UNWARRANTED?

Who's forcing you to work out?

I've just realized I misunderstood this post.

the water heater to showerhead pipeline is real as fuck

Dungeon Meshi - Humans and Demi-Humans

I like this because it can be read as a simple classification of biology within the context of a fantasy universe, but there's also a reading of this from a lense of culture and racism.

We know for a fact that orcs in dungeon meshi have been killed by the past and are being rejected by the other races to the point where they're living in caves and dungeons. I don't think the refusal to consider them as humans and classifying them as half monsters is innocent. Bone count seem like a very arbitrary criteria to classify species, and the fact that it was chosen to deny them humanity feels intentional at some level.

I really love Ryoko Kui's approach to fantasy races because it makes you question their definitions. They are not innocent and you shouldn't take them at face value.

I do believe this one is more about culture and language than biology, I think the classification of "they have more bones" is rather a way they found to make orcs and Kobolds into "others" than a biological classification.

There's another comic from the adventurer's bible that I think it's quite telling

Kabru see's Kobolds as "demi-humans" so he has no problem speaking of them in a othering way, but as soon as Laios and Falin do the same for a tribe of tallmen Kabru realizes how bad it sounds.

Edit (I said this in the tags but I think I should add to the post): Just to be clear Laios and Falin are being xenophobic, which is bad but not the same as racism. Plus it's something that says more about the world they live in than about them as people. This is a systemic problem.

the energy these have is like nothing I have ever seen

I wouldn’t say Grim is a cockblock, but everytime someone is in my bed she decides that the friendliest possible thing she can do is step on parts of the human body that you wouldn’t think a cat could step on, such as the cartilage of the nose

everyone thought that I would say Grim steps on his peebus. no, that is a normal thing for cats to do. they love to apply crushing force to your lap with their hyper-dense paws, but nobody expects them to step on your nose cartilage

"When in Rome" 3.16 XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS

i mean other people also took the name Caesar. that was a pretty common thing that happened. like i understand where Xena is coming from here but very many people adopted the name Caesar.

Today’s card is: A 3x5 index card

reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

We’ll find you Amanda.

this has almost 11 million notes what is this

I’ve never seen this post once in 10 years on this site

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

I’ve never even heard of this before tho??? Wtf??????????

oh my god, I didn’t think there were any surviving versions of this post left

For those who weren’t around in the Deep Lore times, this is one of the relics of the editable post era. This post has THE SINGLE HIGHEST NOTES of ANY post on this site, bar none, but with more than a dozen variations. Every single post you’ve ever seen with more than 3 million notes has been a different version of this one.

This is the “Dean’s Gym Shorts” post. This is the Flubber post. This is the original “Reblog if you support gay people” post. it was ALL of them. before half the site got nuked, it had even more notes than it has now - at one point, well over 15 million, and that was years ago.

This, with no exaggeration, is the ONE TRUE heritage post

wait so why don't the notes line up? i'm not trying to debunk or anything, tumblr is a dysfunctional mess and i can see this being due to smth weird on the backend but. someone who knows more please tell us

Underrated Sokka/Aang scene 😭

a paranoid Aang wakes Sokka up because he dreamed of his death, tells him to climb that cliff and Sokka just.....starts climbing that cliff Imao

Good morning Sokka!

This is just another sign of how and why Sokka is a great friend and brother to Aang, too. He knows that Aang had a bad dream and that things were tense from lack of sleep, that Aang's request was paranoia and not actually logical, yet when Aang asked him to validate and prove that his fears are unfounded, he didn't even argue. He just did it, albeit with an understandable bit of hesitancy because nobody wants to be woken up just to be told they need to climb a cliff because of a child's nightmare

And yet he still does it, even though he's annoyed as fuck! Because he knows Aang is terrified out of his mind because he's fucking twelve and just had a nightmare that his friend died! Of course he's freaking out!

Sokka being a good friend to Aang is underrated.

it's the way they simply mention marcille's eyelashes breaking off when she was petrified and ryoko kui bothering to NOT line the eyelashes in her left eye in every pannel she appears after in that chapter

like ???

I'm trying to write a post about tick safety and avoiding tick bites, but a lot of the info on websites is like "Avoid going in the woods, in plants, and where there are wild animals" and "Activities like hiking and gardening can put you at risk" and I'm like thanks! This is worthless!

As ticks and tick borne illnesses are expanding their range, I think it's important for people to be educated about these things, and I think it's especially important to give people actual advice on how to protect themselves instead of telling them to just...avoid the natural world

Rough draft version of Tick Advice:

The above is useful for figuring out whether an area is likely to have lots of ticks, and how vigilant you have to be in that area.

