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[marlynnofmany]

This isn't even the foreign-language meme I was looking for, but it works just as well.

You get it. This is pretty clear.

EDIT: wait, I found the one I was looking for!

i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

#these are both very funny #and I feel smarter for being able to appreciate them #even with no real knowledge of French #el problema ES el monolinguismo! #I don't even know if that's 100% accurate Spanish #but it communicates what it needs to #and that's the point #memes #fun with languages

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Boo, I can't find a good spot to work in a funny name for one of the aliens without things turning into a give-a-mouse-a-cookie scenario. I'd have to name all of them, and I haven't settled on a naming scheme for that species/culture yet.

Also it's almost midnight. But just know that one of the biggest allosaurus-looking frat bros is a lady named Dottie. It's probably short for "Dotted With The Blood Of Her Enemies," or something classy like that. And another one is Sadie the Sadistic.

I titled a notes document "special sequel" for reasons that make sense, but I keep seeing it and thinking of Neil Gaiman's "special spoilers" tag.

No, there are no nonexistant wives or improbable slapstick in this story. Aliens, yes. Angels and demons, no.

#secret lore #The Token Human #I need sleep #but I thought Tumblr should know #Dottie and Sadie #special spoilers

[marlynnofmany]

I bet they learned it from the firebreathing dogs. The animals are sharing tips behind our backs.

#animals #cryptids #up to something

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Nothing like putting together a quick series recap for the Patreon revival to make you realize there's a lot more of something than you thought.

Seventy short stories in the Token Human series. Seventy! How did that happen?

Yadda yadda once again baffled by basic things like math and the passage of time. Apparently these things happen when you write a story a week for the better part of two years.

#that's nuts I say #way more than I thought I've written #gonna put 'em all in the free tier #for easy reference #and then write more #and who knows where this adventure is headed #but I look forward to the trip #The Token Human #Patreon #going live on May 1st! #very excited! #humans are weird #haso #hfy #eiad #humans are space orcs #and other such tags

[marlynnofmany]

Not a biologist so not sure how well this holds up, but consider:

Humans are warm-blooded. We are constantly burning calories just to keep warm. What if to aliens we are constantly consuming food just to keep up like DC's Flash family??

Alien: "What are you doing?"

Human: "Making the best sandwich I've had in weeks!"

Alien: "But you just ate this morning."

Human: "...Yes? Like normal? Wait, how long ago did you eat?"

Alien: "Three weeks ago. Like normal."

Human: "Oh right, you guys are coldblooded! Wow, I forgot. I guess we haven't been doing much running around lately, so you probably don't need much food. Weird. Well, you're missing out on sandwiches like this."

Alien: "If we're 'coldblooded,' does that mean your blood is hot? Is that why you eat so much, to maintain it? What a waste!"

Human: "Remind me to give you a hug next time the heater breaks, and I bet you'll change your mind."

#humans are weird #humans are warmblooded #and give the best hugs #it's just science #my first 'humans are weird' story was about body heat saving the day #I still think fondly of it

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I titled a notes document "special sequel" for reasons that make sense, but I keep seeing it and thinking of Neil Gaiman's "special spoilers" tag.

No, there are no nonexistant wives or improbable slapstick in this story. Aliens, yes. Angels and demons, no.

#save that for the fanfic #special spoilers #Neil Gaiman #Good Omens #tempted to name an alien Dottie just for laughs #they're all macho dinosaur-looking dudes so that would be amusingly absurd #it would probably be short for something tough-sounding #hmm #writer life

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Once again pondering how creeped out far-future people who live on a sterile space station would be by dirt.

Earthling: "I'm such a germaphobe. I have to wash my hands every time I take off my shoes, even if I don't touch the part that's walked on dirt."

Spacer: "You get dirt on your clothes and don't go in for a full-body sanitizing scan? That stuff's made of dead things and fungus!"

