Turns out there’s another member of the glowy hole club

Relevant：https://did-you-reboot.tumblr.com/post/187646079832/club-membership-revoked

club membership revoked

we are the lopporits!

mirkemenagerie update

Lore Index

I’ve had my own lore compilations thread on the RPC for some time, and now I’m porting the Index over to @mirkemenagerie. So you will now be able to scroll through an itemized list of my lore posts here:

While still finding all lore-related reblogs under the Lore Tag here:

Hope you all like the changes!

Mirke’s Menagerie Lore Index

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Aether & Magic

Deities & Primals

Races of Man & Beastmen

Guilds, Classes, & Jobs

Ul’dah, the Jewel of the Desert

Limsa Lominsa, the Navigator’s Veil

Gridania, the Sylvan City-state

The Holy See of Ishgard

Sharlayan, the Old World

Ala Mhigo

Garlemald

The Near East (Ilsabard & Thavnair)

The Far East (Othard & Hingashi)

Ancient Allag

Meracydia, the Southern Continent

Mamook, the New World

Miscellaneous

The First: Norvrandt

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You have to play it right. I find that a weirdo with a Lock style rifle is less silly then a Billy the Kid VS the Dragons

What's even funnier is that this dude is the most powerful mage of his time. And he still opted for the gun.

You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:

Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

Don’t fuck with flamingos

….. Didn’t know most of that

Huh… so that’s why zoos don’t put them somewhere warm during winter.

Oh yeah, this leaves out what I *did* know about them–they can also survive hypersalinity. That is, water so salty it kills practically everything else–water so salty it burns your skin.

American flamingos just drink that shit

(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.

When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.

It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:

Some species of flamingo actually subsist almost entirely on a diet of bacteria! In other words, there is a species of dinosaur that eats only bacteria and lives in lakes so toxic they would kill almost anything else—and it is best known to the average person as a kitschy lawn decoration.

Earth is an amazing place.

As has always been true but the OceanTemptingFate billionaire slushy sub has made patently obvious, BioShock could never happen because an underwater city built by an objectivist billionaire who hates regulations for being anti-capitalist would fucking implode way before it ever fell to capitalist infighting or people getting addicted to sea slug juice.

"Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? No says the man in W-" *bathysphere immediately fucking implodes because Andrew Ryan refused to spend more than $100,000 on steel*

It's true. I can't get into any dystopian sci-fi where capitalists built anything impressive on their own, because it's never happened in reality. Now, a dystopian sci-fi where capitalists co-opted resources/technology from the public sector to then run it into the ground? That's quality cyberpunk.

So this year the Conservative party of Canada decided to book a convention at the same time as Anime North, in the same building. Meaning it’s basically been a bunch of us gays/nerds walking around in costume, confusing the fuck out of groups of politicians and businessmen. 

(A couple of them actually called the cops on us because there were people walking around with giant cardboard weapons. And the police were like “what do you expect us to do? It’s a comic con, we can’t tell them to stop… they literally go through a weapons check at the event”).

(My friends and I also had some of them come up to us at a restaurant to ask us “what the fuck an anime was” and if it was just “one big party”).

This is one of the funniest things that has ever happened to me….

This happened to me in Charlotte a couple of years back. HeroesCon and the state’s Republican convention were at the same venue on the same weekend.

I witnessed men give an extremely wide berth to a passing Silent Hill cosplayer, a LOT of head shaking, and one woman actually clutched her pearls.

The best part was watching the Republicans attempting to find a place to sit when they broke for lunch and staring at the eating area with both disdain and dispair with their trays.

It was glorious.

A potentially-apocryphal story that has been going around for ages in my friends:

One year, there was an anime/comic con scheduled in Las Vegas at the same time as a Baptist convention.

There was a gentleman of some stature and size who was cosplaying as a demon character of some kind (I have heard it as ‘Goliath from Gargoyles’ as well) who left his room to head to the masquerade and convention floor.

He traveled down a few floors in the elevator and then the doors opened again…. to reveal a group of little old Baptist ladies waiting, all in their church hats and Sunday best, to go to a show.

They blinked at him.

He blinked at them.

And then he smiled broadly at them, one and all, and said “going down?” in a deep, stentorian voice  with a gallant sweep of his arm.

Apparently the door closed without a single one getting on or saying a word.

I can’t imagine why.

One con I used to go to was regularly scheduled at the same time as a cheerleading competition

Most of us didn’t mind the kids and teenagers, of course, although some of them were a little perplexed by us

The actual issue was all the soccer moms, hence why an elevator ride with Pyramid Head turned awkward for much different reasons than you’d expect one year (you’d think the lady would have at least had the sense not to whisper loudly at her kids not to look at PH as if she thought we couldn’t hear her)

Dianne, you’re the one who thinks it’s appropriate to put your little girl in a costume you’d find on the Dallas Cowboys’ cheer squad, you’ve got no place for moralizing.

(And yes, I know Pyramid Head is a horror character, but she was just leaning against the corner of the elevator and not DOING anything besides trying to get a rest on her way back to her room)

Man, the last few [that convention]s I attended were a TRIP. Saw a super-adorable Zidane Tribal get chased down and mobbed for photos by what seemed to be an entire cheerleading team… and a girl who couldn’t have been older than twelve getting a pep talk from some of her friends before asking a Sailor Moon group if she could pose for a picture with them. (They said yes, naturally.) It was overcrowded and LORD some of those parents were jerks, but I do miss moments like that.

