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Mike Driver
oozey mess
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Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
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styofa doing anything
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Claire Keane
@theartofmadeline
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Today's Document
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hello vonnie
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My vampires CAN walk into the sunlight but doing so would reveal what they would look like if they aged normally
Younger vampires don’t have much to worry about but older vamps have reason to avoid sunlight as they age. They are still immortal, but their aged, sunlit selves are significantly weaker than their non-sunlit forms. Vamps over 100 years old run the risk of crumpling over, fully immobile, but still conscious
It is not the prettiest but here is a little chart I made of skin tones.
The idea is to eye-drop anywhere on the chart to get a unique skin tone instead of getting stuck in the loop of “white, tan, dark”.
USEFUL.
FLESH CLOUD EAGER TO ASSIST YOUR ART.
Flesh cloud!
characters finally won’t be looking like Donald Trump
THE FLESH CLOUD!!!!
ALL HAIL MIGHTY FLESH CLOUD!
IT WILL BRING US TO VICTORY!
flesh cloud!
F l e s h c l o u d !
FLESH CLOUD!!!!!!!!!!!
FLESH CLOUD
I feel like someone is standing next to me talking about how I'm dead
The chemical they put on ants and all the other ants think they're dead that's what happened to tumblr except the chemical is unmarketability
tumblr may have censored porn but check this out
i hope Elon musk KILLS himself and DIES a thousand DEATHS. and i hope every other billionaire a very merry DIE DIE DEATH KILL MURDER DEATH KILL
perhaps ripping this one little piece of skin off my lips will at last render them plump and moisturized
How’d it go OP
perhaps picking this scab off my lips will at last render them plump and moisturized
Name: Mini-Nose
Debut: Pokemon Diamond and Pearl
Well, what do you magnetic know? This is a magnetic nose. No, I'm not posting about a Pokemon! I'm posting about a part of a Pokemon. A part that I think is quite underappreciated, and I would know, because I myself did not appreciate it enough for the longest time!
Mini-Noses manifest when Nosepass evolves into Probopass, the funny magnetic mustache Moai. Since Probopass is based on a compass, the big nose represents the north point, and the Mini-Noses are east, south, and west!
Since the dawn of time, there have been Pokemon consisting of multiple bodies/entities, but these are almost always groups of a bunch of the same thing together. Not here, though! Mini-Noses are not any existing creature, and are instead teeny simplifications of Nosepass/Probopass. It's like if Dugtrio was surrounded by a bunch of Diglett fetuses!
Sadly, a Pokemon's lore can be as cool as possible, but it doesn't always translate well into the games. Probopass DOES have a cool attacking animation where it spins the Mini-Noses around rapidly! But it overall, the Mini-Noses come across more as some weird floaty hands, when they are in fact individual entities that Probopass commands!
It wasn't until I recently rewatched some of Pokemon Generations that I realized... wait. Mini-Nose is awesome! Probopass throws itself around like a Thwomp, as the Mini-Noses hover around like little sentries, shooting lasers at Pikachu! It's so cool! Most entries say that Probopass controls them through magnetism, but it is sometimes implied that they may be able to act on their own volition as well, and that "the main body mostly just gives orders". I guess if anything, they're like an octopus's arms! And then there's the fact that, in the anime, they actually have their own distinct voices. "Nose!" "Nose."
Mini-Nose is such a fascinating and funny little thing! Not quite a Pokemon, but a Pokemon's extremities that are autonomous enough to be their own entities. Like the puppet of a passionate-enough ventriloquist. How do you think Probopass views them? Tools? Hands? Children? Quirky Nephew Trio? Probably not something we would understand, since we are not magnetic monstrosities. But we can still appreciate from afar!
Whatever Mini-Nose is, it is NOT a Pokemon, and we can be sure because the plural is "Mini-Noses", not "Mini-Nose"! Most creatures in this franchise don't get this exclusive treatment!
i no longer respect the hustle i want universal basic income and dignity for everyone
i want people to do less for more money and im NOT kidding
stupid thing about me is I don’t cut corners but I also have no work ethic. if I do something it WILL be done right. no telling whether I’ll actually fucking do it tho
Captain America and Superman are Jewish responses to the Nazi idea of the ubermensch that ask different, but equally compelling questions in response to it. Captain America asks "what if the ubermensch was real, and he loved Jews?" and Superman asks "what if the ubermensch was real, and he was a Jew?"
And the Jew in question is Bucky Barnes
the question Bucky's character asks is "what if the ubermensch was gay, and he railed me?" this is a third, equally important, question
Honestly devastated to see people reblogging the original post, which was a set up for this gag, without the punchline.
On one hand I understand not teaching cursive in school anymore, because it actually is slower than regular handwriting and almost everything is typed on a keyboard now anyways.
On the other hand, so much of our (even recent!) history was written in cursive, and having a whole generation of kids who can't read letters written by their grandparents, momentos saved by their great-grandparents, or even photo albums from theur immediate family seems like a dangerously quick way to detach us from previous generations.
And on the third, related but slightly malformed hand, I feel bad that yet another form of small, everyday art that brings joy in the middle of mundane tasks, which celebrates personality and individual style and self-expression, is about to fade into obscurity because it wasn't efficient enough for today's world to put up with.
