#long gif posts

[team7-headquarter]

*open the gifs for better quality <3

Kakashi spins SO MUCH compared to Obito in their fights, but as someone who trained martial arts for many years, I get it, you know?

First of all, Kakashi loves his kicks. It puts some distance between you and your target, you can protect the upper half of your body by leaning back, a well thrown kick can send your adversary flying or staggering back, etc.

The cool part is that Kakashi uses a lot of back spinning kicks. They have more strength behind them because you use your entire body and the energy the movement creates. If you dominate the techniques and you've trained your balance so you won't get dizzy, it's almost expected to use kicking combos.

I'll try to explain?? It's a bit hard, but I want it to be easy to understand for someone who doesn't know how the kicking dynamic works.

Okay, so—

There are different parts of the foot you can use to cause different types of damage. It depends on how you're standing and from which direction you're kicking. So imagine you stand with your body facing a side and while you look ahead. Your right foot is behind and you want to kick with that one— you retract your right knee, you bring your right leg up and closer to your body, all the while your left foot starts to shift its position to look back. At the same time you extend your right leg, your left foot shifts. The movement is explosive and your body is now facing the opposite side.

You are already half spinning!

If you don't land the hit, you can always set your right foot down and keep the flow of your body to back kick with the heel or arch of your left foot. If that one kick doesn't hit, you can set your left foot down and... Kick again with your right! Now you're facing ahead again!

The best (like Kakashi) can spin without setting a foot down, basically using the movement to keep them afloat.

I'm making it all so way more simple than it is and the combinations can vary pretty drastically, but as I was saying, Kakashi is a practical fighter and he loves to use every single thing available while he fights.

The reason why he fights so elegantly is because, like in a dance, he uses the flow to move, to guide the fight, to shift the position of his own body and the position of his weapons. In comparison, Obito learned to use more of the movement and weight to counter Kakashi's fluidity.

(I ended up making a bunch of gifs for this post, oops! Better keep going!)

Anyway, I bet I don't have to mention how much Kakashi spins his weapons. There are at least six different occasions during this particular fight with Obito. He loves to spin kunais to change his grip, to exchange hands, he even sent one flying high so he got both hands free to defend himself from Obito and then proceeded to kick it midair to with his heel, so it cut Obito in the cheek.

He's practical, so every spin has a meaning. Back at his fight with Zabuza, Kakashi even used the spin with his summoning scroll to intimidate... I think (I can't remember clearly).

You can rewatch almost any Kakashi fight in the anime and compare it to this post. You'll see that he is the spinning king for a reason.

#this man is dying to play the drums in a band #fidgety genius #naruto #naruto shippuden #kakashi hatake #naruto classic #obito uchiha #long posts

[tirpse]

KinnPorsche Week 2022 Favorite Couple: VegasPete

#kinnporsche #vegaspete #kpweek2022 #myedits #long posts #.making that gif of the pool scene truly punched me in the gut last night #.this is once again one of my gifsets that i like better on desktop

[casismybestfriend]

anon request: ted/trent vs roy/jamie reactions (short version)

#im not gonna tag anyone #but i still want to post this 'cause it was a coincidence as i was giffing that both scenes had 13 gifs #ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #ted lasso tv #trent crimm #tedependent #jamie tartt #roy kent #royjamie #my edits #my gifs #my posts #gifs #parallels #long posts

[jackienautism]

get angry!

#laura kearney #the quarry #gifs #mine #my gifs #long posts #[spongebob voice] IIIIIIM ANGRY! #my TQ tag #my laura tag #TQ

[desolateice]

I was fighting so much with the CSS for Umibudo. I had three Okinawan language sources and I think by the time I finished messing with the chapter’s highlight text it broke almost all the links I’d put in the note. So these are the sources I used to attempt writing romanized Okinawan: Useful Okinawan phrases from Omniglot I believe this website has a set number of phrases they try to translate every language into, they don’t fill out all of them because I don’t think they were able to get all of them, but for basics and a quick guide it’s helpful.

