#time to whittle

[offurandfeathers]

Elven Halsin with a bear's tongue.

#food for thoughts #halsin #halsin silverbough #time to whittle

[vaxxman]

Could I request Medic having The Mom Grip on Scout’s shoulder after the speedy moron almost let a mercenary secret slip while they weee getting groceries?

Three Europeans and two Americans walk into a grocery store in New Mexico.

I hope this is the right meme.

More silliness below.

This comic is the antithesis of the "wtf is a kilometre" joke.

The faces they make when they can't quite identify the type of brown bread in the bread aisle.

You don't know how [insert nationality here] you are until you go overseas and things are different.

Spy obviously has no problems with pretending to know how much a gallon of milk is, he just peeks into his conversion chart notes, pretending it's his shopping list.

I want to think Heavy is completely fine with having to readjust to a new unit system, he just eyeballs most practical things anyways by holding them up and mumbling about how they approximately weigh like a chicken or his kettle bell etc. He's always been living in practical ignorant bliss.

Medic has a peer reviewed meltdown the first time he realises there's no uniformity in "a cup of ____" because every object has different densities. He's diligent about memorising the conversion rates for ounces, pounds, the most common things etc., and recovers ok. He goes through the same stages of grief rage when he finds out about distances and lengths.

Just remember four inches are 10.16 cm and pray no one asks you to specify anything bigger than inches.

Everyone does a mental victory lap when they manage to guess how much Celsius the weather is because they keep forgetting it's Celsius*5/9+32=Fahrenheit, Engineer reminds them patiently.

The true victories are the correct temperature guesses we've made along the way.

One time, a friend asked me if I actually knew how much a tablespoon of flour was in gramms to convince me that metric users also make use of volume based units without thinking about them. But little did she know a heaped spoonful of 405 flour is about 15g and a level tablespoon is 10g.

They claim Oolong just tastes better when it's boiled to 80°C exactly with a Bunsen burner.

You only asked for one scene but somehow I came up with a bunch of other things. This post was drawn across 2 months so the artstyle is all over the place. Thanks for your ask!

#team fortress 2 #tf2 #tf2 medic #tf2 scout #tf2 spy #tf2 heavy #tf2 soldier #Medic's reaction to a stick of butter is 100% based on my own reaction after reading an American recipe for the first time #Like I didn't know butter in America came in this normed stick-form I genuinely thought it was some arbitrary unit like ??? A Stick?? #As in I didn't know if the recipe required the butter to be in this specific shape; like sometimes you have to add butter in shaves or molt #no biggie lemme whittle away at my butter block until it's shaped like a stick? And then I learnt it was the portions that butter comes in #Cut me some slack; I'm used to recipes using eggs as the scale-up ingredient; not butter #I also learnt that medical labels is where metric units are mostly encountered simply because medicine is international #But that is the main reason why I think Medic would not realise he'd have to deal with imperial units until he goes grocery shopping #The man's just been ignoring the “oz” information right below everything he's ever used; out of sight out of mind #I want to think Engi is the most normal person about the entire metric-imperial-units thing he just does some mental arithmetic and done #King just learned système international d'unités during one of his 11 phds; it's not unrealistic

[nocontextsmosh]

#this was in my queue for later but felt very timely now so lol #smosh #smosh squad #shayne topp #amanda lehan canto #sarah whittle #video #smosh mouth #100+

[iridescentmirrorsgenshin]

okay but the fact that we hear all about kaveh's life post-fall out with alhaitham, the fact he graduated, worked at construction firms and continued taking on others' burdens, had a hard time finding solo work because of how arts are perceived in sumeru, that he went to his mother's wedding in fontaine, that he took a vacation from work because he was stifled by the environment and felt he had lost motivation and worth as an artist, was determined to complete the palace of alcazarzaray at the cost of everything he owned just to have a tangible object of his efforts and view of art only for its outcome to further emaciate him, until he meets alhaitham for the first time in years, is understood at once, has no need to don a front as he does for everyone else in his life, is listened to, is challenged once more and reinvigorated in his perception of his ideals, is offered a second chance, a home, and accepts it, although he cannot comprehend why alhaitham would offer such a thing and yet not ask anything of relevant substance in return, other than rent

all of this, and we hear virtually nothing of alhaitham's life post-fall out with kaveh, besides his graduation and his taking on the job of the scribe. his character stories omit this part of his life whereas kaveh's is full of detail and emotion, mostly suffering. the first instance we see of alhaitham in this time is from kaveh's perspective when the two meet again in the tavern, and in this alhaitham endeavours to understand kaveh once more, before offering his house - the research centre previously allocated to the both of them for the success of their joint thesis before they fell apart - to kaveh.

