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thinking about diatoms again

microscopic living stars made of glass that eat the sun. and they're all around us. in every body of water. glass sun-eating stars.

I like them a lot. they produce up to half of all earth's oxygen. the air you breathe is thanks to sun-eating stars made of glass. and that's pretty cool.

and you know. like oblongs and triangles and some other bullshit

Holy fuck you illegally downloaded a cardigan

rederiswrites

@inkthusiasm

#video #art #crafts #clothes

alessandriana

The long read: Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs a

mikkeneko

Takegaki had been a yakuza enforcer for 32 years, a tough guy who was close to the Yamaguchi-gumi boss. But over time he had grown disillusioned: money was scarce, and newcomers ignored the sense of honour and tradition that he believed should underpin yakuza life. When a boss’s son was gunned down in a dispute, Takegaki left the Yamaguchi-gumi altogether. There are, in theory, ways to retire from yakuza life. But Takegaki’s former colleagues didn’t accept his departure. They shot up his house, after which he installed CCTV cameras and slept with a sword by his side.

Soon after, in the city of Himeji, he founded Gojinkai, an NGO helping other yakuza leave the criminal life. Gojinkai aimed to address a major issue for anyone trying to ditch the yakuza and join the legal economy. Authorities consider them members for five years after leaving – meaning they are left unbanked, unable to find employment, and more susceptible to rejoining the underworld. Ex-yakuza “are afloat in the grey zone,” says Herbert. “So there is no way for them to get out of the criminal scene.”

By 2020, when Nishimura first met Takegaki, he was often quoted in the media predicting the yakuza’s demise. She began visiting the Gojinkai office once a month, joining Takegaki and other former yakuza in a street-cleaning exercise. It was “wonderful to see such a bigshot in the past taking the initiative to pick up trash”, she writes. Nishimura’s inability to leave her criminal past behind had left her poor, alone and jobless. But she was inspired by Takegaki. “If he can do it,” she thought, “so can I.”

Working with Gojinkai gave Nishimura a sense of purpose. After the pandemic, Takegaki allowed her to open a branch just minutes from her old gang HQ in Gifu. She helps former members with housing and drug rehab, and finds work for some of them at a local demolition firm. “I want to let people know that whatever you’ve done in your past, you can still face the future,” she said. “And you can sort yourself out.”

#humans

My eternal rival has acquired an accurséd amulet that contains the dark soul of the relentless evil our ancestors once sacrificed themselves to seal away.

His hubris in thinking that he can control such terrible power will surely be his undoing, clearing the way for me to be recognized at long last as the true champion of the holy realms!

...It's just. The uh. The vibes when he talks to that thing are a little... I don't wanna say it but... I mean...?

Everyone else gets that too, right? Like it's not just me, when the phantom hand emerged from the amulet and caressed that guy's cheek, that was a little...?

Yeah no nah haha it's probably just, the whole sinister seduction-to-evil angle. Just me reading too much into it! Your old buddy the Paladin of Dawn and his overreactions. Forget I said anything, his fall to the darkside will be his utter ruin and definitely not in like. A sexual way. 'Cause that would be weird, like, buddy what the heck are you doing, our mutual ancestors died to seal that thing away, don't come on to it?

Ridiculous, no one would do that.

But like. Hypothetically. If the godless evil eternally sealed into the amulet likes him, you guys don't think that could like... work out for him? Do you?

It's just that's uh. That's a pretty big army of undead, and he doesn't really seem to be like. Withering into horrific corruption the way you'd expect? I dunno I'm just a liiiittle bit worried. Like obviously not hugely worried I mean I got this. I got this.

Wish me luck haha!

It's fine. I'm sure. It's fine. Yeah.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Hey guys! Paladin of the Dawn here!

So. I am dead.

Yeah that did not go like how I thought it would. I have to say I was blindsided. Truly the levels some people will sink to are unfathomable to the minds of blesséd knights raised in god-honoring temples! But you know we keep going, we put our faith in the holy righteousness of the gods of light and the divine will of our ancestors, and we push through! Because that is what we must do in order to defeat the wretched undead revenants who are a scourge upon this land, who defile our most sacred laws by their heinous necromancy and profane arts.

Anyway, there is this special holy ritual that can only be achieved if enough of the faithful put just a teeeeensie bit of their souls into these magical jars, and mail them to the Great and Good Temple of Eternal Vigilance, so that we can use them to undo this unnatural darkness and bring me, your friend the Paladin of the Dawn, back from this little snafu to get my well-deserved chance at a rematch.

