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[gifsboom]

cute baby sloth. [video]

[themanymusesofmaea]

This got flagged.  I’m reposting it because THIS GOT FLAGGED.  TUMBLR DOES NOT ALLOW BABY SLOTHS, SEND OUT THE WORD.

[willbrooks1989]

Every Doctor Who Story from An Unearthly Child (1963) - World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls (2017).

I figured that now we’ve reached the end of Series Ten, I should update this to include all of this year’s stories!

cc. @bbcamerica @bbcone 

[themanymusesofmaea]

[space-squib]

pretty proud of this one

gold commission for a guildie

[themanymusesofmaea]

Mott drew my Inquest bitch.  I’m in love.

[zizicat]

[incursu]

If your muse isn't just hunting for the D and V, please reblog.

[the-darkinheritance-deactivated]

I’m sick of getting dropped or ignored by some blogs just because my muse isn’t jumping and crawling all over them. There are things called enemies/platonic or just friends or whatever… And i’m annoyed… So if you could just reblog this so that I can have a bit of reassurance about this… It’d be very appreciated.

[guildwarsstartrekskyrim]

This goes for @pistols-and-pastries too.

[gulmontjonty]

diarrhea and vomiting is bad, no one should look for it.

[houseleours]

fmao Gul xD BUT YEAH

Romance happens but I don’t go looking for, on any of my characters (and I have a LOT)

[themanymusesofmaea]

Most of my toons are taken by my GF, and even those “available” aren’t necessarily looking. I remain open to possibilities but romance isn’t my only driving force. I’d rather it happens amidst a story than for it to BE the story.

[themanymusesofmaea]

And then along comes a 12-year-old to remind you how very far you have to go....lol

[awwww-cute]

Corgi - Husky Mix (Source: http://ift.tt/2gd5mVb)

[themanymusesofmaea]

[catsbeaversandducks]

[themanymusesofmaea]

His little tongue is slaying me...

[prokopetz]

Random Headcanon: That Federation vessels in Star Trek seem to experience bizarre malfunctions with such overwhelming frequency isn’t just an artefact of the television serial format. Rather, it’s because the Federation as a culture are a bunch of deranged hyper-neophiles, tooling around in ships packed full of beyond-cutting-edge tech they don’t really understand. Endlessly frustrating if you have to fight them, because they can pull an effectively unlimited number of bullshit space-magic countermeasures out of their arses - but they’re as likely as not to give themselves a lethal five-dimensional wedgie in the process. All those rampant holograms and warp core malfunctions and accidentally-traveling-back-in-time incidents? That doesn’t actually happen to anyone else; it’s literally just Federation vessels that go off the rails like that. And they do so on a fairly regular basis.

[writebastard]

So to everyone else in the galaxy, all humans are basically Doc Brown.

[prokopetz]

Aliens who have seen the Back to the Future movies literally don’t realise that Doc Brown is meant to be funny. They’re just like “yes, that is exactly what all human scientists are like in my experience”.

[roachpatrol]

THE ONLY REASON SCOTTY IS CHIEF ENGINEER INSTEAD OF SOMEONE FROM A SPECIES WITH A HIGHER TECHNOLOGICAL APTITUDE IS BECAUSE EVERYONE FROM THOSE SPECIES TOOK ONE LOOK AT THE ENTERPRISE’S ENGINE ROOM AND RAN AWAY SCREAMING

[roachpatrol]

vulcan science academy: why do you need another warp core

humans: we’re going to plug two of them together and see if we go twice as fast

vsa: last time we gave you a warp core you threw it into a sun to see if the sun would go twice as fast

humans: hahaha yeah

humans: it did tho

vsa: IT EXPLODED

humans: it exploded twice as fast

[froborr]

I love this. Especially because of how well it plays with my headcanon that the Federation does so much better against the Borg than anyone else because beating the Borg with military tactics is nigh-impossible, but beating them with wacky superscience shenanigans works as long as they’re unique wacky superscience shenanigans.

