hope is a mathematical certainty

Tom tries out Voyager's new diagnostic device (which allows doctors to experience patients' sensory input) with B'Elanna. Everything seems normal until Tom sees a new color visible only to Klingons. Soon, the whole crew is begging B’Elanna to let them see the "Klingon Color."

Torres resists on the grounds that she's "just not comfortable letting everyone on the ship feel her senses" but eventually relents and lets Harry try it.

The color was green. Tom is colorblind.

completely enamoured with this thread

Screenshot from the r/fragrance subreddit. Post title: "I want to smell inhuman." Post body: "This is probably a very weird request, but I've become fascinated by the idea of a fragrance with no humanity or warmth at all- cold, remote, imposing, untouchable. Not repulsive, but beautiful in a, well, inhuman way,..."

yeah im sold

Comment by Fair_Falcon_6083. Text: "The answer is Ganymede!! It's inhuman and also has the most bizarre Fragnatica reviews. Here are a few: "Smells like a Robot's breath." "Like a serial killer stopping in to get late-night indian food in a shady part of the city. deeply un-scrubbable perverted metallic leather." "Would render the Voight-Kampff test for Replicants unnecessary. Just take a surreptitious sniff at a suspect and inform the authorities." "Imagine whole wheat seltzer..." "If you bought your spaceship used, you spray this inside to make it smell new again. Smells like air ducts, electrical panels, and synthetic rubber seats.""

I need this perfume I NEED it

At that price I do not need it.

Is there a word for that like, “bright darkness” you get in winter?? When it’s been snowing or it’s supposed to snow past sunset and the sky isn’t Dark Enough. One of my favorite things

Thanks to @raindropwindow and a handful of articles, it’s called snow albedo, skyglow, snowglow, or just light scattering! It’s the result of moon- or artificial light reflecting off ground snow, low clouds, or ice crystals.

that nsfw snow…

…I’ll always reblog the frog.

@unpretty wasn’t this bruce?

he was the other great frog of his era, the matsumoto hoji frog from 1814

a woodblock ink print of a frog that looks like :C

Guys… Don’t forget sengai’s frog

ALCINA DIMITRESCU
resident evil village, 2021

The Birth

PSA for people who got into Barbie because of the movie:

Just because it was in the movie doesn't mean it's like, an actual fact about the line or Mattel.

Like, the idea that Earring Magic Ken was discontinued. Like. Yeah, he was, but that's how all doll releases work? He had a normal run for a doll. He wasn't cancelled early or pulled from shelves. They still make Ken dolls. "Discontinued" is really misleading. By that logic all the Barbies in Barbie land not being currently sold in stores are discontinued. Ponytail 1959 is discontinued. President Barbie is discontinued. Ect. Ect.

Also those tiktoks claiming to explain Barbie history and lore? A lot of those are spreading misinformation as well. Just be careful at taking info at face value.

Even the part where they declare there were nothing but baby dolls before Barbie--setting aside the entire rest of the history of dolls, there was already a trend for adult/teenage plastic fashion dolls, starting in the mid 1950s. Barbie just 'won' because the size was most appealing (others were larger, like Miss Revlon, or smaller, like Cisette.)

Even Mattel's version of doll history is not always trustworthy.

Yeah like, I get it was for a joke, but I've seen a lot of people take Mattel's word for it and it's annoying.

People need to keep in mind Mattel is a corporation. This movie is ultimately an AD for their dolls. They are trying to sell you things, they are not going to be 100% honest. They want to make themselves look good.

Like Ken never having a job? Funny, but not actually true. Ken has had 40+ careers during the line' long run. Growing Up Skipper was not the only time Mattel ever used the boob growing gimmick. They brought it back for MyScene in 2007.

The line's diversity is a VERY recent development. Yeah, they've had dolls of color going back to the 70's, but they were few and far between. The people behind these dolls has to really push Mattel to get them made. Do not give Mattel credit they don't deserve.

admiral hackett: shepard i need you to uh *rolls dice* rescue scientists on *spins wheel* an abandoned mining facility from *flips coin* the geth in the *throws dart* hades gamma cluster

hackett out