marlynnofmany
Mara Lynn Johnstone
Welcome to the inside of my head! It’s fun in here. I write, draw, and generally create. Expect to find everything from shapeshifters to robots, eccentric wizards to space dragons, with a healthy dose of Humans Are Weird. Let’s have fun with this.
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Not a biologist so not sure how well this holds up, but consider:
Humans are warm-blooded. We are constantly burning calories just to keep warm. What if to aliens we are constantly consuming food just to keep up like DC's Flash family??
Alien: "What are you doing?"
Human: "Making the best sandwich I've had in weeks!"
Alien: "But you just ate this morning."
Human: "...Yes? Like normal? Wait, how long ago did you eat?"
Alien: "Three weeks ago. Like normal."
Human: "Oh right, you guys are coldblooded! Wow, I forgot. I guess we haven't been doing much running around lately, so you probably don't need much food. Weird. Well, you're missing out on sandwiches like this."
Alien: "If we're 'coldblooded,' does that mean your blood is hot? Is that why you eat so much, to maintain it? What a waste!"
Human: "Remind me to give you a hug next time the heater breaks, and I bet you'll change your mind."
#humans are weird#humans are warmblooded#and give the best hugs#it's just science#my first 'humans are weird' story was about body heat saving the day#I still think fondly of it
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I titled a notes document "special sequel" for reasons that make sense, but I keep seeing it and thinking of Neil Gaiman's "special spoilers" tag.
No, there are no nonexistant wives or improbable slapstick in this story. Aliens, yes. Angels and demons, no.
#save that for the fanfic#special spoilers#Neil Gaiman#Good Omens#tempted to name an alien Dottie just for laughs#they're all macho dinosaur-looking dudes so that would be amusingly absurd#it would probably be short for something tough-sounding#hmm#writer life
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Once again pondering how creeped out far-future people who live on a sterile space station would be by dirt.
Earthling: "I'm such a germaphobe. I have to wash my hands every time I take off my shoes, even if I don't touch the part that's walked on dirt."
Spacer: "You get dirt on your clothes and don't go in for a full-body sanitizing scan? That stuff's made of dead things and fungus!"
#I mean they're not wrong#but it's really not that scary#and nothing will ever convince them of that#germs#dirt#in spaaace
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What I was taught growing up: Wild edible plants and animals were just so naturally abundant that the indigenous people of my area, namely western Washington state, didn't have to develop agriculture and could just easily forage/hunt for all their needs.
The first pebble in what would become a landslide: Native peoples practiced intentional fire, which kept the trees from growing over the camas praire.
The next: PNW native peoples intentionally planted and cultivated forest gardens, and we can still see the increase in biodiversity where these gardens were today.
The next: We have an oak prairie savanna ecosystem that was intentionally maintained via intentional fire (which they were banned from doing for like, 100 years and we're just now starting to do again), and this ecosystem is disappearing as Douglas firs spread, invasive species take over, and land is turned into European-style agricultural systems.
The Land Slide: Actually, the native peoples had a complex agricultural and food processing system that allowed them to meet all their needs throughout the year, including storing food for the long, wet, dark winter. They collected a wide variety of plant foods (along with the salmon, deer, and other animals they hunted), from seaweeds to roots to berries, and they also managed these food systems via not only burning, but pruning, weeding, planting, digging/tilling, selectively harvesting root crops so that smaller ones were left behind to grow and the biggest were left to reseed, and careful harvesting at particular times for each species that both ensured their perennial (!) crops would continue thriving and that harvest occurred at the best time for the best quality food. American settlers were willfully ignorant of the complex agricultural system, because being thus allowed them to claim the land wasn't being used. Native peoples were actively managing the ecosystem to produce their food, in a sustainable manner that increased biodiversity, thus benefiting not only themselves but other species as well.
So that's cool. If you want to read more, I suggest "Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America" by Nancy J. Turner
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using wizard magic beneath the full moon to charge my blood oxygen and make my heart rate normal………..
