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Rocky's ptsd makes him stupid as hell, but no worries, Adrian would still listen and console to the best of their abilities
A lot of the substances we think of as protection against the supernatural (e.g. salt, silver, garlic) are actually antibacterial, and would have helped stave off infections and illnesses that people once attributed to supernatural influence.
Based on this, I want to see a story where vampires are repelled by hand sanitizer.
Maybe this will make people wash their fucking hands
I’ve had tumblr for 4 years but some of you bitches have had it for a decade. It’s time to seek penance
wait I’m curious now . Reblog this with how long u’ve been on tumblr for. Dating back to ur oldest blog ever !!!
been roaming through this darkness, I'm alive, but I'm alone
@buckybarnesbingo flash bingo card #5 | C: identity porn
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I was tagged by both @betty-fran and @veliseraptor in the favorite shows meme!
Rules: make a poll with 10 of your favorite shows. They can just be 10 shows you loved watching, or your top TV shows of all time, then tag 10 people📺
Pick one of my favorite shows!
Avatar: the Legend of Korra (2012-2014)
Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-1969)
The Rings of Power (2022-)
The Borgias (2011-2013)
Bewitched (1964-1972)
Pride and Prejudice (1979/1980)
The Hollow Crown (2012-2016)
The Wheel of Time (2021-2025)
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018-2020)
The Acolyte (2024)
Tagging: @ladytharen, @bretwalda-lamnguin, @inziladun, @heckofabecca, @melyzard, @ncfan-1, @nanyoky, @steinbecks, @sqbr, @venndaai
It took me So Long to figure out what this one at work was meant to be
What type of cake do you prefer for your birthday?
* Angel food
* Black Forest
* carrot
* cheese
* confetti
* chocolate
* fruit
* ice cream
* red velvet
* vanilla
* another type
* see results
What type of cake do you prefer for your birthday?
angel food
black forest
carrot
cheese
confetti
chocolate
fruit
ice cream
red velvet
vanilla
another type
see results
if i ever had godlike powers over the nature of animals i'd just make crabs smarter. like on par with crows or something. you'll walk out onto the pier at night and see a group of crabs working together to drag an unconscious man into the water. you can't help him now. he's gone.
love the library. there's no risk. you can take out a book and go "wow this sucks" and just give it back. and when you do that you're still making the library's Number Go Up so you'll be able to roll the dice on even more books. all for the low low price of free/you already paid for it with your tax money so you might as well use it
@official-library-posts
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i’m about to read the dinner party scene in acc and i just know something awful is going to go wrong. miles spending 45 minutes cycling through every outfit he owns is hilarious but i feel like no matter what this dinner is going to go terribly wrong
I have only been in love with one person. Same here. Only one.
Having a lot of feelings about Ryland “you don’t even have a dog” Grace to beloved Uncle Grace pipeline.
When I was in uni my housemates had a baby, and we taught them some sign language so they could communicate before all their mouth parts were coordinated yet. None of us knew Auslan but two of us were familiar with the signs that the State Emergency Services used in the field so we worked with those.
The kid learned to request a drink, which is great, because that's like the #1 most important thing for a baby to be able to request, but instead of learning any of the other signs they just used modified versions of the drink sign to ask for all kinds of things. They couldn't actually make the proper drink sign (it requires some level of hand control) and used a modified wave, so they ended up with a whole bunch of subtly different waves to ask for stuff. Which was pretty fun in public because strangers would coo over this adorable baby who kept waving at them when, in practice, the baby wanted their ice cream.
Our kid used the "milk" sign for any and every liquid, including Lake Huron. We went to Mackinac when they were a toddler, they looked over the edge of the ferry and got so hyped up yelling "wa-juice! Wa-juice!" (Everything was either water or juice at this point in their life) and signing about it. Didn't know what to make of the waves.
My friend's baby also learned some simplified baby AUSLAN and he would sign GIVE at whatever he wanted. Your lunch. Passing birds. The book he just handed you. Just at you, when he wanted attention. The time he demanded *the wind* was perplexing.
