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is that piece of media actually bad, or is it just not following the blueprint you projected onto it? is that work actually not good, or are you just demanding something from it that is absolutely antithetical to its themes, genre, tone, and narrative goal? is that story actually poorly written, or do you just dislike that it is not the specific things you wanted from it that it never set out to be, never was, and never is going to become? is it actually bad, or is it actually well-executed and you just dislike the story it chose to be because it isn’t catering to your specific desires and expectations?
one of my all time favorite things is when people draw their favorite charactets going to like . a dairy or smth . gettin bread and maybe a little chocolate bar . or having lunch with their friends and chatting and laughing or being at home and watching the telly
its so fucking funny how the normal workday is 9-5 so like
if you need anyone to do work at your house e.g. a plumber
oops the time they want to come in is also the time you’re at work
there are a bunch of minor ways that society is designed around the assumption there will be someone at your house to answer the door at all times of the day
western societies shifted from having one domestic worker and one wage worker (eg male breadwinner and housewife) to having two wage workers and no domestic workers (both partners work) without really making any other changes to the structure of society, so now we have all these weird relics that don’t really make sense.
families that have good jobs, people lucky enough to still resemble “middle class” often have the flexibility to take time off work, work from home, hire help, etc. but most people aren’t that lucky. people doing retail or low-level office work etc end up stuck between a rock and a hard place. either lose a shift, and much-needed income (if even allowed to choose their shifts), or not get something necessary like court or the dmv done.
don’t get me wrong, obviously assigning roles in society based on sex wasn’t it, and many non-white families were forced to be dual-income even before women’s lib. but we don’t talk enough about how so much of society still assumes someone is free 9-5, or that there was a reason housework was a full-time job, or how effectively doubling the labour force depressed wages, etc.
maths enjoyers and bug enjoyers and horror movie enjoyers and so forth all need to come together and unite against the common enemy of people telling you how much they hate something as soon as you mention you like it
literally can’t believe i have to say this but i actually don’t? want to hear about how much you hate maths in the tags? people are missing the point of the post it isn’t about which of these things you like and don’t like and which should be added or removed it’s about having the basic decency to not constantly tell people you hate their interests when nobody asked. which you’re failing to do right now.
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EVERY FUCKING TIME.
IT’S SO REAL
I have literally had MORE PEOPLE THAN I CAN COUNT ON MY HANDS tell me what kind of horrible things they would do to my pet tailless whip scorpion if she “got out while I’m visiting”
Ranging from stepping on her, throwing her into a wall, crushing her, beating her with a broom, using a lighter to burn her(???) or some weirdo describing in detail how he would stomp on her until she doesn’t look like anything anymore.
I once tried telling one of them that if she did that, I would do the same thing to her dog and then suddenly everyone was looking weird at me because it’s ok to describe in vivid detail how you want to harm my pet, but if I say a playful “then I’ll do it back to your dog” suddenly you’re the weirdo
Not to mention the many times I have been mocked, or laughed at, or not believed when I was sad over one of my invertebrate pets died. I have a very vivid memory of 14-year old me going to a birthday part ON THE DAY THAT MY STICKBUG HAD DIED and being like obviously upset and teary eyed the entire party, and then when I was asked by a family member what happened and I told her, again very teary eyed and sobbing, that my stickbug had died just this morning, and I got an over exaggerated “awwwwwww” followed by a chuckle by multiple people on the table. It was apparently funny that I was sad over having lost such a “simple” pet.
all goofing aside I genuinely don’t understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene™ is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you’re willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I’m not even saying you can’t enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.
Isn’t Lady Gaga bisexual?
yes that is indeed why she’s on the list of famous women who like women
why have multiple people reblogged this with some horse-assed “um actually most of these people are bi or pan” did I fucking stutter I said they like girls. what is your point. I’m going to kill you.
POV: you make a good post and then encounter tumblr reading comprehension
btw to just clarify for anyone who sees this reblog of this post
op is basically saying something along the lines of “yea ik taylor swift is bi but like. why is she y'all’s only lgbtq+ pop icon when there are all these other lgbtq+ people in the pop scene???”
i might have worded this badly but hopefully i got the main point across
hi op here I certainly did not fucking say Taylor Swift is bi
Op is saying that liking Taylor for being QUEER or Lgbtqia+ is not a bad thing, but to also know she is not the only one.
He did not call anyone in the original post lesbian bi or pan.
op: carrots are not fruits. raspberries and apples and blueberries and pears and lingonberries are fruits. i’m not saying you can’t enjoy carrots but why would you hang all your fruitsalad hopes on it
idiot 1: aren’t raspberries berries?
op: yes that is indeed why it’s on the list of fruit
op: why have multiple people reblogged this with “umm actually most of these are berries”. did i fucking stutter i said they’re fruits. i’m going to kill you
idiot 2: btw just to clarify op is saying “yeah i know carrots are a fruit but there are other fruits too”
op: where in the sweet mary mother of cunt did i say that carrots were a fruit
idiot 3: op is saying that liking carrots for being fruits isn’t a bad thing, but to also know they are not the only fruit
op:
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I cannot stand the parodies of modern major general, they’re overdone and simply not as good as the original. They’ve done them about everything, whatever topic, big or small.
And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.
The diction’s always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.
The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable, they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable, in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!
I cannot stand the parodies of modern major general, they‘re overdone and simply not as good as the original. They’ve done them about everything, whatever topic, big or small.
And when i notice one of them myeyes will always start to roll.
The diction’s always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.
The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable, they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable, in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!
