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@marisu-dono
I’m not about to kinkshame a whole aquarium but
carry me into the sunset, my cephalopod prince
friends, you don’t understand. This ad campaign was goddamn HUGE. They bought out the entirety of multiple train stations in Boston with these. There are so many more, and they’re all this same beautiful combination of questionable/amazing.
@lynne-monstr
This is the best thing in my life
Everything movies taught me about archery is wrong. This is a complete mind-blower. 8D
If you are even remotely interested in archery or medieval combat, check this out, it’s just great!
OMFG EVERYONE PLEASE DROP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND WATCH IT RIGHT NOW O_O
HOLY HELL
Not only is this fascinating, there are a lot of images from art history here. It just goes to show that what you can learn from the past isn’t limited to facts you can know, but things you can do.
My favorite part?
He learned this doing research for LARPs (Live Action Role Playing):
Lars Andersen originally started using bow and arrow to fight in pretend battles during Larps (live action role play) events, where he played a soldier in a medieval-inspired army. While Larps can be about anything – the Danish/Polish Harry Potter inspired larp College of Wizardry (cowlarp.com) recently got world-wide media attention and there wasn’t a rubber sword in sight there – many Larps take place in fantasy worlds inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. And it was at one of these Larps, that Lars started to learn to shoot fast while moving.
In 2012, Lars Andersen released his video, “Reinventing the fastest forgotten archery”, where he showed how he had learned to shoot from old archery manuscripts. Using these old, forgotten techniques, Lars demonstrated how he was now the fastest archer on the planet, and after its release, the video got 3 million hits on YouTube in two days.
Since the 2012 video was released, Lars has studied and practiced, and he is now able to fire three arrows in 0.6 seconds – a truly stunning feat making him much faster than the legendary fictional archer Legolas (played by Orlando Bloom in the Lord of the Rings movies).
The time benchmark he was trying to achieve, according to the video, was the expectation of the speed at which “Saracen“ archers were expected to shoot. In fact, most of the source material as far as I can see isn’t European.
A lot of the techniques described are also used in Mongolian Archery, which requires being able to shoot from horseback, and is traditionally practiced by men and women. You can see a video here.
Man of the moment Keanu Reeves has shown his generosity by giving away £50 million of his earnings from the Matrix sequels. The 38-year-old decided to hand over the money to the unsung heroes of the sci-fi blockbusters - the costume and special effects teams.
*fistbump*
Confirmed. He’s also dumped millions into cancer research. I really do love Keanu Reeves a lot.
Keanu Reeves is like the nicest person. He still lives in an apartment/flat and he gives most of his money away to charities and people who need it. He even invites some paparazzi people to sit down and eat with him when he’s at a coffee shop or restaurant. He’s such a nice person.
When I was working on the UWS, one of my delivery guys accidentally backed his scooter into a parked car in front of the restaurant. I went out to help, since the driver didn’t speak much English, and it turned out the car belonged to Keanu Reeves. He helped us pick the scooter up, and when I asked if we could exchange insurance information (because the front of the car was pretty banged up), he kept telling us not to worry about it and put his hand on the driver’s shoulder and said “I just want to make sure you’re okay, man. Are you okay?” And he was so sincere about it and so kind that I decided in that moment I would always defend Keanu Reeves at all costs. He is an excellent man.
I need to be more like Keanu Reeves because I’m evil compared to him.
“Next few centuries”
Keanu dropping hints that he is an immortal.
See, I make fun of Keanu’s movies a lot. In particular, about his acting because… well, there are other people funnier than me who can explain that.
HOWEVER I admire him a LOT. He is the nicest man in Hollywood, no matter what. And I’ve seen in theaters every single one of his movies -except for the Day the Earth Stood Still- because no matter what, he is an amazing person who deserves support.
For things like this.
Humans Are Weird
So there has been a bit of “what if humans were the weird ones?” going around tumblr at the moment and Earth Day got me thinking. Earth is a wonky place, the axis tilts, the orbit wobbles, and the ground spews molten rock for goodness sakes. What if what makes humans weird is just our capacity to survive? What if all the other life bearing planets are these mild, Mediterranean climates with no seasons, no tectonic plates, and no intense weather?
What if several species (including humans) land on a world and the humans are all “SCORE! Earth like world! Let’s get exploring before we get out competed!” And the planet starts offing the other aliens right and left, electric storms, hypothermia, tornadoes and the humans are just … there… counting seconds between flashes, having snowball fights, and just surviving.
