#fence friday

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Allen's Hummingbird on a Happy Fence near LAX 9328 vivid-2 by Pekabo Via Flickr: This is an odd area between the Los Angeles Airport and the beach. It seems that an entire neighborhood of houses disappeared leaving only streets and a few trees behind chain link fence. "Extremely similar in appearance to the widespread Rufous Hummingbird, the Allen's Hummingbird breeds only along a narrow strip of coastal California and southern Oregon." allaboutboids

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Moorland Fence

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frost bite by ewitsoe Via Flickr:

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Possibly one of my favourite morphling moments from Fns ever

+ clip :3

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name a duo with more range than me and @graceschasity

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torso: EXPOSED blade arm: BENT INCORRECTLY foot placement: TOO WIDE

this week's FUCKING BNUUY FRIDAY is NOT FENCING

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Lex Foster from Black Friday moodboard with empty streets, chains and metal fences inspo

requested by: @t4tgempearl, ty for the rq!! hope you like it :))

[divider creds: @bernardsbendystraws]

(all images were found on Google images, including bg)

song to go with it: 'Boredom' by EVNTYD (I love this song, its so Lex)

Reblogs are appreciated, requests are open!!

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Fun Fact Friday! 👏🎉🎆🎈

Hooray for Fun Fact Friday!

Hooray for Jurakan!

Fun Fact Friday! 👏🎉🎆🎈

AW YEAH

Well, it's Black History Month! So! How about an Awesome French fencer? No, not that one!

Today You Learned about Jean-Louis Michel!

Born in Haiti in 1785 as the son of a fencing teacher, Jean-Louis Michel was trained by his father to be the ultimate fencing badass. And he was, friend. He was. At a young age, he won a fencing tournament. He went on to serve in the French Imperial Army of Napoleon Bonaparte because hot dang, you have skillz like that, you put them to use.

While stationed in Spain in 1814, the French soldiers and the Italian allies got in argument, and swords were drawn. The way the fight went, duelists would fight, and when one lost, the next guy in line duked it out with the victor of the last match. In these duels to the death, Jean-Louis fought--and defeated!--over a dozen other Italian fencing masters in a row.

At one point, sick of hearing racist nonsense, he challenged a guy to a duel, sticking to a training foil while the other guy used a blade. And he won, smacking the other guy across the face after his opponent had tired himself out.

After his illustrious career, which earned him medals, honors, and knighthood, Jean-Louis opened a fencing school. Also, according to Wikipedia at least, he taught his daughter to fight, and she became a fencing champion (because of course she did, look at who her dad is).

He didn't write any manuals, but he was a huge influence on French fencing for decades afterward, as you can imagine they'd want to preserve those skillz for posterity.

Also, there's a New Zealand fencing school named after him.

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[101] Sheriff-stro and his “little deputy” (his words not mine)

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Happy Fence Friday Junco near Wadsworth Theatre 3207 by Pekabo Via Flickr: Members of a flock may spread out widely, keeping in contact by constantly calling tsick or tchet. Also a soft buzzy trill in flight. audubon

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Wednesday Addams Aesthetic

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pie dough woes

"It's not even good yet!" Jane cries. "Stop stealing all the pastry, there's going to be none left for the filling! You're going to become a raw pie if you keep it up!" 

"You're a raw pie." Jay manages, yanking his hand back out of Jane’s rolling pin range with a handful of dough scraps that he doesn’t deserve. There’s not even cinnamon on them yet, and if he’d just wait, and stop ruining all her plans they’d be twice as nice with the cinnamon and butter mixture she’s got planned for them. 

"You're a delicious baked pie,” Carlos says earnestly, turning his huge and terrible begging eyes up at Jane. "You're perfect and hot and a harbinger of good things into all of our lives." 

Much like a pie (baked), Jane is not going to melt under this pressure. Her butter has already solidified through the transformative cooking process, and she's got nothing left in her to be melted, even by sweet boyfriends with swoon-worthy puppy dog eyes. 

She props her elbows up on the countertop, careful of the flour bowl she's got out by her left elbow to dust the minipie dough with as she works. 

