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"kill them with kindness" WRONG. chair attack 🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑

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yeah ok

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I understand why a lot of fantasy settings with Ambiguously Catholic organised religions go the old "the Church officially forbids magic while practising it in secret in order to monopolise its power" route, but it's almost a shame because the reality of the situation was much funnier.

Like, yes, a lot of Catholic clergy during the Middle Ages did practice magic in secret, but they weren't keeping it secret as some sort of sinister top-down conspiracy to deny magic to the Common People: they were mostly keeping it secret from their own superiors. It wasn't one of those "well, it's okay when we do it" deals: the Church very much did not want its local priests doing wizard shit. We have official records of local priests being disciplined for getting caught doing wizard shit. And the preponderance of evidence is that most of them would take their lumps, promise to stop doing wizard shit, then go right back to doing wizard shit.

It turns out that if you give a bunch of dudes education, literacy, and a lot of time on their hands, some non-zero percentage of them are going to decide to be wizards, no matter how hard you try to stop them from being wizards.

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thinking about that one moment when I was about to get top surgery

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libsoftiktok going after a beloved inventor furry for some reason

if you're wearing a fitbit, you're using spottacus's technology. be grateful.

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Blue Stadtbad Mitte "James Simon"  -   Eline Brontsema

Dutch, b. 1988 -

Woodcut, 68.2 x 51.3 cm

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Chinese weighlifter Li Wenwen successfully defended her title, winning the gold medal in the women's over 81kg category at the Paris Olympics on Sunday!

In her private life, the Li is actually a fan of traditional Chinese Hanfa.

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(Saw this post on Facebook and loved it, and since Facebook always steals Tumblr posts, I figure I can do the reverse and steal this Facebook post)

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Justin posted the 1956 house he and his wife bought in Jasper, Indiana. It is a complete time capsule. Absolutely NOTHING has been updated or touched.  

Everything is still here- look at the appliances. All original. This is not like the classy expensive updated mid century homes we’ve seen before. 

The furniture has to be the original pieces and sets the previous owners bought. 

The wall hangings are aged.

This is an interesting piece, this bar. 

Look at the bathroom- pink fixtures.

Those lamps!

The master bath has a yellow tub and fixtures.

A 2nd bdm. Even the bedding is vintage.

And, this bath has blue Fixtures. Wow, I would definitely keep them.

More cool lamps and original furniture in the knotty pine family room. 

Wow, look at the built-ins in the office.

The lower floor.

The basement is cool- look at that floor! And, the TV. The bar is classic. I wonder if they were leaving any of this.

Off the rec room is a 2nd kitchen. A pink fridge!

And, there’s this room, too. Look at the stone wall.

for the love of old houses

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I'm gonna be honest with you, she looks like regular Kabru.

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kazuaki horitomo’s tattooed cats.

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Just found out apparently Terraria has optional integration with RGB keyboards where the key lights will animate thematically to the gameplay and I'm gonna be honest if I saw this shit on my keyboard during the final boss countdown I think I would shit myself

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exy fans + twitter (usc lineup edition)

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'Mid' autumn festival? I find it quite based actually.

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A couple of birds I modeled and textured for the Prehistoric Nature mod

Confuciusornis

Known from Yixian and the overlying Jiufotang Formation of China, this animal has been found in great abundance, numbering hundreds of specimens. Like many modern birds, Confuciusornis was likely sexually dimorphic, with distinct male and female forms. However, the exact nature of this dimorphism has long been controversial, with the big question being whether the tail streamers, known from only a fraction of preserved specimens, were present in both sexes. Fortunately, a 2024 study based on nearly 200 specimens found a statistically significant correlation between the presence of tail feathers, total body mass, and limb proportions, supporting the conclusion that the tailed form most likely represents the male sex. Also like modern birds, Confuciusornis completely lacked teeth, though this appears to have been a convergent innovation, as teeth were still present in several lineages closer to the Neoaves.

Enaliornis

Enaliornis is a genus of primitive Hesperornithiformes that lived from the Albian to Cenomanian in what was then the Tethys Sea. Despite being known from numerous individuals and three separate species, it is incredibly fragmentary, and any reconstruction is largely an exercise in speculation. It is unknown whether it was flightless like more derived Hesperornithiformes, as the forelimbs are not preserved. Like its later cousins, Enaliornis was a specialized foot-propelled diver, though it was likely still capable of upright terrestrial locomotion.

Check out the rest of our recent work on the Prehistoric Nature discord server!

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bridget and the marimos