Thuderfam! I need your help!
Do we know how long it takes for the space elevator takes to get to 5? Or do we have any educated guesses on how long that might take?
(If it doesn't fit the fic I might just make it up / change it anyway lol)
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open

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Thuderfam! I need your help!
Do we know how long it takes for the space elevator takes to get to 5? Or do we have any educated guesses on how long that might take?
(If it doesn't fit the fic I might just make it up / change it anyway lol)
whump poll #169 — how long was whumpee missing for? 🕰️😈
they were never missing
minutes/hours (maybe a random mugging or accident?)
days
weeks
months
years
they have been gone/missing their whole life (lab whump? living weapon?)
I was high off my ass last night and had this dream where I was in this dense ass forest and sitting there was a tall woman. She was so tall I couldn’t see her face but she was wearing gold and I was like “uh…hi?” And she said “I made you, do you know that?” And I nodded and she was like “I hear your thoughts. Why do you hate my creation? Why do you try to destroy yourself? I made you perfect as you are. Please don’t break my heart”. Then she started crying and it flooded and I woke up with fucking heart palpitations like what does it Mean™️????
polar opposite of this post
inspiration struck and would not let me go until i drew this
This is really beautiful!!!
Writing Prompt: Dialogue
“Thought you said it wasn’t working?”
text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]
And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", but it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.
They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?
I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.
tony's chocolonely mildly pisses me off every time i eat it. like yeah i get it ur doing a whole symbolism thing about unfairness and whatever, but its actually SO DIFFICULT to eat fucking. gerrymandered chocolate. your symbolism is ruining my chocolate experience.
who approved this.
like. ur already more expensive. i understand this. i am willing to pay more money to have slave-free delicious chocolate. why must you punish me further by making it a goddamn puzzle to break a piece off.
A year or so ago I went to wood carving club with a bruised eye from my dog slamming his nose into my eyesocket and like every old lady there pulled me aside at some point to ask if my partner hit me here are some of the solutions they had in case he did.
-Replacing his vitimens with poision
- getting her brother to invite him out onto his boat and then killing him and dumping him in the ocean and saying he got drunk and fell off.
- get tboned with him in the passenger seat and then once he was in the hospital theres all kinds of easy ways to kill him like not washing my hands after a poop and then touching his wound casually.
-replacing his drink of choice with moonshine!?
- take him on a hike thats locally notorious for a rapid otter attacking hikers and once he had rabies I could just kill him any ol way and say self defense.
-One lady just cheerfully informed me she had a gun and only a few years left anyway
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#and this is why no-fault divorce brings down the murder rate
there is something so normal about me when I watch the Geralt-Renfri sword fight
it was such a move to show Geralt absolutely lay waste to five armed men in under a minute only for his fight with Renfri to last like three minutes. Such a good way to demonstrate how absolutely lethal and skilled she was without the usual verbal exposition
AND THE COMBAT CHOREOGRAPHY
I’m chewing on concrete every time I rewatch it tbh
This is what makes me truly descend into madness! I’ve never watched an analysis, but to me it looks like he gives her
one:
two:
three:
four:
FIVE chances:
She stabs him several times throughout and he still stays his hand wherever possible, although he does land several blows.
Each time, he gives her a chance to disengage, but she advances again. the fifth and final time, he even lowers his blade completely. She advances again, and he kills her.
It is interesting to me that people debate whether Geralt was in the “right” here, because the intention of this story and its place as the first episode was very literally written to punish Geralt’s neutral stance. He adamantly refused to take a side and in the end is told he did choose, and he’ll “never know” if it was the right choice.
But it’s made clear that he does know. All of his actions in the story are determined by his regrets from that day. He should have chosen Renfri. Which is why he’s so determined to save the Striga Princess. Which is why Jaskier teases him for pretending to avoid conflict when in reality he always gets involved. He didn’t used to. Now he cannot walk away from anything. Renfri haunts his entire narrative.
I also love the line where Geralt says, “if we cross swords—“ and Renfri says, “I won’t be able to stop.” She could absolutely mean that she’s simply so determined that she refuses to give up until one of them is dead.
But immediately before that line, she tells Geralt magic doesnt work on her, whereas silver does, and Geralt actually balks because “silver is for monsters.”
We know Renfri has been mutated by some form of magic—whether completely by birth or even further by Stregabor’s experiments—and that she’s a ruthless combatant.
Although there is no actual proof of it in the show canon or the books, people have considered that Renfri literally cannot stop fighting once she starts—that her body is compelled and bound by her magic to see it through to the death.
