#but it does work

[overly-friendly-cryptid]

I fully believe that when Johnny Storm wants to go incognito in public he just gaslights everyone who recognizes him. Johnny Storm? No, his name’s Spencer, but he gets that a lot, he’s pretty sure it’s the hair.

#absolutely no one expects this to work #except johnny who runs on false confidence #but it DOES work #(fake it til you make it man) #peter parker loses faith in humanity for several weeks after finding this out #like bro how are humans still alive #johnny storm #the fantastic four #marvel

[a-wondering-thought]

I love my converse and im awkward at carrying conversations so if im talking to someone and we run out of things to talk about i will use my converse as a conversation starter and it works everytime its the best thing ever

#like hey have i told you about my shoes? #lol #im not funny #but it does work #vi screams into the void #converse

[skalidris]

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén/Mèng Yáo | Jīn Guāngyáo, Lán Jǐngyí & Lán Yuàn | Lán Sīzhuī Characters: Lán Huàn | Lán Xīchén, Mèng Yáo | Jīn Guāngyáo, Lán Jǐngyí, minor characters untagged Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Buddhism, Deus Ex Machina, culturally specific deus., Sect Leader Lán Jǐngyí, TGCF elements, ljy is not leader yet but he will be!, Ghost King/Minor Deity Jin Guangyao, ghost king as in tgcf, minor deity very much not as in tgcf, Implied/Referenced Torture, Mental Health Issues Summary:

Seven years after the events of Guanyin Temple, on the banks of the Underworld, Jin Guangyao belatedly experiences divine intervention and gets rescued from hell, straight to Lan Xichen's mountain hut.

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this is the fic i talked about in the guanyin & jgy post some people were interested in (or, well, the beginning of it)

#xiyao #jin guangyao #lan xichen #lan jingyi #(he's here & important) #seriously idk why the link shows up like this #but it does work

[totally-not-deacon]

The trick to really nail writing an angry/pissed off character:

Take five minutes and go read through the notes on like, any popular post.

#it works trust me #maybe not the best for your mental health #but it DOES work

[quil12]

Glad to see that you can still make the reaper fight a joke in Reload by using Armageddon

#persona 3 reload #i was wondering if they were going to keep that in the game #and they in fact did #did it feel like a cheap way to fight it? #yes yes it did #but it does work #the reaper fight is actually kinda hard again #i got so used to how easy it is in royal #so i forgot that it can actually be kind of challenging

[rainintheevening]

Favourite relationships – 2/10: Thor & Loki

This one is a phone lockscreen, go ahead and use it if you like!

#dunno if i'm totally happy with it #but it does work #went for a more norse theme #i call this one 'witness' #thor #loki #brodinsons #my edit #moodboard #mcu #fave relationship series

[pantmonger]

My transformation into an 80s film "inventor" trope continues at a steady pace and I present to you the hands free vortex mixer. Scared of vibration health issues or just hate holding paint while mixing. Witness my DIY monstrosity! Cost about $3 - $4 in materials. So at least its cheap :P

#Warhammer Community #Paint shaking #Shit inventions #But it does work

[nientedal]

god that post made me mad. "humans just CAN'T be persistence hunters, because persistence hunting doesn't make any sense to me personally! no i'm not going to cite any sources, just trust me, i read about it in school!"

okay, mmhm, sure...except it does work. it does work, and we know it does because it was still in practice by modern humans in the central Kalahari until AT LEAST 1990. some of those people have even explained some of the challenges and nuances of the practice as well as the knowledge they use to make it easier. it's not the only method of hunting humans have used over the years, but it is definitely one of the methods in our repertoire.

"humans can't run for multiple days without food and water (which is how i assume persistence hunting works, for some reason)! and they're not fast enough to chase an antelope without losing it! and tracking is a stupid concept that doesn't work, and i'm going to scoff and ignore it!"

you don't have to run for days. you don't have to be super fast. you just have to be fast enough to not let your quarry rest long enough to recover, and you do have to be able to track-- which is absolutely a real thing that people can and do learn how to do.

(i suspect the OP ignored tracking as a possibility for the same reason they tried to discredit any information about the indigenous peoples of the Kalahari as basically being (1) all noble savage bullshit from the 60s or (2) irrelevant because it's not what their forefathers were doing-- their anthropology course probably taught them about the challenges these bands are facing with colonialism, and probably also taught about the rampant misinformation about them, but it did not teach any actual respect for their cultures or knowledge. or for them as, you know, people. whose grandparents remember the way their grandparents hunted, and can talk about it, even if they are no longer able to continue the practice.)

(knowing the noble savage stereotype is bad doesn't make it less racist when you still talk about people from a stance of "but my modern ways are better than their hungry primitive ways and i'm going to talk as if they're already extinct and have no expertise worth discussing.")

