So I was re-watching Hbomb's plagiarism video, and I noticed something really funny.

Allow me to show you.

Lol whoops.

Fire Lord Zuko passing a law that forbids challenging anyone under the age of majority to Agni Kai

Fire Lord Zuko waiting until the day he reaches the age of majority to pass this law, lest anyone think he is a coward

(No one. Literally no one would have thought that, but it’s generally regarded as a very classy move regardless)

Wait but also, until then, if anyone under the age of majority is challenged

Zuko fights it for them.

Which, especially in more rural towns (where Agni Kais are less of a public event and more of a fast and violent duel) is terrifying because you challenge your neighbor’s kid over a stolen chicken-fish and all of a sudden the Fire Lord is showing up???

But, those few who still challenge those who should be kids learn quickly to regret it.

Okay but this implies that Zuko knows whenever someone challenges a kid to an Agni Kai and is there before the battle takes place.

Firelord Zuko: *wakes up in a cold sweat near midnight*

Firelord Zuko: *running down the palace hallways while still struggling to put in his pants, being chased by his team of bodyguards* I’M GOING TO HING WA ISLAND TO KICK SOMEBODY’S ASS SEE YOU IN A WEEK BITCHES

Random spirit: Why’d you do that to him? Isn’t it kind of a stretch for a mortal to be blessed like that?

Agni himself: I felt like it

@dead-fandom-society @evilkitten3

how dare you leave this gold in the notes

[ID: a reply by @/the-devil-in-the-details-666. it reads: “Zuko got sick for one of the Agni Kais and couldn’t make it. Toph showed up in his place with a flamethrower.” /end ID]

Sokka made the flamethrower special for this exact purpose

This gif is outrageous

 ■ The so-called “blood explosion” which punctuates the conclusion of Akira Kurosawa’s 1962 movie Sanjuro remains one of the most memorable and influential special effects in film history. Production designer Yoshiro Muraki would later recall this scene was filmed in a single take. No such effect had ever been attempted before, as movies of the time rarely showed violence with graphic detail. Filled with uncertainty, Muraki worried the blood spray he’d rigged up wouldn’t impress Kurosawa, so he added an extra 30 pounds of pressure to the fluid pump. At the moment the pump was activated, the additional pressure caused the compressor hose attached to actor Tatsuya Nakadai to blow a coupling which created a slight, unintentional delay before the fake blood began to spray, and caused a much larger gush of fluid than planned. It sprayed so powerfully Nakadai claimed it almost lifted him off the ground. His heart sinking, as he believed the delay and over-pressure had ruined the effect, Muraki nervously glanced at director Akira Kurosawa, but Kurosawa only nodded in approval.

“oh god i fucked this up”

“yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOO”

And to think this is so iconic that “two dudes clash, there’s a beat, then one dies incredibly violently” is just a must-have for action in anime

Its crazy to think that this iconic visual that has been so ubiquitous in pop culture for so long despite that the source material barely being known by people all came from actors staying in character thru an FX malfunction.

In #Delos, 2500 years ago, there was a kitchen with 3 burners, oven, grill and baking plate. With an extremely impressive design, made of clay, it served the needs of the household like the electric stove today.

👉🏛 Archaeological Museum of Delos!! #Greece

Y'all ever get so excited about a scientific paper you're reading that you get chills???

So I thought to myself

Huh, a lot of our invasive species come from China and Japan

And then I thought, huh, I should look up what Kudzu is like in its natural habitat

And I found this article by a team of scientists investigating the history of Kudzu in China

And ohhhhh my goddddd. I'm vibrating with excitement over how cool this is.

The first bombshell that turned my brain inside out:

KUDZU IS NOT WILD. IT IS SEMI-DOMESTICATED.

In China, Kudzu has been a fundamentally important plant for food and textiles throughout history. We have Kudzu cloth that is 6,000 years old!

THIS PLANT CLOTHED AND FED ONE OF THE MOST POPULOUS AND MOST ENDURING HUMAN CULTURES ON EARTH

and in turn

HUMANS SHAPED AND SELECTED FOR ITS TRAITS

*AND*

in its natural range, humans are the main "predator" of kudzu

"Harvest by humans appears to be the major control mechanism in its native areas."

