one of my favorite (read: least favorite) things about how people treat cleopatra is she’s so often called a slut or is only ever portrayed as being this incredibly sexy, often scantily-clad seductress, when in actuality 1. while some ancient sources describe her as somewhat pretty, it generally seems that what was attractive about her was her intellect, charm, and voice, and the sources that refer to her as extremely sexy/slutty are specifically out to condem her, 2. she was a brilliant politician who chose her affairs as a way of securing power for her country and not just so she could have a bunch of sex (which shouldn’t be an issue anyway), and 3. one of the men she had an affair with was mark antony, ancient roman super slut supreme, a man known for his love of sex and tendency to wear extremely short tunics for the sake of showing off his sexy legs/probably also his dick
i’m not saying there’s anything wrong with portraying cleopatra as beautiful or even sexy, because she clearly had allure. all i’m saying is that, if your cleopatra is wearing less clothing than your mark antony, there’s probably a problem in your depiction of them
Snow flakes have the same structure as human neurons. Some scientists have suggested that, water being conductive, large snow banks may be able to function as intelligent brains.
I can help! As a scientist, I’ve done some research, and this was posted by a blog called “facts I just made up” and have since hypothesized that it is a made up untruthful words.
Slam me all you like but I won’t have you mocking the words as untruthful. This post contains a diverse cast of almost 20 words, all of them truthful. Words like “Scientists,” “Function,” “Conductive” and “Intelligent” have appeared in numerous scientific journals and works of classic literature. Without “Conductivity” we wouldn’t have some of the most important works ever written on electricity. And “Function” has played a leading role not only in algebra, but in explaining what conjunction junctions do.
honey is the only food product that never spoils. there are pots of honey that are over five thousand years old and still completely edible
i also want to point out we know it tastes the same even after thousands of years b/c archaeologists who discovered two thousand year old honey tasted it. presumably right after they looked at each other and went “what the hell here goes nothing”
I’m pretty sure they also identify human remains by taste. Archaeologists are straight up freaks.
No, no no… you identify bone from rock or other substances by touching it to your tongue. If it sticks, it’s bone. The taste itself has nothing to do with it. And most archaeologists won’t lick human bones if they know they’re human.
…and I realize that doesn’t actually do much to prove archaeologists aren’t freaks.
mai nam is jane and wen i dig i fynde some roks both smol and big i put my tung upon the stone for science yes i lik the bone
I’m sitting with a bunch of archaeologists and we just laughed so hard we CRIED we’re getting tshirts with this on them
I will never ever get tired of seeing bredlik poems. It is really one of the seminal art forms of the century. I am not being sarcastic.
If I ever don’t reblog this, assume I’m dead and archaeologists are licking my bones.
oh and when i was a year old, after i got my foot amputated my parents were pushing me around in a stroller at a street festival in miami and i was chewing on my foot or whatever and this street performer came up to us and was like “aw i bet that tastes good!!” and my dad was like “yeah look at what she did to the other one!!!!” and pulled back the blanket covering my left leg to show a stump with a huge scar on it and i’m pretty sure my dad terrified that poor man
A friend of ours worked in a movie theater. One night, a rowdy little boy decided to kick
over all the stands that held up the red velvet cords.
After several attempt to stop him, she finally declared, “If
you keep kicking those over, your leg will fall off!”
No sooner had she said this than she looked up and was
mortified to notice a man standing on a pair of crutches with one leg.
Before she could apologize, he looked down at the boy and
sighed, “I used to love to kick those.”
The kid ran away.
Evidently the “amputees are the FUNNIEST motherfuckers” thing extends to their parents as well.
my mom is 61 and her bf is a huge nerd and he’s teaching her to play magic the gathering and he had her watch avatar the last airbender with him and his ringtone is terra’s theme from final fantasy 6 and he paints pictures of sephiroth. my mom’s bf is nerdier than i’ll ever be.
and she does all these pinterest crafts and now she makes little bejeweled vials of healing potions for him and his buddies. my little geek heart can’t handle all this.
edit: just picture a 60-something woman with a VERY thick minnesotan accent saying “mike is having me watch the naruto”
just fyi my mom is now 62 and they finished watching “the naruto”
if i had told my 13-year-old self that this is what my mom’s hallway would look like when i was 30 i wouldn’t have believed me
been watching livestreams of US news channels lately and
1) they have a LOT of commercial breaks
2) i didn’t realize that ads for medicine were actually like this
ppl keep reblogging this and asking “well what are the medicine ads like in your country” and like…there aren’t any? It’s literally illegal to advertise prescription medicine here?
So my trainer’s bf cheated on her. She broke up with him. He’s holding her stuff hostage until she agrees to talk with him. Which she refuses.
