A Little Bit of Everything

I've got fandom stuff, pretty pictures, cute animals, and funny text posts.

[bijoux-et-mineraux]

Benitoite with Neptunite on Natrolite matrix - Benitoite Gem Mine, San Benito County, California

[bklyn-bori-deactivated20180513]

[archiemcphee]

The Department of Stupendous Stonework is thrilled to welcome its newest member: Yorkshire, England-based artist and stonemason Johnny Clasper, who creates stunning dry stone structures, free-form stone sculptures, and beautiful pebble mosaics.

Visit Johnny Clasper’s website or follow him on Facebook to check out more of his stunning stone art as well as shots of works in progress.

[via Twisted Sifter and Bored Panda]

[ace-aro-fandroid]

So we got an Amazon Echo and we changed the wake word to “Computer” and now I feel like I’m on the Enterprise all the time. Additionally, whenever I watch Star Trek, she only responds to “computer” when Data says it and it’s kind of adorable. Not Picard, not La Forge, not Troi, not Dr. Crusher, not Riker. Not anyone but Data. The other night Data asked his Computer what the time was and my Computer told him it was 10:47. Watching Star Trek is even more fun now

[catgirldick]

Ur echo has a crush

[gifsboom]

Baby armadillo.

[cosmictuesdays]

Humans will pet anything.

[toffeecape]

How wonderful, then, to live on a planet full of creatures that like to be petted!

[badgengar]

“ How wonderful, then, to live on a planet full of creatures that like to be petted!”

It truly is.

[chicks2010]

[studio-ghibli-miyazaki-hayao]

Can I serve you a hot cup of tea? 🍵🤗

[thebestoftumbling]

baby meeting cat for the first time

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

Cat person right there. 

[magistrate-of-mediocrity]

Look at that tiny rectangle.

[bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190]

“our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma

and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND

[tuesdayisfordancing]

I didn’t know about zeugmas until just now! That is so awesome, everybody: 

zeug·ma ˈzo͞oɡmə/

noun

a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g.,John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ).

ISN’T THAT AWESOME??

[professorsparklepants]

#in english class in high school my teacher had us write our own zeugmas in class#and one guy came up with ‘he fell from her favor… and the window’#i am forever looking for opportunities to use that one

[siesiegirl]

She dropped her dress and inhibitions at the door.

[crumbvulet]

What’s this? My favorite rhetorical device showing up on my dashboard?

[thranduilland]

IT HAS A NAMEEEE!! OH MY GOD!!!

[candiikismet]

I LOVE THIIIIIS!!!

[orriculum]

One I’ve loved was “on their weekend trip they caught three fish and a cold”

I love these they’re like a pun and a metaphor wrapped up into one neat phrase

[claygoblin]

The Silver Swan, built by John Joseph Merlin and James Cox, 1773.

Source: Mechanical Marvels, Clockwork Dreams (BBC)

[soundssimpleright]

oh wow, the “water” is an illusion created by spinning glass rods.

wooooooooooah

[brucesterling]

*Spinning glass rods for the swan robot of 1773AD

[jugandbettsdetectiveagency]

guys… I don’t know if you know this but… if you wake up early… there’s so many more hours in the day

[anextrapart]

[prokopetz]

I love animals that are, like, the opposite of cryptids: we know for a fact they exist and have a clear idea of what they look like because we have photographs and individual specimens, but we haven’t the faintest idea where they’re coming from - they just keep showing up out of nowhere, and the locations of their actual population centres are a complete mystery.

[virovac]

I so want examples. anyone who knows of any should post them in notes

[prokopetz]

You know, like giant squid and such. We know the bastards exist, we have credible first-hand accounts stretching back thousands of years and dead specimens washed up on shore and such, but in centuries of searching we’ve managed exactly one well-documented encounter with a giant squid in its natural habitat. We have no idea what their native range is or what their life-cycle looks like, let alone how many of them are out there.

[imedude]

Are there any reverse-cryptids that /aren’t/ at the bottom of the ocean?

[prokopetz]

The red-crested tree rat, for one. There have been only three well-documented encounters since 1898, and they just plain disappeared from the zoological record for over a century. The only reason we know they’re not extinct is that one walked right up to a couple of wildlife research interns at a Columbian nature reserve back in 2011, apparently out of pure curiosity, and allowed itself to be photographed and observed for several minutes before disappearing again.

[imedude]

That’s genuinely pretty cool and all, but I absolutely need to talk about how the picture in that Wikipedia article looks like a tiny eldritch horror disguising itself as a peach.

[prokopetz]

To be fair, based on the actual photos from the 2011 encounter, they really do look like that:

[catgifcentral]

Playing Catch with Fennec

[mabychan]

YES, I WANNA MAKE YOU CRY

I love The Iron Giant <3 

[somecutething]

Just wait until the end 😯

[recklesscloudz-deactivated20230]

@withoutaghostinthewalls

[chibigingi]

I legit screamed.

[tastefullyoffensive]

by Nuclear Sharingan

[haelstorm]

me: i want to buy new books

the 10 unread books i bought last year, staring at me from my bookshelf: