#i'm absolutely not american

[magnificent-buckless-butt]

Keep going, OP 👀

Fun Fact: I've actually been to the real Delacroix, Louisiana.

Obviously, Marvel shot the scenes for Louisiana in Georgia of all places, but the real Delacroix is hot marsh on the river. Lots of shrimp boats, and it's basically a strip of shrimping and fishing businesses along a bayou. There are some hunting and fishing camps because it's literally surrounded by water. My dad used to go duck hunting there when I was a kid, and I went with him occasionally. It's basically the Delta and the only trees you'll find there are going to be chicken trees. It's really hot during the summer (We call it the Devil's Armpit for a reason), and they literally call Delacroix the Edge of the World because there is nothing else past that. Belle Chase is the closest town, and that's an hour away.

Since we are on the subject of Marvel not doing their research for Louisiana...

Why is there Old Bay seasoning in Sarah's kitchen?

We don't use Old Bay. It's a good seasoning, but we don't use it. We use Zatarains, Tony's, Slap Yo Mama, and a variety of other true Cajun seasoning. Made in Louisiana. You aren't going to get any better than that. At least she had the Tobasco sauce.

So, Fanfic writers who absolutely want to have Bucky move to Louisiana... please, DM me. I'll help you with Louisiana. Marvel should hire me as a consultant next time. I'm a home grown actual Louisiana Native (it's true, I'm also Indigenous to the area as well) and have been on the planet for 35 years. I'm writing a book about my grandmother's time living on a houseboat in Henderson Swamp.

MARVEL HIRE ME!!!

anyway... I had to rant. I was offended by the Old Bay in Sarah's kitchen. I was absolutely shocked. SHOCKED! and as a true Cajun... I thought my heart was going to stop.

BTW, Creole is Cajun, but Cajun is not Creole. Cajun's believe it is a mortal sin to put tomatoes in gumbo.

[shalom-iamcominghome]

American jews 🤝 Israeli jews

"holy shit, I'm so scared for you in your country - it isn't as bad for me in mine!"

[demi-god77]

I would like to thank all the brave soldiers who are watching the NFL game or whatever it is, just in case we get news about s5

Thank you for your sacrifice, cause I could NEVER

[spinus-pinus]

American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos

11/6/2022 San Joaquin Marsh, California

[m-a-d-e-l-e-i-n-e]

I hope leftists who think they’re above voting for president or are voting for Jill Stein or whoever because it’s their stupid way of protesting the system feel good about themselves, especially if Trump wins partly because of your negligence 😍 I know you’re not doing shit to plan the proletarian revolution, especially before January, so you guys better not complain about something harming you that you didn’t even bother to try and change

(edit: changed the last part bc I wrote “…if life gets a lot worse for you” cause that does nottt sound right at all and I apologize for writing that)

[curiositypolling]

okay I don't want too much discourse here, I'm just curious where the numbers are (re tumblr), considering how much there is about it

also apologies to the uhhh rest of the world I'm sure youre sick of hearing about this stuff

pls reblog for sample size etc

(before anyone makes any ‘no trump option’ jokes, I figured on the gay communism webbed site it would just get troll votes)

[manderleyfire]

– What's keeping us apart ain't even real, your daddy, his religion, it's got nothing to do with us. – It's not just his, it's mine too. I've got the same spirit in me, why don't you see that?

Alice Englert and Walton Goggins in Them That Follow (2019), dir. Dan Madison Savage & Brittany Poulton

[phoenixcatch7]

Reading loz/lu fics and it's just so interesting how wide the spectrum is of their personalities.

Sometimes it's got an in universe reason (different past (usually gender or species change), recent or ongoing traumatic events, a spectacularly bad first meeting), but sometimes (often) the characters are just... Weirdly angsty or peppy, there's no in between!

And I'm beginning to think less people have played more than one game than I thought XD.

