[shopcat]

look at this wonderful gif of scallops getting scared and scattering like a flock pigeons

[elioftheasphodel]

whatever. go my scallops

[whitachi]

last night I had the experience of "referencing a tumblr post that you think is widely known but turns out to not be as widely known as you thought it was" last night and it was this post. whatever. go my scallops

[queenklu]

so i hear tumblr's dying and this moby dick meme idea has lived in my head for literal years...

[rosenkranz-isnt-dead]

a lot has been said about Mulder and Scully's dynamic but I think what it ultimately comes down to is Mulder looking at her with his big pleading eyes and saying "let's touch a hot stove together. ok?" and she sighs and is like. sure. will that hurt her? yes but she gets to spend time with Mulder who hardly ever hangs out with her outside of touching the hot stove. but she also possesses a scientific curiosity about the nature of stove burns. sometimes she's like "I've had enough, Mulder, I'm not touching the hot stove anymore". and he's like well fine, I'll do it alone then. afterwards she's bandaging his fingers and chiding him for touching the hot stove without her

[5iftythre3]

Beautiful.

[byjove]

I think Odysseus is the guy everyone else makes talk to the cops when they show up to bust the party.

[byjove]

I think he could do a really good “Hello officer, how are you?” if he had to.

[byjove]

YEAH EXACTLY

[byjove]

Athena is standing behind him whispering the bylaws into his ear.

[emptyheadmybeloved]

hold on i need to look this up

[byjove]

it’s been 15 minutes have you finished reading the Odyssey yet?

[byjove]

[seven-winged-liar]

hearing a beloved friend say the words 'can i be mean for a sec' is like watching an angel descend from the heavens and kiss you on the forehead

[oneclickangel]

reblog if you're corny and insufferable

[hexjulia]

so hard not to become the most annoying person on earth if you're a little excitable and just learned a little about a topic literally no one around you has any interest in

[academicblorbo]

"Shane isn't funny" my ASS this man is a comedic treasure

"hockey is when you score more goals than your opponent"

"some guys in the league are fashionable. Not you tho"

"do you want to get me pregnant too, Hayden?" (yes but let's not)

"oh so now you speak bird, too?" "Fluently"

directed at a baby "tell your dad to leave me alone"

"how do you feel about getting murdered in a dark alley in two weeks"

and my favorite

"this is Ilya. Rozanov. But you already knew that"

[finelytaylored]

he was down SO BAD IMMEDIATELY

[finelytaylored]

[beemovieerotica]

people who are just finding out about internet tracking and data mining in the year 2025 and that your special robot friend does not respect your privacy lol

[anxietyproblem]

[solisaureus]

controversial take but math really isn’t that hard and i don’t understand why the criticism of anti-intellectualism stops at math. people will go on about poor media literacy and then be like oh but math is too hard, gays can’t do math, i’m just a girl and math is scary.

sorry but understanding fractions is just as important as recognizing literary themes. if you want to protect yourself from propaganda and misinformation you need to understand statistics and be comfortable thinking with numbers.

[alnair-jpg]

Not to get data science-y on the art blog... but - So much this. There are so many nuances when interpreting data and statistics. A number is only as good as the context it's presented in, and that context can be manipulated to alter the message.

Let's say you read '4% of Americans are currently behind on their mortgages'... What exactly does that mean? What can you infer about the state of loans in general?

One might ask themselves: Is that of all Americans or mortgage holders? What about couples that have both their names on it? What's the typical delinquency rate? High or lower than 4%? Has this rate changed rapidly? Are foreclosures included? Foreclosures within the past how many months?

Understanding the basics of statistics can lead you to ask these kinds of questions, but brushing off math as something you 'just don't get' is excusing yourself for not putting effort into a very key aspect of critical thinking.

