Did I ever talk abt the time i was at a bdsm club and one of the pups was on all fours and barking and being cute and the dom on scene was like “hi puppy! Do you do any tricks?” And he said “I can beatbox!”
I was like. Doubled over incapacitated laughing the entire time. He was really good and a big sweetheart and I felt kinda bad but I couldn’t stop thinking “why the am I getting the beatboxing puppy unskippable cutscene at the bdsm club”
15 year old monk whispering “do i lust for men?” and then flipping to a random page in the bible to see what it says = medieval equivalent of modern “am i gay quiz”
bibliomancy is alive and well in the 21st century. St Augustine rolling in his grave.
15 year old monk whispering “do i lust for men?” and then flipping to a random page in the bible to see what it says = medieval equivalent of modern “am i gay quiz”
bibliomancy is alive and well in the 21st century. St Augustine rolling in his grave.
Sure, you know how to self-flagellate, but do you know how to apologize? Saying “I’m a stupid idiot” is not the same thing as saying “I did something wrong.”
People who want an apology pretty much never want to hear “I’m a stupid idiot.” If someone is actually trying to get you to say you’re a stupid idiot, it’s not because it will make up for a mistake you made or harm you caused. It’s because they want you to feel like a stupid idiot. People who care about you do not want you to feel like a stupid idiot and it hurts them when they see you putting yourself down in their name.
idk who needs to hear this today but you don’t have to marry a man if you don’t want to
this is not just about potential lesbians or bi women btw. straight women also do not have to marry a man. you can be with a man without getting married. you can stay single. you can do what my ostensibly straight mom did and form a long-term platonic partnership with a woman. if the idea of being married to a man seems scary or makes you uncomfortable you simply never have to do it!
hey cis people! now more than ever gender-nonconforming behavior is an act of resistance! and it’s one anyone can engage in!
cis men who hate trump! you now especially have a great way of protesting. literally just wear a skirt. paint your nails. put on some eyeshadow. commit gender fuckery you otherwise wouldn’t bother with as an act of protest. because how fucking dare they tell ANY of us how we should be forced to dress and act and exist.
stand with your trans siblings: let’s fight this nazi shit together
do not bring your phone or use a credit card or travel card tied to your identity en route to a protest or action. some alternatives:
don’t bring them, use cash (ideal)
don’t bring them, get a lift with trusted friends (ideal)
leave your phone/cards with a trusted friend who will not be at the planned action, pick them up afterwards
leave your phone/cards in a secure locker at a bus or train station, pick them up afterwards
prepaid burner phone if you absolutely need one on your person for some reason (you probably don’t!)
btw you should also intentionally take the time to learn some basic pre-smartphone skills
learn to read a paper map. it’s not hard but it does take a little practice if you’ve never done it. they work by dividing an area into a grid, so e.g. if you know you’re on Brook Street you can look it up in an index, see that it’s on square G19, and find the part you need.
get a cheap watch!!! it really makes all the difference in the world to know you can keep track of time without being tied to a phone. even the most basic digital watches let you set timers and alarms
memorise two emergency contact numbers – a family member, friend, or support organisation who could pick you up or arrange support if you’re detained, lost, hurt, etc.
carry enough cash to get you across town if you need it
this isn’t just for protests, this is for everyday! now you don’t need to be worried about losing or breaking your phone, getting it stolen, running out of battery, etc. these four things will free you.
Soda tab flower tutorial post! 🌻🌼🌸 lots of pictures included. ****This is part one, check the reblogs for the other half!! *****
What you’ll need: scissors, yarn or string (any color) and soda tabs. 6 tabs for one flower (or 7, but I use 6 personally)
Step 1: take 2 tabs and lay them over each other so that the hole on the bottom of one lines up with the hole on the top of the other, like this-
And tie them together. Then cut the short end of the string sticking up to get rid of the excess. You’ll want to tie it with the back of he tabs facing up so the knot will be on the back side. Make sure to tie it tightly so the knot doesn’t slip around when you’re wrapping the tabs with the yarn
Step 2: wrap the side edges of the 2 tabs 3 times. You’ll want to do it relatively tightly, but not as tight as possible. The tension is a little tricky to figure out because you want the flower to keep its shape well but also be loose enough to bend into a flower shape with ease. This takes practice.
Step 3: On the 3rd wrap, add another tab under the 2nd tab, like this-
And pull the string through the back of the new tab you put under the 2nd tab. And wrap 3 times to attach it to your other tabs. Pulling the string over the edges to the back, through the lined up holes, and pulling it out towards you. On every 3rd wrap, add another tab the same way until you have 6 tabs wrapped together like this-
Step 4: keep the string pulled tight, and bend the tabs in a circle. The edges wrapped with yarn should be on the inside of the flower, and you should put the last tab over the first one to continue the pattern
Then run the string through those holes in the 1st and last tab to close the flower. You’ll want to wrap it a few times tightly and then run thr string through the rest of the holes one more time to make sure the string is pulling all the tabs together with equal tension
Once you are satisfied with your flower, now it’s time to tie it off! I do this by creating a loop in the back as if I’m still pulling the tabs together with the string, then i get the end of the string to face the back on the same side as the loop, and tie it up like this. Then I tend to do one more knot over that one just to be safe.
Then cut the excess string and your done!!
These are so fun and quick to make, and you can do so many things with these!! Belts, chains, jewelry, keychains, etc!! I hope my tutorial was helpful <3
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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.
Remember, no matter how evil you make the megacorp in your fictional setting, you literally *cannot match* how comically, moustache-twirlingly evil real life corporations are.
Eat the fucking rich
Back when they were starting to dabble in direct to DVD animation, DC put a movie Superman: Doomsday. In order to establish quickly what kind of people both Superman and Lex Luthor are, they did two scenes back to back:
Superman lamenting his efforts to find a cure for AIDS have failed.
Lex Luthor casually developing a one-use instant for muscular dystrophy and then ordering his research department to turn it into an expensive, lifelong treatment, so he can gouge as much money as possible out of people.
They actually felt having Luthor do this with HIV or AIDS would be too cartoonishly evil. And yet here we are
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
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
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
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