Hello, tumblr user. Before you is a tumblr post asking you to name a female fictional character. You have unlimited time to tag a female character, NOT a male one.

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Wow, Tumblr is fuckin' HYPE for the Ides of March this year. I wonder why that could possibly be.

For those asking if Fry bread is a funnel cake: I'd say it is not.

Funnel cakes are made by pouring a liquidy batter into oil to fry it, and often a funnel is used. Native fry bread "batter" is less liquidy and is more of a bread than a cake, and is first shaped via beating and folding by hand on a hard surface, and THEN putting it into oil to cook, and a funnel is not used. Frybread batter can be sticky and solid enough that one may cook it on a stick. From what i can tell, frybread is also softer in texture.

Joanne the plot of the book series which is the only reason you have any worth whatsoever hinges on the transformative power of unconditional love

Quick, everone in the UK put up a lawn sign like this and make her take detours all day long.

#genuinely what is wrong with her

At this point babe I'm pretty sure its mostly mold talking.

The mold would be less of a cunt, I fear.

That’s a bit unfair to cunts, they possess depth and warmth JK will forever lack.

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@celepom I was convinced it had something to do with pommes/apples for some reason??

@magnificent-buckless-butt Nope. Actually, that wasn't even an ingredient.

Iced Tea, Lemon, Pomegranate

So earlier in art class today, someone drew a characters hands in their pockets and mentioned that hands are really like the ultimate end boss of art, and most of us wholeheartedly agreed. So then, our teacher went ahead and free handed like a handful of hands on the board, earning a woah from a couple of students. So the one from earlier mentioned how it barely took the teacher ten seconds to do what I can’t do in three hours. And you know what he responded?

“It didn’t take me ten seconds, it took me forty years.”

And you know, that stuck with me somehow. Because yeah. Drawing a hand didn’t take him fourth years. But learning and practicing to draw a hand in ten seconds did. And I think there’s something to learn there but it’s so warm and my brain is fried so I can’t formulate the actual morale of the lesson.

Saying "I'm not going to draw this thing because I don't know how to draw this thing" is really shooting yourself in the foot, because you've now cut yourself off from an opportunity to grow.

I had a friend in college who was an absolutely amazing artist. I loved seeing his work! One time I said something to the effect of "I could never do that."

He told me something that, as an artist, I resonate with. He said art isn't about natural talent; it's a learned skill. When you tell an artist their level of skill is impossible for you to reach, you're assuming their level of skill is a natural gifting they have, and it discredits the hundreds to thousands of hours of hard work they've put into getting where they are today, and you're cutting yourself off from trying to reach that point yourself.

I don't remember where I heard this but I wish I could, because it stuck with me:

Talent is THE RATE at which you learn things, not whether or not you can learn certain skills at all.

And that suddenly clicked for me. I have been very talented with a lot of things in my life and once I realized that I had basically been getting XP multipliers on my normal life experiences, it suddenly felt so much less awful to realize that I did not have the same advantage with other skills I struggle with, and that's okay. I might even have some debuffs on those, and that's okay. It's still all gaining as long as I keep working on it!!

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For the ones that need it today

Does anyone else remember playing music in Windows Media Player and just sitting there and watching this for like two hours

I see this post all the time and I'm so confused. Most people throughout history were busier than your average resident of a developed country is now. My primary reaction to reading about the past since I was a child has been "I'm glad I don't live then, I'm too weak for that, I could not do that much work all the time."

In the past things took longer to do but they often required a waiting period. You had to chop wood, put it in your stove, and light it, but it took a few hours for it to get hot enough for baking and then another hour for the bread to fully cook. History books will say things like "It took 4 hours to make a loaf of bread" but they don't mention that you only had to do actual work for a fraction of that time and the rest could be devoted to other tasks or relaxing for a while

Employee workload has doubled or tripled because of modern technology. It makes things faster but also creates less downtime which employers have filled with more responsibilities. You can do more work in a 10 minute period if all the files are on the computer but in the olden days you got to take a short walk to the filing cabinet and let your mind wander while you thumbed through folders, which means a modern 10 minutes of work is more mentally exhausting. The amount of work one employee has to do today used to be split between 2 or 3 people. We lost those moments of downtime we used to get by having to do things the slow way

the number of spacecraft failures recently has been absolutely insane and it all comes down to tech bros barging into the industry going "it's not that hard wtf is nasa so bad" and then completely skipping out on any testing

Recently, a privately funded asteroid mission failed immediately after launch. Here are some choice excerpts from the company's blog post about it:

they cost that much because they do integration testing

.....by skipping integration testing

"skipping integration testing was the right move actually"

come fucking on.

AND YOU FUCKING LAUNCHED ANYWAYS

it failed immediately you dipshits

or you could. i don't know. do integration testing?

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Hey, Fuckchop: If you did it for 10% but you have to do it 10 times? You fucking failed AND didn’t save any goddamn money.

Even if you had the money to throw away, why would you launch with known problems? What are you possibly learning from this? Were they just hoping those wouldn't matter? "Yeah, whoops, blew up an expensive payload because we figured it was worth rolling the dice on problems we already knew about instead of waiting for a new launch window!"

Launching-as-part-of-iterative-design only makes sense for a kid's model rocket you don't have other testing methods for. Or for things that don't explode.

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Really cool day at the rainforest cafe

I take whatever small pleasures I can get and every time I see a Tesla on fire I'm going to smile

Uh oh! You are now a were-animal! This means you become a human-sized animal hybrid with uncontrollable bloodlust every night!

Spin this wheel to get your species

MCC Smart Eco-Speedster Concept, 1993

Perfect car for driving in this town

Okay you gotta see what it looks like from the outside too actually