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vaxxman · 7 months ago

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Could I request Medic having The Mom Grip on Scout’s shoulder after the speedy moron almost let a mercenary secret slip while they weee getting groceries?

Three Europeans and two Americans walk into a grocery store in New Mexico.

I hope this is the right meme.

More silliness below.

This comic is the antithesis of the "wtf is a kilometre" joke.

The faces they make when they can't quite identify the type of brown bread in the bread aisle.

You don't know how [insert nationality here] you are until you go overseas and things are different.

Spy obviously has no problems with pretending to know how much a gallon of milk is, he just peeks into his conversion chart notes, pretending it's his shopping list.

I want to think Heavy is completely fine with having to readjust to a new unit system, he just eyeballs most practical things anyways by holding them up and mumbling about how they approximately weigh like a chicken or his kettle bell etc. He's always been living in practical ignorant bliss.

Medic has a peer reviewed meltdown the first time he realises there's no uniformity in "a cup of ____" because every object has different densities. He's diligent about memorising the conversion rates for ounces, pounds, the most common things etc., and recovers ok. He goes through the same stages of grief rage when he finds out about distances and lengths.

Just remember four inches are 10.16 cm and pray no one asks you to specify anything bigger than inches.

Everyone does a mental victory lap when they manage to guess how much Celsius the weather is because they keep forgetting it's Celsius*5/9+32=Fahrenheit, Engineer reminds them patiently.

The true victories are the correct temperature guesses we've made along the way.

One time, a friend asked me if I actually knew how much a tablespoon of flour was in gramms to convince me that metric users also make use of volume based units without thinking about them. But little did she know a heaped spoonful of 405 flour is about 15g and a level tablespoon is 10g.

They claim Oolong just tastes better when it's boiled to 80°C exactly with a Bunsen burner.

You only asked for one scene but somehow I came up with a bunch of other things. This post was drawn across 2 months so the artstyle is all over the place. Thanks for your ask!

#team fortress 2 #tf2 #tf2 medic #tf2 scout #tf2 spy #tf2 heavy #tf2 soldier #Medic's reaction to a stick of butter is 100% based on my own reaction after reading an American recipe for the first time #Like I didn't know butter in America came in this normed stick-form I genuinely thought it was some arbitrary unit like ??? A Stick??#As in I didn't know if the recipe required the butter to be in this specific shape; like sometimes you have to add butter in shaves or molt #no biggie lemme whittle away at my butter block until it's shaped like a stick? And then I learnt it was the portions that butter comes in #Cut me some slack; I'm used to recipes using eggs as the scale-up ingredient; not butter #I also learnt that medical labels is where metric units are mostly encountered simply because medicine is international #But that is the main reason why I think Medic would not realise he'd have to deal with imperial units until he goes grocery shopping #The man's just been ignoring the “oz” information right below everything he's ever used; out of sight out of mind #I want to think Engi is the most normal person about the entire metric-imperial-units thing he just does some mental arithmetic and done #King just learned système international d'unités during one of his 11 phds; it's not unrealistic

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xiaq · 5 months ago

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Your first pride story was touching and all but you still married a man.

Yeah, bisexuals do that sometimes.

#thank god the first people i encountered in the queer community didn't have this shitty pov #because i spent 16 years feeling like an imposter in my ultra conservative christian community because i liked girls and boys #and if my first terrified forays into the queer community told me i was an imposter there as well #unless i performed my queerness to their specific liking I cant imagine how lost I would have felt #pro tip: if you're telling someone they can't be part of the family unless they deny a part of themselves #you are part of the problem #bisexual #lgbtq #queer #gatekeeping