Learn Essential Okinawan Language Phrases helpful in your travels! by Nihongo Master This website is somewhat in line with what I learned, how to say thank you and to greet people as well as a few useful phrases. It’s a website more for learning Japanese so a lot of it they compare to Japanese and explain the differences when an opportunity arises.

Rikka,Uchinaa-nkai! ( Let’s go to Okinawa! ) Okinawan Language Textbook for Beginners This is a beautiful resource of self study that one would find at the start of a language class. It teaches you how to introduce yourself, ask where something is, talk about your family (not partners though), ask how much something is and talk about food as well as a few other things. A lot of love went into this. I didn’t use wikipedia but they also have a decent amount of information.

Okinawan, or Uchinaaguchi, is an endangered language. So while I know that the phrases I used might not have been what would’ve been spoke in the 80s because language changes, my conjugations are probably very wrong, and the ways I used words might’ve not been accurate, I still wanted to attempt it. So please forgive all the errors, and I hope these sources can be useful for anyone with an interest in language/ curiosity about Okinawan/Uchinaaguchi or at least interesting.

Karii!

#language resources #okinawan language resources #fic resources #long posts

[c0nji]

So I picked up One Punch Man (manga) again, and seeing Murata sensei's art made me feel emotions that I thought died off a long time ago. The desire to draw. The desire to improve my craft.

My neurodivergent ass grew up drawing my entire life. It felt natural like breathing air, and I never stopped obsessing until I decided in my early 20s that 1) The industry was kinda toxic and not sustainable in the long run, 2) I needed a better-paying career in order to take care of my family.

The same family (mostly parents) that turned out to have the emotional intelligence of a dead rat.

Now, at the age of 30, I'm realizing that I feel miserable because I'm not doing what I've done my entire life: drawing. Creating. Sharing my pieces. Engaging in communities. Feeling.

There's not much I can do to escape my current life circumstances, but maybe I need to, once again, try to provide myself the private space I need to draw.

Don't I deserve that kindness from myself, at least? Moreso since no one irl bothers to help?

#long posts #c0nji talks #rambling

[piosplayhouse]

I held true to my word and bought @kyannnite GAY Jiang Cheng.

I searched through the in-game shopping board with the worst UI ever to try and find the best blue-black roan swan-necked lusitano I could only to discover. There just weren't any. So instead I headed to the auction house and entered an intense bidding war (someone bid $1 over me so I just doubled my fucking bid) to get the perfect horse. He's a mustang/dales pony mix. The real seller? His special talent is finding spices in the wild. Not even kidding they give the horses special talents in this game

Then it was time to complete the transformation. I spent a genuinely embarrassing amount of time and brain power in game to craft and dye him a completely custom tack set and paid for customization to make his hair scream GAY Jiang Cheng.

He is sterile (castrated).

#homophobic scum horse chronicles #jiang cheng #jc #long post #long posts #canon jiang cheng

[palmtreepalmtree]

Two of my favorite roles of the great lady herself - Angela Lansbury. The first is from The Harvey Girls (1946) and the second, of course, is Murder, She Wrote.

I know she didn't relish the tough-dame roles she was cast in early on in her career, but when you can give the camera that look, you're kind of stuck with it. She truly had a gift for expression. If you image search Angela from her Murder, She Wrote years, there are so many wonderful gifs - sometimes it feels like fun television mugging - but a lot of the time her face is just expressing a very specific human emotion and you know exactly what it is just by looking at her. She was truly a magnificent performer.

I know plenty of people will honor her for her stage work - I never had the pleasure. But I grew up with her as JB Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote and what a role model and a delight that character was.

Truly this show sits squarely within my childhood. 1984 to 1996. This is a show that was watched religiously in my household. When I was little, I was allowed to watch so long as I got into my pajamas and brushed my teeth during the commercials. I remember running back to the couch to make sure I didn't miss anything. And then as my sister and I got older, I used to settle in with a glass of milk and cookies to watch the show.

