Not to kill your fun or anything my dude but I noticed you reblogged a picture of some place in Russia for the aesthetic and I just.... Do you even know what goes on in Russia? I try to stay away from reblogging anything about it and you should too....
some people born hundreds of years after this thing was built suck shit so this building is now cancelled
MOSCOW? do you know who LIVES in Moscow?? like a lot of people actually, but also some bad people so NO PICTURES OF MOSCOW
COOL BUT CANCELLED. What happens in that building?? CORRUPTION probably, I don’t know, I didn’t look up what it was, but I know it’s in RUSSIA and we all know what HAPPENS IN RUSSIA
this SERENE yet ALIEN LANDSCAPE has been declared PROBLEMATIC
oh, do you like this?? do you find it…. ….””aesthetic””??? apparently you don’t know that Faberge eggs were popularized by Tsar Alexander III, who REVERSED MANY OF THE LIBERAL REFORMS OF HIS FATHER and can eat shit in general. that’s right Russia, I’m pulling receipts from 1885.
They already tried this line with “defund the police:” it’s a vague demand! People don’t know what it means! It’s actually very specific and concrete, and it means exactly what it says, which is why it’s “highly charged.” That’s how demands work!
The only reason it’s “vague” is because people pretend the demand is hyperbolic so they don’t have to accept it. We say “ceasefire” and they say “obviously we can’t cease fire, you must be asking for something else”
“the magnus archives sounds cool! what are the content warnings?”
kidnapping stalking insanity sleepwalking cannibalism and teeth, gaslighting gun violence pipe murder and silence and medical trauma and meat. bugs in your body and poisoned black coffee and self-mutilation and lies, police brutality breaks from reality suicide spiders and eyes. paaaaaranoia degloving the uncanny valley and running like prey to survive, agonies torture and drowning and falling and then being buried alive.
Hmm. So over 90% of charges laid against Black Lives Matter protestors were dropped b/c the kkkops failed to produce any evidence to back up the charges.
Do the math here & you’ll see that maybe half of those arrests happened at #BLM protests with no property damage or injuries reported. So why were protestors arrested?
Turns out for no reason that kkkops could produce any evidence to back up. More than 90% of the time.
The KKK hasn’t gone anywhere… they just traded white sheets & hoods for blue uniforms & badges.
Kal El…. is literally Hebrew. It means Voice of God. He’s a Jewish illegal immigrant. For a reason. He was written in the 30s.
I mean Superman was literally written as an allegory for first generation American Jews dealing with the struggle of assimilation vs maintaining traditional culture. The birth of Superman as a comic was essentially Jewish Immigrant history.
Not all heroes wear capes, but a hell of a lot of supervillains hire uniformed thugs to terrorize innocent civilians.
written by Jeff Loveness art by Tom Grummett & Cam Smith
I’ve gotta reblog this again because it’s honestly fantastic “he could be anyone and he chooses to be kind” shows such an amazing understanding of Superman as a character, who I think a lot of people who don’t understand him really struggle to write, Jeff Loveness continues to kill it, inhumans spiderman special, groot, he’s written so little and yet I remember like every moment, I really really hope he gets a series soon he more than deserves it
i love how you guys talk shit about cartoon style and animation but what the fuck is with this phineas and ferb obsession, The Ugliest Childrens Show Ever Animated.
Fun fact: In one interview the creators mentioned that one reason everyone’s heads are shaped like really recognizable shapes (Candace is the letter p, Phineas is obviously just a triangle) is so its way easier for younger kids to draw them. Not being able to to draw your favorite characters when you’re little can be really frustrating and kind of put you off drawing all together.
I got to speak with the creators in their studio years ago when P&F was still being created and they said at dinner one night they challenged themselves to design a character with a triangle shaped head. Right there on the paper tablecloth (the kind restaurants provide with crayons for kids to draw on), they drew the very first Phineas, then realized he needed acompanion, and thus with a rectangle, they drew the first Ferb.
