We're All Mad Here.

“'But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat. 'We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.' 'How do you know I’m mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,” said the Cat, 'or you wouldn’t have come here.'”

[amnhnyc]

Behold the pocket-sized western pygmy possum! (Cercartetus concinnus). One of the world’s smallest possums, this species typically weighs just 0.5 oz (14 g)—the size of an AA battery. This dainty marsupial is a nectarivore, meaning that its diet consists primarily of plant nectar. It inhabits treetops in forests throughout parts of Australia, using its long prehensile tail like a fifth limb as it moves from branch to branch.

Photo: Donna Belder, CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist

[todaysbat]

Image description: a tiny mammal clinging to a person's thumb. The mammal looks like a wet sad friendly version of a Virginia possum with its prehensile tail curled up on itself.

[retropopcult]

Members of the Owls, a black women’s softball team in the 1930s

[kakyoinistrans-blog]

everyone’s always like “dragons in the past/ robots in the future” but consider this

dragons in the future

selective breeding and novelty science of winged lizards goes a little too far and then when they escape they continue evolving

futuristic megacities trying to safeguard themselves against dragons which might come along hoping to find a snack

huge flocks of dragons flying south for the winter

dragonlings rooting through rubbish bins behind restaurants and being shooed away

[snaappy]

*slams fists on desk* YOU’RE HIRED

[lizardywizard]

Dragons adapting for different urban environments: sewer dragons, alley dragons, dragons that build their nests atop skyscrapers.

Zoos putting wire mesh over the top of their enclosures to keep dragons from swooping in and stealing their animals - and finding that even that isn’t enough.

The impact of introducing a major new predator into the wild, and how the ecosystem rebalances itself around them (or doesn’t).

They never stop aging - they only get bigger. Geneticists try to make humans immortal by isolating the genes that control the dragons’ growth and implanting them into humans, with disastrous results.

SPACE DRAGONS. IN SPACE. Nobody knows what they eat, how they breathe or how they survive, but they’re a threat to the newly-developed interplanetary passenger shuttles.

Political schisms over the revelation that dragons are sapient.

[kardowolf]

but also dragons with artificial limbs. Dragon rehabilitation centers. 

Tamed dragons used by police and military forces. Dragons that are sent in with military forces because who wants to fight a dragon. 

Dragons that steal computers and adapt to using technology.

Dragons that hoard technology like gems. Macbooks are the new diamonds and iPhones are like emeralds. Dragons that sit on piles of digital watches and end up having to steal more tiny batteries because they need to power them somehow. Dragons that hoard solar lights because they like the light. 

[naresar]

Sorry but I saw space dragons and felt compelled to promote @derinthescarletpescatarian’s story Void Princess.

It has robot dragons in space. I don’t know how to promote stories and Derin certainly doesn’t.

[oysters-aint-for-me]

there’s a used bookstore in rural western massachusetts (the montague book mill) whose motto is “books you don’t need in a place you can’t find” and i just feel like that summarizes tumblr too

[oysters-aint-for-me]

posts you don’t need on a site you can’t search

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[sstarfruitz]

Medic 1960s war poster… My return to tumblr hey guys

[sayatsugu]

When You Look at Dr. Grace

part 1/2 (part 2)

[commonlybefuddled]

Oh, my tears...

[wyrmscraft]

Found out I was short fabric on another project and decided I wasn’t going into town to pick it up, so I pulled a jelly roll out to keep myself busy until I went back to town.

Figured I do a quick quilt top, you know, just throw something together.

And then I made two blocks of the forty eight needed for this Harvest quilt and boy howdy.

Not a quick quilt two day top, this one LOL

[wyrmscraft]

The blocks look fantastic ofc.

And the quilt! She be gorgeous!

Love that fuck-off bright yellow I picked for the cornerstones, they’re perfect for this.

Thinking about quilting it in a blue thread, but we’ll see when I audition colours lol

[wyrmscraft]

So we have this bin of partially used bobbins for the long arm. And we only have so many bobbins of course.

I decided that since the quilt top was so colourful, I’d put plain flat black cotton the back and use up some of these bobbins, making the quilting on the back really stand out.

Holy shit did it work or what! I love it, of course LOL

I used a medium purple on the top so it would fade into the patchwork and not show up too much on the background. The quilting pattern is called Pink Lemonade and it is one of my favourite quilting patterns.

I didn’t have any left over border fabric, so I found a nice blue that matched with that print and made it my binding. I debated using purple, but couldn’t convince myself to do it.

The blue looks good though, from the front and the back.

[klimtsonian]

“None of us can choose our destiny, and none of us can escape it.” 🏰🐉✨

[coelii]

how my wife and I communicate when we miss each other

[coelii]

ah fuck this is currently breaching containment

[victusinveritas]

[victusinveritas]

But wait there's more.....

https://mybricklog.com/blog/bricks-minifigs-corporate-stole-old-mans-200000-lego-collection

[alkimara]

Apparently the company tried to shut down the man's Patreon and Patreon quite literally said "so we got served these legal papers. we're not shutting down his patreon. go ahead, sue us."

[rainwashedsoul]

[moonseason92]

Jenny Joseph became the face of Columbia Pictures (1992).

[annarcana]

The next time you feel bad about taking shortcuts in your work, I want you to think about how the face of one of the most legendary movie studios in the world, was photographed holding a plastic lamp with extension cord dangling while standing on a cardboard box.

Her outfit is literally just some sheets.

Just get the fuckin' shot.

[crackshipsandregret]

Curious pebble (3/?)

Part 1 / Part 2

A massive shoutout to @thereal-sillyguy for making everyone's favorite pebble into a gif! I very literally couldn't have done it without them!

[crackshipsandregret]

Curious pebble (2/?)

Part 1 // Part 3

[crackshipsandregret]

Curious pebble (1/?)

Part 2 / Part 3

[creatingblackcharacters]

Remember when Lil Nas X beautifully explored his sexuality, seduced and killed the devil to the banger of all time, and instead of cheering on this openly gay and proud Black artist for his artistry and fighting back against respectability politics, suddenly said respectability politics was all the Queerest Place on the Internet cared about? Hm. Wonder what happened there.

Anyway I miss him and hope he's doing better with his mental health 🙏🏾

[creatingblackcharacters]

Like say what you want about "bad queer representation", but this was the song that made me openly and happily accept that I was bisexual. To see him up there Black and beautiful, making music that I love, absolutely killing it? Yeah. You couldn't tell me shit. This man made me proud to be out. "This will make them think we're evil for being gay" hey newsflash dawg-