happy Ides of March, everyone!
[Showing you my camera roll] oh yeah heres me lost in the forbidden wood, afraid
When my cousin Olivia was three, she started preschool and became best friends with a boy named Abraham. Most people called him Abe, even then, because Abraham is a mouthful for a three year old and, to most people, it’s the logical nickname.
Not, however, according to Olivia, who decided to nickname him Ham.
No one’s really sure whether she wasn’t totally listening when he was introduced and only caught the last part of his name, or if she decided Abe was too boring a nickname, or maybe she was just hungry, but the nickname has stuck for the last twenty years. Of course, Olivia was and still is the only person to use it.
When they were seven or eight, he decided to get back at her by calling her Olive. That nickname stuck, too, and they’ve been Olive and Ham since. But only to each other. They get highly offended if anyone else calls them that.
Last night was their seventh anniversary, and Abe proposed to Olivia, and she said yes. And how did she announce it on Facebook, you may ask?
People used to tell me “If you like ham so much, why don’t you just marry it?” So I am.
Shout out to Olive and Ham, who are still engaged and adorable and who are planning on getting married sometime next summer
Anonymous asked:
ur sentences are way too long bro, i aint reading all of that
pukicho answered:
If we were all living in the wilderness, natural selection would get you first.
A succubus but instead of stealing your soul through sex she kisses you and your wallet disappears
She may have just been a pickpocket idk it was dark
Good try but this is already a 6 month old flop post
somehow ive never considered this before. when visser three thoughtspeaks in alloran's body, whose voice do people hear?
Allorans Right? Visser 3 dosent have a voice because Yeerks don’t have vocal organs?
I should be asleep
but can we just appreciate that the Animorphs finale shows how incredibly important 'soft power' is, politically?
if you're not familiar: soft power is making yourself appealing and interesting. it's what south Korea does! it puts a lot of money and effort, as a state, into k-pop and Korean food, and a whole lot more. as a result: if your country wanted to start shit with south Korea, you'd probably get really upset - you've got great feelings about south Korea! blackpink is amazing! you love Korean barbeque! you'd be protesting you'd be calling your representatives, you'd be fucking mad
this is on purpose.
hard power is militaristic. you don't want to fight a country with hard power, because they have nukes, or an itchy trigger finger, etc.
(i'm super simplifying this, i'm no expert)
Jake involves the civilians of the andalite home world. marco makes sure the military knows. they're hoping for some soft power - and it works. the military can't act first and tell the civilian population a propaganda version of what they did later. the civilians are watching.
this is soft power! this is diplomacy! and later in the postwar section- the andalite civilians coming over for tourism shit? that's more soft power! that's more normal andalites that think of earth as that charming planet with delicious food and isn't it funny how we balance on two legs? oh those juveniles were so brave!
this is an alternative to war, and i love it. i love how this was written, i love the context of soft vs hard power.
I mean, treating yaoi as the opposite of yuri just doesn't make sense mathematically: boys are not the inverse of girls. The actual opposite of yuri would somehow have to involve fewer than zero girls, and that's not an easy thing to characterise.
It has been proposed in the notes that shonen anime, Hideo Kojima games, and police procedurals where all the women die by the end satisfy the criterion of having fewer than zero girls in various ways.
Identifying the common thread of these proposals, we may thus conclude that the opposite of yuri is Supernatural.
("Doesn't that just put us back at square one with respect to positing that yaoi is the opposite of yuri" well, no, because Supernatural is also, for unrelated reasons, the opposite of yaoi.)
isaac
