Doin' My Thing

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[figdays]

Luna Moth Stained Glass Suncatcher // TruePloverCrafts

[hiyoratory-deactivated20250410]

Barn owl twins

[imperialblack]

[macaedh]

what the fuck ethan

[kvothbloodless]

I wish i had a context for this. But I really dont.

[pervocracy]

I was all ready to “um, actually” this, but, um, actually there’s about 3-4 grams of iron in a person, which x400 is 1.2-1.6kg, which is a smallish but not unreasonable sword. So. Math checks out.

[maxknightley]

How would you extract the iron, though? The more practical solution would be to kill a mere hundred men, then mix 1 part blood with 3 parts standard molten iron, imo. Cheaper and faster, while still retaining the edge that only evil magic can give you.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Or, you could just make the sword of iron, and then use the blood to temper the blade.

[squeeful]

1.2 to 1.6 kilograms is a perfectly reasonable large sword.  Your average longsword was 1.1–1.8 kg and I don’t even remember if that’s including the weight of the hilt, guard, and pommel or just the blade.  Your more classic “knight sword” was a mere 1.1 kilograms on average; the blood of 400 men is more than enough.

This is using the comparatively crappy metallurgy of medieval Europe and their meh iron swords.  Move east to, say, contemporary Iran and make a scimitar using high carbon steel (~2%) for a .75 kilogram blade and you only need the blood of about 225 men.

[optimysticals]

So putting my thoughts in on this… because how could I not.

So you’ve exsanguinated your 400 guys to get the iron for your sword. Cool. But now you have 400 bodies lying around.

Why not put those to good use and cremate them. Use the carbon from those 400 bodies (you won’t need all of them) and now you can make a nice mid-high carbon steel sword.

Now you have a sword forged with the blood of your enemies AND strengthened with their bones.

[hedwig-dordt]

“high fantasy math” - the tag I should have expected to write some day.

[themarysue]

I’m so proud of everyone in this post

[tastefullyoffensive]

[cumaeansibyl]

do hats fit my frog

[jonlybonlyfromboldlygo]

do hats fit my frog or do they fit my dog

[thesassyducks]

These ten ducklings were found orphaned and they were brought to a pet duck called Stella who had just hatched nine of her own two weeks prior. She immediately claimed the ten as her own. 

via @thesassyducks​ instagram

(Source)

[kindness-and-sunshine]

she released those babies like a ramen flavour packet

[kelssiel]

love how stella swims over like “oh shit i must’ve misplaced these ten whole babies!”

[azzandra]

Love how the li’l ramen flavor packets swim over like ‘oh shit that must be mom, she’s mom-shaped’

[lurlur]

[flipocrite]

found-family speedrun

[sweetiepie08]

The funniest part of The Mandalorian is that Luke Skywalker, Bo-Katan Kryze, Ahsoka Tano, and Boba Fett all have a mutual friend.

[sweetiepie08]

I’ve concluded that Din Djarin is definitively the most likable person in the galaxy.

All these people on all different sides of multiple conflicts, but they can all point to Din and be like “yeah, that guy’s cool.”

[rip-paramour]

He’s friend shaped.

[kiwikipedia]

Din is that one guy that everyone knows. like you can ask anyone “you know that one mandalorian that has the cape? the one in the shiny armor?” and they’ll be like “oh yea Mando!” and you can have a two hour long convo about what he did

[sweetiepie08]

He’s like the Bilbo Baggins of the SW universe.

All these important figures coming together to decide the fate of the galaxy, but there’s one goober off to the side who’s like, “hey who’s the guy in the shiny armor?”

Luke: Him? That’s Mando. Don’t you know Mando?

Ahsoka: come on, he has to know Mando.

Bo-Katan: How do you not know Mando?

Boba: Pfft, he doesn’t even know Mando...

[queenjulia24]

HOLD UP HOW WAS I NOT AWARE OF THIS

[lichpire]

was gonna leave my comment in the tags but tbh i’m silent enough about this as it is.

seeing stuff like this is so upsetting because these terms were well known and widespread in the ace community but because of exclusionists many people stopped using terms like this because they felt uncomfortable and unsafe.

i loved these terms when i was in highschool, i loved the feeling of community, but i lost that because i didn’t feel comfortable openly and proudly calling myself asexual.

they’ve hurt so many people and damaged our community badly and i will never forgive them for that. we deserve to use our own terminology and feel safe within our community.

