Shoplifters who spoke to Novara Media said the cost of living crisis had pushed them to steal more of life’s essentials. “A couple of times I’ve been on the verge of crying when I go to buy Sainsbury’s Basics apple and blackcurrant squash and realise the price has doubled in the past three months,” said John.
Lara, a culture worker from London, has started shoplifting groceries more frequently; she said it has become more socially acceptable in her circles. “I know that other people do it, and I’ve seen how other people do it, and that really helped,” she said. Previously, she avoided stealing because her upbringing and wider moralism had convinced her it was “a shameful thing” to do.
“Before, I would have described stealing as this really anti-Islamic thing to do,” she said. Shoplifting is also especially frowned-upon by “parents who come from a working-class or lower middle-class background,” she said, because of how classist ‘scrounger’ stereotypes “trickle down to how we surveil and shame each other.”
Nowadays however, Lara sees shoplifting as “one of the few guerrilla tactics we have available to us.”
Alan, a construction worker from London, who, like John and Anna, has been shoplifting around half his groceries in recent months, has “no moral qualms” about stealing from supermarkets. “I just think that the stuff in the world is ours, all of ours,” he said, “and that we’ve invented a really stupid system for the distribution of resources which doesn’t treat them as ours, and treats them as things that can be used for capitalists to make profit.”
He wouldn’t steal things if it meant that “someone’s labour went unrewarded”, he said, but all shoplifting affects is “the profits of shareholders” he said. “[I have] no concerns about that at all.”
[…]
While, for many, shoplifting feels like a form of resistance to untenable living conditions, no one who spoke to Novara Media was sure how to build solidarity between shoplifters. Alan shoplifts food for rough sleepers, but wishes there were more organised approaches to shoplifting – like the mass stealing and redistribution of food that occurred in Greece following the 2008 financial crisis.
Lara believes shoplifting could be “revolutionary” if it could be “more of an organised operation” that involved “getting workers on side”.
“I think it would be really radical if there would be a widespread recognition and acceptance of stealing as a necessary mechanism for resistance,” she says. “If you can’t afford the things that you have to buy, then the logic should be that you just take them.”
I absolutely love that the Pokémon universe is literally tearing itself apart at the seams. Fantastic worldbuilding, A+++
ALTALT
A non-exhaustive list:
Mega Evolution comes from a meteor. The impact of that meteor literally split the dimensions apart and made it canonical that different versions of the same game are parallel dimensions (Alpha Ruby is a different world from Ruby, for instance). This is later confirmed by the presence of Anabel in Sun and Moon, who fell through dimensions from a world without Mega Evolution.
Speaking of Sun and Moon, wormholes are opening up all over Alola, letting in extradimensional beings that Pokéballs don’t catch properly. There are silver-skinned humans from one of these portals that live in a giant prismatic city.
Also in Sun/Moon, you can pass through to a mirror world where day is night and night is day. When this happens, you can catch the mirror world version of your box legendary friend.
There’s a giant space alien in Sword and Shield who’s leaking particles that cause Pokémon to briefly turn massive, which sometimes rearranges their genetic makeup.
In Scarlet and Violet, reality is splintering. There’s a hole to the future/past that generates paradox Pokémon which are heavily implied to have been materialized out of a researcher’s desire to see them rather than actually from their future/past. The same energy that supposedly made them enables Pokémon to become any type they want and caused a robot to gain human sentience.
In the hole you find the paradox Pokémon in, you find buried monoliths that nobody knows where they came from. The very material they’re made of is canonically unidentifiable.
Time and space were briefly unraveled in Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum as a maniac tried to overwrite the current world and make a new universe out of it, and in the Platinum universe, this opened a hole to another dimension where a banished god lives. The banished god was pissed off about this and abducted the guy that messed with time and space.
People sometimes slip through the cracks and become Pokémon in Pokémon-only worlds (the Mystery Dungeon series) or drop through time to different eras (Legends Arceus’s protagonist and Ingo).
In Mystery Dungeon, time is eroding (Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky), and the world is warping and distorting into areas that scramble themselves every time you enter them and make the inhabitants of those areas agitated and hostile (entire series).
the thing about mystery dungeon tho, and in particular explorers of sky, is that they were the FIRST games in the franchise to do multiverse shenanigans wayyy back in the ‘00s. i mean the very premise of “human from a world with both humans and pokemon comes to a world with only pokemon” implies that these people are either coming from the main game universe(s) or something similar.
