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graemoon

This is like a small child uncertainty taking a bite of their first piece of cake and then realizing that it’s the best damn thing they’ve ever eaten and shoving it all right into their face with grabby hands and just delighted. I love this kitty.

purple-beans

The best thing is the tail going when they look back at the stack. It’s just like “well that was fun…. THERE’S MORE”

urbanfantasyinspiration

Bastard Awakened

fluffy-critter

My cat does this with the pens on my desk. It’s quite annoying.

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neocities guide - why you should build your own html website

do you miss the charm of the 90s/00s web where sites had actual personality instead of the same minimalistic theme? are you feeling drained by social media and the constant corporate monopoly of your data and time? do you want to be excited about the internet again?

try neocities!!

what is neocities?

neocities is a free hosting website that lets you build your own html website from scratch, with total creative control. in their own words:

"we are tired of living in an online world where people are isolated from each other on boring, generic social networks that don't let us truly express ourselves. it's time we took back our personalities from these sterilized, lifeless, monetized, data mined, monitored addiction machines and let our creativity flourish again."

why should I make my own website?

web3 has been overtaken by capitalism & conformity. websites that once were meant to be fun online social spaces now exist solely to steal your data and sell you things. it sucks!!

building a personal site is a great way to express yourself and take control of your online experience.

what would I even put on a website?

the best part about making your own site is that you can do literally whatever the hell you want! focus on a specific subject or make it a wild collection of all your interests. share your art! make a shrine for one of your interests! post a picture of every bird you see when you step outside! make a collection of your favorite blinkies! the world is your oyster !!

here are some cool example sites to inspire you:

recently updated neocities sites | it can be fun to just look through these and browse people's content!
space bar | local interstellar dive bar
creature feature | halloween & monsters
big gulp supreme
peanutbuttaz | personal site
dragodiluna
linwood | personal site
patho grove | personal site

getting started: neocities/html guide

sound interesting? here are some guides to help you get started, especially if you aren't familiar with html/css

sadgrl.online webmastery | a fantastic resource for getting started with html & web revival. also has a layout builder that you can use to start with in case starting from scratch is too intimidating
web design in 4 minutes | good for learning coding basics
w3schools | html tutorials
templaterr | demo & html for basic web elements
eggramen test pages | css page templates to get started with
sadgrl background tiles | bg tiles
rivendell background tiles | more free bg tiles

fun stuff to add to your site

want your site to be cool? here's some fun stuff that i've found

blinkies-cafe | fantastic blinkie maker! (run by @transbro & @graphics-cafe)
gificities | internet archive of 90s/00s web gifs
internet bumper stickers | web bumper stickers
momg | gif gallery
99 gif shop | 3d gifs
123 guestbook | add a guestbook for people to leave messages
cbox | add a live chat box
moon phases | track the phases of the moon
gifypet | a little clickable page pet
adopt a shroom | mushroom page pet
tamaNOTchi | virtual pet
crossword puzzle | daily crossword
imood | track your mood
neko | cute cat that chases your mouse
pollcode | custom poll maker
website hit counter | track how many visitors you have

web revival manifestos & communities

also, there's actually a pretty cool community of people out there who want to bring joy back to the web!

melonland project | web project/community celebrating individual & joyful online experiences. Also has an online forum
melonland intro to web revival | what is web revival?
melonking manifesto |
status cafe | share your current status
nightfall city | online community
onio.cafe | leave a message and enjoy the ambiance
sadgrl internet manifesto |
yesterweb internet manifesto | sadly defunct, still a great resource
reclaiming online social spaces | great manifesto on cultivating your online experience

in conclusion

i want everyone to make a neocities site because it's fun af and i love seeing everyone's weird personal sites that they made outside of the control of capitalism :)

say hi to me on neocities

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Makes me MAD that jiggly rubber anemones and corals (accurate or made up) are a common aquarium decoration now because for my first 10 years of life I'd have been thrilled to bits to play with them as creature toys. I'd have probably collected every variety and used them as both literal anemones or aliens depending on the situation

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haldiaz asked:

What are your favorite explanations for why characters regularly use melee weapons in a setting with firearms?

prokopetz answered:

I’ve always had a soft spot for Dune’s Holtzman shields, purely for the source material’s utterly unhinged rationale for why nobody takes advantage of the laser loophole.

For the unfamiliar, a Holtzman shield in Dune is a kind of force field which can be tuned to selectively block or permit the passage of objects based on their velocity. This feature is what allows them to be used for personal defence; by tuning them to permit only very low-velocity objects to pass through, a person can “wear” a Holtzman shield without impeding their own movements or suffocating due to blockage of atmospheric gasses. This in turn is what produces the Dune universe’s duelling culture: a bullet – or any solid-projectile weapon – is too fast to pass through a personal Holtzman shield, but the thrust of a dagger is below the velocity threshold where blocking it would render the shield impracticable to wear. So far, so good.

Now we come to the laser loophole. This is a problem with personal force fields as depicted in many works of science fiction, not just Dune, and it goes something like this: because the text explicitly establishes that one can see both into and out of a personal force field, clearly it’s permeable to visible light. Why don’t attackers just shoot the wearer with a laser? Does the setting somehow have the technology to produce human-portable force field generators, but not human-portable weaponisable lasers? Did it simply never occur to anyone to try?

