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spin this wheel of fanfic tags. this will be the theme of your day tomorrow.

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Spin this wheel of ~300 AO3 tags three times.

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spin the wheel for a genre!

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Holy shit this is so cool.

Okay, so.

A meteorite landed in eastern Canada. It landed in somebody's front yard. It landed on somebody's front porch. And it was picked up by their doorbell camera.

It constitutes the first time humanity has ever gotten an audio recording of a meteorite striking Earth.

It's like a very rattly gunshot. You can kind of hear how rough and granular it is. The landing surface helped, I'm sure.

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Ok, so you've been isekai'd to the dnd world and may or may not die due to the class you've been assigned. Better question. Are you human? (spinner wheel of all dnd5e species)

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can someone recommend some beginner normal behaviors for someone looking to become normal

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You can only eat 2 foods for the next 2 years (with no health repercussions)

Spin this wheel twice to figure out what they are!

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If public nudity was considered normal and not an issue (legally or otherwise,) would you go outside naked a lot?

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I don't know if there's anything more homoerotic than going to the aquarium

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at some point you have to realize that you actually have to read to understand the nuance of anything. we as a society are obsessed with summarization, likely as a result of the speed demanded by capital. from headlines to social media (twitter being especially egregious with the character limit), people take in fragments of knowledge and run with them, twisting their meaning into a kaleidoscope that dilutes the message into nothing. yes, brevity is good, but sometimes the message, even when communicated with utmost brevity, requires a 300 page book. sorry.

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I just found the funniest font ever

Like. What is this. Why is this. Who is the target audience of this?

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I need your help with a hypothesis!

For context: My linguistics professor and I got into a discussion after a test she did with us, and I was of the opinion that the reason for the results was different from the one she offered, so she encouraged me to test my theory.

What I need

All you need to do is draw a coffee cup (with a handle, not the disposable stuff) and then answer three questions.

I don't need to see the coffee cup. You can draw it wherever you like; on a piece of paper, digitally, in the sand, on a foggy window. Anything works. It does not have to be good. A doodle is fine.

You have to draw the coffee cup before you see the questions. This is very important. If you decide to help me with this, please doodle the coffee cup before you keep reading.

Assuming you have drawn the coffee cup, I now need you to answer these three questions:

On which side did you draw the handle?

Are you right-handed or left-handed?

Do you primarily write using the Latin alphabet or a different one? (please specify which)

More context

Most people will draw the handle on the right side. My professor says it's because most people are right-handed, so they draw the handle in the direction that would be comfortable for them to pick up.

I said drawing it on the right side just felt more comfortable to my hand and argued it's probably because we write a bunch of letters like that. B, b, D, P, p, R all look like a tiny "handle on the right side" and are all a straight line followed by a round one (so "cup first, handle second," like most people draw cups). The Latin alphabet doesn't have letters like that that face the other way, except maybe d, depending on how you write it, so it makes sense to me that people writing mostly Latin letters would go with the handle on the right side.

Which means that I need to know what Asians, Arabs and Greeks do and if the distribution of left and right sides of handles differs from the Latin alphabet group. Cyrillic seems to favor right, too, though it'd be interesting to see if there are differences.

If there are, my theory is right. Doubly so if there is a sizeable increase in a group whose alphabet has letters that benefit the left side choice.

So feel free to spread this to as many people as you like and put the answers in the comments or the tags of a reblog. The more answers I get, the better I can assess whose theory is better.

Thank you for your help!

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reblog to give a random trans woman a biiig ol bowl of pasta

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we need to go back to eating spaghetti the traditional way. no more of this fork and spoon nonsense

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The Entirety of Tumblr from Tumblr has been Chucked in to the ocean! You're all wet now.

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Church steeple struck by lightning in Baltimore, MD on the morning of March 28th

Photo by Barbara Haddock Taylor of The Baltimore Sun