oh to be a little witch drawn in an anime artstyle who wears billowy cloaks and aprons and lives in a hollowed out vehicle in the woods filled with plants and potions of many kinds
Certified Applejack Violent Thoughts Moment
sure i'll reblog that
the video isn’t loading for me, I’ll have to trust you on that
element of honesty
Honestly i simply don't believe a farm girl wouldn't say oh damn cool. Watching animals do shit is like television on a farm
Obsessed that the military strike on chickens at Cellina happened two years and a half ago, already
Basically the italian army was doing some military training with APCs and tanks (using live ammo) and whatnot, at night. One of these APCs, with a 105mm turret, fired in the dark at a target during their manœuvers.
Problem is that it completely missed the target and instead 360 noscope'd critical hit x99 damage a chicken farm, destroying the wall and disintegrating like fifty chickens. Meanwhile, the APCs and tanks just went back to their base like nothing had happened at all because they didn't notice any of that shit.
The morning after the owner of the farm wakes up, goes to check the coop and finds that the chickencaust had happened overnight. He calls the Carabinieri, they notice the big fuckoff hole in the middle of the god-damned wall and piece everything together. The army gets informed, the APCs get confiscated, and the story goes viral, cue a fuckton of great memes about it on the italian internet.
They got 105mm on their apc????
>he doesn't know about the Centauro
customer: ... and honestly it's kind of shitty that you guys close at 4 when it said online that --
my zweihander i keep underneath the counter beckoning to me: MY BROTHER/COME JOIN ME/IN BATTLE WE ARE STRONGER
my hand: [involuntarily twitches toward the hilt of my blade]
One under-appreciated breed of fic writer are the ones who hyperfocus on logistics to the exclusion of all canon shortcuts, and thus usually strike upon an awesome way to flesh out the worldbuilding or characters.
Like, I’m not necessarily talking realism here since often it’s still pretty far from realistic, but more like, “someone has to be running spies in this fantasy kingdom, and we’ve seen the whole royal court, so which background character is it? How does that change these three major interactions?” Or “real life historical nobility did in fact have some things to do that were like jobs, how does this human disaster cope with running an estate?” Or “there’s no reason for a sci-fi robot detective to know how to whitewater kayak, where’d she learn?” Or “if this guy is serving the emperor directly he has to be way high up in the space empire servant hierarchy, why is he doing this menial task for someone else? What’s his motive? Does he perhaps have the secret space telepathy?”
Anyway I’m always DELIGHTED to find a fic or writer who asks these questions because the fics themselves are universally bangers.
person who knows how logistical things works has picked up the cannon, hefted it thoughtfully, and put a single chalk mark precisely on the problem.
