#hocs

[whetstonefires]

Okay so, got here from a book on animal behavior but: Vulcan stand-up comedy as a competitive activity.

Because most Vulcans don't actually pretend they don't have emotions, it's all about self-regulation, right? And good comedy usually hinges on manipulating the relationship between our faculties of recognition and surprise in various ways, you can get pretty scientific with it.

So Vulcans go to the comedy act, and the idea is the comedian is trying to make you crack up, and the audience is trying to not even crack a smile, and if you do laugh, you lose. Like all in good fun, but Vulcans are both really competitive and really aware of how dangerous that urge can be to a society, so this could actually be classified as highly orthodox Surakian practice.

So of course the comedian has to actually be funny, or there's no challenge and the game is boring.

Which means the really good Vulcan comedians (most of whom tend to extremely dry delivery of their bits) are going to go around playing to packed houses, which mostly sit staring stonily back at them, with occasional breaks when someone loses it and reacts.

And after a show you'll have Vulcans walking out discussing with great approval how very humorous that was, with varying degrees of muted smugness or chagrin depending on if they won or lost.

I bet there are human comedians whose grandest fantasy is being good enough to do a set in Vulcana Regatta and have people going around bragging about not laughing at them.

[the-one-that-weeps]

Still not over the fact they chose RUI to be part of the furry— I mean dog set. Even though he doesn't have a dog or has no apparent relationship with the and IN FACT has been deemed a catboy since the dawn of the earth.

Something about belonging. Something about family. Something about blind loyalty even to the point of destruction. Something about wanting to be tamed while sobbing into your hand.

Congratulations Rui Kamishiro you have achieved both genders

[thewitchoftheweed]

why is every trans person’s pinned post like ‘hi i’m amy (she/her) 26, i like posting about baking and fallout’

and then every terf’s pinned post is like Men Are Inherently Evil, Trans Women Are Demons Sent From Hell to Kill You, and Trans Men Do Not Exist: a 70,000 word manifesto

[illustratus]

Constantine and the Slave by Giovanni Muzzioli

[july-19th-club]

house md wildest show on earth. a main character outright assassinates a known dictator, a moment that would be the very beginning or the mid-series crisis in any other show - an act which creates a power vacuum in a foreign nation already filled with child soldiers and genocide, and it's literally only brought up again throughout the season because that guy's wife divorces him over it. and occasionally to explore his relationship with who he is as a person and a catholic after having deliberately taken a life for what he calculates as the greater good, but mostly it's about his divorce

[mitamicah]

Joker Out in Helsinki sketches; SyS tour 03.02-03.03 2024

[thebahwrites]

WHY YOU SHOULD DATE ROOSTER:  A PERSUASIVE PPT PRESENTATION

or:

Rooster’s Tinder Profile Ran By Hangman So Rooster Will Leave Him Alone (Jake has had ENOUGH.)

from: House of Cards on Ao3 The Hangster RomCom

[eyeofthechasm]

Mirabelle w adhd. Is this anything guys

[czerwonykasztelanic]

Martyr and friend of the people, sketch cross-referenced from various paintings (thanks, David...)

[whetstonefires]

I do have a piece of writing advice, actually.

See, the first time I grew parsnips, I fucked it up good. I hadn't seen parsnips sprouting before, right, and in my eagerness I was keeping a close eye on the row. And every time I saw some intruding grass coming up, I twitched it right out, and went back to anticipating the germination of my parsnips.

But it turns out parsnips take a bit longer than anything else I'd ever grown to distinguish themselves visually. It's just the two little split leaves, almost identical to a newly seeded bit of kentucky bluegrass when they first come up, and they take a good bit to establish themselves and spread out flat before the main stem with its first distinctive scallopy leaf gets going.

I didn't get any parsnips, not that year, because I'd weeded them all out as soon as they showed their faces, with my 'ugh no that's grass' twitchy horticulture finger.

The next year, having in retrospect come to suspect what had happened, I left the row alone and didn't weed anything until all the sprouts coming up had all had a bit to set in and show their colors, and I've grown lots of parsnips since. They're kind of a slow crop, not a huge return, but I like them and watching them grow and digging them up, and their papery little seeds in the second year, if you don't harvest one either on purpose or because you misjudged the frost, so it's worth it.

Anyway, whenever I see someone stuck and struggling with their writing who's gotten into that frustration loop of typing a few words, rejecting them, backspacing, and starting again, I find myself thinking, you gotta stop weeding your parsnips, man.

