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[generalzargon]

Plot Bunny: Free to a Good Home

Okay, so it’s been awhile since I posted something, I know, but computer trouble, what can ya do? I finally have a moment to post something that I haven’t been able to get out of my head since I took a peek back into the fandom.

Katekyo Hitman Reborn story idea:

Alright, so imagine this: when Tsuna is around, let’s say eight or so, a man (maybe former military and/or mafia, maybe not) comes through Namimori advertising a chance for kids to sign-up for a kind of boarding-school/survival camp. This is after Tsuna is sealed, so he’s tripping all over the place and having trouble learning and feeling so, so cold and guilty because his mother is trying so hard for him but he still can’t do anything right. So he asks Nana to sign him up for the camp. It takes some convincing, but the kids are allowed to write letters (as long as they don’t reveal anything about the camp), so she does.

(Others from the Vongola Tenth Generation sign up too - never too young to go AU and start the bonding!)

The camp is brutal. Intense training and fighting lessons (I was listening to Mulan’s “I’ll Make A Man Out Of You” while imagining that part, but take it in whatever direction you like) coupled with standard school classes alongside more specialized courses. There were even report cards sent to their homes so their guardians would know how they were doing. Basically Mafia School without the Mafia and cranked up to 20. The camp lasted several years (whoever writes this gets to pick how long exactly), and in that time Flames were revealed. Tsuna couldn’t quite grasp his, but he managed enough to achieve Harmony with several others (including Hibari).

They graduate, and later when Reborn shows up, he encounters a very different situation than what he expected. Maybe it turns out the guy running the camp was a well-known mercenary at some point? Idk.

If anyone wants to write this, please let me know so I can read it!

[generalzargon]

Plot Bunny: Free to a Good Home

Just a vague idea that was trying to poke me this time, so have fun fleshing it out!

Bleach/Heaven’s Official Blessing crossover: In which Ichigo would very much like to punch whoever was responsible for him getting reincarnated into a version of ancient China in the face. The whole becoming a god thing was a complete accident, really.

(He keeps saying that but no one believes him, much to his dismay, and why is he the god of so many things again? It’s like he turns around and suddenly he’s god of something else!)

If anyone wants to write this, please let me know so I can read it!

[generalzargon]

Plot Bunny: Free to a Good Home

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted any ideas here (I blame the cute cat videos and Chinese web-novels I’ve been reading), but I’m back and clearing out some backlogged bunnies.

Petshop of Horrors/Bungou Stray Dogs fusion: In which Leon is an Ability-user and D has no idea until one day he and Leon, Chris and the pets are flower-viewing and he overhears Chris asking his brother to show off his Ability. And that’s when D learns that the one he thought was an ordinary, if not quite as bad as the rest of his species, human could actually turn into a lion. A big one, at that.

If anyone wants to write this, please let me know so I can read it!

[shampooligan]

you know what lets actually bring back lolcats, they were so simple and so benevolent. like check this out

[flimflamflummox-deactivated2021]

Here’s my favorite lolcat:

Next stop: Noobshire

[switch-up-snowfox]

it’s often the cute meme’s that age well once you get past the “literally everywhere” phase.

[scaliefox]

I like this classic

[princesstigerbelle]

More classics

[hymnofvalefor]

I went through almost ten years of photos on my Facebook page go find this

[owl-librarian]

But WAIT! DO NOT FORGET. the granddaddy: 

[tzikeh]

HOLD UP THERE 

SKIPPY 

“I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER” GOT FAMOUS OFF THE BACKS OF THE PIONEERING LOLCATS

THIS WAS IN THE BEFORE-TIMES 

WHEN THEY WERE KNOWN AS 

CAT MACROS 

AND THEY DIDN’T HAVE TO MAKE ANY SENSE

AND NOW YOU WILL HAVE TO SCROLL THROUGH A FUCKIN’ FEW MORE

[borzoidaily]

[timefortigers]

??? this cat is attempting to calm her steed

[catbountry]

This looks like a fuckin’ classical painting.

[stardustjuniper-888]

There I painted it.

[princesstigerbelle]

Oh. My. God.

[generalzargon]

So. Amazing!

[everythingfox]

Nothing to see here

[generalzargon]

LMAO, this is awesome. :D

[weloveshortvideos]

[cassiebnuy]

rabbits only flop over like that if they feel completely safe btw

[heavytitty]

to elaborate: bunnies are prey animals and almost never have their guard down– even when they’re resting they’ll usually have their back legs in a position that allows them to quickly run away. if they’re jumping around it means they’re extremely happy!! and if they flop down w/o a care that means they feel very very comfortable and safe to the point of not having to worry about their surroundings. ^__^

[knitmeapony]

This is just the happiest video IMO. 

