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cob-ra:

m-ahalo:

favorite thing ever omg

Watched this for 15 mins

Cute…! But I’m kind of nervous for that guy.

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Albert Einstein (via ikenbot)

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viivus:

Man Tenzin is going to have the BEST MORNINGS EVER living with three airbending kids, four teenagers, and a pregnant wife.

And by best I mean worst.

Also I have no idea why I actually coloured this, the sketch was probably good enough hurp

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razzyreblogs:

astropan:

Casually munchin’ on a fluffy tail…

I HAVE A PICTURE IDEA……………………………..

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crownedrose:

Solar Eclipse Live Feed from California via SLOOH

I did a few screen caps and made a gif from the live feed from events.slooh.com where you can catch the last minutes of the solar eclipse.

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fyeahuniverse:

Solar Eclipse, May 20th, 2012.

Right, so I wasn’t properly prepared for it and I pretty much missed most of it…but still. I came out of the restaurant and then noticed how dim it was and then I remembered.

Cool stuff. :>

Aaaannd my Facebook is currently inundated with solar eclipse funtimes!

EDIT: After a frantic search, I found some photographic film to look at the tail end of the eclipse. So cool.. 8U

EDIT2: Also, crows caw-caw-cawwwing, right at the end of the eclipse (7:34). Ooooh~~

justsayins:

tiramiju:

zloi-medved:

MEANWHILE IN AUSTRALIA

BOBBLE-HEADED BIRDS

RABBITS MATING WITH RATS

TINY HERBIVOROUS BEARS

PLUSH TOYS MAGICALLY COME TO LIFE

LIZARDS-

 WHAT THE FUCK

WALKING FEATHER DUSTERS

THE FUCK IS THIS IDEK BUT IT DESERVES A HUG

THE MOST FABULOUS BIRDS SINCE FLAMINGOS

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS THING IT’S LIKE A DOG BRED WITH A MEERKAT

WELL IT’S PRETTY CUTE I G- JESUSFUCK

AND MORE LIZARDS

FUCK MAN EVERYWHERE HAS LIZARDS WHAT’S THE BIG D- WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK

AND WHATEVER THIS THING IS WILL FUCK UP A HONEY BADGER

WHAT YOU THINK CUZ IT’S LIKE 80% DESERT HERE WE DON’T GOT PENGUINS FUCK YOU WE GOT PENGUINS IN SWEATERS

HEY I THINK YOU SAW THIS ONE IN A MUSEUM ONCE

ALSO HEY ENJOY OUR BEAUTIFUL BEACHES ALSO THIS FUCKER

AND THIS GUY

AND THIS GUY WANTS TO KILL YOU TOO

AND HOLY FUCK LOOK AT THIS THING

JESUS CHRIST THEY COME IN POCKET VERSIONS

BACK TO THINGS THAT WANT YOU DEAD

WEREN’T EXPECTING THAT WERE YOU.

SO YEAH, COME VISIT AUSTRALIA.

WE’RE ALL FUCKING WAITING WITH OUR WEIRD SHIT.

P.S.

omg

I can’t

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chazittarius:

ruineshumaines:

The job takes about 3 years to make an engraved tatoo for an individual camels. First 2 years, there is just growing the hair and starts trimming. Inhabitant of desert does not use the iron engraved for the camels. They just cut and dye the camel hair. I have never seen such a beautiful works in the world.

Photographs by Osakabe Yasuo and Steve Hoge.

not only is it gorgeous
but that camel can model

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zkarl:

justsayins:

toiim:

justsayins:

vastderp:

jumpingjacktrash:

awkwaben:

Oh holy shit.

oh my god, this is a real match and not an anime and there are no wires that actually happened in the real world. :O

AHA. YES. THIS GIVES ME THE ABILITY TO PUT MY CURRENT FEMALE FIGHTER THINKS INTO WORDS.

Look how she uses technique and momentum to overcome size and weight differences and put the guy on the mat. I see examples of ladies who genuinely kick ass all over the damn place in the actual world, but almost never in comics and movies where the laws of physics are way more forgiving.

Well, unless you count the female character is one of those Action Sues who sort of radiate implausibility in general by hurling boulders around and then lose every fucking fight that matters, which I don’t. These characters make me gag. I loathe the girl power bait-and-switch. The whole effect is to smugly underline the idea that a girl can’t kick ass without it being unrealistic somehow. Very condescending.

Rumiko Takahashi, I am looking at you.

Like, we’re willing to believe a man can do a double jump after running up a ten foot wall, but not that a chick could take a random guy in a fight? Why? Because poorly understood and randomly enforced laws of physics. Also because lazy sexist writer. And because bluh.

Cloud runs around Midgar killing mutant houses with a ten foot chunk of sheet metal on a stick with rocks stuck in the holes, people get shot in the face and lose ten hit points, and you can buy magic potions to bring everyone but Aeris back from the dead, then when a girl fighter comes on the scene and whups some butt, that’s where the suspension of disbelief collapses?  

It’s like the writer just shrugs and says “SOMEONE needs to get rescued in this thing.” And hey, she’ll still have a role, running around in leather pants and getting kidnapped. 

That’s physics: women are weak and can’t think of ways to overcome it, and all men are black belt fighters.

Have you guessed by now that I really really hate most anime?

And comic books?

And Hollywood?

Think your fantasy audience won’t buy a physically strong woman as realistic? You’re the fucking writer. Do your job, make us believe the fairly plausible despite our sexist bullshit hangups. Unless you don’t feel like it, obviously. Most writers don’t.

But if you do want to write a badass female fighter and not settle for the bullshit tsundere sissy who throws cars when ranma is a baka but can’t kick a dude in the face, you should look into the ways skill and wits can realistically be used to overcome a serious physical mismatch right here in the real world.