About the Goliath story above - I’ve heard it told as “Ifrit from FF8”, “[Hellsing] Alucard with all the extra eyes and mouths and stuff”, and “a Klingon warlord”, so who knows how old/true it is….

my fave cross-convention event i’ve witnessed was still the year some huge GA Tech sporps thing overlapped with Dragoncon and the Hilton bar was full of drunk Klingons cheerfully singing karaoke with a load of drunk college football fans.

Guys! Let’s all troll the next RNC in our convention gear! Clog up the hotels with anime cosplay and furries and Stormtroopers and trekkies and and and…

My conclusion: the nerdier you are the more likely you are to win gold

Got another one lads

another one babes

ANOTHER ONE

I just love all these nerds showing up on international tv as some of the worlds greatest athletes

we are Not going to leave out Noah Lyles kamehameha 

How does this post NOT have this:

Uzbekistan’s Ball (rhythmic gymnastics) too

i’m going to start a fashion line called FAKEGEEK and its sole purpose will be to produce tshirts that will piss off nerds

I saw that R2 shirt and my first thought was…yeah, makes sense.

“No that’s an oil tank I’m not interested” 😂

#Me when I see realistic plants in video games#BABE THEY DID YARROW COME LOOK#BABE THESE GRAPES ARE CORRECTLY TRELLISED ( @bonzicatgirl )

THIS IS WHY I MAKE REAL PLANTS IN THE GAME. FOR NERDS LIKE ME.

Same energy:

I can listen to somebody talk about their interests like this forever. Please please tell me what realistic plants you found in your game. please tell me about all the propane tanks you saw in your game.

I do this a lot with animals on screen. Some of my more memorable angry zoology rants are on my blog

Bacon gets added to lots of foods to make those foods taste better, but you never really see foods added to bacon to make bacon taste better.

Perfection needs no improvement

what if, like bats, blood-sucking vampires actually represent a small percentage of the full vampire population and most horrible undead creatures of the night are adapted to eat bugs, fruits, and nectars

let

them

eat

bugs

You, a Ventrue: dignified, refined, drinks only the blood of virgins from a crystal glass

Me, a Nosferatu: vaccums up every bug in sight while screaming like the goblin I am

Me, a Toreador: Lounges dramatically on a fainting couch while beautiful people bring me beautifully arranged plates of various exotic fruits.

Me, a Malkavian: Takes a big bite out of a flower, muttering “Gotta pollinate.”

These four vampires are your party

The bug eaters probably vacation in Africa. They make up some touristy excuse for going every year, like avoiding crappy winter weather or visiting a hippo sanctuary. As soon as they clear the airport they dash of into the brush hollering “WOOOO! TERMITE MOUNDS HERE I COME!”

Meanwhile the pollinators are shoving their faces into flower beds everywhere, and the fruit lovers are yelling at them like STAY OUT OF MY DAMN MANGOES

This is both hilarious and ingenious. Somebody make this into a novel.

Sometimes a busy vampire doesn’t have the time to forage for nectar all night, so they just carry a big gulp full of hummingbird feeder juice. They’re also fond of honey.

“Blood of VIRGINS?  Seriously?  Have you TRIED eating a fresh mango?  Banana cherries right from the vine?  Dragonfruit?  PINEAPPLE?  No?  And you call yourself a VAMPIRE.”

-goes back to violently rending mangoes from trees and making a sloppy mess…

Enterprise but in MLP! :)

Taking a short break from drawing humans altogether so here's some ponies (+ deer and hippogriff) instead! I really enjoyed drawing the TNG crew as ponies and whatnot so I thought hey why not try it out with the Enterprise crew!

(Featuring- Pegasi Archer and Reed, Unicorns Trip and Hoshi, Earth Pony Mayweather, Reindeer T'Pol, and Hippogriff Phlox)

(I forgot to colour Phlox's lines oops)

Cursed Enterprise headcanon (maybe AU) cause my favourite series is now Enterprise and they're the closest to the 21st century so I can make millenial headcanons for them and it'd still be considered canon:

It's not space pirates yet but we're getting there--gay space crime!

Be gay, do crimes....IN SPACE!!

AYE AYE CAPTAIN!

AYE AYE CAPTAIN!

CAP-TAIN ROG-ERS!

CAP-TAIN ROG-ERS!

CAP-TAIN ROG-ERS!

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Is this gonna be a thing every 4th of July ?

YES.

why are there so many posts about asexuals being immune to sirens. people. sirens don’t lure you in with sex (necessarily). they sing about whatever it is that you want most. they could sing about mothman or cinnamon toast crunch and guess what then your asexual pirate is fucking dead

this is the only kind of ace discourse i ever want to see on my dash. the only kind. ever again. good job

Do you think the sirens would be grateful that they finally get some variety? 

“Oh my god we can finally just sing about pasta thank the fucking gods.” 

I’m not asexual but I’m fairly certain sirens would do a far better job luring me into the depths with a song about pasta rather than sex…

I mean. 

“WHAT THE FUCK STAY AWAY FROM THE ROCKS.”

“FUCKER THEY SAID THEY HAVE FETTUCCINE CARBONARA AND HOT GARLIC BREAD OVER THERE HANG ON BITCH.” 

This is true; Odysseus heard them promising him knowledge of the future.  So the next time you see artwork like this:

Remember those sultry naked chicks are saying “We’ll tell you the winning lotto numbers.”

Them: “We have unlimited wifi at incredible speeds~” Me: *diving headfirst into the water*

This post is a blessing

Reblog with your siren song

“CANNONBAAAALL!!”

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