#no waaaaaay

[nexus-skellie]

Got gifted an egg and this is the scry for the boy I hatched! Meet Beckoner!

#bogsneak #flight rising #g1 #scry #wow two g1 bogsneaks with harlequin?? #no waaaaaay

[tfshouldidohere]

NO WAY I FOUNF A FIC THAT TICKLED AN ITCH NEEDED TO BE SCRATCHED FROM MONTHS AGO

#NO WAYYYY #NO WAAAAAAY #I THOUGHT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE #!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #tfshouldirambles

[frikydizzle]

i dont Watch south park but i love saying oh my god no waaaaaay like the little goth boy

#what’s his name idk i love him #no waaaaaay #south park

[gardenerian]

I heard Ians a taken fellow, off the market 💍 🥺

where’d ya hear that, anon? was ian shouting it from the balcony again? or was it mickey this time? or were they standing on a street corner pointing at each other and saying “that’s my husband 😇” to anyone that passed by? tell me how you came to be in the know, please. i mean, we all saw their wedding and it was the greatest, but i’d love the know the grapevine in this scenario.

also - he’s married?? a husband? he’s cared for forever and loved for everything he is? there is always someone there to laugh at his jokes? and he is able to heap all his love and capacity for caretaking on the one person he’s always wanted to? fucking INSANE.

#NO WAAAAAAY #gonna crawl under my desk and cry #and yell at my coworkers if they come near me #I’M FINE SUSAN #it’s just 😭 husbands 😭 #ty anon for this meltdown ilyyyyy #mel answers

[salamispots]

something something giant isopod sharing is caring pass the detritus

inprnt

#giant isopod #marine biology #artists on tumblr #inprnt #I tried coming up with a pun but nothing popped up #cackLES #there's also another print up on inprnt that I'm waiting to post when I have other stuff settled 👀 #technically inprnt is getting to see stuff a little earlier haha #also been noticing how my process has changed haha it's interesting #like I'll spend waaaaaay more time now nitpicking/adjusting colors which is fine #but like before when I was still in old process mindset I'd get frustrated and think the colors weren't coming out right #when what I needed was to spend more time figuring it out

[shadowaj]

persona…

#digital art #character art #artists on tumblr #persona #persona 3 #persona 3 reload #makoto yuki #orpheus #thanatos #messiah #this drawing took waaaaaay too long but it looks cool methinks #also junpei is the best character in the game no contest #anyway BURNNN MYYY DREEEAAADDD

[night-owl-writes1]

#writer #writing memes #story memes #I've written waaaaaay too much #writeblr #writing #writers and poets #writers on tumblr #creative writing #writerscommunity #ao3 writer #ao3 writing #story writing #fiction

[pangur-and-grim]

frogs playing mario kart!

this is a risograph print that you can grab here

#I only printed a few #made it as a gift for a friend #it took me waaaaaay longer than I thought it would #also!!!! this a very experimental style so I'd curious to hear what people think!! if you're willing to leave a comment

[apparently-artless]

✵✺❂ JUJUTSU KAISEN S02 ◉ GOJO SATORU ❂✺✵

dedicated to Clu (@gojoed)

#jjk #jjkedit #jujutsu kaisen #gojo satoru #anime #anime gif #animeedit #animangaboys #fyanimegifs #gifset #usertorichi #userdabiluna #userinahochi #usersophies #tuserelena #usernikiforova #useradrienne #userokkottsus #artsgifs #long post #hi clu!! hope you liked this! <3 #you're probably surprised by this post but seriously this is just waaaaaay long overdue lol #and it took me a while to realize that you already changed your url #anyways this is just a smol gift for you ^^ #thank you for appreciating my edits! <3

[swordy-da-goat]

