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Hey, I finished drawing the rest of The Pool Scene âą!
Was inspired after reading a bunch of comics and manga to work more on this.
PARALLELS: hannibal + bluebeard
hannibal, episode 312 âthe number of the beast is 666âł // winslow homer, tableau vivant (1868) // hannibal, episode 205 âmukĆzukeâ // lydia millet, the wife killer // hannibal, episode 113 âsavoureuxâ // terri windling, the story of bluebeard // hannibal, episode 313 âthe wrath of the lambâ // lydia millet, the wife killer // hannibal, episode 112 ârelevĂ©sâÂ
Archery information for writers that no one asked for but probably some of you need and I like talking about archery, so here it is.
when you put an arrow on the string, the verb is called ânockingâ i.e. eyes glued on the target, he nocked the arrow
also the part of the arrow that gets put onto the string is called the nock. depending on the type of arrow this can be a piece of plastic glued into the arrow, or with wood or bamboo arrows it can be carved into the shaft of the arrow itself
you do not close an eye when aiming or shooting; you see better with both eyes open.
everyone has a dominant eye that more naturally your brain focuses with. that determines whether you are right or left handed when shooting, and doesnât necessarily correlate to whether the person is right or left handed in anything else
so if youâre writing a character who has difficulty seeing out of one eye, take that into account when they are shooting
if they are right eye dominant, they hold the bow with their left hand and draw the string with their right. if they are left eye dominant, they hold the bow with their right hand and draw the string with their left
if they shoot left, the quiver sits on their left side/hip/thigh. shoot right - right side quiver.
there are several different ways to draw, if you are writing something historical or in a specific region, then do research on that style of archery. but for a generic place to start that is a more universal way of drawing a bow, here are some things to include
the chin stays down. raising your chin will fuck up your aim
the pointer finger on your draw hand rests on the side of your chin/jaw, and the string of the bow will touch the tip of the archerâs nose
weight is on the balls of your feet, leaning slightly forward off your heels
if it is an older bow/barebow, there is not usually a place for the arrow to rest on the bow. this means the arrow rests on the archerâs hand. if they are not wearing a glove on that hand, the fletchings (thatâs the feathers on the arrow) will more than likely slice their hand when firing. this scars.
so if youâre wanting to describe someone observing and archerâs hands (hands are hot, donât @ me) they would see a silver scar about halfway between the pointer finger knuckle and palm of the personâs hand. (turn your hand vertical and trace down the length of your pointer toward your thumb and stop next to the knuckle. that spot there.)
most archers wear something to protect their fingers on the hand that draws the bow. even with that, they have callouses. without it, a lot of callouses, scars, and blisters.
most common draw uses three fingers on the string: pointer, middle, ring. the arrow sits between the pointer and middle. just like where the draw point is, this is not universal and do research if youâre doing something culturally important.
barebow means that the bow is bare of any instruments. no sight, no weights, etc. the most basic/traditional form of bow
a recurve bow is anything where the tips of the bow curve back around forward, away from the archer
a compound is what you think of as a modern hunting bow, and is recognisable by having wheels at the ends and three strings
arrows have three fletchings that form a triangle, the point faces the archer so that the flat of the arrow will pass the flat of the bow on release. the arrow sits on the side of the bow facing the archer
archers with a larger/raised chest will sometimes where a chest protect so that the string does not catch when firing (this is regardless of gender, i know several cis-men who need it as well)
string can also catch on the forearm that is holding the bow and creates bruises and welts if you donât wear a protector. modern ones are small plastic and cover just the spot, with elastic holding it in place. traditional ones are leather and wrap all the way around, lacing up on the back of your arm like a corset.
there is literally so much more, but i feel like this is plenty to get you started, and as always, feel free to drop an ask in my box if you need something more!
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Thatâs a good thing!
@copperbadge CAN SAVE US FROM THE PIGEONS!
I HAVE NO WISH TO GO TO WAR WITH THE PIGEONS! The punching was a horrible accident!Â
I am not the chosen one!
wow i really wanna get back into roleplaying but itâs like that good vibe is gone. idek if there are even any more rps that are worth a damn.
big sad
I feel ya!!!
ATG ruined me for rp groups lmao itâs like how will I ever find anything nearly as good?
Man Idk. Those were good peoples!
wow i really wanna get back into roleplaying but itâs like that good vibe is gone. idek if there are even any more rps that are worth a damn.
big sad
I feel ya!!!
Since I canât find the original posts (and if anyone can, let me know) Iâll just post this image to show people, who may not know, where all this âhumans are space orcsâ stuff started.Â
Humans are weird.
Has anyone ever thought about how STRANGE it is that not only do we keep genetically modified apex predators in our homes and packbond with them, but make a point to irritate the SHIT out of them sometimes?
Example: My Karelian Bear Dog (a species ENGINEERED to intimidate and take down a predator four to ten times their size) HATES, absolutely HATES having her ears blown on. It drives her nuts. So what does my entire family do on a regular basis? We blow raspberries at her ( a strange phrase if ever there was) and blow in her ears. This dog snaps her teeth, and growls, and paws at us like shes going to scratch when she gets irritated, and normally that would be a pretty big âFUCK OFF, IâLL KILL YOUâ signal, right?
