fellshish:

fellshish:

there’s always a next book to read, a next show to see, a next concert to go to, another friend to meet, another treat to eat, there’s always more to discover or experience

this idea makes some people nervous but please it’s good that life isn’t a race it isn’t a video game you can finish it’s more like an endless open world exploration and if you open yourself up there’s always the next beautiful thing to discover

wizardshark:

wizardshark:

millipedia:

fucked up that you can’t just shoplift a semester of college

Walk in, find a lecture you want to go to that is filled a ton so they don’t take attendance, sit and listen

You guys think I’m joking? I took an art history class this way. Didn’t pay a dime

jesncin:

Happy National Coming Out Day! It’s been about half a year since our middle grade graphic novel, Lunar Boy, released! Today we want to reflect on the concept of Coming Out, and how it’s fictionalized in media.

Check out Lunar Boy wherever american graphic novels are sold, or check it out at a library! All the support means a lot with getting stories like this out there.

currentlycryingaboutlancelot:

thinking about when my friend found a book from the 70s in a church office with truly some of the most insane prayers I have ever heard

the-haiku-bot:

catgirl-kaiju:

cannibalchicken:

i love how op does not say which one they were in this scenario

i love how op does

not say which one they were in

this scenario

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

sataidelenn:

correctopinionhaver:

So there are several species of frogs that have evolved to be so small that their vestibular balance system doesn’t work well and I’m sorry but it’s the funniest thing to watch them try to jump.

factsinallcaps:

factsinallcaps:

ON THE SHOW “SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS,” THE KRABBY PATTIES THE TITULAR SPONGEBOB MAKES PROFESSIONALLY ARE, PER THE SERIES CREATOR, VEGETARIAN. THIS IS BECAUSE NICKELODEON HAD RULES FOR THE SPONGEBOB PRODUCTION TEAM AGAINST DEPICTING FISH AS FOOD FOR OTHER FISH. SOMETIMES THEY BROKE THIS RULE

SOMETIMES THEY BROKE THIS RULE

codecicle-archive:

codecicle-archive:

my friends open drawing requests and i bow my head with shame and avoid eye contact as i ask for the character they Already Knew I Would Ask For

walking into the inbox with my tail between my legs and pleading eyes + this tweet stapled to my fucking forehead

kirbyvolt:

catchymemes:

So fun thing about this. My HS graduation we had 2 student speakers. One who was valedictorian and all that with honors, and another that was just a pretty average guy. He was very outgoing and most people knew him, and he wasn’t a terrible student, but he wasn’t A++ tier. Because of this, the decision was made he should give his speech first because obviously the more prestigious one would have a better speech I’m sure the adults thought. I honestly don’t know how he got chosen to give a speech other than the fact most people knew him, it was a new thing they were trying out that year to make the speeches resonate with the students more.

Well he knocked it out of the park. He came prepared, he had a big speech written with lots of jokes and chances for him to improv as he went along. The entire theme of his speech was about how mediocrity isn’t a bad thing: It’s the NORMAL. Not everyone is going to soar to great heights after graduation, and that is 100% OK. He looked at himself and basically admitted, “I don’t know why I’m giving this speech, I’m not a perfect student, and I’ve definitely done some things that got me in trouble, but life isn’t about being perfect.” All the students cheered for him whilst the adults were split. You could tell some understood his message and were laughing along with him, but the other half were just, “this is uncouth!” without saying it.

So the high honors student went after him. They were shocked. They had pretty much your standard speech about how to keep pushing on after graduating, but was nervous to even talk about it. Because the speech before them just basically refuted most of what they would say. The adults that wanted the traditional speech looked with even more ire to the student who went before with the speech about mediocrity because how dare he make the high honor student look bad. Some of the teachers invited him back onto the stage so he could help the other student speaker. Together they were able to keep the themes of his previous speech valid while allowing the next speech to still work. They worked together in real time to deliver a decent, albeit cliche, speech that most were expecting.

I don’t know what they did in years after that, as I do not remember my younger brother’s graduation from the same HS, but I think the lesson learned is the speech that resonates with people will be a better idea than giving what folks are expecting.

I hope both speech givers are doing good right now, they’re both very smart and savvy.

ered:

Here’s my take on the whole audio books vs. reading:

Oral tradition of storytelling predates written ones by millennias, and honestly, which one you like is just a personal preference.

