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Thursday nights are for Critical Role, mute the tags because I am obnoxious. Besides D&D, other things currently include theatre, mysteries, dinosaurs, nature, nerdery, and ecopolitical nonsense. Sometimes I liveblog movies- I try to both warn and consistently tag them.

[historicalbookimages]

🦌 The quadrupeds of North America, . New York, V.G. Audubon, 1851-54.. Original source Image description: Historical illustration titled “Moose Deer” from Audubon’s “The Quadrupeds of North America,” depicting a large adult moose standing on a grassy plain with two younger moose lying down beside it. The adult moose features broad, palm-shaped antlers and a dark brown coat with lighter legs. The background shows an expansive, muted natural landscape with subtle vegetation and a cloudy sky. The detailed lithograph emphasizes the moose’s distinct physique and habitat typical of North American wilderness.

[taavicleric]

Google's killing the Assistant. You can only have the hatefully stupid Gemini.

FUCK. I don't want that.

[taavicleric]

It is cold in my house (which I can't complain about because it's gonna be 4 days of 100+ temps starting tomorrow), but, but, I have chocolate ice cream I would like to eat.

[taavicleric]

There is a phrase I am trying to remember, it is the fair use joke you make when you are totally way too close to copyright infringement.

It used to get used online to describe Spirit Halloween knock-offs. It was a two word phrase, the second one is "distinct."

Example of a sentence might be, "Oh, yeah, the character Bug Juice is '[missing word] distinct' from a popular Tim Burton character."

Can anyone remember what I'm thinking of?

[copperbadge]

It’s been the kind of day that culminated in my telling someone moments ago that the date was the fifth of Wednesday.

I hope you all have a really good fifth of Wednesday. 

[latveriansnailmail]

you fool

you just created another tumblr holiday

[copperbadge]

Bold of you to assume that was not my intent!

[taavicleric]

Student, upon being told a popular class is full, "But how can it be full when it just opened today?!" Me, "Are you familiar with Taylor Swift?" Student, "...Yes?" Me, "Our classes in that media sell like her shows. If you're not there within the hour, it probably won't happen." Student, "Why?" Me, [I resist saying, "Entropy."] "Popular classes tend to fill quickly." Student, "Oh. Like Taylor Swift." Me, "Yes."

[pangur-and-grim]

it's good that I will never be a dog breeder, bc I would make the elephant dog. long borzoi snout, chunky pitbull body, ears of a papillon

[pangur-and-grim]

why aren't we doing this?

[pangur-and-grim]

you 🫵 you can join the breeding project.

[free-ebook-23]

Dogs do not show pain. There are dead in nature if they show it. One way to know if your dog is suffering. Muscels in his back are strained and his biting his teeth

[pangur-and-grim]

actually if you look into its eyes you’ll see that my dog loves existing. it isn’t biting its teeth, it’s saying “Thank you Creator” and “Creator, I could take more. Go further.” the reason I know this is because I understand dog medicine better than you. but that’s not a reason to be embarrassed.

[maximumsunshine]

Hey now! Leave poor Belphie out of this! That poor boy is uncontroversially perfect in Every Way!

[taavicleric]

Of course he is! I said *different* spectrum, not better! It's the same one shared by bats and beafts like Wonder Dog up there. Perfectly Normal Beafts.

[2birds1pencil]

meep (:

[pangur-and-grim]

it's good that I will never be a dog breeder, bc I would make the elephant dog. long borzoi snout, chunky pitbull body, ears of a papillon

[pangur-and-grim]

why aren't we doing this?

[pangur-and-grim]

you 🫵 you can join the breeding project.

[free-ebook-23]

Dogs do not show pain. There are dead in nature if they show it. One way to know if your dog is suffering. Muscels in his back are strained and his biting his teeth

[pangur-and-grim]

actually if you look into its eyes you’ll see that my dog loves existing. it isn’t biting its teeth, it’s saying “Thank you Creator” and “Creator, I could take more. Go further.” the reason I know this is because I understand dog medicine better than you. but that’s not a reason to be embarrassed.

