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Behold, one of my best friend's Halloween costumes, recorded and uploaded by a complete stranger with over a million views on tiktok! (I'm so proud!!)

A nice shower and the day can begin...

i just woke up and for a few seconds i thought those were some kind of vegetables being dropped into the sink to rinse off until they kept moving on their own and they still 100% look like weird leafy vegetables

I've been awake for 17 hours and I deadass thought they were vegetables

Video description: a set of parakeets having a shower in a sink, clearly delighted at the water. End description.

Honestly I think a lot of people who have never made a gif for tumblr don't get that it does actually take time and effort, its not just rip it from a video and post it- you have to download the video, in my case I have a video player installed that grabs continuous caps, figure out what parts you need, you have to open those in photoshop or gimp, depending on where you got photoshop you might be paying for it every month and then on top of that is actually sizing, cropping, colouring, sharpening, adding text, etc. etc. like it is something that takes time and effort for which the only real reward is creating something that makes you happy and hopefully people reblog it with a nice or funny tag, so maybe keep that in mind the next time you think gif makers are being mean or unfair for being upset about reposts. It is its own little artform that is fairly unique to this website, and that's a big aspect of why I have always loved tumblr, if all the gifmakers stopped posting things would be a lot more boring around here.

just tried to explain to someone that the reason why egg prices are so high is due to the avian flu outbreak and they responded with "but birds can't get sick" chat we are so cooked as a nation

I wish my dad had an interest so I could get him a Christmas present based on it

Get him a sword

I'm a scifi writer what makes you think I have sword money

You could check in your area, or online, and see if there is a liquidation shop near you. Up in my part of Canada we have a liquidation chain (Bianca Amor) where you can get liquidation swords for very affordable prices.

If your shop don't have cheap swords, you never know what other weird/neat gift ideas they may hold.

I GUARANTEE THAT MY AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY TOWN DOES NOT HAVE SWORD WAREHOUSES WITH EXCESS SWORDS ON SALE

IF PEOPLE WANT SWORDS THEY GO ONLINE OR DRIVE SIX HOURS TO THE CITY

what about learn how to make them, are there any hobbyist blacksmiths do you think

I need you to understand that all the nerds in my town move to the cities after high school. There's me, a few guys who run the comic shop, and a legion of Warhammer-playing teenagers waiting out the last few years of high school so they can move to the cities. The medieval fair happens once a year here and that's the one day a year that the women all get excited to put on longer-than-normal dresses that they wouldn't wear otherwise (that's be weird, people would stare!) and buy knockoff versions of Disney products sold by vendors who drove here from the cities.

I was stage manager for one of my dad's plays a couple of years ago and I had to explain to the theatre group what larp was. To the theatre group. The THEATRE GROUP didn't know what larp was.

I explained and they DIDN'T GET IT. I then had to explain the basics of a tabletop rpg (I just said 'dungeons and dragons' because most of them recognised those words) and didn't get particularly far.

The "nerdy" girl in the theatre group asked me if I'd ever heard of this new thing going around called "superwholock". (This would've been around 2020 or 2021). My only response to Superwholock being called this new thing was a sort of stunned "uh, yes, I'm on Tumblr." She then asked me what Tumblr was.

Do you live in the smurf village

#city dwellers be like 'oh you dont have this incredibly obscure shop with 4 locations world wide? you dont have public transit?#do you live in the mud? do you live with the fucking elves?'

Husband and I appeared in his oncologist’s notes as “very pleasant young couple.” We are a pleasure to have in class.

i love filtering tags like. no. i do not want to see it. goodbye.

and then it is gone forever except for the fact that I am now presented with the most enticing button in the world

tell me something nice

if you grow mushrooms over a toxic waste site, chemical spill, or other polluted growing medium, they will suck up the toxins into their fruiting bodies with such effectiveness that they are being studied for their ability to clean up tainted industrial sites. it’s called mycoremediation.

if you do this with edible mushrooms, they are no longer technically edible, but on the other hand they make a great way to poison your enemies. this is called murder and it’s usually frowned upon, but they won’t see it coming and you get bragging rights afterwards about your ability to kill people with a pizza topping.

Sorry this was not precisely most people’s idea of “nice.” Let me add that you are a glow of comforting absurdity in an ever-more-fucked-up world.

I love everything about mycoremediation, but also

Slightly on the topic of removing toxic waste:

A hairdresser noticed that with oil spills, one of the biggest issues was the impact on wildlife because oil loves clinging to fur and feathers.

They used felting methods to create like a mat of hair & used it on a small scale test & it worked really well, the hair mainly stayed on top of the water like the oil & absorbed it like a sponge while leaving creatures & plants alone.

NASA is now working on large scale uses with the help of donated clippings from hair dressers and pet groomers.

And the hair can then be composted with the help of mushrooms.

はんくり / hungry_clicker

Idol of Gensokyo

also while I'm talking about it. I don't think people know what a retcon is. like no that prequel didn't retcon this villain it just gave us more information. no this sequel didn't retcon that backstory sometimes as the story progresses more information is revealed.

paleontologist maid with a little feather duster brushing away at a fossil :)

super quick doodle

she runs the tidiest dig site in the badlands

Dreaming

This is actually a dream I had a few weeks ago. Ever since I realized I was trans last year, I've been getting more and more dreams (which I remember) where I'm, you know, physically a girl, but this was the first outright "trans" dream. Hope I can make it a real one eventually

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