Animus-primal36 - Sorry Bout The Mess...

I want you all to know that an Arab Muslim from Tunis proposed the Theory of Evolution near 600 years before Charles Darwin even took his first breath. Don’t let them erase you.

reblog if your inbox is always open for new members of the fandom who may be a little shy or intimidated. doesn’t matter whether or not you’re a “popular blog”; everyone here is equal and if you’re reading this as a new person/someone considering entering the fandom, we will not turn you away!!!! talk to us!! make friends!! i more than understand being shy but trust me this fandom is chill come join us in this hellhole

3A Limited Edition Destiny Figures - Hunter and Warlock

$190 Each - Pre-orders start in July 7th for Warlock and July 21st for Hunter. There are different version of each one for a respective retailer.

Bambaland site Bunge Store 3A Retail

Hunters: (Pre-orders Start July 21st)

Specs for all:

12.2-inches Tall (31cm)

27 Points of Articulation 

Bambaland Edition

Chatterwhite Shader

Shattered Vault Cloak

Ghost - Standard Shell

Primary Weapon - Imago Loop Hand Cannon

Special Weapon - Broken Truth-LR1 Sniper Rifle

Heavy Weapon - Dowager SA/3 Heavy Rocket Launcher

Exotic Weapon - Ice Breaker Sniper Rifle

Bungie Store Edition

Goldspiral Shader

Dead Revolution Cloak

Ghost - Quest Shell

Primary Weapon - Fatebringer Hand Cannon

Special Weapon - Efrideet’s Spear Sniper Rifle

Heavy Weapon - Dauphine SA/4 Heavy Rocket Launcher

Exotic Weapon - Ice Breaker Sniper Rifle 

Retail Edition

Autumn Splendor Shader

Cloak of Taniks Cloak

Ghost - Vanguard Shell

Primary Weapon - Imago Loop Hand Cannon

Special Weapon - LDR-5001 Sniper Rifle

Heavy Weapon - Tomorrow’s Answer Heavy Rocket Launcher

Warlocks (Pre-orders Start July 7th)

Specs for all:

12.6-Inches (32cm) tall

27 Points of Articulation 

Bambaland Edition

Chatterwhite Shader

Ghost - Bold Red Shell

Primary Weapon - No Time To Explain Pulse Rifle

Special Weapon - Murmur Fusion Rifle

Heavy Weapon - Bretomart’s Stand Heavy Machine Gun

Exotic Weapon - Thorn Hand Cannon

Bunige Store Edition

Old Guard Shader

Ghost - Dread Explorer Shell

Primary Weapon - Strangers Rifle Pulse Rifle

Special Weapon - Murmur Fusion Rifle

Heavy Weapon - Jolder’s Hammer Heavy Machine Gun

Exotic Weapon - Thorn Hand Cannon

Retail Version

Lunar Elegy Shader

Ghost - Brave Shell

Primary Weapon - Strangers Rifle Pulse Rifle

Special Weapon - Murmur Fusion Rifle

Heavy Weapon - Bretomart’s Stand Heavy Machine Gun

Please note that these figures will only be made once. 3A doesn’t do re-stocks. Do not expect to get one for a cheaper price after release; most people will sell them back for double+ the $190 price tag.

I never knew I needed this, thank you

↳ get to know me: favorite team → team avatar (open in new tab for larger size!!) Sokka: “I just wanted to say: good effort out there today, Team Avatar.” Katara: “Enough with the Team Avatar stuff. No matter how many times you say it, it’s not gonna catch on!” Sokka: “How about the Boomerang Squad? See, it’s good cause it has Aang in it - Boomer-Aang!” (art credit)

Aang: Coughing, fever, dehydrated, almost catatonic from the flu

Azula wanting to help but refusing to get within 6 feet of him so she doesn't get sick:

Fandom Etiquette

I’ve been around for a really long time in various fandoms, and no one ever writes this stuff down. I’ll start. Please add to the list. We can’t expect people to follow “rules” they don’t know exist. 

written with the help of @unbreakablejemmasimmons

Fanart

if you like something, reblog it. Help the artist get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you. 

if you want more of it, support it. This can be via commissions, reblogs, recommending the artist to other people, shouting in the tags, or sending the artist asks/messages. 

if you hate it, keep scrolling. Keep the hate in a message window with a friend, not in the artist’s notes. 

if you want to use it, ask permission. Artwork is beautiful and you want to show it off. But please ask the artist before you throw it into your header or your icon. 

if you use it, give credit. And not just a post where you say “Do you like my new icon? X made it!”. Put it in your blog description, that way when someone rolls around your blog three months from now, they also know where your icon/header came from. 

Fanfic

if you like something, reblog it. Help the author get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you.

if you want more of it, support it. Kudos are fine, but if you want more of the thing you like, you should comment. Subscribe to the story or the author. Send them a message about how much you like what they wrote. 

if you read it, kudos it. Or give it a thumbs up. And this is just if you managed to get all the way to the end. If you finished the story and you actually liked it? Comment and reblog. 

don’t demand content. Be patient. Stories take time. You can encourage without being demanding. Show your love for what’s there without telling them to post more often. 

be gentle with criticism. Some people want it and some people run away from it. If you don’t know what type of person the author is, it’s best not to go there. “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything.”

