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Affordable housing.

Pay increases for employees being federally mandated to be tied directly to company profit margins.

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Professional squirrel racers meticulously shave their steeds tails and trim their fur for optimal aerodynamics before every race.

A 1000% floofball shows up on race day looking like the Rock, shredded and hugely muscled, glistening with freshly applied perrpermint and olive oils (to keep bugs away and discourage other racers from getting too close).

It occurred to me that it would be fun in some fantasy story to have squirrels with wings, but then I remembered that their tails are so fluffy as a way to slow them down when they jump from branch to branch (and occasionally fall out of trees).

A squirrel trying to flap enough to move forward with that kind of drag would be a sad thing to see. Flying with the brakes on.

And well, there's always magic in fantasyland to make things easier, but that's just cheating.

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This is gorgeous, but in my mind this was made as a toy for a small child, the He-Man action figures of the ancient world.

I've started the process of documentation on the last labyrinth, which is...an undertaking.

#ancient toys #the Minotaur is always in the Labyrinth

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This gives Library of Alexandria vibes if it were owned by K-Mart.

#cursed ancient history #modern relics for furure archaeologists to be confused over #was it a library or a temple?

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I even have a pattern for a cloak I designed myself, I just need to get to making it.

When I do, ill probably make 2 - one waxed canvas and the other from sweatshirt fleece

Reblog for a larger sample size, if possible.

#normalize ancient fashion #wear whatever you want #projects

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Draconic Nucleic Acid

imagine two mated wyrms twisting around each other, possessing an uncountable number of limbs, each claw of good or evil interlocked with its opposite, the coil twists further around itself into a skein of flesh. how i would describe DNA to a wizard

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Sir Thot of Thottsville

Rolling up to the knight's guild in a chainmail brayette and low-cut mail chausses watching my fellow knights visibly fluster under their helmets as their gaze follows up to my maille voider scandalously worn without a breastplate

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Somehow I've gotten 200+ notes on this blog in the last 3 days, and I'm not sure where all of you came from, but howdy!

I'll try to get back into posting more regularly since there seems to be a plethora of people who want to see the oddness of me.

#i blew up #surprise

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Two identical infants lay in the cradle. “One you bore, the other is a Changeling. Choose wisely,” the Fae’s voice echoed from the shadows. “I’m taking both my children,” the mother said defiantly.

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I’ve been thinking about how technology might compare to an alien civilisation. Both in function necessities, and in terms of aesthetics and recreation.

So, we know that humans are pretty lucky. We live on a planet with diverse biomes and ecosystems. We live on every continent, not just by happenstance, but by choice. We choose to live where we wish. And choose to live in comfort. We live in some of the most inhospitable places on Earth.

So, aliens see us as hugely adaptable. We’ve got experience living in diverse climates, and so we want to settle on just about every world, no matter how unsuited we may be. Deserts, tundras, arctic wastelands, jungle worlds, etc. And we’ve got a strong background in environmental controls and systems to ensure maximum comfort. Aliens might choose planets that they are already suited to, particularly if the planet isn’t resource rich, whereas we’d choose planets that we just vibe with.

In a galactic economy our niche might be providing and constructing habitats to meet the needs of other species. Imagine you’re a reptilian, you’re cold blooded and have always lived in warm climates. But you’ve always loved an icy moon in your system but its too expensive and difficult to settle on. Then you meet a group of humans who are just like “yeah, sure, we can do that” and just drop a prefab habitat designed to keep you warm and toasty. Game changer.

I also mentioned our recreations. Humans are curious and we love pushing ourselves. We come up with sports and activities that don’t make a lot of sense, but have intricate rules and have huge followings. Basketball for example. You look at us, fleshy bipeds, and we have a beloved game about bouncing a ball and tossing it into a basket with the bottom removed? Why?

Or imagine you step into a human spaceship and visit the recroom and you see this:

A game for two humans each with two arms? Not some six limbed alien with prehensile tentacles? You sure? And the sport this… table represents is about these same humans running on two legs and kicking a ball into a square? Bizarre and fascinating at the same time what humans get up to.

Or their musical instruments:

One human plays these instruments? Did they get them from another species? No? They just invented these instruments anyway? And they can play them? And it sounds amazing?

We have gone out of our way to accidentally create things that don’t even look human in their design. And we can use them perfectly. Something aliens would probably never get quite used to.

But what I think is really interesting is how humans find the fun in everything. Everything has to be comfortable. We would naturally combine the essential necessities with non-essential things we just really like. The command bridges and science rooms on our vessels? Probably full of personal effects, pictures, stress toys, plants, etc. We’d have stuff everywhere so no matter where we are we feel home. Even our most rundown and oldest habitats you could easily pick out things that the human inhabitants treasure in the mess of jerry rigged and ramshackle set ups. We may have separation of space, but you’ll never find a place humans frequent without seeing an individual’s creativity and passion somewhere.

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Today I learned that there are symbols in other languages that look like little Among Us dudes. Because of course there are. Delightful.

ඞ "What's that?" 𐐘 "Dunno. Looks sus."

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It boggles my mind that someone built a religion which has endured for over 2000 years on a country boy named Josh Carpenter.

#religion #funny #jesus = yeshua = joshua = josh #do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior JOSH?

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I got in trouble exactly like this, using the same arguments ALL THE TIME as a kid.

Clue #1636372

A team of five autistic kids carefully trying to recreate something they saw on tv that specifically said "do not try this at home." But it shouldn't count because they're only at one friend's place, so 4/5 of them are not at home, so technically speaking it should be 80% safe.

Once the smoke has been aired out of the house, they all agree that the instructions were worded unclearly, and the adults are wrong. They agree that all of them getting grounded is an injustice, since only one of them was trying it at home, and he volunteered to take the fall for the whole gang.

#actually adhd #neurodivergence #rules lawyer

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"For as long as your arse will polish the throne."

"What?"

"Oh, just a little saying my people have. That birthright has nothing to do with it, the rightful ruler is whoever will leave the kingdom better than they got it. If the throne shines brighter after you've sat your time on it, it was your arse that polished the throne."

"With all due respect, when it comes to the sayings and expressions of your people, every single one of them has been impressively crude."

"With all due respect, my liege, you have not heard the ones that are impressively crude. Would you like to hear one of those?"

"I would rather not."

"Not even the one about missing opportunities because you didn't want to look to the lowly places where they came from?"

"Especially not that one."

"Ah. I thought so. Worth a try nonetheless."

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I came up with a new saying:

"You wouldn't bake a cat just because it jumped into the oven."

It means that just having a really, really good opportunity to do something awful is not an excuse to do it. That it isn't enough that you never go out of your way to do evil, you're also supposed to go out of your way to do the right thing, even in situations where the wrong thing to do would be extremely easy and profitable, and passively allowing it to happen would be easier than going out of your way to do better than that.

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This man is a genius

A married couple have a conversation about flowers, the wife finally admits that she would want her husband to buy her flowers sometimes, but she doesn't want to ask for them because then it feels like he only got her flowers because she asked for them, like it's a chore, and not something he'd surprise her with just because he wanted to. He asks her to tell him when she wants him to get her the flowers, then. She says she doesn't know, clarifying: "when I least expect it."

After some research, he comes to the conclusion that she least expects them every 47 days. He has a silent calendar notification on his phone, that alerts him every 47 days, reminding him to get her flowers. She never sees it coming, and is surprised every time.