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I’m not sure if the normal guy is in the USArmy are just a guy who gets all his shit from the Army Surplus store because he’s a doomsday prepper.
The Latin is… questionable (I took two years and forgot 99% of it), but how many wizards use real Latin anyway? Apparently a proportion of my History of American Illustration class responded “lumos” to the question about the Latin word for light (it’s lux).
Magic vs. technology (of course, there’s also the ever present “Why can’t we be friends?”), after a certain point of technology, I can’t fathom how magic would ever win on its own if the type of magic involved requires you to see or flail impressively in the direction of your enemy. And especially if incantations are long and/or magic circles don’t spontaneously pop up out of nowhere. ((And if it is a magic system where mages have phenomenal cosmic powers with little to no cost, I’m surprised the world hasn’t been destroyed by a teenager on a tantrum…))
And it’s a general numbers game. Like how when guns were first invented, bows were better, but it’s a lot easier to teach people to handle firearms than bows. Magic is generally depicted as more difficult to learn than marksmanship and modern guns don’t shoot as badly as an arquebus.
I mean, there’s almost no such thing as “a magic sniper” in most settings (though there are a lot of impossibly good marksmen… though watching the real world record holders for crazy shooting, they sometimes do stuff I didn’t think possible) and wizards are a bit out in the open (or with meathead knights in front of them because wizards be squishy). There’s magic booby traps, but that requires being tripped.
Though it’s a bit vague if invisibility spells are susceptible to inferred vision and the ilk.
I also think it’s weird that wands are always made out of easily breakable materials. If I was a wizard, I’d have a titanium kevlar wand… a sword-wand for when stabbing people is faster.
During the fall of 1944, Charles Dana Gibson suffered a heart attack on his island off the coast of Maine. His wife CALLED PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT about it. Gibson was flown via Navy seaplane to New York, where he died a few weeks later.
Obviously the president did not have a flying wheelchair (but it would have been awesome).
Franklin Roosevelt didn’t like people seeing him in a wheelchair and had methods to avoid it and taught himself to kind of scuttle along in leg-braces. And apparently back then the press didn’t hawk him like paparazzi (or the Secret Service just punched them all in the face) to expose this fact because there are few photos of him in a wheelchair.
Ironically, one of the staple props of depicting Franklin Roosevelt is the wheelchair.
But anyway, can you even imagine calling the president because an Illustrator is near-death?!
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For some reason, a staple of 1920s/flapper slang seems to be referring to animal body parts at random to mean something is good.
Contemplating on how royals of different countries are actually related…
At first I wondered why there was war if they were all cousins anyway, but then I remembered family rivalry is a thing.
I shoot ganjgsta style.
I feel bad refilling my spray bottle because I always need to empty it because it’s “off” position doesn’t actually work and it leaks like crazy in my backpack since it’s a shitty $1 spray bottle.
Also, I’ve never owned a pair of sunglasses because I’m too stingy to get prescription sunglasses and I don’t like transition lenses because sometimes they turn shady indoors.
My history teacher jokingly compared Rasputin and Voldemort on hard-to-kill-ness.
I think it would be more fun to be Rasputin than Voldemort. At least Rasputin got to lay around getting chicks, drinking booze, and schmoozing the royal family until people killed him.
Being Voldemort doesn’t seem that fun… since he essentially has no life outside of being a complete asshole… He’s a pretty damn boring villain, in my opinion.
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Why do so many countries have flags that are red, white, and blue? I mean, it takes me a lot longer to remember who the hell has a flag with the same color scheme as Germany… When I take over the world, my flag is gonna be seafoam green, purple, and slate blue. JUST BECAUSE.
Born of a lecture on WWI when the professor mentioned that it wasn’t a giant leap to mistake an American flag for something else. But I think ours is on the only one with a shitton of stars on it because the USA needs to remind people how big it is or something.
If it wasn’t immediately obvious, this is in no way any attempt to accurately depict WWI U-boats. It also pisses me the hell off that searching for WWI/First World War/World War One THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A WWII RESULT.
The German on the book is probably wrong… I figure if you’re not trying for accuracy, you inaccuracy the hell out of it.
- Girl Scout cookies might as well be laced with crack as far as I am concerned.
One of my little cousins recently admitted to never having eaten Girl Scout cookies while my dad was talking about how Girl Scouts actually work in shifts when selling the cookies.
I bought a box of Thin Mints the other day. I considered saving some for my little cousin but well… GIRL SCOUT COOKIES ARE LIKE CRACK TO ME.
I wanted to be a girl scout when I was younger, but we didn’t have enough girls for a troop (there was like… three of us). So alas, I went my childhood without a badge in underwater basket weaving.
Jeez, Landon, you’re trying to get Hirsch drunk, not give him alcohol poisoning.
