the land of taunts and atlases

Hi! I'm acerbicTomes. I always thought I was a Hermione, but actually I'm more of a Ron. My pretentious custom hipster tags: College tag: the inevitable heat death of my gpa Chinese-American childhood tag: my shitty mandarin childhood Attempts to make people read manga I like tag: manga of the acerbic My primary fandom tags are up on the right (click the applicable scarf), but here're some I was too lazy to find a scarf for: Disney, Fullmetal Alchemist, art, girls, Pacific Rim, scenery, food and Kill la Kill. Not putting my hot dude or hot lady tag on here, because... people I know read this blog. Jeez.

[thatadult]

sending “I hope you get that job” vibes to the people out here tryna get jobs

[theeeprotagonist]

reblogging for yall bc the shit worked for me lol

[blkmedusa]

Karma will pop me if I don’t

[blackatdp]

Bruce winning a fight against an unbeatable foe with compassion.

[traceexcalibur]

[xxinksxx]

“I’m still angry though. How do I stop being angry?”

“You don’t. It’s okay to be angry. Use that anger to make change.”

[days-e]

  ❀ Plants 🌿

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

People who don’t want to read The Martian in case the science is too complicated should be informed that it contains the lines “The best way to store the ingredients of water is to make them be water”, “It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft”, and “If I cut a hole in the wall of the hab, the air won’t stay inside any more”.

[neilarmstrong]

I love this fucking book

[osheamobile]

“I’ve said the words kilowatt-hours-per-sol so many times they’ve lost all meaning so I’m going to call them pirate-ninjas.

“So I need to generate nine hundred pirate-ninjas…”

[magnificentbane-deactivated2019]

there’s an entire chapter dedicated to him wondering how the cubs are doing while he’s stuck on mars, dying

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I like the part where the guys on Earth are like “He thinks we all gave up on him, and that he’s completely alone. I wonder what he’s thinking about right now.” And he’s like “How come Aquaman can control whales?”

[wishgrub]

we are all 2010 ted talk taika waititi

[lunariteonthemoon]

Finally my second Overwatch Academy Poster ! I have added Efi into the group and decided to make Hanzo a senior instead of a teacher, because I am making Mccree a new teacher to the academy 😉 If you know what I mean !

I really hope you guys would like it! Was painting it with all my hearts for a whole damn week after my day job 😭 It’s very tiring yet rewarding at the same time, wish to have more time to do this !

Cheers love! Happy Holidays!

[moved-to-naltorians-blog]

kfkfdjd

[tockthewatchdog-deactivated2020]

[notbecauseofvictories]

{ EVEN IF I CAN’T } songs for getting up again

SING, patrick wolf  //  I’LL BE GOOD, jaymes young  //  THE BEGINNING SONG, the decemberists  //  KEEPING WARM, we were promised jetpacks  //  HARD AS HELLO, kimberly anne  //  LEVEL UP, vienna teng  //  THIS IS WHY WE FIGHT, the decemberists  //  WALK THROUGH WALLS, kyla la grange  //  FORCES OF THE UNSEEN, cloud cult  //  ONCE THERE WAS A HUSHPUPPY, dan romer & benh zeitlin

{cover art credit}

[markv5]

Моя милота

[deb-oceans]

gif request meme » @vixencanary asked: ↳ favorite platonic relationship (b99) rosa diaz/captain holt

[cesaray]

Kedi (2016) 

[frankbelloriley]

I’m a dumb idiot who needed Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria to hit in the same month to realize Kaijus in Pacific Rim were a metaphor for climate change and hurricanes and, like, the movie isn’t even subtle about it

[pizzamozzerella-deactivated2019]

there’s a very long tradition in monster movies (and kaiju eiga if you wanna be specific) of monsters as allegory for natural disasters, pollution and climate change. Godzilla vs Hedorah is a really good example where the enemy is literally sentient pollution, and pacific rim does the same thing it did in taking widesweeping environmental issues and linking it DIRECTLY to the appearance of these monsters, both with the above examples and newt’s dialogue after he drifts with the kaiju brain and points out that climate change and co2 emissions means we practically terraformed our planet for these aliens to come BACK and take over. Monster movies are a LOT of different things and can be very silly and absurd but they can also be built around very serious and specific messages about the condition of our planet, and in many ways messages about human impact on the environment has been built into modern monster movies since the very beginning (looking at the impact the original ‘godzilla’ had on pop culture and monster movies the world over)(its also worth noting that this probably extends into many other monster films and franchises from many other countries that i havent seen)

[legalizeact]

#SaveTheTrees

[estrolatte]

I feel like an important message is trying to be communicated to me but I have no idea what it is

Our forests are being cut down 3x faster than they can grow! One acre of hemp produces as much cellulose fiber pulp as 4.1 acres of trees!!! This is super useful for so many things, especially paper production! In addition, hemp takes in carbon dioxide 4x as fast as trees do, which makes it especially valuable in the act of reducing CO2 emissions/greenhouse gases! 🌲🌲🌲 source 

[getfawked120-deactivated2023053]

#the scope of the anti-hemp conspiracy in the united states is terrifying once you start doing research tbh#like it was initially smeared/banned bc lumber lobbyists pushed for it to be…#and a major smear tactic was to associate it with black people#who now a hundred years later are the ones primarily being imprisoned for it#and the plant itself has now been inextricably linked to the drug so people won’t even allow for it to be grown for commercial purposes#like paper making (via literallyfuckeveryone)

[temporarilypermanenturl]

Important reminder that industrial hemp can’t be used as a recreational drug, so if anyone tries to pull that card you can just stop them then and there. There are no real arguments against using industrial hemp, even if you’re rigidly against the legalization of any recreational drugs.

