Rabid Ornithology Enthusiast

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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otherwindow

Iconic seafarer beards became a trend to scare away pesky mermaids.

Mermaid, seeing a bald pirate: Zero threat…!
Mermaid, seeing a hairy, bearded pirate: If I get too close their face tentacles will eat me…!

otherwindow

Most mermaids only grow short beards as not to scare baby mermaids (longer beards look like the tentacled mouths of hungry squids and octopuses).

Pirates use this innate fear to their advantage to protect themselves from mermaids, hence the iconic beards and hat:

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ninjanaomi

I like how this is presented as factual information

water-of-the-bong

because it is

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croudjay

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Niki, the Merling

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I based OSMP!Niki's design from Hippocampus, the mythical creature. It's a sea creature that has the upper body of a horse and the lower body of a fish (a literal sea horse, if you will). When coming up with her design, I couldn't decide whether I should give her legs or a mermaid tail. But then it got me thinking, "what if I did both?" And so I did and took inspiration from Hippocampus.

My hc is that Niki can walk on land with her hoofs, but struggles a lot as it isn't her usual territory. Hence why she'd spent most of her time in the sea (aside from the not being able to breathe on air).

Hope y'all like this one :)

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otherwindow

An absolutely CRITICAL part of mermaid social etiquette is to ALWAYS swim around head height with other mermaids. This prevents both mermaids from harming each other via their tails, fins, and other appendages.

This etiquette is also intended to symbolize equality – regardless of whether you’re a coastal mermaid, a small freshwater mermaid, or a 50ft tall deep sea mermaid, everybody is deserving of equal stature.

simplelittlepaperyanon

OP: It’s for etiquette and safety for other mermaids! 

Me: Hell yeah! :)

OP: Because all mermaids are equal. 

Me, crying: H-hell,,, yeah,,,!!!! :,)

barriobymahmood

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oh to be a small freshwater mermaid swimming around the head of a 50ft tall deep sea mermaid

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turing-tested

what's your preferred way to view online menus on a restaurant's website

pdf

text

png/image of menu

other/please comment

hi im doing research for my job and i want menus to be accessible to as many people as possible in their preferred format so any input on the subject would be super helpful! reblogs are appreciated as well :>

turing-tested

i want you all to know that im going to forward y'alls responses to this post/ur tags and considering some of you feel that if a restaurant has the menu in PDF format they deserve the death penalty its so incredibly funny to have to couch the responses in "as you can see some people feel very strongly about this subject"

turing-tested

i cannot tell my boss that he should be "drawn and quartered in the town square" for having a pdf menu

zwoelffarben

Gangar is a fucking coward meme: in panel one gangar is told, "i cannot tell my boss that he should be 'drawn and quartered in the town square' for having a pdf menu.  In panel two, someone from the crowd shouts, "You could if you weren't a fucking coward."ALT
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mcyt-cats

I clipped the part of Scar's guest appearance on the Imp and Skizz podcast where they talk about Jellie being added to Minecraft :)

mcyt-transcribed

[transcript:

Impulse: —uh, on camera we see a friend of yours, uh, at the door there, meowing.
Scar: (laughs) Oh no.
Impulse: Uh, wanting out, that's Jellie, I think most people are familiar with—
Scar: Yeah.
Impulse: With Jellie! Jeliie's almost as famous as you are, in fact, uh, Jellie was added to Minecraft.
Scar: Yeah.
Impulse: Ho—how did that come about?
Scar: It was a—there was like a contest, right? It was... submit a picture of your cat, when they were updating the cats, so they were going from the three cats to nine, and the ninth cat would be someone from the community. And, you know I looked at Jellie and I thought "That cat. I—I got that cat when I—w—the first year I was sick."
Impulse: Mhm.
Scar: And that cat has sat next to me from beta, or alpha Minecraft, till today. Just sitting right next to me playing this game, and supporting me beyond any support, that—that y'know Jellie has been there for me, and I thought "you know what? That cat's special. Like that cat—that cat has been literally sitting here playing Minecraft with me from alpha till... what was that, 2019.
Skizz: Wow.
Scar: And... and I was like "that—there's something special about Jellie," and I submitted it. And... Yeah, she went through like two... two things, like submit it, and then she made the finals, and then eventually, uh won, and then Jasper, the Minecraft artist, you know. I think did a really good representation of Jellie. And uh, Jellie for now, y'know, from now on lives in Minecraft and is now hardcoded in the game, so if you want Jellie you just type "J-E-L-L—" I just... forget how to spell Jellie's name?
Impulse: (laughs)
Scar: J-E-L-L-I-E, into the game, and you get a—you get a Jellie spawned!
Impulse: Wow.
Scar: Which I just hope, like—like I said, like, when it happened I was like "I hope that Jellie can give you, y'know, the companionship, and—and take you on the adventures that she has." That's—that's right, Jellie!
Impulse & Skizz: (laugh)
Scar: Um. That she'd done for me, for—for—for y—y'know, for everyone else, and—it seems like people love seeing her and, and... I think she has a really cool story of like being here from like Minecraft alpha days all the way to when they added her in—in 2019.
Impulse: Mhm.
Scar: So. Yeah, Jellie—Jeliie's in the game, you can find her as the ninth cat. She's the... she's the, uh, the cutest of them all.
Impulse: Yeah.
Skizz: Yeah.
Impulse: Absolutely, hundred percent. No—no contest.
Skizz: That is so cool!
Impulse: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that, when— When it got announced that Jellie was actually making it into the game, I was just like "that is, like, the coolest thing. I—I know someone who has, like, now contributed something to the game."
Skizz: A character in the game.
Impulse: That's gonna be there, yeah. And then has such a great story.
Skizz: Like, that is so cool.
Scar: I, I— I thought she had a nice story. And she's, yeah. She's—she's a special cat.
(they laugh)