To paraphrase one of my favorite bits of a ‘humans are awesome’ fiction megapost: “you don’t know you’re from a Death World until you leave it.” For a ton of reasons, I really like the idea of Earth being Space Australia.
Earth being Space Australia Words cannot express how much I love these posts
Alien: “I’m sorry, what did you just say your comfortable temperature range is?”
Human: “Honestly we can tolerate anywhere from -40 to 50 Celcius, but we prefer the 0 to 30 range.”
Alien: “……. I’m sorry, did you just list temperatures below freezing?”
Human: “Yeah, but most of us prefer to throw on scarves or jackets at those temperatures it can be a bit nippy.”
Other human: “Nah mate, I knew this guy in college who refused to wear anything past his knees and elbows until it was -20 at least.”
Human: “Heh. Yeah everybody knows someone like that.”
Alien: “……. And did you also say 50 Celcius? As in, half way to boiling?”
Human: “Eugh. Yes. It sucks, we sweat everywhere, and god help you if you touch a seatbelt buckle, but yes.”
Alien: “……. We’ve got like 50 uninhabitable planets we think you might enjoy.”
“You’re telling me that you have… settlements. On islands with active volcanism?” “Well, yeah. I’m not about to tell Iceland and Hawaii how to live their lives. Actually, it’s kind of a tourist attraction.” “What, the molten rock?” “Well, yeah! It’s not every day you see a mountain spew out liquid rocks! The best one is Yellowstone, though. All these hot springs and geysers from the supervolcano–” “You ACTIVELY SEEK OUT ACTIVE SUPERVOLCANOES?” “Shit, man, we swim in the groundwater near them.”
Sounds like the “Damned” trilogy by Alan Dean Foster.
“And you say the poles of your world would get as low as negative one hundred with wind chill?”
“Yup, with blizzards you cant see through every other day just about.”
“Amazing! when did you manage to send drones that could survive such temperatures?”
“… well, actually…”
“… what?”
“…we kinda……. sent……….. people…..”
“…”
“…”
“…what?”
“we sent-”
“no yeah I heard you I just- what? You sent… HUMANS… to a place one hundred degrees below freezing?”
“y-yeah”
“and they didn’t… die?”
“Well the first few did”
“PEOPLE DIED OF THE COLD AND YOUR SOLUTION WAS TO SEND MORE PEOPLE???!?!?!?”
My new favorite Humans are Weird quote
“PEOPLE DIED OF THE COLD AND YOUR SOLUTION WAS TO SEND MORE PEOPLE?”
aka The History of Russia
aka Arctic Exploration
aka The History of Alaska
Being from Alaska, this was sort of how I felt going to college in the lower 48′s and learned that no one else had been put through a literal survival camp as a regular part of their school curriculum, including but not limited to:
1. Learning to recognize all forms of animal tracks in the wild so you can avoid bears and moose and search out rabbits and other small animals to eat.
2. Extensive swimming and climbing on glacial pieces with competitions to see who could last the longest, followed by a group sit in the sauna so we wouldn’t get hypothermia (no, not kidding, I really did this many times as a kid!)
3. How to navigate using the stars to get back to civilization.
4. How to select the right type of moss from the trees to start a fire with damp wood (because, y’know, you’re in a field of snow. Nothing is dry.)
5. How to carve out a small igloo-like space to sleep in the snow to preserve body heat and reduce the windchill so you won’t freeze to death in the arctic.
“I’m telling you, I don’t think we need to worry about territory conflicts with the humans. You know all those deathtrap hell-worlds in the Argoth Cluster?” “Those worthless rocks? Yeah.” “80% of them are considered ‘resort destinations’ by those freaky little primates.”
“I’m telling you, they terraform for fun!” “Don’t be ridiculous” “No, seriously. Some of their most celebrated cultural loci are built on swamps. They have an entire city that is literally in a body of water. Not, like, an artificial pontoon city, they literally sunk the foundations into water. For Grilp’s sake, they build elaborate structures out of frozen water AND THEN SLEEP IN THEM.” “Dear Thilak. Think we could get them to terraform our moons?” “Psh, they’d probably pay for the privilege.”
Eventually, it occurs to someone that humans are the perfect terraforming shock troops, as it were. They think it’s fun to be sent to horrible planets! They’re really good at surviving and then taming them! All you have to do is sit back and wait until the planet is habitable, and then move there yourself! It’s genius.