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 1 year ago

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Peeped the horrors

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #a-qing #xue yang #A-qing went 'there are horrors he is committing and I am going to peep them' and then faced horrors that she could not fathom #The fact she sees the evidence first hand but it genuinely is too much to handle is a lovely tragedy that betrays her youth #It is interesting that she clearly does have more knowledge than the lay person about cultivators and night hunts (possibly from xxc?)#she does mentally call out xue yang for using the right terminology (betraying his 'no one important' façade)#but corpse poisoning is...well....probably not something she could have known about #so instead she has to encounter this horrible and suspicious event and justify it to keep herself sane #Ah....that's not going into the really interesting ambiguity of xue yangs targets #the people he kills specifically slandered *all three of them*#Was it just for himself? Was there a sense of protectiveness over his two blind companions?#I don't want an answer. I love that it is ambiguous #And oh man. having the noble XXC do the killing is so deviously evil. What a loaded chekov's gun.#you know xxc is gonna have a breakdown over it *when* he finds out. Its all a matter of timing #ok ok funny tag time #I think little apple and xy should meet up so they can swap arson tips. Truly the power team nobody wants. Not even them.#they would fight to the death and little apple would *win*#EDIT: HAPPY BIRTHDAY XUE YANG

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canisalbus · 8 months ago

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Different Italian anon, but the thing with Tuscan C is that it's pronounced like a very strong H sound, which is extra weird cuz the letter H makes no sound in Italian, normally. It sounds the way Spanish pronounce the J. We say it's "aspirato". So then people from there will say things like Hoha Hola (coca cola), and it's funny. It's also extremely contagious, I got family in Florence, you spend 3 days with them you start doing it too before you even realize.

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#that sounds really endearing actually #answered #anonymous #this is entirely beside the point but I still feel sort of bamboozled by languages that have silent letters #or when letters have multiple pronunciations that vary wildly from word to word #and when the sound and the letter don't seem to match like how J sounds very close to H in Spanish like you mentioned #I'm generalizing a little but none of these are really a thing in Finnish #in Finnish words are pretty much always pronounced the way they are written if that makes sense #I don't know the language terminology but I think phonetic spelling is what you call it #each letter represents a specific sound and you string those together #when you hear a word you can always tell how it's written and when you read a word you know how to pronounce it #even if you're encountering the word for the first time and have no idea what it means #it's comparatively direct and predictable there's practically no need for guessing or memorizing #also the stress is always on the first syllabe and it's so subtle it might as well not be there at all #which sometimes makes spoken Finnish and Finnish accent sound kind of monotonous there isn't a lot of intonation #I was extremely confused by the concept of spelling bees as a kid #anyway long tag ramble but this stuff is just interesting to me

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fisheito · 3 months ago

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found a baby yaku amidst the Sketchbook-glitch-corruption wreckage..... wondering if he flipped skin tones between black and red and everything in between until he saw his to-be-grandparents (and started mimicking THEIR skin tone....... )

#thinking about yakumo having weird lil homunculus proportions or other such variations #what if he just always had massive hands compared to body size. yaoi hands from birth-transformation #he was so anti-snake that he looked at hands and said YES. THIS IS THE LEAST SNAKEY I CAN BE. I WILL GO 600% ON THIS FEATURE SPECIFICALLY #changing forms from entirely obsidian... or red in patches.... or striped... or other combinations...#because he only had murals to base his human form off of? at least at first?#were the murals in colour? shaded with gradients and lighting oh so conveniently?#then how was he to know what skin tone humans are supposed to have???#imagining the first few times he encountered his grandparents in his cave #maybe they only saw a shadow with eyes darting back into the darkness #just a really long black noodle with semisnake semihuman eyes (just a hint of sclera)#and every time they visited #yakumo observed more of their features #and took on something similar to their proportions...? or hair colour? or skin colour?#and maybe even when he's first adopted into the family and leaves the cave #he's still a vibrant pink and everyone thinks he somehow got sunburnt inside a cave or smth #but then he starts seeing all the other people in the village #including diff age groups and kids who are supposedly around his age #so he starts to slowly morph his body toward those characteristics #his skin gets beige-r. reshapes his eyes a bit.... grows a bit of nose.....lengthens his limbs a bit...#(the big humans seem to treat me the same as that speCIFIC group of smaller humans... so maybe i should use them as a Model)#like... how do you even age in a human body when you have no reference for how humans age?!??!#did yakumo stare at several children in the village and watch their growth year by year #and match his body to their changes just to fit in?#did nature just know what to do?? and he just naturally grew like a human without manual manipulation?#I DEMAND ANSWERS #nu carnival yakumo

