Out of my head. Into your eyes.

A blog where I can post whatever I think either entertains you, or provides me an emotional or creative outlet. Should be interesting, if you don't mind reading a lot.

[tobiasdrake]

How to write headlines.

DO NOT

What do you mean, "Kid Rock's Halftime Show"? Bad Bunny's show was the Halftime Show. There was no other Halftime Show. If I'm watching the Super Bowl and then at Halftime I go watch Sailor Moon or something, that doesn't mean Sailor Moon is now the Halftime Show.

The Halftime Show is the Halftime Show. Nothing else gets to be the Halftime Show, even if it's timed to happen at the same time as the Halftime Show.

This deceptive headline makes it sound like Bad Bunny was the alternative that people could go watch instead of "Kid Rock's Halftime Show".

DO

A bunch of rich people angrily storming off in a racist fervor to go stage their own performance sponsored by a political organization and then trying to call it an "alternative Halftime Show" is a Weird Little Event, and you should say that!

This headline is clearly politically biased, but what it's not doing is lying to you.

[luulapants]

Got into a discussion about emergency response at a professional retreat recently and everyone was going on and on about agility, and I was like, "Okay but what about contingency?"

And they were like "What?"

And I was like, "Agility isn't the ultimate form of preparedness. Contingency is. Agility still requires you to flounder and figure out a solution in the moment, but if you have a contingency plan, all you have to do is implement it."

And they were like "But you can't make contingency plans for every situation!"

And I was like, "Yeah, you basically can if you just identify all of your basic dependencies and contingency plan around the loss of any dependency," and then I gave a few examples.

And they all stared at me like I'm an alien.

Anyway, that's how I figured out I'm Batman-coded and also learned how Batman must feel talking to supposedly professional superheroes who never bothered to run disaster scenarios until I pointed out that it's insane that they don't already have a plan for if Superman turns evil.

[nestofstraightlines]

There’s a phrase that really stuck in my head around this. It was from one of the British divers who enacted the Thai caving rescue, though I couldn’t tell you which one or which interview.

As he described to the interviewer a moment of panic and how he he overcame, the interviewer said, in one of those, summarise-last-answer-given-with-appropriate-levels-of-respect-in-order-to-proceed-to-next-question phrasing’s, “Wow, so you rose to the occasion -“

And the diver said, “No, actually people always get that exactly wrong. In an unexpected and urgent situation you don’t rise to the occasion. You sink to the level of your training.”

[throckmortons-thrussy]

[brothermouse-skeleton]

Waxillium Ladrian carries marked bills in case he gets robbed, mixes stuff into his water so it looks like booze in case he needs to fake being drunk, and makes sure he always has a metal button on his shirt in case he needs to kill someone with it.

Is it any wonder that he's a perfect match for Steris "I got nervous last night so to calm myself down I accidentally planned for every conceivable apocalypse scenario" Harms

[moringmark]

[holboldoart]

The Crow Beneath the Ancient Arch

Hey I should probably actually post here more, huh??

[careydraws]

Here are all my hourlies for 2026! You can read all of mine from previous years in free-to-read- posts in the hourly comics tag on my patreon. If you want to see more drawings of the cats (and who doesn't, amirite,), Meg's hourlies have a bunch of very cute & fun ones!

[garaks-padded-bra]

Today round ass puppy revealed to me, exhausted, at the end of my rope, that her training wasn't working not because she didn't understand, she did, she did, but instead because treats, chicken, turkey and pork apparently weren't enough motivation. She began obeying every word with startling accuracy as soon as she was offered something else. Doing backflips and stunts with pyrotechnics as prompted for the promise of a pea. A pea. She's a dog. A pea. A pea. A pea. I have to carry peas around now. On my person. Personal peas. 🫛 peas

[garaks-padded-bra]

Footage from pea withdrawal related timper tamprum

[garaks-padded-bra]

For a small fee

(a pea for me)

I’ll be the best

that I can be!

I dont think its

hyperbole

a pea for me’s

a pea for thee!

[queerspacepunk]

not to be all "these two words will change your life" or whatever, but I promise you, programming in "good catch!" as your response to people correcting you/pointing out errors or whatever removes so much friction from interactions, and comes with a delightful happy meal toy of "not hating yourself so much for making mistakes"

[madgastronomer]

I use "I stand corrected" a lot. The mild silliness of the outdated language makes it work for me.

[knitmeapony]

I had a high school science teacher who would say "if you admit you're wrong and change your mind..." and the whole class would respond back "... you aren't wrong anymore!"

And when a kid would assert something incorrect In class, he wouldn't tell them they were wrong, he would help lead them to the right answer and then when they admitted/ accepted the new information, he'd say "now we're both right! Nice work!"

