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Terin | They/He

[kiiraes]

gonna post my entire stickman reaction pic collection

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[astroslayyy]

throwing in a few more I have :3

[vanessagillings]

Pigeon Mail

Another piece from my solo show at Nucleus Portland

[underratedgrapeju1ce]

i'm so fucking over it

[bad-faith-misinterpreter]

Oh so you'd rather use eugenics on animals and abuse them instead? 🙄

[underratedgrapeju1ce]

i was about to get violent then i saw the handle im crying

[karcatgirl-vantas]

the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

[skluug]

this is what ancient greek philosophy is like

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

False! “Sightly” is a positive word, so the default way for things to work is good as well.

The true most ordinary object is beautiful, horrible sounding, very smelly, intangible, and delicious.

I still don’t think it matches anything in existence but to truly understand a thing one must know its true nature.

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

"touchy" is also a word! however it's mostly used for things that aren't objects, like subjects of conversation. it either means "oversensitive and irritable" or "requires careful handling/wording, delicate"

i think the second one works well for our hypothetical object. so we can use that.

therefore, the Default Object is:

beautiful

makes a horrendous sound

smells absolutely awful

is very fragile

tastes delicious

and i still cannot think of anything that matches this

[and-a-pidgey-in-a-wepear-tree]

behold, the default object!

[shqrimp]

of fucking course

[cloudhearttherestless]

So this is why all uncommon meats “taste like chicken”

[phantomrose96]

*sends out email I've been putting off* ah finally :). ah that's a weight off my shoulders :). ah I can relax an-- *receives response to email* what the fuck. what the fuck. what the fuckkkk

[phantomrose96]

*sends out email I've been putting off* ah finally :). ah that's a weight off my shoulders :). ah I can relax. *a week passes with no response* hang on :(. wait hang on :(. wait no. it's important. please I need an answer :( hello

[mayasaura]

Funniest pov of Network Effect has got to be poor Doctor Mensah. She's doing her thing, being the best human alive, stepping down as prime minister, slowly dealing with the trauma of multiple murder attempts and a kidnapping, knowing she's not able to be everything her dearest friend needs but trying to be strong and help it find what can be. This is the soft epilogue they deserve, right?

Wrong! Kidnapping .... TWO!!

[mayasaura]

Then she shows up with the rescue mission just in time to find out that her best friend, who almost died (again), is moving in with the ship that kidnapped it. On a trial basis, before committing to a long-term partnership. Her teenage daughter and several trusted friends (all also kidnapped) think this is great news. There's something about a baby, and an emotional collapse. Aliens are involved.

The grace with which she handled all that. Doctor Mensah you are a legend.

[doloneia]

the most unrealistic part of the iliad & odyssey is actually every single time they talk about a hecatomb of cattle like its nothing. 100 cows? in this collapsing late bronze age economy? Where Are You Getting These. Who’s Your Cow Dealer. Can I Have Their Address

[bill-blake-fans-anonymous]

Via @finelythreadedsky

[basil-from-omori]

had to show you guys. he looks so unbelievably bad. for context he always gets shit crusted in his fur because he doesn’t maintain it so my mom decided to give him a haircut and wanted to even it out

[indelible-waltz]

they greebled him

[yardsards]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I love The Murderbot Diaries because it reads like fanfiction of The Murderbot Diaries. "Murderbot finally has to acknowledge its PTSD when the symptoms start to endanger its work, surrounded by loving friends who do their best to help it accept that it has value as a person not just a tool" is a fanfiction plot. "ART isn't allowed to do the accounting because it cooks the books for no reason" is something Tumblr would make up. And yet.

[mara-was-naomi]

I’m reading fanfic of Murderbot and just let me say that I keep forgetting the Argument Lounge is a term in the source material and was not made up for fanfic.

[archaeo-geek]

Murderbot specifically names its sabotage files:

1)  CodeBundle.LockItDown 2)  CodeBundle.FuckThem 3)  CodeBundle.FuckThisToo

And that is a real thing that happened in canon.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#ART and murderbot canonically make a baby that embodies both of their personalities#(for those who don't read murderbot- murderbot 2.0 [ie ART and murderbots baby] is the one who named the sabotage files)

I love 2.0 because it was specifically killware, like it was made for a purpose and that purpose was to destroy a hostile system and die in the process, and someone's like "hey are you two sure you want to make a suicide baby, this might have emotional ramifications, you're probably gonna feel bad about this" and they're both like "no it's fine we're not squishy humans it's different for us" and then after it's made it talks to both of them on separate occasions and they're both like "you know I feel kinda bad about this" and 2.0 is like "shouldn't have made me killware then, sucks to be you" and has no conflicting emotions about its fate whatsoever