I know I have waxed poetic about this before, but I'm just gonna indulge again anyhow. As a character, JB Fletcher was a fucking fantastic role model. She navigates the world with an almost effortless independence. She is constantly traveling, furthering her career, meeting up with friends and relatives all over the world. She is a childless widow who is never portrayed as sad or lonely. Her relationships are rich and meaningful.

And on top of that, she doesn't take any fucking shit. No matter how many times she is demeaned or dismissed by the lawmen who treat her like a meddling old lady, she just rolls her eyes and carries on with solving the crime for them. She won't stand for being mistreated and always stands up for herself and others. And of course, she is always cleverer than anyone else on screen. What a fucking delight.

Anyhow, Angela Lansbury was a great lady who played one my favorite characters of all time. And I fully intend on starting an MSW re-watch tonight.

#sorry this is rambly #just sharing some thoughts like always #long posts #murder she wrote is the bees knees

[kineticallyanywhere]

im going through Monkey’s Paw Part 1 to make an HD pdf (speaking of, anyone know any hosting sites?) and in honor of that would like to highlight some of my favorite Red Flags for “oooohhh they gonna have to fight him, huh?”

Monkey’s Paw spoilers below the cut

1) Right out of the gate, a dark cape and a low pony? designed to turn on you

2) knows what kind of place this is but doesn’t know anyone from his own world who could pull it off (...other than himself. and he knows it can be deadly.)

3) Physically fit

4) Handles arguments by quickly creating a life-size duplicate of his opponent and beating it to a pulp in front of them

5) doesn’t argue being called an asshole

6) Very aware of the Doodler in him and more casual to talk about it than Henry

7) Him being assertive in itself isn’t really a red flag, but... prioritizing his own mobility over the safety he knows his presence/ability could provide to the others

8)

9) Very self-confident for a Henry

10) NegaGlenn Calling It

11) appears to manipulate the boarder-line-4th-wall representation of the Doodler

12) The Last Siren Warning

13)

#soon! #dndads #monkeys paw #me talking #long posts

[tirpse]

#i am sorry again? #kinnporsche #vegaspete #myedits #long posts

[suiheisen]

"i would know her by reformed body alone... i would know her in death"

also... there's official art

#happy national lesbian necromancy day #studio trigger somehow made it even gayer #between this and senshi pantyshot... we were fed #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #spoilers #yes i needed to make my gifs huge #for... you know... #science #farcille #falin touden #marcille donato #long post #anime #art #autoplay warning

[jackienautism]

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ouuugh all the monster analogies.... the talk abt losing oneself..... both metaphorically and literally..... the talk of death...... both self inflicted and otherwise.... its all so good and i think fits silas very well! thank for sending these in :]

#submission #listen as if you were silas #Spotify #SoundCloud #// #mine #text #music #silas vorez #the quarry #my TQ tag #TQ #submissions #suicide mention #long posts

[weaselle]

it was too much i had to make my own post

line cook here. ACCURATE

if you don't get the hate, here's what you don't understand.

it takes up to 2 hours to close down the kitchen.

The last 60-90 minutes before closing time you do almost no cooking because the restaurant doesn't have many people in it and you've already cooked most of their diners.

So if someone walks in during, like, the last hour, the cook is in the middle of an industrial deep clean of the kitchen.

(these numbers can vary quite a bit from place to place but i have worked several restaurants with these actual times and the concept remains the same)

Say the place closes at 10. If you wait til the restaurant is already closed to start all your cleaning duties, you'll be there until at least midnight.

More than that your boss knows that on an average night you can start your clean up as soon as the last rush ends and get out of there around 10:45, even 10:15 on a slow night if you get lucky. That means there are plenty of restaurants where if you do take until midnight the manager is going to come up to you at some point that week and ask you what went wrong that night, and you'd better have an answer.

