I got to hold a 500,000 year old hand axe at the museum today.
It's right-handed
I am right-handed
There are grooves for the thumb and knuckle to grip that fit my hand perfectly
I have calluses there from holding my stylus and pencils and the gardening tools.
There are sharper and blunter parts of the edge, for different types of cutting, as well as a point for piercing.
I know exactly how to use this to butcher a carcass.
A homo erectus made it
Some ancestor of mine, three species ago, made a tool that fits my hand perfectly, and that I still know how to use.
Who were you
A man? A woman? Did you even use those words?
Did you craft alone or were you with friends? Did you sing while you worked?
Did you find this stone yourself, or did you trade for it? Was it a gift?
Did you make it for yourself, or someone else, or does the distinction of personal property not really apply here?
Who were you?
What would you think today, seeing your descendant hold your tool and sob because it fits her hands as well?
What about your other descendant, the docent and caretaker of your tool, holding her hands under it the way you hold your hands under your baby's head when a stranger holds them.
Is it bizarre to you, that your most utilitarian object is now revered as holy?
Or has it always been divine?
Or is the divine in how I am watching videos on how to knap stone made by your other descendants, learning by example the way you did?
Tomorrow morning I am going to the local riverbed in search of the appropriate stones, and I will follow your example.
The first blood spilled on it will almost certainly be my own, as I learn the textures and rhythm of how it's done.
Did you have cuss words back then? Gods to blaspheme when the rock slips and you almost take your thumbnail off instead? Or did you just scream?
I'm not religious.
But if spilling my own blood to connect with a stranger who shared it isn't partaking in the divine
I don't know what is.
Anyone who's ever done anything creative needs to fucking see this.
BTW are you guys playing Merry Gear yet? Because you should be.
Outer Savin’, three years after the Secret Santa Incident… We had classified information that a new Santa had taken power.The whole thing was naughty… but our noses had been out in the cold too long.
Merry Gear Solid 2: Ghost of Christmas Past is the sequel to 2006′s Merry Gear Solid: Secret Santa. Set years after the events of the first game, Merry Gear Solid 2 sets Old Snake on an adventure to retrieve Santa’s Hat from an extremist group known as the Ghosts of Christmas Past. Using an array of new tools, and returning favorites, Solid Snake must infiltrate Outer Savin’ mall and prevent the Ghosts from taking control of the SOC (Spirit of Christmas) System.
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT FOR FREE HERE (right menu). The first game, too - they’re both really great and in the spirit of both MGS and Christmas with some superb voice acting.
Posting this so I can't lose it in the pile of my Tumblr likes. And because it's the original artist, holy crap!
My “draw the squad” memes so far
It looks so spherical. You generally get to see the moon’s shape when it isn’t full and the shadows of craters are visible.
Totality
“This is my high definition photo of last night's total lunar eclipse, created by stacking a total of 200 images captured during the totality phase.”
Astronycc
Oh my god I just found this and it made my evening! My brains just ASDGFGKL because it's so good!!!
I just wanted to draw Kaz wearing a leather jacket like in that one image from the Peace Walker audiodrama CD but I had to draw a whole motorbike for some reason.....
Damn, well good luck to you guys
Thanks, and sorry about the hype that ended in vaporware.
I am working on a metal gear baking project over on bluesky...I'm nowhere near finished but it is pretty fun trying to figure out what kind of cookie/dessert for each character! Examples and link to my project below⬇️
A Cookie To Surpass Metal Gear project
“I wanna ask you…”
Heres my 8 page love letter to the otasune dialogue ever that made me crazy over this series, please enjoy!
Reblogging because I made a trailer, yay!
Unstable Scientific Pre-pre-pre Alpha trailer, mostly made as part of the Seattle Indies Expo submission. It was so fun making the metal-impact effects for the logo!
Holy crap this was a ride
people will say "why cant the eldritch gods just be nice to humans :((" and then kill a bug for existing near them
My husband and I were working on a retro-style platform Peace Walker fangame. But even non-commercial fangames can get one into trouble so we decided to stop. Sorry. I don't have the heart to take down this blog. If you'd like the sprites for your own non-commercial stuff, let me know!
179 posts