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Hey! My description section is back! White Cis-Het Married Man born in 1979. He/Him. Curator of @NoContextGames Now if you complain about me in tags you can use my pronouns.

the tumbr app won't load on my phone for the last two days.

But at least I can update my avatar on desktop

aquarium advertisments say stuiff like discover the longtooth grouper this friday

I see that, and raise you my local aquarium's advertising.

Vancouver Aquarium has similar ads!

They also have some SERIOUSLY inventive ones:

(High and Low Tide ^)

the only type of advertising that should exist: "ooooohhhh you want to come look at the animal"

That's an incredible gift for an otter to give! I bet it's thr favourite stone of one of the two (they keep it in their pocket and apparently some hang onto their favourite for their entire lives). They use the stone to crack open shells they can't manage with their teeth or claws.

An otter giving away it's stone is quite the sacrifice!

Of course there's a chance this wasn't one of their's, and instead a stone they quickly found to use as a gift and even if that is the case (though I think it less likely), it's still an important gesture knowing how important stones are to them.

How Mexicans feel about duendes too.

True. Most Irish people, as Norwegians do with Trolls, will happily let the 'fairies' be a thing to make tours for tourists and idle threats to make children behave. Most Irish people will have a very normal and mature explanation of fairies as a common folk mythology that expresses some dimension of Irish culture but are not, obviously, to be taken literally.

And most Irish people, if you ask them to move a stone from a fairy circle will immoveably, flatly respond with 'absolutely fucking not'.

Construction projects have had to halt and be abandoned for it.

At work me and a couple coworkers (black, white, and mexican) had a fun discussion on whether there are more ghosts at a hospital or a cemetery.

everyone individually took a moment to specify that ghosts probably aren't REAL real. then weighed in on where and why.

for the record my position was that there's probably way more ghosts in hospitals because that's where people die horribly, but since you can only see ghosts in dark, solitary conditions, graveyards at night is where the majority of ghost sightings occur. hospitals are usually well lit and busy, so even if they're crammed with ghosts the living are too damn busy to see them. meanwhile if a cemetery has even one ghost that followed her corpse there from the hospital, she'll be spotted because that's where all the ghost hunters go to look.

this theory was received as extremely sensible, and a coworker drew the conclusion that that's why abandoned hospitals are even scarier than graveyards. once the place gets abandoned then you can tell how much ghosts got built up.

we all liked this explanation a lot and explained it to everyone else all night. and of course, none of us believe in ghosts.

Is this about the Walrus or the fairy knocking on your door?

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