currently praying for more zoldyck siblings content in the new chapters

wait you understand that kinks are ok because they're fantasies that make you happy right? you all get that you don't need to have trauma for your kinks to be okay? right? like none of you think i witnessed a tragic accident on the pool toy assembly line right?

like "some people work through their personal issues with kink" was a good first step for some of the class that were struggling but i think now we're ready for "things that don't hurt anyone and make people happy are okay even if you personally think it's icky"

BECAUSE ROUGE THE BAT DRAWN AS WIDE AS SHE IS TALL WITH TITS TO MATCH KILLED MY GRANDMA, OKAY?

The implication that the hypothetical grandma either got bowled over or like was in an Indiana boulder chase esque scenario is hilarious

I’m so pressed about how evil this company is that I’m reposting Alex’s gofundme over here. They’re trying to bury Alex under so many legal fees that they have no choice but to give up their ip… and they’re only one of many many people (and pets!) that have been harmed by this company.

#this company has literally trademarked people's real living cats and stolen their instagrams from them#like there is straight up at least one person who had a pet instagram that this company now runs posting old pictures of their cat#and the cat owner's conclusion was basically ''well at least i got to keep my cat'' which#holy fuck

this is still an active gofundme as they're trying AGAIN.

company doing the bullshit is Golden Bell btw

I want owned physical media back, but I'm not sad to see DVDs go – optical media was always a transitional technology, and suffers from a number of intractable drawbacks. I want them to start selling movies on indestructible solid-state cartridges the size of a quarter, so I can keep my entire media collection in an unsorted pile in a random cabinet drawer and have to go rummaging through it like an amateur chef trying to find the lemon zester every single time I want to watch something. Do you understand? I want to lose the entire Star Wars trilogy between my couch cushions.

HELLO whoever at buzzfeed made him read a lesbian-on-gay thirst tweet you are my idol

sorry not tweet, tumblr post. this website is the only platform that could produce something so good and pure it actually makes Andrew Scott smile and participate in the joke rather than sigh with his entire soul

leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this

Sometimes something fucked up happens to the guy and their melody gets fucked up too. Sometimes the thing that fucked them up also has its own melody and when the first melody gets fucked up the second melody gets mixed in

no fucking way dude. are you serious

occasionally I am struck dumb by the sublime beauty of the world in the small moments, you know?

egg

i drew it

hey I hope you dont mind I also painted your egg

i also painted the egg hope that's ok

i heard we were painting egg?

I love how this shows how real artists drawing a thing aren't just representing the thing, but showing you what THEY found beautiful in it.

Wizards (1977)

evil gay people!!!

Chilchuck Northern Boys amv

Sorry but WHAT is this song??

I’m high as shit and I’m just carrying around this lantern like a fucking guardsman

tags from @cromerholt

Having a real "must have been the wind" kind of night

i love it when people trap the warden in minecraft by making a moving piston that makes noise so the warden just quietly stares at it. ipad baby

his touy

thinking about him

with @makiiato

and my goofy ass

Ancient redwoods recover from fire by sprouting 1000-year-old buds

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When lightning ignited fires around California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park north of Santa Cruz in August 2020, the blaze spread quickly. Redwoods naturally resist burning, but this time flames shot through the canopies of 100-meter-tall trees, incinerating the needles. “It was shocking,” says Drew Peltier, a tree ecophysiologist at Northern Arizona University. “It really seemed like most of the trees were going to die.”

Yet many of them lived. In a paper published yesterday in Nature Plants, Peltier and his colleagues help explain why: The charred survivors, despite being defoliated [aka losing all their needles], mobilized long-held energy reserves—sugars that had been made from sunlight decades earlier—and poured them into buds that had been lying dormant under the bark for centuries.

“This is one of those papers that challenges our previous knowledge on tree growth,” says Adrian Rocha, an ecosystem ecologist at the University of Notre Dame. “It is amazing to learn that carbon taken up decades ago can be used to sustain its growth into the future.” The findings suggest redwoods have the tools to cope with catastrophic fires driven by climate change, Rocha says. Still, it’s unclear whether the trees could withstand the regular infernos that might occur under a warmer climate regime.

Mild fires strike coastal redwood forests about every decade. The giant trees resist burning thanks to the bark, up to about 30 centimeters thick at the base, which contains tannic acids that retard flames. Their branches and needles are normally beyond the reach of flames that consume vegetation on the ground. But the fire in 2020 was so intense that even the uppermost branches of many trees burned and their ability to photosynthesize went up in smoke along with their pine needles.

Trees photosynthesize to create sugars and other carbohydrates, which provide the energy they need to grow and repair tissue. Trees do store some of this energy, which they can call on during a drought or after a fire. Still, scientists weren’t sure these reserves would prove enough for the burned trees of Big Basin.

Visiting the forest a few months after the fire, Peltier and his colleagues found fresh growth emerging from blackened trunks. They knew that shorter lived trees can store sugars for several years. Because redwoods can live for more than 2000 years, the researchers wondered whether the trees were drawing on much older energy reserves to grow the sprouts.

Average age is only part of the story. The mix of carbohydrates also contained some carbon that was much older. The way trees store their sugar is like refueling a car, Peltier says. Most of the gasoline was added recently, but the tank never runs completely dry and so a few molecules from the very first fill-up remain. Based on the age and mass of the trees and their normal rate of photosynthesis, Peltier calculated that the redwoods were calling on carbohydrates photosynthesized nearly 6 decades ago—several hundred kilograms’ worth—to help the sprouts grow. “They allow these trees to be really fire-resilient because they have this big pool of old reserves to draw on,” Peltier says.

It's not just the energy reserves that are old. The sprouts were emerging from buds that began forming centuries ago. Redwoods and other tree species create budlike tissue that remains under the bark. Scientists can trace the paths of these buds, like a worm burrowing outward. In samples taken from a large redwood that had fallen after the fire, Peltier and colleagues found that many of the buds, some of which had sprouted, extended back as much as 1000 years. “That was really surprising for me,” Peltier says. “As far as I know, these are the oldest ones that have been documented.”

... “The fact that the reserves used are so old indicates that they took a long time to build up,” says Susan Trumbore, a radiocarbon expert at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry. “Redwoods are majestic organisms. One cannot help rooting for those resprouts to keep them alive in decades to come.”

-via Science, December 1, 2023

also the regrowth kind of looks like rock candy

me, march 10 2024

a friend of mine recommended this game for me and honestly I love it so much so far. really gud price and less than GB download. I still am cracking on very early in the game but I feel like I'm going to enjoy this a lot so I wanted to share ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ

once you realise it you’ll never unrealise it, but it’s fucking insane how prevalent trans girls are in tabletop rpg culture/spaces in real life when you compare that to the supposedly queer big budget live action actual play podcasts that tout themselves for having “trans representation” which in this case seems to refer almost exclusively cafab trans people playing almost exclusively cafab trans characters

trans girls are basically unavoidable if you’re playing tabletop rpgs in real life (or even on the internet, to be honest!) so why do i have to dig through hours and hours of Dimension 20 content to find a limited spin-off that has one (1) transfeminine character.

remember when a bunch of trans girls got into The Adventure Zone and sung its praises when Griffin added a trans girl NPC? And then remember how in the many years & campaigns since we never got another explicitly transfeminine character even though trans girls arguably lifted the show to the popularity it currently has? Good times

the amount of people totally missing the fact that i’m asking for specifically more transfeminine hosts, players, characters etc is incredibly depressing. you know trans people aren’t all interchangeable right? you know that?