wuobio

[wuobio]

You all know what day it is!

Happy Death to Dictators Day!

[wuobio]

when a ship involves one character being so utterly devoted to the other that its borderline religious????? when the devoted character is written to be seen as a sinner, or damned, or a non believer??? and the other character an angel or god-like???? i simply eat that shit UP how can you not??

[wuobio]

[wuobio]

eagle: so what do you think about stigmata

prometheus: you know we're in a pre-christian myth, right? like that word doesn't exist yet. your dumb joke is anachronistic.

eagle: stigma talons in your flesh

[wuobio]

my problem as a writer and as a roleplayer is that I always want characters to do that thing where you hold your hand out, palm to the ground, and kind of tilt it quickly left and right to express uncertainty or a "kinda-sorta"/"yes and no" vibe. but I don't know an official term for this so I always just call it the Noncommittal Hand Waggle

[wuobio]

Another personal hygiene genius....

[wuobio]

some beetles cant fly but they dont mind. they are more armored than agile and in certain situations this is desirable

[wuobio]

[wuobio]

“kill them with kindness” Wrong. CURSE OF RA 𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 𓀞 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣 𓀤 𓀥 𓀦 𓀧 𓀨 𓀩 𓀪 𓀫 𓀬 𓀭 𓀮 𓀯 𓀰 𓀱 𓀲 𓀳 𓀴 𓀵 𓀶 𓀷 𓀸 𓀹 𓀺 𓀻 𓀼 𓀽 𓀾 𓀿 𓁀 𓁁 𓁂 𓁃 𓁄 𓁅 𓁆 𓁇 𓁈 𓁉 𓁊 𓁋 𓁌 𓁍 𓁎 𓁏 𓁐 𓁑 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆

[wuobio]

chekov’s cat: if you see a cat, it will probably be relevant later.

schroedinger’s gun: there’s no way to know if a gun is loaded or not until you physically inspect and check it yourself, so it’s safest to assume all guns are loaded.

[wuobio]

favorite visual gags:

something drawn realistically to show an emotion

something drawn poorly to show an emotion

[wuobio]

look, I know I've talked about this essay (?) before but like,

If you ever needed a good demonstration of the quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", have I got an exercise for you.

Somebody made a small article explaining the basics of atomic theory but it's written in Anglish. Anglish is basically a made-up version of English where they remove any elements (words, prefixes, etc) that were originally borrowed from romance languages like french and latin, as well as greek and other foreign loanwords, keeping only those of germanic origin.

What happens is an english which is for the most part intelligible, but since a lot everyday english, and especially the scientific vocabulary, has has heavy latin and greek influence, they have to make up new words from the existing germanic-english vocabulary. For me it kind of reads super viking-ey.

Anyway when you read this article on atomic theory, in Anglish called Uncleftish Beholding, you get this text which kind of reads like a fantasy novel. Like in my mind it feels like it recontextualizes advanced scientific concepts to explain it to a viking audience from ancient times.

Even though you're familiar with the scientific ideas, because it bypasses the normal language we use for these concepts, you get a chance to examine these ideas as if you were a visitor from another civilization - and guess what, it does feel like it's about magic. It has a mythical quality to it, like it feels like a book about magic written during viking times. For me this has the same vibe as reading deep magic lore from a Robert Jordan book.

[wuobio]

alvin the treacherous is so fucking funny cuz he is genuinely the worst man you will ever meet and the stòry never once gives him the time of day to suggest otherwise but he's also fate's personal punching bag and as it turns out his mother is genuinely the worst woman you will ever meet so he's fucked but you can't really blame him for being that way plus he's canonically hot so i thank god every day that they never adapted the books faithfully or else we'd never hear the end of his poor little meow meowness

[wuobio]

not to vagueblog but some of you are clearly experiencing dragon madness

[wuobio]

Bc Stormfly's based on birds and stuff and she preens, I like to think she does that to show affection. Like, she grooms/preens the other dragons. At first she only did it w Astrid (which is obviously painful lol, she's all beaky and toothy), and Astrid got used to it, but as she started to get closer w the other riders too she'd do it.

At first Astrid gets Snotlout like sprinting across the Edge screaming to hide behind her like?? YOUR DRAGON IS TRYING TO KILL ME??? and she's like no man she just does that she's being nice lol

I like to think she also tries to like, build nests. Like Astrid will come back to her hut and find just these MASSIVE tree branches in a pile in the middle of it and be like?? wtf?

Her life is a constant state of dragging tree branches out of her hut and also returning blankets and spears and whatever else Stormfly deemed nestworthy back to the rest of the riders.

Taking the *Stormfly steals stuff from the gang* thing further, what if she just really loves shiny things (bc bird) and so she steals shiny weapons and jewelry and stuff from the rest of the gang and puts it in Astrid's hut. Tuff'll be like I can't find macey:( and Astrid's like oh go look under my bed I'm pretty sure I saw her there

[wuobio]

Stricklander/Walter Strickler is the reason why people way back then thought neurodivergent people were fucking changelings.