After all, this is a predator that is meant to kill and maim things TEN TIMES HER SIZE. But no.
We get closer. We stick our faces RIGHT next to hers and play a game. Iâll get right up in her face and gasp, and hold my breath there. Iâll WAIT for her to get impatient and start snorting because âI know itâs coming, you dickbag, bring it on!â And then Iâll blow a giant raspberry at her nose.
She snaps her teeth, and playbites my hand, and whuffles and whines because âFUCK! I hate that, human-packmate!â She rubs her nose with her paws and I laugh. Because itâs cute as shit and funny.
Anyway, not only do humans packbond with dangerous things, we make a point to irritate them because itâs FUNNY.
Disney movies and cartoons
The Walt Disney Company as a corporation
Keep in mind, Iâm talking specifically about the higher ups here. The people who make all the business decisions.
I ainât talking about the hard-working writers and animators and directors and shit.
This is how I feel about most companies. The content is either good, enjoyable, or useful, and I still like consuming it, but the company in general is shitty (again, like the higher ups and stuff, not those working for the company who are literally working their asses off just trying to make a living)
Finally a post about Disney Im not rolling my eyes at, thank you
do you have any plans on playing the uuuhhh..... kfc dating sim coming out soon? and yes... kfc as in the fried chicken place
excuse me ?
nevermind i cant actually bring myself to google this i cant have âkfc dating simâ in my search history i cant
Okay, I frickinâ adore the Earth Is Space Australia business, so hereâs my two cents. Someone did a great post about laughter as a fear response and how freaky that would be to aliens.Â
Thereâs another thing we do when weâre about to go into battle and weâre scared out of our minds.Â
So Alien Steve is minding his own business as the new guy on the Starship Incandescent. Itâs a mixed ship, about half human, a quarter Silesian, and the rest a grab bag of species, but he hasnât had any major problems so far. Then the pirates show up and shoot out their FTL drives so they canât escape, and theyâre outnumbered ten to one, and he calculates their odds of survival at very low. The comm link is still active, so they can hear the pirates laughing as they get ready to tear the Incandescent open and vent them all into vacuum. At least the end will be quick.Â
And then he hears it.Â
Stamp stamp clap. Stamp stamp clap. Stamp stamp clap. Stamp stamp clap.
And Human Steve starts chanting. It makes no sense. Human incantations are for birth anniversaries, or aquatic grooming rituals, or for the ancient rite of passage known as âka-ra-okeâ. This is not a time of celebration. It is a time of preparing for imminent and ugly death by gravity cannon. But every human on the bridge starts chanting, too.Â
The pirates arenât laughing anymore. Human Steve wraps his fingers around the main gunnery controls, and the crew descends as one into battle.Â
Teradecads later, his students will beg him for the story of how the Incandescent destroyed the Tynâx Syndicate. To this day he credits their victory to the invocation of the great Human battle god Queen.
I love and hate the fact that I knew exactly what song this was just from the way itâs written here
i love the idea of alien steve researching human mythology trying to figure out WHICH battle queen their crew has been secretly worshipping all this time. athena? oya? the morrigan? sekhmet? pele? are they all one goddess?
finally they give up and just ask human steve.
human steve grins a slow grin (which is always a bit scary) and says, âiâll give you a hint. sheâs dynamite with a laser beam.â
That last line gave me shivers
Alien: Youâre telling me that in times of great distress humans have been known to suddenly gain the strength necessary to lift objects more than a dozen times their own weight?!
Human: Yeah, itâs called âhysterical strengthâ and it usually happens in life-or-death situations, like when someone gets stuck under a car or something and someone lifts the car to get them out. We canât really test it though, âcause it only happens spontaneously.
Alien: Humans have the ability to tap into untold strength and power and you donât even know how you do it?
Human: Pretty much, yeah. We think it has something to do with temporary analgesia, so we just donât feel the pain we should when we pick up a 3000-pound car.
Alien: YOUR PAIN RESPONSE JUST SHUTS OFF?
Human: Yeah, itâs like an adrenaline thing? Do you not have that?
Alien: Fuck you and your entire species of tiny juggernauts.
Did this post just use a dialogue format to trick me into learning science
Had to check this out on wikipedia at least and boy was that a ride
SCIENCE!
Just so you guys know. Hysterical strength is basically your body not holding back and going %100 though there is a great danger of you hurting yourself or breaking something since your ignoring pain and going %100. There was a case where a kid deadlifted a car to save a sibling but,cracked 8 of his teeth during it because he was clenching his jaw so hard. So whilst you can lift a car or fight off polar bears. Your probably going to break something. Because most of the time when we are âgiving our allâ we are only giving a fraction of what we could give and this is because if we truly give our all we can seriously injure ourselves.
This is literally an explanation of Deku and his abilities with One For All.