(spoilers for the explorers games, particularly explorers of sky, beyond this point)
then in explorers, they introduce TIME-TRAVEL, wherein the hero isnt actually a human from the human world, but a human from the FUTURE of the world youre playing in, a future where time froze because the god of time went insane after his house started falling apart. and by the end of the main plot, you stop his house from doing that, thereby erasing that future (and therefore yourself) from ever existing, marty mcfly style. but then to thank you, and to soothe the grief of the friend you left behind, the time god says “hey bud sorry about that, lemme just—” and just Brings You Back
and THEN, in explorers of sky, they added special episodes that center around side characters. and in the fifth and final version of this, you play as grovyle (the player character’s former partner from the future, who sacrificed himself to bring a bad guy BACK to the future to get him out of the way) as he journeys through the frozen future to try and defeat the insane time god on HIS end. and at the end, the world begins to unfreeze as the effects of your victory in the past begin to ripple forward. everyone—grovyle, his allies, his enemies, even the time god himself—is erased from existence while watching the first sunrise in eons as their entire timeline collapses…
but then they wake up. everyone is fine. everyone turns to the time god to ask wtf happened, and he says “idk man wasnt me. some power beyond me must have done this.” and they all just,,, go on with their lives. the implications of this are that a bunch of heroes stopped the bad future from ever happening, but then some nebulous and omnipotent force (thought to be arceus, the ultimate god of all pokemon) just Brings It All Back, meaning there are now two PARALLEL futures, one where the world sucked for a long time, and one where presumably it was totally fine (we dont get to see this future but obviously time DOESNT stop in this version), and suddenly you’ve got an explicit, discrete, canonical multiverse, years before the main series ever touched the idea
so anyway TL;DR: in mystery dungeon, you erase the future from happening, but a capital-g God so powerful even the god of time doesnt know them says “actually no” and un-erases it as its own alternate timeline simply because it wouldve been sad not to, thus creating a multiverse.
theres a reason its my favorite game of all time shskfhskf
also no the shit about time god’s house is not an exaggeration, the god of time is a pokemon called dialga and he begins to go insane as his home, temporal tower, slowly collapses. its ultimate collapse (and his insanity) is what causes time to freeze across the world. now really all this means is that the inanimate world (rocks, trees, rivers) become petrified, but only SOME pokemon follow suit. how anyone at all survived is a mystery (dungeon. heh), but evidently some DID because YOU are one of these survivors.
I absolutely love that the Pokémon universe is literally tearing itself apart at the seams. Fantastic worldbuilding, A+++
ALTALT
A non-exhaustive list:
Mega Evolution comes from a meteor. The impact of that meteor literally split the dimensions apart and made it canonical that different versions of the same game are parallel dimensions (Alpha Ruby is a different world from Ruby, for instance). This is later confirmed by the presence of Anabel in Sun and Moon, who fell through dimensions from a world without Mega Evolution.
Speaking of Sun and Moon, wormholes are opening up all over Alola, letting in extradimensional beings that Pokéballs don’t catch properly. There are silver-skinned humans from one of these portals that live in a giant prismatic city.
Also in Sun/Moon, you can pass through to a mirror world where day is night and night is day. When this happens, you can catch the mirror world version of your box legendary friend.
There’s a giant space alien in Sword and Shield who’s leaking particles that cause Pokémon to briefly turn massive, which sometimes rearranges their genetic makeup.
In Scarlet and Violet, reality is splintering. There’s a hole to the future/past that generates paradox Pokémon which are heavily implied to have been materialized out of a researcher’s desire to see them rather than actually from their future/past. The same energy that supposedly made them enables Pokémon to become any type they want and caused a robot to gain human sentience.
In the hole you find the paradox Pokémon in, you find buried monoliths that nobody knows where they came from. The very material they’re made of is canonically unidentifiable.
Time and space were briefly unraveled in Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum as a maniac tried to overwrite the current world and make a new universe out of it, and in the Platinum universe, this opened a hole to another dimension where a banished god lives. The banished god was pissed off about this and abducted the guy that messed with time and space.
People sometimes slip through the cracks and become Pokémon in Pokémon-only worlds (the Mystery Dungeon series) or drop through time to different eras (Legends Arceus’s protagonist and Ingo).
In Mystery Dungeon, time is eroding (Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky), and the world is warping and distorting into areas that scramble themselves every time you enter them and make the inhabitants of those areas agitated and hostile (entire series).
the thing about mystery dungeon tho, and in particular explorers of sky, is that they were the FIRST games in the franchise to do multiverse shenanigans wayyy back in the ‘00s. i mean the very premise of “human from a world with both humans and pokemon comes to a world with only pokemon” implies that these people are either coming from the main game universe(s) or something similar.