The actual difference is

• when listening, you have no idea how to write characters’ names
• when reading, you have no idea how to pronounce characters’ names

hope this helps!

hellsitegenetics:

effemimaniac:

whats-a-bear:

reslake:

reslake:

I’ve always thought Margarita would be a beautiful name for a little girl

And her beautiful sister Cosmopolitan

naming my daughter Rum &

hold on post canceled why the fuck did my keyboard recommend this emoji to me

Rum & The Eyeless One

String identified:
’ aa tgt agata a at a a tt g
A at t Cta
ag agt &
t cac t c a c t t
& T

Closest match: Pyrgus alveus genome assembly, chromosome: Z
Common name: Large Grizzled Skipper

(image source)

the-haiku-bot:

jackalspine:

Have we considered the possibility that op might like the show

Have we considered

the possibility that

op might like the show

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

foldingfittedsheets:

I was a pretty sickly kid. I’m a pretty sickly adult too I guess. But one of the issues I had was constant ear infections. I almost went deaf because I just had near continuous swelling and inflammation going on. I had tubes in my ears twice because they fell out the first time.

If you’re unfamiliar that’s where they put a tiny gauge in your inner ear to help force it open. It’s meant to stop water getting trapped back there. I had to put wax in my ears before contact with pools, baths, showers, anything, for years, to prevent water from slinking through that narrow channel and festering long enough to spawn bacteria.

It was miserable. To this day my inner ear is blighted with so much scar tissue that every single ear exam the doctor goes, “Woah.” You never want to hear a doctor say woah. It’s never good.

Eventually my constant rounds of antibiotics and misery was pinned on my tonsils. A doctor declared there was just too much ick hiding out in there and they had to go. I was about five or six at the time. Having surgery as a little kid is already pretty scary but I was determined to be brave. I’d already had vacuum suction tools used on my inner ear weekly a practice so painful it’s banned now. I was also promised a coveted troll dinosaur for good behavior.

So I walked tremulously into the hospital to have an organ removed. By all accounts I comported myself admirably. Afterward I was coming out of anesthesia quite slowly. The nurse was carrying me back to my parents when I rasped a whispery, “Knock knock,” at her.

She paused and looked down at me, “What?”

A little stronger I repeated, “Knock knock.”

She was shocked her tiny patient was trying to tell a joke while higher than a kite but dutifully said, “Who’s there?”

“Adam,” I said in a wavery little voice.

She leaned closer to hear me, “Adam who?”

I bellowed through my raw throat, still freshly bleeding from surgery, “Adam my way, I’m gettin’ outta here!”

The nurse had to stop she was laughing so hard and she was in hysterics when she delivered me back to me parents, repeating the whole episode to them, turning their anxiety into delight that their doped up child was a comedy genius.

No one knew where I’d learned the joke, but it was a staple story throughout my childhood.

bloglikeanegyptian:

bloglikeanegyptian:

there’s something very scary about the way we argue and entertain discourse on israel or on settler colonialism when, on the ground, israel has totally isolated northern gaza and is currently systemically liquidating jabalia (a refugee camp in northern gaza) just as they have, from the very beginning, said they would do. just as large swathes of israel came to be in 1948, to 1967, to the west bank today. there’s something scary about watching indigenous people undergo a genocide in real-time in 2024 like they’re squatters on some prime property while nobody moves except to argue about semantics. there’s something scary about people being trapped and killed like fish in a barrel while you can text them and follow them on social media and watch their pleas in video as soldiers and tanks come closer. what the hell is this

jabalia in northern gaza has been under siege for over a week. no food aid in. constant bombing. journalists being openly targeted. the bbc describes israel’s plan to use medieval siege tactics to ethnically cleanse and settle the north of gaza as a “controversial plan” while acknowledging that not only does israel not allow people enough time to use the humanitarian corridor to evacuate, they also shoot at people evacuating and are still targeting the south. they have also made it clear that whoever leaves will not be returning.

i don’t really understand how the news can describe the process of genocide in such stark terms and call it a “controversial plan” instead of what it is: a horrifying crime against humanity.

alexanderwales:

There’s a certain sort of reader who thinks of everything in tropes and also hates tropes. So as soon as a character is introduced, they’ll pigeon hole that person into the nearest applicable archetype, then complain about it.