I used to have a baby in my class who, any time we had a car go by the classroom window, would watch it go by and then look at me expectantly and start signing "more? more? more?" and pointing at the window. It was adorable, and sweet that he thought I was that powerful, but unfortunately I couldn't make more cars go by for him.
Why does no one talk about the fact that babies can communicate way earlier than when their mouth is developed enough to speak? I didn't even know this was possible! This sounds like accessing a consciousness before the release date. Listening to the thoughts of a brain that's not done cooking yet. Now you can watch how a human brain interprets the environment even earlier in its life, through the eyes of even more underdeveloped senses. Fascinating.
I taught my baby sign language. He was fascinated with fish so we visited the local aquarium frequently. The sign for fish is to make your hand wiggle like a fish swimming. He would stand by the window and sign "fish" so enthusiastically his whole body would wiggle. People thought it was cute he was waving at the fish. No, dear souls, he was naming the fish.
inception is a decent movie but there's so much horror tragedy potential written into its premise and the implications of its worldbuilding and being able to see that and do nothing about it makes me feel deranged
dream technology was developed by the military "so soldiers could practice shooting, stabbing and strangling each other". the only way to escape a dream before it ends is by killing yourself or convincing someone to kill you. you can live entire lifetimes in a dream, only to wake up to the disorientation of realising that only hours have passed in the waking world. prolonged exposure to dream-sharing tech carries the high risk of inducing psychosis to the point that you can no longer tell the difference between dreams and reality. you can carry a "totem" that behaves differently in a dream to counter this, but if anyone else gets their hands on it and figures out how it works, it's game over. dreaming is so addictive that some people sacrifice their waking lives to keep dreaming for longer. people can be hired to break into your mind and take anything they want from it, down to your most intimate parts, and sell them for profit. if that's not paranoia-inducing enough, entering someone else's mind carries the risk of being hunted down and torn to pieces by manifestations of their own psyche in a subconscious act of self-defence that cannot be controlled, because what you are doing is invasive and violent. the premise of the film rests on a superrich man hiring a group of people to fundamentally alter a man's identity because inheriting his father's corporation has the potential to make him a BUSINESS COMPETITOR. the leader of said heist team is so haunted by the suicide of his wife that he (unintentionally) caused by violating her mind to the point of madness that he locks the rest of them into a labyrinth of his own guilt, stalked by the minotaur her vengeful ghost. oh, and on the right cocktail of drugs, you can't wake up from a nightmare, and will instead end up in pure unconstructed unreality, surrounded only by decaying structures built by those who inhabited it before you, whose intentions and regrets might still haunt the landscape like a malevolent physical presence.
and you still have to go to work in the morning!
is kind of a tragedy how little impact this movie had in the popular culture beyond the BOOOOOM sound effect and redefining the meaning of the word inception. youd think other people would have grabbed this premise and done more with it and it hasnt really happened. this and paprika were the two movies that did something with the idea and that was kind of it
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I have a client who communicates exclusively via Microsoft Word.
If she has something to tell me, I’ll receive an email with nothing in the body, but a Word doc attached. That’s where she writes her message.
Whenever she wants to email me a photo, she does so via an empty Word doc with said photo set as its background.
But my favorite thing was the first time I witnessed her visiting a website. She had me spell the URL (“W… W… W… dot…”) and with my own two eyes I watched her type it into Word, made it a hyperlink, and Ctrl click it to go there.
I was so fascinated I didn’t even say anything.
a different microsoft world
relevant xkcd
I think fanfiction as a medium is different enough from mainstream literature in the tools it offers writers that it's a shame that it's not talked about more often. And it's not me saying "fanfic is better than books xD" because that sort of mindset is a symptom of people who aren't particularly well read in either medium. I'm just speaking of like... The little things you get to do with a fanfic that you genuinely can't really do in an original story.
I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.
I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.
You could call it cheap or a crutch and I mean, yeah, sure, it is a little bit: the fanfic relies on previously established emotional bonds and stakes to achieve its goal, and in some cases it saves the author from having to 'properly' build up its stakes. But I think it's INTERESTING that it has that tool at its disposal. I think it's a fun thing to play with and I think these built in expectations and emotional bonds are especially why I find story driven aus in particular to be fascinating in the amount of ways you can play with them. You know??
