“It’s not dead. It’s resting.”
That is an ex-parrot.
He has ceased to be.
He has expired and gone to meet his maker
He’s probably pining for the fjords
He’s joined the choir invisible
ALL IT TOOK WAS A RIDICULOUSLY LARGE PHONE TO MAKE POCKETS FOR WOMEN IMPORTANT
I don’t have a reaction gif for ‘I’m getting what I want, but in a way that makes me want to go on a killing spree.’
Lol omg. Pockets. I love pockets.
When companies’ products have more influence on fashion than the consumers…
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The universal phenomenon of chasing the laser pointer dot.
“Stay there. When I say ‘run’ you leg it.”
Barstaw boggled at the human. Their colourful phrases had no discernible end… and yet they were instantly understandable. For all her deathworlder status, she was extremely helpful to have around for this escape.
She hunkered down, ready to run at the door that was currently being supervised by one very bored guard. Barstaw half expected the human to happen
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HOW DOES THIS HAVE SO FEW REBLOGS you people are making me feel so old and I’m really not even an adult yet.
we still have one of these in my house… it doesn’t get used, but we still have it.
do people really not remember…..?
a relic from the past ages
….and still nobody knows how to set the clock…
Read more »Read more »Seattle-based artist Carol Milne knits with glass, or rather, she creates wonderful glass sculptures that make it seem as though she’s either a superhuman glass knitter or in possession of enchanted knitting needles and very specialized gloves. The reality is actually much more complicated, but no less awesome. Milne invented her glass knitting technique back in 2006. It’s a process that involves knitting with wax instead of glass, followed by lost-wax casting, mold-making and kiln-casting.
First, a model
(inspired by the recent development of nailpolish that helps detect date-rape drugs when a finger is dipped in the drink, though, understandably, you don’t need to use that for the writing-inspiration)
“Like a lot of things in this world, it is wonderful that this finally exists, but also terrible that it needs to exist.”
(#00650 - A285)
It looked like a simple brain mod. Just another circuit in a world full of integrated circuits designed to merge with the
Read more »A robot falls in love with its regular mechanic and, not knowing how to take it further, keeps breaking itself in important, but non-fatal ways.
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Michael Laine has strived for years to build a space elevator, and we're filming the troubled road to his make-or-break experiment.
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Read more »Sara and Pinkie Pie trade recipes
[Since you said Sara, I’m assuming you mean my favourite mutant OC and not her alternate ponysona, Star Wishes. If you meant the ponysona, then re-send the prompt with the right name]
“Wait, so you’re not one of those weird beings from the other side of the magic mirror?”
“No,” said the aqua-coloured human with the brown mane. “I came here through Kazooland. Steam Powered Giraffe showed
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Read more »“You dare say that to me?! That my choices, my actions caused all this? As if with you in my place, if you had to shoulder all my burdens and responsibilities for as long as I have, that you would do things differently? You deceive only yourself to claim you would ‘succeed’ where I had ‘failed’. Anyone would do the same as me in these circumstances. I’m just like you. Just like everyone else. Tell me with a straight face,
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
Somerset Maugham (via ellenkushner)
[My guess would be: (1) Write now, edit later. (2) Keep writing. (3) Stop when you reach the end.] – internutter
Read more »On an individual basis, moments when humans go from “big, scary, too strong and menacing” to “big, protective, safe and ok still a bit scary”
Just little things, like being able to catch a falling numidid, deflect a blow, walk or swim in currents that bowl over little guineafowl people, or bodily grab them out of the way of danger etc.
An adult Human was twice the size of a Numidid in relaxed posture. Four if the Numidid was in a defensive
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A modern-day Silk Road is emerging, and traffic on it is building up. These explorers aren't traversing routes across continents, but instead are seeking s
Only my beta-readers know what arachnafibre might be. Now the world has it.
I have to write faster…
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