[atasteforsuicidal]

sometimes i notice i haven’t seen “grace” (grey-ace) in a while and consequently wonder if i made it up.

[slenders1ckn3ss]

I remember ppl - even other ace ppl - saying the card suit thing was “cringey” and “straight ppl aren’t gonna take us seriously” (sounds familiar?) So i guess the community wound up abandoning it. We were also having severe issues at the time with aces being stereotyped as “childish/immature” for associating things like cake, dragons, and space with asexuality, plus in general as most aces just don’t “get” allosexual things in media and irl. We were starting to be viewed as ignorant, virginal, childish, losers, etc. I haven’t seen an ace-cake thing in a good while now.

This was the infancy of exclusionary influence on us. I didn’t realize it did more damage than just closeting us. Whole symbols and terms have been lost. Community has been lost.

[cobraonthecob]

I remember three-four years ago I got myself into the ace community on Insta, and I came across these terms. People in these circles would talk about cake, space, dragons, and the black ring on the middle finger. Then, a year or two later, ace content fizzled out (I thought it was Insta’s algorithm figuring out that I knew all this and didn’t bring me the old stuff) and young aces had no idea what any of these were - including the black ring. Finding out young aces had no idea what the black ring meant nearly snapped my heart in two - I proudly wore the black ring, I drew characters with it, and it was my quiet way of communicating to others what my sexuality was. I was baffled at the lack of knowledge - and it turns out that exclusionists got their hands into our community and snuffed us out. 

Anyways, we need to bring this back. I thought the card suite thing was cool, it taught people the different ways people can experience attraction, I loved making jokes about preferring cake, I loved wearing the black ring and talking about it with my fellow queer people at my highschool QSA club. 

[kriss-watches-stuff]

I’m sorry, people don’t know about the cake or ring anymore? I remember being welcomed with spams of cake gifs, photos, and MS Paint drawings. I also distinctly remember that the block solo ring in the midle was meant as reference to the Ace of Spades (black, solo, middle of card). Only thing I didn’t know was that other aces could represent a more refined nuance. Let’s see if we can get this all rolling again.

Welcome to anyone who is interested in helping with the culture revival.

[stutterhug]

The little Brain Ferret~

www.stutterhug.com

https://www.patreon.com/Stutterhug

[bakwaaas]

ah yes the five love languages

- making a cup of tea just how they like it

- peeling a tangerine and sharing the slices

- buying their favourite snack or drink when you see it randomly while shopping

- making a warm meal and serving it in bed when they’re sick

- cutting up slices of fruit for them

[beautifuloxford]

Balliol College, Oxford- Arched Window by Don Brubacher on Flickr.

[sosuperawesome]

Elfin Tiaras and Crowns

Lola White on Etsy

[mushfae]

[justcatposts]

“His favorite spot since he was a baby.” 

(Source)

[thenatsdorf]

[sandersstudies]

My favorite part is when the kitty runs to the window and looks out like “the outside stuff????? It is inside?????”

[strawberryjellystuff-deactivate]

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i had to

[naamahdarling]

Y’all this is a great video to study to observe the body language of a very happy but also very excited cat.  Lots of people see videos of excited cats doing things like climb rock climbing walls or get on small boats and think they are angry or scared, when they aren’t.  Here’s a good example of happy excitement and tension in a cat where the cat’s pleasure is easy to see.  The cat’s tail is lashing and its ears are going backward and forward like crazy, but the cat is not angry, it is merely off its shits because snow is just incredible.  This is a wildly playful cat which might play-attack a hand or other animal because it is so excited, but not out of anger.  Note the zoomies at the end to burn off some of that energy!

Think about it. When we humans do something fun and very physical, our bodies are often tense, at the ready, and a lot of our body language does look kind of aggressive or even scared. Cats are the same!  Animals at play or investigating new things often show some tension, but tension is not the same as anger or fear!

[forestcwhore]

𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒇𝒂𝒓 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒆 🏰

[loamylovely]

If I don’t get to Navarre FL soon, I don’t know what!

I. WANT. WARM. WEATHER. AND.THE. BEACH!!