I think part of this comes from maladaptive novelty-seeking, the kind of guy who wants just once for the villain to win at the end, for the romance to tear itself apart in the 11th hour and never be repaired, who wants “realism” but not actually realism, just subversion because at least that would be different.

My cousin is one of those guys. He’s much younger than me, still in college, but we were talking at a family get together, and he expressed disdain at the very concept of a work of fiction having conflict in it, at the building of tension before its release, at character arcs or even development.

So I asked him what it was he wanted from a story, out of professional curiosity, and he said, “I want,” and then he bit his lip and grabbed at the air like he was going to pull it out of the aether.

I never figured out what it was he actually wanted, but I sometimes try to rotate the problem in my head, like I’m going to be able to see the shape of the solution if I just spend enough time working at it.

It’s a huge untapped market: people who like reading but don’t seem to like any of the things stories have.

rapeculturerealities:

Link to original tweet

molabuddy:

molabuddy:

recently when im tempted to say ‘i’m gonna kill myself’ i try to correct it into saying “im gonna walk into the river and become a trout” or some other form of that. this is my new thing

btw this has graduated into me just saying “the trout population will be affected” and then not elaborating

cryptidize:

Fuck It, Internet Guide

Hey there! As social media becomes more and more inhospitible for the local user, I wanted to post some useful/fun links to just about anything I can think of! Enjoy! Also, if you’d like an invite to the P!rated Games discord, lmk! ^_^

I AM CURRENTLY STILL UPDATING THIS POST AND I WILL REBLOG IT WHEN I ADD TO IT! Feel free to comment things I’ve missed, I’m sure there’s way more than this came from!

WEB CENTRIC

CURLIE: THE COLLECTOR OF URLs (Curlie strives to be the largest human-edited directory of the Web. You can save sites and create your own mini webring!)

Internet Archive (A collection of over 818 Billion websites, books, movies, music, and more. Hosts the Wayback Machine, which can be used to access a multitude of sites, given they were indexed in time.)

Wiby (Human submission search engine for older webrings, as well as a how-to guide on how to develop your own search engine)

Unicode Text Converter (Easy way to make your text illegible to Google but be warned, it will make screen readers malfuction)

Embed Responsively (Easily convert links and embeds to work responsively within your site - perfect for neocities!)

Generator Land (Generate a list or prompt for just about anything!)

GifCities (Part of the Internet Archive, a special project done as part of the 20th anniversary in an effort to save data from GeoCities. Find a gif for just about anything!)

Animated Images (Another gif repository, though this one is easier to search and includes small animations.)

Gifs-Paradise (Another gif repository. I swear I collect these. Searchable and categorized.)

ASCII Art Archive (Database of ASCII Art, also known as text art)

Christopher Johnson’s ASCII Art Collection (Another, arguably larger, ASCII Art database)

MelonLand (A web project and online arts community that celebrates homepages, virtual worlds, the world-wide-web and the digital lives that all netizins share, here at the dawn of the digital age. See their thoughts and the WEB REVIVAL they’re starting.)

Sadgrl Webrings (Webrings brought to us by Sadgrl.Online - 60+ different ones to be exact) and Sadgrl Links (70+ links just like the ones in this post)

Districts at Neocities (Remember neighborhoods on Geocities? Imagine that but for Neocities!)

Neocities Banners (Banners from all across neocities. Blinkies, banners and more leading all over the web. Mostly 88x31, though there are bigger ones too. Technically counts as a webring.)

Blinkies.cafe (Site for blinkies where you can even make your own! I get most of my blinkies here and off DeviantArt.)

88x31 Collection (Possibly the largest collection I’ve seen for 88x31 buttons)

90’s Cursor Effects (Want a funky cursor for your blog or website? Wanna be able to realtime preview what cursors would look like? Come get some code!)

The Malware Museum (Interact with malware and viruses from the 80s and 90s through emulation! No nasty virus interactions needed :D )

KNOWLEDGE BASES

Library Genesis - LIBGEN (Scientific journals - dedicated to archiving every science journal and their articles in existence.)

Information Mesh (A web platform celebrating the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web that explores social, technical, cultural and legal facts throughout different interactive timelines.)