[chipthekeeper]

I have a lot of pet peeves but I think the biggest one is when people say things like “oh it’s such a small town, only 35,000 people” like bitch my town has 200 people, you need to pick a new adjective 

[thegoldengals]

According to Wikipedia, a small town is 1,000-20,000 people. So although you are correct in stating that 35,000 people is not a small town (it is a large town), you are incorrect in thinking that you live in a town. You live in a village. You are a villager.

[chipthekeeper]

I…… don’t know what to do with that information……a villager…

[earhartsease]

in the uk you can drill down even further - if your village (or small town) doesn’t have a church, it’s technically a hamlet

we spent a year living just outside the hamlet of Stawley, Somerset - and the two signs at either end telling you you’re now entering Stawley were 12 seconds apart by road (if you can call it a road) - they actually did have a church but it didn’t have an incumbent [vicar? priest? we don’t know, we’re jewish] they had some dude in a frock visit once a month - and they still liked to call themselves a hamlet

[rainbow-wyvern]

Just looked up my hometown that I haven’t lived in for over a decade and they peaked in 2020 at 3,760 people. It definitely is called and is a village. It has no fewer than 10 churches in it though. So definitely not a hamlet.

Also is it just me or does hamlet sound like it has to be a cozy sea/lake/ water side place of residence?

[earhartsease]

to be a hamlet you have to have no churches but at least one batshit dane

[taavicleric]

[holespoles]

Rabbits between the staves. Cambrai BM 125-128, c. 1540-50

[quietwingsinthesky]

very important for elf characters to freak the fuck out about the aging difference thing and pre-grieve like crazy and scream themself hoarse with denial when they can’t stop death itself and they still look the same as when they met the frail aged body that’s going cold beneath their touch and eventually settle into a numbness that they’ll call acceptance but they never really let anyone get as close as they did in the first century of their life unless they know they’re going to stick around as long as they will

[quietwingsinthesky]

“why are elves so snobby and exclusive and cut-off from everyone else” befriending you means they’ll end up burying you and your children and your grandchildren and they’ll still be young. exactly how many times do you think you could choose to do that. if you live through enough centuries, eventually you run out of days in the year to visit each grave.

[taavicleric]

Non-fiction books, I am begging you to reproduce photographs in colour. It is 2026. In a digital book you could link right to fucking wiki commons, even. In some cases. Like particularly when it's a reproduction of The Rainbow Portrait of Queen Elizabeth in black and white.

Not as thrilling.

I won't tattle on the book, I have not yet formed any other opinions.

[taavicleric]

The difficulty of having The Lord of the Rings as my back up book for when my library holds are all pending, is that once I get the hold, I'd rather read LOTR.

[dogpuppy]

[shark-tranny]

american describing weather: ok so imagine a donut

[taavicleric]

You're not ready for the Taco Theory of Tornados, but, here it is, anyway.

[taavicleric]

Regarding that last post re: PMS and the Sims? Honestly, that is so correct. The Sims 3 with all my mods on it actively shortened the lifespan of my computer.

The problem is I've lost all the content and there is *absolutely* no way to get it anymore because some of it was custom made for me by people on message boards I haven't been on in years.

But also, I can never play another Sims game again, because it is the kind of game that makes me lose all interest in real life because I am playing my stories. It's bad. Since I have to go to work every day, I can't do the things I get lost in or I make bad mistakes.

A movie, or a chapter, or a book will end. If I start making things, it won't.

[effemar]

nobody tells you this bc it’s stupid but the best thing to do while on your period is play the sims 4 on a laptop in bed. not only is the sims 4 more fun when you’re emotionally disregulated but the processing power required for the worlds least optimized & shittiest video game of all time will cause your laptop to actively try to kill itself and depending on your position while playing the 3000 degree nuclear meltdown occurring in your lap makes a wonderful natural heating pad. Pro gamer tip