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lord, send me a mechanic if i'm not beyond repair

@andaisq / andaisq.tumblr.com

spiritually if not physically a consumptive victorian orphan
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need people to see this i feel insane

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beatboxing puppyxrucian

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andaisq

Ulficine Fastilitha

"Cast in the shape of a wolf am I: behold this youthful scion of the Not! I am the cynosure of time, unbegun and never-ending! Un-arising, never-ceasing… a sundering, bone-shaking beat. I am the moment upon which everything is changed."

Note: "Beatbox" was difficult to translate into Ninuanni. The "beat" was surprisingly easy, but the "box" (a speaker or machine) I ended up needing to translate very roughly; an endless beat, because, I mean, if you supply a speaker with electricity long enough it doesn't have to stop? IDK.

Bars spit by Ulficine Fastilitha...

  • seem chaotic and arbitrary
  • interrupt whatever else might be happening
  • are significantly more memorable than anything happening around them
  • contain surprisingly little beatboxing, given the givens
  • self-evidently hold incalculable value
#beatboxing puppy cw#jennaposting
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prokopetz

Feeling slightly vindicated by the fact that even that bugfuck insane sub-25 Celeste any% has an unintentional death in Celestial Resort.

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nohoperadio

what the hell why am I only just today learning that dodos were pigeons...

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nohoperadio

@toasthaste:

they WHAT????

It seems like they were weird-shaped, flightless pigeons! I'll say up front that I'm getting all this from Wikipedia and am not motivated to look for a better source right now, but it looks like it was known for a long time they had anatomical similarities to pigeons...

Strickland and Melville [writing in 1848] established that the dodo was anatomically similar to pigeons in many features. They pointed to the very short keratinous portion of the beak, with its long, slender, naked basal part. Other pigeons also have bare skin around their eyes, almost reaching their beak, as in dodos. The forehead was high in relation to the beak, and the nostril was located low on the middle of the beak and surrounded by skin, a combination of features shared only with pigeons. The legs of the dodo were generally more similar to those of terrestrial pigeons than of other birds, both in their scales and in their skeletal features. Depictions of the large crop hinted at a relationship with pigeons, in which this feature is more developed than in other birds. Pigeons generally have very small clutches, and the dodo is said to have laid a single egg. Like pigeons, the dodo lacked the vomer and septum of the nostrils, and it shared details in the mandible, the zygomatic bone, the palate, and the hallux. The dodo differed from other pigeons mainly in the small size of the wings and the large size of the beak in proportion to the rest of the cranium.

...but as recently as a few decades ago it was an open question whether these similarities had evolved independently and the dodo was placed in the now-defunct family raphidae, but modern genetic analysis confirms their placement in columbidae (i.e. the taxon that Wikipedia redirects to if you just type in "pigeon", everything living in this family is very recognizably pigeon-shaped).

Their closest living relative is apparently the Nicobar pigeon which don't look at all like dodos but do look very pretty:

I'm not sure how widely known it is that dodos were pigeons but I feel like it should be more known because no one told me!!!

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nohoperadio

@maverick-ornithography:

the reason its not necessarily an obvious connection is because dodos were neotenous! they remarkably resemble nestling pigeons if they never grew out of their proportions (but did otherwise increase in size)

!!!

Baby pigeons ARE just like little mini dodos, holy moly... that makes this whole situation way more interesting, it's not that dodos made it into the pigeon club on a genetic technicality, their pigeonness is manifest and obvious if you know where to look for it... beautiful!

#peri!!!
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eikotheblue

(on blind date) oh youre from omelas? i heard that was a pretty nice place. always kinda wanted to live there myself. shame the kid thing stopped working before i had the chance to move out there. have they figured out how to get that system up and running again? not to your knowledge? ah well. probably for the best, i feel like people would be super annoying about that. even out here any time you meet someone from omelas theyre like 'yeah i walked away.' like ok? the kids still in there tho like. glad your conscience is clean i guess? people eat that shit up out here tho they buy em drinks and say like 'yeah that was the right decision it mustve been so hard to give up all that to do whats right.' i dont get it man. sorry im rambling. how'd you like living there? what? it sucked? huh i guess it wasnt all its cracked up to be. so when can i see you again?