It only takes one try before the reality of the situation sets in: human definitions of ‘taming’ and ‘habitable’ are woefully incomplete.
“Why did you not eliminate the venomous plant life?” Grahssk’ti moans, clutching one limb.
“Those?” The human laughs. “Why bother? They’re not that bad. And they eat the mosquitoes.”
Grahssk’ti shudders. The ‘mosquitoes’ are… not to be mentioned. Just one swarm of them caused a landing shuttle to crash three planetary daylights ago.
“And the acid storms? Why did you not warn us of them?”
“I mean, they’re annoying,” the human says, shrugging, “but we figured the cool sunsets made up for it.”
Grahssk’ti flails helplessly. “What about the ten-meter tall Fanged Death Bringers? They can eliminate an entire settlement in under an hour!”
“They’re so cute!” the human says, brightening. “Have you met mine? Her name is Spot!”
Humans are told of some planet or region of space that is considered “completely and utterly inhospitable - it would be folly to try and settle there.”
Without fail, a decent number make it a point to settle there because “Fuck You That’s Why.” It doesn’t matter how uneconomical it is, how difficult the conditions are, how utterly ridiculous it may seem, there will be at least one human who will attempt to do it only because someone else regardless of species says it is improbable or WORSE impossible.
“This moon is still forming as such it is primarily soft - by that I mean most of the magma is close to the surface and-” ‘OH BADASS you mean its like Mustafar right!?!?!?! I’m totally going to build a castle there.’ “What. I mean. There is NO fertile ground there whatsoever. No ecosystem. It is molten rock and minerals only.” ‘Which will make my castle there look METAL AS FUCK am I RIGHT!?!??! Come on. COME ON. I TAUGHT YOU HOW TO FISTBUMP COME ON.’ “….you….you are going to die, you know this right?” ‘I’m getting the feeling you don’t want to come to Lava Castle for some reason?’
This is the quality scifi I sign up for.
doodle of yuuri in very very long hair…. cause ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
he’s beautiful in every form, in every hairstyle, in every inch of his hair…… //worships really hARD/
Phichit might be the biggest Victuuri shipper, but there’s no way he’s going to let Victor whisk his best friend off to Russia before a few rounds of merciless teasing.
Phichit: And then he started crying! I can’t believe he felt threatened over that. It’s like he forgot he’s the one you’re choosing to marry!
Yuuri: Ha ha…Victor can be a bit extra sometimes.
Phichit: Yes, he is. You two are made for each other.
Yuuri: ?
He wasn't a video game writer (although his daughter now is) but Terry Pratchett was one of the Straight White Men who could write marginalised characters well.
Shit you right!
Terry Pratchett would have never done this to us.
Here’s the thing though about Pratchett that makes him stand out. Pratchett was no better than any other Straight White Man at the beginning. His first books are terrible when it comes to marginalized representation, he was That White Straight Guy.
But, he wanted to change. He wanted to become a writer for EVERYONE, he actively sought to do better and to make an impact. He practiced his marginalized characters over and over, he made his stories about them again and again; getting better each time. He educated himself on their plights, their lives, and then he realized they were people too. Who deserved to be more than caricatures for his hero’s sake.
He equalized his characters, he took the privileged characters down a peg and gave a foot up to the marginalized characters. And he did still slip up in places, but he always promised to do better next time and delivered on that promise.
Which is unlike every other Straight White Man writer who either decides that he is fine where he is or that if he had made a few changes and it would have work out. They’re not actively looking to listen, they’re just looking to be adequate.
Terry Pratchett went above and beyond to break away from the Straight White Man slump (that he did exist in for a while), no other Straight White Man writer is willing to do that for a single character and become a true allied voice for marginalized communities. Especially not in the Gaming Industry.
I’m the anon for this, and yes. This is exactly why I love Pratchett. It’s also what more and more writers should be trying to do.
You mess up, so you listen to what people say and you learn to do better.
It might actually be a little unfair to say Terry Pratchett was no better than most contemporaries even at the beginning; unless you have read mass market fantasy of the 80s it’s hard to grasp how bad it was for gender and race. And a lot of Pratchett’s early faults came through an unsatisfactory teething approach to parody of this rather than sincere and unquestioning sexism.
