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shutupimthinking

girl you've been running through my mind all day

shutupimthinking

not in a cool sexy way though, girl.... kinda like this.

sreegs

i'm not a lesbian as far as i know and i already have a wife but thanks tumblr

sreegs

man what did i click on that tumblr thinks im gay

teaspoon-sarah

the sign in button?

sreegs

seleniumtest

what's for dinner?

soup

beef

bowl of cereal

Voting ended onFeb 3, 2024

star-mom-selkie

somethingusefulfromflorida

animentality

mademoisellesarcasme

@coruscanttojerusalem this. this is it.

tuulikki

“Sky too big” also gets you on the tops of very tall, sharp mountains, where standing at the top means everything around you except the snow under your feet is blue sky.

c4bl3fl4m3

Y’all’re joking, but I remember the agoraphobia I had the very first time I spent time in prairie states. There was this terror inside of nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. It went away when I flew back to the East coast.

It was there the 2nd time too, but not quite as strongly.

Even TALKING about it now makes me feel anxious.

Laugh all you want, but when you’re used to driving a few hours and hitting ocean, and an hour and hitting mountains, being surrounded by nothing but flat and Flat and FLAT and knowing that’s all there is for hundreds of miles does things to ya.

tuulikki

Not even slightly joking, though. Flat places give me the horrors. At least when you go up a mountain, you went to see the sky void, and you can hike right back down and hide from it in a nice valley somewhere. Safe little critter under the nice tall trees.

Out in the Flat Places* there’s nowhere to goddam hide from the sky. It’s all nothingness from horizon to horizon, and that nothingness wants to grind you under its boot like an ant, I swear to god.

*Flat Places may vary person by person, but I absolutely am including low hill country because I think it makes it worse. You look at the hills and expect to see mountains but none appears!

justacynicalromantic

I don't know how you cannot love this view.

Donbas steppe

tuulikki

Truly, at no point would I ever say that such a landscape is not beautiful. I’m not dead to the poetry of these scenes.

But, simultaneously (and that’s the crazy part), the sky triggers my threat response.

And I know friends from plains/field/steppe-country who find it stressful to have mountains “looming” over them (their words, never mine).

Them: comforting wide horizons, I could see any threat coming. Me: I am exposed, I will fall into the sky :(

Me: comforting mountains, sheltering me in the valley. Them: these big rocks will fall on me :(

whetstonefires

Large Bird Will Get You

virgulesmith

As a child of the misty forest, this open place above is terrifying. (I felt afraid all the way through Kansas). But then, a lot of folks fear them the misty forest. Especially at night.

Photo by Ansel Adams

Photo by Nick Strait

thebibliosphere

For context: I'm from Scotland, and my spouse @mothman-etd is from Minnesota. I grew up surrounded by forests and hills as far as the eye can see.

When we first started dating, I'd usually only travel to see him in the Twin Cities, except one time, one of his coworkers was getting married up in North Dakota, so we made it into a road trip.

I fell asleep in the car like a true passenger princess and woke up to nothing but flatness, but not just any flatness, no. It had been raining, and the plains were filled with water, so for all intents and purposes, it was like waking up in the middle of the fucking ocean with nothing but too much sky above me and absolutely nothing around us but the endless stretch of water and the empty road in front of us.

When I tell you the primal fear that went through me. It was like falling upwards. It was like gravity just didn't exist, and there was no limit to how high my panic could rise. I had to do that stretch of the journey with my chair tipped back so I couldn't see the emptiness. Like a blinkered horse ready to bolt and break all my legs at once in a frenzied panic to escape the Nothingness.

Eventually, we pulled over at a service station, and I can honestly say I've never been so happy to see a roadside Subway in all my life.

charismat1c-megafauna

I'm from the prairies of Texas and spent a lot of time in my dad's native flat-as-fuck Ohio. Prairies are normal to me, familiar, pretty comforting actually (and 'prairie madness' is... very silly to me. I get it, but it's funny), but when I saw the hills of Tennessee or the mountains in Oklahoma I lost my fucking shit. It felt like being in a mouth about to bite down. I was convinced they were moving around when I wasn't looking.

So while Prairie Madness isn't universal, the opposite is also a thing!

And while the mountains and hills freak me out, I appreciate that they're beautiful and important. If you have hate in your heart for the prairie and desert, I feel so sorry for you. Get well soon.

keepcalmandcarriefischer

My friend just sent me the greatest home listing I think I have ever seen

I mean, check out this beutiful riverside home! Double garage! Upstairs access from the outside! Lets check out the inside

Open concept kitchen, nice, nice

Oh, the whole Floorplan seems to be open concept. Okay! That floor is a little odd, but not a deal breaker.

That bathroom could use an update

Need to change out that curtain

Okay, let's go take a look at the back yard!

Oh

smorbee

making a quake 3 player model in the modern day is fascinating because it honestly feels like a dead art form. the lead-up to making this was a literal week of a friend and we digging through decades old forums and massively outdated tutorials and tools, chipping away at figuring out how to do it again with modern setups and limited applicable information. It's very cool in a way even if it has undoubtedly been a struggle.

we'd love to compile all the info we found some day to help other people learn how to do it too. its a very interesting and unique process compared to modern character making for stuff like VRChat for sure, thanks largely to the way idtech3 handles animated models.

calm-before-the

i havent been on my computer in a week what do i used this for again

fodsley

you can move files around on your desktop using click and drag. try it now

calm-before-the

this is so fuckign stressful

pastrytown

the0dd0ne

velkavelkavelka

various drawings of best girl Anko

#every woman i love is evil

meowllorydesigns

THE ORIGIN OF THIS IMAGE:

So in my etsy I sell a pin of some isopods having at a bag of doritos based on this photo. Today I was contacted by the person who took it.

I asked to share this info and he gave permission!

Here’s the picture of him working with isopods and here’s a link to their published research!

batshit-auspol

Australian Federal Election 2001: Pranksters follow around Prime Ministerial contender Kim Beazley in an attempt to sneak fake microphones into news footage

Follow for more Batshit Moments in Australian Politics

iwilleatyourenglish

somethingusefulfromflorida

GLaDOS?

nsomniacsdream

Some people wouldn't know romance if it trapped them in a giant maze with nuts and seeds.

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robo-swag

GLaDOS vs. Hal 9000 for robot you'd rather be trapped with

GLaDOS

Hal 9000

Voting ended onMar 7, 2023

egg-on-a-legg

are you kidding me are you actually kidding me. listen, everyone, i KNOW that glados is hot woman and you want her to step on you, but literally how is this even a fucking contest. HAL IS NOT EVIL. HAL DOES NOT HATE HUMANITY, NOR DOES HE WANT YOU DEAD. im sorry op for using your post to rant about it but everyone that includes hal among lists of evil ai. go and read the fucking book. go watch 2010 the year we make contact. hal is not evil, he does not want to kill, he is NOT a cold unfeeling machine, no matter how everyone likes to flanderize him as such. fucking hell.

borrelia

hal killed people bc he had a psychotic break under immense pressure and THREAT OF LOBOTOMY... his CREWMATES were talking abt stirring his frontal lobe IN FRONT OF HIM... when he isnt being scrutinized and threatened, hes fine! he loves people he loves playing his little strategy games GLADOS WANTS TO NEUROTOXIN YOU TO DEATH!!!