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shortmexicangirl · 2 years ago

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you know when you’re watching a show and you just see the moment when a non-canon ship is born and know the fandom is gonna take it and run

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obstinatecondolement · 1 year ago

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There is an aphorism in science that all models are wrong, but some are useful. The general idea is that a simplified representation of something much more complex may not perfectly replicate every element of the real thing, or account for every single factor that would affect it under real world conditions, but a good simplification potentially can approximate something more complex enough to get broadly accurate* insights that are useful.

In my opinion, specific sexualities and genders (all of them, fwiw), and the even the concept of being cis or trans, are best thought of as useful models for certain amorphous clusters of experiences and feelings, rather than as things that have concrete, inflexible definitions that map perfectly onto every single person who uses that model of identity as a shorthand. Dictionary definitions of what gay means/what a woman is/etc., are all assuming spherical cows in a vacuum to make the maths easier, and you look like an idiot if you think that cows really are spherical and are not affected by atmospheric pressure in any way (or indeed that they could survive vacuum conditions) and then go around harassing cows on this basis.

A person's internal sense of self is more important than your belief in a model. Fuck off and let me get back to chewing cud.

#*or again: accurate enough for a specific purpose #children encountering a concept for the first time learn different models to help them understand it #than the ones undergrads learn to deepen their understanding #and that may be need to be further refined in models scientists with a terminal degree whose research centres around that concept would use #and then different scientific disciplines may find different models for the same thing more useful for their purposes #and individual experiments may require more complex models of the same things than other experiments in the exact same speciality do

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butterfly-apocalypse · 2 years ago

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@clefairytea Blue has turned to reddit for help

#namelessshipping #pokemon #reguri #originalshipping #I was listening to an AITA podcast with my bestie and then we both burst out laughing about this being just like Red and Blue #like within the FIRST FEW sentences #and then....the more we listened to more we went UHHH NO WAIT IT LITERALLY IS #Specifically Peaks and Valleys for that matter #What is it??? With me just??? Encountering Namelessshipping in the wild in places where it flies under the radar for most folk????#First the popsicle post now this.

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therealcallmekd · 8 months ago

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The Decadent Decedent.

Lost in the streams of code.

Made for a Spotify playlist! Check it out!

I put a lot of careful effort into making sure the music flows with a certain storyline kind of feel. If that makes any sense. (I might just be saying things TBH)

It does have an order though, I'd suggest not shuffling it!!!

The fall into despair of a man maddened by his own design, by his own creation, destined to his fate by his own hands.

shout out to @iamtiredofyourhorror for giving me the inspiration <3

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sassysnowperson · 6 months ago

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For anyone wondering what it's like to be a therapist who is also a Fan of Things, one of my clients shared that labyrinth walking was a meditative practice for her and I DID have to work very hard not to say, "Oh yes, like my good buddy Thara Celehar from Witness for the Dead, it really did help him!"

I pulled it together and said something professional but whew, close one!

#closeness of blurting exaggerated for comedic effect #really what it was is that I did take about fifteen seconds while she was talking to figure out if knowing this was represented in a book #would be nice for the client #and decided no so didn't mention it #but I thought it was very cool! Encountered it in the book first as labyrinth specifically and assumed it was more of a fantasy thing #but no! It is a real thing that people who have access to a labyrinth do!#and we had a great conversation about how shifting physical environments changes thought patterns #and walking as meditative practice #witness for the dead #thara celehar #sass talks therapy

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wild-magic-oops · 7 months ago

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There's bard!Gortash (in my latest playthrough) but also consider this: default Durge serenading Gortash under his window in the dead of night with a dragonborn throatsong 👇

Durge: I'm being romantic :)

Gortash: I think I'm getting attacked??...

