By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!
This is one of my husband’s favorite short stories. He quotes it from memory. I’m pretty sure he can recite the entire thing from memory.
This is a tremendously impactful short story and every time I see it, it serves as an excellent reboot button for my state of mind.
I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
I sure hope it does this time too...
Fascinating how someone can turn superstitious when scared ._.
when im listening to my own library and playlists i feel like a powerful wizard but when im trying to show my music taste to anyone it feels like i have a shame cone on
have to thank tumblr for romanticizing absolutely everything. i'll be washing dishes and peeling oranges thinking of love languages its insane
i love this council style
“The North shall tuck tail and beg for mercy.”
either I have a clear favorite, or one of them is really, really hard for me to draw
(Thank you, @doragonfruit, for your ask about who I like to draw!)
It’s definitely not just you. Regis’ features are very strong and clear, and OK, so are Geralt’s, but there’s a reason that all my Regises are like, “OK, render for six hours”
and all my Geralts are… uh…
(I think this was his face when I tried to squawk, “It’s an exercise in simplification, OK?!”)
Thank you for sharing your art, @trulycertain! Glad I’m not the only one…
[quote from book under cut if anyone doesn’t know what Regis is talking about in the comic]
Ok It’s late, I need some sleep cause I can’t believe I sketched this distressing s**t :)
One of my favourite parts about the Blood and Wine endgame where you’re running all over the place with Regis (besides getting to hang out with Regis, obviously, because he’s incredible), is how the people around you must be wondering what is going on?
This witcher dude clearly arrived alone. We were around, we saw it. But now, the world is going to shit and suddenly he’s hanging around with this unassuming, middle-aged guy who looks a little like a tax collector and smells like a whole entire herbalist shop. Like, the witcher keeps dragging him along into the worst fights and he’s just… fine?
What’s he doing here?
What’s his job?
Does he do the witcher’s paperwork, or something?
Do witchers… have paperwork? Like, is that a thing?
It’s all highly unclear and at this point we’re afraid to ask.
Always bring your accountant to a fight.
“Excuse you sir that’s my emotional support tax collector.”
@haythamkenwayfans said: Hi Velvetto! I just wanted to let you know (again, oops) that I love your art so much. I check your blog a couple of times each month and I’m always excited when you’ve posted new art! (Just to be absolutely clear: this is absolutely not intended as a ‘I wish you’d post more art’-attack/ask at all!!! Just wanted to let you know I genuinely love seeing new creations from your hand!) Hope you’re doing well & that you’ve been settling in well in your new apartment. Much love
Thank you so much ♥♥♥ this message is also pre-tungler shitshow, but I really appreciate your warm words ♥ here, have a quick Regis in flower crown.
I work in a kitchen. We are always told to not just stand around, that’s rule number one. Even if something’s on the stove, usually you can do something else while you wait for it.
EXCEPT
If it’s milk. “You stand right there and watch over it, do NOT leave.”
What’s even better is if you’re forced to leave because you need something from the fridge or something. So you dash into the back and get it and if someone wants to ask you something you just go “MILK! ON THE STOVE!” and everyone jumps out of your way and goes “oh shit, run!!!”
It’s the funniest thing I’ve ever encountered at work
In French we literally have an old saying, “I have milk on the fire” to say “I’m very busy at the moment”
let me introduce you to a few 100% real, totally unphotoshopped photos!
yep, that is REAL! spider rain EXISTS! and is a regular phenomenon! that happens and is documented! and involves MILLIONS of spiders!!!!! RAINING DOWN ON CITIES!!!!! THAT’S A REAL THING THAT HAPPENS UNAVOIDABLY!!!!!!!!!! i need to foam at the mouth in hysteria for a few minutes, but when I calm down i’ll give you some Spider Rain Science Facts
Spider rain refers to events of mass ballooning. many spiders have the ability to move through air by using spider silk as a sort of parachute. that’s right: spiders can FLY.
