Uselessly Wonderful

Welcome! Here is where I'll post lots of fandom stuff. I love gravity falls, Harry Potter, The Legend of Zelda, lots more! Icon by elentori-art

[lamina-tsrif]

they are already planning your spontaneous burial (slingshot incident)

[chasingrainbowsforever]

“Ocean Waves” ~ Stained Glass Art

[coffeedragonart]

Sometimes, when a wishing well has taken many, many offerings, all that gold starts to attract wildlife…

[pastelaeqy]

something something long dead minecraft servers evidence of a life once lived etc etc

[the-meme-monarch]

joke that only works with my minor redesign of bill (gave him three fingers instead of four)

also little redraws from thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com and tbob under the cut bc i just kinda didn’t feel they fit the vibe here but this is the only other gf art i have

[filez34]

Simpler times

[failchild]

[swampgallows]

[squidvonbob]

His name is Low Sodium Soy Sauce. Please protect him at all costs.

[libraford]

It's very endearing to me how many people are willing to keep an eye on a video feed so they can push a button and let a fish in the Netherlands get to the other side of a dam.

[rahjin]

It is genuinely baffling to me, in a very kind and positive way, especially coupled with the local news continually going several shades of 'wtf, this thing is a roaring success again and we don't quite get why'. They've already quadrupled their capacity for simultaneous clicks and it's still nowhere near enough and there's just... Bewilderment.

[libraford]

I think people want to help the environment in small but tangible ways, which is hard right now because of.. well... because of The Horrors. And being able to say 'wow! I helped this creature cross a dam' makes you feel good.

I also think that most people can relate to a small, helpless creature trying to get from one place to another and there's a FUCKIN WALL in the way.

But to come back to point 1- Citizen Science fills a hole in the soul that wanted to go out on adventures and discover things when we were younger, but the study of it was hard or we didn't have the money or our schools were garbage. But you don't have to have a degree to do things like... press a button or download and use an app, or count or transcribe notes.

Anyways- here's some Citizen Science links if the Fish Doorbell makes you feel happy and you yearn for more ways to help scientists do stuff:

Foldit (folding proteins)

Fathomverse (sea animals)

Project Monarch (butterflies)

Bioblitz, an event where citizens identify as many species in an area within a period of time

Species Watch (animal species)

BOINC’s Compute for Science

Zooniverse is a website that hosts information on many citizen science projects

Label trees in aerial photos

Count cells in fossils and modern leaves

Digitize Atmospheric Data

Count penguins

US-based Citizen Science Database

eBird (bird identification)

Merlin (bird identification by sound)

iNaturalist (nature identification)

MapSwipe (collaboration between several Red Cross organizations and Doctors Without Borders, update vital geospatial data)

Smithsonian Archives Transcription Center

[captainmatsuoka]

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

Art Sled Rally at Powderhorn Park!

via Axios Twin Cities

#Minnesota #Minneapolis

[oddarette]

All of my pocket creatures in one place.

[spitblossoms]

[bunchashapes]

[radiovys]

[victusinveritas]

[victusinveritas]

There's more:

[kerink]

how do you think bill was feeling when, after all of that, the portal spat ford up?

[hiaennyddei]

Stanford Pines really saw that unauthorized fucking thing and thought "would"

From my Billford animation