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
it’s mildly annoying when a manga translation “translates” yen to usd (particularly when it’s not just a translators’ note and they put it in the actual panel with no mention of the original)
for one thing, you don’t know that all your english-speaking readers live in the usa (especially in the case of internet-published scanlation) but also… the exchange rate is not ever going to consistently be the same. don’t do this. if you really don’t think your readers will understand the concept of different currencies just put a translators’ note
the paul mccartney is dead conspiracy theory is the funniest thing in the world because i feel like if he did die and the beatles did replace him like parents replace a gold fish and the new guy managed to look exactly like him and play left handed bass, piano, and vocals in the same style and produce the same quality of music consistently for 30+ years then it’d be honestly rude to mention it at that point. like he’s earned it let him have it
the double is the one that deserves the title of paul mccartney because he actually worked for it. the other guy was just born into it
the problem with watching buffy the vampire slayer for the first time when you’re 13 is that it will fundamentally reshape your brain chemistry to the point where literally all fiction becomes buffy the vampire slayer in different fonts. “watch another show!” you might say, and believe me i have! i promise i’ve watched many other shows since i was 13. but the problem is that all those other shows as well as films, books, podcasts etc. are simply deviations of buffy the vampire slayer to me. it’s the holy text, the primary source. everything else is just commentary.
the ideal way to experience many of the polls you post is to see them completely divorced from their context. unfortunately you also have a high level postpig
Girl when I tell you my life flashed before my eyes
what if you told someone you liked their shoelaces while you were on your knees blowing them in a bathroom stall and they told you that they stole them from the president
You bitches really won’t let me catch a fucking break huh
Have you ever wondered why lego doesn’t suck? Why it isn’t cutting corners that really shoudn’t be cut or increasing prices per brick?
The answer is simple, it is a private company owned by a family, the family of the founder. No shareholders, no stock price, it is a company actually dedicated to doing the things it says it does, not infinitely growing quarter by quarter or whatever.
You’d think growing up aro/ace would make someone immune to the “you must strive to be sexy and beautiful” pressure of society. But I think it can actually make it worse because, lacking your own internal frame of reference, you just get left absorbing the cultural signals that the minimum bar for attractive is a 10/10 bombshell 23-year-old skinny white Hollywood actress with significant makeup and some plastic surgery.
Like it takes longer to gather the life experience to recognize average-looking and even “ugly” people are attractive and desirable to a significant portion of the population.
Like “entity with no need for food or hunger” getting exposed to extremely polished high-production-value food advertisements and high-profile foodie content with millions of views would go “oh okay, that explains what food is appealing” and miss the fact that many many many people just want a hotdog right now.
I love drawing this pathetic, grumpy man in fancy clothes, tis’ a hobby
As for some of his details, I have given him a long braid as well, though it is nowhere near as long as the lamb’s.
He also maintains his style, never swaying to match the Bishops’ black and gold. Even though the embroidery patterns resemble the Bishops’, he stays true to his white and pale reds. His love for a more sheep-like wardrobe and style will be explained later, have patience, and enjoy.
I have a bisexual guppy and its funny as hell to watch because it seems like he’s only bi out of desperation. Like all of the female guppies are unimpressed by him, and dont accept his mating displays, and every time he fails, he goes over to a SPECIFIC male guppy (the prettiest male guppy in the tank) like PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE and that male guppy always lets him????
Are YOU gonna let THE GOVERNMENT tell YOU what YOUR GENDER is? That doesn’t sound like Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness to me! PROTECT your individual FREEDOMS and call your senator: we want the GOVERNMENT to stay OUT OF OUR PANTS! GENDER FREEDOM NOW!
Two men in your neighborhood are married… to EACH OTHER? Congratulate them for exercising their AMERICAN RIGHT to follow the footsteps of our FOUNDING FATHERS! They’ve got a fully AMERICAN spirit of FREEDOM and REBELLION! GOD BLESS THE USA.
Your coworker has a different RELIGION from yours? Well, that’s just INTERESTING and you should talk about it on your UNION-APPROVED LUNCH BREAK. The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA was FOUNDED on Freedom of Religion and ANYONE should be allowed to seek the AMERICAN DREAM!
You think someone might be in this GREAT country ILLEGALLY? NO YOU DON’T! No one is in this country illegally! The minute anyone steps on our SOVEREIGN SOIL they’re your FELLOW AMERICAN and where they come from is NO ONES BUSINESS.
Okay but that last part was essentially policy for a long time, visas are a relatively new concept
Are YOU gonna let THE GOVERNMENT tell YOU what YOUR GENDER is? That doesn’t sound like Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness to me! PROTECT your individual FREEDOMS and call your senator: we want the GOVERNMENT to stay OUT OF OUR PANTS! GENDER FREEDOM NOW!
