I asked in vain!
I still don't know what was behind that scary glowing door. In Metatalk, The corpse in the library asks What AskMe of yours are you still curious about? What was never resolved?
I still don't know what was behind that scary glowing door. In Metatalk, The corpse in the library asks What AskMe of yours are you still curious about? What was never resolved?
omg, it's hidden treasure! Wobbuffet's FPPs I never posted (March edition) in the flipping free thread. (And don't miss the ones that were posted!)
Weird Science theme week has ended (see all the excellent weird science posts here!), and for the second theme of our August fundraising month, Sweet Art week has begun! Please help us make a spectacle of ourselves by posting all your favorite arty sites, works, and stories. 💖
📈🚀🔬👩🏽🔬👀⁉️ We're having theme weeks as part of our fundraising month, and the theme for this week is WEIRD SCIENCE! Also currently in Metatalk, Show Us Your View!
Jessamyn has been making sponsored posts for Mefi fundraising month, and so far we have great posts on accidental isolators, Black Monday and other days of the week, Nadia Comăneci, guitar effects pedals, the first Black woman to visit every country in the world, how maps in the media make us more negative about migrants, and Hetty Green, the Witch of Wall Street.
crosswords ↔️ cross words
typewriters ↔️ writer types
mail order ↔️ male order?
catalog ↔️ log a cat
flash fiction ↔️ fash friction
(ps: witness kurumi's cunning coup of cruciverbalist craft!)
The Go-Go's: "a kinetic effervescence, with a pulse that shimmered and spangled"; Glorious psychedelic fish illustrations, many of actual fish; Remember those brights spots on the Dwarf Planet Ceres?; All of James Sowerby’s mineralogy compendium illustrations arranged by color; DIY hologram chocolate?; Resurrecting the art of China's dragon scale bookbinding
Peanut Sauce and pancakes, tea and sandwiches, green soup and glow honey, hamlets and mullets, pickles and cheese.
Hail Hail, what's the matter with your head, yeah
Hail Hail, what's the matter with your mind
And your sign an-a, oh-oh-oh
Hail Hail, nothin' the matter with your head
Baby find it, come on and find it
Hail with it, baby, 'cause you're fine
And you're mine, and you look so divine ...
Peter Brathwaite recreates historic Black portraiture at home; 2020: A sheltering in place Space Odyssey; hopping back in time to Chrono Trigger; posting Cats of travels past; Star Trek, The New Regeneration: integrating the outtakes; revisiting the prescient Hollow Man; back to the future with the first science fiction story, second century AD.
Mefi Halloween posts: Witch (Craft) Beer; 500 Years of “Historical” Halloween Costumes; Meet helvetica's evil twin: HELLVETICA; When Patti Lupone Haunted A Laundromat; doppelgängers, ghosts, déjà vu, familiar faces in ancient portraits; Jezebel's Annual Scary Story Contest; Reading Marx On Halloween, and more; Scary Stories to Read in the Office; goats in costumes; The House of Lost Souls; Strange things are afoot at TheMERL; Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma: An Integrative Approach (Good Omens Fanfic); Nine Inch Nails - Closer But It's Ghostbusters; Gothtober Countdown Calendar; feetloaf for dinner; "It’s just the house settling, sweetheart!"; Blair Witch, the video game; Luigi's Mansion 3; Become a horrible eldritch ocean god (game); Behind You (illustration series); How Demons Destroyed a Florida School ; Malaysian hantu: good spirits, bad spirits, and neighborly ghosts
Orange Dinosaur Slide proposes Post Your Name Month in Metatalk: post something cool related to your user name, and tag it "PostYourName"!
Reconsidering the rule against friend-linking on the MeFi front page
Hey folks, we're reconsidering the rule against friend-linking in posts, come on over to MetaTalk for more info.
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