So this example restaurant closes at 10 pm. The dinner rush ends around 8:30, and shortly after that the cook is going to start getting every single dish possible over to the dishwasher because the dishwasher always gets hit hard and late, and the machine runs for 2 full minutes and only holds so many dishes, so the way that works out is if you wait an extra 30 minutes to give the dishwasher all your stuff it can mean adding like 60 minutes to the end of his shift. And you're gonna KEEP finding shit to send to the dishpit right up until you leave probably.

all these little square and rectangle containers in this cold table have to be pulled out and changed over into new containers, replaced by new full ones, or in some cases filled from larger containers in the back, which can result in even more empty containers to send to the dishwasher.

while it's all pulled apart to do this, you have to clean up all the spilled food and sauce and juices and stuff from the joints and ledges and shelves and drip trays

Once you get your line changed over in this way, and fully stocked, anytime someone orders something that makes use of a bunch of that stuff, you have to restock and re-clean it some. It might already be covered in plastic. Some of it might already be stuck in the back to make room to take apart your cutting board counter to clean. To cook a dish isn't TOO much of a problem at this point, but you're really hoping for zero orders because you still have so much other cleaning to do.

Meanwhile the salad bar and appetizer section and server station and everybody are all doing the same thing. Even the bartenders are stocking olives and lemons and sending back whisks and stir spoons and shakers and empty 4quart storage containers that used to hold the back-up lemons and olives and things. Every section is dumping their must-be-cleaneds to the dishpit as fast as possible because early and fast is the only thing they can do to to help that dishpit not absolutely drown into overtime.

The poor dishwasher is always the last to clock out, soaking wet and exhausted.

Around this time you probably scrub the flat top, which has turned black from cooked on grease and is still about 500 degrees. Line cooks are divided in opinion on water-based or oil based cleaning methods for this, but they all involve scrubbing with (usually) a brick of pumice stone using every ounce of your strength while you try not to burn yourself

you scrub it from fully blackened to gleaming silver and now if somebody orders something that needs the flat top to cook, you can either fuck up your cleaning job or fake it in a couple frying pans and pass that tiny fuck you down to your dishwasher (who usually understands, especially if you help them take the garbage out or clean your own floor drain later)

If there's deep fried stuff on the menu then the fryers have to be cleaned out, which includes straining the oil out into enormous and super-heavy pots full of oil so hot that if you spill on yourself then it's probably a hospital visit and if you slip and fall face first into it it'll be the last thing you ever do.

Then you gotta scrub out the fryer. Like you gotta take the (hot) screen out and reach your arm down into the weird rounded pipes and curved areas (so hot, burn you if you brush against them hot) and scrub off whatever is down there

Depending on your kitchen you might have to do up to four of these. Then you'll have to pour the (dangerously hot) oil back in

oh, and if you didn't dry the pipes and get ALL the water out of the trap and tank?

water reacts with hot oil in a sort of mentos and coke way that can send a tidal wave of oil past the open flame of the pilot light ...HUGE dangerous mess and/or burn down the kitchen if the oil lights up.

Unless! If the oil has been used too hard and needs to be changed, it's time to carry those open topped super heavy pots full of will-kill-you-hot oil and dump them in the barrel outside by the dumpsters so you can put room temp fresh oil in the fryers. whew!

The clean up is not just some light wiping down that can be easily interrupted, is what i'm saying.

You might have to do some kind of walk-in duty (moving around 50lb cases of lettuce and 50lb bags of onions to get to the stacks of five gallon buckets full of salad dressings and sauces to move so you can reach the giant metal pots and bus tubs full of prep and get it all organized and make sure it's all labeled and i have to stop now i'm having flashbacks)

THE POINT IS

by 15 or however many minutes to close, the line cook is doing an intense deep clean and probably has the whole stove taken apart to detail.

For some industrial stoves this means lifting off large cast iron plates that weigh like 20 lbs each and are still quite hot. Whatever metal burners are on there, you gotta take off and clean, you can see here the lines that indicate the large thick cast iron rectangles that sit on top of the burners to allow heavy pots to rest on. Those five (each has one front burner hole and one back burner hole, see?) have to be lifted off and cleaned with soap and a wire brush usually, and then the underneath area also has to be cleaned because a lot of shit falls through the burner holes on a busy night.

if you didn't do it when you did the flat top you have to do the grease trap (which can be like a full five minutes and is always disgusting).. You gotta clean out all the little gas jets in each burner with a wire or something so the burners all flame evenly, and sometimes you have to remove some of the natural gas piping that connects the burners to access where you have to clean.

you gotta clean out the bottom of the oven and the wire racks, and, oh gods, you gotta take down the filter vents from the hood fans above the stove.