Fandom

ship and let ship. You love your ship and other people love theirs. No one needs to “win” when we’re all going to end up in tears anyway. 

if you hate it, stay out of the tag. This has two meanings: 1) don’t deliberately put hateful commentary in a tag and 2) if you  hate a tag, don’t go and read through that tag just to make yourself angry

if someone makes you something, appreciate it. Read and comment the fic. Like and reblog the artwork. Pimp it out and tell them how much you loved it. It’s a gift, treat it like one. 

if it’s a gift, put some effort into it. You signed up for that exchange three months ago and now it’s a week before you have to send the gift and you don’t have the time or the inclination to do the thing. Well too bad. Someone out there has been working hard in your gift, so you should do the same for them. 

none of us are “better” than anyone else. We’re all trash for our particular show/film/book/ship/artist/what-have-you. My fave is no better than yours and yours is no better than mine. 

actors are not their characters. They are people. Treat them like people. 

Gaia Gang Running Jokes

I made a joke about Beta liking Old World memes the other day, and that got me thinking about the Gaia Gang/A-Team and what running/inside jokes they might have. Not sure if these are any good?

Also please feel free to add your own :D

*pointing at a poisonous plant* "Hey Zo, can I eat this?"

Whenever Aloy isn't around, everyone else brainstorms ideas for new titles/nicknames they can call her. The important part is that they never directly reveal the fact that they made them up, leaving Aloy to wonder if she's going to get bombarded with new nicknames next time she stops by a settlement. (On at least one occasion, Kotallo went out of his way to include Hekkaro in on the joke, much to Aloy's utter bafflement)

*holding up random Old World trinkets* "You see, this here is a Gigglegripper 3000, which the Old Ones used to trim nose hairs-" "Actually that's the JumbleHopper 4000, a tool for determining whether or not it's raining." "You're thinking of the WetWorks WhipperSnapper Dry XL LUXE edition, this is-" and so forth. Becomes way more prominent if Sylens or Tilda are around.

Constant half-joking debates about whether Aloy is Sobeck's daughter or Gaia's daughter, and if Gaia is technically Sobeck's daughter. Usually gets complicated further by someone asking if Current Gaia counts as the same person as Gaia Prime, and then someone suggesting that Current Gaia is actually Aloy's daughter (because Aloy did restore her, after all). Although things could be even further complicated (to a humorous degree) by the idea that Aloy is Sobeck (renewed/extended/reborn/reincarnated, whatever you want to call it), everyone knows that Aloy wouldn't be comfortable with the notion, so they exclude that from their joking.

"So Aloy is Sobeck's daughter, and Gaia Prime is Sobeck's daughter, but Current Gaia is Aloy's daughter?" "No no no, Aloy is Gaia Prime's daughter, Gaia Prime is Sobeck's daughter, so Aloy is Sobeck's granddaughter. Current Gaia both is and is not the same as Gaia Prime, and is Aloy's daughter. Therefore, Aloy's daughter is also her mother, and her sister is genetically her grandmother :)" (cue Aloy looking incredibly exasperated in the background)

*Aloy is about to leave the base* "Hey, wait, you almost forgot the most important tool of all!" *hands her a fucking rock*

Jokingly blaming Ted Faro for literally anything going wrong. Accidentally spilled your food? Ugh, way to go, Ted. The machine you killed doesn't have that part you needed? *sarcastic* Thanks, Ted! It takes a while for Alva to adjust, but after she joins the team it becomes one of her favorite jokes, though she also suggests occasionally swapping out "Ted" with "Ceo".

Sometimes folks will use "we/ours/us" in cases where "I/my/me" would be more appropriate, mainly in an attempt to remind Aloy that she's not alone. However, over time it evolved and now she uses it to her advantage. "Aloy... we need to talk about your hoarding problem. There are literally over a thousand medicinal berries in your stash!" "Don't you mean our hoarding problem?"

*handing something very light to Kotallo or Erend* "can you hold this" or "this is heavy, please carry it for me" or one of those followed by several seconds of silence prior to the realization that the prankster has, in fact, initialized hand holding

At one point Alva makes an offhand comment about the Old World concept of an "Evil Clone" (specifying that it was a common trope in Old World media), and there's a brief, uncomfortable moment before everyone immediately agrees that neither Aloy nor Beta are anything close to an evil clone. Eventually it becomes a running joke to point at masked/concealed enemies (and sometimes ones whose faces are clearly visible) and ask if they're an evil clone of Aloy

The Net Neutrality issue summarized

You (or your parents) pay approx $40-$100 or higher for internet. 

So that you can all use youtube, google, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, etc. etc. etc. This isn’t limited to social media.  

Net neutrality says, “Okay, since you already paid x amount of money for the month, you don’t have to pay for each asset individually. Enjoy your internet.”  NO net neutrality means that your service provider (comcast, at&t, verizon, whatever it may be) gets to say “ACTUALLY, it lines our pockets so give us an extra $5.99 for Youtube, Facebook and Twitter. Oh, but that doesn’t include Tumblr; that comes with our premium package. That’ll be $5.99 on its own as well. Now about your Google docs and email… 

That’s why it’s important. That’s why I’m spamming Net Neutrality crap. If you’re using the internet, it’s YOUR problem. 

-Email your congressman (text resist to 50409) It’s easy, you don’t have to talk to anyone. 

-Tweet the FCC. https://twitter.com/FCC

-Tweet THIS guy. https://twitter.com/AjitPaiFCC

-CALL. https://www.battleforthenet.com/

-This site does the heavy lifting for you.

-Sign this.  

-Sign this. 

-Email your congressmen (that’s what I’m doing) https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

-Swim the #NetNeutrality tag on Twitter. Seriously, it’s helpful. 

And lastly, GET THIS TRENDING. It’s trending on Twitter but it needs to trend here too. This is everyone’s issue.