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Good Omens Fandom! I’m a teacher so making visuals is my jam. May I present: The Ineffable Timeline :)

#oh. my. gosh. #beautiful #.references on #f. good omens #w. fanart #w. resources

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I want to write a book called “your character dies in the woods” that details all the pitfalls and dangers of being out on the road & in the wild for people without outdoors/wilderness experience bc I cannot keep reading narratives brush over life threatening conditions like nothing is happening.

I just read a book by one of my favorite authors whose plots are essentially airtight, but the MC was walking on a country road on a cold winter night and she was knocked down and fell into a drainage ditch covered in ice, broke through and got covered in icy mud and water.

Then she had a “miserable” 3 more miles to walk to the inn.

Babes she would not MAKE it to that inn.

#.references on #writing

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Victoria has always reminded me of Snow White. Skin as white as snow, lips red as blood, hair black as ebony. I think it fits since she was Fraser's fairytale that turned into a harsh reality.

This piece is dedicated to @flownwrong thank you for doing the hard work putting this event together <3

#beautiful #w. fanart #f. due south #.let's write women

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The tailors at Colonial Williamsburg made a suit for their cat

#.humans gonna human #textile history

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Everyone says that reading fanfiction is a useless pastime, but let’s not forget that I learned how to cook grilled cheese from a kiribaku fic 

#.that one person on the whole web

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I JUST FOUND A LATE ANTIQUE VERSION OF ‘LIVE LOVE LAUGH’ AND I WISH I WERE KIDDING

#.humans gonna human #[i didn't know “irene” means “peace”]

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

#f. nasa

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I just revived my old iPod touch that I haven’t used since ~2013 after believing it to be dead dead for years and oh my god it’s like opening up an old time capsule. There are photos of me and my friends that I haven’t seen in years, taken in an old high school building that doesn’t exist anymore. I have games that are no longer downloadable on the app store. It’s running iOS 5 with the original skeuomorphism app icons. I still have the youtube app. My contacts app is full of maiden names and deadnames. The music app has songs I haven’t heard in almost a decade but still remember all the lyrics to. A daily alarm set for 5:30 AM (god I can’t believe I had to wake up that early in high school) and another set to 11:11 PM to remind me to make a wish. Reminders to finish homework assignments, or to write my application essay for the university I ended up attending, and one marking the release date for the final episode of Cabin Pressure. The last thing I googled was “how to draw people hugging”.

Possibly the strangest thing is that the tumblr app still opens, but it’s stuck in a permanent snapshot of 2013 where it won’t show me any new posts no matter how many times I refresh. My dash is full of old BBC Sherlock posts from long-lost mutuals who have either since deactivated or got unfollowed or changed urls so many times that I don’t even recognize them. Lady Gaga and Game of Thrones are the top trends. My profile shows my previous url and icon, with only 43 followers. I feel like a time traveler

#.tumblr folktales

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Camera falls from a plane and lands in a pig pen.

#e. gimmick blogs gimmicking

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First grade teacher holds up a picture of a book.

"This is a book! Let's use our rhyming words! What rhymes with book?"

"Cook!" "Look!"

"Grook!"

"That last one is a great made-up word, Sunny! Let's see what else we can rhyme!"

The next picture is a duck.

"Let's skip thi-"

"Fuck!"

Tense pause.

"That was... that was a good made up word, Abby."

#.tumblr folktales #s. laugh rule

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How did you give yourself an EAR INFECTION eating pussy

im just gonna screenshot from a text i sent my friends after the doctors visit

#.tumblr folktales

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Holy shit, they got Voyager 1 working again!

15 billion miles away and NASA was able to tweak code packages on one of the onboard computers and it worked and Voyager 1 is sending signals back to earth for the first time since November.

Incredible!

#f. nasa

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#.that one person on the whole web

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Trying to play Monster Hunter: Rise and SOMEONE could not stand not getting attention and was repeatedly scaling me with her sharp feet and launching herself from furniture until I put her big soft blanket in my lap and pet her.

#.tumblr epics #.tumblr folktales #e. tales of peakeeping #gaming

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I love the concept of grave offerings. Like all the cultures across the world that have buried their dead with their own possessions, or things especially made for that. What an unique and universal human thing, to mourn the dead and think

"All I know of where you are going, is that I can't come with you now. But I think you would like to have this with you."

#.humans gonna human

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saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

#art parallels

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#video #these two vids remind me of each other