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i don’t know why but i’m really amused by the winner of some ‘new kanji’ contest:

compare with the real kanji

座 (seat/gathering), but the two 人 (person) radicals have been moved from next to each other within the 土 (earth) radical to diagonally from each other, making this “social distance(d seating/gathering)”

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i don’t know why but i’m really amused by the winner of some ‘new kanji’ contest:

compare with the real kanji

座 (seat/gathering), but the two 人 (person) radicals have been moved from next to each other within the 土 (earth) radical to diagonally from each other, making this “social distance(d seating/gathering)”

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OOK.

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my favorite thing in the world is how every single human culture, together or independently, created its own version of Pancake. everyone took one look at frying pans and were like “holy shit i have the BEST idea”

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It is true, most species in the galaxy found us to be uncivilized. But they lived for millennia under the thumb of an empire that basically bred them for domestication. They fear us like wolves, we pity them like pugs.

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Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House was published sixty years ago today. The novel begins with one of the best openings I have ever read:

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”

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“Microbes don’t have this sort of complex visual processing, but many still need to know where the light around them–whether that’s to seek out food or avoid hidden dangers. They may not see things the way we do, but the mechanisms they have in place allow them to respond to light in extraordinary ways to meed the most ordinary of needs.”

Journey to the Microcosmos- Can Microbes See Without Eyes?

Images Originally Captured by Jam’s Germs

Ostracod 200x, Oscillatoria 630x, Planaria 200x, Stentor coeruleus 200x, Philodina 630x, Euglenaria 630x

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Nine things about you

1. You have worth as a being in this world.

2. Your best is good enough.

3. Last Christmas you gave me your heart.

4. It took time and therapy but I have come to terms with the incident now and realise that your intentions were good and that blame if any lies with the inventor of the serum.

5. Anyway I recognise that it matters to you but from my point of view what I did with it next is of no consequence to my most immediate problem, which relates to your current zombie status.

6. Seriously you cannot put those things back in after they’ve been out for a bit.

7. Also that heart you are saving for someone special is totally not yours, I might go so far as to say it was stolen, also you have another two in your pocket.

8. Anyhow I know you’re not taking requests but this Christmas it would really make life easier for me if you gave me your brain? I realise as a zombie that your gift pool is small and you are probably not welcome in shops, so I thought it might make life easier. If I’m still on your gift list.

9. Just to warn you: I *will* know if it’s a re-gifted brain.

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snowy cradle

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i took an art prompt in honor of 1000 followers recently. enjoy your hydrothermal vent content!

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the time travel agency seamstress (that one Tumblr post)

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I had a dream I was able to time travel and I went like 10,20,100,1000,2000 years into the future but the instant I went to 4,000 I got stuck in a time dilation jail set up by the American government in the year 3,877 in which anyone that tried to time travel back or forth across May 23, 3877 while on Earth would end up stuck in this time dilation chamber trap to stop time travelers but like it was so crazy and mismanaged because it was legit capturing like every single time traveler ever and the place had only been open for 12 minutes and was already getting overpopulated with nonstop multiple recursive instances of this one other guy trying to break previous versions of himself out of this god damn time traveler jail

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