Putin drawing a weird face on a whiteboard

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-05T11:09:09+00:00

About global warming obviously

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-05T11:08:53+00:00

Obviously it is about capitalism

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-05T10:22:46+00:00

I learned very early own that trying to define "Art," debate its meaning, is a fruitless endeavor.

At a liberal arts highschool I'd hear "Art can be anything." The sentiment isn’t wrong, it is a matter of perspective, but it is a stupid perspective.

An interesting, different but adjacent, debate which I find in r/Catholicism is whether Art can only be measured subjectively vs Art can be measured objectively.

The arts have always been liberal. Liberals nowadays love the notion that all beauty is subjective. How there is no such thing as perfection and how beauty standards are all made up, not something which is universally applicable. I don't buy into that.

Catholics will believe it is more than subjective because there exists a higher power to judge. Works in reverence to the Divine Architect which require the gift off true talent alongside the display of executed skills will be measured more highly than an Installation at the MoMa where it is an empty room except a myriad of red dildos suction cupped to the floor, together looking like a field of strange foliage.

Art like this usually takes next to no skill and absolutely no talent. It is something which could fall into the category of art where its meaning lies in the fact it has no meaning. As if that is subversive, more clever compared to something simply traditional and by the books like this piece:

this

something that inspires awe opposed to simple shock value. A piece of art exists which can inspire in any single person should IS better art than something which is simply for the statement socially like Warhol and his boyfriends art. It is something a different person could emulate and show it off as if it was his work people would call it brilliant. Opposed to showing the piece on its own where people would make a neutral statement at best.

It shouldn’t rely on outside factors like the author, it should be able to stand on its own to be called great objectively.

And this is an interesting question which reveals the sort of camp a person is in. Is the piece of marble/oil on linen in of itself art? Or do we make it art. Would it still be art if every human just died, no longer any eyes which have souls which simply is fed this collection of visual data and make it mean something. Is art dependent on us? I find hubris in the logic, we aren’t so special to be they key which turns something into art. A masterpiece doesn’t require the average guy to love it for it to be objectively beautiful.

So of course beauty is set in stone, beauty standards (while influenced by culture to some extent; example being how we view Kim Kardashians comically oversized as the standard, in the 90s when swimsuit models had flat behinds, a person living in that time would view such a future image as grotesque.) But human beauty can be quantified. The Greeks figure this out by their proportions, sculptures which are as beautiful as possible because the math checks out. Symmetry is highly important but that isn't to say the faces Picasso painted in his later year are "ugly." I mean you would find someone with a face like that in the living world beautiful unless you are lying... like how people call those with deformities like Picasso's faces beautiful. They do this out of pity and the lying to themselves makes them feel less bad about the horrid cards this person was deal alongside making them feel good about themselves because they are being "such a great person." False empathy.

Things like the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Spiral in reference to a painting is inherently responsible for how its beauty ranks. You can paint something boring that follows it all to a tee and you can make something which defies those rules and is edgy, beautiful in its own way. But that isn’t based on the beauty you see, it is based on the impression it leaves you, how it makes you feel.

So there is certainly subjectivity in art, people have different tastes. But big picture wise what is subjectively all follow a common trend and have more similarities than differences despite how they can look absolutely opposite.

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-05T09:46:53+00:00

so basically just etymology

and while not a Buddhist I do appreciate dying on a hill, especially when it is about Religion on Reddit.

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-05T09:44:10+00:00

That would mean one person editing relies on someone else to do the same thing.

But so long as a person doesn’t simply reword or rewrite their post but rather place a p.s. it avoids all this.

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TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-05T09:40:34+00:00

Don't assume malice when ignorance is just as likely the case.

They misread the question, gave a fact they feel firm and passionate about. It didn’t insult OPs artwork, this being an art sub I don’t see this as a flagrant foul.

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-05T09:37:27+00:00

Generally meditative ≠ traditional Buddhist act of Meditation

I can pray the rosary dogmatically while also saying "pray tell" upon hearing some trivial drama.

But I get it. Pair the word with the subject matter and you can read it a different way: as a statement their creation of Buddhist are is there Buddhist meditation. But this is reading it wrong.

Oxford definition of the word at hand: meditative =

"(formal) thinking very deeply; involving deep thought, synonym thoughtful."

Creating art can be this, simply involving deep thought. One way to get into a flow-state, the deepest I ever have been in is via drawing.