You can also hop onto my patreon and kickstarter if you want to help in more material ways.. We were kind of decimated by the undead army. So...! 🙏

Thank you in advance to everyone who supports the cause of righteousness, with your help we will bring a definitive end to these monsters once and for all, restore the proper order, and free mankind from the depravity of their heinous violations of the rightfully dead!

#writing

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This phrase has already entered my vocabulary re: media criticism where like. The viewer has a concrete view of what they expect a story to be based on the tropes and cliches they're used to seeing together, and when that doesn't happen, they judge it as a failed depiction of what they assumed it was going to be instead of judging it as what it actually is.

"This show is problematic because the hero didn't kill the villain at the end": When does he steal the bread?

"These two characters who were close friends throughout the series don't kiss at the end! What the fuck?": When does he steal the bread?

"This feels like it's missing a conclusion! Like, the protagonist does bad stuff and because of a critical decision he makes as a result of his major character flaws, meets tragedy in the end! Where's the part where he learns better and brings is love back from the dead and becomes a good guy and gets a happy ending?": When does he steal the fucking bread??

thetetra

I heard this out as "When criticizing something, you must judge it for what it is, not what it isn't"

derinthescarletpescatarian

#this is why so many of us urge people to get a wider diet of stories

#humans #movies

keepinventory

sees art with thick smooth line art: ah yes i want my art to look like that

sees art with sketchy thin line art: ah yes i want my art to look like that

sees lineless art: ah yes i want my art to

keepinventory

…… this isn’t my post. i didnt makethis post. why does it say i made this post

faunlord

not to be boring and solve the fun mystery but it says that bc it’s a “chat” post, not a text post. which used to not include the OP’s username, so tumblr assigned you op I Guess (source: i made this post in 2014)

keepinventory

thank you for giving me custody of this post 🙏 i just picked it up from elementary school and tomorrow it has soccer practice

#tumblr

The really funny thing about "snakes aren't mammals your snake girl shouldn't have breasts!" is like yeah. Neither should your cat girl.

The fact that this is the line drawn is really funny! Human breasts are actually incredibly rare among mammals! We don't know exactly why humans have big bazongas but it's probably sexual selection, which presents the really funny problem

If your snake women having sex with people is normal and expected...then yeah, they're ALSO probably going to have something resembling breasts. They might even just have breasts in all but function.

Like yes, non-mammals don't make milk, but you actually don't need the whole kit that humans do in order to make milk. Arguably its not even the important part of the breast to begin with.

You also don't need to justify it at all you can just be a pervert about it.

swiftrunnerfelidae

We actually have another theory why human breasts are like that, and it's because of our flat faces.

Most mammals have, compared to humans, an elongated jaw. So a little tiny bump of a mammary gland is fine, just enough to get the nostrils away from the teat, and the young can freely breathe while nursing. However, as humans started using fire more and more to cook food - which softened it up, rendering powerful jaws less necessary - their jaws began to shorten, resulting in the development of the chin and other unique facial structures as the face flattened out.

This, of course, meant that babies could suffocate while nursing, which would obviously be bad. But what if... what if nipple further from chest? Bigger bump, so baby's nose have spot to go that isn't directly into mommy's chest? Oh, turns out that works! Of course, as more and more fat stores become dedicated to growing that breast mound to keep baby from suffocating, it becomes harder and harder for the mother to reabsorb that tissue when not nursing (as many other mammals do), so they just... don't. Knockon effects from there, and bam. Tiddies.

Which means if your cat girl has a flat face she probably should still have boobs but if she's got the full muzzle, not so much.

That's actually really interesting honestly.

#humans #animals

My eternal rival has acquired an accurséd amulet that contains the dark soul of the relentless evil our ancestors once sacrificed themselves to seal away.

His hubris in thinking that he can control such terrible power will surely be his undoing, clearing the way for me to be recognized at long last as the true champion of the holy realms!

...It's just. The uh. The vibes when he talks to that thing are a little... I don't wanna say it but... I mean...?

Everyone else gets that too, right? Like it's not just me, when the phantom hand emerged from the amulet and caressed that guy's cheek, that was a little...?

Ridiculous, no one would do that.

But like. Hypothetically. If the godless evil eternally sealed into the amulet likes him, you guys don't think that could like... work out for him? Do you?