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Teen LGBT Squad

Another Hometar Runner fancomic for pride month, this time starring the Teen Girl Squad.

This was mostly an excuse to make that “ow mein kampf” joke

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all politics about ai aside if you use it to create fanwork you're just a fucking dweeb

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Aragorn n Legolas r so funny to me bc people who don’t know lotr well see gruff manly ranger and elegant princely elf but they don’t know what i know. they don’t know that Aragorn is the long haired sensitive softboy writing sad poetry on his livejournal about not being able to show his girlfriend the awesome new song he wrote for her on his guitar meanwhile Legolas is doing backwards kickflips over gimli at the skate park bc gimli double dog dared him then he and gimli climb the tree at Aragorn’s house n yell at him through the window to come play halo

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reminiscing on when i went cave diving a couple years back & another dude who was in there was playing minecraft music out of his backpack so i just heard c418 slowly approaching me from within an actual cave. shoutout to that guy

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Shocking how many people don’t know that hens lay non-fertilized eggs and think the yolk they’re eating is a baby chicken

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spoke deeply to me.

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"kung pow penis," a phrase commonly used in reblogs to indicate utter disdain for OP, has twelve letters, each of which (traditionally) must be supplied by a different user. the unanimity of disdain indicated by these twelve unrelated users has strong parallels to the requirement of unanimity for a jury—also traditionally of twelve—to arrive at a verdict. in this essay i will

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I did a quick search to fact check this 'cause, you know, sounded wild enough that I wanted to verify. & actually, I feel like this post UNDER sells this phenomenon.

First off, the cinnamon birds (or cinnamolgus) apparently produce the cinnamon directly. Instead, they use cinnamon to build their nests, which only they are able to source. Where they get the cinnamon ranges from it being the fruit of the cinnamon trees that they build their nests in to them gathering it in an unknown land that may or may not be on this plane of existence.

Also, not only can cinnamon solely be acquired by stealing nests from giant fearsome birds, said nests are found in extremely inaccessible places & require retrieval through specialized retrieval techniques.

When built in trees, they are at the top of cinnamon trees that are described as incredibly tall with limbs so fragile, none can support the weight of any humans. (These are the accounts where the cinnamolgus are using cinnamon tree fruit for their nests, so presumably the fruit is only found on the uppermost branches where the nests are?) So the gatherers would shoot lead weighted arrows at the nests until they manage to knock one out of a tree, & then gather the cinnamon fruits from the fallen nest.

When the cinnamolgus are gathering the cinnamon from an unknown land people cannot know or reach, they build their nests on tall, sheer cliffs that cannot be traversed by humans. So in order to get the cinnamon, people will place hunks of meat as large as possible along the base of the cliff & leave it for a while. The birds will come down to gather the meat & take it back to their nests, but the mud holding said nests to the cliff face can't support the weight of the meat & will give out. People then come back later & collect whatever nests have fallen within reach.

The first account I mentioned, with the cinnamon trees & their fruits, comes from the Rochester Bestiary in 1230 CE. The second is from Herodotus' Histories from 430 BCE. That's a 1660 year time span, just from the credible sources I found on the first couple pages of google results. "Centuries" doesn't immediately convey the scale we're looking at; it seems likely this went on for at least a couple of millennia.

& honestly? Good on 'em.

One of my favorite historical tidbits is that Arab traders, for centuries, fooled Europeans into thinking cinnamon came from a rare, vicious and fearsome cinnamon bird.

The belief was so prevalent, in fact, that the mythical cinnamon bird shows up in the writings of Herodotus and Aristotle, all the way into medieval European manuscripts where it’s illustrated in all its fierce, cinnamony glory:

Pliny the Elder expressed skepticism of the bird in his writings, rightly assuming that it was a tale invented to keep control on the trade and prices by reducing competition, but the belief was already so widespread that it persisted in many areas into the early 1300’s.

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hate how they forced bugs bunny into anti-weed propaganda in the 90s, as if bugs bunny wouldn’t love smoking weed 

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you guys need to let go of any rigid belief in what being nonbinary is because it can be anything. like someone can look completely average in gender presentation and do literally nothing to set themselves apart from their assigned gender and still be nonbinary.

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”sideblog mutuals” is one of the weirdest relationships you can have with someone on here i think. like yeah we’re sort of mutuals but only when we’re both wearing funny hats and doing little voices talking about our shows. like what are we

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hate when people think the only archetype possible for a male sidekick to a female protagonist is a soft boi and/or himbo. like the implication there is that the only reason a man would ever defer to a woman’s authority is if he was a bumbling idiot. love male supporting characters who are smart and strong and confident and can step up when necessary but still kind and humble enough to let someone else take the lead most of the time

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drawfee is such a good channel because everyone contains so many multitudes what do you MEAN julia "count the posts" "im using blender" lepetit is the same person who drew that bobby hill. insanity

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You're telling me I stone cold stunned Murph for nothing?