Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Stranger Things
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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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Cosmic Funnies
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No other animation studio: Pixar:
Let’s hear is for the costumers and fabric makers at Pixar! They are sickeningly dedicated and talented!
@friendlyinternetmeerkat
source: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nQDDa6 I saw these yesterday. They look sooo realistic!!!
it’s amazing how far animation has come.
Masha The Hero
They forgot the part where the ambulance actually stopped to let the cat in
oh good I was worried
What a good cat. What a kind cat. How can anyone not love cats they are so good and loving.
they also forgot the part where they only found the baby because masha was screaming her head off bc she knew this baby was in danger. she went around outside the alley the next morning and yelled at passerby until she got one to follow her to the baby. she kept him warm all night and then made sure someone found him. she was adopted after this bc she was a stray and is in a loving home and is a hero
Hero cat
Thank you, Masha, you’re such a good girl.
See.
Kittens can’t regulate their own body temperature. That’s why they pile up.
Cats see us as colony members.
Masha saw a kitten that was on its own, no mommy, no other kittens to cuddle with. She instinctively knew that was a cold kitten. She knew that a kitten alone on a cold night was very likely to die. Because a kitten would have died too.
So, all she was doing was what any good colony member does - protecting the abandoned kitten. Then when the abandoned kitten’s mommy didn’t come back, she called the rest of the colony for help.
People have this bizarre idea that housecats don’t have a social sense. They do, and it saved this kid’s life. And possibly Masha’s too, as life on the streets is dangerous for a kitty.
We say “good dog” all the time, but Masha was being a very, very good cat…not just by human moral standards but by feline ones.
this thread made me cry...
Have we ever discussed the fact that 2001 - 2012 Disney channel’s shows all had strong female leads, with the exception of Zack and Cody but they had a black man in charge, a smart poor white blonde girl and a dumb rich Asian so still beautifully diverse.
Disney was 100% female empowerment and showed diversity. Who did they employ to create the shit they have today?
Of the shows with girls as leads, two of them were POC and their heritage was actively acknowledged throughout the show. We have a Wizards of Waverly Place episode featuring a quincenera and we have That’s So Raven, which actually did a lot to talk about body image and addressed the issue of antiblack racism.
Not to mention Zack and Cody had a working single mother (a divorcee at that!!) who was respected, strong, and amazing. Also a PoC bellhop who was a crucial role and in nearly every episode, and whose heritage was always known and respected. That’s So Raven had a lovely and diverse cast of friends/family, tackled topics that every teenager faces, like stress from school and work, body positivity and racism that runs in our country, all while still having banter that was classic in Disney. This also doesn’t even brush on the animated series that Disney had at this time, like Lilo and Stitch, The Proud Family, Kim Possible, and American Dragon Jake Long, which all had either strong female leads, PoC, or a mix of both.
Funnily enough I think about this a lot! people freak out about strong women in cinema or TV, but the truth is, they were always there. I think about my childhood and so much of what I viewed had strong female characters. Today, writers seem to think a strong female acts like a man, or is stoic, but truthfully I miss my female leads. Totally spies was amazing because the women were acknowledged as women! Barbie movies never shied away from feminity, Lizzie, Hannah, Raven, etc. they were GIRLS! I feel today, in 2019, we don’t have strong females anymore because girls for some reason are not allowed to be both girly and empowered...
THIS!!!!!!!
I think Bo Burnham put it best
(From God’s Perspective (x))
a good reason to accomplish things is so that people can refer to you with your accomplishment ahead of your ENTIRE full name, humorously, for example nothing is funnier than referring to my friend & teacher mr. tom hart ONLY as “New York Times Bestselling Graphic Novelist Tom Hart” every single time i talk about him in conversation
This is a GREAT plan. Even for like, ‘smaller’ accomplishments like That One Hobby You’re Really Good At, or That Skill Only You Can Do or even That One Dumbshit Thing You Should Not Have Lived Through.
“Amuteur Cheesemaker Christine Dutch”
“Professional Pinball Machine Reapairman Brian Howlett”
“1996 Highway 92 Chicken And Molasses Transport Truck Pileup Survivor Darlene Wyatt”
Better yet, string all three of those together:
“Velvet Worm Propigator, Flathead County’s #1 Bestselling Romance Author and Four-Time Avalance Survivor, Irwin Whittaker.”