when spiders do this en masse, you get millions of spiders travelling through the air on gossamer strands of silk (the phenomenon is also nicknamed “angel hair”). if you aren’t afraid of spiders, apparently this can be quite beautiful to watch. in fact, i would argue it should be called spider snow, not rain, bc many viewers report the combination of white silk threads and the gentle floating motion make it resemble snowfall. except for, you know. all the spiders. (video here)
Spider rain is not uncommon, though the size and location varies. Theoretically, it can happen anywhere that colonies of social spiders live. These colonies are scattered around the world, but they only consist of 23 species, compared to over 45,000 non-social spider species. Spider rain usually occurs in unpopulated or rural areas, but occasionally the wind can turn (literally) and spiders accidentally end up is urban areas, as happened in Australia, where spider rain is most common (*pretends to be shocked*).
In fact, not all spider rain happens on purpose! Strong winds blowing through a colony can pull webs off their anchors, leaving spider and home airborne, as happened in Brazil where: “While the humans gawked below, the flustered spiders were simply trying to pull themselves together after an unexpected journey.” Spider rain is highly dependent on local weather, which provides spiders with both the ability and sometimes the need to migrate (as happened in Pakistan after widespread flooding).
And before the Americans breathe a sign of relief–it hasn’t happened in Texas yet, but there’s a colony just east of Dallas to keep an eye on :)
We don’t. It’s….not really a problem? The spiders are like, really tiny, so even the venomous ones aren’t able to bite humans–our skin is just too thick for their itty bitty fangs. It’s still occasionally a pest issue, with the main issue being that their webs can be thick enough to cut off sunlight from crops.
But spider rain is mostly harmless (unless you are a spectacularly unlucky farmer), and it doesn’t happen often enough to pose a real problem. The real risk is to the spiders–most of them aren’t expected to survive the trip. Fortunately, only a small percentage of them need to in order for the colony to survive and set up shop somewhere new.
Overall, spider rain is a good thing! The spiders keep the skies free of disease-carrying insects, and in turn provide food to birds and small animals. It’s beneficial that a staple of the food chain can disperse so widely and quickly. In fact, ballooning is one of the reasons spiders are often the first animal to reappear on land that’s been destroyed. Their appearance after a fire or flood is a sign the ecosystem is recovering. which is, sort of beautiful actually.
and here’s a photo of a spider colony
this is a commissioned post. next up, someone pay me to write about flying ant day!
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Okay, so we already know that Hornet in Silksong (based on pre-existing screenshots) has a tendency to ask about the obvious.
Hornet, addressing a blacksmith who is working the forge, hammering down on a smoldering piece of hot iron: What are you, a blacksmith of some kind?
Hornet, speaking to a cheerful-looking bug who is working on building what is assumedly a sign: What are you building? A sign of some kind?
First of all, I want to suggest that this implies Hornet’s awkward at starting casual conversation and uses these obvious questions as a safe method to test the waters for how a conversation would end up going.
Second of all, consider for a moment, if you will, if the Pale King started off conversations this awkwardly, as well.
The Pale King, at the top of Lurien’s watchtower, which is very high up, seeing the telescope by which Lurien sits: So you are a watchman of some sort?
Lurien, stunned and baffled and dumbfounded: …Yes, my liege. You are… very astute.
There’s just something absolutely hilarious about the idea that Wyrm himself–Wyrm whom assumedly hosts once-infinite knowledge and foresight, who shed his mighty shell to join the ranks of the common bug, whose very presence and reign promises insight and higher thinking to the bugs who fall under him–
–Still asks these stupid fucking questions because he’s an awkward little shit and can’t help himself.
RPing Hollow Knight stuff that happens during the Infection hits differently in 2020.
...now in 2021 too...
The knight that never existed.
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The title was inspired from Lemm’s dream words:
“…Who were you mystery knight?… Why no mention beyond your fountain?..”
This always make me feel sad that they sacrificed themselves to saved the kingdom which nobody know them, so does the Knight.
“No cost too great.
No mind to think.
No will to break.
No voice to cry suffering.
Born of God and Void.
You shall seal the blinding light that plagues their dreams.
You are the Vessel.
You are the Hollow Knight.”
