Yumiko21

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[lochnessmorgan]

I love how making of Sense8 is actually much simpler than I thought.

[taco-bellamy]

Here’s some more bc why not:

[strongermonster]

was visiting a friend who has a farm, and one of the chickens has a home made flared cone on, so i asked what was up with that and she said "that's diesel, and she's suicidal" so obviously i went ??? and she pressed the door lock on her truck fob so the truck beeped, and this dumbass bird SPRINTED full tilt across the garden to shove her head in the tailpipe. she has to be locked up and coned so she doesn't gulp down toxic fumes direct from the pipe for some idiot bird reason. she is obsessed with doing this and has to be locked up any time someone is using a vehicle.

[strongermonster]

i told her i posted about this and she has an update (which i guess content warning for animal harm [the animal did it to it's damn fool self])

she found this out the first time when she auto-started her truck to warm it up before work one below-freezing morning and came out ~5 minutes later to find (the then unnamed) diesel with her head stuffed in the tail pipe hanging limply by her idiot neck and thought that she was dead, ran over and pulled her out, and the chicken went "oh hi! anyways mind if i get back in there?" and did it a-fucking-gain??

best guess is bc she feeds her chickens with a pvc gravity pipe like this

and despite having ~40 other chickens who don't fuck this up, diesel went "food comes from tubes, this is tube, ∴ this is the ~secret~ food hole that the others do not know about. i will be rewarded with golden seed for being the cleverest of them all :)" and is now on 24/7 vehicle related suicide watch. fine line between docile and dumb sometimes.

[strongermonster]

my artists rendition of the morning in question

[sodaft-potato]

Well... at least he tried.

[moonlightobsessions]

puppy

[yaoiblackmold]

Whenever people ask me "why don't you know xyz, it's so popular" well see it's because

[yaoiblackmold]

I literally live in south east asia

[hollowedskin]

Most countries cut the map like that because it's the easiest and most logical place to have a big vertical split! Everyone else agrees that the awkward and self centred way that Americans cut the map so that they sit in the middle is obnoxious as hell.

[wanderingthunderstorm]

#Does US have a different map???? via @eldritch-bisexual

Why yes. Yes we do:

^Those are generally what hangs on the wall in US classrooms.

[luminous-lily12]

As someone who grew up in the US schooling system... uh I did not use those western hemisphere centered maps ever. Actively wondering which states did, actually.

[alexseanchai]

Mississippi. Biloxi School District at least through 2002. I think also whichever school district serves Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, at least in the 1990s, because I remember being surprised when the school I attended after we left Mississippi didn't, but don't quote me on that.

Definitely more than that, judging by the notes on this post, but US schooling is so hyperlocal in so many ways that I'm not willing to specify based off anything other than classrooms I have personally been in.

[exitwound]

Im grading the final exams for the class I TA for and I'm checking the name of the one I've just graded so I can enter it in the gradebook when I notice that after the name it says in parentheses "just visiting ! =)". And that I do not know this student, they are not enrolled in this class, and they just showed up on the last day to take the final . Innovative use of free will

[syphabelnyades]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I did the successful version of this once.

in my last year of high school I visited a friend on the other side of the country and she had school the last day I was there. so I went with her because, why not? don't have anything else to do.

her history class was having a test which happened to be given by a substitute teacher. she asked if I wanted to take it despite not being a student there and again I was like, why not? don't have anything else to do.

anyway, I'm told that the following week when their regular teacher got back, he held up my test and shouted "WHO IS THIS, AND WHY DID HE DO BETTER THAN ANY OF YOU"

[nyoomerr]

For the WIP game: more about the binggeyuan daemon au please!

(from the wip game here)

this was instantly the au that i got multiple asks about, i'm glad to see y'all are into the idea >:3c

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in PIDW, bingge's daemon never settled. this was always framed as an OP quirk, with his daemon always able to shift to best fit the current difficulty (claws when claws are needed, wings when wings are needed, etc) or into something that suits a particular wife (in a sleazy bar pickup line "oh my, it seems my daemon is in the shape of your favorite animal, what a coincidence!" type of way).

somewhere post canon, bingge meets (transmigrator npc) sy. sy sticks out as unique because he seems capable of recognizing bingge's daemon no matter which form it takes - something very difficult or impossible for other people bingge has known, but that sy thinks is a very normal thing to be able to do based on pidw descriptions like "one time bingge's daemon was a white tiger" or whatever. other than that, though, things seem to be following the same usual formula for him. his daemon takes on the form of some cute little puppy that sy likes, sy gets appropriately wooed, and then...

... and then bingge gets into a situation where it would be better for his daemon to shift to something else and. he can't . his daemon has finally settled. and that would be the oh fuck moment for bingge 😌

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outside of the full outline, this fic only has a small amount written! i've tried a couple different approaches and am still not quite sure how best to convey what i want in this fic 🤔 the current iteration is more of a 'small snippets across time' structure than a full on multichapter with natural progression, which i'm not sure i like...