(spoilers for the explorers games, particularly explorers of sky, beyond this point)
then in explorers, they introduce TIME-TRAVEL, wherein the hero isnt actually a human from the human world, but a human from the FUTURE of the world youre playing in, a future where time froze because the god of time went insane after his house started falling apart. and by the end of the main plot, you stop his house from doing that, thereby erasing that future (and therefore yourself) from ever existing, marty mcfly style. but then to thank you, and to soothe the grief of the friend you left behind, the time god says “hey bud sorry about that, lemme just—” and just Brings You Back
and THEN, in explorers of sky, they added special episodes that center around side characters. and in the fifth and final version of this, you play as grovyle (the player character’s former partner from the future, who sacrificed himself to bring a bad guy BACK to the future to get him out of the way) as he journeys through the frozen future to try and defeat the insane time god on HIS end. and at the end, the world begins to unfreeze as the effects of your victory in the past begin to ripple forward. everyone—grovyle, his allies, his enemies, even the time god himself—is erased from existence while watching the first sunrise in eons as their entire timeline collapses…
but then they wake up. everyone is fine. everyone turns to the time god to ask wtf happened, and he says “idk man wasnt me. some power beyond me must have done this.” and they all just,,, go on with their lives. the implications of this are that a bunch of heroes stopped the bad future from ever happening, but then some nebulous and omnipotent force (thought to be arceus, the ultimate god of all pokemon) just Brings It All Back, meaning there are now two PARALLEL futures, one where the world sucked for a long time, and one where presumably it was totally fine (we dont get to see this future but obviously time DOESNT stop in this version), and suddenly you’ve got an explicit, discrete, canonical multiverse, years before the main series ever touched the idea
so anyway TL;DR: in mystery dungeon, you erase the future from happening, but a capital-g God so powerful even the god of time doesnt know them says “actually no” and un-erases it as its own alternate timeline simply because it wouldve been sad not to, thus creating a multiverse.
theres a reason its my favorite game of all time shskfhskf
also no the shit about time god’s house is not an exaggeration, the god of time is a pokemon called dialga and he begins to go insane as his home, temporal tower, slowly collapses. its ultimate collapse (and his insanity) is what causes time to freeze across the world. now really all this means is that the inanimate world (rocks, trees, rivers) become petrified, but only SOME pokemon follow suit. how anyone at all survived is a mystery (dungeon. heh), but evidently some DID because YOU are one of these survivors.
It’s funny how w healthy and secure relationships, distance does in fact make the heart grow fonder. Even if my mum is hours away, i know she’ll eventually reply to my text and I don’t worry. And even if my friend is across the Atlantic ocean i know she’ll send me a meme on Instagram or text me an update. It’s funny how the people that love you will make an effort again and again. Nothing will ever get in the way of them showing up… that’s very important….
Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don’t know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?
Like this young person didn’t even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went “aw yiss time to do a theft” and I was like “I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?”
Anyway I’m gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it’s fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.
Spreading the news to my followers - if you weren’t aware of this before, here’s the link to Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain. You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.
It is free.
It is legal.
I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.
I reread the Anne series several years back - they were free through this. I need to reread Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, and my e-book version is from this. Someone recommended Jekyll and Hyde to me a few weeks back and I got a free copy from this. When I went to Haworth on my last holiday before the plague times, I brought books by the Bronte sisters with me to read or reread that I downloaded from here. It’s a great resource.
Yes yes yes! I was honestly so flabbergasted that this young person hadn’t heard of the gutenberg project! It’s been around for AGES, maybe longer than the kindle has? And it’s such a huge project and wonderful resource! It used to be a household name (or maybe that’s just my family, thanks to my dad being a cheapskate nerd [affectionate]). I was so glad to be able to share this resource and others with them though, and I wanted to make sure no one else was missing out!
If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!
And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here’s a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here’s a 1920 movie adaptation of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!
I’m so excited to see people falling in love with classic media through Dracula Daily! Let’s keep that fire blazing!
Also, if you can’t handle reading things, check out libirvox.org! it’s a free audio book project taking public domain works and people doing free audiobooks! there’s a lot of great stuff on there, but it takes things in the public domain and makes audio books out of them!
it’s a super nice project, and you can find some really nice readers there!
