this is like in the wizard of oz books when Dorothy realizes that every animal– even animals from the regular world– can talk when they’re in Oz. so she’s like, “Toto, look, I just want to know if you can talk. Why don’t you talk?? You should be able to talk here, do you want to talk??” and Toto just says “no” and never talks again. all like fifteen books he can talk and chooses not to except to let Dorothy know that he can talk, and simply doesn’t want to. iconic
I get to be more free as an adult than I ever did as a child and I think more kids need to know that. as a high schooler part of what made my depression so bad was being told over and over again that it was the most carefree time of my life. while I was trapped in an abusive home + amongst bullies at school + in a body that wasn’t right for me. opportunities to be carefree don’t end when you turn 18. you can be more you than ever as an adult and that’s such a gift. I know ‘it can get better’ is an annoying thing to see over and over when you’re as trapped as I was back then. and I know that if you’re still a kid you deserve to be free right this second. but it can and will get better and this is not where life stops being interesting. promise
PPL aren’t reblogging this version so the chuzzle is generally stuck in the eternal present moment with the question unanswered. Eyeing the symbol that will never change
A regular part of my job is trying to reach out to people who have been quietly trying to make their community a better place; the volunteers, the teachers, the fucking. People who rehabilitate injured wild owls in a Quonset hut in the woods, and to a one this is the kind of person who immediately reviles at recognition. The kind of person who immediately says that they never got into this to get praise for it, and that they’d infinitely prefer to quietly plug away at this anonymously forever.
And from this I’ve always drawn two conclusions:
To always distrust Mr. Beast and his ilk who always want their acts of charity done on film, because the people who really want to do good and have no motives to do it besides the doing it never want recognition for it, and
That there are, in the dark, in the quiet, always people who are doing good, and the reason you don’t hear about it is because they’d rather die than receive recognition for it, but they’re real; they do exist. And you are never alone
my brother started calling our cat “doobie brother” which he then lengthened to “dubious brother” and has since morphed into “brother dubious” like he’s some sort of fucked up little monk
brother dubious
“My liege, I’m afraid I have reason to believe your concubine plots against you. Worry not, your eminence, you can still trust me, of course…”
My theory is that this post directly lead to the nefarious eunuch cat posts
i like watching jerma because he could be playing a fucked up video on stream of a 3d model human blowing up into flesh and gore but then pause twice before being like “why are his shoes white. does anyone wear white shoes? i’ve never seen white shoes” and then the whole chat is like “you stupid bitch everyone owns white shoes”
reject modernity (sth that existed 3000 years ago) embrace tradition (sth that was invented in the 1960s)
No I mean it’s so fucking funny how the fashies have this idea of tradition as the neolocal suburbian Americana nuclear family while having to share a building with 5 other people is this sort of aberration
y’all really recommend books like: title, there are gay characters, enemies to lovers, young adult, written by poc
not once do i ever see a summary
What more info do you need?
A SUMMARY
WHAT DO U MENA SUMMARY WHAT ELSE MATTERS ITS GAY POC AND ENEMIES TO LOVERS HOW OFTEN DO U CONE ACROSS THAT
i want to know what its about mainly. is it a romance? is there plot besides the romance? is it realistic fiction? sci fi? fantasy? historical? future? alternate history? whats the tone? what are the themes? what are the main characters’ NAMES?
I- it’s gay the gay
i value queer characters too. but i also want to know WHAT THE BOOK I’M READING IS ABOUT.
“GAY AND/OR RACIALLY DIVERSE” IS NOT A GENRE. nor is it an indicator of quality
do you know how many times I’ve been recommended a book solely because “it’s queer fantasy!”
do you know how many times those books have been so poorly written that I couldn’t finish them
Mostly, I want to know the tone. A 19th century war story isn’t gonna do it for me when I’m in the mood for a lighthearted austenesque romance - and those are both historical. A star warsy space romp isn’t gonna do it if I want to read about interplanetary political negotiations - and those are both sci fi. A fun gratuitious don’t-think-about-it-too-hard action story is not the same as a dark and complicated mob drama. A suspenseful thriller will bore me if I’m looking for a fast paced spy novel.
not providing a summary literally just shows how you treat marginalized people and their representation as this token woke thing that you can show off like a shiny trophy. no, people aren’t going to read something just because it has representation! that’s not how it works!
Artist bio by Anna Daliza
When people say “summary”, what they want is that paragraph or two from the back cover of the book (or the flap of the dust jacket, or the description from the book’s page on a bookstore’s website) that says something like….
“Jane Maincharacter had never thought she could do hero stuff. But when plot event happens and Jane’s most beloved place/thing/way of life/vibes is threatened by Bob Antagonist, Jane picks up a giant magic sword and vows to obliterate him from existence and save everything she has ever loved. The only problem is, she’s been kidnapped by a pack of sexy kobolds.”
You are allowed to just copy-and-paste the back-cover summary when you are telling people about the book! You don’t even have to come up with a summary yourself! The cover-copy (fancy industry term for “summary on the back of the book”) has already been specifically handcrafted and engineered for the purposes of telling people what the book is about. By all means point out other highlights that speak to you, such as the representation in the book (“Jane is trans and all the sexy kobolds are bisexual!”), your favorite trope (“It’s got enemies-to-lovers and only one bed!”), your favorite line or character or vibe (“The sexiest kobold guard is SO FUNNY, he makes a ‘hi hungry i’m kobold’ joke that had me on the floor laughing”) or scene (“The scene at the beginning where Jane goes into the attic and unearths her grandfather’s giant magical hero sword…. ahhh i won’t post spoilers but I was screaming and cheering, SO GOOD”). But if people are like, “WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT” just give them the back-cover summary! Copy and paste that shit! That’s literally what it is for!
