velinxi:

percy jackson doodles again (mostly nico)

congrats on the new nico book!

cephalopodvictorious:

trendy-tardigrade:

diii-nu:

oh MY G-D

I genuinely thought this said “rabbits” and the image in my head makes me wish one of my rabbis were a rabbit. Can you imagine

(once again, the muppets come through for us)

meltyparfait:

@s2_mymelo_s2

ndragoon:

rosethevoid:

hydro-homies:

me and my hydrohomies hate nestle

I can’t believe how fuckin evil Nestle is. That’s insane to me. Not a single frickin company is trustworthy except maybe Ben & Jerry’s because wow. They really seem to go out of their way to prove they’re not morally corrupt. But of course, we can’t know that for certain.

As per my understanding, the people who made B&J made a contract that says that whoever owns it MUST follow through with all these causes. This is because they KNOW that given the first opportunity, the new parent company would keep making it seem like they are doing the same thing but actually keep the money for themselves.

humming-fly:

humming-fly:

you ever have just like, a really bad idea

anyways if you like bad things here’s a postcard

I was trying to figure out why this post starting spiking recently and then I found out you animals had this queued for Mother’s Day

systlin:

jumpingjacktrash:

broccoli-goblin:

finofilipino:

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.

From a martial artist’s perspective; you nailed it, and the difference is obvious to someone who’s trained for a long time.

Everything moves in synch with the master. He’s got perfect technique, or near to it. Most of the others don’t, and are trying to compensate with more snap in their wrists or more force, trying to muscle their way through it. They’re largely trying to cut with the motion of arms and shoulders, rather than their whole body.

The master knows that true power comes from the ground, from the stance, and his motions are never choppy or forced. Several of them are stepping or twisting their hips, but not truly starting the cut from a good stance. The master knows better. He flows through it, and the movement starts with his feet, not his arms, and he cuts the targets as smoothly as butter.

The first person that did it was the closest technique wise to the master and was the one to almost go through all the bamboo. Kudos to that person!

christophoronomicon:

batmanisagatewaydrug:

julad:

thisdiscontentedwinter:

salparadisewasright:

sapphicdalliances:

jonpertwee:

hamfistedbunvendor:

jonpertwee:

I feel like this would be a slippery slope towards making it illegal for people to choose to not vote.

that’s already how it is in australia

That’s just so fucked up. :(
Do certain medical conditions exempt you?

?????? why is it be fucked up to have compulsory voting? that’s the way it is in most democratic countries? it’s a part of being a citizen, like paying taxes and obeying speed limits? the fine for not voting is only like $50 and because of the compulsory voting law, our country bends over backwards to make it accessible: it’s always on a weekend, lasts most of the day, and is set up at schools and community centers so there’s one within easy reach of almost everybody. you can also mail your ballot or vote early if you’ll be out of the country on the day. like, IT’S EASY TO VOTE, and the penalty isn’t even that ridiculous. i don’t understand why the usa doesn’t have this, except obviously it would make it harder to literally stop minorities from voting.

I think we Americans tend to forget that a lot of other countries don’t actively work to make it harder to vote.

Adding to this here, in Australia you don’t have to vote. Or, more precisely, there’s no way they can tell if you ruined your ballot. You have to turn up, get your name marked off, but you can put a line through the ballot if you don’t think any of the candidates are worth voting for. Or do this: 

Or this: 

Or this: 

You have get your name crossed off (if you don’t want to wear the fine), but you don’t have to make your vote counted if you’re opposed to it. 

And it is so, so easy to vote. Stuck at work or on holidays? That’s fine. Do a postal vote.  Stuck in hospital? That’s fine. They’ll go to you. Stuck in an old people’s home and can’t get around? Again, they’ll go to you. It’s amazing to me that it’s so hard for so many Americans to actually vote. If you make it compulsory, than at least the government is obligated to provide you with the means to vote. 

And look, I get it. Sometimes I don’t want to vote either. But I suck it up, I walk three minutes down the street, and I hope that this year they’re selling lamingtons again. Oh, and I buy a democracy sausage, which, even if all the candidates suck, makes the effort of turning up pretty worthwhile. 

ALSO, you can see even on the fucked up ballots that you NUMBER CANDIDATES IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE. There’s no need to calculate whether I would be throwing away my vote on the candidate that I most agree with if they’re not from a major party. I can say, I want that independent person to get in, but if not them, give me Big Party A, and if not them, that minor party person is still better that Big Party B, and I’m not giving any preference to the Lunatic Fringe Party.

Our system certainly has some issues still, but I can show up to somewhere nearby, line up for a few minutes (if at all), vote exactly in line with my values (on paper, leaving a paper trail that can be recounted), and then buy a sausage and some home made cupcakes on my way out.

A country’s voting system matters a hell of a lot and every citizen deserves one that makes it easy to vote and results in a government that is representational and accountable.

And by the way, one time I had a bad asthma flare-up on Election Day and didn’t make it to my polling station. I got my fine in the mail, I filled out the form explaining why I couldn’t vote, no more fine. I would rather have, you know, expressed my preference for who should run my country, but they were cool with the fact that I couldn’t do it that day.

“oh no, what if people actually have to participate in picking the government officials who will impact their lives” jesus christ

For the last time, for everyone who still doesn’t understand: not voting is not a tool of resistance, it’s a tool of surrender.