weirdo

Hiii i like maths, indie games, music, animals and a bunch of other stuff :)) I very rarely make anything but i'd love to draw and make music maybe. he/him, adult (pfp is from Brutal Orchestra's steam page)

[galaxywarp]

obsessed w this fucking tweet

[jamdrawers]

Assorted Bedroom-Selfies commission

[ponydoodles]

this was therapeutic

[soapbbox]

It’s all puppies forever in New York, you guys are so lucky 😭

[pa-tr0-clus]

Star Trek has spent sixty years queerbaiting the same two dudes and I for one will never get tired of it

[anewstartrekfan]

I don’t think any other queerbait gets as close as these two

[lets-tmnt-topside]

[whitepeopletwitter]

Is it the freedom

[aralintheobsessive]

It's the venting. In the USA, dryers have massive exhaust vents to the outside of the room/building that take the hot wet away and leave hot dry behind. In many other countries, dryers do not generally have external exhaust vents, and simply fill the room they are in with the hot wet, which may or may not be enough to actually remove the hot wet from the clothing depending on how well ventilated the room itself is.

[whetstonefires]

for this reason 1) you generally can't leave the dryer open in winter without causing a draft and 2) sometimes when you're walking around outside in the US the world will suddenly smell of clean laundry because you're near someone's house and their dryer is running

[zaprowsdower27]

And 3) Eventually your drier stops drying things so well and you have to hire somebody to bring a ladder up to the vent (either high up an exterior wall or on the literal roof) and clear out the accumulated lint and cruft blocking it

[ayellowbirds]

You ought to do this regularly even if the dryer efficiency remains the same, because dryer lint is fantastically competent at burning your damn house down if you let it catch fire.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I'm in Australia (no exhaust vents), and I've found that if your dryer starts making hot wet laundry, you first clean out the lint trap that you already know about and clean every time, and then you go looking for the second secret lint trap that nobody told you about and clean out the year's worth of lint in there that you were blissfully unaware of. The dryer will now mostly dry your laundry again, and give you either hot dry laundry or hot just-very-slightly-damp laundry.

[bladesofaura13]

This reminds me of the story about the couple who kept cleaning two different dryer vents and were confused why their so never cleaned the lint

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

That post was what first prompted me to go looking for a possible second lint trap

[em-dash-enthusiast]

I'm genuinely appalled that dryers outside the US are not vented to the outside world. That much moisture just...builds up in your house/apartment every time you use your dryer?? Does that not lend itself to mold growth over time?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Mine recondenses the water into a little tub that I empty into a sink after use. I could also get a plumber in to vent the water directly into the greywater but I prefer being able to have the dryer in a part of the room with no direct water system access.

[em-dash-enthusiast]

That makes much more sense tbh. I was envisioning a steam room and the associated drywall moisture damage every time you do laundry, like "at that point I would just opt for a clothesline" lol.

(Which we do still use in the US, despite the popular conception that we all have dryers. Not as common as it once was, but I've lived several places where we used a clothesline bc we had a washer but no dryer.)

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

In Australia most people use clotheslines all the time, and even those of us who have dryers tend to only use them when the weather is too wet to make line drying practical. Electricity is expensive and sunlight is free. Can't speak for people living in city apartments and suchlike though.

[bucketofdeltav]

I grew up in Aotearoa and formerly lived in the US and now live in the UK and yes every dryer I have ever seen is absolutely vented to the outdoors???

What are the Australians doing?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Line drying, mostly.

[if-only-we-could-read-it]

I’m in the uk and every dryer ive seen has either had a removable condenser or has been piped into the wall/grey water like derin said. Most people over here use a clothes line or horse.

[chibisquirt]

I'm sorry, a clothes line or a WHAT?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

A clothes horse

They come in many shapes, most of them designed to fold away easily when you're not drying or airing anything.

[digitalmagpie]

In the USA, we call those (clothes/laundry) drying racks. There's a bit of variation depending on the brand advertising, but I've never seen them called a clothes horse.

I've only ever heard/seen "clotheshorse" used to refer to a particularly fashionable/fashion-oriented person, typically one with an extensive wardrobe.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

They call people that because they are likening the people to the drying racks, acting like their purpose is to hang and display an absurd number of clothes on their bodies.

[harboretum]

It's Make A Terrible Comic Day again

[harboretum]

Thanks to everyone's encouragement alien boyfriend gave it a try and found love

[pokur2005]

[birdsareblooming]

i was talking to friends who's main view of tumblr is that everything is sexualized on here. and when i said i do see that i also know that the most vocal groups of asexuals are on tumblr. eventually i realized how much of tumblr was de-sexualizing sex. like just saw a post of a gifset of a sexy lady smoking and tying up hands with the reblog text "me putting the little tag back on the bread bag" and so many posts are like that. just saying or talking about some sex shit in a completely neutral non-sexual manner. I was going in loops around my head trying to figure out why it was like this, something about being so used to nudity and sex and that's not shocking or even sexy anymore, until circling back to the fact that tumblr is full of asexuals and maybe the most respectful place of them. it was then a saw a poll (a post I CANNOT find again for the life of me but it was some type of sexuality poll or something) and was shocked by just how many people answering it were asexual, until I remembered this and went. oh. so yes everything on tumblr is sexualized but not even for sexualization's sake or for sexual satisfaction. its for the bit

[birdsareblooming]

uptopia in the making sporting my aspec siblings

[alyasartblog]

medic lies in his bed at night and sketches heavy's internal organs and giggles to himself and sways his feet in the air

[creatureprofessor]

i love when museums have near exact replicas of their displayed objects for you to buy. haha 15th century ceramic cup you are in my possession

[bitextualdisaster]

Went to a museum exhibit once that had this little guy

10/10, give me tiny replicas of animal statues that I am encouraged to pat as part every exhibit ever please

[firewalkwithmedvd]

Was trying to make a joke about TV writing to my friend the other day and had to pause and go "...does the phrase 'surf dracula' mean anything to you?"

