#and their cleverness is impressive

[ansonmountdaily]

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS 1x04 "Memento Mori"

#star trek strange new worlds #strange new worlds #star trek #captain pike #christopher pike #spock #anson mount #spoilers #trekedit #tvedit #ethan peck #strangenewworldsedit #*edit #the crew dynamics continue to be amazing #and their cleverness is impressive #so many great moments

[alkalamity]

Hear me out. Ratiorine AU where Aventurine is a mer captured by a group of researchers and Ratio is the scientist brought on board to teach him how to speak and access his intelligence levels.

#aventurine #hsr aventurine #dr ratio #hsr dr ratio #hsr #honkai star rail #star rail #ratiorine #raturine #aventio #mermaid au #mer!aventurine #see ok listen #aventurine is a very smart fish and while he cant speak Human #he can communicate by impressing the idea of something on someone #which is why his speech bubbles are all abstract things bc he communicates by sending the idea of what he wants to say to ppls brains #and hes clever hes our cunning merchant gambler #so while he was initially captured by some researchers to be studied #hes able to charm them up and get them on his side... thus allowing him to have more luxury than the average experiemental subject #ofc none of this reallt matters when the researchers wont let him go free but its the smalle victories... #eventually hell work his way up to freedom #ratio is the poor sap who was dragged into the study half way to teach aventuring how to Be Human basically #he accepts the proposition bc everyone deserves to have knowledge! even fish! #my art #comics #scribbles

[avelera]

Where's that post about Desire trying to seduce Hob by shapeshifting to look like Dream but for ~~**some reason**~~ he's immune to their wiles and it's absolutely infuriating because it really seems like something as nauseating as True Love that Hob can just sense that it isn't Dream and therefore remains faithful to his stranger.

Because all I can imagine is Desire having an incredibly obvious tell like their eyes literally remain golden the entire time they're pretending to be Dream and Hob is like, "... This person can't be serious, right?"

But they are, they are serious, it just so happens that deep stupidity runs in the family because Desire is just as dumb about normal day to day stuff as Dream and being an inconceivably powerful anthropomorphic personification means that your underlings are reluctant to tell you when your "genius" plans are nothing of the sort because you live in the ultimate rich magical privilege bubble.

#Desire also didn't change their voice Magic Brian style #hob thinks it's funny at first but then gets Tired #dreamling #the sandman #Fortunately Dream also thought the ruse was impenetrable so he's wildly impressed by Hob's fidelity and cleverness right now #and Hob is absolutely not above pretending it was a hard puzzle to solve if it means makeout sessions later

[great-and-small]

The people who believe that a dog on tik tok can use voice recording buttons to vocalize an existential crisis and casually invent metaphors on the fly would have 100% believed that Clever Hans the horse could do complicated arithmetic back in 1904

#I’m not saying these dogs don’t gain an impressive vocabulary #but some of the things their owners claim and people believe are just way too far fetched #animal cognition #tik tok #animal behavior #dogs #science #clever Hans

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

the best thing about having a cat that Fully understands and typically obeys the commands "sit" and "stay" is that when she doesn't obey, you're Keenly aware that it's a conscious decision

#AND ITS SO FUCKING FUNNY EVERY TIME #she gets this Look. where i can see the gears turning behind her eyes #and she very purposefully ignores the command #sometimes she'll half do it. pause. and then Visibly Decide to Not #she's so funny.... #but then when she Does do it its so impressive. is this pride im feeling? #i taught her 'sit' and 'stay' along with hand gestures #so like. just a second ago #i as calling her from across the room and she was trotting over #i made the sit gesture (no vocal command) and she stopped and sat Right there and then #SHE'S SO SMART <3 SMART KITTY <3 OH SHE LISTENS!!! #absolutely unprompted #sorry im gushing about letti again <3 she's my everything <3 #shes so clever! shes a genuine Companion! #we just played for like a half hour #and its so sweet... we play with twine (her favorite) and when she's attacking it near my hand #she gets so gentle. claws Away gentle batting slow movements #letti my beloved <3 #not to mention her library of Purposeful meows. we Communicate! #like earlier she made her impatient 'come here' meow and so i did. she was on my bed and waited for me to offer my shoulder #so that she could climb on and use me as a stepping stool to get to my desk #For What Reason!!! to be Hysterical i suppose! i swear she has a sense of humor...

[2ghosts]

each was delicious by kay nielsen but i make it oak

#the stolen heir #my art #wip?? #idk if this will ever get finished #i replaced the monky with a little fox #brilliant #how clever! #everyone is impressed

[troius]

#bleach #troius reads bleach #ichigo kurosaki #lmaaaao #too clever by half imo #like yes it does put the reader into a state of confusion quite similar to that which Ichigo must be feeling #but once that resolves they're not going to be angry with Yhwach #they're going to be annoyed (or impressed) with the author #I dunno is there some way he could have foreshadowed this? #hard to imagine

[rambrandt-the-painter]

Ram has a bff named the rat king who she keeps alive with her necrotic powers. Obviously he's transmasc

#he's the pioneer of the spell ''rat swarm'' which is actually really impressive and a clever use of soul manipulation

[pratchettquotes]

"Er, don't you think that you're a bit too smart to be a guard, Preston?"

