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me: *plans story in head*

me: *knows every single plot twist to happen*

me: *plans update schedule and chapter lengths*

me: *knows what the five sequels will be about*

me: *writes down first sentence*

me: shit I give up

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if you’re running out of fanfics clap your hands

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What are some non verbal indications that someone is good with guns (any and all)? Like, how someone holds a gun, their stance, where their holster is, etc.

In most cases it’s easier to know when someone doesn’t knowwhat they’re doing. With that, there are enough that I wouldn’t pretend to beable to create an exhaustive list. The big ones that will send anyone withfirearms training up the wall are trigger discipline and barrel control.

Trigger discipline is about keeping your finger off thetrigger until you are ready to fire. It’s a really simple thing, and something everyone handling a gun shouldpractice. Hollywood hates it. Or at least, some directors in Hollywood(apparently) think their actors should have their fingers on the trigger at alltimes, “because it looks more dangerous.” Which, you know, it actually is.Stupidly dangerous.

Most people who know what they’re doing will rest theirindex finger along the frame over the trigger. This isn’t the only way, somewill simply have their finger sticking out at an awkward angle (and a lot ofpeople will do that during reloads).

Barrel control is keeping the firearm pointed in a safedirection at all times. “Safe,” is a bit of a loaded term here, since, if yourgoal is to use the gun on someone, you’re going to be pointing it at them.Again, this is basic safety. This is a little more involved, because no matterwhat you do, the gun will be pointed somewhere. The important part isremembering that, and not pointing the gun at someone’s thigh when you’re notusing it.

As with trigger discipline, this is an incredibly basicelement of gun safety, that a lot of people who don’t know what they’re doingwill easily miss.

There are a lot of other potential tells, someone who dropstheir magazines rather than retaining them, probably doesn’t know what they’redoing. (This is the practice of discarding a partial or empty magazine whenreloading, instead of keeping it.) TV and film love presenting people droppingmags, probably because it looks more dramatic, but it is a pretty good signthat someone’s only education came from mass media.

Concealment isn’t cover. This is one of the few that doestend to separate trained shooters from untrained ones. In a shock to no one, bulletspass through objects in their environment. Taking cover means far more than hidingbehind a car door or couch.

So, concealment means you cannot see your opponent. Covermeans they’re hiding behind something that will take a bullet. Most of thetime, just because you can’t see someone, doesn’t mean you can’t shoot them.Someone hides behind a wall in a home or office? Yeah, you can shoot straightthrough that. Drywall, almost all furniture, most parts of a vehicle, mostgarage doors… none of that will stop a pistol round. When you start dealingwith rifle rounds, even things like exterior walls start getting iffy. Trainedshooters will fire through concealment. Amateurs who learned how to shoot fromCall of Duty and reruns of old Arnold movies will try to take cover behind acouch.

Firing until you run dry. This is a little trickier becausetrained shooters will do this on the range. No one’s shooting back, and you’regoing to immediately repack the mag anyway. In the field though, emptying your magazine is a seriously dangeroussituation. Reload partials when you have the opportunity to, don’t wait for itto run empty, and have a non-functional gun when you need it.

The problem with all of this information is; it doesn’treally answer your question. It tells you things to look for with someone whodoesn’t know what they’re doing. Not how to identify someone who really does.This is because it’s far easier to identify things that an incompetent shooterwill do, rather than tells that are exclusive to someone who really knows whatthey’re doing in contrast to someone who has a basic understanding of gun use.

Some of these also aren’t easy to operationalize. Forexample, with stance, There’s Weaver, Chapman, Center Axis Relock,  Modern Isosceles, and many more. There isn’ta, “correct,” or, “elite,” way to do choose one of these, and many experiencedshooters will tailor their stance to match the situation they’re in on the fly.The exact way they do that, or if they choose something that isn’t a functional stance, like GangsterStyle (holding a handgun horizontally at arm’s length), can tell you abouttheir training and how comfortable they are with a gun, but it’s not somethingyou can easily explain in abstract. (At least not without going into all of thepros and cons of the various stances, and spending a lot of time going throughall of the debate on the subject.) There’s also a lot of blending between someof these stances, and “adapted,” “reverse,” or “modern” variants of them.

It’s easy to distinguish someone who doesn’t know what they’redoing from someone who’s had some basic training, but distinguishing betweensomeone who knows what they’re doing, and someone who is actually good with theweapons can be tricky.

I am sorry if that doesn’t really answer your question.

-Starke

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Walker: And go take a psychology course. Try to figure out who gave you such disgusting daddy issues. Adam: It was probably, you know, my dad.

HOW DID I JUST SEE THIS NOW OMF

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youthcolor:

This might be lame, but i’m really curious to see how many dancers there are using tumblr. Reblog or like if you consider yourself a dancer, let’s see how many of us there are on here.

ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, contemporary, modern, you name it.

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what did we do to deserve adamus sutekh honestly

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What she says: I’m fine.

What she means: Adam Sutekh deserved to develop more legacies. I mean, he risked his life numerous times for the garde and who even knows how many times he saved the day? He killed his own best friend/brother and his father all for the benefit of the others. He became a freaking badass with the legacy that One gave him, and he was allowed to enter the Loric temple in Mexico, so how come Legacy didn’t allow him to develop more legacies???

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what if you went outside and saw slender man what would you do

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This video is the greatest thing

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So what if the next Deadpool movie started like every white teen movie?

*valley girl voice* hi, My name's Wade.... And I'm not like those other girls, oh no. I'm not a cheerleader, or emo, or a nerd. I'm just Wade. *pan over to Spider-Man". That's Peter. He is soooo hot. He's like if Ryan Reynolds and Andrew Garfield had a baby. *pans back to him* but me? I'm just Wade. And this is my story * Dirty Little Secret plays*

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Peter: Did you eat all the sugar doughnuts?

Wade: *with a mouth full of doughnuts* no...

Peter: Then what's that on your pants?

Wade: cocaine.

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Psylocke vs Deadpool

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All I Want to Happen in Deadpool 2

1. Deadpool gets a boyfriend.

2. The boyfriend is played by Andrew Garfield.

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pete parkley

All I Want to Happen in Deadpool 2

1. Deadpool gets a boyfriend.

2. The boyfriend is played by Andrew Garfield.

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Operator: 911, what's your emergency?

Ryan Reynolds: Film rights are preventing Deadpool from fucking Spiderman

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peter parker seems to like hello kitty just like his rumoured boyfriend