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so our friend who goes by Irregular Joe in robot wars circles has crafted The Luggage, who is "a 13.6kg sportsman featherweight"
just look at it go!!!!
sound on, by the gods
happy forever, everybody
The Great Goodreads Diss List (Part 4)
[part 1] [part 2] [part 3]
"I have been waiting 450 pages to write a scathing review, and now that I'm here to destroy this, I kind of feel rather tired about the whole thing."
"Well rip my bodice!"
"A handy reference guide for tropes and clichés, poorly disguised as a potboiler."
"if I had to add up all the pages of actual real dialogue and not just snarky barbs, this book would be five pages long."
"This author couldn't write her way out of a wet paper bag."
"I’d rather experience the zombie apocalypse than continue reading this book."
"Throughout the second half of the book, all I could think was DUDE, I WOULD'VE CHEATED ON YOU TOO."
"You can tell which characters are bad guys not because of any interesting moral argument but because the bad people are implausibly successful in order for the story to continue."
"like eating stale cake while reading the Old Testament."
"I started to feel like she's a racetrack consisting of a circuit of legs-breasts-eyes-mouth and he's busy trying to get his laps in."
"Prose purpled itself into oblivion."
"as personal and efficient as an unoccupied room in a Ramada Inn."
"I would like to thank this book -- my kitchen is clean and the laundry is folded because every time I picked up this book, I found something more interesting to do."
"A book so OK it hurts."
"I mean, I love a semi-colon as much as the next girl, but really???"
"has anyone told men they don't need to publish every scrap of thought that cross their mind"
"my oeil remained untromped"
"this book would be better if all the characters brutally died in shark infested waters"
"The writing here flows more like a rockslide than a river."
"everyone in this book speaks like a founding father."
"The hero was tormented. So was I…"
"I think this book is really great if your table or chair has a leg that is shorter than the rest"
"i do in fact have more chemistry with my toilet."
"I got about 30 pages into this book before I realized I was reading Ted Kaczynski's shopping list for Cabela's."
"we listen and we tell the judge."
Cheap Bastard Art Tips: Printmaking edition
1. Matte shipping labels make great stickers, and you can buy a lot for very little. Perfect for bookplates
2. Ink is expensive and messy. Stamp pads are cheap, especially if you get those small fingerprint ones that come in a bunch of colors. Apply directly to the linoleum block. Good for doing multi-color or ombré effects too! Highly recommend getting some metallics. Even if you’re going to do the final prints with ink, get a stamp pad for in-progress tests.
3. Look. It’s never a good idea to use the back of the Lino block. But you’re gonna. So what you want to do is plan ahead a little with your designs, leave more black than white space, and don't cut super deep. Or make the pattern on the back fairly small and simple.
4. Smaller linoleum blocks are much cheaper than big ones. But if you don't have anything, you can do lino on an eraser!
(I do strongly recommend getting a decent linocutter. Speedball's great, cheap, and the blades last a very long time)
Told Velcro to stop scratching the couch, and she froze like this for a good minute. Unhook those claws, ma’am.
Behold, my baby! She’s a White 940 I picked up for cheap at a garage sale, mostly so I could practice taking apart a sewing machine. Under several decades worth of dust and grime she turned out to be gorgeous. Even had the original receipt from 1972 tucked away in the base.
Tag game!!!!
Do this picrew and make urself! (to the best of your ability. And maybe with some extra funsies stuff :3)
@a-dam-tris-prior-fan @i-put-the-hyper-in-hyperfixated @queensnowlake-wof @raynilikescats @justcallmedom31 @algae122 @leeotard + open tags :)
my hair is longer in the back but this is the closest otherwise, thanks for the tag but i'm gonna get rid of the additional reblogs for post length sake >.>
uuuuh i could tag @heckacentipede @cro-iba @pitafish @atomicbritt and @kiliofdurinsline and whoever else wants to but no worries if it ain't your thing
Oh I love these!
