(via Justin Jorgensen) “In 2007 I worked with photographers Williams + Hirakawa to create a concept piece of me sleeping on a sheet cake. I though these cakes looked like pillows, and there’s the obvious play on ‘sweet dreams.’
I wondered if I could fall asleep on a cake and have sweet dreams. I didn’t. It was pretty gross really and wasn’t easy to wash off.
A few years later, outtakes from the shoot were sold to Getty Images as stock photos. I didn’t know this until 2011 when one of those photos made #13 on the wildly popular Buzzffed.com list of “60 Completely Unusable Stock Photos.”
Into 2014, the Getty Image photo continues to make the rounds on Facebook and Tumblr.”
i can’t believe i leveled up enough to unlock cake pillow guy’s backstory
look. you know him. the globglogabgolab. meme. icon. rapper.
he is from this shitty dvd christian movie.
Stawinsky and the Mysterious House. okay. you follow? good.
This movie was somehow deemed worthy of an IMDb page. that’s maybe a little funny, but ok. whatever. until you inspect the page.
the first writer. that IMDb lists. for strawinsky and the mysterious house. is fUCKIN. SCOTT. FNAFMAN.
HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GLOBGLOGABGOLAB AND I DO NOT KNOW WHY THIS PRETURBS ME SO MUCH BUT YOU MUST KNOW. I HAD TO KNOW. SO IM FORCING THIS UPON ALL OF YOU ASWELL. HAVE A HORRIBLE DAY
Wait ive never seen this before and i am intrigued
I have exciting information for you! Bird bones are not entirely hollow, rather they are filled with large air pockets. I find the result both delightful and terrifically unsettling!
To expand upon this: a lot of birds’ bones aren’t hollow in order to make them lighter, but instead so that they can take in more oxygen. This is because when you’re flying through the air at speeds of Fast™, it’s very hard to convince the air around you to flow into your nostrils at speeds that let you get enough to breathe. So, birds evolved hollowed out bones to circumvent this, as it allows them to store air.
I feel like not enough people are aware of the fact that birds are nightmare creatures that have respiratory systems that extend directly into their bones. And the same thing was the case with lots of dinosaurs, light bones let birds fly and let dinosaurs grow huge.
#dragons have the same bones
Hello yes, also if you zoom into any bone it will look like this, so it’s interesting to see birds effectively zoomed out ateeny tiny patter
“This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We’ve got extra pronouns here.”
GNU Terry Pratchett
The full quote is fascinating though, and adds an interesting context as it’s Angua (a werewolf) and Carrot (human, but raised by dwarves) discussing a dwarf colleague, Cheery.
“Female? He told you he was female?”
“She,” Angua corrected. “This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We’ve got extra pronouns here.”
She could smell his bewilderment…
“Well, I would have though she’d have the decency to keep it to herself,” Carrot said finally. “I don’t think it’s very clever, you know, to go around drawing attention to the fact.”
“Carrot, I think you might have something wrong with your head,” said Angua.
“What?” “I think you might have it stuck up your bum.”
Sir Terry Pratchett - “Feet of Clay”
This is CARROT being the asshole. Carrot who has, throughout all the prior books, been depicted as basically the best of all possible people. He is noble, brave, considerate, kind. He is the good guy in the entire City…
… and yet, he grew up dwarf, and has picked up their more conservative views on gender identity.
Discworld dwarves start out in the books as basically a people without visible gender differences (thanks to the woman growing beards just like the men) and using “he/him” pronouns as their default. Anything else is seen as breaking the most basic of social conventions. (Dwarf dating is described early on as being two dwarves who like each other spending an inordinately long time trying to find out, as tactfully as possible, what gender the other dwarf is)
Carrot does immediately adopt the “she” pronoun for Cheery, which is but wishes she didn’t make such a fuss about it. He’s prepared to tolerate her choices, but he doesn’t APPROVE of them, and thinks that that is enough.
Carrot, because he IS Carrot, does learn to open his mind on this subject, perhaps his final frontier of bias, but I do love that it’s addressed as something he has to work on, and succeed.
And to Terry Pratchett’s credit what started out as a throwaway joke about dwarf sex, gradually becomes a multi-volume subplot which is a fascinating exploration of gender and social identity as more dwarves start to “come out” as being female, and not just identifying as female, but changing their form of dress to something which matches who they are (they keep their beards though, because to a dwarf, that has nothing to do with gender, and everything to do with being a dwarf) and how their society has to adjust, with differing levels of comfort, to this new reality.
Carrot was also prejudiced against the undead early on as well. And the fact that he unlearns these views is a good example of a common theme in Pratchett’s work
The overwhelming theme of Pratchett’s work is change. Not good vs evil but progress vs stasis/going backwards. The protagonists of Pratchett’s stories are people who can take on board new ideas and change and grow and adapt. Some of them start out as very stupid people with very stupid views in fact until they learn and grow and improve. The villains on the other hand are people who desperately want things to either stay the same or regress back to some imagined “Good old days” that they prefer.
While we’re talking about Terry Pratchett gender, there’s also golems, who are basically lumps of clay that have been brought to life but don’t actually have any gender or secondary sexual characteristics so everyone defaults to male and he/him. As the books story goes on some of them decide to try being women just because.
I personally strongly believe that as the population of free golems gets larger and more accustomed to being and thinking of themselves as people, their rejection of Ankh-Morpork’s “default male” is going to decrease significantly and an insistence that only golems who are clearly performing binary gender should be gendered.
This insistence, they being golems, will largely manifest itself as persistently refusing to understand any gendered pronoun, title or other indicator as referent to a non-gender-performing golem in any way, even if this requires a contorted redefinition of what anyone is saying to misunderstand what the person meant.
