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body horror.... this tracks lol

First thing you see after you zoom in is how you die

How you dying 👀

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Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Call of Duty (Video Games) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: John “Soap” MacTavish/Simon “Ghost” Riley Characters: Simon “Ghost” Riley, John “Soap” MacTavish Additional Tags: Game: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009), Epistolary, Captain John “Soap” MacTavish, Slow Burn, Mild Sexual Content Summary:

Ghost, under threat of another psychological evaluation from both his CO and therapist, has been forced to partake in a penpal programme with another soldier in order to “practise empathy” and “re-establish human connection.” He hates it until he doesn’t.

MacTavish willingly volunteers for the SAS’s new penpal programme because what the hell, it could be fun. And when his penpal ends up being adorably emotionally constipated, well, that certainly doesn’t hurt.

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cod text posts!

it’s about time i dedicate some posts to these guys. more to come!

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Masterlist

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Normal conversations to have on the plane

I'm also doing more cod art on Patreon!

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Very informative thread -source

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Check out the short story "Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed" for a BALLER version of this. Fucking love that story. Taught it every time I got a chance.

Perhaps they ought not to have eaten the dragon. There had been people objecting to it at the time. Surely such meat was poisonous. Perhaps it was even an affront, an insult to some intangible order of nature they ought to honour.

But the city was starving, the siege had gone on too long, and the king's troops were still a week's march away. The scorched earth would be fertile again in time, but right now it was barren. Right now there were mouths to feed. So they changed their crossbows for butcher knives and got to work.

None of the royal commanders asked any questions that could not be answered. After all, their aid had come shamefully late. The dragon's horned skull made a noble gift, a fitting tribute from a triumphant city to its humbled king. Who would have thought to question them?

And none of the townsfolk spoke up, when the first golden-eyed babes were born. Children who grew up barefoot and fearless, clambering over the city's patched and rebuilt roofs like they had no notion of falling, with a strange glitter to their skin when the sunlight hit it just so. No one breathed a word about dragons.

Because soon enough there were deft, young hands taking loaves straight out of the oven, heedlessly lifting iron from the forge, plunging into boiling laundry water. And some of them more wondrous still, wild, warm-skinned youths, with inexplicable knowledge and peculiar remedies.

A blessing, their families said proudly. A blessing after so much hardship. Which it was, in its way. This city would never fear dragon fire again.

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credit to @sweatermuppet soz i coulndt find op b4

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I saw this post by @astropixie about how it’d be nice to review fics on AO3 as you read. A little while back, because I was so in awe of the Clexa fic writers, I made this userscript (can install on Firefox by using Greasemonkey [ETA: use Tampermonkey on Firefox as well] and on Chrome, ETA: Opera, and Safari by using Tampermonkey) so that I could do just that. It doesn’t have the wattpad or soundcloud functionality, it’s just a little thing added on to a page, not something supported by the site itself, but it’s better than nothing. 

The userscript is available here: http://pastebin.com/vYBCYWu4

ETA: FFN version: http://pastebin.com/addj3Xtm

Tampermonkey tutorial

ETA: Use Tampermonkey on Firefox too

Keep reading

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knitting tutorial made by a twenty-something knitting influencer: 18 min long, 12 of those minutes being the intro and a sponsor plug, they show the first few steps of the tutorial at the slowest speed known to man, they show the most important steps at a neck-break speed, they stop every five seconds to talk about what they just did, 40,000 comments filled with questions ranging from insightful to “how do i knit”, filmed with a camera that costs more than a car, the tutorial is incorrect.

knitting tutorial made by a seventy-something grandmother: two min long, filmed 17 years ago, shows you what you want with the skilled patient hands of a beloved deity, made with the world’s shittiest camera, the best video on the fucking internet, four comments and 30 views, you lose the video and never find it again.

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I'm gonna go with the very weird and very specific claim that it started in 1831 with the opening of the Manchester-Liverpool railway, which was the passenger rail line in England. Within ten years they'd laid over 6k (english) miles of track.

It was the first shot of what would become the modern era-- with public transportation shattering the impossible distances between places, social hierarchies (with the passage of the The First Reform Act in 1832, and the Second Reform Act in 1868), political machinery, and communication divides.

....but that is for the euro-american context... otherwise, I have no effing idea. I am just a dumb bird brain that can recite facts about 19th century England, lol