#it’s a racket

[transhuman-priestess]

I’m never going to win the hearts and minds of everyone but I can try my hand at appealing to one specific demographic: millennials jaded by enshittification.

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[junglejim4322]

This is how all crypto people sound to me

[lizziebartfest]

I love doodling!!!!!

[herpsandbirds]

Peruvian Racket-tail (Ocreatus peruanus), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, Ecuador

Some ornithologists consider the Peruvian Racket-tail to be a subspecies ofthe Booted Racket-tail, O. underoodii.

photograph by James Gan

[ozarkthedog]

Paging Dr. Abbot

[bad-comic-art]

As someone who fell into the vveritas man hole slightly before you started posting about it, I am waiting on tenterhooks for you to bring up vvertias man's love interest. Her being hated by feminists because it's 'unfair she keeps winning' has me in near hysterics every time it's brought up.

you know what I'm kind of glad you sent this because Melissa Krugger doesn't actually show up in any of the comics (well she got a oner but Weritas man isn't in it) so this give me a chance to talk about her!

so first off I do have to say it does take the wind out of the sails of the whole things because she's likely a stand in for a real life, possibly underage girl (he age is stated multiple times as too young for Weritas Man and that they'll be together "in a few years" but never explicitly underage), Leal is attracted to or I guess at best some kind of teenage girl sex tulpa so if you're uncomfortable about that you can stop here and know she doesn't appear in pretty much any other Weritas man stuff

in Leal's own incoherent ramblings words

Melissa Krugger, young tennis player who never loses, never lost. Granddaughter of Edwin.

Melissa is a little bit crosseyed and toothy, but very beautiful. Apparently she has a perfect life, she’s very rich, has a perfect body and is the best tennis player ever, a rising star entering in the professional athletes at this time, but SJW seeks to turn her life in hell because they don’t tolerate someone who never lost a match.

Melissa will fall in love with Camilo, but he won’t do anything until she got a little bit older, that’s the biggest problem for her heart.

I'm going to put more random pictures under the cut (there's so many more but these are some of the better ones where he's not just drawing her with her big ol' bubble butt out) but yea she's basically an expressions of some of Leal's defining traits, his extreme hornyness, his zealotry, his vague unfocused hatred and deep inability to understand or process the world around him

also here's probably my all time favorite Weritas man picture

I don't want to support his A.I. nonsense but this is unfortunately hilarious I'd love to see his prompts

that's her and the lead singer of Echosmith, you may remember their hit song Cool Kids

[letoscrawls]

The concept of the first sincaraz wimbledon final... (insert gif of cynthia erivo tapping her head)

I'm actually doing more of these with other players but after the semis i felt the urge to post these two immediately (the white contrast was lowkey inspired by @fairie-bread's art (big fan)

[lorenzonuti]

Maintenance Break.

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[roach-works]

Why did wheat become a widespread staple crop given that it's difficult to harvest/transport/etc? This is not meant to be snarky or combative in any way, it's a genuine question. Are there any books you'd recommend for learning more about this kind of economic and technological history? Thanks.

sorry, i've long since forgotten all the actual books i've read about it, but i will always recommend This Guy:

also as very much a non-expert, my semi-informed opinion on Wheat is that growing complicated and difficult compared to going to the grocery store, and doesn't stack up very well to living in a food forest like north and south americans managed, either.

however, wheat is a grass, and grass grows in a lot of places that people also like to live in, and so wheat farming isn't as crazy a venture as it might otherwise seem.

in a lot of climates, it's possible to plant the grass, harvest the grass seeds, and store the seeds long enough to get you through the part of the year where there's nothing much to eat. if you manage your social and material technology right, you can store a lot of the seeds, and you can even transport them around before they rot, meaning you can now export the seeds from places where grass grows into places where it doesn't. the stalks of the grass that you can't eat provides food for the animals you need to help you grow the grass. and transport the seeds, too.

the social structure required to grow wheat in bulk (a steep and violent hierarchy) does three things: feeds everyone in it with enough extra that the guys on the bottom of the organization can survive to grow more wheat next year, and allows the guys on the top can sequester the rest as profit, consolidating their power. the third thing is that as land is converted to wheat fields, it stops yielding any other food but wheat, which locks people into the system for good. once a people depend on a staple cereal grain for their main source of calories, there isn't an easy way back: forests are chewed away for more wheat fields and those woodlands that remain are shifted towards hardwoods for agricultural tools, rather than food forests with fruit/nuts/shrubs, and even those maintained as game preserves still can't support the needs of entire villages.

in arid and semi-arid conditions, it's even harder to step away from dependence on grain farming because there the agricultural development is along rivers where the land can be irrigated, and the population of people supported by grain production is extremely concentrated into those small areas rather than spread across the entire biome.

in the northern parts of eurasia where grain couldn't be produced at scale because it was too rocky and too cold, people mostly went fishing, and when they grew stuff it was hardy root crops like beets and turnips.