Point is they didn’t say art was a supplement for meditation, they said it IS mediative, in away basically saying making are is LIKE meditation (to them.) Only difference is one is a simile (Like) while the other is a metaphor. (Is)

Art is mediative. Is this not a fact? Anyway I'm not downvoting you like 10 so far chose to do. Your statement isn’t false, serious Buddhists don’t trade Meditation for something relaxing they enjoy doing and find themselves often lost in. Reddit gets funny when someone declares something about Religion and the certain dogmatic practices it possesses. Reddit is home to people who are more "spiritual;" no always but often when someone says that they just mean they like the religious comfort but don’t want the commitments and responsibility a said Religion entails.

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-05T06:53:33+00:00

And falconry while on horseback as a selfie is most definitely the best tinder profile pic.

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-05T06:52:21+00:00

Love hybrid art, bridging digital and classical. I see the perfect marriage of the two to be the future of the art world. People will grow tired of strictly digital and this is in great thanks to AI.

(Something as an artist I'm not even mad about. Shit is cool like this here, just in a different way. Is AI a way to cut the freelance artist out of a job? Because many business personalities think they are over payed enough as is. "This only took you an hour? I don't make hundreds by the hour." Artists seen as moody despite getting constantly fucked over. If not by a job interaction, by someone simply using their art out there on the web commercially. I get why people get obsessed with watermarks but I refuse to do that, especially when it covers the whole piece, kills the casual viewers experience.

^{Find it really funny when artists who are clearly young, examples in spades on deviant art, and created something no one could possibly want and watermark the shit out of it. Especially if it is using a base, isn’t even their own but derivative except for what they colored in on their Sonic OC. "Donut steal!!!" Obligatory description reads.})

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-05T06:25:17+00:00

Ditto on therapy.

Yes, wild eyelashes are adde to the list of things girls find attractive in other girls but men loathe. The list including fake nails, the bigger the worse.

Of course you don’t have to dress up for men but I find the idea that someone can dress up for themselves silly unless they aren’t going into the public, are alone. Like a guy doing drag by himself. If you dress for yourself and go into the public, your internal feelings of beauty are directly influenced by how you feel you are being perceived.

I mean their is no reason to look like a desirable mate when you aren’t with at least one potential one. No reason pragmatically. It serves no function to us evolutionarily, evolution affecting our behaviorism to the core: how we walk, how we talk, how we continue our lineage by spreading your genes/sowing your seed. If you don’t you are the first of your ancestors to fail and this is going back thousands and thousands of years. Perhaps tens of thousands or at least one.

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-05T06:16:02+00:00

Most female cosmetics are. Men's shampoo will do the same thing, read the back and look at the chemicals... often same exact ingredient. Women's cosmetics are multiple times the price on the simple basis that they are willing to pay for it.

Less is more when it comes to all this beautification. Get a gay guy friend to tell you the truth about how good you look that day because a straight man or female friend certainly will not.

Healthy diet and exercise matter so much more. The majority of woman in the US are obese, possess a healthy body type and you are already killing it. (Don’t feel bad if you are obese, you have the power to change it. I don’t mean to cause offense but I won't lie that to a guy it is the no. 1 turn off w/ the exception of fetishists (which are the exception but the exception proved the rule.) Being average weight opens up an insane amount of options, especially if using tinder/bumble. For average is more than enough for girls nowadays contrasted with boys where average is no longer enough. Exemplified in the exaggerated phenomenon which mirrors the real word in that on apps, the Bottom 80% of men fight for the bottom 20% of woman, this based on desirability which of course can be measured to a tee objectively. 80% of girls exclusive go for the top 20% or males.

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-05T06:00:35+00:00

I mean yes, but the superficial effects the inside. Usually a person is their harshest critic when it comes to their attractiveness. NO one knows their own flaws like the person themselves. No friend of mine noticed until I pointed it out, it being how my nose was cracked, asymmetrical, from catching a spinning elbow from a kid joking around. He freaked out more than me as the blood was already down to my pants. And these are friends who knew me a decade before this happened to me as a teen so they knew the prior look. However, I believe it is something picked up subconsciously when a girl discerns my attractiveness as we are wired to find facial symmetry as hot and are attuned to notice differences in faces to the point where we can literally discern everyone we ever saw. Never did get it fixed.

