did you type in “wizard staff with orb” but the results were too feminine? or did you preemptively assume that the selection of wizard staffs with orbs would be so vast, you needed to narrow down the results to only the most manly?
no it autofilled to that and i thought it was so funny that i needed to know what would come up
Something that’s forever hysterical to me: how all the
clever and subtle English-name symbolism in FMA becomes so wallopingly in-your-face once you translate the
whole series into English
“Ah yes, Riza Hawkeye. The sharp shooter. With eyes so
sharp, we’ve taken to calling her ‘the
Hawk’s eyes’ on account of this. Riza “The Hawk’s Eyes” Hawkeye. The
similarity is coincidence ignore that.”
“Alex Armstrong. With arms so strong we call him the Strong
Arm alchemist. Alex ‘Strong Arm’ Armstrong. What were the odds of this.”
“King Bradley, first name King. The Fuhrer, leader, ruler,
president. ‘Fuhrer King Bradley’. ‘King King’ if you will. Why our military is
full of coincidences.”
Thing #2 that’s forever hysterical: how the English symbolism becomes SO wallopingly literal that at least half the English-speaking fandom never realizes “King” is Bradley’s corny af first name
in all fairness to king, its not his real name. its the name he was given after he successfully became a homunculus with the sole intention of becoming the fuhrer.
it took me 3 times reading this post to realized that (wild) meant living in the wild and wasn’t just a casual remark on the longevity of these organisms
A huge chunk of his audience think he’s just a soothing older man that knows a lot about tea. So the top comment on videos where he shows his face are inevitably just:
so does this mean most of his videos are just focused on his hands making tea as he philosophies on tea making and cryptic messages for the white lotus? And those times when Zuko is heard yelling in the background he gives out parenting advice.
Yes.
And Iroh absolutely gives parenting advice, but the way he talks about his nephew makes it sound like he’s a fussy toddler going through his terrible twos, not an almost-grown teenage boy
“Today we are going to discuss dragon pearl tea. These leaves are carefully harvested and then rolled into these beautiful black pearls… Oh hello Nephew. (Crashing noises) Hmmm.(jump cut) as I was saying, these beautiful pearls… (Bumping noise) Take deep breaths.
Why don’t we all take some deep breaths while the tea is brewing. (Jump cut)
I apologize for the interruption. My Nephew is having a hard time today, so I’ve set him up with some soothing tea and a nice couch to take a nap.”
LOL yep that’s the day job! I started last year after graduating, working on the NASA side of things with the mission doing social media/outreach, so I’m going to do my obligatory HUBBY LINK DROP: insta, twitter, fb
The whole “capitalism gave you the Internet” thing is especially funny if you actually work in network infrastructure, since one of the first things you’ll learn is that many software technologies that are absolutely critical to the day to day functioning of the Internet are being maintained on a volunteer basis by small, decentralised teams working in whatever free time their day jobs leave them, and that we’d have a crisis on our hands within thirty days if any one of those maintainers were to get hit by a bus and nobody stepped up to replace them. Like, the whole commercial edifice of the Internet rests on the continuous unpaid labour of a relative handful of people who are essentially just doing it for fun.