we don't know why alhaitham moved out of his grandmother's house and into the research centre, why he renovated it from a research centre into a livable home, only that he did so after kaveh informed alhaitham through a third party that he was not in need of a house, nor do we know his thought processes and emotions in the years spent apart - the years that are carefully documented in kaveh's character stories. the image we are presented with is that of stasis; alhaitham pursues no other close friendships, he works as the scribe, owns a nice house within sumeru, is financially secure, and functions within, and carries out, his own ideals - is content with this way of life. in this, from alhaitham's perspective, there are no details necessary to give from this time

but in inviting kaveh to live with him, his character stories tell us that what he gains by doing so is the mirror of himself, both in personality and scholarly thinking, and in this, he is able to gain an enhanced view of the world, which otherwise would be limited. with kaveh being present in alhaitham's life, alhaitham believes that his vision is perfected, whereas it could not be before, with kaveh's absence. it is in this that we hear what alhaitham has been missing in his life, and ultimately, it is kaveh, not just as a scholar, but as a person

what is omitted from alhaitham's character stories is provided in kaveh's character stories; where we hear about kaveh's struggles, we don't hear about alhaitham's. perhaps this is because alhaitham did not struggle as kaveh did in terms of realising and achieving his ideals, but instead his struggles were in silence, recognising that his vision, and himself, had been compromised because he had rejected the ideals that served to enhance his own vision, that he had inadvertently rejected, and thus had been rejected by, kaveh.

#basically alhaitham's silence of this time period is very telling #its giving that inazuman proverb #is it basically that kaveh wasnt in his life and everything stayed the same and therefore there was nothing to challenge him? #yeah basically? obviously im not whittling his character down to him solely revolving around kaveh #but that doesn't mean he can't do it to himself #youre not helping your case my guy #but seriously alhaithams character stories explain the differences between him and kaveh in terms of their views #on the talented and the collective which contextualises the cause of their argument #their character stories are intrinsically linked because mirrors #which is why it is so interesting to me that alhaitham basically gives no information about his life after kaveh #and any information he does give is to do with kaveh in terms of the house which kaveh also mentions #haikaveh #kaveh #kavetham #alhaitham #haikaveh meta #anyway IM GOING INSANE

[pa-pa-plasma]

THE RULES that I have been going off of, for everyone voting as if this were a fight to the death:

this is a regular episode of Danny Phantom

the cats are loose in Amity Park, this is not an arena or anything.

there are a lot of cats but they aren't trying to kill Danny in particular or are unrealistically aggressive, they are just cats, a good chunk of them being kittens or unable to fight, probably confused as to where they've been transported to

they act like normal feral cats do (there is a difference between ferals & strays). they are not smarter (they think cars are animals) or trained any more than in canon, which does not include fighting humans with technology that can trap cats (it is canon that they cannot fight this & do not train to fight this)

the cats do not have special superpowers that can oneshot Danny, because this is not canon in Warriors. they are literally just animal ghosts. i think they have prophetic visions about the clans, but I don't see how this helps them escape Danny's C&R program as it didn't help the last time

Danny has all of his canon powers

Danny has all of his "training" & practice from canon

Danny has all of the canon Fenton tech, maybe even ghost proof live traps because let's be real, Maddie & Jack would immediately make a bunch if there was a ghost cat problem

Danny has the benefit of looking up "how to catch feral cats"

Danny has help from whoever he is allied with in canon

we're all stupid because this is not the question we should be focusing on

we should be focusing on how the hell Starclan suddenly disappearing would affect the clans

my answer under the cut

Danny would win, but it would take him months to catch all of them & he would suffer the whole time

he's a dog person too so he wouldn't know how to handle them. Sam would be able to handle them but as soon as any of them start to warm up to Danny (probably like Pinestar or another warrior-turned-kittypet) Cujo would show up & they'd all scatter

except for Swiftpaw, he'd probably fight Cujo, traumatizing him & making it impossible for him to get along with cats in the future, obviously making the situation worse

#Danny Phantom #Warrior Cats #for science #everyone is paying so much attention to the random number i put down #that they're forgetting these are CATS who are FERAL & avoid humans AT ALL COSTS #a very small percentage would actually try to fight Danny & another percentage would be like ''well it's free food & stuff'' #because they were socialized at some point in their life & aren't actually feral (like Cloudtail or Pinestar or any of the kittypets) #because they can't exactly procreate i think Danny could whittle away at their numbers until they're all put back where they should be #it would take a long ass time but he could do it. i stick by this answer 100%

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

in the spirit of historical anachronisms I think that, in order to pass the time on the ship (because pirate ships would often go weeks without making landfall or doing a raid) that the crew of the revenge should play dungeons and dragons. What I want to know is, do they split into two tables (5 guys to a table plus the dm) or do they just raw dog it and have a table of 11? And also who is the forever dm and why is it Oluwande?

