Tarzamster of the Aye Aye

[serozvero]

:С

[medievalthymes]

when the lord you’re sworn to doesn’t uphold his chivalric values

[tarzamsteroftheayeaye]

When you show up to your duel and realise you both forgot your swords

[flowers4therapture]

a single andes chocolate mint from the olive garden can fully nourish an adult human for up to 96 hours

[elodieunderglass]

This is genuinely the idea behind Kendal Mint Cake

[hylianengineer]

Say what now?

[elodieunderglass]

Kendal Mint Cake is a sort of highly dense lump of sugar flavoured with peppermint oil. It does not spoil, and somehow contains 2x more sugar and glucose than sugar or glucose. It is a purposeful product intended as an emergency ration to give a boost of energy when mountaineering. It is associated with hikers and mountaineers in the UK and is sold in camping/outdoor stores. Typically you keep a packet permanently in your camping bag or car or emergency kit, and just never move or remove it. If the time comes, it’s there.

I gestured a hand across an explanation of a Scottish field geologist character named Ken(dal Mint Cake) stating that he always has a packet of Kendal mint cake somewhere and received a message from a friend saying “I didn’t know you also knew (guy that Ken could conceivably be based on)”. I didn’t. This is just a portrait of too many extant guys.

There are several species of this man crashing cheerfully around the UK receiving deep spiritual pleasure from crouching in a puddle in a howling gale up a mountain nibbling pieces of violent mint sugar and apparently metabolising sufficient joy from this to polish off Kendal Mint Cake in marketable quantities for over 100 years.

Unless they made too much of it originally and are still selling it.

It isn’t sugar cube. It’s sugar to the fourth power. Nobody sounds reasonable talking about it.

[elodieunderglass]

Tumblr users rising to the challenge . You’ll note the recurring theme

Step 1: go on an entirely optional adventure

Step 2: get into an unpleasant condition in bad weather

Step 3: become very uncomfortable and hateful

Step 4: Kendal mint cake

Step 5: access stratosphere with tits blown off

Step 6: summit

Step 7: say “that was lovely”

[skull-bearer]

If only it had been founded 35 years earlier, the Franklin expedition would have found the NW Passage while carrying their boats like a pack of very determined sugar fuelled ants.

[so-i-did-this-thing]

How have we gotten this far without showing the packaging, oh, you know this stuff has cocaine in its DNA.

[tarzamsteroftheayeaye]

Oh, so it's the human equivalent of dwarf bread.

[the-eccentric-eclectic]

Hey kid, look at me.

I want you to T-pose. Turn your right thumb up and your left thumb doen and look at your right thumb. Move your arms up and down a bit until you feel a nerve running from your armpit to your palm. Now turn your right thumb down and your left thumb up, and look at your left thumb. Keep your chest facing forward and your shoulders back. Move your arms again until you feel that nerve again. Keep alternating between these two for a minute, or look at each thumb thirty times each.

Now sit down. Put your left hand firmly under your left buttock, palm down. Keep your shoulders back and put your right hand over the crown of your head, very gently pulling it to the right. Do this for thirty seconds, then do it again but with your right hand under your right buttock.

These are stretches for the nerves in your arms, and are very good for people who sit behind a computer a lot, or fibre artists, or you name it. Do them daily. They will hurt in the beginning, but keep doing them, even after the pain has gone, or it will return and you'll have to start all over.

[emcapi]

Hey, I know another type of stretch for this!

I had to go to occupational therapy a while back due to pain in my ulnar nerve (same nerve that acts as your 'funny bone'). It was getting compressed from jamming my elbow against hard plastic armrests that were in a too-tall fixed position on my cheap old office chair. I was having burning and tingling pain and numbness radiating from my elbow into my ring and pinky fingers. It sucked. Honestly, I found it worse than carpal tunnel, because a rigid elbow brace makes life way harder than a rigid wrist brace.

Anyways, the main exercise that my occupational therapist had me do was called a nerve glide. The stretches OP describes help improve flexibility, but the nerve gliding exercise helps move the nerve out of the pinched spot so it can move more freely.

Here's the best diagram I can find of it:

It's a little confusing, so have some extra description on the weird parts:

Step 3: thumb side moves down and towards the front.

Step 4: hand rotates out and around, pinky side first.

Step 5: nothing fancy here, just straighten your elbow.

Step 6 (not on diagram, but recommended by therapist): with arm in the same position, tilt your head towards the opposite side for a few second (works as a stretch).

Ulnar nerve compression (aka cubital tunnel) is apparently super common, but I had never heard of it before I started having issues. If you lean forwards on your desk or armrests a lot, I'd suggest giving these a try. It feels kind of weird because you can feel the nerve, but it shouldn't hurt at all.

[michaelnordeman]

Blue Tit/blåmes and Coal Tit/svartmes. Värmland, Sweden (February 17, 2018).

