[Image Description: Tags reading “vibrators, STEAM-POWERED vibrators, you heard that right folks”]
The AO3 Tag of the Day is: True aesthetic dedication
Spouse is an engineer and I’m here to say steam DOES get hot, but it is quite possible to make a steam-powered vibrator that doesn’t. Think of a steam locomotive, where the boiler is kept hot but the wheels, which are powered by the boiler, do not.
So you have a boiler by the bed and then TUBES and LINKAGES, GEARS, COPPER, all the good stuff. Hell, the steam might even be used to generate electro-magnetism! So it weighs 30kg (about 65lbs). It’s awesome! Beautiful! Scientific! LOUD.
CHUNKA-CHUNKA-CHUNKA
Summon the coal-shovelers to power up the fuckinator
Summon the coal-shovelers to power up the fuckinator
The most common Victorian era steam powered vibe was called “The Manipulator” and it was a weighty beast. This is the most common photo of it.
Behold. The Fuckinator.
I have never before wanted so strongly to be manipulated
I wonder if the idea of supporting your artist friends by commissioning them will bring back having portraits of oneself in the home. but instead them being like, a status symbol, as a way to show off your very talented friends?
Like “ah yes I see you admiring the family portrait above the mantlepiece - my friend drew it, aren’t they talented? here’s their twitter they’re accepting commissions OH and they also did the one of my D&D group in the living room come see!”
they absorb nutrients from the grass through their hooves, somehow…………the process is mysterious
remembr that one time that instant cinimon oatmeal caused the yeerks to go crazy and self destruct so the animorphs planned drop some into the nutrient pool that visser 3 absorbs from?
Remember when you were a kid and you had the thought of “why would that villain want to destroy the world? Wouldn’t he die as well?” But now you are older and you understand