roach-works:

yggidee:

fireandgrimstone:

yggidee:

fireandgrimstone:

motivationisdead:

fireandgrimstone:

motivationisdead:

Still convinced the most unrealistic thing in Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is that all the alchemists could draw perfect circles on the fly.

I fully believe in Ed and especially Al being able to do so, but also, that’s part of why I think Mustang wears gloves with it already embroidered (painted? Stitched?) On. If mans had to draw a perfect circle he might blow himself up instead of his target

Yeah but then Mustang went and managed to carve a perfect transmutation circle onto his hand while bleeding out that one time.

Which H O W.

It’s because he’s g- I am forcefully removed from the podium

I propose that making perfect circles is a genetic trait in the FMA universe because any alchemist that CAN’T make a perfect circle leaves the gene pool very very rapidly

This suggests that there could be a future or an alternate universe where children are tested for “perfect circle” gene and turned into killing machines to fight a losing war

that’s just the state alchemist exam

i took an art class once where the teacher walked in and drew a giant, perfect circle on the chalk board. everyone gasped. he then drew a small perfect circle, and kept doing that for about a minute, until everyone was yelling incredulously.

then he explained that he once wanted a studio job where the only test was to walk into the room and draw a perfect circle on command. it’s extremely difficult, but you can learn to do it if you spend a couple months doing nothing else with your life. the studio wanted artists that would make that commitment, and this teacher made it.

‘so we can do that?’ someone asked.

'anyone can do this,’ the teacher says, 'if they’re prepared to spend all summer learning how.’

anyway, i still can’t. but i know now that it’s possible and it takes about four months. if drawing a perfect circle was the gateway to doing actual magic on a government salary, i think you wouldn’t have a shortage of people practicing their circles.

uncle-cazador:

hoolahoopsmcgee:

uncle-cazador:

ulysseus:

uncle-cazador:

ulysseus:

beardedmrbean:

never ever underestimate the capacity rural folks have for coming up with creative solutions

But if it’s weight triggered on both ends, what does it actually stop?

Cows

But cows are heavy, surely they’d lift the gate

See those little slats? Cows recognize early on not to step on them or their legs go through.

If you ever seen one of these on a rural road thats why they are there. To keep cows in one area. They don’t have the coordination to cross it. Sometimes you can just paint the lines on the road if cows are used to these cattle guards and they won’t attempt to cross.

That gate up there is very heavy. A cow would have to step on the proper slats with all of its weight for it to open, once it moves it comes back down. 99% unlikely for a cow to get through it

Could not a cow easily walk through this gaping hole in the fence?

Yeah but thats not important

rubysparx:

marquisedemasque:

beanstalk-nicholas:

that horse drawing meme but its falin

Thats just how Laios draws

i-draws-dinosaurs:

teaboot:

thisnewjoe:

teaboot:

If uppercase letters are capital letters then what the FUCK are lowercase letters

Literally lower case, fortunately!

BUT WHAT WERE THEY CALLED TO DISTINGUISH THEM FROM CAPITALS PRIOR TO THE CASE

ooh ok I know this one, the technical terms for upper and lower case letters are majuscule and minuscule, which goes all the way back to when they were essentially two different latin alphabets that were not combined together in written text in the way we do now. there’s actually no specific opposite term to capital that applies to minuscule letters.

however… since capital comes from the latin caput meaning head because capitals are used at the head of a sentence or page, if we wanted to have an opposite term for lower case letters we could take it from the latin word for body, corpus. therefore, something like “corpusal letters” maybe?

wildgeese98:

I’m obsessed with Harrow hate memorizing the Noniad. She complains about it endlessly but she is Ortus’s most dedicated and possibly only reader.

viralfrog:

sighinastorm:

bebe-benzenheimer:

sighinastorm:

normal-horoscopes:

lastvalyrian:

acidhues:

mushroom chat just dropped

I want to log on to the mushroom chat so bad

What would you even say?