But he certainly started out bad and got brilliant. And of course he didn’t get perfect. He continues to work through ideas about gender till his dying day.
The fact that Witches Abroad exists, a fantasy novel in which the only significant characters are female and most of them are elderly women, and there’s no romance, and there’s no sense of this being a self-satisfied point-making exercise but just the way the cards fell exemplifies what an unusual writer Pratchett was. He was good enough to truly transcend his biases and privilege to a remarkable degree. Seeing the interesting stories beyond the narrow scope of a male gaze in a way so few contemporaries did or do.
He never acted as if there was a universal female story. He certainly never talked as if the universal female experience was sexual violence (like George R R Martin does, for instance). He never patted himself on the back for having Strong Female Characters because he filled his stories with beautiful thin 20-something’s who could mysteriously karate chop men to death.
His characters are young, old, powerful, weak, dreamy, sensible, magical, mundane, fat, thin, leading, supporting, Juan, dwarf, troll, other, involved in complex relationships and communities with other women as well as men, and all occupying their own space within the moral spectrum. They are historied and particular and flawed and real. And he does all that for the male characters too.
What do angels actually look like per the bible?
Well, according to Ezekiel 1 they might look something like this…
According to Daniel 10 something like this…
According to Isaiah 6…
In Ezekiel 10…
Again in Ezekiel 10…
Basically, when the people writing Scripture tried to describe what they saw when they saw an angel… they run into the end of their imagination… they can never quite seem to fully explain it because they had trouble even comprehending what they saw, let alone being able to describe it to someone else.
Yeah, that’s usually how people responded to seeing them in the Bible…
There’s a good reason why angels’ standard greeting is ‘Do not be afraid’.
I used to listen to this radio show and one thing I remember because it was so funny was a Christmas special where an angel showed up to tell the shepherds about the birth of Christ. The conversations went:
Angel: “FEAR NOT.”
Shepherds: *screaming*
Angel: “I SAID FEAR NOT.”
Shepherds: *screaming LOUDER*
Angel: “WHAT PART OF FEAR NOT ARE YOU NOT UNDERSTANDING?”
So demons are fallen angels but they don’t look scary because they’re fallen, that’s just what all angels look like…
Maybe that’s why so many Christians see visions of Saints or the Virgin Mary instead…like Jesus is all…no, no see being human made me realize sending Angels might not be the best idea. I don’t know if humans can handle this. So I’m gonna just send mom
@fem-deanwinchester
I’M GONNA JUST SEND MOM
God: The humans are scared.
Mary: Fine. I’m on it.
Jesus: It’s either Mom or the thousand eyed flaming wheel, Dad, do you really think the humans are gonna be chill with that when they’re terrified of spiders already?
God: Hey now, some of those spiders eat birds.
Jesus: …Dad…
God: …To be fair, Australian wildlife was my dark creation phase.
Australian wildlife was my dark creation phase
This is my new favorite post
luck be in the air tonight
well I definitely guessed that answer horribly wrong.
alright but why use alpha and omega or nobles and peasants when you can just
do straight up classes
“YOU’RE NOT DATING A ROGUE! THIS IS A FAMILY OF TANKS AND HEALERS ONLY!”
“I’m sorry ma’am but it seems your baby is a… hunter”
“how could this happen i did everything right”
“are you sure your husband isnt…. dual classing behind your back?”
*sobbing*
“YOU’RE A WIZARD YOU CAN’T DATE A BARBARIAN THATS JUST UNNATURAL! THINK ABOUT YOUR STAT DISTRIBUTION!”
“look you’re my friend and i cant just sit around and see you mingle with a… subclass”
“the holy codex says clerics and paladins not clerics and necromancers, jeffrey.”
“he’s a third edition druid his buffs last for like 10 minute cindy, its not worth it”
Brb I’m calculating how smol Yuuri is against Victor on skates. If Yuuri is 5'8, daddy nikiforov is 5'11, and blades are about 3,14 inches; then he’s now ~6'2 or around 185cm WOW almost the height of NBA players
Also sweetener:
Victor : Our baby will be a great skating star and we’ll be so proud! Oh and imagine that he’s blessed by being born with skates!
Yuuri : Victor. Victor, that’ll haunt me to my nightmares.
Victor : The world will be surprised! First child in history to be born with knife shoes!
Yuuri : …
Victor : Yuuri, why are you silent?
Yuuri : .. I was just thinking
History sounds like a good name, right?
