#am i alone in this? i'm curious

[zarla-s]

#i have tons of fanart saved from all kinds of fandoms in tons of folders on my computer #am i alone in this? i'm curious #i've been doing it for as long as i can remember #i have fanart that disappeared like decades ago #buried in people's personal fansites that got swept away by the tides of time #i don't save fic so much though but i'm trying to change that #things disappear! save your own copies!

[ghoulofatook]

Okay writers, I gotta ask if anyone else does this embarrassing ass shit.

Do you... make dumb faces while you are writing? Because I will straight up make the face I imagine a character to be making in that scene while I'm writing it sometimes if I'm really in the zone.

#Am I alone in this? #face empath #writing #fic writing #writers #writing problems #this is so dumb but I'm too curious i gotta know #my cia agent must think im batshit insane w the faces I make during dialogue scenes #they ain't wrong tho

[aroseyetbloomedwrites]

Are you Francel's Type: First Seat

#francel de haillenarte #zephirin de valhourdin #maybe tomorrow I will post the picture as a stand alone as the hands were quite hard to figure out and I'm proud #I waffled on the tall because it really should be 'taller' but it's not like any of them are not... NOT tall you know? #as for generous it isn't that I think Zephirin is selfish however I think comparatively to House Haillenarte the generosity is different #I am purposefully vague in some of these ask questions if you are curious!

[flickeringflame216]

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#It's quite interesting to me that there's so much discourse around wanting/not wanting to be a parent #especially for young people who may not even be dating let alone married? And especially for young women I've noticed. #It's such a non-issue (to me) at this point. Like yeah I've thought about it but I have other focuses. #the answer to that question might be one of the least interesting things about me #I'm sure one day it will matter more than it does now but like? Why do you a random person care whether I hypothetically want to have kids? #I am a college student? I am not dating and might not ever be? #Also! This is not a hating on kids or mothers post!! #I am a summer camp counselor for middle school girls. I work in kids' and youth ministry year round. Motherhood is beautiful and noble and #never something I would diminish! #that belief can coexist with maybe never wanting to be a parent! or maybe just not wanting to have an opinion on it right now! #anyway i would love to hear other opinions here. I'm not sure if this is a common experience #(This being having random acquaintances/family members with strong opinions on your future possible parenthood) #or not #is it just as uncomfortable for people who do know that they want kids? I imagine it would be differently so but I don't truly know. #Or just any relevant takes honestly I'm just curious.

[hydn-jpg]

you've definitely seen it at least a handful of times, whether you realise it or not! it's a sort of language to circumvent the algorithm, with the most common one that people might know/have heard of being the term 'unalive' (used instead of die, dead, kill etc. on social media). there's so many!! i'm learning new ones everyday!

#i'm genuinely curious!! #i'm writing a dissertation on algospeak #i find the phenomena really interesting as a wannabe linguist #i got really good feedback from my professors on the proposal alone so i'm excited to write more of it!! #also for those curious; i am an english major with a focus on linguistics! #polls

[starpros-sunshine]

I despise summer but the aesthetic is very fun

#this was originally supposed to be Torikasa but. somehow it didn't turn out that way #I have no idea how to caption this #my art style is a mess I used like fibe different kinda of shading in this one #also my obsession with flower crowns #it looks so pretty though I think it turned out very well #also I just noticed how I unintentionally put the yellow one in the center of the colour chain #the way it's framed by the other two ones I mean #funny coincidence it fits very well with the general dynamic #also can you tell I have no idea how to draw ropes #ahhh one day over seven more to go....yay... #I hate being the only child amongst three old people who are all very much not on my wavelength #but hmm might spend the whole day alone and drawing tomorrow again #but!!!! Tori!!! The Princely Princess ever!!!! #these tags probably make no sense but all I've eaten today is a bit of yogurt and some chips so my brain coherency is wavering #enstars #am I still in the Tori top blogs I feel like I was in the Tori top blogs some time ago gotta check that later I'm kinda curious #tori himemiya #my art

[go-setyoursoulonfire]

is "crap" a curse word? debate.

