1. Oddly Specific

"Muime, I think Spiral Bear is hurt." (Spiral Bear is a stuffed animal given to him by my friend Monique when he was a baby)

"Really? What's wrong with her?"

"She fell off her bike and did a face-plant on the pavement."

2. Unexpected Bedtime Hazards

Just when I almost had him asleep, he suddenly sat up and tried to get out of bed. " ( Read more... )

One small but awesome present I got for Giftmas, from lgbtech, was a set of 6-sided dice called Story Cubes, with pictures on them that you can use for various storytelling games. They were the source of much entertainment on an evening out we had with curgoth, mycrazyhair and several other friends. The idea was, according to the box, to divide the dice among all present ( Read more... )

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If anyone has ever wondered why I love deepseanews so much ( Read more... )

OK, this (found via deepseanews, whence come all things creepy and ocean-related but not penned specifically by H.P.Lovecraft): Oceana, an ocean conservation organization, are running a "freakiest fish contest" where you can vote on which of 13 brain-bendingly bizarre undersea creatures (not all of them fish, actually) is your favourite ( Read more... )

LOLRhizocephalans: Plotting to Take Over the World

More evidence that this is the most brilliant twisted science blog in the entire Interwebz.

If for some strange reason you do not yet have their RSS feed on your friends page, you may correct that oversight here: deepseanewsAssuming, of course, that you enjoy reading about freakish quasi-Lovecraftian (but ( Read more... )

From Deep Sea News:
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You need to see the top entries from an underwater photography competition. The good ones are mainly in categories 1 & 3 -- 2 & 4 are not so interesting. 5 is kind of cool, but I wish they didn't have all the videos play at the same time ( Read more... )