Some works of fiction address the laser loophole by proposing that the force fields can selectively become impermeable to visible light, and incorporate the implications of that – e.g., perhaps it’s possible to immobilise shield-wearers by using a laser to force their shields to constantly run at maximum intensity – into their plots, while others propose that the shields block laser weapons but not other kinds of visible light because it’s magic and they’re not obliged to explain shit.

Dune takes a different approach.

In Dune (the novel, at least; I haven’t seen the most recent film adaptation in its entirety yet), the reason that nobody shoots Holtzman shield wearers with lasers is because doing so causes a nuclear explosion. The locus of the explosion is apparently entirely random, with a roughly even chance of originating within the target’s shield generator or within the shooter’s weapon. On paper, this is a huge liability and should mean that no sane person would ever wear a Holtzman shield; the text justifies their widespread use in practice by establishing that a. if anyone actually takes advantage of this phenomenon, the Emperor will nuke them from orbit, and b. the noble houses are fucking insane.

(Why lone assassins who are more than happy to blow themselves up for ideological reasons and thus have no reason to care about the resulting political backlash don’t take advantage of the effect is, as far as I’m aware, never adequately addressed.)

fluffy-critter

Also it’s never addressed as to how the shield would distinguish between collimated and incoherent light, or why it wouldn’t be a problem for any dangerously bright and sudden light source like, say, the fucking sun.

delcat177

delcat177 asked:

I read the first two acts of Miri and now I'm watching it, I'm not much of a Trek person and TNG when I am, but what the fuck (fond)

fluffy-critter answered:

Classic Star Trek has some real banger episodes. Also some real head-banger episodes. But TOS is very much worth a watch if you haven’t seen much of it.

The first season is especially interesting because they were still trying to figure out how the show worked and it was more of an anthology series which couldn’t decide whether it was a Cowboy Western in Space or if it was philosophical thought experiments on different concepts like “what if silicon-based life is real and we just aren’t recognizing it.”

Even the episodes which have become Incredibly Memed were really amazing for the time and still worth a watch. Like, people only remember Arena for the big battle scene with the goofy rubber lizard suit, but the episode as a whole is actually really fucking amazing and speaks to issues of colonialism and intentional coexistence (and then the writers of Strange New Worlds completely failed to understand that episode but that’s a whole Rant).

Anyway, Star Trek TOS fills a similar space in my heart and mind as the original Twilight Zone: really good show with some great ideas, absolutely amazing writing (mostly, although there’s a few stinkers), and has been completely misremembered as meme fodder in the modern era.

(Which is to say, also watch Twilight Zone! A lot of it holds up REALLY WELL!)

delcat177

I LOVE Twilight Zone, I think there are a few episodes I haven't seen yet but that's because...I don't want to *finish* Twilight Zone! I had multiple books of the original stories growing up, just. God, what a show. Mom grew up with it and would always comment that all the girls liked Rod Serling, he was hot and he smoked! A truth that stands today, except you don't have to be a girl to do it!

(don't smoke it's terrible for you)

Mom also watched a lot of TNG and I would be in the room reading a book or playing Game Boy, and while the politics couldn't keep my attention in the single-digit ages, I remember liking the bits I looked up for more and more as I got older. I mainly loved Geordi because he was Levar Burton, and Levar Burton was my reading buddy! I would pretend to be him sometimes, I got a plastic visor somewhere...I remember asking Mom what Geordi's eyes looked like and she didn't know. The episode where he takes the visor off was VERY mindblowing to me.

TOS is instantly grabbing me now that I'm older and have more patience for human beings in media (it was so, so hard to read facial cues rippp). Miri is an *incredible* concept episode! Weird blue plague, alternate timeline, sci-fi aging, reasonable semiotics for development (or, uh, undevelopment) of an isolated child-tribe that harkens to the end of Threads, and ofc this scene:

In Twilight Zone, it would have ended around 3:05, with the kids having closed in. It's a *good* life.

I love that as-is, Kirk manages to work out...eventually...that they are literal children and he can literally walk away from them. I don't know why this didn't occur to him BEFORE bon-bonk on the head, but I have been led to understand Kirk Is Like That.

I'd totally take recs! I do prefer exploration and what-ifs to such as politics, but Arena can be next on the list 8D Thanks Fluffs!

Aside: I was originally laughing because they had Miri sharpening pencils because lol wtf how random and then realized--holy shit, no, they *need pencils and paper*, they are *doing math*. Blew my damned mind. I fucking adore it, they predicted the smartphone with comms in 1966 as something we were gonna work toward and conquer, but they couldn't anticipate that pencils and graph paper could ever be outdated--and technically, they aren't. They never will be!

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Originally posted by 1stprototype

fluffy-critter

i can’t think of a single episode of TOS which isn’t worth watching for some reason, either because it was really good, or had a really good idea, or was just like, so terribly awful that it wraps around to good.

I feel like season 1 is where the show was trying to find its footing, season 2 is where you get all of the classic This Is Star Trek episodes that everyone thinks of, and season 3 is where they were desperate to stay on the air and had basically No Budget so there’s some absolutely brilliant episodes where they did more with less (Tholian Web, The Empath), and some extreme stinkers where they did less with less (Spock’s Brain, The Savage Curtain), with no middle ground.

apologies to anyone who actually liked The Savage Curtain for some reason but not to fans of Spock's Brain they should be ashamed and they know exactly why
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