As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.
In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.
I almost forgot to mention: this woman came into the penguin enclosure with a KESTREL??? I said “oh my god is that an American Kestrel?” and she said “Yes! She was outside doing raptor education for the kids, but she doesn’t like to get rained on.”
When I read a fanfic I like, the author becomes a mini celebrity to me. So when an author with a work I like kudos’ or comments on my own fanfic I just-
Mad stuff that's 100% canon in the Star Trek universe:
Going past warp 10 turns you into a hyper-evolved Salamander
Special cheese can bring down the highly advanced bio-neural circuitry of an Intrepid-class ship
A software mod can make a regular transporter beam across many light years
A software mod can make a regular transporter beam across universes
The addition of old DNA in a transporter can reset you physically to whatever age the DNA is from, but with all your memories and experiences intact therefore curing all ills
There's a forcefield surrounding the galaxy and nobody really asks why it's there
Touching it sometimes gives people Q-like powers
There's a Prime Directive not to interfere with pre-warp cultures but everybody does
There's a Temporal Prime Directive not to interfere with the timeline but everybody does
Captain Picard was turned into a Borg for a few days and was never the same again
Captain Janeway, B'Elanna Torres and Tuvok were turned into Borg for a couple of days and where just fine after
Discovery's new captain is probably still waiting on Vulcan
There's a planet in the centre of the galaxy surrounded by a forcefield with a big floating head on it that pretends to be God
The Borg, most deadly dangerous things in the galaxy responsible for enslavement of trillions, could possibly be forever defeated by a single jpeg of a weird shape but they don't do it because sympathy
There's a secret cabal of Starfleet officers that attempted genocide once and it's the only thing that saved the Federation
There's a universe which, when it bleeds into ours, makes everyone uncontrollably sing and dance
kinda sick of all those posts that are like "my ancestors were surviving starvation and the plague meanwhile i get nervous ordering food at restaurants". as if jauffrey the woodworker didn't fumble his conversation with the fine maiden running the fruit stand and then tripped on a pebble as he left in a hurry
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