I’m convinced it was an interdimensional portal

Oooh, I know this one! The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration - they make the rules for flying here in the US) has designated “roads” in the sky to keep all the commercial jets from running into each other. When you’re headed the same direction at the same speed, you don’t get in each other’s way. If you’re heading east you fly at one elevation, and west-bound planes fly at a different height. There are lots of rules to keep mid-air crashes to a minimum.

However, if you’re running late, or weather in one spot is bad, you can call up Air Traffic Control and ask for a new route! And they will look at their little radar screens and maps of all the airplanes in the area, and tell you what shortcut you can take.

I am a little bit overcome by this. We made actual imaginary tunnels in the sky so our giant metal birds can fly through the open air in the most organized, polite way possible. We check in over our designated long distance thought projection machine channel that anyone can listen in on but we all promise not to interrupt to get permission to swap imaginary sky tunnels. We come up with the weirdest impossible shit and immediately give it boundaries! Humans are ridiculous. I mean yes these are good rules and many many people would die if we didnt have them, a+ on these rules, but if you take a step back wanting to sunder every natural limitation we can find and then going ahead and building our own so nothing gets too messy is a fucking hilarious art for a species to compulsively pursue.

It’s that time of year when the Great Storm Dragon descends upon the Midwest

I am now drawing the Great Midwest Radar Dragon

Weather spotters reported a giant glowing dragon in the sky. Locals told to not even worry about it.

Aw I should make his claws purple like this claw signature thingy from the other night

I think my new favorite hobby is making Noah out of different radar maps now.

@kawaiijohn

UM GUYS. I JUST NOTICED A CRAZY ISSUE W THE TUMBLR UPDATE.

YOU CAN SEE THE ICONS OF ANONS SOMETIMES.

The way I was able to recognize several anons in one of my inboxes bc of this error. Oh my god. Guys. This isn’t supposed to happen.

Weighing in to say:

YES, I SEE THIS ON MOBILE. HOWEVER I DO **NOT** THINK IT'S SHOWING THE ANON'S REAL IDENTITY.

The profile pictures I see next to anon asks are profile pictures that belong to other, non-anon asks in my ask box also. Some info

I think the bug is the inbox INCORRECTLY attributing anons to neighboring, logged-in asks.

Which is still a bad bug! Considering it makes it look like a long-time follower of mine sent me a spam ask.

And is worse if, say, one of these was anon hate.

But it's NOT the anon's real identity. It's a neighboring ask asker's identity

So if you have anon hate in your inbox that looks like it's attributed to your dear friend, who sends you lovely asks all the time, it was Not them.

CONFIRMED THE BUG IS INCORRECT ATTRIBUTION.

Thanks @thepatchycat for being a test subject. As you can see the icon being attributed to this ask is NOT the patchy cat

The pictured icon belongs to @watchingforcomets who sent me a nice ask about nail polish yesterday which I have not yet answered!

With comments, it can sometimes be hard to know what to say, but as an author who adores every comment I’ve ever received, I can confirm how much it means to writers, and I’m so happy @justleaveacommentfest is encouraging people to write even more of them! If you still feel lost, here are some things to try:

So yes. Smash your face into the keyboard, highlight a favorite moment, or tell them it's 4 am in your timezone but you absolutely could not stop reading because it was so good. It means the world to hear positive feedback from readers, and it's encouragement for authors to share more works in the future!

it’s ninety-nine degrees outside, four fuck-thousand percent humidity, and my husband was like, “i’m gonna go for a bike ride.” and i was like “why. no. why. don’t put us on the news like that. local fool collapses on unnecessary journey. don’t do it.” so he says he doesn’t want to “hide in the house” because the sun is shining. bruh. honeybruh. “the sun is shining” does not cover it. its hot outside. its motherfucking hot as fuck outside. our outdoor plants have been crying into their hands all week. whole cars are melting into the sewer. our fucking patio umbrella developed sentience to ask me for lemonade this morning

@robotmango, you need to work for the weather forecast - this was both hilarious and so vivid it made me stand up and get some iced tea.

