask for discord

all ironlungposting will be tagged as #iron lung. block that tag if you dont like blood

im watching critical role the mighty nein rn and will be liveblogging. block #crm9 lb to break free

i have car payments please commission me

MY TAGS

#sorbus speaks - reblogs ive actually said stuff on

#sorbus yaps - my original content

#sorbus answers - responding to asks

#sorbus draws - you guessed it. my art.

#sorbus makes shit - other stuff i make

#sorbus writes - i know this is surprising but thats for when i write

#sorbus aria tag - stuff for my original world. there are no ocs yet. i have not posted lore i will eventually

I DO TAG SPOILERS! My spoiler tags follow the format "jrwi (x) spoilers" with so far either just bitb or pd

please send me one william dolars at paypal.com/ifuckinghatejurgenleitner

THE ART SHELVES

i have several art shelf tags i use as hall of fame tags anf are currently being migrated to @sorbus-art-cuparia

it's #(name) art shelf

dnd media bc i've hyperfixated on a lot of that:

jrwi | jrwi pd | jrwi bitb | cr (critical role) | crm9 | taz | tazb |

video james:

skyrim | aa (ace attorney) | tsp (the stanley parable) | portal | pkmn (not pikmin) | ac (assassins creed) | stp (slay the princess) | loz

mincraf:

minecraft | mcyt | scu | ls (lifesteal/echocraft)

the mechs:

mechs | mechs tbi | mechs udad | mechs ouatis

other stuff:

general | genloss | spn | jaidnd (jaiden animations' dnd oneshot) | truman show | gonch(arov)

MY OTHER SOCIALS

i'm only really active on ao3 i mostly write whump and medical fics, my username is AucupariaSorbus

go in the dark stamp from @hgsn-moved

liminal space and southern gothic boxes by @hallowlamb

kudzu vine from @caribougutsludge

[scorpiaok]

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[msilverstar]

This! And AO3 allows original works as well as fanfiction, meta, essays, fanart, podfic and other fanworks, but not recommendation lists. It's an archive not a social network.

[its-suns3t-som3wh3re]

let’s paint everyone but tim

[bagelbarr0n]

Really funny one two punch on my dash this morning

[viralfrog]

[technical-tryhard]

@joy-and-whimsy-official

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This water dog is joyful and whimsical!

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[ivy-michaels]

I feel like capacitive touchscreens were one of those technological advancements where improving on one technology made everything else worse.

[ivy-michaels]

Because at the age of 30-something I’m increasingly enamored with playing the part of Abe Simpson, I’m going to explain you a thing.

See, prior to 2006, touchscreens sucked shit. They worked by putting a tiny little x-y grid of resistors under the screen and when you pressed on that screen it would read off the resistance and determine where you tapped it. If you tried to tap in two places at once it confused the shit out of it and, depending on the model, it would either choose a spot directly in the middle, or off in fuck-off-nowheresville.

Because it had to complete a circuit, the front of the screen had to be slightly flexible, which in turn meant it was easy to scratch. I don’t mean like your screen getting messed up by your keys, I mean “normal use could rip your screen if you had sharp/thick nails.” So most devices had you use a stylus, a cheap plastic thing that was easily lost, but they’d sell you a pack of 3 for 20 dollars!

So when the first iPhone came out in 2006 it was a fucking game changer. Not only could you do multitouch but you no longer needed to calibrate the screen when it inevitably drifted…because it didn’t.

Truthfully, capacitive touchscreens are witchcraft to me, even 20 years later.

But because they were such an improvement, they quickly began getting put on everything, because it was so much cheaper to just use a touchscreen and outsource the software design to somewhere where the minimum wage is measured in cents per hour than it was to design a bunch of injection-molded buttons, or a circuit board for membrane switches, etc.

So yeah, good touchscreens made everything else worse.

[swagophile]

i spoke to both meyers and briggs and they both agreed my personality type was so epicly awesome with a side of dope that they had to come up with a whole new personality type henceforth known as "SWAG" and its charicterized by being a really beautiful soul with a heart of gold and a really awesomesauce vibe

[el-ffej]

[its-timego]

We have nothingburger and everything bagel, implying the existence of a third, elusive contender: the Something Sandwich

[blazevillains-deactivated202504]

[waspcup]

i would.Get Grinkled Boy.

[evilbeast-moved]

reblog to grinkle a mutual

[ledwinged]

[questionable-method]

no but the censorship of female boobs really is so funny. like ok so everybody has nipples but some people have a bonus round part underneath the nipple and the round part makes them like super sexy so it's inappropriate. right so the round part is what needs to be censored, right? the part that's different? no, idiot. obviously it's the nipples. if you try to hide the shape of the round part you're an evil gender outcast

[bandalbitch]

what would i Even dm my moots like Hello Internet Friend

[iamoutofideas]

guy who listens to tool: hey man you ever listened to tool?

guy who lives near a construction site:

[probablily]

put me in ur discord server so i can feel bad about never talking in there

[chennnington]

I think I should start bragging about my adopted son’s achievements when people around me start bragging about their kids. Ooooh your child can count to 10 in mandarin? Well, my child found 110 landmines! And he’s only 6 years old!

[reasonsforhope]

I <3 HeroRats, I've been following them for years and they're still one of my favorite things

(I also <3 rats, and used to have pet rats, so admittedly I am super biased, but they're such sweet babies! Forget the anti-rat propaganda!)

Meet the HeroRATs: The Unlikely Rodents Saving Lives From Landmines

Dr. Cindy Fast, APOPO's Head of Training and Innovation, explains how the adorable 'HeroRATS' are saving lives across the globe.

You can adopt a baby yourself here ;)

There are also HeroRats saving lives by sniffing out tuberculosis, illegal wildlife trafficking products, and survivors of natural disasters during search and rescue operations! (source)