Things That I Find Interesting!

Transgirl, and blacksmith. If you want to see what I do for work, check out my work at Willow the Wisp Metalwork! I  reblog fun or cute or pretty things here. I am trying to reblog a few things/selfies by transgirls a day to say nice things to hopefully make them smile? 

[guerrillatech]

[takingbackourculture]

The Navajo Nation's COVID-19 Death Toll Is Higher Than That of 13 States Combined

Native Americans are being disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus.

How the Pandemic Is Affecting the Navajo Nation

A conversation about the challenges facing—and the resilience of—the largest reservation in the country, which has become a COVID-19 hotspot

Cases rise to 1,637 on Navajo Nation, 59 total confirmed deaths

The Navajo Nation now has a total of 1,637 cases of COVID-19 with 59 confirmed deaths.

[llord]

this is the official navajo covid relief fund, please donate, it’ll go towards desperately needed medical supplies, as well as daily necessities for the community like canned food, drinkable water, disinfectants, and baby formula

http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html

[pr1nceshawn]

Fruit Dragons by Alexandra Khitrova.

[miladyaelin]

never not reblog the fruit dragons

[thebroccoligoblin]

Devious lil bebbies!!!

[jpnostalgia]

JURASSIC PARK vs JURASSIC WORLD trilogies 

why the original trilogy feels more mature and real than the new one, more cartoonish instead. 

Which style do you prefer?

http://jpnostalgia.tumblr.com/

[the-demon-colonel]

We have the same problem in big budget Hollywood filmmaking nowadays that Hayao Miyazaki pointed out in anime a few years back, namely that films are being made by the fanboys that grew up idolizing the original movies, and worse still planned and budgeted by corporate lawyers and producers who use think tanks to identify what they think audiences want in films, and as a result you get overwrought and convoluted twaddle that makes us normal people pine for the old standard

[phoenixyfriend]

[mountaingnomes]

WHERE IS THE ARTICLE WHERE ARE THE STORIES

[funnymemes-and-kinkydreams]

A lovely idea

[ultrafacts]

Source: [x]

Follow Ultrafacts for more facts!

[rootbeergoddess]

That’s…kinda cool actually

[mousathe14]

Not just kinda, pretty dang cool

[questions-within-questions]

Honestly in terms of sets? Very little of the Prequels were CGI. Lucas actively attempted to cultivate the idea that he used CGI for everything because he wanted to be perceived as cutting edge. Mustufar? That’s an actual miniature set. The poured jello over the top of neon lights to make the lava. Naboo? Also used miniatures; they used salt instead of water to make the water falls look right at that scale.  

[scottandhiskind]

Okay, are we all just gonna ignore that set designers had to painstakingly cut, paint, and arrange 500,000 q-tips?!?

[dadmech]

The models for the clone facilities on Kamino are some of my faves from the PT, seen here being worked on by Adam Savage!

[nuttyrabbit]

Holy shit, that’s really cool

[mockingburb]

Psssst the set designer wouldn’t have assorted all those q-tips. The set designer came up with all the dimensions of how big that q-tip stadium needed to be, and made the blueprints.

The real creator would have been fabricators, set dressers, or a crying art production assistant who has been painting q-tips for two weeks straight and just really wants to go home.

Source: I’m a crying art production assistant who really wants to go home

[sabertoothwalrus]

why the fuck aren’t there decorative dispensers for maxi pads.

they could look like those fancy tissue box covers but function like a tea bag dispenser

[sabertoothwalrus]

I don’t use tampons but a dispenser for those could be like the ones for straws

[sabertoothwalrus]

I have to do everything myself I guess

I still have to sand and finish it but I’m pretty happy with how it came out

[sabertoothwalrus]

I added a finish! I didn’t stain it or paint it because I like how it matches my room.

Also some of yall are telling me to patent this, but why would I do that when I can just as easily post a diagram for free on the internet so anyone could make one if they wanted to :)

[calmingthoughtsinyourhead]

I’m just going to leave this here…

[peachymachi]

[fartpenis]

[starlightomatic]

im on mobile, can someone make one that adds “jews”

[sturstead]

Done

[lius-is-a-catboy-deactivated202]

Cowards won’t reblog this version.

[marsh-potatoes]

HONESTLY.

[marzipanandminutiae]

reading letters from 1818 is wild

“it’s that time of the year when I get colds for no apparent reason again” have some Clairitin hon

[marzipanandminutiae]

But also we’re not becoming allergic to everything nowadays like certain white moms fear. Allergies have always existed. They were just talked about differently

Like “oh clams always ~turn my stomach~”. Or “what a pity he was taken from us at age 5”

[rosslynpaladin]

“Well we didn’t have all this fancy chronic illness stuff in the Olden Days, what did people do then??”

They died, Ashleigh. 

[explorerrowan]

This is a picture tracking bullet holes on Allied planes that encountered Nazi anti-aircraft fire in WW2.

At first, the military wanted to reinforce those areas, because obviously that’s where the ground crews observed the most damage on returning planes. Until Hungarian-born Jewish mathematician Abraham Wald pointed out that this was the damage on the planes that made it home, and the Allies should armor the areas where there are no dots at all, because those are the places where the planes won’t survive when hit. This phenomenon is called survivorship bias, a logic error where you focus on things that survived when you should really be looking at things that didn’t.

We have higher rates of mental illness now? Maybe that’s because we’ve stopped killing people for being “possessed” or “witches.” Higher rate of allergies? Anaphylaxis kills, and does so really fast if you don’t know what’s happening. Higher claims of rape? Maybe victims are less afraid of coming forward. These problems were all happening before, but now we’ve reinforced the medical and social structures needed to help these people survive. And we still have a long way to go.

[twodotsknowwhy]

This is one of my favorite anecdotes to show how clever rewording of statistics can make them say the opposite of what they mean:

Every time a state makes riding a motorcycle without a helmet illegal, the number of ER patients seriously injured in motorcycle accidents skyrockets. Every single time.

When you phrase it just right, it makes it sound like it’s more dangerous to ride a motorcycle with a helmet than without one. Of course, the reality is that before those laws, those patients were going to the morgue, not the ER.

[the-director]

That also reminds me of a story from world war 1 where the soldiers started to take their helmets off because more soldiers would come back injured while wearing a helmet. That’s because if they didn’t have a helmet they died.

[ithelpstodream]

[girlactionfigure]

Link / Link

[lemonsharks]

“How would a chicken wear pants?”

- Richard Beale, 1784

[vbartilucci]

Thank you, Richard Beale, for making our opinion of the past slightly more ridiculous.

[liberalsarecool]

[liberal-memes]

[princessnijireiki]

This is Adam Erickson, pastor at the Clackamas United Church of Christ in Milwaukee, Oregon!

[saxgoddess25]

Oh finally. A real Christian.

[systlin]

Now THIS man’s read the book

[thriceandonce]

@fialleril

[jacaylsdcbhsdhk-deactivated2020]

being bilingual is just *knows meaning of word in your language but not the other* *cant explain it* *mental pause* *words that exist only in one language but not the other* *mixing languages mid sentance* *as you get better in one language you get worse in the other* *mental pause* *confusing meanings* *speaking both languages badly*

[fullpraxisnow]

Math proves that capitalism sucks and that capitalists are greedy.

[brosefvondudehomie-deactivated2]

So he gave millions and you gave $40 and feel like you’re doing more?

[pebbleofgod]

[laurasterisk]

As presented, brought to you by Jesus, and THE FRIGGING BIBLE

[evipineschi]

Days 8+9

[catchymemes]

[hamburgeroisie]

I deadass thought this was 3 Star Wars movies

[metalgirlysolid]

its called Color Theory and we been knew. “Art is subjective” but there are certain “rules” you can follow to make things more appealing in a subconscious/subliminal kind of way.

once you see it, you cant unsee it.

[greenvelvetchaise]

I can’t believe there are only 9 movies

[aleatorietadellesistenza]

There are only 9 genders and they are:

Orange and blue action hero

Red dress damsel

Foggy straight couple

Lone guy with sword

Couple leaning on eachother

Eye

Blurry thriller Cop

Sexy Legs™

Orange and black action hero

[anarcho-smarmyism]

there are 9 genders