@tomakehimfree @garbage-dono Brb guys I’m dying
just in case we all forgot how insane the Cards Against Humanity people were
The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy
I tried to scroll past this. I really did
I feel like minor acts of kindness and good intentions are really important on days like this.
"you look so hot but i can’t go near you with all these people around so i’m just going to send you dirty texts until we get an opportunity to leave without looking suspicious" like hell yeeeeees. I'd love to see this for viktuuri.
Here ya go!! (these will be short and quick)
They’re at a simple party, nothing big,just a get together with all the skaters and coaches, along with a handful ofreporters and people who donate the rinks and what not.
Yuuri had been pulled away from Viktor by afew of them, though Viktor was the focus of conversation. They were trying toget details from him that Viktor wouldn’t dish out himself. Until one of them,a man, about thirty with dark hair and pale blue eyes walked up to join theconversation. He snaked his hand around Yuuri’s waist and smiled.
“Surely he’s not interested in talkingabout Viktor guys. He’s a talented skater to, be more respectful.”
Viktor watches from afar, drink in hand. Hecan tell Yuuri is flustered by the man’s subtle touch. Viktor raises a brow. Heand Yuuri had been secretly dating for a while now, but had yet to come forwardabout it. It was difficult for Viktor to hold back and be forced to watch asYuuri was dragged around by attractive men and women. Especially this darkhaired guy who felt the need to keep his hands on him.
Why was Yuuri letting him touch him?
Why didn’t he pull away like he usuallydid?
Sure he was attractive and rich, but Viktorwas definitely those thins times ten.
To make matters worse Yuuri looked out ofthis world. His hair was pushed back out of his face and he was wearing blackjeans and a tight, deep-red, long sleeved v-neck that showed off a good portionof his shoulders, and collar bone. Viktor had picked it out just for him, butnow he was regretting it. He could see the stares people were giving him.Especially that man.
Viktor found a seat and pulled his phonefrom his pocket, clicking on his messenger.
Viktor: Wow! Someone is very popular.
When Yuuri hears the notification tone ofhis phone, his eyes immediately go to Viktor across the room. He pulls hisphone out while the people around him gossip and talk.
Yuuri: Don’t be silly, they’re moreconcerned about you. They’re just using me for info.
Viktor: Is that so. What have you told themhmm
Yuuri: Nothing.
He watches as Yuuri says something to theman beside him. He was smiling so brightly Viktor found himself a littlejealous.
Viktor takes another sip of his drink,smiling as he types the next line.
Viktor: I really want to fuck you right now
The look he gets from Yuuri has himgrinning from ear to ear. The boy is flushed as he awkwardly tries to hide hisphone and type back.
Yuuri: STOP
Viktor: I want to take you in front of allthose ppl, let them know who you belong to.
Yuuri almost drops his phone, clinging ittight to his chest to prevent anyone from reading over his shoulder. When hehears his phone chime again, he shoots a glance at Viktor who is calm, cool,and collected. He sits, legs crossed in a chair, away from everyone else.
Yuuri swallows and dares to look back downat his phone.
Viktor: I could fuck you raw in front ofall these people. Bend you over the table as they watch.
“You okay?” the man beside Yuuri asked uponseeing his whole face go red.
Yuuri quickly closed the app off his phone.“Y-yes, I’m fine.”
“Would you like a drink.” He smiles. “I canbring you one.”
“That would be great thank you.”
Yuuri gives his attention back to his phoneand pulls up messenger.
Yuuri: Viktor quit
Viktor: wouldn’t it be fun? My hand aroundyour cock, stoking you as you beg for more.
Yuuri shifts on his feet. The text wasstarting to get to him, physically.
Viktor notices and immediately types up amessage.
Viktor: I’d finger you open until you werewhimpering for me to shove my cock in your greedy little hole.
Yuuri bites his lip as he shoves his phonein his pocket.
“I brought your drink.” The man returnswith two glasses.
“Ah, actually, I um, I have to go to therestroom. I’m sorry.” He doesn’t give the man time to respond as he darts outof the room. Once he was in the clear he pulled out his phone.
Yuuri: bathroom
Viktor: Be there soon ;)
Should i write some bathroom sex B)
🤔🤔🤔
Something old: Victor's costume
Something new: Their rings
Something borrowed: the Stammi Vicino program
Something blue: Yuuri's costume