[firewalkwithmedvd]

One of the most important critical texts of this century imo

[hypokeimena]

image description: tweet by @/topherflorence, reading: back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you'd see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get to see him surf for 5 min in the finale /end description

[mrgdmmrgdm]

A strange day in the Late Cretaceous

[toskarin]

I went to see Parasite completely blind besides being aware (unavoidably) that there was a hard tonal shift at some point. I saw the poster and stuff, but that was it

the entire time I was bracing myself for it to shift into some sort of alien parasite psychological horror movie, which seems really presumptuous, except I saw Bong Joon-ho's The Host and that movie actually did have a giant monster in it, so I wasn't putting it past him

[toskarin]

god the class dynamics in this movie are so stressful already... keeping up this double life while still taking care of your family...... and if that's not bad enough, they're gonna have to deal with The Parasite when it shows up

[succubusboyfriend]

literally just start posting about your OCs. you don’t even have to “properly” introduce them just make them a dedicated tag, tag them on posts that remind you of them, and then start talking about them like everyone’s supposed to already know who they are. i am not joking when i say this method works.

[succubusboyfriend]

AND CRUCIALLY NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR TALKING ABOUT THEM. IF YOU DO NOT LOVE YOUR CREATIONS ENTHUSIASTICALLY AND UNAPOLOGETICALLY THEN WHY SHOULD ANYONE ELSE!!!!!

[succubusboyfriend]

i don’t wanna put these two on blast so i am not gonna tag them, but these tags illustrate exactly what i mean by “if you don’t love your creations enthusiastically and unapologetically then why should anyone else” and i wanna address it

the lack of interest is because of the lack of knowledge. the people that see your OC posting might not take interest in them the first, fifth, or even twentieth time you post about them or tag them on something. you keep posting anyways because eventually the right person is gonna see something that piques their curiosity and they are gonna dig through that tag for whatever scraps they find and then, if you’re lucky, they start prodding you for more info or sending you things that remind them of your character and now you have one more person rotating this dude around in their head!

i’m not saying it doesn’t take time and i’m not saying luck isn’t involved, but if no one knows anything about your characters, they have no reason to take interest! giving the character a dedicated tag and talking about them OFTEN AND CONSISTENTLY gives people the perfect opportunity to learn about them and get excited to learn more!

[succubusboyfriend]

literally just start posting about your OCs. you don’t even have to “properly” introduce them just make them a dedicated tag, tag them on posts that remind you of them, and then start talking about them like everyone’s supposed to already know who they are. i am not joking when i say this method works.

[succubusboyfriend]

AND CRUCIALLY NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR TALKING ABOUT THEM. IF YOU DO NOT LOVE YOUR CREATIONS ENTHUSIASTICALLY AND UNAPOLOGETICALLY THEN WHY SHOULD ANYONE ELSE!!!!!

[succubusboyfriend]

i don’t wanna put these two on blast so i am not gonna tag them, but these tags illustrate exactly what i mean by “if you don’t love your creations enthusiastically and unapologetically then why should anyone else” and i wanna address it

the lack of interest is because of the lack of knowledge. the people that see your OC posting might not take interest in them the first, fifth, or even twentieth time you post about them or tag them on something. you keep posting anyways because eventually the right person is gonna see something that piques their curiosity and they are gonna dig through that tag for whatever scraps they find and then, if you’re lucky, they start prodding you for more info or sending you things that remind them of your character and now you have one more person rotating this dude around in their head!

i’m not saying it doesn’t take time and i’m not saying luck isn’t involved, but if no one knows anything about your characters, they have no reason to take interest! giving the character a dedicated tag and talking about them OFTEN AND CONSISTENTLY gives people the perfect opportunity to learn about them and get excited to learn more!

[krispdreemurr]

the thing about The Krusielle Situation is that as much as there is "blame" to assign it falls squarely on kris' shoulders. susie as much as says outright "i only know how to tell if i have romantic feelings if someone else clearly indicates they have them for me first" in that one floradinn battle (and kris visibly flinches about it). she'd be receptive to signals from kris, but they're just... not giving them, or when they do it's shit like just kind of staring at her that she doesnt know what to deal w. similarly noelle Wants to be close to kris again but when they keep Not Communicating she doesnt know how to start/thinks that maybe only she wants that. so ofc when they can actually talk to and romantically involve themself with each other they do! it isnt on them to read kris' mind!

but ofc the reason kris isnt communicating and is drawing themself back is bc theyre in the Hell Situation and betraying everyone around them and think theyre doomed to die or worse and so on. the way kris shows love is through distancing themself from everyone around them, bc they think they can only hurt people by getting close to them. kris almost certainly started this whole thing planning to never befriend susie and never reconnect with noelle and just cleanly get the plan over with and then die in a ditch and be forgotten forever. the fact they want more than that, now, is Hurting Them Badly.

bc they are a stupid teenager trapped in the torment nexus they are not handling this with open communication and expression of their needs. instead, they keep turning away and hiding and hoping so, so bad that someone catches them. but because susie is a good friend and because susie is scared to demand more than she has been offered, and because noelle is a good friend and because noelle is scared to break something fragile and already half-broken, no one is pushing them the way they want to be pushed. kris is so, so loved, and if they reached out, they would be helped. but they can't reach out, and no one knows to reach for them.

tldr this all fucking Sucks and if youre saying its anyones Fault its, like, gasters, probably,