Two men in your neighborhood are married… to EACH OTHER? Congratulate them for exercising their AMERICAN RIGHT to follow the footsteps of our FOUNDING FATHERS! They’ve got a fully AMERICAN spirit of FREEDOM and REBELLION! GOD BLESS THE USA.
Your coworker has a different RELIGION from yours? Well, that’s just INTERESTING and you should talk about it on your UNION-APPROVED LUNCH BREAK. The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA was FOUNDED on Freedom of Religion and ANYONE should be allowed to seek the AMERICAN DREAM!
You think someone might be in this GREAT country ILLEGALLY? NO YOU DON’T! No one is in this country illegally! The minute anyone steps on our SOVEREIGN SOIL they’re your FELLOW AMERICAN and where they come from is NO ONES BUSINESS.
Teaching for a living is a ridiculous job because throughout the year we’re like, ‘we can’t wait until break’ and then during break all we think about is teaching. We even say, ‘I’m not even going to be thinking about teaching!’ when we go on break, but that’s a lie. It will be July, and I’ll be walking into a store for ice pops and I walk out with popsicles for an activity I’m gonna do next school year. It’s not even a conscious decision. Why am I telling middle schoolers I don’t know at the mall to not run in the hallways? The Hotel California of careers, I swear.
Sometimes I worry about the image I give off. Like, what did that delivery guy think when I opened the door and the girl who took his pizza was wearing an Amy Rose t-shirt, an N7 hoodie, bright red sneaks and moderately dorky glasses. Then I remember all of those things are awesome
you have to be able to defend people who are receiving unjust treatment even if they annoy you even if you personally find them extremely annoying you still have to be able to stand up and say “well thats fucked up”
the moral willpower required for “i hate their guts but my personal ethical standard is no xyz and i cannot set the precedent of making an exception for them” is imennse but important work
Every relationship post on trans subs is “help I came out to my partner and they said that if I transition at all they’ll hate me. Advice? Edit: I’m not breaking up with them, we’ve been together for 10 years” like please please dump your shitty transphobic partner I’m begging it will make your life better
“My partner says that if I start estrogen and become feminine they’ll hate me” girl kill them!!!! You deserve better !!! You deserve a partner that loves you!!!
That’s not how marriage works.
“In sickness and in health, for better or worse for as long as we both shall live.”.
If you marry a transphobe- then you gotta find a way to make it work. You vowed to choose them over every other person.
If your spouse transitions- then you gotta find a way to make it work. You vowed to choose them over every other person.
In both cases you’ve promised to love that specific person no matter what happens or changes.
new gameshow idea: cis men have to pretend to be women for a whole year and if anyone ever clocks them they get taken out back of the set and shot in the back of the head like a dog. If they survive the whole year they win the ability to win any one sports competition, after which they will be stripped naked and hanged in the town square in front of a rabidly cheering audience screaming at them that they deserve this. I call it “You seriously think people chose this for the sports thing you stupid fuck?” and participation is random and involuntary.
i love the internet. You can write something with absolutely 0 subtlety but people still expect you to include “this is about transphobia” at the very end.
I think the best part of Murderbot is its staunch belief that it’s average at its job, and it only does better because it doesn’t have a working governor module
It’s always like, I’m just a SecUnit, the only reason I’m better is because humans somehow have worse judgement than me in my very narrow field of expertise, and I have the ability to process multiple things at once, and I don’t die when I get my shit wrecked. None of these are advantages over other bots, so I’m actually just average as far as skills go.
Meanwhile, Murderbot’s track record is something like ‘regularly takes out other SecUnits, regularly hacks fairly complicated systems, takes out multiple hostiles while saving and protecting clients/hostages, beat two Combat Bots in succession, and went toe to toe with a Combat SecBot while taking out two other SecUnits, rounding it off with inhabiting spaceships and crushing the incredibly difficult and malicious killware infecting them.’
That’s not even counting the guts, skill, and determination it takes to hack your own hardware/code which is fully capable of frying your brain in the first place
Something I love is that a large chunk of Murderbot’s success is just - it literally asks for help?
There’s a line in Exit Strategy, “Bots are instructed to report and repel theft attempts, but no one ever tells them not to answer polite requests from other bots.”
Murderbot makes use of this a lot. It talks to other bots, like ART and Miki. It offers equal trades of assistance, like with the Combat SecUnit in Exit Strategy, SecUnit 3 in Network Effect, and the ComfortUnit in Rogue Protocol.
In Exit Strategy, it reached out to the human supervisors to get Dr. Mensah an opening to get onto the shuttle. Even at the very beginning, in All Systems Red, it warns the team about the external combat over-ride.
Murderbot makes itself out to be a natural loner, but ‘ask for help’ has literally been one of it’s go-to strategies since book 1. And I think that’s beautiful.
#murderbot would be very upset to know that its superpower is friendship (tags via hoarder-of-stories-27)
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