Patron of the arts

it’s called a Hawser and is the thick cable or rope used for towing/mooring a ship

This is a line designed to hold in place a moving object that can be easily in excess of 10000 tons. AND THEY CAN BREAK FROM THAT TENSION ALONE.

You’ve heard of the term, “Going haywire,” right? Ever spared a thought to why that term exists?

See, time was there was a prototype automatic hay-baler. But this was in that magic period juuust before we really got into standardized sizes. So calibration of the machine was handled manually - a mix of guessing and learning from the results of guessing. If you’ve read Raising Steam by Sir Terry Pratchett you know that many people don’t get to learn from the results of their own guesses, due to being dead.

A poorly calibrated hay-baler had the mechanical strength to smush the hay into a tight bundle, wrap the wire around it, and tie that wire off to maintain the bale’s form. But the pressure of the over-packed hay was a constant outward force. Each bale made by an over-tight baler was potential energy in physical form. We have a word for “potential energy in physical form” and that word is “bomb.”

So sometimes, a man would toss a hay bale and it would land with a twang and the man who’d been reaching down to pick it up where it landed was dead.

I love The Detective and the Christmas tree bandits,I love angst, and I like experimenting with lighting.

Another banger from @avoid-avoidance

Submitted for classification by @freshlypizza

like it starts with sharing passwords and whatnot, but then they have the keys to each others' rooms. grace is glued to her side like they're conjoined twins. she brings him along to meetings to science translate like he's her emotional support dog. he brings her lunch because she always forgets. they both fall asleep working in one office or lab or another all the time.

eventually they straight-up form their own way of communication. grace can say something on the same level of incomprehensible as "carl and i made a baby" and stratt will respond with some obscure hand gesture, and both of them will completely understand. they hold entire conversations like that. one day ilyukhina pops her head in the door to ask grace a question, witnesses this, and wordlessly backs away. she'll ask dubois.

there's a betting pool going on on whether they're hooking up, but one day someone finds out that grace is aroace or something, and it becomes immediately and violently clear that something much more concerning is going on with them.

(Edited this post because the original rant was a reply to someone's post due to a misunderstanding.)

I have seen "Finale Haters are acephobic because they want AziCrow to kiss/have sex in the Finale". So I'm going to rant about it once and for all (hopefully).

Lumping Finale haters with acephobics because they want a kiss (and joke about AziCrow having sex) is dismissing every single ace person who wanted AziCrow to experience that in a happy ending.

If you hated the Finale for the lack of kissing, remember that you are valid because the damn thing is terrible when you look at it as a romance. Nothing was resolved in their relationship. The established F15 kiss was a setup with no paid off. They never talked properly about their feelings. Azi tried to, but all Crowley did was blame him for everything he didn't do. The list goes on.

I never expected a kiss after S1. I even said to discord friends that if they kiss I'm going to be so annoyed by it because it would cause arguments between people who saw them as non romantic (as just friends) and people who like them as lovers. But Season 2 set that up.

If they didn't want them to kiss in Go3 maybe they shouldn't have given them a break-up kiss at the end of S2. Because that's a promise to the audience that they would have a better kiss later after reconciliation.

And don't recite those people's interview about the kiss to me. I have read those, and I thought it was stupid. If there was a story that needed a kiss the most, it's Good Omens's Finale. AziCrow didn't go through 6000 years trauma to end up with this.

The straight couple got a sex scene in Season 1, but a second kiss for AziCrow would be too much. Please. 🙄

If you are ace and hate the Finale, you are also valid because ace people can and are allowed to enjoy seeing kisses. Kissing is often tied to sex, but it doesn't have to be. People kiss all the time without it leading to sex. And there are ace people who aren't grossed out by kisses and sex in the fandom.

Most Book Omens art I have drawn, even the ones that depict them doing sexual activities, should have been tagged as ace AziCrow, but I don't want sex repulses people to come across them by accident. (Note: Not talking about zine art or collab work because I adjusted them based on the context of the project)

My headcanon for their relationship is that they are an asexual married couple. They are not repulsed by sex. In fact, they like doing it sometimes when the mood is right or when they have an idea they want to try. What makes them ace is that sex to them is just one of those "fun" activities. To them, it is on the same level as watching a movie together or playing a game together of importance. They can live together forever without ever needing or thinking of having sex if they want to. They like the physical pleasure aspect of sex, just like how they like the pleasure of eating or drinking but there is no "wow that guy/girl is so hot I wanna fuck them" thoughts going on in those mind unless it is about each other.

Demisexual is the closest human label that can be applied to these two. But even so, they aren't humans, and their way of thinking is vastly different from us. I don't really like labeling them tbh. They just do what they wanna do and don't care how humans see their relationship or orientation.

There might be more to add, but I don't have more right now. Just woke up and saw a take that made me want to say sth.

As usual, if you disagree, it's best to block me cause I'm too lazy to debate with people, honestly. I'd rather spend my time drawing my blorbos. This post is to declare my stand on fandom discourse so people know I am problematic. 👍

So menacing…

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

there is delaware (state) and delaware (river) 

both are equally strange

the state is a tiny little cryptid thing

the rive is a monster that spans new york, pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. also washington crossed it once and that was like kinda a big deal i guess. like crossing the rubicon in rome.