#knife or stone

[p-ross]

thought i heard something, all good in there? - @presidentnocturne

(ross appears in the doorway of his office, looking sort of sheepish and cradling their fist, as though they’ve just hit something too hard and they’re regretting it.) sorry, just… i’ll keep it down.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

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traditional knife 石镰shilian specially used to harvest glutinous rice

[andmaybegayer]

Every time I sharpen a knife I am astounded by the control and perception you can exert on the world with your hands. You're just rubbing some metal over a rough flat surface, but you can tell when the surface is slightly not flat by a few micrometers because the blade will scrape across it unevenly. You can perfectly follow a curved edge to set an even grind by pure feel of friction, even with confounding factors like an uneven stone and haphazardly applied water as lubricant.

You can maintain a consistent angle and reset that angle multiple times as you flip from side to side, you can feel out that your draw length is the same and you feel a kind of innate wrongness when you don't draw long enough on one side as the other. I'm not even particularly good at this and I can get a shaving edge on my knives in a few minutes.

Like, I do other hand crafts, sewing, sure, I can sew a 2mm backstitch seam all day, but there's so much obvious visual feedback to help you do it, here you are on a mode of operation that cannot be perceived visually pretty much at all, and it works!

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Christian Kane twirling props: a series. Part 9/?

The Librarians Season 1

[tanuki-kimono]

Yayoi-era polished stone semi-lunar reaping knives, used to cut ears of rice before the apparition of the sickle.

Those kind of stones knives could be found in many cultures around the world. As stated by archeologist OP, what is super interesting is that they are still used in some areas (last pictures is captured from in Chinese video and shows a similar tool made from iron).

Tbh, they look so handy I'd love to own one for foraging during strolls!

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

finally what youve all been waiting for..... dazai fucking dies 💖

[finisnihil]

I feel like we as a fandom need to talk about Guinaifen and how horrific her backstory is.

A child who's loving home and father was ripped away from her, who saw her mother stay behind to fight a battle with the knowledge she'll be slaughtered senselessly like her people, who's elder siblings had to be tied up so they wouldnt die with her.

They end up in an IPC mine with conditions so horrific the elderly knight sworn to protect them refused to let them work in it and did it himself, his hands becoming deformed from the wear of it.

And then one day, that steady wall crumbled, their last support system died quietly in his sleep.

Then her brothers become pirates to support their siblings and when they were captured and turned over the Xianzhou, Guinaifen was relieved because supposedly the Xianzhou was kind.

She hoped they were kind enough to let her siblings and her die together with dignity.

The Xianzhou instead put them in respective rehabilitation programs with her elder siblings getting jobs and the younger ones getting an education.

Guinaifen isn't even her name, her real name is Guinevere. Sushang gave her the name Guinaifen. Guinaifen loves the Xianzhou becuase they saved her and she cares so much about Sushang she wanted to be her sworn sister. She's a fascinating character who's backstory emphasizes characterization of the IPC and the Xianzhou. The Xianzhou sought to rehabilitate them even when wronged by them because they were just kids in a shitty situation. The IPC exploited people and made them work in horrific conditions, not caring in the slightest about them until they started losing profit.

I love Guinaifen to bits if you can't tell by now haha.

She's also based on Arthurian folklore which is neat!

[phoenixtakaramono]

I want to highlight this specific part of Homelander’s origin, because it deviates from the comics whilst referencing the comic panel by Garth Ennis (with some changes) with the show’s writers paying homage to the original source material

THE BOYS S04x04

[pencap]

I'm so happy to hear that you're writing again! I know how hard it can be to get back into a creative pursuit after a while of not doing it (I had that experience with drawing), so I really applaud you for deciding to get back into it. For a prompt, how about, "leaves", "mist", and "shadow"? Good luck with your writing, and wishing you the best!

it is dawn in the forest and the whole day stretches ahead still soft-edged with morning mist and dewy with droplets of last night's dreams.

the leaves are sleep-warm and spring-soft painted in dappled gold by slanting light on the tips of delicate branches dancing carefree in the easy breeze.

but all i can see are shadows mottled dark over my bare feet and looming trees shapless in the haze endless in all directions with no paths to point my way.

the sun rises and rises and rises and— sets.

and i am still sitting here in the shadow and the haze lost and unmoving.

[small-world-au]

As you can see…I let my boredom and intrusive thoughts win…

✨✨STORA DRESS EDITION✨✨

(Please don’t hurt me…I was REALLY REALLY FUCKING SCARED TO UPLOAD IT!!!)

[p-ross]

you should see some of what grey gets. obscene, frankly.

yeesh. yeah i imagine both of you would have to deal with a lot of that, central to politics as you are. i… suppose it’s nice to be complimented??

[sciderman]

I have a disorder which makes my kidney's hate processing calcium- been getting stones since I was 15 and I'm so fucking sorry my dude, they suck.

My ma has the same disorder- she says they're more painful than pregnancy, and really, what is a kidney stone but a little mineral baby your body made for you?

oh GOD anon i'm so, so sorry anon. i wouldn't wish it on anyone. it is, without a doubt, the single most excruciating experience of my life (which, again, is kind of lucky - i haven't been through a lot of pain in my life) you can't eat, you can't sleep – you're shaking like a leaf.

at one point i had to go outside (which, by the way, i couldn't stop hurling as i was walking) simply so i could sleep on a park bench because the cold and the noise of the birds and the hard, hard wood of the bench were the only variables that distracted me from the pain enough to the point where i could sleep. and a guy came up to me trying to give me money. because he thought i was homeless. that was the kind of week i was having last week.

my baby is due in 7 weeks. her name is sharon stone. she is growing healthily at about 2cm. i want her out of me immediately.

[pioneer-over-c]

cooldown doodle gets out of hand again

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Dean Devlin: In case you haven’t heard the exciting news, Christian Kane has officially joined the cast of #TheLibrarians The Next Chapter, coming to The CW 📚

[brandokisser]

(☆) Purple Ungalo Stimboard.

req. by: @cityofcarthage

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[ruinedholograms]

(2000-2007)

• Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R

• Andrew Bird - Weather Systems

• Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been, and Still

• Clint Mansell + Kronos Quartet + Mogwai - The Fountain

• Animal Collective + Vashti Bunyan - Prospect Hummer

• Xiu Xiu - Fag Patrol

• Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

• Sigur Rós - Takk…

• Kanye West - Late Registration

• Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze

• Ray Lamontagne - Trouble

• Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet

• Elliott Smith - Figure 8, From A Basement On The Hill, and New Moon

• LCD Soundsystem - Self Titled

• Xiu Xiu + Grouper - Creepshow

• Slipknot - Iowa

• Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds, With Teeth, and Every Day Is Exactly The Same

• Thom Yorke - The Eraser

• Tom Petty - Highway Companion

• Thom Yorke - Spitting Feathers

• The Postal Service - Give Up

• The Knife - Silent Shout

• Air - The Virgin Suicides

• The Knife - Self Titled

• Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline