My Son, Who Is 4, And I Were Walking Along The Street Today And Saw A Man With His Left Leg Amputated

My son, who is 4, and I were walking along the street today and saw a man with his left leg amputated beneath the knee. My son spun around and looked at him, then said to me, “That man lost his leg! What happened?”

I said I didn’t know exactly, but sometimes people lost arms or legs through accidents or didn’t have them for other reasons.

My son instantly said, “Gobber (from How to Train Your Dragon) lost his arm AND his leg and now he has to use tools in their places!”

I kind of collected my jaw and said, “That’s right, and that man is just like Gobber. There’s a special word we use for those kinds of tools. It’s ‘prosthetics’.”

"Prosthetics," said my son, with satisfaction, and on we went without any further discussion about it.

But then we got on the bus, and there was a young black woman with her hair pulled back in a big floofy afro ponytail, and my son, who has seen the trailers for the new Annie movie, said, in delight, “She has hair like Annie’s!”

Representation matters.

Breathtaking Wire Sculptures Capture the Fluidity of the Human Body

English artist Richard Stainthorp captures the beautiful energy and fluidity of the human body using wire. The life-sized sculptures feature both figures in motion and at rest, expressed in the form of large-gauged strands that are densely wrapped around and through one another. By doing this, he gives the work an undeniable presence. Stainthorp also allows the bent wires to shine by keeping their metallic appearance free from any obvious painting or additions.

Giveaway time!! ZOMG! =]

The Prize!

800 gems worth of Giftable Gem Store goodies! (If there are left-over gems, I’ll convert them to gold and send it to you) + 10 Unidentified Dyes (if you’re lucky, you might get something nice?) + 10 Ghost Juice Blobs Globs of Ectoplasm

Rules:

You must be a follower of mine (new or old, I don’t mind, it’s on you).

You must like/reblog this post (each counts as an entry, but additional reblogs do not).

Giveaway/’fake’ blogs can not enter (I’ll check, thoroughly~). I’d also like to ask you to only enter on one tumblr account. c:

You must have a Guild Wars 2 account to enter (kind of obvious), and be willing to share your account information with me.

You must have your ask box open if your account information is not clearly displayed in your blog description.

The giveaway will end on Saturday, 28 March 2015 and the winner will be drawn and contacted on Sunday, 29 March 2015, and will have 48 hours to respond. If the winner does not respond, I will pick out another!

Huge thank you to my current followers for enjoying the ride with me and good luck to everyone! <3

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Discworld synopses sound both ridiculous and totally awesome out of context

- an ex-conman reforms a post office with the help of a golem?

- Les Miserables in reverse starring a time-traveling policeman??

- a seven-foot skeleton and his granddaughter save Christmas???

- a wizard rescues Australia while his colleagues accidentally invent sex????

- like any newcomer reading this post is either 'did he use a random plot generator' or 'oh my god I have to read that right now'