#brought to you by #me being appalled at people casually saying the word crap #in front of their parents or teachers #like???? #how do you not immediately get scolded for using 'language' #just because the word gets thrown around casually doesn't mean it's not a cuss word #right? #am i alone in this #like i wouldnt want kindergarteners saying the f word or binch #so how is crap any better #also i might not curse that often irl but that doesn't mean i'm against cussing or ppl who do #i'm just genuinely curious

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

besties what should i watch tonight

#i am home alone and i'm gonna order myself some pizza and watch stuff :) #i don't know what tho #the one i'm most curious about is sex lives of college girls but idk i'm not too motivated to watch anything right now tbh #i should also watch at some point the new seasons of umbrella academy never have i ever and blood and water #but eh #so i don't know #suggestions are welcome and appreciated

[polygondotcomvideoproducer]

#long tags on this post bc I have an opinion and want to vent about it. but I am genuinely curious about the results #like. I know for a fact that my roommate does this intentionally. he told me that he does #just bc he thinks it's nice to chat in the kitchen #I'm of the opinion that Get Out Of My Way You're Interrupting My Video Essays #I'm just curious how universal of a feeling these are #bc I do think he's unhinged but maybe not! maybe not #I've mentioned in the past that if I'm cooking/cleaning in there I just want to be left alone #and then again I was like ''man if I'm in the kitchen I just wanna listen to my videos and make my food and go'' #''so I always try to use the kitchen when it's empty. if other people are cooking in there. i'll just wait'' #and then immediately after he was like ''nah I like using the kitchen at the same time as everyone else bc it's nice to chat :)'' #I didn't push the subject any further bc I didn't want to make the vibe weird #bc like. I think it'd be a little rude to do so. it's not worth it #but at the same time like. I'll leave the kitchen if he comes in right before I start cooking. and wait like a good 1-2 hours to make dinne #when I was literally right about to start #and like. he ain't thinking about my preference. why is his preference getting prioritised over mine here #(bc I'm not willing to make the situation uncomfortable is why) #and I was gonna be like ''I mean it's a harmless habit ig'' but then in the tags of a post that's in my queue I rembered. that ain't true #bc he didn't stop doing that when he was ill/contagious! and he got me sick! inconsiderate on a few levels

[donuts4evry1]

Hi!!! I love your account with all of its fabulous jellyfish information. And I wanted to know, where are you getting aforementioned fabulous jellyfish information? Is there a book or a website or documentary or smth? Do you have any recommendations?

Tysm and I CANT WAIT for the advanced quiz :DD

Oh!! I'm glad you enjoy it ^-^

I get my jellyfish research from a variety of places, actually. But since I'm kind of obsessed with collecting my information in one place, asks like these are my cup of tea :)

My main source of jellyfish lore comes from Wikipedia. Just like the legendary Hank Green, I ended up downloading Firefox's tree-tab extension so I can organize the tabs by natural taxonomic order. It's really quite relaxing, actually.

Wikipedia, understandably, isn't always the best source though (Take the pages for Cephea cephea and Atolla wyvillei for example. The Cephea cephea page is almost entirely blatant misinformation while the Atolla wyvillei contains an incorrect and misleading throwaway line)

That's why the next logical step is simple- Wikipedia references! This serves as a beginning into further jellyfish research.

Let's take the reference page for the Aurelia aurita, for example:

The information citing citation 14 was super interesting, so I pulled it up on another tab to read it, and got this:

Then I just had a field day reading it all.

One big site that's used as a reference on Wikipedia is humorously named WorMS (World Registry of Marine Species), which goes into the specific classification of pretty much every jellyfish taxon (it is very. VERY comprehensive). It'll tell you how many species are in a genus, what scientific name has become synonomized with another, and even link to the original documents that describe the species (though they may be written in a different language and come in a scan- so tough luck if you don't understand the language since um... it's pretty hard to translate a scan).

Eventually that wasn't enough, though, so I branched out into searching scientific articles myself. My personal favourite website to do this on is ResearchGate, since the UI is the easiest for me to use, but I get plenty of research from other sites and publishers. (And pssst, if you can't access papers through a school or an institution, there's always sci-hub and libgen 😉)

The rest just depends on to how savvy you are with google. I despise normal reporting articles on jellyfish (Most can't tell the difference between them anyways), so I skip those and simply go to the jellyfish papers themselves lol. I've found out a lot of interesting things about jellyfish just by searching random questions on google.