[dewdropdwelliing-deactivated201]

AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY I never see pro-hemp on my dash, woo!

[fenrislorsrai]

Usually the argument on why you can’t have hemp is because then people will hide marijuana in it.

yeah, sure…. if they want shitty, shitty marijuana.

It would be like growing sweet corn and dent corn together.  Yeah, they look similar at a distance and they’re closely related, but you don’t want them next to each other as they’ll cross pollinate and you’ll end up with bad versions of both.

Same deal here.  a patch of marijuana grown in an open field of hemp IS going to get contaminated and it’ll lower quality of BOTH crops.  Your hemp farmer doesn’t want that and if likely going rip out any patches trespassers try to add for same reason. 

and the big issue is not even the THC content.  Because most quality marijuana is intended to be grown indoors or greenhouses, its a dwarf variety. Short.  Fiber hemp is bred for height so as to maximize fiber production.  super tall. It’s going to be really obvious, really fast if you’ve got both in the same field even before you get to the point of pollination. what’s this runty bullshit doing in my field?

They also have different growing needs with regards to spacing, harvest time, etc. so the argument that you can hide marijuana in industrial hemp fields are basically bullshit.

anyway… aside from paper, hemp fiber can also be used to make earthquake resistant concrete that’s actually LIGHTER than conventional concrete while being stronger. It’s better at resisting flexing or warping, so ideal for stuff like bridges and highway supports as it’ll better resist large temperature swings and vibration. (”hempcrete” is slightly different, but makes great fire resistant insulation)

You can also use the waste after fiber harvest for animal fodder, including silage. Comparable to corn. and remember, that’s the waste after you’ve harvested for fiber!

[phantom-solitaire]

Just to add, it can be used for paper, concrete, insulation, cloth and rope (both rough like sack cloth and smooth like cotton), bio degradable plastics (oddly same for banana trees I believe) and then of course for things like fishing lines and nets etc.

It’s a very versatile and useful plant that has been used for hundreds or maybe even thousands of years for material uses, and with modern advances is becoming even more useful thanks to chemical engineering and similar.

[blaruto]

[queensizeddonger]

@commie-saskia

[ayellowbirds]

Confirmed:

[hedidittooem-deactivated2018030]

Unconfirmed. It’s a heterosexual song 100%

[obeyev1l]

I wrote it and I’m gay as hell lmao

[doodlepede-deactivated20180902]

how about maybe

the song is for anyone

because we’ve all been there, wanting someone who’s with or wanting someone else

[obeyev1l]

No…. I wrote it… it’s for The Gays™️

[tharook]

The Straights™️ are at it again.

[ninoxios]

priorities

[genufa]

Guillermo del Toro: so I need your opinion on a thing

Hideo Kojima: my time has come

[penroseparticle]

My favorite thing is that Europe is spooky because it’s old and America is spooky because it’s big

[meduseld]

“The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.” –Earle Hitchner

[burntcopper]

A fave of mine was always the american tales where people freaked out because ‘someone died in this house’ and all the europeans would go ‘…Yes? That would be pretty much every house over 40 years old.’

‘…My school is older than your entire town.’

‘Sorry, you think *how far* is okay to travel for a shopping trip?’

*American looks up at the beams in a country pub* ‘Uh, this place has woodworm, isn’t that a bit unsafe?’ ‘Eh, the woodworm’s 400 years old, it’s holding those beams together.’

[bedlamsbard]

A few years ago when I was in college I did a summer program at Cambridge aimed specifically at Americans and Canadians, and my year it was all Americans and one Australian.  We ended the program with a week in Wessex, and on the last day as we all piled onto the bus in Salisbury (or Bath? I can’t remember), the professors went to the front to warn us that we wouldn’t be making any stops unless absolutely necessary.  We’re headed to Heathrow to drop off anyone flying off the same day, then back to Cambridge.

“All right, it’s going to be a long bus ride, so make sure you’re prepared for that.”

We all brace ourselves.  A long bus ride?  How long?  We’re Americans; a long bus ride for us is a minimum of six hours with the double digits perfectly plausible.  We can handle a twelve hour bus ride as long as we get a bathroom break.

The answer.  “Two hours.”

Oh.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

English people trying to travel around Australia and wildly underestimating distance are my favourite thing

[marzipanandminutiae]

a tour guide in France told my school group that a particular cathedral wouldn’t interest us much because “it’s not very old; only from the early 1600s”

to which we had to respond that it was still older than the oldest surviving European-style buildings in our country

[iguana-sneeze]

China is both old and big. I had some Chinese colleagues over; we were discussing whether they wanted to see the Vasa ship (hugely expensive war ship which sank on it’s maiden voyage after 12 min). They asked if it was old, I said “not THAT old” (bearing in mind they were Chinese) “it’s from the 1500s.” To my surprise they still looked impressed, nodding enthusiatically. Then I realised I’d forgotten something: “…I mean it’s from the 1500s AFTER the birth of Christ” and they went “oh, AFTER…”.

[ceescedasticity]

My dad’s favorite quote from various tours in Italy was “Pay no attention to the tower – it was a [scornful tone] tenth century addition.”

[seerofbread]

I assume that the “2 hours is a long trip” sort of mentality is why, of the eight European high school students I’ve hosted, most of them would fall asleep anytime a car trip took more than 30 minutes, and many times when it took 15-20.