#are like. feasible for me

[daddy-socrates]

bummer that i got laid off last week but absolute W for me working on getting my health insurance ironed out, dedicating time to reading two new books for the thesis, scheduling regular meetings w my committee members, being able to go to the university library to focus on this stupid project, following up on job applications i had started sending out mid-december anyway, exercising more regularly again, participating in activities closer to my human values (im volunteering at this food bank every thursday until i get a regular job again, calling my representatives' offices directly in addition to my regular emails, etc), SEEING THE SUN ONCE IN A WHILE???????????????????, and taking steps toward medical transition

[botanyshitposts]

there’s an agronomy professor at my work who can take a common crop seed, let it soak in chemicals that dye living parts of the seed shades of red, and then can cut it open and tell you WHY it’s rotting instead of germinating AND can give an approximation of what stage of the growing/harvesting process might have gone wrong to kill it and honestly I’m just struck by how much of an incredibly powerful niche skillset this is. just incredibly valuable in any context, not just in dystopian monoculture corn reality where well-bred/treated/engineered crop seeds are incredibly expensive commodities to be bought and sold but also like, for most of human history? like is this not something kings and emperors and civilizations through human history would put you on courts and councils for. person who can tell you why the crops aren’t growing. remarkable

[reineydraws]

so there's this post that talks about how people call jason's curved knife a kris but it's not a kris 'cuz why would he have a southeast asian knife? and op's tags say if you're gonna give him an 'exotic' weapon at least make him malay or something. a later reblog adds a filipino kris as an example, and then i was like, 'omg, jason in a barong tho.' SO i tried designing a bat-barong inspired by his hood logo, for a filipino jason haha. and now here we are! 😊✨️🇵🇭

[canisalbus]

Hi!! I don't know if anyone has drawn this before (sorry if they have!! I couldn't find any evidence of it) but I have recently been plagued with the question of "what if Machete and Vasco were in Bluey?"

Well. Now we know.

To my knowledge, the only Bluey dogs who wear clothes are the ones in uniforms. TECHNICALLY Machete's outfit could count, but I left it out because it's not typical of a main character. He must be naked 😔

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[foldingfittedsheets]

Todays the day. I need to get a job, even if that jobs not in the gaming industry. So I’m heading to the library to print up a resume and apply at a little local chain of mattress stores.

The guy instantly liked me when I went in to do a secret shop for a competing store and offered to hire me on the spot so I figure if I can chat with him he’ll still like me enough to consider me.

[aroaceleovaldez]

HoO is so funny to me when you actually think about the ages of all the characters. Octavian is 18. Percy and Annabeth are 16, almost 17. Reyna is presumably 16. Frank just turned 16, Jason’s about to turn 16. Leo and Piper are like 15. Hazel’s like 14 and a half, and Nico is 13.

The Death Sibs are both the youngest and oldest on the Argo II. Octavian is a college freshman getting into petty drama with a bunch of high schoolers. He gets told to shut up at one point by a random 8th grader. Everyone is scared of the 8th grader. We Sent A 13 Year Old To Superhell and he came back weirder, Just Like Middle School. TLH was just three high school sophomores being sent to do a task and it going Exactly Like You’d Expect. Percy’s the only demigod on the ship who can legally drive (though Reyna gets her drivers license at some point before TOA). What Is Happening.

[violetscanfly]

Dug up my ink bottle for a change and ended up drawing a goth babygirl

[chloecherrysip]

I don't know where I'm from. My earliest memory is arriving. I was so lucky they found me! They took me in, raised me like one of their own, and when I was ready, they made me their princess.

[parasolemn]

[Image description: Harry du Bois, holding the bottle of medicinal spirit, looking at it with an inquisitive eyebrow raised. Logic is lecturing him: "If you drink this, then you will die. That's a fact. And that's why we're going to save you from yourself and store this as a SELLABLE item. Go sell it at the pawnshop for a profit." End ID.]

sooo I accidentally made a full list of quotes slash scenes I would want to do if I participated in skilltober. i Promise at least a few of them aren't shitposts. let's see how long it takes me to get overwhelmed by everything 😏

i'll also compile other times i've drawn the skills. there is a 90% chance most of them will have like zero but it's ok. I forgive myself.