Um, but I suppose I do have extra stuff to add.

Apparently, making a video game for jellyfish is a surefire way to learn more about them (especially when you write them as sapient beings lol). You start to crave niche, specific knowledge of them- like um... If they sleep or not, or what things can make them sleep.

Um... Another thing I've learned about jellyfish? The japanese are absolutely OBSESSED with their jellyfish. Their jellyfish spotlight sites are incredibly detailed (if not a bit region-specific), and I honestly trust them more than I trust our English-speaking sites.

In particular, I adore kurage-ya.com and gogo zoo aquarium, though you definitely will not be able to read anything unless you have a good translator (Kurage-ya is written in such an adorable voice.... and gogo zoo is incredibly detailed. I suggest going onto both for full coverage of your jellyfish knowledge, though)

(I also suggest going on different languages of Wikipedia- you can learn SO much stuff that normal Wikipedia doesn't give to you. Like the Chrysaora pacifica and Nemophilema nomurai have more robust Japanese pages, and the Spanish page for Order Semaeostomeae is a lot more beefed up, haha...)

To learn more about niche jellyfish facts, I also suggest looking through jellyfish husbandry sites (Especially jellyfish warehouse- travis knows so much more about jellyfish than I do it's actually pretty crazy).

As for Jellyfish documentaries? I only know of a few good ones, but I'll list them here:

^^ (not a documentary, but the jellyfish warehouse is friggin awesome and they even have a youtube channel)

Umm... So yeah that's pretty much all the things I got for free.

I think any jellyfan would suggest Lisa-Ann Gerswhin's book, Jellyfish: A Natural History.

I'm pretty sure you can find it in any major bookstore or whatever (online, at least), but it goes super in-depth about pretty much everything you need to know about jellyfish.

She goes SUPER in-depth about things like jellyfish life cycle, jellyfish anatomy, jellyfish ecology- and SO, SO MUCH MORE. She doesn't stay in Phylum Cnidaria, either, branching out into Ctenophora and even Chorodata(?) (Since Salps/tunicates are also there ig).

If you want to learn about specific jellyfish species, however, I would honestly just stick to Google and write it yourself. She only highlights about 40 different jellyfish species, and only mentions the textually relevant things in their bio. I would use the book just to learn about jellyfish basics, tbh (since it primes you to learn about the more technical jellyfish language you'll inevitably encounter in jellyfish articles). Overall, though, Lisa-Ann Gershwin's book is incredibly detailed, in-depth, and gorgeous and I could not recommend it more to anyone.

Other than that tho? All the English jellyfish books kinda suck, and I'm seriously considering branching out to japanese books instead (There's one that focuses on 114 species of jellyfish and you can bet your manus that I'm salivating over it rn i am enamoured with Japanese jellyfish culture)

Erm... Anyways?

TLDR;

Wikipedia is a good place to start. Reading Published Scientific articles is where you can get the bulk of your information, but Jellyfish-dedicated Websites will also be pretty knowledgeable as well.

There are a choice few Youtube documentaries you can watch, but if you want to read an actual book, Jellyfish: A Natural History is your best bet.

#and I'm SO glad you enjoy the jellyfish quizzes lol I was afraid they would be too hard for most people #The expert quiz is very fun actually I am having a blast designing it #long post #sorry for the long ramble lol i absolutely love talking about jellyfish #just this morning I was curious about how heavy metals affected the phacellophora camtschatica/egg yolk jelly (don't ask) and ended up lea- #-rning about the 4 OTHER possible cryptic species that could be in the genus #also more specific physiological features of the jelly #which means I can draw them better he he he he he #jellyfish #anyways I hope you found this helpful and good luck with your jellyfish research ^-^ #I pretty much became a comfortable jellyfish expert erm... 3 months with Wikipedia articles alone. So it's definitely possible to learn a - #-whole lot if you're dedicated to learning everything there is to know about jellyfish #i sold my soul to jellyfish and i have never been happier in my life #once my grandma found me at 4 am staring at my computer screen because i was researching jellyfish and she seriously questioned my sanity #hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #anyways I'll end it here but if you have any more questions i am more than happy to respond lol #mun rambles #ask

