“The story tells you what happens” acceptable, expected, standard fare.
“They story never tells you what happens but the implications are there” losing my mind, chewing the drywall, punching patrons on the bus, throwing myself in the river
If you do this though people will message you for clarifications until the end of time
In fairness they will also do this about things that are perfectly clear in the text
Yeah it’s obvious that I’m treated differently than my friends who are cis men . When we go out to meet people guys are like HEY MANNN and DUDE and BRO to my friends and then I enter and they’re like ✨aww look a sweet little innocent BOY I pinch his cheeks a cute wittle BOY❤️✨ like SUDDENLY the voice changed that they talk to me in??? and it’s really annoying but my cis men friends are fucking awesome to me and they will call it out if they see me being treated like that LOL I am one of the guys and I love my cis friends too are great allies and I love them for sticking up for me like holy shit I’m lucky oh my god.
I was just telling my coworkers today about how part of the official Passover cedar is literally summoning an ancient ghost to get drunk with you and I didn’t quite realize how wild Judaism is until I had to explain that
Objection: Elijah never died, so whatever he is, it isn’t a ghost.
look i googled “passover elijah” and this is the first image result
if it looks like a ghost and quacks like a ghost it’s a fuckin g ghost
That’s my grandpa
Elijah Never Died He Tucked His Arms And Legs Into His Belley. Curled Up Into A Ball. And He Just Rolled Away.
We have no conclusive proof that Elijah wasn’t always eight feet tall and translucent.
Hot dog water - there’s a Tumblr post out there I’ve seen saying hot dog water is the opposite of holy water, due to the fact that a single drop of it will contaminate what it touches. I assume this was partly inspired by this allusion but who knows for sure.
Also the the idea of holy water as inhuman and cleaning vs hot dog water as the remains of feeding someone - often a child - and entirely human. It may be dirty and I do not want it on me but God hot dog water has some memories. You will not wash away my sins. They’re mine. Also, anyone can make hot dog water but holy water is refined, restricted (yes anyone can make it in an emergency but lay people are restricted from it)
“you and I both know”
Unlike baptism for babies, this one is done between two people who are both aware of what is happening. The one receiving the baptism gives the orders about what they want to happen. The giver and receiver are portrayed as equals. They are equally aware of their humanity.
“the holy stuff won’t take”
Ooof heartbreaking, amazing line. Raises so many questions. What does it mean when the water “takes”? What has the receiver done that makes them unfit for holy water? Or, what has the holy water done that makes it to weak to help, to be a part of your life?
The poem as a whole - I love the lack of capitalization. It adds a sort of intimacy to the poem, and the statement from the speaker. The high words “baptise” and “holy” being offset by “take” and “hot dog”. Also “hot dog water” vs “holy stuff.” The cadence! I would lick it.
I love the serious analysis, and I think I find it persuasive.
This also sheds a lot of light on some plot points in Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated.
Not to turn this into another house full of chintz, but I'mma fuck this poem on the floor.
Meter
There are two readings of the poem’s meter that I immediately identify, the first is how I’d want to read it, and the second is how a normal person would probably read it, but both make the same point.
In my interpretation (left), the first line is four wholely irregular feet: an iamb into a dibrach into two trochees; The second line is two trouches into a hanging stressed syllable; And the third line is three iambs.
In the more normal interpretation(right), the first line and second line are six trochees all together plus that hanging syllable in ‘knowing’ which transitions the poem to iambic trimeter.
And look at the interesting result of that laid bare:
In English poetry there’s a tradition, all other things being equal, that iambs are considered the sophisticated foot with trochees often being contrasted as the vulgar or common foot.
The vulgar in specificity “hot dog water” is put in trochee, while the respectably vague “the holy stuff” is afforded iambs. Without the poet having thought of the stress things the pattern actively, this incapulation of the English poetic tradition is astounding. Especially when you consider the
Chiasmus
Chiasmus is a figure of rhetorical construction, in which two pairs of ideas are laid across each other, A B B A. It’s one of the more popular figures of rhetoric and if you’re looking for it you’ll see it everywhere.
In the most literal sense, it’s about repetition; but, you can apply it more liberally to ideas, thoughts, or in this case, parts of speech:
The nouns and verb pairs in the first and third lines crossover each other. They are in chiasmus. Structurally, the inversion makes the poem feel more solid, while still furthering emphasizing the contrast between the idea of hot dog water and the holy stuff.
