#shits wild yo

[cosmicallyavg]

where we're at with my fic rn

[phoenixonwheels]

AFAIK there’s no human to human transmission at this point. Which is good because the fatality rate for avian flu is over 50%.

For the moment the most likely scenario is this will affect the prices of dairy and eggs and maybe chicken and beef. I don’t know about you guys but the price of chicken has literally just come down recently here. I’m glad I have a big freezer because I’m stocking up.

It’s a lot easier to stock up on meat and chocolate (you are aware there’s a chocolate shortage right?) than it is to stock up on eggs and milk. I guess there are more creative cooking challenges in my future.

Of course if everyone was masking and filtering air properly for COVID this whole problem would be moot but apparently everyone’s just committed to eugenics now.

I’m so tired.

Authorities: Dairy cows catching bird flu is nothing to worry about. People won’t catch it.

One week later…

[ID: This is fine meme - A dog wearing a hat is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee. The entire room is on fire. The dog says “This is fine.”]

[just-more-trolls]

no mention of the whole killing-someone-by-telling-them-to-die thing? or the whole business with the owner. i think you might be a lil too free to give someone the benefit of the doubt, wyllow

"you...you know where this is..right? like what planet im on??"

"thats -tame- compared to what goes on in other parts of alternia.."

"it was a little shocking..at first..its kinda why i needed to leave..uh.."

"fight or flight..you understand.."

"besides its not like i have the whole story to judge yknow..shits wild especially on that side of town.."

[timeisacephalopod]

If American politics wants to be the funniest 2 weeks to a month before the election both Donald Trump and Joe biden would die of natural causes

[rafrfr]

What my friend nicknamed each LU boy:

(She never learned the fandom names nor has she picked up a Legend of Zelda game. I forced her to read LU because I wanted her to)

The friend in question: @theachskid

Warriors: Green, because of his tunic. I asked and she said "I saw green so I said green". I almost had a heart attack when she said that but he's Green I guess.

Time: Bluehead, because of the marks on his forehead. I don't...I don't know.

Four: Laurence. She thought Four was a girl lmao. When she first saw Four she asked if he was a girl and I just went "...yes😈" to see what would happen. She was so upset when she found out Four was not a girl because she loved lesbian Four x Dot. I regret nothing.

Twilight: Insert Name Here. I hate it. I hate saying it so much. It's too long but she said she couldn't think of anything else.

Wild: Bonbon. I can't explain it. It's so...what?? Why??? I never asked her and I don't want to know why she chose Bonbon

Sky: Shadow. This is where my second heart attack comes in. She said it was because he looked so emo. The Shadow. The (probably) main bad guy in LU? Shadow Link? Four Swords? I hate calling him Shadow when I talk to her about him for obvious reasons.

Hyrule: Mistake. I can't explain it. She says it's because he looks like a mistake (I'm so sorry Riri) and whenever she reads his lines it's always in the most flamboyant voice she can muster. I hate it but it's perfect.

Legend: Fortnite. This is because when we were deciding names, she was just naming stuff in her room and I said "No, choose something better" and she chose Fortnite. It's perfect.

Wind: Frederick. When she first saw Wind in the first chapter, she laughed and called him Frederick. Wind was the first one she named and was her favorite for a long time (Until she started simping for Twilight so bad. It's so bad)

[cobaltbluesu]

let em kids explode shit

from the things I'm posting it might look like it's a colored comic but. it's not, it's mostly bw shading but there's still some funky moments for coloring. Still, too long to color everything

[hballegro]

alan alda storytime

the full story from one of the screenshots of my previous post.

story begins with my archaeology professor showing a slide of alan alda in the early 2000s holding some mammoth bones and asks the class if anyone recognizes him. i had watched some MASH with my mother when i was little and had also seen the movie The Object of My Affection, so i raised my hand and said it was alan alda. he lit up and said yes, it was, and told the rest of the class he used to be on this old show, and that when we got more into the bioanthro side of things, remind him to 'tell his alan alda story'.

about 2 months later, we are in bioanthro, and i remind him. he gets excited and says he included slides to talk about it.

[rest under cut]

he tells us how he had just moved to a new city, and he had taken a university job in order to get insurance for his new family [which he didnt get but thats neither here or there]. he gets news that his job is going to be working with Scientific American Frontiers, hosted by the one and only Alan Alda. my prof was thrilled, he loves MASH, and while he specifically wouldnt be involved in the process [being a presenter, working with alan, etc] he was allowed to be around incase they needed help.

i dont know the specific episode, or if it can be found anywhere, but the topic was early man and tools, and how there were mammoth bones that specifically had cuts that could only be made with tools, not by teeth from an animal. they had finished filming for the day and just needed B-roll of some lions at the local zoo chewing some bones [part of the experiment], and alan got a call. he asked if he could head out now, because he needed to get back to his hotel now, and the call had been important. the producers said sure, go ahead, and alan asked if someone could give him a ride.

my professor, having the chance to actually spend time with someone he idolized, and being a stupid late 20s-something, volunteered immediately. stupid why? well, i said he'd just moved there. he didnt know where the hell anything was, and he didnt have GPS available to him, he was just really excited. so they get in the car and start driving.

