Ok But Way Would Someone Pay You To Stop Doing This? It's So Cool And Fascinating

Ok but way would someone pay you to stop doing this? It's so cool and fascinating

SPIDER RAIN

let me introduce you to a few 100% real, totally unphotoshopped photos!

yep, that is REAL! spider rain EXISTS! and is a regular phenomenon! that happens and is documented! and involves MILLIONS of spiders!!!!! RAINING DOWN ON CITIES!!!!! THAT’S A REAL THING THAT HAPPENS UNAVOIDABLY!!!!!!!!!! i need to foam at the mouth in hysteria for a few minutes, but when I calm down i’ll give you some Spider Rain Science Facts  

I feel like people are quick to characterize aventurine as the overly emotional half of the ship with ratio being the emotionally constipated one, but hear me out: yes I think aventurine is ruled heavily by emotion and ratio is ruled heavily by logic, but I think aventurine is very good at putting on a show and hiding what he’s actually feeling (not necessarily in control of his emotions, but good at hiding them). Not to mention aventurine is so traumatized he’s the kind of guy to say something incredibly concerning and then laugh and do a cartwheel, I think it would take a lot for him to be really emotionally vulnerable around someone. I don’t think ratio is as experienced at hiding intense emotions and even though the fandom LOVES to characterize him as a robot with no feelings, I have to disagree. I prefer to look at him more like…he prefers logic because it’s predictable and conclusive and safe. Emotions are wild and always changing and sometimes aren’t rational and that’s scary! It’s easier to isolate yourself and focus on your hobbies and your job and whatever because it’s predictable. That doesn’t mean he’s incapable of feeling things, though. I just think he avoids situations that could cause them because it’s unfamiliar territory and he’d probably view it as unproductive.

Believe me, I like the dynamic of ‘ratio is soft and patient and fixes aventurines broken emo soul one tender kiss at a time’ as much as the next guy (probably even more than the next guy tbh that’s my bread and butter) but I also like it flipped sometimes. I like the idea that when shit hits the fan, it’s ratio who’s an emotional mess and aventurine who’s stunted and can’t muster up a tear. I like the idea that ratio would be the one crying if they met up after aventueines stunt in penacony because he’s angry and relieved and upset and scared all at the same time and he doesn’t know how to showcase that since he rarely leans into his emotions, so it comes out as just yelling and crying and aventurine is like :3 ?? It’s fine, doc lol !! But the more it carries on the more he’s like oh this is like a serious emotional moment for him and I cannot fathom why another person would feel this strongly about me in any capacity what is he crying for

Anyways these two gnaw at my brain

TIME SENSITIVE: Help 5 Children Trapped in Jabalia Evacuate to Rafah

5 days since israel defense minister announced reallocation of most of iof troops (including tanks and missiles) up north. 5 days of nonstop carpet bombing of neighborhoods in North Gaza, specifically around Jabalia. 3 schools full of children targeted.

today, netanyahu was quoted by israeli press that there will be a military siege in North Gaza, that there will be a short period where civilians will be allowed to evacuate. this is extremely concerning when taking into account that iof has bombed and opened fire at civilian and aid vehicles indiscriminately with no repercussions. time is of the essence for families to escape before iof closes in

my friend Hazem (vetted #281) has 5 younger siblings and parents that he is currently providing for, trapped in Jabalia camp for the past 11.5 months. evacuating to South Gaza means getting a transport vehicle, buying fuel, buying food, and abandoning tents and other cumbersome supplies not immediately needed for survival. fuel and food are both extremely expensive because of their scarcity in North Gaza. please help the family get funds to escape before the siege is into effect

the family's campaign has raised only €200 in the past 12 hours. please continue to help them get the funds necessary to outrun the advancing iof troops.

€60,600 raised of €70,000 goal as of September 22. €9,400 urgently needed ASAP

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Doodle pages

I rly should post my art more

Alright. I’ll love him.

I don’t think he’ll like it very much, though

and now, i bring you, my silliest most self indulgent oc in the world!!!!! made purely for the purpose of appealing to me and me only! his story goes as such:

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Echo (not his real name but we’ll get to it later) spent his childhood wandering the streets of his dead-end slum town, eavesdropping on whatever caught his fleeting interest. He was peering into a government building through a back window, when a door opens next to him and out pops a little mechanical ball. He pokes and prods at it for a moment, before it whirs to life, and- Woah!!!! it’s a sentient AI robot friend!!!!!!!

From there, his interest in science, engineering, and robotics grew. He and the AI—who he named Z—would work together on many a project throughout the years. They were business partners and friends, working their way up the ranks until they were well known and greatly respected figures in the world of robotics.

But the fame got to Echo.

He started to look down upon Z, seeing it as nothing but the tool that got him to where he was now. He was human, with infinite possibilities in life and the means to accomplish it all. But Z? It was just some lousy AI that he picked up after it had been discarded. He was the one who trained it, who fixed it, who did all the work. It was just there to give him the information, which he now had. So Z was useless to him. Just another thing in the way.

So Echo, in his self proclaimed glory, decided to divorce himself from the help of Z for good. He arranged a gaudy public display, where he would give a speech, and sever Z’s wires, killing it off for good. What harm could it do, anyway? He was the only one who knew how to fix it.

So the day comes. Echo is up on stage, listening to the claps and cheers of his adoring audience. Everything is going well. He gives his speech. He pulls the sharp dagger he’s been hiding from under his coat. He reaches over to sever Z’s wires as his final display, and-

He misses.

There’s a pain in his arm, a dizzy feeling in his head, and loud, horrified shrieks around him as the world slowly starts going dark. Echo wakes up in the hospital. He goes to sit up, and there’s a whirring noise, one he recognizes all too well.

It’s Z—who now seems to be attached to him, quite literally. Wires feed into his arms, mechanical parts doing their work to keep him alive. He looks at his arm, and it’s stitched all the way around, a huge scar where he’d cut himself. He’s not sure how he can still move it, something about cybernetics he read up about many years ago. He doesn’t know and doesn’t care to.

All he knows is that he failed. Z is still here, alive, and even more embarrassingly—keeping *him* alive. All because he missed one little swing of a dagger. How careless.

And so, utterly and completely humiliated, ostracized from his peers for his failure of an attempt at freedom, he only has one choice. Try and kill Z again.

Z—who is in such a state of disrepair that he isn’t even sure it’s the same thing he’d been about to stab however long ago. And he’s not completely a monster, so it’s not like he’s going to kick it when it’s down…

He gives himself a new name and a new purpose—to rebuild Z. To fix and reassemble it, all so he can finally get the satisfaction of finishing what he started and killing this wretched program once and for all.

He’s an Echo of his past self, completely and utterly consumed by one goal, kept alive by what he’d come to resent so much.

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yea so that was my silly guy :) he’s an egotistical maniac who thinks he’s better than his only friend and is simultaneously the biggest idiot in the world and the smartest guy in his field. i love him and i hate him and he makes me lose my mind

he’s also vaguely inspired by the song Brutus by The Buttress so yea (and he’s also very much language of the lost by riproducer core :))))

I don’t know how to say this in a non-obsessed way, but I need the ao3 status updates to be beamed straight into my head whenever the archive goes down. I need that shit announced like we’re in a plane attempting to make a risky landing. Oh we’re down for another 20 minutes because of a server in the Pacific? Sure, thanks. I’ll just wait here.