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First thing you see after you zoom in is how you die

How you dying 👀

#pov female character #yea accurate

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You know how I would start a Transformers movie?

You start with some extremely odd rubble, someone says “it’s like giants had a fistfight here, with the occasional air-to-air missile or antitank grenade also involved”. There are pieces of vehicles everywhere.

Cut to lab techs examining the debris, noticing that the vehicle pieces only superficially resemble those we know, like they are made of very freaky alloys that almost seem to have grown into their current configurations. And they have veins. Circulating through them is a strange liquid battery, roughly comparable to a metal-air system…but it clots on contact with air.

And then they bump a strange circuit running through the metal, with something electric…and a piece of car chassis unfolds into an arm 8 feet long, with a clawed hand on the end.

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#yes in latin

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#yes in latin

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when doctors ask if i have any history of cancer in my family and i have to say that yes my grandmother had 2 types of gastrointestinal cancer and they're like oh wow okay so we'll keep an eye out for that but i'm like no it was probably just all the nuclear radiation and they're like ok hm ok what the fuck do you mean and it's very weird seeing the look on american doctors' faces when you have to explain to them that believe it or not atomic bombs were dropped on this earth 2 generations ago and it did have consequences

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Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

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I hate the “we should have child free cafes but not dog free cafes” and the “kids shouldn’t be out in public” shit that’s getting popular again cause whenever you ask them why they hate kids they say their loud annoying etc.

Just because another person is inconvenient for you doesn’t mean they don’t get to exist in public.

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So I've seen conflicting stories about the colour black in history.

Some say it's very expensive and hard to maintain, so that's why rich merchants wore black. Evidence in portraits.

Some say that for dyes it's on the cheaper side actually.

Some say the expensive black doesn't come from dye but rather the colour of the animal, so black fabric comes from black fibre which comes from black sheep. How exactly would black sheep be more expensive than regular white sheep?

Which one is right? I know this is probably influenced by which century it's set in, like maybe some eras have an easier time getting black dye

I found a well-sourced blog post about this, luckily, because I'm a 19th-century focused researcher and I've heard conflicting things about black in earlier periods. It seems to be that high-quality black-dyed fabric was difficult to obtain in the west from the Middle Ages potentially through the 18th century because it required massive amounts of dye to get the color very deep ("true black"). Lesser black shades were quite common, though, so black, period, doesn't seem to be more expensive than any other color. Possibly the intensively dyed, deep blacks might have been? But not black in general.

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Rich merchants did wear black- but so did other people. They just usually didn't have portraits.

The black sheep thing I've never heard before. And anyway, that could only apply to wool- not cotton, linen, silk, leather, etc.

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the real forbidden snack

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FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.

It was an eye-popping magenta purple

HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...

...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.

(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).

They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.

Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.

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Lol when i say I grew up in Texas people always ask “did you go to the coast a lot?” Ummm no...no I did not

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who wants to experience prairie madness with me

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I’m kind of amazed that “what if monkeys were the people and people were the monkeys” has proven such a fruitful premise for Hollywood

#this made me actually snort #yea real