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I have started following the journey of a German soccer fan in the US for the world cup
@laeffy the euros have found buc-ee's
I'm often yearning for some platonic cuddles 💜
I have started following the journey of a German soccer fan in the US for the world cup
Very excited to finally share some pictures of my Dread Pirate Frogerts build! I've been thinking about making this outfit for my Kermit for a while now, but the proper motivation to actually get this done was hearing that Cary Elwes was announced as a guest for my local comic convention! So with any luck Dread Pirate Frogerts will be getting to meet the real Westley very soon.
A shocking amount of work went into making this little outfit... I completely underestimated the amount of time I would need to put all this together. Though a good chunk of that was me getting way too wrapped up in perfectionism... ask me how many times I re-did the smocking on the sleeves (On second thought, don't, it's embarrassing). Here I thought I had been con-crunching with Piggy last year... technically, I only just finished Kermit today, and the convention starts Thursday. Lots of internal (and external) screaming was had with this build. I did film the majority of it, with plans to turn it into a full video and reel in the future... maybe once I've had a chance to recoup from aforementioned con-crunch.
Miraculous characters as tweets because I'm bored
adrien agreste/chat noir (+ships) as text posts i have saved to my kin pinterest board. i might do a part 2 because honestly i kept finding more good posts
the world's smallest carnivore is called the "least weasel" 😭😭 i'm dying but like if it's the smallest carnivore then it sure is the least amount of weasel you can have 😭😭😭
Look at him: this is absolutely the least amount of weasel you can have
Petition to rename the wolverine (Gula gula) to Most Weasel.
Pictured: the most amount of weasel you can have.
Upon my last viewing of Cinderella's Castle I have become convinced that most "modern fairytale retellings" don't really get the point. The complaint about Cinderella is always that "oh she's so passive and has to be saved by a MAN" and the people making these complaints don't think about how for a very, very long time, marriage was the only way for young women to leave their abusive families, and marriage is not guaranteed to be abuse free. Cinderella's Castle doesn't take the story about abuse and make it "she doesn't need a man, she can save herself", it's a revenge story. That's what "feminist" retellings lack. Cinderella is a fantasy about escaping abuse and for girls today, the fantasy is no longer "I wish I could get married to a rich powerful man and get away from my abusive family" it's "I wish I could enact revenge"
Many attempts to make stories more progressive for a contemporary audience fail to analyse what exactly the outdated or regressive elements of a story actually mean and think that simply removing those elements is enough to make it modern and feminist, when in reality you just removed all the layers without adding any new layers or rethinking the narrative in a way that is compelling. Let's say that Cinderella doesn't need the prince to save her. She still needs to escape somehow. If she can just save herself because she's a #girlboss then what's the point of telling the story? That's boring. I like that CC doesn't turn Ella into a generic girlboss character. She does need help! She needs the help of Justine and Lucy, the help of the fairy queen, the help of Sir Hop-a-lot and Crumb, and the help of Tadius. She doesn't need the prince! She doesn't marry him! She isn't rescued in the end, instead, she gets to take revenge on her stepmother! And the revenge is cathartic because of how much she has lost over the course of the story!!!!
Also I just want to note that having one of the stepsisters marry the prince only for both of them to die is a really clever way to get Ella to the throne without making her get married
Good news! This story exists, it’s called The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
different, but the same
always astounds me when adults hate kids cause like. did you just Forget about how unfair the world seemed when YOU were a child?? do you not remember being upset about how no adult ever seemed to respect you or listen to you at all? and now youre gonna just go on and treat kids like the way you hated being treated when you were one. ok
Apparently in China peach wood (Along with the rest of the plant) is believed to have properties that repel evil spirits, a little similar to silver in European legends or iron for both European fae and West Asian/Middle eastern Jinn. Taoists sometimes keep swords made of peach wood because of this. This made me realize something. If you took a peach wood stick, and attached studs to it of both silver and iron you'd end up with a club or staff (or mace, flail etc.) that would have the weaknesses of many kinds of supernatural creatures while still retaining effectiveness as a normal weapon (peach is a hardwood and silver's poor edge retention doesn't matter for studs). You could even keep adding new stud materials to get something ridiculous that affects over 120 catalogued folkloric monsters. Since you just need a few little studs you could even get some really expensive materials like meteoric iron (a thumb tip sized meteorite can still cost like 10-20 bucks I think). I could somewhat feasibly make a weapon that affects every monster ever thought to walk the earth, from vampires and werewolves to jinn and jiangshi and even mankind.