#our flag means death #I'm not counting Izzy but I am counting Ivan in this #Even if Izzy is still on the ship you cannot convince me that he would be able to engage in d&d #he would think fantasy roleplaying is dumb and a waste of time #and he would have a temper tantrum whenever the boat rocked and the dice went everywhere #I think Jim would paint all the minis because painting tiny figures quiets the brain bees #of course everyone whittles their own mini #but Jim paints them #Lucius is the other forever dm

[no-psi-nan]

Kusuo also makes life size replicas of people he loves so it's truly the Saiki family tradition <3

#I'm convinced Kumagoro has a carefully and lovingly whittled giant wooden Kumi doll hidden in the attic somewhere #Kumi found it one time and made a cloth Kumagoro to join it but with swankier clothes of course #Kurumi saw them as a child and found it to be the ultimate symbol of romance #Kuniharu is just a garden variety freak #Picturing Kusuo playing with clay and accidentally making a statue of his crush who he's in denial about and being so tsundere mad about it #nopsi nonsense

[flowercrown-bard]

Berf

#I try things #I'm not really happy with the eye but if i cut off more wood again it's just going to look more strange #I tried to fix it five times already and it didn't help #Verschlimmbessern #I'm pretty proud of this tho #Horse #Whittling #wood carving #woodcarving #My art

[ace-and-ranty]

The thematic through lines between Spinning Silver and The Scholomance drive me absolutely insane. It is so fascinating, seeing themes resurface across an author's body of work.

You've got paying for things with honest hard work (mana, Magreta's hand-sewing), VS paying them with exploitation and other people's lives (malia, Chernobog's magic clothing). You've got mothers who set up their children as bet as possible (Gwen, Silvija) VS mothers who sold them for their own gains (Ophelia, Minartius' mother). You've got monsters of endless hunger (Mawmouths, Chernoborg). You've got all our righteously angry girlies (El, Miryem, Irina). And you've got people coming together as a circle (all the circle castings in the Scholomance, the Staryk King's capture)

It's also interesting of course to see where themes don't repeat. The Scholomance has a huge focus on collective action that's not very present in Spinning Silver. And Spinning Silver has a lot to say about personal dignity, about the "thousand tiny deaths" of seeing yourself ground down by abuse, which the Scholomance doesn't say much about. But just. GOD. The parallels.

#The Scholomance #Spinning Silver #Naomi Novik #I love the theme of personal dignity in Spinning Silver #Miryem facing up to the Staryk King every time because risking death is better than letting herself be whittled down. #The 'No' that you say when there is nothing worse that could happen to you #I cry every time I read Stepon's narration. There was nothing his father could have done to him that would've been worse than killing Wanda #crying. sobbing. on the floor actually.

[milkweedman]

Pulling the seeds off more milkweed fiber. I've been distributing most of them outside so far, and will probably continue to toss them on empty dirt nearby as I do more.

Sorry for the terrible lighting, but I have also been spinning a blend of some. This is ryå mixed with it--I've done two rolags so far, the first one with only a little milkweed and the second that about half and half, and they're both spinning up super well. They also mixed in very easily and obligingly.

Unfortunately woke up and the spindle tip had snapped, so I have to take a break while the glue dries.

#my bought spindle (the blue one with a captive whorl) also broke a few months back #and i went to fix it at the same time but the tip is no longer in the box. argh. #i might just whittle it shorter its already broken so many damn times #keeps breaking in new places too like its just too long and thin and weak to not shatter repeatedly #its actually broken more than any of my handmade spindles and i use it the least #so i think keeping the thin tip as short as is still comfortable to spin on might be key because most of my other spindles #have broken once if it at all #spinning #handspun yarn #milkweed #ryå lambswool #supported spindles #supported spinning #foraging

[yourinterestisnotcringe]

Challenge Pit Relay w/ Sarah Whittle (2023)

Little moments that make me feel emotions #27384949595

#so this is a few weeks before the reunion video with anthony was shot and #i don't remember when ian presented anthony with the idea of buying back smosh but they said it took months negotiating the deal #so in think they were talking about sketches and stuff during the time of this original video. #anthony coming back was obviously a secret but #the thought of them reconnecting and probably talking about old times and maybe how they would do new sketches #makes ian's reaction and face here even better to me 🥹🥲 #because i remember him not reacting at all when stuff like this happened in livestreams or whatever(doesn't have to mean anything but still #just rambling this into the void because ❤️🥹 #smosh #smosh pit #challenge pit #ian hecox #sarah whittle #angela giarratana #ian #sarah #angela #mine #shayne topp #courtney miller #youtube #also of course angela said it #*ignore the typos pls gkgkgkgk #smoshblr

[offurandfeathers]

Larian fixed Halsin's point-and-click voice lines. I can die a happy woman.