Uncertain is relevant, but every time my friends and I refer to the trash movie suicide squad we say “academy award winning film suicide squad” as some kind of irony that something so trash can still win awards...
The Strangers Directed by Bryan Bertino (2008)
Jurassic Cookie
my life is better because of this. thank you
The second girl at least read the book to confirm that it was shit, she even had Capote on deck as backup. Chick 1 is just lazy
Nope. Girl 2 saw that Girl 1′s absolutely accurate analysis was being shut down just because it wasn’t stated in an intellectual way (in spite of its validity). So Girl 2 reinforced Girl 1′s opinions in solidarity and made sure that it was absolutely clear that Girl 1 was factually correct. WITHOUT taking credit for her observations (”kim is right” instead of “Actually, kim”)
Girls supporting Girls.
Girls not letting other girls be treated poorly.
As an English teacher it is my sole purpose, to a) get rid of shit classics that are still studied purely because they are classics, and b) let kids know that it is ok to dislike literary texts. We just studied Jasper Jones and just like my entire year 10 class, I hated that shitty excuse for a novel and will be fighting hard with the school to have it changed next year. We should be studying texts that are engaging and modern and relevant to our kids, not forcing literary classics on them as if it's the be all and end all of literature!
Just about every joke in Avatar: The Last Airbender is peak comedy but conceptually my favorite moment is that scene in The Waterbending Scroll where Zuko’s crew was fighting some pirates and Aang was lost in the middle of a smoke cloud.
Now, Aang being an Airbender, the logical thing to do would be to blow the smoke away, which he does.
This would be funny enough in and of itself, but what really gets me is that Aang just nopes his way out of the situation by… Calling the smoke back?
Like on top of this being the literal only instance of an aerokinetic character blowing smoke away in reverse (not the same thing as kicking up a cloud of dust) just… everyone who was fighting just goes back to fighting each other like that didn’t just happen? Like they didn’t just see the Avatar- who they’re fighting over- is no longer tied up?
This five seconds of animation is just the most beautifully hilarious mess.
I’m not sorry
Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue.
I have been waiting for this post all my life.
They are indeed purple, But one thing you’ve missed: The concept of “purple” Didn’t always exist.
Some cultures lack names For a color, you see. Hence good old Homer And his “wine-dark sea.”
A usage so quaint, A phrasing so old, For verses of romance Is sheer fucking gold.
So roses are red. Violets once were called blue. I’m hugely pedantic But what else is new?
My friend you’re not wrong About Homer’s wine-ey sea! Colours are a matter Of cultural contingency;
Words are in flux And meanings they drift But the word purple You’ve given short shrift.
The concept of purple, My friends, is old And refers to a pigment once precious as gold.
By crushing up molluscs From the wine-dark sea You make a dye: Imperial decree
Meant that in Rome, to wear purpura was a privilege reserved
For only the emperor!
The word ‘purple’, for clothes so fancy, Entered English By the ninth century
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Why then are voilets Not purple in song? The dye from this mollusc, known for so long
Is almost magenta; More red than blue. The concept of purple is old, and yet new.
The dye is red, So this might be true: Roses are purple And violets are blue
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While this song makes me merry, Tyrian purple dyes many a hue From magenta to berry And a true purple too.
But fun as it is to watch this poetic race The answer is staring you right in the face: Roses are red and violets are blue Because nothing fucking rhymes with purple.
IT GOT SO MUCH BETTER.
My reaction, only with coffee.
Hang on, need to send this to my literature prof
saving this as a future teaching resource fucking golden!!!!!