Dan & Swampy are incredibly kind men who wanted to create a show that was easy for kids to recognize and participate in, while having fun antics for anyone of all ages.
It’s not even that ugly, it’s got funny shapes sure, but the colors and character designs are bright and fantastically fun, and the show’s writing was completely clever.
I detailed in a long post once how they left most of the dialogue up to the animators: they had a basic outline of how each episode would go, and as the animators would draw it out (they didn’t use puppets folks, they used cintiq tablets and drew everything, I saw it first-hand) and as they were drawing they’d think “what would this character be saying while making this gesture?” and that’s how the dialogue was created. The animators also worked in pairs, so they always had a companion to talk to, work with, and help with dialogue as they went. This is how most of the jokes were created, and as they had multiple animator teams, they were able to keep jokes and dialogue very fresh so the show never stagnated from using only the same couple of writers like most shows do.
For the songs Dan & Swampy themselves would pull a guitar off wall, go into the meeting room and gather anyone around, and just come up with songs on the spot right there. They would sit for a couple of hours messing around gathering input from anyone and everyone. This kept the songs fun and fresh and also kept them from stagnating or becoming boring.
Phineas and Ferb was made in a very rewarding, fun environment. Everyone who worked in the studio seemed very happy, and they loved having visitors and getting to show off and explain every aspect of the show. Everyone was kind and fun and just loved their job. I genuinely can’t accept seeing anyone saying negative things about a show that was intrinsically meant to be gratifying, fun, and wonderful for kids and adults of all ages, and stuck to that mindset throughout its entire creation process.
Edit: I forgot to add one of my favorite parts! The creators knew their animators so well that they could tell who designed which episode! To each person watching, it’s difficult to tell differences in style since it’s meant to all look the same, but the creators looked at some clips in front of us and guessed which animator pair did the clips and then they double-checked it and were correct, pointing out extremely minute details that were recognizable trademarks for each team. Clearly they had a very kind and caring and friendly environment!
gen z: *blurry stock photo of lemons with the caption “lemn”*
Here have this
yup.
Lemon/lemoff erasure
i need to save “lemn’t”
(short) story time
so we’re reading shakespeare in english class rn, and at some point the class went off on a tangent about comedy
my teacher said something like “comedy is always at the expense of someone else, it just depends on how overt it is”
i, of course, disagreed, and spent like 5 minutes explaining the concept of modern surreal/absurd humor while trying not to die laughing when i described the “me when lemon” meme
you know
[transcript: a stock photo of a man holding a flashlight on a gradiented background of white to yellow. the flashlight’s beam is shining at a floating lemon, and the word “lemon” is written next to it in red text. a caption at the top says “when lemon”. end transcript]
this one
my teacher didn’t find it funny at all
this was saved to my computer and i found it when i searched lemon
now you all have to deal with it
this was saved to my
computer and i found it
when i searched lemon
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
They know what they’re doing. The people they’re signaling to know what they’re doing. Those of us trained in spotting this stuff for our own safety know what they’re doing.
It’s time that everyone else stops giving them the benefit of the doubt
Since watering means giving something water but milking means extracting milk from something that must means that water’s default is to give but milk’s default is to take. So water must be inherently kind while milk is cruel
men in greek mythology? scoundrels. just terrible. woeful social skills. murderers. kidnappers. violent misogynists. most of them… never described as handsome so we have to assume they were ugly.
narcissus? unproblematic. beacon of transformative self love. king of the swerve. gay icon. couldn’t recognize his reflection but neither can my dog, we aren’t holding that against him.
