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gimmick accounts are so fundamental to The Tumblr Experience

when i first got on i was like "why r there so many gimmink reblogs?? they're so random and annoying"

but now i see the light of day and theres a fishgiver! and a girl detector! and an alphabet counter! and a you-did-your-best-er! and Elvis Presly in a bunch of different flavors!

amd you're all goofing and gaffing and i want you to know that every time i see you my Whimsy O' Meter refills like a video game health bar

i larb you gimmick blogs <3

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From Tim's perspective, the worst thing about everything is that he doesn't have any real allies in his corner. While he's drowning in his rage, Elias is trying to hold him under, Martin is in a lifeboat, and Jon is drowning with him, but pulling away every time Tim tries to reach out for his hand. There is no one coming to save him and knows it.

Then Tim's put in a situation where, even if someone would dive in with him and offer to help pull him out, he couldn't trust the hand that reached for him anymore than a sailor could trust a siren.

He knows that he can't take anyone at face value now, and he goes from longing for a connection and starting constant confrontation because he's not getting one, to avoiding everyone with the tunnels because even if he got that connection, he couldn't trust it.

Tim Stoker is just such a sad character and seeing this two paragraph's side by side with each other gave me psychological damage so I decided to make it everyone's problem.

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she yearns for the tub water. disgusting.

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pacific rim fucks severely for a lot of reasons but my favorite is that it opens with "the lizard aliens are unionizing so we built robots running on the power of love to fight them you got all that right" and before you have time to really process that concept bam gunshot body on the floor and the movie goes "now consider the vast power of grief in this setup" it never really stops considering

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Illustration by Sophie Lucido Johnson

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I'm curious Mr Leech, what animal do you consider to be the WEIRDEST?

idk I guess the seahorse? from what I've read at least.

The seahorse has arguably the weirdest physical shape of a vertebrate, but just shape alone isn't the only way an animal can be weird, and I think maybe the weirdest animals are myxozoa??

The pustules on this fish are full of an organism similar in composition to a slime mold, a parasitic infection we considered a type of "protozoan" for generations

But myxozoa begin as a drifting spore, which ranges from a simple ball to these "anchor like" objects and even cube-shaped frames like in the top right here. These spores inject the slime stage into fish through a harpoon-like cell identical to the stingers of Cnidarians, like jellyfish, corals, anemones and man o' war. So eventually it was suspected that this wasn't just convergent evolution, and once we could genetically sequence living things, it was proven that this parasitic saltwater "slime mold" was an cnidarian after all, a jellyfish relative that reduced itself to nothing but bare cells. But it still gets weirder, because there also existed these weird "parasitic worms," Buddenbrockia, that ALSO came out of a spore stage, and also had stinging cells.

Finally it was proven that this isn't just another weird jellyfish relative, but specifically a species of Myxozoa. This isn't just slime anymore; it has multiple tissue layers and even muscle. So this is a sea creature skin disease, but it's also an animal that dissolved into a single celled form and then re-evolved a different multicellular animal body from scratch.

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I’ve been watching Good Omens for ’ll of about ten minutes and I have to say, I do like the poetry between hell’s most angelic demon and heaven’s most demonic angel coexisting

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*puts a disk in u*

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Fun fact of the day

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thinking about him (hamid saleh haroun al tahan)....

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Happy World Oceans Day! Reblog to be crushed by the unimaginable weight of the Mariana Trench!

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Its obvious to me when people who post about canaries in mines have never met a canary. Like yeah the miners had a special device to revive the canary because canaries are one of the most adorable creatures on the planet and they make adorable little chirping sounds and honestly probably loved the sounds of machinery and people talking so it was probably loud and friendly with the workers. Whatever though maybe meet a canary sometime and youd understand

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you ever think about the dissonance between how Tim's perceived vs how he sees himself. he's the hot one but the girl he's actually interested in doesn't like him that way. he's supposed to be cool and confident but he sees himself as less than his little brother in every respect. he acts chill and laid back but he's so close to snapping -- he's quick to anger, after the prentiss attack, he breaks. he has this persona he's trying to embody, that doesn't really match up with his actual self.

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can confirm! have told the story before but narcosis is such a fascinating depth- I get it at depths over 120 or so, and it’s remarkably similar to the feeling of being drunk

I know people on tumblr looove stories of underwater cave diving, but I haven't seen anyone talk about nitrogen narcosis aka "raptures of the deep"

basically when you want to get your advanced scuba certification (allowing you to go more than 60 feet deep) you have to undergo a very specific test: your instructor takes you down past the 60+ foot threshold, and she brings a little underwater white board with her.

she writes a very basic math problem on that board. 6 + 15. she shows it to you, and you have to solve it.

if you can solve it, you're good. that is the hardest part of the test.

because here's what happens: there is a subset of people, and we have no real idea why this happens only to them, who lose their minds at depth. they're not dying, they're not running out of oxygen, they just completely lose their sense of identity when deep in the sea.

a woman on a dive my instructor led once vanished during the course of the excursion. they were diving near this dropoff point, beyond which the depth exceeded 60 feet and he'd told them not to go down that way. the instructor made his way over to look for her and found a guy sitting at the edge of the dropoff (an underwater cliff situation) just staring down into the dark. the guy is okay, but he's at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can't go down there, but he saw the woman go.

instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface. he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.

she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.

when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark 👍

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The good news: you get to pick your new soulmate! (You can define "soulmate" however you want: platonic/romantic/partners in crime/etc. But they will be in your life, constantly.)

The bad news: you don't get to pick where they come from.

Spin this wheel until you get a fandom with characters that you recognize. As soon as you do, stop. One of those people* is going to be a constant presence in your life, whether you like it or not. So choose wisely.

*broadly defined