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cosmictuesdays:

camwyn:

graphicnerdity:

It’s all Harry’s fault. Well, partially. I suppose Voldemort can be saddled with an equal portion of the blame. The point is, the Dursleys were just minding their own business when a horcrux was dumped on their doorstep. For the next decade it proceeded to warp their minds, turning them from your garden variety insufferable human beings into horrible, heartless monsters. The fact that they survived such prolonged horcrux exposure without delving into insanity or abandoning a helpless child only solidifies their place among the pantheon of noble and virtuous heroes in the Harry Potter universe.

*Mic drop*

That… actually does kind of explain an awful lot, dunnit.

Damn, that’s some twisted meta.

…I thought this was going to be a “just say no to Horcruxes” joke.

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unmovinggreatlibrary:

 

ursulavernon:

animate-mush:

ursulavernon:

ksonney:

christian-libertarian:

Most common cause of death in Georgia is Russian invasion…

See Ursula? It is NOT Mothman in WVa

Mothman strongly resembles a small Balrog. I think they’ve just confused their taxonomy.

Mothman doesn’t cause death – he merely presages it!  Gosh

Oh no! I will not take by swayed by Moth-apologists! Mothman shows up, people die! The first few times, okay, sure, maaaaybe it’s a coincidence, but once the bridges start falling down, it’s Mothpocalypse Now!

Typhoid Mary thought she was just unlucky, too, but she was directly responsible. When will the world learn that If Mothman does not wash his hands before preparing food….

…wait, I think I got confused there. Um.

Moral of the Story: Mothman Should Not Cater Your Child’s Birthday Party For Multiple Reasons.

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comparativelysuperlative:

I’ve been wondering lately about the topology of Tumblr.

It’s best known for having a science side, but also has a lot more. Nobody (to my knowledge) has a master list of what sides there are, but Tumblr does contain (in approximate order of “what was the top result when I asked Google to exclude the others”) weird, dark, fandom, social justice, math, funny, technical, techinical, geek, clean, skeleton war, and weather sides. And many more.

These sides tend to intersect a lot, and they are not remotely the same size. Unless you think there are equal numbers of posts mentioning (to pick two) weather and cats.

The shape we’re looking at has few or no faces that share a vertex without also sharing an edge. (Tetrahedron and dodecahedron pass this, cube and octahedron fail.) This is because any two sides of Tumblr that share one point almost certainly share two. There are going to be very few pairs of subjects that have precisely one post about both of them.

The question I really want an answer to is, assuming we knew the number of sides and everything, how many spatial dimensions it would take to build a Tumblr.
But whenever I thought I had made progress on that my brain collapsed under the weight of shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity by whose obscuration the Mathematicians have already been prompted into making a covenant with the Devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell. That, and I got lazy.

Instead, I’ll settle for changing the shape of Tumblr and rendering any existing model obsolete. To do that, I’ll publish a post that represents an intersection between sides of Tumblr in a combination that has never occurred before. This will add an extra vertex to our city of crazily elusive angles where the relative position of everything is phantasmally variable.

That post is of course this one. It’s primarily part of the Tumblr side of Tumblr, but also the geometry and math sides, the…cold inhuman urban geometry side? That exists? Well this post is on it, along with most of the posts that mention R’lyeh I guess. And I can stretch to claim that this is part of the Christian side of Tumblr for its St. Augustine quotation. That this post is also an intersection with the geek side goes without saying. Probably more. I’ll make it part of the English side by pointing out that all uses of the Oxford comma are deliberate.

Finally, to make extremely certain that no earlier post has intersected the same set of sides as this one, I’ll add the cat, political, and “gunblr” sides to the list by saying that there should have been a stricter background check for the following gun owner:

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