Me and the gang emerging out of our rooms to go tell our parents a random fun fact we learned
academic publishing explained
A) this is hilarious and kids are fucking incredible comedians with devastatingly frank takedowns of adult nonsense
B) for people in the tags, I am absolutely certain it’s not “I sell paper”!!! It’s “hice el paper” = “I made/did the paper”
Today I learned the highly saturated coloring on all of the gen 1-2 Sugimori Pokemon art was only like that because of shitty quality scans somebody made over 20 years ago that then got circulated all over the net. Tauros’s art for example actually looks like this. What the fuck.
Thread about it: https://twitter.com/Lewchube/status/1648072834164432902
there’s a bit of nuance to this - these weren’t just bad scans that got arbitrarily spread across the internet, they were bad scans that were used consistently in international official materials and you will see the blown out colored versions if you open up old 90s guidebooks and the like! the new and properly colored scans are from a japanese pokedex book
i love when i click on the unmute button and instantly know you're gonna hear breakcore
oh my god
I’m tagging you as a cry for help @bogleech because if anyone is going to know what the FUCK this thing is and also infodump about it (much to everyone’s delight), then it would be you.
Those are pancake batfish! Deep sea animals related to walking batfish which are found in shallower waters but look even weirder. They can barely swim and waddle around on their fins. They’re actually a group of anglerfish and have a lure that dangles out of a nose-like cavity. Instead of using light or other visual stimulus the lure is thought to release an appetizing smell to prey 🙂
STANCED
'but ghosts haunt the day, don't they?' embroidery on calico fabric, 2023
Artist Anastasia Trusova floods her canvases with vibrant colours and textures. "Textured graphic impressionism".
I just saw someone say the words "jokingly gaslight" this might be a good time to reintroduce the internet to the terms "lying" or perhaps "pranking" or even just "joking" on it's own
why would you leave this gem in the tags
This thing is scaring me why are its feet so huge
goat-plushie
Wait, there’s physical copies of Fallout Equestria? That’d have to be massive.
scorch-mechanic
The first run was five hardbacks of progressively increasing girth. The stack is hefty, but the books are comfortable. Each chapter has chapter art too, which I consider a plus in all fantasy books.
Later runs were single-book softcover monstrosities. I think I saw another five-volume hardback run recently, but I’m not deeply involved in the fandom anymore.
silverlightpony
The second print run was two volumes, hardback, with jackets. Dunno about any subsequent runs.
I still think the 5-volume split was the best option. It’s a big damn story.
(For anyone who hasn’t read it: yes, that’s a functional replica of the main character’s go-to weapon. No, I didn’t customize it like that; I bought it from the person who did.)
anon PLEASE tell me your teacher is the author of this
Ok, I Kind of hate that I know this, but I’m pretty sure that anon’s teacher did NOT write the books the others are showing off. He wrote the darker, edgier and somehow even longer fanfic OF that fanfic called Project Horizons.
Original Fallout Equestria was written by someone known as Kkat who I’m 90% sure is a woman and the story only has some PG-13ish scenes at worst (you know, aside from the violence and gore that comes with a Fallout setting.) Project Horizons was written by a guy known as Somber, who I remember him mentioning in the post-chapter notes that he got fired for failing the wrong student once and the fic itself includes multiple explicit sex scenes.
smallest-feeblest-boggart
it’s important to me u know what the 3rd printing looks like. please note the gilded pages
one of tumblr’s secret trump cards is its ability to deliver absolutely OBLITERATING gut punches like this post without any context or warning whatsoever