Narcissus wrote this
I refuse to believe Narcissus could read.
i’ve been thinking about this response for the better part of 2 hours and it hasn’t gotten less hysterically funny to me
puppy play but halfway thru i suddenly start barking and run off into the woods faster than u can keep up with. u quickly lose sight of me. u call out my name and whistle to no response. u walk slowly in hopes of hearing where i may be but its dead quite. my barking stopped some distance away. it was getting dark when i ran off but now its pitch black. against ur better judgment u leave in hopes that ill come back of my own accord. 3 days later uve given up hope. ur printing out lost dog posters when u hear scratching at the door. u open it to see me. u lunge forward and hug me so excited i came back. immediately upon being back u feel like somethings off. i look and sound just like me. but i walk around the house like i hadnt been there. i refuse to eat anything even treats. and when u look at me u get the sinking feeling these are different eyes staring back at u. almost as if theyre seeing more than usual. u initially write it off as just being due to stress of being in the woods alone for a few days. but one day in the middle of the night u hear a scratching. u think its me but im asleep on the floor by ur bed. u walk out into the hallway. u follow the noise to the front door. under the sound of scratching is whining. my whining. u swing open the door to a barrage of licks and headbutts. the joy u get from seeing me immediately sinks into a gutteral fear as u realize the dog that came back. the dog uve spent a week sleeping next to. was not me. but some kind of imitation. i start snarling. then whimpering. u dont need to turn around to know what was standing behind u. u pick me up and run as fast as u can. stomping footsteps way too close behind u. and then. nothing. u turn around just in time to see the thing that was once imitating ur dog lurch into the woods. it lets out one final bark in my voice. then disappears into the trees. and then we like. have sex or something
and, at 80 feet and 3 inches, is tied with another glitch Pokemon for tallest of all Pokemon.
When encountered, she begins to play an endless glitchy song, which continues until the player resets the game (you can hear it here, but don’t listen with headphones because it includes high-pitched noises)
I’m glad there is a lesbian pokemon glitch who only wants to sing to us forever
If you read this, please take a moment to appreciate the fact that breaking this game in a very specific manner causes you to encounter an 80-foot spire of crimson light that draws you into a pocket of frozen time and surrounds you with eerie music for eternity
top tier character-building device in pokemon games is when a seemingly antagonistic character has a golbat on their team and then later has it evolved into a crobat, which requires significant friendship, thus signalling that the character was always a kind person inside (plumeria), is growing past their issues and learning to be kinder (silver), may hold a spark of kindness that undermines their cold and calculating image (cyrus), etc etc
Meanwhile, Ghetsis—who is an antagonist who pretends to be an advocate for Pokemon rights—faces off against you with an under-leveled Hydreigon, which in the canon lore of the series only happens when someone forces evolution early, and that Hydreigon uses a full-power Frustration in B2W2, suggesting that it absolutely loathes Ghetsis.
For any non-pokemon players:
In pokemon games, there’s a hidden stat called friendship, which maxes out at 255 points; there are two (major) moves that are affected by this:
Return, which gets stronger the higher a pokemon’s friendship stat is, capping at 102 base power with 255 friendship (for context, hyper beam has a base power of 150)
And frustration, which does the opposite, getting stronger the lower a pokemon’s friendship stat is, capping out at 102 base power when the pokemon is at 0 friendship
The EXTRA fucked up thing is, almost NO pokemon has a base friendship of 0. The only pokemon that do are legendary pokemon and buneary. So Ghetsis actively lowered his Hydreigon’s friendship, and the only way to do that in-game is to let your pokemon faint often without using healing items on them
In other words Ghetsis is a major cunt
wh
what’s up with buneary???
Buneary fucking hates you by default. It’s also another friendship-dependent evolution line.
for others who are clueless in the poking men, this is the tiny bunny that fucking hates you
I’m still not sure why the blade runner scene where Harrison Ford gives voice instructions to an image cropping program is considered so iconic that it gets copied several times in the remake.
I want a blade runner remake that’s more realistic about the voice commands like:
stop u guys oh my god these are quotes about love that lu liked on his goodreads :( i knew it he loves so passionately!!!!!! such a sensitive n sweet soul he deserves to find his person im gonna have a breakdown over this
still amazes me that by season 45 or whatever, Supernatural was being exclusively watched by delusionally hopeful women with flamingo-salinity tolerance for bad writing and the creators still couldn’t pander to them because maybe there was 1 straight guy out there still accidentally watching it
It’s been long enough for me to reveal the incredibly funny thing about this post, which was I was trying to think of a way to launder a cool flamingo fact into something I thought Tumblr would re-blog. i don’t care about the show. at all.
