"The Christmas market au. Made of twinkling carriages and kitsch"
This is not a spoilerfree blog. They/Them. Non-Binary. Queer. Autistic. Catparent. D&D. Nerdfighter. Too many fandoms
i love that motorcycles exist. like i’m genuinely so glad that someone was like “what if bikes were as fast as cars and could turn you into roadkill if you hit a pothole”
what if there was a vehicle so dangerous you had to wear armor to drive it
The worst invention of late stage capitalism is the screen on the gas pump that plays video ads at you. The best invention of late stage capitalism is the coke freestyle machine.
I think I experienced a worse one a couple weeks ago. Was on a flight, had one of those screens in the back of the seat… except it wasn’t for in flight entertainment. It was for ads. And you couldn’t turn off the screen either. So I’m trying to sleep on this red eye flight with a flashing screen 1 foot from my face.
if you had hijacked the plane because of that no jury in the world would have convicted you
Trying to use an in-game ability that allows a player character to impact or influence others by using their true name, players get tangled up in a lengthy discussion of what a true name even is, especially in the context of Twilight Mirage’s complex worldbuilding regarding names, ranks and titles, and Austin suddenly goes:
“Maybe we should think about “true’ in a non-exclusive sense. Which is to say, my true name is– is Austin Walker. My true name is also when my dad picked me up and threw me in the air and said, “My boy!” That’s a true name for me.”
Holy shit. This is a guy who understands magic. Now I know what some of my true names are, and understand how they could be used to devastate me.
“In one of the most notable moments in sports history, Kenyan runner Abel Mutai was just a few feet from the finish line, but became confused with the signage and stopped thinking he had completed the race.
A Spanish athlete, Ivan Fernandez, was right behind him, and after realizing what was happening, he started shouting at the Kenyan for him to continue running; but Mutai didn’t understand his Spanish. Fernandez eventually caught up to him and instead of passing him, he pushed him to victory.
A journalist asked Ivan, “Why did you do that?”
Ivan replied, “My dream is that someday we can have a kind of community life where we push and help each other to win.”
The journalist insisted “But why did you let the Kenyan win?“ Ivan replied, "I didn’t let him win, he was going to win.” The journalist insisted again, “But you could have won!”
Ivan looked at him & replied, “But what would be the merit of my victory? What would be the honor of that medal? What would my Mom think of that?” Values are transmitted from generation to generation. What values are we teaching our children? Let us not teach our kids the wrong ways to WIN.”
incredible pompeii book fact that i will think about forever:
Garum, a sort of Roman fish sauce, was everywhere in Rome and apparently Pompeii was particularly famous for their garum industry. There’s lots of sources both in and outside Pompeii, and several different manufacturers and sellers have been found in the city.
The part that I can’t stop thinking about: jars of garum have been found with labels advertising it as kosher.
I mean, of course you hear about the conflicts between the Romans and Jews. They were very much in one another’s orbits. But still, the fact that there was apparently enough of a market in Pompeii to specifically create and sell kosher fish sauce… you know?
i feel like alot of people don’t seem to understand that when people online are like “"I want a movie where the man cries” or “I want an anime where they don’t sexualize little girls” they don’t actually base weather or not they want to watch a piece of media on “does this have a trope i like/don’t like”. they just want the media they already like to have not have that shitty trope. when somebody complains about common tropes in shonen anime and you are like “well maybe you should stop watching shonen anime” it’s like no they actually do like one piece they just don’t like the occasional transmisogyny that sometimes comes with it.
like yeah i guess if i wanted to watch media that is not bad, i could watch media that’s really good, but alot of media that’s really good doesn’t have the elements that i enjoy from media that is bad, so you see the issue here?
like i suppose if i don’t enjoy the homophobia in persona 5 i COULD just watch downtown abbey but i don’t think it has quite the kind of gameplay and visuals that i enjoy in persona 😔
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