#predictably

[the-way-astray]

gonna go out on a limb and say i think some people don't understand the difference between a toxic relationship (WAHOO!!!!) and a toxic person in a relationship (boooooo)

[goldbiscuit]

[fmluder24]

I wish I had the confidence of a goy explaining Judaism and Jewishness to a Jew. It seems liberating.

[breaded-boi]

Al............

[smokeys-house]

Since the dawn of formalized armed combat there's been dudes selling their own brand of bullshit martial arts and marketing it as hidden or superior, like dueling treatises that involve the use and technique of various non weapons/uncommon "weapons," or like 80s VHS combat tutorials for divorced men with pent up aggression, it's not a new thing per se. But.

There's this guy I'm aware of who advertises "flexible tools" as superior EDC self defense. What does he mean by this? Well, to put it simply, a bit of rope with a metal bit at the end. Usually it's a round knob but lately he's been selling his little grappling hook doodads that are small enough to fit in your hand, and boy howdy some of the shit he claims they're good for truly boggles the mind.

Now, I'm no expert in the field of armed combat, but I am generally experienced and well versed in a variety of armed and unarmed combat. I know that sounds like tooting my own horn but really I'm just autistic about historical combat. Anyway there's a LOT of very good reasons why flexible weapons were never popular outside of a few small or strange examples, most of which are not... very clear on the use case scenario of such and are more given as a "wouldn't that be cool" type of example for displays of martial prowess.

Regardless, it does not take an expert to know that swinging a little metal C shape on the end of some paracord at an attacker is going to do little to nothing. Even if you confirm the hit, it's not buying you any distance or stopping power or giving you mechanical advantage over your opponent, and pain compliance is entirely reliant on whether or not you manage to somehow grappling hook a rib or something.

ALSO, consider that accessing or drawing a hook on a string from wherever you're keeping it is going to be near impossible to do in a combat scenario. Good luck and hope it doesn't get tangled lol also have fun unspooling it. He also shows off a few slashes with the lil hook before he's unspooled it to buy time but. Brother that is not how this works. That's getting you no where and maybe even getting u killed for escalating the situation with a weapon.

BEHOLD, THE ONLY ENEMY SUITABLE FOR FELLING USING A HOOK ON A STRING:

🐟 🐠 🎣 🐡

Do your research and training if you plan on carrying a weapon of any kind, don't trust social media self defense gurus.

[pigeonxp]

once it has more songs im gonna drop my buddie playlist it is just hard to articulate why i think the songs are buddie coded they just ARE TO ME

[hold-him-down]

wip: luke bathes leo

“Will you stay?” Leo’s voice is low and gravelly; he tries to smile, which earns a sad approximation of a returned smile from Luke. 

In the moments that pass before Luke speaks, Leo thinks, not for the first time, and certainly not for the last time, that he’s misstepped. 

He’s on the edge of withdrawing the request when Luke nods. “Yeah,” he says. “Get yourself in the tub, close the curtain, okay? I’ll make some tea and be back in a few minutes.”

So Leo does. He takes off the remainder of his clothes, the shivering of his fingers and the pounding in his head both increasing exponentially with the movement, and then he lowers himself into the water, wrapping his arms around his knees and burying his head to drown out the light.

[nejackdaw]

Book of Bill/Gravity Falls revival got me like this as an angst enjoyer

I am eating SO WELL

[slav-every-day]

[dragonsdendoodles]

First sketch of the new year :)

[overwhelmedfrog]

i repost a lot of political/social justice content on tiktok and i get notifications when people like or repost anything i’ve reposted and i have noticed an… unsurprising (but nevertheless disappointing) pattern in which videos get interacted with. for the most part, it’s a handful of people i know irl who interact w my reposts, and several of these people regularly like or repost leftist political content of mine *except for* anything disability justice or covid related. these people are regularly interacting with my posts about racial justice, gender equality, palestine, queer rights, etc etc (which is all well and good) but they have never ONCE interacted with any of the disability-related content. and I would say probably close to 50% of the stuff I repost is about disability or covid. the only two people who interact with those videos are my two best friends; nothing from a single other person who follows me. and it would be one thing if no one interacted with the other political content, but these people are REGULARLY reposting the other stuff I share. it just really exemplifies how the left loves to ignore disabled people, despite the fact that disability justice is inextricably linked to all other axes of oppression. and it’s ironic because so many of these videos i’m posting are about exactly that issue lmfao

[overly-distressed-mouse]

"Gender is what's in your pants" and then I pull up to the function with several granola bars stuffed into my pockets, all of which are a little too squished and have been in there a little too long

[fuzzy-set]

He has no business to be this cute though

[chipthekeeper]

Someday I need to talk about how different Cinta’s voice is when she says “I’ll be fine” versus literally every other time she talks but I don’t think I’m strong enough tonight

[waugh-bao]