i am bed bath and beyond done with you right now

Bugs Bunny could have simply walked into Mordor. He would have shown up at the gates of Mordor in a disguise and been like "Evil volcano inspection unit" and flashed a fake ID badge to the confused orc.

from Naruto And Katsuo Are Friends, the two boys & their kitty, raiju! this was a heck of a challenge to draw (children! are so hard!) but i feel like i did pretty okay! and it was an absolute joy to get to draw for jesse and his super cute fanfic :D

look at this! delightful thing! that is bringing me so much joy! i’m gonna put it in the next chapter <3

kakashi “negligent babysitter” hatake, forgets how many puppies are supposed to be in his apartment at any one time

(vaguely inspired by this submission that I couldn’t manage fit into the post itself)

i didnt have time to draw anything for kakagai week so remember this thing i drew forever ago

That One Girl

There are students who don’t know the depth of EU’s…uniqueness for perfectly understandable reasons. They follow the rules. They are too dull to attract the Gentry’s attention. They major in the sciences and keep their opinions on Faerie Tales to themselves. The changelings that they know are very good. 

Then there are the students that remain outstandingly oblivious for their years at EU. They dance with Gentry, study in the corners of the library, walk the campus at night, major in the ones with the highest Taken rates, and graduate thinking everyone they spoke to was human. People said they were observant as dead wood. That stopped when it was agreed that that was an insult to dead wood. 

(You’re one of them) 

~

“Hello!” Your room mate has just walked in and you really want to get off on a good foot. “My name is-“ 

“Is that all your stuff?” She cuts you off. Rude but you did claim the side with the only window. 

“Yeah, sorry.” She looks pained as you apologize. This is not how you wanted this to go. “What’s your name?" 

"You can call me Lipstick.” That reminds you of EU’s little tradition involving nicknames. It’s a weird one to have but you suppose it does match her. She has two different shades on right now. It matches the iron-link necklace and her feathered earrings. Her belt has a purse and pendant attached to it. The latter looks celtic and old. 

“I’m Briar. It’s nice to meet you. Ah, do you need any help?” You can only see two bags but she might have more. 

She groans, dumps her bags on the other bed, and leaves. You have no idea what you did wrong. 

~

You take a seat in Classics 101. EU seduced you with its Literature Major. No other university came close to its depth and breadth and you want to be a writer more than anything. The seats around you are empty but they fill up with the last students to stumble in. The teacher starts exactly on time and…

Yes, this is exactly what you were looking for. He, she? it is a little hard to tell, You type out note after note before giving up and switching to paper. Your computer is throwing a fit for some reason. 

(It will do that every class. Eventually, you’ll give up using it as a notetaker and just leave it in your room.)

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Strong bond

(via)

I just got an ask about a Native spirit that many Natives have asked monsterfuckers to not use.

It starts with a W.

People from the culture it’s from do not say its name because in their culture, saying the name summons the spirit. Out of respect for my friends from that culture, I do not say/type the name either.

I would kindly ask you not put that creature in my ask box in the future. I know the person that submitted it likely didn’t know so there’s no hard feelings. It’s alright. I’m not upset.

I’m not really the best person to educate folks on this topic and I wish I had some resources on why that’s not a good thing for non-Native people to use for their fiction.

I’m sure even my wording here isn’t great. I know the spirit is from a specific Native culture (there’s a lot of them, for those that didn’t know lol) and I can’t remember which one(s) and my brain is still fuzzy from being sick.

So if any of my followers are familiar with this issue, please feel free to share the info of why this isn’t good.

Again, I understand the person that sent the ask likely didn’t know all this. I’m not upset. I just think it’s worth mentioning.

Ugh I’m trying to research to find resources of actually Native folks saying it’s bad for non-Native folks to use this spirit and instead I’m just finding Hot Takes like

“The *** may be a figure from American Indian mythology, but it belongs to all of humankind”

No? Like haven’t we (colonizers) taken enough from Indigenous people without also appropriating their spirits and misusing them? Fuck right off.

