Something Smart. Also Intelligent. Probably. Maybe

Julaves day 1, Chasmosaurus belli. Now in tiny animated form!

18 years. this is enough time for the work to grow to adulthood and begin to care for itself

now you may be asking yourself, tumblr user cenneidi, how would we implement such a thing given the uncertainties and vagaries of fate? and to that I say: I don't know. i'm not the answers guy, i'm the ideas guy. However, here are some ideas for possible implementation:

copyright oracles to predict the exact date, time, and circumstances of each author's death. this one is cool because when you first publish a work you get to find out how long you have left as a fun little treat!

author must submit a planned departure date alongside any copyright challenge. this is good because it encourages artists to kill themselves, a favorite goal of many on this website

cis people take for granted that the point of view character in their fantasies (generally themselves) is of the sexgender that is comfortable and erotic for them to inhabit. who you find attractive is only half of your sexuality -- the other half is who you feel attractive being

Don't threaten to do it, go research it, and actually give it a go!!! Most of the books for old crafts are out of copyright. Even if you don't get a job at whatever you try, or hell, even of you don't become in any way good at it, just learning and trying something new is good for you, and it gives you a greater understanding and appreciation for things.

(Our brains are so good at categorising experiences, that normally, as soon as we experience something, it’s absorbed, and no longer surprising; how delightful to find that we can be surprised by animals again!)

But it also helps you to pick out what’s REALLY inherent to the animal, what pieces of gesture and motion (obscured by colour, pattern or our own familiarity) are actually integral to the understanding of the true Beast….

BRING

THEM

I buy my custom giant pockets from Katherine the Great - handmade utility accessories for everyBODY

I’m 33 now, and I still discover a new joke every time I reread it.

*starts thunderously knocking on the doors of heaven*

In the UK, the book of the peerage is called Burke’s Peerage. Burke sounds like berk, which means a silly/annoying person. So Terry took ‘twerp’, another word for a silly or annoying person, and replaced the e with u. 

Trans silvas very simply translated into german would be über den Wald

Trans silvas -> Transsilvanien -> Überwald

The Venturi Effect is a scientific term referring to the acceleration of a liquid through a narrow tube (like a jet).

Selachii is a classification of sharks. (I discovered this when my stepson got really into sharks)

The Malleus Maleficarum is a very real, very nasty and absolutely batshit insane book from late 15th-century Germany, basically laying out the procedure for catching, torturing, and executing witches. Its title translates to The Hammer of Witches. The other titles are Pratchett's inventions.