She trains; for free mind you; three college linebackers, a college wrestler, two martial artists, a body builder, and… wait for it…. a Navy seal. We’re gonna go get her shit for her.
This should make for an interesting story.
So everyone who commented on this being like the avengers, you are absolutely right. That’s what all of us had in our heads as we were rolling over to dude’s house. But I’m very proud to say, this ended without violence.
Arrival:
So the super friends all jumped into one of the linebacker’s explorer and headed over to dude’s house. Ok the squad: you all know me, but the other martial artist is a little wirey hapkido guy, the linebackers are all giants (an estimated combined weight of I’d say 750-800lbs), the wrestler looks like an escaped gorilla, then the navy seal looks like your average guy but something about him is unsettling. Really unsettling. Unfortunately, the body builder had to work. Anyway, we send the Hapkido guy and the wrestler to the door first and dude answers, screams at them, and then slams the door in their face. Then the giant linebackers head over and they ring the door bell again. Lo and behold, he was much more polite, but still denied access. Finally, me and the seal join the fray. I casually make my way towards the front of the group, but the seal decides to CLIMB THE BANISTER. We all just turned and started at him completely shocked when dude answers the door. He looks at this weird mismatched group of relatively threatening individuals and one guy perched on his banister like batman. He was like “FINE. Go take what you’re looking for.”
Retrieval:
So we’re all walking through the house gathering what we think are her things and putting them into two boxes. Mind you. We are completely guessing. We didn’t even tell her we were coming, therefore we had no list of items.The only one really being productive was Hapkido, who was legitimately looking for stuff. The linebackers were just randomly picking up furniture, turning it over, and putting it back down. Just showing off how strong they were. In case the numbers game wasn’t enough, I guess they were letting him know they could break him if they wanted to. The seal was just shadowing dude in his own house. Walking behind him, not saying much, just being creepy. Then there’s me. Who was causing general mischief…. He said to take what I was looking for, that’s what I was looking for. Ahaha and the wrestler made a fricken sandwich. Because “you guys look like you have it under control, and I’m a sucker for egg salad.” We were in and out in 15 minutes.
Delivery:
So the autobots rolled out and headed towards homegirl’s spot. She was conveniently outside when we rolled up. We got out and she was like, how do you all even know each other. The truth is, we don’t. She sent us all an email once and didn’t blind copy us all. She vented to all of us about dude holding onto her stuff and we started emailing and that was that. We told her that we went to see her ex. “OMG what did you say to him?” Nothing. We’re not messenger boys. We’re delivery boys. And we gave her her boxes of stuff. She went through the first box and said that was most of her stuff. Then she got to my box and asked “Wtf is all that shit.” So I explained that I took all the batteries out of his remote controls, his deodorant, the light bulb out of his master closet, every pair of dress socks that I could find, the laces out of his running shoes, and all the toilet paper in the house. The guys just looked at me and kind of nodded like they were impressed. She then unexpectedly started CRYING and thanked us. So you have this group of meat heads all standing awkwardly with this weeping trainer. It was quiet for a second when the seal was like “So…. chipoltle?” And we all got burrito bowls.
found this obvious murder weapon way out in the desert so now i get to do one of those tiktok restoration videos but in jpeg yayyyy
got my cheapy vice sorta temporarily set up for this
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since i burned the shit out of my hand while lighting the forge, im gonna start with this knife today since i shouldn’t hammer with my burned hand. got the handle off and most of the rust sanded off
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its super funny to me that the handles have two holes, but the tang has three. im p sure that means either that this was handmade, or that its already been restored once. the middle hole is bigger tho so I’m thinking handmade by a beginner maybe? idk still totally sure it was involved in the commission of a crime cuz it was way out in the desert. we love to destroy evidence yay ^_^
found this 2x4 in the desert just now. if i can get a couple of clean slices it seems fitting to use desert found wood for the handle of the desert found cleaver
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i got scales for the handle cut and drilled and test fit and it all looks good :)
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next step is to epoxy and clamp the scales on there, but im gonna wait till after the wind dies down cuz its supposed to get bad today.
this way tho the epoxy will be drying overnight and in the morning rather than in the hottest part of the day where it might dry too fast and crack so that works out
bladesmith shibari
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now we wait about 72 hours
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not done yet but i gotta wait for the angle grinder battery to charge again so progress report. handle is grinding down nice. gonna have to slop some wood filler in where one of the pins cracked the wood a lil tho
i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because:
i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live
most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person
im not a pissbaby
my white friends that have reblogged this give me life
4. Sometimes I am a shitty white person and the jokes remind me to FUCKIN STOP
If ur white and like this post I fux with u
^absolutely
5. It’s hard to be offended when white people jokes involve bland food/tourist dads in socks and sandals/white girls in yoga pants obsessed with pumpkin spice/suburban PTA moms and other harmless and mostly true stereotypes while jokes about POC involve them being called thugs/criminals/slurs/uneducated/illegal immigrants.
i fucks with u heavy if ur white and you reblog this
(I’ve been meaning to make this post for a while now, so here’s my favorite studying software)
So I’ve been using Obsidian as a way to organize all my thoughts and notes, and it’s honestly like having a second brain at this point. It’s been super helpful in keeping track of what I’m learning and seeing how everything is connected.