Every Friday. Every Friday i either see this post or live in fear of seeing it. I can’t wake up and say ‘it’s friday’ anymore without thinking of this post. I am living a nightmare and it’s your fault
Every Friday. Every Friday i either see this post or live in fear of seeing it. I can’t wake up and say ‘it’s friday’ anymore without thinking of this post. I am living a nightmare and it’s your fault
“neurotypicals have this special way of saying ‘okay’ that makes you feel like shit after infodumping your special interest” anyone can do that actually
in fact i have had this happen to me multiple times from other autistic people sometimes someone just doesn’t realize they sound bored. or aren’t as good at hiding that they Are bored lmao people aren’t always gonna jive with your special interest and it may not really interest them like hate to break it to you but that isn’t a personal attack on you
like i offhand can think of my coworker who also has adhd who says “yeah” in this way when i’m talking that makes it sound like she does not give a single fuck, and she’s admitted that she sometimes zones out when other people are talking (i do this too) even if she’s interested and trying to listen. and sometimes when She’s talking i just start getting bored/losing energy and start trying to find ways to back out of the conversation like that’s just how things are sometimes
so seeing posts like that are really annoying lol like yeah it really fucking sucks when it feels like you’ve bored someone while talking about something you love! however not only does it not automatically mean they’re an ~evil neurotypical but also i’m sure most of the people reblogging that post would never acknowledge that they’ve very likely been the “…okay” person more than once
liberals still refusing to recognize that Kamala Harris had already supported a genocide for a year and that cost her the election is fun. (She also ran as a republican) Incapable of learning political belief system. Like I don’t know how to explain it to liberals the simple fact “the things you do and fight for in power are more important than promises.” And Kamala and Joe Biden spat on the democratic base fighting for genocide. Like they are still blaming Palestine supporters on here. Immoral and stupid people.
For anyone wondering, Blockhead and conehead are terms used to describe the skull shape of golden retrievers. This baby is a blockhead but to anyone unfamiliar, it sounds like the reddit op is asking if this puppy is going to be an idiot.
Goldens have two main head types, Block and Cone (sometimes called slender but I digress). Blockheads have the big blocky heads and coneheads are more pointy. Two examples below.
As far as I’m aware, its just an aesthetic thing and has no impact on their health.
how many other nonbinary/genderqueer people here hate the phrase “women and nonbinary people”
It feels like radfem crap
Like simultaneously saying “nonbinary people are pretty much women”
And also
“Men are bad and only people who are not men are good”
every time i hear that shit i think about that post about an amab nonbinary person who got turned away from a “women and nonbinary people” group of some sort because it wasn’t “for” them and i get so mad
i would much rather hang out with that person than with the kind of people who would “welcome” me into the same group they were prevented from joining lmao
also like personally i have been directly invited to join “women’s” art shows and the like TOO MANY TIMES because they’re like “oh nonbinary women can join too” and i am just like yeah, you see, i’m still not welcome, because i am not a woman. and they always look so awkward, like they can’t understand what i mean. makes me furious
It’s such a flagrant “nonbinary people are just woman-lite, unless they’re too masc to fit my idea of woman-lite, in which case they’re actually dirty men.”
I stopped getting invited into “women and nonbinary” spaces the second I shaved my head and started embracing my butchness, so it’s not even just along AGAB lines like people want to act. If you’re masc or butch AT ALL, you get shoved into “icky man-aligned invader” and it’s fucking gross.
Something i noticed with the Will Smith slapping Chris Rock is a bunch of people that normally seem very pro-machismo and “defending your woman” would come out saying stuff like “oh I bet if The Rock or Joe Rogan told the joke Will Smith wouldn’t have done anything” and it’s like so weird how people keep inventing hypothetical alternative scenarios to give a take over (as opposed to not giving a take)
Like it’s the counterpart to “what if Betty White told the joke and the slap killed her” where an alternate scenario is invented to make Will Smith seem like a rage bound lunatic except in this case people are inventing an alternative scenario to make him seem like a wimp?
