Hey, Haven't Seen An Update From You On Ao3 In A While. I Hope You're Doing Okay And I Want You To Know

Hey, haven't seen an update from you on Ao3 in a while. I hope you're doing okay and I want you to know im thinking about you. Thank you for your wonderful stories.

Thank you for your thoughts! I’ve had a very rough most-of-a-year, including two wrist surgeries, so I haven’t been able to write very much, fic-wise. I still don’t have the next chapter(s) finished, but I think I might post up the one before it just to let people know I’m not abandoning the fic.

/cackling Yup, that’s about right. 

I don’t know much about the world, but it seems like if you take #keith's dad and add it to #my fics, you end up with #ulaz.

To be honest, I’m curious about what my tumblr would translate to in Pokémon

Want a pokemon egg?

Every person who reblogs this will have a Pokémon egg in their submissions and a few days later a Pokémon will hatch from the egg.

The Pokémon will be submitted based on their blog. It may be shiny or even a legendary. (Have your submissions open and only reblog, likes do not count.)

I have hazel eyes, and it said I had green. I wonder if the discrepancy is because I’m an artist? Like, if I look at things differently because I’m very consciously aware of color theory and composition and such. 

i just took an online vision test that tells you what color your eyes and at first i’m like, “yeah ok like that will work”

BUT THEY GOT IT RIGHT…

how’d they know I have hazel eyes based on those questions?????

here’s the link if anyone else wants to try it

Oh boy, let’s talk giant eggs! (no, really, I’m coming out of lurking for this) Ostriches do indeed lay the largest eggs of extant species. However, the largest bird egg known is the elephant bird egg. I have found an image to show a size comparison between one and a chicken egg: 

Based on the thought that the most common size of eggs in that image are probably chicken-egg sized, I’d guess that the largest eggs in the image are somewhat larger than an elephant bird egg (rough guestimate 1f-1.5f long?). Elephant bird eggs can be over a foot long, and weigh over 22 pounds. The largest subspecies of elephant bird, vorombe titan, is estimated to have weighed between 1100 to 1600 pounds (and up to a possible 1900 pounds) and is considered the largest bird that ever lived. It’s also estimated to be about 10 feet tall. 

So, yeah, the birds that laid the giant eggs in the image probably weighed over a ton. Height would be harder to pinpoint, because some birds are much stockier than others. Moas, for example are about the same height as elephant birds, but top out at 500 pounds.

Okay, but some of those eggs are really big! I don’t want to see the bird (or reptile) that laid them!

I mean, the largest egg on earth is the ostrich egg

and there are eggs in Fred’s collection that are easily three to four, even five times that size! I don’t want to meet something three to five times the size of an ostrich, okay?

New Years word count

I feel a little silly, but I also want to share! In 2018 I managed to write 222,569 words of stories (and not all of it was fanfic). That’s a long novel! Or 2 more average length novels. I feel accomplished. 

What was your 2018 wordcount, tumblr writers? Let’s share our progress!