Web Design Museum (Over 2,000 sorted websites showing web design trends from ‘96 to '06.)

The History of the Web (A twice monthly newsletter about web history, and the incredible people that built it. Goes from 1989 to present.)

Field Guide to Web Accessibility (Principles and applications to every day web scenarios in order to make the web a more friendly place!)

CARI - Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute (an online community and collective association of researchers and designers dedicated to carrying on the important work of categorizing “consumer aesthetics” from the late midcentury, when work on the subject somewhat trailed off, through today.)

The Eye (Archive consisting of 140TB of books, websites, games, software, or anything else you can really think of.)

The Uncensored Library (A project from Reporters without Borders, where they use a loophole using Minecraft to distribute information.)

National Gallery of Art Public Domain (The National Gallery of Art has an open access policy for images of works of art in their permanent collection which the Gallery believes to be in the public domain. Images of these works are available for download free of charge for any use, whether commercial or non-commercial.)

Library of Congress Public Domain (Features items from the Library’s digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The Library believes that this content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use.)

Public Domain Review (an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.)

New York Public Library Public Domain (Our digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: over one million records for you to search, crawl and compute.)

Official articles from NASA (PubSpace is NASA’s designated public access repository. It is a collection of NASA-funded scholarly publications within the STI Repository, aiming to increase access to federally funded research in accordance with NASA Public Access Policy.)

Universal Hint System (Wanna get some vague help for an older video game without getting spoiled? Check out these awesome hints!)

Smithsonian Open Access (Download, share, and reuse millions of 2D and 3D digital items from their 21 museums, 9 research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.)

Instructables (Wanna know how to make just about anything? Check here!)

QZAP Zine Archive (Archive of LGBT+ Zines, began in 2003 with zines dating back all the way to the 1970s. NSFW AT TIMES, BROWSE AT YOUR OWN RISK.)

P!racy Masterpost (Tumblr-based masterpost of game piracy, last updated 2021. A bit old but some of the stuff there is still good. If this link breaks, please contact me.)

P!rated Games Megathread (masterpost created by r/P!ratedGames includes required components as well as anything else you need. NOTE: PLEASE HAVE SOME SORT OF PROTECTION WHEN NAVIGATING THIS SITE)

Geocities Gallery (A website hosting a working archive for many abandoned Geocities Sites.)

Snipplr (Code Snippet repository. Great for coding issues.)

GeoCities (Archived) (Great for searching ancient webrings for gifs and website ideas. Not so great for downloads.)

Freeware Guide (Archived) (The Freeware-Guide died sometime in 2021 [we think March] but it’s still full of VERY valuable information. Links are broken pretty much all the way through, but the names of software as well as what they do can be useful in finding them elsewhere thru some google searching)

Peelopaalu (Where I got a good handful of these links - AND THERE’S MORE!!!)

The Simple Site (More links to so much more cool stuff!)

ART TOOLS

Untitled - Paint (An in-browser version of classic Microsoft Paint!)

KidPix (In-browser version of classic KidPix for the public domain!)

Pixel Logic - A Guide to Pixel Art (Comprehensive guide to making cool art for $10 USD, updated semi-frequently and you get all new versions for free)

SAI - Bootlegged (A version of SAI with a multitude of brushes and textures pre-installed. Quite literally the only thing I use to draw aside from Clip Studio Paint.)

Stripe Generator (Need some easy stripes for an art piece? Can’t be bothered to try and space stripes evenly? This is for you!)

Photopea (Free online photo editor supporting files for Adobe Photoshop, XCF, Sketch App, Adobe XD, and CorelDRAW, as well as many more!)

blender (A FOREVER free and Open Source software for 3D Modeling, full of tutorials and assets. I feel like most people don’t know it’s completely free to play with)

Vertex Meadow (A web-browser tool that renders 2D images as explorable 3D terrain. With it you can create detailed and unusual 3D environments to explore using a 2D paint-program-like interface.)

OpenGameArt (Need art for your game but you’re not an artist? Consider checking here first [or just hire a real artist looking for work on here!])

