A Blog about things

23. Will be mostly reblogs or rants. Massively a fandom blog. See about for details.

[brainrottiktoks]

[smileyzs]

This is what the fae do inside mushroom circles when the moon is at its peak.

[postmortemmischief]

illustration of me making my dad listen to lemon demon in the car

[goodzillo-deactivated20220127]

There are easier ways to come out to your parents

[avas-poltergeist]

I think getting into the second critical role was an inevitable trap for me because of the basic laws of Homestuck that have governed nearly every piece of media I hyper fixate on: 

1. long ass time consuming format

2. every character is equally salt and scum of the earth

3. sacrilege themes

4. sad wizard 

5. stupid discourse over character who is a victim of abuse

6. found family

7. contentious romance

8. aliens, and or some kind of horned character(s)

[avas-poltergeist]

To the multiple anons and people who told me: “oh then you’ll love Dragon Age.”

yeah. 

[eggpuffs]

为生活添一抹淡雅绿意，用砍下的竹子制些物件儿——竹沙发

[ziseviolet]

Chinese vlogger Li Ziqi making bamboo furniture.

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Archaeologists: “Uhhhh, there’s still a lot of debate about how effective leather armor really could have been on a battlefield. Alas, we shall never know.”

Punks: “Hey, fresh cut, the boneheads carry knives sometimes so make sure and lift a good leather jacket. It’ll save your life.”

[equality-is-anarchy]

Layers layers layers! Slashes won’t do shit even to most t shirts but a stab will ignore the shit outa your leathers. Layers will keep the blade from getting as deep as it otherwise would and gives more for it to snag on if it serrated.

Armour has always been about layers.

Example 1200s minor noble: linen shirt, gambeson (layered and quilted linen with wool insulation), chain mail, surcoat, arming cap, helmet, coif, bigger helmet.

Another example Alexander era Macedonian hoplite: linen tunic, greaves, 1" of tightly pressed and laminated linen, helmet (probably with some sort of arming cap/padding inside), big ass shield.

Layers save lives.

[jackironsides]

Yes! Cloth is hard work to cut with a knife. When they were trying to ban (sword) duelling in Europe, they banned people from carrying around shields/bucklers, so your defensive tool was a cloak wrapped around your non-sword fist, with plenty of loose fabric to catch your opponent’s blade. You might get your cloak torn, but you’re less likely to get your skin sliced up, and that’s the important thing.

[jenniferrpovey]

You know what is a surprisingly amazing material for armor?

Silk.

Silk.

The Mongolians used silk vests because silk isn’t broken by an arrow, and you can use the silk to gently pull the arrow back out, even if it’s barbed. They also often used silk as the backing for leather armor.

The first bulletproof vests were made in Japan and Korea. Out of, yup, silk. Silk could stop black powder bullets, but was rendered obsolete by higher powered modern firearms. A combination of silk and metal was experimented with, but dropped because of the expense of silk.

Franz Ferdinand was wearing one such vest when he was assassinated, but it didn’t help because of where he was hit.

The US military is now looking into something called Dragon Silk, which is spider silk made by GMO silkworms, to make body armor that might be more comfortable than the current kevlar vests.

Silk, people.

[deliriumcrow]

You want proof about silk being able to stop an arrow? Try sewing it with the wrong machine needle in place. I have shattered – literally shattered – needles that were too thick. They just will not pass between the tightly woven fibers, even when in a machine that can go through your actual fingers. And that was just a lightweight taffeta, not something woven to be intentionally impenatrable.

It is horrible at stopping slashes, though. Whether by the blade of scissors, roller cutter, or well honed dagger or sword, it just falls to pieces like it never meant to be whole in the first place. This is, again, where your layers come in – a nice heavy leather for slash damage, a dense silk for piercing. You probably want to put something under it though, silk against sweaty skin is unpleasantly sticky. It *clings*. Eww.

[drpathetique]

Useful things elementary school neglected to teach me, exhibit #5839

[fantasmalresplendent]

guys guys guys guys guys guys guys

[zappavolta]

Game of Thrones should end how Monty Python Holy Grail ended where a bunch of cop cars come n arrest them all

[sufficientlylargen]

Every time I see a post about updog I’m torn between not wanting to fall for it and wanting to help the poster complete their joke.

[tommyeatseaton-blog]

okay but what’s updog ?

[jaiwithanadult]

Updog is a long sausage in a bun often served with ketchup, mustard, onion e, and/or relish.

[yumantimatter]

No, that’s a hotdog. An updog is when a new version or patch of an application is released

[defectivealtruist]

You’re thinking of update. Updog is when you end a sentence with a rising intonation.

