hate when you find a lake or creek or island with a cool name on google maps and you look up the story behind the name and it’s something like “Man-Eating Megascorpion Island was named by the explorer who discovered it in 1832, after his aunt, Susan Man-Eating Megascorpion”
Caption This!
The Doctor: a flying saucer!
Jamie: och, but it's not flying is it?
Zoe: a stationary saucer!
the like to reblog ratio being almost the same is so funny, people are NOT happy with at this update lmao
How to Speak with the Dead; a Practical Handbook
Sciens, author of recognized scientific textbooks
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Ltd., 1918.
I'm just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they'd finished their collection of games for it back in April.
Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they've got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is... considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they've only gotten manuals for three games. So if you've got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual's still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!
Game preservation is important, but people rarely consider preserving the manuals as well; I really respect Vimm's Lair for being so thorough in their archival work.
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
what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck wh
