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TNG: we use the holodeck to live out our favorite stories and learn new skills :)

DS9: yeah 95% of people use it for porn so

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The Dutch do this but they use sprinkles and call it hagelslag. Pretty common breakfast food!

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Zuhair Murad | Fall/Winter 2021 Couture

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I actually was peeved that Udina was involved because 1) your relationship with Udina improves in the beginning of me3 and 2) I was hoping the theme of the game (coming together to fight an existential threat) would triumph over "people don't change and Udina is a dick ".

It felt like a cop out to justify the player's dislike. His reasons for his involvement didn't make enough sense to justify the quest.

The Cerberus Coup Standoff

Honestly, the coup standoff makes zero sense to me.  Kaidan has biotics.  In my game, Shepard has biotics.  Why is no one putting Udina in stasis?  Why aren’t they using biotics to disable each other? 

If Kaidan is blocking Udina with his body, why doesn’t Shepard’s companions spread out?  Someone can get a clean shot.  Kaidan can’t shoot all three of them at the same time.  Plus, why aim for the chest to begin with?  You only need Kaidan to falter just enough to shoot past him.

Even beyond the confrontation between the Virmire Survivor and Shepard, what are they even arguing about?  Udina opening the door?  Shepard destroys armies of enemies with only two companions.  Here, she has three counting the VS.  The Cerberus troopers are bottle necked at the door. A biotic on her team can shield the councilors from stray bullets.  It should be easy.

Plus, you can’t convince me the Cerberus soldiers are a real threat when they “beat feet into the keeper tunnel” at the sight of two unarmored C-Sec agents with pistols. 

Shepard is the real barrier to the Cerberus soldiers, not the door.  The VS could defend the door with Shepard against Cerberus.  What’s more useful in defending the councilors: the door’s lock or the VS adding to the defensive fight power behind the door? There’s no reason to flip out over Udina opening the door.

Ultimately, did the door’s lock even matter?  Bailey welds through it with his Omni-Tool in about five seconds. 

What's  Shepard’s grand plan here anyway?  So, the door stays locked.  Now what?  They’re trapped out in the open with Kai Leng or anyone else able to drop on them.  They can be attacked from all sides.  Or Cerbetus could just blow them up with a missile from afar.  Is not fighting your way through the door into shelter really the best idea?

And Udina?  Is he really a threat?  He has a sissy pistol and just wants to unlock the door.  He’s not a biotic.  He doesn’t have combat experience as far as I know.  He’s already served Cerberus’s purpose in gaining access to the Citadel.  He should be easily restrainable, and would it really matter if he escaped? All Shepard is getting is satisfaction in serving justice. Is that worth a friend’s life?

For so, SO many reasons the coup doesn’t make sense.  It’s transparently contrived.  There isn’t a real dilemma here.  There isn’t need for a confrontation, let alone killing someone who’s on your side.  This situation is so nonsensical, I couldn’t even write the scene into my fanfiction.  The coup confrontation is just ludicrous.

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why are star wars planets more boring than earth and our solar system like sure we’ve seen desert, snow, diff types of forest, beach, lava, rain, but like… 

rainbow mountains (peru)

red soil (canada/PEI)

rings (saturn’s if they were on earth) 

bioluminescent waves

northern lights (canada)

salt flats (bolivia, where they filmed crait but did NOTHING COOL WITH IT except red dust?? like??? come ON)

and cool fauna like the touch me not or like, you know, the venus flytrap.. and don’t get me started on BUGS like… we have bugs cooler than sw aliens

BASICALLY like???? come on star wars you had one (1) job where are the cool alien species

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Iris van Herpen | Fall/Winter 2021 Couture

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details, casablanca spring 2022

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Teuta Matoshi | Spring/Summer 2021

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Sailor Moon

By Angela Vianello

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Less bullying from within? Do you not remember fan listservs or?

someone said that bc bo burham is 30 he's actually a boomer and is making fun of the internet in that one song of his bc he wasn't 'raised' by it and it's like. you know the internet existed before 2008, right? like it was very much usable

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It's also 100% in character for Dale to label himself this way.

in a week the new thing here on tumblr will be posting pictures of fictional men and captioning them, "petite and fertile. Perhaps breedable". calling it right now and investing stock in this

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Embroidery has been around for centuries, and the craft continues to evolve today. Artists are pushing the boundaries of their materials and bringing to life extraordinary designs with needles and thread. One of those creatives is Japanese textile artist ipnot. She stitches 3D replicas of food, household items, leaves, and more that look astonishingly real.

Ipnot was inspired to take up embroidery after watching her grandmother’s stitching techniques as a child. She started exploring the possibilities of the craft and soon found a particular stitch that became her signature style. “I discovered myself that the French knot stitch can be done by wrapping thread around the needle,” she says. “I find this type of stitching to be a lot of fun to do and it is my favorite type of stitch.”

Choosing from a palette of 500 colors, ipnot builds up each 3D object in tiny French knot stitches. Just like a Pointillism painting, the artist explains that she uses her “needle like a paintbrush and stitches one knot at a time.” From realistic renderings of food to an upright cherry blossom tree, each piece seems to jump from the fabric.

Ipnot playfully photographs her works using props and clever angles to create the illusion that her stitched creations are, in fact, real. In one piece, two autumn leaves appear to delicately float in mid-air. Another work of hoop art uses strands of cream and yellow threads to represent an oozing pizza cheese—one made even gooier with her holding the embroidery in her hand. With food pieces like that, scrolling through her portfolio is sure to make you hungry.

Check out ipnot’s 3D embroidered objects below and find more from her artwork on Instagram.

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I think out of all the races in Mass Effect the Volus are my least favorite. I think there’s only one or two in the whole trilogy that isn’t whiny and cowardice. Does anyone actually like the Volus?

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Some more digital paintings of edibles~

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Happy Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!