A japanese zoo, Tobu Zoo, had a colab with the anime Kemono Friends where they added cutouts of the anime characters to the enclosures of the matching animals to attract visitors and stuff, one of these characters being Hululu, an airhead anthropomorphic Humboldt penguin:
Grape-kun, an old humboldt penguin who’d been abandoned by his former mate due to his health issues, started showing a lot of interest for the cutout, staring at it for hours, trying to reach it on top of the tall rock where it was placed, and even trying to court it.
Of course, Kemono Friends already being a surprise hit show, the thing went viral and tons of art, jokes and other content were made. Even after the colab was over, the zoo didn’t remove Grape-kun’s sunshine, and Hululu’s VA Ikuko Chikuta even visited Grape-kun during an educational event:
Unfortunately, Grape-kun was already old and his health started to deteriorate. He was removed from his enclosure for treatment, along with his muse of course, that was placed next to him. On october 12, 2017, Tobu Zoo announced that Grape-kun passed away, with Hululu by his side in his final moments. Once again Grape-kun started trending, this time in a sadder tone as fans, visitors and part of the Kemono Friends staff paid their respects.
As a final homage to Grape-kun, a new cutout was added to the penguin enclosure in january 2018, immortalizing this romance:
And thus ends the tale of Grape-kun and Hululu. May our little Friend rest in penguin heaven with his anime wife, gone, but never forgotten.
I work at a coffee shop and have gotten all my co-workers to start calling lattes “hot milkybois”
I also got everyone to refer to the salted caramel blended drink as “the big salty” and I consider it one of my greatest accomplishments
Oh yeah and any time someone orders a hazelnut latte with almond milk (which specifically is a weirdly popular drink) I say “one HOT NUT latte coming right up!”
My coworkers have not latched on to this one like they did with the others for some reason.
I forgot to mention I also pronounce “hot chocolate” like “hot cocklate”… because I’m awful.
please give us updates
Our largest drink size is affectionately referred to as “Texas Size” so sometimes when I hand it out in the drive-thru I like to say, “Here’s that TEXAS SIZE [drink] for ya, YEEEEHAW!”
And some people look at me as though I have just made their entire day while others look like they they could not possibly get away from me soon enough. Both reactions are equally satisfying.
I made this into a game except when I hand out the Texas-size drinks I say “Can I get a YEEHAW?” And the guests always look mortified but occasionally one of them will let out a terrified “yeehaw” and all my coworkers cheer and then we keep a running tally of how many yeehaws we each get on the back of a pastry bag.
i just saw a headcanon saying alternian starships are grown, not built and all that evangelion i watched is comign back to haunt me like
fuck dude
the battleship condescension gets hit with an energy harpoon in the middle of a battle and where you expect to see explosions you get a jet of bright hot pink ‘hydraulic fluid’
crack open the armour plating and the fleet isn’t a fleet at all; it’s an army of biologically engineered abominations grown from the genes of fuckin gl’bgolyb’s hideous writhing ass
decided to finally try out drawing a diagram, using the battleship condescension for example
the three decks are pretty self-explanatory; the command deck is basically equivalent to the bridge, the hive deck contains the quarters for everyone working on the starship, and the palace is where the condesce sits, hoards her gold, holds audience with visitors, and fucks around with slaves
the bottom most level is where the magic happens; the GORG hull, or G’bgolyb Organism hull, is where the specially-grown G’bgolyb Organism is contained within red cybernetic containment plates. the psionic core is a psychic organ – essentially the brain of the GORG, where the helmsman psychically taps into the flesh of the beast and flies the ship, mainly through the use of the GORG’s flight organ.
the GORG’s flesh is also riddled with various boreholes, not pictured, of both the dry and submerged nature, which mechanics and GORG specialists use to navigate, alter and fix the GORG’s structure and organs when required.
Yogg-Sarongurt 