#I mean they're not wrong #but it's really not that scary #and nothing will ever convince them of that #germs #dirt #in spaaace

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What I was taught growing up: Wild edible plants and animals were just so naturally abundant that the indigenous people of my area, namely western Washington state, didn't have to develop agriculture and could just easily forage/hunt for all their needs.

The first pebble in what would become a landslide: Native peoples practiced intentional fire, which kept the trees from growing over the camas praire.

The next: PNW native peoples intentionally planted and cultivated forest gardens, and we can still see the increase in biodiversity where these gardens were today.

The next: We have an oak prairie savanna ecosystem that was intentionally maintained via intentional fire (which they were banned from doing for like, 100 years and we're just now starting to do again), and this ecosystem is disappearing as Douglas firs spread, invasive species take over, and land is turned into European-style agricultural systems.

The Land Slide: Actually, the native peoples had a complex agricultural and food processing system that allowed them to meet all their needs throughout the year, including storing food for the long, wet, dark winter. They collected a wide variety of plant foods (along with the salmon, deer, and other animals they hunted), from seaweeds to roots to berries, and they also managed these food systems via not only burning, but pruning, weeding, planting, digging/tilling, selectively harvesting root crops so that smaller ones were left behind to grow and the biggest were left to reseed, and careful harvesting at particular times for each species that both ensured their perennial (!) crops would continue thriving and that harvest occurred at the best time for the best quality food. American settlers were willfully ignorant of the complex agricultural system, because being thus allowed them to claim the land wasn't being used. Native peoples were actively managing the ecosystem to produce their food, in a sustainable manner that increased biodiversity, thus benefiting not only themselves but other species as well.

So that's cool. If you want to read more, I suggest "Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America" by Nancy J. Turner

#important things to know #Native America

[marlynnofmany]

using wizard magic beneath the full moon to charge my blood oxygen and make my heart rate normal………..

#good luck with the wizard magic

[marlynnofmany]

where did you get the hat in your profile picture? i like it

It was a birthday present a few years ago! It's great. I'm not sure which random internet store it came from, but let me see if I can find out.

#googling is no help; I'll ask the gifter #it was probably somebody on Etsy #who's stopped selling them since then #but hopefully not #also yes I am wearing elf ears in this picture #the lighting makes it hard to tell #I have a long and storied history with those elf ears #thus the hat

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These are the questions that I'd really like time travel to answer.

we talk a lot about ohhhh what if my calling is to be the greatest mammoth hunter ever and I'm wasting my talents in the modern era but we never think about what if Thog from 30,000 BCE was the only person ever born who could get a sub-7min Donkey Kong Country any%, and he never got the chance. what about thog

#what ABOUT Thog? #let's give him a chance #time travel

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It's a pity they didn't translate it to "Crowd Psychic 100." That would be much closer, and would have saved a considerable amount of confusion.

Also, because English is nuts sometimes, that reminds me of this:

Kind of hilarious to me how poorly the title "Mob Psycho 100" localized to English-speaking areas. To someone whose first language is English, it scans as:

Mob (Yakuza, Mafia)

Psycho (violent person with "crazy" behaviors)

Thus: a particularly violent member of organized crime.

But in Japanese it scans as:

Mob (background characters in crowd scenes in manga or anime)

Psycho (short for psychic)

Thus: a psychic who looks/acts like someone you'd never pick out of a crowd scene in a comic.

#fun with languages #fun with language #English is a mess #and the passage of time has not improved anything

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

#awesome #well done folks #NASA #fixing things from oh so far away #spaaaace

[marlynnofmany]

Made the worst brownies ever created just now

#the reviews are amazing #well said everybody #eloquent #we certainly do get some good turns of phrase here

[marlynnofmany]

LOTR + text post

#the lotr makes it all so much funnier #great post guys #life on Tumblr #LOTR

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i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point

#poetry #I've seen this before but I don't think I've seen this version #I love how things evolve in several directions at once here #blackout poetry #landlord white

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#there's a reason Calvin & Hobbes were named after a theologian and a philosopher #asking all the interesting questions