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mercurialmirror on AO3, a-spec, nonstop owlposting, moderately deranged.

if you're transgender and need name ideas, may I direct you toward the nato alphabet because like. delta? november?? echo?? romeo is like the butchest name. please consider foxtrot. being named whiskey would be cool as hell. I know multiple transmascs who were a bit too into english lit and are named victor now. I've met people named sierra who were trans in every direction. maybe don't name yourself golf

instructions unclear: am now called charlie

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today's warm up: You'd think they pay double for unchaining this plane from the devouring one, but you know. ๐Ÿ”จ

back again encouraging people to start using the hobby stuff they've been acquiring for years

reasons to start can include:

  • the hobby industry wants only for us to keep buying and never use, so using the stuff pushes back
  • some hobby items do not survive long term storage
  • if there's some craft or hobby thing that you want to do but feel your skills aren't up to, consider that those skills won't improve if you don't practice on other things
  • using it allows it to move from the hobby hoard to the [whatever you made it into] hoard, where you may be more likely to enjoy it more often than just when you specifically look at the hobby hoard
  • making things is good for the brain

curious to see what other reasons people might add

Me trying to persuade myself to use the foamboard I've been "saving for a special occasion" ๐Ÿ˜…

I wouldn't be encouraging people to use the hobby stuff they've been acquiring for years if I hadn't personally started using the hobby stuff I've been acquiring for years, and found out it felt pretty good, actually XD

So, I know exactly how it feels to be saving that thing for something special

and also how--for me--it normally ends up feeling pretty special to use it at all

Not always, though! there will inevitably be hobby projects that don't go the way you expected. I have learned (and am still learning) to acknowledge that nothing's perfect and mistakes happen and then move on to the next project.

While it's true that you can never mess up a project if you never do it, that also keeps you from making the things you end up having fun with and loving, doesn't it?

voice acting as a profession is so funny because you'll see someone being like "voice actors need to be paid better! like [obscure person you've never heard of]" and you're like "oh I wonder who that person is, maybe I've heard them voice a character" and you look it up and it turns out they voice 137 characters in Futurama and 94 characters in The Simpsons and 96 characters in Adventure Time and every one of the My Little Ponies and 27 characters in Arcane and 96 characters in Kim Possible and 4 characters in Phineas and Ferb and 296 characters in Dexter's Laboratory and all of the main cast of Fairly Odd Parents and at least 6 characters in every Pixar movie and almost every animated depiction of Superman and 473 SpongeBob characters and they've been in every installment of Mass Effect and Halo and The Elder Scrolls and Fallout and Call of Duty and they were in Star Trek and Law & Order and they were 12 characters in the MCU and they also invented t-shirts and the colour green and they got paid a sum total of $3.27 and a mothball for all of it combined. then you go burn down David Zaslav's house with him inside

Big day for deranged evangelical freaks

and this, my friends, would be why media literacy and contextual awareness are crucial skills to being alive, as otherwise you might claim to really love a book despite never reading or understanding it and thus create the False Golden Idol from the famous tale โ€œDonโ€™t Create False Golden Idolsโ€ without understanding The Consequences

I might be Pagan but the abrahamic God has the chance to do the funniest thing ever. Come on cloud man

you couldnโ€™t put this shit in a black mirror episode it would get laughed out of the room for being too corny itโ€™s a golden goat idol wrapped in fake money this is giving me a nosebleed

Have you ever looked closely at a car windshield?

The edge of the glass is painted where it is glued to the car but it has these small dots between the clear and painted glass.

These are there for a reason. When the sun hits the glass the painted areas and the clear areas will absorb heat at different rates. This causes the glass to expand and contract differently putting stress on the glass.

These dots help the glass to warm up more evenly over a larger area so the glass does not suffer stress that could cause it to spontaneously explode.

Fun fact: the Tesla cybertruck doesnโ€™t have these.

Yes, the glass will spontaneously crack or explode in the sun.

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majikkant

The picture in the background of the second one

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gatochick

THE TRAINS HAVE CARTOON TAMAS ON THEM

Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed awayโ€ฆ An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the catโ€™s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]

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For those who havenโ€™t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. Sheโ€™s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.

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Now Iโ€™m crying thanks

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and a new cat was hired right?

yep! her name is Nitama (essentially โ€second tamaโ€ or โ€œtama IIโ€) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy

she works very hard

Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.

Iโ€™m crying at 11pm over train cats

Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016).ย  There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.

^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

a legacy

okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because itโ€™s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back

โ€œSun-tama-tamaโ€ (a pun off of โ€œSantamaโ€, lit. โ€œthird Tamaโ€) was a calico cat sent for training in Okayama. Sun-tama-tama was considered as a candidate for Tamaโ€™s successor, but the Okayama Public Relations representative who had been caring for Sun-tama-tama refused to give the cat up writing, โ€œI will not let go of this child, she will stay in Okayama.โ€ [25]
As of September 2018, Sun-tama-tama is working as the stationmaster in Naka-ku, Okayama and appears occasionally on Tamaโ€™s Twitter account.

Every time I see this post thereโ€™s new info and it gets better

You are only allowed to scroll pass this after you pay tribute to the great Tama Station masters.

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The shrine of Tama Daimyลjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.

Nitama presenting her yearly offerings to Tama Daimyลjin on the anniversary of Tamaโ€™s Death, June 23 (The offerings are presented by the company president, as Nitama is a cat and thus canโ€™t hold the offerings herself) (Not pictured, but also present, Yontama)

you cannot pass without reblogging guys. iโ€™m sorry, i donโ€™t make the rules.

You canโ€™t not reblog a goddess. Itโ€™s just whatโ€™s so. :)

So, fun fact- the manga Noragami has an arc where the main character, Yato (a minor kami/God that is down on his luck but trying to make it big time) goes to a council/conference for all the Gods in Japan.

And they are announcing the winner of the โ€œup and coming godโ€ award, and of course, Yato thinks itโ€™s him.

But no-

ITS TAMA!

mom called me a fag yesterday by accident

she was going to call me a bitch (playful) and i saw her gears turning like no but he's trans i need to call him the male equivalent. and then say fag and look so so surprised at the word that came out of her own mouth. it was like watching someone fail a disco elysium skill check irl

AUTHORITY - One of your sons is being annoying to the other. Make it clear that you think this is unfair.

YOU - "Stop being a b--"

REACTION SPEED [Challenging: Success] - Wait a minute.

DRAMA - Sire, the word you're about to use is historically feminine! Applying it to your transgender child is tantamount to misgendering him.

1. [Suggestion - Legendary 14] Think of a masculine equivalent to "bitch."

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