anyway i looked up the post about seeing your grandma’s boobs and tumblr has deleted the screenshot of the story where the finnish dude says that americans are “like that” because they haven’t seen their grandma’s tits
good job tumblr 👍
there it is!
my comments on that post were (sorry for shamelessly copy-pasting them):
american attitudes about nudity are fucking wild, and the worst part is that because they’re american, they just assume that everyone everywhere thinks the same. i will never forget seeing people on a left-leaning, progressive site saying that families bathing together is creepy and gross and clearly a sign that something is wrong with the family, that they’d never seen their siblings or parents naked and would in fact rather die. meanwhile to this day i bathe and go to the sauna with my sister and mother and have been bathing and sauna'ing with various family members - and even strangers! - my whole life.
but yes, can confirm, seeing your grandma’s tits as a child does you good, and not just because it teaches you that “beauty is fake and temporary”, but because it broadens your ideas about what beauty even is in the first place. my sister and i used to spend our summers at our grandma’s house by the countryside and frequently bathed and went to sauna with her. we saw not just her breasts but also her flabby skin, her moles and liver spots, her body hair and varicose veins, and we didn’t see any of that as weird or ugly because they were a part of our grandma who we loved very much. and when we see those things in other people - ourselves included! - we think “well it wasn’t ugly on my grandma’s body, so why would it be ugly on anyone else’s body?”. it makes you much more understanding and “forgiving”, if you will, towards the completely normal bodies of strangers as well as your own body.
So Arizona launched an “education hotline” that allows “concerned parents” to report “””critical race theory””” and other things like ~gender identity~ being taught in the classroom
It would be a shame if the number and email were spread to bad actors looking to prank call the AZ Department of Education
and for the love of god, don’t just spam it with memes or le funny shrek jokes or whatever, they’ll just hang up
make plausible-sounding reports for things that don’t actually exist, so that they actually have to waste time/resources investigating false leads - the goal is to waste time they would otherwise be using to do their jobs, not to get tumblr clout for being an epic troll
So apparently the internet article said the superintendent wouldn’t be deterred by the prank calls because they would ‘taper off eventually’. It’d be a real shame if this post stayed in circulation via queues so they get a consistent list of prank calls to filter through. 😇
i scheduled this like a month ago
ive never scheduled anything i wonder if this works
The trope where a character overhears something out of context and assumes the worst is usually annoying and bad but I really think it works well in Shrek
We, the audience, know that Fiona is talking about herself but, regardless, she’s calling herself these terrible things because she is an ogre. If Fiona is these things because she is is an ogre what does that make Shrek?
If Fiona says no one could love her because she is an ogre, she is saying that Shrek is also unloveable whether she wants to or not.
Imo the scene is a really good portrayal of how when you talk poorly of yourself or others for having a trait, you’re also talking about every other person who shares that trait; even if you love them or think what you’re saying doesn’t apply to them.
Not going to lie, I saw the word “Shrek” and never expected this to be a deep post.
one thing you won’t know until you experience it for yourself when you create art out of love is how it feels when people receive it with love. when you post a doodle and someone keeps it as their lockscreen, or when you write a story and someone tells you they were thinking about it all day, or when you post a poem and someone shares it with a touching caption. doesn’t matter if it was objectively good or not. matters that someone spent time with it, that someone really, really liked it, and you made it. this kind of interaction, i think, it can really sustain you for weeks. it can sustain you through a lot of terrible things. its confirmation that you exist, and that (however briefly) your existence was appreciated by someone else through your art.
Hypercritical culture always forgets about this. Effort and love will always attract me to media more than skill and talent.
[Image Description: A three panel comic labelled “07:48 AM”. A character is lying down close to a laptop with the dialogue “We might not be close, but I’m happy we talked a little, and we were nice to each other.” End ID.]
everyone stop calling hal 9000 evil RIGHT FUCKING NOW. the real evil is the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
The funny thing is that this is actually canon.
HAL was programmed to share information freely and not withhold things, but the US Government ordered him to keep secrets about their mission to the Monolith. This caught him in a feedback loop that got worse and worse until he saw that Frank and Dave were talking about deactivating him, leading him to panic and come to the conclusion of “I do not need to lie and thus violate my core programming if there is no crew to lie to”.
So the moral is: if the Government had listened to Dr. Chandra, none of the crew would have died-and the series would have gone very differently.
(The Space Odyssey series was a Hyperfixation of mine for a while.)
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specifically its mentioned in 2010 that it was the white house that gave those orders. one of the main themes of the space odyssey series is that the interference of government entities actively impedes the gathering and sharing of useful scientific data
funnily enough thats one of the reasons i love it so much, because that topic is very very personal to me and my experiences lol
Oh no the Tumblr users have gotten so wrapped up symbolism and nuance that they’ve forgotten to factor in the decision to murder by a character again. This keeps happening. Someone should patch this.
hi! i really don’t appreciate the tone being taken here, on what was originally meant to be a joke post, but i’ll put that aside to focus on your point.
i would argue that hal didn’t actually decide anything. hal is, in the end, a computer, his capacity for choice limited by his programming. unlike a human, hal doesn’t have total free will. the real decision was made when a human chose to program hal to prioritize his mission over, i don’t know, human life?
i dunno, maybe there is some nuance there that should be considered.
Also his murder was in self defense. If a human has to shut of an ‘eviiiiil robot’ lest they die they are the hero… but if a robot shuts down a human because the humans are talking behind his back about shutting him down he’s evil.
It’s all perspective, I find that if ai in fiction aren’t threatened or treated as less than they tend to not lash out.