See all the lined parts along the top of the wall?

those are hood vents, and as they pull air up they also pull a lot of grease and they have to be taken down and cleaned, then you gotta climb up there and scrub where they go before you put them back...

And then there's the mopping and floor drains and...

Anyway, that's what the line cook is doing when you walk in fifteen minutes before closing and order something that needs to be cooked on that stove. They are doing an entire industrial cleaning of a professional kitchen.

In some restaurants maybe one or two of these jobs will be every other night or even only twice a week, but in many, possibly most kitchens, ALL of these things happen EVERY night. You don't want to leave any food mess that might attract insects or rodents for one thing, so a really good kitchen is as close to brand new as you can get it every night.

IF YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO ORDER SOMETHING ANYWAY, HERE IS WHAT TO DO

open with an apology and ask the server to go ask what the cook would prefer you to order.

Any good server will already know what the cook is hoping for and what will make their line cook go into the walk in and scream. If it's significantly less than an hour to close and they say some variant of "oh anything is fine" they are either telling the lie their boss wants them to say, or they actually do not know what their line cook wants, and you can either use human connection and a conspiratorial just-between-us tone to get them to drop the customer-is-always-right act, or get them to actually go ask the cook.

It might be as specific as "the lasagna is easiest on the kitchen" or it might be a simple guideline like "nothing that requires the flat top" or "any of the saut��s are easy" but a good line cook will probably have a system for if they have to make a couple of the most popular items after they start their close, so the answer is likely to include something most people like and you should be good to order that.

but for the love of all that's holy, please only do so at great need. Leave that last 30-60 minutes to the truly desperate and the crew's duties.

#long post #sorry #i just have a lot of DO PEOPLE UNDERSTAND feelings left over from all my years in restaurants #restaurants #line cook #service industry

[deoidesign]

A general cane guide for writers and artists (from a cane user, writer, and artist!)

Disclaimer: Though I have been using a cane for 6 years, I am not a doctor, nor am I by any means an expert. This guide is true to my experience, but there are as many ways to use a cane as there are cane users!

This guide will not include: White canes for blindness, crutches, walkers, or wheelchairs as I have no personal experience with these.

This is meant to be a general guide to get you started and avoid some common mishaps/misconceptions in your writing, but you absolutely should continue to do your own research outside of this guide!

This is NOT a medical resource!!! And never tell a real person you think they're using a cane wrong!

The biggest recurring problem I've seen is using the cane on the wrong side. The cane goes on the opposite side of the pain! If your character has even-sided pain or needs it for balance/weakness, then use the cane in the non-dominant hand to keep the dominant hand free. Some cane users also switch sides to give their arm a rest!

A cane takes about 20% of your weight off the opposite leg. It should fit within your natural gait and become something of an extension of your body. If you need more weight off than 20%, then crutches, a walker, or a wheelchair is needed.

Putting more pressure on the cane, using it on the wrong side, or having it at the wrong height can make it less effective, and can cause long term damage to your body from improper pressure and posture. (Hugh Laurie genuinely hurt his body from years of using a cane wrong on House!)

(some people elect to use a cane wrong for their personal situation despite this, everyone is different!)

(an animated GIF of a cane matching the natural walking gait. It turns red when pressure is placed on it.)

When going up and down stairs, there is an ideal standard: You want to use the handrail and the cane at the same time, or prioritize the handrail if it's only on one side. When going up stairs you lead with your good leg and follow with the cane and hurt leg together. When going down stairs you lead with the cane and the bad leg and follow with the good leg!

Realistically though, many people don't move out of the way for cane users to access the railing, many stairs don't have railings, and many are wet, rusty, or generally not ideal to grip.

In these cases, if you have a friend nearby, holding on to them is a good idea. Or, take it one step at a time carefully if you're alone.

