wholesomesmith
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Does anyone just... forget what day it is and the entire date, and don't really care to figure any of it out.
It's currently summer, and that's about all I care about.
If "woke" means "everyone should be treated like human beings and we shouldn't destroy the planet for a profit" ... that should tell you a lot of what the other side is about.
Magic broken down:
Back before modern science, it and magic were the same thing; an incantation/blessing held as much water as making salt of tartar (K2CO2).
Remember, too, not literacy wasn't as high in Europe as it was in other places, so the act of just writing showed you knew stuff many didn't.
Also, geometry (simply a way to measure things using shapes and the relationships they can make [e.g. two circles; one inside and on outside an equilateral triangle have a ration of 1:2, 1/2, or .5]) was thought to show the secrets of the universe. Stone masons in Europe used geometry as a measurement tool, which was a large component for this train of thought. The topic of geometry is for a different post
Also, spells can be anything from charms, hexes/curses/jinxes, enchantments, or blessings.
Divination: the past, present, and future are already written somewhere, depending on the topic in question; be it in the stars (astrology), the hand of the person (palmistry), the dregs in a teacup, the endtrails of an animal, a casting of chicken bones or ruinstone, or the reading of playing cards (tarot); cold reading (a psychology trick of reading people), trances (commonly used by oracles), and dream reading are all valid methods
I'm not covering witch doctors, voodoo, and other categories because this is already going to be long enough.
Oracle: someone who goes into a trance via gases, psychedelics (fumes or consuming), etc, to predict the future.
An enchanter/enchantress: Those that mainly do enchantments
Witch: herbal based studies. They're basically the doctor of the group. It's not limited to just women.
The stereotypical witch in the woods is a result of the person rejecting the city and living in isolation and rejecting the beauty standards of that day so they focus more on their studies.
Their studies were kept in a book called a Grimoir/ book of shadows.
Wizard: Academic. You're more likely to find these people pouring over a library of books with multiple charts out, dividers in one hand, and a quill in the other
These people (mostly men, but women can be wizards) study just about everything with magic: astronomy/astrology, alchemy/chemistry, or geometry itself
Warlock: someone who devoted their life to a being far more powerful than man (eldrich beings or the like), letting the being grant them magic.
This is not a cleric.
Sorcerer: naturally gifted with magic.
Cleric: the priest. Devoting their life to a deity, which grants them forms magic.
Yashwa of Nazareth (Jesus Christ) was a cleric by this definition.
Druid: a nature cleric mixed with a witch. Their spirits are of nature, and they speak to Mother Earth.
Don't confuse these with shamen, which are druids mixed with oracles
Paladin: the priest with a sword.
These are my current findings.
This is why they didn't teach us our 30 human rights; they now can play the shell game with us.
Educate yourself as much as possible
The US right now:
I'm just tired of people being ugly to each other.
Make it stop. For everyone's sakes.
I hate the way our world is built around money.
I genuinely hate how our entire society is built around money. We don't see people as human anymore, we see them as assets or burdens. We are all alive and I firmly believe that:
Immigrants are human;
Trans people are human;
People of color are human;
Queer people are human;
Intersex people are human;
People of any religion or no religion are human;
Every single human deserves the right to Healthcare, food, shelter, clothing, education and BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS. Politicians see people as burdens, money or insignificant pawns in their game. This needs to stop. We all deserve to not only exist and live, but truly thrive. While the rich get richer, the rest of the world gets left behind. We are all equal, so we need to start fucking acting like it.
americans pleeease. please kill elon musk 🙏🙏🥺😔😩🙏 americans! please. Please !!! kill elon musk. don't you remember gun.. ? bang bang ? your favorite game..? Americans... please. 😔🙏 have you forgotten your local deity, captain america: kill nazis??? americans !! I know you can do it 🥺🙏 please americans..
In American idiot by Green Day, is it:
"Everything dementedly okay" or "Nothing's meant to be okay", or is it "everything's not meant to be okay?" Because I've always heard the former until someone did a cover, and they said the latter.
They're equally fucked up and fitting.
