Cosmic alignment…
Fuck all of the good luck posts out there. Reblog this to immaculate your vibes
Having the time of ferret’s life!
the thrill of finding out what you were made for
picazos-angsty-typist
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
An actual World Heritage Post
how does this post not have a million notes but anyone online can quote it
one week until ten years of Spiders Georg
Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions
I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.
Today my art history professor gave some words of wisdom:
Nude is when your clothes are off. Naked is when your clothes are off and you’re up to something
I bet Aziraphale often forgets certain ingredients when he goes shopping, and comes to this horrific realization while he's in the middle of cooking/baking something. This is when Crowley comes to the rescue. He'll miracle the ingredients he needs into the cabinet or fridge and tell him to check again.
This is actually an interesting problem, because per the book, Aziraphale and Crowley (and angels and demons in general) subconsciously shape reality to their expectations. It's an element of their innate magic, and one they themselves do not seem to be aware of. Crowley forgot the speakers for his sound system, but he expects it to play music, so it plays music. He operates his kitchen appliances without plugging them in, and I always read that as he doesn't actually know you have to plug in your fridge to make it work, because he never had to learn. He was told "this is the cold box", so it is cold inside, obviously! How is it cold? Who knows?! Certainly not Crowley.
For the shopping, this leaves several interesting scenarios. My initial thought was that Aziraphale's kitchen should always be perfectly stocked with whatever ingredients he needs, because he went out shopping for this recipe and obviously assumes he bought everything he needs, so it'll be like he did in fact buy everything, even if he didn't (and the missing things miraculously find themselves in his pantry instead, because he assumes they'll be there, in a situation parallel to Crowley's missing speakers).
If they are not there when he opens his cupboards, that means Aziraphale expects to have missed things from his list, which means Aziraphale thinks his own memory is bad. In a weird mirror of the speaker system situation, if Aziraphale assumes he is forgetful and will not buy everything, his unconscious magic will make it so he missed things. Even if he buys everything from his list, the expectation of "I forgot something" will mean he ends up with missing ingredients anyway, regardless of how much he buys. He'll just unconsciously miracle them out of his own pantry again. They'll be there after he bought them, and as soon as he thinks "oh, I probably forgot to buy baking soda", as long as he really believes he is an angel who forgets to buy baking soda, all baking soda that was there will just disappear (because his idea of reality twists actual reality into shape). He cannot know whether this happens, either, because that would require being aware of this principle.
If Aziraphale assumes he is bad at shopping and the ingredients are all present and accounted for anyway, that means someone else believes Aziraphale is good at shopping, and they believe it more strongly than Aziraphale believes he sucks. That means Crowley could believe Aziraphale is great at buying everything off his list, and as long as Crowley believes that strongly enough to outweigh Aziraphale's contradictory belief, Aziraphale will find all his ingredients in his pantry anyway. (This configuration also works the other way around, Crowley could also unknowingly sabotage Aziraphale.)
Now, another fun thing that could happen in this last case is that if Crowley consistently believes strongly in Aziraphale's shopping skills, Aziraphale will always find he has all ingredients he needs (because Crowley believes that and thus Crowley miracles anything missing onto the shelves). If this goes on for a while, Aziraphale will have lots and lots of evidence that he always buys everything he needs/that his pantry is always well stocked. Naturally, this repeating experience should translate to Aziraphale growing to believe that he is indeed great at shopping for ingredients, which then translates to Aziraphale's own belief in his skills also filling his pantry.
Angels shopping is a logic problem. ;) But, ultimately, if Crowley believes in Aziraphale, and we have lots of canon reason to think he does, then Crowley will indeed save Aziraphale's recipes, one way or the other, even if he doesn't know he's doing it. He wouldn't even need to actively miracle Aziraphale's missing baking soda into existence. I mean, he can and he would, but if Crowley believes in Aziraphale strongly enough, that'll be enough on its own.
i know it's for little kids, but this is actually a pretty fun writing exercise! here's mine:
My name is Eliot. Today I feel like a chipped teacup gathering dust in the sun. Sometimes I am a stopped clock. Sometimes I am an open window. But always I am waiting for something. I ask the world, “What’s the point in waiting?” And the answer is a chipped teacup gathering dust in the sun.
My name is Sharon. Today I feel like a slant of tired sunshine, spooling in the sky. Sometimes I am a rain cloud Sometimes I am a starry night But always I am vast as the sea I ask the world: "Where will it all end?" And the answer is: a slant of tired sunshine, spooling in the sky
Deadpool #7 - “Heavenly Bodies” (2023)
written by Alyssa Wong art by Luigi Zagaria & Matt Milla
christ
This post took 3 years off my life
I’ll take “words that perfectly describe the Académie Française but which would literally kill them to hear” for 500, Alex.
One time my dad came to family dinner all excited “you know that show Sherlock? I hear fans are writing whole new stories for it online”
And in perfect unison my sister and I yelled “DAD NO!” So vehemently he stopped in his tracks.
Then a look of dawning comprehension on his face.
“Oh, this is like Kirk and Spock, isn’t it”
And I died right then and there.
My mom was into fanfic back when it was still all in handmade zines passed back and forth in-person. My mother is the one who first told me what fanfic was. My mother used to print her favorite fics out on our home printer and stick them on the shelf to read again later. My mom had an Ao3 account before I'd ever heard of Ao3.
Fanfic is not some new millennial/gen z thing that nobody over 35 knows about. It's really not that weird for middle-aged folks and elders to be into it. The folks who were writing Spirk fic in the 60s are, like. Still around.
Yes they are. And some of them have given me actual money to write for them!
It's an amazing world we live in. :)
thinking about that kakapo egg that got crushed but the conservation team patched it up and it survived
life will persist against all odds
For those who don’t follow kakapo conservation, they are critically endangered parrots who only breed on years where the rimu tree they rely on meet a certain threshold of fruit production. One breeding season in 4 years can be typical, and about half of all eggs laid by kakapo are infertile (they still aren’t completely certain why, it could be a recent population bottleneck) so each fertile egg is worth its weight in gold.
This was one of only 5 fertile eggs laid on the Whenua Hou island population in the 2014 breeding season and it got crushed by its mother on accident. It was mended with glue and tape and incubated by the rangers until hatching.
At 150 days old kakapo chicks are officially added to the population total and given a unique name, until then they are given their mother’s name and a number for birth order laid in the clutch. This chick was known as Lisa-one before officially being given the name Ruapuke by local indigenous Ngai Tahu people.Here he is grown up:
also! this is what i meant about how ed introduces himself to the crew without ever taking his hands off his weapons. when he's talking with izzy the entire time his hands are off his weapons. but as soon as he hits the ground, his hands are on either his knife or gun at all times, often both. it's not a natural way of walking (and he doesn't do this in other scenes so blatantly i don't think so feels very intentional)
further rambling under readmore lol
BEFORE WRITING: Oh, this fic idea is so cute, and it won't take any time at all! WHILE WRITING: Oh...oh, no...I Underestimated this. Again.
“What about trackers?” April asked. She reached out, fumbling for the lab door. “You know. The ones you absolutely do not use, like, ever.”
“My completely non-existent trackers should still be there. Not existing.” He didn’t have the energy to be all that snarky, but some things just needed denying. Casey gave the smallest huff of amusement despite himself. “They’re currently not not existing while my system is down, however—I don’t know how this was switched off in the first place. If protocols were followed it should be easy enough, but a hard shut down—“
“I get it,” she said softly. “You’ll find them, Donnie.”