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[jetix]

Would you give up the ability to sleep ever again to never get tired either?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 1 hour 59 minutes

[youarenotthewalrus]

In theory this seems like all upside--never tire! get eight extra hours every day!--but ever since I read the Subnormality strip on this topic years ago I've concluded that having to live the entire rest of my life as a single uninterrupted ultralong "day" would most likely drive me insane.

[humanoidhistory]

Early color photographs of Antarctica, circa 1915, by Australian adventurer Frank Hurley.

[gaycigarettes]

my all-time letterboxd stats are killing me

[pmamtraveller]

by Ginny Robbins

by Ginny Robbins

[epicsause-official]

Fun fact: in Celeste, Theo's sister, who is usually named Alex, will be instead named Maddy if the player renames Madeline to Alex

Fun fact 2: the game handles this through a variable called TheoSisterName, which can be changed to anything by editing the savefile

[thestuffedalligator]

Human Is is a 1955 Philip K. Dick sci-fi short story where a guy goes to another planet for work and when he comes back to Earth his personality has flipped from an asshole to a sweet, kind, considerate man. Everyone's immediately convinced that an alien has taken over his body, this goes all the way to court, and in court his wife testifies that she's noticed no changes at all and so the charges are dropped.

And then there's a bit right at the end of the story as the wife and the husband are walking out of court:

Jill turned abruptly. "What is your name? Your real name."

The man's gray eyes flickered. He smiled a little, kind, gentle smile. "I'm afraid you would not be able to pronounce it. The sounds cannot be formed..."

Jill was silent as they walked along, deep in thought. The city lights were coming on all around them. Bright yellow spots in the gloom. "What are you thinking?" the man asked.

"I was thinking perhaps I will still call you Lester," Jill said. "If you don't mind."

"I don't mind," the man said. He put his arm around her, drawing her close to him. He gazed down tenderly as they walked through the thickening darkness, between the yellow candles of light that marked the way. "Anything you wish. Whatever will make you happy."

And I. God. There's something there. A soupcon of monsterfuckery. To tell your partner in a moment of intimacy that yes, you're something so inhuman that the lips you're stealing can't speak your actual name. You're a parasite that not only had the ability to burrow under this man's skin and take over his life, but you were so desperate to escape a dead, dry, blasted planet that you did.

And for your partner to then turn around and go "I know, I've always known, and I love you" is just. God I know it's not a great Dick story but something about it is making me lose my mind

[thestuffedalligator]

Also it's explicitly stated that the guy's consciousness is still alive and preserved on the alien planet. Jill is told this and then proceeds to defend the alien anyways, ensuring that her husband's brain is stuck in a jar on a desert planet. You love to see it

[redlipstickresurrected]

Kim Harding aka Kim Wettenhall Harding (Australian , b. 1971, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia) - Distraction, 2025, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

[fucca02]

[slimetony]

hey guys im making french toast sticks in the oven. I’m gonna take a quick nap wake me up in 5 minutes so i can flip them over

[guddram-deactivated20180109]

Randy its been five minutes flip your sticks

[slimetony]

snnnnzzzzz

[guddram-deactivated20180109]

[cedricredwood]

hey man check out my recipe for 5 minute sticks, it’s been 10 years and the intervening time was a treasure despite the hardships. You can put butter on them

[scavengedluxury]

[huariqueje]

Glimmer of Hope - Jeanne Rosier Smith , 2026

American , b. 1966  -

Pastel  , 8 x 8 in.

[thunderstruck9]

Bruno Vekemans (Belgian, 1952-2019), Train on bridge, 1992. Gouache. 96 x 68 cm.

[dotcore]

Nintendo Pulp. by Ástor Alexander.

Available on Society6: Taken… Again, Twilight Gal and The Bounty Hunter.

Check out the artist’s Tumblr.

[the-night-picture-collector]

Lynn Davis, Three Gorges, Yangtze River, China, 2001

[youarenotthewalrus]

Thinking about The Amazing Digital Circus and while I do find it a little annoying how Jax's character arc ended up eating half the show Vriska-style, I will say that in a show otherwise single-mindedly dedicated to resolving every interpersonal conflict from "I was a bit rude to one of my friends earlier and now I think she might be mad at me" to "I spent years subjecting a group of people over whom I held totally unchecked power to my every whim and caprice without heed to their own feelings or desires until they felt they had no choice but to kill me in self-defense" with an emotionally articulate heart-to-heart, it is refreshing to have a character so utterly allergic to emotional honesty and openness that they would rather die than talk about their feelings and who then, in fact, does so.

[poolsofchrome]

A pulsed message from the equatorial belt

[oilpalette]

The Blue City, 2023 by Jennifer Doehring (Native American & German); Watercolor on paper, 9 x 12 in