playing a new game where i talk about fandom using words that belong on corporate powerpoint slides like:
✨ we have to align our headcanons to authentically reflect our strategic mission and meet quarterly margin objectives ✨
sorry to everyone who understood that
as per my last 5+1,
Hello team,
With all due respect, I cross-checked your references with Kakashi from accounting, and the error in your fics was statistically significant. Every fic published in our “Enemies to Lovers” tag after the most recent episode’s air date needs to be updated and reviewed due to new policies issued by the author.
Please re-aquaint yourself with the source material before next week’s meeting and prepare to discuss the changes.
Cheers!
you guys are really good at this game
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//HOLY SHIT I DID IT MOM I FINALLYU DID SOMETHINGGGGG. i was too lazy to record more sound effects from the game and cap cut was laggy hella bad so i had to cut some things out to prevent my pc from combusting. however, this was not bad for a once in a blue moon type of thing.
/// the little dialogue voice thingy for lamb is literally me whispering at 1 am in the morning but in reverse. its nonsense, you won’t find any hidden lore. but maybe some innner thoughts.
/// other than that, i honestly think this au is gonna be relatively depressing and creepy. that is,,,, if i draw more lmao.
/// and with that, im now officially on hiatus! Thank you so much for the support you all have given me. I never thought that running a tumblr blog would be this fun (and it heals a bit of my inner child in me) so thank you for everything gang! If classes allow, I might drop some drawings here and there but i think with how my work load is, it wont be frequent.
///again thank you so much! I love you guys and thank you for dealing with my guilty pleasure emo lamb :‘DDD cant wait to draw more for yall.
///bruh I forgot to watermark it. Man whatever if this shit gets stolen I got my credentials tucked in a nice safe folder.
drawing furries kissing is the hardest thing in the world and its intentionally hard in the same way nintendo switch cartridges intentionally taste like bitter chemicals so kids dont eat them
fuck these stupid ass animauls
that’s why you draw them giving head instead which is much easier and more common according to what e621 has taught me :3
somehow I haven’t seen any of this on tumblr or on Pinterest so I’d assume it’s an untapped market of potential shitpost and meme glory, so I want to share it with y’all.. first. We start with the beginning
Then.. the discovery of the gold..
BUT WAIT, THERES MORE!
I know these are hilarious, needlessly hilarious. And the fact they exist and these are product images, are so funny. And everyone knows about the iconic fish head and horse head masks, but no one talks about the meme potential of the others.
[Image ID: Screencap from unspecified website in dark mode. Text reads:
“After that that stupid thing from Bezos and Musk about how a trillion humans would mean a thousand Mozarts, it got me thinking.
We clearly must have Mozarts today, and at least a couple of them probably got the same upbringing he did to nurture their skill and talent, and we would therefore have:
a musician of significant talent, dedication and skill,
who can write music across a bunch of different contemporary genres,
who explicitly draws from the work of other musicians to build their style, and
who is willing to do the musical equivalent of shitposting and wear fancy outfits while doing it.
I can only conclude that the modern-day Mozart is Weird Al Yankovic.
I will not be taking questions.”
Followed by: a portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a photograph of Weird Al Yankovic, in similar ¾ poses with similar eyebrow-raised and smiling expressions. End ID.]
i think a lot of people who have never done music do not understand how absolutely implausible weird al’s skill level is. you can say “so many musicians can do at least one of his songs, obviously”, and yes, they can, but they couldn’t do all of them. you have people who studied ten or twenty years to be able to do something genuinely incredible, and they’ve specialized and focused and developed the ability to produce a particular kind of thing, and they do it really well, and then this guy comes along and says “welp, time for a new album”, picks ten of them, and duplicates their shtick well enough to be clearly recognizable.
this man produced a piece of music which an experienced listener can hear and say “oh, that’s Frank Zappa”. how? not even Frank Zappa sounds like Frank Zappa!
Is weird Al doing different shit now? Bc if he was writing pastiches this would be true, but all I’m really familiar with is the stuff where he just rewrites the lyrics to an existing song, or does a polka cover of it.
Weird Al’s “style parodies”, or original compositions explicitly in the style of a particular artist or band, are approximately as numerous as his actual song parodies. Generally the Regular Parodies get all the attention, they’re the big money spinners, but his style parodies are both numerous and legendary.
Dare to Be Stupid, the title track off the album of the same name, is probably the big one that people would know - a more Devo song than actual Devo, and that’s according to Devo themselves.
An incomplete list of other ones that rule, actually, are:
Germs (Nine Inch Nails)
I’ll Sue Ya (Rage Against The Machine)
Pancreas (The Beach Boys)
Craiglist (The Doors)
My Own Eyes (Foo Fighters)
Bob (Bob Dylan)
Everything You Know Is Wrong (They Might Be Giants)
Trigger Happy (The Beach Boys again but from a different era)
The discography of American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, actor and parodist “Weird Al” Yankovic consists of fourteen studio albums, two soundtrack albums, nine compilation albums, eleven video albums, two extended plays, two box sets, forty-six singles and fifty-four music videos. Since the debut of his first comedy song in 1976, he has sold more than 12 million albums—more than any other comedy act in history—recorded more than 150 parody and original songs, and performed more than 1,000 live shows
He has done so, so much more than just the dozen or so parody songs that everyone knows.
It would be just as effective as a full on strike, without risking their jobs in anti union states. Especially if they made public newspaper announcements that this is what they will ALL be doing.
