The Steven Universe fandom might be “cringe” and “bad” but imagine a fandom so bad that a bunch of fandom members had ran a scheme to say “if you pay us money, your blorbo will know you’re valid” and the fandom permanently split over a 95 paragraph callout post of these people.
I cant do the story justice myself. Google “The Protestant Reformation” for more details, I hear a few people have done deep dives
that in the Chinese version of Disney’s Mulan, the fake name she gives is “Ping”, but her family name “Fa” in English is “Hua” in Chinese, therefore her full name is “Hua Ping”, which is literally “Flower Vase”, and that’s why Shang is so bewildered because it’s a silly name.
but OP how could you not tell them the best part
“hua ping”/flower vase is chinese slang for “camp gay”
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Mulan, introducing her soldiersona: Hello yes it is me, a twink
driving in the city is all about using your maximum amount of brain power to avoid a vehicular manslaughter charge while seemingly everyone else around you has made it their holy mission to get hit by your car
trying hard not to be controversial here .. trying not to step on any toes but ……… i like some things 😳 and i………. dislike some things 😳 and. sometimes i even . don’t care about stuff 😳 Please dont hate me im sorry
I’m so glad that things like survivorship bias and statistical outliers became memes I wish more critical thinking skills would become widely-understood this way, I’m not kidding let’s get on this
”Turtles are showing up full of straws” “Nobody was trans when I was your age” “Why does everyone have allergies now” “Our ancestors survived without vaccines” “My grandma never had an income or driver’s license and THEY were married for decades” “I’m saving the rest of my medication for later cause I feel better now”
Look at the plane until you understand
My momma used to tell us not to fear the noises we heard in the woods at night because if something designed to kill us wanted to kill us then we wouldn’t hear it coming and at the time it was horrifying and unsettling but now I wish we all had heard that at least once growing up
Number one problem with being a trans guy who only passes most of the time is that around strangers I never know if something is a man situation or a woman situation
On April 13, 1985, Danuta Danielsson - a Jewish-Polish woman whose mother was taken to a concentration camp in WWII - hit a local neonazi with her handbag in Växjö, Sweden.
Update: The neonazis were subsequently expelled from the city, and a statue was erected in her honor.
This week 34 years ago, Danuta Danielsson demonstrated how much respect fascists deserve.
Well played, Danuta Danielsson.
And good aim.
She hit them so hard they were banished from that land forever. Iconic
Yeah my cousin said he took the red AND the blue pill it’s called the purple pill and if you take it they let you make strategy guides for video games before they come out
I don’t think anyone can say they had a truly healthy childhood. I feel like there’s a baseline level of trauma that comes with the fact that you’re the legal property of someone else for your most vulnerable years, no matter how great your parents are, and this only gets exponentially worse for every degree away from perfect experts with principled objections to normative child abuse your parents are.
The simple presence of this factoid causes damage proportional to how aware you are of it at the time. I know that even if my parents had done things better, I don’t know how they’d reconcile the fact that my perspective always included thoughts such as, “I don’t have a choice because they are currently my life support”
I have never in my life seen an objet d'art that qualified for the Tiffany Paradox, but here we are. It looks like it fell off a middle school girls bedroom desk circa 1987.
I love this.
also I went and looked it up on the MFA website and as I suspected, it’s made of mother-of-pearl! the rainbow parts are probably from iridescent blacklip shells, and the rest is carved white oyster shell.
There are some Chinese porcelains which are definitely worthy of the Tiffany paradox - I mean, sure, it was made in the 1300s but it’s a lemon yellow tea bowl - but honestly this one really epitomizes the matter.
Hey, check out these funky Chico’s necklaces from my Jewish grandmother’s collection:
And I LOVE this teapot with fossil decoration c. 1760-65. It’s amazing. Perfect. I would so dearly love to have a replica and feature it prominently in a photoshoot with some of my 18th century costumes.
I love pretty historical dishes with delicate floral patterns as much as the next guy, but seeing weird and bright and tacky stuff from over 2 centuries ago makes me happy.
I discovered, when investigating what 1840s pearl earrings looked like for a ball outfit, that they look
EXTREMELY 1980s
seriously I was able to buy something from the Fancy Section of Claire’s that looked almost exactly like the top example
I can’t believe I forgot to add the 1840’s 8-bit foxes!!
This embroidered waistcoat is one of 3 I’ve seen with the same design, so it must have been published in a magazine or something. It’s so weird knowing that it’s 1840’s because it looks so pixel-y, especially with that bright blue background. (And yes, I’ve seen plenty of other pixel-y looking old needlepoint and and such, but they’re usually floral.)
Also, wow, those do look very 1980’s! Very convenient for costumers when things repeat like that!
There’s also a surprising amount of historical jewelry that looks exactly like something my middle school classmates would wear.
Turns out people have liked heart shaped jewelry for a very long time! …I’ll try not to reblog this a 3rd time when I inevitably think of even more stuff, because a post like this could go on forever.
It’s funny that people picture Victorian fashion as dull an steampunkish in colour, when in reality, bright garish colours were super fashionable thanks to the invention on new dyes.
