ULTIMATE BASTARD

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

figured id make a pinned post

im c. my pronouns r whatevers in my bio rn. im a physics & math undergrad. big fan learning anything about anything 👍 also a big fan of speculative fiction, esp new weird + spatial horror.

i check my tumblr notifs very rarely, so sending me a dm via tumblr messages is a better way to contact me than @‘ing me or sending an ask

i post my art sometimes (under #my art)! but im mainly a non-fandom blog (with a bit of multi-fandom thrown in). this post is tagged w my main organizational tags. i dont rb stuff having to do with world events often, but when i do it’s tagged with “#current events”. don’t hesitate to ask me to tag stuff- i can’t promise i’ll always remember, but i’ll try :]

if i reblog something/from someone/say something fucked up let me know please

my main sideblogs are @starfall-sea (wizard101/pirate101), @transarchivist (podcasts), @zandalarii (video games/rpgs) & @sivella (aesthetic/inspiration)

thank you for reading, and have a good one <3!

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fair-lead

okay love this bit;

"[...] Jed also begins to notice how more than a few of his buttons have vanished. Strips of velcro have fallen off his parka, shoe laces have shredded forcing him to bind his boots together with duck tape. Amazingly enough, even his pack frame has "crumbled"-- the word Jed uses.
"It's kind of scary" Wax mutters in the middle of a long ramble. "Like you stop thinking about something and it vanishes. You forget you have pocket zippers and pow they're gone. Don't take nothing for granted here.""

i think thats a super creepy detail! i love it!

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some 25 pages later, truant says offhand after a panic attack, "And all the buttons on my corduroy coat are gone. I don’t know why.”

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okay love this bit;

“[…] Jed also begins to notice how more than a few of his buttons have vanished. Strips of velcro have fallen off his parka, shoe laces have shredded forcing him to bind his boots together with duck tape. Amazingly enough, even his pack frame has "crumbled”– the word Jed uses.
“It’s kind of scary” Wax mutters in the middle of a long ramble. “Like you stop thinking about something and it vanishes. You forget you have pocket zippers and pow they’re gone. Don’t take nothing for granted here.”“

i think thats a super creepy detail! i love it!

cae speaks its on page 126 btw

i think its interesting that on page 124 danielewski uses the word “abort” and then analyzes said word (and implies in universe analysis) but doesn’t (refuses to? or does it not occur?) mention the rather blaring conceptual link to “abortion” – cutting myself off here. the temptation to pontificate random ass bullshit is tempting though

perhaps it stems from when the book was written? i dont know if abortion was such a hot topic in 2000 anyways the bullshit would be some analysis of holloway as a character tied to conventional masculinity etc etc maybe drawing comparison to the more general way the book treats and talks about women cae speaks
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beesmygod

new thing i learned just now: in like 400 AD there was a monk named simeon stylites who used to live in a one room cell with a window but too many people kept bugging him for religious advice, so he climbed to the top of a pillar and shackled himself to it until he died 37 years later.

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this became a cool new trend to the point where there were enough pillar monks of varying viewpoints that they would scream at each other all day

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war flashbacks to this is an example of a priest on a pillar sketchup diagram
onenicebugperday

apho-sappho asked:

Hi!! I'm trying to get over my overwhelming fear of crane flies, is there any way you could supply some fun facts about them? Specifically pedicia albivitta but there's so many species and not a lot of information I can find about them

onenicebugperday answered:

Well for starters all crane flies are entirely harmless. They don’t have mouthparts capable of biting and can’t sting or pinch or anything. If they fly at you it’s because they don’t see you or register you as something to avoid, not because they’re attacking or have any reason to land on you.

Despite common belief and sometimes being referred to as mosquito hawks or skeeter eaters, they do not eat mosquitoes, and are in fact incapable of eating them because they don’t have the right mouthparts.

Most adults don’t eat at all, but if they do, they eat nectar, pollen, or sap, or just drink water. They really only live long enough as adults to breed (1-2 weeks), so there’s not much need to feed.

Some aquatic crane fly larvae are thought to eat mosquito larvae, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a reliable source on that. Larvae can be either aquatic, semiaquatic, or terrestrial and what they eat depends on their environment, but mostly I’ve seen that they’re detrivores, so they help with soil health like other decomposers. They’re also a big source of food for other animals like predatory insects, spiders, frogs, fish, and birds. Probably bats, too, I imagine. So they do play an important role in ecosystems!

Also they can be really beautiful! Some of them even mimic wasps with pretty black and yellow stripes. I’ll show you my fav species, though, the eastern phantom crane fly:

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What a beauty! Look at those stripey socks. Adorable.

Also they sometimes hang from foliage in the cutest way:

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Lol. Silly.

Photos by ianmanning and germain_savard

OH MY GOD?! THAT SECOND PHOTO?!!??!???!??? insects creatures