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Man I haven't touched tumblr in years... Sometimes I wish though that I still had these friends. Good listeners, no judgement, and completely disconnected from my personal drama.. I need to vent man but not in public

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"A righteous victory always carries a high and mighty cost."

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Gotta draw Oscar too!

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Phenomenal news. Just what the people ordered.

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Lou Feck

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Can I please see your balls I'm going through a lot right now

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i know we’d prefer threshold have no relevance to voyager canon outside of the jokes but there should’ve been a follow up episode where tom paris becomes a weresalamander and it’s a really clunky metaphor for being gay

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reconsuming the source material before writing fic to pickle your brain in the characters' voices

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Your daily dose of cat memes

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weird little girls are born with divine innate knowledge about the universe

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its "think of the children" and "let kids be kids" but they won't even let a 9 year old pretend to be a cat without causing a moral panic. they won't let little girls wear anything that might show their fucking shoulders in school and teach them that their bodies are inherently sexual and they should be ashamed of it. they won't even let a five year old boy cry without making fun of him for it. nor will they condemn it if an adult woman pursues a teenage boy, so long as it's straight. "protect children" my ass.

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These are messy wips but im posting them now because I never finish art, and if I don't upload unfinished work then there's a high probability I will never upload anything at all. Really pleased with the eyes in the first one. :]

Started these based on 7x16 'Thine Own Self' I am planning to draw more muscle/skeletal and make like. A gif of the layers.

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it doesn’t take a lot to be one of the biggest female character enjoyers in the dc fandom bc all you have to do is be a fan of more than one and you’re already doing better than 99% of the fandom

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I feel like if humans swallowed rocks like birds do to help grind up food we'd have so much fun with it.

Can just imagine all the girlies on tiktok going "I know this is a bit controversial but I honestly love using limestone as a gastrolith. Not only can you readily forage it but they are just so pretty when smoothed out after regurgitating them"

and then all the comments would be like " girl 😭 😭 calcite dissolves in stomach acid!! Just use quartz if you want a pretty gastrolith like 💀"

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SHIPping Discourse

Limiting the poll to hero ships. Sorry if I didn't include your favorite!

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You probably know that humans can experience “phantom limbs,” but did you know that the limbs of an octopus can have a “phantom body”? If you cut off an octopus’ tentacle, it will try to feed a mouth that is no longer there. A severed octopus tentacle also curls up when it’s exposed to negative stimuli like acid. Essentially, if an octopus dies and its tentacle is cut off, the tentacle can outlive the original animal by a whole hour. 

Octopi have as many as 130 million neurons, but the vast majority are located in their limbs, not their brains. Their mind is “distributed.” That is fundamentally unlike the human mind. We have muscle memory, but our arms can’t move completely independently of our brains.

What does this mean for octopus consciousness? Well… we don’t know. There’s no way to observe or deduce via experiment what it’s like to be a particular animal. We can see how they behave, but we won’t ever see the world through their eyes. Science can study what is outside, but not what’s inside. So, animal consciousness isn’t really the domain of science. 

As is always the case, philosophers have attempted to do what scientists cannot. The philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith has a really great way of explaining what’s at stake: “Octopuses let us ask which features of our minds can we expect to be universal whenever intelligence arises in the universe, and which are unique to us.”  There’s a decent chance you’ve seen a popular Tumblr post about Umwelt Theory—the idea that animals have access to senses that we do not. Smells too refined for our noses, pitches too high for our ears, colors outside the range of our eyes. But the inner worlds of animals might be even stranger than that. The postmortem movement of octopus limbs suggests that some animal minds might be fundamentally different from ours. Simply put, it’s not just that some animals have access to sensations that we will never feel. They might have access to types of thoughts that we will never be able to think.