This week's fixation

Profile pic by Primo Banksy. Banner by @jk-bees. I haven’t been pieced back together with gold: There’s only crazy glue in these cracks. This pot leaks. OCCASIONAL N🍋S🍋F🍋W. This is a drama-free zone. Ship and let ship. Let me know if there's anything you want me to tag!

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[foxpunk]

do you all see my vision here

[apolladay]

do you use a vpn? which one? (pulling from a comparison list i found online) yes; nordVPN yes; surfshark yes; mullvad yes; protonVPN yes; IPvanish yes; a built-in one that came with my browser (ex: firefox vpn beta) yes; a different one no results

do you use a vpn? which one? (pulling from a comparison list i found online.

yes; nordVPN

yes; surfshark

yes; mullvad

yes; protonVPN

yes; IPvanish

yes; a built-in one that came with my browser (ex: firefox vpn beta)

yes; a different one

no

results

Remaining time: 1 day 14 hours

[ub-sessed]

[power-chords]

This Dan Piraro comic always makes me cry.

[irbisflower]

I embroidered a willow ptarmigan :)

[riverlarking]

already have a problem because the knitting pattern that's on the internet archive is from the old version of the book with a whopping two sizes... would anyone in the uk/us be willing to check if their library has alice starmore's aran knitting: new & expanded edition from 2010 and go there and send me pictures of the st brigid pages... please and smile

[technically-human]

Rocky chose a hand to match Grace's scar!

[http-tempted]

[shiftythrifting]

dono dareask what the mashed potato and pencil shavings candles actually smell like?

All of our candles are unscented soy candles, the novelty labels are me amusing myself. You gotta add your own pencil bits and ranch dressing.

[wizardarchetypes]

today i rang up a customer at work for $13.36 and i said with such genuine cheer "uh-oh! two years before the plague hit England, if anyone cares!" and i watched the customer's eyes as they were clearly taken aback and then tried to pretend to be interested at all. they made such a valiant effort. they were like I don't wanna damper this guy's plague enthusiasm. They said, very awkwardly, "haha, uh-oh!"

[neapolis-neapolis]

Giardino dipinto (inizi I sec.), particolari, dalla Casa del Bracciale d'oro - Parco archeologico di Pompei, Napoli.

[elodieunderglass]

Is this a horrible thing with legs or...a horrible thing with fingers? Or just a horrible thing?

That’s cephalopharyngeal, a word which ought to help. Thank you so much for thinking of me!

[belovedbright]

Wouldn’t it be cephalophlangi? Since fingers are phalanges, and pharynx is the throat

[elodieunderglass]

Ooooh yeah, that’s better as an accurate description - but no, it still needs the

🤌 flow

How do we feel about cephalodactyl? And we can use phalanges for “phalangipod.” Cephalodactyl phalangipod. How do we feel about that

[sufficientlylargen]

The Greek prefix for "hand" is "chiro", so perhaps it is a chirocephalic pentapod, or maybe a pentapodactyl cephalochiroid?

[elodieunderglass]

I like “pentapodactyl” tremendously!!! but hate “chiro” in this context, and I don’t know why. Obviously I have no authority to be the arbiter of this but I do feel strongly!!

There’s a gorgeous rhythm to:

Cephalopharyngeal pentapodactyl monstrosity of the alarm

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@elodieunderglass I'm curious how you pronounce "Cephalopharyngeal" - my instinct is to pronounce the opening as a dactyl, like in "cephalopod", i.e. "SEF-uh-lo", but the scansion of that line feels better to me if it's an amphibrach, i.e. "suh-FAL-lo"

[sufficientlylargen]

The Cephalobrachial Pentapodactylus! Palmate monstrosity of the alarm! The sesquipedalian's best pernoctalian psuedo-mammalian hand without arm!

This maniform, bursiform, digital deep-dweller drifts through the darkest demersal domains, A five-footed fingerling phantasm floating full fathoms afloor from the foam-freckled main!

It hunts with its quick hyponychial cnidocytes fully envenomed and ready to kill! If nocuous toxicants don't cause cessation its rostriform mandibles certainly will!

By ripping and rending, it ruptures its rations with razorlike radulae housed in its jaw; Its great glabrous grub-grippers gather the gobbets to go in its ventropharyngeal maw!

The Cephalobrachial Pentapodactylus seldom comes skyward while it's still alive, But sometimes some singular specimen surfaces, stalking the shore like a deadly high-five,

So if you should witness, in perambulation, gressorial fingertips roaming the sands, I beg you, consider this simple hortation: observe from a distance, and do not shake hands!

[escuerzoresucitado]

Pedestrian traffic lights

[cosmogyros]

AMPELMANN FEHLT

[ub-sessed]

My daughter just came out of her room to tell me that a character in the fic she's reading just casually "tossed" a wineglass into a sink.

Like, it didn't break or anything. So now we're trying to figure out how someone could think that wineglasses are something one can just toss into a sink.

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@olliedollie1204 has solved it:

[ub-sessed]

Patrick Stewart in 1979 talking about playing Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra.

[nitronine]

He's just SO GOOD as Hamlet, man