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Architecture, costume design, models of re-created historical buildings, creative camera angles.... depending on when the movie was made imagine the cultural impact it had on other film projects.

birds eye view shots get a bit more literal.

this tiktok screenshot ruined my life i need to see the serbian pigeon movie so so badly but it doesn't exist it's so foul to make this bad of a point with something so cool and then take it away from me.

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Was eating an apple and not paying attention that a bee had decided to also eat that apple.

have you ever been stung by a bee?

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A fun way to do this with crying children is this:

Either consider that it is a deeply sincere way of expressing themselves, or remind yourself that, while you are uncomfortable, so is the crying child, that is why they are crying.

Either way, your mood will improve instantly.

In the end, if children bother you for sensory reasons and that's why you don't want them to be in the same public spaces as you, there are disabled adults who can and would cause the same sensory issues for you. Adults who are loud, who vocally stim, who have poor boundaries, poor hygiene, who cry in public, etc etc etc. And they're already socially ostracized for all of this.

So actually yeah, it's the bare minimum you can do for the group with the least human rights on the planet to figure out how to accept children as part of your public community without hating them for it, even if you are child-free yourself.

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They... they're on the south pole.

Iroh would do that.

Saw this frame on a different reblog by @thatssroughbuddy but why does it look like Iroh is using his phone to take a photo of his nephew at a landmark

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Is this that the Lady of Shalot from the poem?

Hey can you hold this onion for me? I’m using it for tonight’s dinner, so keep an eye on it for me ok?

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correct opinion on mackerel.

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It is really very simple: I'm already stuck in a timeloop of sorts, and have been for years.

Primary school. Every day, the same routine, the same people, the same tasks, the same failures, with only the weekend as a small reprieve, with some holidays and weather changes for variation.

Middle school, higher education, work. Different background, same idea.

What is the difference between being stuck in a timeloop and living life within these structures?

Not a lot, really. I already can do things that are unusual. I could shave my hair. I could learn mayan glyphs. I could call in sick and lay in bed once in a while. I could paint the walls. I could dig up my garden. I could borrow a car and drive for hours. I could paint my dog. Do any of these things have consequences beyond how much I care about them? Not really.

At the end of the day, at the end of thousands of repetitions of effectively the same day, I would still be me. Slightly changed, but not enough that I wouldn't still essentially be myself.

And then there remains this: I don't particularly like murder, and I don't see the point of it. I don't hate anyone enough to commit it. There is nothing in it for me, not even variation. I already know how to cut meat from cooking. I already know the feel death from loved ones.

I'm already in a timeloop, and murder just seems too boring to bother with.

if you were trapped in a time loop how many repetitions do you think it would take for you to willingly kill another person, knowing there would be no consequences

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.... could anyone specify? specifically what flavor/brand/subtype of christianity?

I mean, it seems a bit one of the cultier ones, and pretty specific too, I don't know a single one where you get baptized as an eight year old instead of just after birth or as an "I'm an adult now and I choose this" kind of thing.

But seriously, when I came out as atheist the only thing was "knowing you, you put a lot of thought into this, and also, as long as you still live under our roof, you will still come to church on sunday (which is like, an hour long, and sometimes I straight up napped during the sermon? I'm guessing that's very different for the people above) (the preacher was an absolute sweetheart too, I've had some lovely discussions)

and of course a dash of "I hope you find your way back to god/I trust Jezus will bring you back one day" sort of thing, but seriously.

wtf?

kids who werent raised christian being like "lol baptising children is whack if they tried to do that to me i would start doing things to make it look like i was possessed" no you would not. you would bask in the pride and approval coming from the adults around you and you would quietly wait your turn because you were told from birth that sinning sends you to hell and baptism is The Promise that youre dedicating your life to jesus that youve had hyped up for years and watched other people be fawned over as they cry happy tears about it and you do NOT want to fuck up your One Big True Promise To Love Jesus Forever So You Don't Get Tortured For Eternity when you are literally 8 years old. im begging yall to remember its a thousand times easier to see the church's bullshit for what it is when you're not actively in the church. eight year old you is not thinking about trying to fight back against an oppressive religious group indoctrinating children because You Are The Children Being Indoctrinated. stop acting like you would've magically known better if it were you.

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Me getting back into One Piece after over a decade thanks to tumblr and finding out whole new background lore on interesting characters.

Anyway, I think this guy is autistic.

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Hallo!

Quick question for you! I’m slowly learning Dutch and I wanted to ask if you have any advice for a beginner.

I’m a bit ashamed to ask but I really want to improve and I figured that asking to someone who is Dutch might be helpful.

Also probably by the end of the year I’ll be able to visit a friend that is moving near Utrecht. Do you think I should try to interact a bit in Dutch or people will get upset if I can’t pronounce/catch the answer very well? (I’m autistic and sometimes I have some issues in elaborating what I hear even in my own language)

I hope I haven’t annoyed you too much with my questions

I think the best kind of advice would be from someone who is also learning dutch, since they would run into the same difficulties.