Like... if we continue to whittle away the small arts out of every day life, what's going to be left except stark, ruthless pragmatism?
Maybe writing a grocery list is less mundane when you get to feel elegant for a moment. Maybe you're a little more proud of what you write when you see it flow together like a painting
Reading cursive is one of my most valuable skills as a historical professional.
But it's also not a one and done thing! Scripts came in and out of fashion as they were taught in schools, and each one has a learning curve as you get used to it, along with nuances of the individual writer.
I don't think you necessarily need to know how to write in cursive in order to read it, but it certainly helps. My advice if you find yourself in a situation where you're struggling to read something is not to give up, which is often the impulse when you encounter a barrier to something that usually comes easily.
Depending on the document, you might find your eyes feeling strained or getting a headache (the ink in the one above was so faded my brain was mush after a couple of hours sitting with it) but there will be a threshold after which the pieces come together. Don't give up.
And just to add to this - as someone who has to read a lot of old handwriting for my job and who has developed this skill, it is SO frustrating to see transcription jobs only advertised as “volunteer”. I get the appeal of it to give retirees something to do (like with the National Archives), but once that generation dies off we’re going to have next to no one who can read and transcribe old documents written in cursive. If we don’t give younger people an incentive to learn the skill, it will die out. So maybe actually pay people who are trained or learning this skill instead of relying on volunteers, because I promise you we’ll pay for it in the long run otherwise 😢
I don’t want to derail this post at all but not learning cursive is also bad for another reason: you don’t have the opportunity to help kids practice smooth fine motor skills.
Everything in school, especially elementary/primary school, is usually done for both academic and developmental reasons. Learning cursive not only helps kids practice, but an inability to write in cursive is a sign that a child might have issues with fine motor skills. The cursive will help them practice, and they’ll likely also be referred to an occupational therapist or someone who can help determine if it’s a developmental delay or something more.
I wasn’t one of the kids who needed fine motor skills help, but I had friends who did. Cursive really helped steady their hands and practice using the tiny muscles in their hands/arms in a way few other things than drawing allow for.
it wasn't until i was being taught cursive in school that we realized i struggle with fine mother skills and needed to go to OT
not the cocksucking eye contact
Spooky Halloween Pokemon !!
+ Bonus Ditto. Just a regular Ditto. Nothing unusual about him.
When I was a kid, we moved into a house that had a huge lilac tree out front. It was mostly rotten, and it needed to be taken down before it fell. It took a while, but eventually, it was gone.
Mostly. A couple years later, little lilac babies popped out of the ground in its place. My mom was determined to get rid of them, because she'd planted a beautiful flower garden there, and the lilac trees would overshadow and kill the whole garden. I insisted on saving at least a few saplings. She said fine, but I had to dig them out and put them in pots myself.
So, I did. I spent days digging little lilac bushes out of the ground and putting them into pots. Some couldn't be saved, but some could. When all was said and done, I had five brand-new lilac saplings. Seven or eight years old, and it was my absolute pride and joy.
Three died due to sun scorching, severe drought that no amount of watering could save, and perhaps just being moved from their place in the ground. But two survived, and I was awfully proud of them! I'd go out and talk to them every single day. I watered them by hand and made sure they were fertilized properly. I learned all about their favored environments, and I was determined to make sure they lived.
One of my mom's friends saw what I was doing with the lilacs. She asked if she could have one to put in her backyard, and I agreed on the condition that she take very, very good care of it.
It's now fucking enormous. I'm talking ten feet tall and bursting with beautiful purple flowers every spring. My mom still gets updates each year as they start to bloom, which she forwards to me. And all I can think is, "That's my friend! Thriving some twenty years on, there it is."
The other tree nearly died, too. It lived in a pot for far, far too long. I wanted to plant it somewhere in my parents' yard, but my mom was reluctant. Eventually, we agreed to put it in the far back garden. It grew okay for many years, despite the shade, but in all these years, it's never bloomed.
Last year, the massive tree casting massive shadows over the lilac and the garden cracked in half and fell. It tumbled into the garden, crushing part of the nearby shed and destroying a few plants beneath it.
It missed my lilac by inches.
The clean-up is long done. The rest of the tree has been cut down, and my lilac has full sunlight for the first time in fifteen years. It won't bloom this year, I know. But it's got new shoots up. It's taller than ever. I spent half an hour a few weeks ago praising it for surviving all this time, dreaming about its future and telling it how I believe it'll become the tall beauty it's always been meant to be.
I think next year, I'll see flowers.
@brujarojaderio
the scariest thing about the current state of zionism discourse (which should have never left the jewish community, as it is a jewish discussion to be had) is that so many leftists have been radicalized with literal nazi ideology and do not even realize it. if you say you want all zionists dead (which can only mean you want an overwhelming number of jews dead) you will get hundreds of thousands of notes with people agreeing and cheering for the death of zionists jews. you want jews to die. saying it’s zionists instead of jews does not change that zionists are, and can only be, jewish.
This is a meteorite that has fallen from a clearly superior part of the galaxy.