#halsin #halsin silverbough #bg3 #patch 6 #time to whittle

[swiftcast-selene]

Day 2: Home

sometimes it's hard to think of the shadow of a castrum as "home", but... it's much harder to deny the effect the Shroud and its people have had on him.

#miqomarch #miqomarch 2024 #ffxiv #ffxiv miqo'te #final fantasy 14 #there's no canon location for O that i've managed to find so #i imagine them being basically. between gyr abania and the shroud #used to cover a pretty large territory between the two #a long time ago before the ala mhigan invasion #and as it was they eventually. settled on staying in gridania. purely because it was safer there #and they didn't want to side with ala mhigo for fear of like. invoking the ire of the elementals #and it was fine for a While. until negi's father just sort of made a mess of the tribe. #got a big head about it and thought he was invincible and slowly whittled away at relations with gridania in general #until there was no trade and they just stagnated #negi was one of his last kids and as a twin he inherited most of the issues o'kovhi didn't get #so there's something a little... bitter about childhood for him. the feeling of being stuck between a rock and a hard place #he left eventually for gridania proper to study as a conjurer (which didn't work out very well) #but without all of it he wouldn't have met selene.. wouldn't have found his calling during the calamity... #he wouldn't be himself! #and he does love the Shroud. it is his home for better or for worse #his.... roots ;) ;) ;) #m: negi

[b4kuch1n]

pre-holiday leave crumbs

#sk8 the infinity #kyan reki #hasegawa langa #renga #hey. if I give u a bottle labeled wine with somethin else inside. would u drink it #anyways. tomorrow I Travel #The Turbulance evened out alright! so the Traveling could no longer be postponed #three days on da road babeyy (<- shaking and crying) #goin to a market! I'll try to get a new kitchen knife there. will be better than whatever the fucks goin on in our kitchen rn #anyways. post-fic haze has settled in once again I am simply no thought. this will continue for hopefully five hours #until I gotta get up for car time #kinda whittling down the 20yo reki design slowly to get to a point where it feels Correct #20yo langa is already perfect. maybe to nobody but me but I stand the fuck by it #I believe in langa looking like a guy lesbians would hit on by accident in his 20s. I hold myself to it #oh yeah if ur asking. no that was not a cigarette in the first pic. sorry Im a tightass about smoking thats a lollipop #in my head its the pickled mango flavour that alpenliebe already made a hard candy version of here #hard sour candy shell with. chili salt core. it is good (?) but it hurts my stomach (I will not stop eating them) #also if u catch the acc name going outside the panel in the comic. its bc I could NOT leave it at just 'random white girl' #it has to be the full thing I cannot do this fake fictional twitter user like that #literally the only preliminary caution I take for funny comics. nothign else makes sense I dont care. this is necessary however #anyways. it is time for baku to be horizontal and shit. so here we goooo #have a good nite lads! idk what will happen in the next 3 days! will most probably be silent! and then dip pen comms will open again #eat well sleep well! two daysborday until labor day

[thetriggeredhappy]

i finally figured out how to download that stream i did live reading Running Blind and edited it down into a podfic. here you go peoples

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #sniperscout #speeding bullet #shut up me #running blind #i originally did this in 2021 hoping to make an accessible version of running blind but at the time youtube was uh. not great #so there wasnt really a way to download the full quality version and the audio was scuffed as all hell #i checked back in today and i guess theyve fixed it! luckily now i know basics in audio editing so i whittled it down

[royalarchivist]

I really liked Ramon's idea of filling a tag with cute little things for Fit's birthday, and I was like "Hey, I got a bit of time to spare today, I can whip something up real quick. Surely I don't have THAT many clips of Fit!"

Well...

#mod talk #head in hands #I don't even think this is all of them this is just ones I've remembered to tag with Fit's name #I've been archiving since last April. I've got. A lot of clips. Which I should probably be putting on an external hard drive at this point #Anyways re: the video; I've whittled it down a lot and it's still almost 5 minutes long #I am NOT going to post a 5 minute long video I'm cutting this thing down to like. 3 minutes MAXIMUM #I don't think anyone would watch that and frankly even 3 minutes is pushing it #I liked the last big compilation edit I did before recent events made me unhappy about the subject #So I'm mostly doing this for my own sake and for fellow fans because I think it'll give everyone a laugh #also Ramon because his admin is a sweetie for thinking of this #anyhoo. ya boy's real tired but putting these things together is pretty fun #it's time consuming but tbh the hardest part is just the subtitling. It's just super tedious and time consuming #the rest is fun even if it's also a bit time consuming #I try to keep RA pretty light on textposts but I think it's fun sharing behind the scenes notes about what I'm working on