The one thing I can think of is figure out how vowels sound so you can get the pronounciation more easily when reading something, wich is pretty consistent in dutch, so that might be helpful.

A thing you might at first have trouble with spelling 's ochtends, 's avonds, and suchlike, but that's the same rules as how "you're" is short for "you are", it's just that "des" is an old fashioned version of "de", and basically only survives in contractions like that.

Something you might run into is also the difference between "de" and "het". Both of them are basically "the", with "het" ocasionally leaning towards "it", but in casual use, getting it wrong a couple of times isn't a disaster or anything. Pretty sure this one is mostly an experience thing, so don't sweat it too much.

A lot of compound words have a connecting "e" such as pancake being pronounced "Pannekoek" but spelled "Pannenkoek". This is because in casual word use we went the opposite way of the Germans, and rather than not always pronouncing the "e" en words that end in "-en", the dutch don't always pronounce the "n". As such, at the time this spelling rule was established, it was assumed to be lazy/casual language usage, and the "correct" spelling had an "n" put in, despite the fact that the "e" in a lot of compound words is more of an ease-of-pronounciation add-on than anything else.

I don't think anyone would be upset, your biggest issue with trying to talk in dutch will be that a lot of people know a decent amount of english and will switch to that mid conversation once they figure out that's the language you're better in.

Hey, fellow autistic! Anyway, you have the perfect excuse built in right there! Not that you really need an excuse, but "Oh, I didn't quite catch that, could you repeat that?" and similar is a pretty useful response in those cases, and if you're surrounded by people with varying levels of accent or you straight up don't know the entire language, it's even more effective.

What I remember from school, in grammar, the trickiest bit was figuring out wether a verb ended in a d or a t or a dt, which I basically always just always did by comparing it to "Ik loop, jij loopt, wij lopen, ik heb gelopen/I walk, you walk, we walk, we have walked" rather than figure out what kofschip/fokschaap stands for (some grammar trick about letters I never bothered to figure out, as my method worked most of the time)

A fun fact: There is something called "steenkolen engels", literally "coal english", wich is basically what happens when english speaking crews have to work together with dutch speaking harbour workers, and they figure out that if you pronounce things with the other guys accent and add some of the words you do know, you can mostly figure things out together. So it's basically dutch with an english accent and some english words.

second fun fact: if you ever become fluent in dutch, as an english speaking person, your accent has a chance of sounding frisian, even if you don't speak frisian at all. This is because frisian and english are closely related.

third fun fact: You are not annoying. People who try to learn and improve in anything are a delight. You are, therefore, a delight.

A joke (paarden is dutch for horses. Fokken is dutch for breeding a type of animal) A guy was at a party talking to an englishman when he was asked what he did for a living. "Oh, I fok horses." "Pardon?" "Yes, paarden."

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Out of curiosity! Any good reason for your preferred spelling?

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Isn't Goodette Goodheart a summoned saintess from the modern world? Also, I have a suspicion she might have a crush on Evilla.

I love villainesses isekais because they always open to some shit like "I've reincarnated as Evilla Von Lily, the empire's only princess and I'm destined to die after becoming affianced to Prince Rytius de Citrus?!?!?" and you think ok so just not marry him, right. Cant be that hard? But then chapter 1 in kicks in like " Evilla, sweetie your father and I are sooo glad you're marrying your Highness prince Rytius otherwise all these 56 orphans we tend to would spontaneously combust. Like, immediately. don't ask, we dont know how either. anyways proud of you" and youre like oh shit evilla

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Just make anise milk like a normal person.

Though I suppose you could use protein powder, powdered milk or sugar if you wanted.

This has got to be the worst recipe in this manga yet

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Permanent markers tend to be alcohol based, and therefore can usually be cleaned using alcohol.

Preferably a desinfectant, but the drinking sort sometimes does the trick as wel.

Just put some on a clean rag or cloth and wipe it off.

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It's Iguanodon because I am a basic bitch, with a soft spot for compsognathus and deinonichus, and a "yeeaah boooy!" for those guys whose feather colours we know.

For modern ones, it's technically jackdaws and other members of the corvid family, but really, all birds are cool and my favorite is the one I'm seeing or hearing at that moment.

EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS HAS TO TELL ME WHAT THEIR FAVORITE DINOSAUR IS GO GO GO

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Everyone should do a colourblind test.

I watched one (ok, two, but only one is relevant here) of my favorite colourblind youtubers do one, having a "hah, I can see that and he can't" at some images and then he called out a number on one I didn't see anything in, and it turns out I have the slightest inability to see purple.

Intense purple? I can see that. Slightly tinged with lavender? It's grey to me.

is this orange or yellow.