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

"homicides have doubled in this town over the last twenty years!" and the population has quadrupled, so per capita murder rates have actually been HALVED.

you are going to be the most gullible fucking idiot on earth if you don't know how numbers can be used to manipulate you into supporting policy initiatives that make no sense

[sthilarions]

Please consider a ghost from the 1800s who thinks he’s hot shit being homophobic at Edwin, and escalating to attempted gay-bashing right as Charles barrels in from the side to catch the hit. And Charles, of course, beating the absolute shit out of him, before dropping him limp at Edwin’s feet like a cat presenting a dead mouse. Asking “what do you want to do with him?” and Edwin’s just like. [raised eyebrow] I think you’ve about covered it, Charles, I’m not sure there’s even any untouched flesh left for me to do anything to if I wanted to. Looking down at the fellow and asking if he intends to behave in this fashion again, and the ghost groaning which Edwin chooses to take as a promise to improve his attitude in future.

(Because Edwin can be as vengeful as the worst of revenants when he wants to, but he rarely wants to when it comes to himself, and more importantly, Charles is always quite happy to enact vengeance on his behalf, so there’s really not any need.)

[girasolka]

what I think is great (although it’s also terribly sorrowful and heartbreaking) about the dynamic between the boys is how their age gap is handled

I mean sure they both are portrayed as actual silly teens and if they died at the age of 16 their brains hadn’t fully developed and all that crap about hormones and body chemistry yeah BUT during these years together they have been gaining more and more experience and they process it and they surely are shaped by it and can’t be considered 16 anymore whenever they want it or not

and what I wanted to say is that despite all these afterlife years count more or less as actual years there is absolutely nothing creepy about Edwin being more than 70 years older than Charles because he didn’t have a chance to gain this experience and develop during his years in hell since there were no social interactions no academy studying not even time to calmly think about anything other than how to be safe and get out of there. these 70 years must have felt as eternity but at the same time it was all the same (fear and pain and despair) so it didn’t give Edwin the possibility to develop mentally but on the contrary conserved him in his 16-year old self

so when he meets Charles (I think it being some time after escaping the hell but no more than a couple of months) they get an opportunity to grow up mentally together and they are equals in this growth

[falling-star-cygnus]

when Dead Boy Detectives gets a second season, i want the Night Nurse to be deeply unsettled by Charles -> like- i think she'd have a soft spot for him, absolutely

but also he beat her into the belly of a murderous fish and then completely 180'd on their next interaction

[Charles is sitting cross-legged against the couch in their office, with a new cricket bat on his lap and one of Edwin's books open next to him] [The Night Nurse materializes with a swish of fabric and looks around] Charles, glancing up and grinning: Charlie! What're you doing here? Night Nurse, sighing: I believe I have told you innumerous times by now not to call me that. What are you doing? Charles: Well, my last bat kind of got splintered fighting Esther's giant lass eating snake so- Night Nurse: -in five words or less? Charles, holding it up: Enchanting. A. New. Bat. [He looks at his fingers] Charles: ...Charlie. Night Nurse: I said or less! Oh, never mind, where's your other half? I was under the assumption you two were joined at the hip. . . . Charles, tilting his head: He's out. Night Nurse, taking a deep breath: Out where? Charles: Just out. Why're you asking? [The Night Nurse holds up a file with an incredulous flourish, a perfectly arched brow.] Charles, getting to his feet with a grin: New case then, is it? Brills, I'll take it to him Night Nurse: Now wait just a moment- [He's out through the mirror, file in hand, before she can voice a full protest] Charles: Cheers, Charlie! . . . Night Nurse, straightening out her attire: I am a trans-dimensional being with a lifetime that spans eons. And yet, that boy.. . . . [She clears her throat. Turns on her heel] Night Nurse: ..disturbs me.

[mirellapryce]

I present to you a stupid thought. For all of episode 1 we have been both shown and told that Edwin is NOT the people person in the Agency. However right away in episode 2 when they're summoned by The Cat King, Edwin steps forward and insists he do the speaking in order to handle this diplomatically. It feels strange because while Charles might not be subtle as Edwin says about Shelby later, he is better at talking to people and working with them generally.

My stupid headcanon is that Edwin heard the word "King" and knew his anti-monarchy bestie would be his absolute WORST SELF so he stepped in before Charles could get himself in trouble.

[mousenemy]

LIKE TO CHARGE REBLOG TO CAST LET'S GET THIS FUCKER EXPLODEDED