Kudzu is like that because it co-evolved with humans.

WHAT

YALL

This means

That Kudzu is so highly invasive because—just like most plants evolved to be grazed by herbivores and/or eaten by caterpillars, keeping them in balance with everything else—Kudzu basically evolved to be harvested by humans

The other half of the ecological partnership that keeps Kudzu in balance with everything else isn't a caterpillar or a hoofed beast. It's us.

Wait, you can spin kudzu? Why aren't we harvesting and marketing this as the newest eco friendly fiber for hand spinners in the US? The market may be small, but I guarantee you with the "spin" that you can use your hobby to fight invasive plants and save the earth that people would pay money to have it sent to them.

Someone send me a sample of kudzu bark and I'll do some research on how they got the spinnable fiber out of it.

Of *course* someone has figured it out already:

http://fiberhousecollective.com/invasive-fiber-study-group/2021/12/5/meeting-1-weaving-with-kudzu-amp-bast-fiber-processing

If you live in areas with kudzu, go get some and spin it!

Hell yeah

…Well whaddaya know. !!!

Um I just noticed while rewatching my "ugh good omens" fanvid playlist -- Aziraphale's not wearing a bowtie in the "You go too fast for me" scene, in the Bentley in the 60s. He's wearing a looser tie, like maybe an ascot? Still tartan, of course. But it's the only time in the 20th century he deviates from the bowtie.

I've written about the significance of the coat changing in the Blitz scene, and I have to think that this tie is meaningful somehow too. Aziraphale's look changes so subtly, every detail matters.

Maybe the more open collar signifies his deep vulnerability in this scene where he hands the holy water over to Crowley.

So I rewatched this scene with this new lens, and the first thing I noticed about it is that Aziraphale is quietly panicking the entire time.

I mean, he looks more annoyed than panicked at first, but the moment he starts speaking he's only taking short, shallow breaths, like he can't really breathe properly. This whole scene is about him both setting boundaries and breaking them down at the same time, both of which are terrifying things for someone who primarily sees their role as a subservient rule follower.

And, not only that, but it's a very loud, very obvious, very much not allowed in every way declaration of love. "I love you so much I'm willing to give you my whole heart in this flask." Like you said, it's incredibly, deeply vulnerable.

It's also entirely out of character and against the rules.

I noticed that, for the most part, angels and demons are frequently wearing various sorts of cravats, and it usually aligns in some way with following the rules, or doing their job. So maybe if we take a deeper look at that...

The archangels are all wearing something loose and frilly, but still fashionable and proper-looking. We know that they all give the appearance of following the rules, but subvert them however it suits them. Sometimes they'll even go and do something that seems way beyond the rules (like physically assaulting an angel).

The exception is Gabriel, who is almost always wearing a tie. He is the face of the Host, and he doesn't do any of the dirty work himself. He has this brilliant way of making it clear what he wants, while every piece of his picture is clean and pristine. As he said, "There are no back channels, Michael."

The demons are always wearing some sort of scarves or sashes, and they're gritty and grungy. I noticed that in the scene with Crowley presenting the M25, they're wearing tighter ones, as if they're being restricted, and only there because they're following the rules. It's their job.

When they bring the antichrist, they're very open and casual. They're taking great joy in it. Perhaps Ligur's is a little tighter, but he's also not super duper familiar with Earth. He's a little out of his depth. When they come to collect Crowley at his flat, they're wearing their scarves (cozy) really tight and bundled up. It's not like wearing a tie, but they seem to relish in doing their job just then and punishing Crowley for breaking Hell's rules.

Speaking of Crowley, he's usually wearing something that always reminded me of a chain locked around his neck. I know in at least one scene, he's literally wearing an actual chain.

And this scene is the one in which he is most chained to his destiny as a demon. He is a prisoner, and he's trying to break free.

But in any case, what he's wearing isn't really at all like what the other demons are wearing. Just like how no other angel really has a bow tie like his.

Bringing us back to this scene...

