Hammers by Alec Benjamin
The child wants to operate a giant complicated machine and to be appreciated by the people around him. That’s admirable.
me: can i get the "fortnite burger" please XD
the bank teller i'm holding at gunpoint: i don't understand what you mean by that
After rewatching ATLA and rewatching the first couple episodes of Korra I'm always reminded of how much they fucked Korra over by training her inside a compound in the South Pole for thirteen years. I understand that they wanted to keep her safe from the Red Lotus but like. The Avatar is supposed to travel to the other nations to learn their element, but it's more than that: it's about travelling, learning the culture of each nation, their customs, meeting its people, its leaders-- that way, by the time the Avatar has mastered all elements, they also know how the world works, so they know how to protect it.
But Korra? She spent her entire childhood and teenage years locked up in a compound where she was watched all the time. She was only allowed to go out once a year for the Spirit Festival, and once she even had to escape to go because one of her teachers didn't wanna let her go. Her only friends were Katara, her parents and her polar bear dog; she didn't have any actual friends her age until she met Bolin, Mako and Asami.
Of course she struggled with airbending and her spiritual side: it's not just her personality, it's that air is the element of freedom, and she's been locked up with people constantly making decisions for her her entire life. She is just learning what freedom is like.
Of course she acted like that in Republic City in the first episode; it was her first time actually being out in the world. She doesn't know how it works, its rules or how its people struggle because she didn't get to even see it before! Of course she acted like that during ALL of Book 1. If Korra had travelled like she was supposed to, she would have probably acted like her Book 3 self by Book 1: still a teenager, still fierce and still kinda stubborn, but with a better understanding of the world and what being the Avatar means, and of who she is. But no. By raising her like that they strained both her training and her personal growth.
In 4th grade, my bff was in a death feud over chess with a boy in our class but instead of competing like normal people they decided that the best way to determine who was chess master was for each of them to select one of the two biggest idiots in class and teach them to play chess, My Fair Lady style, and see whose idiot won. We are just now, 22 years later, grappling with the moral implications of this exercise.
I love how many people there are on the Earth because you can think of any type of person and there’s the possibility that they might exist. There could very well be at 90 year old lady that goes into an Urban Outfitters every Friday and buys every item that has to do with weed. It’s likely she doesn’t exist but there’s also the possibility that she does exist, and that excites me
(*400dB Crunch noise*)
Fun fact! Decibel is a logarithmic scale. This means an increase of 10 dB is a doubling in strength.
It's impossible to get a sound louder than about 200 dB on Earth: this is because a soundwave is a series of peaks and troughs of air compression, and around 200 dB you hit COMPLETE VACUUM in the troughs.
So, decibels are a measure of energy.. 400 dB is around 10^28. By the Atomic Rockets Boom Table, the dinosaur-killer impact was merely 10^23.
400 dB is "all the oceans flash boil off the planet and then the crust melts". This rabbit just destroyed all life on earth with a noise equivalent to an exaton of TNT. Aliens on pluto are getting woken up going "what the fuck was that light?"
straight-on close-up being our worst angle is also a mother-daughter thing
Keith Haring body-painting Grace Jones in New York City, 1985.
(Photos by Tseng Kwong Chi)
I saw this last night at a sensitive time and got soooo fucking scared omg my mind couldn't even comprehend what I was looking at. those false eyes are working on me
the fucking
MAN RAY (1890-1976)
Mathematical Object - Surface with negative constant curvature of Enneper, derived from the pseudo-sphere, 1936
Silver print
Pencil titled 'Mathematical Object', stamp of the photographer 'Man Ray / 8, rue du Val-de-Grâce /
Paris 5 - France. Danton 92-24' and ADAGP copyright stamp (verso).
Christie’s
no i am NOT interested in these “hot singles” in my area what i WANT is hot ENEMIES in my area!!! i want a meaningful hateship with someone who’d try to kill me on sight!!!
firstly, how dare you