Who Up Pondering They Orb (etc.)

The Wizard, Stick (he/him), MgD. Crafter of the Arcane Arts, Creature of Habit Days since last Fireball: 5

[feralratbitesu]

harnessed this things essence lol and all that he once was is now redused to this. kept his husk alive just bc i was bored lol

[themoldman63]

i wizard never posts late, nor do they post early. they post precisely when they remembered tumblr app on the orb and can enchant the masses on the go

[wtf-scientific-papers]

[We’ve all been there: 11.47, swamped by a long stretch of dense scientific talks at a conference. Six slides into a hyper-technical presentation, the speaker suddenly cracks a joke. The room erupts. Shoulders relax. Minds re-engage. Humour is a powerful but underused tool in scientific communication, often sidelined by academic norms that view levity as unprofessional. Social biases can further shape who feels safe joking without risking credibility. At 14 biology-related conferences, we collected data on humour use across 531 talks. Jokes clustered at the beginnings and ends of talks, with an extra bump in successful jokes midway through. Most jokes (66%) earned only polite chuckles. Humour success was unrelated to the type of joke or form of delivery; however, male speakers told about 0.35 more jokes per talk, and both male and native speakers had a 10% higher probability of eliciting laughter. This suggests how social dynamics influence who feels comfortable using humour and whose jokes resonate with the audience. Until academia reckons with these biases, humour will remain a privilege. Still, for those brave enough or granted the social licence, a well-placed zinger can turn a forgettable talk into one people actually remember—and perhaps even enjoy.]

Mammola et al. (2026)

[ethanmaldridge]

The Wizard's Apprentice

[allsadnshit]

Calling something "breakfastless behavior" just the modern day "you forget yourself"

[hollowvoidly]

@hollowvoidly

[wizard-spiral]

incel mage: casting Perpetual Motion on that ass is corrupt, naught but a lie

regular mage: Perpetual Motion is sick af, what a skilled mage to have done such a thing. also that ass is fat af 👍

[amvs]

interesting fact i have titanium in my spine

[amvs]

[walkietalkiesaki]

Fun Fact!

Titanium not only is crazy durable, but it noo magnet! Thas wy Dock chok jjiun spi; surgyr ad pater noster, qui es in cœlis; sanctificetur nomen tuum: Adveniat regnum tuum; fiat voluntas tua, sicut in cœlo, et in terra. Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie: Et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris: et ne nos inducas in tentationem: sed libera nos a malo.

[amvs]

dude got hit with the ol’ Lorum Ipsem beam😞

[squareallworthy]

Fun fact! Titanium is often used for medical implants because it's *dodges lorem ipsum beam* because it's strong, nontoxic, won't corrode inside the body, and best of all, *dodges* bone will directly grow onto it! This is called "osseointegration" and it means that your titanium artificial hip, dental implant, or whatever will have greater *dodges* greater mechanical stability and will ARRRGGH! aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit!

[amvs]

[dormitionanddominion]

[plastiboo]

[wtf-scientific-papers]

Xiong et al. (2026)

[fuckboi-mcjesus]

Northernlion if he was a Wizard

When are you gonna do wizard stuff? You've been etching that same spell array for the last 5 streams lmao

"When am I gonna do wizard stuff? You're watching it right now man. This is it."

you should hunt more demons again

Laughs "Look man, that was last month. This is now. You gotta understand the role of violence in the cycle if you're ever going to thread the needle of your will into the tapestry of fate."

So are you not gonna accept ManaMuncher2003's wizard duel challenge?

"Okay first of all, I don't even know who this guy is. Second of all, you gotta remember that wizard duels are fought across the entirety of reality and the victor is decided long before the challenge is ever issued. But I guess no one ever taught you that."

you're calling us stupid lol

"No I'm just saying that there's a reason why I'm the one doing spells and you're the one watching me from your mom's laptop. No shame or anything."

fuck you and your entire mage guild you shitty hedge witch

"Alright buddy, you're getting annoying. Mods, send this guy to the mind prison where he has to fight a shadow doppelganger representing his deepest insecurities to escape"

NL's never shown us his shadow demon because we know he'd have hair

Failing to hold back laughter "Okay to be fair to that last guy, I gotta send you to the mind prison too. But I'm gonna give you thirty seconds to find a weapon to bring in with you because I have to admit that one was pretty funny"

[queer-as-city-folk]

The only thing that can stop an evil wizard is a good wizard with a gun

[wizard-spiral]

I cannot stand for my homunculi to be so erratic. Into the kiln with these fuckers.

[concoctionboy]

If any wizard wants a slime familiar, I'm considering splitting off small copies of myself and giving them away as familiars to suitable wizards. They can form themselves into whatever shape you want; you can have a slime rat familiar, or a slime bat (ability to fly not guaranteed without magical assistance), or, heck, a slime eggbeater with legs if you want it, although I'm not sure why you would want that.

Having been created by a wizard, I figured maybe I should offer to give something back to the wizard community.

[wizard-spiral]

If you think about it, centaurs have another dimension along which to form body language expressions. Whereas bipedal humanoids have head, shoulder, and hip angles to work with, centaurs and such have head, shoulder, shoulder 2, and hip angles. That's a whole 'nother dimension of recombination. Maybe you can inject subtlety in an expression with that extra dimension so that your utterances (as it were) can be ever more complicated.

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]