Angus McBride.

All but one of these are illustrating scenes from the world of Lord of the Rings. Try to spot the odd one out, and then read my newsletter about McBride to see the answer.

Screeching

same energy

Why did Game Freak remove this feature?

curious to hear y'all's suggestions for the worst possible pasta shape

(Assume that "pasta" needs to be made of sheets or strands of dough with enough surface area relative to thickness so that they can be cooked.)

I was going to suggest fettuccini but twisted with the ends connected to form a Möbius strip, but then I realized that would fuck like hell.

@fishofthewoods I did NOT expect to get such a strong contender so early.

@alilcajun @aralioideae

a couple of challengers emerge

You are all fucking madmen

I am not taking a risk

Not risking it pals

U know what I want potato of luck

Damn right I’m reblogging. See previous post re wrath of whatever from high atop the thing.

my fave lil guy...

I love my job, but reblogging employment jelly for someone else I love.

i'm a writer irl (can't say who because my agent would put me into a blender and press go) and honestly the funniest and most humiliating incident of my life was the time my finished manuscript triggered a plagiarism flag with the publisher for two lines of prose in my literary fiction novel...

.... which was word for word similar to a paragraph in a certain explicit work on FFN starring elrond and his batsman from the hobbit films, aka that one elf that looked like he ate panic attacks for breakfast (i forget his name but it's Figwit II) where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment.

and if you think i had to sit in front of one if the biggest publishing companies in the world and admit that it was, in fact, me who wrote the fic where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment in order to avoid being wrongly flagged for plagiarism, you would be absolutely correct.

(yes they published the book)

This takes a lot of courage in a lot of important ways good job OP

I don't care what your perception of the female body has been warped into by the media and advertising prevalent in culture. eat some goddamn carbs

The amount of people I know IRL and online who skop meals and then feel exhausted and try perk up with nicotine and and an energy drink before ending up so anxious they make themselves sick pisses me off. You need OATS!!!!!!!!

The Potato Is Your Friend

Do not disrespect your grandmothers of ancient Peru...

I fear those 43 research center monkeys will never be captured and will cause an invasive primate problem in South Carolina.

There are 40+ monkeys lose in South Carolina rn, as of 53 minutes ago they know where they are but haven’t managed to capture them. We don’t know exactly how many monkeys have escaped or what species they are.

Dozens of airborne pathogens affect newborns beyond covid: why have we decided not to protect NICU infants? Why did we politicize PPE?

Reminds me of how the CCD recently put out a reminder of how to protect yourself from smoke exposure due to wildfire, and they discussed everything except for the most important part- wear an N95/respirator. Because now any public health instruction to wear a mask, even for a different reason, is politicized.

Don Dyen, 1982

the colors of the sunrise

Do you like the color of the sky?  miniature version

officially diagnosed with bed too cozy disease