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Hello, I'm Aiden, he/him. Here I post whatever I'm into really, so mostly anime. My art goes on AoMoose I hope you enjoy my blogs ^.^

[mammutblog]

very obsessed w ur jason. very.

thank you very much :,) here’s a jason reading the instructions tim sent him re: how to reset his computer password

[magicmooshka]

i love haikyuu i wish volleyball was real :(

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

celebration for traditional chinese festival in yangshuo, guilin, guangxi 

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2023??

Cooking with flavor bootcamp (used what I learned in this a LOT this year)

Beekeeping 101

Learn Interior Design from the British Academy of Interior Design (free to audit course - just choose the free option when you register)

Video on learning to read music that actually helped me??

How to use and sew with a sewing machine

How to ride a bike (listen. some of us never learned, and that's okay.)

How to cornrow-braid hair (I have it on good authority that this video is a godsend for doing your baby niece's black hair)

Making mead at home (I actually did this last summer and it was SO good)

How to garden

Basics of snowboarding (proceed with caution)

How to draw for people who (think they) suck at art (I know this website looks like a 2003 monstrosity, but the tutorials are excellent)

Pixel art for beginners so you can make the next great indie game

Go (back) to school

Introduction to Astronomy (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Principals of Economics (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Introduction to philosophy (free college course)

Computer science basics (full-semester Harvard course free online)

Learn a language

Japanese for Dummies (link fix from 2022)

Ukrainian

Portuguese (Brazil)

American Sign Language (as somebody who works with Deaf people professionally, I also strongly advise you to read up on Deaf/HoH culture and history!)

Chinese (Simplified)

Quenya (LOTR fantasy elf language)

[minniesvenus-deactivated2024022]

shownu's tiddy shake was THE cultural reset kpop needed

i miss him we need him

[afeelgoodblog]

Blessed Bee

[liberalsarecool]

#QuietQuitting sounds like capitalists complaining about their waning exploitation.

[slaygentford]

You know how in the ancient world they believed a very long time ago there was the age of heroes when the world was populated by super powered descendants of the gods. Chickens have that in real life but it’s the dinosaurs

[marlynnofmany]

This fits so well with the art of chickens contacting a wise ancestor:

(Source: @catadromously​’s art)

“Tell us your wisdom, O Great One!”

“My wisdom is this: bite everything.”

[silly-jellyghoty]

That art is awesome!

[everythingfox]

So proud

(via)

[babieken]

You guys….

ITS TWO SIDE OF THE SAME PICTURE, HOW-

[nutsacktorturer]

Mongolians are cool because they’ve merged their traditional and modern ways of life so rather than having poverty due to losing all their important skills they just live in their yurts with their cows and 827474874mbs internet

[nutsacktorturer]

sure their GDP in dollars is low but when you can survive like your anscestors did it doesn’t mean anything, nothing wrong with adding a motorcycle and wifi into the mix

[hieronymus-botch]

Everyone should live like their ancestors did 1000 years ago but with the addition of wifi tbh

[the-everything-man]

Adapt. Survive.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

this is the single most inspiring piece of information I have yet to come across in all my moments in this world

[byzantinefox-deactivated2018120]

where is that picture

ah here we go:

[starpeace]

i love pitting classically trained magic users against self-taught magic users in sci-fi/fantasy but it shouldn’t be snobbish disdain for them it should be terror

[starpeace]

“WHO TAUGHT YOU LIGHTNING BEFORE BASIC TELEKINESIS. LOSING MY MIND WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU JUST DID IT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAST WITH YOUR BARE HANDS”

[elidyce]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT YOU’VE ‘HACKED’ MANA DRAIN

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ‘DRINK SOME JUICE’

WHAT IS ‘LOW BLOOD SUGAR’

WHY IS THIS WORKING

I HATE YOU SO MUCH

[superjustaguyblog]

Okay but other direction can ALSO be a lot of fun

“What do you mean I don’t have to burn half my blood to create a fireball?”

“Why can you teleport more than once without vomiting? WTF is ‘quantum displacement awareness’???”

“You know HOW many spells? HOW? ... What do you mean ‘my spell book’?”

“Ooooh, you’re just summoning water portions from the Plane of Water... Lol I thought I HAD to combine hydrogen and oxygen molecules to generate water in small amounts. That’s so much easier then what I was doing!”

