#so many fun facts

[bibliophilecats]

13 August 2023: Left-Hander's Day

There used to be a time in Germany when left handed pupils were trained to only use their right hand (with the accepted teaching methods at that time, i.e. force and punishment). I seem to remember it wasn't as big of an issue in the UK?

Also, all German speakers, did you see this cool video with Ralph about left-handedness?

[thelambliesdown1974]

tagged by @whitelightningstrikes hi…. (bats my eyes..)

Nickname: cord

Sign: pisces

Height: 5’4”

Last thing I googled: bandstand family (prog album)

Song stuck in my head: suppers ready - genesis

Number of followers: 330

Amount of sleep: just took a five hour nap

Dream job: museum curator/musician

Wearing: green cowboy pants brown button down

Books that summarize you: Everything is Illuminated, Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Favorite song: colony of Slippermen - genesis, almost cut my hair - csny

Favorite Instrument: guitar

Favorite Author: Jonathan Safran Foer

Random fun fact: I was born in a hippie town in the PNW. Does that make you like me more

tagging anyone who wants to 🕊

[builder051]

Some facts (that some people may find hilarious or surprising, and others will find dull and useless.)

George Washington was 21 years old when he was acting as a General in the patriot army during the American Revolution. Most of his friends (Burr, Ben Franklin, etc.) were in the same graduating class. In that time period, most drinkable liquids had to be boiled or fermented to prevent death by waterborne disease. Therefore, our “founding fathers” were more like frat boys taking a stand against administration. With lighters and pocket knives and some rocks to smash the windows… and, though they’d aged a bit, the same drunk fuckers made up the U.S. government system. No wonder it’s so stupidly complex. Complexly stupid.

Leonardo DiCaprio was 23 when working on the set of Titanic. Kate Winslet was… not 23. Most bios state that she was 22 when the film was released. Which is stepping around the fact that Kate Winslet was… not 23 while working on set. She wasn’t 21. She sent in an audition tape at age 17. You do the math.

Keira Knightley was 17 whilst working on the set of Pirates of the Caribbean: the curse of the black pearl. Substantial costume and makeup time were necessary to create the illusion of cleavage.

Zero members of Greta Van Fleet were over 18 when they formed the band. Zero members of Greta Van Fleet were over 21 when they signed with a label, started touring, and got radio air time. Half the band was over 21 when they headlined festivals and went on their first tour with Metallica (there have been many similar collabs since). Very shortly after all members turned 21, they did a campaign for a bespoke brewery and debuted their own special edition beer.

Pocahontas was probably a tween (8-12ish) when she met 27-year-old John Smith. They forged something like a convenient friendship, talking first to each other, and later they were able to act as translators as the English engaged in trade with those of the first nation. At approximately age 16, Pocahontas was forcibly converted to Christianity, baptized with a new name (Rebecca), and sealed an arranged marriage with John Rolf. They had a son named Thomas. Smith, on the other hand, was hard at work writing reports and filling out paperwork to send back to England. These documents were highly romanticized, stating that their colony was prosperous and that a native young lady threw herself over him to prevent his beheading… The same report was delivered several times over. With different dates. And different names. And if anyone cares about age of adulthood… It’s John Smith’s fault he wrote something pervy. Though the proper timeline is now academically proven, Disney took Smith’s word for it and went, whoops, we better age up the girl.

[apollos-olives]

before october 7th this blog was a meme page btw.

[machinerot]

[unproduciblesmackdown]

just visiting ❤ pic.twitter.com/njIiHb4HBM

— tim (@FlamingButtWind) July 14, 2024

[zosanbrainrot]

I'm not just cooking, i'm baking a whole ass CAKE

not 100% happy with the design but I wanted to get it out of my system, I went for darker and more muted colors for Zoro while still utilizing the usual elemnts of his outfit like the sash and the haramaki. also the color palette for the full outfit turned out very tasty, like it makes me think of chocolate and sweets. not sure about the use of haramaki though, I feel like it makes the proportions a bit awkward when everything else is dark, but it does make the shirt fold nicely so I may keep it in the end

now that I'm further into WCI I think I should add a suit version as well for the wedding bit hmmm

My idea for this is after coming to Big Mom's territory and fighting her commanders they get to the Germa carriage just like in canon. Zoro watches Sanji fight Luffy, restraining himself from interfering. He respects Luffy's decision to not fight Sanji back, but the moment Luffy gets knocked down it's Zoro's turn to try and bring the cook around and he's not gonna hold back

a very tense fight ensues

[paladinsbrainrot]

kids

full version + close ups !!

original version (since I updated this after i got a better look at their outfits)

[daeyumi]

i love it when ppl put kirby into desserts

[bigfatbreak]

In canon, a kwami's power must be used through a human wielding a miraculous, otherwise it'll have unforeseen consequences. So, in your AU, does Imago stealing Marinette's agonies cause any sort of trouble?

honestly the biggest unforeseen consequence is that this dude is around and being himself

no but for real, there should be a hypermassive consequence for a kwami unfettered peeking their head in, but there's not because of shit we'll get into later.

just consider it like this for the time being: now that Marinette is a sage and is capable of communing with the gods, she as a living being can be used as that intermediate conduit for power instead of the miraculous gems. If it was Tikki, for example, using her power raw with sage!Marinette, Mari would be able to access the power of creation or be swayed by it - however, it would put a massive strain on her, as she's not a miraculous but still capable of acting as that pipeline.