You want to call your House rep now and tell them Trump needs to be impeached immediately for defying a Supreme Court order (re: Kilmar Abrego Garcia), which functionally voids our constitution and means no one in America has rights anymore.
I am not exaggerating.
As of now, anybody can be disappeared, no due process, no recourse. Trump is openly disregarding a Supreme Court order and says he’ll send US citizens to El Salvador.
This is not a drill.
Call your House rep and tell them they must impeach. Tell them if they cannot bring themselves to impeach, they must resign. A more open and shut case to impeach is not possible. Trump and his administration are saying openly, in public, that anybody can be kidnapped by ICE, even in error, and disappeared permanently.
Call your senators, too, and tell them to support impeachment (it goes to them once it passes a majority House vote).
you punch nazis!
(requested by anonymous)
An important PSA to remember!
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Art by BlueSky user Adi Fitri
Humans are weird: The Music Boxer
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When humanity truly began expanding into the stars they brought many things with them. Philosophy, war, Gelato, and even furry creatures called “Cats” which became regarded as god like beings to some societies. One thing often not discussed was their enthusiastic forms of physical activity play called “Sports”.
Initially, sports were regarded as little more than children activities by non-human species. In the face of scientific research and warfare which dominated the galactic plane many did not have time for such things; yet when compared to the seriousness of which humans regarded some sports and their willingness to “throw hands”, as the humans said when initiating physical violence, over sporting disputes it started to gain more traction.
Militaristic species like the Vendari and the Koon quickly adopted Football and Soccer, as they both highlighted physical strength and strategic thinking. The Mig became enthralled by Golf as they enjoyed careful planning and mathematical positioning. Even the Nucal started using beer pong to resolve political debates, although primarily for the fact it allowed them to drink.
One sport that really took off and soon formed a pan-galactic tournament was boxing. Although, it’s primary title holder was somewhat of a controversial pick.
Gen’Vo was the most renowned boxer throughout the quadrant and current title holder of pan-galactic contender, the highest award given for the tournament. They were also a Trippit, which meant they had innate telepathic abilities which included mind reading.
Many of their wins were attributed to the fact Gen’Vo could literally read the mind of their opponent and know exactly what they were about to do. This led to an outpour of challenges to Gen’Vo’s victories, yet the tournament guidelines specifically stated that they would not dissuade boxers based on their species abilities. It was a delicate tightrope to walk but it was intended to ensure that all those who wished to enter the ring could. Otherwise the overly muscular Sep’nicks would never have been able to enter, nor would the insect like Dri.
Gen’Vo held the title for some seven years until finally meeting his match against the one opponent who was capable of defeating them.
Marco Arena, a human boxer.
While the initial creators of the sport, most alien participants didn’t think Marco would be able to hold his own again Gen’Vo during the final match. Their mind reading powers had already been proven to be hyper effective with defeating foe after foe.
When the bell sounded both fighters rushed forward. Gen’Vo started to read Marco’s mind but was surprised to hear nothing but music playing. They became so lost in the confusion that they failed to raise their guard fast enough to block a powerful right uppercut Marco unleashed.
Gen’Vo road the blow to prevent serious damage but was still shaken. They retreated several paces and tried to read Marco’s mind again as he continued advancing; yet only heard the same musical patterns playing.
Marco delivered a flurry of punches in rapid succession that Gen’Vo was barely able to defend against. The few instances Marco left himself open and Gen’Vo stepped in to deliver a blow of their own Marco would retreat and counter as Gen’Vo over extended.
It was almost as if Marco was the one reading minds now, and for the first time Gen’Vo was devoid of his telepathic abilities.
The match lasted three rounds before Marco finally delivered a blow so hard it sent Gen’Vo flying from the ring and out into the watching crowd. Safe to say they did not get up from the blow and Marco was declared the winner.
When asked on how the human had been able to defeat the mind reading effects of Gen’Vo Marco admitted that for the last three months he had trained his body to respond to certain notes within a song. Which notes meant attack, block, push forward, retreat, etc. He trained so hard that his body no longer needed a mental command to perform an action; his muscle memory was so strong his body would react by itself.