[ghostpalmtechnique]

No, that’s uptalk.  You’re thinking of the fourth-largest city in Sweden.

[argumate]

surely that’s Uppsala, whereas Updog is the giant spider in Harry Potter.

[regexkind]

That’s Aragog. Updog is a symbol conventionally used for an arbitrarily small number in analysis proofs

[another-normal-anomaly]

You’re thinking of epsilon. Updog is an upward-moving air current.

[yieldsfalsehoodwhenquined]

no that’s an updraft

updog isn’t a noun at all, it’s a verb; it basically means to chew someone out, or harshly lecture them

[identicaltomyself]

No, that’s upbraid. An updog is a small dog that likes cuddling on people’s laps.

[speakertoyesterday]

No that’s a puppydog. An updog is when the Mets win.

[mistbornthefinal]

No that’s an upset. An updog is the modern version of a henway.

[yumantimatter]

What’s a henway?

[eversolewd-deactivated20250517]

Oh, about 5 pounds.

[d1rtnbl00d]

GOTTEM

[asterythm]

this post pushed me down the stairs and stole my firstborn child

[securityunit-ese]

Recognising silent acute pain in animals - assorted species grimace scales:

Development of the Horse Grimace Scale (HGS) as a Pain Assessment Tool in Horses Undergoing Routine Castration 

The composition and initial evaluation of a grimace scale in ferrets after surgical implantation of a telemetry probe 

The Assessment of Facial Expressions in Piglets Undergoing Tail Docking and Castration: Toward the Development of the Piglet Grimace Scale 

The Sheep Grimace Scale as an indicator of post-operative distress and pain in laboratory sheep and the  Coding and quantification of a facial expression for pain in lambs 

Mouse -  How to be a pain management advocate for exotic and zoo animals (full text available - includes additional species)

The Rat Grimace Scale: A partially automated method for quantifying pain in the laboratory rat via facial expressions 

Evaluation of EMLA Cream for Preventing Pain during Tattooing of Rabbits: Changes in Physiological, Behavioural and Facial Expression Responses 

Pain evaluation in dairy cattle 

Pain is subtle - we cannot depend on vocalisations or extreme abnormal behaviour to determine if an animal is on pain - animals can cover up pain while going about their daily life. Grimace scales have been found to be reliable indicators of pain (full text available)

Unfortunately, I could not find a clear visual grimace scale for dogs, cats or birds :(  

Which is a shame, because perhaps I could have recognised my own dog’s discomfort for the acute pain it was sooner:

(left: dog in pain. See eyes, tension, cheeks, whiskers, ears compared to the multiple species grimace charts above. right: tired but not in pain dog)

Perhaps my new books that arrived today might have some on dogs at least. There’s this visual blog post of a stressed dog at the vet - stress in the absence of a trigger looks very much like pain.

Here is a small comparative cats, with the link going into more detail. Not a scale but better than nothing:

Bonus round - you can get free A3 posters on recognising pain for Rabbits, Mice and Rats from the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research. My rabbit specialist vet has the rabbit one!

[scottishvn]

Being able to recognise pain in our patients is really important! We often use the modified Glasgow pain score which I will find a link for when I’m not on mobile. I know metacam definitely does a cat grimace poster. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dog one though.

[egberts]

literally nobody hates homestuck more than people who still like homestuck

[wi-fu]

y’all sleeping on olivia octavius smh

[babyanimalgifs]

This is so wholesome

[anx1ous-op0ssum]

Update: he finally got the cat to the vet to see if she had a microchip

[callmebliss]

I was already on board with his sweet wholesome open-to-love-and-nurturing heart but I was fully unprepared for getting to that last tweet and seeing how off the hook HOT dude is

[deadjosey-deactivated20200613]

https://twitter.com/pariszarcilla?lang=en heres his twitter is here there is also additonal cat photos of his children. 

[strangeracrossthestreet]

CAT DAD IS BACK

[jackslenderman]

aww, the kids grow up so fast. ;-;

[aquilacalvitium]

HHHHHHHH I LOVE CAT DAD!

[midgardian-april]

This is, by far, the single most adorable fucking thing I have ever seen. 

[trishmishtree]

update:

[lemonsharks]

I love that he kept …. All of them.

[petermorwood]

I’ve reblogged the earlier part of this thread before, and the new stuff makes it even better.

This is the Tumblr equivalent of a warm hug on a cold day.

[thebibliosphere]

I just realized, I just bloody realized, Moist Von Lipwig’s story arc is a game of Monopoly through the eyes of a conman going through the board and winning all the pieces.