“Had a cute frog sit on me today. Win.”

miaislying:

personsonable:

miaislying:

personsonable:

me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean?

decay exists as an extant form of life

That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day

tsunflowers:

tsunflowers:

Legalize Noodling

it’s our right as americans to get bitten by a snapper or gator while trying to stick our hands down a catfish hole and yank the catfish out

gayfangirlboy:

animentality:

SHARING THIS WITHOUT THE UPDATE IS EVIL

b0ggyb1tch:

cadaverousdecay:

cadaverousdecay:

cadaverousdecay:

cadaverousdecay:

so funny that humans imagined a creature that is like a human but bigger and called it a “giant”. that’s such an uncreative name. that’s just an adjective. “it’s a giant!” “a giant what?!” “a giant… um. yeah. giant.”

oh my god,,,, the word was originally used for the creature and not as an adjective,,,,, that’s even funnier *guy seeing something huge* wow! that’s roughly the size of one of those big creatures wouldn’t you say?

god i fucking love language so much

jeanjauthor:

magicratfingers:

portraitoftheoddity:

stmichaelsfavoritefemcel:

Real

Once knew a guy from LARP who told a story about when he had first gotten his hands on chainmail and was getting used to wearing it and maintaining mobility and balance with the weight of it (it was heavy stuff). So he started wearing it under his clothes when he was out running errands and stuff to practice for when he had to wear it in mock combat.

Then one night he was coming home late and got mugged by a dude with a knife.

Apparently the look on the dude’s face was amazing when he went in to gut the guy for his wallet and found out he was wearing medieval armor under his hoodie.

So, you know. Pretty good argument for wearing it under streetclothes!

so maybe my type isn’t totally unrealistic

Fun story, i talked to two people who worked at a convenience store in the Kingdom of An Tir (SCA medieval society, An Tir’s territory is WA, BC, northern ID, and OR, and in the past included AB and SK).

This convenience store was notorious for getting robbed in the evenings one or two times a month, so nobody wanted to work the night shift. The one fellow, he desperately needed a job, but he was also learning how to be a heavy fighter (sword & shield) in the SCA, so he had just finished a chainmail shirt, and asked if he could wear it under his uniform shirt, so long as it didn’t show. The manager was just happy that he had someone willing to work nights, and said yeah, sure, so long as it doesn’t show.

Guy starts working the night shifts, things are fine, he’s getting used to everything, then late one night, a guy in a hoodie comes in, and asks for a pack of cigarettes. Our guy turns to get the pack, and feels a thump on his back. Turning around, scowling, he demands, “Did you just hit me??”

Guy in the hoodie widens his eyes, goes ash-gray, and faints. Clerk can’t budge from behind the counter in case this is an attempt to distract and rob. But the guy remains out coold. Confused, our clerk calls the emergency services. EMTs come along and start checking out the patient, who is still out cold on the floor. While they’re doing that, one of them comes up to the counter and asks what happened, exactly.

Our man tells the EMT, “Well, he just came in, looked around, came up to the counter and asked for a specific pack of cigarettes, so I turned to get them–”

And he demonstrates by turning his back to the EMT, who suddenly starts shouting, “–Sir! Sir! Are you okay? Don’t move!”

Our man feels the EMT groping his upper back, and then the EMT asks,

“What the hell are you WEARING?”

“A chainmail shirt. I have to get used to the weight of it, so I wear it a lot. Why? Is something wrong?”

“You have a KNIFE in your back!”

“Uhh…no, I don’t? I mean, I don’t feel hurt? He only, like, punched me or something. There’s no knife back there–I mean, I’d KNOW if there was a knife back there, right?”

EMT grabs the knife and pushes on his shoulder, yanking it out. “THIS knife! I’m going to need to examine your back!”

So they manage to get him out of his uniform shirt and out of the hauberk and out of the linen shirt under it (because chainmail bites suck, plus it’s not nearly as fun as a Brazilian waxjob, because my SCA friend was hairy)…and it turns out he only had a very small scratch from the tip of the knife…which had gotten lodged in the riveted links.

…That was why the guy fainted. He’d stabbed the store clerk, who had turned around angrily, knife still lodged in his back.

Manager was so happy to have hired the guy, as that was the first time in like eight or nine months that the store hadn’t been successfully robbed.

whatbigotspost:

themythicalcodfish:

kerink:

i know we’re all sick of self-care being a marketing tactic now, but i don’t think a lot of us have any other concept of self-care beyond what companies have tried to sell us, so i thought i’d share my favorite self-care hand out

brought to you by how mad i just got at a Target ad

OP this is EXCELLENT

Now THAT’S a self care resource! If you’ve gotten distracted by capitalism’s appropriation of “self-care” and watering the meaning down to nothing this is a super helpful guide to cut through the bullshit.

dunmeshistash:

Dungeon Meshi - Daydream Hour Cover Illustrations + close ups