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mystery-box-gifs

#the devil judge #I loveeeeee these two scenes #kang yohan #kim gaon

dinatela

Mercutio version! Tybalt version here

I know these don't get many notes but it's so fun doing them

#retj #mercutio #i desperately need that mercutio supercut

peppersnobcki

Once more, with feelings – Chapter 4

by Crayyyonn ( ao3 - tumblr )

« Momoshiro is sprawled out on the couch, flicking through the channels when Kaidou returns with the food. Waving off Momoshiro’s offer to move, he places the food on the coffee table and settles himself on the floor against the couch. He’s careful not to brush against Momoshiro’s legs as he does so.

Scrutinizing the platter of sushi, he decides to take his chances with a yellowtail, closing his eyes in bliss as the combined taste of the vinegar-flavored rice and earthy fish explodes across his palate. It’s been a long time since he’s tasted his senior’s cooking, and it’s still as good as he remembers.

“Good?” Momoshiro asks quietly, and Kaidou looks up to find him watching intently. Reminiscing half smile still on his face, he hurriedly ducks his head, cheeks coloring.

“Yeah, thanks,” he mumbles. »

This drawing is based on the excerpt above.

Thanks a lot to Crayyyonn for this amazing work at giving life to Momoshiro and Kaidoh. If you don’t already know this fic, don’t wait and go check the whole story.

crayyyonn

this is beautiful thank you T_T

#momokai #art from my art wow #i'm not worthy

agentveemo

last night i had a dream gay people could only walk backwards

sleepyspoonie

by extension, straight people can only walk forward. bisexuals can walk forwards and backwards, and pansexuals can go any direction.

asexuals just stand there, staring. watching.

pastelsandpunkrock-deactivated2

this post literally explained sexualities to me thank you

sleightofpencil-deactivated2015

So…with demisexuals, do they just stand there like asexuals until someone pulls them along?

And polysexuals can walk in some directions, but not all of ‘em. Will vary from poly to poly.

human-contradiction

THANK YOU, DEMI INCLUSIVE POST

marcys-underground

When did this become a game of Chess?

hjbender

Thanos is just the latest of a long line of bastards, and he’ll be the latest to feel my vengeance. Fate wills it so.

crayyyonn

top moments in the film istg

#avengers: endgame #endgame spoilers #a4 spoilers #thor #mcu #avengers

itstartswithablankpage-deactiva

The quickest show not tell tip ever.

‘Always show, not tell,’ is a big fat lie. If you always show, you’ll have half a novel of descriptive words and flowy sentences that will be hard to read.

Here is a quick tip:

Show emotion.

Tell feelings.

Don’t tell us ‘she was sad.’ Show us- ‘Her lip trembled, and her eyes burned as she tried to keep her tears at bay.’

Don’t show us ‘her eyelids were heavy- too heavy. Her limbs could barely function and she couldn’t stop yawning.’ Tell us - ‘she felt tired that morning.’

Showing emotion will bring the reader closer to the characters, to understand their reactions better. But I don’t need to read about how slow she was moving due to tiredness.

Likewise, when you do show, keep it to a max three sentences. Two paragraphs of ‘how she was sad,’ with no dialogue or inner thought is just as boring.

#writing #good advice

valdomarx

Avengers: Infinity War aka The Bachelor: Tony Stark Edition

valdomarx

By popular request, meet the other contestants:

saucefactory-deactivated2019103

This is the version of Infinity War I would watch.

#someone write this #avengers

hellm0uths-relocated-deactivate

*pulls up to the fanfic drive-thru window* uh yeah, i’ll take a fake relationship with a side of mutual pining and thinking the other isn’t interested, thanks

nextraordinaire

#*bored author’s voice over the tannoy* d'you want fluff with that? (via @amarriageoftrueminds)

dealanexmachina

#sure and if you can throw in an extra “sharing one bed” trope, that would be great.

lolcat76

How much is it to supersize to smut?

kremblor

So if you get smut and fluff from a drive thru where do you go for angst and dark?

captaincrusher

That you order from the guy in the trenchcoat in the alley. “You want angst? I got angst”

captainheroism

Don’t act like you’re some helpless 40-year-old warlock. You’re Magnus Bane!

