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evil for clout (evil for The Bit is OK)
Against crows stealing ur fries. Give them 2 me
Cannot properly assemble the bar and chain on a chainsaw, or safely start the engine
Some kind of strawman (I hate those guys)
something something extremely sexy when magic users resort to physical violence. yeah i have the power of god and anime on my side but i also have THESE HANDS. i cast Punch You In The Face. i take my magic staff through which i channel the vast energies of the elements and the cosmos and i cast Severe Concussion And Skull Fracture. casting time for xenoglossy too long, chose the quicker route of Stab You In The Throat.
"Hah, wizard, you're all out of mana, and you're at my merc--" (Gets whacked in the face by a big hunk of magic crystal embedded in a 5-6 foot-long tree branch)
Me, surfacing for air: “You saw that fish? That was a parrot fish that has not transed its gender. They do that, you know. Trans. Their genders. In the wild. It’s natural. It’s free. It’s in the ocean. Not all of them do it and that’s ok it’s up to them. Sometimes cis male parrotfish do it too. It’s all the same, in the end. Ok, I’m going back down.”
It's through the DMRT-1 gene, and we have it too! Here's an article about what it might mean for future trans health procedures, as the gene editing tools available today (the article is from 2023) aren't precise enough to manipulate it safely:
DMRT-1 and what medical transition might look like in the future
Holy shit that is so cool!!! What a wonderful world we live in where fish are providing insight into the next generation of trans healthcare
The Octopus Lady just released a cool video about this yesterday!
(The title and thumbnail are referring to her being unable to easily access an explanation of certain terminology regarding the sex/colorations of male parrot fish in the research papers she was reading, not the transgenderism part.)
There is a Very Special Birthday at the Stickyfrogs house today! Jens is turning 14 years old! 🎉🐸🎈
He celebrated with a Special Birthday Hat and Trevor sang him a Loud Birthday Song! Happy 14th Birthday Jens! 🎉🐸🥳 🐸🎉
I probably won't ever write any fanfic abt Avatar: The Last Airbender, but I am lowkey obsessed with an idea I had of a timeline in which Aang doesn't get frozen.
Instead, he goes back home out of guilt, and ends up on the run after the Fire Nation ravages his Air Temple, and kills his mentor Monk Gyatso. He spends most of his life on the run, learning bending as quickly as possible while Fire Lord Sozin takes over the world, piece by piece. He prevents much tragedy, but at great personal cost: his childhood, his pacifism, and his family.
Aang is only one boy. A powerful boy, but just one person. Lord Sozin (and later Lord Azulon) are formidable rulers with powerful armies. Aang can't save the Air Nomads. He cannot prevent the horrific kidnappings of the Southern waterbenders. He tries. Oh he tries, desperately. But he cannot be everywhere at once. It eats at him. The lives of good friends and people slip through his fingers like sand. He avoids forming more close personal connections. His goal becomes saving the world, not saving people.
Roku and Aang's past lives worry about him. They're sympathetic, this was far too much responsibility to give to a child, and it's hurting him. But they can't do much to ease his burdens, only guide him on the right path, and nudge him in the right direction.
Flash forward many years. Prince Iroh (the then-Crown Prince of the Fire Nation, and their greatest General) is in the prime of his career. He's dad's favorite son. He's still charming and somewhat laid-back, but this translates more into his leisure time and love of fine foods than his spiritual philosophy. He is highly ambitious, desperate to etch his name into the history books, and cement his legacy. He pits his will against the greatest city in the world, Ba Sing Se.
He loses. His son Lu Ten still dies. Iroh gives the order to retreat, but it's less of a retreat and more fleeing for their lives, because the Earth Kingdom has a weapon they didn't in the original timeline: Aang.
Aang is old. He's a formidable master. And he's leaned into an almost ascetic life. There is little attachment to anything material, or social. Maybe this led to a near-perfect mastery of the Avatar State, or even the ability to fly. He's decided that his next incarnation can care about people once he saves the world. Right now, he has an obligation. An obligation to stop the Fire Nation's tyranny, and prevent them from invading Ba Sing Se. And to track down the missing Fire Nation General, and bring him to justice.
Iroh is on the run from both Aang and the Dai Li, he barely has the breath or energy to grieve the loss of his son. He is beginning to come to terms with what war cost him. What war costs everyone.
Aang finds him. He corners him and takes him captive. Iroh is determined to talk or trick his way out of this. Aang isn't having any of it.
