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Episode XIX

more [or click here for more roommate shenanigans] credit for the quote goes to the lovely @techfan450 - thank you for giving me permission to use this :)

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just some lads, being fellows

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masks and helmets that hides someone's face in such a way that they become the face themselves my beloved

these are all creatures to me

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Deadpool and his angry husbands Wolverine variants

🔸 Logan 🔸 Short King Wolverine

🔸 Patch 🔸Weapon X

🔸 Old Man Logan 🔸 Crucified Wolvie

🔸 Classic John Byrne 🔸 Cavillrine

🔶The Worst Best Wolverine. AKA: Peanut💛

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Please accept another Poolverine bridal carry pose~!! ❤️💛

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Wade is just like me fr

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fun fact about languages: a linguist who was studying aboriginal languages of Australia finally managed to track down a native speaker of the Mbabaram language in the 60s for his research. they talked a bit and he started by asking for the Mbabaram word for basic nouns. They went back and forth before he asked for the word for “dog” The man replied “dog” They had a bit of a “who’s on first” moment before realizing that, by complete coincidence,  Mbabaram and English both have the exact same word for dog.

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top 5 most fucked up looking kanji

#5 褒

as in 褒美（ほうび）. 保 really cut open 衣 and crawled inside its corpse

#4 臨

as in 臨時（りんじ）. too many holes :(

#3 淵

as in 深淵（しんえん）. what the hell is going on with this thing?? it's in a weird uncanny valley between 片 and 川. this shape doesn't show up in any other kanji i've seen

#2 燕

#1 嚼

as in 咀嚼（そしゃく）. besides 口, all of the other radicals in this kanji are individually fucked up looking. it's like a chimaera, a mass of writhing flesh made more horrible by a single human head protruding from its body

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Eclipse of the Sun in Venice in July 8, 1842 by Ippolito Caffi.

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biologist here! why are plants green? well they suck up air from the sky (blue) and mix it with the sunlight (yellow) i fucking love science.

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

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🐰 Haneri embroidered with a cute rabbit surrounded with beautiful blooming flowers, ideal for the Mid-Autumn Festival (𝒯𝓈𝓊𝓀𝒾𝓂𝒾)🐇 

𝑀𝓊𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝒫𝑒𝓃𝓈𝑒𝑒 brings us a beautiful collection of exquisitely embroidered haneri.

𝐿𝒾𝓁𝓎 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓋𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓎 (スズラン) or 𝒫𝓁𝓊𝓂 𝒷𝓁𝑜𝓈𝓈𝑜𝓂 (梅) What is your favorite flower? What is your color you choose? Blue or pink?

This collar with swan (白鳥) embroidery and a blue background can be combined with a summer yukata or for more formal events.🦢

You can visit this skilled artist’s shop here

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