bijoumikhawal:

autisticexpression2:

Seeing a lot of posts about the Palestinian flag, and it got me thinking about indigenous flags around the world.

Maori:

Kalaallit Nunaat:

Haudenosaunee

Nunatsiavut:

Australian Aboriginal:

Torres Strait Islands:

Rapa Nui:

Kurdistan:

Sami:

Ainu:

Of course, these are just a handful. May they all reclaim their stolen lands.

Adding on some I know:

the Kanaka Maoli flag (native people of Hawai'i)

The Amazigh flag

The Coptic flag

The Assyrian flag

The Nubian flag

The Kanak people’s flag, who are currently dealing with violence from the French government and French settlers

The Dinka flag. The Ngok Dinka are the main population of Abyei

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bobasisters:

THE NEW OUTFITS HAVING YANG IN A PONYTAIL AND BLAKE SPORTING GOLDEN EARRINGS OH WE ARE SO BACK

todays-xkcd:

ALT

’"‘”’" means “I edited this text on both my phone and my laptop before sending it”

Bracket Symbols [Explained]

Transcript

Bracket Symbols and what they mean
( ) Regular parentheses for setting stuff aside
[ ] Square brackets (more secure)
{ } This stuff is expensive so be careful with it
“ ” Someone is talking
’ ’ Someone British is talking
‹ › An Animorph is talking
« » A French Animorph is talking
| | I’m scared of negative numbers but these sigils will protect me
* * _ _ / / I have a favorite monospaced font
~ ~ I’m being sarcastic and I had a Tumblr account in 2014
[ ( [ { ( ) } ] , ) ] These Python functions are not getting along
⌊ ⌋ Help, I’m a mathematician trying to work with actual numbers and they’re scary
ʃ ʅ Why are you trying to read my violin?
| ⟩ Don’t stop here–this is quantum country

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disney-is-mylife:

Which non-Disney animated film from the 90’s is your FAVE?

Rock-a-Doodle (1991)

FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)

We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story (1993)

Thumbelina (1994)

A Troll in Central Park (1994)

The Swan Princess (1994)

The Pebble and the Penguin (1995)

Balto (1995)

Cats Don’t Dance (1997)

Anastasia (1997)

Quest for Camelot (1998)

The Iron Giant (1999)

THIS IS NOT A COMPREHENSIVE LIST. I just wanted to highlight some beloved and underrated nostalgic classics.

I am NOT counting: Studio Ghibli, DC, Marvel, Scooby-Doo, sequels/prequels, and most other franchises. I also chose to cut Dreamworks, because I wanted to give as much love as possible to other nostalgic films. There’s a LOT to cover in the 80s-90s, hence why I split the two polls.

80’s Poll

Happy voting! ❤

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redbuddi:

I think we as a society need to be reminded how good the original Powerpuff Girls was. Here’s some of my favorite things about it:

• the fight scenes had a level of punchiness and impact that was rare for cartoons of the nineties, and fight scenes that were way better than what one would expect from a comedy
• The character writing is so good that a large portion of the show’s most iconic episodes consist of just showing how the girls’ personalities react to different scenarios, for example in one episode the girls take turns recapping a fight that had just happened, and the tone and art style of the flashback changes depending on whose telling the story
• One of the recurring extras is a talking dog that goes about it’s day like a normal human
• Each girl has mostly the same powers with one special ability that sets them apart. Blossom has ice breath. Bubbles can speak to squirrels and is also fluent in Spanish. Buttercup can curl her tongue.
• while the majority of the show is lighthearted comedy sometimes it’ll just decide to be nightmareworld for an episode and i think thats pretty cool
• The show utilizes a blend of classic upa linework and sixties art deco shapism to create a visual style that is utterly timeless. If the majority of the show wasn’t cell animated you would not be able to guess when it came out
• The main villain’s speaking patterns were directly inspired by The Super Dictionary. AKA, the same book that brought us this:

You can tell.