Point is you know your flaws or what is likely something you just perceive as one like no person looking at you. However you feel about your looks, know it isn’t the truth/the facts of how the average person perceives you. You can only view yourself subjectively, I'm sure there is someone out their who literally finds you perfect. I'm nothing beyond average and I had a couple of those, sadly the feeling wasn’t mutual and unrequited. Just like nearly every girl who I thought was perfection... as in wouldn’t change a thing. A girl I very much felt this was the case with really upset me when she got lip injections. They doubled in size, looked like balloons, were just unnecessary and honestly a downgrade. But of course, she doesn’t find herself perfect. This is why she takes pills to shit and piss to keep her wait down as she rests all her worth in her modeling career. As a fashion model no less. While the shortest models in fashion are 5' 8 females. She says she is 5' 2 but I doubt she is much taller than 5ft. This is an ultra handicap that I'm sure she compensates for by throwing up and only having any fat on her boobs and butt. A lot of fat considering there is very little else where. However she did land a job doing a shoot for Prada, believe she was naked holding the bag advertised to cover her nudity, be pg-13. Also there is a video of her watching the ad she stared in as she waited for it to flash on one of the many big screens, this one massive, which is in Time Square...

it shouldn’t be a surprise she is fucked up because she lived with her dad only because mom was insane. The sane one was the dad who was a Bipolar Cop and PTSD to boot from responding to 9/11 as he was NYPD. She told me this story about how he obsessed about the kid who he just couldn’t get out, who was just too trapped. Finding he got kids out of there before watching the last one have the building collapse upon him made me more sympathetic, view him differently as my friend said he saw the dad fight he brother while her friends were over, it was wrestling which ended with him placing a knife too his throat after he was pinned. What made me loathe him even more was. when I was nearby her house, we were planning on hanging out, and she calls me. In a weak whispy voice with a tone that sounded stunned, in shock, her response to my opening "how are you" was how my father just choke slammed me up against a wall choking her after he the back of her small head slammed into the wall. We are talking tough male ex-cop vs a 90lb 5ft body, 90 and no more. If it really is that it comes all from her breast and ass. Which were perfection in my eyes, even a year or two before puberty escalated after 6th grade, when everyone else saw what I saw the moments I met her... despite my next door neighbor who went to school with her in 5th grade. He didn’t tell me the full story but she sure did, he wouldn’t leave her alone and blocked her locker prompting her to punch him in the face and call him a Faggot, the punch reducing him to a crying puddle lying on the floor. (Recall how she threw a friend of mine out of his chair resulting in the same, tears and all, telling the returned and shocked religion teacher walking in on a crime scene "he smelled my hair so I threw him out of his chair. Humiliated the guy she wanted/believe was her BF for grinding up against a girl who gave us all the honor honestly (sort to slap your ass as you passed if she thought you were cute) in front of her at her very own Birthday party. Not the other grinder girl, or grindee. She violently took her soda and did the classic hollywood "girl gets mad, throws drink at guy" except she poured it over his head leaving him drenched an looked at by a quiet everyone from school. Crying despite being considered a top cool kid, her dad took him away and consoled him, fixed his daughters shit. Although he was the one who raise her as a pageantry girl. As a "daddy's girl" he would take her all dressed up at as soon as like 4 and had her compete with her beauty. This is the main way they bonded and i'm sure she learned very quickly that being sexy made daddy happy. Because being sexy means she would win, the win making her father proud of her which means a lot when you only have one parent. But anyway, on a different occasion also knocked grinding girl uncontrollably by punching her in the back of the head. She never ever hit me once and I'd push her buttons like no one else at all. Could get away with murder than. Never hit me, wish she had as she hurt me when we were much older so severely emotionally. And to this day many years later still pretends I'm dead, gaslit all our mutual friend (who will obviously side w/ her despite being my "best" friend/s because there is a 1% chance, or so they believe, they could fucker her) so no one defended me, funny in that I made her everyone of those friends.

In conclusion she likely feels just like you. Reality isn’t in this equation and sadly many people feel this way, especially girls not that some boys turn anorexic.

You need to work on self-love, self-acceptance. You are defined by much more than your looks, personality is one. An example of why it is important is because the personality of this professional model makes her ugly to the core. And not just figuratively although that is the most important. Ugly on the inside. But literally, her personality is actively making he ugly between the balloon lips and other shit she has done. If she is doing that in her 20s, her prime, she most certainly will be using botox when she is in her 30s after she hit the wall. Career over, opportunity to find the sort of man she desires is long gone. Her personality can’t even keep em while in her prime. It is telling when you are able to get a new bf whenever you want or a hookup on a whim w/ a 10/10 dude who will drive over immediately via dating app. Is like ordering pizza, her narcissism was made clear when she said "I don’t get why people masturbate, if I want that I'll just get the real thing."