this is a great idea, thank you. here goes. my audition tape for the weather channel. dearly beloved. we are gathered here today to have a fucking funeral for the outdoors. it had a good run, with all its creeks and clouds and shit. pretty great. now it’s ten-thirty at night but still ninety-two asshole-sweating degrees and humid as fuck. everything is hot and slimy, like being a “borrower” that got trapped inside a bottle of shampoo and then accidentally microwaved. you can see on my doppler radar that nothing is moving around out there because everything is probably dead. the only alive thing is the mosquito currently trying to drill a hole in my leg. no surprise that all the shitbag mosquitos are fine, since the thermostat of hell is always at the devil’s preferred temperature. this forecast has gotten away from me a little, but in conclusion fuck the sun

There's something genuinely inspiring about seeing a bunch of fanart and microfiction and deep meta analysis about a character you've never heard of cross your dash, and you assume they're from a piece of media you're not caught up on, but later you learn that it's some random person's OC that six of their friends are super enthusiastic about, and they only seem omnipresent because you happen to be following like three of those six friends. There truly is no minimum viable size for a character-based fandom.

One of the coolest parts about being a fan of fanfic is you can actually contact the author. And they will respond. And then you can message them nonstop until they allow you into their lives and then you’re becoming their beta reader and suddenly you know multiple authors of all types of fiction books and fanfic authors who will drag out their deleted fics for you to read at a moments notice.

Anyway. Comment on fics and message authors. It’s absolutely worth it.

which one of u was going to tell me that tea tastes different if u put it in hot water?

y- you were putting it in cold water?????

Radish. Answer the question radish.

yeah??? i thought for like. 5 years that ppl just put it in hot water 2 speed up the tea-ification process didn’t realize there was an actual reason

You dont have the patience to microwave water for 3 minutes???

[ID: Tags reading “u think i have the patience to boil water wtf ?????” /End ID]

why are you. putting it in the microwave to boil it

Do you think I have the patience to boil water on the stove

Its takes less than a minute

Bestie is ur stovetop powered by the fucking sun

How long does it take you to boil a cup of water on the stove

Like seven minutes

Just stick the mug on top of the stove on medium heat n it boils in like two minutes… less than that is u use a saucepan…

Crying you’re putting the whole mug on the stove ???? On medium heat???? Ur stove is enchanted

Every single person in this post is a fucking lunatic

Yet another post that reads like four shakespeare characters who come out in the middle of the play to talk about something completely unrelated for comic relief

(Enter RADISHN’T, MOTHMAN MISATO, BOIMG FROG and CATS'N RAINCOATS, stage left. They are having a HEATED DISCUSSION.)

RADISHN’T: Prithee, which one of you had planned to tell

Of diff'rent flavours gained by simple act

Of brewing tea with water hot, not cold?

MOTHMAN: Egad! you poured the water cold? Wherefore?!

FROG: An answer from you, Radish, I must beg.

RADISHN’T: Indeed I did, dear friends - why does this shock?

Without the guide of others I assumed

That heat was merely added for the sake

Of expediting this solution’s brewing!

Half a decade I have spent, or more,

Not questioning this worldview I had made.

In fact, I am myself a bit surprised

That you might think that I, your dearest friend,

Might have a patience of sufficient stock

To wait until a pot of water boils.

FROG: Three minutes overtaxes patience so?

The microwave will beep when it is done!

CATS'N: My friend, this answer vexes me the more!

Can it be true that thou dost boil by nuke?!

FROG: Are you in turn, my friend, so shocked to know

That I have not the patience, like our Root,

To boil upon the stove our favour’d drink?

CATS'N: It takes less than a minute!

FROG: On what plate?

Perhaps your dinner cooks atop the sun?

CATS'N: How long can take your stove to fill the task

Of boiling but a single cup alone?

FROG: In minutes?

CATS'N: Yes!

FROG: I counted seven, once.

CATS'N: Perhaps you ought to have your timepiece checked!

If on a middle heat you place the cup

You soon will have the scalding drink you crave.

Two minutes, in a mug upon the plate

Or even less, if you should have a pot.

FROG: You cause me tears - is this how thou dost live?

You place upon the iron stove a mug?

A mug, ceramic, filled with water cold?

How do these flames, though medium in height,

Not shatter like a glass this fragile thing?

