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[hannahlockillustration]

Is this a Pidgey??

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

[abuzd]

Daniel Sloss SAID IT THANK YOU DANIEL SLOSS

[shy-retiring-oxford-chaps]

Reblogging again now that Russell Brand's ugly mug is back in the news to remind everyone that in the 2023 Times expose on his abusive behaviour, Daniel Sloss was the only male comedian willing to be named and quoted like "yeah that dude's a scumbag and women have been warning each other about him for years."

[daunt]

I was working on real work stuff last night and then suddenly this happened….

Derek would probably be a friesian since they are pretty majestic looking (or something), some adorable person said Stiles should be a chincoteague pony and Scotty is a new forest buckskin or something oh god why am I still talking about this I am shutting up now???

And Derek as an Alpaca.

[lotstradamus]

#peter pan is one of the most sinister characters in children's literature and you will never convince me otherwise can you explain why?

sneaks into people’s bedrooms in the middle of the night

literally steals children and spirits them away

supposedly all of these children are ”lost” and fell out of their prams and whatnot but he also happily absconded with wendy, michael and john who were not even a little bit lost 

chopped a man’s hand off and fed it to a crocodile nbd

(peter is supposed to be a child can we bear this in mind) 

at the end when he rescues the lost boys et al he sneaks onto the jolly roger and slaughters ten pirates before they even realise he’s there

boy is a stone cold killer yo

and slightly just keeps a running verbal tally through all of it like those children are so unfazed by Peter Pan, Killing Machine

and a couple of quotes from the text to top it all off: 

and when [the lost boys] seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins them out;

peter thins them out

okay

and my personal favourite: 

He often went out alone, and when he came back you were never absolutely certain whether he had had an adventure or not. He might have forgotten it so completely that he said nothing about it; and then when you went out you found the body;

THEN WHEN YOU WENT OUT YOU FOUND THE BODY

?????????????????????????

[fleete]

I wrote my undergrad thesis on that little fucker!! Protip: read the original novelization of Peter Pan. It will weird you the fuck out. My favorite part is when he scares Hook by mimicking the croc’s ticking noise. Except, in the book, he doesn’t do this on purpose. Instead he’s swimming along to the ship, hears the ticking, and starts ticking along, compulsively. For a few minutes, he sort of FORGETS that he’s human and his mind goes animal-blank, and he’s just rolling along ticking like the crocodile because HE THINKS HE’S A CROCODILE. Fun times. My thesis was about how he’s a fundamentally amoral character. He does what he likes, and whenever anything happens that could result in character growth, he just FORGETS it. Peter Pan is seriously like the scary child monster in a horror movie.

[zlot]

If you read the first appearance of Peter in Barrie’s The Little White Bird (later published alone as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens), it is fairly apparent that Barrie originally conceived of Peter as a ghost of a child who died of exposure in the park overnight, and who now buries other children who get lost in the park after the gates are shut. It ends: “But how strange for parents, when they hurry into the Gardens at the opening of the gates looking for their lost one, to find thesweetest little tombstone instead. I do hope that Peter is not too ready with his spade.”

Peter Pan: sort of a kid, but mostly some kind of child-shaped GOBLIN OR SOMETHING idk

[rurinnfane]

The post about angel wings not needing to be purely white to be beautiful reminded me of a picture I LOVE

This pigeon is an angel

[embervoices]

If anything, the colors add contrast so the individual feathers are emphasized! Gorgeous!

[shouty-y]

Franchaela portraits ✨

[sirfrogsworth]

Today I learned 3D animation is a horror show outside the camera's field of view.

[thefrogman]

Just to add context, the director wanted the scene to use an 85mm lens which is slightly telephoto. Telephoto lenses give a very intimate feel because they compress the scene. Background and foreground objects can appear larger at longer focal lengths.

But that compression can also make objects look the wrong size in context with the subject depending on the framing.

This is done in live action as well using another person's hands in front of the camera.

Or sometimes they create giant fake hands like in Hellboy.

[kylostantrums]

they did this in lord of the rings too!

[galaxywarp]

via @suppermariobroth :

“In the main menu of Mario Power Tennis, Toad is present to explain the selection options. It appears as though Toad is close to the background and roughly the same size as the icons. However, moving the viewpoint reveals that Toad is actually extremely tiny and extremely close to the camera (note Toad near the left edge of the screen in the bottom image).”

[hiimhdere]

TOAD IN THE VOID

[porterr-robinson]

[sandersstudies]

This is so

Unnecessary

[myrrhguy-deactivated20250626]

how do you explain to someone that this is your sense of humour

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

“What could the audio possibly be?”

*unmutes*

“Oh,”

[moonblossom]

If I ever don’t laugh at this, assume I died.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[karcatgirl-vantas]

the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

[skluug]

this is what ancient greek philosophy is like

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

False! “Sightly” is a positive word, so the default way for things to work is good as well.

The true most ordinary object is beautiful, horrible sounding, very smelly, intangible, and delicious.

I still don’t think it matches anything in existence but to truly understand a thing one must know its true nature.

