Do Wizards Dream Of Polymorphed Sheep? @wizard-alijah - Tumblr Blog

for ease of blog use, here are the tags I use that aren't fandom related:

#i talk too much - my personal tag

#my writings and ramblings - post with actual effort put in

#poetry I guess? - some of my poetry, I guess

#medical stuff - when I talk about the medical stuff happening to me

#the griefmotif - stuff with an overarching theme of grief

block whatever tags you wish to. and if you want to unfollow/block me but you feel bad, here's my most sincere permission to do so.

#i talk too much #my writings and ramblings #poetry i guess?#medical stuff #the griefmotif

newyorkkiss

girl on club dancefloor has her feet cooled by a friend pouring smirnoff ice over them (2000)

2000three

Mary Magdalene washing Christ's feet

cazort

I love how every time I log on, this site attains new levels of heresy. I can't wait to see what is next.

rhynee

this is still one of my favorite explanations for gender

sedimentfootwrap

This image manifested so clearly in my mind I had to recreate it

alexseanchai

[image 1: a tweet by KatysCartoons, whose profile picture is a stick figure whose head is colored in with the trans pride flag. the tweet reads, "Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions". embedded in the tweet is a pie chart entitled "Types of atom in the universe": seventy-four percent hydrogen, twenty-five percent helium, and, in tiny font, one percent other.]

[image 2: the periodic table of the elements, except that hydrogen and helium are in their own box labeled "Real elements", and elements 3 (lithium) through 118 (oganesson) are labeled "Mental illness".]

incidentally this periodic table must've been drawn in the past nine years, since it doesn't deadname oganesson

mikkeneko

Shouldn't that be "Real Elements" and "ELEMental Illness"

heavenlycreatures

finland, pietarsaari, 2020

the problem with having food allergies in general and weird ones in specific is that you can't just try a new place on a whim. if you don't want to be Suffering you must pass the fucking bar exam of identifying hidden ingredients

pinniposting

everyone knows what a baby harp seal looks like, but here’s an adult! this one’s tracker makes it look like a live bomb

photo: W.J. Grecian, SMRU

littleguysdaily

trainwiz

My brother made this comic and thought it should be shared.

cugzarui

as a chemist i would like to say BWAHAHAHAHAHA

alexseanchai

image description at explainXKCD:

explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.

flareonfloof

its a bit easier for astronomers

nerdynonnativenarnian

NO! Where’s the non-metals and metaloids?!

flareonfloof

are they hydrogen or helium

nerdynonnativenarnian

oxygen, carbon, sulfur, xenon, iodine, neon, etc etc.

flareonfloof

ooo okay i see the confusion. you're listing off a bunch of metals there

nerdynonnativenarnian

…. You’re breaking my chemistry nerd brain. Hhhuuuhhhh???

flareonfloof

im an astrophysicist

nerdynonnativenarnian

but but, science is science?!

flareonfloof

and different fields of science have different conventions and definitions for their unique contexts

katzeregi

ospreyonthemoon

Huh. I wonder why specifically astrophysicists like everything as metals.

victusinveritas

shofarsogood

This is the book they wrote.

#that's just how it goes #q

mousegirlheart

everyone please pray for my wife she's trying to learn mahjong by playing it for hours in yakuza kiwami 2

the-lumpfish-queen

Oh I have the perfect advice for a beginner in Mahjong

foxgirltrauma

Yeah, I gave up. I just do not have the luck to pull the damn tiles I want.

xenasaur

you have mastered mahjong's most basic principle

hotvampireadjacent

https://twitter.com/birdtickler/status/1552657242909904897?s=21&t=q4JEDIALmV-cAjcoEOypdw

littlemisspipebomb

ok so I looked it up, and it turns out they made a track out of PVC pipes, down a hill. The owner didn't realise PVC expanded in the heat, so on a turn the track just fell apart and the dude inside went over a fucking free way and into a swamp.

aspiringwarriorlibrarian

The funniest part is that the inspector was watching the whole time, and once the ball stopped he left without saying anything. Park management just shut it down then and there.

baronfulmen

"The ball cleared a small hill, briefly going airborne, then zipped right across Route 94, the two-lane road splitting the park. Cars honked and slammed on their brakes. If there had been opposing traffic, Frank would have become part of a real-life game of Pong, volleying from one bumper to another.

Still in pursuit, we followed the ball toward a small lake in Motor World that had been earmarked for a fleet of tiny bumper boats for children. The area wasn’t open yet, but the empty boats were being tested and floated on the surface. The ball soared over the grass and smashed into several of them, scattering the others with rippling waves from the impact, which launched some of the boats several feet in the air.

Charlie and Ken waded into the water looking for the hatch. After some difficulty, they got it open. Charlie pulled Frank out by grabbing him under his armpits like a baby. Frank crawled up the bank, coughing and sputtering. He splayed across the grass as we all stared at the ball, which bobbed in the water like it was attached to a fishing lure.

We did not ask for the inspector’s report, nor did we ever hear of one being filed. Ken Bailey returned to Canada. The snow-makers cleared away the PVC. Told to dispose of the Bailey Ball, they rolled it into the woods, where it remained for many years."

I don't know that this beats the teeth story, but it's pretty great.

birdplushie

"it's not that deep" START DIGGING!!

magn-animously

DIG

14-opossums-in-a-trenchcoat

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buriedunderyourmum

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hannisconfused

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kitsunesakii

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yourlocalfandomfriendo

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thatghostthateatspeople

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OOPS TOO DEEP

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

estro-boi

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent