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[miseria-fortes-viros]

man sometimes i really want to get back into welding but then i remember that the guys from the first course i took won’t be there and change my mind

[miseria-fortes-viros]

comprehensive list of things that happened to me in my welding course with The Guys:

- was the only one to get an A the first grading period. had to stop them from putting me on their shoulders

- became the official classroom mascot on account of i was the only girl. this meant i was an integral stop on any and all workshop tours. was referred to as “Our Lady Helena” on these occasions

- almost set myself on fire once bc my prof stood behind me watching me try a skill he’d just demonstrated and he shouted very suddenly very loudly. restarted my heart and asked WTF WAS THAT FOR JOHN and he called me a “goddamn wonder”. i almost got third degree burned over a compliment

- mentioned offhand ONE TIME that swords were cool. also mentioned my birthday offhand ONE TIME. one of The Guys remembered both instances and also happened to find a sword in a dumpster so he gave it to me for my birthday

- came in fifth in an arm wrestling competition

- french braided my hair in class bc i didn’t have time to do it beforehand. ended up with an audience of like 5+ guys trying to figure out how tf i was doing it

- told The Guys my college friends call me barbie. Mistake. suddenly had all 12 of them calling me Barbarian

- had some down time and made a silly little sculpture with some scraps. The Guys were endlessly intrigued by this and demanded to see some of my art school stuff. had a small crowd around my phone cheering loudly every time i swiped to a new picture

- accidentally mentioned the cafe i worked at. Mistake. several days later all 12 of them came in to bother me

- offered someone a haircut. Mistake. had to retract the offer bc suddenly Everyone wanted a haircut and it would Not Be Fair if i only did one

[miseria-fortes-viros]

man sometimes i really want to get back into welding but then i remember that the guys from the first course i took won’t be there and change my mind

[miseria-fortes-viros]

comprehensive list of things that happened to me in my welding course with The Guys:

- was the only one to get an A the first grading period. had to stop them from putting me on their shoulders

- became the official classroom mascot on account of i was the only girl. this meant i was an integral stop on any and all workshop tours. was referred to as “Our Lady Helena” on these occasions

- almost set myself on fire once bc my prof stood behind me watching me try a skill he’d just demonstrated and he shouted very suddenly very loudly. restarted my heart and asked WTF WAS THAT FOR JOHN and he called me a “goddamn wonder”. i almost got third degree burned over a compliment

- mentioned offhand ONE TIME that swords were cool. also mentioned my birthday offhand ONE TIME. one of The Guys remembered both instances and also happened to find a sword in a dumpster so he gave it to me for my birthday

- came in fifth in an arm wrestling competition

- french braided my hair in class bc i didn’t have time to do it beforehand. ended up with an audience of like 5+ guys trying to figure out how tf i was doing it

- told The Guys my college friends call me barbie. Mistake. suddenly had all 12 of them calling me Barbarian

- had some down time and made a silly little sculpture with some scraps. The Guys were endlessly intrigued by this and demanded to see some of my art school stuff. had a small crowd around my phone cheering loudly every time i swiped to a new picture

- accidentally mentioned the cafe i worked at. Mistake. several days later all 12 of them came in to bother me

- offered someone a haircut. Mistake. had to retract the offer bc suddenly Everyone wanted a haircut and it would Not Be Fair if i only did one

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

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[studlydudetwinkle]

Still waiting to be able to split you open to read the prophecy and then eat your delicious shell

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Interestingly enough, this is not the first time someone has threatened to eat me like a fortune cookie.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Gaud what do you mean when you say "succumb to the desert"?

Also huge fan

eh, you know. become one with the barren wasteland. dissolve into the sand. be overcome like an ant in an upturned hourglass. pour your body and your bones back to the parched earth from which it once so discourteously emerged.

Not that huge a fan bc that quote is, in fact, from a @pukicho​ post

[jinlinli]

[palindrome-girl]

explain

[jinlinli]

1. lack of female characters in spn means that there are no meaningful het romantic relationship prospects for dean

2. the only strong relationship in the show is between dean and sam

3. wincest pairing becomes most popular ship in the show

4. many fans are frustrated that the juggernaut ship in spn is an incest ship

5. castiel appears in show

6. destiel goes wildly popular as a result of fans being relieved to have a mlm ship that isnt wincest

7. resulting destiel flurry shoots the show back to prominence, ushering in a new audience of fans, including stacey abrams in 2017

8. supernatural becomes stacey abrams's new go-to relaxation show

9. stacey abrams's frustration with sam's decisions in season 10??? apparently??? helped form some of her opinions about coalition building in her campaign???? theres a 2018 interview with abrams on blackgirlnerds.com that posits this jkdfhgkjhdfghdfjkg

10. stacey abrams runs for georgia governor in 2018

11. stacey abrams narrowly loses the race in large part due to suppression of black votes

12. stacey abrams spends the next two years advocating for expanding voting access, an effort that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of first time registered voters

13. in the 2020 election, georgia goes blue by a margin of a thousand votes or so

14. stacey abrams's efforts are given credit for this shift

15. stacey abrams celebrates by unwinding with a nice relaxing episode of destiel is canon

[sixth-light]

I hate to do this but given the above and the fact that Stacey Abrams has written romance novels there is a much higher than zero chance that she is fandom-adjacent 

[sosuperawesome]

Oak, Monstera and Thistle Dragons

Demiurgus Dreams on Etsy

[linipik]

And they were both impostors

[programmerhumour]

Oppsss

[revretch]

I love the mantidflies that are like “Why settle for looking like a mantis, or looking like a wasp, when I could look like both ridiculously scary insects at the same time? And then, I’ll have my kids crawl into spider egg sacs and live there! And I’ll also have ridiculous star eyes, so nobody will forget my face!”

They must be so impressed with themselves. Truly, they have outdone themselves. They are the scariest insects! Surely, it must be them!

And yet nobody knows what a mantidfly is, except that it’s a less good mantis.They’re not even related :C

(repost with images so you can really appreciate how hard this poor motherfucker is trying)

[revretch]

Here’s a video of a mantidfly just picking up and yeeting various insects

Fuck that ant at 2:36 in particular

[revretch]

ONE MORE THING: Everyone depicts mantis front legs as just being a scythe claw, but the truth is they have a tarsus (foot) at the end:

Mantidflies, on the other hand, sometimes actually DO have just the scythe claw, no tarsus:

They’re more mantis than mantises are!

[bogleech]

rerebloggin

[reverse-mermaid]

salt and pepper squid 

they are in love

[reverse-mermaid]

it has been pointed out that i failed to include a baby paprika squid in this

pls allow me to correct this

[hedgehog-moss]

I discovered in a sea book today that the frogfish uses its fins like paws to walk on the sea floor. It even has different gaits depending on whether it decides to gallop on four fins or walk at a stately pace on two fins like us. And it can grab things with its fish hands and therefore climb algae and rocks. Oh, and:

[sndwave]

the funniest thing in the entire pirates of the caribbean series is definitely that one scene in At World’s End where they have parlay but davy jones is part of it, and rather than have him stand in the shallows or something they get a big bucket of water and have in stand on it on shore

who thought of that idea? who thought “put davy jones in a bucket of water” and had the guts to suggest it aloud? and then who went “hey that sounds like a great idea!”

at some point someone told davy jones their idea was for him to stand in a bucket of water and he agreed to it

[sndwave]

*stands majestically in a bucket*

[stemmmm]

ok but notice the trail of buckets behind him meaning he walked from the ocean through three other buckets of water before he got into the one hes standing in

[prokopetz]

It’s even funnier when you consider how he must have figured all this out in the first place.

Some folks are asking “well, if he can avoid the no-dry-land curse simply by standing in a bucket, doesn’t that ruin his whole motivation?”, but he’s not on dry land here.

The parley takes place on a sandbar - which, for the unfamiliar, is a temporary “island” of sand deposited by breaking waves, unconnected with the shore, that spends most of its time submerged, being exposed only at low tide.

What Jones is doing here is rules-lawyering his curse. Can you imagine the trial and error he must have gone through in order to determine that this would actually work?

“Okay, do islands count as dry land? How about parts of the shore below the high tide mark? Reefs? Shoals? What if I stand in a pool of water on a shoal? Does it have to be seawater, or will any water do? Does it have to be a natural tidepool, or can it be something artificial, like a bucket?”

What I am saying is that there must have been a process.

[stumblngrumbl]

Pretty sure that this implies that the reverse - a bucket of sand, floating on the water (big bucket with just a bit of sand), would qualify as dry land. That’s absurd, so I’m pretty sure that his lawyer pulled a fast one over the curse governor.

[prokopetz]

It may be absurd, but the text of the film bears it out. Davy Jones can sense the presence of his heart while it’s at sea, but not while it’s on land (indeed, that’s why he buried it on land in the first place: to break his connection with it) - yet placing the heart in a simple jar of dirt conceals it from Jones’ awareness just as surely as burial on land does, even if the jar is on a boat at the time. Suitably prepared vessels filled with dirt absolutely count as dry land for the purpose of Jones’ curse.

[silver-tongues-blog]

Then the reverse should also be true. If he buried it in a jar of water, no matter how far inland it is, he would be able to sense it. So by this logic, any container of seawater counts as not dry land, ergo, the bucket is a perfectly viable loophole.

[prokopetz]

Not necessarily. It’s traditionally a lot easier to accidentally get whammied by a curse than it is to weasel around it - I figure that’s why he’s using multiple layers of indirection here. He’s forbidden to set foot on dry land, but it’s technically not dry land (it’s a sandbar, a non-permanent landform exposed only at low tide) and he technically didn’t set foot on it (he’s standing in a bucket of water). It’s entirely possible that either one of those things alone wouldn’t make the grade.

[officialharshnoise]

okay but this all raises one further, very important question: if it’s specifically “dry land” he’s forbidden from, what about wetlands. can Davy Jones fight you in salt marshes? can he throw down in a peat bog?Swamp Battle?

[musicalhell]

This is the quality content I come to Tumblr for.

[karometeenk]

could he step on land if his shoes are wet?

[there-was-a-girl]

No matter how ridiculous PotC gets I will love it. Especially when it results in conversations like this

[glumshoe]

What if he crawls around on his hands and knees, with his feet raised slightly into the air? Can he walk on his hands? Can he ride around in a litter or a wheelchair?

[princedorkface]

can he be in a wheelbarrow?

[bemusedlybespectacled]

What if he flies over dry land? Like in a hot air balloon, or in the claws of a giant bird?

[pantheraj]

What if he’s carried by two swallows using a strand of creeper?

[strikelikeahawk]

European swallows or African swallows?

[thinster13]

this whole thread reads like a conversation between these two:

In fact im not entirely sure that it wasn’t their idea in the first place

[ding-dong-the-bitch-is-dead]

@blackkatmagic @cywscross

[un-organized-chaos]

The West Wing S. 4 Ep. 3 “College Kids”

[mommapolitico]

Listen to CJ, Kids. She knows of whence she speaks.

[chrisindallas]

Relevant today

[somewhereinthedetails217]

Relevant Always

[toddreu-deactivated20191220]

My sister didn’t vote leave or remain and to this day I’m still annoyed by it and won’t let her hear the end of it 🙄

[daltongraham]

yep. this.

(The numbers may be off; this episode is at least 10 years old. But the message is the same. Get out and vote.)

[tzikeh]

Episode is 16 years old, and the percentages have increased. So VOTE.

[lynati]

Please show up! You matter more than you think.

[elfwreck]

Look, we know it’s not that college-age kids are lazy or indifferent.

It’s hard to vote. It’s hard to figure out when and where and how, especially if you’re living on campus or anywhere away from whoever’s declaring you on their taxes. What’s your address for the sake of voting? How do you register? Where do you get voting info? Who the hell are all these names and how do I find out more about the ones that aren’t in the top three races? What the hell does a Parks District Board of Directors do, anyway?

This is sometimes complicated for me, and I’ve lived at the same place for more than 20 years. 

It’s made hard for you ON PURPOSE. Voting originally belonged to white male landowners, and they have fought like hell to keep it from being extended to anyone else. And every time some new group got the right to vote, they worked to make it hard for that new group to actually exercise that right.

Try not to think of voting as “your civic duty” or “your way to shape the future.” Those are buzzwords that everyone knows damn well you’re likely to ignore until you feel stable - until you have an address and a job and a plan for the next five years that’s not “um maybe things will get better?” 

Fuck that. Think of voting as “How I Can Annoy Those Assholes,” and keep it at the front of your mind that Those Assholes are hoping very hard that you won’t show up to do it. That they’re trying to hide it from you, and doing everything short of outright lying (…okay, sometimes including outright lying) to keep you from finding out how it works.

Don’t vote to Make A Better America.

Vote to make Those Assholes scared of you. 

[googlemenot-deactivated20230921]

[kinka-juice]

This is why governmental regulations regarding hazardous materials are important, and why following them is important, and safety inspectors are important. It's not just red tape, limits on ammonium nitrate, or hydrogen peroxide (yes, the stuff you use to clean wounds at a 3% dilutions is a bomb at higher concentrations - they use it as rocket fuel), or even regular gasoline prevent disasters like this from happening.

Regulations are not repressive red tape. They save lives.

[fierceawakening]

Regulations are not repressive red tape. Regulations are not repressive red tape. Regulations are not repressive red tape. Regulations are not repressive red tape. Regulations are not

[jagatcurious]

Is this...Beirut, July/August 2020?

Improper storage of hazardous materials can be as dangerous as intentional terrorism.

[taibhsearachd]

Yes, it is absolutely Beirut. I recognize the harbor from pictures I've seen. Regulations aren't red tape. They are literally written in blood, because of incidents like this.

[hachama]

Regulations are written in blood.  

[nymika-arts]

The woods are lovely, dark and deep 🍃🍂

[nymika-arts]

Part 2 🍃

[nymika-arts]

I think I accidentally deleted half of this post so here’s part 3 and 4 again lol enjoy

[astrolunos]

i spent far too long on this joke

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Emperor augustus was the roman equivalent of a weeaboo. i made a tumblr to send this thought out into the world so you better enjoy it.

i am going to wring your neck like a goddamn kitchen sponge. explain

[ailns]

he was obsessed with greek culture to the point of buying greek art and i think he might have learned some greek, although it was probably only the grecian equivalent of konnichiwa. if the greeks had anime, augustus would have been all over that shit.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i deserve an apology for having to read this