I’ve seen Horny Internet Fangirls fall physically in lust with everything from standard hunks to weird cartoons to robots to monsters and every body type from potbelly bear to skeletal beanpole and it never fails to amaze me, when by comparison, straight guys seem to have trouble with any woman who isn’t hourglass shaped
Captain Holt vs Madeline Wuntch: Favourite Insults
Bonus:
Can this show be any more wonderful???
i want to talk about the characterizations of ben wyatt and jake peralta. arguably jim halpert could be included in this conversation, but i want to focus on ben and jake because they’re such clear subversions of well-known tropes
firstly, you have ben wyatt. the nerd. he’s established as a hard-ass and a geek early on, and it would have been so easy for the writers to fall into that trope of presenting him as below leslie, as her eventual agreement to date him has a victory for all male nerds, because he had successfully tricked a woman into being interested in him.
instead, we get ben wyatt, a dork and a feminist. he’s nationally ranked in settlers of catan and he likes to sit around in a batman costume and he loves game of thrones. he also loves his girlfriend enough to lose his job for her, and it’s never even addressed whether he minds that leslie will probably end up with a higher status job than him - because why would he? he loves and supports her, and his nerdiness is presented not as a flaw, but as a complement to her single-minded determination - they’re both total nerds with an overlapping ven diagram of interests.
secondly, jake peralta. the character we’re introduced to in the first episode is cocky and a smartass, and while he’s loveable, we completely understand why he would drive amy up a wall. jake and amy are less alike than ben and leslie are; arguably they’re opposites. again, there’s a trope that the show could have fallen into: “endearing idiot eventually wears down woman who is too good for him, and she realizes she was too uptight all along”.
but again, we get something completely different. jake peralta, known for being Too Much, consistently respects amy’s boundaries and tries as hard as he can to be honest about his feelings, while understanding that amy is her own person. she buys orange soda for him and he gets a new mattress for her. there are so many examples of the respect in that relationship - they’re both so stubborn, but they love each other so much. he’s always known that she was going to be his boss. they’re different, but they love it about each other.
all i’m saying is, this purposeful subversion of gross male stereotypes is so important - and so much easier (and so much funnier!) than people think
What I love most about these two shows is pretty much every relationship is healthy and happy with no abuse (mental abuse/manipulation of partners is very dominate in our TV shows), no resentment that a partner is higher ranked, no 'they're out of my league' tropes, they're just happy healthy relationships, where two people have become friends and fallen madly in love and we see them grow and we see them become not the typical 'the sex is over so we have nothing in common' trope that shows also fall into the trap of, but they stay equals and they constantly find new ways to love each other and learn from each other. both these shows are wonderful with some of the greatest characters ever written both male and female and I love both B99 and Parks so much!!!!
all public school anti-bullying activism is extremely transparent and meaningless
faculty: BULLYING IS BAD!! ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY!! THIS IS A HATE FREE ZONE!!
me: hey this person called me a stupid dyke today
faculty: hmm that’s unfortunate. have you tried perhaps, not being gay?
I feel like everyone is against bullying until they actually look at the kids who are being bullied.
The cheesy anti-bullying tapes that they show in schools feature these skinny straight white neurotypical kids who get picked on for no reason. Usually the insults are something along the lines of “You’re a loser!” or “Get lost, freak.” All the kids watching immediately feel bad for the victim, and think “Aw! She didn’t deserve that!”
Then, ten minutes later, they go pick on some marginalized kid without thinking twice. As an autistic person, I was often this kid. The insults I heard growing up were not “You’re a loser!” or “Get lost, freak.” They were “Don’t let the retard work with us” or “Shouldn’t she be going to the special school?”
The problem is we teach kids that bullying occurs for no other reason other than just to be mean. This could not be further from the truth. Bullying occurs because as a society, we condition kids into hating fat, black, neurodivergent, queer, and disabled people. Kids don’t bully each other just to be mean. They do it because if something’s “wrong” with the person, it’s completely justified.
But of course, we can’t tell kids this kind of stuff. We can’t say, “Hey! Making fun of your gay classmate is bad!”
Because when we do, suddenly the phone calls come pouring in, each with a parent on the other end screaming “You can’t be feeding my son that liberal propaganda!”
America (I am assuming from this) is so different to Aus (or at least my classroom experiences). If I heard a kid use language like "you're such a faggot" "That's so gay" "Retard" any degrading words I pull them up so fucking quickly. I call them out on any put downs and negative language, I had a huge lecture with my year 8 group on sexism because the boys were making sexist remarks and until I had a go at them explaining why their language was wrong they didn't really understand the impact it was having on the females in the classroom. We need to call kids out as early as possible on their foul language because that's how they learn respect and that's how they know it's wrong. as a teacher that is my duty, to educate in every way possible and I could not imagine working in an environment where I wasn't supported in doing that.
You are who you choose to be.
