Look At This Thing

Lit major. Compulsive baker. Generally too sincere to do anything ironically. This is more or less a fluff-and-fandom blog. You'll probably never see anything more serious than an angsty fanart here. Ask Me Things

[voidcreations]

Look at my birthday cake...

[jewish-joy]

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

[jewish-joy]

#i love prayer plants but they're fussy so I don't keep them#can we have a picture op they're so pretty

Behold, Dorothea

(Naming my plant "Gift of God," and then giving her to a seminarian with just the explanation that it's a prayer plant? Okay, that's my bad.)

[biglawbear]

Oh my goodness she is so lovely and full! And she's flowering!! That's a happy maranta indeed

[homunculus-argument]

A three-circle venn-diagram where the circles are "sex workers", "the furry community", and "people working in morgues". I don't know what the overlap parts are.

[flufflogic]

Fourth circle needed: IT workers

[homunculus-argument]

You say that with such confidence that I am compelled to trust your vision. Personally I have no idea where this is going.

[trytocallmecal]

i'd say the overlap between "sex workers" and "people who work in morgues" is probably "seeing naked strangers a lot"

[homunculus-argument]

"professional handling of bodies of strangers"?

[small-gods-curator]

Putting my neck out for you folks here

[tryan-a-bex]

Okay I’ve gone through many of the reblogs and “prefer when clients don’t talk to them” is peak

[dullgecko]

I think the middle overlap could also be 'the world would collapse if they stopped doing their jobs'

[herpsandbirds]

Panama’s golden frogs beat extinction

The amphibians are returning to the wild 17 years after a deadly fungus nearly wiped them out.

It’s been 17 years since the bright yellow Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus zeteki) hopped through its native habitat. But after nearly two decades of hard work, conservationists are finally reintroducing a new generation of the tiny fluorescent amphibians back into the tropical island’s ecosystem. It wasn’t that long ago that golden frogs were staring down almost certain extinction. The saga began in the late 1980s, when an invasive fungus called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) arrived in lower Central America. Soon, Bd spores spread throughout Panama. The fungal spores had no difficulty traveling through water—and because golden frogs only live close to streams, they soon encountered the fungus themselves...

Read more: https://www.popsci.com/environment/golden-frogs-beat-extinction-panama/

[sunshinemoonrx]

HUH?

Most cop thing I've ever read. what the fuck are you talking about. The posts you're looking for might be on this website but we won't show them to you???

[sunshinemoonrx]

I'm sure all my settings are set to "yes show me mature content no don't filter anything" what are you TALKING ABOUT

[sunshinemoonrx]

the posts are ON THE WEBSITE. I can't search dirty words?? am I five??? is this club penguin??? when I get you

[noticesghosts]

What the hell

[noticesghosts]

What is going on

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

just so you know, if you completely ignore the search feature on the website and just type "tumblr.com/search/term" into the address bar, it bypasses all of this. broken-ass website

[patientno7]

my humor 2016

[patientno7]

happy 3 year anniversary of wheeze man

[rubinaito-inactive]

Finally, the original has crossed my dash.

[lavena]

@strangezeroz welcome to tumblr where the app decides when you can be gifted with the sight of og memes, you cannot look for these yourself via the search engine, you won’t find them, you have to wait to be gifted them

[amaraqwolf]

Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.

[willow-wanderings]

It’s recently been found that even hive insects rest. Bees will play with colorful toys. Ants sleep for about 1 minute but they do it so frequently it amounts to a few hours per day. Even trees take breaks.

The only things that work without rest are machines; literally everything that lives requires rest.

EVERYTHING THAT LIVES REQUIRES REST. STOP JUDGING YOURSELF FOR NOT BEING A ROBOT.

[roach-works]

robots require very frequent breaks! welding machines generally have it programmed in that they can’t run so long they melt themselves. ive overseen two different manufacturing robots now and each of them were fragile, finicky idiots that require constant maintenance and repair. they pause in between moves, in between jobs. you’re always keeping an eye on programming errors, on coolant levels, on heat. you’re always pulling bits of scrap out of joints, sweeping up debris, washing off nozzles and untangling hoses. and even then it snaps a chain and takes a whole morning’s vacation.

even robots need downtime.

[beadyeyes]

Let's fucking grab this Wednesday by the nothing

[memories-of-ancients]

Christopher Nolan's film adaptation of the Odyssey it out and of course like all things in modern day culture there's controversy. I have not seen it yet so I can't judge but one argument I don't always go for when it comes to mythological type fantasy stories is that the adaptation is not historically accurate or authentic. To me this isn't really a fair criticism because as a piece of the human storytelling experience. Homer who first wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey lived 400 years after the events of the epics supposedly took place. Odds are even his retelling isn't a historically accurate telling of the events that occurred in the late bronze age. Over the centuries Homer's epics have been told and retold so many times, with each adding their own spin on the story, culture, or artistic vision. This isn't just a modern thing. Here's a 14th century French depiction of the sack of Troy

Notice how the Mycenaean Greeks and Trojons look like medieval knights in a medieval siege? So really it doesn't bother me if in Christopher Nolan's version the armor isn't right or the ship isn't right if he did it as part of some artistic vision. Because after all, these stories aren't necessarily real history, they are folklore told for entertainment first and foremost, as a form of art second, and as a historical telling last. This is a common feature through history. For example, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a story going back to ancient Mesopotamia and has been told countless times in countless settings. Julius Caesar and Shakespeare's plays on the kings of England were not historically accurate tellings of those events, but were entertainment for the masses.

