[hera-the-wizard]

congratulations! after some kind of miraculous incident*, you've been given the head-features** and tail*** of an animal! what kind?

canine (dogs, wolves, foxes)

feline (large and small cat)

lagomorph/rodent (rabbits, mice, beavers)

ungulate (deer, cows, whales, anything with hooves)

reptile/bird (lizards, snakes, dinosaurs, birds)

amphibian (newts, axolotl, frogs)

some other mammal (bears, weasels, bats)

mollusc (octopus, snail, nudibranch)

arthropod (moth, spider, lobster)

other!

*possible incidents may include: chaos mutation, wish granting, regular mutation, shapeshifting gone wrong, combining your dead dream-self with your omniscient, faceless, green-flickering pet and then recombining upon apotheosis, surgical modification, and HRT

**includes ears, horns, antennae, additional eyes, pedipalps, spines, frills, feathers, external gills, and tentacles

***tail, abdomen, whatever

[hera-the-wizard]

:)

[badpoker]

what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck wh

[phosphorescent-naidheachd]

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners. I wish someone had told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase; they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative, work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know that it’s normal and the important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you finish one piece. It’s only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take a while. It’s normal to take awhile. You just gotta fight your way through.”

— Ira Glass
(via oddhour)

[mf-dude]

[puppylove24680]

#you ever see a thing and think 'i bet this happened three thousand years ago too'#i bet greek musicians had to hold on a sec to get someone's pet goose off the stage#then the goose got more applause than the musicians#i bet ancient egyptian acrobats made absolute fools of themselves#trying to get rid of a kitten in time#i bet an ancient neandertal religious service had to go on pause#because a bat got caught in someone's hair#i hope this happens to us forever

[mooncustafer]

^ Description of Mozart as a kid

[theclueofthebrokenneedle]

This. Is my pride and joy. A gift for my dad, who played Zork with me when I was a kid, and with his dad when he was a kid. I designed this pattern myself and had a great time puzzling out how to hide the glow in the dark letters!

Pattern: “West of House” by me
Fabric: 2x1 on 18ct Blue-Grey Aida
Started: 11/27/2021
Finished: 12/25/2021

[noneuclideanromance]

i thought it’d be funny if he scooted around like an inchworm 

Anonymous asked:

...what is the "sex is just rock climbing" category

runawaymarbles answered:

It was kind of a joke between me and a friend (“you wouldn’t judge someone for having gone rock climbing with a bunch of different people”) but honestly the more I thought about it the more I bought into it unironically because:

• It is a physical activity done with one or more partners
• You should only go rock climbing with people you trust not to let you fall
• You should not go rock climbing with someone who is drunk or currently incapable of rational decision-making
• Some people get super super super into rock climbing and do not shut up about all the places they have climbed and how many are left on their bucket list and these people are usually men between the ages of 20 and 35 and like it’s fine dude I’m glad you’re happy but I don’t know what most of those mountains even are
• While many consider it a fun activity, pressuring someone into climbing when they don’t want to (or ignoring their feelings and just dangling them off a cliff,) could cause both psychological and physical trauma
• There is no moral value to it whatsoever. Who you have gone rock climbing with (or whether you have rock climbed at all) has no bearing on who you are as a person. Imagine telling someone “it’s not that heights make you nauseous, it’s just that you haven’t found the right person to belay you!” or “you need to save your first time rock climbing for someone special.” That would be absurd.
• historically I have not asked myself “will this aggravate my hip flexer injury” before participating when perhaps I should have 😔

[pictureamoebae]

i love this so much

[eh-fandomtrash]

Originally posted by whencartoonsruletheworld

[jcrewguy]

In a statement to The Post, a spokesperson for NBCUniversal claimed the tree work is simply an annual ritual at this time of year. “We understand that the safety tree trimming of the Ficus trees we did on Barham Blvd. has created unintended challenges for demonstrators, that was not our intention. In partnership with licensed arborists, we have pruned these trees annually at this time of year to ensure that the canopies are light ahead of the high wind season,” they wrote. “We support the WGA and SAG’s right to demonstrate and are working to provide some shade coverage. We continue to openly communicate with the labor leaders on-site to work together during this time.”

[unpretty]

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[laughingcatwrites]

If those trees were pollarded annually, the cut areas would NOT look like that. There would be big knobs of old growth at the trimming sites. Not seeing any of that here. The way those trees were topped (not pollarded, which is a very careful process that has to begin when the tree is immature) is excellent way to kill them due to loss of hydration, open sites to infection and parasitism during the best time of year for both, lack of nutrition due to so little greenery and new budding growth being left, sunburn and other exposure damage, and a myriad of other possibilities. Plus, if they were topped annually, they would not have the lovely drooping branches seen in the other picture but would have tons of vertical suckers instead.

This is what an annually pollarded mature tree should look like:

If this was done by the city, the public works arborists should be protesting in front of city hall and screaming their heads off right now. I'm not hearing about that, so... Tree law!

[vaspider]

The Studios: *speak*

Botanists and other Tree Experts:

ALT

[sparkletindi]

Update and confirmation of Imminent Tree Law:

ALT

He mentions later in the thread that not only do they not trim the trees annually, they’re trimmed at best once every 18 years. Supposed to be every five, and only in dormancy, which even my layman’s ass knows about tree trimming.

And yes, Universal can probably eat the fine. But it’s gonna be a whopper even if the trees survive (which is as mentioned kinda unlikely), California is a triple damage state for tree law, and it may increase dramatically if there were nesting birds in the trees.

All this to be a Captain Planet filler villain to some writers. And yes, it’s currently just the writers officially picketing there; SAG-AFTRA recommended against it for petty bullshit like this and the suddenly necessary sidewalk construction.

[femmeboyant]

I asked my dad— a retired arborist—about TREE LAW and he just kinda blinked and said (i paraphrase because Dad Tangents, amirite?):

"Worst and best case I ever saw was a guy who was caught in the act of cutting down a C&C tree by two Department of Urban Forestry supervisors while they were randomly driving around on a Saturday. Not only did he have to deal with the cops showing up and months of paperwork and bureaucracy, but he also had to pay the fines AND cover the cost of the tree removal + stumping + buying a new tree + planting the new tree + wages for the regular crew plus the extra workers they needed to get the jobs done. That tree ended up costing him upwards of $35K, and that was over 20 years ago."

So yeah, respect Tree Law or pay out the bootyhole.

[unpretty]

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[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[dduane]

Happy Moon Landing Day, everybody!