I will be just like papa! Just watch!

Hello there! Melissa Shield speaking!

[pamesjatterson]

One of the worst feelings is when you feel a hyperfixiation slipping.. Like no.. Youre so sexy pls keep giving me happy chemical

[whiskey-wolf-deactivated2020060]

And this is what happens when a masterfully crafted katana collides with a masterfully crafted longsword.

Suck it, katana

[val-ritz]

And that is what happens when a masterfully crafted scalpel collides with a masterfully crafted guillotine.

Does nobody understand that longswords and katanas are two different kinds of tool?Longswords are essentially sharpened fucksticks designed to destroy the shit out of anything resembling armor that comes their way. They shatter bone, jelly flesh, and essentially fuck people up by sheer inexorable force of being a goddamn sharp steel bar.

Katanas don’t do that.They’re not meant to withstand collision with armor or a brick wall or a charging fully outfitted warhorsebecause the circumstances of its development didn’t call for that. It’s a precision instrument. It’s designed to be lightweight, outmaneuver, and find weak spots, not go barreling into people hack-n-slashing your way to victory. It’s a specialized tool.

In a sense this reflects a core difference between cultures; katanas are a shitton of work and preparation to make the execution as efficient and streamlined as possible, while longswords are more durably and simply made in response to a climate that would require a soldier to be a one-man battering ram in battle.

[karstaagskookykastle-blog]

You slam any blade into any other blade and one of them is at least going to get chipped, because you’re NOT SUPPOSED TO FUCKING DO THAT.

Medieval European / Japanese sword-fighting manuals didn’t have “Now Clang the Swords Together and Totally Ruin Them For No Good Reason Whatsoever” sections. That sword-clanging crap is from movies because you want to show a 2 minute dancey sword-fight and have to do something during that time, because in real sword fights it’s either over in 25 seconds with one guy on the ground, dead, or it goes on for 4 hours as two guys in armor wear themselves out, slamming the broad sides of the sword against the armor.

Swords aren’t lightsabers.

This is like proving a Volkswagen Beetle is a “crap car” by running it into a bridge pylon at 85 mph. It’s a pointless demonstration, because you’re not supposed to do that.

Neither one of these weapons was invented to cut another sword in half, Both were invented to cut a GUY in half. In slightly different ways, but still.

[cool-mint]

oh my god thank you

[soap-lady]

Reblogging for my sword peeps.

[jfgoiejfgkhlrdfsg-deactivated20]

to my fellow schizophrenic / psychotic people:

i’m sorry you’re both demonized and glorified. i’m sorry that neurotypical people joke about how quirky they are because they hear voices yet give us the sideways glare if we show symptoms. i’m sorry that you’re used as an insult or used to describe horrible, disgusting people. i’m sorry that people stare at you when you twitch or tic. i’m sorry.

you’re not scary, you’re not a trope, you’re not a fashion label. you’re strong and you’re brave and i love you so so much.

[jfgoiejfgkhlrdfsg-deactivated20]

this is okay to rb but unpsychotics do NOT clown on this

[mioxenoblade]

National Suicide Prevention Hotline:  [phone]

Trans Lifeline USA:  1-877-565-8860

Trans Lifeline Canada: 1-877-330-6366

The Trevor Project Hotline:  [phone]

The Trevor Project also offers texting and chat

You are an amazing person. Don’t give up on yourself.

[pleatedjeans]

Three cheers for these guys [x]

[blackphoenixincorporated]

This is how to be a good ally.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Using their Bro-ness for good, not evil

[ladyflowdi]

So a tiny story: on Black Friday a few weeks ago I went to Gamestop to buy my brother a game for Christmas, and I noticed this older man was watching me like a hawk. He was loitering around the front of the store without really buying anything, and every time I glanced at him out of the corner of my eye he was looking at me. I went to look at the PS4 games, and he was looking at something right behind me. I checked out the Nintendo games, and he was looking at them too. I was the only woman in the store, by the way.

By the time I got in line to pay he was loitering at the front of the store again, and I just had that feeling that he was going to try and take the game I just bought, or steal my purse, as soon as I left the store. OR, he was going to try and follow me home. And I know I don’t have to explain that terror to any woman reading this, but all I could think was that I’m in this Gamestop alone with at least twenty other men and something is about to happen. I’m beginning to freak out, to the point where I’ve just pulled my pepper spray out of my purse and into the pocket of my coat. 

So there I am, next in line to pay, and there is this GIGANTIC dudebro right behind me, and I say gigantic as a 6 foot tall woman. He says, “Ma’am? Don’t be offended, but would it be alright if I walked you to your car?” and I was like “Are you serious?” and he was like “There are some weird guys in here right now. Have you noticed that guy watching you?” and then I showed the dudebro the pepper spray in my pocket and he was like “Right on. Would you still let me walk you to your car?” and I said yes.

