Do y’all ever think about how absolutely bananas Lake Baikal is? It’s the world’s largest lake by volume. It’s the world’s deepest lake. It’s the world’s oldest lake. It contains nearly a quarter of the planet’s surface freshwater. It’s a rift lake, caused by the earth’s crust literally coming apart at the seams. It would be deeper than the Mariana Trench except the bottom is covered in a sediment layer that is miles deep. There are trains that have sunk to the bottom because Russia tried to build a railroad over the ice. The entire lake surface freezes for half the year. The lake is a focal point of multiple indigenous cultures. The lake has its own species of seal, which is the only exclusively freshwater pinniped in the world. There are unique ice formations formed by convection from the depths of the lake. There are 330 inflowing rivers.
I dunno, Lake Baikal sure is a thing.
a truly unique and magnificent Feature on our planet, as singular and fascinating as Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
in the words of farmboy, as you wish
the lake is quite cold, and as a result, these seals are very loaf
the babbeez are white poofs with lil eyebrowses
it is incredibly deep, and over a thousand species of plant and animal live ONLY there
Lake Baikal Seals’ faces look way too much like grey aliens for my liking. Those eyes have SEEN shit in the depths.
Lake animal…
thanks to this post I now know way more about neutrinos than I did a couple hours ago
This bird is being properly held in the photographers grip and is not being antagonized into doing this threat display. Flycatcher are well known in the banding world for being difficult to photograph, as they love to be dramatic about literally anything. It’s most likely this video was the last thing that happened to this bird before being released.
(I’m not affiliated with the banding station that captured this bird, just a bird bander myself and want to reassure people the bird is indeed fine)
Pretty effective defense display given that if I saw a bird do that I would definitely fucking LEAVE. What kind of Pan’s Labyrinth shit is that?!
hey what have dinosaurs been up to lately, I hope it isn’t weird
Laura Plays the Piano (2024) [Revisited] | Staying on Theme
Episode 15 of my deep dive into the Silent Hill 2 remake’s soundtrack on Staying on Theme is up! We revisit the 2024 extended version of “Laura Plays the Piano,” examining how its harmonic changes intensify the emotional beats of this pivotal scene with Laura in the Lakeview Hotel. And at the end, one last musical Easter egg you can find in the restaurant.
These videos are clipped from my full spoiler/music commentary playthrough of the Silent Hill 2 remake, which you can watch on YouTube HERE. Expect a new episode of Staying on Theme every Monday at 9AM EST!
“standard dni” in bios is funny to me. i keep thinking about the idea of a designated class of people that goes around tumblr knowing they’re not supposed to interact with posts
“Uhhhh, yeah, I hate all the same people you do. Totally. Which ones? All the… bad people. You know.”
i guess this is also something i think about when it comes to romantic relationships or just like, close platonic companionship (depends which you want personally). i think a lot of people look to romance to be idealistic, to save them from their pit, when the reality of it is you will likely be climbing the walls and find someone at the same point you are, and decide to climb together.
when i get asked how to make a relationship ‘work’, or how my partner and i’s honeymoon phase 'still hasn’t ended yet’ (very funny phrasing) i always struggle to answer anything other than 'because it never really started’. at least in the sense some people think of a honey moon phase.
he has always been a person to me. we have cleaned each other up off the ground numerous times. ive held him while he got stitches. hes held me coming out of anesthesia multiple times now. held my hair vomiting. i held him the day his mom died. we have run to each other even when frightened or sick or humiliated, over and over and over again. i think maybe the core of a relationship is not only the times it is warm, but also the times you choose to dive in and not flinch away. that love is going to be horrific and frightening and often times involve disgusting physical substance, but because it is that person, the person you choose, you don’t react in disgust. you want to take care of them. through it all, you see them.
so maybe that is my answer to people. you must see someone. and you must keep wanting to see them. not just your idea of them, not just the version of them most comforting to you, but you must be genuinely curious for them, and keep asking. and keep looking. and keeping running to them.
At some point will I be banned for the crime of becoming a girl. Then wimdy shall be no more.
@voidmenace thank you! I forget to mention it much. I have been a girl for 17 months now, it’s the best and most clearly correct decision I have ever made.
I really need a feminised edit of Wimdy Fox but… I don’t think foxes have any visible secondary sex characteristics. Hmm.
dear god we don’t talk much but please give me the strength to start that project, the determination to start that project, and the fortitude to start that project. thanks
finishing the project is another story im turning to the devil for that one. there’s no other way.
Still sick! Still unhappy about it! Couldn’t do any recording or streaming because voice: bad! Watched Frankenstein 2025 instead! Writing up some notes! Decided to (re)read the book that I hadn’t read since I was a teenager! Accidentally read the 1818 version! Now I have to read the 1831 version to see if I hate Victor less! (I actually thought of something afterwards that changed how much I disliked him, but I should probably save that for whatever I’m writing up.)
(I’ll be honest, I went back to the book because I saw that some people on here loathe the movie for making changes to the book, which seemed kind of… yeah? Movies do that? And so I [re]read it, and: yeah, it’s hardly the book at all. Fair play to you. It seems to be an adaptation of Frankenstein movies in a lot of ways, which is not entirely surprising from a movie director. But if you didn’t know that and you’re also not willing to forgive that [and you don’t have to be!], then yeah, I can see why people might be mad.)
ANYWAY,
Ian’s “Staying on Theme” this week was “Fermata in Mistic Air,” one of the few musical tracks completely unchanged from the original Silent Hill 2. Again, I can’t talk good at the moment so I can't try out Twitch or record commentary 9 (Otherworld Brookhaven Hospital) just yet, but I am reading over my very gnarly research, and also plotting to get back to Silent Hill f now that NeoBards has patched in Kato Mode for those of us not born with a controller in our hands. (Did they make a “casual” combat mode for Konatsu Kato? No. Am I complaining about it after already dying 5 times in the first hour? Also no.)
“literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.”
“I’m developing a curiosity and interest in fiber arts, someone please stop me before it’s too late." Reply: "Afibre Craft yes a place for tumblr user do fibre craft can trust fibre craft for pleasantly occupying tumblr user. friend fibre.”
“So how is it that second-hand embarrassment is the single most powerful and weakening emotion one can feel from media?” It is tho.
I feel like I might have reblogged this recently and just forgotten but honestly, I don’t care: it is November and we need this. "Don’t listen to any thoughts about yourself if your hair isn’t washed. It’s just not true.“
"hey I’m sorry to fandom-pivot on your post but i really believe this lotr excerpt is relevant to your point because it features a grown man blowing his very loud war-horn for no apparent reason”
“Theres this auction thing going on in the lunch room at work where people are selling off their collectibles. Someone put up 10th doctor, BBC Sherlock, and Castiel figures still sealed in the boxes for sale. All from the same person. I fucking know what you are 🫵”
This week’s Josh Johnson set: the folly of building robots that might really resent the way we treat them. If you watch this with Frankenstein in mind, it hits a little bit different.
Let’s do Frankenstein 2025 this week, whether people are mad or not, especially after GDT dropped a line as raw as “I think God created the flowers and the Devil gave them names.” Side note, I think this poll is trying to figure out whether you like/dislike the movie based on a good/bad relationship with your parents, but to my surprise, there’s much less correlation than I expected, and the two sets of numbers are fairly even? (I can’t believe I am going to read this book all over again, just two steps to the left.)
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