as i said in my previous post, alan alda had about 20 minutes with this random guy, and found out pretty quickly that he was an archaeologist, and the amazing topic of conversation that he picked was the [then new] theory that we developed agriculture specifically to make booze, and that the rest of the stuff was more or less a biproduct. which is pretty on-brand honestly.

after a while, alan catches on to the fact that this guy clearly has no idea where the hell hes going, and that they've been driving in circles around the city for a while now. he [reportedly very politely] said that actually, this here was his stop, and thanked him for the ride. he then most likely called a taxi that actually knew where it was going, and got to his hotel.

turns out the call was about The Aviator! the call was important because he learned it was confirmed he in it and they needed him to get over there.

its not a glamourous story, but its the only story i got. my prof reported he was a funny guy, and despite slightly kidnapping the poor man for a while, he was the picture of kindness and personability. and clearly he likes telling the story and it left an impression, because he took time out of our already-short lecture to tell a class of 20-somethings that had no idea who Alan Alda was about it.

sorry this is so verbose i dont know how to be short lmao

[housederiva]

Im curious why you did not get into trouble by sharing pdfs? I assume youre what they say BNF... or is your cat really one hell of a charmer people instantly forgot there are pdfs in proximity?

Dear listener I haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about. I simply have shared a picture of my adorable spherical roommate Caduceus that just so happens to be in a folder with a few non-consequential files that have absolutely nothing to do with anything I post about that I have expressly asked people not to open and to ignore

[takami-takami]

Can I talk about how lucky and grateful I am that in the like, over a year I've been posting on this account I have only gotten like, one anon hate ask. Like genuinely you all have been absolutely NOTHING but sweet, kind, and supportive. Every ask and message is kind, and every tag I read is people having fun, and all the comments are you guys chatting with each other or sharing ideas or being kind, like. What the hell did I do to deserve such a warm and loving place on here. I love y'all, like genuinely.

[browneyesandhair]

Incorrect Bridgerton Quotes

Gregory: I almost became a man of the cloth, myself.

Lucy: *spit takes a cup of Lemonade*

Simon: It's true. He finished all the studying and was ready to be one.

Lucy: No fucking way.

Gregory: Yeah, unfortunately, it didn't fit my lifestyle.

Lucy: No fucking shit, Sherlock

[phoenixonwheels]

Also I am 0% inspired to buy books at this point. I mostly check ebooks out of the library but I do like to own my favorites so I’ve been buying a book or two a month. And now I find I can’t get into any of them except through the Kindle app. I pulled a book from Apple Books to see if that was better and had exactly the same problem. Anywho if authors aren’t selling their books in a digital format I can actually access outside a proprietary app, I guess won’t be buying books any more…

Years ago back when ebooks were a new thing I collected a bunch of ebooks that were being given away for free and then backed up my Kindle purchases. (Sci Fi fans should check out the Baen free Sci Fi library if you haven’t already.) While cleaning out my hard drive I came across those books so I pulled them all into Calibre to organize them. A neatly organized library of my digital books is a beautiful thing.

Once I finished I decided to download all of the books I’ve purchased from Amazon - something I last did a decade ago. And I was shocked to realize they’ve fucked with the DRM so badly that I can no longer get into my books in any way but through the Kindle app. As a person who’s been using computers for decades that sets off alllllll my red flags. File formats change, businesses come and go, and converting files from format to format is not a foolproof process. Sometimes they get corrupted. Sometimes they get deleted.

So now I’m left with about a hundred books that I paid good hard cash for and the only way I’m going to be able to meaningfully own them is to… pirate digital copies of the books I already paid for? So anyway if anyone knows good places to pirate books from HMU because I have a pile of books I need to find in a more accessible format.

[laurentlemonke]

I saw a psychologist a while ago who told me "yeah so you were so traumatized as a child your brain fragmented itself into multiple different states of consciousness" and I haven't been the same since.

[ho-ho-homosxual]

genuinely, bomb threat lockdowns go hard I missed the class I hate the most and played uno for three hours with my friends

(Me running out the room the moment the lockdown ended)

[softly-n-sweetly]

guys that say they like talking to you but then ain't interested when you don't wanna be sexual? yeah, those dudes are going straight to hell lmao like yikes

[walkingstackofbooks]

Anxiety is wild.

Someone I haven't interacted with overly much goes out of their way to say something really nice to me, and my brain goes "But what if they don't mean it".

Like, brain, no-one's going to say something like that without meaning it!

My brain: But they must find you annoying because you're you and therefore it's more likely that they hate you but they're just too nice to say it and also feel sorry for you so that's why they said that.

No, no that's not how it works at all. Come on, brain, we learnt about Occam's Razor in year twelve. Simplest explanation: they like the thing you did.

My brain: But that doesn't feel right.

Yeah, no shit it doesn't, because you're fucking anxious! But that doesn't mean everyone up-to-and-including people who are actively nice to you hates you! It just means you don't work properly, brain!

Typing this out has actually made me feel better than just having the argument on repeat in my head though so yay, thanks tumblr ;)

[flugame-mp3]

SEASON NINE FINALE WAS WILD. I HAVE MANY MANY THOUGHTS. WHAT JUST HAPPENED. A FUCKING ROLLER COASTER FOR SURE