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yosano: i like that we say "oh man" to express disappointment. because men, in fact, are disappointing.
ranpo:
yosano: !! except ranpo. he is the purest thing in the world
Yosano to Dazai: If your eyes start hurting, what you've got to do is lay down and close them for a while... now that's a sexy little maneuver that those in the medical field like to call 'sleep'.
what a week huh?
Serena: What did you do?
Calem: It’s a combination of getting arrested for trying to steal a car, contracting food poisoning and blowing up a marshmallow but it was fun and I made some good memories so none of that other stuff really matters
Trevenant: It can control trees at will. It will trap people who harm the forest, so they can never leave.
Litwick: While shining a light and pretending to be a guide, it leeches off the life force of any who follow it.
Phantump: According to old tales, these Pokémon are stumps possessed by the spirits of children who died while lost in the forest.
Happy Halloween~
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Meirl
yes i’m queer & overinvested in fictional tv shows. mind your business
God the shirtless Akutagawa and Higuchi I'm crying
Bungou Stray Dogs Wan! Anime Preview!
so i saw some clips of the Realtime Fandub of Sonic The Hedgehog and decided to watch the full thing and let me tell you this scene right here made me laugh so fucking hard it triggered an asthma attack that nearly killed me and that isn’t even an exageration
being the only member of team chaotix with a brain cell is really taking its toll, i see
BSD Wan Chapter 97!
Yay for Dark Age chapters!
Translated and Typesetted by @shinjuu-is-never-lonely
✿ 5.11
Happy Birthday to the incredibly talented, endlessly passionate and effortlessly beautiful: Tawada Hideya!
Words cannot express how marvelously he's brought to life our beloved Dazai Osamu from Bungou Stray Dogs!
∘ From the Happy-Go-Lucky Dazai in the Armed Detective Agency:
∘ To the Dark Demonic Prodigy of the Port Mafia:
∘ To being the most perfect embodiment of the surreal beauty of Dazai Osamu:
∘ To executing the character to the T by goofing off offstage: (he's adorable!)
∘ To the effortless transitions from cute and adorable to dark and formidable :
He's given us everything that we could ask from Dazai Osamu, and then more!
♡ Happy Birthday, Hideya Tawada! ♡
Fyodor: How can someone say Kolya is evil?? He’s the most precious soft little soul. Gogol, wiping blood off his face: YEAH I’M ADORABLE!
Gokushufudou / The Way of the Househusband episode 2
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✿ 26.10
— one man told me, to write a story is to write a person.
— a man who takes lives cannot write about lives.
— someday when I can quit the Port Mafia and become a free man,
— I want to sit down at a desk in a room where I can see the sea,
— and I want to become a writer.
— I want to throw the gun aside, and only have pen and paper.
— I want to become a writer.
Happy Birthday, Odasaku.
video game christmas music
All’s well that’s well for me.
Happy birthday, Ranpo!
Wait, what's wine forgery? How would you fake wine?
VERY EASILY, MY FRIEND. BUCKLE UP.
First of all, you gotta understand that wine is BIG BUCKS. Old and rare vintages can sell for tens of thousands of dollars or even more to wealthy collectors at auctions. A single bottle of 1947 Cheval Blanc sold for $300,000 back in 2010. And a lot of 114 bottles of a rare Romanee-Conti sold for $1.4 million in 2014.
And it turns out that high-end wine is dazzlingly easy to fake. Only a handful of people have ever tasted the rarest vintages in the world; and how the bottles were stored, if they were exposed to sunlight or kept in darkness, if the bottle had been opened or kept sealed, or if the environment was humid or dry can affect the wine’s taste, especially after decades or centuries. So who knows what a bottle of 1785 Lefitte actually tastes like? Can anyone actually tell it apart, with certainty, from a hypothetically-much-less-valuable 1784 of the same vintage?
Considering that some of the greatest wine-tasters in the world have also been dupes of some of the biggest wine scams in the world, I’m gonna say no.
There are definitely flavors associated with old wines, even specific vintages of old wines; but you don’t need to shell out for a pricey bottle to top off your fake. Get a cheap bottle of old wine and mix it with some nice quality, younger wines, and no one will be the wiser. Million-dollar wine forgers like Harvey Rodenstock and Rudy Korniawan do exactly that.
It gets even easier when you think that a lot of the people who buy these ultra-pricey bottles never even open them. They’re not for drinking! They’re an investment, or they’re a prestige item, something you take down from your shelf to show off to your friends once in a while. You could fill the bottle with grape juice, and who would ever find out?
So how are you supposed to tell a real bottle from a fake one? The bottle itself? The label? Wine bottles are nothing special; get one made in the right couple-of-decades as the vintage you’re faking, and there’s nothing to tell them apart. Some of them have etched signatures, but those were done with simple hand tools, that you can still buy today. And the labels are no security at all. They’re just paper, ink, and paste. People today are forging the holograms off of $20 bills; you could convincingly fake a wine label using a standard laser printer.
Wine forgery is a HUGE problem in the wine world today. Tracing the provenance of any particular bottle is next to impossible. And frankly, the money in the business is just too good for anyone to want to ask too many questions. The head of Sotheby’s auction house’s international wine department joked that more bottles of 1945 Mouton were consumed on the 50th anniversary of the vintage than were ever produced in the first place.
The question isn’t how do you fake wine: it’s how the fraudsters ever get caught. In Rodenstock and Korniawan’s cases, they just overplayed their hands. Rodenstock sold so many bottles of rare wine that a suspicious customer had a bottle carbon-dated, which revealed that it was two centuries younger than Rodenstock had claimed (and it still took years to take him down).
As for Korniawan, he started selling a vintage so rare that, it turned out, it had never existed in the first place.
There’s a great podcast on this topic in the Stuff You Should Know archives, if you want to hear a whole lot more about this.
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Kunikida: Ranpo, did you eat all the donuts?
Ranpo: No.
Kunikida: I can see the white powder on your pants.
Ranpo:
Ranpo: That’s cocaine.
I have discovered a new enemy
The Nervous System
Awww 🥰 😭😭