I Got To Hold A 500,000 Year Old Hand Axe At The Museum Today.

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.

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8 years ago

Damn, well good luck to you guys

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3 months ago

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4 months ago
Comic of otacon and snake from metal gear solid. 

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Otacon: do you think love can bloom, even on a battlefield?

Snake: yeah, I do

Next panel shows Snake with one of his dogs beside him, months after Shadow Moses events. He’s holding his door looking confused at Otacon, who appears in the next panel wearing snow clothes, greeting Snake sheepishly from the other side of the door

“I wanna ask you…”

Heres my 8 page love letter to the otasune dialogue ever that made me crazy over this series, please enjoy!

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Snake(offscreen): But…

Otacon is on top of a boat, his face contorted in shock and fear while rain falls on him, the tanker exploding on the distance in the middle of the Hudson river

The first panel has Otacon finding Snake with a flashlight, whos barely floating on top of a teel pipe from the wreckage.

The following ones show Otacon pulling Snake from the water, who appears unconscious with blue lips and cuts on various places.

Otacon worriedly starts doing CPR on the soldier, the last panel showing him beating Snake on his chest with his fist.

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The final panel is completely black.

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Snake appears on the following panel waking up on a bed, covered in bandages and with a black eye, looking at the ceiling confused. A click sounds offscreen, making him turn his face to the place the noise came from, making a “?” Speech bubble.

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The next panel shows Otacon raising his eyes with a tired and sad expression, expecting to find Snake still unresponsive. 

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The second panel has a closeup of Snake looking at Otacon who’s still hugging him in silence, his hand shyly hovering close to the engineers back

The final panel shows Snake finally returning the embrace with the same love for Otacon, the colors of the drawing turning brighter and warmer.

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6 years ago

Reblogging because I made a trailer, yay!

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2 months ago

Holy crap this was a ride

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phoenixsecretfire - Peace Day - A Retro Peace Walker FanFic Game
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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!

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