I made a fun powerpoint for my friends about why they should read the Masquerade series, my favorite piece of fiction in the world, and decided it needed to be shared
tumblr developers cranking it into overdrive to make sure one of the few unique and usable social media sites remaining becomes a half-formed failed homunculus clone of tiktok like every other fucking website
I think one of the most profound forms of love is "I'll try that, for you. I may not like it, but I'll try it."
It's a confused middle-aged man in a pottery class, whose daughter is helping him with his clay's plasticity. It's a kid scrunching up their brow while listening to their mom's favorite music, trying to figure out why she likes it. It's a girlfriend who says "Yes, I'll go with you" and her girlfriend cheering and buying a second ticket for a con. It's a friend half dragging another friend through an aquarium, the one being dragged laughing and calling out "Wait, wait, I know we're here for the exhibit, but I haven't been here! Slow down!"
It's being willing to spend some of your time trying something new because it makes someone you love happy.
while i do think that dinosaurs are cool, and the cambrian explosion fascinates me, gun to my head the coolest extinct motherfuckers ever were the ediacarans. like. those bastards were on shit we can only DREAM of. trilobozoans?? tri-radial symmetry?? shits gone now!! that was a one-time-only special!! entire PHYLUMS that no longer exist, that moved and fed and operated in ways we can’t even understand. SOME SCIENTISTS THINK THAT THERE MAY HAVE BEEN WHOLE KINGDOMS THAT ARE NOW EXTINCT. think about that. think about how life today is sorted into categories of plants, animals, fungi, all that. now go beyond everything you know, into something that wasn’t a plant, wasn’t an animal, wasn’t anything we have any frame of reference for - because it’s gone now. it went extinct before even the old guys like jellyfish and sea sponges were thought about.
like. look at this dude. what is it? an animal? probably. what do we know about it? almost nothing. what did it do? how did it eat? how did it reproduce? did it move around? did it move at all? what colour was it really? we can guess, but at the end of the day - we don’t know.
and what about this? was it an animal? was it a plant? was it something else entirely, something that we don’t have any name for? who knows! it’s gone now! gone the way of the dinosaurs, except this was long, long, long gone before reptiles even existed. like. hundreds of millions of years gone.
see, the neat thing about dinosaurs is, we can make some pretty educated guesses on what they looked and behaved like. we’ve got birds and reptiles and large carnivores and herbivores around today - we can draw on that to make reasonable conclusions about dinosaurs. but these guys? these far-flung creatures? we have no idea. the kind of thing they were doesn’t exist today. all we can say is ‘well, the earth back then looked like this, so they probably acted like this’ but at the end of the day, they are so alien to us we just don’t know. they don’t even have descendants, most of them. they’re gone, and all we have are fossils. it’s beautiful and terrifying.
tl;dr i want to cry when thinking about Ediacaran biota and how different they are from us and how beautiful and strange life is
being a tlt fan in nz is hilarious because i can explain Jod's background to people who haven't read the series and they'll still get what i'm talking about. exhibit A, my sister:
me, trying to explain why John Gaius is the way he is: "so yeah basically God is a Dilworth boy and all his friends went to Otago university"
my sister, who has survived my 30-minute tlt plot explanation and analysis: "yeah that makes sense I think I get it now"
it's like. just stuff that doesn't matter to anyone outside of auckland/new zealand but still makes me laugh. kiwi tlt fans please rise up,, interact,, coughs and dies
Before I… crack them open?
....before you put them in here:
the water cup even comes with a little needle at the bottom for hole-poking purposes, see:
sorry i meant boil not cook
WHAT IS THAT
It's an egg cooker!
It's like a toaster and an electric kettle had a baby and ...the baby boils eggs.
#is this specifically a German thing#because Germans tend to have Opinions about eggs#also the only people I know who actually know how to use an egg cup are German#teach me your ways - I still don’t understand why you’d use an egg cup. and I can’t imagine boiling eggs not in a pot on the stove
no egg cup:
egg cup:
#why is the wobble an issue you pick them up one at a time shell then and eat them like not whole but just#you hold them and bite them and eat then till there's none left? why does this need extra tools
...at this point i'm sorry to introduce...the egg spoon.
Even better news about German egg related gadgets… the Eierköpfer (it also has a super long German name), for when you need a guillotine to open your egg neatly
No offence to Germany but why are you guys so fucking insane
nothing to see here. Just normal feelings about egg.
I have an end-of-life patient to whom I spoke today. She burst out laughing and said, "It was all such fun. I just had so much fun." I wish this for everyone. I wish that we each would meet death laughing, with little regret and even less fear.
Scrolling thru oldish art of my link and Ganon and grinding my teeth like a rodent
Just because someone doesn’t have anyone to play games with doesn’t mean they don’t have friends or even that they don’t have friends who game. Trying to get a gamer to actually get into an mmorpg they don’t normally play is like trying to drag someone into hell. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it make an anime catgirl with heterochromia named O’sha Violation
And this. We talk a lot about the horror of Jeannemary's death but let's remember poor Abigail and Magnus--and that the Fourth teens had to witness this. Cytherea could have stopped their hearts with a thought and laid them down peacefully. This display is for the sheer delight in everyone else's terror.
Die Postillon-Redaktion hat gerade sehr viel Spaß
broke the master sword? no worries! find its evil version instead!
as ganondorf broke the master sword i think it'd be very fair if link could get Demise's Sword. as a treat. (because stealing his horse isn't enough.)
@avid-makes-a-comic same vibes as your comic
we could go back to telegraphs instead of social media. send your mutuals unspeakable strings of morse code at 4:30am
.- …. …. …. …. …. / ..-. . .-.. .-.. / -.. --- .-- -. / .- -. -.. / -… .-. --- -.- . / -- -.-- / .--. . -. .. - … / - --- -.. .- -.-- / -.-- . --- .-- -.-. …. / --- ..- -.-. …. / -.-- --- ..- -.-. …. -.-.-- -.-.-- -.-.-- -.-.-- / … . -. - / ..-. .-. --- -- / -- -.-- / - . .-.. . --. .-. .- .--. ….
personally i prefer semaphore
so prefacing this with the fact that I know that the fun is sorta taken out of this by me translating, but not everyone will have the energy to look it up themselves, so I figured I'd help out.
Morse code: AEEEEE FELL DOWN AND TROKE MY PENIT TODAY YEOWCE OUCH YOUCH!!!! SENT FROM MY TELEGRAPH
Semaphore: NO NOT YOUR PENITS
his name is eBay
my beautiful radioactive son eBay who i must never hug lest i become inflicted with a sickness. some days i think it would be worth it
someone tagged this as “plush” so i thought i should let you all know this is a donkey kong shaped pipe. you put your weed on top of his ass and you have to suck through his mouth