Opening with a command and closing with a result.
as soon as I find the perfect fabric this bitch is getting cross stitched right on it
You cannot live alone on the fantasies you feed to your mind, eventually you have to touch your life for real, assess and analyze your habits, understand your character, try not to hate yourself for your character as it was shaped when you were very young by circumstances outside of you, and begin learning how to cope with your character, how to build habits that work for you, finish small projects, finish big projects, expose yourself to more uncomfortable situations, assess why you want to leave that friendship before you leave it, raise your anxiety levels on purpose, so that you can grow, raise your work load on purpose, so that you can grow, so that you can build resilience, so that your life expands, and can be experienced by you in full and in reality
when artist consistently draws the same pattern of things for a long time like… Puppies or something.. and then gets interested in skeletons and starts consistently drawing skeletons….
Thats when a lot of people start to really be mean or show entitlement it’s clear they view artists as “art dispenser” and not and actual person with a consciousness that flows like a river. It’s like they think the art machine is broken and it used to give me puppy art but it’s broken now and I get skeleton art so someone should fix it ?
People go through phases of things they like sometimes people really are into something for years and then they’re into something else for years and then they go back to the old thing for a week and then they do something else again
Artists aren’t brands they aren’t corporations you aren’t consuming them … They’re human people and they’re trying to connect or get thoughts out or any number of reasons to create and share things and a lot of artists aren’t even interested in making money off it..
when artist consistently draws the same pattern of things for a long time like… Puppies or something.. and then gets interested in skeletons and starts consistently drawing skeletons….
Thats when a lot of people start to really be mean or show entitlement it’s clear they view artists as “art dispenser” and not and actual person with a consciousness that flows like a river. It’s like they think the art machine is broken and it used to give me puppy art but it’s broken now and I get skeleton art so someone should fix it ?
People go through phases of things they like sometimes people really are into something for years and then they’re into something else for years and then they go back to the old thing for a week and then they do something else again
Artists aren’t brands they aren’t corporations you aren’t consuming them … They’re human people and they’re trying to connect or get thoughts out or any number of reasons to create and share things and a lot of artists aren’t even interested in making money off it..
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.” -Walt Whitman
This has 200k notes but none of you know the truth of the I Hate Rubber Boots Guy. This man lives in my city. He wears this outfit constantly. The Weird Toronto photo group has a ban on posting him because he’s always like this. He has done this for years. Every so often he buys a taller pair of rubber boots.
Rebloging with my own previous tags above again because i forgot to mention some stuff
Genuinely some of the kindest compliments I’ve ever received on a piece of my art; I had to reblog so I could thank you!!!! Means more than I can say when people type up whole paragraphs abt something I created. I’m very happy it means something to you. Thought I’d answer your question in the meantime: this was done on a 12x24 canvas, if I recall correctly! So, decently sized, but not too huge (cannot imagine the hell that would be). I spent roughly 2 weeks nonstop working on this I’d say? Put some major crunch time in due to the exhibition it was for being way closer than initially anticipated lol. And I did have to custom color mix all my colors ^^;; definitely took a huge chunk of my time…. but not quite as much as me having to redo a lot of my line art that kept getting painted over haha. Fun fact for you! The blue background is actually just the initial wash i had planned to put over everything! I planned to go back over it fully, and thicken it, but winded up liking the wash look too much so I kept it. Thank you again for being so nice
a few years back my car insurance company offered me a discount if i stuck a dongle in my car that would tell them how i drive (specifically reporting hard accelerations and stops), with a base discount of 10% even if i drive like a madman up to 40%ish if i drive like a grandma. and of course naturally my first thought was “huh i bet i could make something running off an Arduino that filters hard brakes and accelerations out of the incoming data stream to get that 40% discount” and i got as far as looking up OBD2 protocols before realizing that that would just be insurance fraud. yes im an engineer raised by two engineers how could you tell
you could also try driving safer. that’s a better way to do that
honestly it’s heartbreaking to see more and more people dismiss all the Palestinian GFMs on Tumblr as scams, no matter how many people are working tirelessly to make sure real people get direct aid. like literally nobody is denying there is a scambot problem. people are trying to debunk the scambots, but people will still be like “oh i didn’t say you shouldn’t donate to Palestine. I just said I block and report literally everything I get without looking at it anymore and outright said multiple times that you really can’t trust the vetters either.” and then when they get called on this because it is frankly a bad take, they get patted on the back by the fucking Tumblr hug circle of utterly spineless uwu white liberals who honestly just didn’t want to have to feel a negative emotion about themselves like “oh you’re so brave for saying this. having to think about bad things happening to other people was practically an assault on my mental health. thank you for validating that I’m the real victim here.”
it’s been said before and it will be said again but i’m begging you all nicely to restrain yourselves from being so casually aggressive and rude and obnoxious in the tags & reblogs of a complete stranger’s posts. no one wants to know that you hate [tv show that op giffed]. no one wants to know that you hate [character that op drew]. no one wants to hear you being ugly and negative for no reason. say what you want to say in your own post. don’t hit the reblog button. blacklist relevant tags. unfollow or block relevant accounts. log out. shut down. get help.