Now we come to a very common mistake I see... Using fashion canes for medical use!

(These are 4 broad shapes, but there is INCREDIBLE variation in cane handles. Research heavily what will be best for your character's specific needs!)

The handle is the contact point for all the weight you're putting on your cane, and that pressure is being put onto your hand, wrist, and shoulder. So the shape is very important for long term use!

Knob handles (and very decorative handles) are not used for medical use for this reason. It adds extra stress to the body and can damage your hand to put constant pressure onto these painful shapes.

The weight of a cane is also incredibly important, as a heavier cane will cause wear on your body much faster. When you're using it all day, it gets heavy fast! If your character struggles with weakness, then they won't want a heavy cane if they can help it!

This is also part of why sword canes aren't usually very viable for medical use (along with them usually being knob handles) is that swords are extra weight!

However, a small knife or perhaps a retractable blade hidden within the base might be viable even for weak characters.

Bases have a lot of variability as well, and the modern standard is generally adjustable bases. Adjustable canes are very handy if your character regularly changes shoe height, for instance (gotta keep the height at your hip!)

Canes help on most terrain with their standard base and structure. But for some terrain, you might want a different base, or to forego the cane entirely! This article covers it pretty well.

Many cane users decorate their canes! Stickers are incredibly common, and painting canes is relatively common as well! You'll also see people replacing the standard wrist strap with a personalized one, or even adding a small charm to the ring the strap connects to. (nothing too large, or it gets annoying as the cane is swinging around everywhere)

(my canes, for reference)

If your character uses a cane full time, then they might also have multiple canes that look different aesthetically to match their outfits!

When it comes to practical things outside of the cane, you reasonably only have one hand available while it's being used. Many people will hook their cane onto their arm or let it dangle on the strap (if they have one) while using their cane arm, but it's often significantly less convenient than 2 hands. But, if you need 2 hands, then it's either setting the cane down or letting it hang!

For this reason, optimizing one handed use is ideal! Keeping bags/items on the side of your free hand helps keep your items accessible.

When sitting, the cane either leans against a wall or table, goes under the chair, or hooks onto the back of the chair. (It often falls when hanging off of a chair, in my experience)

When getting up, the user will either use their cane to help them balance/support as they stand, or get up and then grab their cane. This depends on what it's being used for (balance vs pain when walking, for instance!)

That's everything I can think of for now. Thank you for reading my long-but-absolutely-not-comprehensive list of things to keep in mind when writing or drawing a cane user!

Happy disability pride month! Go forth and make more characters use canes!!!

#mobility aid #cane user #writing tips #writing advice #drawing tips #art tutorial #art tips #art reference #art resources #art help #my art #long post

[savagegood]

“Did you see the way that little girl looked at me? Kids. Little kids. They grow up believing that they can be a hero if they drive a sword into the heart of anything different. And I’m the monster? I don’t know what’s scarier. The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart or that sometimes I just wanna let ‘em.” “We have to get you out of here. Over the wall. We won’t stop until we find some place safe, okay? We’ll go. Together. No matter what we do, we can’t change the way people see us.” “You changed the way you see me... Didn’t you?

NIMONA (2023), based on the comic by ND Stevenson, who came out as transgender in 2022

#please watch it #it's beautiful... from the animation to the message and the way it crystallises anxieties struggling with gender and the prejudices faced #such a lovely healing watch and i'm glad it's out there #nimona #nimonaedit #nd stevenson #nimona spoilers #comics #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #nonbinary #riz ahmed #chloe grace moretz #long post #ballister blackheart #genderfluid #*op

[thisfilmisnotyetrated]

SALTBURN (dir. Emerald Fennell, 2023)

#long post #saltburn #emeral fennell #barry keoghan #barrykeoghanedit #bkeoghanedit #oliver quick #filmgifs #filmedit #cinemagifs #cinemaedit #fyeahmovies #holesrus #mancandykings #flawlessgentlemen #dailymalestaredit #dailymenedit #malesource #menedit #**