Cats have Deep Space Nine lives #startrek #deepspacenine
Anonymous asked:
I'm thining of getting my ged. My dad is fine with it because of medical issues I have but people have told me it'll ruin my life and it's not the same as getting an actual highschool diploma. Could you offer some insight about it? Thank you so much!
howtogrowthefuckup answered:
A GED will not ruin your life! That is classist nonsense.
Yes, if you search online, you will find dozens of sites giving you statistics about how much less you’ll make with a GED vs. a high school diploma. And there’s plenty of data to back that up. However, what these sites fail to mention is how much more you’ll make with a GED than with no education at all. For hundreds of people, high school is not an option for one reason or another and either they get the GED right away or they go without education for years before deciding to go back and get their GED. These people are not ruining their lives by getting a GED, they’re helping their lives by getting an education and a certificate to prove that education.
So, TL;DR: if you’re young enough to be in high school and can attend, you should. It will help your career immediately and over the long run. But, if you are unable to get a high school diploma, a GED is okay.
Glitter is so unique that it can be effectively used as forensic evidence. Because there are thousands of different types of commercial glitters, any glitter particles found on a suspect can be compelling evidence that they were at a crime scene where an identical glitter particle was found. Source
@ladyyatexel here’s your glitter and crime fact of the day
This is everything I needed.
Behold, the Gargantuan Stick Insect!
Seeing this giant Australian stick insect species, Ctenomorpha gargantua, in the wild would be a little like hitting the jackpot.
A few males have been spotted here and there, but only three of the much-larger females—like the one pictured here—have ever been seen, according to Maik Fiedel, coordinator of live exhibits at the Museum Victoria’s Melbourne Museum.
Fiedel came across the third female two years ago. He was on an annual collection trip in Cairns with colleagues from the museum when he spotted the 50-centimeter-long insect hanging upside-down from a bush (it had probably fallen from the tree canopy). Upon realizing what it was, “I started screaming,” he says. The team collected it, and the museum dubbed it “Lady Gaga-ntuan,” a play on the American pop star and the insect’s large size.
The Performance of a Male Coastal Peacock Spider hoping to appeal to a Female mate.
Although other species of spider are known to perform mating rituals similar to this one, the legwork used as well as symmetry and colours of the clown faced abdomen is very unique.
A cannibalistic nature of the female; which is common in certain spider species, is also observed in this type.
A female may witness the dance, but could already be carrying eggs or is uninterested. The perturbed female usually attacks the male; and although the male has superior jumping ability helping its escape, if it is not quick enough it is killed and devoured.
It is also common that even if the female is interested, she can still devour the male after mating.
“A house I pass on the way to work has this sculpture in its yard. Its about 8 feet tall.”
“HELLO NEIGHBOR STEVE, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO BARBEQUE ON THE EVE OF THE BLOOD MOON. I FEEL WE GOT OFF TO A BAD START.”
“NEIGHBOR STEVE, DO YOU NOT WISH TO PARTAKE OF THE UNCLEAN FLESH-MEATS OF PIGS AND THE POLLUTED ESSENCES OF TOMATO? PERHAPS YOU ARE A CAROLINA STYLE MAN, NEIGHBOR STEVE?”
“PUT THE GUN AWAY NEIGHBOR STEVE, YOU KNOW I SHALL ONLY RISE AGAIN WITH THE DAWNING OF THE MOON. WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH THIS MANY TIMES.”
“LOOK AT THIS PICTURE MY SON DREW OF YOU AND CHILD TIMMY, YOUR SON. ARE THEY NOT THE PICTURE OF PACT-MATES? THIS COULD BE YOU AND ME, NEIGHBOR STEVE.”
“YOU MISSED THE UNHOLY NEXUS OF POWER THAT IS THE KEY TO MY CORPOREAL FORM, NEIGHBOR STEVE. YOU WILL NEED TO RELOAD NOW, SO I WILL GO INSIDE TO MY HELL-WIFE AND PUT YOU DOWN AS A SOLID ‘MAYBE’.“
Drew a comic thing of the neighbors.