MUSIC TOOLS AND DISCOVERY

BandLab (Social music platform that enables creators to make music and share their creative process with musicians and fans. Completely free with an option to set up stripe where you get 100% OF PROFITS. Available for apple/android/desktop)

JummBox (Free online beat-maker with a very simple interface that runs on your browser)

Mydora (Mydora is a continuous streaming player that gives you a deep dive into the lost archives of Myspace Music, based on some recovered data called the Dragon Hoard, with some additional metadata (most notably the locations and genres) from a different scan of Myspace conducted back in 2009. Contains 490,000+ songs, only a fraction of what was wiped out.)

Radiooooo (A place where people are able to play hit songs from the decade of their choosing from whatever country they wish.)

WFMU (Independent freeform radio broadcasting. Currently ongoing.)

Gnoosic (A sort-of music search engine that finds you songs/bands based off of your music taste.)

Khinsider (3.1 TB worth of video game soundtracks)

Radio.garden (Listen to thousands of radio stations all around the world.)

FUN STUFF

FrogLand (The purpose of Frogland is to show that the Internet can indeed provide a wealth of useful information and still be fun. Mainly, this site is dedicated to the many teachers out there who are finding new uses for the Internet as a tool for educating youngsters. Hopefully, it will inspire some young minds to find new interest in herpetology, biology, and environmental issues…not to mention providing some inspiration for young future computer “wizzes”! No longer active but still useful.)

Windows 98 icon Viewer (Want clear jpgs of all the Windows 98 symbols and icons? They’re all here!)

GifyPet (Create your own embeded pet that people can play with and feed when they visit your page! See my version HERE [only works on desktop tho])

Ultimate Mushroom (Like the idea of picking mushrooms in your area but no idea what to look for? Check out this info hub!)

Gif Gallery (Another gif repositiory, only sorted by being numbered 1-100,000. Fun and silly, not so much useful unless you’re looking for random gifs. Part of the MelonLand Webring)

Interesting DOS Programs (A host of DOS programming, guides and links.)

Internet Archive: MS-DOS Games (8,000 games right in your web browser! Your browser can play DOOM!)

Tiled Backgrounds (Need some small jpegs for easy website bg tiling? Browse this collection sorted by color.)

cOOl & EMO tEXt cOnVERTer xXX (Flashing warning. Wanna type like you’re in the 2000s? Need a funny Green Day lyric as a caption? This is probably the best place for you.)

0x40 (Flashing Warning. Anime images synced with music. Fun for parties, lol)

WebGL Fluid Simulation (In browser fluid simulator, great for art backgrounds and desktop wallpapers.)

Flashpoint (The biggest collection of preserved Flash Games and Animations)

NCase (Free games and open source projects from Nicky [THESE ARE REALLY COOL AND FUN, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND])

Your World of Text (A huge interactive text doc that anyone can add to anonymously.)

Text To Speech (TTS in more than 30 languages and over 180 voices.)

ASCII Art Generator (Make ASCII Art from any image.)

Petit Tube (Random Youtube videos with less than 10 views)

Noclip Website (Noclip around various video game maps in your browser!)

Monster Mash (Create and animate some monsters in browser! You can also download their files.)

lysershine:

I don’t have tiktok so I had to find this like a mole digging for worms and nothing could have prepared me for the actual video itself

nando161mando:

tmmyhug:

tmmyhug:

when i was in middle school Rude by bruno mars came on the radio in the car with my mom and at the chorus it goes “why you gotta be so rude, don’t you know i’m human too, i’m gonna marry ya anyway” and my mom now had her Disapproving Aura on and sighed and said. see this is why [my divorced uncle] married [his mean ex-wife]. what a sad way of loving. and 13yo me was like Oh Damn That Deep. and mentally filed away the lesson Popular Music Promotes Toxic Behavior Therefore Don’t Marry Someone Who’s Mean To You. and ever since then rude by bruno mars has made me just a little bit sad. cut to 5+ years later the song is no longer popular. i happen to hear it over the tinny speakers in a random fast food place. all at once i realize the lyrics are not, in fact, about marrying a girl despite her hating you (gonna marry ya anyway), but marrying a girl despite her parents hating you (gonna marry her anyway). 13yo me and my mom misheard the same lyric and never paid attention to the rest of the song. i am flabbergasted. one of the pillars of my childhood development has just crumbled in a Subway. i am frantically realigning my entire internal ethics system. the cashier still wants to know if i’m getting a cookie. nothing is real

my world is crumbling around me

trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter:

art-tnt:

ALT

🎶You deserve to get paid! Let them know that!🎵

pinkest-nekomata:

drtanner:

warplanerubdown:

serfuzzypushover:

Trying

I love this video so much. This cat, trying so hard to sip like a people. Desperate to sip like a people. Objectively incapable of sipping like a people.