Not that it's anyone's fault! One game is more than enough to be part of it all, and loz is exclusive to Nintendo consoles - and all the older stuff is frustratingly hard to get hold of. Heck, I'm still looking for wind waker, and that was really popular! And then you have to play it! They're not small games!!

But could people writing wild please ease off just a tiiiiiny bit so he can be a semi functional member of society pretty please XD? He's just as much a polite boy as any other member of the chain! He won't even run in shops! He can't attack npcs! He talks to every single person he's ever seen and remembers every single name. Yes, he's three quarters woodland creature with a hefty amount of trauma but he's also a fashionista who managed to avoid accidentally taking sides in a mayoral election and that's not easy!

[fritzes]

Frances Tiafoe on Taylor Fritz (& other compatriot friends/rivals)

[a-boy-of-whimsy]

Going through Penacony's story, at the part where Dan Heng and Boothill are trying to get into the Dreamscape, this is comedy gold. I love it.

Boothill: "Isn't there a saying among the Xianzhou people that "the Reignbow sect lets their Lux Arrow do all the beating?"

Dan Heng (from the Xianzhou): "Talking. Do all the talking."

And Dan Heng sounds like he is in physical pain, meanwhile Boothill is struggling against Hoyo's censor, and it's just amazing

Go listen to the line, Dan Heng sounds so done and it is beautiful

[greenerteacups]

What do you think as Hermione's career would be post battle of Hogwarts? To me her being minister for magic really doesn't make sense. She does not have patience or tact to wade through murky waters of politics 😭😭

So hard to say! The Trio are so, so young when we leave them, I find it almost impossible to project their futures farther than a few years out. The job that suited me at 17 would be radically unsuited to me now. That's why of all the Trio, Ron's ending strikes me as the most realistic — he jumps straight into the save-the-world business again, burns out, realizes he's actually Done The Fuck Enough, Thanks, and pivots into a low-stress career where he gets to see his family a lot. Feels accurate! The others are weirder to me because they do seem to just... pick a lane and stay there.

With Hermione, you could spin her a couple ways. You could say that she leans into her bookish side and does research or teaching, which is not my preference for a couple reasons (namely, I don't think Hermione would like academia as a profession; she finds her classwork interesting and enjoys intellectual validation, but she'd be stifled and wasted in a DPhil program, and she'd be infuriated by the administrative politicking of your average higher-ed faculty). You could say that she gets disaffected with politics and ends up as a barrister or a lobbyist of some kind, but if anything that requires more political finesse, because you don't actually have institutional power, you're just handling the people who make decisions and trying to persuade them of your goals. This is not Hermione's preferred method of influence. She's not even particularly good at persuasion, she just happens to be smart enough (and right often enough) that people take her ideas seriously.

Or you could say her brashness fades with the years into a softened flavor of tell-you-like-it-is honesty, which some politicians actually do successfully trade on; as we see in British politics today, you don't have to be all that charming or clever to get ahead, you just need to be really driven and well-connected (which Hermione completely is; she fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the first postwar Minister and her bestie, the Literal Messiah, runs the Auror Office.) But I don't know if Hermione especially wants to be Minister, after the war. She's just watched years of horrendous bureaucratic incompetence plunge the country into a violent civil conflict. She's had not one, but two Ministers of Magic try to bully or shame her friends into complicity with fascism. Her view of government is... likely extremely dark.

But Hermione also isn't the kind of person who sees her life as a quest for happiness. Babygirl has a savior complex that makes Harry look selfish. (She basically kills her parents — yeah, obliviating is a form of murder, #changemymind — "for their own good," and justifies every batshit, vindictive, mean-spirited move she ever pulls on the grounds that it "helps" one of her friends.) She is a mean, lean, dragon-slaying machine, and she needs a dragon. After Voldemort, the Ministry is the no. 1 threat to muggle-borns and non-wizarding Beings. As a war heroine with basically infinite political capital, I'd be surprised if she didn't try to do something there. That said, Hermione is so vivacious and dynamic that she could potentially grow in a hundred different directions; it's possible that all of this, while true of her at 18, becomes completely inaccurate by 22. That's why I'm not too fussed about any particular fanon interpretation.