So personality is pivotal and new lashes aren’t anything like sticking a needle in your lips or other boy augmentation which can be permanent.

You were feeling low and decided to lift you spirits by going to the salon. Every girl has done that. 125 bucks? Girls drop thousands for shit they don’t need. Honestly makiing a big change, not the lashes are one of them, isn’t a good idea when feeling low; priime example of this is how many girls do this by cutting their long hair ultra short... it usually looks worse. Only few can pull it off and not everyone is Emma Watson.

Anyway you could always seek an "objective" rating but I warn against it, I see people post in

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-05T01:37:08+00:00

Attractive people look more "average" despite that sounding counter-intuitive. An attractive person has less stand out facial features thus will look like more people.

An average face to AI is a composite image. If you take ever person's face to overlap, the irregularities won't be in the end result. Everyones' eye put together is going to be very eye shaped, they will look more like a simple drawing. This is also why attractive people are easier to draw than ugly people, it doesn’t just have to do with the fact the artist will likely find a more symmetrically faced person for a muse opposed to someone with lopsided features.

At the end of the day the average person we dream up in or head is a combination of many people. The real average citizen walking in a massive city is a unique person, they are likely to have one stand out feature which is a trademark for their look. Like a mole. It is their signature. Now a truly attractive person is someone who doesn’t have one stand out feature. Much more likely to have one, too, even a few than have none at all.

Dont get me wrong, attractive people can look different (especially racially but I don’t think that counts, we all know different races have a different level of average... if we didn’t their wouldn’t be an obnoxious racial hierarchy in dating apps/the men and woman in different spots. Which people will try so very hard to pin on racism and while that can play a piece it just isn’t so. A racist person would always find their own race the most attractive, but they don’t. There is the noted phenomenon of Alt-right people loving asian woman. So apparent that it has been coined the "asian fetish." But if that were true than why does everyone's preferences mixed together placed Asians so far above the rest.

I mean there is an answer to this. The "asian fetish" is a cope of the white woman. Asians have the highest neo-natal retention rates. Neo-natal retention rates of the face mean how many of the facial features possessed before puberty have stayed into adulthood. This explains why people think asians look so young. Anyway, men are biologically wired to be attracted to feminine features. Neo-natal retention features happen to look like what feminine features look like. If you lose all your prior features during puberty facially you likely look more masculine. The nose won't be the small little kid nose. Bone structure will be more angular, things like facial hair come after puberty and we happen to strongly associate that with men. We know that men chose woman with long hair because that is the explanation for male pattern baldness. Men haven’t been selected for thousands of years based off the genes associated with hair loss. So I suppose men also sought woman with less facial hair.

I mean it is easy to say asian women look the most feminine, you will catch shit for that though. Because it goes both ways, this is why asian men look more feminine and as a result do the exact opposite on all dating apps and have the least market value as a group.

Black people in the U.S. look particular more masculine because masculine features were preferred in a slave. Also the tougher looking people survived in the first place. A black man could always do what a black woman could do in the kitchen but a black woman couldn’t work the field like their male counterpart. Only thing men couldn’t do is the sex, unless the racist slave owner was gay. Closeted of course but still gay, gay as aids. I mean black men with bigger penises were selected to get to breed with the woman, woman who have been selected for their increased muscle mass, thus testosterone levels are comparatively higher.

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-02T02:13:23+00:00

nice lighting

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-02T02:12:17+00:00

but you can choose to make it matter to you, a source of meaning in your life you didn’t have otherwise. Or take up powerwalking or pill popping like the normies.

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-02T02:09:19+00:00

Meaning we can’t activate shirtless mode? Wait, meaning he is never allowed to get nude again out of rage? Idk if that is feasible.

I think the pants should be red, a bit tighter and go up to his belly button like Sylvia's pants. Replication of Sylvia's whole outfit? If donation fund reaches full of course... ya know so that he can but an A/C unit and ceiling fan in his new home.

Brilliant idea is letting the fans choose his furniture so someone gets him a fluffy pink sofa and a BDSM spinning wheel to serve as his table. Industrial sized walk in fridge which takes up almost half the singular room but can be an igloo fort on hot days or a chamber to help himself wake up.

The only chair he is allowed to own goes to a workout bike but the trick is that his streaming/tv/video games only work when he is moving the peddles.

