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"time heals all wounds" WRONG. time is chasing me with a knife

It's hilarious that Otto Einfasen seems to have just kind of accepted that, "Occtis Tachonis was brutally murdered by his own family last week" and "He's still wandering around and Vaelus saw him this morning" are both things which are completely true. He does of course have that letter from Occtis naming his family as his murderers, but it is still funny that he seems to have mentally filed that whole "dead but still walking around" situation under "Tachonis Bullshit" and is leaving it there

I love Otto Einfasen

Hannan is fucking iconic. he casts Call Lightning over Obrimus Manor, lands on its roof, and jumps down into courtyard. he bangs on the door loudly, and when Trimus answers, he very calmly explains that he is looking for a captured member of the order. he can't figure out if Trimus is entirely lying because Mara DOES love to steal. he asks to be let in. when Trimus says no because the house is cursed due to a hole in the Veil, he offers to heal it, given he's a druid who can do that and is literally tasked with doing that, and negate their entire deal, destroying their undead servants, dispersing the magical darkness, and negating like half their projects. he's caused untold property damage to House Tachonis.

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be a part of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

pick your battles. pick… pick fewer battles than that. put some battles back. that’s too many 

best thing a male character can do is be dog-coded. second best thing a male character can do is sob hysterically

i highly recommend developing an intense interest in some natural phenomenon or creature such as bugs or stars or mushrooms. you will be delighted every time you go outside

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

@eddieintheocean