twst turn main blog (20)

(i'm somehow even MORE annoying on this blog) non-fandom reblogs, miscellaneous ramblings to myself, and tracking down og tumblr posts i find reposted to other platforms

[dnptheinfinity]

‘Homo sum’ in Latin: 'I am a human being’

'Homo sum’ in Polish:

[dogpuppy]

[tumblddownthestairs]

and today A DIFFERENT friend said i’d do a perfect cosplay of mob from mob psycho 100 😭😭😭 my friends aren’t even weebs and i don’t talk about anime with them??

maomao and mob; i wonder what’s next LMAO. i want a full spectrum

[tumblddownthestairs]

i've been wanting to get new earrings and my friend MADE ME the most gorgeous drop earrings??? i never even told her and they're everything i ever wanted holy shit. what have i ever done to deserve such wonderful friends i love them so much

i may be a total loser but i'm so damn lucky to have the friends that i do

[tumblddownthestairs]

microsoft is genuinely complete dogshit. signing in/out doesn't work. word doesn't autosave properly. "Something went wrong" no fucking shit this is BEYOND DOG SHIT. HOW IS THIS MEGA CORPORATION SO FUCKING USELESS

they're actually making me murderous rn I HATE MICROSOFT

[solxamber]

I saw your post about not supporting JKR amd not interacting with anything HP. But why would it matter if it's fanfiction or fan derived works? It's not like I'm giving my cash to JKR.

see the problem with this logic is that the more you continue to talk about and interact with rowling's work, the longevity of it in pop culture keeps getting longer.

this isn't a case of "oh she was cancelled for some minor thing that can be ignored." SHE WANTS TRANS PEOPLE GONE. you need to understand the gravity of what continued popularity of her books allows her to do. she's a vile person who quite literally FUNDS anti-trans groups with the money she made off hp.

i grew up on harry potter but the lives and rights of queer people matters more to me than a little nostalgia trip. there's so much GOOD media in the world that's not written by a transphobe and isn't racist—pick any of them and go wild.

and if you still wanna consume content from jkr, i can't really stop you but i can tell you that your priorities are so skewed and you need to reevaluate.

[ask-a-vetblr]

I recall at least one of you guys having worked with livestock animals. Why are cows so damn indestructible while horses keel over and die if mercury is in retrograde or a dog barked in Kazakhstan?

gettingvetted here.

Let me tell you a story about how livestock animals work.

In the beginning, God created the horse. God looked at the horse and saw that it was beautiful and strong. “However,” God said, “it breaks too easily.”

Then God created the cow. God looked at the cow and saw that it was more durable than the horse, and tasted good to boot. “However,” God said, “it poops too much.”

Then God created the goat. God looked at the goat and saw that it was perfect.

God looked around and saw that he still had some spare bits of fluff on his work table, but no brains to put into it. So then God created the sheep.

Now let me tell you what my equine surgery professor said on the first day of class.

“Horses are only interested in two things: homicide, and suicide.”

And that’s all you need to know about horses.

[lizziedoesvetpath]

Except every goat is just waiting its turn to die of pneumonia

[avoiding-claws]

Sorry I’m not over “if a dog barked in Kazakhstan”.

[gallusrostromegalus]

My entirely half-assed understanding of Why Horses Explode If You Look At Them Funny, As Explained To Me By My Aunt That Raises Horses After Her Third Glass Of Wine:

Horses don’t got enough toes.

So, back right after the dinosaurs fucked off and joined the choir invisible, the first ancestors of horses were scampering about, little capybara-looking things called Eohippus, and they had four toes per limb:

They functioned pretty well, as near as we can tell from the fossil record, but they were mostly messing around in the leaf litter of dense forests, where one does not necessarily need to be fast but one should be nimble, and the 4 toes per limb worked out pretty good.

But the descendants of Eophippus moved out of the forest where there was lots of cover and onto the open plains, where there was better forage and visibility, but nowhere to hide, so the proto-horses that could ZOOM the fastest and out run thier predators (or, at least, their other herd members) tended to do well.  Here’s the thing- having lots of toes means your foot touches the ground longer when you run, and it spreads a lot of your momentum to the sides.  Great if you want to pivot and dodge, terrible if you want to ZOOM.  So losing toes started being a major advantage for proto-horses:

The Problem with having fewer toes and running Really Fucking Fast is that it kind of fucks your everything else up.