I tag @dollelujah @hobbittastic @eeevi @bittermause @tildytwo @squimoo 😘
I kinda want to see what @gay-leop @teaandspite @cubyrop and @aniseandspearmint come up with, since I know approximately what at least some of them look like
Its meeee (I think this may be the first picrew I've done, actually)
@iceeckos12 @allhailschadenfreude @vintage-poetess your turn
love how much of Aragorn’s initial interactions with the hobbits is just telling them not to say things
aragorn: could you stop casually invoking the dread name of the ancient and terrible evil that even now follows at our very heels for FIVE MINUTES
aragorn: hey I gotta take a breather can you take over the hobbit duties for a bit
gandalf: no worries got you covered
Aragorn’s given up
elrond: hey you can’t say that here
gandalf: you can’t tell me what to say, do I look like a hobbit to you
The film repositions this for comedy, but in Return of the King, there’s this scene:
Gandalf, outside the door: oh hang on, just a sec. for reasons I won’t explain; this is about to get super geopolitical. Try not to spill too many beans in front of Denethor.
Pippin: Do I have that many of them?
Denethor: right, you ignorant child! Under my skilled interrogation I shall force you to spill the beans.
Pippin: I know three things about beans and will share them (under skilled interrogation, discourses for a full hour on beans, the preparation thereof, the cultivation thereof, and the Shire’s various thoughts on beans in general)
Gandalf: (pretends to be annoyed) denethor if you wanted SENSIBLE discourse on geopolitical beans I am RIGHT HERE
Denethor, fascinated: no! I already know everything you’re about to say and I’m NOT accepting criticism at this time. And I genuinely have no idea what this guy’s going to say next - do you have ANY idea how fun that is for me
Pippin: now the classic market share of baked beans inna tin belongs to Heinz, but I myself am a Branston man, because - referencing my previous statements - if you want beans, you do NOT need to faff about with a tin opener. The decision to retain the pop-top -
Gandalf: this is unbelievable. denethor, can we -
Denethor: BZT! ✋ let him cook
(Later)
Pippin: are you mad at me for talking about beans for an hour
Gandalf: it was, in a weird way, the best move on the chessboard, and so politically savvy that it furthered three of my agendas, and was also really funny to listen to. Denethor has the long sight; he is accustomed to reading the minds and hearts of men at a long distance, these long years. Actually, maybe this has jaded him as much as anything else. To meet a mind whose umwelt, whose very nature, he has not already fully plumbed is not just an act of political obfuscation on our part; for Denethor himself, could such fresh provocation burst his stagnant social bubble, and save him from being so terminally fucking online? Might we have uncovered the potential of a Theoden thematic parallel? Much to ponder. The only unfortunate bit was that you kept freezing up and looking guilty when Denethor asked you about containers
Pippin: you said not to spill any beans and I was worried he’d trip me up
Gandalf: it is, as ever, like talking to a fucking genie with you people
My version of "doomscrolling" nowadays is just going to iNaturalist, browsing pictures of animals and fantasizing about where I would introduce them outside of their natural range if I was some kind of ecology-focused evil scientist. I do this when I'm depressed. I don't know if it helps.
Bring hyena to Texas put Texas in hyena paws humans can trust Texas to hyena pack yesss
How could I disagree with such a trustworthy source
animals i really want to introduce to the USA:
-red pandas in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. they can live in those you-pick orchards and delight tourists, and in the winter the big ones can be harvested by the farmers for food and fur. america also has native bamboo, as well as plenty of escaped invasives.
-koalas in southern california. we already have a lot of feral eucalpytus in the state and it makes our wildfires way worse. let's put koalas in there too. coyotes can hunt them like dingos do.
-cheetahs in colorodo, wyoming, nebraska, and oklahoma. we had cheetahs here once, that's why pronghorns are so fast. let's give them something to really haul ass about.
-spotted hyenas in texas and new mexico. did you know there's actually a shit ton of oryx already roaming around new mexico? they were brought in for a game preserve. oryx can fight off lions, but spotted hyenas are actually superior pack hunters with some of the highest kill rates of large cooperative predators in the world. we might have a problem with ranchers, but like: fuck ranchers. they already decimated the mexican wolf populations. they deserve hyenas.
