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I don't know if this is common knowledge, but all of team Mustang's codenames are borrowed from girls working at Madame Christmas' bar.

This is Vanessa, the girl whose name was assigned to Falman.

That means there's an actual Elizabeth — with whom Roy would talk to over the phone, and go on "dates" with — who is not Riza. That's exactly what makes the codenames effective. At any point Roy can just go on that fishing trip with the real Elizabeth to throw off anyone suspicious.

Also, all the selected girls' names share one or more of the Japanese syllables (kana character) with the person they have been assigned to:

Name (Japanese spelling)

Riza (ri-za) = Elizabeth (e-ri-za-be-su)

Jean (jya-n) = Jacqueline (jya-ku-ri-i-n)

Breda (bu-re-da) = Braidykins (bu-re-i-di-ki-n-su)

Vato (va-to) = Vanessa (va-ne-s-sa)

Kain (ke-i-n) = Kate (ke-i-to)

Poor Breda is the only one whose codename is related to his last name instead of his first name.

I like how Arakawa is inconsistent on their height difference... honey I shrunk my lieutenant

Hand...

hi *stabs u* oops *stabs u again* my bad *stabs u again*

guy who is seriously going through the horrors of being fifteen

ah ... otp ... <3

ref under cut

saw this on twt weeks ago and i immediately thought "royai" but i was expecting someone else would draw it eventually .. but i haven't seen it so i did it myself (sorry if anyone did draw it). had to ask my friend to grab the og tweet for me since i'm in twitter jail

Some of the fanart I scribbled while @mayakoroz was workin on their fic 'restless dreams'

Thorfinn thinks he's dying and needs to kill askeladd before that happens 😤 kiddo is sick, bjorn is a mom, and askeladd is a piece of shit whomst I hate :]

I really like this uhh vinland guy yeah vinland thats his name

vinland saga doodles

This thing was partially inspired by a scene from "The Contract | 1019"

Ugly thing i made once flipaclip started workin again :U

Is spider silk being as strong as steel another lie from childhood? Bc you're able to break it pretty easily on accident. Genuinely asking.

spider silk IS actually significantly stronger pound-for-pound than the same amount of steel, but only in one direction! and coincidentally, it's the same exact direction that got a bunch of people killed in a submersible last month.

see, when people talk about the "strength" of spider silk versus steel, they're specifically talking about tensile strength:

which is specifically the measure of the strength of a material when two forces are pulling at it from the ends, like when a steel cable is holding up a bridge support, or crane cargo:

or like when a strand of silk is supporting the entire spider.

that's tensile strength, baby!

but there's another type of strength that's very important to take into consideration when you're actually building things like bridges and submersibles, and spider silk and similar materials like carbon fiber are absolutely garbage at it! and that's compressive strength.

this is basically the inverse of tensile strength, where instead of being yanked at from both ends, the forces are crushing inwards at the material from both directions instead.

you can expect to see these kinds of forces involved in road surfaces, vehicle engines, and again, submersibles.

now steel and its more competent cousin titanium are fucking GREAT at compressive strength! the harder the outside forces are compressing them, the stronger the metals get.

NOT TODAY, FUCKERS

but strand-based materials like spider silk and, again, carbon fiber, are fucking garbage at this. they can take a certain amount of pressure, but each round with compressive forces snaps some of the strands that makes up the material! and those don't grow back, so basically you're just gradually reducing your poor overstressed carbon-fiber hull into a completely useless shell of shattered thread fragments over time as the strands of fiber that actually give it strength die off one by one.

and eventually, something's gotta give! and then people die about it.

this is why, even though spider silk IS stronger than steel in one specific way, we're never going to stop using steel in industrial applications and switch over to spider silk or carbon fiber full time. these materials all have their areas of use, and steel just covers a wider base of applications.

and don't even get me started on shear strength. we'll be here all damn day.

can you hear the music?

The whole “scientists use big words on purpose to be exclusive” is such a bunch of anti-intellectual bullshit. Specific and concise language exists for a reason; you need the right words to convey the right meaning, and explaining stuff right is a hugely important part of science. Cultures that live around loads of snow have loads of words to describe different types of snow; cultures that live in deserts have loads of words to describe different types of sand. Complex language is needed for complex meaning.

‘Love is the one thing that we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.’

“Eulogy from a Physicist” by Aaron Freeman, with quotes from Interstellar by Christopher Nolan, and images from NASA, Interstellar, Getty, Petrichara, and Reuters.

1- NASA: GOODS-South.

2- NASA: NGC 1850.

3- NASA: Iberian Peninsula.

4- Christopher Nolan: Interstellar.

5- NASA: From the Earth to the Moon.

6- Hannah La Folette Ryan: Subway Hands.

7- Adams Evans: Heart Nebula.

8- NASA: Exploring the Antennae.

9- NASA: Crescent Moon from the International Space Station.

10- Petrichara.

11- Getty Images.

12- NASA: SMACS 0723.

13- Reuters

,Smart boy

Hugh Ferriss

The Lure of the City

1925

i like to think about them being so close and comfortable with each other to the point where kurapika will laugh uncontrollably at any dumb thing that comes outta leorio’s mouth

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the author of vinland saga ladies and gentlemen

@mayakoroz said they pictured bjorn giving this presentation on twitter :Þ

So I was just casually watching Vinland Saga when I saw this scene and just wondered how hard he threw it...

Turns out, very hard!

I knew Thorkell was strong but goddamn Keep in mind this is the MINIMUM speed he could have thrown it at with my estimates, since we don't know how long it took for it to exit the frame.

that new laishuro panel looking like those soviet union/china yaoi propaganda posters

Titan A.E.  (2000) directed by Don Bluth

[oc] compiling every illustration I have for this story so far :)

[oc] A little compilation, I love how they all look together :)