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YES. I KNOW YOU DO! BUT DO YOU KNOW THE HAT TRICK? NO?
Literally! They are potato chips. Hear me out. (below cut)
Most "hard to draw" hats - y'all know which - ALSO fall into a very specific category. The category is:
That's right: A wide circular brim on top of a crown (or "egg stuck through portal" depending upon how you interpret the above). SO why the hell are they so complicated to draw? The answer:
...MEN.
No, really. So "the most basic hat shape" became a SUPER inconvenient style for 1700s European/colonial people men of means for two reasons:
1) it did not conveniently allow display of FANCY WIGS, which were beginning to come into fashion between the 1600s-1700s;
2) it was obnoxious to carry wide-brimmed hats around - a bit of a problem, since European societal norms dictated hat removal when a gentleman went indoors.
AND SO...the "most basic hat shape," ubiquitous in Western European cultures for some time prior, got upcycled by cocking (folding up) the brim. We first got the cavalier hat:
Related modern hats include the slouch hat/bush hat -
- and of course, your Favorite Guy's hat.
...BUT I CAME HERE FOR CHIPS
And chips you shall have.
You see that brim on Preston's hat? That's one of these (which my wife has informed me is known as a "wish chip" - I have learned something new, thank you @twosides--samecoin):
The thing to keep in mind is that, like a potato chip, this whole brim situation is just a circular plane with a hole in the middle, folded over on one side. See those shapes above? Now see them below, on the cocked side of the brim:
...WHAT ABOUT HANCOCK'S HAT
Well, around the 1700s, our male trendsetters decided it wasn't enough to turn up one brim; it needs must be Fancier™, and show More Wig, and be More Convenient With Which to Use Firearms - and we got the cocket hat (if you're Scottish)/bicorne, as well as the cocked hat (later known as the tricorne). Same circular brim, but for a tricorne, folded up thrice:
And yet again, this is just a potato chip. Observe:
See how that nice fold is acting? Now apply directly to hat:
Below: pink circle for where the sweatband meets the head and from there, fold up your chip:
Honestly, this works for so many kinds of hats. You can literally trace potato chips to make all of this easier until you become more familiar with the shapes (or just for fun):
Saw someone begging on the corner next to Wendy's this morning, decided to park and give him the 5 I had on me.
When I give money to someone who is unhoused, I ask their name so I can address them like a person, and give mine in return. His name is Richard. His girlfriend was named Lauren, she passed recently. I offered condolances and a hug, he accepted it. He spoke so softly, I think I may have been the first person to engage him in conversation in a while.
I hope people saw me, and choose kindness when they can.
Hokay so I've been enjoying a podcast called After Titanic, which covers how Titanic went from The Unsinkable Ship That Sunk to Cultural Touchstone by covering aaaaall the aftermath immediately after the sinking.
In the episode covering The Carpathia carrying the survivors to New York, we discuss what options were presented to Ismay by White Star, the company that owned and operated Titanic, to get the survivors on dry land quickly so they could begin recovery from their ordeal.
One of the suggestions White Star put forward was to send Titanic's identical twin sister ship, the Olympic, to pick them up and finish the journey as planned.
Ismay is reported to have physically recoiled at this suggestion, unable to even fathom what suffering would occur through doing something so cruel to the group of 700 souls who were already mostly maddened by what Just Happened. Loading them back into the lifeboats to ferry onto a ship that Looks Exactly The Same as the one their families just died on? WHAT??
But MAN that sure sounds like somethin Vault Tech would do as one of their experiments
yes i have a thing for self-loathing fictional characters being loved and in the process learning to love themselves and no that does not imply anything about me personally as a person i swear
Hi Jak and Daxter community, please accept my doodles and sketches as an offering of peace from a newcomer. I will play the original trilogy when I get the hardware, I promise.
I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.
He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense
Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.
My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.
Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.
He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM
Hokay so hoomans, even among placental mammals, are reproductive edge cases. The menstral cycle is something only 5 spiecies does, the rest have an enviromental trigger for mating season or the proto clit tissue is still lodged in the vaginal wall for a physical ovulation trigger.
In the animals that have menstral cycles, the following is also true;
The clit has gone on walkabout and is no longer located along vaginal walls. The fact that the human clit can be up to several inches away from the vaginal opening is one that reflects our ancestors getting down for funsies and not procreation. Regular coupling meant no mating season or physical trigger needed, and adaptability meant getting pregnant in the run up to winter wasn't a death sentance. The further the clit is from being inside the vaginal canal, the longer we can assume an animal has been getting down for affection and pleasure, not procreation... which also means that species also has the faculties to decide for themselves when to conceive.
The animals with which we share the menstral cycle are all animals where the clit left the inside of the body and became an exterior structure.
We also share something else- deep enmeshment during pregnancy.
Placental mammals form a placenta, a temporary organ that mitigates 2 bodies sending different hormonal signals. In the mammals with which we share a menstral cycle, we also share a placenta that partially forms *before* fertilization. This is why we can't just re-adsorb all the nutrients that were used to build up the uterine walls during the monthly development stage. Differentiated cells are harder to re adsorb because they must first be pulled apart from the structures made, its simply more efficent to flush it out than to break it down and suck it back up.
But why form a placenta before there's a fetus to feed through it?
The last thing animals with menstral cycles share are uniquely agressive fetuses that deeply enmesh into the body during development and raising the rate of death during pregnancy and childbirth by acting like a parasite that demands everything with no holds barred to leave anything for mom's body to work with. The placenta mitigates that enmeshment, which can sometimes be so severe that the uterus simply isn't whole anymore after the person has given birth.
Our young act like vicious infections within femme bodies. I wonder, oh I wonder, what pressure selected for that. Could it be forcing sentient beings into pregnancy against their will Can Very Often Kill Them?
Fuck that New Life talk, they only want the new life because they're sick of the ones they already fucked up and don't care who dies to give them New People who don't know what they've done, said, or supported. The desperation some have for a clean slate entitles them to N O T H I N G
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