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#i loooooove how bots and their functions work in tmbd#of course mb2.0 has no comflicting emptions abt its purpose. thats its Purpose!#just like mb wants to do security and ART wants to do research and teaching (and corporate espionage). thats their purposes!!#its just sooo tasty#the contrast between MIs with a function that is central to their sense of self and wellbeing#and humans who are cartoonishly adaptable#makes for some GREAT drama (see the end of ASR)#tmbd

I loved the part where the comfortunit tried to get MB on board with Killing All Humans and MB and ART were like "a human definitely told it to say that, a construct would never want to do that" because like. If there were no humans then who would MB do security for? What would be the endpoint of ART's research? Who would the comfortunit even comfort? NOT a well thought out long-term plan, to deprive everyone of their purpose.

[homunculus-argument]

Post the fig cake/banana bread recipe please?

I used this banana bread recipe as a base with some adjustments, but since it's in finnish I'll write out the whole fig cake recipe here, as I made it:

240 grams of fig jam

150 grams of melted butter

2 dl of brown sugar

2 eggs

3 dl of wheat flour

2 dl of rolled oats/oat flakes

1 dl of crushed nuts (I used a mixture of pistachios and almonds, but either just almonds or just pistachios is probably fine too)

1 dl of raisins

2 teaspoons of vanilla sugar (vanillin sugar works just fine)

1 teaspoon of cinnamon

1 teaspoon of cardamom

1 teaspoon of baking soda

1 teaspoon of salt

(here, "teaspoon" is about 5 millilitres. For other measures and their imperial translations, you're on your own)

Mix the butter, fig jam, sugar and eggs together in a bowl until you reach an even consistency. It's going to be pretty solid, but don't be alarmed.

Mix the rest of the ingredients together in a separate bowl. Make sure that the raisins aren't all clumped together. I recommend mixing everything but the flour together first before finally adding in the flour, to ensure that it's all even.

Gradually mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredient bowl, mixing the batter between each helping of flour mixture. I used a ladle for this.

Grease a caking pan/oven dish/whatever you are using with butter. You can use whatever oven-safe baking dish you want, for as long as it can handle 1 litre of cake. You should probably measure your baking dish before making the batter, to see if it fits.

Pour/ladle the batter into the greased baking dish. It's going to be pretty firm and solid at this point, not foamy or runny, and it will expand to roughly twice the size it is now as it bakes.

Heat the oven to 175 degrees celsius (you should probably have done that earlier, too, so that it would already be hot by the time the batter is in the pan), and put the cake in the oven for 55 minutes.

Let the cake cool before pouring it out of the dish. It should come out easily and just fall right off. Have a serving dish already ready and try to aim there - it's going to be a bitch to get the cake off the floor if you miss. (And if you have dogs, you will no longer have cake. Or a dog. Raisins are toxic to dogs and there's raisins in the cake. Do not drop the cake on the floor.)

Conclusion: Cake. If you want to try making a vegan, no-egg, no-dairy or gluten-free version, feel free to fuck around and let me know what you found out, substitutions of this sort are not my expertise. For a nut-free version, simply leave out the nuts.

[homunculus-argument]

Alright y'all, as promised, here it is:

Recipe of Nothing Soup

aka potion of involuntary naptime

Today we are starting with three onions, six large potatoes, four big carrots, a slice from a small cabbage, two packets of chicken noodles, 150 grams of pre-cooked shredded chicken (optional), three cupped handfuls of rice (exact measures unclear, my boyfriend measures with his heart), and oregano, pepper, salt and bouillon cubes to taste.

Chop vegetables as illustrated. Find your biggest pot, fill it with water, and put it on a heat source (stovetop, open fire, idk how you live your life. do not microwave though, I will kill you). Put all ingredients save for noodles into the pot as the water heats to a gentle boil. Add the spices and stock cubes as you see fit. Let the soup boil for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Once 10 minutes are up (15 if the root vegetables are still tough instead of well-boiled), crush up the noodles and sprinkle them into the pot. Let cook for 5 more minutes.

Enjoy, and consume responsibly: Potion of Eepy.

[homunculus-argument]

A horror movie where someone moves into an old house they're pretty sure is haunted - there's a sense of constant, looming dread while inside, vague shadows drifting by at the corners of your vision, inexplicable noises, furniture and objects getting knocked over for no reason in the other room when nobody is there, often in places where a person could not reach. Sometimes there's thumping going on in the darkness at night, inhumanly fast and strangely faint, and the noises pause when she gets up to investigate. She cannot sleep. She becomes pale, exhausted, worn down, like the house itself is draining the life out of her.