Also don’t think a book is old because it’s in the public domain
lots of writers and publishers are prepared to waive future profits for entirely petty reasons
because of this the entire works of Philip K Dick [petty writer who found himself with lots of hangers on during his life] and HP Lovecraft [his publisher - who was his wife and hated him] became public domain on their death
Sherlock Holmes entered public domain this year, it’s always worth checking because you can save a fortune
and the more popular the classic - the more likely someone has uploaded it
Also don’t think a
book is old because it’s in
the public domain
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Anything published (in the US) from 1927 or earlier (this number goes up every year for quite a while), and
Anything published between 1928 and 1963 that wasn’t renewed, and
Anything published before 1989 without a proper copyright notice.
(Don’t go looking for things in that third category unless you’ve studied a LOT about copyright law. Mostly that covers things like “weird little newsletters” and “self-published booklets” and sometimes fanzines. But most publications have a copyright notice in them.)
There’s also some oddball exemptions here and there; copyright law is a tentacled mess. But those are the basic guidelines. (Except for audio. Audio has its own set of rules. It’s weird.) (I mentioned tentacles, did I not? Double the amount of them you were thinking of.)
There are a lot of works from the 50s and early 60s that were not renewed, especially short stories published in magazines.
Project Gutenberg began in 1971; the first text was the US Declaration of Independence, shared through the university computer system. That was the start of “hey computers + public domain text = FREE BOOKS FOR EVERYONE.”
Adding on that Project Gutenberg is not just Eng language texts either! I know specifically about the French texts because I did independent study French lit in high school and all my sources were Project Gutenberg acquired (Candide my beloathed) but there’s many open source texts available in a number of languages.
i think there should be a whale that somehow uses its echolocation offensively (maybe to stun prey so its easier to eat it) (less energy for movement required means more energy for other things (like the sonar)) i think this is a great idea
Dolphins do this! And it’s been hypothesized that Sperm Whales can, but it’s unconfirmed because we’ve never been able to witness how they fight giant squid up close!! Two of the biggest animals to ever exist are fighting each other every single day and we’ve never seen it!
everyone knows that gnomes are nothing but diminuative stupified elves
Not even close. You’re thinking of goblins.
even wikipedia calls your kind diminutive spirits.
In my culture we have a thing called nisser, they are in all practicality gnomes like you, however they only serve to be annoying and beg for rice porridge around Yule.
Meanwhile the noble elves are connected to the gods, known to sometimes plague humanity but also for providing devine salvation in times of need.
They are also known to cause STDs funnily enough, but that is not important…
BUT DOES YOUR KIND HAVE SUCH POWERS??????
Ha ha, funny. But both goblins and elves are descended from fey, while gnomes are not. So…
elves have NOTHING to do with the fey, those are simply english lies and theft of lore.
Clearly you have no understanding of ancient lore
Actually, most elves are descended from fey. The one’s you’re probably thinking of are Astral Elves. Which aren’t really elves.
I’m talking about real world elves, not the fakes from DnD.
Real elves have nothing to do with the fae, that is simply slander
you wouldn’t be so mean if you had a strawberry and cobbled some shoes
me?
I mean sure strawberries are nice, but why would I cobble some shoes?
because who do you think makes the shoes while the cobbler sleeps?
gnomes? I ain’t no gnome
magical elves make the shoes while the cobbler sleeps jeez imagine not knowing your own stories
next your gonna say its christmas gnomes that make the toys for all the good children
well yea, we do have a thing called “nisser” in danish folk lore, and they are a kind of gnome.
these nisser are known as santas helpers, so yes. gnomes do in fact help santa and are what fixes your shoes and similar stuff
Yeah… those aren’t gnomes. Those are midget elves
Gnomes are among the lowest form of angels. They have free wills and are responsible for keeping rocks and dirt earth like
Don’t even start with that religious bullshit
HANG ON A SECOND WHATS WRONG WITH BEING FAE!! The cunning and swift goblin is proof of the fae’s status as peak creatures! We will steal your loose coins and socks and we are proud of it!! Without the goblin, no one would get any work done!
the fae are nothing but bastardised gaelic and nordic mythology. They took the gaelic faeries and stole the scandinavian elves. And for that I will never forgive them
Not us goblins! We’re the Everyman! We’ve been around since the beginning and we will last forever in the nooks and crannies of folklore. England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Korea, The Womponoag, Bangladesh, and South Africa are only a TASTE of the nations and peoples that have come up with us. I can’t speak for elves or fairies but Goblins are TRUE!
goblins are wonderful and I will always cherish you.