I’m too sick to deal with this shit today.

Hello! Hi! Yes! Maybe I can help here!

Here are some very basic things to help people understand this:

As a non-Anishinaabe Native, my go-to term for this spirit is the winter hunger.

Additionally, many Southwestern and Western Native American tribes have stories of beings called sk-nw-lkers who I hate having to even obliquely ‘say’ for similar reasons to the former: They can hear when you speak about them.

Just like the winter hunger, the desert swallowing you whole is not a being which is to be used by anyone who is not themselves of a Native tribe that has experience with this being, and also not if you do not know the lore. Whether or not it is dangerous, it is if nothing else deeply disrespectful.

Ok so the thing about reading like books which are "predictable" is that I, a story enjoyer, go completely bonkers about it bc its like Enrichment in my Enclosure. A scene parallels another earlier scene between different characters thus serving to highlight the differences in their views and priorities???? A line makes me think "hmmm I bet that's gonna be relevant later" ends up being relevant later????? I am a tiger chewing ice cubes out of a pumpkin. I'm so so happy. Please foreshadow more things. Throw the completely anticipateable plot beats at me like catnip mousies!!!!!

My writing teacher called this "cognitive engagement": when you get your reader thinking about what you want them thinking about (as opposed to when you messed up and now they're thinking about your timeline when you didn't want them thinking about your timeline cuz you got a year wrong or something). She noted that it's one reason you want to make sure your causal chain of cause-and-effect (ie, every scene, beat, reaction, etc should have a clear or implied-but-logical connection to events before and after it) because it allows people to start to predict things and see the parallels that OP is going bonkers over. These aren't things you want to hide or pull out of nowhere to "surprise" your audience with, it's ok and even better if they can see things coming because the internal physics of your story engine are working.

What they don’t tell you about storytelling is that it becomes an instinct over time. You learn how to kind of … intuitively chain events together over time. That doesn’t mean it’s a cakewalk, or that you never get stuck on plotbeats, but you have a better time walking yourself out of corners that you as a less experienced writer would have been tempted to abandon your story over. Because you’ve been stuck in similar corners before; you know how you get out now.

I know its frustrating to keep hitting dead ends, but you got this. You’ll learn a little from every roadblock you hit.

What a bald eagle sounds like. (via aefeagles)

I for one am sick of movies dubbing over these giant squeaky toys with red-tailed hawks

The screaming freedom chicken is honestly a mood

Video without sound: fearsome predator shoves his very large beak very close to you

Video with sound: this squeaky toy has Opinions

would you pat the cat

Silly Willy and his beloved pickle

I love carbs I love pasta and bread and potatoes what would like Be without carbs

where would we Be without her.

have some shitty chaotic pride flags ^^

Science.

I can’t tell what my favorite part is, but it’s either

OR  E. All of the above.

BUT WAIT THERES MORE!

Can mantids wear and see in 3D glasses? YES

THEY PUT LITTLE GLASSES ON MANTIDS

Do honey bees suffer from sleep deprivation? YES

Here is the BEE INSOMNIATOR.

They put MAGNETS ON BEES  and WIGGLED THEM TO KEEP THEM AWAKE

How do scales help snakes move?

Well they put SNAKES IN LITTLE SHIRTS to find out!

SHRIMPS ON A TREADMILL

biology is the greatest

bad and naughty children get put into the bee wiggler to atone for their sins

The best thing about the ant one is that somebody clearly was like “Oh well ants probably count their steps” and that was just like… a thought that came into their head.

THE BEE WIGGLER

This demonstrates that discovery requires madness.

gravity was discovered because Newton just so happened to have an apple fall on his napping ass what do you think science is

This is a cool post but AAAH I need to talk about the ants.

Not just any ants–desert ants!  See, most ants lay down scent trails to find their way around.  But in the desert the damn ground blows away constantly.  So how do desert ants find their way around?  Maybe they count.

