zooophagous:

I used to mock the fact that so many tv shows and movies use people who are like 29 to play highschool students but you know what if it keeps fewer kids on set where some grody ass fucking pedo director could put their hands on them I’m all for highschool specials with crows feet and five o’clock shadow because honestly like 3 people total in Hollywood can be trusted and they’re on thin fuckin ice

what-even-is-thiss:

Things about anxiety that suck and I never see anybody talk about

I’m just ranting from my own experience because I’m frustrated. Feel free to rant about your own as well.

  • It causes freaking digestive problems because when in fight or flight your digestive system basically shuts down but guess what my fight or flight response is activated all the time so some weird stuff happens that I won’t get into.
  • Sometimes you lose circulation in your extremities so your fingers and lips and toes get numb or cold and it SUCKS
  • You’re constantly taking short breaths and don’t get any oxygen to your brain so I can’t think at full capacity. Nice.
  • When you do finally take a moment to fill your lungs with enough air you’ve been going so long without enough oxygen you feel dizzy and it’s very confusing.
  • Sometimes you don’t even know what exactly you’re afraid of or you do know but can’t articulate it so when people try to help and ask you to talk through it you can’t and you feel like a doofus and get even more anxious
  • That weird trance you get into during and right after your breathing exercises that isn’t meditation or hypnosis but it’s freaking weird.
  • When you finally calm down for the first time in weeks or months and being calm feels so foreign at this point you start lowkey freaking out because WHAT IS HAPPENING
  • Mildly dissociating and feeling nothing but knowing you’re anxious by the way your body is reacting
  • The chest pains that sometimes make it feel like you’re dying even when you’re not having a panic attack
  • Being tired like, all the time dude. From fighting your own body and brain. I need sleep.
  • When people assume you have depression because in many ways it can look similar from the outside but it’s not the same and it’s frustrating because you know you don’t have depression and you can’t speak for those that do
  • Those days when you’re scared of loud noises like an abused cat
  • Going partially nonverbal. Like, you can talk and fake your way through things, but the entire time it’s taking up all your concentration and willpower and it would be so much easier if you could just not talk for two days because talking is so frightening or you’re so tired it’s hard to talk.
  • That feeling near the end of a panic attack where it’s hard or nearly impossible to move and it feels like your body is made of lead
  • Crying and hiding in the corner wrapped up in a blanket very frightened because you accidentally burned dinner and it feels like everyone hates you now
  • The start of panic attacks where it feels like this isn’t reality and you have to ask someone if this is real or constantly count your fingers or something.
  • When you’re about to do something that makes you anxious like talk to a secretary and suddenly it’s like there’s an invisible rope pulling you away and you just nope out of there
  • Literally walking a mile out of your way to avoid talking to someone because you’re convinced you’ll say something wrong.
  • Those weird looks you get sometimes when you’re quietly singing to calm yourself down, especially if you’re like me and nursery rhymes and simple songs are what you sing to calm yourself down. Like, an adult walking around quietly singing sing a song of sixpence has to look weird.
  • Not only can you sometimes tell you might get a panic attack that day, it has a taste. That’s right. A taste. Not just a feeling. A taste.
  • That weirdly calm voice your therapist uses that just seems… slightly creepy at times. It takes some getting used to. Espeally if your particular brand of anxiety makes you suspicious of people.

That’s all I could think of for now. I’m a mess today. Like I said feel free to share your own.

systlin:

forbosmargad:

lord-kitschener:

notabrobro:

swordmutual:

swordmutual:

debate: is a really long sword-length but still otherwise knife-like knife valid to be considered a knife, or is it now a sword because it’s long

@nagunkgunk

It’s a knword and it’s Valid

I don’t wanna like Kill The Joke but this brings up a really cool fact about swords in ~14th-16th century Germany! The only people who were allowed to own Real Swords were the royalty and nobility BUT! Everyone else was allowed to own knives. The definition of a knife, however, was based on not length but handle construction, and to some extent how it was sharpened. The handle had to be constructed Like So with 2 pieces of wood sandwiching the metal tang.

Only one edge was allowed to be sharpened, but oftentimes a small part (a couple inches) of the short edge (e.g. the edge that wasn’t sharp) would be sharpened, and weapon design often allowed for this

In this way, something that looked like This, a messer of just over a meter in length…

…would be legally considered a knife, and therefore allowable for non-nobility to possess. (you can also see the bit on the back of the tip that would be sharpened)

So @swordmutual, there’s a not definitive but certainly interesting historical perspective on your question

This post is a good post.