DISCLAIMER: this is all very approximate. but now you know as much as i know.

P.S actually here's the last thing about wheat: it probably all started as a way to reliably source and produce beer, which was invented a long time before bread. bread was invented from wheat when the guys who were producing the beer seeds wanted to start exporting beer seeds to people who wanted beer far away, so they baked the seeds into tablets you could easily transport and then ferment with water once you got to your destination. eventually the traders who were transporting the beer kits started eating them, too, and crackers as a snack food really took off. look up the wikipedia article on beer if you don't believe me.

[cheers-to-you-th]

Don't Wanna Cause a Racket

Pairing: Seungkwan x Camerawoman!Reader

Genre: Smut !MDNI!, porn without plot, Racket Boys variety show

Summary: During the filming of Racket Boys, Seungkwan gets frustrated. You help him.

Warnings: Shameless smut, oral sex (m recieving), blowjobs, handjobs, moaning, frustrated Seungkwan is hot af, semi-public, they're in a storage closet lol

WC: 1k ish

A/N: this is my first fic so I'm sorry if it's ass. Seungkwan in Racket Boys is my roman empire, he looks SO FINE.

The squeaking of sneakers and labored breaths fill your ears as four men play badminton. It’s another practice game for the show Racket Boys, and your focus is solely on Seungkwan because it’s your job to follow his movements with the camera, you swear. It has absolutely nothing to do with how the sweat on his forehead makes him look straight out of your a wet dream, how his brows furrowed as he focuses, small huffs leaving his lips when he smashes the birdie across the net (the same sound that he makes when he’s smashing you, not that you notice). And it 100% is not distracting as his slender fingers tighten around the grip of his racket when he makes a mistake, shoulders tensed with frustration as he apologizes to his team. You are focused on Seungkwan's playing, not on the fact that your boyfriend looks tantalizingly attractive when he’s angry. Of course not.

Racket Boys lose the match, the irritation and disappointment clear in Seungkwan's eyes as the coach reminds him that he still has another game to do better. You move your head away from your camera scope as a director signals for a break between matches, immediately making eye contact with Seungkwan. He pulls out his phone as he walks out the room, and soon enough you get a notification reading three words:

storage closet

now

You subtly excuse yourself from the room, another person taking over your camera as you take a ‘bathroom break’. The storage closet isn’t particularly close to the gym, far enough that if anyone needs supplies there's another one closer. You softly shut the door behind you only to be roughly pinned to it the second you turn around. The lips you had seen minutes before scowling were now pressed against your own, releasing pent up emotions that hadn’t been suitable for the camera. Seungkwan bites your lip and drinks in your gasp as he uses the opportunity to slide his tongue into your mouth, hand sliding from your waist to grope your chest. After what seems like both eternity and not nearly long enough his lips detach from yours while panting. “Stupid fucking game.” Seungkwan curses, letting his frustration come to a head. He takes a deep breath as you stand there for a minute, basking in one another's presence. When you shift and feel something poking your hip you make the decision to help ease some of the tension your poor boyfriend carries. You gently roll your hips against his, testing the waters and smirking when Seungkwan releases a shuttered breath. After one last peck to his kiss-swollen lips you sink to your knees, hands teasing his waistband as you look up at him through your eyelashes.

“Fuck”

The one word is all the permission you need as you quickly slide his pants and boxers down in one go, knowing you don’t have much time before people start to look for you both. His dick is fully hard as you spit in your hand and start pumping him, giving his angry red tip a tiny lick before starting to work him into your slack jaw. A groan leaves his lips, low and desperate when you hollow your cheeks, slowly taking him deeper and deeper into your mouth. His hands make their way to your hair as your nose touches his pelvis. You stay there for a second, holding eye contact with him before pulling away for a breath. Then you go all in, quickly bobbing your head up and down, hollowing your cheeks as spit gathers at the corners of your lips. The breathy moans coming from above you only make you work harder, humming around Seungkwan’s dick when his hand tightens in your hair. “F-fuck baby, just like that.” He stutters, and when your hand starts massaging his balls he finally cracks, hot ropes of cum squirting into the back of your throat, too deep to taste but delicious nevertheless. The string of curses that your boyfriend mutters is music to your ears as you finally pull off his dick, still stroking it with your hand as it starts softening. Seungwan’s labored breathing soon turns into whimpers, overstimulation setting in when you lick the vein that runs up his cock. “You can give me one more, right darling?” You ask as he slowly grows hard again in your hold. “You’re gonna be the death of m-” His voice is cut off with a hiss as you start moving your hand at a brutal pace and harshly suck on his tip. You act like you’re going to start deep throating him again, causing a strangled moan when you instead take his balls into your mouth, sucking and swirling your tongue around them. “Shit shit shit baby fuck I’m gonna cum I’m- fuck” Seungkwan’s voice gets higher and higher with each word. When you move from his balls to lightly nibble his head, he erupts into your waiting mouth for a second time, a pornographic moan filling your ears while salty white liquid fills your mouth. Swallowing, you stick your tongue out for good measure before grabbing some paper towels (perks of being in a supply closet) and gently clean him up, wiping the corner of your mouth while you’re at it. When you finally stand up, you’re met with a soft kiss. “You’re too good to me.” Seungkwan wraps his arms around you and rocks back and forth slightly, causing a giggle to escape your lips. “You ready to kick some ass?” Seungkwan kisses your cheek, “We should get back, don’t want anyone to notice we’ve been gone, even if it’s someone else’s match right now.”