“PLAY! FUN!  Happy!  Play?”  *looks at dog*  “No, no play?  Naps?  Okay.  Naps.”  *flop*

[incorrectmodaozushi]

Is this wei wuxian and lan wangji

[somecutething]

[thecutestofthecute]

[kirkspocks]

odin is like “when thor was born the sun shone bright upon his beautiful face. i found loki on the sidewalk outside a taco bell”

[chromalogue]

Oðinn spake:

Bright the sun shone | at the time of Þor’s birth, And bathed his count'nance fair. Loki, wolf-father, | the trickster, the liar, I found on the cold pavement While returning in glory | from a grand hunt For a 3 AM quesadilla.

[baegishjalmur]

@damn-fuck-i-burnt-myself-again

[systlin]

I need this framed on my wall it’s so beautiful. 

[retro-minty]

@theshitpostcalligrapher

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

ay @systlin hmu

[bold-sartorial-statement]

@systlin

My husband complained that this was more Shakespeare than Eddas, and I challenged him to do better.

Solen sken, skönt gyllene

Dagen Tor föddes

På trottoaren, vid Taco Bell

Där låg Loke

—KJN

My translation:

The sun shone, sweet golden

The day of Tor’s birth

On the tarmac, by Taco Bell

There lay Loki

(For poetry reasons, Thor needs the Swedish spelling.)

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

@bold-sartorial-statement

ay yo show ur husband 

[andersonsallpurpose]

@bold-sartorial-statement no but hang on this should be in runes: 

(oops spot the typos)

[svampurinn]

i wanna translate this into icelandic so imma do it 

Sólin skein, björt og gullin við fæðingu Þórs á stígnum við Taco Bell Þar lá Loki

[books-and-candy-ples]

The amount of quality going into these shitposts is amazing

[rembrandtswife]

This is not shitposting, this is transformative work!

[silencingthedrums]

If I wasn’t 2 years out of the class, I would send this to my Viking lit professor.  

[protect-and-love-animals]

The funny cats histories

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

a compilation of underrated tweets, part 2

[mx-delta-juliette]

Space Australian Medicine

Despite the best efforts of everyone involved, something truly nasty escaped Earth. They call it giardia, a microscopic organism that their Planetary Protection Officer called “pretty dumb” and “not too bad, really, a week of digestive upset and then it’s over.”

Yes, Earth has a Planetary Protection Officer. They have a Planetary Protection Office, and have had one since they were sending probes around their own solar system. Doctor Ma-et had found it a bit silly, like a child concerned about the cleanliness of their toys, until she learned that the job of the Planetary Protection Office had always been protecting other worlds from Earth.

Keep reading

[marzipanandminutiae]

it’s hilarious to me when people call historical fashions that men hated oppressive

like in BuzzFeed’s Women Wear Hoop Skirts For A Day While Being Exaggeratedly Bad At Doing Everything In Them video, one woman comments that she’s being “oppressed by the patriarchy.” if you’ve read anything Victorian man ever said about hoop skirts, you know that’s pretty much the exact opposite of the truth

thing is, hoop skirts evolved as liberating garment for women. before them, to achieve roughly conical skirt fullness, they had to wear many layers of petticoats (some stiffened with horsehair braid or other kinds of cord). the cage crinoline made their outfits instantly lighter and easier to move in

it also enabled skirts to get waaaaay bigger. and, as you see in the late 1860s, 1870s, and mid-late 1880s, to take on even less natural shapes. we jokingly call bustles fake butts, but trust me- nobody saw them that way. it was just skirts doing weird, exciting Skirt Things that women had tons of fun with

men, obviously, loathed the whole affair

(1864)

(1850s. gods, if only crinolines were huge enough to keep men from getting too close)

(no date given, but also, this is 100% impossible)

(also undated, but the ruffles make me think 1850s)

it was also something that women of all social classes- maids and society ladies, enslaved women and free women of color -all wore at one point or another. interesting bit of unexpected equalization there

and when bustles came in, guess what? men hated those, too

(1880s)

(probably also 1880s? the ladies are being compared to beetles and snails. in case that was unclear)

(1870s, I think? the bustle itself looks early 1870s but the tight fit of the actual gown looks later)

hoops and bustles weren’t tools of the patriarchy. they were items 1 and 2 on the 19th century’s “Fashion Trends Women Love That Men Hate” lists, with bonus built-in personal space enforcement

[prismatic-bell]

Gonna add something as someone who’s worn a lot of period stuff for theatre:

The reason you suck at doing things in a hoop skirt is because you’re not used to doing things in a hoop skirt.

The first time I got in a Colonial-aristocracy dress I felt like I couldn’t breathe. The construction didn’t actually allow me to raise my arms all the way over my head (yes, that’s period-accurate). We had one dresser to every two women, because the only things we could put on ourselves were our tights, shifts, and first crinoline. Someone else had to lace our corsets, slip on our extra crinolines, hold our arms to balance us while a second person actually put the dresses on us like we were dolls, and do up our shoes–which we could not put on ourselves because we needed to be able to balance when the dress went on. My entire costume was almost 40 pounds (I should mention here that many of the dresses were made entirely of upholstery fabric), and I actually did not have the biggest dress in the show.

