warriorsatthedisco:

tinycodingkitty:

azzandra:

am-i-the-last-dreamer:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

pain-and-missouri:

tilthat:

TIL a 19 year old man dove 85 feet into the ocean to wrestle an 80 pound octopus with a 9 foot diameter to the surface in a 25 minute epic battle in which he punched the octopus subduing it after it turned red and lunged at him tearing off his respirator. He drove it home, cooked it up, and ate it.

via reddit.com

This is the man you must fight at the gates of Valhalla to prove you’re worthy of that mighty hall

It somehow gets crazier. this teenager trained for months. he staged fights in his parents’ swimming pool to train for this epic match. he choose halloween night for the final showdown. and it was for a school project. he could have chosen any seafood, but he decided on, in his own words, “that big fucking octopus.” magnificent bastard. 

Y’all missed the part where he dragged it ashore and divers saw him, got upset and sent some pretty rough stuff to his family. Then, at the Washington Fish and Wildlife meeting, he showed up and was like “yeah, it should be protected.” 

Except that the giant pacific octopus is nowhere near extinct and actually doing just fine.

So not only did he wrestle, kill, and eat a giant octopus– he got it protected from hunting in several locations even though the species doesn’t need protecting. 

Fucking legendary indeed.

So the only person they need protection from is this guy.

…what sort of school project requires you to wrestle sea life?

That’s just how Washington is

proteus-no:

merlinslionheart:

witforweeks:

dragonsir:

fjorester-yashregard:

hegodamask:

deadcrushing:

thor ragnarok fight scene but holding out for a hero is playing

@nyebevans @nathanosblightcallers

This works so well, I am in awe.

“Where are all the gods” right as Thor starts tossing people around

The chorus hits hard at the same time Valkyrie does and her first swing even connects right when the song has what sounds like a sparking sound effect

“He’s gotta be strong” just when Hulk steps in

The small synth flourish timed perfectly with a dramatic Loki hair flip

This is art.

The fact that Thor keeps saying “that’s what heroes do” throughout the movie just makes this perfect

This video cleared my skin, watered my crops, sent me a check, and took me out to dinner like wow thank you OP for blessing me

OP WHERES THE FULL VIDEO

msvelawciraptor:

carpenters3:

op was a terf so I’m stealing the post but yeah if you’re called for jury duty and during the elimination process you’re asked if you’ve ever had any adverse experience with a man (harrassment or rape or any other male violence) just fuckin lie and say no & vote that fucker guilty bc they sure don’t screen for rapists on jury duty only survivors

Ok, so I’m going to have to do this again…

As a public defender, I can flat out tell you that this post is both incorrect and dangerous.

Let’s leave aside the fact that you’re encouraging people to commit perjury when you tell them to lie during jury selection (though you are, which obviously is problematic in and of itself.)

Jury selection is about screening out people who cannot judge a case fairly. That’s it. Being a survivor (Or a victim of any kind of crime) is not an automatic disqualifier. But you have to be able to listen to the evidence and sit in judgment fairly. If you walk in with the assumption that if a person has been charged, they must have done something wrong; if you’re going to be reliving your trauma instead of listening to evidence; if you, for any reason, cannot follow the law as contained in the jury instructions (including honoring the presumption of innocence and holding the state to its burden of proof), you don’t belong on that jury. Because EVERYONE deserves a fair trial, regardless of the charges they’re facing.

And I expect that, yet again, I’ll get called a rape apologist for defending basic constitutional principles and discouraging perjury, but I didn’t choose this career path to be popular.

Tl;dr-the Constitution is not a technicality. Jury duty is not a game. Everybody deserves due process and a fair trial, which includes an unbiased jury that is prepared to follow the law.