So I paid, and waited while HE paid, and he walked me to my car. And just as I was getting in, the weird guy who’d been loitering came out of the store, saw me and my dudebro, and turned around and walked away in the opposite direction. 

In short: men who recognize that women are unsafe in dark alleys, college campuses, grocery stores, gas stations and retail stores and do something about it are the kind of quality men that this world needs more of.

[yuuri-katsuki-on-ice-blog]

Please for the love of god yes.

[rodnt]

Question: Why do you hate cis people when some of them are trans themselves

girl what does this say

[closet-keys]

[ithelpstodream]

[glitterz]

Omg rly ??

[ithelpstodream]

yes! really!

translifeline.org

US: [phone]

CANADA: [phone]

Pacific time: 8am to 2am

Mountain time: 9am to 3am

Central time: 10am to 4am

Eastern time: 11am to 5am

Alaska time: 7am to 1am

Hawaii time: 6am to 12am

[aaliyahbreaux]

Okay so I just got off the phone with them. I talked to a trans girl named Aurora & she was super helpful! She gave me a few doctors to talk to & encouraged me to seek therapy instead of just rushing to get my pills. She literally found a trans friendly therapist in my town & I would definitely recommend giving them a call!

[nothappy-nonbinary-forpositivity]

GUYS COME SEE THIS!!!!!! I didn’t know about this, come look!!!!!!

[kibumkim]

tbh…

[bigtittydgemini]

IT’S TRUUUE THOOOO

[jimmyfury]

All the rich people in the notes trying to defend the truth of this by whining about how they were raised to save every penny (because obviously poor people are poor because they never save money not because there’s a fucked up system that perpetuates poverty or anything) and it was so hard being raised to be like that boo hoo hoo

poor people buy people food because we remember what it felt like to go hungry so y’all can fuck off with this it was so hard growing up rich bullshit

[repotting]

also: poor friends will pay you back, if they can, completely unasked, when you end up paying for a lot of their food. it will literally not even occur to middle-class/rich people to do so.

[deactivated-blog]

📭 Reblog if you want curious anons in your inbox! 📭

[nicolecoenen-deactivated2016091]

Women Self Defense in 1947

[littlekiwi37-archive]

I’m not sure what’s the best part of this video: the fact that she’s in heels, the fact that she does the whole thing looking like she don’t give a fuck, that chick in the back just exercising and enjoying the show, or the fact that both men and women are observing this and the girls are laughing and the guys look concerned/pensive as fuck as they watch all their tactics get shut down like nothing is even happening.

[slenders1ckn3ss]

… msties is it just me or is this familiar?

[leaper182]

Some of these are moves I haven’t seen before.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Some of this looks similar to the self defense I learned in a course three or four years ago. It’s definitely got some judo in it (arm bars, throws, fighting to and from the ground). I love this lady. She is rad. I feel like she, much like the rad lady I had as my self defense teacher, would also warn the women that if they don’t think they can gouge out someone’s eyes, don’t start trying because you’ll attack better with something you can follow through on.

[satanstrousers]

crimelords I’m sorry I couldn’t not reblog this for you

[i-feel-fantastic-deactivated202]

The cheerful music makes it even better

[catchymemes]

This adorable proposal.

[daftpenstartedover]

[last-bi-in-town-deactivated2023]

This is why I LOVE same-sex relationships. Like, who’s gonna propose?? Probably both!!

[currently-obsessed-with]

Lesbians destroying marriage

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

[a-maiz-ing]

this is how everyone found out

[yumenofude]

Soulmate AU inspired by the prompt:  “If you dye your hair, your soulmate’s hair color changes as well and you swear the moment you see your soulmate you will choke them” OR Kiri, Kami and Baku have been dating for a while now but didn’t know they were soulmates… until now. 

Do not repost without permission.

[t4timekeeper]

i love the term ‘ritual’. am i getting ready in the morning? am i doing my beauty routine? am i performing maladaptive compulsive behaviours to sate my mental illness? am i invoking ancient lovecraftian horrors? who knows! certainly not me

[uncharted3-remade-deactivated20]

[uncharted3-remade-deactivated20]

if you're truscum/transmed this post isnt for you btw :-)

[uncharted3-remade-deactivated20]

💙💖🤍💖💙

[solarpunk-aesthetic]

Just imagine a world full of beautiful stained glass windows which also generate electricity…

[Oxford Photovoltaics]

[fartsandprayers]