I’ve been telling everyone I know for YEARS not to buy Blue Buffalo.
This is the short story:
A few years ago I took my sick cat, Ankh, to the vet. The vet and vet tech asked what I fed her. I told them Blue Buffalo. They looked like I had just told them I fed her razor blades and cyanide. They diagnosed her with pancreatitis and said that nearly all of the cats they’d been seeing lately with pancreatitis were being fed Blue Buffalo. They gave her medicine and sent her home. Two days later she had a seizure and died right in my arms.
The day after she died Hannibal started displaying the same symptoms she had so I panicked hard and took him to the vet. Got the same meds and the same diagnosis. Luckily Hannibal survived.
I wish Ankh had survived. She was only ten and the best cat I’ve ever had. Literally the best and five years later I still cry when I think about her.
FUCK BLUE BUFFALO.
I don’t know the full story behind the tweets above, but a Google search shows there HAVE been several recalls regarding this brand, especially in 2016. I would absolutely avoid as it is not worth the risk.
Good god thank you so much for sharing this because I’ve lately been considering switching to this brand cus it’s supposed to be so much better than all the others but good god what the hell.
I worked in a vet for a little while and I shit you not, when a dog came in with constant diarrhea they were always eating Blue Buffalo. We changed the food and the dog got better every time. Blue Buffalo is garbage food and never feed it to your pets.
I’ve never heard of this brand but I love my dog with all of my heart and I’d be broken if I ever accidently fed her this and got her sick (people give me different dog food to try all the time). I’d hate for anyone else to lose their pet also.
um?? what the fuck? holy FUCK my boyfriend and I were just about to start feeding our cat blue buffalo omg
Wft really?? Im never going to buy that killer food!! Praying for your pets!
I’m so glad I know this, I’d be heartbroken if my dog died
not trans related, but i have like no followers and this needs a wide audience
For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. There’d been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to reassess, and she and her doctor had already drafted and started a catch-up vaccination schedule, but her kids caught whooping cough just before it could be started. Then she wrote a blog post for The Scientific Parent explaining how she and her husband had come to wrong decisions in the first place, how they changed their mind, the consequences they suffered as a result, and asking other parents to please vaccinate their kids. And now she’s an activist for destroying the misinformation of anti-vaxxers, and reaching out to anti-vaxxers because she’s understands their fears but knows their kids deserve better.
She was trying to the best for her kids and just didn’t know how to interpret the validity of information or its sources, an actual skill that can be actually difficult and that is under-taught and a necessary first step to being able to trust vaccination research, so chose no action over taking an action she wasn’t sure of. She kept looking into it with family and friends and even eventually came to the right conclusion before her kids became sick, but it was still too late.
Honestly it was pretty brave of her to publicly admit she was wrong. She could have just quietly vaccinated her kids and not become a national news story, but instead she spoke out, even saying “I’m writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isn’t lost on me.” and also “I am not looking forward to any gloating or shame as this ‘defection’ from the antivaxx camp goes public, but, this isn’t a popularity contest. Right now my family is living the consequences of misinformation and fear. I understand that families in our community may be mad at us for putting their kids at risk.”
She understood the consequences and still put herself and her story out there.
You know what, it does take a big person to admit they were wrong so publicly and work to undo the harm. I believe I made fun of her in the past, but timemachineyeah changed my mind.
“I never thought leopards would eat MY face, until I realized they totally would, and they will eat your face, too!” warns defector from the leopards-eating-faces party
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Every. Time. Every single time. I always get so delighted by this picture set. And I always forget what it’s followed up by. And then I see the “NAFTER NOON!” and absolutely lose it. I’m so glad this post exists.
So I am treating myself to a day at Dashcon. Thing is I can only go one day and both Friday/Saturday have really cool things planned. Which day should I go? Please help me out.
Saturday has a ball pit and meet-ups soooooooo. ;D
Returning to Tumblr simply to point how the cast of Game Changer is like no other. This interview is wild.
Game Changer makes it look like Sam Reich is pushing his friends into silly Situations but in reality this man is just barely holding these people back
Yeah I can clearly imagine the conversation to be:
Izzy: I’M CRAZY YOU JUST FUCKING WATCH I’LL GIVE BIRTH ON CAMERA
Sam: um, no thank you. thats okay….appreciate it though :)
Izzy: I’M CRAZY
YOU JUST FUCKING WATCH I’LL GIVE
BIRTH ON CAMERA
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
I have OCD and with that comes quasi-hallucinations, and I grew up watching a ton of horror films so some of the worst of mine are the standard white skin/black hair demon girl type shit.
However, because a lot of them are based on horror film I have found comfort in doing things that “go against” horror films and being like “see? This could never happen.”
(It’s irrational. I know that. But shut up. This is how I cope.)
For example: I started hearing garbled whispering from beneath my table, so I started playing the muppets sound track. Because they would never play Movin’ Right Along when the protagonist is about to get attacked. That won’t happen. Disney, who owns the muppets, wouldn’t give them the rights.
Saying “voting doesn’t matter” might reach your younger peers online but it certainly hasn’t reached Clangus Hargbarg who was part of the kkk in 1951 and still sends in his ballot. He hasn’t missed a one.
hi, this doesn’t just apply to american politics, either.
anyone telling you ANYWHERE to not vote, that your vote doesn’t matter, that voting is a waste of time, that one vote doesn’t make or break the elections should NOT be listened to! this is how right-wing parties stay in power EVERYWHERE
GO AND VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION YOU ARE ELIGIBLE FOR!!
hi, this doesn’t just
apply to american
politics, either.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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