Harrison the Fulgurite

| I am just some random dude with a way too active imagination and enough OCs to populate a small city | He/Him | Aegosexual | Of Adult Age in body, mind still has to catch up | Autistic adult and proud of it | I communicate almost exclusively through reaction images | If you message me, make your purpose for doing so clear, I will stonewall you until you do |

[proxmox-official]

[slayerswallpapers]

I had a false memory of Lina wearing a similar swimsuit in the series, but it turns out that this particular design only appears in the promotional illustrations for Slayers NEXT. In the series, she wears completely different styles of two-piece swimwear.

Finding a real-world equivalent is surprisingly difficult, but I suspect the design may have been inspired by black/white one-piece from the Spring-Summer 1987 Spiegel Catalogt or Paulina Porizkova's in Life magazine (1986).

It makes me wonder if this design might have influenced Faye Valentine’s bikini colors, since both characters are voiced by Megumi Hayashibara. I can’t think of any other examples of such two-tone swimwear design in anime.

[youngerfrankenstein]

To put it very bluntly.

You will always make a better impact helping people who need it than trying to hurt people you think deserve it.

[fandom-man]

[bisexualwario]

[20th-centuryghost]

sorry this was going to be a tags addition because I only get to use my coated pantone swatchbook like 6 times a year when i have a new enamel pin to design, but...

METALLIC GOLD PANTIES ????

[purlturtle]

[mayfay]

[emon-toufanian]

[depsidase]

[elexecution]

if i was born 500 years ago i would have been speculating that the two dudes who went to get firewood together were fucking

[neaborealis]

chat, how long do y’all think 500 years is. Romeo and Juliet was written in the 1500s. 500 years is not the Stone Age.

[elexecution]

why do u think people stopped collecting firewood after caveman times

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Many such cases

[bowlby4]

[depsidase]

[actual-changeling]

i keep thinking about the house md episode where he's off his vicodin and eventually in so much pain he intentionally breaks several bones in his hand so his brain focuses on that instead. pain relief with more pain. anyone know what the mental equivalent is because boy i sure am looking for it

[depsidase]

[libertineangel]

It is implied through gameplay mechanics that the two kingdoms at war in chess both formally permit regnal polygamy, allowing the King to take at least nine wives of equal status, and that marriage can be bestowed as a military honour, but curiously that honour - in stark contrast to the conventional attitudes of the aristocracy - can only be bestowed upon soldiers of the unlanded class, leaving great questions to be asked of the material interests and stability of these kingdoms' aristocracies

[libertineangel]

Unless, of course, it is gameplay abstraction that we see soldiers as individuals and we are in fact commanding representations of whole units, in which case the King already has up to nine wives but only one is in command of her own company at the onset of battle, and unlanded regiments are largely self-directed (which would explain their limited effective range, lacking proper leadership coordinated with the objectives of the ruling class) with further members of the aristocracy taking charge of those which excel in the field, presumably in large part so they can take credit for the soldiers' successes and advance their own social and political standing as is often the way of things

[libertineangel]

Several people in the notes by now have brought up the mobility of the castles, and there is simply no explanation for that I can think of beyond the drift between original and translated forms of the game. The original pieces occupying that role were heavy war chariots, with some later replacing them with war elephants carrying an archers' tower, and when it spread to Europe (a continent notably lacking in elephants) the elephant part began to be omitted and the tower reshaped into a European-style fortification. There is no gameplay justification for its retaining the war elephant's moveset, it is merely a cumulative translation issue.

[libertineangel]

STOP CALLING IT A SIEGE TOWER!!!!!

It is very obviously not a fucking siege tower, like 1) in the majority of cases their designs are round and crenellated in the style of western European post-Norman fortifications, which is not remotely what a siege tower looks like, 2) why the fuck would a siege tower be in a pitched battle such as that depicted by the game, what the fuck do you think they're besieging, and 3) do you think a fucking siege tower can cross a battlefield at speed???

Like please think about what you're saying, the role and construction of a siege tower, for one fucking second, instead of leaping to the first piece of medieval military engineering you can think of that's related to the concept of towers. A siege tower unit is not going to be in the middle of a battlefield actively hunting down mounted cavalry and providing a rearguard screen to the frontline infantry, is it, like come on that is ridiculous and if you think that's a remotely reasonable thing to say you clearly have no fucking clue what a siege tower is actually for; furthermore, if you're in a pitched battle where the king himself is on the field like why are you even gonna bother besieging anywhere nearby, you have an opportunity to end this war here and now (as demonstrated by the rules of the game!!) so why on earth would you bring your expensive, cumbersome siege equipment along instead of leaving it back at camp, if the king retreats (and you can't take him in the rout) then sure then you go and grab your siege equipment but y'know it would just exhaust your troops and put it in harm's way for no reason to drag it into a battle where no siege is taking place.

[libertineangel]

It is implied through gameplay mechanics that the two kingdoms at war in chess both formally permit regnal polygamy, allowing the King to take at least nine wives of equal status, and that marriage can be bestowed as a military honour, but curiously that honour - in stark contrast to the conventional attitudes of the aristocracy - can only be bestowed upon soldiers of the unlanded class, leaving great questions to be asked of the material interests and stability of these kingdoms' aristocracies

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

also, their horses lack limbs & their castles are small

[worlds-tiredest-girl]

yknow the smallness of the castles is FAR from their most interesting distinction from the noticeably immobile ones we are familiar with

[diamondringsandgutterbones]

"get a job" "unemployed behaviour" okay but like. girl your ableism

[heating-element]

girl your abelism. girl your inexplicable capitalistic worldview. girl your view of labour productive for capital being directly tied to your worth as a person. but also really holy shit girl your abelism!

[captain-price-returns]

Fourteen Years in Prison for Quoting Hamas? New Law Could Criminalise Journalists

Starmer is rushing legislation through parliament that experts say threatens free speech, public interest journalism and international human

[harrisonthefulgurite]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Who wants to hear a DIY tiling pro tip that the experts won't tell you

[hazelriver74]

Yes!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Do not drop your phone into the bucket of tile adhesive. This step is actually completely unnecessary and massively complicates the tiling process.

[fueles]

You say this but my uncle is a tiler and he swears by the “drop phone in putty bucket” technique. I think you’re just posting this for clout

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Your uncle is caught up in a tradition that he was taught as an apprentice that he never questioned. Modern putty doesn't require phone, the formula has changed.

[perfectly-disfigured]

MY uncle says some customers still demand the phone putty technique because it "doesn't look right otherwise"

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Drop an empty phone case in and those customers can't tell the fucking difference because there is no fucking difference.

[lithiumdoll]

My mum renovated houses for thirty years, she says “you’re half right, but in some cases - particularly in houses built before 1930 - the phone does add some benefit. Could be a tablet too if you’ve an old one in the garage. And anyone who says it’s got to be a particular model is just being precious about it, whatever the forums say.”

[00venator]

IPhones and tablets where invented in 1898, what did they do before then?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Nothing, tiles were invented in 1899.