Lotta info down there 💡

Masterpost

#lamp #creature #creatures #objects #object #myart #speculative biology #the first two are based on my actual lamps and the ones that give me the original inspiration #the desk and tabletop buddy lamps are from a friend #man #I had to look up so many lamps and diagrams #waaaaaay too many variants #whoo #btw lamp beasts are on my artfight if ya wanna draw them #if i didn’t get all the types of lamps (because too much) #you can send me an ask about a type of lamo I didn’t cover and i’ll do an info bout them #lamp beasts #mimics

[marzipanandminutiae]

you know how eventually you can cobble together the plot of media you don’t actually engage with from following fans on Tumblr?

that has never happened for me with...god I don’t even know what it’s called. The Locked Tomb? Harrow The Ninth? Death And Gay And Death And Gay And Memes [five-hour guitar solo]? this is the degree to which I genuinely have no fucking clue about this book series: I follow multiple hardcore fans, and I do not even know its proper name

plot? oh you want to know the plot? I could not have less of a clue what the plot is. none of the information I’ve learned- and there’s been a lot of it - has gelled into anything cohesive in my brain

I know there’s necromancy

I know it’s Deeply Really Truly Incredibly Sapphic

I cannot tell if it’s set in alternate universe (because that would make the most sense given the snippets of worldbuilding I’ve seen) or Earth’s future (because Memes apparently???)

I know some people have numbers after their names? but it’s something to do with numbered clans, not their ancestors having the same name?

I know The One Gay Death Lady Is Based On A Barbie From The 80s, Physically

(they are all Gay Death Ladies, it seems)

at this point I refuse to google it, even though I easily could. I have too much fun reading posts like “omg when Sapphia Dodecarius used Alex’s blood for the ritual to raise the dead king after they fucked with a strap made from his rib I couldn’t even” with absolutely zero context

#the locked tomb #tagging even though I don't go here because it seems like this will amuse the fandom #okay I did just look up the name for tagging reasons #they're IN SPACE???? #HOW WAS I HITHERTO UNAWARE THAT THEY WERE IN SPACE? #excellent. ideal even #I love learning things about this series that should be blindingly obvious waaaaaay later than I should #given how many fans I follow

[indigoire]

Me looking at the Chilchuck and Senshi ship: you know what, something about this appeals to me, there's just something about a middle aged halfling and dwarf pairing that just makes sens--oh goDDAMMIT IT'S JUST BAGGINSHIELD ALL OVER AGAIN!!!

#granted there are differences. there really are #Senhi and Thorin are waaaaaay different #Bilbo and Chilchuck aren't too different in temperment but their backgrounds are vastly different #but goddamn it even the hair color is the same #The Hobbit #Dungeon Meshi #Chilshi #picks n pots #Bagginshield #... it's been 84 years

[marblegroves]

Lives on the line! Winner takes all! Ready or not, let’s begin!

#gemcyt #i think im starting to get the hang of shorthanding the su style #i finished this waaaaaay faster than the first style emulation #alternatively i didnt have to think of foliage this time lmao #doodlegroves

[cat-alvarez]

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) dir. Anthony and Joe Russo

#marveledit #filmedit #theavengers #mcufam #bbelcher #filmgifs #marveldaily #userpat #usermal #userdiana #mine #gif #marvel gifs #catws #I told ya I made waaaaaay to many gifs for this #I just didn't get around to posting another set till now

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

okay so i finally finished it... allow me to present a comprehensive, chronological compilation of miles and alex singing *THAT* moment in standing next to me for the whole eycte tour 🌟

this video took me the better part of two months to make, and cost me a not insignificant part of my sanity (related: i may never want to hear this song again), so yeah... i hope you enjoy 😅

#also feel free to tell me which performance you think is the most insane #i mean #they're all pretty insane #but some of them??? #fucking HELL 🫠 #it's really quite an insight seeing the way it all unfolds chronologically too #in fact #it only makes it even more insane #btw there are almost certainly mistakes or typos in the video that i didn't catch #i apologise in advance #making videos for youtube is not something i have a lot of practice in 🙈 #(it was WAAAAAAY too long for tumblr which. idk. really says it all doesn't it 🤦‍♀️) #milex #the last shadow puppets #tlsp #miles kane #alex turner #arctic monkeys #milex vid #lulu posts #Youtube

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Errors, “Errors,” and Sci Fi

@strawberry-crocodile

tvtropes calls stuff like the wolf example "science matches on" which I think is a pretty fair shake

This.  This is what’s got me thinking so much about errors.  There’s a certain danger, here.  A certain way that this particular effect — delicious dramatic irony — tempts the mind when reading old stories, even true ones.