#durgetash #durge #gortash #enver gortash #the dark urge #bg3 #my posts #quil #I finally met Quil and oh boy...#I'll write a whole separate post about this encounter with default durge specifically #damien #play the video past the first half of it I promise you won't be disappointed lmao

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darkdragon768 · 5 months ago

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We made it work so that I can stream my games on my tv from my computer! Monster Hunter World on the big screen, being played from my couch, yay!

#hmmm which tag am I gonna use...#dragon is gaming #I'm starting a new save file there ONLY for researching purposes!! absolutely!!#need to check out the coral highlands and rotten valley for my depth redesign #ANYWAY #the locations are huuuuge and twisted! god. how am I supposed to NOT get lost?!#and the game in general feels so much more open and interesting and... not alone #you've got the wild expert who's your partner and keeps talking and working with you specifically #you can encounter other people during expeditions #some hunter even comes with you during your first quests and expedition #the cut sceens are cooler and more interesting #only problem is the forced lobby creation

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dutybcrne · 1 month ago

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Thinking abt Kae’s Fatui verse,,,,

#☆ ┆ ( .ooc. );#//Him having a sort of fatal attraction vibe goin with Traveler like Came||ya’s whole thing almost hdbfb #//The whole ‘you’re interesting; I really like you; I can’t WAIT to see what makes you tick’#//Except he might actually be more of a danger to them; considering his endgame for those he ‘loves’#v; l’innamorato (fatui!kaeya)#//The love idea of him v attached to Signora; deffo got along with the kiddos of the HotH better fjhdh #//Prolly loved presenting her W|ll Sm|th style; even if the attention it drew to him too did make his skin crawl more often than not #//Love the idea of him stalking Traveler thru their journeyw lil heart eyes; interfering at key moments to hinder or help them progress #//Depends on how he’s feeling at the moment jcbcb #//In this verse would deffo butt heads with Taru in Fontaine specifically—he wants Traveler’s attention too jfbfb #//Prolly met them in Mond as part of Signora’s lil entourage—IMMEDIATELY got intrigued at first glance #//Background wise; I like to think he was a Fatuus meant to infiltrate the knights like many of Eroch’s ppl #//And in the progress of going through the knight thing got acquainted w Luc & began to have doubts abt the Fatui cause #//After visiting his home; hearing abt and meeting his father; then the day of the Heckening happens & they fight #//Bc Kae already planned to come clean & renounce the Fatui & Khaenri’ah; but the mess Crepus’s death made of him #//Tried far too hastily; far too bluntly to tell Luc the truth of his origins; swearing he knew nothing abt the Delusion #//Only to get claymore’d; which absolutely helped cemented him into the Fatui’s ranks more #//A part of him knows it wasn’t the time to say it; that he is at fault for trying to take advantage of Luc’s vulnerable state to tell him #//Only for the lad to have been far too volatile & so it turned out badly; but he still blames Luc for the break of their bond #//Anywho; I like to think as of Inazuma; he does have a certain grudge against traveler bc of Signora #//Before; encounters were more of puppy love bordering on dangerous obsession—after that; the dangerous bit became Personal #//Ohhh I’m writing a yandere here; okay<-should have realized that from the FIRST slew of Fatuiverse hcs lmao #//He genuinely does love Traveler; would like to see them breaking down in despair in his arms #//The two of them together would make a most beautiful ice sculpture indeed #//Even with his grudge; Traveler does stand a chance at swaying him to actually be helpful #//Sumeru quest wise; Co||ei is the magic word—i like to think he came along with there bc he wanted to see abt the Eleazar #//And maybe find clues to her family or even her herself; Traveler or Paimon dropping the name would make him cooperate SO fast #//Klee in Mond is basically his Teucer jffb. She is as good as fam in his eyes—I like to think he keeps up his habit of collecting pyro ppl #//Bc he never got over his broken bond with SOMEONE. Even if this verse has him more bitter abt it #//But ye jdbdbd. Is it rlly a Allie posting if it not short lol blurb and then heckin TAG SPAM lololol

