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Happy anniversary, Good Omens!

It’s been 30 years since the book hit the shelves, and almost one year since the show landed on our screens. It’s time to celebrate another thing that’s good about Good Omens: the fans. Here’s one more way to spread the word: fic rec bingo! [insp / insp] 

The way it works is simple. Pick a row, column, diagonal, or the four corners, and reblog this post with a short list of fic recs! (If you haven’t written your own fic, the Free Space can be used to rec any fic of your choosing.) Choose a different fic for each square in your line, be sure to include links, and garner bonus points for a quick description of why these fics are your favs. Old favourites, hidden gems, new loves–share them all. Feel free to over-achieve, and go for the full blackout! 

Don’t forget to kudos and comment on the fics you read, rec, and discover! I can’t wait to read what you’ve been reading!

Photographer Lloyd Meudell captures surrealistic images of breaking sea foam. Interestingly, the sea foam is essentially a three-phase fluid made up of air, water, and sand. Yet despite the surrealism of its forms, the foam bears strong resemblance to other flows. The shapes the foam forms are reminiscent of vibrated non-Newtonian fluids like paint or oobleck. Momentum deforms the foam into sheets and ligaments smoothed and held together by surface tension until droplets snap free. You can find more of Meudell’s work at his site. (Image credits: L. Meudell; via freakingmindblowing; submitted by molecular-freedom)

Beware!

*crouches to go into stealth*

the cracking of my knees alerts the guards, I am immediately killed

Trivia for Rear Window (1954) dir Alfred Hitchcock

Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them. 

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.” 

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just. 

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job. 

All 13 full moons of 2023

Old Catradora art Noelle posted on her Twitter just now

I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.