This video contains more insight into how cats form a concept of humans than decades of lab research. A lot of cats are idiots, of course, but this one at least has made the connection that the Humans use the Front Paws for sippies.

And he has also identified the humans as One of Us because he’s actually taken the time to attempt to learn by example instead of the naive cat strat of: stick paw in or stick face in.

Anytime somebody tells you cats can’t really bond with humans (they just want food!), produce this video as evidence. Trusting the example of another species is just a beautiful, wonderful phenomenon. This is not classic conditioning.

Anyway, I love cats.

pinkest-nekomata:

drtanner:

warplanerubdown:

serfuzzypushover:

Trying

I love this video so much. This cat, trying so hard to sip like a people. Desperate to sip like a people. Objectively incapable of sipping like a people.

This video contains more insight into how cats form a concept of humans than decades of lab research. A lot of cats are idiots, of course, but this one at least has made the connection that the Humans use the Front Paws for sippies.

And he has also identified the humans as One of Us because he’s actually taken the time to attempt to learn by example instead of the naive cat strat of: stick paw in or stick face in.

Anytime somebody tells you cats can’t really bond with humans (they just want food!), produce this video as evidence. Trusting the example of another species is just a beautiful, wonderful phenomenon. This is not classic conditioning.

Anyway, I love cats.

disgustinggf:

clawing at u for attention like a needy little cat

longshrimp:

posttexasstressdisorder:

bouncinghedgehog-deactivated202:

Prev. Prev don’t leave this in tags the people should know

accessible-tumbling:

sinistresabreur-deactivated2024:

purple-ladys-stuff:

Legendary stuff right here

ID: Stuff like this is why I work events like Ren Faires and Pirate invasions.

Attached is a screenshot of a discord chat: username En Stor Rosa Dildo says:

Once at a medieval fair a kid walked walked up to me when I was in kit and asked if there were dragons and if they would eat him

So I bent down and told him that dragons do exist, and that because we were knights it was our mission to hunt and fight them and if he wanted I could dub him a Knight so that he could fight them and not be scared anymore

He got so happy he almost started to cry when I made him recite an improvised oath about fighting evil and then rise a knight

Saw them again the next day and he was running around with a helmet, Cape and shit, and his mom came up and gave me a hug and said the kid had suffered from severe night terrors for a while and that night he had slept soundly for the first time in a long time and when he woke up he told her that the monsters came again but he fought them off because he was not afraid anymore because he was a Knight now

end ID.

catboybreeder:

palmer:

Gay people I summon thee

Oh boy, I sure do love being gay! I just hope no one summons m-

catboybreeder:

palmer:

Gay people I summon thee

Oh boy, I sure do love being gay! I just hope no one summons m-

jaydove-writes:

gumy-shark:

gumy-shark:

i’m going to [remembers i’m dr doofenschmirtz] take over the entire tri state area

well you see perry the platypus. as a transgender lawn gnome ocelot child my parents always said my brother’s posts had 10k notes to them, while mine were always zero note flops. so i made the tumblrinator to take over the entire tri state area!

jhsdfdignfjgkdfhijhgvcfkbgndfjghihkxdjhgjhxfyh

blueengland:

let’s play with blungo. party with timble. chatting with jorbo

rabbiteclair:

i get into a horrific car accident while carrying a crock pot full of meatballs in the passenger seat. at the hospital, the surgeons cannot sort out which chunks of meat are me and which are not, so I end up with several meatballs sewn into my guts. despite this I make a full recovery, and they elect not to remove the meatballs because quote ‘they seem comfy in there.’ i go on the talk show circuit and become moderately famous as The Meatballs Woman. when i die i am buried under a gravestone with meatballs carved on it. in the year 2438, a grad student from what is now Cambodia who is studying the late pre-collapse American Empire writes her thesis on this, concluding that I probably never existed and was a conflation of several real stories and urban legends. years later, a pop-history book wildly misinterprets this and several other things, arguing for the existence of a historic American religious pantheon including figures like The Meatballs Woman, Florida Man, Emperor Norton, etc. this book sells bizarrely well and inspires a new neo-pagan movement, which in turn leads to a weird shipping community, resulting in a small but vibrant scene of ABO fics featuring me and MrBeast (who in this context has been interpreted as a god of excess and trickery)