This is why I hate that ad going around that’s like “trans heroines! Sapphic romance! Blah blah blah please buy our content we are pandering to you faggots and dykes just ignore the fact that we’re only doing this because you freaks are the only people still buying books these days”
brb the whole discord in an uproar at the UNCONSCIONABLE results of Mister Global 2022
seriously though, MR. SPAIN?!
Mr Spain vs the runner up Mr Vietnam. Like. How the fuck?
Looking very respectfully at Mr. Vietnam
I mean personally I was in favor of Mr. Peru and Mr. Nigeria but I can fully agree Spain can get out of there.
Tbh mr spain looks like a piece of art compared to britain and cuba’s costumes
SE asia brought the thunder
Alright you guys I found all 33 of them, and it seems there’s three schools of thought for the costumes: Just Some Guy (tends to be more traditional or modern clothing), Slutty Halloween Costume, and Balls To The Wall Batshit Insanity. I can’t pick a favorite, so here they all are in alphabetical order by country:
(By virtue of there being 33, which doesn’t split into groups of 4 evenly, Vietnam gets to be the big photo.)
What a beautiful, majestic lineup.
Honestly if your Mister Global costume doesn’t include a huge fucking weapon what the fuck are you even doing there
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
on being raised on fairy tales in which you are the monster // a. m. h.
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ON BEING RAISED ON FAIRY TALES IN WHICH YOU ARE THE MONSTER
young one, there are things in this forest that want to hurt you yes, we mean the forest we are raising you in yes, we mean the forest we will not let you leave young one, the only things in this forest want to hurt you
young one, the things in this forest have claws and fangs yes, we mean claws like the ones on your hands yes, we mean fangs like the ones in your mouth yes, we mean you should avoid things with claws and fangs they are dangerous ang only want to hurt you
young one, everything in this forest needs to be killed they’re dangerous, too dangerous to live yes, we mean this forest that you are in yes, we mean this forest we will not let you leave
the things are so dangerous, young one yes, we mean things like you nothing good lives in this forest that’s why we won’t let anything leave
young one, why are you looking at us like that? why are you barring your fangs, slashing your claws? this is exactly what we mean everything in this forest wants to hurt us everything in this forest needs to be killed
using “what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament” to mean “yeah i made an embarrassing reference but you understood it which is also embarrassing” is very funny to me
my favorite part is that absolutely nobody says this except here. so if you use it in public, it’s a dead giveaway that you spent the last ten years on tumblr. but then again, they recognized it, which means they were at the devil’s sacrament
I tested this theory in the wild the other day at work. I was on a call with my department lead and a few other folks and I replied to an email the DL had sent me, thinking that, because he was on this call, he wouldn’t notice when I sent it and would not catch me multitasking.
However, he replied to said email within five minutes, asking a question that required an answer. So I answered and was like “Also, I was going to apologize for answering emails during this call, but I see we’re both here at the Devil’s Sacrament, so I don’t think an apology is necessary.”
I watched him read that on screen and try not to laugh. And then at the end of the call as everyone started saying goodbye, he goes, “Hey, MJ, I meant to tell you. I like your shoelaces.”
And I looked straight into my camera, stone cold serious, and said, “Thanks. I stole them from the president.”
And the rest of the team was like, “What…the fuck…?” before he abruptly ended the call for everyone.
So now my DL and I know this about each other. He could be any one of us.
using “what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament” to mean “yeah i made an embarrassing reference but you understood it which is also embarrassing” is very funny to me
my favorite part is that absolutely nobody says this except here. so if you use it in public, it’s a dead giveaway that you spent the last ten years on tumblr. but then again, they recognized it, which means they were at the devil’s sacrament
I tested this theory in the wild the other day at work. I was on a call with my department lead and a few other folks and I replied to an email the DL had sent me, thinking that, because he was on this call, he wouldn’t notice when I sent it and would not catch me multitasking.
However, he replied to said email within five minutes, asking a question that required an answer. So I answered and was like “Also, I was going to apologize for answering emails during this call, but I see we’re both here at the Devil’s Sacrament, so I don’t think an apology is necessary.”
I watched him read that on screen and try not to laugh. And then at the end of the call as everyone started saying goodbye, he goes, “Hey, MJ, I meant to tell you. I like your shoelaces.”
And I looked straight into my camera, stone cold serious, and said, “Thanks. I stole them from the president.”
And the rest of the team was like, “What…the fuck…?” before he abruptly ended the call for everyone.
So now my DL and I know this about each other. He could be any one of us.
the helpful & informative nilered that concocts a night-time beverage VS the wretched & dastardly nileblue that brews the dark and secret KILLS YOU potion
Happy Pride! Stop putting Harry Potter on my dash and I’ll stop blocking motherfuckers on sight. Trans lives are more important than your nostalgia about one series 🏳️⚧️❤️
i hope a major terrorism event hjappens in the next 5 years that makes all superhero films totally unviable. like a guy dressed in a leotard calls himself “the dc marvel” and flies a boeing into the white house
its so hard to critique poorly written female characters without someone coming out of the woodwork to be like “yeah FUCK that bland bitch mary sue she ruined the franchise” like hm. no actually i dont want to be aligned with you actually. i’m good over here.
The Emperor Palpatine Surgical Reconstruction Facility is the most integral part of star wars lore and Im frankly insulted and hurt that it did not play a promenant role within Andor Season 1 or 2
The Emperor Palpatine Surgical Reconstruction Facility is the most integral part of star wars lore and Im frankly insulted and hurt that it did not play a promenant role within Andor Season 1 or 2
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