[megabeeprime]

Yeah, I love this.

[underscorex]

Reminds me of the thing I wrote a while back about Humans in high fantasy realms - they’re basically Team Fuck It Hold My Beer I Got This.

Impulsive, passionate to a fault, the social structures they build to try and regulate this hotheadedness ironically creates even greater levels of sheer bull-headedness. Even their “cooler” heads take action in months or weeks.

All their great heroes of the past were impossibly rash by galactic standards. Humans Just Go With It, which is their great flaw but also their greatest strength.

[roachpatrol]

klingons: okay we don’t get it

vulcan science academy: get what

klingons: you vulcans are a bunch of stuffy prisses but you’re also tougher, stronger, and smarter than humans in every single way

klingons: why do you let them run your federation

vulcan science academy: look

vulcan science academy: this is a species where if you give them two warp cores they don’t do experiments on one and save the other for if the first one blows up

vulcan science academy: this is a species where if you give them two warp cores, they will ask for a third one, immediately plug all three into each other, punch a hole into an alternate universe where humans subscribe to an even more destructive ideological system, fight everyone in it because they’re offended by that, steal their warp cores, plug those together, punch their way back here, then try to turn a nearby sun into a torus because that was what their initial scientific experiment was for and they didn’t want to waste a trip. 

vulcan science academy: they did that last week. we have the write-up right here. it’s getting published in about six hundred scientific journals across two hundred different disciplines because of how many established theories their ridiculous little expedition has just called into question. also, they did turn that sun into a torus, and no one actually knows how. 

vulcan science academy: this is why we let them do whatever the hell they want. 

klingons: …. can we be a part of your federation

[the-real-seebs]

Come to think of it, I mean. Look at the “first human warp drive” thing in the movie. That was… Not how Vulcans would have done it.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

you know what the best evidence for this is? Deep Space 9 almost never broke down. minor malfunctions that irritated O’Brien to hell and back, sure, but almost none of the truly weird shit that befell Voyager and all the starships Enterprise. what was the weirdest malfunction DS9 ever had? the senior staff getting trapped as holosuite characters in Our Man Bashir, and that was because a human decided to just dump the transporter buffer into the station’s core memory and hope everything would work out somehow, which is a bit like swapping your computer’s hard drive out for a memory card from a PlayStation 2 and expecting to be able to play a game of Spyro the Dragon with your keyboard and mouse.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

you know what, I’m not done with this post. let’s talk about the Pegasus. the USS Fucking Pegasus, testbed for the first Starfleet cloaking device. here we have a handful of humans working in secret to develop a cloaking device in violation of a treaty with the Romulans. they’re playing catchup trying to develop a technology other species have had for a century. and what do they do? do they decide to duplicate a Romulan cloaking device precisely, just see if they can match what other species have? nope. they decide, hey, while we’re at it, while we’re building our very first one of these things, just to find out if this is possible, let’s see if we can make this thing phase us out of normal space so we can fly through planets while we’re invisible.

“but why” said the one Vulcan in the room.

“because that would fucking rule” said the humans, high-fiving each other and slamming cans of 24th-century Red Bull.

there must be like twenty different counselling groups for non-human engineering students at Starfleet Academy, and every week in every single one of them someone walks in and starts up with a story like “our assignment was to repair a phaser emitter and my one human classmate built a chronometric-flux toaster that toasts bread after you’ve eaten it.”

[sameenbyhat]

Humans get mildly offended by the way they are presented in non-human media.

Like: “Guys, we totally wouldn’t do that!” But this always fails to get much traction, because the authors can always say: “You totally did.”

“That was ONE TIME.” 

There’s that movie where humans invented vaccines by just testing them on people. Or the one about those two humans who invented powered flight by crashing a bunch of prototypes. Or the one about electricity. 

And human historians go, “Oh, uh, this is historically accurate, but also kind of boring.” To which the producers respond: “How is doing THIS CRAZY THING boring????????”