My Setup
I’ve based my system on the Zettelkasten method, which is all about breaking ideas down into small, manageable notes that can link to each other. I learned about it from a super helpful YouTuber, morganeua. If you’re curious, definitely check out her videos!
I use tags to organize my notes, and for each class (or big topic), I have one main note that links to all the related notes. It makes it super easy to find things when I need them.
And the graph view? Amazing. It shows all my notes as little dots that connect to each other, so I can literally see how different ideas are linking up. And the more notes I add, the more connections I see—it’s like watching my brain map itself out in real time!
Seeing Connections
What I love about Obsidian is that it pushes me to connect topics or ideas I wouldn’t normally realize are related. Like, I’ve linked things from my physics classes to stuff I’m working on in philosophy or personal projects. It’s made me much more aware of what I’m learning and how it ties into everything else.
It’s easy to forget that knowledge doesn’t exist in its own little vacuum, but this process reminds me of that. Plus, it’s super satisfying when find those connections, it’s like a lightbulb going off in my head. I feel like I’m building this network of knowledge that keeps growing as I learn more.
Why It’s So Rewarding
There’s something really cool about seeing all your notes come together, especially when you didn’t expect them to. It makes learning feel more connected and meaningful. I’m not just writing things down and forgetting about them—it’s more like everything is part of this bigger picture. And that keeps me motivated to keep going.
(I would love to see other systems or software people use for their notes! Also, feel free to drop an ask about my obsidian, I could honestly go on forever)
Oh, I promise you, I’ve been using Obsidian daily for almost a year now, and I still feel like I’m only scratching the surface of what it can do. It’s replaced my word processor, pdf reader, DM notes, journal… I use it for practically any application.
And because I’m still wearing my ‘ask me about Obsidian.md’ shirt, let me show you a few! These are some of the ones I use for TTRPGs. I have a whole other set of procedures I use for personal and professional stuff (but I won’t show any of that, since it’s much more identifying)
Worldbuilding Notes
This is the big one. I like to worldbuild thoroughly for my D&D campaign (not because it’s necessary, but because I enjoy it). Obsidian lets me create templates for wiki-type pages for NPCs, towns, dungeons, and anything else. I have it set up so that, when I want to make a new guy, I can just press one button to go from a blank page
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to a questionnaire that I fill in:
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Which then immediately generates a page that looks like this:
Bam. That took 10 seconds. I can add an image (say… Fashion Santa) where the 'It is a Mystery Ghost’ is and fill in this Novel Guy’s profile and maybe toss in a statblock, and there you have it: Guy the Novel. The blue text denotes an active link, so you can just click on any of them to bring you to that page.
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2. Statblocks
As the post mentioned, Obsidian can be made to work as a statblock holder. This takes a lot more futzing around (I only just got it to work recently) but it’s pretty cool when it does.
Let’s say I’m planning an encounter. I’ve got my notes open, and I’m writing some stuff that might come up:
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But if I’m going to use these as my session notes, I better have some statblocks in here. A few clicks later:
Bam. Sea Hag stats. Editable Sea Hag stats.
I have statblocks in this vault from a number of different sources. The plugin comes with the 5e SRD monsters (you can disable them, of course) but I did not find it difficult to locate a github repository of more monsters made for Obsidian. Found a few in a few different systems, too. You can also make your own, though I won’t deny that the interface is a little clunky. But if I wanted too, I could take Myrtle the Hag here, save her as a new creature, and pull her up to torment other adventurers whenever I wanted.
3. Queries
Obsidian can do some really powerful stuff with the right plugins. Have you considered, for instance… a queriable database?
Let’s say I’m running a session. The party is in a location.
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They decide 'hey, let’s go talk to some other people outside the bar!’ Now, of course, I’m quite happy to improvise stuff like that. But what if, instead, I wanted to be really sure that everyone they see outside the bar is someone who should be in this city. Well, I can get Obsidian to do that for me. I type up a little query…
And hey presto, it’s every NPC who is currently marked with the correct location.
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Even our Novel Guy is there!
And that’s just scratching the surface of what this plugin can do. I have it set that every town automatically lists its inhabitants, every faction its members, every country its towns.
What else?