"there's no POINT to it! we have tools! and weapons!" the point is not getting gored and kicked to death by a wounded animal four times your size that didn't die when you hit it the first time. the point is that an exhausted kill is an easy kill where you don't die. it's a decent point. it's fucking reasonable. also, afaik there's decent odds we learned hunting before we learned tools.

and yeah, i get that the OP was just upset and yelling in the initial post. i do understand that. and I understand their frustration at hearing a theory misrepresented as fact. but their subsequent reblogs and responses are equally thoughtless pseudointellectual posturing, and i'm sorry, it's garbage. someone pointed out modern pursuit hunters exist, and they basically went "mmmmyeah, all of that is just outdated, cherry-picked misinformation and you're very stupid and i'm very smart, look at me i know lots of tribe names and i'm going to link some articles about why these people no longer matter, isn't that sad and TOTALLY relevant to this conversation." someone else mentioned tracking, and they ONCE AGAIN basically said if you lose your line of sight, that's it, you're done, you've lost your quarry. tracking isn't real, don't even bring it up. hoofprints in wet ground in the rainy season? those are fake. doesn't happen. broken brush where a panicking animal has run? lol, that's not real. you can invent tools, but learning to follow an animal? bullshit. total malarkey. it's all just guesswork. you can GUESS where the antelope went but that's the best you can do.

🙄

anyway, i don't know enough about human evolution to guess why we're shaped the way we are, and i'm not going to speculate on it today. but what i DO know is that i am willing to believe the G/wi and the !Xo when they say, hey, if you drink a lot of water and then chase a large ungulate through the hottest part of the day in the fucking Kalahari at a steady jog, it will probably overheat and collapse before you will. because one, i kinda figure they know what they're talking about, and two, it does actually make sense when you stop and think for thirty fucking seconds. sure, you need to be physically conditioned to run distances in extreme heat, and you need to be able to find your quarry again if you lose sight of it. but conditioning and tracking are both things you can learn, no matter how badly certain clowns wish it wasn't because it doesn't support their bias. 🙃

#persistence hunting #is not the only kind of hunting in our evolutionary history #but it does work #and has BEEN working for humans for a LONG FUCKING TIME #like i am super fucking sorry but you are not presenting me with anything even RESEMBLING a coherent argument! #is persistence hunting the reason we're shaped this way? i don't fucking know! #but i do know it works as a technique! jackass! #god. i'll probably turn off reblogs in the morning but I'm still too angry at the absolute goddamned stupidity #and the way people in the notes were like Oh this makes so much sense! This is my favorite informed rant on tumblr! #BITCH W H E R E #i have not read nearly as much on this as i'd like to but jesus #just from the holes in what they're saying #JUST from the holes #what they're saying is a steaming crock of shit #and! are they right about the gaping holes in the persistence hunting theory? i dunno! maybe! #but i can't trust anything they say! obviously! #ooooo you're not gonna run carrying an ostrich egg full of water ooo #no of course you aren't! you're going to drink the water first! and then run! because that's what you've been conditioned to do #BECAUSE THAT'S HOW THIS WORKS ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh #feel free to reblog for now at least #god #dal is a scream #i got to their shit about tracking being a totally ludicrous proposal and lost my damn mind

[shownumetal]

for the second time i have figured out how to fix our portable spin dryer with no manual. please clap.

#do i have a good solution yet? no #am i using a chopstick and a clothespin? absolutely i am #do i have to hold a cable the whole time it��s drying stuff? yes #but it does work #there are also no replacement parts bc this is not a real brand

[catgirltoofies]

reblog to scare felix

#food #i loooove egg white #this is not my preferred way to separate eggs #but it does work #and i do like doing it

[goodobservationshirley]

someone saw the over/under debate and laughed

#look #on one hand it works #on the other hand it’s definitely not meant to be installed this way #but it does work

[tomwambscunts]

Watching mike birbiglia specials while feeling anxious. Try it.

#‘christ will come at 10’ LMAO #idk what it is… maybe it’s his soothing voice #but it does work #I love mike

[madeofbees]

this is how I'm leaving myself notes now apparently; I left a movie off my marathon list and it was midnight and I was so tired so I sent this document to print

it worked

#adhd hacks #actually adhd #adhd #this is not normal #but it does work #so who cares

[lotrmusical]

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

#was calling beckett and scouring the works of eliza cook looking for lesbianism #good amounts of lesbianism in evidence but unfortunately very little in the way of good poetry #APART from this worm one which DOES NOT MISS #eliza cook #is there a thriving eliza cook tag on tumblr. somehow i doubt it #the hand of the giant and the heart of the brave / must turn weak and submit to the worm and the grave! #not an original theme ofc but GOD the treatment is delightful. so fresh so gleeful some rlly nice use of sound. rlly solidly constructed #words #gay belligerence

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

#i often wonder about how many things would be considered classic or high art had they only received the marketing #how many short films that were made for class could have been the most powerful thing you'd ever seen? if you'd seen them? #“you know the greatest films of all time were never made” etc etc #but like. these works of art ARE being made. it's just enjoyed by a smaller audience with equal impact though #i think about this one furry i used to follow on insta who had the coolest worldbuilding ever. it's been years. #thought prompted by that sketch of nimona from ten years ago that was just for a character design #posted to the creator's tumblr and now it's nominated for best animated feature film at the oscars #and by the genuine emotional reaction a fan comic made me feel. how much work had gone into it. how beautiful it was to me. #idk what to tag this but i hope whoever needs to hear it does #writing #writer #fandom #fandom culture #artist

[bloodraven55]

i’ve seen too many people arguing that marcille was already a full grown adult when she went to school at 35 despite literally all of the canon evidence indicating otherwise

#like trying to map fantasy race lifespans to exact equivalent human ages is pointless bc it simply does not work #so forget the numbers and start judging by how the story depicts the characters’ growth and maturity instead #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #marcille donato #dungeon meshi marcille #dunmeshi spoilers #dungeon meshi spoilers #delicious in dungeon spoilers