Space Is Not That Cool When The Ocean Is Already Full of Weird Shit
Does the Ocean have GIANT SPINNING BALLS THAT EMITE RADIATION?
no, but it has this thing!
Donât forget about this other thing!
and these things!
i really like this thing!
I love the holographic special editions!
Come down the trenches! We have
Plastic bags
Old Man McGregor
Sea Swine
Underwater Lipstick
This Geek
Sheepshead Fish because Peopletoothed Fish was taken
A dick
Seizure machines
Seamus who I met at a Rave in downtown Seattle once.
Cosmic Brain if nothing was going on in there
And Much Much More
Literally what is going on at the bottom of the ocean
Thatâs what happens when life is unsupervised
I think that one of the funniest things about the âEarth is a death planet and humanâs are space orcsâ posts and stuff is that thatâs literally a major plot point in Animorphs. Like, the aliens in the series frequently comment on how there is just an extremely excessive amount animals with unique ways to kill or maim you on the planet, and that humans, despite looking fragile and weak in comparison, are scary as shit because theyâre stubborn and ruthless and refuse to stop even when any sane species would have given up ages ago. Like there are aliens described as âwalking salad shootersâ with bladed spikes shooting out all over their bodies, and then you find out that all of that is just so they can harvest tree bark to eat and a whole army of them can be disabled by a single skunk. It is described in loving detail all the different ways a house cat can fuck you up, and donât even get me started on actual predators and the damage they can do when a ridiculous stubborn, reckless, and creative human brain is whatâs controlling them. The alien invaders comment about how theyâre going to have to basically kill off 90% of earths species once they win the war because the planet is so damn excessive about this whole âmurder animalsâ thing, and sometimes theyâre even like âyou know, in hindsight, this is not nearly as easy as we assumed it would beâ
âIt suddenly became real,â one trans staff member told BuzzFeed News. âIâm entering this building with people who are denying my humanity.â
A transgender employee of The Guardian â which once called itself the âworldâs leading liberal voiceâ â has resigned accusing the newspaper in an email to staff of being âan incredibly transphobic organisationâ.
In a cutting resignation letter sent last month, the employee said the paper âfundamentally not only stands against my own values but also against what I amâ. A second staff member resigned weeks later, also citing the âharmâ they say the newspaper is doing to trans people.
Following the leak of the email to BuzzFeed News, the trans employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said she felt complicit in the newspaperâs âtransphobicâ reporting by continuing to work there, and revealed the damaging effect the Guardianâs coverage of transgender people has had on her wellbeing. This included fear of using the womenâs toilet at work.
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For Victoria, the turning point came in October 2018 when the Guardian published what became a notorious editorial â a leader article setting out its official position on trans rights â which, it said, âcollideâ with womenâs rights and put women at risk. This was despite LGBT organisations and many prominent feminists and womenâs groups asserting the opposite.
But Victoriaâs immediate concern was that she had to go to work the next day, knowing what her employerâs publicly-stated position was on her. âIt suddenly became real,â she said, before characterising her thought process that morning: âIâm entering this building with people who are denying my humanity.â
Victoria said that when she first transitioned, years ago, âI would be freaked out about toilets and would walk in very quickly, just run to the stall and run back,â but following the article written by colleagues, âI started doing that in the Guardian.â
She raised concerns about the editorial with her line manager who promised to take it further, but, Victoria said, âI never heard anything more from it.â The daily morning conference would have also provided an opportunity to respond to the editorial but Victoria feared a hostile reception. âI thought, âIâm not walking in that room, me, alone against this bunch of people to discuss this. I think they understand perfectly what they are doing. Thereâs power in that room and power differences â we are not all equals.â
Shortly after, during two separate incidents at informal drinks with colleagues, one member of staff who had previously been Victoriaâs friend at work defended the article, she said, and began citing trans women in sports as a reason to attack trans rights. Another colleague, she said, âpoked funâ at her, asked if she was trans, and told her, âIf you went to prison Iâm not sure which prison you should go to.â
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Before accepting her job two years ago, Victoria said she thought she could help change things at the Guardian, and hoped it was not prejudice informing the position of some there but rather a lack of knowledge. While she found the latter to often be the case there remains âa group of powerful people who are transphobicâ at the organisation, âwho have an agenda to pushâ, she said.
More at the link.
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The Guardian is incredibly transphobic. Recently, trans youth charity Mermaids offered them an interview with a young trans person and their mother who both wanted to share positive stories of the support they received in youth gender identity services. The Guardian, as well as several other journalists, turned it down.
The next day, The Guardian ran a story about how the âtrans lobbyâ is forcing kids to transition by not offering them balanced support.
The Guardian made its position very clear. They are a liberal newspaper, not a leftist paper, and they believe supporting âwomenâs rightsâ means shitting on trans people, especially trans women and children.
Try The Independent instead. Theyâre not perfect (no UK news outlet is unbiased or based entirely in facts any more) but, unlike The Guardian, their opinion pieces arenât written by adamant TERFs.