But I hold nothing but hatred for the fae
We have the same mentality then
good to know that even staunch rivals can find kinship
Oh, you’re not my rival
not in the sense of wizardly might no, you are nowhere near my level.
But as racists, we are evenly matched it seems, hence the rivalry
We are not on the same level, we agree on that, but I think you will find that your pitiful sparks and firecrackers are no match for my supreme arcane power.
you have yet to prove you can even cast a novice level spell
OHMY GOD SO I JUAT PLAYED AKINATOR AND TRIED TO MAKE HIM GUESS HIMSELF BUT HE KEPT ASKING IF THE PERSON I WAS THINKING OF WAS GAY AND HAD A BOYFRIEND AND I JUST KEPT PRESSING YES AND THEN
Oh my god I never even realised until now that you're the one who wrote all those Pokémon reviews. I remember reading your iconic opinions on Garbodor and Lucario YEARS ago and feeling so vindicated that somebody else hated Lucario's stupid fucking mouth.
Sometimes I think maybe I misremember it but then I look it up again and yeah they really portray its mouth like a person mouth and not a dog mouth. it doesnt have a muzzle. it has a mouth like a guy under a giant nose. it doesnt have canine jaws that open up. why did they do that to him. are they cruel
I was Judas at the last supper and instead of Jesus saying the whole “body to bread, blood to wine” speech, he just sang the entire Neon Genesis Evangelion intro, word for word, and I refused to betray him.
shower. not a bath, a shower. use water as hot or cold as u like. u dont even need to wash. just get in under the water and let it run over you for a while. sit on the floor if you gotta.
moisturize everything. use whatever lotion u like. unscented? dollar store lotion? fancy ass 48 hour lotion that makes u smell like a field of wildflowers? use whatever you want, and use it all over.
put on clean, comfortable clothes.
put on ur favorite underwear. cute black lacy panties? those ridiculous boxers u bought last christmas with candy cane hearts on the butt? put em on.
drink cold water. use ice. if u want, add some mint or lemon for an extra boost.
clean something. doesn’t have to be anything big. organize one drawer of ur desk. wash five dirty dishes. do a load of laundry. scrub the bathroom sink.
blast music. listen to something upbeat and dancey and loud, something that’s got lots of energy. sing to it, dance to it, even if you suck at both.
make food. don’t just grab a granola bar to munch. take the time and make food. even if it’s ramen. add something special to it, like a hard boiled egg or some veggies. prepare food, it tastes way better, and you’ll feel like you accomplished something.
make something. write a short story or a poem, draw a picture, color a picture, fold origami, crochet or knit, sculpt something out of clay, anything artistic. even if you don’t think you’re good at it.
go outside. take a walk. sit in the grass. look at the clouds. smell flowers. put your hands in the dirt and feel the soil against your skin.
call someone. call a loved one, a friend, a family member, call a chat service if you have no one else to call. talk to a stranger on the street. have a conversation and listen to someone’s voice. if you can’t, text or email or whatever, just have some social interaction with another person. even if you don’t say much, listen to them.
cuddle your pets if you have them/can cuddle them. take pictures of them. talk to them. tell them how u feel, about your favorite movie, a new game coming out.
Circulating. Seasonal depression is creeping around now.
part of being an ally to trans men is not being a dick to cis men for their appearance btw
the short trans men hear you. the trans men with bottom growth—or who are post-phalloplasty—hear your bad jokes about small dicks. the trans men undergoing hrt who are losing their hair hear you talk shit about bald spots.
also, hot take, you should care about not hurting random cis men in addition to not hurting trans men. like just because some guy is being an asshole online doesn’t mean the thousands of young boys reading your comments about someone with their same acne deserved it. i don’t care what your reason is, even if you think someone is bad enough to warrant being bullied, who gave you permission to hurt the innocent bystander?
hey y’all should spread this version bc some people need to hear this context
That’s a tough one because a part of me would want it to be “accurate” because the accurate version says so much about the real mindset of that religion, but the accurate version is also the most boring. Heaven and Hell in Christianity are just literally NOTHING. Heaven is floating around forever in just pure unbroken bliss (they don’t want to say it this way, but what they seem to mean is one never-ending orgasm) and canonically Hell is just people hovering in infinite fire in so much pain they can’t do anything but convulse and scream and that’s it. “Real” Christian afterlife beliefs are utterly devoid of worldbuilding or story material! You get either the good nothingness or the bad nothingness! Supposedly you never even say another word ever again for eternity because you can’t in hell and have no reason to in heaven. At least, that’s what every Christian I’ve ever known in “real life” thinks?
