Well, hello there

Raven/Crow | she/her | officially an adult | stuck in studies but I still tend to come around ----- Mostly reblogs

[whitebeakedraven]

Welcome to this blog, here are a few explanations to find stuff easier!

The tag for my personal expression in written or artistic form was my writing or my art. Moved most of my fandom activity recently over to @stashoflostsouls. Welcome to check it out to see what currently haunts my brain!

The tags on this post are the ones I use quite often to categorize the stuff I reblog or maybe have written/added onto myself. Otherwise, you'll probably find more things as you go, but these are at least the most consistent ones as far as I'm aware.

Hope you enjoy your stay. Have a good day/night! Stay safe!

[mutantrenegade]

You know Jones soda cap, as a tumblr user i can actually say i think I have.

[thecryptkeeper]

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”

[library-seraph]

The first attested cat in Japan was given to a young 9th century emperor and his diary about it includes such gems as 'I affixed a bow about its neck, but it did not remain for long.", "The color of the fur is peerless. None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink.", "When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a coin. You cannot see its feet. It’s as if it were circular Bi disk." and "I am convinced it is superior to all other cats.” Basically posting about how his void is the best little void and so good at getting really round

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

[gemini-enthusiast]

Hilariously funny that they let the guy known for wandering off without warning to look at birds was allowed to do this

[songofsaraneth]

#famously few birds in space#probably the safest place to take him

[tiktoksijustthinkareneat]

I'm begging you to turn the sound on

[drtanner]

Spring.

[sage-nebula]

Spring.

[self-righteous-god]

Spring.

[troubleshootingspacekangaroo]

Spring.

[royalninja]

Spring.

[roboticutie]

✨️GOLDEN.......✨️

Mouse 🐁

[marlinspirkhall]

Everytime this crosses my dash my eyes light up because I know my favourite part is coming. Spring. Spring. Spring. Spring. Spring.

[pkpaulshow]

[the-gay-goblin]

This is what you call good game design

[ultimatespider]

the pros of reading ao3 fics in public is that their layout is so clean and simple that people would think you’re reading some academic researches when you’re in fact reading a 50k fic. the cons is that you need to control your face all the fucking time

[fuckyeahisawthat]

An additional feature: the layout is clean and simple BUT anyone familiar with AO3 will immediately recognize it. Pro or con? You decide.

[lynati]

If they know it enough to recognize it on sight, they probably aren’t going to be judging me about it.

[geardrops]

they were also at the devil’s sacrament

[lyraisnotonfire]

favorite thing about tumblr is having a fandom in law. no i haven't watched this show and i'm not planning to. but my moot is having fun!! look how much they love it!!! i'm supportive from the sidelines!

[crisismoth]

sometimes i be saying im gonna go to bed and then i dont go to bed. frequently in fact. this is because i have the heart of an optimist and the soul of a liar

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

[unamccormack]

I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.

[mihai-florescu]

Languages tend to peak at their word for butterfly. Never seen 2 that are the same, either. Papillon. Mariposa. Borboleta. Fluture. Vlinder. Schmetterling. Pillangó. Babochka. Farfalla. Sommerfugl. Perhonen. Farasha. Titali. Chōchō. Nabi. Húdié. Buom buom. Great job guys, i really mean it.

[skippyisntfunny]

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

Pulitzer Prize type shit

[wizardshark]

Why's this dude built like crash bandicoot

[spooky-narwhal]

Everything about this damn post is so funny to me. The lighting of the arm from the flash. The posing of the arm like a dramatic death from a novella. The fact the photo somehow got taken still and looks this good. The subreddit name. The fact this guy really is built like crash bandicoot

[shuttershocky-deactivated202512]

Western passport holders will never understand. To go anywhere with a third worlder passport like a Filipino one, you need your tax returns, certificate of employment, bank statements, marriage certificates, sometimes a recommendation from a citizen of the country you want to travel to, everything possible to prove that you have a job and a family at home and you're not planning to be an illegal immigrant, JUST to get hit with a rejection because the embassy didn't believe you had enough proof.

Did you have travel plans? Already booked the plane tickets and hotels? Fuck you, better hope they issue refunds (they don't).

[bloodmech]

Americans and Western Europeans will never understand how insanely hard and bothersome it's to travel anywhere with a weak passport, let alone immigrate.

You want to study abroad? Show us proof that there is a quadrillion dollars in your bank account. Oh, an average monthly salary in your country is $400 and you plan to work when you arrive? You can't do that, silly, a student visa only allows you to work 2 hours every third Wednesday, and if we find out that you're working a second more we will deport you.

You want to work abroad? Better be a programmer, then of course you are welcome. Doctor, scientist, white-collar or, god forbid, blue-collar worker? You can fuck right off, your visa application goes straght into trash.

But if you marry one of our first-world citizens, then fine, you can come. Because we can't upset them, after all, they are a real person, unlike you.

[xantissa]

EU Advice to people who have friends in places with weak passports- go to your department of foreigners and ask for something that called Formal Letter of Invitation or something similar. It usually is called something similar and costs a few euro/whatever currency you have. It will not be more than a fancy coffee at Starbucks or such place.

