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Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them. 

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.” 

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just. 

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job. 

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Does anyone know if there is a way to modify a tag on all posts tagged with it on Tumblr ? I like keeping my blog organised with fandom and character tags but when I started I wrote japanese names in westernized order and I don't like that doing that anymore but now it's way out of scope to change it manually...

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Fullmetal Alchemist?

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The front of the package: PEANUT LOVER'S DELIGHT! Peanut cookies with peanuts, chocolate chips, and a peanut butter swirl.

The actual cookies in the package: Flour, oats, sugar, butter, chocolate chips, raisins, and one single peanut in the entire five pound box.

This is what overzealous tagging looks like. You've summoned the peanut lovers and lied to them, completely missed everyone who likes oatmeal cookies, sprung a nasty surprise on people who hate oatmeal cookies, scared off the people who hate peanuts or have mild allergies (or taught them to ignore labels entirely), and done very little to meaningfully inform the people with severe peanut allergies.

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Asking because I overheard a physical therapist say that she uses this question to see if she wants a second date with a guy, and if he says more than like 4 eggs at once it's a red flag.

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it is honestly amazing how much of writing and editing is just. logistics. like... do i use a name here or a pronoun? if i move this dialogue tag to the middle of this line and break it in half, does the end of the line hit harder that way? what if i move the tag to the front? what if i remove it entirely? ...wait, whose point of view am i in; can i reasonably say this character is appalled, or must i say they look or seem or sound appalled? is this a deliberate action or a step-removed one; is her hand closing on his shoulder, or is she closing her hand on his shoulder? environment environment environment, we need to break all this dialogue up with some narration, the scene is coming untethered. what! are! they doing! with! the rest of their bodies that are not hands! fuck fuck fuck FUCK i forgot we covered this two chapters ago and now i either need to cut this whole chunk or find a reason to reprise the conversation from earlier. name or pronoun? name or pronoun? name or pronoun? move this clause around in this sentence? oh i'll add this phrase-- nope, never mind, past!me added the same phrase two lines down. okay, if i add too much environmental narration it's going to take away from this bit, but not enough and it won't feel grounded. what if i move this to its own line? where the FUCK are their hands?

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from prev

-In my experience as someone who learnt br portuguese and has been to both Brazil and Portugal, they're not as different as speakers of both flavours tend to say. I've had zero problem communicating in either place.

-that said, I've seen my share of Spanish speaking kids saying stuff in other flavours of Spanish bc of the stuff they see on YT

-Another language though? crazy! Maybe there isnt enough content in theirs? usually kids don't have much of an attention span for things they cannot understand (at least the ones I know). Makes you wonder.

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B-day party with friends 🎀🍰🍨

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SO yes to Armin, Mikasa, Jean and Levi! Especially Levi. In fact that's him on my fic XD

random aot headcanons

connie seems like he’d collect sneakers but in reality he has like two or three pairs that he wears to DEATH

eren runs so hot when he sleeps that he keeps two fans running at night and has to sleep on top of all his bedding

armin believes energy drinks are poison but still slams 3 cups of coffee a day

sasha has a bad habit of ordering appetizers “for the table” just to finish the whole plate herself before anyone else gets to try it

mikasa hates fast fashion. she prefers buying her clothes second hand and keeps them until they’re literally falling apart

porco refuses to eat jarred marinara sauce, it has to be homemade or it won’t touch his plate

jean loves pop music. His top artist was Sabrina Carpenter but he keeps it a secret bc he thinks it’ll ruin his “artsy, indie” persona

levi doesnt do baby talk. He speaks to animals, babies, toddlers, whoever the same way he’d speak to an adult

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My favourite duo in aot and honestly my very first ship ever. Still thinking they are best fannon. You can arguing with wall.

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This moment is so important. Because as much as these last two seasons have been building to the Shi clan reveal, they’ve equally been building to the moment Jinshi reveals who he is to Maomao. And this messy, in the middle of a battlefield scenario, blurted out by a soldier is not how he wanted it to go. Ironically though, as we know, Maomao is pretty much already aware of who Jinshi is, this moment just allows her to stop denying the reality. Even though she’s finally confronted with it though, it’s equally important to notice that nothing changes.

She now knows he’s the heir and yet her response is to tease him about his looks. And even when he speaks as the Moon Prince, his authority doesn’t scare her, she doesn’t step away from him or look at him any differently, to me this echoes the sentiment she said during the Hunt, that to her he’ll always be Jinshi. This solidifies the dynamic between them being that while Maomao may be fearful of what Jinshi’s status can mean for her, she’s never fearful of him personally 💚💜

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Levi and Mikasa isn't just rivals to lovers.

It's a love of self-hatred to self-love. They see themselves in each other — every little part of each other, the beautiful and the ugly. They harbored so much self-hatred for what they see themselves and what they don't know what they are at the same time. Levi and Mikasa find themselves in each other, romantically or platonically, they complete each other deeply. They are the same but different like two sides of the same coin. I love that they are explored emotionally and more in depth in fics especially. I feel like they're the only ship I know that are so raw and natural and human. They're impatient and get angry at each other because they see the imperfect parts of themselves in each other and I think they really do need that, to have someone to understand them and to be seen and to learn from too. They make each other grow and as they love each other, they love themselves too. It's funny because they look alike and act alike but they're still different. After everything they're still themselves and they don't need to change who they are to love each other and themselves. But they do improve themselves for each other's sakes to be the people they want to be and want to be for together.

