ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:

Do not attempt to out-malicious-compliance the staff at the malicious compliance conference.

Some dipshit decided to pay the conference fee ($250) in quarters. He handed us a wrapped plastic bag full of loose change. “It’s all there,” he said with a shit-eating grin, “you can count it.”

Oh buddy. We’re going to count it. What were you expecting?

At about the time I got to $60, he offered to give us $300 collateral so he could get his badge and go to the conference.

No, bud. You get to watch the most dyscalculic staffer count to a thousand while all your friends go in to the breakfast and find seats for the first talk.

“Ruining someone’s day” is the favorite hobby of everyone here. Why would you hand us the perfect opportunity to wreck your shit and think that was an own? Half the con is calling him “Untraceable,” the other half is calling him “Quarter Boy” and nobody cares what he says his handle is.

I spent an hour counting that and made him go fetch me baggies to hold it every fifty dollars.

This ended up being a good bonus prank for me too, because when the counting was done I wrapped the bags in gaffer’s tape and spent the rest of the day handing it to people very casually while saying “oh here, hold this for a sec” and then watching they weren’t ready for the weight (I only did this to people I know well enough to know this wouldn’t hurt them).

It’s an infosec conference, so it’s a weekend in a hotel full of people whose favorite thing is breaking the law and whose second favorite thing is following the letter of the law while cheerfully violating the spirit.

catboyelimgarak:

Julian wakes up from his coma after Enigma Tales and he gets all this treatment to get his body up and going again like a healthy diet and physical therapy of course, but also they have a human Chiropractor come in and help his bones crack after months of being bed bound and the stress from Section 31 and all that. And Garak and Parmak have to watch as this bone-guy holds and moves and just handles Julian all over and holds him closely to crack his bones and Julian is left moaning in satisfaction and going starry eyes because it feels so good. And Garak is just kind of glaring and looking pissed because he’s jealous of this bone-dude making his doctor just so limp in bliss, even has Parmak tries to reason with him that it’s just feel good sensations…but he’s also jealous too bc he’s been getting super close to julian >c

elvenmoans:

erynalasse:

quixoticanarchy:

bitterfoam:

//in trying to find out if The Children of Húrin was ever translated into Icelandic (there are quite a lot of name changes in Hobbitinn) I have instead found something more interesting:

[id: screenshot of a wikipedia subheading “In science” with the text “In 1999, Finnish entomologist Lauri Kaila named three species of moth, Elachista turinella, Elachista morwenella, and Elachista nienorella, after Túrin, Morwen, and Niënor respectively.” end id]

Oh ho ho, my friends, it gets so much better. Please enjoy this list of THIRTY-SEVEN (37) Tolkien-inspired moth names from the same researcher, all painstakingly extracted from the Wikipedia article on this genus. I wish I were this dedicated of a fan.

Also:

• The Children of Húrin gets even more names. Túrin even gets Dagnir and Neithan in there.
• How many goddamn moth species can a single person name in ONE YEAR? I wish my 1999 was that productive.
• Special honors for most obscure reference goes to Elachista ibunella, who’s named after Ibûn the fucking petty-dwarf, who I also had to look up to double-check.

Elachista aerinella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista amrodella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista aranella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista aredhella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista arthadella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista bregorella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista caranthirella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista celegormella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista curufinella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista daeronella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista dagnirella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista diorella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista eilinella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista finarfinella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista galadella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista gildorella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista gorlimella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista guilinella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista haldarella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista ibunella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista indisella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista maglorella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista marachella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista miriella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista morwenella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista neithanella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista nienorella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista olorinella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista ragnorella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista rianella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista serindella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista tauronella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista telcharella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista telerella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista turgonella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista tuorella: Kaila, 1999

Elachista turinella: Kaila, 1999

This is the nerdiest thing I’ve ever seen and I’m living for it

starbashir:

this might be the fucken funniest screencap of garak ive ever seen

unicorn-and-bluebells:

groovycowboys:

groovycowboys:

i… made a quiz about which archetype in wild west movies you’d be. link in reblogs

here you go pardner

I almost didn’t take this bc I usually fucking hate wild west movies but here’s what I got

the retired gunslinger

you’re known around town through whispers and head nods, but in reality you’re probably easy to find- at the corner table playing cards. you’re notorious for your skill, and in your youth you were wild and reckless, but you’ve tried to settle down. when trouble comes to town, you summon the old guard and take care of business before falling gently back into the shadows.