Giving him one last peck you open the supply closet door, “Yeah, wouldn’t want to cause a racket.” You say, wiggling your eyebrows. With a roll of his eyes and small chuckle, the two of you part, returning long enough apart to not raise suspicion before Seungkwan does indeed kick ass, winning his next match by a landslide.

[eliotquillon]

ok listen nobody appreciates that skeleton key is a massive bundle of internal contradictions that messes up the rest of the main series timeline better than i do. like trust me i am also a continuity error hater. but unfortunately or not it is kind of the book about alex and family. not about john, or ian, or yassen, but specifically alex: he playacts in three different families (the pleasures, troy and turner, sarov) and none of them fit. he daydreams about his parents not as idols or shadows to live under but as familial structures that might have shaped him had they lived: he ‘might have been a softer person’, he thinks. he ‘probably would’ve had more friends’. it always gets glossed over but alex chose to go to wimbledon; it’s the first time he agrees to help MI6 without any kind of external pressure. it has nothing to do with john at all. 23 years on and sarov remains the only villain to explicitly kill himself because alex refused to step into the shoes of another dead teenager. you cannot play a son if you’ve never had a father. if you’ve never had a mother. you are fourteen years old and you cannot go home. you are fourteen years old and maybe home never existed at all.

[ohyoufool]

I just know that retired Jack Zimmermann does NOT play about pickleball.

[wormswurld]

i want patrick zweig so bad. and i know everyone is saying the same shit i am but no, not in a “y/n dom! patrick sub! reader i’m so petite and small coquette girl” way, no, i’m talking about real freak shit. i’m bending this man over. i’m slapping and spitting in his face. i’m pulling those pretty curls. i’m fucking that ass (again). like i need him. he’s such a bitch.

[pyotrkochetkov]

JANNIK SINNER & JACK DRAPER Canadian Open Doubles | August 6, 2024

[crustaceousfaggot]

What your favourite RQG pairing says about you

Zolf/Wilde: You're either relatively new to the fandom, or you've been here for at least 4 years and have basically committed to these guys for life.

Wilde/Grizzop: you like Zoscar but wish there was more biting involved.

Zolf/Hamid: You like ships where the dynamic isn't so much "enemies to lovers" as it is "difficult and messy friendship to difficult and messy romance".

Wilde/Hamid: You just really like charming men in pretty clothes and I can't blame you for that.

Grizzop/Hamid: You just want to see that halfling get absolutely destroyed, and I can't blame you for that either

Zolf/Hamid/Wilde: You actually really liked the epilogues, thank you very much.

Zolf/Wilde/Grizzop: Your favourite rqg fanfic is Miri's Four Seasons Total Landscaping Au.

Bertie/Wilde: You're still on season 1.

Bertie/Zolf: You're still on the prologue.

Grizzop/Veseek: You have at least one @areyouokaypanda drawing saved on your phone.

Carter/Wilde: You are Tumblr user @crayonturtle or Tumblr user @knifemartin

Barnes/Carter: You're *still* waiting for that 18 Month Timeskip Oneshot.

Cel/Barnes: You want to kiss that sailor sooo bad... You want to live on a houseboat with him soooooo bad......

Cel/Sasha: You either really like Lydia Nicholas, or you just like characters bonding over a shared love of violence.

Grizzop/Sasha: You want to live in the woods and consensually hunt your friends for sport sososososo bad. You're also probably some flavour of aromantic but who knows.

Skraak/Hamid: You are clapping and cheering any time Hamid develops a new draconic trait. You have relistened to the second airship arc more than once.

Azu/Hamid: You just want Azu to be happy.

Azu/Kiko: You just want Azu to be happy, and you're sapphic.

Azu/Sasha: You want Azu to be happy, you're sapphic, and you can't listen to episode 125 without crying

Ed/Tjelvar: I have nothing to say for this one but you're cool as fuck and this is a peak ship. We should be friends.

[zwiggyro]

i thank luca everyday for making patrick say “id let her fuck me with a racket” and making it canon because fym you’d let HER fuck you with a racket. also because it’s hot ❤️