[noxtivagus]

hmmm. oh my god my mind is a mess i rlly can't write what i want to rn but i will just Dump

#🌙.vents #YEAH HONESTLY OKAY one reason why fiction comforts me so much is. it teach me so much n let me live through so much more #these characters i. relating to them n seeing parts of myself in them is just. yk rlly comforting bcs i'm. very not social irl. #i get anxious. n typically i find that.. most ppl in like my class or my school or wtvr. yk everyone is interesting n has depth but #i find them. a bit too simple for me. ah.. yeah uhm. sorry remove the 'a bit' it's. by far. so. #hermes rlly. to me bcs he's like. different. felt alone for it. but.. he's intelligent he's valued n. theres a lot of ways to look at it bu #yh then he stands up n does smth for himself for once n he makes mistakes n then after that he sort of just gives up on that part of himsel #'internalizes the lies' THAT PART HURT SO MUCH OKAY. but.. yk fitting in n being 'normal' or wtvr gives a lot of ppl more comfort #but for me it hurts yes but i'd much rather face life for what it is. who i am who i really am. fuck if it's lonely for me #smth from the 1975 w matty on religion? sorry as well i'm.. really not religious. i respect it but please. i'm really not religious. #it would.. be easier yeah if we did believe in some divine being right? believing that there is salvation. that. there's.. yeah #i really just can't bring myself to believe in that. on religion i rmb rn even when i was younger like in lower school even i rlly thought #abt logic behind it. i questioned n wondered why people believed in religion. i really as. very curious abt stuff n life n all that #n growing up i've never really let the outside world influence me too much. no i pride myself in really staying true to myself. #so last year hurt sm bcs i really felt like i was restraining myself too much. i can't exactly pinpoint it rn okay i'm emotional rn but #i rlly felt like my freedom to be myself was stuck somewhere. n then stuff n 'talking too much' so tumblr became yh for me bcs #i don't want to isolate myself but i just.. can't do some things bcs of anxiety? or wtvr there's a lot n then there's also. uh #i still do crave vulnerability n belonging but how do i say this #it's really important to me that. i realize i open up more to ppl that also are able to open up as well. ppl who are like me. #like apollo n online friends n i love my irls too n i hate this bcs yh fine maybe i'm a bit of a ppl pleaser but it's more in a way that #i don't want to be misunderstood. i don't want to hurt anyone. so irl i generally tend to.. hide or restrain myself #take note of 'generally'. but i won't touch on that right now. i think i've been misunderstood before so that's why im sensitive to this #bcs. still having that love n care can coexist with still knowing myself n what works better for me bcs it's so crazy actually how w #several ppl i met last year esp the ones i only know online i cld open up to them more easily bcs they Too can do that n it just #feels so lonely irl i'm just dumping rn it's like nearly 1 am n i'll probably delete this tmrrw bcs i think i'm a bit frustrated right now #not that it's anyone's fault. i'm just. confused right now w myself but i don't mean anything bad by all this okay #i want to just. write. a fictional story rn to calm myself. doing things for myself surely isn't selfish. being myself isn't selfish right? #i can be kind to myself right now too. like other times before. so i will be kind. yes i will be. #there's sm in my head i rlly wish i cld write them all but such is the limit of being human. not too bad tho bcs i have stuff to do #i'll get that done rq n then i'll let myself rest though. until i sleep i'll let myself be at peace n rest c:

[beautifulxsinnamoroll]

anyone here self-ship in Ratchet and Clank-

👉👈

#am curious #seein if I'm not alone skds #cuz i wanna f/o a character but no idea how to go abt it skds #am new to this series skds #self ship #self ship community #selfship

[astrxealis]

god so a little story. one of my best friends uhh we chat in discord often! have our own lil bff server ^_^ and we have mudae bot LMFAO and ... okay as a little “friend bonding time” she looked up all those in my wishlist (also artemis’s!) and bhgadhjg i just. think it’s funny that out of all of them she finds grimnir and fandaniel pretty

