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it is still insanely funny that oda, who will literally fucking die before he stops putting HUGE boobs i mean some serious honkers a real set of badonkers packin some dobenhonkeros big ole tonhongerekoogers on his lady characters, gets an excuse to give a man titties in the form of yamato and IMMEDIATELY gives him even bigger bonkhonagahoogs humongous hungolomghononoloughongous
Fun fact my grandparents’ first date was to the grocery store and the encounter that initiated my parents’ relationship was also a run-in at the grocery store so if you ask me, grocery store based relationships are rock solid
Why would you leave a story like this in the tags??
‘Cause I was too busy trying to manifest my grocery store boyfriend
With the popularity of Planet of the Bass I’ve noticed a lot of people getting eurobeat and eurodance confused. This is understandable but also REALLY funny to me as a eurobeat girlie. Reigning Eurobeat queen Odyssey (you may know her as the girl behind “Discord I’m howlin at the moon”) has a good Twitter thread on the subject, but to add my own summary that’s hopefully not too jargon-y:
It’s PROBABLY EUROBEAT if:
Main lyrical themes are cars/driving/going Very Fast, Touhou, My Little Pony, or Japan (though the latter is more of a grey area since Japan comes up as a theme in some eurodance as well)
Between every verse is a synthesizer riff that sounds too fast to ever possibly be played live by human hands
There’s a section where all but the last word or so of every line is omitted (this is where “dancing, we wanna feel the light is flashing, I send the power to myself” becomes “dancing… flashing… to myself”)
There’s an electric guitar solo (may or may not be synthesized)
The rhythm is a straight four-on-the-floor beat, aka it sounds like WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP
There’s car vroom vroom sound effects
It’s PROBABLY EURODANCE (at least as opposed to eurobeat) if:
There’s a rapper
Themes include world peace or partying (there are SOME party eurobeat songs but not as many, and it’s not like eurobeat is pro-war, they’re just driving too fast to think about it)
It’s more downtempo
The rhythm is a shuffle beat, aka it sounds like WA-WOMP WA-WOMP
It’s in a language other than English or Japanese
It’s DEFINITELY eurobeat if:
The YouTube thumbnail looks like this or otherwise involves an anime character and a car
not-so-friendly reminder that hunting is an important part of conservation in many cases and that painting all hunting as morally, ethically, and/or environmentally “bad” does a major disservice to indigenous people, poor communities, and our environment
Conservation biologists actually work with hunters (and fishers) a lot in monitoring species health! Hunters will often know before anyone else when numbers are declining, have a vested interest in keeping the population around, and are often involved in research collaborations where they bring their kills in to be measured/have tissue taken for research.
There can be tension when restrictions conflict with the need to make rent, and trophy hunters are not included in this (going after only the largest members of a population and not even using the body for food is pretty bad for conservation). But hunters and conservationists can be, and should be, natural allies.
The Minnesota DNR has had a program for the last several years where they work with hunters to track Chronic Wasting Disease (a rather nasty neurological disease caused by prions) in local white-tailed deer populations, just as a single example!
Really really REALLY wanna emphasize one of the points no one’s boosting here, that a firm anti-hunting stance is INHERENTLY ANTI-NATIVE. Please don’t forget that these policies are extremely racist towards our already extremely marginalized communities.
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