And that's where my idea kinda ends? I think it'd be interesting to explore the dynamic between them, especially if circumstances force them to work together. I think there would also be interesting to explore what older canon characters were doing at this time, like Kana (Sokka and Katara's grandma), King Bumi, and Hama (the Southern Water Tribe bloodbender) and possibly bring them into the story. And make up some new ones! Like, what's the deal with that one firebending technique where you shoot fireballs with your mind? And what was
Anyway ty for coming to my TED Talk. I unfortunately don't really have any other Avatar posts. And if you want to turn this into an actual fic I don't care, do whatever you want.
ON FEBRUARY 22ND, 2026, HE WILL BE FORCED TO EAT CEMENT
mark your calendars for this historic event
Angry Fairy: Wicked Prince, as punishment for not welcoming me into your home in exchange for a rose, I'm turning you into a horrible beast, to reflect your hideous heart.
The Prince's Servants: Seems fitting honestly, he's really mean to us, too :/ Like we get he's going through some personal things, but...
Fairy: But since I pity you lonely prince, if you find someone who loves you in return, before this rose wilts, the curse will be lifted.
Servants: You know what, that's also pretty fair, people should be given the opportunity to grow and change. Kinda weird to hinge that on a romantic partner, though?
Fairy: And I'm turning your servants into sentient household objects, since they didn't go against their master's wishes, and risk their entire livelihoods (and possibly lives) to offer me shelter either. And they don't turn back into humans either, unless you break the curse.
Fairy: Oh also I'm turning them into the household objects they most resembled, or used the most at work.
Servants, who are now assorted furniture, cleaning supplies, and dinnerware: Bruh
my friend who is training to be a 911 operator just told me that they are having to restrain themself whenever responding to training calls from saying “that’s illegal people can’t do that” and I find that so fucking funny
For context
Art by Simona Cojocariu
Oh! The intimacy of adopting each other’s vocabulary.
I accidentally caused my boyfriend and our IRL friend group to adopt the word "bwuh," which was a nonsense word an entirely different online friend group of mine made up. And the other friend group isn't even using the original definition, my boyfriend just made one up based on context clues.
explaining the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to a tudor era peasant and when i'm finished they grab my hand and start excitedly gesturing at a poster advertising a performance of shakespeare's hamlet at the globe theatre
*nods thoughtfully and makes a mental note to explain the term "girlboss" next*
[ID: tag: #this ‘blorbo’ doth please me greatly! Hast though seen the bard’s macbeth? For though lady macbeth did so much wrong she didn’t in my heart <3 /end ID]
rats
That's a good rat
men and women are not opposites. men and women are not enemies. men and women are two parts of a broad coalition which fights against a mutual enemy: inkjet printers
Man trapped at the bottom of an old well has been declared largely uninteresting, will not be rescued
Maybe it's naive of me, but whenever I see portraits like this, with just a father and daughter, it restores my faith in humanity a little. Because people seem to love this idea that fathers never loved their daughters in the past and only saw them as bargaining chips for marriage or whatever, but look at the guy in the first portrait on the left, he loves that little girl! And the dad trying to do his work while his daughter bothers him with an Old Timey Barbie. The man teaching his daughter geography, his expression is so soft! The way the man in the last portrait holds the little girl's hand! And none of these are incidental, these aren't photographs, someone (probably the father) paid good money and sat down for hours so that they could have a painting of themselves and their daughter. Probably because they loved their daughter.
From left to right: 1795 Michał Jerzy Mniszech with his daughter Elżbieta - Marcello Bacciarelli; Christopher Anstey and his daughter Mary Ann by William Hoare 1776; A Musician and His Daughter by Thomas de Keyser 1629; The Geography Lesson (Portrait of Monsieur G. and His Daughter), 1812; Jean-baptiste Isabey And His Daughter; Portrait of a Young Girl and Older Man by William Harrison Scarborough
(this is probably somewhat related to my other favourite genre of painting, Husband With Multiple Kids Making Come Hither Eyes At His Wife)
oh I love those! People being people is one of my favourite kinds of paintings and an important reminder that people in past times were not all that different. There were dads who loved their daughters fiercely. There were fathers who happily looked after their babies too. The German reformer Philip Melanchton for example had a cradle in his office. His wife was busy organising a household for 20 people- she was out and about, he mostly worked in his office, it made sense for him to look after their babies too babies while she dropped by at snack time.
in fact often if it was kind of safe dads had the babies in their workshops for just that reason as we can see in these paintings:
The left is “the busy father” by Theodore Weber, the right one is “At the china repairer’s “ by Wenzel Tornoe. All dads who are actively involved in childcare and a painter who thought it was a cute topic rather than anything ridiculous.
I raise you:
First Lesson by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865 - 1931)
Un Coup De Main (The Helping Hand) by Émile Renouf (1845 – 1894)
Italian Winegrower And His Daughter by Francesco Baratta (1590-1666)
Experiencing the simple joys of growing up with Papa