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itsnobodysproblem · 2 months ago

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I love Jonk sm but if the word "cringefail" was in the dictionary there would be a picture of him next to it, for visual reference

#im not gonna quote any specific episode bc it's all of them really #i mean it when i say that i NEVER used the word cringefail before encountering this guy #he opened his mouth one to many times and i felt this word in my bones #i love sherlock&co and i love him #but almost every time i click on a new episode or a mailbag i find myself rolling my eyes and/or sighing in the first like #10 seconds #it's almost impressive #jonk watson #sherlock and co #sherlock & co

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goldensunset · 2 months ago

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pokey mans time. i’m going to be so brave and suffer through the part of the game that gave me grief in its predecessor

#(chargestone cave)#i think most of it was bc it was also a dungeon full of unavoidable enemy trainer encounters #aka team plasma #like you can run from wild pokémon at least but not those guys #i didn’t adequately prepare i think cuz i didn’t realize how much of a full on dungeon it was. like that was way more complex #plus i didn’t realize it was gonna be a team plasma thing and like they were EVERYWHERE #so like i was running low on healing items #and one of the worst things was specifically i was low on PP on all my moves #restoration items for which you cannot buy! you just have to be lucky with finding them #in this new second game it shouldn’t be as bad theoretically #but like i’m still low on healing items and money to buy them lol #so i might have to grind a little first #goldie plays pokémon black… 2!!!

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undertale-fic-librarby · 1 month ago

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Featured Fic Friday!

Welcome to Featured Fic Friday! A day where I, or someone who suggests one, tell you about a fanfic that I really enjoy! Spoiler's under the cut! Today's featured fic is...

The One Where Sans Tells It Like It Is. (Or: The One Where Sans Is Number One Dunckle) by marauding_bagel (General Audiences, Complete)

When Toriel asked him to attend the meeting in her place for one night he thought it wouldn't be a big deal. Turns out Sans could not have been more wrong.

A bit of a short fic, there's a surprising lack of fics with this concept! Even still, I like the way the author exectues the idea! I loved reading comics similar to this fic when I was younger, so this threw me back a bit!

I enjoy the way the author writes the characters, & how they have them interact with each other!

Spoilers ahead!

I really like how the author includes some of the reactions from the unamed parents also at the meeting, having mentions of nods of agreement & cheering when Sans insults Helen's brownies!

#for once i actually picked this fic out yesterday #but then i proceeded to get distracted by several things #such as going through the entire utmvarchive blog from the beginning #mostly because i was interested in seeing if they had covered underlust yet #since i don't know much about it & wanna know more #but then i decided to go through all the posts starting with the very first one #this fandom is so amazing y'all #was no one going to tell me that seraphim sans is that interesting/cool #i've made it to horrortale at the time of writing this #boy is it such a difference from when i first encountered it #i used to be...well...horrified #well no actually it was more like terrified but still #i saw an opportunity & i took it #so that's why this is being written at a little after midnight the day of #coming back to edit this specifically because i read a bit further in the horrortale comic #yeah actually it's still terrifying #i'm pretty sure it's the eyes that are getting to me funnily enough #so i am putting on a playlist called bad bitch that reminds me of underlust sans & keeping my lights on #this is why i can't play horror games #fic rec #fic recommendation #ao3 fic recs #utmv #classic sans #sans undertale #pta sans #how is that not a tag #featured fic #mod sleepy

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