Fun fact: I went to school with one of her daughters and am still mad about her getting to live in the campus apartments as a freshman 
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Not for any particular story yet, but, there’s this Japanese vine called kudzu, but it’s also called arrowroot.
Tell me I’m not the only one that has a hard time saying “arrowroot”.
Arrow woot
arrow woot
Air row woot
I just can’t XD
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Nah, have no problem saying it. Kudzu is invasive as hell, though. Wouldn’t have thought it and arrowroot were the same.
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(You know, this is the only thread on WW I still visit now and again, marveling at what other people research. It also offers some excellent story ideas.)
Combat drug related chemicals…
- methylphenidate
- dextroamphetamine
- epinephrine
- arginine-vasopressin
- four-oxazolidinone
For context:
“That’s a lot of letters.”
His smile is thin. “It’s an experimental combat drug. It’s also bad for your liver. I added allura-red, iron, and some vitamin C.”
“Why the iron and vitamin C?” I ask. To be honest, those are the only two ingredients I recognize.
“You looked like you could use some.”
(Darn, forgot how to fold…)
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I’ll take that as a compliment xD. I also second the ideas, haha.
If this isn’t an honest truth 
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Why the iron and vitamin C?” I ask. To be honest, those are the only two ingredients I recognize.
“You looked like you could use some.”
This made me laugh 
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So apparently, dragonflies spend majority of their lives underwater (few months to a couple of years). They’re actual flies for as little as a week. They emerge out of water, mate and die.
Imagine, you live your entire life as an underwater insect, but people only see you when you’re about to die. No one knows of the secret life you had underwater.
That’s trippy.
Serious identity crises right there.
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I cackled xD.
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The art of Ratatoskr in the Eddas is ungodly ugly.
He’s described as a squirrel but you’d never know with art like this.
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I am not familiar with this, but I can say that’s a… generous interpretation of a squirrel .
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He’s essentially the messenger god of Norse mythology.
They don’t have an excuse outside of being terrible at drawing, they have squirrels in Nordic lands. This isn’t an elephant situation.
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It’s like someone asked their five year old to draw them something.
(with the exception of my son who would draw a stick figure with twenty legs, oh, good old times when I saw his awful drawings)
But seriously now, what’s that thing on the squirrel’s head? Is it like a unicorn-squirrel hybrid thing?
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Why are the squirrels the same size as the horses?! 
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Part of his name means tusk…
It is a possibility that it war artistic license…but why would anyone want to represent a squirrel like that?
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I can’t get over how pretty the eyes of those last elephants are. Like gentle doggies. with horn noses. and hog tusks. and goat hooves.
And it’s shot in some cool realm where the stars in the red sky align perfectly with each other.
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Those are elephants, but that’s really weird. Medieval artists didn’t seem to be very interested in representing reality, much less accurate scale.
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omg, wow.
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If your elephant looks like a squirrel, you might have drawn it wrong…
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Shame they’re being horrifically stabbed…
There’s a certain style that makes them both fascinating and hilarious.
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Yeah, the Old Norse were not known for their artistic abilities…most contemporary representations of the gods and monsters are a little…lacking.
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