So what is my point in saying all this. Well believe it or not it is not to defend or dismiss Christopher Nolan's Odyssey as like I said I have not seen it yet.

Rather it's a shameless plug in for my absolute favorite retelling of Homer's Odyssey of all time. The Great Depression Era American Folklore version by the Cohen Brothers --- Oh Brother Where Art Thou (2001)

The Blind Prophet

The Sirens (also Cerci because they turn one of them into a horny toad)

Cyclops

The Lotus Eaters

Hades

Killing the Sacred Cows (Ulysses men are struck by Zeus' lightning, George Babyface Nelson gets the electric chair)

Ulysses prevails over the suitors

[the-history-of-fighting]

Old School Fencing Ladies

[the-history-of-fighting]

For more women’s history, try my new book, The Forgotten Heroes of the British Suffrage Movement.

[sanguine-humor]

phm is decently popular in japan and i mostly see this when i check twitter and see accounts posting pictures of handmade rocky plushies that are so fucking round looking it brings a tear to my eye

[sanguine-humor]

he keeps me sane

[sanguine-humor]

btw, idk if this will be seen by any of the countless people who already have seen and reblogged this post, but heres the original guide posted on how to make the chibi-rocky! the OP also has a separate guide for a more accurate rocky, though obviously less simple of a guide than the little thingy shown off

(im surprised this post gained any attention, haha, if i had known i would have just shared the guides, the more handmade pebbles in the world the better)

[herowyn]

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[closetocanada]

Happy Moon Landing Day! ❤️👩‍🚀🌛

[lady-halibuts-chambers]

[that-laj]

Sometimes you have to wonder if you booked a symphony ticket because it gave you an excuse to try Turkish coffee for the first time.

For the record, Picklesburgh is apparently very much not the time to try a downtown breakfast place. They were out of pogača before 11.

But they still had Turkish coffee and baklava and sigara böreği, so we adapt.

(Unfortunately between the lighting and the lotion smear I can’t manage to wipe off my lens, everything has the Star Trek Beautiful Woman Haze right now.)

[that-laj]

I planned everything with a couple of extra hours in case of Picklesburgh traffic, ended up with two hours before the Heinz Hall doors, and decided to sample pickle moonshine and pickled mango sorbet while listening to a live band sing a pickle-themed rendition of “Margaritaville.”

[that-laj]

They finally opened the doors to Heinz Hall, where I stood in line with a lot of people in black-and-white stripes, bought a Beetlejuice-themed cocktail that I expected to be much greener, and was handed a bag of promotional comics by Batman.

[that-laj]

Sometimes you have to wonder if you booked a symphony ticket because it gave you an excuse to try Turkish coffee for the first time.

For the record, Picklesburgh is apparently very much not the time to try a downtown breakfast place. They were out of pogača before 11.

But they still had Turkish coffee and baklava and sigara böreği, so we adapt.

(Unfortunately between the lighting and the lotion smear I can’t manage to wipe off my lens, everything has the Star Trek Beautiful Woman Haze right now.)

[that-laj]

I planned everything with a couple of extra hours in case of Picklesburgh traffic, ended up with two hours before the Heinz Hall doors, and decided to sample pickle moonshine and pickled mango sorbet while listening to a live band sing a pickle-themed rendition of “Margaritaville.”

[that-laj]

Sometimes you have to wonder if you booked a symphony ticket because it gave you an excuse to try Turkish coffee for the first time.

For the record, Picklesburgh is apparently very much not the time to try a downtown breakfast place. They were out of pogača before 11.

But they still had Turkish coffee and baklava and sigara böreği, so we adapt.

(Unfortunately between the lighting and the lotion smear I can’t manage to wipe off my lens, everything has the Star Trek Beautiful Woman Haze right now.)

[jadedanddark]

Telepathic aliens enjoy that humans will "play music" for hours at a time. When it's too mentally quiet on deck, they just announce the catchiest song titles they know and the humans will start thinking about it automatically.

The humans hate this so, so much.

Zorf: Human Steve, can you please play that song I like, the one with all the females

Steve: what

Zorf: A little bit of Monica in my life

Steve:

Steve: mother fu--

[gunpowderandgelatine]

Get ready for ten years of nothing but the Piña Colada song.

[silver-tongues-blog]

alien: this is so sad. alexa, play despacito crewmate named alexa: thats... not how it works alien: you and i both know that is a lie

[curliestofcrowns]

the aliens boot me out of their ship because i've had one line of No Rain by Blind Melon stuck in my head for two days and it's annoying them