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This worm got Jurassic Park ambered into a chunk of fulgurite

Has a worm ever gotten struck by lightning

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Now, I know what made me wake up screaming for my parents as a child. Neat!

*From r/geometricnightmares: Geometric nightmares are "a specific type of dream, often occurring during illness, that involves shapes or objects, themes of infinity, pressure, an overwhelming sense of unease or terror and anxiety, a void and incomprehensibly large or small objects, and/or a crushing silence."

They're kinda hard to explain; check out the subreddit for some examples.

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I would love to read a book on the emerging consciousness of infants. How does it develop and how quickly?

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"A patina of thought, of signifiers, of "connections," now lies on everything the mind touches in its gnostic (noö)sphere, which physicists, biologists, and semioticians, no less than mystic theologians like Teilhard de Chardin explore."

For the first time, I see the academic use for the term noösphere outside of SCP articles

Ihab Hasan makes me feel stupid. He uses the big boy words and sometimes he's like "ok that words too big for even me, I'm going to put in brackets it's definition" At least he name drops entire paragraphs of references to go look at.

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"what Bakhtin calls novel or carnival-that is, antisystem-might stand for postmodernism itself, or at least for its ludic and subversive elements which promise renewal."

This quote is just for the paper I'm writing.

Ihab Hasan makes me feel stupid. He uses the big boy words and sometimes he's like "ok that words too big for even me, I'm going to put in brackets it's definition" At least he name drops entire paragraphs of references to go look at.

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"Losing itself in the play of language, in the differences from which reality is plurally made, the self impersonates its absence even as death stalks its games. It diffuses itself in depthless styles, refusing, eluding, interpretation."

This paragraph reads almost like poetry to me. This section is called Self-less-ness, Depth-less-ness. So that tracks

Ihab Hasan makes me feel stupid. He uses the big boy words and sometimes he's like "ok that words too big for even me, I'm going to put in brackets it's definition" At least he name drops entire paragraphs of references to go look at.

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"Hence, too, his recourse to paradox, paralogy, parabasis, paracriticism, the openness of brokenness, unjustified margins." He has a style, and that style is Synonyms.

Ihab Hasan makes me feel stupid. He uses the big boy words and sometimes he's like "ok that words too big for even me, I'm going to put in brackets it's definition" At least he name drops entire paragraphs of references to go look at.

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Ihab Hasan makes me feel stupid. He uses the big boy words and sometimes he's like "ok that words too big for even me, I'm going to put in brackets it's definition" At least he name drops entire paragraphs of references to go look at.

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OK so Massive spoilers for the first Mistborn book. Brandon Sanderson does this really well, I think. A lot if not all the lore we're given in the first book is called into question by the end of the book and this continues on into the second book. I've got a lot of examples down below but I must insist that these are massive spoilers they will taint your enjoyment of the book since it heavily relies on these misconceptions, misunderstandings and altered histories to drive the plot.

Seriously if you want to read Mistborn go do it and do not read further.

SPOILERS AHEAD!

They've got a class divide between the slaves called Skaa and the nobles. Most nobles are taught to believe the Skaa are lesser and stupid. This is such a widely held belief that even the main characters question if it's true and they are Skaa and have fooled other nobles into believing they aren't. But it's later revealed that it's not just the Skaa being a repressed, uneducated and generally beaten down people. The Ministry actually has emotion dampening stations scattered through the slums to keep them from having any passion or strong emotions.

The Lord Rulers is an immortal that can survive burnings, decapitations and you name it because he's a "sliver of god"? Nope just a combination of magic systems that make him appear that way.

The little paragraphs at the start of each chapter are from the Lord Rulers diary that the main cast steal at the mid point of the book? No! It's the Hero's diary and his packman killed him and took his place. Which is why they don't match up personality wise and not because becoming a part god changed him.

There are only 8 standard magic powers and the 2 timey wimey magics? No again there's a 9 and the 2 time ones are separate magics and not a pair so there's another 3 undiscovered ones out there. By the start of the 2nd book the main character is doing research into them because if people missed that many how many more could there be? There's a secret 11th magic that can kill the Lord Ruler? Nope, I think this one might be a broken telephone situation. "The 11th metal will reveal that the Lord Ruler killed the Hero" became "The 11th metal can kill him" because he was faking being the hero and wires got crossed but it is never confirmed in the books.

People using copper magic can't be detected as using magic? Nope turns out the inquisitors can still detect you. Which recontectualises the supposed betrayal the main suffered.

I would love to see a fantasy novel where the lore that the reader / protagonist learns at first is not true

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"There's a me in team" "That's true, it's backwards, but it's there"

Sounds this close to making a point about how focusing on the individual in a team is the wrong way of looking at it

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Do you think chickens ever look at pigeons walking around on the ground looking for food and think "wow small grey chicken friend" and then the pigeon just flies straight up into the air. The chickens must think that was some kind of chicken angel. That or be really jealous and want to peck them.

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I have a bad feeling at the though of ignoring the potat.

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I just need enough cash to finish my studies, man, please

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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Furby horror stories were not a form of entertainment I thought I needed

It's so fucking funny how many people who owned Furbies as children ended up being traumatized by them in some way

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Imagine you hear that late at night and you assume you have racoons living down there until you hear the unmistakable growl of a bear

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Where else would they be straight people have a hard time understanding them so they deserve a community that accepts them

I'M DOING AN EXPERIMENT

To prove something to a friend, please

REBLOG IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

LIKE IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS DON’T BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

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My dad taught me how to cook early on and I remember one day coming home to my mom's cooking and tasting the blandest salt and pepper water lamb stew in my short life. I pushed her out of the kitchen and said from now on I'll cook them dinner. And so it was until I graduated high school and the 6 years after while I lived with them.

I can confidently say I can cook and love doing it. I even make up my own recipes sometimes.

I'm curious. Reblog this if you know how to cook

I don’t even care if it’s macaroni, ramen or those little bowls you stick in the microwave. Please, I need reassurance that most of the population on tumblr WOULDN’T STARVE TO DEATH if their parents couldn’t fix them food or they couldn’t go out to eat.