Something Awesome

superchat:

huffylemon:

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immortalgodlessanimal:

Ok I’m really curious

What do you guys call this

Puppy cone

Puppy cup

Kitty cone

Kitty cup

Fluffy cup

Fluffy cone

Bunny cup

Bunny cone

Something else????? (Tags)

My favorite type of poll is the op finding out that their experience is not universal

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tanoraqui:

lizardsfromspace:

paused-waterfall:

lizardsfromspace:

valentineish:

lizardsfromspace:

lizardsfromspace:

The real reason you couldn’t make Airplane! today is that it’s a parody of a type of movie that doesn’t exist anymore in part because Airplane! made fun of it so hard

The 70s-style disaster film was already dying but Airplane becoming, by far, more known, more watched, and more liked than any real example of the genre even though it was the most popular type of movie right up until Star Wars is one of the most magnificent examples of Weird Al-ing something

The jester mocking the court advisor so deftly, the curse on the king breaks because His Majesty realizes that guy does suck.

To quote Daniel Craig: “We had to destroy the myth because Mike Myers fucked us.”

One unbelievable fact I learned looking for that quote: the Austin Powers sequels outgrossed both of the last two Pierce Brosnan James Bond movies.

Man those Brosnan Bond movies are such a weird transitional moment in pop culture. People tend to analyze that by going “well the Brosnan Bond films were Bond trying to figure things out after the Cold War ended, Craig is post-9/11 Bond” when the actual dividing line is the start of the Austin Powers Era of History

The best satire self destructs.

Satire that lasts 50 years and still elicits “OMG so true"s ain’t worth SHIT to me. If it’s still true after that long, it’s just snark with no bite. Real satire is a knife (or sometimes a scalpel) that dispatches the target of its criticism and in so doing makes itself irrelevant (if not incomprehensible). It’s Jon Stewart getting Crossfire cancelled, it’s Tina Fey impersonating Sarah Palin so seamlessly that her ticket was unelectable, it’s Duchamp mocking the art scene so hard he irrevocably changed its course.

If satire is still relevant long after its creation, it has failed at its mission. It might be funny, it might be good comedy, but it’s not good satire.

A lot of satire is of its time and one of the better signs of that is how many satirical works just. Outlast what they were parodying and no one knows they’re a parody anymore

Obviously that describes 90% of Weird Al’s songs, but like, Lord of the Flies is a parody of a specific type of British adventure novel (and a specific novel, even) and it’s outlasted it so long that people bring up the satirical aspects of Lord of the Flies to criticize Lord of the Flies.

#Blazing Saddles fucking assassinated the cowboy movie (@dimir-charmer)

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oranaro:

wizardpotions:

pacmastermeow:

aletheiawriting:

My only real and valid writing tip is that you google every word you make up for your fantasy stories. That’s It

there won’t be any results though because you just made it up

One time I made up a name for a character and after googling it discovered it was a Zimbabwean slur

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drogonea:

traceofexistence:

traceofexistence:

evilpsychologist:

insane how many people just have these incredible artists in their families who get no recognition outside of crocheting circles because this art form is devalued for its association with women

in my country, the word for crocheting, is used metaphorically, to compliment a surgeon’s work.

every AFAB person my mother’s age and older, had practiced this craft at one point on another.

My mom has made literal paintings, that decorate our house for years (I’ll come back with pictures when I visit next) you can only see that they are crocheting when you go very close.

as promised here’s my mom’s crocheting “paintings”

There is another one but it had been stored many years ago, (i remember it from my childhood) and sadly it is probably damaged by mold, it depicted wild horsed running in nature 

@snazzy-hats-and-adhd

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niveuslepus:

magnetothemagnificent:

Yesterday I was birding in a wildlife refuge and this huge dog without a leash and no owner in sight ran up to me and started barking at me, and getting closer and closer. Literally thought it was going to pounce. It had a collar, but no owner in sight. I’m not afraid of dogs, but I am afraid of any large animal that’s angry and has the capacity to knock me over. After about five minutes of this dog growling at me and me trying to calm it down, its owner finally showed up, and was like……“oh haha I thought he was yelling at an animal.” As if it would have been normal and fine for the dog to attack the wildlife.