When a horse runs at full gallop, it sort of… stops actively breathing, letting the slosh of it’s guts move its lungs, which is tremendously calorically efficient and means their breathing doesn’t fall out of sync.  But it also means that the abdominal lining of a horse is weirdly flexible in ways that lead to way more hernias and intestinal tangling than other ungulates.  It also has a relatively weak diaphragm for something it’s size, so ANY kind of respiratory infection is a Major Fucking Problem because the horse has weak lungs.

When a Horse runs Real Fucking Fast, it also develops a bit of a fluid dynamics problem- most mammals have the blood going out of thier heart real fast and coming back from the far reaches of the toes much slower and it’s structure reflects that.  But since there is Only The One Toe, horse blood comes flying back up the veins toward the heart way the fuck faster than veins are meant to handle, which means horses had to evolve special veins that constrict to slow the Blood Down, which you will recognize as a Major Cardiovascular Disease in most mammals. This Poorly-regulated blood speed problems means horses are prone to heart problems, burst veins, embolisms, and hemophilia.  Also they have apparently a billion blood types and I’m not sure how that’s related but I am sure that’s another Hot Mess they have to deal with.

ALSO, the Blood-Going-Too-Fast issue and being Just Huge Motherfuckers means horses have trouble distributing oxygen properly, and have compensated by creating fucked up bones that replicate the way birds store air in thier bones but much, much shittier.  So if a horse breaks it’s leg, not only is it suffering a Major Structural Issue (also also- breaking a toe is much more serious when that toe is YOUR WHOLE DAMN FOOT AND HALF YOUR LEG), it’s also hving a hemmorhage and might be sort of suffocating a little.

ALSO ALSO, the fast that horses had to deal with Extremely Fast Predators for most of thier evolution means that they are now afflicted with evolutionarily-adaptive Anxiety, which is not great for thier already barely-functioning hearts, and makes them, frankly, fucking mental.  Part of the reason horses are so aggro is that if deinied the opportunity to ZOOM, it’s options left are “Kill everyone and Then Yourself” or “The same but skip step one and Just Fucking Die”.  The other reason is that a horse is in a race against itself- it’s gotta breed before it falls apart, so a Horse basically has a permanent terrorboner.

TL;DR: Horses don’t have enough toes and that makes them very, very fast, but also sickly, structurally unsound, have wildly OP blood that sometimes kills them, and drives them fucking insane.

[drtanner]

Horses are so incredibly fucked up, and we didn’t even make them like that. <3

[tumblddownthestairs]

i wanted orange juice so bad that i bought concentrate. (yes ī diluted it.) this shit is SO BAD i genuinely had to brace myself against the counter. scotland what the fuck

nvm this is apparently irish. ireland wtf this tastes like bitter orange PEELS

[tumblddownthestairs]

friend brought up that i could do a really good maomao cosplay and i was instantly sold. apothecary diaries buddy cosplays here we come

[pocketss]

blockhead gets mogged

[briarplant]

Fun fact: by just using imaginary numbers, some Evil Math, and 101 rotating vectors You Can Create a shitty approximation of a fish.

[kirby97]

two points of view on math fish

[kyraneko]

it isn't good art unless it's itself enough to get haters, so

win

[the-haiku-bot]

it isn’t good art

unless it’s itself enough

to get haters, so

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[tumblddownthestairs]

me and my friend getting hit on by a pair of dudes whizzing toward us on a single scooter at midnight is such a ridiculous experience

but apparently these are the kinds of experiences the universe is willing to give me as fic inspo. shit's not looking good

[shottxyz]

[tumblddownthestairs]

FUCK i hate goodbyes

MY FRIENDSSS i met the loveliest people here and i'll probably never see some of them again :(((

[tumblddownthestairs]

i wish i had more inspiration for my fics from real life, but i'm just not the right person for that 😭😭 i might have gone on dates with someone without knowing; not into them. i'm maybe getting flirted with and indirectly asked out; not into them x2.

can some beautiful and intelligent perfect person come along and rizz me up for some actual inspo pls? just gently putting that suggestion out there for the universe to consider. i'd like some actual feelings to work with

[tumblddownthestairs]

ĪS THIS A COCKRAOCH Fuck NO

WHAT THE FUCK

PASS AWAY

[tumblddownthestairs]

PROF GAVE ME THE POINTS!!!!

i'm afraid of ever having to take another class with him again 😭 he knows i'm fully insane now