Don Draper's secret
They missed an opportunity to canonize the Spock helmet.
Allow me to remind you of this episode of Lower Decks...
I had the best time at the Locked Tomb meetup at Holiday Matsuri. Is your favorite character in here?
Margaret Skinnider (1892 -1971) pictured in the centre.
She was a Scottish-Irish teacher, Irish Revolutionary, member of Cumann na mBan, Easter Rising veteran, sniper, Irish Civil War veteran, trade unionist, feminist, and lesbian. Her partner was Nora O'Keefe, a fellow revolutionary, feminist and trade unionist.
Good to know we all have the same brain cell here
[id: a digital drawing of fig and ayda from d20′s fantasy high. both are lying on their stomachs toward each other, gripping each other’s arms on the floor. ayda’s head is bowed forward to give fig access to her hair of flames. fig leans forward to light the cigarette in her mouth.]
got that soft glow
Wow! I had no idea so many people had opinions on macaroni and cheese with ketchup. I thought I was one of the few people who didn’t care for it, but I was wrong.
Did you have a hard time choosing? Are there any other dishes I should have added to the poll? Let me know!
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my AC has been out for a couple days and i've accordingly fallen into the niche yet ecologically vital role of guy who sits around in underwear and a-
okay well i paused to go find an alternate term and this isn't helping
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awesome. so as i was saying i'm in my wop top
This is Meredith, a friend of mine who, whenever I encounter her at parties I always ask her about her research on this stuff. She's fat-positive and doing research for her PhD on weight-loss surgery in Canada. In her tweets she says she's looking to talk to people who are "engaged in fat politics, have had negative or harmful experiences in surgery", particularly cis men, trans and non-binary people, and BIPOC.
Meredith is one of the most gentle and kind people I know and I'm sure talking to her will be a wonderful experience. It seems like she could use more fat trans voices in her research, and I am sharing this with her permission, because I know there are a lot of people on tumblr who have a lot to say. Let your voices be heard!
Contact her at besseym at uoguelph dot ca, and signal boost!
listen i know each actor brings their own spice to a role, but i just can’t take timothee chalamet’s wonka seriously
where is the madness behind his eyes??? the malice??? the complete disregard for the laws of mankind and decency???
this man makes me fear that i’ll be shoved into a taffy machine at the slightest provocation
as! he! should!
I’m not gonna let this gem of a tag on this post go unnoticed.
“You’re more than just a goblin”
ok I don't know if it's something in the water today or if I liked a post that was stealthily terrible but I've ran into like six different "based on your likes!" posts today that are the absolute vilest transphobia I've seen in months and I Do Not Fucking Care For It
hey ladies, if your "activism" is keyboard-warrioring nonstop hateful bullshit at one of the most vulnerable populations in the world, you aren't a feminist, you're a coward punching down at an easy target because you don't even have it in you to fight your own internalized bioessentialism, let alone your systemic oppression by the very system you're tacitly reinforcing
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beep beep sometimes when you have been in survival mode for a long time the parts of you dedicated to Wanting Things atrophy and you forget how to envision a future that feels rewarding because you are busy with the business of staying alive, and it can seem like your life must be pointless because you can’t imagine any long term goals. sometimes even when you leave survival mode you can’t remember how to Want Things. that doesn’t mean you need to give up on having a good and fulfilling life, it just means that Wanting Things is a muscle you need to gradually strengthen. the part of you that has dreams and aspirations is still there, it just fell asleep, but if you wiggle it enough it can and will regain feeling. it’s okay to start small
am i the original, the remains, or the later writing?
Fresh off my first watching of Sophomore Year, I was desperate for more Nightmare Forest-esque content for my beloved bad kids. Thankfully, I immediately stumbled upon @gilears fic Over and Through! I absolutely adored this fic, bingereading it in one go, and knew I needed to show my love and feelings somehow!!
So here are the six bad kids' personal hells, shown in my order of reading!
everyone stop what you’re doing right now and look at this beautiful haunting perfect art for my most favourite fic. deeply irreparably floored and honoured and im going to cry for one million years now
A 50-kilogram anvil floats perfectly on the surface of mercury, because the density of the steel from which it is made is almost half the density of mercury.
damn that shit is light lmfao
Fun fact! Many lighthouses with especially large fresnel lenses would have huge fucking tubs of liquid mercury in the lantern room because it’s a super easy way to make these giant lenses rotate quickly!
Shockingly, however, spending most of your time in close proximity to 500 pounds of liquid mercury is Not Great For One’s Health and tons of lighthouse keepers started to go crazy from the whole. Mercury poisoning thing. Hence why there are a lot of “haunted” lighthouses or wickies that lose it and maybe do a bit of manslaughter.
Anyway, people saw a bunch of lighthouse keepers go crazy and get sick and got empirical evidence that it was in fact related to the 500 pound mercury bath they have to visit every day and then they decided nah it’s fine actually. So we’ve kept the liquid mercury thing and I think that’s beautiful
I love how it is so dense it does not "wet" the anvil, the drops all run and leave with nothing behind them unlike water, oil, sauce... it's super satisfying it's like in cartoons
In a letter written on April 19, 1825, Augustin Fresnel proposed the use of mercury to reduce the friction in revolving lenses. His statement follows: “I propose to float our rotating devices, of the first order, in a bath of mercury, instead of placing them on rollers. This project won't present many difficulties; nevertheless, as I have not put it into execution, I won't require you to adopt it for your first lighthouse.”
Fresnel’s plan for mercury flotation was not put into practice until 1890 when Monsieur Leon Bourdelles, Chief Engineer of the French Lighthouse Service, designed and built a workable mercury flotation system. The mercury bath allowed the lens to operate in an almost frictionless environment and, additionally, allowed the speed of rotation to be dramatically increased.
You know what… This really is one of the only alignment post that get the chaotic and lawful descriptors correctly aligned.
On the Lawful side: the two people who have to follow the recipes nearly exactly for the results they want - baking isn’t quite am exact measurements process but the margin of error for experiment is very, very thin. Tempering chocolate for use in structural works even more so.
On the Chaotic side: cooking and mixology where the margins of error for ingredients and portioning are so broad “whatever feels right” is almost never the wrong answer. The same recipe could be done a dozen different ways for a dozen different people and all of them would be a great outcome with minimal disaster in their wake.
This could also be an allegory for the difference between wizards (bakers) and sorcerers (cooks) - they’re all magic users (chefs), but the type of magic the weild and the source of their power is vastly different
You know, I was originally thinking that Dylan and Shiadanni should swap, but this convinced me they were properly placed, well done.
How is Dylan evil though? That’s either nonsense or worse.
Don’t look at it as a description of them personally, but rather the things they create. Dylan isn’t evil in a traditional sense, any more than the Tipsy Bartender is, but the things they create provoke a very visceral “Oh no what the fuck?!?!” sense of horror.