Pencil Sharpener

Cis/Het/Male I post about shonen anime, Northernlion and pencil sharpeners (which i have also co-opted the tag for). sometimes other stuff too im kind of inconsistent. 🇧🇷

[protectivepie52]

i mean mimie WAS the cinderella standin...

what

[protectivepie52]

I still wonder what the hell this meant

[pipluprox]

This is my pencil sharpener

It's over a century old. Supposedly it was stolen from school by my great great grandfather in the early 1900s, and it's been in the family ever since. Weird family heirloom I s'pose, but I inherited it back in April. I think my Zeyde knew I'm the only person in the family who would willingly accept a vintage pencil sharpener as inheritance. Tbh I think he was somewhat just offloading it onto me but I don't mind lol

It's slightly rusted on top but in otherwise very good condition. It works really well apart from two caveats:

1. Because it's mounted to a wooden block which itself isn't mounted to anything, I have to hold it down while sharpening

2. It kinda sorta likes to munch on the pencils

and so sometimes little flakes of wood come off on my hand which is mildly distracting at worst

It's still better than any other sharpener I've used though lol

What's especially nice about it is, Dixon Ticonderoga, my pencil of choice, aren't perfect, and sometimes an entire pack of pencils will refuse to properly sharpen in modern sharpeners. But these rotary sharpeners will gladly sharpen almost any pencil provided it's the right size because instead of rotating the pencil against a single blade, you're basically wedging the pencil between a pair of long, toothed gears that rip the wood off.

Funnily enough I have a modern, much smaller, plastic version of the same kind of sharpener

It worked really well too until I dropped it and shattered the pencil shaving holder. I hope to someday find a replacement for the broken part.

[pipluprox]

Update: my middle finger (a.k.a. the pencil-gripping finger) is irritated now, I don't think it likes the feeling of munched-upon pencil

Still my best sharpener though

[icanthelpbeingacaprisun]

hiyuki being sent out to fight the mikaboshi at 6 months old

[protectivepie52]

Happy Pride to the people

[virginiadre]

[klingklang2]

Pencil sharpeners are always so confident in saying “yup….. here you go…. A sharpened pencil, just like you asked!!” And then give you back a brutally mangled piece of wood with no graphite in it somehow

[protectivepie52]

Oh Nacchi how I love you

[heathcliffbot]

05/11/2026

[virginiadre]

[protectivepie52]

Spiritual Energy is stored in the balls: A theory.

[DANDADAN MANGA SPOILERS AHEAD]

So Okaruns family jewels are turned into shiny gold spheres due to being coated in a layer of spiritual energy right?

And when the Kur dudes extract one from him it still looks like that right? I mean that energy the whole reason the Kur want it in the first place. So where did that spritual energy go?

Obviously it wasn't a 5 cm golden sphere while attached to him, so that spiritual energy must've been kind of absorved into it (Which is why it got extracted WITH his testicle).

And now that Okarun's got both of them. That spiritual energy should still be inside him. And since that energy comes from Turbo Granny, this could also be how he gets his powers back (Now truly his since he isn't borrowing them anymore).

[protectivepie52]

Oh my god if this fuckass theory is right i'm gonna lose it

[fallensnowfan]

Short post to celebrate catching up with Someone Hertz. A few of the listener prompts I have thought of responses for. This was fun hehe.

From chapter 15:

"Instead of salt, he'd throw pepper in the ring before a match."

From chapter 23:

"I mixed up today's forecast with my lunch order, and asked the waiter for a party cloudy day."

From chapter 25:

"They go home sunburned because they put their sunblock on too soon."

From chapter 30.

"There is always a talent scout at the park where everyone exercises."

[protectivepie52]

Loid thinking he's lying when he says he loves Yor when he's not is exactly what i signed up for when i started this manga

[protectivepie52]

They pay me in woims.

[protectivepie52]

Get it twisted all you need for tumblr success is to steal a comic strip wholesale with no alterations

[virginiadre]

Woo-oo !

[protectivepie52]

Nonchalant gimmick practitioner and fake Mon-Mid fan aura mogged by Big Mimei

[protectivepie52]

This week on Spy X Family: Loid is FUCKED

[heathcliffbot]

05/06/2026