(on second date) would i have saved the kid? hahaha! oh, no, its just that thats always been a thought experiment around here. yknow, 'would you save the omelas kid, possibly causing harm to everyone in the city, or would you let the kid suffer, sparing the citizens but definitely causing harm to the kid?' kinda like the counterpart to the trolley problem. i bet it would be too awkward to catch on in omelas itself so thats probably why you didnt know. but usually its just a circlejerk of people saying 'yeah i would save the kid, the city can probably run itself, probably nothing would happen, theyre probably all complicit anyway.' kind of a base refusal to engage with the thought experiment. anyway no i wouldnt have. i know things are mostly fine now, it wasnt like catastrophic in retrospect, but there was no way to know before. i wouldnt have risked it for one kid. and frankly i still wouldnt have, knowing what we know now. like its still a nice place but theres more than one kid suffering now. kickstarting that earlier is mathematically cruel. no, i wouldnt change my mind if i knew the kid. its easy to say i would, but ive got tons of friends suffering that i cant do anything for.

(minigolfing (no longer dating because they realised they leaned more masc than im attracted to but the split was amicable)) wait you were the omelas kid? ill be honest i dont know what kind of reaction youre comfortable with here. like i feel like everyone would be so weird about it. what would make you feel most comfortable? ... for real? i see. well that explains why you agreed to a second date after that lol. can i be honest with you though? i think thats bullshit. i get why youd need to hold onto that while you were in there, but like. you need to let yourself grieve, dude. maybe it was for the greater good, but that doesnt mean it wasnt also fucked up and unfair. youre kinda clinging to this idea that it was a noble sacrifice, but theres nothing noble about trauma inflicted on you by others. especially if you couldn't stop it. yeah i know what i said, and i stand by it, but youre allowed to be selfish. youre allowed to say you didnt deserve any of that shit, that someone shouldve helped you, omelas be damned. they cant put you back in there anymore. its over. you can take off the armour. you can learn to live. there, there. let it all out. yeah, sorry, you guys can go ahead of us, they're gonna be a while i think.

#hell yessssss
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“I thought you could wear them under your pants if you were expecting a serious fight.  I gave you an inner layer with a really fine weave for the inner thighs, for when you’re riding, so there’s less chafing.” “Uh huh.” “I went out of my way to give you lots of pockets like you had in the other jacket.  I don’t think it’ll be too hot.  There’s zippers in the armpits so you can ventilate some cool air inside, and you can detach the hood if you want, but I liked how it looked with the fur.  I’m planning an inside liner for when it’s-” “It’s fine,” she interrupted me.  “Stop talking.  It’s good.”

I love this. Taylor's nervously trying to keep selling all the features of this to Rachel because she wants her to like it and so she goes on and on because she thinks Rachel doesn't like it, and then Rachel cuts her off and says 'it's good'.

If Wildbow hadn't been such a coward, Rachel would cut Taylor off by grabbing her the front of her shirt/costume and kissing her. :P

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hugintheraven

The thing is that Taylor KNOWS that talking too much pisses Rachel off. She is very good normally about interacting with Rachel with a minimum of words and trusting Rachel to get it. But giving her a gift has Taylor so nervous that she can’t help herself. And then Rachel DOESNT get pissed, she recognizes that Taylor is trying and acknowledges that while shutting her up.

They’re just so good together.

#gal!!! pals!!!!#worm is a yuri harem fic#parahumans
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goddamnshinyrock

just asked the barista for a “12 inch” latte rather than “12 ounce” latte, tried to correct myself, and did it again.

I’m alive awake alert enthusiastic today, clearly

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creekfiend

BARKEEP GIMME THE FOOTLONG

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