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I Don’t Find Trouble It Finds Me

@mallk-z

But I’m not exactly making it hard.
Mid-twenties and still not sure what I’m doing here.
Why do I always seem to write 10 words when two will do?

girl i know i love old boats and they got into accidents all the time and i wouldnt exactly regard an ocean liner as a not horrifying mode of transport but i just remembered we used to have those fucking balloon airships. i dont like planes myself but thank god we started making air transport out of shit that wasnt 100% flammable

domt like that

girl they used to catch fire for no reason and kill everyone

THAT WAS ONE TIME

it happened a few times

So I'm leaving work and something darts in front of me, maybe 10ft away, too fast for me to see what it is. Peek around the tree blocking my path and I see this

Just like... a whole ass hawk. Dude's gotta be about 1.5ft tall. Massive fucking bird. And it's just staring me straight in my soul like this, even as I try to move ahead. It didn't budge. And there's only this path back to my car unless I want to walk on a busy highway. So I have the option of Death By Raptor or Death By Truck.

So I walk in the poison ivy filled patch off the sidewalk. Guy still isn't moving. Still staring me directly in the eyes. And I do this thing when animals are behaving strangely where I'll talk to them, so I'm just like, "Hey, man. I don't know you. You don't know me. This feels really threatening. I'm just trying to get to my car, dude. Can I get some space please? You're a big fucking bird. I see those claws. You could kill me right now, but I'd appreciate if you didn't, ok?"

It didn't move until I was about 2ft away. Again: I'm as far from it as I can be without walking into the street. It clearly wasn't going to budge. I walk past, thing flies up (silent, btw. Scary) and lands on a brick wall a little further ahead

Anyway. Weird guy. Nearly shit my pants when I noticed a bird big enough to carry off a fully grown cat was just... there, staring me in the face, unwilling to move away from me, a human, something it should see as a threat. I watched behind me the whole rest of the way to my car, just in case this bird decided to help me shed this mortal coil. 10/10 experience. Super cool guy.

This is so funny because that’s a freshly-fledged juvenile red tailed hawk.

It didn’t leave simply because it didn’t really know the giant gorilla thing walking towards it was a threat. You were menaced by what amounts to a teenager who just passed their driving test just chilling under a tree.

This thing weighs all of 1 pound and barely knows it’s a bird.

the bird got a nat20 on intimidation from a die it knocked off the desk

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there might be a slim chance the oppenheimer movie does the justice and depicts the manhattan project, American military, and the people who said yes to the bomb (Truman et al) as the monsters they are but i'm not holding my breath. it's going to be a mostly aggrandizing affair with a little lip service to the horrors of using an atomic bomb in a civilian target. my guess is they're gonna depict oppenheimer as "lied to" about how the bomb would be used and thats where the guilt comes from

it's a horrible fucking thing and i fear this movie will do little to educate the public on how unnecessary it was to make and use the bomb. the astroturfed "barbenheimer" campaign is pretty disgusting. you're gonna have a bunch of film bros creaming themselves over the soundtrack and the bomb animation sequences but if you ask them anything about the historical context it'll be like talking to a shoe box

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Gamer moment

true gamers are equal opportunity haters

I used an enby pride flag in league (which gives you a little flag trail behind your character) and someone said to me:

"What are your pronouns so I can insult you properly"

okok i KNOW i promised I'd cool it with the new print designs since I made 8 of 'em in a fuckin week but like

the fact two seperate folks got it commissioned.....

yall want this as a print, right?

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It would cost me an arm and a leg to ship a print to Europe but I NEED THIS I BEG YOU MAKE IT A PRINT

my guy these are sent using POSTAGE it costs you like two euro to get them sent internationally idc if you're in France or Taiwan

(I'll head out to staples first thing to get a hi-res scan, this bitch oughta be etsy ready within 24 hours)

kay heading out to do scans and digital cleaning and stuff, with luck this'll be ready for sale in a few hours

okay first of all: bad news, I miscalculated the conversion, stamps fees to international shipping actually cost around €4.20, not two euro.

I feel that my readership is an especially appropriate audience for this. :D

[ID: A sheet of paper with a decorative illumination on it; the illumination shows a stylized Excel spreadsheet with a green menu bar across the top. The menu bar reads "Needs more" in a gothic-style font, and the spreadsheet itself has the word "Spreadsheets" inked across it, with an illuminated "S" and decorative calligraphic lettering on the rest. It's sexy as hell.]

This inaccurate. Should be obsidian.

When water hits flowing lava it turns to cobblestone. Its only obsidian when it touches a source block, which clearly lava pouring out of a soda machine would not be. NEVER fuck with real Minecraft fans you fake gamer