The musical score, weird lighting, odd camera angles, and everything about this place makes it clear that something is wrong here. Very, very wrong.

The protagonist starts dreading she's going insane. When she starts talking about all the strange incidents happening in the house, people point out that she's been absent-minded lately, maybe she just forgot that she left that closet door open, even if we saw that she definitely closed it? She admits that she's been forgetful, she's found her milk on the table and a bowl of dry ceral in the fridge more than once, but that can't explain everything, there have been too many incidents that just don't make sense.

She clearly remembered setting a vase on a high shelf with a stepladder. She took the stepladder to the garage. She can't reach the top shelf of that cupboard without the ladder, and the stepladder is still in the garage, exactly where she left it. So how did the vase get knocked down from there? The dread rises. She has been throwing up from the anxiety. She is not alone in this house. She is not safe in this house. There's not a single natural explanation to all these things that have been happening.

In the end it turns out that all these three statements are true. She is not alone. She is not safe. There are two natural explanations: There's a gas leak and a stray cat in the house. Everything that has happened has been either the effects of carbon monoxide poisoning, or the cat doing regular cat business.

She catches the cat and gets the hell out of there. The epilogue is a montage of her months later, once again happy and healthy, slowly taming the formerly feral cat.

[yetanotherknitter]

like, live action murderbot did a lot of things I really like and a lot of things I. don't. but I think the most TRAGIC thing it did was toss out all the descriptions of the repair cubicle and make it a Cool Sci-Fi Thing

I wanted to see murderbot on the worst cot imaginable huddled under a disposable blanket like the saddest little meow meow trying to keep its stoic robot face up while having a conversation with mensah (panicking)

(oh god our security unit is bleeding out under a disposable blanket) (oh god our security unit just lost 20% of its body mass and it doesn't even have a non disposable blanket what)

[jack-the-fool]

Murderbot is probably the most embarrassing hyperfixation to have because oh really? You're hyperfixated on the 'hyperfixates on media to avoid the real world stress and anxiety' media? Is it. Is it to avoid your real world stress and anxiety, perhaps??

[parakeet]

Another banger from /r/stupiddovenests - at least the tag is appropriate this time

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

[thethirdromana]

I love the point where Tolkien stops pretending he's writing a mid-20th century fantasy novel and just fully writes in Old English half-lines:

Still she did not blench: maiden of the Rohirrim child of kings, slender but as a steel-blade, fair yet terrible. A swift stroke she dealt, skilled and deadly. The outstretched neck she clove asunder, and the hewn head fell like a stone. Backward she sprang as the huge shape crashed to ruin, vast wings outspread, crumpled on the earth; and with its fall the shadow passed away. A light fell about her, and her hair shone in the sunrise.

There are 3-4 paragraphs like this. It's great.

[girlmuppet]

Do any of u have decent recipes that are like 5 ingredients (not including spices) and take 45 mins or less to prepare i gotta stop eating sandwiches for dinner

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

yeah hang on

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

ignore the title of this google doc because it's a long story but it's a really solid recipe for southwest chicken alfredo

this is a vegetarian potato curry recipe that's about 75% spices; once you get the potatoes in there you can really do whatever you want with it

this is literally just pasta, broccoli, and cheese babey and you can live off that shit for DAYS it makes such a big portion

bro this spinach/pesto/3 cheese flatbread is so fucking tasty bro

also you can make the flatbread yourself it's super quick!!

oh hey I'm eating this white chickpea chili right now, much like the curry it's mostly spices and you can do p much do whatever you want with it

don't let the name fool you these potatoes are delicious any time. not just breakfast.

this is slightly more than five ingredient when you add them together but if you have time and really wanna fuckin treat yourself I recommend these chicken strips + this cornbread + either these potatoes or these buttered veggies on the side.

[dragonforsale]

These are my two favorite comfort foods. They're very easy to make and dont take long to cook.

Garlic butter rice

Orzo mac and cheese (comes out a little bit soupy)

[shadowblinder]

this recipe for gogumabap (sweet potato and rice) saved my life when i couldn't eat hardly anything for a long time. the recipe itself calls for a heavy bottomed pot but you can absolutely use a rice cooker and put the rice and diced sweet potato in together and just let the machine do its thing

[not-available-for-comment]

Time for me to beat my little clown drum again for Indian-ish by Priya Krishna, aka The Easiest Recipes I Have Ever Fucking Made. Dal that takes 15 minutes. Easy aloo gobhi. Easy saag feta. Buy. Cook. Eat.