help it's again

“From whence you came” is a classic place to send back a foul beast

frogs in the summer be like

girls love developing debilitating crushes on their friends. it’s one of girls’ favourite pastimes even

we asked ten million billion girls “who is your favouritest person to fall in love with” and the number one answer was “a friend that we absolutely shouldn’t under any circumstances fall madly in love with” with 97% of the vote

Middle Earth. Author unknown.

New 5th element just dropped

One of my pieces for the Hear Me Out Tumblr Sexyman Zine Volume 2! This project was so fun, and you definitely need to check it out

oh no my pornography is turning into an angst-filled character study

Oh no my angst-filled character study is turning into pornography

Pond on the Pacific Crest Trail

i like that we see ^_^ as a smile even though its mouth is totally straight. Its happiness is so radiant it need not smile to let us know!

It would be funny if nuclear waste warning messages become an attraction for future historical linguists.

I mean look at this thing:

A parallel text in 7 languages, with 4 different scripts between them! And pictograms! All designed to be preserved intact!

maybe nothing of value to you is here

That is legitimately a massive problem that the nuclear waste warning projects are aware of and trying desperately to counteract.

Like, every post about them on tumblr going “lmao let’s be real, if I saw this shit I would stop at nothing to explore it” is highlighting the central conceit of the yucca mountain project.

The project is VERY aware of humanity’s tendency to explore, and the people involved are tormented constantly by the fact that ANYTHING they do to indicate “this specific place is extremely deadly and there’s nothing valuable here, GO AWAY” is going to become a fucking MAGNET for treasure hunters, explorers, adventurers, mystery enthusiasts, conspiracy theorists…like, the MOMENT it’s discovered, people will flood that place.

That’s what makes the project so fascinatingly difficult! There’s so much they have to convey, but at the same time, they have to do so without making the site itself interesting in any way, and without making it significant. Many possible warnings don’t incorporate a message at all, focusing instead on simply making the site as ugly, inconvenient, and unimportant-looking as possible so that it’s just never disturbed because nobody is interested in getting close. (It’s why seemingly crazy ideas like the color-changing cat priesthood are actually more viable than the seemingly “practical” example above, which still depends on written warnings guaranteed to be extremely interesting to future humans AND depends on the idea that those future humans will be able to decipher any of our languages. The most viable ideas focus on exploiting superstition and the subconscious, rather than LITERALLY trying to communicate “This place is not a place of honor” etc in as many words. Those are general ideas to be gotten across, not a script.)

The impossible catch-22 of the nuclear waste warning projects is that they absolutely MUST communicate the level of danger and the importance of keeping your distance…while also being acutely aware that warnings on the walls of ancient burial sites about the horrible curses that would afflict anyone who disturbed them did jack-fuck all to dissuade archaeologists.

Anything we do to make the warning seem important will guarantee it’s disregarded, but if we fail to make the warning unmistakable enough, we’re responsible for whatever happens to the humans ten thousand years in the future who suffer from our mistakes.

If the area is to become unappealing why not put a landfill over it. To get to the death rocks you’ll have to dig through undecayed cabbage

See above re: archeologists. Who just LOVE garbage dumps for what they can learn about people’s day-to-day lives.

‘And there’s the sign, Ridcully,’ said the Dean. ‘You have read it, I assume. You know? The sign which says “Do not, under any circumstances, open this door”?’ ‘Of course I’ve read it,’ said Ridcully. ‘Why d’yer think I want it opened?’ ‘Er … why?’ said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. ‘To see why they wanted it shut, of course.’  *

* This exchange contains almost all you need to know about human civilization. At least, those bits of it that are now under the sea, fenced off or still smoking.

– Terry Pratchett - Hogfather

I can’t belive they just dropped “color-changing cat priesthood” with zero explanation, so I googled it and here you go:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_cat

What I find extra funny about the Pratchett quote was he was the press office for a nuclear power plant before he was a full time author.

Happy 10 years of Critical Role, everyone! Here's my piece for @artists-guild-of-exandria's #CR10Party project to celebrate, Bright Queen Leylas Kryn and Dusk Captain Quana!!

Be sure to peruse the other pieces for this project because they're all amazing!!

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being a humanities major who’s friends with stem majors is so funny because you’ll ask your friends what they’re doing today and they’re like “UGH it’s so stressful i have to stabilize the reactor core for my nuclear power midterm and then i have to build the supercomputer from i have no mouth yet i must scream for my electrical engineering homework :/ what about you” and you’re like “oh well i have to read a fun little book and write an essay about gender.” and they still think you have it worse

Being a stem major who's friends with humanities majors is ALSO funny bc you ask what's goin on with them and they're like "oh yeah my day's pretty good! I only have to read 50 pages for this one class today and half a book for another one. It's much better than last week where I read three books and wrote a 10 page paper about their overlapping motifs for one class while also researching a niche period of time that our library doesn't have any resources on. How's it been for you?" and you're like "oh I have a lil packet of fun math puzzles due tomorrow." and they look at you like you're carrying the weight of the universe on your back

This is your reminder that just because something falls within the skillset you've practiced, so you can do it and you don't find it particularly hard or stressful relative to other things, it doesn't mean it isn't actually hard work you should be proud of yourself for accomplishing!

✨🔥Embers burn hot again as two old flames reconnect. Will Ira the Nightmare King be able to reignite the fires of passion and win the affections of Morrigan the Fatestitcher once more? 🪡💞

My piece for @artists-guild-of-exandria's latest project, Critical Rolemance!! Please check out all the pieces because they're all amazing!

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my mom, discussing furries with me: but I don’t get all the cats and dogs, why wouldn’t you want to be a sexy animal? like a kangaroo

me: mama what the hell does that mean

my mom: so muscular

banking apps will be like “you can’t do this on the app! you must call to speak to a customer service agent” and then you call and while you’re on hold a robot tells you 13 times that instead of calling in you can get faster service on the app