For a bunch of gifted kids whose identity and reputation often was staked on knowing more than most people, it was a great safety valve. No shame in making a mistake, because if you accept it you have learned! Now you are smarter! It always made me feel better.

[gaymolegaming]

I wish irl grinding was as fun as in videogames tbh. Like yeah i need to go to work a thousand times but after that i have enough materials to buy a house. But alas, houses arent real

[lesbx]

what do you wanna bet that like in a year from now when they’ve fully either canceled or removed every change made for overwatch 2 they just make a big thing out of making a big update going back to calling it just Overwatch. and it’s a whole thing, nostalgia bait and all, complete return to form. i don’t think that’s even that out there honestly

[lesbx]

[artbyblastweave]

The old world is dying. The new world had that thing happen where the umbilical cord gets caught around the neck as it's coming out, yuuuurk, no new world either. So it's basically just gonna be monsters forever

[artbyblastweave]

And for the last time, you can't fuck the monsters. They aren't the kind of monsters you can fuck

[toastedicarus]

Had it with all this bullshit grimdark worldbuilding just for the sake of edginess with nothing to actually say. I'm going to fuck the monsters.

[artbyblastweave]

Listen, buddy, I get it when it's monstrosity-as-a-marker-of-marginalization or it's a, a commentary on arbitrary constructions of beauty standards or whatever. That's one type of monster, that's fine. Very fuckable type of monster. But we're talking about, like, the metaphysical worldly manifestations of imperialist warmongering and rapacious depletion of the environment and systemic racism and shit like that. And I mean it's obviously not conceptually impossible to eroticize all that, you see people doing it, but it's fraught, right? It's fraught. Thin Ice. And if you're gonna go there you can't be flippant about what you're doing, man. This shit affects people's lives in real, non-metaphorical ways. When I was at CVS I just saw three or four anthromorphic personifications of the concept of medical debt pulling a little old lady apart like a wishbone

[deepfang-dreamer]

This is the plot of Chainsaw Man, more or less

[jakey-beefed-it]

Scavengers Reign is good. Like it's *really* good. I am gonna sleep on it but suffice to say it's good ecological sci-fi full of awe and wonder and terror with compelling characters both human and otherwise. It has things to say about nature and humanity and our place within it and also life and death and compassion as maybe the only thing making the whole consciousness thing worthwhile given the selfishness and greed that often comes with it.

I.. fuck. Man, that was good. I wish it had gotten more seasons but it does tell a good self-contained story and leave you with lots to contemplate about life and people and deathblooms and psychic pandamanders and the continuum of everything as a kind of grand interconnected mycelium of which the currently active lifeforms skittering about and thinking and striving are only the fruiting bodies.

My head asplode in the best way. God damn I love good sci-fi.

[theadhdgoblin]

[singing-bowl]

thinking about how ursula k leguin said "what goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives" and how everyday i wake up slightly different and i can feel myself shed the skin of who i used to be slowly, slowly, until i look back and can scarcely recognise who i was... but also she is still a part of me, part of the leaf litter and the humus, supporting me as i send new roots down and new leaves stretching up to the sunlight

[mallowknight]

if....

[mtf-the-gathering]

"gender is a social construct": fairly easy for leftists to understand

"race is a social construct": a bit harder to swallow for some but still reasonable

"mental illness is a social construct": this one gets you hate mail in your inbox

[thebookewyrme]

Gotta add previous tags on here, because this is gonna live rent free in my head from now on. The stars are real, constellations are not. Damn. Tags by @smoreofbabylon (if you don’t want me to put you on blast like this I’ll delete lol!)

[empress-of-dark2005]

[conkreetmonkey]

prev wait, and I was thinking of commenting on how they somehow have you the perfect amount of time to read the message without it feeling too long or too short or otherwise breaking the rhythm of the bit, and it's! largely thanks to the music! the little melody that plays when the message is unfurled and sitting there statically so the audience can read it both serves to punctuate Marvin's emotional response to it, and to "fill in" the gap in visual action so that not absolutely nothing is happening while the note is read!!! I didn't even register it the first few times I watched the clip! That's now natural it feels! Absolutely masterful comedy. (also, realizing how Daffy/Duck Dodgers tilts his head slightly at Marvin's bullet, because he, like the audience, is fully expecting a message and is curious to see what it says! Notice how his expression is angry when he shoots his pistol, but innocent when Marvin shoots his; he, like the audience, fully believes Marvin is engaging with him peacefully and is simply responding to his note! Ugh, such a simple little bit but it's clearly sooo well thought-out)

[computervsworld]

that's why it's called looney *tunes* and not looney *toons*! the score was always a crucial part of it