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#oh my gosh i love this #scheduling it to post on actualy national milk day #which is apparently june 11!

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My fiancee and I were discussing the worst metal to use to make armor, and the obvious answers are lead and gold, but she cunningly suggested mercury. Which is a fair point, but then I wondered if solid mercury is any good. Googling told me that the melting point of mercury is -38° c (-37° f), so first you get it really fucking cold. At that point, it turns out that mercury has a tensile strength of 1900 mpa, compared to lead’s 18 and steel’s ~500-940 (depending upon the kind of steel).

Now, I know that tensile strength is not necessarily the best measure of a material’s ability to function as armor, but I’m a liberal arts major and didn’t care to actually do that much more research before going straight to, “EVIL ICE DEMONS IN MERCURY ARMOR. THE PCS CAN’T LOOT IT BECAUSE WHEN THEY PUT IT ON IT MELTS AND KILLS THEM.”

#whoa!!!!

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I'm curious what the general populace thinks

#keen 2 talk #not gifted because im passing that on to my roommate to be beta/alpha read #as soon as i finish printing it out and also get it in a binder lol #but these are the three easiest projects for me to work on out here #so tell me what you think! #bonus points if you tell me why!

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#dream wip

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You know what the difference is between you and me, Violet? No. Me neither.

GINA GERSHON as CORKY BOUND 1996 — dir. the Wachowskis

#oh god oh fuck #not to be sapphic on main but--

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Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

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#oh my god

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Today, I would like to commemorate an event which has laid a very profound impact on the internet.

Ten years ago on this day (06/08/09), a forum website called SomethingAwful held a photoshop contest titled “create paranormal images”.  The contest would require participants to edit ordinary photographs into creepy-looking images, and then try to pass them off as authentic photos on other paranormal forums.

Two days later, on June 10th, a user by the name Victor Surge would find this thread, and become inspired.  He submitted the two pictures above, featuring a tall, faceless monster which would stalk children, who would then disappear.  He called his monster “the Slender Man”. After this initial post, Surge and others would expand on the character and the story, creating one of the internet’s most famous monsters.  The Slender Man proved to be popular enough to spread to other websites, with 4chan, Deviantart, and TV Tropes all having their own Slender-Mania. On June 20th of that same year, another user on the SomethingAwful forums found the Slender Man, and also wanted to contribute.  Noticing nobody had made any videos yet of the monster, he sat down with some of his friends and planned out a video webseries involving a former college film student discovering and unravelling the mysteries surrounding Slender Man; this would become Marble Hornets, one of the first horror-themed ARG’s of the internet.

That all happened ten years ago.  Ten years of haunting the darkest corners of the internet, and Slender Man has built up a surprisingly dense resume, for a fictional monster.  Several popular webseries, a couple hit games, at least two movies, even inspiring other characters in seperate series like the Silence in Dr Who and the Enderman in Minecraft.  And all this within a ten-year period.

I think this just attests to how much humans can be inspired by an idea.  From a small handful of edited photographs, we collectively constructed a new monster which lurks in our nightmares, and now it almost seems as natural as the horror mythos he was based on.  For better or worse, the Slender Man seems to be here to stay. Happy Birthday, Slendy!  Here’s to hoping you continue to be both terrifying and terrific!

#i can't believe i share a birthday with fucking slenderman

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Ch🤒

#finch wip

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The character who desperately needs just someone, anyone on their side getting an entire found family is absolutely my favorite comfort trope

I feel like there are many stories with found family elements, but they're romance focused or it's really more of a friend group. But there is just something about the found family being EVERYTHING for a character

When no one cared about them before? Or they lost everything? When they are so alone in the world? When they feel like everything is against them? Or they feel like it's best for everyone if they just stay a loner? When their found family completely and unequivocally saves them?

#for werewolf reasons

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is anyone else feeling stuck and waiting for something that will never come in order to start living or is it just me?

#hmmmm

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it came to my realization that 99% of my fandom related headaches would be cured if everyone understood this

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im so dead tired of self aware genre fiction. i dont want the snarky knight or the brooding spaceman to joke about how overplayed something is. gimme back unashamed affect. gimme dudes speaking in thees and thous and starship captains making poignant speeches and shit and stop fucking worrying about being seen by critics or the general public as shlock

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"Listen," one guard said, "I know we have only just met-"

"No," the other guard said, "we've worked together for years!"

"-but you can trust me when I say-"

"I can't, you have the curse that's opposite from mine!"

"I don't care for you at all."

"Well, I… oh… I love you too."

#others writing #🥹🥹🥹

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more painting practice. A centaur in the morning light. Reference is Cristian (who has the best smile) via fatfotoref.com and @fugitiverabbit