ohhhhh I get it now. the “gifted kid” discourse exists because people see it fundamentally as a sign of Privilege and not as a largely meaningless category that puffs up weird children before setting them up for the same unremarkable lives as everyone else; thus they interpret people going “the educational system gave me false expectations before ultimately abandoning me to the same heartless world as everyone else” as “why am I, The Main Character, not getting everything I ever wanted.”
no i don’t have an “astigmatism” i can just see the halos of the angels that live in car head lights that you losers are too spiritually closed off to see
The thing with ADHD memory issues isn’t that I’m blissfully ignorant of all the things I’m forgetting. I’m stressfully ignorant. I’m never suddenly hit with the unexpected feeling of “oh, I think I’ve forgotten something”, because the feeling is never unexpected, nor does it ever leave. That alarm is blaring 24/7. If I didn’t tune it out, I’d go insane.
why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?
You can see the video here where an asshole with a “My pronouns are find/Jesus” shirt asks if this guy supports LGBTQ rights or economic stability, and this king up here^ just keeps repeating, “Why can’t you have both? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don’t have to pick one. I refuse the question.” Conservatives have absolutely nothing but whataboutism, and when people don’t play their game, they have no comeback. Good on this guy for refusing to go along with the bullshit question
I think people are just joking around, but the thing is that a lot of people will fall into the right’s “DEBATE ME BRO” trap and wind up in heated arguments, and people lose sight that sometimes it really is a lot more effective at shutting down their arguments to just not engage at all
.. I feel like another big reason this is a thing/joke/question at all is the implication that this guy doesn’t “”“look like”“” someone who would support queer rights or refuse to debate conservatives and like
We can agree that’s a shitty conclusion to leap to from appearances, right? Yeah? 😕
I mean, I just loved this guy absolutely refusing to entertain the bullshit question, and I would’ve gotten a kick out of this video regardless of his appearance because of how casual and amused he was about the whole thing. One of the people in the screenshots above said this:
So I don’t think everyone was making fun of his appearance
i havent seen a damn thing about the new grinch movie, but if they didnt make him a love interest that’s just another grinch but softer w/ eyelashes and one blue streak in her hair named The Binch then i dont wanna know
my sweet Binch…..
well whom else would be voicing The Binch??????
i want to thank everyone for getting this horrible post to 40k notes today thank you
Today I had the spoons to hunt down my neighborhood council’s email and send them an email that basically said “I would like to be able to leave my house but my neighborhood is not wheelchair accessible. Who do I talk to in order to get this fixed?” And I am planning on hunting down whoever is in charge of sidewalks in my neighborhood and getting real annoying about it.
My plan is to email them every time I want to go somewhere but can’t.
Email 1: hello, please fix sidewalks so I can ride the bus places I am very passionate about public transportation and also being able to leave my house.
Email 200: This morning I woke up and wanted some delicious coffee to start my day, but upon getting out of bed I discovered we were out of coffee. I would’ve liked to take advantage of the city’s public transportation system in order to support a local business like [examples of local coffee shops] but alas I cannot because I am a wheelchair user and my neighborhood is not wheelchair accessible. [Insert rest of arguement RE accessibility]. In conclusion I don’t work I can keep these emails coming until I die please just fix my sidewalks.
This is going to be my new spite hobby. I was already mad about the abuse and general shit hand the disabled get dealt in our culture but then I started using a wheelchair and places like doctor’s offices have been inaccessible to me so now I am filled with rage. So I am going to take that rage and do something with it. Like emailing my city counsel representatives at 2 am like “I crave a moonlight walk fix my sidewalks please.”
I encourage you to do this!
After the Americans with Disabilities Act passed in 1990, my grandma - who used an electric wheelchair, having survived both polio and getting hit really hard with post-polio syndrome - made a hobby of filing complaints against businesses that weren’t accessible.
She also used to run over people with her chair if they were blocking ramps, but that’s neither here nor there.
“The airstrike surgically targeted the apartment on the second floor where Rafaat was in a 3-storey building, and not the entire building; indicating the apartment was the target and not possible collateral damage”
the fact that the idf can do this when they want shows that the immense amount of destruction of civilian infrastructure is the point generally
Do you ever eat popcorn out of the palm of your own hand with such ardent desperation that you feel like both a wild horse and the gentle schoolgirl feeding it treats to gain its affection
Hey there guys. It’s me, in 2022, commenting on this post from 2016. There’s been a lot of people on this site lately being like “oooh no don’t make viral uwu I’m so pathetic, little, and defenseless and my poor notifications can’t handle 10k reblogs” well first of all ALL of us are pathetic, little, and defenseless and secondly none of our notifications can handle 10k reblogs and thirdly I’m not a coward and I think this should have a million notes. Not because of its own merit as a post, I just think it’d be funny if when I turn 30 this year and I reflect on the greatest accomplishments of my life thus far, I have to at least consider putting “famous tumblr popcorn post” on the list
Hey there guys. It’s me, in 2023, in May specifically, I’m 30 and for the record it rules, I had a lil aging crisis and now I’m past that and I’m just like goddamn it is great being in my thirties and I had a wonderful birthday NO THANKS TO YOU GUYS
actually, much thanks to you guys. Some of you were inspiringly crazy about this post. Frankly you worked harder for this than I did, and your efforts were touching and inspiring and funny and yet we STILL FAILED. GUYS WE GOTTA PUT OUR EYES BACK ON THE BALL. We have ehhh about six months before I turn the big three-one, which is actually the most important birthday because now you’re in your thirties For Real, and I personally can’t think of a better way to ring in my 31st year of life than by trying and failing to do something that I was hoping to knock out in my twenties.