I love getting unaccompanied minors (kids flying alone) who so clearly just. Don’t want to be here lol. Sometimes I get to know a little of their story, like their parents are divorced, or a family member died and they’re heading to the funeral, but usually they just don’t want to talk about it and that’s fine. But I always treat the flight like it’s a challenge to make them smile. I offer them snacks and soda but that’s never enough, that’s whatever, they could get those from an airport vending machine. Chump change. So then I tell the worst jokes. Just the most embarrassing, kindergarten teacher, annoying dad jokes you can think of. And those always get a groan, or a “Seriously??” And that’s my in! Now I can say “Why, what’s your idea of a good joke? No, come on hotshot, make your best joke, let’s see it.” And they hem and they haw but of course they eventually tell me their very best joke because kids are little competitive comedy goldmines. And it’s always super funny, so I laugh, and that’s where they slip up. Because you know what you almost always do when your joke successfully makes someone laugh? You smile. And I’m like. Gotcha. Rookie move. Now you’re going to end up having a good time in spite of yourself. I win.
Did this with an 11yo u.m. today and he said “What did the ghost say to the other ghost?” And I said “What?” “Nothing. Ghosts aren’t real.”
I’m literally a flight attendant, offering snacks and drinks is my job
and, if you can’t get toasted pearl Couscous handpicked and blessed by a Moroccan shaman on the first tuesday of the winter harvest for your Sautéed Escarole then store bought is fine
There’s no one’s wisdom that’s less valuable than this
What source of passive income allows him to just print money like this?
An ‘unlimited’ annual pass with free parking is $1600/year (up from $1400 when he completed his record 2012-2020). And yeah, that’s over $116 a month and not how I’d spend my money but it’s not obscene.
Plus, he’s an older dude with free time every day. DL is a safe venue to walk around and kill time if all you have is time to kill, and from the article it seems he’s built quite the social network of Disney regulars & cast members. So good for him.
The Disney corporation hates people like him, btw.
Disney considers AP holders parasites, clogging the parks, taking up space that could be better utilized by Big Spending out-of-town visitors. Which is why the price for an AP has gone up so dramatically ALONG WITH a zillion new restrictions like blackout days + reservation requirements.
Up until 2013 or so it was common for local families to buy their kids Annual Passes then drop them off at the park every day during summer as cheap childcare. Seriously, $100/month is a bargain.
thats just the admission and parking though, the park tends to be pretty strict on how much food and drink you can bring in and none of the options inside are cheap, even with the like 10% discount before tax and tips the annual pass holder gets.
You’re absolutely right!
But AP holders usually don’t buy food & drink inside the parks… unless you’re DisneyFoodBlog or Jenny Nicholson. Another reason Disney hates on passholders.
Most AP holders hit one of the kazillion affordable restaurants outside the park on their way in or out, then carry a water bottle once inside to stay hydrated. And most visits aren’t the all-day-long thing out of towners do; AP folk will kill an hour or two, ride Indiana Jones or the Matterhorn then leave.
The guy in the article appears to have visited once a day just to walk a lap or two for exercise. He wasn’t staying all day, dealing with hotel room reservations, rental car, airline tickets, souvenirs, or any of the expenses a tourist would have.
The real insanity is how the US is so lacking in safe public third places that for some people, an annual pass to Disney is their best shot at having a walkable outdoor space and some semblance of community.
and, if you can’t get toasted pearl Couscous handpicked and blessed by a Moroccan shaman on the first tuesday of the winter harvest for your Sautéed Escarole then store bought is fine
Men are just as human as women, they have just as much negative internal dialog as we do, and they need people to be strong for them sometimes. Stop teaching boys they have to bottle up their emotions, that they are weak if they cry, and that they have to always be strong for everyone else. Teach them it’s ok to express their feelings and tell others what their emotional needs are! I lost my father this way. I’d give anything to go back and let Daddy know it’s ok to not always be the strong one and that just because he couldn’t physically do what he did before didn’t mean he didn’t have monumental value to us and value just being in this world!
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