That's the love I learned from them.

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post canon Levi amuses himself by telling all the kids around their new settlement wildly different and fundamentally conflicting stories about what happened to his face, and then watching them put their dumb little heads together to try and figure out which one is true.

(one of the first stories they dismissed was "I rigged a bomb inside a dirty monkey man's gut and he was stupid enough to blow us both up" because that just seems a bit ridiculous. the running theory is a tie between "titan smacked me through a window and my face got cut up" and "this eye has actually never worked and I've been drawing the scars on every morning for thirty years to look more intimidating")

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What draws you to JeanMarco as a ship?

What a great ask to get during JeanMarco week! Thank you for your interest, Anon. Fair warning, though. JeanMarco is my current obsession, and you've given me an opportunity to talk, so this will be much longer than you needed, likely, lol.

I will speak to what draws me to Jean and Marco's dynamic in general, since I don't know if I ship them in the "traditional" or romantic manner. At the least, I don't look at them romantically the majority of the time.

Short Response

A general reason is that Jean has always been one of my favourite AoT characters, and since Marco plays such an enormous role in his character development, it's a given that I take interest in their dynamic. Then, if you've seen my account before, you'll know I really love Levi and Hange's dynamic, and I believe what draws me to JeanMarco is similar to what draws me to them: it's clearly a deep connection, the nature of which is never defined in canon.

Long Response

I will now go into some detail.

Jean is a very, very human character because he is heavily ruled by his fears. That is what makes him a "weak person." He gives into his fears. He also seems like the worst person ever—brash, arrogant, selfish, uncaring. Lol. And it seems as though he directs some of his rudeness towards Marco in the beginning, but regardless, Marco sees the good and potential in Jean, which is something no one else has done before. Even in the OVA, "A Sudden Visit: The Torturous Curse of Youth," it looks like he used to be bullied as a child as well, and his mother even goes so far as to ask people to be friends with him, which is sweet of her, but intensely humiliating for Jean because it suggests lack of independence in social relationships, and in life overall. She still sees him as her little boy (validly, as his mother), but what he needed was a push like Marco's to grow up.

But Jean, who is honest in his own stance as a weak person, is suddenly shown an entirely new, positive side of himself that he clearly never considered. Jean has trapped himself in the belief that he is a realistic person, so everything he sees, to him, must the inherent, unalterable truth, his own inherent weakness included, and the way people treat him—harshly pointing it out—does not provide the avenue that he needs to realise that pursuing something based on faith is as logical as cowering in fear can be. Marco is the one who provides to him that avenue.

On top of that, the way that their dynamic works is beautiful to me, too, because they're just so young, and this is something you'd expect to see in older, deeper relationships. Marco inspires Jean to lift himself up, to better himself, and to overcome his fears in favor of his values—to be selfless out of courage rather than selfish out of fear. Though you can see the conflict going on in Jean's mind in the times he is being brave, like joining the Survey Corps at the entrance ceremony and thinking to himself as all the other recruits are leaving, "Don't make me hate myself even more," you also see that Jean generally ceases to be so aggressively jealous of Eren, of whom he admits much later on to being jealous of "because he was so cool" (Ch. 118, "Sneak Attack").

But notice how calm he is now in his admission, because he isn't jealous anymore. He was jealous once because Eren was so brave. That is why Jean called him a "suicidal blockhead;" he used what he admired in Eren and turned it into an insult, because he recognised that bravery was his own shortcoming. But he isn't jealous anymore because he's brave now. He has grown into a person that he can admire and be proud of, who is cool to him, and who was the catalyst for that? It was Freckled Jesus, lol. Marco helped Jean grow into a person that he actually liked, not just as the catalyst but continuously throughout his development in the series, albeit through his memory, but regardless, I think that is one of the most important aspects of any relationship between two people—you have to encourage growth in each other.

I should acknowledge here that I clarified "each other," yet Marco is dead, but I have my own theories on what might have happened if Marco had lived. After all, he admits to Jean himself that he's a weak person, like Jean, so I've always figured Jean would inspire him down the road with his own character development.

I also appreciate that they have, in general, a positive male friendship, in a sense. Of course, you can find that in other relationships in AoT, obviously, but I like that Marco made a deep enough impact on Jean that his memory is the sole fuel for Jean's bravery. He is motivated by other purposes, but Marco's memory is ultimately what encourages him to pursue them, rather than sacrifice them in exchange for a false sense of safety. It's just nice to see a friendship, and possibly not even a very long one, hit someone so deeply. And I feel I shouldn't say this about a pairing commonly regarded as a romantic ship, lol, but I've sometimes seen their relationship to be quite brotherly, like Armin and Eren's. Brothers from two different mothers. Again, that is something I also like.

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I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"

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The fact that Fountain is pissing off trads over a 100 years later is so fucking funny

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Maomao’s Atlas of Medicinal & Poisonous Plants! 🌿

This was a huge project of incorporating 50 objects into a piece that I did this year for one of my classes! There are little references to some of the plants actually mentioned within knh (if you can spot them all, you’re the coolest hehe) as well as some others located/used in China and Japan! ∩^ω^∩