[mutant-distraction]

[myjetpack]

My latest New Scientist cartoon.

[bongwater-supreme]

Granny Weatherwax and Sam Vimes wouldn’t get on at all, and they’d never admit why, but it’s because they’re too similar. They both have an internal morality more sturdy and unmovable than a mountain, they both know they contain the capacity for great evil, but keep themselves in line with self discipline the likes of which most people couldn’t dream of. They both know about the importance of choice, and of truth, and of autonomy. If either of them were able to look past their aversion to seeing their own reflection, and worked together, they’d be fucking unstoppable.

Something about two of the main Discworld series being focused on these intensely determined, stubbornly moral people just really means a lot to me. You’ve got Moist using his criminal mind to help people, and the wizards doing whatever wizards do, and Death showing kindness to people in their most vulnerable moments. And you’ve got these two, making the world a better place whether it likes it or not. It will get better, or else, they say. Or else you’ll have me to deal with.

[trashpandaart3000]

Entoloma melanocephalum, Kaikoura, New Zealand

photo: Benny CK Chia

[catchymemes]

[ampervadasz]

Unmute !

[allusionsforlife]

@carnalreincarnated

A very chatty young one

[carnalreincarnated]

I absolutely adore chatty kitties, and I adore this one too.

[tarzamsteroftheayeaye]

I want to love him and squish him

[footsteps-on-the-dance-floor]

april fools day is actually the most sensible day of the year because it's the only day on which people will read something on the internet and stop for a second to consider whether or not it's actually true

[beepost-generator]

[hellsitegenetics]

happy boops boops day, all

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Can't believe I didn't post about these guys for April Fools. More the fool am I.

[bonnini]

Excuse me?????

the fact that movie adaptations of The Three Musketeers aren’t consistently giving me crazy cat man Richelieu is honestly so outrageous I want to see - NO I DEMAND to see the Red Eminence draw up important documents and plot to destroy France’s enemies while Soumise naps in his lap and Ludoviska tries to knock ink bottles off the table!!! Wake up how are movie studios not taking this excellent opportunity to give us Richelieu lounging on an armchair in the dark and petting cats like a moustache twirling Bond villain hello??????????????????????????????????????

[profeminist]

"just not seeing enough people talking about carl clemons-hopkins, the first out nonbinary actor to be nominated for an emmy, and the nonbinary flag gown they wore last night"

@mattxiv

Carl Clemons-Hopkins on IMDB

[oneapatheticwinter]

Here’s a better exposed photo of the gown, so you can see what’s going on! I love the cleverly shaped side of the skirt made to resemble a trouser leg

[tarzamsteroftheayeaye]

That's amazing and I love it

[tinfoil-catholic]

Make a Man

swift as a coursing river

force of a great typhoon

strength of a raging fire

mysterious like the moon

tranquil as a forest

featherless

biped

Voting ended onApr 2, 2024

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[wizardarchetypes]

My mom’s house is set up so the front door opens directly to the staircase and into the main room/living room so when you come inside and head upstairs you look directly over the main room.

this is relevant because any time I came home and headed upstairs, my mom would have an opportunity to catch me on the stairs from her seat on the couch.

and often she has over friends for wine and coffee from from the community theatre or her church (catholic), and they’d stop me on my way up for things like, “oh come look at this picture I took of a snake in my garden! Can you tell me what it is?” Or, “can you explain Tiktok to us. Is it bad?”

I got used to giving five minute lectures on random topics before I had the chance to take my shoes off. I admired that they seemed to be so open minded, often asking me to explain topics like gender identity and other things very new to them.

But one day I came in and heard one of them say, “Oh let’s ask Mallaidh Anne. She’ll know.”

So I stopped at the bottom of the stairs and met the expectant faces of my mother and her friends, and then one of them said, “what’s monsterfucking?”

Bear in mind some of these women are published authors, so it’s not crazy that they’d encounter the term as a genre but that didn’t prepare me any better for the moment than knowing hippos exist would prep me to encounter one at a Burger King.

I do think it’s nice that parents have evolved new and exciting ways to corner us the way we must have done to them as children.

You thought it was awkward when your child asked you about sex or death before you were prepared for that conversation? Stop them on a random Tuesday when they’re 26 and ask them about the Omegaverse.

[wizardarchetypes]

In case you’re wondering, once I recovered (I laughed really hard for a minute too long), I told them it’s for people who wish the Beast stayed a Beast at the end of Beauty and the Beast, baseline entry-level, and then the romantic interests just get less human from there.

They all nodded sagely. It seemed to make perfect sense. My work done.

[tarzamsteroftheayeaye]

I once accidentally had to explain to a group of two dozen church ladies with an average age of 73 what a merkin was.

That was a fun day.