What do you know about R.M.S. Titanic? I ask my class every year, and the first hand rises.  “It was unsinkable,” the student inevitably says, and everyone is nodding, “or so they thought.”  I write the word UNSINKABLE on the board, underneath my crude drawing of a ship with four smokestacks.  It will be crossed out before the end of the hour, but not for the reason they expect.

“I find no evidence,” Walter Lord, preeminent biographer of the ship’s survivors, wrote, “that Titanic was ever advertised as unsinkable. This detail seems to have entered the collective mind so as to create a more perfect irony.”  Indeed, historians’ examinations of White Star Line documents show the shipbuilders themselves worried it would be so large as to risk collision; they stocked several more lifeboats than 1910s regulations required.

The War to End All Wars (deep breath, satisfied exhale), also known as World War ONE. Chuckle.  Shake of the head.  What if I told you that this phrase, used primarily in American newspapers after the fact, wasn’t meant to be literal? Nowadays we’d say The Mother of All Wars, or One Hell of a Fucking War, but we wouldn’t mean literal motherhood, literal intercourse.  What if I said the armistice and the Lost Generation and the Roaring 20s were all braced for another outbreak of European conflict, and yet we still failed to prevent it?

Did you know they were so confident in the safety of the S.S. Challenger that they put a civilian schoolteacher onboard? I do, because I’ve heard that one repeated many times.  Only, see, it’s got the cause and effect reversed.  Challenger launched on a day the shuttle’s engineers knew to be dangerously cold, because the first civilian in space was on board. And NASA knew its shuttle project would be cancelled entirely, if they couldn’t get that civilian’s much-delayed entry into space in the next two weeks.  So they launched on a cold day, and killed her instead.

These are all what cognitive science calls Hindsight Bias on the personal level, what sociology calls Presentism on the cultural level.  Social psychology’s a little of both, is primarily interested in why you’re sitting on your couch in a Colonize Mars shirt watching PBS and chuckling at the fools who believed in El Dorado.  It wants to know why the mind flees straight from “marijuana will kill you” to “marijuana will cure cancer” without so much as a pause on the middle ground of its real benefits and drawbacks, its real (mild) risks and rewards.

And they can paralyze the sci-fi writer, if you think too much about them. Jetsons is futurist one decade, retro the next.  “There are no bathrooms on the Enterprise,” the creators of Serenity say smugly, as if Gene Roddenberry should’ve simply known that decades later it’d be acceptable to show a man peeing in full view of the camera, nothing but the curve of the actor’s hand to protect his modesty.  “No sound in space,” the Fandom Menace says, “No explosions in space,” and “A space station can’t collapse in zero-G.”  Only then NASA burns a paper napkin outside of atmosphere, transmits music using only the ghost of nearby planets’ gravities, and logs onto Reddit long enough to point out the Death Star would implode in its own gravity field.  And now we’re the ones pointing, the ones laughing, at those earlier point-and-laughers.  Self-satisfied, smug in superiority.  As if we did the work to find out ourselves, instead of just happening to be born a little later than George Lucas.

#errors #continuity #sci fi #presentism #star wars #titanic #world war i #science marches on #history #started a new post because i got waaaaaay off topic here #if you think the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park (1993) should've had feathers #you're a lot more ignorant about paleontology than the people you're trying to criticize #science was not handed down to us in its perfect complete form circa 1943 #stop for a second before you call out someone else's reptilian denonychus #someone else's oxygenated moon #and ask: am i better read #or am i just more recently born?