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Space is pretty neat

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Currently looking for a way to launch myself into the sun.
Madeline 'Ismarus' Hale, 24, USA.
Hi! I like to draw stuff. I also wrote a couple of D&D books called Table Fables.
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sodorz

thinking abt how fucked up steam engine boiler explosions can look. theyre just pipes under there

gives me the idea of a ghost/monster engine that looks normal, albeit a bit battered, only to swing their smokebox door open and a myriad of pipes come bursting out like fucked up tentacles

I didnโ€™t know a train could be an eldritch horror, but here we are.

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vimbry

when I try to show something to a friend related to an interest they like but I know nothing about, I feel like a relative giving them this

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princeshilo

sometimes im like "wow holy shit im being really fucking annoying. i should stop talking" and then i pull out my magic 8 ball and it says "youve always been annoying and your friends chose to talk you anyways. youll be fine" and im like wow thanks magic 8 ball. and then the ogre attacks me

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Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

It's "mne-eeh-t." "Mne-eht" said with that soft tongue on the upper palette French sound or "mee-yet". I put the "n" because the pretty tongue roll on the "y" kinda sounds "n"-like to me.

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mooncustafer

I've been saying it Mee-yet in my head. Like the French word for "crumb."

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bxsmxth
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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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3liza

we talk a lot about ohhhh what if my calling is to be the greatest mammoth hunter ever and I'm wasting my talents in the modern era but we never think about what if Thog from 30,000 BCE was the only person ever born who could get a sub-7min Donkey Kong Country any%, and he never got the chance. what about thog

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irlwakko

this is by far my favorite safety/warning sign btw. they really went off with this one

No cuz I fucking love this sign. Itโ€™s not an actual barrier so itโ€™s not like some sort of challenge it simply says โ€œfuck around and you will find outโ€

Ohohoho I LOVE โ€œfuck around and find outโ€ signs, especially the really dramatic and ominous (but true) ones

(Context for the last one: itโ€™s a WWII era sign posted around the soldiersโ€™ washroom mirror, warning them to never discuss military plans in places where civilians could hear them and report back to the enemy, e.g. in restaurants and pubs in the country. โ€œLoose lips sink shipsโ€.)

I also love these two, which I would place in the category of โ€œYou already fucked around, now youโ€™re about to find out.โ€

Aerated water is fucking scary. It's water that has a fuckton of gas in it, which reduces the buoyancy to the point where you will immediately start to sink if you fall in.

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rigjuice

ive been collecting these recently and wanted to add some of my favorites

Official ominous signs