So it's really too dark on my screen to see the details of Crowley's outfit, but it looks like he's not wearing anything EXCEPT for the turtleneck. He's usually wearing plunging, revealing things (aw, kind of like his heart is on display for Aziraphale), but not here. He's not wearing a scarf or anything, but he is very very much breaking the rules and going way beyond the boundaries of his job. He's ALSO under cover (lol).

And Aziraphale... Usually the studious rule-follower, he is shirking the rules here. Not completely, but he knows he's way out of bounds here. And he shows it with the complete and utter panic.

(alright @ineffablebookgirl I hope I did you proud!)

I love this! I think I wrote something once about Aziraphale's panic attack breathing in this scene -- especially if you watch what you can see of him when the camera is focused on Crowley.

I never looked that closely at Crowley's neckwear before and omg I never noticed the chain! How absolutely heartbreaking. I don't believe he was wearing any neckwear in the 60s scene, but I'm not sure. His throat is covered up by the turtleneck while Aziraphale's is relatively exposed by the loose cravat.

It's also interesting that you note the other angels also wear looser cravats; I hadn't taken that into consideration. There's so much depth and detail in these costumes!!

Honestly I can't believe how much detail there is in this show. It is so incredibly obvious that every piece, every little aspect has been placed precisely and lovingly by someone. From the music being a waltz, to the lighting that has Crowley pinning an angel to a cross in the wall, to hidden wings and halos and so much more.

It reminds me of the clip I saw of Neil Gaiman walking through Aziraphale's bookshop, explaining that the set design folks will be mad at him if he moves anything, because all of the books are there for a reason and placed precisely where they are because of some meaning probably the vast majority of people will never even think to wonder about.

Which really makes it all the more beautiful, if you think about it. The show is a love letter to humanity, and the act of connecting with other people. It is about the joy of loving and creating and cultivating this beautiful art together, even if the reason why we're all together is a little bit ineffable. The book was written by two people trying to make each other laugh, and the show was created by so many people who were all coming together to celebrate something they loved.

And now all these people come together to celebrate it and write fanfiction and meta and draw beautiful things. It's a bit overwhelming at times, and a really joyful thing to be part of.

Guys we NEED to talk about how the handwriting on Crowley’s pest control ID is the same as on the opening hours of Aziraphale’s bookshop!

I MEAN compare the A’s, L’s, R’s, W’s, Y’s

We’re looking at either a) Aziraphale being enough of a bastard to help Crowley forge ID’s so he can fuck shit up in his fucking shit up jacket, possibly because Crowley has forged so many ID’s already that authorities have begun recognising his handwriting. b) Crowley being the imaginative one when it comes to fucking shit up, and also the one who leaps to do anything his angel needs, so he came up with Aziraphale’s opening hours and wrote him the sign. and I fucking love both

this is it, this is the final form of the meme

All memes on tumblr for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Queen references

The word for ‘bumblebee’ in European languages.

by Oysteib

wow, Croatia looks really nice! i wish it was a real place

Aww, someone created a fanmade map for it! It looks just as if it was a real country.

i was so good at this water sort mobile game and i’m stuck on level like 348 and i’m convinced this one is impossible. i was stuck on it for weeks like a year ago and then quit and came back to it recently with a new hunger and vengeance and it’s kicking my ass i swear

it’s just not possible.

i take back every bad thing i ever said about this website

This is the sweetest thing I've ever seen

I thought today about a villanelle I had an inspiration there and then I wrote this in a spreadsheet in Excel

It’s hard to keep the poems rigid shell On track inside my mind, so when I thought today about a villanelle

I thought about refrains re-rung like bells And how simple it might be to begin; I wrote this in a spreadsheet in Excel

The line below these two, I brag to tell Is simply coded as =A1 I thought today about a villanelle

And this stanza’s refrain, I needn’t spell It out; it equals A3 and is done! I wrote this in a spreadsheet in Excel

I planned to use this better, really sell The bit; but flew too closely to the sun. I thought today about a villanelle I wrote this in a spreadsheet in Excel

[Description: The above text is pictured in individual cells in column A of an Excel spreadsheet. The sheet’s title in the workbook is “Sheet Two Villanelle” and to prove the truth of how it was constructed, Cell A23 is selected; at the top of the image you can see that it does not actually contain any text, but just the Excel formula “=A1″. This is probably Art, somehow.] 