[mollymarymarie]

Series 12 will always be my favorite season of Bake Off. You mean to tell ME we were blessed with Chigs, Crystelle, Jurgen, Giuseppe, George, Rochica, Freya AND MOST IMPORTANTLY LIZZIE ALL IN ONE TENT???

The moment Lizzie said "I'm gonna stare him down" in her Scouse accent, I was immediately in love.

[tearlessrain]

Hello! Sorry to bother you, but I'm looking to make a pair of harpy legs for the sims 4. I have no experience in modding or modeling, but I'm going to start learning both soon. Sorry for all the exposition, I really was just wondering about any tips or even how you made your digitgrade legs and paws/hooves. They're beautiful, and even though I doubt I'll make anything close, getting some advice from a professional would be oh so very appreciated.

not a bother at all, though I would definitely not call myself a professional lol. I am some guy with a dubious workflow and a dream.

for basic blender stuff there are a ton of youtube tutorials that will be more useful than anything I could say, but if you're looking for advice on making unconventional leg shapes for ts4 in particular, my main advice would be to preserve the existing joints and work around them rather than fighting them. As long as the hips, knees, and ankle joints have basically the same placement as the vanilla mesh, it will make weight painting miles easier and keep everything looking nice during gameplay (even if you're more into screenshots and storytelling, poses are still made with the default mesh in mind and you'll have a lot more freedom to use them if your joints and weights are done thoughtfully).

second thing is do the uv-1 map. it sucks and it's tedious and I haven't really found a better way to do it than one stupid vertex at a time but you gotta. it will solve 90% of problems you might encounter with mystery distortions and split seams, and it will let you actually use weight sliders. similarly, I'd really recommend mimicking the vanilla mesh's topology as closely as you can to make this easier.

I'm planning to do a kind of video tutorial thing for how I make new feet for the digilegs just so people have it as a resource to make their own parts, so hopefully that might be helpful as well when it's done.

[chaosintheavenue]

Mini storytime/PSA re: American candy incoming.

I'm going to be completely honest- I try almost any US candy I can get my grubby British hands on, but on the whole, I find US gummy/jelly candy to be vastly inferior to the British equivalents. To my tongue (your experience may vary wildly), it's nowhere near as sweet and has some unidentifiable samey undercurrent to the taste that I'm not a fan of across most flavours and brands.

Anyways, just to set up the fact that I'm not an enormous enjoyer of most American jelly sweets before I launch into...

Today I got the opportunity to try a Very Berry Nerds Rope for the first time. I like Nerds a lot and have been aware of the concept of these ropes with a gummy strip down the middle for a while. Also do not know of any direct equivalent in the UK, so suffice to say I've had my eye out for them!

Without a shadow of a doubt, the best American candy I have ever tasted in my life. Perfectly amplifies the Nerds experience, perfect ratio of Nerd covering to jelly inside. The jelly does not have that specific taste I mentioned. 10/10, highly recommend to anyone who hasn't tried them.

[eachuisge-cc]

finished the equine hoof digileg mesh which I was recording for a tutorial. paused to turn on space heater before I started weight painting because it's getting cold out. tripped the circuit breaker with the space heater. realized I had not saved the entire time.

this is. not my day.

[comradecowplant]

I believe Kamala- despite every word she has ever spoken on the matters- is actually deeply pro-Palestine, pro-trans & overall a progressive hero, because I understand that when democrats say repugnant reactionary things while campaigning they are actually lying! which is good & normal for so-called democratic elections!!!!! if you listen to the gnomes who live inside my walls you'll understand her real values, which she'll totally pinky promise act upon once you reward her lies & elect her! you dumb third party voters would understand this if u payed attention in civics class 💅💅💅