Again, no “proof” of that, but it’s compelling! It would also mean that she doesn’t actually make her final choice the fifth time Geralt attempts to disengage. She would have made her final, fatal decision to fight to one of their deaths the minute the fight began, because she knew there would be no stopping.
And the scene really carried every ounce of that weight & the gravity of the consequences for Geralt.
That said, it is actually usually far more difficult to disarm and neutralize someone than to kill them. If you join a dojo, you usually won’t be placed with another beginner to spar right off the bat, because beginners are dangerous in that they don’t know how to hold blows. Two beginner combatants are more likely to hurt each other, whereas someone experienced will moreso “handle” you than actually fight you.
So that speaks to Geralt’s skill as a swordsman over Renfri, as well as—like you said—Renfri’s skill because it was so difficult for Geralt to “handle” her.
It’s the most poignant combat choreography I’ve seen in Western media in a decade. I’m Deeply
Deeply
obsessed with it.
this tag is making me laugh out loud because this is, in fact, Geralt’s worst job ever. he never gets it more wrong than this
the sims will never not be one of the funniest games on the planet
That’s where god sits
writing tip: put words on page. hope this helps. i will not be taking questions because i have not done this
I’ve been laughing at “fuck this lemon you take it” for several minutes
take this papaya from my cold dead hands is sending me again oh my god
badminton is dont hit the fucking ground you stupid disgusting baby bird
every day this post has more responses that make me lunge back in my chair with the most unnecessarily loud cackle
Hockey is I’m gonna launch this peppermint patty at you and the only way to stop me is violence
curling is my two friends and i really want to put a watermelon in that exact spot, but the floor disagrees
Bowling is That's too many bottles, let's solve it with melons.
things in fic I'm used to people kind of faking their way through writing about:
the city of los angeles
the city of new york
sex
how drinking alcohol works
how getting high works
how a child of any age speaks
how nuclear physics work
how [my job] works
how debilitating being shot in the shoulder is
how hypothermia works
things I have never before seen someone fake their way through writing about, until today:
what french toast is
read through the notes on this one trust me
Here's some of the notes, starting with the things multiple people brought up:
SHRIMP COCKTAIL:
banahbanah: #flashback to that one fic where Peter Parker frets about drinking shrimp cocktail because of the alcohol
generaldeliciousness: adding: what a prawn/shrimp cocktail is
#why is your character turning it down because they're under 21 #do you think prawn cocktail is a cocktail #this lives in my brain rent-free constantly #the rest of the fic was so normal #and good enough that i'll still re-read it #but bro
And then many, MANY, people wondering if this was actually authour mistake, since Peter really would do this!
POMEGRANATES:
zhajhassa: #haha where's that post that was like someone describing someone eating a pomegranate but they ate it like an apple
thornhands: #once someone wrote persephone biting into a whole Pomegranate #had to stop and stare at a wall for a minute
sungsingsanguine: I once saw someone very confidently write about a character eating slices of pomegranate.
FRUIT TREES:
zagreuses-toast: #given a very endearing glimpse into a writers blindspots by seeing them describe someone sitting under a ''pineapple tree''
salatrash: I remember something about picking watermelons... OF A FUCKING TREE
baander: #cranberry trees
DOUGH/BATTER:
maycelium: #I'm a chef so I'm really used to people not accurately describing how to cook food #But I was surprisingly flabbergasted when someone was writing making a cake and was kneading it. Which uh #Not necessary for cake. It was interesting for sure but just bizarre
livebloggingmydescentintomadness: #the one that drove me nuts was when a character set aside a batch of PASTA DOUGH 'to rise' #pasta doesn't have yeast!! #it does need to REST but it will never RISE #you do not want an airy crumb on your noodles
lovesodeepandwideandwell: #THE ONE WHERE THEY MADE COOKIES BY LADLING BATTER INTO A TRAY
Some other topics:
KICK THE CAN!
Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.
To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.
the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now
And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!
alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
under 18, AI is a net positive
under 18, AI is a net negative
18-29, AI is a net positive
18-29, AI is a net negative
30-45, AI is a net positive
30-45, AI is a net negative
46-60, AI is a net positive
46-60, AI is a net negative
over 60, AI is a net postive
over 60, AI is a net negative
Question 2/3
How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?
Frequently (multiple times per month)
Often (multiple times per year)
Occasionally (a couple times per year)
Rarely (once every couple of years)
Never :(
Question 3/3
If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?
under 18, more inclined
under 18, less inclined
18-29, more inclined
18-29, less inclined
30-45, more inclined
30-45, less inclined
46-60, more inclined
46-60, less inclined
over 60, more inclined
over 60, less inclined
Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!
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It’s clawing at the bars of my brain
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