You will have to prove that you can afford a guest, have some income and also usually take responsibility for possible deportation cost.

But if you really are inviting a friend over, they will give you a formal document you can send to your friend. Then the friend applies for a visa while attaching the Very Official document with it. They will get the Schengen visa and most probably will get it expedited too.

It's some effort, but if it's for a friend it's worth it. And it's way less costly than the ridiculous loops the friend is being forced to go through and pay for multiple 3rd party services just to get a freaking visa for a month.

[delicious-dream-before-the-storm]

When you are a classical musician and the public asks you to play Queen …

[francesca-feasts]

@hieronymus-bush … although I’m not sure what you’ll think of it 😆

[hieronymus-bush]

Holy hell. He has amazing technique AND he didn’t just transcribe the piece to piano, he essentially composed classical music (and honestly some neo-classical, lol) based on the melody. Plus, he kind of looks like Freddie.

[muchymozzarella]

People in the 1800s would've gone apeshit over this in the concert halls

[emeraldbirdcollector]

Reblogging to watch later...

[geekybibliophile]

@zombeesknees

[beatrice-otter]

That's Peter Bence, and he has the whole video up on his channel:

[the-haiku-bot]

That’s Peter Bence, and

he has the whole video

up on his channel:

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

[argumate]

it's easy to get the feeling that LLM coding agents making software development "free" now because a skilled engineer can do what used to take them two weeks in one intense day and that is a 10x speed up which is amazing but it's not free and they're working even harder than they did before, with zero downtime, and will burn out that much faster.

[sacrebleuth]

I saw a psychologist talk about how automating the 'easy tasks' means everyone's jobs will just get harder. Because the human has to do the hard stuff all the time now.

Her example was in call centers, where an agent might take 1 difficult call in 10, which is stressful, but the person has the 9 easy calls to offset that stress and recalibrate their nervous system. But when 'AI agents' take those 9 easy calls, you, the human, are left with 100% difficult calls. What used to be a small, unpleasant portion of your day now becomes your entire day, all day, every day.

And to make things worse, your boss fired all the other humans, so rather than spreading out the bad amongst a team of people who could commiserate and provide support, it's just you, absorbing the stress, alone, forever.

And that's miserable.

[argumate]

yeah that's a weird inversion of what happens in some other fields, most famously when autopilots steadily took away more pilot work in the easy situations, only to dump human pilots into impossible situations when they cut out at the worst possible time.

[viejospellejos]

Típico de belgas malinois

[ceruinus]

Good video showcasing exactly why these dogs are not suited to 99 percent of households.

They've gotten very popular recently and I suspect theyre also being dumped in shelters at a high rate

[ultramarineblues]

I can confirm they are.

Which is one of the reasons I reblogged this, I vaguely hope it might make someone somewhere reconsider their choices

[werewolf-transgenderism]

only 62 more frogs until we hit 8,000 species described. the moment we've all been waiting for

[werewolf-transgenderism]

there are an average of about 150 new amphibian species described per year so I remain hopeful that 2026 will be the year of 8,000 frogs

[werewolf-transgenderism]

I do love that somebody tagged tumblr's own frog scientist on this post. chop chop dr scherz, we've got 62 more frogs to discover and you're the only frog scientist any of us knows

[werewolf-transgenderism]

GUYS amphibian species of the world is still at 7,994 species of frog BUT amphibiaweb is at 8,008 species of frog, and do you know who is a co-author on the 8,000th species of frog there???? TUMBLR'S OWN FROG SCIENTIST DR SCHERZ

[markscherz]

[thats-no-moon-lesbian]

Is the discrepancy due to taxonomic arguments between lumpers and splitters/the validity of cryptic species/subspecies or do the websites just have different policies for updating the numbers?

[markscherz]

Both, actually! Amphibian Species of the World (ASW) is pretty much exclusively updated by one man, Darrel Frost, and consequently has a rather consistent, if sometimes somewhat particular, taxonomic perspective (this means he looks at the quality of taxonomic works and assesses them before adding them to the database). In contrast, AmphibiaWeb is maintained by a much larger team, and they seem to be less exacting on the whole about which new species are added to their database (and also somewhat less consistent when it comes to updating across the database after there have been major taxonomic changes).

But fundamentally the two databases serve different purposes: ASW is a 'real' taxonomic database, providing detailed reports on taxonomically relevant details like specimen numbers, original publication data, discourse around subsequent taxonomic changes, etc. In contrast, AmphibiaWeb is a knowledge resource: it is aimed at basically being a non-Wikipedia source for accounts of species, giving lots of biologically relevant details like their biology, ecology, anatomy, etc., but keeping taxonomically-relevant details to a minimum. These are very different functions, and it is for this reason that I generally follow ASW and not AmphibiaWeb when it comes to things like species counts.

It pains me to share that I missed out on managing to also nab the 8000th frog species on ASW by TWO species! The actual 8000th species was apparently Oreolalax wumengmontis.

So, onward to number 9000!