• In the season one finale, the girls fight a giant monster using a mech suit. During the fight, there is a sequence that is literally just 20 uninterrupted seconds of an absurd amount of missiles coming out of every possible orifice of the robot. And then they miss.
• There was an anime adaptation made in the 2000’s and its actually pretty good, like it does take a lot of creative liberties but its clear that the people making it understood the spirit of the original show and were just adapting it to reflect japanese pop culture in the same way the og show reflected american pop culture.
• The show had an insanely kickass soundtrack consisting of early techno so clean it’s kind of shocking that it was made in the late nineties and not the early 2010’s pre-dubstep era
• satan is there and he serves cunt

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alevolpe:

Omg, look! A sailor Senshi!

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houseofgeeks:

gay-jesus-probably:

schakira:

travalicious:

travalicious:

why is this the hottest thing i’ve ever seen

HE SHOWED UP WITH A DUEL DISK TODAY?????

AND ALL FIVE EXODIA PIECES

I need everyone to know that I looked it up, and Noah Lyles is doing this as part of an ongoing bet he has with shotput competitor Chase Jackson. She’s wearing Naruto accessories every day, and if Lyles whips out Yugioh cards at every race, then for the shotput finals Jackson will re-enact the scene of Rock Lee dropping his weights.

This is now the only part of the Olympics that I care about.

Update. Chase Jackson followed through. (And also secured her spot to the Olympics with a first place throw of 20.10 m).

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laurasimonsdaughter:

“The first thing you need to know,” the stable master announced loudly to the gaggle of school children trailing behind her, “is that these are not unicorns.”

Eleven-year-olds tended to be loud. Their silent scepticism was deafening.

“You cannot keep unicorns in captivity,” she continued. “These are all crossbreeds, mostly with specific breeds of horses.”

There was a small murmur of curiosity and a gangly arm shot up into the air.

“Yes?”

“Only mostly horses?”

It was always fun when some of them paid close attention. “Only mostly horses. I only deal with European breeds, and they tend to cross well with horses. See this here is a cross between a grey Thoroughbred and an English Unicorn. They’re large, and reasonably docile.” They also had that champagne sheen most showy folk preferred. “For people who come here looking for a steed, this is their best bet. Although I’ve only ever seen it done by people who personally broke them as yearlings.”

By now she definitely had the whole class’s full attention.

“But this French Licorne cross is actually half fallow deer.” She gestured to the pasture beyond the fence. “Look at them. Slight build, slender legs, built for speed and agility. They need a lot of space but they are beautiful to look at, and they’re relatively easy to tame for the pure of heart.” There was still something distinctly deer-like about them and they were all so beautifully cream coloured that they almost took on a silver hue.

“What’s those hairy ones?” a voice piped up.

“That’s a Unicorno/Shetland mix, from central Italy. Traditionally they tend to be crossed with Monterufolino, but they are hard to come by and make their coats even darker.” Unicorni were naturally built more like ponies, some with considerably shorter horns, and their coats were often a much darker gold, or even brown. They were less flighty than the French breeds though, even if they showed blatant favouritism towards certain caretakers. They would even pull a carriage if properly motivated.

“Do you have any bigger ones?”

The stable master turned around. “What was that?”

One of the boys was standing behind her with a determined look on his face. “Do you have any like that but bigger. With the beards and the furry hooves.”

“Feathering,” she corrected automatically and the boy nodded eagerly. She frowned. “What exactly do you mean?”

“There’s really big unicorns,” he pressed. “With wild manes and tails and split hooves like the French ones but hair like those ones!”

“Buddy,” she laughed, “what you’re describing there is a Scottish unicorn and let me tell you, they cannot even be crossbred into domestication.”

The little face fell.

“Any offspring of an Aon-adharcach will be as wild as they are no one can capture them with their horn still intact, not on your life. You go near one of them with a halter and it will skewer you.”

She smiled at the boy, who still looked rather taken aback, despite this proof of his favourites superiority.

“Tell you what. If you want to see something unhinged and imposing, I’ll take you to see the Unicorn/Friesian cross we’ve just got in from the Netherlands.”

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sometiktoksarevalid:

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