"You're very sweet, but if you eat any more of my pastry," Jane threatens. "I'm going to need to kick you out of the kitchen. And I'll feel bad about it, and then you'll be directly responsible for making me feel bad, and that's not what good boyfriends do." 

"Lucky 'or 'ou--" Jay tries. 

Jane dips her fingers into the flour bowl. If they're going to be menaces in her kitchen, there are consequences that all boys must face. "Choose your next words carefully." 

Jay wisely chooses to swallow the mouthful of raw dough he's stolen from her minipie preparations before trying again. "I said, lucky for you, we're evil--"

Jane launches her handful of flour at him. 

"Hey!" 

Their kitchen gets morning and afternoon sun because the boys insisted on picking the kitchen with the high, wide windows. It means they need to keep the fans running even in the winter if Jane's doing anything finicky with cold pastry dough, but the sight of her isle boys drinking in the sunlight that spills from the windows most of the day is well worth it. The afternoon sun they've got right now is highlighting the flour stuck to Jay's shirt, his hair, his eyelashes. 

"Oops." Jane says sweetly. "I didn't see you there." 

"Beh." Jay spits. There's sort of a lot of flour in his mouth. Oops.She should probably feel worse about that. "Peh. Ew." 

"I didn't mean for you to swallow it!" Jane cries, but oh, she can't help but laugh too. "I was just-- oh, there's so much in your hair, oh goodness." 

"Janey." 

"Yes!" Jane squeaks. She's doing a poor job at containing her giggles. Jay's eyes look so bright and pretty, even covered in flour. Jane's never looked so pretty before, not even when she's dressed to the nines and cleaned up and not covered in flour and buttery fingerprints from where they'd had a slight incident with part of the cinnamon sugar filling before. 

"You really want us to stop?" 

Oh. 

"I mean, I wanted to make a nice dessert, and it's not-- I like having you here in the kitchen with me, but it's hard to finish the pies when you keep eating all my ingredients, and I had a tray for snails all buttered already, and--" Jane forces herself to slow down, take a breath. There's no reason for her to be anxious about baking. "Don't go away, but please stop eating all my ingredients. They'll taste a lot better once they're baked, and I really do want you to try the pies once they're done." 

Jay smiles at her, flour and all, and Jane can feel the tense muscles all along her back relaxing without anything more than the small reassurance. “Okay. We can stop." 

"Thank you." 

“But you should teach us to make this dough sometime. It’s too good to keep it to yourself.” 

“You don’t—“ Jane laughs, because she can’t stop herself. “You don’t even like baking!” 

Carlos drapes himself over her side, careful and warm and comfortable even though he’s made of bones and dried spaghetti noodles. “Because we don’t know how. It’s not like we had the chance to learn as kids.” 

“I’m not a very good teacher,” Jane warns. “I’m impatient. And you’re too smart for your own good.” 

Carlos leans harder. “You taught me how to straighten my hair properly. That took a lot of patience.” 

“Pastry isn’t quite the same thing as hair, babe. There’s a lot more butter in pastry, if you’re doing it right.” 

“I’ll try putting butter in my hair if you’ll teach us how to make pie,” Jay offers, “you know you want to try butter conditioning. I’ll text Evie about it.” 

“No!” 

“Too late, I’m doing it!” Jay says cheerfully. “Butter—conditioner—thoughts? And send.” 

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Redrew fns lineup :3

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Fic Rec Friday

This fencing au by the lovely @renlyslittlerose has been on my mind as of late!

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Got my backpack all dressed up for tomorrow 😌 spent a bit deliberating on where exactly to put everything, but I am satisfied with what I got.

I also did pack an Akira keychain, though it seemed both hard to put on + its connection seemed a little flimsy, so I decided to not go thru the hassle and risk losing him. These vash & wolfwood keychains are pretty solid, & they survived 2 flights and a Lot of walking in my trip last year, so they'll hopefully be fine for this trip, too.

Always a risk to put things on a backpack with a big convention, but it's worth it to me to have them out on display