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where did you get the hat in your profile picture? i like it
It was a birthday present a few years ago! It's great. I'm not sure which random internet store it came from, but let me see if I can find out.
#googling is no help; I'll ask the gifter#it was probably somebody on Etsy#who's stopped selling them since then#but hopefully not#also yes I am wearing elf ears in this picture#the lighting makes it hard to tell#I have a long and storied history with those elf ears#thus the hat
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These are the questions that I'd really like time travel to answer.
we talk a lot about ohhhh what if my calling is to be the greatest mammoth hunter ever and I'm wasting my talents in the modern era but we never think about what if Thog from 30,000 BCE was the only person ever born who could get a sub-7min Donkey Kong Country any%, and he never got the chance. what about thog
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It's a pity they didn't translate it to "Crowd Psychic 100." That would be much closer, and would have saved a considerable amount of confusion.
Also, because English is nuts sometimes, that reminds me of this:
Kind of hilarious to me how poorly the title "Mob Psycho 100" localized to English-speaking areas. To someone whose first language is English, it scans as:
Mob (Yakuza, Mafia)
Psycho (violent person with "crazy" behaviors)
Thus: a particularly violent member of organized crime.
But in Japanese it scans as:
Mob (background characters in crowd scenes in manga or anime)
Psycho (short for psychic)
Thus: a psychic who looks/acts like someone you'd never pick out of a crowd scene in a comic.
#fun with languages#fun with language#English is a mess#and the passage of time has not improved anything
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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1
The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.
So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.
So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.
Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.
And the probe is working again.
From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.
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Made the worst brownies ever created just now
#the reviews are amazing#well said everybody#eloquent#we certainly do get some good turns of phrase here
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LOTR + text post
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i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point
#poetry#I've seen this before but I don't think I've seen this version#I love how things evolve in several directions at once here#blackout poetry#landlord white
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#there's a reason Calvin & Hobbes were named after a theologian and a philosopher#asking all the interesting questions
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I love the idea of dead gods. Not in the sense of “hey i killed something supernaturally strong” but in the sense of “i killed it and it’s still a god.” It is still worshipped. prayers are still answered. miracles are performed in its name, even as it lies pierced by a thousand swords and burning with chemical fire. even as it drifts through vacuum, decapitated and bleeding molten rock. in cosmic spite of being shot through each eye and hurled into a plasma reactor, it still radiates the power of the divine in a way that primitive death cannot smother. the nature of godchild is not so simple as to be tied to the mortality, or immortality, of any living being.
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Surely this is universally relatable. Surely everyone's cat is this specific brand of weirdo.
#cat why#life with cats#memes by me#she doesn't even have long fur to make it a surprise that she's sitting in water#no excuse
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I think there may be a problem, when I go to your Patreon page it redirects to patreonDOTcom/MarlynnOfMany/creators and there is no Patreon to join for you.
It's not live yet! It's still on hiatus, but it'll open up again on the first of May. Thanks for checking!
#I planned to do it sooner but didn't want people to get charged twice in the same week#if they signed up right before the month rolled over#soon though!#very excited!#and all the old stuff from before is still there#with new stuff on the way#Patreon
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Yes, if you click someone's username to see their blog and get, say:
www.tumblr.com/marlynnofmany
(the new format), then you can manually change it by swapping the parts around. Move the username to where the W's are, and you're golden:
marlynnofmany.tumblr.com
Behold, new format. If you want to see an archive, just add that to the end:
marlynnofmany.tumblr.com/archive
Try all the tricks! These are good tricks!
how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)
there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~
I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:
url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissants or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, it’s just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant
url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest first
url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isn’t as perfect at finding everything, but it’s generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned it “look at my croissant”) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it won’t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find it’s still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order
url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case you’re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memes
url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now
url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if you’re looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc
url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if you’re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quickly
url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I don’t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant)
the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog!
caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks.
if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else
if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims)
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