Surely, then, your kitchen is bewitched

With magicks far beyond the mortal ken!

(The FOUR realise they have wandered into the THRONE ROOM. The ROYAL COURT watches with fascination.)

KING: Ev'ry single person in this group must be a fucking lunatic, it seems.

I’m sorry but the THOUGHT that has been put into this, I actually CAN’T—

The fact that nearly every line is so metrically considered- near perfect iambic pentameter witb the occasional trochee for emphasis, but usually retaining a strong sense of rhythm nonetheless. And then the king comes in at the end, so wound in his disbelief that his response is reduced to prose.

And the even better thing about this is how easy it would have been to structure the king’s line into iambic pentameter: it is effectively already said as such because of the way wizardlyghost has phrased it, yet they haven’t!! They did not break the line, rendering what, by all typically of both Shakespearean canon and other periods context should be the character with the most command and authority in the whole play. If there was ever a more effective way to convey a genuine “what the fuck??”, I know of it not.

But it gets better!! Shakespeare regularly uses meter in order to represent class divide; the nobility usually speak in iambic pentameter, save for a few particularly chosen moments (e.g. Lady Macbeth’s descent into madness, Othello’s realisation of Desdemona’s “betrayal”) or just lines where Shakespeare needs to suggest high emotion or when a character is lost in thought. Supernatural characters like the fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Witches in Macbeth usually speak in trochaic tetrameter, an inversion of iambic pentameter. Lower class characters, particularly those used for comic relief (usually under the influence of alcohol), speak with no structure at all: their language is plain prose. Therefore, if this is a conversation between these types of characters, as the prompt from silvergirachi suggests, why the hell are the characters speaking so eloquently???

Now, this is Tumblr. It is subsequently logical to assume that this may have merely been a humorous recreation (and a very good one at that) of the Shakespearean style in a way that is widely recognisable to an audience that may or may not have read a great deal of Shakespeare, which is understandable. However, logic is boring so I’m going to probe further into this to the point where future historians will look to this as an example of overanalysing.

The inherent eloquence of the characters here suggests an unusual subversion of the roles typically assumed in Shakespearean comedy. This could be interpreted along two major avenues: firstly, that the rhetoric displayed by the speakers is fundamentally representative of how truth can be expected even from the most seemingly pointless or ludicrous discussions. Furthermore, it could suggest that it matters not how well constructed your speeches are: if you talk bullshit, it’s going to sound that way despite your attempts to hide it.

This is similar but not identical to the second avenue of interpretation: there is the implication that the noblemen in the play are in fact the comic relief characters, therefore implying that the “common people” of the play are the ones whose influence, though not expressed in such a highly spoken manner, makes a lot more sense than whatever the hell this is. If this was a real Shakespeare play, I would call it a subtle exploration into the innate corruption of the rich and powerful. Well done, op.

Now, I doubt any of this is actually grounded analysis in any way, shape or form, but if someone else can take this to the extremes of writing a Shakespearean scene, why can I not analyse it as such? And where else to do so than Tumblr?

im in tears i didnt think anyone would put this much analysis into this‚ thank you so much

i also like that everyone else gets a version of their handle and then tumblr user pidoop is promoted to king

ok, turning to the DRoP fandom for this.

i really, really, really want to try to engineer the dragon models from the 3D pern videogame into something 3D printable, because it would be very fun to have some little pernese dragons around. i have extracted the models. the big problem is they're in a very, very specialized filetype.

this file type is Atari Stereo CAD-3D, with the file extension ".3D" (it shares this with a type of cave modeling file! fun fact). as far as I can find, there is no piece of software capable of opening these files and turning them into something else, and they cannot be captured in another format. they can't be opened with other Stereo CAD-3D software, and even the software linked on fileinfo as opening it, quick3D, only opens .3D2 and .3ds files according to its list of things it can open. i haven't downloaded it to try anyway because it also costs 200 dollars.

please let me know if you have a way to open this filetype and save as a different one, or if you happen to have a copy of quick3D lying around. or reblog to boost if you're interested in the potential of being able to print little pernese dragons of your own.

★★★Tropical forest dragon★★★ ~Splash of colours~ ►I thought, why not to do a challenge - to draw a very colorful dragon, and let imagination run wild Смайлик «smile» ►Pencils, pens on a brown paper.