Legal challenges may be involved, as they determine that no laws written with assumed male gender apply to any ungendered or feminine-performing golems.
If this happens before Vetinari passes things on to Moist, Vetinari will be profoundly amused and let the entire drama run its course on the basis that It’s Very Funny.
If it happens after, Moist cuts this off at the ankles by having Slant redraft everything with gender neutral language and then passes all the newly rewritten laws in one afternoon because he does NOT have time for this and it’s making his head hurt, this is NOT the fun kind of fucking with people this is the kind that just gives him more work, and he would like to move on to his next diplomatic triumph, he’s thinking Klatch this week.
If you make something, please share! I’d love to see it!!!! Preferably via a reblog, but you can also send it in an ask or make your own post and tag me (Just know that i won’t be reblogging or replying to those, sorry)
This was a huge project that took a lot of time and energy, and there’s still so much stuff i want to add and change and perfect. I’m posting it now though, because otherwise i will never call it done. But! Expect future updates at some point!! (Not soon tho) And if i add something, i will absolutely post it here 👍
The picrew is also not beta tested! I tried my best to check for everything, but im sure there’s still plenty of mistakes i missed. If you see any, please do let me know!
Enjoy :D
ok hopefully your ok with this op but omg I HAVE TOO
CHAIN CHAIN CHAIN Tag your moots!
2 version because i liked the verion with and without hat
The thing they don’t tell you about fried egg runny yolk is that if you put it in a sandwich it will be the best most delicious thing and you can mop up the egg with the bread, but in exchange you Will get so so messy and covered in egg yolk
Some messages left by queer Palestinians who face annihilation by the Israeli government in their retaliation against Hamas. The Israeli government has dropped thousand of bombs, leveled streets, cut off water, gas, and electricity, bombed hospitals, ambulances, mandated evacuation and then bomb evacuees. Innocent people are dying in the mass.
There is no need for this government to employ these acts of collective punishment. The same logic that is used to condemn the acts of Hamas, should be used to condemn the actions of the Israeli government. No one deserves to slaughtered and dehumanized.
And keep in mind, that this terror is not unusual for the Palestinian people, and this is another horrific event in a decades long oppression and apartheid.
I love this post so much I have done everything in my power to make sure I will never forget it via reblogging it every October 5th, in memory of discovering it for the first time
Oh sunk-cost fallacy, we’re really in it now. We are in fact so really in it that if we quit now then everything we did would have all been for nothing and so we have to keep going in
namely, the fact that the wild mustard Brassica oleracea, once domesticated, produced a bewildering variety of vegetables by selecting each cultivar for a different part (cabbages from terminal buds, Brussels ssprouts from lateral buds, broccoli and cauliflower from flower buds, kale from leaves, and so on), all of them still being technically part of the same species, Brassica oleracea var. whatever.
Now, as far as I know, nobody has bred B. oleracea into a tree. But there is, not quite a single species, but a genus, that has gotten pretty close to that kind of internal morphological diversity:
Behold Euphorbia, the genus of spurges, counting over 2000 species (that nevertheless are often capable of interbreeding) scattered throughout all continents:
Euphorbia dendroides (Mediterranean)
The poinsettia, Euphorbia pulcherrima (Central America)
Euphorbia actinoclada (East Africa)|, one of the many cactus-like species (cacti proper are all American species except one, so if you see a cactus-like plant in an African or Asian deserts, odds are it’s actually a kind of euphorbia)
It’s extremely important that I tell you all that this seal is doing the ‘banana pose,’ something seals do when they are feeling particularly happy and relaxed. This seal, looking directly at the cat, is absolutely overwhelmed with Good Vibes, something we can all related to.
I love parents in gay dramas. What Did You Eat Yesterday? / Kinou Nani Tabeta?
The line ‘ARE YOU HALF ASSING THE GAY LIFETSYLE’ speaks to me on a personal level
I love how they’re not even mad about their son beinf gay but like BITCH WE‘RE MEETING HIM AND IF WE DONT YOURE A DISGRACE
The parental guilt trip is so fucking universal omg I love it.
You hide your boyfriend from your parents?! You hide your boyfriend like you are ashamed??!!! Oh jail for son!! Jail for son for 1000 years!!!
HOLD THE PHONE there’s a live action version of What Did You Eat Yesterday?? how did I not know this!?
everyone should read the manga this is based on! the protagonist is a 40 year old Shiro, a gay lawyer who is somewhat neurotic and is not used to society being increasingly accepting of gay people since he’s been in the closet for so long. Introverted Shiro is held in contrast to his boyfriend Kenji, who is out and proud and a social butterfly. The story is a slow paced character study on aging gay couples and how being queer is perceived by society. We get the perspectives of the gay couple, their families, their friends and their co-workers.
btw this line in the manga was “is being gay a joke to you??”
I don’t know why, but every now and then Pinterest floods my home page with Mothman related posts?
Exhibit A
Exhibit B
I have never looked up mothman or any cryptids on Pinterest.
WHERE ARE YOU COMING FROM MOTHMAN?! AND WHY ONLY YOU?!
This weird phenomenon happens every couple of months. Mothman just appears and then disappears.
What do you want from me Mothman?
This post is so funny because this is just how the Mothman legend works, he shows up before disasters and big events and the like, either as a warning or the cause is speculated
i love having adult horse girl friends. I’ll send them a 100x100px crunchy ass jpeg of a random brown horse and be like “thought of u🐴” and I can literally feel their sims relationship bar fill up in real time
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Mom: You think he's mean?
Recipient: That's not what cunty means
Recipient: Cunty is like when you put your whole pussy into it
Mom: He's vagina?
END ID.]](../media/e32c4ac8f0508b60e815899f8bcba4a21ae33c1a.png)