Once again proving the deadliness of humans; even when at sports.
TRANS PRIDE HATSUNE MIKU KITTY
The Norfolk Knife
The Norfolk Knife is an oversized exhibition knife with 75 blades/tools, made by Joseph Rodgers & Sons in 1851. It is exhibited in Cutlers’ Hall, the headquarters of the cutlers’ guild of Sheffield (officially the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire). [x] [x]
Kukris
Hanshee khukurī, late 18th-early 19th century, 45.2 cm
Nepalese khukurī with Indian gold koftgari hilt and dui chirra blade, second half 19th century, 47.5 cm
Kothimora khukurī with bone hilt, Nepal, early 20th century, 35.5 cm
Khukurī with tools, Nepal, first half of the 20th century, 41.3 cm
Dui chirra khukurī, Nepal, late 19th to early 20th century, 44.5 cm
Nepalese khukurī, probably 1850s, 45.8 cm
If I had $100 and I divided it among 0 people, how many dollars would each person get? Zero, for there's no one to divide the money.
There, I divided by 0 and didn't break reality
Headcanon: goblin is a homophone heavy language; you can learn a quarter or so of it and b able to understand the rest.
This sounds amazing, but it also has the Grammer of a drunk man: n's and l's are dropped, double letters are dropped, and many noises are terribly recorded.
A number of words are borrowed words from other languages as well, which makes it more complicated.
Example: "behl e banum" has several possibilities:
Either "that large animal is over there" or "that large animal is constipated," or "nose in dirt, poo is good," and only those fluent in the language understand the context and how to respond without sounding like an idiot.
"Gway ot ma gassa" gets even messier; "ma gassa" and "magassa" are two completely different things, and "ot" and "öt" can lead to disaster if swapped around.
This is why it sounds like noise; because it's several layers of context and percise pronunciation.
They seem like canon fodder, but in groups, word spreads fast, and what's implied is understood.
I drew a bunch of silly stuff with my werewolf woman and decided to gather it one post. Sometimes you just have to decompress through being goofy
You can read about her here.
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These comics are just some silliness I drew for fun. It's not really canon, she lives in a separate setting and isn't able to talk as a werewolf. Her original story is also pretty rough and tragic.
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Pumpkin carving comic was a reward I drew for my patron Taxis
Beach comic was a reward I drew for my patron Shroom
The best bug is a dead bug
Can Biden or Harris speak to this?
Seems calling Nazis a Nazi is unpopular with the journalists and headline writers.
Make them quote you. Call them Nazis.
Fascism is here. Start punching Nazis.
Then there's me: zipping through tests, drawing during class while paying attention, and taking notes at insane pace (my handwriting is sloppy as hell), and i still graduated.
Between all that, i still was able to build a small fictional world and hone in my style of creative writing.
I broke the mold because i had to; I'd have a mental breakdown if i didnt.
Still dispise jobs that don't let me think for myself. I crave the thrill of figuring things out, using my hands, and getting lost in something with many parts.
All tests should be open book. It’s not like your future boss is going to say, “I need those tax returns finished by noon, but don’t look at any of the financial statements. Do it all from memory.”
It gets even funnier when you realize Koko used broken sign language, which the people around her made note of because they wanted to fit the narrative that other primates can keep up with out complex language systems.
Put koko and a human that signs in the same room to have a conversation, and no conversation will happen.
Sorry to break the illusion of Koko having the frontal lobe compacity of a human. She's a gorilla, not a human; the language part of the brain (frontal lobe) in her brain isn't as gigantic as a human's. The computer just can't support that massive and complex of a program that is human sign language. At least not in a direct "import, immediate output" kind of way that we recognize as a cohesive form of communication.
I heard what you did for us.
Do you need a hug?
yes a hug sounds nice
I used to put caution/warning marks in my earmuffs when I used to work loud saws as a job.
I thought they were hilarious because "haha, loud saw, and I can't hear anything," but I feel like it should be normal to put those marks on earmuffs even if it's not loud.
Imagine your autistic and wearing muffs with warning signs on the sides; people will probably approach you with caution.
Something to try