Stuff and Things

Themes: Revenge, Irony, Fate

If you are seeking revenge, your quarry will draw near to you. Distractions will be endangered or destroyed. It is up to you to claim it. If you do, you will do so in darkness.

I'm doodling lumens during my Skyjacks campaign. These have been relaxing to do. :)

Herons

[Begin ID: A digital illustration in shades of black, white and grey of overlapping herons. The centermost heron is glowing white, in strong contrast with the surrounding herons. It has a small black sun hovering over its head. All the herons are pointed towards the upper right corner and are mostly in side profile. They’re in various positions of in-flight or about to take off. The style of the drawing is linework with shading in simple hatching\ end ID]

Some spins on the "mostly male team with a token woman" trope:

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If you ever needed proof that the new hate crimes laws are a good thing lmao

Obviously this has exploded in notes a wee bit. Leading to a lot of really strange misconceptions.

1. Scotland already has hate crime laws, like most laws they evolve over time.

For example, in the past few years, Scotland’s domestic violence laws were updated so that the psychological aspect of domestic abuse was defined and actionable. It also included reference to controlling behaviour like financial control.

Laws evolve, so people in the comments going ‘woah Scotland had no laws against hate crime’ aren’t correct. They are simply evolving to suit the time.

2. Hate speech does not equal free speech. You don’t have the right to stir up hatred against a group of people without any consequences.

3. This isn't going to be "arresting people for not wanting men in the women's restrooms." JK Rowling and her transphobic friends have moved so, so far away from that bit of plausible deniability that they now say that cis men with guns should go into women's bathrooms to protect women from trans people.

This isn't about 'reasonable concerns' or 'just asking questions' JK Rowling and her friends are openly genocidal monsters that want to completely eliminate all trans people.

She’s so openly bigoted at this point that even the people on her side jump straight to her as an example of someone who commits hate speech.

You recently moved to the countryside. Your child was playing in the woods, and came back with a large green egg you thought was plastic, so you agreed they could keep it if no one claimed it. Your kid said it was a gift. You thought nothing of it. Then the egg hatched.

Cassowary

New Looney Tunes Crew done did it again

It took me a few seconds to realize this is new! The art style and the animation style are so similar to the originals that the only tells I could find are the higher quality from the ones I grew up with and they were never in a sushi restaurant in any of the old shorts I remember.

Revolving sushi bars came to the US in the early 2000s, so yes, this is delightfully sizing up a brand-new modern, interesting space with contraptions and objects we're all familiar with and transforming into a fantastic battleground and obstacle course.

please enjoy this eastern grass owl. owls are so important to me please observe him

Wang Yibo elf!Yibo

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I think I’m going to think about this youtube comment forever

One time this man approached me in a bar talking in Spanish. So I assumed he was Spanish and we started speaking, we had a whole ass conversation and at some point he was like. So what part of Spain are you from? And I said well I’m Italian actually. What part of Spain are you from? And he was like. I’m Greek.

One time I was in Argentina and I was so tired of trying to speak Spanish because I’m not very good at it lmao so I broke into exasperated English and the retail seller girl quickly understood me and engaged me in conversation. We talked for a while, she introduced me to a makeup brand, and then I decided to buy it. While she was packaging the purchase, she asked me if I were from the US or perhaps the UK and I just said “oh no I’m Brazilian hahah” and she looked me straight in the eyes and said, in clear Portuguese, “I’m Brazilian too”

When my dad went to China on a work trip, his Mandarin speaking wasn’t great but his listening was fine (his first language is Cantonese) and he encountered a German guy who had moved to China to work. My dad knew how to speak German because he studied it in university (but wasn’t great when it came to listening to new vocab he hadn’t studied before), and the German guy knew Mandarin because he lived and worked in China, so they had a conversation where my dad spoke to the German guy in German and the guy responded in Mandarin. I’m sure it confused a lot of their coworkers who just saw the Asian guy speaking German and the white guy speaking Mandarin.

Some years ago, I worked for a manufacturing company that had a service depot in China.  One of the engineers from the main office here in the US spent most of his time at the depot.  The problem was that he didn’t speak *any* of the various Chinese languages, and no one at the depot spoke any English. They all, however, spoke Spanish.

I love the world

I was working at a fast food restaurant and a very lost Sikh man showed up in a turban. He was a bit overwhelmed by the food choices.

One of the ladies from the kitchen nudged me away from the cash “I got this”, and another lady quickly took over at the grill. Lady at the cash was… Tamil? Maybe? The lady at the grill was Nepalese. They chatted with the Sikh man, told him what food options met his dietary/religious constraints, and reassured him that the food was made properly. He left feeling happy and welcome in my city.

After he left they told me that they were all speaking Hindi, which was a second/third language for all of them.

We should have this everywhere forever

There's a little guy in the tub

JDKDBBDBFBF they can be friends with my soup stain beaft

Oh i love them

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