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I'm pretty sure if you're trying to pick up Hardware Store Guys being covered in sawdust and smelling like WD-40 is WHY they started talking to you. It's like catnip.

Real question are there people out there who dont know how to properly use a firearm I am asking this unironically its very intuitive to me but that may just be because I was raised in appalachia do you guys not know how to reload aim and shoot properly

im aware through cultural osmosis about the basic ruls of gun safety, trigger discipline, point at the ground, etc, the specific mechanisms of it i have an incredible vague idea of but i would probably make an ass of my self if i was handed a gun

(sorry for adding a poll to your post but I think this could use a poll)

i wish more pern settings were willing to take a realistic stance towards physical differences in dragons, particularly from hatching. i can understand not wanting to dive into the deep end, to be fair.

i just think it would be realistic to acknowledge that dragons are an artificial population and will showcase physical differences over time -- their only population pressure is being merc'd by thread so you can safely assume that physical traits related to flying or flaming would have selection pressure to stay very very fit, but everything else?

well, a young flit in the wild might get snatched by a wherry. it would be even more likely to get snatched if it had a particularly raucous vocalization or was brightly colored or pied or if it had behavioral differences like sleep times or preference for a different group structure.

but dragons don't have those pressures.

so the occasional difference -- which is absolutely required if you expect that dragons reproduce sexually -- that pops up does not end in premature death. sometimes a dragon is pied. sometimes it's got weird headknobs. sometimes they're narcoleptic. who knows what else.

and that's before accounting for cultural mores that would never leave a dragon on the sands -- assuming those are present.

I think in RP boards it gets stifled a lot by the 'if one person gets a 'special' dragon everyone will want one' (which is both a, not true, and b, what harm does it do if everyone does?).

Headknobs seem such an easy way to add difference, too, especially if you lump it in with telepathy strength (which I think might just be a fanon thing I see often) – maybe the bronze with very short headknobs can't speak telepathically as far as, say, the green with very long ones? What does that do in a weyr with traditional 'greens can't become wingleaders' restrictions? "That gold with the long branching headknobs much be so strong", but actually she gets headaches all the time and can't stand listening for long periods of time.

definitely re: the specialness, and i like those ideas about the effects of certain differences!

i was thinking of this as a little different than how many sites will do "mutations." the same idea, just framed differently. not tokenized, turned into a thing an object that is something you kind of attach or overlay on the dragon. just a fact of life. a texture that exists, unreified.

idk. maybe it's unrealistic to expect players to handle a backgrou d detail implying that an NPC could be a little unusual 😂

I think forum RP is very resistant to dropping the buyable/earnable mutations approach, but not because players are just too close minded to handle anything else, or something. (And not entirely because "everyone will want the special!" although that's definitely a factor.)

I think the biggest reason is that buyable/earnable mutations provide a goal. You remember how Quicksilver did so badly partly because there weren't obvious goals, so nobody knew what to do, right? Buyable/earnable things in general provide a goal that will motivate almost everyone and is applicable all the time, without staff having to manage a plot that includes everyone at every moment.

But for that to work there have to be things to earn, which most players will want. And if mutations aren't a system, people can earn... pets? But not everyone wants them. Ranks (either of the "your character can be wingleader" or the "your character can impress a bronze" variety) and rare traits on the human side (nobility, blonde hair, twins) have been tried and are a worse idea than mutations, in my opinion. So the mutation system stays.

I do see some variation without mutations, though; basically every site has size ranges for each color, and will allow things like dragons being described as having an unusually (sturdy/delicate/topheavy) build for their rank, or slightly small wings, or an angular head, etc without mutations. It just doesn't get as much focus because it's minor, and free.

And the second reason I think is... kind of related to the "if one person has something special everyone will want it" thing? But not exactly that. I think that if a site said "no mutation system, you can make your dragons with all the variety of a real life species" people would escalate and start pushing the envelope eventually. The mutation system keeps us from playing the "a 6'8" guy is short here" game with dragons. Which wouldn't be the end of the world if it happened, but I imagine it's a consideration for some sites.

cat sized dragon curling up in your lap and purring, if you even care

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