Laundrosaurus, a piece of household surrealism, by Helga Stentzel

Advertising on Twitter vs Tumblr

I was thinking about the different tone/personality of the two websites I advertise most on, and I definitely prefer Tumblr but I reach a more professional/sciency audience over on Twitter, but also there's so many restrictions on what you can say there and still get it seen. This has only gotten worse recently and we all know why.

I think I have four main groups of people who enjoy my work, there's a bunch of overlap:

• Animal enthusiasts (These people either really love one specific group of critters, or really love animals in general.)
• Obscure pet owners (They love their fish and are delighted that someone, somewhere has made a plush of their specific favourite species)
• Furries (Love y'all, tend to buy the BIG plushies, usually the mammals)
• Researchers/Scientists (These people love one specific group of animals and they're studying them, sometimes want a plushie for outreach but usually it's secretly for themselves)

Honestly I fit into all these categories and that's why I think I draw this kind of person to my work, because ADHD will not let me do anything I personally don't enjoy.

So, where abouts do you think you fit best?

This might seem like market research or something but I'm literally just curious and will forget the results in 2 seconds and it will not impact how I do anything in future business-wise because I have the forwards thinking capability of a slug.

I know the categories have a lot of overlap, I wish you could have it so you can select more than one option... I'm all of 'em.

Hearing them get so excited over the whale fall is so fun I love hearing people who are passionate about their work

Fascinating to see how low energy this ecosystem is. This is the greatest bounty these animals will probably see in their lives, and they’re sleepily shuffling toward it, because their body literally lacks the energy to move any faster than that. To them it probably feels like breakneck speed.

He loves his corn pillow

CORN BOY CORN BOY

yeah

I'm very easily amused.

chinese mantou (steamd bread) be like

... what

We find it extremely funny how apparently the way Transformers writers solved the weird discrepancy between how many male and female Cybertronians there are was to just go. "Hey, they're an asexual species anyways. What if they're all born with masc-leaning presentation, but once they came in contact with aliens that have sexual dimorphism, some of them were like 'Yoooooo girl is an option?????' and started going by she." So every femformer is canonically a trans girl now.

new robot genders just dropped: default, and Having Fun With It

what is he hearing with them big ol ears