little gay goblin

amber, she/they, i make art and have a lot of thoughts about storytelling and also tax law

[bioloyg]

Darkness Man and Bat Child fighting the gumberoo

[n1-adora-fan]

The gang gets birthday presents for Bat Child

[headspace-hotel]

curious to hear y'all's suggestions for the worst possible pasta shape

(Assume that "pasta" needs to be made of sheets or strands of dough with enough surface area relative to thickness so that they can be cooked.)

[headspace-hotel]

I was going to suggest fettuccini but twisted with the ends connected to form a Möbius strip, but then I realized that would fuck like hell.

[headspace-hotel]

@fishofthewoods I did NOT expect to get such a strong contender so early.

[headspace-hotel]

@alilcajun @aralioideae

a couple of challengers emerge

[headspace-hotel]

You are all fucking madmen

[zac-oyama]

Welcome back, Hilda Hilda

FANTASY HIGH SOPHOMORE YEAR, Episode 4: Heartache On the Celestine Sea CITY COUNCIL OF DARKNESS, Episode 10: Zaeth's Sire and a Bear on Fire

[heytherecentaurs]

The Camarilla in Austin offering LaVonte a position of power is so good on a storytelling level because it reiterates the point Brennan made earlier about the college students not wanting to stay and build something but rather go somewhere it's already built. He's presenting LaVonte with the same choice as students like Patty Babcock. Stay in Purpee and do the hard work of creating the community you want or leave for a city where it's all established and he can just slot into the system. It's great because it pissed LaVonte of that the students didn't care. Now confronted with the same choice is he going to be true to his intentions of making New Rome or be a hypocrite?

[starofhisheart]

Happy pride to those 5 seconds where Charlie Swan thought Jacob was coming out to him in the most insane way possible

[lake-yearner-unlimited]

HJ Wingstreet they could never make me hate you.

[acti-veg]

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

[namu-the-orca]

Cetacean echolocation is one of those things that boggles your mind once you really start to think about the implications. They can see each others' hearts beating fast with fear or excitement. They can see if another dolphin is healthy, or pregnant; how the fetus is doing; if they have ingested debris. Their echolocation is also incredibly precise: a bottlenose dolphin could discriminate between cilinders differing in wall thickness by just 0.23 mm (0.009 inch) from 8 meters away!! And they certainly notice when something is off.

I'm not sure if I ever shared this story before here, but in Curacao, when I was allowed to assist in a guest interaction programme, there was suddenly consternation in the pool behind us. A guest had entered the water and the dolphins were going crazy, paying no heed to the trainers anymore. The lead trainer that was with me gave the dolphins to me to watch over while she went to help. When she came back she told me what had happened. The guest that had caused so much uproar had left the water again and was asked if he had done anything to upset the dolphins. He hadn't, and he couldn't imagine what was wrong... until he mentioned he had a pacemaker. The younger dolphins in the pool had never seen someone with a pacemaker before and apparently it rocked their world.

It was such a wild experience, and offered such a cool insight into how dolphins experience their world. I'll never forget it.

[boymounter]

so many people don't understand how abelist it is to kill your brother with a rock

[twelvethousandbees]

Listen I haven’t finished the episode yet but I NEEDED to pause for obvious reasons

[geniusbee]

these are getting weird

[sootchild]

City Council of Darkness, Episode 9: A Bid, a Banksy, and the Bird in the Basement

Dream Team antics.

D20 Masterpost || Ep 8 || Ep 10

[bioloyg]

It’s played for laughs, but I really do love Emily’s character choice to have Vesper be stuck in this weird state of self-grief over her undeath, specifically at the stage of denial. Especially when paired with her ability to sense fetters/the dead.

She is so specifically tuned to find and know and understand death, who the restful dead are and who the restless are, and she wanted to be a zoologist which is just a blanket study of life right beneath the bigger umbrella that is biology. And yet, because she is squarely in the middle of that as an undead being, she can’t apply a goddamn thing from either knowledge set. So instead she quite literally jams them together going, I know death and life and animals. Clearly, I am half-bat.

Except she died and came back. Her heart’s not beating and she cannot accept that, won’t even entertain the idea because if she came back wrong where does that leave her? Especially if she came back feeling the exact same way she always did, loving animals and being biased towards herpetology. Even the name Bat Child is fucked. She’s not a bat or a child. She’s forty years old and stuck in her twenty year old college student body! But she can’t be taken seriously as an adult because she got turned just shy of looking like she has any life experience. So… she gets treated like a child, and she’s less than human, and that makes her Bat Child.

Fucking chef’s kiss, no notes.

Emily Axford has a gift for creating some of theeeeeee most fucked up characters and packaging them in the funniest boxes only for you to open said box and go “I need to lie down for several days.”

[ubuyo]

liking a character from a thing you don’t like

[creekfiend]

i tend to fuck with ocean deities conceptually, bc very often it's like "if you respect the possible dangers I present and treat me with the respect and caution that merits, you'll mostly be fine. if you dismiss or condescend me or think that you're somehow special and exempt from having to take me seriously, Go In The Ocean Forever"

huge power fantasy for me. I go to the doctor's office and they pat me on the knee and tell me it's psychosomatic. I put them in the ocean forever. life could be a dream

[tiredadventurer]

[liamthesnail]

this is one of, if not the best screenshot i've ever gotten from a game changer episode in my entire fucking life

[whenstarsignite]

"be unafraid. not a moment of your existence will go unremembered."

anyway that moment in ep6 of solari was Wild and i had to do a quick rendition of xl-zl right before he zapped a guy with his laser vision. u see this right before u die. wyd.