Really use those pesky laws of physics to your advantage. That’s what martial arts are for. That’s how little guys fight and how they win, in fiction and real life. Skill and resourcefulness. Having titty only closes those doors if you, as the writer, want it to.

Amazing gif, excellent post. 

*stares at gif some more*

You guys realise this is just a demonstration and no woman could ever pull of this move against a man in real life. Nor could any man use this on a woman in real life. This move is for demonstrations… You know… like acting…

You entirely miss the other poster’s point here. Which was that yes, while it is more of a demonstration move and thus not very likely to be used in real life, it still is completely possible. Girls can fight. And it sucks that the comic industry, the movie industry, the media industry in general, doesn’t like to portray this fact all that often, preferring to follow the “damsel in distress” idea or the “okay, she can be a fighter, but only if she’s SEXY about it” method.

Yeah, it might be a move that would be better suited to, say, the big screen over a down and dirty brawl. Yeah, it might be better suited to acting. That is, in part, the point. Here we have just one example of the many, many ways a woman can fight in a way that’s flashy and cool, using her slighter, shorter build to the best of her advantage. It’s pretty pathetic that the media can’t take advantage of something that not only looks awesome but actually can happen. We suspend all sorts of disbelief for incredible moves done by male fighters, but seem to have a problem when we see a female do something that’s even obviously possible. Which you just did. Right now. By looking at a clear example of a woman doing this move and dismissing it with “come on, it’s just acting, not real life.” 

Uh, wow. So I guess I’m not really watching this woman perform an epic take-down, because it didn’t happen late in some shady alley?    

Real life fighting? Dude, we’re not dealing with it anyway. We’re talking about fantasy and make-believe. Which should make girls being able to fight even less of a problem, because fantasy is about suspension of disbelief. And yet, we still have issues. 

On the other hand, if we were talking about fighting in real life situations, that’s a matter of ability. Period. A friend of mine was grabbed in the halls of her college dorm some years ago. Luckily, she also happened to have three years of judo training under her belt and flipped him over her shoulder slamming him to the ground, which dazed the guy enough for her to get away. Though she was much smaller than her attacker, she had her training reflexes and the element of surprise on her side, which was thankfully enough.

In real life scenarios, it’s never going to be the flashy, showy stuff people see in demonstrations, or in movies. The fights are quick, often dirty, and the point is to get away from your attacker. You train to assess situations in order to avoid having to fight in the first place, and you train your reflexes so that if your back’s against a wall and you have no choice, your body thinks before your brain does. If you need to jab eyes, or punch throats, or break bones, you do, because the point is to be safe. A female might end up having to fight differently than a male would, depending on a number of factors, but I’ve yet to find a way or reason to make observation skills, reflexes, and break their knee gender specific. 

So the point? All genders are capable of flashy moves the big screen and any other media venue loves so much. So let all genders do them instead of, with some very exceptions, continually forcing females into purely passive roles. Further, all genders are capable of fighting in real life too. It would, however, be a very different kind of fight.

Some interesting discussions, the last opinion of which I think to be very nice. If you search a bit more closely into Vovinam, this particular move (and the whole of this lady’s part - if you watch the original video) is in a category called “Tự vệ nữ”, meaning “Female self-defense” - the name itself explains everything, right? The move was there because it demonstrates the way a person can make a fatal attack on someone with more physical strength, which is often needed for females.  

On the fiction media side, I would add that a good illustration would be a comparison between Wushu and Sanshou. Just because Sanshou is what is used in real fight doesn’t mean demonstrative Wushu isn’t the better one to be featured in creative productions. 

Youtube search for further entertainment, will you? ;) 

(P.S.: I don’t want to be arrogant but for some more clarifications that I believe to be true on the Chinese martial arts part before a Youtube/ Google dive:

- Wushu literally means ‘martial arts’ in Chinese so there are many many schools in there, e.g. some that people more oftern know are Taichi, Wing Chun, Shaolin, Wudang etc. Sanshou means ‘free hand’

- Kung-fu literally indicates anything that you put effort in.

- If you find a video from a movie/ tv series in which the characters starts flying then high chance is that their fighting moves are not realistic as well, i.e. they are superheroes/supervillains with supernatural abilities.
- If the fiction and gender topic interests you  try a look at Emei - a martial art that is very feminine, and is rumored to be created by females and historically only allowed female students. The school has mostly dissipated before modern days (the moves remain), but in history its influence stood with Shaolin and Wudang to make the three greatest martial art schools in China. It is very often featured for heroines in Chinese fictions that use ancient time settings for its fame, strength, beauty, and mysteriousness.)

expose-the-light:

Happy Equinox

Hundreds of pictures of Earth, each taken at about 6AM , showing the terminator - the day/night line - over the course of one year (2010sep-2011sep).
Taken by METEOSAT-9 Earth-observing satellite.
Watch the Video here
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory

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comicartcorrections:

captainboobs:

jeffacakes:

to-destroy-you:

thegirlwithhartshapedglasses:

Not the boobs you’re used to seeing in porn, eh? Shock?

Hooray for natural boobies!! :3

Yay natural boobies!!! :D

boooooooooooooooooobs!

This is definitely NSFW but so is this blog, really.  Here is an idea, beautiful illustration of the variation and reaction to gravity that women’s boobs display.  There are a *huge* range of boobs in the world.  A dazzling variance that boggles the mind and delights the senses.  Let us celebrate boobies!

Also - this is what they look like WITHOUT bras.  Hence, superheroes without bras?  Would be having spilling problems, cause look what natural boobies like to do!

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niaili:

When you call someone a douchebag, what you’re literally saying to them is,

“You think you’re so great, but your existence is actually totally unnecessary and your main function is probably toxic. Also you shouldn’t be allowed near anyone’s genitalia.”

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