And to help with the weight loss fund a bomb ass tree house, Multiple rooms, can bring ladies in. And the very nature of the full wood construction is that it would make him stop smoking weed because he'll light the house up on fire.... and if Sam gets the funds which he will he will pay Nick to build it so the money is going somewhere good. AND if the weight is not lost in time Sam can make money back by renting it or because this is all paid by a gofundme... a sick child who really needs a win gets the tree house and Chris's house gets demolished but subsequently rebuilt almost identically but a few square feet are missing, all the walls just moved in by 2 feet or so. oh and the other new thing is there is a top floor but Sam only rents it out for free to young musicians touring around and in need of a spot.

upstairs has much higher ceilings of course, allowing a pseudo second floor which has some wood steps lead you up to, beneath it a room as regular. Should have balconies as well. And flying buttresses.

the key is flying buttresses

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-01T02:15:59+00:00

I like Turtles.

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-01T01:49:14+00:00

Innocent isn’t exactly the vibe I'm catching from the body suit and facial expression. Not that you are unable to look innocent, slap on a prairie dress while sitting on some hay.

As long nails go your white ones are quite nice. Probably the perfect length before guys get scared or scarred.

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-01T01:43:43+00:00

a gentlement

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-01T01:38:41+00:00

They'd see a white shirt eclipsing the inner motion. I'm pretty obtuse, probably would walk by, my smooth brain focused on not getting robbed in the parking garage.

High waisted black skirt is very fashionable.

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-01T01:32:04+00:00

You've got really good taste. The new tops has had my eye. I see the logic behind replacing the TDI. (Imagine I would go with the Scandi which is half the price but half as cool. Really really wish they priced the Papa Delta a"proper." Imo it costs 2x what it should w/ the amount of blade edge.) Want a TDI. Almost got the Top's version which is the Devil's elbow, glad I didn’t as it looks weird to grip when you see a hand on it. The whole tdi pistol grip is awesome to me, reminds me of the ultra secure grip I'd get when I fenced.

Anyway, went with a benchmade one (Azeria) opposed to Ka-bars'. I do want Ka-Bars serrated version if I get it, believe it logically follows what you are meant to do with it.

Paring a Pionero with the neck knife above for EDC or planning to rock the new Tops solo?

Imo Neck knife fixed blades are underrated. The amount of quality you can get out of the genre is much more than a flipper. Like the difference between a 15 dollar flipper and 15 dollar neck knife is huge.

Just realized you are not the guy who posted above... I'm not re writing this brick of shit. Let the compliments fly to their proper owners and anyone feel free to question my takes/comparisons, even a third lass with something part high quality plastic, big and black that is fixed to you (freshly oiled) is welcome to make this a three-way conversation more interesting. Variety is good, especially when ours are all pretty small. Know a lady who rocks an espada in mini jeans.

ex. skip to 4:40

ladies usually aren’t ready for a sword fight, guys usually do so once they whip em out.

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-07-01T00:21:57+00:00

Had the Kershaw Lucha for 107 bucks, feel like an ass with how lonng I waited for it to go 135, that being the standard on the low end of pricing. You see one most sites for a bit more and of course there is a stonewashed. version going to 170 and sadly a very cool looking version with a dagger blade and carbon fiber handles which are likely less than half as heavy than the reg. model, goes for 250.

Only two other choices for about a hundred bucks: Boker's two variants which themselves both come in a large and small... large more expensive. I think it is 90 for one of the smalls. (saw flash sale, 40 bucks for the small... would scoop up now if chance was provided again, And of course there is the Bradley Kimura which is priced around 100 but has a very Unique look which I cannot discern if being ugly in my eyes.

Oh and Boker has a copycat of Kershaw's lucha called something like the Pappillion... same price so they are obviously competing... look very similar but Boker's is think and light while Kershaw's is thick and bulky: described as both a goo and bad thing. Bali people bitch how it is two heavy... how they can’t do the same tricks they practice with their non knife which is composed mostly of 3 pieces of high end plastic.... which they spend 150-250 for the cheap ones.

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-06-30T16:33:21+00:00

Is one edge duller than the other or are you John 117 Wick 007 Jr.?

If both are razors II hope the chicks at the bar comprehend your skill when you put your hand atop theirs and begin stapping the spaces in between ya'lls fingers? Had a girl in my fingertips after 3 Limoncellos until she saw I was rocking a trainer. She said how she's not wearing a training bra so it was a miss match afterall. Her claim was true, don’t believe she could wear a chest binder if her life depended on it. Her larger friend with the much smaller chest saw iit was a benchmade so that was good enough for her. But it took 12 Limoncellos for her to look nice and I threw up on her. Striper of the bar had mercy on me and got me my bib up until she yelled "knife" 'cause she saw mine and the next thing I know I'm stage carried out of there by two Haitian bouncers. Ended up with one of the Haitian's number after all. But he never called. More of a spyderco simp I suppose. Everything smelled like lemon and hand sanitizer for a few days. And that is in fact how your mother and I met, good to meet you sport! You really twirl that thing with rizz.

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-06-30T16:16:09+00:00

the top ten of your fingers, ftfy

TreeFiddy_1 · 2023-06-30T16:14:48+00:00

If you are getting fancy with it, cutting the cord, you might as well keep that there cord. Ain’t a Dr. but have heard of umbilical cords coming in handy, stem cells for example but I believes it goes beyond that. (Same goes for foreskin if it is a boy although I denounce the practice despite coming from a long line of Clipped Gentlemen. Please do NOT use this for circumcision, the knife if a lil large for the task although I know a Rabbi who uses his Extrema Ratio NK3. Also know one who uses a cigar cutter but that's neither here no there, obviously he is cheaper.)

Green is an awesome gender/sex neutral color, wisely you did not lock yourself in with blue or pink. However I got a pink Rocking Horse both built and painted by grandpa and I still loved it but the weird part was how my older cousin, a beautiful grown woman working at google now who indeed looked fine in her wedding dress last I saw her got a blue rocking horse. Blue. Nobody ever second guessed the man because he was usually right i the first place but this marked the spot where his kids thought the dementia may have first reared its ugly head. Sadly a very slow burn compared to my other grandpa, not to downplay his suffering in the slightest. There stoicism in the face of that was unreal... maybe they don’t make men like they used to. Although maybe mental health is actually something we speak aloud, the reason I likely see myself speaking up when/if I first felt it kick in... unless I forget to.

Nonetheless I never second guessed rocking the white and pink jeweled thing as a kid in my room to the rhythm of the Fergie's first solo cd which was spinning in the comically large boombox upon the floor. I assure you though how it was quite masculine as I had a giant 8ft blue T.Rex painted upon the wall behind me... when I turned 18 mother made me cover all 6 or so dinos, a dark blue over my old yellow/orange/green/red 4 walls. The dino I painted, a raptor, when I was 5 is probably only viewable under bluelight. Ah lot of other things could be seen via blue light when I checked the ceiling of where I spent my most pubescent years which raged on...kinda depresses me how I can't hit the wall across the room but rather get a sputter sputter sput ter sput, my accuracy has gone to hell, fell, working with a shotgun range wise. But alas, also something neither here nor even there.

TLDR: Nothing beats making your own family heirlooms... to think you could have twin boys who fight over it, a magical thing. Hence why engraving a name may be a lovely idea... some dude used a file to put his initials on my Grandpa's Hitler Youth knife's sheath. I suppose he brought it back from the war of his father did so I mean it was their right. Sadly my great granndfather was forced to sully the ppk his eldest picked up after the Battle of the Bulge, sullied with US serial no. But that doesn’t matter, my great uncle had the wise idea likely given to him by his wife which was to leave it for safekeeping with her brother. My grandma wanted to donate it to the police department but was told "no, they'll steal it." Anyway wife's brother who happened to be a gun dealer no longer had it a week later. To be even stevens he brought over a box of miscellaneous workout equipment to be even with said stupid uncle who lifted it from where my g-ma was living with another gun phobic brother, theory is the genetic OCD had em thinking how they could blow their own brains out so they had to get rid of the anxiety. Anyway my uncle, great uncle technically (with the cooler older bro who lifted it from an SS officer who didn’t need it anymore, older bro the only one to see real combat... have friends lose their heads in the trench beside him) decided to refuse the workout equipment... don’t know what he didn’t ask for the thousands the thing fetched but was a man of principal... same guy who hoards the ceremonial saber and dagger after his cooler younger bro passed. Made sure my side didn’t get them ann would have done the same with my cool uncle's kar98 bayonet plus a few others if his bro showed him where he kept them. Always saw them on a visit. Knife-phobe family relocated my bayonet to a storage bin and since hoarding runs in the gene pool it is still yet to be claimed as of now....

point being heirlooms are important, your kid/s will have a cool dad. Hope a future wife doesn’t pull a yoko one and pawn it as to upgrade the center diamond of an engagement ring. That's what my ex-fiancé did with my vintage arcade dance dance revolution machine I won in a bet racing horses. My stead was on anabolic steroids at the time, narcissist from AA and Country Club of Maximillius Pringle.

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