Science Fiction And Fantasy Isn’t Just A White People Thing! I’ve Talked About Some Of These Books

Epic

Art by Maxime Desmettre

Beautiful

Art by Camilla Roeder

Still hilarious; even more so it comic form!

PHEW, it’s finally done! I debuted it at the CR weekend to the cast, but now that I’m back and it went up on the Patreon, I can share it here! I’ve been working on it in my spare time (of which there is SO LITTLE), but this moment was so good, I just had to ^_^

Enjoy!

Very interesting, I guess if it ain't broke don't fix it.

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. 

Beautiful

Avalon by puimun

This fits me to a T

I keep buying books because in the future I’m gonna have a kickass library with two floors and a fireplace so I need to start collecting books to fill it with

I love this artist/architect's work; so beautiful.

writ in water ~ mark wallinger + studio octopi | photos andrew butler © national trust at runnymede

I'm not sure if I should be amazed or worried by how far animatronics have come as far as realism goes. If they can make entertainment robots be so animated and move realistically, whose to say they haven't already made some for more "productive" purposes...

it took me like 3 minutes to process the fact that this wasnt cgi 

Amazing, remeniscent of the rabbit whole in 'Alice..'

Art:

Susanna Hesselberg, “When My Father Died It Was Like a Whole Library Had Burned Down” (2015)

Photo of art:

by Claire Voon for Hyperallergic

This is amazing, sign me up?

Barnes and Nobles is gonna start serving food and alcohol.

Everybody’s cracking jokes about how it’s a desperate attempt to stay relevant in the age of Amazon.

But you know what? Props to them. This is exactly what Blockbuster didn’t do. At no point was Blockbuster like “Hey, movie rentals aren’t the lucrative enterprise they once were. Perhaps it’s time we become known for our cheesy garlic bread.”