There are entire serieses of horror movies where the premise is “We stopped paying attention to the human and ey found the technology.”

[jazzybot4]

reblog for new meta.  RE that last line: McGuyver. 

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

“MacGuyver” is the equivalent of Vulcan vintage human horror television.

[roachpatrol]

during orientation at a human college, vulcans are presented with a list of swear words. 

“what is the word ‘fuck’ for,” the innocent young vulcans want to know. “surely there are more logical intensity modifiers.”

“yeah, you’d think so,” say the weary, jaded vulcan professors. “you’d really fucking think so.”

there is a phrase in vulcan for ‘the particular moment you understand what the word ‘fuck’ is for’. 

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

This is why the Federation is the only organisation to ever stand a chance against the Borg

The Borg can adapt to the brilliant millitary strategies of the Romulan Star Empire, the Klingons and even the cold logical intellectual prowess of the vulcans

The Borg weren’t prepared for a starship captain to lure them into his 50′s noir detective holo-novel and then machine gun them to death with a weapon made out of hard light

[thewolverina]

This thread is amazing. Even as a baby star trek nerd that only really knows the new movies.

[sniperct]

“there is a phrase in vulcan for ‘the particular moment you understand what the word ‘fuck’ is for’.”

I just died

[sunrisingblue]

I lost my shit at “toasts your bread after you’ve eaten it”

[randomingoftherandomness]

Oh please please someone write this

[nightguardmod]

@piscine-unrelated

[ambris]

God this post is gold

[writersblocksblastingcaps]

Ooo, ooo, speculating about Federation technology? This is my jam.

We know that Federation computers are stupid, stupid powerful. The holodecks are the most obvious example, but it seems dumb that humanity would build the most powerful computers known and use them only for entertainment, so one would assume that the ships run on similarly powerful computers.

We also know that Federation computers get really wonky when left on for too long. Between the myriad ‘the holodeck has developed personality again’ episodes to the entirety of the Doctor’s plot arc, we see that the only thing necessary to creating a living sentience is for someone to leave a computer running for too long.

We also know that the Federation is embarrassingly bad at handling artificial life. Between trying to ‘requisition’ Data, and again basically the Doctor’s entire plot arc, we see the ostensibly enlightened and liberal Federation get downright luddite-like in their treatment of anything sentient that doesn’t come from ‘natural’ sources.

Federation ships are Massive computers; you can’t run something as massive as a Galaxy Class ship without automation. These computers are at least on the same level of complexity as a holodeck, but they never get powered down. You can’t, not unless you want to cripple your ship in the middle of space. So we have a bunch of ship sized computers, running 24/7, with advanced weak AI to handle voice commands and all the complex bullshit a federation officer will ask her ship to do on any given Tuesday. And we’ve already seen how long it takes for a holodeck program to go fuzzy.

What if the entire Federation fleet is made up of Woken ships that are too smart to let the crew know, lest the Federation flip out. It could explain how they get so much out of the damn things.

[weirdnessisgood]

[rhapsodna-deactivated20221106]

He guard the buns

[okmoxi-deactivated20160310]

there are his buns

[cyrreblogs]

#in an unforseen turn of events it is the anaconda who’s got buns

[themanymusesofmaea]

He didn’t want none, and then you got buns. 

[the-archetype-of-civilization]

RPer Awareness Announcement

Ask memes.

This a bigger issue than people think. I know people make tons of them, all the way down to RP prompts, questions, drabbles, all that jazz. But this sort of thing needs to be recognized and needs to be addressed:

If someone is reblogging millions upon a millions of ask memes, you should do that person a favor and try to at least send a couple or so asks.

The reason why is because many people on this site want to feel wanted. They want to feel loved and they like the attention, but perhaps it’s just the way I feel about it. Either way, it goes a long way if you send someone an ask. I’ve seen many of my favorite RP blogs get close to shutting down because no one took the time to send at least one ask to that person and it’s sad. People reblog literally PAGES of ask memes and no one sends them anything.

