Walter M Miller Jr.'s

A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) ... Zach / 32 / Florida / Any Pronouns / Latin teacher

[3liza]

usa: you do not need to go to the post office to mail a package

you can order priority mail shipping boxes and envelopes in any size from store.usps.com for free. if you do not have a printer, you can buy them with the postage already paid on them. the postal service will deliver these boxes to your house. you can pack your item into the box at home, then go back to usps.com and schedule a time for the mailman to pick the package up from your house. this is also free. you do not have to visit the post office at any point in this process. if you use flat rate mailers you also do not need to weigh anything.

i have to explain this to people about 20 times a year, no joke. it is some sort of anti post office conspiracy that everyone thinks you have to buy shipping boxes and then drive to the post office and stand in line to mail things. you do not. shipping mailers and boxes are 100% free. priority mail service or above (and prices are now adjusted to the point that its usually pointless not to use priority mail) entitles you to a free pickup, and if you have even one priority mail package to ship, you can ask for all your other packages to be picked up on the same trip too.

if you are shipping JUST books, use Media Mail. its very cheap

[the-cosmic-creature]

If you like Project Hail Mary, consider reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky!

Space opera with first contact and characters similar to eva stratt (avrana kern, isa lain) with an insanely interesting and compelling story. Its also a series!!

[simone-draws-sometimes]

Avrana Kern sketches!

Btw my commissions are open and there’s a discount 👀

[thebeardedsoliloquy]

Finished Children of Strife, good shit as usual

[skunts-own-truth]

All you fucks should get obsessed with Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time, this is without doubt one of the best sci-fi books I’ve read in a long, long while. Incredible prose, great storytelling, uplifted spiders, the hottest mad scientist lady I ever done read about screaming about monkeys. This is a BOOK. So far, so far, not a single sentence has been wasted, every single line has been used to push the narrative forward in some way. No bullshit. It’s awesome.

[i-dont-talk-much]

i love speculative fiction because it allows sentences like “given enough ants, human women are infinitely divisible” to be fully comprehensible both grammatically and semantically

[ashstfu]

reading a good interesting book after a horrible reading slump and suddenly you can feel the sun shining again and the sky is more beautiful than ever and birds are all singing songs to you

[ampervadasz]

[masterkfox]

my two brain cells

[vigilantsycamore]

This is what executive dysfunction looks like

[a-book-of-creatures]

Inside you there are two hamsters…

[bisexualcreature-deactivated202]

lvl 1: the plural of octopus is octopuses because the plural version of a word is the word with an s at the end

lvl 2: the plural version of octopus is octopi because if a word ends with "us" the plural version replaces the "us" with "i" e.g. cactus -> cacti and fungus -> fungi

lvl 3: actually, that rule is only for latin words. octopus is a greek word and the correct plural is octopuses or octopodes

lvl 4: actually, language is descriptive not prescriptive. since enough people over time have used octopi as the plural for octopus, it's a valid plural

lvl 5: the plural of octopus is octopeese, like geese

[the-haiku-bot]

lvl 5: the

plural of octopus is

octopeese, like geese

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

[funny-tik-toks]

[virtualgirladvance]

love the camera guy even gets to bump into a mirror for us

[depsidase]

[thoodleoo]

i think maybe my new favorite category of roman intaglio art is "insects doing human things" because it's so indicative of the human need for whimsy. now take a look at this 1st century BC/AD intaglio of a grasshopper in a chariot pulled by butterflies

[deepseastranger]

Odo bong.

[vikingofficial-deactivated20241]

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[napster-insomniac]

Tags via @bigfootismyonlyfriend

[the-canis-major]

Imagine being such a bitch that your own invented sport becomes your antithesis, cuts ties with you, and changes their name just like all trans people with transphobic parents

[natalieironside]

The kids are making mud bricks and brewing beer at Sumer camp

[bigscaryd]

This joke must be going around.

[natalieironside]

Unrestrained Sumer fun

[aqua-regia009]

Circe Invidiosa (Red edit), 1892 - oil on canvas — John William Waterhouse (English, 1849-1917)

[deepgreenposts]

not quite ready to post these on insta so yall can have the first look!! finally had time to put kira back on and get some halfway decent pictures <<<333