[uncanny-tranny]

Me as a kid (would later realize I'm Very Aro): why would you SHARE a bedroom with somebody, even IF you're married. :/ What if the other person snores? What if they don't have the same décor skills as me? What if they (also) hog the duvet ://

[serpentface]

What happened to all the apes if I may ask?

Nothing particularly special. Part of the conceit of this setting is it has a very similar evolutionary history to irl earth but certain things are Different (in a way that has at least SOME internal logic but is mostly so I can be like "wouldn't it be fun if [xyz] animal was Alive/in a different niche").

Part of the deal is that the contemporary setting is on a tail end of several extinction events, resulting primarily from the spreading of sophonts, a warming climate (over a longer scale than anthropogenic climate change but a short time, geologically speaking) and a recent (geologically speaking) merger of continents, resulting in an interchange of fauna and mass extinction as animals in similar niches outcompete each other.

So in the case of primates, it's basically a reversal of irl earth where lemurs massively diversified and dominate the majority of monkey-like niches, and actual monkeys are confined to geographically isolated locations (only coexisting with lemuroids in some semiaquatic otterlike niches). Humans and most great apes speciated in parts of this world that have experienced complete desertification, some of which are now severe enough to be basically uninhabitable by large animals.

Human adaptability allowed a wide spread and survival to the contemporary, though they are actually among the Least numerous and widespread sophonts. Most other great apes slowly died out from habitat loss due to climate change, and those who spread to wider ranges and new habitats were largely lost due to intercontinental fauna exchange. The last nonhuman great apes likely died out between 15,000-1,000 years BP and are only present in cultural memory

Other major changes off the top of my head:

-Cetaceans do not exist, their niches have been mostly filled by marine reptiles

-Pinnipeds don't exist, their niches have been filled by (very similar) caniforms and also some pterosauroids

-The domestication of dogs occurred much earlier and there is a much greater spread of 'wild' dogs, which have effectively replaced all true wolves.

-Pterosauroids survived very close to the present day, but were outcompeted by birds in most small niches, and megafaunal pterosaurs died largely as a result of climate change and continental interchange. (The only exception being flightless aquatic niches, where they functionally replace penguins, and caelin and delkhin)

-Anatomically modern horses do not exist, with the horse family existing primarily as small three toed grazers and browsers.

-Big cats used to exist, but have largely been outcompeted by other feliforms (also called cats in this setting, just to make things confusing) after the continental interchange

-camelids are more widespread and most successful in temperate-polar regions (which they used to exist in irl)

-a lot of other misc families of animals that are extinct irl survived to the present here, mostly stuff from the pleistocene but some purely bullshit choices on my part, like ceratopsians

[pebblezone]

“Master always says just ‘evening’ instead of ‘good evening’ because if it were a good evening, we’d be fishing!”

[3416]

i for one am shocked that the leafs organization, who was coach-less until last friday, would not be actively working on their roster and talking about trading star players while the playoffs of the previous season are STILL going on.

[giddlygoat]

hater has disturbing reoccurring dreams about wander crawling inside his ribcage that always have him waking up in a cold sweat [they just feel too real and hater can’t place why]. wander has reoccurring dreams of hater ceremoniously destroying him with the Disaster Blaster and it’s the one dream he doesn’t eagerly blab to sylvia about because he doesn’t know how to tell her that it never feels like a nightmare. soooo is anyone else sick in the head or is it just me

[luridparty]

hi tumblr👋👋 bye tumbrl👋👋

^^^^^ original image

[foldingfittedsheets]

I’m so frustrated this morning. I’m trying to do all my name change stuff, I got up early and got cute to get a new license, then went to the bank to change it there.

While there I saw a list of name change stuff and realized my cars registration needs to be changed to the new name but they didn’t ask at the DMV. So now I’ll need to go back and deal with another wait and another fee.