“Jack of all trades, master of none” … “but ofttimes better than a master of one.”
“Blood is thicker than water.” “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the waters of the womb.”
“Money is the root of all evil.” “The love of money is the root of all evil.”
there’s also “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” which conservatives are oh so fond of saying
bootstraps are, well, straps on your boots. you cannot physically pull yourself up by them, and that’s what the original phrase meant. “pulling oneself up by the bootstraps” is meant to be an impossible task
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
when a pelican bites you there’s no malice in their eyes. they aren’t upset at you. they are just hungry and want to see if you fit in their mouths. and if you don’t then it’s no problem and everything is fine. and if you do then well i guess your fate is sealed but that’s ok it’s a beautiful animal
Okay, see, I knew about the capybara gif:
But I didn’t know that they really are That Dense, All The Time. The same way sharks will bite anything that might be a seal, just in case, these birdbrains will apparently test just about anything for beak size.
Image description: it’s three separate drawings of Darth Vader and Princess Leia. They’re in the iconic scene where Vader tells Luke he’s his father but Leia is in Luke’s place. Vader says “Bail Organa never told you what happened to your father.” And Leia responds with “Dad told me enough” and opens her fist to reveal she’s holding sand. End of description.
“Why are there so many female archers in fiction?”
Please forgive the clickbait-y title! This is a super complex and interesting topic that I barely scratch the surface of here, but I hopefully will be able to do more justice to things like this in the future!
Also, it’s not the point of the video, but I had fun with the outfits in this- do you have any faves?
the great thing about the kungfu setting is the hero can be fighting three strapping young men simultaneously and you know he’s not going to have any problem ripping them to shreds but then a portly octogenarian shows up and you think oh fuck this guy looks like bad news!!!
and after the geezer fuckin’ obliterates everyone on the scene with psychic energy blasts of incredible cosmic power he has to be helped into a chair because after all he is exceedingly ancient and those knees don’t bend like they used to.
you get it!
[ID screenshot of Tumblr tag reading “beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young” end ID]
There’s a user called Erika Horn (@erikahorn.art) on tiktok who made a “duet me” challenge so technically impressive that all of the duets are exactly like this LMAO
This is like that video where the woman in the gym picks up a huge barbell and all the shocked gymbros around her start cheering.
They all look like her uncles or whatever excited that she likes their hobby and then she just blows everyone away