We wore our costumes for two weeks of rehearsal, which is quite a lot in university theatre. The first night we were all in dress, most of the ladies went propless because we were holding up our skirts to try and get a feel for both balance and where our feet were in comparison to where it looked like they should be. I actually fell off the stage.

By opening night? We were square-dancing in the damn things. We had one scene where our leading man needed to whistle, but he didn’t know how and I was the only one in the cast loud enough to be heard whistling from under the stage, so I was also commando-crawling underneath him at full speed trying to match his stage position–while still in the dress. And petticoats. And corset. Someone took my shoes off for that scene so I could use my toes to propel myself and I laid on a sheet so I wouldn’t get the dress dirty, but that was it–I was going full Solid Snake in a space about 18″ high, wearing a dress that covered me from collarbones to floor and weighed as much as a five-year-old child. And it worked beautifully.

These women knew how to wear these clothes. It’s a lot less “restrictive” when it’s old hat.

[gothiccharmschool]

I have worn hoop skirts a lot, especially in summer. I still wear hoop skirts if I’m going to be at an event where I will probably be under stage lights. (For example, Vampire Ball.)

I can ride public transportation while wearing them. I can take a taxi while wearing them. I can go on rides at Disneyland while wearing them. Because I’ve practiced wearing them and twisting the rigid-but-flexible skirt bones so I can sit on them and not buffet other people with my skirts. 

Hoop skirts are awesome.

[magpiescholar]

Hoop skirts are also air conditioning.  If you ever go to reenactments in the South, particularly in summer, you’ll notice a lot of ladies gently swaying in their big 1860s skirts – because it fans all the sweaty bits.  You’ll be much cooler in a polished cotton gown with full sleeves, ruffles, and hoopskirt than in a riding jacket and trousers, let me promise you!  (This is part of the reason many enslaved women also enthusiastically preferred larger skirts – they had more to do than sit in the shade, but they’d get a bit of a breeze from the hoops’ movement as they were walking.)  

They’re also – and I can’t emphasize enough how important this is – really easy to pee in.  If you’re in split-crotch drawers (which, until at least the 1890s, you were), you can take an easy promenade a few feet away from the gents and then squat down and pee in pretty much total privacy.  It gives so much freedom in travel when it’s not a problem to pee most anywhere.

People also don’t realize that corsets themselves were a HUGE HUGE IMPROVEMENT over previous support-garment styles – and if you have large breasts that don’t naturally float freely above your ribcage (which some people’s do! but it’s not that common), corsets are often an improvement over modern bras.

They hold up the breasts from underneath, taking the weight of them off your back.  Most historical corset styles don’t have shoulder straps, so you’re not bearing the weight of your breast there, either, and you can raise your arms as far as your dress’s shoulder line allows (which is the actually restrictive bit – in my 1830s dress, literally all I can do is work in my lap, but in my 1890s dress I can paddle a kayak or draw a longbow with no trouble.  Both in a full corset).  They support your back and reduce the physical effort it takes to not slouch, helping avoid back pain.  They’re rigid enough that you don’t usually have to adjust your clothing to keep it where it belongs.  They’re flexible – if you’re having a bloaty PMS day you just … don’t lace it as tightly, and if your back muscles are sore you can lace it a little tighter.  And you can undo a cup (or, y’know, not have breast cups) to nurse a baby without losing any of the structural integrity of the garment.

I do educational/historical dressing and people are really insistent, like, “The corset was invented by a man, wasn’t it?”  “Actually, women were at the forefront of changing undergarment styles throughout the 19th century!” “But it’s true that it was invented by a man.”  

Uh, well, it’s hard to say who “invented” the style but it’s very likely that women’s dressmakers mostly innovated women’s corsets and men’s tailors mostly innovated men’s corsets, honey.  Because those exist too.

[deanplease]

Everything about all of this is accurate.

[awww-brain-no]

@nourgelitnius A little later historically, but still fascinating

[minero-tan]

Can I interest you in Fushigi Neko no Kyuu-chan

[secretspawn]

@cuddlesuccubus

[thenatsdorf]

[tastefullyoffensive]

Same. (via matsuda98)

[jhameia]

the tilting of the manhole cover back into place is what makes this video

[wigmund]

leave that sewer goblin alone

[paradisixx]

This family’s boat ride turned into a dramatic whale rescue — and the whale spent an hour thanking them in the best way!

[lshaffery]

💚

[ravenkryptonite-deactivated2018]

Incredible - 😍 tears in my eyes … 🙏

[frank-macmurphy-deactivated2020]

The best video ever

[juuls]

This made my day so much brighter… thank you, boat family. ❤️

[generalzargon]

On behalf of the whale: thank you, boat family. <3