It’s a wildlife refuge. There are endangered species that live there. Dogs are required to be leashed at the park…you know why?? Precisely because dogs like to go after birds and other small creatures.

This isn’t even the first time I’ve dealt with unleashed dogs….

I was at a beach, collecting seashells and birding, when a huge pitbull ran up to me growling. Thankfully it didn’t attack and just sniffed my bag, but the owner was just a speck in the horizon, didn’t care that their dog was running around doing god knows what. The dog could have gone after the wildlife, too.

People letting their cats roam free outdoors 🤝 People that let their dogs run around without a leash:

Endangering their pet, the environment, and other people with their stupid choices

Keep your dog on a fucking leash

It’s not just wildlife. It’s other people dogs too.

I dogsat for a coworker who had a not-always-friendly-to-other-dogs dog. She was also 20 pounds and easy to carry if needed, but sometimes she was fine with other dogs and sometimes she chose violence.

I took Doggo on walks several times over the week I watched her. Always in places dogs are required to be on leash. Always during times we were less likely to run into other people walking dogs.

In one such place, a park near where the coworker lived, we stopped to sit on a bench (Doggo sat up next to me for love) for a few minutes. Out of nowhere a large pitbull bounded up to us.

I immediately scooped up Doggo, stood, and turned to face the pibble. While the pibble was clearly just excited and happy, the owner was a significant distance away.

Owner once he got to us, with a big grin: Oh don’t worry she’s friendly! She loves other dogs too!
Me, holding a clearly upset dog: Mine isn;t and she doesn’t.

The look on his face made it clear that other dogs not being friendly wasn’t even a thought he had when he took the leash, that was in his hand, off his dog. Again in a park with numerous “Keep your dog leashed!” signs.

As I walked by with a now growling dog in my arms, I told him he needed to keep his dog on a leash - like the park required. I carried her until we were out of sight and she was calm.

If I hadn’t responded like I did, there could have been major problems from not only me and the dog I was walking, but also the other dog and owner.

Not everyone has dog-friendly (or even people-friendly) dogs. Give unknown dogs space and for God’s sake:

Keep your dog on a fucking leash.

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500-moths-in-a-trenchcoat:

ok since i don’t think i’ve seen any semi-comprehensive lists of the tumblr holidays for the reddit refugees, here it is.

IT JUST HAPPENS

• DAY 15 GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 15
• Thursday the 20th
• The Fifth of Wednesday
• Sometime in June: That One Halloween Post Starts Circulating
• Sometime in July: Dancing Pumpkin Man Video/Gif

WEEKLY EVENTS

• Every Monday: El Muchacho Monday
• Every Tuesday: Tuesday Again? No Problem…
• Every Wednesday: Wet Beast Wednesday
• Every Thursday: Out of Touch Thursday
• Every Friday: Flat Fuck Friday
• Every Saturday: Don’t @ Me, I’m Chilling/Caturday
• Every Sunday: Fingers In His Ass Sunday

YEARLY EVENTS

• January 16: Appreciate a Dragon Day
• January 29: Threshold Day
• All of February: Funguary
• February 14: Aromantic/Asexual Day
• March 9: Miku Day
• March 10: Mario Day
• March 14: Pi Day
• March 15: Ides of March
• March 23: Ever Given Got Stuck Today
• April 1: Mishapocalypse
• April 2: Dashcon Announcement Anniversary
• April 3: Dannypocalypse
• April 8: Rex Manning Day
• ALSO April 8: MARGARET THATCHER IS DEAD
• April 13: Neil Banging Out The Tunes
• ALSO April 13: Homestuck Day
• April 20: haha 420 blaze it
• April 25: The Perfect Date
• April 28: Ed Balls Day
• April 30: It’s Gonna Be May
• All of May: Mermay
• May 3: Beginning of Dracula Daily
• May 4: May the 4th Be With You
• May 5: Revenge of the Fifth
• May 25: The Glorious 25th of May
• All of June: Pride Month
• ALSO All of June: IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY
• June 5: Barricade Day
• June 16: Let Papyrus Say Fuck
• July 20: Moon Landing
• September 8: The Queen Is Dead and Sans Undertale Killed Her
• September 21: DO YOU REMEMBER-
• All of October: SKELETON WAR
• ALSO All of October: Inktober
• October 3: Mean Girls Day
• ALSO October 3: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Day
• October 20: Unnecessary Feelings Day
• October 31: HALLOWEEN
• November 5: honestly what didn’t happen that day
• November 19: Goncharov
• All of December: Will the Gävle Goat Get Destroyed Again?
• December 10: Please, It’s Christmas
• December 24: ALMOST CHRISTMAS MEANS IT WASN’T CHRISTMAS