Good luck, kiddo
Are you satisfied, op? When will it be enough?
I feel I couldn’t have been clearer about the number at which this will be enough
You guys I had this whole fucking bit planned. I was gonna pathetically beg for notes for months. It was gonna be a whole progressively building thing. But you guys were, and I say this with complete affection, so fucking annoying to me personally and to everyone who follows you. Again, I really phoned this in. Some of you guys were just like “what if I replied every letter of the alphabet one at a time and then did it again.” And then reblogged it 30 times. That’s so much work to make some numbers go up and again so annoying to so many people. You all should be proud. I did literally ask for this. Your weird level of work made me feel connected to a sea of strangers who wanted me to succeed but also, and again I say this with affection and love, annoyed me deeply along the way.
This video is from 2021 but still holds true to this day.
It’s of a Palestinian child telling an Israeli soilder to get off her land.
And this, this is unironically the biggest threat to Israel.
That the people of the world are not with them.
That they are exposed as the illegal occupation colonising land that does not belong to them, while they try to wipe out the indigenous Palestinian population.
A six year old child telling them this land isn’t there’s, that’s what they are most afraid of.
50% of Gaza is made up of children like this.
This is who Israel want to wipe out.
Hamas even used a recording of 2 children speaking in Arabic and the Israeli soilders came running.
Not because they knew Hamas was there, but because they heard the sound of children and came running with their guns.
They are the terrorists.
They are the ones carpet combing civilians, killing Palestinians and Israeli civilians.
I’m not the first to mention this, but one bit that I thought was really clever in Steven Universe is the ways in which the show subtly justifies the cartoonism of the principle cast always wearing the same outfit for ease-of-animation purposes. The gems are a gimme in that they’re all hardlight-projections, and even before that’s solidified as a plot point they’re otherworldly and superheroic enough that you don’t really think to question it. But Steven canonically just owns hundreds and hundreds of those star shirts, which are leftover merchandise from his father’s fizzled-out career as a rock star. Into which you can read a whole bunch of other stuff if you really want to, right? And I do want to. It’s reflective of Greg’s misplaced optimism that he got hundreds of those made in the first place, and it’s a benign but visible example of how Steven’s life is shaped by the knock-on effects of decisions his parents made before he was even alive. He’s got his mother’s superpowers and he’s wearing his father’s shirts.
Taking this afterthought I had out of the tags- I actually checked the wiki to make sure I wasn’t imagining this, and yeah, most of the other human characters have at least subtle changes to their character models in each episode, but special attention to Connie, who’s got a different outfit basically every time she shows up, and moreover actually has a notable shift in the kind of outfit she prefers as the series progresses. She’s got room to evolve and explore aesthetically in a way that Steven doesn’t, because as much as she’s “part of his universe,” she has somewhere to go home to. She can clock out. She has other stuff going on in her life. And Steven literally isn’t visibly aging for the first two seasons and change because he doesn’t know that he’s supposed to.
There was a song in the first Frozen movie, called “Fixer Upper” and it was sung entirely by the weird rock/troll things Kristoff considered his family.
Had a dream that there was a furry subculture revolving entirely around popular cryptids where nobody knew exactly what anybody else’s fursona actually looked like because they exclusively drew themselves blurry and out of focus and/or really far away.
early creature edtor images from the art of spore, this one actually showcases various early mouth parts!
a few more images, one actually showcasing a prototype inaccessible to the public, which was used for the skin paints
theres also later screenshots from the creature editor, this one being from a screenshot outright calling the program CreatureEditor [DebugRelease]. the background strangely really closely resembles the hidden cell editor background?
you can see its REALLY similar to cl_editor_base.rw4, with the only difference being the dais (the creature editor one has some debris on it and an apparent ground texture). i guess it does explain why the cell editor background has a whole giant 3d environment with walls and everything (but no ceiling), and the fact that the dais has some depth at all as i have shown here
also this creature editor screenshot showcases a creature thats found in the final game still, still called dragone, and it seems to look largely the same aside from the paints and also the early one having osteoflippies on the back
theres also this picture that seems to be a concept for how the background was going to look. ive never seen this anywhere else
