expfcultragreen:

sacred-portal:

uncleasriel:

radicos:

So apparently another whole ass animated scooby doo movie was canceled, this time featuring Krypto the Superdog, but it leaked onto 4chan and was uploaded onto the internet archive

And you didn’t even mention the name of it, let alone link to it? Scooby Doo and Krypto, too! For shame!

booksandchainmail:

undercovercottonswab:

2-point-5:

ballroomnotoriety:

littledeconstruction:

2-point-5:

yesterday i was talking to a Guy and i asked what time it was and he git really excited and said “time for you to get aaaaa…. SUNDIAL!!” and then started talking about sundials and sounding like a fucking commercial and i pointed out that sundials have to be in one specific spot to work and he got all nervous and asked if i’ve tried a sextant. what the fuck

not to sound like Sundial Salesman Guy but … he’s lowkey right, if you’re in a place with a fair amount of sunlight. two weeks ago i was hanging out with a little kid when she wondered aloud what time it was. i looked at the sun, adjusted my body a bit, put my elbow on the ground with the arm up perpendicular, and told her “it’s about 12:45.”

then she had to get a watch to see if i was right (pretty much — it was 12:50), and then i found myself explaining cardinal directions and sundials to a preschooler

ANYWAY MY POINT IS that no, sundials don’t require a fixed place for efficiency, only enough sun to cast a shadow & awareness of your relative direction, and knowing this is great but going on about it makes you sound horny for ancient Rome

if you don’t know how to make a sundial but need a guesstimate on how much daylight is left, hold your hand out at arm’s length horizontally and count how many fingers fit between the sun and the horizon. it’s about 15 minutes a finger.

literally all you people sound insane to me

#this whole post reminds me of the first day of geologic mapping; first class and we’re all out in the woods looking at an outcrop#and the professor goes “okay! now tell me which way north is” to get everybody oriented with their map#and everybody starts milling around poking each other staring at blankly at the tress etc. but i’m like ‘oh! i know how to solve this’#so i look at my watch and then the sun and then point (fairly accurately) north#and the professor looks at me with a bewildered expression and says “you all have compasses”#i have never been so embarrassed to have the right answer (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse​)

mosticonicposts:

officialcrow:

sonypraystation:

robcanvas:

sonypraystation:

holy shit can we be thankful that there are only like, 2 types of phone chargers nowadays? if youre phone died in 2007 you were fuck outta luck

this shit had to be a fuckin fire hazard or something i swear to goddd

they beat jesus with that

certified iconic post

kirbyofthestars:

kirbyofthestars:

if miles was a white boy more people would acknowledge him as the autistic icon he is

YES EXACTLY he’s so bubbly and outgoing but also so fucking bad at unscripted social interaction and it shows

teaboot:

teaboot:

I love all animals so much but I can’t lie there’s a special place in my heart for the Golden Mole

ALT

Look at him.

He has no eyes. His face is an ear. He’s iridescent. What can’t he do

platonic opposite to the biblically accurate angel

majestictortoise:

majestictortoise:

outsiders and boring normal people and fandom newbies always think that buckwild kinky porn fanfiction is the strangest fandom hobby but they are wrong.

the strangest fandom hobby is plotty fanfiction, the kind that requires research, because engaging in this hobby makes no goddamned sense.

it doesn’t even give anybody masturbation material, which is at least a logical and admirable goal that contributes to the betterment of society, or at least society’s solitary orgasms.

in other news i hope the cia spyware monitoring my internet usage understands that i’m googling information about smuggling drugs in thailand because i want the details to be right in a single paragraph in a 10,000 word story about a gay mafia guys.

this post has been making the rounds again and i just want to state for the record that it is a fucking delight to read in the tags all the random things people research for their fanfic and art. fandom, i love you. i love you with your flood maps and medical procedures and tentacle biology and historical fashion and traditional handcrafts and conlangs and urban geography and literally everything else. i am completely sincere about this. the enthusiasm with which people embrace detailed, deep, and often obscure research, just because they want to get it right, because they want to create something rich and interesting, it makes me feel better about the world. i adore it.

mostly-funnytwittertweets:

ao3loveisstrong:

darkheart-darlings:

🔹 You are allowed to write fiction in whatever style you want.

🔹 Your fiction writing does not have to conform to academic writing standards.

🔹 You are allowed to repeat words.

🔹 You are allowed to use dialects, incomplete phrases, slang etc, in dialogue or in the body of your prose.

🔹 You are allowed to have idiosyncratic phrasing.

🔹 You are allowed to be verbose.

🔹 You are allowed to be concise. 

🔹 You are damned well allowed to fucking swear, I shit you not.

🔹 You are allowed to use said tags liberally or to omit them as much as possible.

🔹 You are allowed to use adverbs liberally or to omit them as much as possible.

🔹 You are allowed to make mince-meat out of grammar rules for effect.

🔹 Your fiction is not bound or to be judged by academic writing standards.

🔹 You are allowed to write fiction any way you want, even if it is not ‘correct’ in terms of writing rules.

🔹 There are no absolute rules for writing fiction.

I am sharing this for my friends who are disheartened by unnecessary criticism. Fanfics are not school assignments to be graded by your teachers. Styles vary by region. What looks odd to an American may be perfectly fine for Australia.

Every style has an audience.