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BREAKING NEWS: Local Lynel allows Hylian man to peacefully pass through its domain.

Lynel:

The Gimli Glider is one of those stories where every aspect sounds more fake than the last and yet it all actually happened.

-A passenger plane was underloaded with fuel because Canada had just converted to the metric system and everyone supposed to double check their numbers got it wrong. -When the plane ran out of fuel they were too far away to make it to an in-service airport and had to head towards the Gimli military base.  Which was shuttered. -They were coming in to fast due to a lack of flaps control and had to perform a series of slips (as shown in the video above) to slow down, basically drifting a giant passenger plane. -As they come down they realized that just because Gimli’s been decommissioned doesn’t mean it’s abandoned because a bunch of people are having drag races on the runway they’re about to need. -Despite everything they managed to land safely and no one was killed or even hurt which is why it’s one of the best air disasters to meme on.

The Wikipedia page on this is fantastic and my favorite line from it is “Flying with all engines out was never expected to occur, so it had never been covered in training.”

Nice

Shrek 2 (2004) trivia 

Spotting the fake, now with color

This octopus candle holder that my sister hand made in a pottery studio.

tell your sister good fucking job

Grace Jones

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[image description: two photos of grace jones in a look split down the middle. on one side, she wears a suit, short hair with sideburns, and a fake mustache. on the other, she wears a dress, long hair, and more feminizing makeup. in one photo, she poses in profile in front of a mirror, so the reflection shows the more feminine side and the more masculine side is in the foreground. in the second photo, she stands in front of a painted banner that reads, “christoff christine.”]

This has been a PSA.

I’m trying not to reblog posts on this blog but I feel that this is important to post here.

on a related note:

And for the people asking “Well if you don’t support it irl then why would you like it in fiction?!” Because when it’s happening irl real people are suffering and dying and that’s horrible and I’d never want that. But when it’s fiction, when no real people are being hurt or killed, it’s interesting to explore the experience, the effects it may have, and to an extent experience the emotions involved without actually having to experience the horrible thing. You explore scary, dangerous things from a safe distance.

It’s the same reason I love disaster movies and don’t love actual disasters. I mean, if someone can’t intuit the difference  between watching a movie like 2012 and yelling “cool!” when LA slides into the ocean and being horrified at the real life effects of global warming and the idea of millions of people dying as a result, then  *I* am not the one with the problem. 

[First image: A heavily-overlapping venn diagram labelled “things I like in works of fiction” and “things I would never approve of in real life”

Second image: A venn diagram labelled “things I like in fanfiction” and “things I actually want to see happen in canon”. The circles overlap, but barely.]

Happy Pride!

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

Sections 553 and 554 of Article 27 of the Maryland Code prohibited sodomy (punishable with a sentence of “not less than one year nor more than ten years”), oral sex, and “any other unnatural or perverted sexual practice with any other person.”

Maryland’s law against sodomy was repealed in 2020.

Unknown, Cat, 19th century

hostile group chat

Amusement park in Berlin left to nature’s devices [640x480]

It was “left to nature’s devices” because the owner got caught importing a roller coaster with 180 kilos of peruvian cocaine inside it

Behold. My new favorite reaction image.

You telling me that Jack Black would not be 1000% down to be kidnapped by the muppets for a shenanigan, or possible a hijink?

Mr. The Frog still sends me more than “we all agreed a celebrity is not a people”

The emotion in the last panel tho

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Water biscuits

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