My Huz and I laughed about this for like ten minutes. You have to read it in Frank the Bunny’s (from Donnie Darko) voice and realize if you ever looked outside your window one day and saw this you’d probably piss yourself
that is the exact voice I read this in holy hell
Anonymous asked:
hey dude! i'm a college student about to graduate. i have a mini-job at a studio. i'm in that place between being good at boarding and being meh at boarding. i was well aware of the big fish little pond effect in college, and trust me, i cried & worried in my room a lot about it at 4 am, scribbling on a tablet. i didn't go to art school. i am by no means like that guy who asked you about being "picky." i've been on the grind. but if i present myself now, and i am mediocre, will i be blacklisted?
oweeeeendennis answered:
Dude, this isn’t a sweet 16. Lots of people have tried out multiple times for shows. You don’t just release your work to the world once and then it’s done, you constantly update it with what you’re doing now. No one cares what your abilities were a long time ago, they want to know what you can do for them right now.
Here is a situation that will never, ever, EVER, happen:
Someone says they’re looking for applicants for a job. You submit your work. They say: “Nah, this doesn’t really fit the aesthetic we’re looking for. I’m never going to hire this person and I’m going to make sure to tell all my friends to not hire them too.”
Cut to three years later.
Someone says they’re looking for applicants for a job. You submit your work. They say: “Hey, remember how I’ve seen an infinite number of artists in the past three years? I remember this one specific artist that I passed on because I didn’t like their work three years ago, even though I haven’t thought about that moment since it happened. I see that they’ve improved their work and that it might actually fit the aesthetic of the show I’m hiring for, but I decided three years ago that I’m blacklisting them, so I’m not going to hire them.”
Rest easy in the fact that this doesn’t happen and it will never happen. If it does somehow happen though, it’s good, because I can tell you that no amount of money they’d pay you would be worth working on a show where that’s their attitude.
Also the term blacklist is a bit of a misnomer in terms of entertainment. It’s not actually a list somewhere that every person in the industry cross references and goes: “Oh, I see someone somewhere put this person on a list, I guess I won’t hire them.” Blacklisting is what happens when someone is just an awful person and their reputation of awfulness gets so infamous that every person on their own sort of decides they don’t want to hire them. They won’t hire them because either no one wants to be associated with their awfulness, or they don’t want to put up with it. Everyone has a personal list in their head of people they would never work for, with, or hire, but IMDb Pro doesn’t turn on a frowny face feature next to blacklisted artists.
On you saying you’re mediocre, here’s the thing: I am mediocre. I am somehow tricking everyone at Cartoon Network and they haven’t figured it out yet. I see things that other people do every day that make me go “Wow, that person is really great, I’m not as good as them.” Long Live the Royals is amazing! Steven Universe is amazing! There are a bunch of CN pilots I’ve seen that are amazing! Everyone makes such amazing stuff! The thing is, they also say that about my stuff. They say “Wow, your stuff is amazing! My stuff is mediocre” and I’m like “Why are you so dumb? Why can’t you see how incredibly talented you are?”
That’s because everyone feels this way about their own work. You’re always judging against some ideal in your head. The reason this happens isn’t some humbling/self-defeatist thing, it’s simply because you have more information about your own work than you have about others’ work. You were there when you were brainstorming an idea from nothing. You saw the initial sketch. You remember all the dumb directions you thought to go before getting to your final product. You remember the countless times you redrew a face because it wasn’t smarmy enough. You remember slaving over the exact phrasing of a sentence and whether the character should say “I won’t be coming home tonight” or “I’m not coming home tonight.” You know absolutely EVERYTHING about your work and you can never know that about someone else’s, so you feel yours is somehow inferior.
So what if you’re mediocre? Everyone is! That’s what mediocre means! Show people what you’ve made. If they like it they’ll get back to you, if they don’t they won’t. Some studios might get back to you even if they pass, but most won’t and they’ll just sort of feel guilty about it for a day and then forget all about it.
Either way, make stuff and show it to people, because that’s the only way you’re going to go further. You can’t move up without moving stuff out of your hands and into people’s faces.
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