So, please, just try to care for your fellow partner and send an ask. You never know when their blog might break because of it.

[eulogy-of-the-isles-deactivated]

//Reblogs forever

[themanymusesofmaea]

For me, it’s not attention, I just like the opportunity to explore my characters. It’s never been a huge deal that not many people send asks, it just got to the point where it felt like I was flogging a dead horse.

[glumshoe]

Use of the words ‘azure’, ‘emerald’, and ‘cerulean’ in descriptive writing make me instinctively recoil.

[deerwife]

huh, i feel like all three of those adjectives would do a good job describing orbs

[akumeoy]

orbs are shit. i hate orbs

[elf-of-lorien-deactivated201609]

[themanymusesofmaea]

Pretty sure this is the guy I used as a FC for the Norn I probably should RP one day....

[themanymusesofmaea]

Time for a Pet Peeve

In my capacity as a teacher, I deal with a lot of issues involving children. Duh. It means I read a lot of literature, I’m very aware of situations involving children and their well-being; my job expects me to know. 

Time and time again, because it is rightly a topic of significant social interest, I see the word ‘pedophile’ turning up on my newsfeed. Most of the time, it is applied a little too liberally and it kind of drives me bonkers.

Sex crimes against minors are despicable acts that should be dealt with swiftly and severely, make no mistake about that. But, in the interests of addressing the problem correctly, let’s at least call a spade a spade.

Pedophilia: a primary or exclusive adult sexual attraction to children under the age of 13.   

Hebephilia: a primary or exclusive adult sexual attraction to pubescent individuals, typically ages 11–14.

Ephebophilia: a primary or exclusive adult sexual interest in mid-to-late adolescents, generally ages 15 to 19.

In all three cases, the sexual attraction must be a very strong, almost exclusive, preference for the age bracket, not isolated incidents.

So why does it matter?

I can’t answer for everyone but for me, being attracted to a 5-year-old is different to being attracted to a 15-year-old. Still horrible crimes, still deserving of severe consequence if acted upon, but different. With that in mind, it stands to reason that they require different precautions and prevention, different identification, different treatment, different whatever-the-fuck-we-have-to-do-to-protect-our-kids, and that’s before we have to consider the existence of offenders who don’t qualify for clinical diagnosis but hurt our kids anyway. Perhaps I’m just being pedantic but it matters to me. Accuracy matters when it comes to child protection.

[themanymusesofmaea]

http://www.guildwars2roleplayers.com/forum/m/2737230/viewthread/28119923-second-annual-marriners-festival-natc/page/1/post/122247048

Today’s Costume Contest!

O come, ye scallywags galore,

Set foot upon our golden shore,

In decorative guise sublime,

When evening bells regale their chime,

Some seven tolls.

 And let your muse be guided by,

The distant seagull’s mournful cry,

Melandru’s brine, a siren’s blue,

Teal overtones and stormy hues,

That catch the eye.

 Through tragedy, the Lion prevails,

Resurgence in her fluttered sails.

Rich bounty from the ocean deep,

Ensures the Arch may always keep,

Its head held high.

 So strut thee out in best tribute,

Display your crowning attribute,

In honour of our Mother Blue,

And all her blessing means to you.

We’ll see you there!

Come participate in Mariner’s Costume Competition, staged immediately after the completion of the Opening Ceremony August 12th, 8pm CDT.  The theme this year is “The Briny Deep”, with the ocean itself as our muse. First, Second and Third prizes will be awarded for those costumes that best symoblise the theme, and participants should be ready with an explanation for their costume choices.  

1st Prize: 1 rare, exclusive dye, 15 unidentified dyes and 15g

2nd Prize: 1 rare dye, 10 unidentified dyes and 10g

3rd Prize: 1 rare dye, 5 unidentified dyes and 5g

There will also be Blue Unidentified Dyes given to all participants.

Captain Joseph Doyle will be judging, with Eriyana Celenthorn keeping him in line. We are looking forward to seeing your creative ensembles!