this chilling scenario is only one of the multiple reasons I am going to attempt to not crash my car today

rabbiteclair:

i get into a horrific car accident while carrying a crock pot full of meatballs in the passenger seat. at the hospital, the surgeons cannot sort out which chunks of meat are me and which are not, so I end up with several meatballs sewn into my guts. despite this I make a full recovery, and they elect not to remove the meatballs because quote ‘they seem comfy in there.’ i go on the talk show circuit and become moderately famous as The Meatballs Woman. when i die i am buried under a gravestone with meatballs carved on it. in the year 2438, a grad student from what is now Cambodia who is studying the late pre-collapse American Empire writes her thesis on this, concluding that I probably never existed and was a conflation of several real stories and urban legends. years later, a pop-history book wildly misinterprets this and several other things, arguing for the existence of a historic American religious pantheon including figures like The Meatballs Woman, Florida Man, Emperor Norton, etc. this book sells bizarrely well and inspires a new neo-pagan movement, which in turn leads to a weird shipping community, resulting in a small but vibrant scene of ABO fics featuring me and MrBeast (who in this context has been interpreted as a god of excess and trickery)

this chilling scenario is only one of the multiple reasons I am going to attempt to not crash my car today

rabbiteclair:

i get into a horrific car accident while carrying a crock pot full of meatballs in the passenger seat. at the hospital, the surgeons cannot sort out which chunks of meat are me and which are not, so I end up with several meatballs sewn into my guts. despite this I make a full recovery, and they elect not to remove the meatballs because quote ‘they seem comfy in there.’ i go on the talk show circuit and become moderately famous as The Meatballs Woman. when i die i am buried under a gravestone with meatballs carved on it. in the year 2438, a grad student from what is now Cambodia who is studying the late pre-collapse American Empire writes her thesis on this, concluding that I probably never existed and was a conflation of several real stories and urban legends. years later, a pop-history book wildly misinterprets this and several other things, arguing for the existence of a historic American religious pantheon including figures like The Meatballs Woman, Florida Man, Emperor Norton, etc. this book sells bizarrely well and inspires a new neo-pagan movement, which in turn leads to a weird shipping community, resulting in a small but vibrant scene of ABO fics featuring me and MrBeast (who in this context has been interpreted as a god of excess and trickery)

this chilling scenario is only one of the multiple reasons I am going to attempt to not crash my car today

rabbiteclair:

i get into a horrific car accident while carrying a crock pot full of meatballs in the passenger seat. at the hospital, the surgeons cannot sort out which chunks of meat are me and which are not, so I end up with several meatballs sewn into my guts. despite this I make a full recovery, and they elect not to remove the meatballs because quote ‘they seem comfy in there.’ i go on the talk show circuit and become moderately famous as The Meatballs Woman. when i die i am buried under a gravestone with meatballs carved on it. in the year 2438, a grad student from what is now Cambodia who is studying the late pre-collapse American Empire writes her thesis on this, concluding that I probably never existed and was a conflation of several real stories and urban legends. years later, a pop-history book wildly misinterprets this and several other things, arguing for the existence of a historic American religious pantheon including figures like The Meatballs Woman, Florida Man, Emperor Norton, etc. this book sells bizarrely well and inspires a new neo-pagan movement, which in turn leads to a weird shipping community, resulting in a small but vibrant scene of ABO fics featuring me and MrBeast (who in this context has been interpreted as a god of excess and trickery)

this chilling scenario is only one of the multiple reasons I am going to attempt to not crash my car today

syrupsyche:

quillsand:

quillsand:

picketing terf conferences is OUT, releasing 6000 live crickets into the audience of a terf conference and watching chaos erupt as everyone scrambles to evacuate is IN

it occurs to me that this sounds like a shitpost if you don’t have the context that this is a real thing that actually happened in the uk yesterday