#i love one(1) warlock #magnus bane

hwob-deactivated20190729

#malec

amazoogle

thatssomanda

My brother saved this document and everytime he gets angry at our neighbours for being loud he prints it to their wireless printer and you can hear the wife shout “Why the fuck would you print this AGAIN?!” to her son.

auntytimblr-deactivated20150403

every time we serve chicken at work i think of this post

gallusrostromegalus

1. If you were wondering, you can type the numbers in the works cited into google and they appear to be medical journal articles about using medical imaging to detect and diagnose a rare form of Gastritis.

2. Please enjoy the offical powerpoint presentation of this paper at an academic conference by the original author, complete with Q&A:

zillyirk32

THIS IS GOLD

aprillikesthings

oh m god please watch the video it’s some of the most contagious laughter on the planet

artikgato

When I saw this cross my dash tonight, I smiled and thought “yess, the chicken chicken chicken post, I get to reblog it again and inflict it on all of the people that have followed me since last time”, and then I scrolled down more and to my utter delight there was A VIDEO, needless to say my night has been made

eliciaforever-deactivated201906

I HAVE NOT SEEN THE CHICKEN VIDEO IN TEN DAMN YEARS HOLY SHIT

STILL FUNNY

abadbowlofsoup

bastlynn

Please note the username of the video poster.

welcometoyouredoom

captain-acab

Sleipnir doesn’t make sense

One thing I never really understood was Sleipnir (meaning “slippery one” fyi) in depictions of Norse mythology. Sleipnir is an eight-legged horse, the steed of Odin and the son of Loki, and he is commonly depicted like this:

(image not mine)

But why would you depict an eight-legged horse like this? Horses gallop the same way most other mammals run, with all feet leaving the ground at one point, so having extra feet here doesn’t seem like it could make the horse any faster. I’m also not sure it would give it any more stable footing, since it doesn’t have a wider base.

If you want a stable eight-legged form that can reach great speeds for its size, wouldn’t you want to start with what nature has already provided? Wouldn’t you want something more like… this?

(my drawing)

“But wait!” you might say, “Sleipnir was conceived when Loki, in horse-form, seduced another horse! That’s why it looks all horsey, just with extra bits!”

Well, that’s a good point, but consider that Loki as a deity was originally based off the spider, and his name even derives from the old Swedish word for spider (source). Therefore, it’s not too hard to believe Sleipnir inherited his horse half from his mother and the more spidery half from his father. In conclusion:

Spider-Horse, Spider-Horse, He does spider-things of course! Weaves a web, Makes you gawk, Riding round ‘til Ragnarok! Look out! Here comes the Spider-Horse.

edderkopper

I am all for creative interpretations of Sleipnir. And spiders, obviously. This is epic.

But just so you know, that journal is from the 60′s, and the current scholarly consensus no longer considers the spider etymology to be likely. We still aren’t sure where the name comes from, and probably won’t ever be, but I’ve seen quite a few more recent academics lean toward Old Norse luka, meaning “close”, “shut”, or “end.” (See Simek’s Dictionary of Northern Mythology.)

myreligionisconfused

^^^^ my research found much the same. (which is sad, i like spiders)

As far as Sleipnir having eight legs, it’s probably a reference to Icelandic horses. Icelandic horses are one of the few horse breeds with five gaits. They can do a walk, trot and canter/gallop, like most horses. But they have also evolved to have a tolt,

[ gif of a man riding a brown Icelandic horse doing a tolt. The back legs of the horse move rather stiffly back and forth, while the front legs are lifted up almost to the horse’s chest. While the horse bounces slightly, the man riding the horse could probably hold a glass of water without spilling. ]

which is fast, smooth and noted for its explosive speed and ability to cover long distances.

