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NEW SWORD (and buckler) DAY!!

that buckler is 15 inches across! It’s huge!

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An Ivory Okimono Of a Dragon Having His Teeth Examined. Meiji Period, Signed Nimin/Futsumin.

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being a female knight fucking sucks. every squire boy i get turns out to be an adult woman with short hair who's just in it to sensually strap my armor to me. CHOP CHOP bitch the French are trying to sack our castle!

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Obsidian amulet in the form of two fingers with incised detail, representing the embalmer’s skill. Egypt, Late Period [i.e. 664 to 332 BC]

(via British Museum)

© The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.

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You can tell a lot about the health of a civilization by their warning signs. Places with a lot of dumb folks will have very broad, very dumb warnings in public. "No feeding the birds." "Stop swimming in this drainage pond." That kind of thing.

Advanced civilizations have very precise signs. They've covered the bases of their regular, run-of-the-mill idiots, and now they're working hard to cover that other end of the bell curve: the talented idiot. When I was in Germany last time, there was a big warning sign that consisted of a 76-letter-long word that means "stop bothering this particular goose, Sven." I don't know who Sven was, but the goose looked pretty calm. It worked.

Now, I have a secret to tell you. You can just make your own signs. There's no law against it, except perhaps "littering," and the municipal sign factory doesn't have very good security. If you show up there past close and put in the door code that you shoulder-surfed off one of the employees returning from lunch a week prior, you have all night to fuck around with their sign-printing machine, making the most official-looking placards you can think of.

Is this wrong? I don't think so. It's a public space, and being able to put up an aluminum sign that says wacky crank shit is your right. For instance, just last week, I banned pickup trucks from parking by the playground. The cops figured out something was going on, because they didn't get any calls for toddlers getting backed over for a couple of days and sent a patrol truck to investigate. Took my sign right down.

What I discovered after that is that nobody keeps records of what signs are supposed to be there. Why would anyone put up a sign for no reason? They cost money, after all. The city is now suing the shit out of that officer for stealing the "no trucks" sign, thanks to an anonymous tipster who called in the theft. Guy wearing a reflective vest came by and put like four more of them up after the lawsuit made the news, just out of spite. I'm not entirely sure if he's actually a city worker; we ran into each other at 3am at the sign factory and just grunted. He was working on some really crazy signs about not feeding a particular swan. Probably German.

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I love seagulls so much, time to look at seagulls

Heermann's gull (Larus heermanni)

Ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea)

Ross's gull (Rhodostethia rosea)

Sabine's gull (Xema sabini)

Sooty gull (Ichthyaetus hemprichii)

Swallow-tailed gull (Creagrus furcatus)

Pacific gull (Larus pacificus)

Grey-headed gull (Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus)

Herring gull (Larus argentatus)

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This is my first reaction to maybe 25% of all political posts online

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Wearing a baseball cap backwards is such a slutty outfit choice. Like purposely choosing to shirk the sun protection of the brim which is the whole purpose of the hat, all so you can what? Suck dick quicker? Slut.

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Carp Cast bronze By Ōshima Joun (1858–1940) Gift of Mr. Tamura Kin'ichi Tokyo National Museum

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debbie downer and negative nancy should lez out

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we've been doing this thing called "hitting the nosferatu" where you hunch your shoulders and walk towards things while pointing with a long creepy finger

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Melting Lamps by kumbhglass

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Announcing... the first ever Otome Games Celebration, a Steam festival just for otome games! 💖

I'm happy to announce that we've been approved for an otome-oriented festival on Steam in May. This will be a great time for otome fans to get discounted otome, try out demos, find new otome to follow, and more.

If you're an otome developer, you can submit your game to be included in the event. Developer sign-ups are open until March 7th!

More info