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Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2609/

bralsra-deactivated20250108

theres ALWAYS a relevant XKCD for everything huh

craicisirish

reminds me of how artists flip the canvas to make sure their art looks good

Just flip the genders real quick and check if you accidentally made a cult

yagamimi-aka-mimi-deactivated20

Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

ama-kitkat123

>:)c

May I present to you, nationalclothing.org?

It doesn't have everything, but it's still my first source when researching traditional clothing from other cultures.

penanatomy-studies

There's also this resource on historical fashion: Claire’s Historical Fashion Reference & Resources

zheida

another addition as far as physical media goes there is the encyclopedia of national dress (that i still need to buy myself bc this kind of thing is super important to my sort of fantasy designing) but yes i do agree i wish there was EVEN MORE documentation on this

iascus

Reblogging to spread awareness

my-art-tutorial-blog

the goldmine folks

texasinnersmile

aborted bloke: i would’ve loved to do fuck all

64mpg

fishpondfish

not everything is getting worse. at least you don't hear high hopes by panic at the disco every day anymore

draconym

your summer camp shenanigans remind me of when we had a stick cult multiple years in a row which we had to keep shutting down

I need to hear about Stick Cult please

cathartidae

okay stick cult is FAR less insidious than it seems- but it's what stick cult stood for was the issue.

see, we generally have a rule that if you wanna pick up a stick, it has to be the length of or shorter than your elbow to the tip of your finger. which stick cult followed for a long time! they battled gently with sticks, or marched around with them, or built castles. it was a pretty good way for them to spend their breaktimes. sometimes we'd have a stick thrown into the coyote or fox enclosure, or theyd chant 'stick cult stick cult stick cult' too loud and we'd have to tell them off, but it was pretty okay for ~3 years. it got passed down from older kids to younger, etc.

all that was fine, until the Fire Nation Rock Cult attacked. see the rock cult was exactly the same as the stick cult- but with rocks. and we dont have a lot of big rocks on site, but we have a lot of gravel- and you can't really play fight with rocks the same as you can with sticks- but you can throw them. and rock cult was INSISTENT on usurping stick cult, to the point where we had multiple friendships end (for the day) due to it. we also got gravel in some kids eyes- it was a whole issue. then stick cult started picking up bigger sticks in retaliation and we had to stop the whole thing altogether

eventually (due to conservative parent complaints) the cults had to be ended. they lived on in spirit in rock castle & stick crew, who we eventually convinced to work together on building a large eagle sized bird nest on the decommissioned well.

it lives on in tales told from older sibling to younger, from counselor to counselor- supposedly, a real eagle used the nest on the well after they built it

draconym

A children's cult building a shrine of out of rocks and sticks to summon an eagle god would make a great Studio Ghibli movie

lickingandsuckingchristmascoins

drunk as fuck in one of these telling the fast food drive thru guy that my name is “Brock Hampton”

zxid

collection

fishlung8877

fairyinthetrees

hi besties in my phone. i hope today is so so good to you. i hope something special happens to remind you that it’s not always bad. ily.

nae-nae-supreme

Lowkey I bet it felt good as fuuuuuuck to be one of the coal miners that got to blow a pinkertons brains out from a high ridge with a bolt action rifle.

catboymuqing-moving

sims 4 patch notes will be like “fixed an issue where harvesting carrots caused toddlers to explode” then you load the game and all your sims are bald

prokopetz

There are people who have kinks involving glasses and there are people who have kinks involving compression stockings, so by the Rule of Three there must be someone out there who gets hard for RSI wrist braces to complete the "aroused by assistive devices popularly associated with nerds" trifecta.

rlyehtaxidermist

they carpal on my tunnel til i acute burning sensation

prokopetz

Person whose biggest fantasy is getting a handjob from someone who has a special wrist brace specifically for jerking cock because you need a different kind of support to wank someone off than you do for data entry.

prokopetz

You can tell which people in the notes definitely don't have this particular kink because they're the dipsticks who are like "well, wrist braces are basically just gloves, right? There's lots of people with a glove kink."

eclecticopposition

what is THE worst thing you've ever drank. all liquids acceptable. please tell me what it was, bonus points for why

carby

Hey whoa hi. Hello. I am looking directly into your ear canal. What do you mean you drank a tube of virus concentrate.

whyamiherewhosummonedme

So, I was working in a lab, right? My job in the lab was preparing a pure, concentrated enough sample of virus. This is tricky since, y'know, viruses require hosts to replicate, but you then need to get the host cells (and the pieces of the host cells that died!) out of the sample while still keeping the viruses. Once I'd finished and the samples had been sent to the database for analysis as well as a second one sent to be frozen for future reference, there was still some left over that needed to be disposed of.

I, knowing that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, waited carefully for the lab director to be deep in conversation with someone else on the other side of the laboratory. And then I took my chance.

Test tubes, as it turns out, are really bad as shot glasses. Their shape turns any liquid inside into a stream, so you really can't knock it back quickly - it takes a couple seconds. Additionally, the best way I can describe the taste of virus concentrate was "sterile rot". A very unique kind of bad! Made worse by the test tube's inefficiency as a shot glass.

(by the way we were studying bacteriophages, not animal viruses. these viruses are too specialized on attacking prokaryotes to even recognize our cells as targets at all, according to studies.)

(but also like. if the viruses managed to successfully switch hosts and killed me with a violent infection, itd still be worth it.)

(for science.)