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Dinosaur Ghosts (WIPs)

#dinosaur #ghosts #neat #but also if dinosaurs were ghosts we’d be so fucked

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my text post collection vol. 1

#story ideas

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look, I know I've talked about this essay (?) before but like,

If you ever needed a good demonstration of the quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", have I got an exercise for you.

Somebody made a small article explaining the basics of atomic theory but it's written in Anglish. Anglish is basically a made-up version of English where they remove any elements (words, prefixes, etc) that were originally borrowed from romance languages like french and latin, as well as greek and other foreign loanwords, keeping only those of germanic origin.

What happens is an english which is for the most part intelligible, but since a lot everyday english, and especially the scientific vocabulary, has has heavy latin and greek influence, they have to make up new words from the existing germanic-english vocabulary. For me it kind of reads super viking-ey.

Anyway when you read this article on atomic theory, in Anglish called Uncleftish Beholding, you get this text which kind of reads like a fantasy novel. Like in my mind it feels like it recontextualizes advanced scientific concepts to explain it to a viking audience from ancient times.

Even though you're familiar with the scientific ideas, because it bypasses the normal language we use for these concepts, you get a chance to examine these ideas as if you were a visitor from another civilization - and guess what, it does feel like it's about magic. It has a mythical quality to it, like it feels like a book about magic written during viking times. For me this has the same vibe as reading deep magic lore from a Robert Jordan book.

#language #linguistics #science #neat

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happy april 13th !!

#homestuck #413 #homestuck day

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happy 413 everyone!! 15 years felt like a significant number so i wanted to do push myself to do smthg over the top for this one haha

this comic has had me in a chokehold for over 10 years waow.. still lookin forward to see what comes from the new team! anyway happy anniversary sweethearts <333

#homestuck #413 #homestuck day

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I humbly request a doodle of my sweet baby son Tavros if you have the time thanks

#homestuck #tavros nitram

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me. me when a poem says something ive felt before

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Omg this is like 800 metaphors rolled into one megaphor

#vultures #birds #animals #hell yeah

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I based a set of D&D villains around the six main stats called Virtues. (think Full Metal Alchemist sins, except Strength, Constitution, Dexterity, etc..) My favorite of the bunch was Charm. Her conceit was she could persuade, lie, cheat, change appearance, and manipulate the players pretty much however she wanted, but the second someone attacked her she would go down. I introduced her relatively early into the campaign, and I was a bit nervous because I was pretty upfront about her introduction. I didn't say it explicitly, but it was pretty obvious Charm was a Virtue from the offset. I thought "well, I like this character a lot, maybe I'll cheat it a little if I have to." Surprisingly, I never did.

In retrospect, I think the context of the Charm encounters was a huge boon. The party really only confronted her twice: the first time at a dinner party and the second at a war council, where leaders from various factions met to discuss retaking the main city for the finale of the campaign. Neither were explicitly combat scenarios, and both times it would have looked pretty bad for the party if they just up and killed Charm for apparently no reason. The end result was I had villain with only eight hit points to her name run around and torment my level 16 party unpunished for several sessions. Let me tell you, as a DM, that felt amazing.

#d&d #tabletop #ttrpg #neat

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dadchuck is everything to me

#dungeon meshi #chilchuck is such a shit

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cats don't even unstick their claws out of things anymore they will just sit there with their claw stuck in a blanket and look at you like this until you unstick it for them

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#that monty python gif is exactly what i thought about when i saw this for the first time

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Opening tumblr is the surest way to remind me of all the creative stuff i’m not doing 🥲

#personal #i see the reblogs of my old homestuck stuff and think back to the good ol days #remember when i made things? #i did art even #AHHHHHHHH

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What have I been up to? Oh, y’know, cute little stay-at-home mother housewife things…brooding, gnashing my teeth, struggling to succeed at the Sisyphean task of maintaining house and home while keeping a tiny human with no sense of self preservation from licking outlets and swallowing animal feces, light gardening…

#personal #i exaggerate #i jest #but also #yknow i used to judge the stay-at-home spouse and now i know #maybe i’ll be the one licking the outlets soon just for the thrill of it #jk it’s all fine as long as i can buy plants for my ✨new garden✨ #which unfortunately continue to cost money #but you know what? #i’ll still take this over teaching at this point #until the education system gets its shit together

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"But only 2% of the population is intersex. It's not that common. Why should we reframe or perception of gender for intersex people?"

Completely ignoring the fact that empathy exists. You do realize that 2% of the population in the medical field is considered very common, yes?

2% of children and 0.5% of adults have a peanut allergy and that's so common that they have entire rules around in in public spaces.

0.24-1% of the population has Rheumatoid arthritis. That's an eighth to a half of the number of intersex people!

1-2% of people are estimated to have autism, and that's considered a common condition.

0.1%-2.6% of people will get melanoma in their life time, and that's considered common.

1.2% of people have epilepsy and that's considered common.

Completely ignoring statistics like 6% of women have PCOS (which is a condition that can fall under the intersex umbrella). 2% of the population in the medical field is considered a common condition, and ergo by medical terms intersex is in itself common.

I don't think you realize how big 2% is. That's 2 in 100 people. If you walk into 3 fully filled classrooms (when I was in school a full classroom was 40 students). Chances are you just saw 2 intersex kids and didn't even know it.

So yeah. I think intersex is common enough to include in our discussions around gender and how transphobic rules affects intersex people.

-fae

#intersex #intersexphobia #gender

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#biggest baby