Teenage trans activists release 6,000 crickets on transphobic LGB Alliance conference | Trans Kids Deserve Better

Truly iconic; thank you for sharing this, and for the tags about their donation page!! Here is the link for better access; I’ll return to it soon once I’m able to donate :D

Help raise £1000 to support the crick-kids

funnelcloudd:

Not to sound like a fuckin hippie but please for the love of god start noticing and appreciating the natural world around you. You don’t have to go hike the entire Appalachian trail or anything and I get that not everyone has access to the outdoors for various reasons, but just fucking … look around you when you’re outside. Notice the sky and the sun and the birds and creatures. Start caring about them. I’m begging you.

butchlinkle:

esthermika:

out of curiosity i googled if it really does suppress disgust, and the answer was “sexual arousal only reduced sexual disgust but increased pathogen disgust” so no, this would actually make cleaning up mouldy food even worse. and pavlov you into being horny for mouldy food

lynayru:

In case any of you here also use X/Twitter.

mallgothed:

you guys are the real heroes

official-dandelion-posts:

a-dauntless-daffodil:

fair-itself:

artndetails:

pink moon.

I feel like this is the kind of thing you only reblog if you have an aesthetic blog, which I do not, but goddammit I just love it when the moon lines up with stuff

dandelion sun~

Official dandelion post

totally-ironland:

coldbrew-slut:

Semi finals

The Count from Sesame Street

Vs

Queen Akasha from Queen of the Damned, played by Aaliyah

Who is the hottest vampire?

The Count

Queen Akasha

See Results

this is rigged

perniciousprophet:

i-gustavvv:

Me: “man, I hate that all my plant’s leaves have holes in them. What could be causing this?”

The pestiferous caterpillar:

marxalittle:

spaceshipsandpurpledrank:

Hoooooooooooooo shit that railslide??? Up???????

batterysystem:

anoxthon:

@reveriespiral

ryan-sometimes:

Maybe it’s just the introvert in me talking, but if I were living with a romantic partner, I would actually love for us to have separate bedrooms. I think it’d work best for me to have our own spaces to retreat to and be alone when we needed it (I certainly need it on a daily basis), and also so our sleep habits and schedules don’t bother the other. I have terrible sleep and if I slept with someone else every night I’d hate to drag them into my sleep problems too. Besides, that way we can have sleepovers with each other when we want to, and it’ll make those nights we do sleep together even more special.

wahbegan:

I’m so sorry, i know this isn’t funny but on the other hand it’s so fucking funny rhgiuherg

dduane:

wilwheaton:

seriouslydidijustdothat:

martian-martian-martian:

do-you-have-a-flag:

nonbinarybriarmoss:

ok excuse me but w h a t

we love to see it

for context for those unaware of why this is particularly funny

A Deep Dive Into the Anne Rice Fanfiction Debacle

It’s actually not AS funny as it seems: It’s crazier.

For those who have actually played the game, theres a huge fine print thing you have to sign, and if you read through it, it actually says that everything posted on the site is immediately released by the creator as the property of AMC, which, insanely, means if they use the entire plot of your stupid fanfic game as part of the show, they don’t need to credit you ever.

It’s actually a genius way to try and DISCOURAGE independent fanfic, replacing it with a place where the corporation owns and censors everything you make without credit.

If you post something in a normal fanfic, there is some legal precedent for your ownership if your work is plagiarized by the canon production, but the app is one step ahead.

Adding important tags

from @martian-martian-martian

#reminder to never write fic through corportate-owned methods#not apps#not contests (looking at you disney)#not games or online journals or any place where your rights aren’t being visibly and viciously protected#this includes wattpad with last year’s(?) deal with paramount#basically the only safe place now is ao3

and more from @s-cullayy

#yeah as soon as i saw this i was like oh so they’re just trying to get free content from people#that they don’t have to credit#folks this is what ao3 is for#don’t do the writers rooms job for them if you’re not getting paid

A quick note to whomever at corporate approved this plan to exploit not just FanFic writers, but these particular fanfic writers: fuuuuuuuuuuuucccck yyyyooooouuuuuuuuuuu.

A quick note to FanFic writers: I love you. Keep doing what makes you happy.

What he said. :) (And it’s always a good idea to take a careful look at this history of this particular franchise…)