Preston shrugged. "Well, the lads all think that I am useless," he said cheerfully. "They think that there's got to be something wrong with someone who can pronounce the word 'marvelous.'"

"But, Preston...I know you are very clever and sufficiently erudite to know the meaning of the word 'erudite.' Why do you sometimes pretend to be stupid--you know, like 'doctrine' and 'happy ass corp ass'?"

Preston grinned. "I was unfortunately born clever, miss, and I've learned that sometimes it's not such a good idea to be all that clever. Saves trouble."

Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

#tiffany aching #preston #i shall wear midnight #discworld #terry pratchett #first impressions #perception #intelligence #wisdom #erudite #blending in #stereotypes #acting #camoflauge #unfortunately born clever #someone who can pronounce the word marvelous

[braindeadmaggot]

Warning to all Tumblr friends

There's a new blog on here, @scrumptiousinternetyouth going around messaging me, a bunch of my friends, and many others asking if we want commissions. The only reason why I noticed this specific blog as suspicious is because they messaged mere SECONDS after I liked a photo they posted.

Turns out they've been soliciting and when asked about their work they've shared so much art of completely different styles, it became plainly clear what they were doing.

Here are the sources of the art they're using on their blog.

SIY's comm price list = vs = the original artist's self portrait: @soyochiiii [art link]

NFT art from KPRVerse - a metaverse building crytpo game

Alex Guenther's "Wakanda's Guardian"

this one was hard to find the artist for because there are so few posts. Here's a post from hiatus on twitter earlier this month, and one from @lazytama here on tumblr [original post deleted, link goes to @chibigohan] from March 2019

This blog was created less than a month ago and they're already up to no good. This is not what Tumblr is about.

#warning #art scam #stolen art #art scam alert #scam alert #buyer beware #kindly reblog and tag if you know the artist #not sure if I should be impressed with the gochi signal boost reblog having 'shill art' in its tags or not #a shill is 'person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating'. to bait to lure or to deceive #basically admitting to being an accomplice to the sham #very clever #shill art #indeed #the last photo with goku and chichi was a reblog comment on their first post last month promoting their commissions #that post was just deleted earlier #signal boost #scrumptiousinternetyouth #artists on tumblr #tumblr artists

[katyspersonal]

Me and @heraldofcrow got into a debate (if that's what you call yelling cursed shit at each other like banshees fhhhvhh) about priests who are allowed to get married and have kids and I made an "arguement" that sexy priests should be hard to get and that's the whole point, it is like Idols stuff but not problematic, she said I had AO3 brainrot, and I argued that no one will simp for a taken person no matter how slutty their robes look and being in marriage is like a black hole that sucks out all sexyness and she said KATY WTF LMAO 😭😭😭 and I said 'CHRISTIAN PRIESTS SHOULD BE FUCKED WHEN THEY ARE TEMPTED TOWARDS SIN, NOT WHEN THEY ARE PEGGED BY A LOVING WIFE' 🤣 Lmao I am going to Hell

#shitposting #new followers: omg Katy is so clever and serious and impressive I am so glad to be mutuals #meanwhile Katy:

[taibhsearachd]

You think you’re making a good choice getting a smart dog. Oh, he’ll understand human language better, he’ll pick up training faster, etc etc. And all of that may be true.

The problem is that truly smart dogs watch everything. They learn. And the result is that no lock made by god or man can stop them unless it requires thumbs to operate. Our authority over Trinket truly only rests on the fact that he hasn’t figured out a carabiner yet.

#dogs #pets #trinket #I don’t know why I’m surprised #he learned how to pop open his pretty complicated dog crate ages ago #but today he opened a plastic bin where I keep my snacks next to my bed #for when I’m too dizzy to get out of bed you know #it has little locking clasps on either end #but apparently he’s watched me open it enough that he managed to pop one end open #and steal all my goddamn saltines #I’m impressed but also furious #really clever dogs are a curse you bring upon yourself

[seaweedstarshine]

He's the least+most self-aware person ever <3

#im being really clever up here and no ones there to stand around looking impressed what's the point of having you all ☹️ #eleventh doctor #11th doctor #the doctor #doctor who #doctor who rebellion on treasure island #words by seaweed #the doctor says OTHER LIFE FORM RIGHTS :)

[dormarunt]

Berlin season 2 confirmed - aka once more with feeling

#Berlin Netflix #LCdP Berlin #Pedro Alonso #Yep I'm late to the news #Hoping S2 will be what S1 wasn't #Glad for Pedro though #Seeing how Pedro himself said that every new season Berlin is a different character #Hoping season 2 is a different one still #Pls more “robos” okay? I know I can't ask of less “amor” #Just more thievery #And make him SMART?? #I was under the impression that Berlin was smart? Like-- clever #D*ck - dumb for sure but not a mf idiot #Sergio can't have monopolized all brains in the family okay #.....or have Martin be the brains idk #J/k make the guy smarter #And not in a “yes I framed a guy and therein lie all my brains; it's as much blood as I could spare okay? my d*ick held most blood captive"

[spoonyruncible]

So, I finally tried The Flavor. It was genuinely bizarre, because there is a taste but it's not really anything that's meaningful. It is like drinking "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously".