That map feature I think you were referring to in this ask? If you configure it right, it can
4. automatically measure distance
Let’s say I’m looking at my map:
And I want to know the distance between Comox and the Second Narrows Fort.
Well, there you go. This one was, admittedly, a pain in the ass to set up.
And, of course,
5. Refer to rules
Let’s say I’m running a dungeon. Here’s some dungeon flavour text:
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If I forget what the rules for 'Wall of Force’ are, well, the text is in blue. I have a note for every spell in the game (that I found in some probably illegal github repository, I didn’t type them all out myself) and all I need to do is mouse over it:
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In essence, this productivity tool turned out to be so useful for worldbuilders and TTRPG players that there’s now a huge community of plugin makers making plugins that do even more of that.
The one real downside here is that you can spend hours just playing around with this program. Even now, I have the urge to go in and muck about with the fonts, despite the fact that I really should be doing something else.
I should also note that, though I’m not a total neophyte when it comes to computers, I’m not a coder and I’m not a power user of any kind. I have no special skills. Everything I know about computers just comes from a youth spent trying to mod more mpreg into The Sims 2. The skill ceiling for this program is leagues above what I’m capable of, but I can still make something incredibly useful with just my limited capabilities.
Oh, and it’s free. It’s all free. I probably should have led with that. Consider this an advertisement.
i have opinions about how we fanfiction for the internet, and i don’t mean literary or aesthetic ones: i mean your experience of writing it!
this is just my markdown manifesto again:
there is no reason to tangle with google or microsoft for writing copy that will ultimately be rendered as HTML on ao3 and tumblr!! rich text editors are slow as hell on desktop and mobile, both in performance and how much time you waste formatting, which takes your hands from the keyboard whether physical or touchscreen. most users end up redoing that formatting entirely in their destination site’s embedded rich text editor and inevitably miss things anyway!! google docs and microsoft word and their ilk were made for printed documents no matter how much they try to mutate to stay relevant—i’m side-eying google’s “paste markdown” here, nevermind gemini and copilot!
commonmark markdown is quick and easy to learn. enable markdown on tumblr and all you have to do to is copy and paste (only on desktop, unfortunately). if you don’t bother with headers or dividers, the most you have to do afterwards is add a “read more” cut. ao3 is less perfect; you might have to ctrl+R formatting marks for the plain text editor and annoyingly add forward slashes to end tags, but there’s still explicit fidelity to the formatting you defined while writing that the clipboard cannot lose. yes, i know “paste with formatting” exists, but it’s not a problem for me because I live like this. in markdown, your writing isn’t tied to any website or service; it’s really yours.
hey if you’re the type of writer that’s like me where you tend to write specific scenes first that vaguely weave together into a plot, you might like using obsidian as a writing app.
my frustration with other writing applications is that i will write my scenes out of order and it’s hard to move things around and rearrange them on a regular document.
but with obsidian there’s this canvas feature where you can just write all your scenes and plot moments on these little cards that you can freely rearrange. you can color code them and connect them too.
here’s the canvas i’ve created for my current multi-chapter fic: (if you zoom in you can see all the text in each card this what it looks like zoomed out)
as you can see, i color code them based off chapters and will group them next to a document card with the working title of the chapter. anything not color-coded are scenes that don’t have a proper place quite yet or it’s just world building references. this app can also be good for note-taking and collecting research!
best of all, it’s FREE!!! the only downside is that if you want your stuff to sync across devices, you do have to pay for that. i constantly hop between my laptop and desktop so i pay for the syncing. but if you write on only one device it’s completely free! EDIT: some reblogs have mentioned that you can apparently link your own personal cloud storage (dropbox, gdrive, icloud, etc.) to obsidian for free! that way you can access your obsidian vaults across multiple devices without the extra fee. i don’t mind supporting the devs but just something to look into if costs is a concern.
i typically use it for organizing my thoughts for a first draft. once i get all the scenes arranged and mostly written out, i will copy and paste them into ellipsus (also free & highly recommended as a google doc alternative) so that they’re all in one document that i can edit.
Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet
She’s so one dimensionally evil you guys 😭😭 how is she real
read this and remember it. read this and remember that she is going to use the profits of her fucking ego-stroking reboot to decimate trans rights. read this and remember that every time you pay into her IP, you are emboldening her to hurt us more.
our lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.
trans lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.
And Cain says, “When you split me and my brother in the womb, you did not divide us evenly. He got kindness, and I got longing. He got complacence, and I got ambition. I want to kill him sometimes. I think sometimes he wants to die.”
HEY that’s MY emotional support morally ambiguous misunderstood full of trauma touch starved yearning for love drenched in blood responsible for numerous atrocities comfort character who is TRYING & u will TREAT them with RESPECT