If you're careful, you can usually catch ticks before they bite you, but if one does bite you, it's not the end of the world. Since tickborne diseases are different regionally i suspect this advice will differ based on where you are, but the important thing is remove the tick with tweezers (DON'T use butter, a lit match, or anything that kills the tick while it's still attached, please) and contact a doctor to see what to watch for. Most illnesses you can catch from ticks are easily treatable if you recognize them when symptoms first appear

Also, don't assume that just because you weren't in tall grasses you don't need to be checked.

Some advice from a former camp counselor:

- If you’re camping, check your towels, blankets, and anything else you’ve hung up before letting it touch your body. Ticks are drawn to wet towels and find it an easy jump to a person.

- If you’re out with a dog, check them over thoroughly before you pet them. Anti-tick medication can kill ticks that attach to your dog, but they can still hitch a ride on fur and then jump on you. Consider getting an outdoor comb and wear gloves while checking.

- Invest in a pair of fine-tipped tweezers to remove ticks. There are a ton of special “tick removal” tools that will work, but they’re essentially a riff on a basic set of fine-tipped tweezers. The fine tip allows you to pull a tick off without killing it while it’s attached. Standard, blunt-edged tweezers for eyebrows don’t work as well, because they can crush the tick’s body and release germs into your skin at the bite site.

- If you have a tick on or near your genitals, just go to a doctor. Just...just do it. Trust me. I’ve seen this happen. Do not engage with the junk tick.

- When you need to remove a tick, grasp it firmly with your tweezers as close to the skin as you can get it. If you can, grasp it under the head. Pull straight up - do not twist the tick. That’s going to be your best bet to pull it all off without leaving the head or mouth embedded.

- If you do break the tick, leave the mouth alone - don’t dig in to get it, since that can break your skin more and cause infection. Without the tick attached, the mouth should eventually fall off. If it doesn’t within a day or so, call a doctor.

- Disinfect, disinfect, disinfect. I’d recommend hitting the area with rubbing alcohol several times.

- Keep the tick in a plastic bag in your freezer or fridge. It’s gross, but if you start having any illness symptoms, it can be helpful for your doctor to have the tick itself.

- Watch for a rash on the site, a fever, chills, or body aches. If you experience anything like that, go to an urgent care or hospital.

- Don’t panic! Lyme disease is treatable. The quicker you get medical treatment, the less likely that you’ll have significant long-term effects.

Speaking as a long time outdoorsman this is all great advice. I’ll add one thing: in the past many places have had traditional tick seasons. Be aware that these seasons are shifting and expanding due to global climate change. I’ve spent a lot of time in the central Rocky Mountains and traditionally tick season was early to mid spring. That has shifted to late winter in the valleys and ranges to mid summer at higher altitudes.

Additionally, tick species ranges and the tickborne illness ranges have also been shifting because of climate change. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever used to be moderately common in the Rockies and has expanded east.

Teal deer: don’t rely on traditional information, verify seasons and ranges before assuming you’re safe.

I vote we stop calling it inflation at all. Seize the language. It's price gouging, not inflation. Inflation is a nebulous concept that invokes feeling of being too complex for the layman, a struggle as old as economy itself against a beast no one has ever truly slain.

Price gouging is the truth of it. And it makes it very clear who is to blame, and what must be done to end it.

Can confirm this works wonders. Australia is in a cost of living crisis rn and the two major supermarkets are a big part of it, as they pretty much have a duopoly on not just the grocery shopping market, but a bunch of others considered to be essential (things like fuel). They are trying to blame their price rises on inflation, but the media recently started reporting it as price gouging (which it is), and it got the average person pretty worked up, better than blaming inflation did.

I was at a counter-protest and I experienced something strange. I experienced how t*rfs treat trans men first hand.

Being a butch transwoman broke their minds, so they assumed I was transmasc. (We can always tell lmao)

When they did their entire game changed. They went from screaming death threats and insulting every inch of my body to cooing. Trying to get me to ‘come back’, to ‘stop mutilating myself.’ Why was I here? Didn’t I love women? Didn’t I love myself? Didn’t I see that my mind was poisoned and confused? Didn’t I see that these men had made me hate myself and run from my womanhood?

Holy shit y’all I was ready to draw blood. I have never been so condescended to in my life. I have NEVER, even as a child, felt so infantilized. I would have honestly preferred the limp dick sexual predator insults.

Anyway, yeah. My brothers, you have my full support and I’ve gotten a taste of what you have to put up with.

bonus: grantgo

mere hours before "bingo" was scheduled to shoot, brennan subbed in for grant. an american hero. (posted with both grant and brennan’s permission.)