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

"touchy" is also a word! however it's mostly used for things that aren't objects, like subjects of conversation. it either means "oversensitive and irritable" or "requires careful handling/wording, delicate"

i think the second one works well for our hypothetical object. so we can use that.

therefore, the Default Object is:

beautiful

makes a horrendous sound

smells absolutely awful

is very fragile

tastes delicious

and i still cannot think of anything that matches this

[and-a-pidgey-in-a-wepear-tree]

behold, the default object!

[shqrimp]

of fucking course

[galvanizedfriend]

[leatherleaves]

I recently started working in hospitality, and I’ll tell you guys right now, the trope of “there was only one bed” is not as rare as you’d think in real life. A few times a week, at least, I have guys come in who are working together on projects in town or passing through who have to literally book the last room I have available for the night and lo and behold — there is only one bed, and guess what, they give each other a side-eyed look and begrudgingly take it. So write it up, it happens all the time!!!

[karis-the-fangirl]

[blatant-phishing-attempt-bot-de]

Never let your There Was Only One Bed dreams die. I was secretly in love with my best friend for over a year when she graduated and moved to Oklahoma (like 1000 miles away) for grad school. Between that travel restrictions, we were so scared we’d never see eachother again.

At the end of summer, when Covid numbers were at a lower point, I took the risk to visit her in her new apartment and I quickly realized that, unlike when I’d spent the night at her house before, the couch wasn’t made up like a bed. She explained that since her new couch was so fancy and pink, I couldn’t possibly sleep on it, and so I needed to sleep in the bed with her. You know, out of necessity. I woke up with her snuggled around me in the middle of the night.

We’re dating now, and I genuinely think I’m going to marry her. Just the other day, though, I mentioned that if she hadn’t been weird about her fancy couch, I probably never would have like confessed my feelings. AND THEN she stood up, took the cushions off the fancy couch, UNFOLDED IT INTO A HIDE-A-BED, and said “I KNOW.”

THIS GIRL. ORCHESTRATED. BED SCARCITY. JUST SO SHE COULD MAKE THE “ONLY ONE BED” EXCUSE. Y’all when I said I just about lost my goddamn mind, I just about lost my goddamn mind. I love this sneaky bitch so much and the moral of this story is BE THE ONE BED YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD.

[leet911]

Fanfic imitates life, and life imitates fanfic. It’s full circle really.

[blue00phoenix]

oh my god 

there was only one bed

but it was STAGED

[thedragonemperess]

I love this so much

[potterchild]

New Fanfic Trope Unlocked!!!!!

AU:There was only one bed - by design👀

[boldlyanxious]

Fake dating or only one bed?

Fake only one bed

[scottishaccentsareawesome]

THE TROPE HAS LEVELED UP

[signoraviolettavalery]

“orchestrated bed scarcity” is my new favorite phrase

[herske]

Tonight I am Searching for An Image that May Very Well Change My Life

[wooftphr]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Give em the ole Razzle Dazzle

[everythingfox]

Watch for a surprise

[dankmemeuniversity]

[aangtics]

“airbenders are able to warm themselves with only their breathing”

ok so this explains why katara and sokka were bundled up in parkas galore while aang was just walking around in his little jump suit like it was a perfect summer evening. I’m so glad this was cleared up. I literally thought Aang’s optimistic attitude is what kept him warm, heavens. 

[sindri42]

So you remember the firebender prison? And how Zuko kept his bending at full strength when he was put in the freezer box, which disabled anybody else put in there? That’s because Iroh taught him that airbender trick, just like later he taught him waterbending moves to deal with lightning. Iroh was secretly master of all four elements and passed it on to Zuko without him noticing.

[blue-arrows-14-deactivated20150]

AVATAR IROH

[orangeisthenewblue]

#iroh was proof that the avatar might be able to BEND all the elements but, any bender can use the techniques of the other elements to support and further their own native element, because all of nature is connected, the avatar is the truest form of that connection but the failure was in believing that, the existence of the avatar meant the other elements were considered harmonious but disparate(x)

[aangtics]

^^^bingo

[drarrelie]

I Can’t Make You Love Me

When you look at Drarry through Ginny’s eyes, it’s bound to get a little angsty.

Title: I Can’t Make You Love Me Rating: G Pairing: Harry/Ginny, Harry/Draco Tags: Epilogue Compliant, CC Compliant, POV Ginny, angst, heartache, letting go, pre-slash Words: 1,013 

 Summary:

I can’t make you love me if you don’t. You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t.

@drarryawards nominee for Best Angst Fic 2019.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20094094 https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13354570/1/I-Can-t-Make-You-Love-Me

Inspired by Bonnie Raitt’s beautiful and heart-wrenching ballad I Can’t Make You Love Me. I’ve always loved that song, and once I realised it would be perfect for a Drarry fic from Ginny’s perspective, the thought refused to leave my mind.

Podficced by the amazing @woopwoopunicornpoop​ here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/33244372

Please let me know what you think?

[drarrelie]

OMFG! My old hidden gem just got the honour of being podficced by the amazing @woopwoopunicornpoop 💙💙💙💙💙

Their interpretation is absolutely marvellous  — and it’s only 8 mins, so you have no reason not to go over here and give it a listen at your earliest convenience. Just do it, and make sure to give this debuting podficcer all the love they deserve so they’ll keep blessing us with their gorgeous voice for many podfics to come…