I’ve realized that I, the mace enthusiast, have not reblogged a mace post. this must be fixed
You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes
F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???
Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖
If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you
Moving around my whole life and having lived in 7 states has made me keenly aware of the fact that everyone thinks their city/town is uniquely terrible in exactly the same ways. "Everyone acts nice but they hate you," "The weather here is so unpredictable," "It's so hard to make friends here," "The buses are never on time," "This town is full of the craziest people," girl that's every town. "No but it's worse here" look you can't all be the worst.
According to popular opinion, I have literally never been anywhere with good drivers. And from what I've been informed, no one else has either.
Health classes really ought to teach people what the beginning stages of addiction are like because a lot of people don’t realize they’re addicted to something until they’re years deep into it.
Signs you might be getting addicted to something:
If you go without it you feel unwell in a way that you never usually feel unwell. Sweating, tired, sleepy, headaches, irritable, depressed, etc. For example when I was in opium withdrawal I got incredibly depressed in a way that I’ve never been before or since. When you quit caffeine you might get super bad headaches even if you never usually get any headaches.
Thoughts of it regularly bother you and the thoughts go away once you’ve taken it but only temporarily. Unlike with a food craving which usually stays away once you’ve satisfied it or distracted yourself from it.
You find yourself rationalizing with yourself why you should break your own rules about how much you can take and how often. For example you might only let yourself drink alcohol every four days but start thinking that three days is actually close enough to four days, right? Especially if this happens regularly.
You’re using it so often that you feel the need to lie about how much you use because other people might think it’s concerning
If the substance or activity is nearby it’s genuinely difficult to not consume it or participate in it in a way that’s really frustrating.
You feel bad when you’re not on it and your brain tells you “if you just take the thing you wouldn’t feel this way”
You can only feel “whole” or “normal” when you’re on a substance even though it’s a recreational drug
And if you read this and think you might be addicted to something, don’t panic and don’t feel ashamed. Realizing you’re addicted to something isn’t a failure. It’s more information about your health that you can use to manage your condition, whether you want to get rid of your addiction or not.
a good thing to note is that when you start to suspect addiction, if you're looking at the signs early, there is a possibility for you to regain control!
if you see any of the signs listed above, you are likely still in the window of "i should reign this in", and it is very likely that if you decide to do so in this moment, you will succeed.
most people in active addiction don't figure it out until they are deep enough into it that the psychological aspect becomes too powerful, especially because they don't know how to recognize these signs. if education were more well-rounded, a lot less people would end up stuck in addiction because you genuinely can take control if you realize you've gone too far early enough.
my basic tenet is, if i start showing signs of addiction, i quit for six months. no matter what it is. six months is enough time to get through the detox, it's enough time to start putting my head into the right space and look at the situation less subjectively, and it's enough time to build a new ruleset if i decide to go back to using. this has worked for me multiple times, with several different substances.
however, if you find yourself in a cycle of doing this regularly, you're likely past the point of being able to regain control. nicotine has its grip in me because i let myself slip and stopped stopping when i saw it get unhealthy.
if you are struggling with an active addiction, and you can't muster the control to quit for 6 months, or on that 6 month day you go right back to it, and you don't want that life, you need to seek help. it has to be your choice, but you need to understand that if you do not want an active addiction, you have to take action and that does mean getting help from someone, whatever path works for you. there will come a point where you realize you can't do it alone, and that's the time to seek help. and there is nothing wrong with that. you're only human, and we can only handle so much on our own. you got this.
Spin the wheel to find out your fate!
How do you feel about your new fate?
I accept my fate
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