I think getting into how I’d fix that while remaining true to the spirit would take me a lot longer to sort out. I think they should maybe STILL be places where the human souls are distilled down to one mindless sensation, because that’s actually got some intriguing applications too, but I’d want there to be other things other than all the floating idiots. Souls are probably like an infinite energy resource to everything else inhabiting those realms.
For years my mom has argued with me about her belief that Rick & Morty plagiarizes my early 2000s flash cartoon, The Fear Hole, about a portal full of monsters. Otherwise the two just have mad science, dimensional portals and goofy alienlike creatures in common but she thinks that’s SO specific she wishes I would sue cartoon network. Last this came up I had to show her other examples of these tropes to demonstrate I didn’t invent them and she was just like *eye roll* okaaaay sweetie I still think they copied you but I’ll drop it for nowwww
Anyway now there’s a Rick and Morty episode about a phenomenon called a Fear Hole, which is a portal full of monsters. And it’s an easy coincidence but I am absolutely never going to hear the end of this now 😢
For years my mom has argued with me about her belief that Rick & Morty plagiarizes my early 2000s flash cartoon, The Fear Hole, about a portal full of monsters. Otherwise the two just have mad science, dimensional portals and goofy alienlike creatures in common but she thinks that’s SO specific she wishes I would sue cartoon network. Last this came up I had to show her other examples of these tropes to demonstrate I didn’t invent them and she was just like *eye roll* okaaaay sweetie I still think they copied you but I’ll drop it for nowwww
Anyway now there’s a Rick and Morty episode about a phenomenon called a Fear Hole, which is a portal full of monsters. And it’s an easy coincidence but I am absolutely never going to hear the end of this now 😢
i’m going to get fired from my job because instead of being like “hi, welcome to burger king” i’m going to say “hi, dagoth ur welcomes you my sweet persistent fiend”
Nerevar, Friend Or Traitor, Would You Like Some Fries With That
Did you get the false Whopper? So naïve, shame on you!
Is This How Your Honour The Kingdom Of Burgers? Is This How You Honour The Whopper Uneaten? Come to me opnely, Nerevar, and not through Drive-thru.
It began here, it will end here… Have you any parting orders? Or shall we skip the fries and get to our business?
Welcome, Moon-and-Star. I have prepared a shake for you.
Furry artists of Tumblr, I am begging you to please use the Community Labels for your NSFW-ish works. In case you don’t know how, here’s tips for mobile:
Tap the button at the bottom right of the New Post screen (highlighted here). This brings up the Community Labels menu. You can then mark your fan art of the Carfax Fox in a jockstrap with his beefy ass hanging out as “Mature.” You can even go one step farther and mark it as “Sexual Themes” if, say, his dick is clearly erect or he’s lactating or something.
On desktop, click the “For Everyone” dropdown at the bottom of the post and go from there.
I’m not saying don’t post your pictures of Rouge the Bat wider than she is tall and showing off her nipple piercings. I’m just begging you to use the provided tools, so you don’t piss off the wrong prude and get NSFW stuff completely banned on Tumblr again.
It is fuckin insane the sheer disregard everyone has for covid and how utterly bizarre it feels to be actively losing credibility in people’s eyes just because I take it seriously. Everyone thinks I’m being “silly” but I literally was in the middle of getting a degree in microbiology when this shit started, I was literally taking immunology and virology courses when the pandemic hit, it’s not like I have a poor understanding of the topic. I’ve been watching the death rate and keeping up with the new variants and vaccines and symptoms and I can bring up all the sources I want but it feels useless, nobody wants to hear it, nobody gives a shit.
There’s hemocyanin (blue) - a variant for mollusks and crustaceans
There’s chlorocruorin (green) - leeches and worms
There’s hemerythrin (purple) - certain bristle worms
There’s even an antarctic fish with CLEAR BLOOD because oxygen dissolves readily into the water around them, a sufficient amount for them to sustain their low metabolisms
There’s also terrestrial hemolymph which is the goop in insects and arachnids that secondarily evolved to lack hemocyanin due to size
I just realized this must sound weird coming from my url
i think people in the middle ages acutally did know how to make photorealistic drawings they just chose not to because it’s funnier to draw some fucked up creature
they actually did make photorealistic drawings things just looked different back then
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