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I feel deeply vindicated, since the only lucid memory I have of my own colonoscopy is looking over at the screen and saying "oh yeh, I've been in this level before."

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fabulous creature?

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Me: Exercise does not cause weight loss. This is a fact that has been demonstrated so robustly in research that even doctors, who hate and fear evidence, are grudgingly starting to admit this.

Someone reading that post: Cool, but have you considered that exercise leads to weight loss?

Me: I am going to eat you

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500-pound stained glass crab sculpture by the late Jackie Leatherbury Douglass and her husband John Frederick Douglass, on display in Baltimore's airport

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Folks will frequently be very chill about ghosts out east.

It's never anything bad; we call them tricks. This is their building, after all.— Kendra Smith

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The tragedy of my life is that I keep acquiring and displaying fetish art and having to be corrected by my friends.

Most recently, a friend came over my house and saw my computer background and went, "Wow, um, I didn't know you were into that." To which I look at the picture of the well drawn muscular female minotaur in historically accurate Greek clothing and I start geeking out about how I love the detail the artist did with the clothing and I point out the period appropriate folds and pins, how the artist even inserted the native plant that was used to dye the clothing this particular shade in the background, and even how the belt has technology AND historically accurate weaving patterns on it.

Then I start explaining how I love the muscular choices of the minotaur, that I was so impressed with the artist's anatomically correct depiction of the muscles converging into the neck. That many people get an upright cow's neck wrong because cow's don't have collarbones, so it can be very difficult to merge the upper arms and a chest of a human with a cow's body. I draw her attention to the beautiful way they've merged the pectoralis major so smoothly while also staying true to how muscular they've depicted the rest of the body.

I finish up with my thoughts on the artist's bold choice to depict the minotaur as a female, and despite the underlying themes of a minotaur being violence, child murder, strength, and muscles. I segue into how unlike bulls, cow are perceived as mothers. That they are the major source of milk in human culture, and that idyllic depictions of them in a field usually depict calves frolicking nearby, yet the minotaur kills and eats children.

I finish and there is a long pause.

"Urban, this is fetish art." and she takes me to the artist's twitter and god dammit it's fetish art, not a bold statement on cultural perceptions of women and violence throughout history. I have been tricked again.

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what if vampires are like mosquitoes and only the ladies drink blood

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why does oscar wilde take 150 pages to write something he could literally say in a paragraph

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i feel so completely directionless

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(Art by Danna Staaf)

How to make a cephalopod, part II. Internal anatomy. (Cartoony drawings with instructions)

Remove urogenital and digestive exit holes. (A human cephalopod with simplified systems in its body drawn in different colors. X's are next to the anus, urethral and genital openings)

Redirect exit tubes to nose. (The systems are partially rearranged, with arrows pointing to the nostril)

Breathe out to excrete, reproduce, and swim! (The creature looks happy and is giving a double thumbs up with the limbs attached to its lips. Internal systems are fully rearranged and an arrow points outward from the nostril)

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this is laurel, another minor npc from my tabletop campaign. i made her up on the spot & she wasn't supposed to have much signifigance, but the players ended up falling in love with her -> she became more relevant -> i also fell in love and made her into a doll. she's mostly inspired by cranes and secretary birds, and how fun it would be if they had little arms.