#but i think this is the funniest one

[random-kazakh-stuff]

There are many interesting mannerisms that are spread amongst countries that were once part of USSR*.

One of them is this: when speaking of drinking alcohol people tap a side of their neck, about where it meets the head.

One of the stories about why people started doing this is that:

Once in Russian Empire a spire needed repairing. It was very high, so the work was dangerous. Finally, a guy has taken up the job, and has done it masterfully. The tsar said that the master can ask whatever he wants and he shall get it. So, naturally, he asked to be given free alcohol wherever he went*. He was given a certificate, but you know. He was always drunk so he lost it often. To solve the problem the officials proposed giving him a tattoo, a stamp, if you will. And well, he cant have it on his forehead. So he decided on his neck, and would point at it wherever he went after alcohol.

So there is that.

*obviously not every person is doing that, however it is prevalent enough that i decided to post about it. you may also note that the story itself has more russian roots(?). the things is, ussr and it's "allies" had a lot of migration between each other(deportations, repressions, sent to work in some place, compulsory army service, plain old holidays), so naturally habits traveled too. basically a kazakh person does this because it became part of ussr's culture(?).

*Alcohol, and vodka especially, were a significant part of government's budget.

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

"Am I scary yet?"

-Pearlescentmoon

(about 1:45 in this Vodskall video)

[amaranthsynthesis]

gortash: giggling and kicking his feet twirling his hair and writing ‘mr. lord enver durge’ in his diary with little hearts and flowers

the dark urge: down SO horrendous that he’s having a religious crisis of guilt that’s about to get him disinherited and lobotomized

[freshocto]

been thinking abt Them

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 5: Flip Slip.

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 4.5)

[olasketches]

two sides of the same coin

[peakvincent]

new game is to type one through ten in your tags and see what comes up. i think my favorite of mine is ‘my uncle told us he spent seven and a half hours in a sensory deprivation tank once’ but ‘gideon the ninth motherfucker’ is a close second

[2hoothoots]

i don't believe that man's ever been to medical school

[eff-plays]

You can wizardsplain at a bard, but watch out

[sualne]

something i wish i'd see more in trigun fanarts is people having vash speak their native/non-english languages completely unprompted, ive seen folks have him speak french, which he canonically knows, but i really do believe he's a polyglot. mostly because of that one time in the desert when he saw the samurai and wanted to greet him in japanese but struggled to remember how to even say hello.

my headcanon is that rem had them learn as many languages as possible but with the big fall and so many people dying, which i think is what led english to became No man's land main (or even only?) language, means that vash (and knives!) both got horribly out of practice and are various sort of rusty in every others languages.

what im saying if there's any pun or joke you've been dying to write but just doesn't work in english vash (and knives!!) are right there!

[s-aint-elmo]

Falin has been nearsighted since she was little, and has a habit of squinting when she's looking at things. —Delicious in Dungeon World Guide: The Adventurer's Bible

she should have been at the optometrist's

(ID in alt text)

[marsafter-dark]

Ok, boomer.

[von-leg]

Sanji takes one for the team 💔

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was drawing multiple pieces of artwork that were explicit and very much gay in nature on my tablet. Somehow, my dad saw it all on HIS PHONE. It was mortifying, but I hoped he would forget.

I then went onto a rollercoaster with my family.

He did not forget.

[imagining-in-the-margins]

[horribluh]

cant stop thinking about married-but-doesnt-realize-it zosan, theyre 30 years old, incredibly domestic, chilling in the all blue acting all married but going huh?? when people reference them being married. id never marry this idiot/im straight! and then sanjis handfeeding zoro street meat bc hes playing packmule and has no free hands. were not together! and zoro is buying sanji a nice tie bc he accidentally cut his in half last time they fought. i have better tastes than to get with him! and sanjis made zoro cute bento boxes for him to take on his world greatest swordsmen showdowns. whod wanna marry this guy? and theyre sharing a bunkroom and also a bed bc its better than sharing with the other cooks aboard true but they also cuddle each other to sleep every night so

their bickering old married couple energy transfixes me, its idiot to idiot romance at the highest degree. i want them to wake up to the rest of the crew throwing them a 10 year anniversary party and theyre just like ??? and everyone has to sit them down and very slowly explain to them that guys... youre married... to each other..... please realize this its been 10 years.... cue marines attacking the restaurant and also congratulating zosan at the same time and in the aftermath theyre like ??? were married????? DOES EVERYONE THINK IM MARRIED TO THE PERVERT COOK/MOSSHEAD??? and then they fight each other into the sunset and kiss about it