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #HSGJDBJG FUNNYDANIEL IS ESP FUNNY TO ME ............... bcs it wasn't even. Yeah. it was yeah #her comments hhasgbjdhb vrtra with the winning smile pls i love my friends even if they are sometimes </3 but that is just how things are #i just found it really interesting bcs hmm they haven't been able to play xiv recently bcs Time but if one day they do get so far as to #meet daniel! :O considering she doesn't like akechi that much. i wonder hmmmmmm and w zenos tbh #i'm really curious abt how my friends will react to characters like that >_< esp the guy we got into xiv that takes a lot of notes on lore #apparently and on rare occasions we vc and stay up until 5 having shennanigans in xiv WHJABGHBJGH .... lvl 30+ cnj SOBS #anyways small thing bcs im getting into a thinking state again i think bcs of music. hmm. really glad i met that guy tbh #bcs wow it really makes it feel like i'm not alone. + other friends ofc esp online here!! like wow wgbahjdg but yea this guy with. #so much ... also ig it helps that in the first month of meeting we already laid out our philosophies and all WHEEZE HGBSDJBGJH #fe kh ff drak/enier . persona. guilty/gear . vtubers. MAN we r getting the guy more into ff but i thank him for getting us into vtubers #RAMBLING RAMVLING ........ goodbye but hi yeah Rambles galore #TBH I KIN GRIMNIR....... i just kin for fun and idk who is my biggest kin/s but grimnir is one up there. dghsbdhjbgsjh #and then alisaie is big up there bcs WHEEEZE OKAY ANOTHER FUN LITTLE STORY. my closest friend from xiv that i met thru xiv #SO HAPPENS TO ALSO HAVE A TWIN. AND IS THE YOUNGER ONE LIKE ME. AND REALLY LIKES ALISAIE AS WELL. the world is so small and also so big. WOW #still amazed at that tbh qwq and we have even shared our real names to one another! that is so nice. + they are an ally sobs thank god #i js think stuff like this is really interesting ... i have been thinking abt this all lately so woopie rambles to put down my thoughts!!! #yk i've realized it is really so important to have frinds like me :O aka in the stuff i love! it is a personal thing #bcs i am vv passionate and the stuff i love ties deeply to who i am ... its really nice bcs with each xiv friend it's like #hey! we may not be super close (yet!) or maybe we are! but there's that. connection of sorts. like yeah. we're not alone

[neutrin0]

But heck I didn't know you guys don't take bunch of 15-14 years old KIDS to a camp and teach them how to use guns , how to shoot and stuff and give them a lecture about how USA might just come to our house and kill us so always be ready lol

I'm just really curious, have you ever went to a military camp with your school before? Or had a book about military strategies and how to take positions and camouflage? Or Iran is the only weird Circus here 💀👍

#iran #Just middle eastern stuff #iranians #Masha amini #i'm genuinely curious #i'm genuinely so sad #i'm tired #i'm just a kid #leave me alone #Am I considered traumatized now lol? #is this normal? #im about to lose it #middle east #asexual #I don't know how to tag

[fracturediron]

#something different from the usual fandom stuff #but i'm genuinely curious what ppl's thoughts are on this #this was back in an old house i lived in #and me and the third flatmate had very different views on it #also am wondering how different cultures might affect answering #cos like i'm from an asian background and i would never dream of charging my housemates to share grocery costs for a meal I'VE offered #to cook them #let alone not telling them beforehand #if you share groceries and grocery costs in general then that's different #that's my opinion but am curious what other ppl think #food opinions

[staledirt87]

Randomly at the supermarket and some dude comes up to me like "I have a daughter with red hair just like you."

Cue awkward silence as I try to figure out how to respond to that before my dad covers for me

"did you ever come home crying- my daughter used to come home saying 'they made fun of me for my hair and freckles' and I had to calm her down"

My dad just awkwardly laughing as I shake my head and saying "nope, guess I was lucky haha"

"y'know, you should look up red heads that changed history, you'll be amazed."

"haha sure." And then we walked away

#this is really common #by the way #people see a ginger and they pounce #my cousins a ginger! my mom had red hair! I have a kid that looks just like you! #aha thank you very cool I am a random stranger please leave me alone #please don't talk to me I do not know what to say #if you have to comment on my hair say like 'i love the color!' #its just awkward for both of us #stale speaks #still might look it up tho I'm curious