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Zappity DooDah

@alpacazappa / alpacazappa.tumblr.com

Just looking at the world from the other side of the fence.
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kitty car 🐱

soundonsoundonsoundon!!!!!!!

I'll accept "rocket" for the last one, but only because what it's REALLY like is buried in military history geekdom.

Here's the Argus pulse-jet as fitted to WW2's Fieseler F.103 cruise missile (better known as the V.1, Buzz-bomb or Doodlebug).

That's a modern reconstruction.

This is a period recording.

The scariest part was when the buzzing stopped, because that meant about 870 kg / 1800 lbs of high explosive would be arriving in an area-vague "To Whom It May Concern" way to somewhere very close, very soon.

At least when a cat goes quiet and you don't know what it's doing, blowing up the house isn't one of them.

Usually.

Things about boobs that everyone should know

Because I just keep finding out people don't know these things!

  1. Most boobs "sag."
  2. Actually, on that note: very very few people have the stereotypically perfect breasts that are round and perky and don't touch your ribcage/belly. Here is an entire gallery of non-sexualized, perfectly normal breasts. Here is another one, but in one image. There's an incredible range of size and shape!
  3. Also related: very few people fit those molded foam-cup bras. Because very few people have a boob that shape. "Then why are those kinds of bras everywhere??" Because they're cheap to make and they hide your nipples.
  4. Your "armpit fat" is probably not armpit fat. It is probably your tail of spence, and you have lymph nodes there. Some people have a bigger or smaller tail of spence, and it has very little to do with how fat you are or how big your boobs are. (Some bras can press on it or pinch it uncomfortably, like balconettes.)
  5. When you lie on your back, your boobs will go into your armpits. That is true of EVERYONE WITH BOOBS, with the exception of some implants. Boobs are squishy! This also means that like, lying on your side will cause them to flop over. If that's uncomfortable when you're trying to sleep, there is such a thing as "sleep bras."
  6. Lots of people's boobs get bigger and/or painful before their period starts. Some people gain an entire cup size every month.
  7. Whether or not you wear bras has no effect on "sagging." The one "study" on this that was written about everywhere extremely badly done. The one exception: If you do the kind of exercise that has you jumping around/jogging a lot, and you don't wear a supportive-enough bra, it's possible you can injure the cooper's ligaments. But also: that would hurt, a lot.
  8. Bras also have no effect on whether you get breast cancer.
  9. Everyone has one boob that's bigger than the other. It's just a matter of degree.
  10. The size of your boobs has nothing to do with whether or not you've had sex???? I'm stunned that there are people that believe this, but I've heard multiple people say they had relatives who absolutely believed this--refused to buy teenagers the correct size bra because "only sluts wear D-cups," or insisted a thirteen-year-old was "fast" because of breast growth during puberty...good lord.
  11. It's possible for AMAB people to breast-feed--they have the same mammary glands AFAB people do! Some hormonal issues can cause people (both AFAB and AMAB) who haven't given birth to lactate, but also there's a few cases where transgender women have been given the same hormones that AFAB people's bodies make during pregnancy/lactation, and voila! Breast milk!

(I very intentionally didn't go into bra sizing with this post, but yes, if you hate your bras, you are probably wearing the wrong size and/or style for you. That's a much more finicky topic though, so I'm just going to point out that the letter doesn't mean anything about boob size by itself, D isn't big, and Victoria's Secret's "fittings" are garbage. For more info, go to the subreddit for r/abrathatfits, or try their size calculator.)

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uncle-beanbag

That jump is the funniest shit

it took me a LONG time to work out that this is “life on a boat” and not like, “physics just said fuck you today”

So THAt’s what sailors mean by sea legs

something about reference frames

there’s a reason traditional sailing vessels had hammocks instead of bunk beds.

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