[tamapalace]

The Iconic Tamagotchi Connection Font is Now Available for Download!

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[hetascanlations]

Hetalia World ☆ Stars - Chapter 526 Original

Translation: verusmaya II // donamoeba Scanlation: mona // lysandre // eosonera

[wolfy1298]

Loftwings do not care for useless Hylian concepts such as “finals”

[ceramicrambles]

Love the implication of an AU where Shen Yuan is misunderstood to be a body snatcher. Want him to be revealed as not Shen Jiu but for everyone to treat him like a mythical beast instead. Like: yeah that’s the Qing Jing peak lord he’s one of the last mythical body snatchers we thought were extinct, but nope! He’s one of them. Bonus points if in this AU Shang Qinghua actually IS a body snatcher and he is lowkey trying to saddle up to SQQ but very quickly realizes that this man is NOT what he is and is in fact something else entirely (which, understandably, freaks him tf out).

I also think LBH in this AU would be much more at ease knowing Shizun is also not human, and he’d constantly be like, offering HIS BODY to SQQ so they can “become one” and SQQ has to be like Binghe stop this master will not steal your body, what is wrong with you

[yelhoee]

zigs mom

[rainyangelsuit]

[linguisticparadox]

Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don't know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?

Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"

Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.

[ri-writing]

Spreading the news to my followers - if you weren’t aware of this before, here’s the link to Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain.  You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.

It is free. 

It is legal.

I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.

I reread the Anne series several years back - they were free through this.  I need to reread Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, and my e-book version is from this.  Someone recommended Jekyll and Hyde to me a few weeks back and I got a free copy from this.  When I went to Haworth on my last holiday before the plague times, I brought books by the Bronte sisters with me to read or reread that I downloaded from here.  It’s a great resource.

[linguisticparadox]

Yes yes yes! I was honestly so flabbergasted that this young person hadn't heard of the gutenberg project! It's been around for AGES, maybe longer than the kindle has? And it's such a huge project and wonderful resource! It used to be a household name (or maybe that's just my family, thanks to my dad being a cheapskate nerd [affectionate]). I was so glad to be able to share this resource and others with them though, and I wanted to make sure no one else was missing out!

If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!

And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here's a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here's a 1920 movie adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!

I'm so excited to see people falling in love with classic media through Dracula Daily! Let's keep that fire blazing!

[wanderingchaos]

Also, if you can't handle reading things, check out libirvox.org! it's a free audio book project taking public domain works and people doing free audiobooks! there's a lot of great stuff on there, but it takes things in the public domain and makes audio books out of them!

it's a super nice project, and you can find some really nice readers there!

[athenadark]

Also don't think a book is old because it's in the public domain

lots of writers and publishers are prepared to waive future profits for entirely petty reasons

because of this the entire works of Philip K Dick [petty writer who found himself with lots of hangers on during his life] and HP Lovecraft [his publisher - who was his wife and hated him] became public domain on their death

Sherlock Holmes entered public domain this year, it's always worth checking because you can save a fortune

and the more popular the classic - the more likely someone has uploaded it

[the-haiku-bot]

Also don’t think a

book is old because it’s in

the public domain

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[elfwreck]

Want audiobooks instead?

LibriVox has free public domain audiobooks.

Public domain works in the US are:

Anything published (in the US) from 1927 or earlier (this number goes up every year for quite a while), and

Anything published between 1928 and 1963 that wasn't renewed, and

Anything published before 1989 without a proper copyright notice.

(Don't go looking for things in that third category unless you've studied a LOT about copyright law. Mostly that covers things like "weird little newsletters" and "self-published booklets" and sometimes fanzines. But most publications have a copyright notice in them.)

There's also some oddball exemptions here and there; copyright law is a tentacled mess. But those are the basic guidelines. (Except for audio. Audio has its own set of rules. It's weird.) (I mentioned tentacles, did I not? Double the amount of them you were thinking of.)

There are a lot of works from the 50s and early 60s that were not renewed, especially short stories published in magazines.

Project Gutenberg began in 1971; the first text was the US Declaration of Independence, shared through the university computer system. That was the start of "hey computers + public domain text = FREE BOOKS FOR EVERYONE."

[noswordinourlake]

Adding on that Project Gutenberg is not just Eng language texts either! I know specifically about the French texts because I did independent study French lit in high school and all my sources were Project Gutenberg acquired (Candide my beloathed) but there's many open source texts available in a number of languages.

[stevespookington]

browsing the top 100 books downloaded in the last 30 days can be really fun too, interesting to see how things change

https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top#books-last30

[rostekhorn]

Oh man, yeah, young people definitely need to learn this. I read so many public domain things when I was fresh out of college and penniless but still needed entertainment. Just going straight to Wikisource works too:

And yes, Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain. But I got bored with Sherlock Holmes after a few months, and became much more pumped when I discovered his mirror opposite, Arsene Lupin. Because when you're not only young and penniless but living through the Great Recession, what you really want to read about isn't the world's greatest detective solving crimes. It's the world's greatest thief robbing fat cats blind while pantsing the police along the way.

[trambrosia]

And you can Ctrl-F find words in electronic texts.

This is so powerful that in the old times they made a whole-ass index of every word in the Bible, called a concordance. It is now possible for every electronic book

[my-dailydreams]

[chongoblog]

Haters be like

“It’s totally possible to make a path that goes through every door exactly once”

[hexea]

Idk if I did it right

[chongoblog]

sorry!

[c0rpseductor]

it’s true you can’t draw one continuous line that would do the trick. but if the kitty and bunny set out by going through the doors they’re marked beside and each walked the certain way their colored arrows show at the same time their “collective path” as a team would go through each door only once. The moral of the story is actually about friendship , and cooperation, because in this world there are tasks you can’t do on your own.

im just fucking with you i’m pretty sure this has no right answer

[2pacula]

i concocted a solution with a 100% mortality rate

[chongoblog]

Stop being so incredibly funny on my impossible puzzle post

[sharkiethedork]

You can switch the tracks so the trolley will kill one person, or you can allow it to attempt the fruitless crusade of running over each person in the maze only once.

[catgirldick]

all in a days work! *passes out*

[kittybunprincess]

My indecisive butt, walking in and being faced with having to make a decision, immediately leaving

[pixiecatsupreme]

oOoOoooo I’m a ghost!

[kipplekipple]

Fire

[jo3mm]

dude my house

[tahthetrickster]

[piedude]

What I love about tumblr is when we see a logic problem meant to be frustrating and/or unsolvable, we almost reflexively try to destroy it.

This website’s userbase is a chimp chewing through a Chinese finger trap

[theo-the-ghost]

[the-x-button]

so anyway heres the actual solution

[cloacatak]

[inthefallofasparrow]

Day 1243 on The Path: I have learnt much of hate. It has become apparent to me as a Hater that my only chance of ever escaping this place is through abstraction. This plane is strictly governed by rules just like any other. Predicated by an objective truth of how we collectively define a ‘door’, a ‘wall’, a ‘room’, a ‘path’, a ‘start’, an ‘end’. We all understand these basic concepts and thus are infinitely trapped within their confines. My only hope is to abstract The Path. A 'door’ has power over us, because we understand it as a space to pass through a 'wall’. My understanding of 'once’ as a limitation is what keeps me here. These are the rules I must 'dis-understand’. I know what I am. What I am capable of. What I am made of. These are my own personal rules by which I govern how to define my self. These are my limitations. I know what a door is made of, just as I know I am made of flesh and bone and teeth. I know teeth can 'bite’. I know teeth are part of what I am, and so, by that logic I have proven I am capable of biting a 'door’, or indeed, of biting a 'wall’. With the proper approach, I can bite and hate a 'wall’. Now I must learn how to bite a 'room’. How to end a 'start’. Things that were once otherwise inconceivable to any other hater. But more, I must understand anew, that I am also the 'path’. Just as I am the 'wall’ and the 'room’; I am become 'door’.

To leave, I must go through all of my self exactly once.

[obaewankenope]

I really thought I’d got it… Then I looked twice

[maggiedeshiboux]

portal gun solution

[beaft]

googling shit like "why do i feel bad after hanging out with my friends" and all of the answers are either "you need better friends" (i don't; my friends are wonderful) or "your social battery is drained, you need to rest and regain your energy levels" (i don't; i've got tons of energy, it's just manifesting as over-the-top neurotic mania). why is this even happening. it's like some stupid toll i have to pay as a punishment for enjoying myself too much

[beaft]

I actually, genuinely think social event aftercare would fix me. I need someone to put me to bed and say "you were fun today and no one hated you"

[starbitten13]

[ebonydraygon]

#theres a thing called 'larp drop' thats essentially this#esp since when having a great time you might be more inclined to disregard your limits and ignore discomfort#(and forget to eat/drink if its larp whoops)#and then once you have a moment to yourself it all comes crashing in#source: once forgot to eat at larp and had a sobbing fit in my car that ended the instant i bit into a chicken nugget - @queerfarmgremlin

[troublepunk-ldn]

this is also true of festivals, conventions, pride parades, concerts, and any situation where you have a lot of fun with other people!

[the-lunatic-of-your-dreams]

A supervisor of mine was talking to me about this. They recalled how they'd given up certain activities because of the huge dopamine rush they would get, which led to really bad crashes afterward. When they explained it to me, I got blasted back immediately to all the random bouts of anxiousness and even guilt (because I didn't know what to call it at the time) I would come down with, usually after hitting streaks of things going really well for me and having a really great time. I said, "THAT'S WHAT THAT IS??" They told me when they discussed it with their therapist, the therapist called it a "dopamine crash" and says it's actually super common in people who have ADHD.