I have to say that I genuinely love how the reblogs on this are 45% poetry nerds, 45% Killing Eve fandom, and 10% Excel wonks. This is exactly the literature:fandom:programming ratio I desire in my life. 

OP where was this helpful humor when I needed to write a villanelle last semester.

It’s good to do it manually the first time, so you appreciate automation! 

You know.  It’s taken me to this point in seeing this on my dash to realize that a) this is not an attempt to filk “Hallelujah” and b) it’s an actual poetry style.

*facepalm*

Well challenge accepted

I thought today of a villanelle And then I opened up Excel And had a truly holy inspiration

For it goes, in main, A, B, refrain The second verse remains the same Except the refrain changes situation

Villanelles are Villanelles are Villanelles are Hard to write

But when you put a villanelle In to some cells within Excel It definitely needs no demonstration

Let every third line equal A; A one or three, and then away Down at the bottom a remediation

AB refrain AB refrain AB refrain AB refrain, refrain

I don’t know how to end the song It’s gone on now a little long But if you and Cohen had a conversation

He’d tell you his had dozens more  Of verses down the years, therefore A couple more won’t be a tribulation

Villanelle yeah Villanelle yeah Villanelle yeah Villanelle yeah…

There are three things I really have to wonder:

Anyway, I’m also going to drop this here for your amusement.

I mean, I wrote a villanelle about my breakfast once that I don’t think was self-referential to the form, but it’s true that it also was not about the struggle of my soul (it was about pigs in a blanket and poached eggs). Though I think we firmly landed in lighter verse territory with the Sandwich Villanelle. 

Apparently a significant portion of the early readership of the original post was expecting the character Villanelle to pop up for the first half of the poem or so, because the post was tagged Villanelle. :D

From Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark

“We’re Not So Different, You And I” - Part 59

(check out the other parts here)

What do these four have in common?

Enemies with a wolf

Correct!

Next:

What do these four have in common?

They have names with repetition?

Correct!

Next:

What do these four have in common?

Destruction of the Moon

Correct!

Next:

What do these four have in common?

Famous Tumblr Posts

Correct!

Last one:

What do these four have in common?

they all have the initials PW ?

Correct!

That’s all, folks! (…or is it? can you tell what the hidden theme is?)

Oh my gosh it is moon moon

Wolf

Double name

Moon

Meme

First and last letter of your name

Goddammit moon moon!

Correct!

More specifically P.W were the letters that formed “Moon Moon” in the original post

Now that’s all, folks!

Thank you so much to @pikachu-says-peekaboo​ for coming up with the brilliant theme and helping me out with the questions.

moment of silence for everyone who relied on AI chat bots for research when it’s going around saying shit like this.

[image description: search that reads “country in africa that starts with K”. the featured snipped is from www.emergentmind.com and reads “While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter "K". The closest is Kenya, which starts with a "K" sound, but is actually spelled with a "K" sound. It's always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.” /end ID]

Bitches love to be like "science sucks where are the eldritch horrors where is the knowledge thats maddening to know" that's thermodynamics motherfucker. The first two world experts in thermodynamics (Ludwig Boltzmann and Paul Ehrenfest) both killed themselves because they had to do fucking thermodynamics

Oh you want to use abstract methodology poorly-understood by most to study something so alien to human existence it cannot be intuitively understood, then in doing so uncover a terrible truth that implies the unavoidable doom of all humanity? Nice going dingdong you just found out about entropy

“Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.”

States of Matter (1975) by David L. Goodstein

Via Wikipedia:

Having the formula for entropy — that fundamentally, all things must decay — inscribed on your tombstone is hauntingly poetic. Dang.

Writing 春池嫣韵 (chun1chi2yan1yun4; lit. the beautiful flowers of spring ponds are quite charming), a phrase that has become popular online due to an inscription that was supposedly of that phrase, but instead greatly resembled the phrase 去他媽的 (qu4ta1ma1de5; lit. damn his mother, fig. fuck/damn/to hell with [this]).

The inscription in question: