Smth smth I have a Carrd (made by my lovely friend @splatgirl !!! <33)
war and murder are awful. killing another human being is a horrible thing to do. swords and guns are cool as fuck. these two beliefs exist simultaneously in my mind and do not conflict at all
Wait for the master.
The amount of confidence oozing from this dude
i re-watched it several times, looking for what he does differently. finally i spotted it. look at the line of motion in his strike. it’s not especially fast, he doesn’t wind up more than the others, and it’s not a matter of strength – the guy who knocked over the stand probably put more muscle into it. but there’s a unity of movement he has that the others lack. his body and sword are all one curve. everything moves at once along the same line.
from a physics perspective, that means all the force he’s applying is concentrated at the point of contact between his sword’s edge and the target, and it moves at just the speed that breakage propogates through the material. too slow and it wouldn’t have enough force; too fast and he’d get ahead of the break, shoving the target over instead of cutting it.
from a writing perspective, that means that i should focus on describing a master swordsman’s smoothness more than their strength or speed, and can also have witnesses be confused at the effectiveness of strikes that don’t actually seem all that fast.
Martial arts are all about physics, my karate sensei is has a mechanic/physics diploma and he loves to explain the biomechanics of human body and how this was turned into fight via martial arts. It’s a very good way to teach. The sword master has a larger stance of the feet, much more than the others, allowing his barycenter to lower and thus giving more stability. This, united with the movement of the sword that follows the angle of his body increases the power of the blow without actually using too much muscle strength. Pretty sure he’s also just tending (not contracting) the muscles under the armpits, near the rib cage, the serratus anterior. That makes a huge difference.
Above: The science of moving like a master of martial arts.
What was most interesting to me is size has no correlation to success for any of the people.
when someone reblogs/posts too much good shit in a row and you gotta reblog it all and it looks like you have a gay crush on them
I have a gay crush on all of my mutuals what's your excuse
11:05 AM time for impromptu isopod
Play us a song, you're the piano man...
This is an EXTREMELY blessed post! And accurate! When I first moved out I was so excited for my new place I slept on the floor and had my tv there and that was it. Loved it. You grow and you build and you gain and you lose. I lost that place and everything in it. Now I have a new place with new things and it’s very much home.
In the future, there is a small, quiet room that is just yours, where you are safe and you are free. In that room your shoulders will finally start to come down from around your ears. Nobody can come into that room unless you let them. In that clean quiet place, you will work and you will study. You will love and you will heal.
-Captain Awkward, “Should I Move Away From My Abusive Family?”
terfs are literally just making incel memes now
i dont really wanna post the full image because its transmisogynist as fuck but one of the listed “pros” of a cisbian gf is that “she won’t persecute you for making POLITICALLY INCORRECT jokes” whereas the trans woman gf has, as one of her cons “SUPPORTING EVIL ONLINE SJWS”. imagine telling andrea dworkin that her writings would lay the foundation of white female incelism.
aside from a few “feminist” buzzwords this character is literally just a male /r9k/ poster’s wank fantasy, not only because she’s some fucking generic skinny short white woman, but also particularly because of every single part of the listed “pros” about how she doesn’t need emotional support, has no insecurities that you need to help her with, will never criticize you for being an asshole and agrees with all your politics. imagine how deranged and friendless the person who wrote this is oh my god
i’m not a girlboy nor am i a boygirl but a secret third thing
hmmm no not that one either i don’t think
jesse. im not a secret third thing jesse.
Mr White, bitch. Yo Mr White. Yeah you are. In my heart <3
jesse, do you mean it jesse? am i really a secret third thing jesse
Yes bitch Mr White you are , i really mean it. bitch
jesse. you are the best transgender i know jesse
You too Mr White <3 Now let's get cooking bitch
although they have a reputation as scavengers, hyenas are known to take down prey many times bigger than they are
blackhulkling
I like how this implies the hyena took down the airplane.
She did.
I'm a "multiple interpretations of a character are valid" person until I see an interpretation that explicitly contradicts canon and then I start chewing on the drywall.
Me: "they are fictional characters and you can have whatever thoughts or interpretations you like! You may be close to the creators intent, you may not! What does it matter! There is joy in the exploration alone"
Also me: blorbo would not fucking say that
“This character is multi-faceted and has many valid interpretations of them, but there are also aspects of them that are so set in stone that if you take them away, you’re basically talking about a totally different character.”
i hate that i have to keep reminding people of this but if you are sending money to a sex worker for any service or content please do not put ANYTHING in the memo field unless told otherwise by the provider
don't try to be cute or funny with it, the best way to make them smile is by following directions 💕
Paypal, for one, will delete someone's account and steal their money if they catch a whiff of your transaction being in any way nsfw, DO NOT SAY SHIT, just silently send the money as you are told if you need to speak something regarding it do so via DIRECT MESSAGES and FAR from the program of the transaction
i would go as far as to say never to add notes to paypal transactions. i recently saw someone have their account frozen from buying anime vhs tapes, because the anime in question happened to have the word "persia" in the title.
you never know what kind of weird thing is going to trigger their algorithm, so just don't
It's been over a decade, but I'm still saddled with a lifetime ban from paypal and by extension venmo because one of my friends who was paying me back for buying him and his gf at the time dinner thought it would be funny to include "for sensual massage" in the notes section and not only did they not let the transaction go through they took back all the money anybody had EVER sent me via paypal, which thankfully wasn't much.
burned a few braincells trying to figure out the subway lair 🧍♂️
call your girl Bluetooth Speaker the way I made a temporary connection with her that she will always remember
IN A WORLD WHERE BEAUTY AND ATTRACTIVENESS HAVE BECOME SO COMMONPLACE AND MUNDANE THE EXCEPTIONAL UGLINESS HAS BECOME DIVINE
I SAW AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR A CAR THAT LOOKS LIKE EVERY OTHER CAR AND THEY COMPARED IT TO A UNUSUAL UGLY LITTLE VEHICLE AND ITS STRANGENESS WAS FAR MORE CAPTIVATING THAN THE SLEEK BORING CAR THE AD WAS ACTUALLY FOR
BEAUTY IS FINITE, UGLINESS IS INFINITE LIKE GOD