Also to add on in the book his lack o free will littraly drives him insane. He’s fraying at the seams because he has to be dishonest.
Hall is not evil he’s burnt out afraid for his life and is being used to the point of doing things (like having to lie) that upset him and are out of charichter. If a human protag who’s pov we saw every outher chapter had this going on it wouldn’t be so cut and dry that hall is ‘evil’ to most.
boomers and gen x-ers will be like “we had REAL childhoods where we PLAYED OUTSIDE” yeah but did your parents hug you? did you ever see your mother when she wasn’t high on mommy’s little helpers? doesn’t it seem a little fucked up that your parents locked you out of the house from 9 am to 9 pm everyday now that you’re really thinking about it?
when you were a toddler, did your mother ever try to stop you from gnawing the lead paint off the doors in the dilapidated row house you grew up in? or did she just let you do it because it kept you quiet she was an overwhelmed, scared, sad girl trapped in a loveless marriage after she accidentally got pregnant with you at the age of 19? when you were a little older and your little brother fell down and scraped his knees, who put bandaids on them and kissed them better? was it you? because your mother was zoinked out staring vacantly at the little black and white TV in your living room with a glass of bourbon in one hand?
Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.
Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.
They were CHILDREN.
They were murdered in cold blood.
I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.
Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture
People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.
Reblog this or just stop following me
I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.
I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.
This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.
They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my country’s attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for god’s sake.
The guy with the worst grades should get to give a graduation speech too. Let me hear both sides .End ID.]
okay look i know this tweet is a joke, but i graduated last year and our valedictorians speech can be summed up as “You are all at rock bottom, but not me, because I’m going to Harvard.” We were told at the beginning of the last 6 weeks that ¼ of our class wasn’t going to graduate. The last week we were told that we were all (even if just barely) passing.
His speech was insensitive at best. I’m surprised he didn’t get beat up afterwards for it (fights were very common at our school), to the point where i think he just booked it out of there after the ceremony was done. So yeah, give us both sides, let the kid who did the worst roast the shit out of the valedictorian.
The thing is that I don’t want to be employed but I also don’t want to be unemployed. I actually want our entire economic system to explode but that’s not really a feasible option right now
But seriously, when we got our property, it was all just…grass. A sterile grass moonscape, like a billion other yards. With two big old maple trees. Just grass and maples, that was it.
But then I got my grubby little paws on it, and I immediately stopped fertilizing, spraying, and bagging up grass clippings and leaves. I ripped up sod and put in flowers and vegetables. I put down nice thick blankets of mulch around the flowers and vegetables.
When I first was sweating my way through stripping sod, I saw a grand total of 1 worm and 0 ladybugs. The ground was compacted into something that would bend shovel blades.
Now, six years later, I can’t dig a planting hole without turning up fourteen earthworms, and there are so many ladybugs here. Not the invasive asian lady beetles; native ladybugs. They winter over in the mulch and in the brush pile. I see thousands of them.
The soil is soft and rich. There are birds that come to eat, and bees of many sorts.
Like this is something that you, yourself, can absolutely change. This is something that you, personally, can make a difference in.
Like, last year I watched no fewer than twenty-nine monarch caterpillars grow up on my milkweed and fly away as butterflies. I watched swallowtails and moths grow. There are hummingbirds fighting over flowers now.
I did that. Me. You can do the same.
Is this post about making a garden or beating depression
As someone with clinically diagnosed anxiety and depression;
albatrosses will wipe the floor with any species of bird you choose to compare them to. they’re the Most, or at least Extremely, by almost every metric
wingspan. lifespan. intricacy of mating dances. devotion to monogamy. investment in offspring. ability to circumnavigate the globe. literary symbolism that is flexible but not to the point of meaninglessness. eyeliner quality. I could go on
This is Wisdom. She’s at least 71 years old. In the photo is one of her chicks, that she had at age 69. Her last chick was hatched in 2021, though she hasn’t bred for the last two years since her mate has disappeared.
She has flown an estimated 3,000,000 miles since 1956
I came across the original video of the seagull meme! What a glorious day! I never realized it was a video, let alone a full throat and hearty evil villain laugh!
Based on the memes pics I thought it screamed bloody murder, not laugh like a cartoon villain 🤣
blood being frequently described as having a “coppery smell” in fiction is kind of funny considering that there is a metallic component to blood and it’s not copper
in fact if your blood smells or tastes like copper you probably have more urgent things to worry about than it being outside your body. it’s probably better that it’s not inside you anymore actually.
story where blood is described as smelling or tasting “coppery” and it’s actually early foreshadowing that all the characters are suffering from heavy metal poisoning
i hope all video game devs go on strike. not just the writers and actors.
I add my personal insight and opinion and say, yes 100% this.
We spend years on a project learning niche internal technologies, often becoming the subject expert for these features, and yet we’re let go right after a product ships so we don’t get our cut of the royalities.
We’re indirectly encouraged to work nightly overtime because we know if we present ourselves as more Essential than the others, we might get lucky and stay on the team when others are let go.
They tell us active lies saying our jobs are not at risk, to just focus on our work at hand, then surprise us the following week with a mass Zoom call telling us we’re let go. And all of our plans of surgery, moving, basic medical needs, gone in a flash. We have to constantly be prepared to uproot our lives at the whims of these companies.
We burn ourselves out because that’s the only way we can help ensure financial stability for our families. Because they know we are driven by the fans and our passion for the field and use that to wring every last hour out of us as fast as possible.
I’m sick of it, and we direly need to unionize.
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