[the-one-that-weeps]

Can we appreciate crows for a moment? They're basically like monkeys with feathers, we should talk about them more.

(Aka: A highly indulgent list of crow facts!)

🐦‍⬛ Crows live in colonies of 15-20 birds (called murders). That doesn't mean they're not menaces to society. For example; they frequently steal from their neighbours nests.

🪶 They're also quite prone to love triangles, since they mate for life. However, they do not fight often. There are quite a few cases of possible polyamorous relationships among these birds: they share nests and all help feed the little chicks.

🐦‍⬛ Speaking of little crows, even when they reach the age where they have to leave the nest and can feed themselves, they still persecute and annoy their parents to feed them. They can also "play sick" as a joke.

🪶 Crows usually eat vegetables, fruits or nuts as their main diet, but these rascals can actually eat whatever it is that falls into their beaks. There's a documented case where one feathery menace chugged A WHOLE PAIN POT.

🐦‍⬛ While the community of crows eats, one or two crows sit on a tree and observe around 800 metres (2,624ft) of area in order to inform their team of possible danger.

🪶 Crow communities defend each other against predators and mourn their losses together.

🐦‍⬛ They can fly at a speed of 60km/h (37 mph)

🪶 They live up to 25 years in nature.

🐦‍⬛ They can literally knock out their prey by hitting them with their beaks.

🪶 They're also very playful creatures! They can play hide and seek, where a crow hides and calls their community for help repeatedly until they're found.

🐦‍⬛ Naturalist Henry Ward Beecher documented a woman with a domesticated crow who cleaned worms before eating them.

🪶 Crows know how to talk. They can repeat almost 100 words or phrases.

🐦‍⬛ Some crows that live in rural American states have been documented to use cattle to rest themselves on them and potentially use them as transport. They were also said to shout "Yee haw" when they rode horses. They implement this kind of transport into hunting as well.

🪶 They can also imitate sounds like barks, tweets of other birds, or whatever it is that a chicken does.

🐦‍⬛ Naturalist William Crowder had a crow that got into the habit of playing with MATCHES in the KITCHEN.

🪶 Another crow was said to be able to PICK POCKET PEOPLE and when he didn't find anything he shouted "GO TO HELL!" and fleed.

🐦‍⬛ ^ this is a caramel crow. No it's not albino. It looks very sick though (and not in the literal sense)

Now I kinda want to have one as my familiar tbh.

[garadinervi]

Sergio Cena, Variazione 16, (mixed media on paper), «Antologia ad hoc», No. 24, 'Fare il punto sulla poesia visuale 2', 2011 [Fondazione Bonotto, Molvena (VI). © Sergio Cena]

[artbyblastweave]

I think it's easy for Punisher comics to become about how we should just let someone like Punisher kill all those pricks. Garth Ennis's Punisher comics, however, always read to me as less about how we should let someone like The Punisher Kill all those pricks, and more about how it's entertaining to watch Punisher Kill all those pricks, often with the heavy subtext that he in fact probably shouldn't be killing all those pricks, that's not really helping, but as long as he is killing all those pricks, I mean we can appreciate it from a craft perspective, right? Like there's some inspired and impressive Prick-Killing occurring here, and anyway the Pricks aren't real, and Frank just picked up an Anaconda and two rolls of duct tape so let's just see where he's going with all of this

[an-inspired-eternity]

my shuffle au outfits :)

edit updates below the cut

EDIT:

-saki 5 delivered to me perfect ourple outfits for hoc meiluka

-i fixed the editing + hoc luka's accessory :)

-an5 used for es toya's hair, j/g ichika's outfit, and sc shiho's outfit (i did some slight edits for shiho to match nenes colors better)

[toofarovertherainbow]

in light of a flurry of resignations, let’s not forget the true story that started this all:

over a more than two decades MP Chris Pincher assaulted multiple men with the tories aware of this and still he rose to deputy chief whip. boris johnson, knowing that pincher was a predator, promoted him. then he tried to pass it off as pincher being drunk.

the first allegation against pincher comes from 2001, the latest from the 29th of june. the conservatives allowed this man a job, a candidacy, and an environment to abuse that for 21 years and later lied about that fact.

the men who came forward about this have been courageous and my empathy and respect extends to all his victims.

boris and his party MUST GO.

[mitamicah]

Little Kristo from Helsinki 3.3.24 :3