Space Junk, and Other Unclaimed Items

They/He. I'm over 18 and this blog is shockingly close to being so too. I reblog pretty random stuff but have been known to ramble about Jar Jar Binks and Homestuck in an attempt to keep the property values down.

[thelaststopontheghosttrain]

No clue why this URL came to me but yanno the old one was OLD and connected to a lot of stuff. Sorry for the confusion lovely mutuals

[rosieandthemoon]

I am cordially inviting all of you to post this in the comments/reblogs of any and every Al post you come across, on any platform. Especially useful for accounts who “teach” people how to use Al.

[thelaststopontheghosttrain]

"I'm a golden retriever boyfriend" I say, and everyone thinks I'm being cute and not being momentarily possessed by the spirit of a family dog from the 1950s that is dimly aware of the existence of J. Edgar Hoover

[sandmandaddy69]

[sahonithereadwolf]

I want to see the vampire who lives in this. I bet his name is Chad or Hunter.

[marlynnofmany]

And he's ready to crack open a boy with the cold ones.

[chimaerakitten]

“Would you block someone just for disagreeing with you?” Pal, I’ll block someone for agreeing with me in the wrong tone of voice.

[romanceyourdemons]

next time you’re at the thrift store and find a nice solid thick pile area rug for a shockingly good price and you’ve been looking for an area rug for the office forever and the color goes really nicely with the office color scheme and you think this is it, this is what i’ve been waiting for, stop, and ask yourself: did i take the bus here?

[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.

[wizardarchetypes]

also as some of you may know, i have always been repulsed by dead bugs. absolutely horrified by them. i loved live bugs and didn't mind other dead things (i assist necropsies on marine mammals) but dead bugs upset me so much i'd have other people remove them from rooms for me. but after i moved to ireland i wanted to learn the insects their to impress my boyfriend when she visited (heehee)

so i took a bunch of bug ID books out of the library and started learning all of them. then one day once i moved to kerry i was lying down on my belly on the beach sunning, when i noticed a dead bug in front of me and without thinking about it i picked it right up and opened up the ID book. then i realized i was holding a dead bug, and i didn't even mind.

as always, curiosity is the antidote to fear : )

[thelaststopontheghosttrain]

I am also repulsed by dead bugs but not live ones!! (Except live cockroaches, Mouse Hunt did me dirty). Wild to encounter someone else with the same oddly specific repulsion.

[datasoong47]

[if-only-angels-could-prevail]

[enki2]

[shiftycryptid]

[imamagicmuffin]

[mouth-less]

[localvoidcreature62]

Horrible job everyone

[evilnicegirl]

this would have got 100k notes as a tumblr post in 2018

[enba-and-luka]

[fozmeadows]

Watching my toddler figure out how to language is fascinating. Yesterday we were stumped when he kept insisting there was a “Lego winner” behind his bookshelf - it turned out to be a little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing the word for “trophy”, he’d extrapolated a word for “thing you can win”. And then, just now, he held up his empty milk container and said, “Mummy? It’s not rubbish. It’s allowed to be a bottle.” - meaning, effectively, “I want this. Don’t throw it away.” But to an adult ear, there’s something quite lovely about “it’s allowed to be a bottle,” as if we’re acknowledging that the object is entitled to keep its title even in the absence of the original function.

[legit-writing-tips]

Another good post to read for those writing small human characters. 

[jennytrout]

My son was about three when he came to me in the middle of the day and said, “Mommy, there’s a knight behind the bush.” I thought he meant a toy knight or something. So I follow him outside and he goes, “Listen. Do you hear it? It’s night behind the bush.” It was a cricket. A cricket was standing in the little patch of shade under the bush, chirping. So, my son saw this dark area with accompanying nighttime sounds and decided, okay, well, that is a night right there. Their brains are incredible.

[deleted20211121]

My little bean knows she’s two, constantly saying proudly ‘I’m two!’ And the other day she saw this very frail old lady who looked one foot in the grave, pulled a face and said ‘oh shiiiit. She’s three.’ I almost screamed.

[cantnotknope]

I live in Korea and have a lot of international friends, and the same is true with language barriers in adults. 

*Looking at a bowl of pears* “Can you please pass me the… apple’s friend?” 

[masterofbirds]

OH SHIT SHE’S THREE

[ovenroastedtwerkey]

the two year old bean is now 11, that’s how long this post has been going around, and I STILL bust out laughing like a maniac whenever I read ‘oh shiiiit. She’s three.’

[elodieunderglass]

Yeah, I’m not ready for foz’s kid to be a teen….

[prokopetz]

I know I’m being an insufferable worldbuilding nerd here, but my basic metric for evaluating media with very inhuman protagonists is “how easily can one offer a complete and coherent account of this media’s plot without ever mentioning the fact that the protagonist is, for example, a talking car?”. The harder it is, the higher it scores.

[bizarreshark]

@hewwbwazew I would LOVE to read this holy shit

[raddudelaserpunch]

[ultipoter]

@territorialoak​ I hope you don’t mind me adding your tags here, that story is just too good and I’m Obsessed

also @gilgamemesh​ I feel like this is your vibe too

[frogayyyy]

how do you usually read a chaptered fic on ao3?

enitre work

chapter by chapter

secret third option

Remaining time: 5 days 19 hours

personally i always use the entire work option. i only ever change to chapter by chapter if i’m trying to find something

[kedreeva]

Absolutely fascinated by how your mind works. I only read chapter by chapter, and only switch to entire work if I'm trying to find something. Because then I can press control+F and find it no matter which chapter it is in... without having to click around between multiple pages. What about chapter to chapter makes things easier for you to find?

[scribeherself]

“they never explicitly looked at the camera and said ‘i am experiencing immense grief’ so how was i supposed to know??” i don’t know what to tell you, man. if a story doesn’t spoon-feed you the character's internal emotional state like a jar of mashed peas, you guys just willingly starve. subtext is not a myth, i promise it won't bite you.