Which, actually, brings me to my conclusion of why it is like this. It's genuinely kind of interesting. There are no real disparate elements between the two beverages, nothing that would expressly taste bad if mixed. But, also, cranberry and cucumber aren't really good together, or bad, just weird. Then there's the makeup of it all. Salt, sugar, and alcohol. I genuinely think that when these things combine in this way they actually do sort of short out your brain and get NULL as a response. Because you do taste something, it's just nothing.

My primary reaction to it was that it was heavy. Not the way cream or oil is heavy, but the way a small weight in your mouth would be heavy. My brain prioritized the mass of The Flavor before it could work out what it tasted like.

Like I said, this is "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" of drinks. There is nothing wrong with the actual composition of the beverage, but it is incoherent nonsense the second it has to stand up to actual review.

#the flavor #so i told my therapist it take at least a 100 level class in three disciplines to make sense of my sentences #this was not bragging #i do not think i am clever or other people are stupid #i think i am incoherent #i feel kinda like me connecting flavor profiles to noam chomsky is gonna make her think i'm trying to be incoherent #no really this is genuinely odd #also mikes harder cranberry is fucking gross #it does have a flavor #that flavor is that i am 16 and i found suspect gin in my uncle's basement and the only mixer i have is cranberry sauce #it is thanksgiving in this scenario but that's what it tastes like #gross and a little shameful and like my mom will yell at me #lime cucumber Gatorade tastes kinda like gatorade is trying to impress me but not in a good way #like it wants to be fancy enough that we can smash #it mostly tastes like if cucumber shampoo tasted exactly the way you think cucumber shampoo should taste but doesnt #i like lime cucumber gatorade but i do not like mikes harder cranberry #both of these drinks would take advantage of me while drunk #but only the gatorade would know what it was doing was wrong

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

thinking so so hard about LaughingStock and how that'd go down. disastrously, probably

#and ill talk about it at Length in the tags until tumblr cuts me off like a rowdy drunk after last call #please keep in mind this is all in my Brain and relationship dynamics etc are all technically speculation. anyway #so while franklydear is your more classic 'oh no im in love with him! / aw shucks im in love with him<3' #laughingstock is 'feelings what feelings / oh shit oh fuck this is bad' #to Me. #in my mind howdy is completely oblivious to his emotions #he's out here like 'gotta get the store impressively neat & shiny for barnaby! and everyone else' without blinking an eye #he starts assembling barnaby and wally's dogs slower an slower so that barnaby has to hang around a smidge longer than usual #he's out here giggling at barnaby's jokes while sweeping Hours or Days after the joke was told like a lovesick idiot #all while being like Ah Yes Barnaby My Dear Friend. My Platonic Buddy Whose Jokes I Laugh At A Little Too Hard. Platonically. #meanwhile barnaby Realizes his own feels. has a minor crisis. goes through the 12 stages of grief and absolutely panics #he's like 'ok just gotta play it cool. normal. dont be weird. he'll fall for your natural charm in no time' #'ill hold all of my feelings right here until i die or howdy reciprocates. i just cant tell anyone about this.' #'....hey wally you can keep a secret right' #and rizzes it up yk. rolls a nat 20 on charisma every time without howdy even realizing it. ig barns rolled for stealth too #and from barnabys pov its going great! #howdy is flirting back! hes showing all the signs! when eddie views their interactions he comes to barnaby later and is like A+ gay as fuck #so barnaby is a soft pining mess and howdy is Absurdly Oblivious despite being a clever & observant guy #so im imagining (will freely admit that this Train of Thought is slightly inspired by the latest chapter of Stamps by Indigopoptart) #that eventually barnaby is Confident in their budding relationship ok. hes ready to ask howdy out. #everyone who Knows (wally & eddie) are like Go For It He Clearly Loves You #and when barnaby tells howdy. howdys like 'ohhhh geez um im really flattered 🥺 but i dont feel the same 😔😭' #cue barnaby turning into the 'never again' meme while trying to laugh it off and pretend like he didnt just have his heart mr starked #so he goes home to smoke his pipe and cry and howdy goes about his day feeling Strange #why cant he stop thinking about that confession. what are these emotions. i mean its not as if hes in love with Ohhhhhh No. Oh No. #so howdy has his 'holy shit! im in love with barnaby! (lovestruck. swooning) ....Holy Shit I Rejected Barnaby (horrified. nauseous)' moment #cue howdy expecting barnaby to come by in the morning as per Routine so they can talk. he Doesnt. cue howdy stressing the fuck out over it #meanwhile wally sally (eddie sent her in his place. hes too busy) and barnaby are having a girls day (eating ice cream and watchin romcoms) #eventually barnaby hears that howdy has been Dropping The Ball and cant not check on him. cue emotional heart-2-heart outside the bodega #this is all very specific but its in my brain. these scenarious lull me to sleep every night lately