mostly dogs

some cats | adult

[anxeious]

bathe in your own sunlight !!!!!!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Scifi writer fear: readers who like to do more math than you do

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Writer: Okay so this seems like an appropriate size for this room, given its function and the drama needed for the scene...

Readers: Perfect! we were told 3 chapters back that this room is 'the average room size for a spaceship of this type', meaning that we can use this size information to back-calculate the volume of the spaceship, adjust for the stated 0.9atm air pressure... and then looking at the required air cycling rate for humans... we can see that the air purification system briefly described in chapter 6 when they were replacing air filters would be impossible for this spaceship!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Tumblr ask 6 months later: It was really clever how you used the size of the rooms and the air filter system to hint that the ceilings of all the rooms were very very low and thus let the audience deduce that humans in the future are much shorter than humans today! That's a great little nod to the 'humans have gotten taller over time' thing that people like to say, and really subtle, since people who hadn't done the math on the room volume would never see it!

Writer: ... Yes. That was... very clever... of me... to do.

[elizabethswitch]

Showing numbers to sci-fi readers is a little like making the let's-play pose at an excitable terrier of unidentified provenance.

[oqmemphis]

my favourite proofreading note i've ever sent to Harry was

"an agonizing forty-day journey of nearly one thousand miles" - 1000 miles at the stated two knots would take 18 days (yes I know this is spectacularly pedantic and no-one will notice or care except me)

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

I was thinking of you when I reblogged this oliver thank you for doing the good and pedantic work

[markadoo]

the famous "nonthreatening feminist boy" photograph from 2013 was made entirely practically. The "mirror" effect, which would now be trivial to produce in any photo editor, was achieved by filling the room face-deep with mercury and shackling him to the floor so he didn't float to the surface

[innerchildabortionclinic]

oh fuckkkk man not the SERIAL UNALIVER

[escuerzoresucitado]

[best-bird-tournament]

this is just what juvenile siblings are like when they're being loosely social

[targetedknowledge]

[rimonoroni2]

my general opinion on what people should be "allowed" to portray and what topics they should be "allowed" to explore in fiction is that you can make whatever art with whatever themes you want but i'm also allowed to think the way you handled it was tasteless and should've been done differently. my negative opinion on your handling of sensitive topics is the price of admission for publicly showcasing your work. this is not a pro-censorship stance because i am not The Government

[rimonoroni2]

this is getting really popular so i’d like to add the important caveat that your criticism of a work is no more unassailable than the work itself. just as one is entitled to be critical of something someone else is entitled to disagree with that criticism. i add this because some of you pretend to give a fuck about thoughtful analysis and then when someone points out flaws in your argument you declare that all criticisms are valid. this is untrue. the status of a hater is no more sacred than that of a liker. get off your high horse and engage in the thoughtful discussion you pretend to believe in or perish by my blade

[enki2]

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

[animatedtext]

[flipchild]

[thyrell]

i fucking hate that post about the jimmy fallon ben n jerrys flavor because i tried it because of that and its honestly the best ben n jerrys no contest, so now its the flavor i buy every time i get ice cream. and every time the weather gets hot i have to eat ice cream out of a tub with jimmy fallons face on it. this fucking blows

[thyrell]

fuck you jimmy

[pankendev]

the "Turn everyone into rodents now" act, as well as its proponents, have been ratified

[translatingpostsinfrench]

poêlefuckdev

la loi "Transformer tout le monde en rongeur maintenant", ainsi que ses partisans, ont été ratifiés

[pankendev]

what did you just call me

[johannestevans]

Also, consider. A magical version of the bends. Whenever someone from a non- or low-magical land has to go into a very magic rich forest or land or dimension, having to take breaks to let their bodies adjust to the new magic exposure or else their blood will boil in their veins or they'll Transform

[wormtoxin]

actually the bends only kicks in when you try to LEAVE the high pressure area. or in this case, magic rich area?

Getting deeper and deeper into feywilds and knowing that however deep you get, it’s gonna take twice as long to escape without magic tearing its way out of you

[lady-of-the-garden]

ohh, you could also have a magical version of high altitude sickness that would kicks you as you enter the magic area, if you go too quickly or do too much in a place with more (or less?) magic than you came from.

[thememedaddy]

[battylite]

gun to your head what is the best tweet of all time?

[herecomesthementalmeltdown]