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demon-cat-goes-woof asked:

hello! what is your favorite frog and also dinosaur (can be multiple)

markscherz answered:

Today’s favourite frog is Atelopus igenscens

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Because I found a jar of them (I think) on the shelf in the museum today. Sitting there for decades without having been identified. Meanwhile, they’ve been declared extinct and then rediscovered again.

Favourite dinosaurs today are buttonquail chicks (multiple, preferably cupped in the hand).

Originally posted by cinnastims

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[fuck-in-the-explode]

Are people just forgetting that this guy kidnapped Denji and threatened to kill the grade school kid living with him a few chapters ago? I feel like I'm going crazy over here

[asamitakamybeloved]

😭

[gwagwagwagoogoo]

BRO WASNT EVEN IN THE VILLAIN ALLEGATIONS FIGHT TO BE BEGIN WITH‼️ HES JUST SOME LAME ASS GUY. LIKE HE LITERALLY STARTED SCRAMBLING WHEN DENJI WAS LIKE ‘Nuh Uh I want BOTH’ and your telling me. YOUR “”VILLAIN””ass Yoshida RESPONDED WITH ‘WTF U MEAN NUH UH?’ INSTEAD OF IDK. BEING A VILLAIN. Like guys. I just need to inform you all… Yoshida isn’t a villain he’s just some weird guy

Like he sucks but he’s funny when he’s just some weird guy. Bro is not getting his ass beat bc bro wasn’t even in the goddamn ring to begin with!! Like bro thinks he’ll be the next Makima and he falls flat on his face like a dumbass. Open your eyes sheeple!! HES JUST A LAME GUY!!!!

[asamitakamybeloved]

YOU WANT MAKIMA TO WHAT

[greatwyrmgold]

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from the straight male reaction to Makima Chainsawman, it’s that straight dudes are not okay.

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[janmisali]

explanations of what authentic haiku are always do such a bad job explaining the distinction between english syllables and japanese morae

[janmisali]

a mora is a unit that measures how long words take to say when speaking at what's perceived as a constant rate. this concept is somewhat irrelevant to english, because the pulse of english speech is based on stress and not the absolute lengths of words. there is no way to write a haiku in english that authentically follows the same conventions used in japanese, just as there is no way to write a limerick in japanese that follows the same conventions used in english. you can certainly try, but in either case you'd be missing "the point" of what makes the style sound poetic in the language it was made for

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[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

[leebrontide]

Moon Holliday!

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Beat and Motion is an okay manga. But sometimes, just for a moment, I find it really profound.

I don’t animate or write music; I mostly just write. But this still rings true to me. Ideas are easy, execution is hard.

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Anonymous asked:

when you said web serial i was under the impression that worm was like a comic or something. why are you people reading 1.6 million words to get mad at it

txttletale answered:

the words are good

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[piracytheorist]

spy family musical good

[greatwyrmgold]

Stage actors need to act so loudly that people at the back of the theater can read their body language and facial expressions. It’s nice that this also makes the acting read well for people who don’t speak the language.

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[lizardinkart]

New story, new Tattletale🖤🤍💜

OBSESSED with how Ward dives into Tats and how she’s changed since GM. Get this woman some industrial strength excedrin and a therapist please

Also just got to her interlude in my read through and lord, love me some good Ace rep. We do not get enough and I love her story’s subsequent focus on other types of bonds (familial/platonic). Anyway: she!

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People who paid attention to my blog in recent weeks probably know that July 10-17 was a busy time for people who ship Ruby Rose and Penny Polendina. There were a lot of fanfic of the two of them together, I read most of it (and plan to at least try the rest), and a lot of those fics were specifically set after Penny was turned into a real girl. And I can’t understand why.

Now, I don’t think Penny being a robot is the only interesting thing about Nuts & Dolts. There’s more to the ship than “Girl who likes weapons dates girl who was built as a weapon”. But at the same time, turning Penny human both removes some of the things that make N&D interesting and makes the overall story worse.

Cards on the table, I cannot think of a single Pinocchio-type story which I think was improved by having the non-human turn into a human. They’re stories about people who were born different from other people, they feel like they need to become normal, and the narrative agrees. “Yes, them being weird was bad; this problem will be resolved in the most obvious, boring way possible.”

And this isn’t just a canon plot point I think is dumb. This is a dumb canon plot point that directly hits one of the things that I like about Nuts & Dolts. Penny feels isolated from humanity for being a robot, but Ruby doesn’t care. She’s surprised, but Penny can’t even get any decent angst in before Ruby insists that she’s still real, even if she has “got nuts and bolts instead of squishy guts”.

That sense of being isolated from the world, just because of what you are, but having one person who doesn’t care at all? Someone who accepts you for who you are? That’s what I see as the core of Nuts & Dolts, more than any jokes about how much Ruby loves weapons.

And having Penny become a “real girl” like Pinocchio before her just guts that.

Anyways. Not all the Nuts and Dolts Week fics with a human Penny were bad; I liked the one where she discovers heatstroke. But broadly speaking, I just…do not get the appeal of writing a story when Penny’s human. If you’re gonna skip her second death, why not skip the part where she gets squishy guts, too?

(If any Nuts & Dolts authors have an explanation, I’d genuinely like to hear it. I like hearing people with different opinions!)

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[oriko-mikuni]

I'm not sure how to go about rating null trumps, because you specifically want to confront them with unpowered PRT operatives, but in the case where they do run into capes, you're gonna want multiple.

[greatwyrmgold]

I’m not sure either!

The PRT Quest doc (written by Wildbow, so straight from the horse’s mouth) provides guidelines for how the PRT is supposed to handle capes of various ratings. (I wouldn’t be surprised if you knew about that, but it’s good to inform people who haven’t heard of PRT Quest about the resource.)

Most classifications give additional details for threat levels 2+, 5+, and 9+, which would normally give some handy guidelines; if small arms fire would hurt a Brute, their rating should be less than 5. There are two exceptions: Breaker and Trump. Breakers don’t get extra details because they’re supposed to use the details of their sub-classification, with the addendum that you should hit them while they’re out of their Breaker state if possible. Trumps…just have less information, because their powers are usually less relevant to PRT members. And AFAIK, there’s no equivalent doc for Protectorate procedures.

It doesn’t help that we don’t get many canon Trump ratings—partly because Trumps are rare, mostly because almost none of them get numbers. The only numbers listed on the wiki are Glaistig Uaine (at least 12), Grue post-trigger (less than 8), and minor PRT Quest hero Cask (Trump 2 as one of his three tinker sub-ratings).

It’s entirely possible Wildbow doesn’t know, either.