The second unique gait is called flugskeið, or flying pace.

[ a light brown Icelandic horse demonstrating the flugskeið. With the exception of the wind in the horses’ mane, the upper part of the horse and the rider seem to almost be still, with the background simply zipping by them. The horse’s legs, however, move fast enough to blur. Unlike with a full gallop, the horse does not fully extend its legs away from its body. This is particularly obvious in the front legs of the horse, which lift up to the chest of the horse and land under its chin the same way as in the tolt]

It is both smooth and fast, some horses being able to reach speeds of 30 mph. Not all Icelandic horses can do a flugskeið, but you’ll notice that when done properly the legs move in unison and so fast they can blur, giving the illusion of the horse having eight legs.

Anyways, here is a video to further emphasize how cool the flugskeið is;

edderkopper

I’d never heard this theory! That’s so neat.

The one I’ve read attributed the eight legs thing to a metaphor of a coffin + 4 pallbearers.

lokikissesmyforehead

This is FASCINATING, and I adore Sleipnir! 😍 @tinaferraldo

catwinchester-deactivated201901

You’ve brought my horse geek out now. You have been warned!

The thing is, until the late 1800s we didn’t know how horses moved.

In old paintings you typically see horses with their legs stretched wide as they thought that gave the appearance of great speed.

But it really just looks like Timmy’s big brother was being an evil bastard and bent the legs of his tin horses out .

It’s completely unnatural looking, but horses moved too fast for us to be able to see how they moved, until Edward MAuybridge captured their motion in a series of consecutive photographs in 1878.

And for the first time we could see that all four legs did leave the ground. (and are never stretched uncomfortably wide!).

He also created the first motion picture as the individual photographs could be put together as a series of film frames (below).

So, all this is to say that back when Sleipnir was being dreamed up, they didn’t understand how animals moved and probably thought more legs = faster, and to a degree they were right, things on four legs run faster than bipeds so they continued that principle to its logical, if incorrect, conclusion.

hesaidsidhesaid

THIS IS THE BEST HORSE MOVEMENT DISCOURSE EVER

jumpingjacktrash

or we can consider that norse epics were, above all else, poetry, and consider that the image of an eight-legged horse brings to mind a horse that moves like a spider – with that fast darting scuttle that so many people find terrifying. an alien horse. a divine horse. a monster.

(personally i find the spider run adorable, like when a cat gets startled and does the skitter. but i recognize this is an unusual reaction.)

furball891

So, inspired by the whole concept of a spider-horse I very loosely sketched this:

…To which my brother @foxofwar simply pointed out, that being a spider-horse, it’s a sporse.

monstrous-hourglass

Slightly off topic, but it isn’t unique to Norse mythology to give a magical horse unusual number of legs tho. In Hungarian folklore special horses (usually fond of eating cinders, capable of flying or running faster than the win or even faster than thoughts, usually liked to sass the hero of the tale) had 5, 6 or 7 legs.

Obviously those numbers were chosen because they held cultural significance (our dragons/giants had odd number of heads too), but it probably sounded like common sense that more legs=faster horse.

odinnsdottir

I have nothing to add but damn is this thread epic.

cluegrrl

There’s a Peruvian horse breed called the Paso that has a fifth gait as well – kind of a smooth, toe-skimming shuffle between the trot and the canter. It’s smooth as butter.

boogiewoogiebuglegal

Epic horse thread is epic. And fascinating :)

robininthelabyrinth

@oneiriad

mias-back-from-the-dead

@gallusrostromegalus

librarianlizz

I just want to throw in there that Muybridge didn’t shoot a horse on film galloping for science. No. He did it to settle a bar bet about whether horses ever had all four hooves off the ground. he won.