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Don't mind the insanity.
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Loosely associated with my other blog,
The Art of Miss Takes (http://artofmisstakes.tumblr.com/),
which contains more serious work but may
occasionally overlap with this one.


farmerjoe asked: IT IS A DATE. THERE WILL BE THOR AND AVENGERS AND LOKI AND FEELS AND SCIENCE BROS AND STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS AND BADASS ARCHERY AND FREEDOM HAIR ON CAP AMER. And eyepatches.


I’m sure they remember people who mistreated them too.
Oh well. Psychofactz has said stupider things.
sigh.
(via aenigmaticcactus)
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[Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating black and grey. Foreground — a picture of an armadillo. Top text: “ [READING BOOK] ” Bottom text: “ [GET DISTRACTED BY LETTER FORMS] ”]
So I was peer editing some essays today and I kept getting distracted by the letter forms of Times New Roman. Particularly the “t”. The things typography has done to me, now whenever I read a book it’s just me sitting and wondering, “I wonder what font that this? It’s not Baskerville ─ it might be Garamond. Oh lordy it is not Times New Roman; that lowercase “a” screams Garamond.” This was happening as I was reading Middlesex and my lord did it bother me. The art world meets the English world ─ a horrible affair.
The bottom meme is the Art Student Owl.
This… this is so true.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0upiu0RiE1qhe5udo1_400.png)
[Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating black and grey. Foreground — a picture of an armadillo. Top text: “ [READING BOOK] ” Bottom text: “ [GET DISTRACTED BY LETTER FORMS] ”]
So I was peer editing some essays today and I kept getting distracted by the letter forms of Times New Roman. Particularly the “t”. The things typography has done to me, now whenever I read a book it’s just me sitting and wondering, “I wonder what font that this? It’s not Baskerville ─ it might be Garamond. Oh lordy it is not Times New Roman; that lowercase “a” screams Garamond.” This was happening as I was reading Middlesex and my lord did it bother me. The art world meets the English world ─ a horrible affair.
The bottom meme is the Art Student Owl.
This… this is so true.

Fun guy chillin’ in South American rainforest finds plastic-eating fungi
Seriously, though this is kind of a big deal. Know that big problem we have? You know, the one involving a crapload of used plastic hanging around in landfills with nowhere to biodegrade for a couple million years? Well, Jonathan Russell might’ve solved that problem. See, Russell and his fellow Yale students went to Ecuador, where they found a new kind of fungus they’re calling Pestalotiopsis microspora. Big deal, you’re thinking. Anyone can find fungus anywhere! Well, something his fellow students found out after the fact is that this fungus can live on a diet of polyurethane alone — and even crazier, it doesn’t even need air to do so! In other words, we could potentially put it at the bottom of a landfill and cover it with plastic, and it would do the rest of the work. This might be game-changing if it works as advertised. (photo via Flickr user dbutt; EDIT: Updated with link to research abstract) source
This is just so awesome in so many ways.
(Source: shortformblog, via discoverynews)
quitequiteblue asked: When do you return to me, my darling?
Threefold two days and another cycle of the sun will see me returned to the Land of Mary and dreary weather. I will have flown upon the metallic wings of a great machine, roaring and tearing through the sky, traveling through space and time to bring me home to you and my dearest hound.
Returning promptly, yours most sincerely,
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