Blowing a dandelion is basically you helping a weed ejaculate.
I was having a good day. We were all having a good day.
I mean it’s kind of not, seeds aren’t analogous to sperm, hell, pollen isn’t analogous to sperm, plants don’t do dimorphic gametes like that. a better analogy would be firing a couple dozen fully-formed babies from a tshirt cannon
What better use of the Enlarge spell is there than to HUG ALL YOUR FRIENDS??? I wanted to squeeze in a last minute print for Hal-con and was torn between a beefy pinup of Karlach or a group pic, then I realised I could do both ahaha. The print version won’t include my Tav tho, this one’s just for me. I love all these goobers so much.
My 11-year-old couldn’t decide what flavor of ramen to make, so I told her to flip a coin. Heads for spicy chicken, tails for beef.
Taking my advice, she flipped a penny, and when it landed on tails she said “Wait! Wait! I did it wrong!”
I told her that she did it right, because the real reason for flipping a coin isn’t to let fate decide for you, but because when the coin is in the air, you will suddenly realize what you wanted in the first place.
I’m sure there’s a life lesson there somewhere…
But honestly, I have never known her to pass up spicy chicken.
Update: Yesterday, her brother asked her if she wanted a corn dog and she couldn’t decide, so again I told her to flip a coin. She did so, and without even looking which way it landed, she snatched the penny up and said “I want a corn dog”.
Meet Pando, not a forest but a single tree. Every trunk of the Quaking Aspen is genetically identical & connected by a single 80,000 year old root system, making it one of the largest and oldest living entities on Earth!
This has the same energy as a writer desperately trying to make their insanely cool but devastatingly off the wall plot point work with the rest of the story
oh fuck *falls back into old habits* *screen fades to black* *level loading* TIP: your belief that you are incapable of changing for the better will become a self fulfilling prophecy if left unchallenged
hmm no wikipedia i didn’t know that. i mean that’s pretty high praise tho how impressive could it beOH GODDAMNIT IT’S THE COOLEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE
[ID: screenshot of a Wikipedia factoid that reads, “Did you know that Script Ohio has been called one of the most impressive examples of American folk art in existence?”
The video shows the Ohio State University Marching Band performing its traditional Script Ohio routine, in which the drum major leads the band single-file to form an enormous cursive Ohio on the field. The crossovers require absolute precision timing. It is a FEAT. At the end, the drum major leads out a sousaphone player, who kind of high-kicks his way to dot the I. (Wikipedia calls it a “bounding goose-step.”) He gives a sweeping bow to each side of the stadium. The band then sings “Buckeye Battle Cry” while accompanied only by the sousaphone. Here’s the Wikipedia article, which has a much better description than mine. ]
It makes me so fucking happy to see marching band referred to as American folk art.
Because it fucking is! And it’s fucking hard, actually! It’s extremely physically and artistically demanding to perform this style (or any of the other competition styles). I was in the best shape of my life when I was in a competition band. It asks a lot of you.
this is super cool but also can we talk about how they’re basically using the american football field as if it were lined paper by taking advantage of the markers? that’s so cool
Oh that’s how that works, yeah. You mark your position off of the yard markers & hash marks on the field. There’s a standard step width (8 steps to 5 yards) which is one of the first things you learn in this style of marching band.
So if you’re picking up at a specific point you know you’re, like… 3 steps inside the 40 yard line and 9 steps from the front hash, or whatever, and you walk those steps off to find your spot.
ooooh i didn’t know it was standard ahah (i’m french and this is honestly my first time seeing this style of marching band) but that makes sense! it’s still blowing my mind a little ahah
Having actually watched the video this is actually extremely simple for this particular style. >.> but Yes there are standards for how big the steps are for marking things off & there are multiple different styles of marching. Marching band in the US also has competitions - multiple different leagues and so on.
When I was in HS, we had 3-4 weeks of 8-10 hour days in August, and then from September to late November we had practice 4 days a week, 2.25 hours a day, then football games on Fridays & 1-3 competitions Saturday and Sunday. It was a huge commitment of time & I was in the best shape I’ve ever been in, except for the year I tore a ligament (or tendon, I can never remember which is which) between 2 of my metatarsals due to the stress on my Extremely Flat Feet.
I may have reblogged this already. But not with the current discussion.
Which is fascinating.
…Shame that the arts and accomplishments of Youth (such as High School Marching Band) aren’t more respected in the Adult World.™
I may have reblogged
this already. But not with
the current discussion.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
yknow i never noticed the sheer rareness of images having ids or alt text on this website until i started adding alt text to my art (and trying to remember to add it to any images i post in general, especially text screenshots) and that makes me kinda sad
I feel like a lot of people just don’t know how to do it or are intimidated by the prospect. I was too, actually, and I couldn’t find any good guides on how to do it (beyond basic formatting) and most guides boiled down to “just describe what you see and important details!” I really wanted to add alt text bc accessibility is important to me, but I would always get kinda stumped on how to do it.
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But then I saw this image, I think in a discord server, and I immediately started doing it. It kinda broke the ice for me
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