The reason Marinette has no ill effects from Imago, however, is because Imago is playing with a catch 22. Their purpose was to take agony away from Marinette, so even the exhaustion of accessing the unfettered power of a god was something he stole from her, so it seems like zero consequences have been had. In truth Imago is now SO tired holy moly and they DO NOT LIKE IT LMAO

[katabay]

ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE WAS A KNIGHT...

the visual inspiration for this was a combination of Frederic William Burton's Meeting on the Turret Stairs and also Bernardo Cavallino's The vision of St. Dominic receiving the Rosary from the Virgin

this was supposed to be just a one off illustration to get the thoughts out of my system, but then I started thinking about medieval politics and warfare and plagues and a castle and home as both a place of refuge, a prison, and a tomb, so perhaps they will end up as ex voto characters as well.

you may say, hey! that rosary looks like it has too many beads! it's a fifteen decade rosary, probably. dominicans are really into marian devotions. it works out.

also. spiral style stair cases. oh boy. it was that unexpectedly more difficult than I originally thought it would be to draw. the more I think about it, the less I understand them, even though I had a million photos of the stairs in front of me while I was drawing it.

⭐ I have a tip jar (ko-fi)!

⭐ and other places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app

[ricky-mortis]

They're the best of each other!

[andhumanslovedstories]

I've been running this writing experiment lately to cut out phrases like "I felt" in my fiction writing. Like I was looking at a sentence in a draft that said, "he felt as if character's eyes were pinning him in place." And then I was like, "well, does he think that or is it true? As a result of this person watching him, he's froze. It's not like a thing, it is that thing."

Oh and "almost"! I'm always going, "He felt almost relieved that it hadn't happened." Well, did he feel better that it didn't happen or didn't he? Or "somewhat", I'm always going, "she felt somewhat perturbed."

And like none of that is wrong, to be clear. I don't know if it'd improve your writing, I don't even know if it'll improve my writing, but I use this sentence structure all the time so every viewpoint is from a voice that thinks about what it thinks, hedges its statements, and offers the same ability for wry little jokes formatted in the exact same way. And I have a lot of writing like that and I think (!) that they're good, but read as a whole, I'm like, "god, they all sound the same." Like there's one melody that I write songs to, so even with different lyrics, it's almost (!) the same song. Something I've been struggling with in regards to my writing and why I've felt so blocked is how boring I found writing my usual way. I'd read something and enjoy the individual parts of it, but then I'd step back and I didn't like the whole. And I got good at this enough at seeing that I didn't like it to do it in real time as I was writing, which as you can imagine didn't improve the process of writing because now I was bored AND dejected about being bored.

There's this sentence-level structure fact that I use unconsciously. A pattern I find easy is short sentence, short sentence, short sentence, long sentence. So I write that. "He [verbed]. He [verbed]. Then he [verbed]. As he [verbed] to his [consequence], he [verbed] that [noun] was [statement of condition]." Which could work, it often does make for a nice rhythm, but it's something I reach for often because it's easier for me.

Just last sentence, I originally typed, "I find it easier for me." But if what I mean is "using this pattern is less effort than another pattern," then it's easier for me. One voice is hedging its bets and the other asserting. Either is fine! But they're different! And, again, GOD you would not believe how many words I've cut out of this paragraph as I write it. I'm so chatty. I love using twelve words when six will do. And that gives my writing a specific tone to my ear.

So if I am bored of that tone, why not try using just the six words? Why be understated? Why be afraid of stronger opinions? So right now with my fiction, I'm experimenting with cutting out as many self-reflective words as I can. Sometime you do need to draw attention to the face that this is the character's interpretation, but like you definitely don't need to do it as much as I naturally want to do it. You don't need to always go out of your way to allow the possibility that the narrative voice is wrong. During editing, I trim the weaker ones (I originally typed, "what I consider the weaker ones" Is that more accurate?). But I think them being there in the first place shifts my language which shifts my character's which shifts my plot. It's sentence structure all the way down!!

(this barely applies to my writing on here, btw. i try to do good but yknow this is a tumblr blog. i'm not trying to get a lit mag to accept it.)

Anyway blah blah (chatty!) the point is I've been trying to write in a way opposite of my interests. Something that doesn't take itself too seriously, that emphasizes EMOTION and ACTION instead of minimizing it, and that clips through scenes at a good pace. Doing this been amazingly fun. I've been having such a good time doing it. I am writing so much because I really enjoy doing it. The process of writing is so fun again.

This post is about two things. One is my new mood stabilizer and therapy day camp. The other is about the benefit of pretending to be MXTX.

[mayasaura]

I don't wanna further hijack that poor poll, but the thing about Harrow's schizophrenia is that it's canon. The author has confirmed it, and shared that it's based on her own experience.

It's a pretty obscure bit of canon, so of course there's no shame in not already knowing, but that's why I'm so obnoxiously persistent about letting people know.

Whatever else is up with Harrow, autism or cptsd or any number of likely headcanons, she is also schizophrenic. I feel like that's too important to be handwaved away as a difference of opinion.

[obsidianbit]

I love this gay ass show with its literally life ending injuries that heal immediately, but only when convenient to the plot, and its ridiculous use of modern phrases, and its laughing in the face of historical accuracy, and its kissing the face of the fans instead of trying to outwit them, and the way everyone involved in the show seem to go 'I KNOW RIGHT! I'M EXCITED TOO!' instead of mocking the fans

[roxiusagi]

Ever since i saw this post by blorb-el when it was posted i knew i needed to draw something inspired by it and finally had free time to do so. old wf is just so funky hahh