-pangolins. i would drop these guys in arizona honestly. everyone in arizona hates and fears fire ants. i think entire neighborhoods would throw ecstatic parades for pangolins (which smell much better than giant anteaters) at least until a pangolin dug straight through their pasteboard condo.
-new zealand's little penguin in louisiana. they burrow into mud and sand banks during the day and tolerate quite hot temperatures! i think they'd do fine, and louisiana is sliding into the gulf anyway. let's have penguins there. i'd also try them out in new england in case lousiana is just too swampy for them. i feel like new yorkers would go insane with pride over having penguins around. they would act like they invented the whole concept of penguins. we should let them.
-water buffalo. georgia and the carolinas. i just think it would give everyone there some interesting new problems.
-i firmly believe that asiatic elephants would do great in the southeastern united states. it's a subtropical climate that's only going to get swampier as things heat up, and there's plenty of kudzu and tall grass species for them to munch on. they're also smart enough to learn to navigate and negotiate with people, and to follow set routes around human farms rather than tromp through them, so disruption to existing human infrastructure would be minimal but occasionally hilarious. i think it would be so cool to have an american subspecies of elephant. if i ever win the lottery this IS what i am going to be doing with my millions.
Animals I would introduce to each continent:
Europe: Wombat
We've had enough of your fucking rabbits and foxes. Here, have a huge badger type thing that can destroy cars with its arse. It'll outcompete your badgers and where will you be then. Haha.
Asia: Wombat
We've had enough of Indian camels ruining our deserts. Here's something to ruin your terrain for a change.
North America: Wombat
We've had enough of United States tourists with no manners. Here's some tourists with even less manners.
South America: Wombat
WE'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR FUCKING CANE TOADS. WOMBATS FOR YOU.
Africa: Wombat
The feral ostriches aren't actually all that much of a problem right now, but in revenge for the problem they will probably become in the future, have some fucking wombats.
Antarctica: Wombat
I'll take it right back home and warm it up I promise I. I just really want to see a wombat walk and dig in the snow.
Australia: Wombat
The populations of all three species of wombat are dangerously low.
Let This Man Undermine Your House
If I were a supervillain with the power to summon animals (weirdly enough I have also put significant thought into this), my crimes would involve...
Polar bears in the Himalayas. They fill the yeti ecological niche and can eat invasive species like Everest climbers
While we’re at it, put penguins at the North Pole. Admittedly, this harms no one, but it will annoy everyone
Hippos in the Mississippi. It’s what Teddy Roosevelt would have wanted
Alligators in the Paris Catacombs
Moose in Australia, because I want to see them fight kangaroos, and if they get bored of that they can swim to NZ and keep the Fiordland herd company
(American) Possum in Queensland. Aussies are too comfortable with their cute opossums. Maybe they'll eat the cane toads, who knows?
Komodo dragons in Wales specifically (as a treat)
Loose 30-50 feral hogs in Buckingham Palace
Dromedary & Bactrian camels in the Andes for the camelid family reunion. They can be bad influences on their smaller relatives
Lions are extinct in Mauritania, but consider: cougars
Bull Sharks in increasingly improbable locations: Lake Michigan, The Seine, Damien Hirst's swimming pool
Release three (3) rats in Alberta but label them 1, 2, and 4
Say hello to Mary Skelly, job title: Grim Reader
(Every library ought to have a skeleton!)
Velcro likes to sleep on my bed, and sometimes when I get up and throw back the covers, she gets rolled along with them.
Doesn’t seem to bother her much
-What Stalks the Deep by T Kingfisher
Every book of this series is just T Kingfisher putting Alex Easton in Situations that they would very much like to not be in.
Good luck with the horrors, Alex!
As a Responsible Adult, I of course spent much of my day off shoveling snow.
…what happened to the snow afterwards is another matter.
Watching Frankenstein (2025)
Someone please call CPS* on this man
*Creature Protective Services
“Giant Pacific Octopus: secretive, strong and smart
Look for an octopus tucked tightly away—”
Giant Pacific Octopus doing entire cabaret routine in front of glass:
Ah, yes, the Field Museum is bullying the fossils again, nice
Bonus Eohippus tagline written by someone who knew everyone would immediately go ‘I WANT ONE’