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batmanshole:

do you have a specific phobia? not just a weird fear / discomfort with something, but an actual phobia.

yes, animal type

yes, natural phenomenon type (water, fires, thunder/lightning, etc)

yes, medical type (blood, needles, dentists, etc)

yes, situational type (claustrophobia, heights, flying, the dark, etc)

yes, other type (something not under one of these categories)

yes, multiple in two or more types

no, not at all

no, but i have agoraphobia (not a specific phobia, despite the name)

i’m not sure / i don’t know what mine qualifies as

results

i have two phobias and idk i dont see many people talking about phobias despite them being fairly common in my experience.

i have pyrophobia (fire) and turophobia (cheese)

also please dont be rude in the notes of this post ok?

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mothers-and-fuckers-of-the-jury:

the traveling trinkets wagon is in town :) pick your purchase.

a small glass jar full of dried rose petals

incense cones and a small stone bowl to burn them in

an oracle deck wrapped in a scarf, no box to be found

a silver candlestick holder with one black candle resting in it

a star shaped woven basket of rocks

a chunk of quartz a little larger than the size of a human heart

a piece of driftwood that looks like an eye

a red paisley curtain with a few odd stains

a smooth, polished ball of amethyst

a jar full of what looks to be fortune cookie slips of paper

there is no guarantee the trinkets are not cursed. choose at your own risk. reblog to keep the trinket shop traveling.

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colorisbyshe:

i ended up googling how many billionaires there are because of this whole fiasco and there are almost three tHOUSAND billionaires. that is what… trillions of dollars being horded. trillions of dollars that could feed people, house people, educate people. trillions of dollars that could be used to make sanctuaries, protect land and animals, make entire swaths of the world just places where the planet can breathe.

two thousand, seven hundred people. that’s just… a particularly dense neighborhood. owning enough wealth to save the world and instead spend on killing it and sometimes killing themselves.

that’s what people who go “aw, they’re still human beings, aren’t they?” don’t get. to me, this sounds like fucking space invaders who landed on the planet and just stole the entire food supply. that’s not a fellow human being, that is a roadblock to fucking survival. that’s my enemy and, yes, i cheer when my enemy dies sometimes.

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radiofreederry:

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punkitt-is-here:

this duck LOVES pink drink

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house-of-crows:

absolxguardian:

hownottolearnalanguage:

I’m kind of glad to hear that everyone does this. Because it means it isn’t colonizer bullshit, it’s what everyone does. It’s just people discovering new things. Everyone goes:

“Oh hey these people have their own style of [language A’s word for thing. Say, what do you call it?”

“Oh it’s [language B’s word for thing].”

“Got it, it’s [language B’s word for thing] variety [language A’s word for thing]”

added to which it is LITERALLY JUST LINGUISTIC SHORTHAND for 

[item] the way [culture] makes it. 

If you don’t want sliced bread, you want bread the way Eastern Indians make it you ask for Roti, not bread. Because Roti is bread THE WAY [EASTERN] INDIANS MAKE IT. Like fuck, it’s not that complicated a concept. 

OF COURSE it’s not colonizer bullshit! It’s just linguistic shorthand!

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thearomanticsnake:

Welcome back to its really hot and I’m going to murder someone

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