[anachronistic-cat]

Tags via @mia7437

[mantis-lizbian]

this does, in fact, map beautifully onto how self-taught programmers will be able to perform near miracles with they're code simply because they didn't know that conventional wisdom said the task was impossible, but can't perform many relatively simple things without a novel's worth of spaghetti code

[snoopysfriendwoodstock]

it’s honestly crazy how many ppl u meet in your early twenties who have never been in love or been in a relationship or had sex and then you’re like oh it’s actually normal and social milestones actually mean nothing bc everyone is different and has different experiences. cool!

[warm-tea-and-apple-pie]

The whole concept of “late-bloomers” is just another semingly cute name for the the belief that people have expiring dates and only youth is worth it and I wholeheartedly abhorre it

[inkskinned]

oh, i love the way relationships develop their own personal language of love. when all that joy shows the way they love you. i love when it is a little icon to who they are, to how you get along with them.

my sister takes a picture of a dead bug and sends it to me - this is you. my friend asks me how the move is going; she put a reminder in her phone to check up on me. i put a piece of ice down my friend's back, he returns the favor by holding my phone over my head and making me jump to catch it. jason and i scream-sing green day while going all of 15 miles an hour down country roads. molly is who i go to for a quiet night in with 5 dollar wine.

i go out for dinner with them and have to step outside to take a phone call; when i come back they've ordered my favorite appetizer without needing to be asked. andrew and i have a long-standing tradition of him picking me up to spike me directly into the first soft-looking surface around. i don't even need to speak to my best friend - she and i will just look at each other and have an entire conversation. burst out laughing at 3 PM, high and cackling like we're evil witches. i just moved by myself into a new city - my brother keeps introducing me to his friends that now live close to me. he always says - oh yeah, this is sibling and then pretends to ignore me. for days now, my family has been in and out of my apartment, just tinkering with things; making sure i am settling in nicely.

i usually have watermelon instead of cake for my birthday; kim forces a full yankee candle into the rind so i can have something to blow out and wish on. for 20 minutes on a saturday, all us grown adults crawl into one bed to have a cuddle puddle like we're in high school again. every 20 seconds someone starts giggling, and then we're laughing again. nick calls me from california; we both groan about the price of tickets, agonizing. miranda and i meet up in the city for the first time in years - without discussing it beforehand, the minute we lay eyes on each other, we both strike gruesome little gremlin poses instead of waving. dean always goes for the hug. joe always does a single firm handshake. sometimes i think about my friends and get so happy i just start crying.

oh, how wonderful to live in a world where affection is biologically ingrained in us. how wonderful that affection helps us build our single greatest strength - community. how wonderful that affection is our body's way of saying - thing is good, let's keep. how wonderful, this language, this skein we weave! to show the other person - i might not always say it. but i love that you live in me.

[whitepeopletwitter]

Guy Fieri

[hoodiesnightmares-deactivated20]

In August through September last year I did work on the Dixie Fire in California with a crew of my coworkers. We lived on a camp setup full of firefighters, paramedics, and other first responders.

Y’all, Guy Fieri came to the camp to make food for everyone. No charge. He was such a friendly person to everyone and was open to interacting with those who approached him. He openly expressed how much everyone’s work meant to him.

You will not hear me speak ill of Guy Fieri.

[todaysbird]

oh my god stop planting English ivy

[turtlesandfrogs]

Heartily agree. I work as a gardener, and I've spent so many, many hours controlling these species. Controlling not eliminating, especially English ivy, because so many times it has taken over a whole neighborhood, especially when the houses back up to a green space or cliff making the bulk of the plant(s) inaccessible.

For those who don't know why this is a problem yet, these plants are incredibly adaptable and competitive, creating vast monocultures because they out compete native and non- native plants alike. They're also not edible, or at least not good forage species, so all the animals that depended on the native species in that ecosystem have lost their food supply. Additionally, lots of native pollenators (bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, etc) evolved to pollinate specific plant species- if those plant species aren't around, those pollenators are out of luck.

Additionally, English ivy climbs. Buildings, fences, cliffs, trees, over passes, etc. Outside of its native range, this is a huge problem in forests, because it will tear down trees, or cover them so well that they can't photosynthesize enough to survive.

[lambylingames]

our entire dnd party got out-danced at a festival by the paladin’s elk steed’s nat20

[lambylingames]

artist’s rendition