oh my god
I really want fic where Odo enjoys being a public nudist.
…I never thought of Changeling goop as being red. Isn’t it more of a brown? I suppose calling it brown wouldn’t have that contrast with the brown uniform, but still.
(That wasn’t what I was supposed to take away from this quote, was it.)
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#Star Trek #DS9 #Odo
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#the more you know #I want to try doing this #but the dress I’m wearing is only knee-length and that’s not long enough #there wasn’t enough fabric to bring it back around
A little gem from the ever educational Wall Street Journal
I am ashamed by how much trouble I had with this.
I didn’t have any trouble, but only because I ignored the actual faces. I have more than enough Tumblr fandom osmosis to match these names with their costumes.
(That’s assuming the face next to each name is the face associated with that name, though, which I suppose might not be true.)
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#prosopagnosia #reply via reblog
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#Star Trek #DS9 #I think I actually remember what the original line was #(‘no release no *escape*’)
okay so often the suggested posts are irritating
but guys
i think i just found the perfect blog
i mean
look at this
is this not the best blog you have ever seen?
go follow it. now.
(For some reason, the pictures after the first one don’t seem to be showing up on my blog, so you’ll need to go look at the OP for the full effect.)
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#Star Trek #DS9 #Odo #imagine posts
It’s that time of the year
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#Doctor Who #Halloween #fanart #Wholloween #I guess we know what the Doctor Who Tumblr is going as this year
Sticking tape on a frosted glass makes it see through. Air and glass have a very different refractive index, so if you have a rough glass surface, the incoming light is scattered in all directions, thus blurring the image you see through it.
Tape has a similar refractive index as glass, so if you stick it to frosted glass, the sticky material will fill out the little bumps in the glass. The non-sticky side is practically flat, so by sticking tape to the frosted side of glass that’s frosted on one side, you are essentially making it flat again, and making the glass clear.
Ooh, let’s try this at home!
*fetches tape*
*goes over to dining room window*
Hmm. Turns out, there’s two layers of glass here, and only the outside one is frosted. Bathroom window?
…
Nope, same here.
“Mom, do we have any windows that are frosted on the inside?”
“Is this that tape thing? Dad sent me that last night.”
“Yeah.”
“Dining room? Bathroom?”
“Nope, those are on the outside. I’m going out to the driveway to try the dining room from the other side.”
…
Bug netting *and* two layers of glass? Oh, come on!
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#the power of science #am I going to have to start carrying around clear tape in case I come across a frosted window in my travels? #(my belly bag tape supply only has duct tape at the moment)
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#music #poetry #I figured it out at the last line #it’s the Ghost Tune! #(see here’s the thing) #(when I was maybe eight I had this fragment of tune stuck in my head) #(there were no words) #(so I couldn’t have Googled it even if my music-Googling prowess at the time had been higher than zero) #(every so often I would think about it again and wonder what it was) #(wonder if I would *ever* find out) #(and this went on for seven years) #(which remember was about half my life at the time) #(until my brother’s 11th birthday party) #(we were at the bowling alley playing and a song came over their radio) #(and it was the Ghost Tune) #(only it was a crowded bowling alley and I couldn’t make out any words to Google) #(luckily when I expressed my frustration about this Mom was like) #(‘oh isn’t it that Eiffel 65 song ‘I’m Blue’?’) #(I was *so* happy to finally know what it was) #(I didn’t even care that I came in 4th of 4 at bowling) #(I have been fond of this song ever since) #tag rambles
I’m sorry, but I really struggle with accepting the phrase ‘check your privilege’, especially in this case. Knowledge that prosopagnosia is relatively common is less than a decade old, and is still being realised even to those who are studying it- statistics are still being estimated, and they can’t seem to quite agree. Barely anyone knows about it even now, and if they have heard about it, I guarantee they really don’t understand it.
Prosopagnosia is hard enough to diagnose and understand for people who have it, let alone for someone else who doesn’t. For a neuro-typical to recognise it in other people or understand how it affects someone who does have it, this just isn’t really something I expect at this point.
Facial recognition is not a privilege, and it doesn’t allow you certain ‘rights’; it is an ability that some people lack. Perhaps I can’t speak for everyone, but I do not find the Prince Charming meme offensive in the slightest, because it’s so true! To me, it’s downright funny and does not deserve the commentary seen above.
The phrase “facial-recognition privilege” reeks of troll to me. It’s a standard anti-SJW tactic: manufacture evidence that they can later point to as proof that we are ridiculous people who deserve their mockery. (“Check your privilege” is one of the go-to phrases in such manufacturing.) I mostly hear of this technique being used on otherkin, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they’ve decided to branch out.
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#prosopagnosia #reply via reblog #trolling #(of course we *would* get our first troll in the tag right after I point a newbie to it wouldn’t we)
Brinens and Things 