I bet if Will Smith’s antimatter clone had told the joke the resulting slap would have vaporised most of LA
According to the New York Post, Will Smith weight 226 lbs (102.5 kg) late last year when he started a weight loss documentary. Apparently he gave up within sight of his goal of losing 20 lbs, so let’s assume he weighed 205 lbs (93 kg) at the time of The Slap. Edward Muller’s antimatter calculator says this would have resulted in a blast of almost exactly 4,000 megatons (for comparison, the USSR’s Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, was 50 megatons). MIT’s blast effect calculator says that a 4 gigaton ground burst would result in a 5psi overpressure (enough to destroy all buildings and basically guarantee death) radius of 70 km from the Dolby Theater in LA, encompassing not just LA, but Long Beach, Anaheim, Irvine, and Santa Clarita. Furthermore, the 3psi overpressure radius (destroying pretty much all residential buildings and ensuring at least serious injury) would be almost 100km, further encompassing Riverside, San Bernardino, and Thousand Oaks– really just most of LA County.
i am very aggressively protective over nonbinary people who look like they are amab/manly/masc because some of you are very quick to accept nonbinary people who look like they’re afab/girly/fem but shit on anyone else.
and stop saying “afab nonbinary” and “amab nonbinary” because we all know you’re just treating us like “female” and “male” which, yk is the exact opposite of what nonbinary is meant to be.
treat nonbinary people like nonbinary people, nothing else.
hey boy don’t kill yourself. green’s dictionary of slang is available online and allows you to explore 500 years of english vulgarity. you can search by part of speech, source, time period, etymology, and usage. there’s a whole category for gay slang. they even have specific citations listed so you can see the exact context for yourself. boy did you know that in 1927 “to kneel at the altar” was slang for “to sodomize”
some other hits:
Princess: an effeminate and relatively youthful male homosexual or lesbian (1931-4)
Also a lot of early 20th century vulgarity is recorded in Letter from My Father, which is a collection of letters published by a man who’s dad was, in short, a major slut and human disaster who wrote about his sex life for his son. It’s insane. You can find copies of it online & it’s a wild fucking read (literally!) and I think a really interesting look at the life of a person who goes against our stereotypes of what people in the past were “supposed” to be like.
Anyways feel free to add y'all’s favs to this post. & if you use this for gay historical fanfic please share with the class
note for writers: these are dated to the first time they were recorded, not necessarily to their first use. I imagine for many of these, they came about naturally through spoken language before they were written down anywhere. This is especially true of more underground slang because it’s probably being recorded (in ways we still have) the least. So if you wanna use a term but it’s a little off date-wise, give yourself some wiggle room.
also gonna take this moment to highlight two more i found recently:
Best boy: a sweetheart, a boyfriend, a husband. (1893) [w the obvious equivalent term 'best girl’]
Honeydripper or honeydrips: a sexual partner (1917)
Like. Honeydripper?????? That’s so horny I can’t stop thinking about it. We need to bring THAT back
So what this appears to be to me, is an attempt to kill off the meaning behind these holidays; later they can change the law without much pushback.
However.
I would give it at least a week before you panic or fall into hopelessness, because:
THIS IS STILL BREAKING NEWS AS OF TODAY, 30 JANUARY 2025.Nobody has had time to react to this properly; effective organization takes TIME.
Many organizations are pushing back against Trump’s executive orders and keeping them tied up in the courts. I’m sure someone will pick this one up as well.
You can still celebrate these holidays in your personal life, and in fact you should!DON’T OBEY IN ADVANCE
This executive order doesn’t impact STATE government entities, since celebration of the holiday would be up to the laws governing their state. However, I would not be surprised if some states follow suit, and cancel celebrations where allowed by the laws of their state. So see what your laws are in your state, and see if you can support or attend a celebration from your state!
