werewolf connoisseur

The First Meet.

(YEA I WATCHED GOMENS2)

heartbreaking:

girl has sooooooo many ambitions and ideas for projects but can only get 1.5 basic tasks done per day

FUCH YES furisode but men styled! I am living for this!!! The embelished kaku obi kinda mimics women furisode obi styles, and nicely counterbalances the long fluttering sleeves.

Men in furisode is A+ silhouette <3 I mean just look at those shots of Momochi-san's red pinstripes furisode retro-styled with hakama (find past photoshoot here):

you can also pretend you are 32 and too old to care what's cringe and that you have learned to love your friends with the shift key pressed down forever.

There are hardly any female werewolves because they break all the classic rules of femininity. They force you to confront female violence, strength, size, grotesqueness and uncontrollability. Historically female shapeshifters always shift into something dangerous (snake) or sleek (cat) or dainty (bird) but female werewolves ignore the masculine gaze completely. They're distorted beasts that have no ulterior motive except to destroy. Nothing about them is nurturing or modest. They're the opposite of what a woman "should be." Their omission from pop culture is not an accident.

This is a subject that really interests me because I (28 years old) had computer classes in grade school where learning how to efficiently type was a big focus. As a result I have a very high WPM (words per minute) count and am an excellent touch typer.

However, I've heard that they started phasing out computer classes in a lot of schools because it's assumed that kids/teenagers already know how to use a computer in this day and age. But smartphones are more popular than computers now, and as result a lot of Gen Z/Gen Alpha kids are able to text very quickly but their typing skills aren't as good.

Werewolf with a cane, brought to you by my achey joints

Love that the car at the back is like 'WTF is wrong with these losers? I'm gonna overtake!' Then it see the baby swans and it like, 'Oh! My bad.' And pulls in again.

@elodieunderglass

I find swan parenting so interesting and relatable. Although they’re closely related to ducks, their strategies are entirely different. A mother duck is usually typified by being “careless” with her babies, meaning that she just goes wherever without consideration for them, and they struggle to keep up; ducks don’t really comprehend what terrain or situations are inaccessible for ducklings, so you’ll often see a mother duck carelessly using stairs, or flying off a building or cliff, while her babies literally die trying to follow. Ducks aren’t noted for their situational awareness, but this is really shocking to watch in the case of Mama Duck. She doesn’t usually check behind her, can’t manage them through complex situations, and gives no impression of even having any idea of how many babies she has (that’s why it’s a good thing she often has 14 in babies a clutch, and can pull off 2 clutches a year; in the wild, most of these are expected to die, as a sort of background protein link in the food web.) (On a farmyard, you might give them to a broody hen to raise, as they’ll have a more attentive parent that way.)

Swans, by contrast, take two parents about a year to raise about seven babies, and they RAISE them. They’re very attentive and conscious of their children’s safety. Even in this short video you can see that one parent is leading the children while the other keeps an eye on the card, using body language to communicate with partner and cars. The straight fixed glare at the car not only gives the swan a better look, but is also the polite first indication that the swan wants space (blowing past this signal is one reason why human/swan interactions quickly become antagonistic.) they’re walking very slowly and deliberately, which (unintentionally) forces the cars to treat them like pedestrians, but is an unusually slow pace aimed at making it very easy for the very young babies to follow properly.

I don’t know. I just like swans. I like their confidence in the human world, and their firm belief that everyone can follow the Swan Rules and behave properly if they try. I like that they relate to us and therefore have expectations that we’ll follow Swan Rules. They cross at the crosswalk because that’s what is Done and they expect everyone to respect how things are Done. In every post about swans on social media there will always be several comments about how swans are violent and it will always be down to: “they expect us to know how things are Done, and get mad when we don’t.”

swans and geese are basically that one granny everyone knows of who has 0 filter and expects everyone to follow the fucking rules Or Else

Daily drawing 20 nov 2023

Mizu, from Blue Eye Samurai

Someone is extremely excited for pumpkin season!

i'd argue we think very hard about politics but we don't actually put forth the effort to learn about politics. and tbh our own institutions try very hard to keep it that way

From your friendly neighborhood ex-english-teacher:

From your friendly library working. The above is great and IFLA has one for fake news but it works for any kind of research!!

Dance for a spider.

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*smooch*

part 7 of my not-so-mini OC dump that lowkey keeps getting more questionable