My dad did this! He’s a high school teacher, and he and all his colleagues refused to write college recommendation letters - which was dozens of hours of unpaid labor not in their contract - until they got a renegotiated contract, and it worked in like less than a week cause parents went apeshit. The education system would fucking collapse without unpaid teacher labor, and that’s a huge source of leverage
It would be just as effective as a full on strike, without risking their jobs in anti union states. Especially if they made public newspaper announcements that this is what they will ALL be doing.
My dad did this! He’s a high school teacher, and he and all his colleagues refused to write college recommendation letters - which was dozens of hours of unpaid labor not in their contract - until they got a renegotiated contract, and it worked in like less than a week cause parents went apeshit. The education system would fucking collapse without unpaid teacher labor, and that’s a huge source of leverage
it’s easier to hold onto bad habits if you are ashamed of them constantly repeating the same pattern over and over again. I’m not exactly sure why, my guess is it’s because that poor self image convinces you that you deserve to live that way. But once you forgive yourself for it and hold genuine compassion for your choices your grip can finally loosen.
I think part of it is also that people often use the bad habits they’re ashamed of to deal with the shame they feel over them and it ends up a never ending cycle
Everything Tumblr has told you about Moby-Dick is absolute bullshit, and everything that Tumblr has told you about Moby-Dick is 100% true. It’s a travelogue fantasy. It’s proto-science fiction. It’s cosmic horror. It’s shockingly original and it’s shamelessly plagiaristic. It’s a misotheistic Christian parable in which the whale is the mask of a cruel, uncaring God and Ahab is Satan himself, not as trickster or as tempter, but as doomed hero. It’s the most gripping thing you’ll ever read. It’s boring as shit. But above all else – and I cannot emphasise this enough – it is filled with Facts About Whales.
Some of which are even true.
I’d argue that the wrong Whale Facts are much more interesting than the correct ones. Every time you run into an incorrect Whale Fact, you’re left with several options:
It’s something which was believed to be true at the time of the work’s authorship, and later proved not to be.
It’s something which was understood to be a popular misconception at the time of the work’s authorship, and Melville’s research failed him.
It’s something which was legitimately an unsettled question at the time of the work’s authorship, and Melville just happened to come down on the wrong side of the debate. (This is most likely to be the case when the Whale Fact in question relates to taxonomy; e.g., the whole “what is a fish?” business.)
It’s something which has no known precedent outside of the work itself, seriously, where the fuck did Melville get that?
Each of these options has a potentially fascinating story behind it. Basically, when Melville gets a Whale Fact right, that tells you a thing about whales – but when Melville gets a Whale Fact wrong, that tells you something about the context of the work’s authorship. And frankly? I’ve got better sources available to me if I just want to know things about whales!
Sample whale facts from Moby Dick:
- whales are absolutely fish.
- Linnaeus argues that whales are not fish, but: consider their vibes.
- Whales have fish vibes.
- A better way to sort and classify whales is to sort them by types of books: namely, folios, octavos, books and chapters.
- Only by sorting whales as books we can comprehend them all, but as books we can definitely ultimately comprehend them.
- For example, one type of whale is the sulfur-bottom, who has a yellow stomach probably from scraping against Hell. There are no other facts that are true about the sulfur-bottom, and anything else you may have gathered about them is probably a lie.
- Theologically, all existing names for whales are okay except for the stupid ones. The Black Fish is a stupid name, so it should be called the Hyena Whale. These are statements, not recommendations, and are once again based on vibes.
- There are a lot of reasons why Narwhales might have a horn, but probably the most vibe-based one is that it could use its horn to help it read small books. Think about it.
- Killer whales attack other whales by biting their lips.
- Biology aside, Whales can also be differentiated into Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
- “What are the Rights of Man and the Liberties of the World but Loose-Fish? What all men’s minds and opinions but Loose-Fish? What is the principle of religious belief in them but a Loose-Fish? What to the ostentatious smuggling verbalists are the thoughts of thinkers but Loose-Fish? What is the great globe itself but a Loose-Fish? And what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?”
- Sperm Whales are the biggest of all things.
Etc. Etc. Ishmael’s voice throughout is of frantic, somewhat desperate persuasion mixed with last-minute undergraduate bullshit, swinging between lofty theological authority and accusing the reader of being a fish. Hanging out with Moby Dick and its jokes are like being in a room with someone very exhausting who constantly says things that are 65% true. Whales should best be taxonomically defined as books, and frankly, it’s none of your business why.
At some point you’re like, “Ishmael, I don’t think whales are fish,” and he’s already interrupting you with “the planet is a loose-fish,” and you’re like. Ishmael, words work best when they mean things. And he’s like: I Review The Top Five Whale Oils For Burning For Light (Number Four Will Surprise You.) also I’m absolutely trolling you.
And you’re like, okay Ishmael, I do know you’re trolling me, but how much of your own bullshit do you believe?
And he’s like, that’s exactly what a whale would say.
What’s that one quote about how conservatives only ever support gun control when it’s about any kind of minority owning the guns?
Yeah, Tucker? How does that end, Tucker?? When you fearmonger and rile people up, tell them their enemy’s threat is eminent, and command them to buy guns, Tucker???
If you can’t show up in person, make a phone call. If you can’t call, write a letter. If you can’t write a letter, an email.
In order to liberate our communities from this lovecraft country’s Jim & Jane Crow violence, we have to upRoot white supremacist politics and practices from the root.
Update: He’s alive and started school again in August 2023
i swear to god if this is another one of those “schedule it so far out in the future that no one’s going to remember to look at it while we decide to quietly let him off the hook” kinda things. they better find him guilty
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