end transcript.]

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musashi

ace attorney popped the fuck off by doing that thing where certain characters have ‘hidden’ sprites that you only see once in the whole game, usually it’s an emotionally closed off character offering a smile in the final hour of their story to show a sense of peace and closure, but ESPECIALLY they popped the fuck OFF by having franziska von karma break down crying in hers.

‘the angry/mean character is actually deeply emotional and using anger to keep it at bay’ is an incredibly common character archetype but it is so often done in a more shallow manner. like they will just bust out their tragic backstory in the 11th hour and we’re supposed to sympathize because awww they’re sad :( but we already know everything there is to know about franziska pretty much immediately. we know she is a child prodigy, we know she is a genius, we know she is fierce and dedicated and that she loves what she does. and we know she’s lost her father, and we know she’s upset with her brother and wants to see him again. but she does not invite pity, because she does not want it. she lays these details out clearly and concisely when they’re relevant to what is being discussed–they simply are. she remains as she is, and she fights the same way she always has, for what she believes in.

franziska goes through it. we watch her go through it. we watch her lose everything, and then we watch her have to be confronted with the fact that her brother disappeared on her and is utterly remorseless about it aloud. and then we watch her get shot by a violent hitman, and kick and scream and fight while she’s bleeding out because she wants to go to court. she has to be dragged to the hospital by force. never once does she back down an never once does she present anything other than this steely determination and resolve. until the very, VERY end. until POST CREDITS. she doesn’t even crack until AFTER THE CREDITS HAVE ROLLED!

and it is KINDNESS that breaks her! it is softness that makes her cry. i feel like to a lot of people what miles says to her in that scene might seem cruel, but it isn’t about what he says, it’s about what he does.

by franziska’s own admission she has abandonment issues. one of the few single insights we get into her pain is that people tend to discard her and make her feel left behind. miles fled back to his home country and left her all alone in germany to pursue his career, and he wasn’t wrong to do that, but it obviously hurt franziska and she felt neglected and like he didn’t bother to keep up with her. and then when he took his dramatic fucking sabbatical, he refused to loop her into that, too. miles decided without the consent of the people who love him that he was not worth it. he was unbelievably selfish to disappear the way he did, blinded by this idea that he is not loved or worth love. franziska loves him more than anything, and he did that to her on the tail end of her father’s incarceration. she lost both of her favourite people in the span of a few months. 

she ran away at the end of JFA and intended to give up on everything. and she ran away from him because if she abandons him first, he cannot abandon her. but nothing miles says in that scene undermines the fact that he chased after her. he could look her in the eyes and tell her she was scum to him but the fact of the matter is he followed her. he loved her enough to not be content just letting her give up and run away. he chased after her. can you imagine what that must’ve meant to her? 

he didn’t have to chase her. and he didn’t have to bring her whip back. and when he said ‘if you stop being a prosecutor, this is where we part ways’ i think we all knew he was not being literal. i think we all knew he was full of shit. i think what miles meant by that was to light a fire beneath her. to say that he had no intention of stopping, that he would keep on fighting, and that he wanted her to fight alongside him. they’ve always been rivals and they have always pushed each other to do better and be better, and miles knows that rivalry drives franziska unlike anything else. she doesn’t actually want to stop prosecuting, she’s just emotionally vulnerable and struggling to cope and throwing a bit of a tantrum about it, and so he pokes at an old button he knows will clear her head. franziska is a difficult person, but miles edgeworth knows her more than any person in the world, he knows how to love her and he does. he loves her so much.

she has seen a lot of pain in JFA. she has seen a lot of wicked words thrown her way, a lot of pushback, a lot of antagonism and banter and bickering, but the one thing no one shows her is kindness and love. phoenix tries, when he brings her flowers, but he gets nervous and backs out at the last second. gumshoe tries, but he does it out of earshot where she can’t hear. every nice thing someone says about franziska, they say while she is not there to listen. miles is the only person who looks her in the face and says he loves her. 

it is love that allows her the space to fall to pieces. it is love that shatters her veneer and turns her into a sobbing mess. she’s literally just a little girl who was forced to grow up too fast. she’s 18 years old and everything’s so hard. she just needed a fucking hug. 

no scene in ace attorney will ever, ever, EVER mean more to me.