Okay but like.  Ants can count.  Ants have teeny teeny tiny brains and they can count.  Do you know how teeny an ant brain is?  Because I have spent time dissecting them out and let me tell you it is one of the most ridiculous occupations I have ever engaged in.  They are like period sized.  <–these things here at either end–>. 

And the really cool thing about finding out that a teeny tiny brain can do a thing, is that the brains are simple enough that we actually might have a shot at figuring out precisely how they efficiently encode the ability to count.  And then we can apply that to things like math and computers and living human brains, which we aren’t allowed to dissect very much because reasons.

Also, this was an awesomely clever experiment because do you want to know the budget for gluing stilts on ants to see what happens?  Really small.  Like ant brains.

Their names were Matthias Wittlinger, Rudiger Wehner, and Harald Wolf, and the stilts were boar hairs!  Also there was a second part of the experiment where they trimmed the ant legs to make them take shorter steps, but no one ever talks about that part because it’s less cute and more morbid. :O  (It’s… slightly less morbid when you know this kind of thing happens naturally to ants with age and high temperatures.  Life is hard for ants.  But they are excellent at counting.)

I know right?

but why shrimp on threadmill? what was the science here?

Can shrimps get swole?

Oh!  I have answers!

This one is also SO IMPORTANT TO ME because it came up a while back when people were complaining about National Science Foundation funding and trying to cut budgets for research.  (It was a whole big republican thing, look it up).  And one of the examples was “egghhhh, scientists are wasting our money building treadmills for shrimp” with, I guess, the assumption that scientists do things for shits and giggles and to film sweet youtube videos, and that any project funded by a government agency hasn’t gone through an intense screening process to demonstrate scientific & public merit.

Alright, so I haven’t even looked up the paper and I can tell you off the top of my head that treadmills are a great way to measure:

which are traits that we very often want to measure in a diversity of organisms.

Here are some important questions you could address with shrimp treadmills:

Okay, so those are just what I brainstormed right now.  I don’t actually know what the hot questions in shrimp are.

Now I’ll look up the actual study by  Dr. David Scholnik. So:

Thus: Science. :D

Reblogging for all the cool facts, but also to point out that Newton did jack-all to “discover” gravity, except read the works of  Indian Mathematician Bhaskaracharya, who published about gravity’s first principle in 1150 AD.

oh thank god someone said it. that little contribution threw off the whole groove of this wonderful post

Sorry to derail from Newton not actually discovering gravity but, I have used one of those treadmills before with European Green Crabs! I was taking an animal physiology course in the fall and we did experiments to monitor the heart rate, oxygen consumption, and time spent on the treadmill under different conditions like changing temperature and environmental oxygen levels. Like @curlicuecal said this data is important in understanding how animals will survive under increasing ocean temperatures, when it gets too hot (or cold) animals can have trouble taking in enough oxygen to function. Dr. Markus Frederich has done research and has written papers on this topic and a term called “pejus” temperature, pejus meaning “getting worse”. Its the temperature at which things like organs and metabolic processes in our bodies and cells start to suffer but not where everything is completely shutting down yet. If you’re interested check them out! Long rant but anyway the treadmills are cool to see in action. Thank you for listening, have a crab 🦀

#i recently graduated with my degree in marine science #so being OFFICIALLY a marine biologist has made me excited to share fun facts #european green crabs are also invasive where Im from so thats why they were used in class

Snake sweaters though please??!

Zhao Zhao (Chinese, b. 1982)

Constellations, 2021-2022

Embroidery on silk

ok so i’ve seen some of you aren’t that sure that this is actually embroidery (i was suspicious too bc damn!!!!) so here you is another embroidery of his with some close ups♥ :

Constellations, 2017 (300 x 980 cm)

embroidery on silk

I can be your boyfriend. I can also be your girlfriend. The options are limitless. Except it has to be gay