He has the top hat, the dog, the train (which replaces to automotive in newer boards) the friendship of the Seamstress’ Guild (thimble), the walking iron called Gladys, the boot (he’s the incarnation of the Disc God Fedecks who has winged boots) and also the bag of money.*   He goes to jail, but eventually gets to pass and go. He’s integral in the rehabilitation of civic buildings (post office, bank, mint, the acquisition of land to build a railway and then adding stations to said railway), the owner of up market private property, and also he invents paper money which everyone sort of thinks of as a bit of a game.

His very name, Moist Von Lipwig, is a pun about wearing a fake lip wig or mustache. Like so:

Lord Vetinari is quite literally using him to play a life size version of Monopoly with the city. And winning.

(Amendment: Adora with hear deadly footwear is also the shoe/boot.)

(* Alternates: Sam Vimes is boots, Gaspode and Beggars Guild is dog, Wheelbarrow is Harry King, Thimble is Seamstress Guild, Battlehsip/canon is Assassins Guild/Nobility, Money Bag is Thieves Guild, leaving Moist as Top Hat and Train. ANKH-MORPORK MONOPOLY, GIVE IT TO ME) 

((edited for typos, too busy flailing))!!!!!

[persephinae]

@saintcranky  @chickalupe

[salt-and-peppy]

ok but why did they name him moist

[thebibliosphere]

It’s an unfortunate yet amusing name and Pratchett had a tendency to name people after ridiculous things purely to make people squint?

That’s genuinely all I can think of lol

[smilingstark]

ok but imagine peter not caring about his secret identity anymore and not making any effort to conceal it yet absolutely no one finds out he’s spiderman. peter wears the suit under his pants and a jacket but literally no one notices. he only gets a ‘cool shirt dude’ from a student he doesnt know. he does the iconic spiderman shooting-webs-from-his-hands pose in every single picture. no one says a word. he enters the classroom through the window. just as him, not spiderman. the classroom is on the second floor. no one cares.

[las-lus]

Sounds like college

[ultralaser]

“man that peter guy really likes spider man, i hope he gets to meet him someday”

[vampire-crimson]

Spiderman says on live tv “my name is peter parker” and his classmates are like huh. What a coincidence. Class peter is probably going nuts over this

[martindykewood]

thinkin bout him (leonard nimoy)

[martindykewood]

like… he chased down jack kennedy to demand his cab fare… he paid to see a therapist once a week just to speak to her in yiddish bc he didn’t want to fall out of practice… he defined science fiction television thru a character that nobody thought people would like… he made people like spock thru his sheer dedication to building him up as a genuine and organic character… he did a photography project and released a book of photographs to appreciate fat women’s bodies… he could perform shakespeare in yiddish… he wrote “we are all children / needing and wanting / each other’s / comfort and / understanding / we are all children / searching for love”… he just got it, man, he just understood… i miss him

[pundeserving]

Everyone on 4/13, crawling out of their secret homestuck bunkers,

[wedding-shemp]

Everyone shut up about star wars discourse from now on we are appreciating star wars like kids again. We are agreeing that the spaceships are cool and we are pretending to be Jedi.

[u-f-o-friend]

I like princess Leia cus she’s pretty and she shoots guns and she’s friends with r2d2 :)

[wedding-shemp]

You. You’re valid.

[apikale]

I like Leia because she made friends with that Ewok and has cool hair.

[wedding-shemp]

Also valid

[wedding-shemp]

This is just a Leia appreciation post now

[fgrobichiko]

I like leia because she’s so majestic and strong

[smokingsnowdrops]

I like Luke because he’s a pilot and has a lightsaber

[scales-of-fate]

Han Solo is cool because his best friend is a wookie

[stagofwar]

I like Obi-Wan! He’s smart and he fights cool!

[k-she-rambles]

I like the noises lightsabers make! And people using the Force to do flips!

[notfunnyislike]

I like Finn because he wants to keep his friends safe!

[thebisexualmandalorian]

I like Obi-Wan because he’s doing his best! And I want a blue lightsaber like his.

[padawansuggest]

I like artoo cause he has a funny scream and also he’s a sassy jerk

[star-scales]

I like Yoda because he has a funny laugh and I want to fly the Millennium Falcon!!!!

[aces-to-apples]

I like Poe because he’s kind and Finn because he’s brave and pretty and Rey because she hits people with a stick really good!!!

[propheticfire]

I like the clones because they’re funny and badass and they blow stuff up real good! And also because they have cool names.

[captaingondolin]

I like blaster sounds! Pew pew!

[franzis-frantic-thoughts]

I like Padme because she’s smart and tricked people by pretending to be the handmaid

[shecamefromwildspace-deactivate]

I like Lando because he has amazing capes